@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-17 01:35:15
Nick Blair, a 40-year-old former football agent, and son of ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair,
is seeking funding for a military technology startup called “Pyra”
to the tune of 200 million dollars.
It’s not clear what, exactly, Pyra needs all that money to do:
its website only says “Deploying Summer 2026…Stand By.”
Blair is at the moment the only active officer of the company, according to UK government filings.
In an article published this week, an unnamed sour…
@simon_lucy@mastodon.social2026-08-16 17:22:46
I have a feeling, based on nothing but behaviour that Bluesky's current problem is the restart, connect all nodes and all of them, including different PDS instances are doing this all the time.
The answer then is to leave it alone and wait.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-07-16 19:00:07
sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 126 nodes and 28561 edges.
Tags: Soc…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social2026-07-17 05:35:23
“Buildings are the single largest energy consumer in Europe. Transposition and implementation of the #EPBD is key to boosting the EU's current very low annual energy renovation rate (1%), reducing bills for citizens and businesses and the EU's dependence on imported fossil fuels, and achieving a zero-emission and fully decarbonised building stock by 2050.”
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-16 04:16:23
Filing: AST SpaceMobile delays the launch of its satellite-to-phone service to 2027 after the Blue Origin mishap and plans to raise $1B in convertible notes (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/ast-spacemobile-delays-service-launch-to-2027…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-09-16 20:35:36
NFL QB rankings, Week 2: Caleb Williams, Lamar Jackson and Trevor Lawrence soar into top five https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-qb-rankings-index-week-2-2026-nfl-season
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.de2026-09-15 09:52:09
POL-HK: Wietzendorf: Kupferfallrohre von Kirche entwendet; Bad Fallingbostel: Einbruch in Friseursalon; Walsrode: Zusammenstoß beim Einfahren in den Verkehr - drei Personen leicht verletzt Heidekreis (ots) - 14.09.2026 / Kupferfallrohre von Kirche entwendet Wietzendorf: Zwischen Sonntagnachmittag und Montagmorgen entwendeten bislang unbekannte Täter an mehreren Stellen einer Kirche an der Hauptstraße Kupferfallrohre. Hinweise zur ...
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-07-15 16:00:05
messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-15 00:48:13
A man was struck and killed by a truck in Florida while fleeing a federal immigration operation Tuesday, the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed,
the third death connected to immigration enforcement efforts in the past week.
In a statement, the Florida Immigrant Coalition emphasized that these are not “isolated incidents" and defended the idea that someone might run from ICE agents.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents encountered a vehicle in a gas station parking…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-05 04:41:04
India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days (Sejal Sharma/Hindustan Times)
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/
