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Ah, good thing Ireland didn’t bet a major chunk of its economy on US Big Tech creating jobs or anything.
*phew!*
#BigTech #USA #AI

Der heutige #FotoVorschlag 'Bewegungsunschärfe' schreit ja förmlich nach Lochkameraaufnahmen!
https://photo.dresden.network/p/der_raddler/822540474847173275

der_raddler (@der_raddler@photo.dresden.network)
Jetzt habe ich doch glatt den gestrigen #WorldPinholeDay verpasst! 🤦 Dann reiche ich heute schnell noch passende Bilder nach! ~Ghosts on the playground~ 📷: #Lomography #dianamultipinhole 🎞️: #imago320 by Ars-imago international Dev. & Scan: Foto Görner #pinhole #pinholephotography #analog #analogphotography #longexposure #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #stillshootfilm #pinholeday #longexposure

US court filings detail Anthropic's Project Panama, an effort to "destructively scan" up to 2M books with a hydraulic "cutting machine" led by an ex-Google exec (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/2…

Inside one company’s secret plan to ‘destructively scan every book in the world’
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Jack White:
🎵 That’s How I’m Feeling
#JackWhite
https://officialjackwhite.bandcamp.com/track/thats-how-im-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/1PEjhR1CCdINF8TyM5s8LX

This was written by an old friend and I found it pretty packed with good info. It’s also an example of using NotebookLM for research and content development. I found this inspiring enough to give it a try. I’ve found that it is a “Centaur" enabling tech that helps one to create on their own the overall content and leaving details to the NotebookLM tooling.
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SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan: A Classification Framework for Thinking About Incidents -Geoff White
"Your SLOs can be green, and your systems can still be falling over. That doesn’t mean SLOs are broken. It means they were never designed to describe every class of risk we encounter in complex systems.
I’ve released version 1.0 of SLOs Can’t Catch a Black Swan as an open, living framework hosted on GitHub.
This is not a book you read once, and it’s not something you consult in the middle of an outage. It’s a way to think more clearly about incidents—across the incident lifecycle.”
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/slos-cant-catch-black-swan-classification-framework-thinking-white-ybc0c/?trackingId=ShCzMMVCQTChcTi8xT19tg==

Wow, if you search for signal messenger on DuckDuckGo using Chrome, the actual @… web site is the *third* entry following ads for “Signal Private Messenger – Free Download” that leads to the site appmaus.com and “Get Signal Messenger | Install Signal App” that leads to the site filelocations.com.
DuckDuckGo should be held criminally liable for anyone who…

Sources: Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup Zepto confidentially files for a ~$1.3B India IPO; Zepto raised $450M at a $7B valuation in October 2025 (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economi…

Zepto makes confidential filing with Sebi for $1.3 billion IPO: sources
The listing is planned for the July-September quarter of 2026. In October, the quick commerce major had closed a $450 million round, valuing it at $7 billion. As of late November, Zepto had around Rs 7,000 crore in cash, while competitors Eternal and Swiggy each have around Rs 17,000-18,000 crore on their books currently.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Film School:
🎵 All I’ll Ever Be
#FilmSchool
https://filmschoolmusic.bandcamp.com/track/all-ill-ever-be-demo
https://open.spotify.com/track/1bocVcbC1bbSHxjKuom5xh

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115973346227505562
You know that feeling when you’re at the very top of the biggest drop on a roller coaster…
Hold onto your hats, folks, it’s going to be fun (not fun).

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Cate Le Bon:
🎵 Heaven Is No Feeling
#CateLeBon
https://catelebon.bandcamp.com/track/heaven-is-no-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/6QyDopDgclGYNXf3UeuDZv