
2025-07-14 14:01:00
London-based Noah, which is developing API-focused stablecoin infrastructure to enable real-time cross-border payments, raised a $22M seed led by LocalGlobe (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/10/noah-thijn-lamers-stable…
@… I'm playing geoguessr but losing
Thanking my own self for backups... I accidentally deleted my Jellyfin media library yesterday!
Luckily the machine it lives on backs up to an external disk and there's also a backup that runs to a NAS in the house so it was an easy restore.
An interview with US Press Freedom Tracker Senior Reporter Stephanie Sugars on documenting nearly 62,000 anti-press social posts by Trump over the past 10 years (Liam Scott/Freedom of the Press Foundation)
http://freedom.press/issues/the-repor
NFL's top 10 defenses in 2025? Broncos edge out Eagles and Ravens for No. 1 spot; Patriots will rise https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-s-top-10-defenses-in-2025-broncos-edge-out-eagles-and-ravens-for-no-1-spot-patriots-will-…
Apropos Kindheitserinnerungen: @… schreibt in ihrem Blog wunderbare Reiseberichte zu einer Deutschlandreise anlässlich ihres 50. Geburtstags.
Later, I'll be giving a talk at #IANLS25 on some quantitative analyses of Latin book prodcution in Germany (and Italy in part) from 1500 through 1800. Slides, code and data can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15878272
Tons of valuable information about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse at the Belgian conference today, esp. about the preferred Spain: some slides by Jay Anderson - see https://eclipsophile.com/tse2026/ for his full analysis - and Eduard Masana. 10/n
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Built to Spill:
🎵 The Plan
#BuilttoSpill
https://open.spotify.com/track/5nrIEQ6ZmVwt9Pfr3ydvbn
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🌌 The World’s Largest Camera Captures 10 Million Galaxies, Discovers 2,104 Asteroids in First Photos
https://petapixel.com/2025/06/23/the-worlds-largest-camera-captures-10-million-galaxies-discovers-2104-astero…
Auditory gamma-frequency entrainment abolishes working memory deficits in a rodent model of autism #40Hz sensory entra…
»Umbruch am Linux-Desktop – Nach nur ein paar Jahrzehnten wird es ernst mit dem Ende von X11:
Sowohl das GNOME-Projekt als auch die entsprechenden Versionen von Fedora und Ubuntu streichen mit ihren kommenden Versionen die Unterstützung für den alten Grafikserver. Wayland übernimmt«
Hui… nun ist es so zu sagen offiziell nach Jahrzehnten deren Doppelleben der Linux Desktops.
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This is what an Iranian friend posted: مسئوليت تكتك اين خونا
تنها وتنها جمهورى اسلاميه.
“The responsibility for every single detail of these crimes lies solely with the Islamic Republic.”
I agree.
#CarsAndCoffee Seaside #WeirdCarMastodon a custom ‘65 bug and a 1940 Mercury based hot rod for sale. Call Cherie at the number shown…
Alle geißeln das #Atomwaffen|programm im #Iran - niemand diskutiert, dass #Israel selbst Atomwaffen besitzt, Regierungsmitglieder sogar drohten in
Ukraine’s economic crimes bureau remains leaderless amid government interference: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/ukraines-economic-crimes-bureau-remains.html
"dozens of men"
Yeah. Three dozen men. This reminds me of a video game violence study with 13 participants. Passing this off as research is insulting.
"Climate disasters can alter kids’ brains — before they’re even born"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Health
Some reporting on #nasa getting the #doge in #nyc
https://www.fastcompany.com/91333946/this-iconic-nasa-office-changed-climate-science-forever-doge-plans-to-kill-it
I put up some history here in happier times.
https://fediscience.org/@atthenius/110991531387943903
"How Should Diamond Open Access Work for Books?" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2025/how-should-diamond-oa-work-for-books
Less than 500€ and less than a day for #peertube fund raising to goal 3 of 4
Goal 3 is live streaming from the app! Please, let's make it happen.
[Update: Goal 3/4 achieved! ❤️]
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/
Beim Berliner Übernachtungsanbieter #Numa entdeckte ein Mitglied des Chaos Computer Club ein gravierendes #Datenleck.
Durch einfache URL-Manipulation waren persönliche Daten, #Ausweiskopien u…
"Nobody is fired for chosing Microsoft," lautet ein geflügeltes Wort.
Das impliziert aber auch, dass Leute gefeuert werden, die sich gegen die Einführung von #Microsoft-Lösungen stellen. Genai das scheint im Kanton #Luzern dem IT-Sicherheitschef passiert zu sein, wie eine Reportag…
Same old same old.
Heritage fascists (Spain's PP) and neofascists (Spain's VOX) aggressively linking immigration with crime in the face of extreme racist rioting in Torre Pacheco (Murcia).
#ESPPol #xenophobia
PP y Vox insisten en vincular inmigración con delincuencia en pleno es…
Bluffs and Bluster Aside, Trump's Tariffs Are Here to Stay (Ana Swanson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/us/politics/trump-tariffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p7#a250714p7
Tote und Verletzte bei russischen Angriffen in Sumy
Bei einem russischen Angriff in der nordukrainischen Region Sumy sollen zwei Menschen getötet und vier weitere verletzt worden sein. Die zuständige Staatsanwaltschaft erklärte, unter den Verletzten sei auch ein siebenjähriges Kind. Bei dem Luftangriff auf die Stadt Schostka seien Gleitbomben und Drohnen eingesetzt worden.
Die ukrainische Luftwaffe teilte mit, Russland habe …
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Arschlöcher gibt es überall, sie zeigen sich lediglich in unterschiedlichen Gruppen und Kulturen auf unterschiedliche Weise. Wenn du dich mit dem Argument gegen eine nach irgendeinem Kriterium definierte Gruppe von Menschen stellst, daß sich in selbiger auch Arschlöcher befinden, ist das Sippenhaft¹ und arschig.
Bildet sich hingegen eine Gruppe aktiv unter dem Motto Arschlochverhalten und Ausgrenzung anderer, gehört sie bekämpft.
Ich halte das mal so abstrakt, dann kann jeder fei…
just heard "This is how murder on the orient express starts."
Auf dem Luisenplatz in Darmstadt gilt jetzt ein absolutes Waffenverbot – auch für eigentlich erlaubte Messer. Die Stadt reagiert auf steigende Straftaten. Verbot ist ein Baustein gegen Straftaten – aber kein Allheilmittel. Prävention bleibt gefragt. Polizei setzt auf Präsenz. #FAZ #Darmstadt
Old-growth forest logging resumed in Finland – Stora Enso breaking its sustainability promises https://www.greenpeace.org/finland/blogit/metsat/old-growth-forest-logging-resumed-in-finland-stora-enso-bre…
Bedrock Ocean, which has developed an autonomous underwater vehicle to map the ocean floor using sonar and magnetic sensors, raised a $25M Series A-2 (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/bedrock-ocean-dredges-u…
My partner asked for a last minute sign today. 3D printing to the rescue!
Made a sign for today… 3D printed letters, foam core, spray paint… then added a 3D printed handle.
#noKings #resist #resistFascism
Who are the NFL's best quarterbacks? Execs, coaches and scouts help rank 2025's top 10 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45530940/top-10-nfl-quarterbacks-execs-scouts-2025-espn-jeremy-fowler-position-rankings
I rode my bike to the library to return a book, which isn't terribly exciting, but I'm pleased that I can now take care of local errands by bike instead of car.
#bikeTooter
Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) warnt vor der weiteren Nutzung von Windows 10 nach dem Support-Ende im Oktober 2025. Millionen Nutzer müssen jetzt handeln.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10486622?wt_mc=sm.re
Pardon, Herr #Engel, die westlichen Werte sind in #Israel selbst heftig unter Druck. Viele junge Israelis verlassen das Land, weil sie die religöse und zunehmen faschistische Indoktrination nicht mehr aushalten.
Philipp Peyman Engel hat eine wirklich miese Gesprächskultur. Wenn jamend andere laufend unterbr…
The Russians are PUSHING in the East! Ukraine is fighting BACK #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/the-russians-are-pushing-in.html
For last year's #PrideMonth, I wrote this bisexual MMF threesome involving Hermes, Iris, and Triton as a collaborative project on Mastodon:
https://eroticmythology.c…
Next at the #SolarEclipse Conference Nick James talked about new (and finally amateur-affordable) polarization-sensitive cameras in which each pixel comes with a polarizer: since it's a while til the next solar eclipse he demonstrated it with the #Moon where the #polarization of the maria is higher than of the highlands, matching expectations. 2/n
"How to Become an Integrity Sleuth in the Library"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/how-to-become-an-integrity-sleuth-in-the-library
"Open access agreement management c…
Tucker Carlson leads MAGA's worried warriors in questioning Trump (Allan Smith/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/tucker-carlson-maga-trump-rcna217473
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p3#a250714p3
#FotoDerWoche vom Betriebsausflug in meine Geburtsstadt Tübingen. Oder: wie Wimmelbücher Erinnerungen prägen.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/index.php/2…
is taking a Hiawatha train using a Borealis trainset. This feels very weird. #Amtrak
KI-generierte Videos sind kaum noch von echten zu unterscheiden. FakeNews, Katastrophen, Politik – alles wird manipuliert. Die gesellschaftliche Konsequenz: Wir verlieren den Bezug zur gemeinsamen Wirklichkeit und damit die Grundlage für Demokratie, meint @….
Realität verschwindet: Bitte als Warnung herumzeigen! Mach ich doch glatt
Republican House leaders anticipate passing the GENIUS Act along with considering two other crypto bills, as the House kicks off a regulatory Crypto Week (Yash Roy/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/s…
Who are the NFL's best off-ball linebackers? Execs, coaches and scouts help rank the top 10 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45530955/top-10-nfl-linebackers-execs-scouts-2025-espn-jeremy-fowler-position-rankings
Meh, #Pachli hat einen Toot gefressen.
Anja Wehler-Schöck vom Tagesspiegel stellt im #Presseclub die akute Frage: Wie kann es sein, dass #Israel über eine Entfernung von 2000km gezielte Angriffe auf #Iran durchführen kann, in den Jahren des Vernichtungskrie…
What a valid lab test report for #SolarEclipse glasses looks like - from an SEC talk by Richard Fienberg who also co-authored a scientific paper on this topic in 2021: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac013e 7/n
House Democrat floats radical solution to Congress' age problem (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/14/congress-age-mental-marie-gluesenkamp-perez
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p6#a250714p6
Anthropic details how it built its multi-agent Claude Research system, claiming significant improvements in internal evaluations over single-agent systems (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/built-multi-agent-research-system
Mal Abseits der AfD-Verbotsdebatte (ja, muss dringend geprüft werden!) steht für mich nach wie vor die Frage im Raum, wie eigentlich gesellschaftliches Zusammenleben funktionieren soll, wenn (je nachdem) ein Zehntel bis ein Drittel der Menschen anderen v.a. böses will?
Joe likes public transportation. #trains
Jens #Münchrath vom Handelsblatt kann ich gut folgen, wie auch Anja Wehler-Schöck vom Tagesspiegel.
Sie geben der Propaganda #Engels Paroli. Gut so.
#Presseclub
More Masana slides about the geography and road network of relevance for the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse - beware of shadows and traffic. 11/n
Grok's iOS app now features two AI "Companions", or 3D animated avatars that interact with users via voice, including Ani, an anime character with an NSFW mode (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)
https://www.testingcatalog.com/grok-debuts
Under Trump, the government mobilizes in response to fringe theories (Naftali Bendavid/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/14/under-trump-government-mobilizes-response-fringe-theories/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p5#a250714p5
An interview with Google President of Android Ecosystem Sameer Samat, who says Google is going to combine "ChromeOS and Android into a single platform" (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techradar.com/phones/android/i
Search for the Anomalous Events Detected by #ANITA Using the Pierre Auger Observatory: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.121003 -> Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/strange-radio-pulses-detected-coming-ice-antarctica
3 ways Trump might try to defuse the Epstein mess (Marc Caputo/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/14/trump-epstein-maga-defuse-mess
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p4#a250714p4
O.k. four more slides by Eduard Masana at the Leuven SEC about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse in Spain, namely what the Comisión Nacional del Eclipse is preparing: see https://www.iaa.csic.es/page/comision-nacional-eclipse and https://eclipses.ign.es and https://eclipse-spain.es/index.php/en/ for relevant websites. And some Final Thoughts and Recommendations about the expected eclipse experience in Spain. 13/n
Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves (Rob Stein/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/14/nx-s1-5429732/ancient-miasma-theory-may-help-explain-health-secretary-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-vaccine-moves
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p72#a250614p72
Dem Assassin Is Armed Guard Boss With Anti-Abortion Hit-List (Liam Archacki/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-is-the-minnesota-democratic-assassin-and-what-do-we-know-about-him/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p71#a250614p71
Discovery of a 10:1 Resonator with a Novel Libration State: #202VN40
US experts fear all vaccines at risk as Trump officials target mRNA jabs (Melody Schreiber/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/14/mrna-vaccines-trump-rfk-jr
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p70#a250614p70
The Judiciary Will Become Virtually Powerless in Protecting Your Rights if the Current Budget Bill Becomes Law (Clint Bolick/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-judiciary-will-become-virtually
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p69#a250614p69
Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban list (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/14/trump-travel-ban-expansion/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p68#a250614p68
57-year-old suspect sought in targeted shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers (Ryan Pattee/KSTP-TV)
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/57-year-old-suspect-sought-in-targeted-shootings-of-minnesota-state-lawmakers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p67#a250614p67
ICE directed to pause immigration arrests at farms, hotels and restaurants, sources tell CBS News (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-directed-to-pause-immigration-arrests-at-farms-hotels-and-restaurants/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p66#a250614p66
Minnesota shootings set off five-alarm fire in Congress (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/14/minnesota-melissa-hortman-john-hoffman-congress
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p65#a250614p65
Former appointee of Tim Walz sought in deadly shootings of Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, had 'No Kings' flyers in car: sources (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/14/us-news/suspect-in-deadly-minnesota-shootings-identified-as-vance-luther-boelter/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p64#a250614p64
America Is Finally Getting A Fascist Dictator Parade, Courtesy Of Donald Trump (S.V. Date/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-fascist-parade_n_684b2177e4b07b4dd1c998b3
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p62#a250614p62
Trump dismisses the prospect of canceling the parade because of weather. (David E. Sanger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/14/us/trump-parade
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p63#a250614p63
Critical Damage Dealt to Key Iranian Nuclear Site, IAEA Says (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/critical-damage-dealt-to-key-iranian-nuclear-sites-iaea-reports
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p61#a250614p61
Tax portion of Senate megabill expected Monday (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/13/congress/tax-portion-of-senate-megabill-expected-monday-00406045
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p60#a250614p60
Raskin takes swipe at Trump over price of military parade, GOP megabill (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5350608-raskin-trump-military-parade-gop-bill/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p59#a250614p59
Trump reacts to shootings of Minnesota lawmakers: 'Horrific violence will not be tolerated' (MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/trump-condemns-shooting-of-minnesota-lawmakers-as-fbi-joins-investigation-241601605790
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p58#a250614p58
Who Are the Lawmakers Who Were Shot? -- A Minnesota state representative and her husband ... (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/us/politics/hortman-hoffman-shot-minnesota.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p56#a250614p56
The Polls Are In. Trump Is Not Winning in Los Angeles. (Jamelle Bouie/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/opinion/trump-los-angeles-poll.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p57#a250614p57
Eight chaotic days shake Trump's grip on the presidency (Zachary Basu/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/14/trump-israel-iran-protests-no-kings
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p53#a250614p53
Minnesota state lawmaker killed in 'politically-motivated assassination,' massive manhunt for suspect underway, officials say (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/14/us/minneapolis-targeted-shooting
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p52#a250614p52
Poll: Americans disapprove of spending public funds to put on military parade in Washington (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/poll-americans-disapprove-spending-public-funds-put-military-parade-wa-rcna212779
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p54#a250614p54