Tootfinder

"Kapital hat einen Horror vor Abwesenheit von Profit... Mit entsprechendem Profit wird Kapital kühn. Zehn Prozent sicher, und man kann es überall anwenden; 20 Prozent, es wird lebhaft; 50 Prozent, postiv waghalsig; für 100 Prozent stampft es alle menschlichen Gesetze unter seinen Fuß; 300 Prozent, und es existiert kein Verbrechen, das es nicht riskiert, selbst auf Gefahr des Galgens."
#gutenmorgentroet

OpenAI acquires AI-powered personal finance app Roi; source: CEO and co-founder Sujith Vishwajith is the only member of Roi's four-person team joining OpenAI (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/03/with

With its latest acqui-hire, OpenAI is doubling down on personalized consumer AI  | TechCrunch
OpenAI is acquiring the CEO of Roi, an AI financial companion. Roi will sunset its service as its talent heads to OpenAI, ostensibly to help boost revenue in consumer apps.

Buyout von Electronic Arts: Saudi-Arabien stemmt über 90 Prozent
EA wird von einem Private-Equity-Konsortium gekauft, zu dem drei Firmen gehören. Nun werden die neuen Kräfteverhältnisse bekannt – sie sind wohl sehr einseitig.

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

#Parkinson
#Tischtennis gegen Parkinson
https://www.br.de/nach…

Parkinson und Tischtennis: Der Sport "überlistet die Krankheit"
Parkinson zerstört die Nervenzellen, die im Gehirn für die Bewegung zuständig sind. Mit Tischtennis wollen Betroffene dagegen ankämpfen – und vor allem Spaß haben. In Schwabach hat am Wochenende ein großes Ping-Pong-Parkinson-Turnier stattgefunden.

What Ticketmaster and Meta think the future of advertising looks like. Looks pretty bleak to me.
https://www.404media.co/the-future-of-advertising-is-ai-generated-ads-that-are-directly-personalized-to-you/

The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You
"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else."

Leveraging Prior Knowledge of Diffusion Model for Person Search
Giyeol Kim, Sooyoung Yang, Jihyong Oh, Myungjoo Kang, Chanho Eom
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01841 https://…

Leveraging Prior Knowledge of Diffusion Model for Person Search
Person search aims to jointly perform person detection and re-identification by localizing and identifying a query person within a gallery of uncropped scene images. Existing methods predominantly utilize ImageNet pre-trained backbones, which may be suboptimal for capturing the complex spatial context and fine-grained identity cues necessary for person search. Moreover, they rely on a shared backbone feature for both person detection and re-identification, leading to suboptimal features due to …

Bitcoin has plunged more than 30 percent and Ether is down around 40 percent in recent months,
as gains from President Trump’s pro-crypto policies evaporated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/technology/cryptocurrencies-tu…

Bitcoin’s Predicted Sky-High Prices Have Not Panned Out
Bitcoin has plunged more than 30 percent and Ether is down around 40 percent in recent months, as gains from President Trump’s pro-crypto policies evaporated.

I grew up w/ stories about the #RACIST PRISONS the govt called "#Japanese internment camps" but this is diabolical.
Even scarier are the losers that still think putting people in prison without any reason other than RACE "in the name of security" is perfectly acceptable.

Introducing: Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order
Rachel Maddow tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.” This six-part series reveals how an executive order authorizing the roundup of innocent Americans came to be – and a bombshell discovery in the unlikeliest of places that would ultimately expose it all. Listen to the trailer now and follow the series. New episodes drop Mondays beginning December 1.

I grew up w/ stories about the #RACIST PRISONS the govt called "#Japanese internment camps" but this is diabolical.
Even scarier are the losers that still think putting people in prison without any reason other than RACE "in the name of security" is perfectly acceptable.

Introducing: Rachel Maddow presents: Burn Order
Rachel Maddow tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.” This six-part series reveals how an executive order authorizing the roundup of innocent Americans came to be – and a bombshell discovery in the unlikeliest of places that would ultimately expose it all. Listen to the trailer now and follow the series. New episodes drop Mondays beginning December 1.