2026-02-05 20:16:00
How Anthropic's ruthless efficiency comes in part from its mission-obsessed culture, which eliminates the friction that tends to slow things down at Big Tech (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-0…
Sweden has had a stated goal of economic equality for 20 yrs, but the income gap between men and women remains the same. Capital is the blind spot. Women own less, save less and therefore benefit from significantly lower capital returns than men.
Additionally, capital is taxed less than wages which further reinforces the inequality. As long as Sweden's rules put more resistance in women's paths than in men's, capital, power and security will primarily benefit men.
Fro…
afternoon melodica zone: augustus pablo's american debut, october 4th, 1984 at the hollywood palladium. #reggae
Just heard from someone who works at Wowburger that the company takes any gratuity you leave on the payment machines.
So, if this is true, it’s illegal in Ireland. Not to mention, a dick move regardless.
Anyone in Ireland know the Wowburger folks and/or where I can lodge a complaint about this?
#wowburger
Spain, Ireland and Netherlands to boycott Eurovision after Israel retains place (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/65c4bc22-9cd0-4bca-8d3b-5f1e25ad85df
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p89#a251204p89
Amazon says 2025's Thursday Night Football was the most watched in the program's 20-year history, averaging 15.3M viewers/game, up 16% from the previous season (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
På vej til ministeriet til at snakke havniveaustigninger nu og i fremtiden. Skulle jeg udgivet min foredrag senere? (Endda måske på min peertube kanal, der har været meget stille for de seneste tiden..?)
Warum Meta Platforms Datensammlung illegal ist
Erstmals steht rechtskräftig fest, dass Meta Platforms nach deutschem Recht illegal Daten auf fremden Webseiten erntet. Ein Blick auf juristische Eckpunkte.
https://www.
I really underutilize the intersection feature in OpenSCAD. I should stop doing that.
Just to underline that:
A huge portion of the MAGA authoritarian takeover plot rested on the false assumption that they could provoke a violent domestic conflict at a whim and jump straight to martial law. It seems they believed their own BS about how cities are hotbeds of unrestrained chaos and iT’S tHe LEft tHaT’s REALLY viOLeNT!!1!
They thought they were picking a fistfight. They didn’t expect to just get mocked, shamed, and videoed into social oblivion. They are both reviled and a laughingstock now.
White House deputy chief of staff and Homeland Security adviser
Stephen Miller posted an ominous, captionless threat after democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral election on Tuesday night.
“Almost 50 percent of New Yorkers live in households with at least one immigrant,”
read the screenshot he posted from NYC.gov titled “Family Household Types by Immigration Status”
“Over one million children, equaling 62 percent of the children in New York …
In #Dorfen wurde ein neuer #Solarpark mit #Stromspeicher feierlich in Betrieb genommen.
Die Anlage versorgt rund 1.200 Haushalte und stabilisiert durch gezielte Einspeisung das
So Venezuela's energy ministry is saying the attack that brought down the power grid in Caracas was a physical assault on substations and not a cyber attack.
https://mppee.gob.ve/?p=103279
This contradicts Trump's statement about the US having "expertise" and also the NYT's repo…
It's Mage session time again:
The Chorister tries to build a Faraday cage out of nothing to help the Virtual Adept find out if two phones owned by Sisters of Hippolyta have been influenced by a techno mage.
He fails and is hit by a paradox flaw.
Since the Chorister was using a prayer about Mana, it starts raining Tamale.
When the Chorister want's to try a second time, a Sisters of Hippolyta offers to help:
SoH: »I'm aiming to get Nachos and Salsa w…
NFL trade grades: Evaluating 20 deals made ahead of the 2025 deadline https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-trade-grades-evaluating-deals-made-ahead-of-the-2025-deadline
Up at 4:15 this morning to drive 1hr to Belfast International to drop daughter off for Easyjet flight back to uni.
5 mins into homeward trip, I get a call from distraught daughter saying all flights are cancelled due to de-icing failure, and all later flights are booked up till Wednesday, when we get to do the whole thing again.
Stellar work there Belfast International.
Eine Freundin einer Freundin macht im Rahmen ihrer Bachelorarbeit an der Universität Bayreuth eine Umfrage zum Thema #Radfahren (in Deutschland).
Vielleicht hat ja der/die ein oder andere Lust (dauert auch nicht lang)
https://
The word you’re looking for is „robbery“
https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/115836426999897261
Resist and Unsubscribe
#ResistAndUnsubscribe
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James Blake feat. SZA:
🎵 Coming back
#NowPlaying #JamesBlake #SZA
https://open.spotify.com/track/2pSsHnjAgEPjHmet7ChlHQ
The only way out of this mess is to exit this system. Economic pressure can lead to small adjustments. That can absolutely help. It can make things marginally better. Economic strikes have, thus far, proved to be some of the most effective in US history.
A general strike is the ultimate blow, but organizing something like that is hard. Don't wait for it. Do something now. And there are a *lot* of options between here and there.
'nacht allerseits, und schönes wochenende, trotz allem!
I mars förra året föreläste jag i Nuuk om digital resiliens i Arktis. Samma vecka var JD Vance på Pituffik. Nu nämner dansk underrättelsetjänst för första gången USA som hot. Garanten har blivit hotet. Nu prövas den nordiska solidariteten.
https://carlheath.se/gronland-och-den-…
Organise the @… meeting on 12 February with a talk by Rodrigo Girão Serrão (@…) on the paradox of itertools.tee:
A good list of good book covers from 2025
https://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2025/12/10/notable-book-covers-of-2025/
Kevin Hart's "crab story".
Holy Christ, I haven't laughed that hard in a while. 🤪
▶️ Kevin Hart being the Funniest Person in the Room for 16 Minutes | Funny ...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BTSKJB6ZeOc&si=mURsC7FqYpmO2BXa
NFL trade grades: Evaluating 20 deals made ahead of the 2025 deadline https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-trade-grades-evaluating-deals-made-ahead-of-the-2025-deadline
Anarcho-syndicalist trade unions are reconceived not just as bargaining bodies but as the basic cells of a future socialist society, simultaneously fighting capitalism now and learning to administer production democratically.
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Catholic: 18 January - 25 January https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139227/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-catholic-18-january-25-january
He Read She Read
The he is, JP Pomare. And she is Sarah Bailey. We're two Melbourne based authors who – surprise surprise – love books...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/he-read-she-read/
The icons in the menu entries on #macOS Tahoe are confusing and distracting. This article explains it in detail. https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
I had a new experience today at dinner. The guy two tables down, who had a quiet gentle voice, was gesticulating so wildly that it shook the bench we were both seated on. While I appreciated the softness of his speech, his hands and arms were basically yelling.
Sources: Dell alerts customers to 15-20% price hikes as soon as mid-December amid surging DRAM costs; Lenovo says current quotes will expire in January 2026 (TrendForce)
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2025/12/05
Trump touts over $20 trillion in new U.S. investments, but the numbers don't add up (Laura Doan/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-20-trillion-new-us-investments-numbers-dont-add-up/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p90#a251205p90
I spent 10 minute looking for a cron job that wasn't there because it was on a different machine. What a great day!
Michael Gibson
(Thiel Fellowship and 1517 Fund)
just posted:
“Someone should pitch Rubio on a charter city in Venezuela and Cuba.”
As if he only just thought of this now
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/1…
In times like these I'm just SO grateful that the fediverse doesn't operate through algorithms AND that I never wanted to make a business out of my social media presence.
Just posting whatever I want, whenever I want. And you folks are just there and interact (or not). And for every interaction, I know that it's a genuine one, not "for the algorithm". - And THIS is just SO precious to ME.
It simply feels so honest.
Thank you for being there.
RE: https://mastodon.nl/@nrc_nl/116012097469670436
Hahahaha.. Hij heeft gelijk!
👍👍😀
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Harry Styles:
🎵 As It Was
#NowPlaying #HarryStyles
https://musicai.bandcamp.com/track/harry-styles-as-it-was
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Dvkj6JhhA12EX05fT7y2e
Die #Baumesse Rheda-Wiedenbrück 2026 zeigt vom 6. bis 8. Februar aktuelle Trends rund ums #Bauen, #Sanieren und die #Energiewende
There's actually a lot we don't talk about related to cars and the military industrial complex. My point that internal combustion engines align the citizens and the military (by forcing citizens to rely on the critical resource at the center or the military industrial complex) remains evergreen. But people also generally don't realize that the manufacturing infrastructure of cars is fungible, and can be shifted to aircraft and tanks when needed.
Car manufacturing capabilities are intimately related to militarism in a way that bicycles aren't. That's also worth thinking about.
Does draft history support Cowboys trading out of the No. 20 spot? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/02/05/cowboys-nfl-draft-history-no-20-pick/88467425007/
Guaranteed Panel MLA 2027: “Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire” https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/02/guaranteed-panel-mla-2027-%8…
"Where do you start when it comes to creating a brand image for what is arguably one of the most important milestones of your institution?" – "The Smathers Centennial" https://communications.uflib.ufl.edu/2026/01/20/design-diary-the-smather…
The US FCC grants Starlink competitor Logos clearance to deploy up to 4,178 low Earth orbit broadband satellites by 2035; Logos raised a $50M Series A in 2025 (Jason Rainbow/SpaceNews)
https://spacenews.com/fcc-clears-logos-to-deploy-more-than-4000-broad…
Trump hires new White House ballroom architect (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/04/trump-ballroom-architect-east-wing/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p92#a251204p92
Anthropic stellt Claude Opus 4.6 mit Agent Teams vor
Das neue KI-Modell Claude Opus 4.6 bringt verbesserte Coding-Fähigkeiten, ein größeres Kontextfenster und erstmals eine „Agent-Teams“-Funktion.
https://www.
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Harry Styles:
🎵 Sign Of The Times
#NowPlaying #HarryStyles
https://rawzr.bandcamp.com/track/harry-styles-sign-of-the-times-rawzr-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Ohxk2dO5COHF1krpoPigN
Ok dan ...
Toen lag de ardmediathek.de er zo'n beetje uit. 😇
Oil is the absolute enemy, and that should be completely clear at this point. Advocate hard for a Dutch style traffic plan and Dutch bike infrastructure. Push hard for mass transit. Fight car infrastructure with everything you can. Abolish free parking.
Every dollar you spend on gas, every dollar that goes to roads and free parking, is a dollar that will be spent murdering civilians to steal their oil.
Free parking is the most important subsidy to car culture. The more expensive you can make parking, the fewer cars will be on the road, the safer cities will be, and the less money will be available for the gang of thieves directing the military.
#FuckCars
Kurz vor der #Weltklimakonferenz haben sich die EU-#Umweltminister auf ein abgeschwächtes #Klimaziel für 2040 geeinigt.
Der
Logan Wilson describes play style as ‘tough, physical’ https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/logan-wilson-describes-play-style-as-tough-physical
New Digital Primary Sources: Christian Leaders under Nazi Rule
https://ift.tt/YP7vjVR
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP …
CDU-Vorstoß für Social-Media-Verbot unter 16 Jahren
In einem Antrag für den Bundesparteitag der CDU fordert der Landesverband Schleswig-Holstein ein Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder unter 16 Jahren.
https://www.
Taiwan says China's cyberattacks on its hospitals, banks, energy, and other infrastructure rose 6% YoY in 2025 to an average of 2.63M attacks a day (Yimou Lee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chines
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean (Jim Wyss/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/chinese-hospital-ship-visits-jamaica-as-us-gunboats-ply-caribbean
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p94#a251205p94
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Harry Styles:
🎵 Aperture
#NowPlaying #HarryStyles
https://bow-tanic.bandcamp.com/track/harry-styles-aperture-bow-tanic-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/45Z3m6yazmAi4jZuW0tzW0
RE: #Venezuela #USPol
🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: #Carsharing ist ein Schlüssel für die #Verkehrswende.
Weniger Autos, weniger #Parkflächen, weniger
Samsung upgrades its Family Hub refrigerators with AI features, such as voice control to open and close the door and Gemini-powered AI Vision to track inventory (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/853758/shut-the-fridge-door
Quinnen Williams 'hungry to win' after being traded to Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/quinnen-williams-hungry-to-win-after-being-traded-to-cowboys
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Catholic: 18 January - 25 January
https://ift.tt/xqdeQwv
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP
Samsung co-CEO TM Roh says the company has rolled out Gemini-powered AI features to ~400M mobile devices by 2025, and aims to boost the figure to 800M in 2026 (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/samsun
Was würde alles unternommen werden, wenn man die #Klimakrise wie die #Eisbachwelle behandeln würde?
1. Sofortmodus statt Abwarten
Regierungs-„Lagezentrum #Klima“ mit täglicher Lagebespr…
Trump endorses identical twin of retiring Rep. Troy Nehls to fill his seat (Faith Wardwell/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/12/04/congress/trump-endorses-trever-nehls-00677128
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p95#a251204p95
It's also probably worth bumping this post again:
https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/115832532498655940
I boosted the parent yesterday, but it's worth visiting again.
We are not powerless. There are things we can do. We don't have to shut down the whole thing all at once right now to make a positive change, but we do have to shut the whole thing down soon if we're going to survive.
Every act of resistance is important, no matter how small. We have lots of strategies, and we should support as many of them as possible.
Cowboys Break: Big Game of Chicken https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/cowboys-break-big-game-of-chicken
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Catholic: 25 January - 1 February
https://ift.tt/agES4VN
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
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Starlink says it is providing free broadband service to new and existing customers in Venezuela through February 3, 2026 (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/05/elon-musk-spacex-starlink-free-internet-venezuela-us-raid-maduro.h…
Suspect in 2021 D.C. pipe bomb case arrested by FBI, identified as Virginia man (Scott MacFarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pipe-bomb-suspect-arrest/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p94#a251204p94
Mick Shots: Trader Jerry https://www.dallascowboys.com/podcast/mick-shots-trader-jerry
Why Teaching Jewish Texts in Not Enough
https://ift.tt/wbStXyq
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://
PwC's US boss Paul Griggs says PwC decided to "lean in" to crypto work after years of taking a more cautious stance, following Trump's embrace of digital assets (Stephen Foley/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5e1448bc-11a2-4229-bb5c-1a322a7ad217
White House is expected to submit plans for new ballroom to planning commission this month (Gary Fields/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-ballroom-planning-commission-3b1b092ce54c78bb153a0c5be6d77f7a
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p93#a251204p93
Dak Prescott on Cowboys Trade Deadline Moves: 'I'm F------ Pumped' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/dak-prescott-cowboys-trade-deadline-moves-im-f-pumped
The GOP Women Are Humiliating Mike Johnson (Joe Perticone/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/speaker-mike-johnson-republican-women-elise-stefanik-marjorie-taylor-greene-mtg-fighting-resignations-congress
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p91#a251204p91
What does the trade for Quinnen Williams mean for Dallas? https://insidethestar.com/what-does-the-trade-for-quinnen-williams-mean-for-dallas
Tim Cook told Apple staff at an all-hands that he's "deeply distraught" with the US' current approach to immigration and he will press the issue with lawmakers (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Feds Bust into Jackson Heights Apartment Building In Pre-Dawn Raid (Gwynne Hogan/The City)
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/04/homeland-security-jackson-heights-immigration-raid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p90#a251204p90
Sources: Nvidia is nearing a deal to invest $20B in OpenAI as part of OpenAI's $100B funding round (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-03/nvidia-nears-deal-to-invest-20-billion-in-openai-round
Trump envoys press plan with Ukraine as sanctions eased on Russia (Agence France-Presse)
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251204-trump-envoys-press-plan-with-ukraine-as-sanctions-eased-on-russia
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p88#a251204p88
Hegseth Defense Collapses as Dems Reveal Horrific Video Strike Details (Greg Sargent/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/203988/hegseth-boat-strike-video-details-horrific
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p87#a251204p87
AI Chipmaker Cerebras raised a $1B Series H led by Tiger Global at a $23B valuation, up from $8.1B in September 2025 (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-04/cerebras-raises-1-billion-in-funding-at…
Democrats 'Troubled' by Video of Second Strike on Alleged Drug Boat (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/democrats-troubled-by-video-of-second-strike-on-alleged-drug-boat-34169131
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p86#a251204p86
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6, which it says can scrutinize company data, regulatory filings, and market info; Anthropic now has 300K business users (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Life during wartime in New Orleans as feds terrorize Latinos who saved a city (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/new-orleans-immigration-raids-begin-20251204.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p85#a251204p85
DOJ files reveal how Jeffrey Epstein helped his Russian-born publicist Masha Bucher become a prominent VC who now boasts of early checks to 22 unicorns like xAI (Iain Martin/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/20
DHS's Immigrant-Hunting App Removed from Google Play Store (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/dhss-immigrant-hunting-app-removed-from-google-play-store/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p97#a251205p97
'Rat Hunting' Harvard Law Professor Agrees to Self-Deport After Firing Pellet Gun Near Synagogue During Yom Kippur (Jessica Schwalb/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/campus/rat-hunting-harvard-law-professor-agrees-to-self-deport-after-firing-pellet-gun-near-synagogue-during-yom-kippur/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p98#a251205p98
Vanity Fair, Olivia Nuzzi Agree to Part Ways (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/vanity-fair-to-part-ways-with-journalist-olivia-nuzzi-f1f1ac6f?st=cJh6Lp&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p96#a251205p96
Pipe bomb suspect confesses and has expressed support for Trump, sources say (Ken Dilanian/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/fbi-describes-jan-6-pipe-bomb-suspect-as-pro-trump-anarchist
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p95#a251205p95
The Politics of Trump's Idiotic and Illegal Venezuela War (Dan Pfeiffer/The Message Box)
https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/the-politics-of-trumps-idiotic-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p47#a260104p47
Rubio explains how U.S. might 'run' Venezuela after Maduros' ouster (Garrett Downs/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/04/rubio-explains-how-us-might-run-venezuela-after-maduros-ouster-.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260104/p46#a260104p46