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Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, marking the nine-year-old startup's first-ever outside capital raise (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/19/prevalent-a…

Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round - SiliconANGLE
Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round - SiliconANGLE

Folks, I've trashed all mirrors and scales in my home. They only caused problems. I am now the most fit and beautiful human being on the planet. THE FUCKING PLANET! (lalalalalalala)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/19/bolt-ce

Bolt CEO says he let go of his entire HR team for creating problems that didn’t exist: ‘Those problems disappeared when I let them go’: 
Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow says a culture of “entitlement” forced a sweeping reset—including cutting the HR team, he says, which was “creating problems that didn’t exist.”

"Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law"
#Europe #Farming #Pesticides

Revealed: how Europe’s most powerful farming lobby killed EU’s pesticide law
Exclusive: High-level documents show how Copa Cogeca worked to weaken legislation to protect climate and wildlife

The most corrupt Attorney General in history.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mmdaaxgqhe23

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
REID: You're the nation's top law enforcement official. Would you be okay with people who were convicted of hurting police getting taxpayer money? BLANCHE: Just to be clear, people who hurt police get money all the time REID: 🤨

A generation of PMs made a career out of copying ideas from other apps they've seen into their own app. Today, AI (which has seen every app) can do this 100x faster than any of them.
The only problem is that doing this was always pointless
This week's issue of the Product Picnic newsletter breaks down this problem and surfaces some tools for thinking in workflows (or just plain thinking) rather than worrying about atomic features.

Thoughtless features never add up to a thoughtful product
Your first idea for how to solve a problem is most likely to be a low-impact hack. Delightful user experiences require a higher level of thinking.

Check out this graph!
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zdduilknsuqlql34lkbf5ge5/post/3mqvugyjwds2u

Simon McGarr (@tupped.bsky.social)
You sometimes see Government TDs pointing out that Ireland isn’t unique in the world in having a housing crisis. But this graph in today’s Financial Times shows just how extreme ours is compared to the places elsewhere, which also describe themselves as a in a housing crisis.

What an amazing plant - the Moringa tree https://bsky.app/profile/minibubbly.bsky.social/post/3mopvgtcls224
(was unable to extract the video, not sure why)

From @… on the other site:
https://bsky.app/profile/ericwbailey.website/post/3monv5wnn7c2g

Eric Bailey (@ericwbailey.website)
Engineers discover a revolutionary technology called "CSS classes". https://polar.sh/blog/orbit-llm-safe-design-system

Probleme beim Jobcenter: Bundesregierung verteidigt Hürden beim Online-Zugang
Die 2-Faktor-Authentifizierung beim Online-Arbeitsamt führt zu Ärger, E-Mails bleiben unerwünscht, analoge Angebote schrumpfen. Die Regierung tut wenig dagegen.

Probleme beim Jobcenter: Bundesregierung verteidigt Hürden beim Online-Zugang
Die 2-Faktor-Authentifizierung beim Online-Arbeitsamt führt zu Ärger, E-Mails bleiben unerwünscht, analoge Angebote schrumpfen. Die Regierung tut wenig dagegen.

The media is "abnormalizing" Mamdani as pathologically as they normalize Trump
https://bsky.app/profile/michaelhobbes.bsky.social/post/3moqkac5rl22j

Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social)
Even his policy proposals — free buses, freezing rents on rent-controlled apartments, five city-run grocery stores — weren't all that far outside the political mainstream. The media has conjured a radical antisemitic insurgent out of thin air.