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Bending Spoons acquires Eventbrite for ~$500M in an all-cash deal, following its $1.38B purchase of Vimeo and a pending acquisition of AOL (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/12/02/bending-spoons-to-acquire-eventbrite-in-500m-all-cash-deal/

Bending Spoons to acquire Eventbrite in $500M all-cash deal
Bending Spoons is acquiring the global event management platform Eventbrite in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $500 million. Eventbrite would become the latest major global brand to join the Bending Spoons portfolio. Last month, the company announced a definitive agreement to acquire AOL, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals. Bending Spoons also recently completed its $1.38 billion acquisition of Vimeo. “For two decades, Eventbrite has stood at the…

Gustavo Petro of Colombia expels Israeli diplomatic mission following the detention of Colombian flotilla participants in Israel's act of Piracy.
https://www.

Colombia | Petro anunció la expulsión de la delegación diplomática de Israel en el país tras la detención de connacionales que integraban la Flotilla Global Sumud rumbo a Gaza – NODAL
NODAL - Noticias de América Latina y el Caribe

Zwei Veranstaltungstipps für Berlin:
1) Von Filmhistoriker und -theoretiker Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann ist unlängst das Buch "Gewalt als Bild. Die Bilder vom 7. Oktober im Spiegel der visuellen Erinnerung an die Shoah" erschienen (Neofelis Verlag). Kommenden Sonntag gibt es dazu eine Diskussion im Jüdischen Museum Berlin mit Annette Vowinckel.

Veranstaltungstipp 5. Oktober 2025 | Jüdisches Museum Berlin
Gewalt als Bild. Die Bilder vom 7. Oktober im Spiegel der visuellen Erinnerung an die Shoah

As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts #Amazon

As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts
Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers dry up. Scientists say the cause may lie high above the rainforest, where invisible "flying rivers" carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean across South America.

Dangerous Cancel Culture Precedent Following Kirk’s Murder
The Trump administration continues to counter the First Amendment rights that Kirk so often referenced and arguably died defending.
For example, the Pentagon has promised to “address” federal employees who are deemed to mock or celebrate Kirk’s death.
(The Pentagon has also in recent days announced that it will require credentialed journalists to sign a pledge to refrain from reporting information that has not been …

The ‘Right to Offend’ and the Legacy of Charlie Kirk - San Francisco Bay Times
The day before right-wing activist and Turning Point USA Co-Founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated on September 10, 2025, he texted the following to civil rights advocate and CNN host Van Jones: “Hey, Van, I mean it, I’d love to have you on my show to have a respectful conversation about crime and race. I would […]

But I filled out my Uber registration card!
#Discworld #gooseberry

I had over three hundred accounts following me that I didn't follow back, mostly because I lost track of all the new followers.
So I did the unthinkable thing:
I asked Perplexity to write me a python script to follow everyone back. I will just unfollow some of them later, if I don't like them enough. But for now, everyone gets the benefit of the doubt.😉
The script needed some adjustments, but it worked.
Here's the script if you need it:

followback
A short python script that looks for all your mastodon followers that you don't follow back, and follows them.

My first try with Sora 2:
#aigenerated

Pingu goes phishing
#phishing

Cryptomixer.io Takedown 📽️:
https://operation-olympia.com/
https://www.zh.ch/de/news-uebersicht/me…