2025-11-11 02:55:15
“In the dark times, should the stars also go out?”
— Steban, Disco Elysium
Looking forward to seeing some of you at Defuse Dublin tonight at The Sugar Club.
Event is not ticketed (first come, first serve) and doors open at 7PM.
#DefuseDublin
Crypto exchange Gemini reports Q3 revenue up 106% YoY to $50.6M, vs. $46.2M est., net loss of $159.5M, up from $90.2M a year ago; GEMI drops 5% after hours (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…
I've seen many posts about headmates and plural personalities on fedi, and I get it, but my personal experience is dozens of identical Cats (me) all talking at the same time.
Maybe it's just my ADHD, but for me it's like being possessed by yourself (if that makes sense). Brain is always going 200% speed just not always in the direction I want. 😹
First the nucleus of #comet SWAN split - https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-2-november-2025/#Nov06 ("Der Kern des Kometen C/2025 R2 (SWAN) ist zerbrochen ...") - and now C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has suffered the same fate: a 2-meter-telescope image from https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17487 ("Multiple Fragmentation Observed"), also https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/116216567 (several amateur observations) and https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17488 (Hubble detections of more fragments, sadly no pictures included).
President Trump asks SCOTUS to toss the $5M civil case that found he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, after an appeals court denied review in June (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/10/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-supreme-court
Stay angry, and also have a dose of level-headedness.
❝We’re in a battle for at least the rest of this decade that will require a very different kind of Democratic Party — not one that is more right or left but one that is both comfortable using power and knows how to do it. So I’m going to take this big step in the right direction I’ve seen over the last month and pocket it and move on to the next battle. Meanwhile, keep purging all the folks who can’t get with the new program.❞ https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115527953925050812
"Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/us/poli
Russia's Lavrov says he is ready to meet Rubio in person to discuss war in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/09/russias-lavrov-says-he-is.html
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Ohne Parkplätze an der Straße gehen die Geschäfte pleite!“
Seit Jahren wird mit dieser Angst Stimmung gemacht, wenn Städte verkehrsberuhigte Zonen einrichten. Oft werden gleichzeitig
“Multiple UNC-Chapel Hill faculty and student groups organized collective actions speaking out against the compact, including a SUNRISE UNC protest shortly before the Faculty Council meeting and a petition from the Coalition for Carolina that has amassed over 1,750 signatures.”
Organize
https://www.wunc.org/education/2025-11-10/unc-chapel-hill-chancellor-will-not-sign-trump-higher-ed-compact
40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead at the meadowlands in #NewJersey. chaos onstage & off, including another mass gate crashing. many scene reports below. fall ’85, show #12.
soundboard:
The Trump administration told states to
“immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families,
threatening financial penalties if they do not comply.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/09/us
Dallas Cowboys vs Las Vegas Raiders picks, predictions, odds for NFL Week 11 game Monday https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/11/10/dallas-cowboys-las-vegas-raiders-picks-predictions-odds-nfl-week-11/…
Im Deutschlandfunk (11:35) berichte ich heute darüber, wie der #Wald im #Sauerland wieder aufgeforstet wird, so dass er dem Klimawandel angepasst wird. Er ist Teil des EU Forschungsprojekts SUPERB.
Bei Neuanpflanzung von Wald muss man 100 Jahre in die Zukunft schauen. Die Baumarten wurden für b…
China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months.
The rapid adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) saw CO2 emissions from transport fuel drop by 5% year-on-year, while there were also declines from cement and steel production.
While emissions from the power sector were flat year-on-year, a big rise in the chemical industry’s CO2 output offset reductions elsewhere.
Increase the 🦆⚔️ @…!
https://youtu.be/iu5rnQkfO6M
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How Immigration Propaganda Works (David Strom/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/11/07/how-immigration-propaganda-works-n3808679
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p21#a251109p21
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mrrrgnnn tootles 🖖 fedizens
☕☕(☕)
Generalprobe für 9🕘 morgen, Termin an anderer (West-)Ecke der Stadt
TIL both Algeria and Morroco have modern passenger rail services including growing High Speed services.... but the land border between them has been closed since 1994, so the systems don't touch :(
One day! 🤞
Algeria system is SNTF, Morroco: ONCF
Easiest English info is through https://www.seat61.com/Algeria.htm
[BLOG] BitBastelei #669 – Linux Mint als Windows 10-Ersatz https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/11/09/bitbastelei-669-linux-mint-als-windows-10-ersatz/
Does anyone have a recommendation for an OBD2 reader?
I don’t need anything fancy but would like to look up error codes when check engine light is on.
Ideally it has a screen on it and doesn’t need an app on the phone?
(Please only recommend stuff you personally use and like, looking for recommendations not instructions how to use Google, thank you.)
"Do your own research" is counter productive when you don't know how to research...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-explain-why-doing-your-own-research-leads-to-buying-conspiracies/
110gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
CoreWeave reports Q3 revenue up 134% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.29B est., and a net loss of $110M, down from $360M a year ago; CRWV is up 164% since its March IPO (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/coreweave-crwv-q3-earnings-report-2025.html…
Wonder how the Nicole the Fediverse Chick is doing in her studies? Finals are fast approaching!
'The threat was constant' — Russian drone flew over Angelina Jolie during her Ukraine trip: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/09/the-threat-was-constant-russian.html
Can Fractal Dimension Distinguish between Grand-design and Flocculent Spiral Arms? #galaxies
I think his take is basically the right one, and if we seize this moment to make Schumer (or his replacement) absolutely scared shitless about not fighting hard enough, then that’s a win.
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.11.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1175419 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Cybersecurity breach at Congressional Budget Office remains a live threat
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/10/congress/cbo-still-under-threat-00644930
Be the finger you want to see in the world. https://norden.social/@hart/115524635150999965
Fox News Wanted Greg Gutfeld to Do This Interview. He Wasn't So Sure. (David Marchese/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/magazine/greg-gutfeld-interview.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p22#a251109p22
Time launches an AI agent, built by Scale AI, to let people ask questions and generate text summaries and audio briefs drawn from its 102-year-old archive (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/10/time-ai-agent-ask
I’m once again asking the #retrocomputing community to please back this Kickstarter! Really want to read this story! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bzotto/go-computer-now-the-story-of-sphere
The working plan would only guarantee a future Senate vote on enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies,
not an extension of the credits that Democrats have made a key demand in exchange for their votes.
Even if the Senate passes the new funding measure, it would have to go back to the House for another vote before going to Donald Trump’s desk for his signature.
Low Carbon Family Holidays - Be a social superstar without 57 foreign holidays every year! Cut stress, cost, carbon and food waste. Have loads of fun! #frugal #holiday #TravellersCheck -
Richterin erkennt keine Reue: 5 Jahre Haft für Krypto-Mixer
Milliardenprofite aus Verbrechen wurden über das Samourai Wallet verschleiert. Einer der beiden Gründer kennt nun sein Urteil.
https://www.
Financial documents show Anthropic expects to break even in 2028, while OpenAI projects ~$74B in operating losses that year before turning a profit in 2030 (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-anthropic-profitability-e9f5bcd6
EU's 20th sanctions package against Russia to be prepared 'within a month,' Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/09/eus-th-sanctions-package-against.html
Volksrepublik China sperrt schwule Dating-Apps
Herzlos geht Peking neuerlich gegen Schwule vor. Diesmal werden Dating-Apps verboten.
https://www.heise.de/news/Volksrepublik-Ch
“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.
“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening.
Some of the IDF soldiers who talked to the programme reques…
Sky News says it will use WaPo's stand-alone content platform Arc XP to improve its newsroom workflows, apps, and site as part of its Sky News 2030 initiative (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/11/comcast-sky-news-washington-post-arc-xp-p…
DHS Sets the Record Straight on Misleading Video, Leaving Out Key Facts Including that the Woman Arrested Repeatedly Stabbed Her Coworker with Scissors (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/11/07/dhs-sets-record-straight-misleading-video-leaving-out-key-facts-including-woman
http://www.memeorandum.com/251109/p20#a251109p20
important! first tape (that i've seen) of gillian welch & dave rawlings doing "wharf rat," rawlings nominally singing lead (but with lotsa welch), recorded a few weeks ago in glasgow. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ibZWx-riX-IKCX3alVhhgq-MG9SZ…
I really don’t understand why Americans are so afraid of universal healthcare.
It would severely reduce costs of healthcare for everyone—including for rich people (the total per capital health expenses in the US are about twice as much as in Europe).
The Trump administration is telling states NOT to pay full November food stamp benefits,
revising its previous guidance after winning a temporary victory at the Supreme Court on Friday
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/09/t
TSMC reports a 16.9% rise in October sales, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 37% YTD (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…
Philosoph: KI ist kein Werkzeug, sondern ein Machtinstrument
Experten warnen: KI ist kein neutrales Werkzeug, sondern ein sozioökonomisches Machtinstrument mit tiefgreifenden Folgen für Demokratie.
https://www.…
Russian officials named as suspects in killing of EuroMaidan protesters: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/russian-officials-named-as-suspects.html
How South Park's creators found success with a season full of attacks on Trump; Nielsen says viewership over the past four months is more than double 2023 (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/business/media/south-park-trump.html…
Heavy is the head that bows the crown. Or something…
https://apnews.com/article/bbc-director-resigns-trump-speech-editing-3aab83138d58c92db1bb00e77e568876
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115525901652705353
Like even if you're a joyless simulacrum of a real human, an empty husk filled with indifference—at the least consider the world your children and loved ones have to live in.
'This is just the beginning' — Pro-Ukrainian partisans claim strike on Russian air defense factory: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/this-is-just-the-beginning.html
Tala Health, which plans to roll out AI agents to help clinicians improve patient care next year, raised a $100M seed led by Sofreh Capital (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/11/04/tala-health-raises-100-million-se…
Sources: Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner is looking for big acquisitions, including talking to Bari Weiss earlier this year about acquiring The Free Press (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/11/09/2025/axel-springers-ce…
Hey everyone,
If you want to donate to folks in Gaza but don’t know who to donate to, @… made a lovely little dashboard that shows a rolling weekly view ordered by donations received in ascending order:
https://
I really despise having to live through the fall of an empire, entirely brought on by decadence, greed, blind hate and indifference to human suffering.
And there's still tons of "centrists" who think this is "just politics", despite their children having to grow up in a hellscape.
Kyiv court rejects appeal, upholds Ukraine's first de facto recognition of same-sex couple as a family: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/kyiv-court-rejects-appeal-upholds.html
Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/majestic-labs-meta-google-ai-funding.html
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This should definitely extend to the menus on the private jets of the delegates. https://pouet.chapril.org/@dallo/115516457952130369
Yanukovych loses court case, EU rules to keep sanctions and travel ban against Ukraine's former president in place: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/11/yanukovych-loses-court-case-eu.html
Neros, which makes low-cost, military FPV drones in the US, raised $75M led by Sequoia, bringing its total funding to $121M, and won a US Army contract (Farah Stockman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/business/neros-military-drones.html
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Montag: Digitaler Omnibus schwächt Datenschutz, Stop Killing Games hat Folgen
Gamma, which uses AI to help create presentations, social media posts, websites, and more, raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation and reports 600K paying users (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/business/dealbook/gamma-ai-fundraise.html
China suspends export restrictions for a year on five critical minerals to the US, including gallium and germanium, used to make certain types of semiconductors (Keith Bradsher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/business/china-suspends-export-c…
Scribe, which helps enterprises identify where AI and automation investments will yield genuine returns, raised a $75M Series C at a $1.3B post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/scribe…
Rumble übernimmt deutschen Cloudbetreiber Northern Data
Truth-Social-Host Rumble steigt ins Cloudgeschäft ein und übernimmt die deutsche Cloudfirma Northern Data. Deren Aktionäre erhalten weniger als angekündigt.
h…
A profile of Mercor CEO Brendan Foody, who says Mercor is creating a new category of work; Mercor hit $500M ARR in September and pays contractors $1.5M daily (Rya Jetha/The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2025/11/07/san-franci…
"Anno 117" im Test: Rom für Zuckerbäcker
Produktionsketten sind wichtig, aber auch nicht alles: Mit "Anno 117" bedient die Serie alte Stärken und punktet vor allem mit einer wunderschönen Antike.
https://www.…
eToro reports Q3 net contribution up 28% YoY to $215M, vs. $208M est., adjusted EBITDA up 43% to $78M, and announces a $150M share buyback; ETOR closed up 8% (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/11/10/eto…
Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Philosoph: KI ist kein Werkzeug, sondern ein Machtinstrument
A YouGov survey estimates 9% of UK adults, or 4.7M people, watched sports via illegal streams in the six months to October, about 200K people more than in 2023 (Adam Leventhal/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6742752/2025/11/09/illegal-stream…
KI-Update: US-Jobless-Boom, Meta will bauen, DSGVO in Gefahr, Siri mit Gemini
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.
Blue Origin verschiebt zweiten Start der New Glenn
Die Schwerlastrakete New Glenn steht für ihren zweiten Flug ins All bereit. Sie soll unter anderem eine Marsmission der NASA auf den Weg bringen.
https://www.
Was sind gute KI-Guidelines im Unternehmen?
Im Webinar am 18. November erläutert heise KI PRO die sieben Kernelemente effektiver KI-Guidelines für einen verantwortungsvollen und effizienten KI-Einsatz.
https://www.
Der Steam Store wird breiter
Valve hat erkannt, dass die wenigsten Nutzer noch auf Röhrenbildschirmen im 4:3-Format unterwegs sind – und passt den Steam Store auf breitere Monitore an.
https://www.heise.de/news/D…
Android Auto: Gemini ersetzt den Google Assistant
Google ersetzt den Google Assistant durch den neuen KI-Assistenten Gemini. Erste Nutzer können die Funktion bereits verwenden.
https://www.hei…
Windows 11 26H1: Unterstützung für bestimmte Prozessoren
Die Gerüchteküche brodelte, nun hat Microsoft eine Insider-Vorschau für Windows 11 26H1 herausgegeben. Sie unterstützt bestimmte CPUs.
https://www.