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And this is apparently what passes for journalism today.
No, the raging Zionist Robert Kraft who rounded up a posse of stadium owners to cancel Macklemore for supporting Gaza during his set is *NOT* doubling Macklemore’s $1M donation to Gaza.
Ed both-sides-on-genocide Sheeran asked Kraft “to match a $2m (£1.5m) donation to ‘aid in the region’” (

Source: Beijing-based Naive AI, which plans to release its first AI model as early as this month, is now valued at $1.4B after raising $400M in three rounds (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tsinghu…

A Tsinghua Professor’s Stealth LLM Startup Hits $1.4 Billion Valuation
A secretive Chinese AI model startup founded in February by a Tsinghua University professor is now valued at more than $1.4 billion, after raising $400 million in three funding rounds from investors including Tencent, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Beijing-based Naive ...

Yes on I kickoff today in Duboce Park was a huge success! That’s (1) our campaign manager Jacob speaking, (2) Deepa Varma from Tenants Together, (3) Kristin Hardy from SEIU 1021, who talked about how affordable housing is their top, top, top, top priority to keep their members in the city.
Afterward we asked shops if we could put up signs. Donate or find the next volunteer event at

Fair Housing, Yes on I - San Francisco Ballot Measure | Join the Movement
Prop I dedicates existing tax revenue to its intended purpose of funding affordable housing, social housing, and eviction defense.

Hot damn, new NAS can burst, old one would do 100 - 170 items on average - max. The new one just boosted to 5 - 10 times that. Seen it write up to 200MB/s back to it. Measures in place to keep Raspberry Pi nodes in the thermal safe zone even kicked in. They did 1.8TB in 9 hours, old NAS would need the full day to handle this much traffic.

On Tuesday, hundreds marched through downtown Senatobia, Mississippi, in protest of the police murder of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley two days prior.
Police responded to the protest, which stopped in front of the local Walmart and continued to grow in size, by teargassing the protesters.
On Sunday afternoon, police officers shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen in a car outside of the Walmart.
Police claim that they were responding to a shoplifting call.
After trying to stop the…

Police Tear Gas Protesters After Killing 1-Year-Old in Mississippi
“We cannot accept a world where an alleged shoplifting call ends with a child dead,” said civil rights lawyer Ben Crump.

Und wieder Sicherheitsupdates: iOS 26.6.1, macOS 26.6.2 und mehr veröffentlicht
Kleine Aktualisierung, viele Lücken: Gut 30 Sicherheitslöcher hat Apple in insgesamt sechs Betriebssystemen gestopft. KI dürfte geholfen haben.

Weitere Sicherheitsupdates: iOS 26.6.1, macOS 26.6.2 und mehr veröffentlicht
Kleine Aktualisierung, viele Lücken: Gut 30 Sicherheitslöcher hat Apple in insgesamt sechs Betriebssystemen gestopft. KI dürfte geholfen haben.

2026 NFL Preseason Week 1 rookie grades: Rams QB Ty Simpson aces first test; Broncos RB makes impact https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-preseason-week-1-rookie-grades-rams-qb-ty-simpson-aces-first-test-broncos-rb-makes-impa…

I'm watching The Terminal List: Dark Wolf 1x01 ""INHERENT RESOLVE"" https://trakt.tv/shows/the-terminal-list-dark-wolf/seasons/1/episodes/1

"INHERENT RESOLVE"
In 2015, Navy SEAL Chief Ben Edwards and Charlie Platoon wrap up their Mosul deployment, handing operations over to James Reece's Alpha Platoon. Before…

Sword and Sandwich has attained the sublime this week.
Pun intended.
https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich/archive/notable-sandwiches-1-american-hero/

Sonntagsfrage in Kürze:
Grüne und Linke so stark wie AfD. Regierungsparteien SPD und CDU so schwach wie nie.

www.maptap.gg September 17
99🎯 99🎯 98🎯 100🎯 100🎯
Final score: 994
1. x: 4,995 pts, 1.5 km, 1 min, 18 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 3,870 pts, 382 km, 22 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 1,367 pts, 1,935 km, 28 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 4,387 pts, 195 km, 12 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 4,866 pts, 41 km, 42 sec, 0 steps
Total: 19,485 pts, 2,554 km, 3 min, 2 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1205 — 31,269/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆9,747 · 📅 2y · 🌍 1.3mi
2️⃣ 🏆3,747 · 📅 11y · 🌍 1404.4mi
3️⃣ 🏆9,283…

No.7) Who is the Week 1 starting left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-7-who-is-the-week-1-starting-left-tackle

Behind The Shield - Ep. 1: Who We Are https://www.raiders.com/video/behind-the-shield-ep-1-who-we-are-2026-season-fernando-mendoza

1,12 Milliarden US-Dollar: Infineon will Spezialspeicher abstoßen
Winbond plant den Kauf von Infineons Produktlinien rund um die nicht flüchtigen Speichertypen NOR-Flash und F-RAM.
https://www.

1,12 Milliarden US-Dollar: Infineon will Spezialspeicher abstoßen
Winbond plant den Kauf von Infineons Produktlinien rund um die nicht flüchtigen Speichertypen NOR-Flash und F-RAM.

Wordle 1,917 3/6 for 18 September, 2026 #LeftWordle
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 55
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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0
1. 3rd & 5th wrong. (55 answers remain after guess.)
2. 1st perfect. 4th & 5th wrong. (1 answer remains after guess.)
3. Won! (0 answers remain after guess.)
#Wordle

Are you making slides with Quarto or R Markdown and need a timer e.g. for breaks or group work? There is the {countdown} package for you: #rstats

Fantastic devotional for today by Ed Mathews:
#devotionals #better

#Regenwald .org Unser Rohstoff-Hunger darf nicht auf Kosten der Regenwälder und Menschen gehen!
https://regenwald.org/petitionen/1323?t=25188-9970-166-1

Unser Rohstoff-Hunger darf nicht auf Kosten der Regenwälder und Menschen gehen
Die EU-Länder importieren große Mengen Metalle wie Aluminium, Kobalt, Kupfer, Lithium oder Seltene Erden. Unter den Folgen des Rohstoffabbaus leiden Gemeinschaften und Ökosysteme im globalen Süden. Helfen Sie, das Bewusstsein für die Folgen des Rohstoffverbrauchs in Europa zu schärfen und politische Verantwortung einzufordern.

Roman ‘Genius’ Spirit Statue Buried 1,600 Years Ago Found by Hadrian’s Wall https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/roman-genius-spirit-statue-buried-1600-years-ago-found-by-hadrians-wall/

Roman ‘Genius’ Spirit Statue Buried 1,600 Years Ago Found by Hadrian's Wall
A Roman ‘Genius’ statue deliberately buried for luck 1,600 years ago has been unearthed near Hadrian’s Wall.

Rillet, which is developing an AI-native accounting platform, raised a $100M Series C at a $1B valuation led by Iconiq, bringing its total funding to $200M (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/08/18/rillet-unicorn-1-billi…

Exclusive: Accounting AI startup Rillet reaches unicorn status with $1 billion valuation. Its founder says he wants to give CFOs back their weekends
"Our message is not that we're coming after jobs," Rillet CEO Nicolas Kopp told Fortune. "That's just not correct."

Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/aug/18/sydney-waverley-library-removes-book-how-to-sell-a-genocide-from-shelves-ntwnfb

Bondi library removes book How to Sell a Genocide from shelves after complaint
Author Adam Johnson criticises Waverley council saying ‘reality is often upsetting’ while Palestinian group says libraries should hold ‘challenging’ books

POL-DEL: Autobahnpolizei Ahlhorn: Wohnmobil verunfallt auf Autobahn 1, Parkplatz Kiekut Zwei Personen leicht verletzt Delmenhorst (ots) - Vermutlich aufgrund nicht angepasster Geschwindigkeit ist am Samstag, 18. Juli 2026, gegen 15:22 Uhr, ein Wohnmobil beim Verlassen der Autobahn 1 im Bereich der Zufahrt zu einem Parkplatz verunfallt. Beide Insassen wurden dabei ...

Rams, Packers, Chargers, Patriots: Which Week 1 losses should scare us most?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-packers-chargers-patriots-week-1-losses-that-scar…

Apple und die EU-Kommission einigen sich: Neue App-Store-Regeln ab 1. Oktober
Überraschende Einigung zwischen zwei erbitterten Konfliktparteien: Apple und die EU-Kommission wollen den Streit um den App Store beenden.

Apple und die EU-Kommission einigen sich: Neue App-Store-Regeln ab 1. Oktober
Überraschende Einigung zwischen zwei erbitterten Konfliktparteien: Apple und die EU-Kommission wollen den Streit um den App Store beenden.

Proper generic kernel fusion is *so* complicated.
Making it work for a trivial 1:1 case is easy, but considering more complicated scenarios like "shader needs another SSBO as a scratch buffer or to read a large block of constants from", or "input and output are not 1:1" or even "shader has multiple outputs" complicates things dramatically.
But I don't want to rush out an incomplete half-baked solution that will have to be ripped out later on.

No.7) Who is the Week 1 starting left tackle? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-7-who-is-the-week-1-starting-left-tackle

I'm watching Accused: Guilty or Innocent? 8x01 "Teenage Killer or Framed Victim? - Part 1" https://trakt.tv/shows/accused-guilty-or-innocent/seasons/8/episodes/1

Teenage Killer or Framed Victim? - Part 1
When a young man is found stabbed to death, police follow a trail of blood to a trailer; a shocking tale emerges of a robbery honeytrap gone wrong; as a…

In case you missed it a couple weeks ago, here's what's wrong with San Francisco's Props D, E, and F (Mayor Lurie's billionaire-backed charter amendments to consolidate power):
https://dsasf.org/oppose-mayor-luries-power-grab-no-on-d-e-f/

DSA San Francisco Opposes Mayor Lurie’s Power Grab: No on D, E and F
DSA San Francisco stands in strong opposition to Mayor Lurie’s three proposed charter amendments for November 2026 which seek to limit San Franciscans’ ability to place measures on the ballot, redu…

AFC West Power Rankings: Raiders Make Their Move After Week 1 https://raiderramble.com/2026/09/16/afc-west-power-rankings-raiders-make-their-move-after-week-1/

www.maptap.gg July 17
98🎯 99🎯 97🔥 88🎉 80✨
Final score: 895
1. x: 4,719 pts, 86 km, 24 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 1,577 pts, 1,721 km, 32 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 63 pts, 6,517 km, 40 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 4,956 pts, 13 km, 2 min, 29 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 2,276 pts, 1,174 km, 46 sec, 0 steps
Total: 13,591 pts, 9,512 km, 4 min, 51 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1143 — 43,731/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆8,338 · 📅 7y · 🌍 1.6mi
2️⃣ 🏆9,056 · 📅 0y · 🌍 275.9mi
3️⃣ 🏆7,500 · 📅 9y …

And so the fun begins with getting this code base into shape:

Wordle 1,886 3/6 for 18 August, 2026 #LeftWordle
🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜ 5
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0
1. 2nd perfect. 1st & 4th wrong. (5 answers remain after guess.)
2. 5th perfect. 1st wrong. (1 answer remains after guess.)
3. Won! (0 answers remain after guess.)
#Wordle

Indiens erste private entwickelte Trägerrakete gestartet
Mit der Vikram-1 betritt Indien als drittes Land die Bühne privater Starts von Trägerraketen. Was macht die Rakete und ihre Mission „Aagman“ so besonders?
h…

Indiens erste private entwickelte Trägerrakete gestartet
Mit der Vikram-1 betritt Indien als drittes Land die Bühne privater Starts von Trägerraketen. Was macht die Rakete und ihre Mission „Aagman“ so besonders?

Donno what’s worse, the verse itself or DuckDuckGo’s generated explanation of it. @… https://partyon.xyz/@nando161/116925119988965039

Titans to induct Chris Johnson into Ring of Honor during Week 1 game vs. Jets https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-induct-chris-johnso-ring-of-honor-week-1-game-als

Projecting Dallas Cowboys Week 1 Regular Season Starters https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/projecting-dallas-cowboys-week-1-regular-season-starters

Patrons of Amazon Web Services have been landed with panic-inducing monthly bills running as high as
$1.5 trillion for subscriptions that usually cost less than the price of a cup of coffee.
From Bangalore to Bolsover, the bills have been causing alarm
after a computer glitch resulted in the astronomical invoices being dispatched around the world by Jeff Bezos’s company,
which provides data and cloud services to millions of customers, from students and small charities…

Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch
One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

Just an expression of frustration.
#effort #ashdod

Is it worth the effort? - JazMat
It’s hard to enjoy and use sites, prayers, and devotionals from the diverse religious perspectives out there, because of the widespread unbiblical language...

POL-DEL: Autobahnpolizei Ahlhorn: Pkw mit gefälschten Kennzeichen auf der Autobahn 1 im Bereich der Gemeinde Großenkneten kontrolliert Diverse Verstöße festgestellt Delmenhorst (ots) - Am Samstag, 18. Juli 2026, gegen 7:35 Uhr, kontrollierten Beamte der Autobahnpolizei Ahlhorn einen Pkw, der auf der Autobahn 1 in Fahrtrichtung Hamburg unterwegs war. Bei der Überprüfung des Fahrzeugs und des Pkw-Fahrers auf ...

PHPStorms 2026.2 splash screen is pretty nice ♥️

📈 Trending 📉 after Preseason Week 1, with Giants rookies impressing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7519984/2026/08/17/📈-trending-📉-after-preseason-week-1-giants-rookies/

www.maptap.gg July 18
99🎯 97🔥 98🎯 99🎯 62🫣
Final score: 875
1. x: 4,438 pts, 178 km, 55 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 3,774 pts, 420 km, 33 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 4,398 pts, 191 km, 41 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 2,145 pts, 1,262 km, 1 min, 16 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 2,491 pts, 1,039 km, 1 min, 20 sec, 0 steps
Total: 17,246 pts, 3,090 km, 4 min, 46 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1144 — 43,516/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆9,942 · 📅 1y · 🌍 396m
2️⃣ 🏆9,560 · 📅 1y · 🌍 45.0mi
3️⃣ 🏆9,134…

📈 Trending 📉 after Preseason Week 1, with Giants rookies impressing https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7519984/2026/08/17/📈-trending-📉-after-preseason-week-1-giants-rookies/

Wordle 1,854 3/6 for 17 July, 2026 #LeftWordle
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 26
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0
1. 2nd perfect. 1st wrong. (26 answers remain after guess.)
2. 1st, 2nd & 3rd wrong. (1 answer remains after guess.)
3. Won! (0 answers remain after guess.)
#Wordle

ZDF-Inhalte kommen offenbar zu Joyn: Einigung mit ProSiebenSat.1
Im Frühjahr 2025 eskalierte der Streit um ARD- und ZDF-Inhalte bei Joyn. Nun haben sich ProSiebenSat.1 und das ZDF laut DWDL auf Embedding geeinigt.

ZDF-Inhalte kommen offenbar zu Joyn: Einigung mit ProSiebenSat.1
Im Frühjahr 2025 eskalierte der Streit um ARD- und ZDF-Inhalte bei Joyn. Nun haben sich ProSiebenSat.1 und das ZDF laut DWDL auf Embedding geeinigt.

RE: https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/116942297332156781
What were US soldiers doing in Jordan? It’s very far from the US. Maybe US soldiers should stay home where they belong.

Models like Kimi K3, Grok 4.5, and Muse 1.1 may prevent the dominance of 2-3 frontier labs with 90% inference margins from hurting other AI ecosystem layers (Gavin Baker/@gavinsbaker)
https://x.com/gavinsbaker/status/2078110934740980193

Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker) on X
Kimi K3 may be an important inflection point for AI. Potentially negative for Anthropic and OpenAI while being net positive for essentially every other company in the world. I mean that very literally. Although the real “Sputnik moment” would be an open-source frontier model that

I would love to know what this poll looks like specifically in San Francisco.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/712751/americans-cool-toward.aspx

Americans Cool Toward AI
A Bentley University-Gallup survey finds that Americans are more familiar with AI but more cautious about businesses' use of AI and its effect on jobs.

@… Five and a half hours of Opus 4.8 and I'm now looking at no errors whatsoever.
Honestly still unsure and uneasy about using LLM's for this, but it's hard to deny the results. This would have taken me a good week or two to do. Maybe even 3 or 4. But the real question now is: How much did it fuck up?

Dallas Showed Physicality Week 1, Washington Will Test It https://insidethestar.com/dallas-showed-physicality-week-1-washington-will-test-it

www.maptap.gg August 17
98🔥 100🎯 84😁 91👑 53🤫
Final score: 798
1. x: 4,835 pts, 50 km, 49 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 4,570 pts, 134 km, 1 min, 21 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 4,824 pts, 53 km, 42 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 1,055 pts, 2,321 km, 49 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 3,443 pts, 557 km, 1 min, 41 sec, 0 steps
Total: 18,727 pts, 3,115 km, 5 min, 21 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1174 — 43,112/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆9,897 · 📅 1y · 🌍 1.3mi
2️⃣ 🏆8,661 · 📅 0y · 🌍 521.4mi
3️⃣ 🏆5,52…

Raiders RB Mike Washington named top rookie RB in NFL preseason Week 1 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/18/raiders-rb-mike-washington-pff-rookie-team-week-1-nfl-presea…

Week 1 NFL odds, lines, best bets, predictions: Computer model backs Eagles and Jaguars

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/week-1-nfl-2026-odds-lines-best-bets-predictions/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116931281609412806
They’re trying to kill general purpose computing and the open web. Why? Because, in the words of Jack Ma, by way of Masayoshi Son, “whoever controls data, controls the world.”

I'm watching NYPD Blue 1x07 "NYPD Lou" #NypdBlue

NYPD Lou
When Sipowicz's estranged son, Andy Jr., shows up and announces his engagement, Andy Sr. decides to look into the bride-to-be's background.

Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue down 6.1% YoY to ~$16.2B and net income down 21% to ~$1.4B, above est., amid a persistent memory shortage and weaker smartphone demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/xi…

1&1-Tochter Versatel baut jede vierte Stelle ab
1&1 ist nicht nur Handynetzbetreiber, sondern über die Tochterfirma Versatel auch Betreiber eines Glasfasernetzes. Dort wird der Rotstift gezückt.
https://www.

1&1-Tochter Versatel baut jede vierte Stelle ab
1&1 ist nicht nur Handynetzbetreiber, sondern über die Tochterfirma Versatel auch Betreiber eines Glasfasernetzes. Dort wird der Rotstift gezückt.

NFL preseason Week 1 overreactions: Do Titans have Cam Ward problem? Niners have OROY candidate at WR

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-preseaso…

Dallas Cowboys Legend Sounds Off On 'Alarming' Defensive Performance In Week 1 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-legend-sounds-off-on-alarming-defensive-performance-nfl-week-1

Cars are the reason SF’s tree canopy is so sparse.
This is typical. That’s gotta be, what, 200 feet without trees due to continuous driveways. And down the block the trees that are there are small, offering little shade. That’s because the sidewalk is too narrow for large, healthy, mature trees. And why’s it narrow? To fit a parking lane.
We can choose trees over cars, life over luxury transport.

I'm watching NYPD Blue 1x08 "Tempest in a C-Cup" #NypdBlue

Tempest in a C-Cup
Lieutenant Fancy hires Donna Abandando, a well-endowed civilian employee, to work in the precinct's "safe street" program.

Bo Nix 'not freaking out' after Week 1 flop, but Broncos need more from their QB https://www.nfl.com/news/bo-nix-not-freaking-out-after-week-1-flop-but-broncos-need-more-from-their-qb

Meta's personal AI agent Muse climbs to No. 1 among free apps on Apple's US App Store, ahead of ChatGPT; Muse launched on September 8 (Georgia Hennessy/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-muse-personal-ai-agent-top-app-store-…

Meta's personal AI agent Muse soars to top of App Store
Meta's personal AI agent Muse has reached No. 1 on Apple's US App Store as AI agents begin moving into the consumer mainstream.

www.maptap.gg August 18
99🎯 93🏆 83😁 93🏅 91👑
Final score: 910
1. x: 2,868 pts, 829 km, 22 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 1,249 pts, 2,070 km, 2 min, 6 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 2,765 pts, 883 km, 1 min, 9 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 3,331 pts, 606 km, 22 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 4,692 pts, 95 km, 18 sec, 0 steps
Total: 14,905 pts, 4,483 km, 4 min, 16 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1175 — 46,889/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆9,316 · 📅 0y · 🌍 114.5mi
2️⃣ 🏆9,899 · 📅 1y · 🌍 1.2mi
3️⃣ 🏆8,886 …

Conditioning is Step 1 for this Cowboys former first-round pick https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/17/tyler-guyton-2026-conditioning-step-1-dallas-cowboys-first-ro…

Muse Spark 1.1: Meta will mit Kampfpreisen OpenAI und Anthropic unterbieten
Mit Muse Spark 1.1 startet Meta den kommerziellen Zugang zu einem eigenen KI-Modell und verschärft den Preiskampf im KI-Markt.

Muse Spark 1.1: Meta will mit Kampfpreisen OpenAI und Anthropic unterbieten
Mit Muse Spark 1.1 startet Meta den kommerziellen Zugang zu einem eigenen KI-Modell und verschärft den Preiskampf im KI-Markt.

NFL survivor pool picks, advice, strategy for Week 1, 2026: Avoid the Dallas Cowboys

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/nfl-survivor-pool-picks-advi…

Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to "an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem" (Robert Booth/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

Amazon Web Services customers receive bills for up to $1.5tn after global glitch
One UK man whose bill is usually less than £1 says he ‘almost had a heart attack’ when he saw £5.8bn invoice

Breece Hall (groin) expected to be ready for Jets' Week 1 game vs. Titans https://www.nfl.com/news/breece-hall-groin-expected-to-be-ready-for-jets-week-1-game-vs-titans

RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/117286578085548271
But don’t worry, they’re not religious fundamentalists or anything, no sir.

London-based AI infrastructure startup Nscale files for a US IPO, reports H1 2026 revenue up 1,252% YoY to $140.6M, with a net loss of $1.02B, up from $368.9M (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/18/nscale-ai-cloud-provider-ipo-nscl.html

AI cloud provider Nscale files to go public
Nscale is the latest artificial intelligence neocloud to turn to public markets.

George Kittle (Achilles) still hopeful for 'a chance' to face Rams in Week 1 in Australia https://www.nfl.com/news/george-kittle-achilles-chance-49ers-rams-week-1-australia

RE: https://front-end.social/@hdv/117285970784191758
An idea to kick things off:
Expel all surveillance capitalists from the W3C.
Here are some off the top of my head that are actively working with authoritarian regimes to destroy human rights and…

Chargers OC Mike McDaniel looking for 'Year 2 results in Year 1' with Justin Herbert https://www.nfl.com/news/chargers-oc-mike-mcdaniel-looking-for-year-2-results-in-year-1-with-justin-herbert

A former US State Department envoy says the US-China AI safety talks will not yield a breakthrough treaty as Beijing is prioritizing its strategic advantage (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/opinion

Opinion | I Led A.I. Diplomacy for the U.S. The Coming Safety Talks Will Not Save Us.
Even if Beijing now takes the risks of A.I. seriously, the message has not reached its domestic companies.

Cowboys' Christian Parker promises to fix defense after 'poor performance' in Week 1 https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-christian-parker-promises-to-fix-defense-after-poor-performance-in-week-1

iPhone Duo: It’s twice the phone, for twice the price, in half the number of phones, or something, whatever, we really don’t care anymore, just give us your money so we can afford our Prozac.

Internal memo: ICE bars its employees from wearing Meta's AI glasses, saying they "could unintentionally capture, record, or transmit sensitive information" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technol…

ICE Bars Its Workers From Wearing Meta’s Smart Glasses on the Job
The agency joins a growing number of workplaces and groups to ban Meta’s devices, which have spurred privacy concerns.

Fernando Mendoza isn't the Raiders' starter. Here's everything he did as a backup in Week 1 https://www.nfl.com/news/fernando-mendoza-isn-t-the-raiders-starter-here-s-everything-he-did-as-a-backup-in-week-1…

iPhone Duo: Because capitalism has officially run out of ideas.

In an unsealed court ruling, a US judge orders Google to make ad tech tools interoperable with rivals, share ad auction data, and appoint an internal monitor (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/technol

Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly
The measures, which fall short of a breakup demanded by the government, effectively ensure that the tech titan’s business will continue largely unscathed.

Sources: Anthropic expects to generate $100B in annualized revenue this year, up from $65B as of July, as it moves ahead with its IPO amid the AI safety debate (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/technol

Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.I. Safety Warnings
The company is expected to generate $100 billion in annualized revenue this year, even as chief executive Dario Amodei calls for slowing down development of some advanced A.I. models.

RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/117285208823199797
Well, that tracks; VW has invaluable historic experience in supporting genocide.

Can NFL preseason Week 1 losers turn it around? Outlooks for Shedeur Sanders, Tua Tagovailoa, Quinn Ewers

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-preseason-week…

How AI startups like Inherent and Recursive Superintelligence are pursuing tools needed for AI systems to achieve recursive self-improvement (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/science

The Liftoff Scenario That Terrifies A.I. Doomsayers
“Recursive self-improvement” is the idea that artificial intelligence could learn to build and train itself, creating exponential new progress — and risk.

RE: https://todon.eu/@regendans/117115481139757911
UK government: If justice is not on your side, redefine what justice means until it is.
(Did you expect anything different from a country raised on colonialism and slavery?)

Ranking every rookie QB from Week 1 of the preseason, plus winners and losers and NFL team valuations

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking

Francisco Partners plans to take patient engagement software company Weave Communications private for ~$650M; Weave went public at a ~$1.5B valuation in 2021 (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/08/18/f…

Francisco Partners to acquire Weave Communications for $650M
The deal comes less than five years after Weave went public at a $1.5 billion valuation.

Next time someone tells you they support Israel, ask them “What the fuck is wrong with you? What kind of monster supports genocide?”

How Dario Amodei's essays on AI safety and ethics help explain some AI fears; his regulatory stance evolved from wariness in January to embracing safety reviews (David Streitfeld/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

How Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Writings Help Explain A.I. Fears
The collected essays of Dario Amodei help explain why some people are so worried about artificial intelligence.

How about this: they’re commiting genocide together as we speak.
How about we nitpick the minutiae once we’ve stopped that? @… https://mastodon.social/@threetails/11

“That is factually not correct,” says the news anchor for things that are *checks notes* factually correct.
This is the V-for-Vendetta levels of propaganda that people in the US are subjected to on a daily basis.
🤔
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/s/V2GwQLZoGL

Sources: OpenRouter has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value it at billions of dollars, a premium to its $1.3B valuation in May (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/startup-openroute…

Startup OpenRouter Fields Multi-Billion-Dollar Takeover Interest
OpenRouter, which helps app developers access hundreds of AI models, has discussed a potential sale to a bigger tech company that could value the startup at billions of dollars, a steep premium to its $1.3 billion valuation, people familiar with the matter said. The discussions reflect a swell ...

RE: https://mstdn.social/@ManyRoads/116940656800385204
Patriarchy, they said, give it a try, they said, what could possibly go wrong?

RE: https://mstdn.social/@ManyRoads/116940674227040563
Give them a break, it’s a hard decision whether to support genocide or not.

What Jordan Love, Josh Allen and the Dallas Cowboys told us in Week 1 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7597304/2026/09/16/nfl-news-week-1/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116931490270096063
Let me add to this: They were so focussed on their own freedom – in the libertarian/colonial sense – that they didn’t consider that their freedom – as mostly able-bodied young/middle-a…

Never trust a politician who isn’t, first and foremost, an activist for social justice.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bms48/116935319839522391
He also doesn’t know who the Luddites were and why they rebelled.

‘Last year, the online magazine 972 revealed the existence of a specialised military intelligence unit known as the “legitimisation cell”. Its mandate is narrative management. “Whenever criticism of Israel in the media intensified on a particular issue,” the report said, the cell combed through intercepted calls and fragments of intelligence from Gaza to identify material that could be deployed to defend Israel on the international stage.
“If the global media is talking about Israel ki…

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR
Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.