Tootfinder

I think it is really important to analyze the implication of the new IETF Draft Meow MRRP in the wild. I strongly assume it will lead to widespread loss of carriers when applied in areas where IP over Avian Carrier is in use. More research is needed. And funding!
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow

Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/19/bluesky-announces-100m-series-b-af…

Bluesky announces $100M Series B after CEO transition | TechCrunch
The additional funds have been used to scale Bluesky's team, while the company continues to develop Bluesky's app and the underlying ATProto that powers it.

Sergey Brin, a Google founder,
has more than doubled his financial contribution to the fight against a proposed wealth tax in California.
New filings with the state show that former Alphabet president Sergey Brin donated $25m to a Super Pac dedicated to blocking the tax
-- on top of $20m he had already given.
Brin is not alone among Google’s top brass in upping his financial stake in the campaign against the ballot proposal.
The company’s former CEO
Eric …

I was one of Mega's earliest users, back when it still offered 50 GB for free. I've kept my account active just for this reason, and now I'm going to start using it.
For now, I'm syncing all my photos and videos to my Mega cloud using rsync. This way, I'm following the common-sense rule of keeping one copy locally (via Duplicati) and another remotely.
#backup

Comics platform GlobalComix raised $13M, following a $6.5M raise in 2023, and acquires digital manga platform INKR, adding 200K volumes of Asian comics (Rob Salkowitz/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/

GlobalComix Closes $13M Round, Acquires INKR And Names Henrik Rydberg New CEO
The digital platform gets an infusion of cash, technology and new leadership to compete in the multibillion dollar digital comics market.

twitter_15m: Twitter 15-M movement (2011)
A network representing follower-following relations among Twitter users associated with the 15-M Movement or Anti-austerity movement in Spain, in the period April-May 2011. Metadata include hashtags in the tweets.
This network has 87569 nodes and 6030459 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Ilhan Omar's office says she's 'not a millionaire' after $30M filing revised down to under $100K: report (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omars-office-says-shes-millionaire-30m-filing-revised-100k-report
http://www.memeorandum.com/260418/p52#a260418p52

Appfigures: app releases across the App Store and Google Play grew 60% YoY in Q1, with App Store releases alone up 80%, possibly driven by AI coding tools (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/18/the-app-store-is-booming-again-and-ai-may-…

The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why | TechCrunch
New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.

User A wrote a nifty little tool in Python. On Windows. Several weeks of work.
User B wants to use it as well.
They copy it, try to run it. Doesn't work.
Call me for help.
A: "It works on my machine. B must configure his python exactly like I do!"
Me: "Can't we run it in a virtual environment (venv). Or with a docker image?"
A: "Hm, I would have to learn how to do that. Is this really necessary?"
Me:

Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cut its Amazon stake by 75% to ~2.3M shares in Q4 2025; Berkshire bought 5.1M NYT shares, worth ~$352M in December (Alexandre Rajbhandari/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20