Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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Tufted titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) has realized it's being watched.
Amigo Centre, outside Sturgis, Michigan
#naturalist #wildlife #bird
The US special envoy sent to negotiate with Greenland and Denmark, used the occasion of Greenland's National Day to suggest that already next year they will be the 51st state.
I cannot express my feelings about this without swearing very very loudly.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/jeff-landry-maaske-kan-groenland-blive-usa-s-51-stat-allerede-naeste-aar
a little Grist mention in here, see if you can find it https://www.wired.com/story/the-eu-is-going-through-a-trump-fueled-breakup-with-big-tech/
Finally got off my ass and listed my ThinkPad P14s and RAM for sale. Following neighbor's advice, listed for more money than I actually want for it. ("This isn't England or America!", he said.) Apparently in Ireland you're expected to do a little dance where you ask an absurd price and then the prospect offers you a sub-reasonable price and then you both settle on market price; and if you do indeed list for market price, you'll still be expected to give a 15% discou…
After Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, Fragnesia and now ssh-keysign-pwn in short succession, even I am feeling a little overwhelmed. And I just have a few personal machines.
I cannot for the life of me understand how annoying and draining this must be for sysadmins. You have my sympathies.
Just another place we visited in the Fränkische Schweiz. We just walked along a little stream and suddenly passed through this rock-gate with all the lush green on either side.
Just beautiful.
https://www.franzgraf.de/blog/2026/caves-and-meadows-d…
1.5 weeks into a 3 week holiday* and I can feel now just how much I needed it.
And how little I want to go back to work in August.
Let's hope the second half of the holiday fixes that.
#AcademicChatter
*yes I know, I am incredibly fortunate to get to take 3 weeks of summer holiday off, but the feeling of utter burnout is also real.
I am a huge fan of #TrainTravel and especially #HighSpeedRail, but for some reason Sweden's snabbtåg very often, but not always, makes me a little travel sick. That was a very long 5 hour trip...
Tips to avoid feeling terrible on the way home welcome.