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Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/salient

Salient’s quiet AI boom: How this two-year old startup is building a company to survive the bubble burst
Salient cofounder Ari Malik built AI to automate loan servicing, turning collections calls into a high-growth business now valued around $500 million.

The FCC updates its site to remove the phrase "independent agency", after Brendan Carr said in a Congressional hearing it is not independent "formally speaking" (Sara Fischer/@sarafischer)
https://x.com/sarafischer/status/2001338675607769120

Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) on X
🚨🚨 This is INSANE. I took this screenshot of the @FCC website at 11:52 a.m. ET where it explicitly states the FCC is an independent agency. 25 minutes later, it has been removed following Carr's comments during this hearing! See before and after screenshots below

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
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🎵 I'm Not Feeling It
#NowPlaying #GetdownServices
https://getdownservices.bandcamp.com/track/im-not-feeling-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/7xvlfxgCGYonQklS547AgR

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromTheFacebook

Today, I attended service at a Unitarian Universalist congregation, and my soul is energized. There are a lot of people that want to make this world a better place. If you are feeling alone out there in a world of hate, there are those that side with love.
Today was especially powerful as a woman of color that marched with MLK Jr. read to the multi-colored children of the congregation a book of his speech. She choked up reading his words as my own tears ran freely.
"I have…

A broad retreat is underway in the nonprofit world.
After Donald Trump ordered his administration to root out “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts earlier this year,
opening the door to investigations and funding cuts for offenders,
more than 1,000 charities rewrote their mission statements in forms they filed this year with the Internal Revenue Service,
removing or minimizing language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities.<…

Deleting DEI
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings.

Frage: Ich nutze u.a. #LibreOffice auf macOS. Die aktuell Version ist auf einem etwas älteren Intel iMac (3,4 Ghz i7, 16 GB, SSD immerhin) inzwischen so langsam, dass ich schneller tippe, als die Buchstaben am Bildschirm auftauchen - und nein, ich bin keine besonders flinke und geübte Schreibkraft.
Hat jemand Vorschläge, was ich alternativ nutzen könnte?

💥2000 meters to Andriivka
The closer you get to combat, the more jarring it becomes.
Death comes randomly.
The noise is terrifying;
the fear is stifling.
And most people can’t bear to see what war actually does to the human body
—how a brief instant can transform a living, breathing person
into ugly scraps of flesh.
The fighting in Ukraine has, in many ways,
transformed the nature of warfare.
As many as 80 percent of battle casu…

A War Film to Change All War Films
An Oscar-shortlisted documentary shows battle in startling clarity.

BTW - If you are displaying the Canadian flag, make sure you follow the rules. You don't want the flag police knocking on your door.
https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/flag-canada-etiquette/flying-rules.html

A post from the archive 📫:
Invalid Access to memory location in KUDU App Services
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/invalid-access-to-memory-location-in-kudu-app-services