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Investment in Austin-based startups grew to a record high of $7.19B in 2025, up from $4.37B in 2024 and topping a pandemic peak of $6.1B in 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/all-time-high-f…

Austin's Star Is Still Shining Bright: Venture Funding To City's Startups Hits All-Time High
Austin’s startup scene is stronger than ever. That’s the consensus among investors in the city, and it’s borne out by Crunchbase data, which shows startups headquartered in the Lone Star State’s capital raised a record $7.19 billion in venture funding in 2025.

Bizarrely warm end of the winter, here in the Netherlands: average temperature in the last part of February (21-28/29) was more than a full degree higher than the previous record set just five years ago:
10.5°C, that's warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for April!
Peak was above 17°C.

RE: https://journa.host/@nikolas/116484651961932236
Note sure why France24 is running the news article now — the news is several years old now, 95% deciphered as of 2021! — but worth celebrating nonetheless.
Here’s a cool interview:
https://thepostil.com/francois-desset-on-the-decipherment-of-linear-elamite-writing-2/
And this marvelous researcher has actually published the symbols on this truly delightful page that makes me believe in the WWW all over again:
https://hatamti-elam.uliege.be/browse