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love, n.:
When you don't want someone too close--because you're very sensitive
to pleasure.

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…

Exclusive: Stablecoin startup Noah raises $22 million, adds Adyen vet as cofounder
“I feel like I have the energy of [when I was] 25,” said Thijn Lamers, who is 66 years old.

Minnesota --
home of the blonde hair and blue ears.
mosquito supplier to the free world.
come fall in love with a loon.
where visitors turn blue with envy.
one day it's warm, the rest of the year it's cold.
land of many cultures -- mostly throat.
where the elite meet sleet.
glove it or leave it.
many are cold, but few are frozen.
land of the ski and home of the crazed.
land of 10,000 Petersons.

(1) A sheet of paper is an ink-lined plane.
(2) An inclined plane is a slope up.
(3) A slow pup is a lazy dog.
QED: A sheet of paper is a lazy dog.
-- Willard Espy, "An Almanac of Words at Play"

Turnkey, which builds low-level infrastructure for digital wallets used to store and manage crypto, raised a $30M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/09/exclus…

Exclusive: Coinbase vets raise $30 million for crypto wallet startup Turnkey
The fundraise attracted big VC names like Bain Capital Crypto, Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Faction.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than
about 10^12 to 1.
-- Ernest Rutherford

Sonnet 029 - XXIX
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply …

'Sovereign AI' is just political branding, signaling to nationalist impulses while continuing to pour money into big tech firms. It's a mask for a sucker's game.
"This reveals a new kind of digital colonialism. Not one where countries are denied access, but one where they are structurally bound into dependencies across every layer of the AI stack. A European lab may host its own weights on a data center in France, but that center runs on American hardware, software…

‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialism
The harder nations push for AI independence, the deeper their dependencies become.

Laurel, which uses AI to map how workers spend time by integrating with tools like Slack and Outlook, raised a $100M Series C led by IVP at a $510M valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/06/10/exclusive-laurel-r…

Exclusive: Laurel raises $100 Series C to map where the time goes
Laurel has raised a $100 million Series C led by IVP, Fortune has exclusively learned. The deal values the startup at $510 million.

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today --
I think he's from the CIA.

London-based OneBalance, which lets developers integrate crypto features into their apps, raised a $20M Series A led by Cyber Fund and Blockchain Capital (Catherine McGrath/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/06/11/

Crypto software company OneBalance raises $20 million from cyber•Fund and Blockchain Capital
Crypto company OneBalance plans to use the funding to support additional blockchains.

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You can now buy more gates with less specifications than at any other time
in history.
-- Kenneth Parker

Fortune cookies should have fortunes, and they should be written in pidgin English.

Quando temos 20 anos, estamos convencidos de que resolvemos o enigma do
mundo. Aos 30, começamos a refletir acerca dele. Aos 40, descobrimos que
ele não tem solução.
-- Honoré de Balzac, escritor francês

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initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

Fortune: Formula-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Symbolic Table Reasoning in Language Models
Tables are a fundamental structure for organizing and analyzing data, making effective table understanding a critical capability for intelligent systems. While large language models (LMs) demonstrate strong general reasoning abilities, they continue to struggle with accurate numerical or symbolic reasoning over tabular data, especially in complex scenarios. Spreadsheet formulas provide a powerful and expressive medium for representing executable symbolic operations, encoding rich reasoning patt…

She's genuinely bogus.

To one large turkey add one gallon of vermouth and a demijohn of Angostura
bitters. Shake.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, recipe for turkey cocktail.

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A profile of Airwallex co-founder Jack Zhang, who turned down Stripe's $1.2B offer seven years ago; the fintech is now valued at $6.2B and plans an IPO in 2026 (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

UNIX Trix
For those of you in the reseller business, here is a helpful tip that will
save your support staff a few hours of precious time. Before you send your
next machine out to an untrained client, change the permissions on /etc/passwd
to 666 and make sure there is a copy somewhere on the disk. Now when they
forget the root password, you can easily login as an ordinary user and correct
the damage. Having a bootable tape (for larger machines) is not a bad …

I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than
reign among the dead.
-- Achilles, "The Odessey", XI, 489-91

You are a wish to be here wishing yourself.
-- Philip Whalen

You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.

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"If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its
laws. Today, television tells most of the stories to most of the people
most of the time."
-- George Gerbner

Oh give me your pity!
I'm on a committee, We attend and amend
Which means that from morning And contend and defend
to night, Without a conclusion in sight.
We confer and concur,
We defer and demur, We revise the agenda
And reiterate all of our thoughts. With frequent addenda
And consider a load of reports.
We compose and propose,
We suppose and oppose, But though various notions
And the points of procedure are fun; Are br…

"On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK'
- everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS."
(By Tarl Neustaedter)

A rolling disk gathers no MOS.

Um homem e uma mulher, ambos sem os dois braços, decidiram casar, e
algum tempo depois tiveram filho. Qual e o nome do filme ?
Ninguém segura este bebe

We have said and we shall not stop repeating it: no intermediaries, no agents and obedient servants who always end by becoming the real masters!
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To generalize is to be an idiot.
-- William Blake

"For a couple o' pins," says Troll, and grins,
"I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.
A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet!
I'll try my teeth on thee now.
Hee now! See now!
I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins;
I've a mind to dine on thee now."
But just as he thought his dinner was caught,
He found his hands had hold of naught.
Before he could mind, Tom slipped behing
And gave him the …

One good turn usually gets most of the blanket.

I have a very small mind and must live with it.
-- E. Dijkstra

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Um líder é tanto melhor quanto menos a gente toma conhecimento de que
ele existe.
-- Witter Bynner

Não sabe representar nem cantar e é careca. Dança um pouco.
-- Executivo da Metro, sobre Fred Astaire, 1928

Em geral as pessoas se casam sem se conhecer, mas esse é o principal
motivo de tantos casamentos.
-- Samuel Johnson

After his Ignoble Disgrace, Satan was being expelled from
Heaven. As he passed through the Gates, he paused a moment in thought,
and turned to God and said, "A new creature called Man, I hear, is soon
to be created."
"This is true," He replied.
"He will need laws," said the Demon slyly.
"What! You, his appointed Enemy for all Time! You ask for the
right to make his laws?"
"Oh, no!" Satan replied…

Philadelphia Ha, <--> idle hip pal
-- anagrama

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Odd that we think definitions are definitive. :-)
-- Larry Wall in <199702221943.LAA20388@wall.org>

For every bloke who makes his mark, there's half a dozen waiting to rub it out.
-- Andy Capp

A fool and his money are soon popular.

It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted.
-- Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5