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Då det nu uppstått en debatt om de allt fler miljardärerna i Sverige - och huruvida de när eller tär - vill jag tipsa om den här intervjun med ekonomen Gabriel Zucman från tidigare i höstas. https://www.dn.se/varlden/stjarnekonomens-forslag-sa-ska-sup…

Gabriel Zucman: ”De superrika måste betala skatt som alla andra”
Den franske ekonomen Gabriel Zucman vill införa en minimiskatt för miljardärer. ”De superrika måste betala skatt som alla andra”

OpenAI's chief communications officer Hannah Wong will leave in January; Wong joined in 2021 and led PR during Sam Altman's brief ouster and return in 2023 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chief-communications-officer-hannah-…

OpenAI’s Chief Communications Officer Is Leaving the Company
Hannah Wong told staff she is moving on to her “next chapter.” The company will be running an executive search to find a replacement, according to a memo.

Trump vs BBC
Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion
over a documentary he claims removed portions of his speech on Jan 6, 2021,
in which he urged supporters to protest the 2020 election results peacefully.
Lawsuit's claims
The lawsuit accuses the BBC of defamation and violations of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act,
seeking $5 billion in damages for each claim.
BBC's response
The BBC says it will defend the lawsu…

Trump sues BBC for $10B over edited Jan. 6 speech
President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a documentary that edited his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the Capitol Ellipse.

> 7 ans après ce post.
30 ans après les faits.
En France, les victimes engagées en tant que parties civiles attendent toujours que la justice bouge.
Le dossier OKC-Spatz a été rouvert en 2021. Depuis ?
Silence.
La Belgique a jugé.
L’Espagne a protégé Spatz.

Ses på andra sidan nyår. God jul, mastodonter.

Dealogic: 51 US tech IPOs raised $16.8B in 2025, driven by AI and crypto, above the past three-year average but far below 2021's 127 IPOs raising $74.4B (Valida Pau/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-crypto-companies-dominat…

AI and Crypto Companies Dominated IPO Winners in 2025
The drought in initial public offerings ended this year, led by big winners in AI and crypto, but gains were rare for companies outside those industries. Bankers expect those trends to hold in 2026. Booms in AI and crypto delivered two of the biggest winners of the year: data center developer ...

Former Raiders WR Henry Ruggs Graduates From Alabama While in Prison https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/henry-ruggs-graduates-alabama-prison/

Eagles offensive coordinator search: 12 candidates to replace Kevin Patullo https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6967896/2026/01/13/eagles-offensive-coordinator-candidates-search-kevin-patullo/

from my link log —
Votes for children! Why we should lower the voting age to six.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/nov/16/reconstruction-after-covid-votes-for-children-age-six-david-runciman

went thru my bookmarks and found BOOTED HARLEYDUDE. whyd i never go thru this kings site before???
http://bootedman.com/

Leaked letter: Tiger Global launches Private Investment Partners 17, a new fund targeting a raise between $2B and $3B, signaling a pivot away from megafunds (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/08/tiger-global-new-fund-ai-valuations.html

Tiger Global launches new fund eyeing between $2 billion and $3 billion as it takes more disciplined approach
Tiger first invested in OpenAI in 2021 at a valuation of less than $16 billion and in Waymo that same year at $39 billion.

This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry.
With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks
and Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program,
a panic set inamong the more than 40 million people who rely on it.
Families skipped meals,
and babies went unfed.
Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to dumpster diving.
It was just a glimpse of what’s to come.
Start…

Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis
President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, they may not have the money to continue the programs.

I thought Arthur Andersen folded after #Enron? Wonder why they still have a /16, among which is a server impersonating a bunch of #Amazon hosts...

In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…

Ich habe gestern einmal feed2toot durch den Fork feed2toot-oauth ersetzt. Das ist ein Drop-In-Replacement, das ursprüngliche Projekt steht seit 2021 still.
https://pypi.org/project/feed2toot/

feed2toot
Parse rss feeds and send new posts to Mastodon

I'm late to this, but I had a conversation last night that I'd like to recap here.
I'm not NYC resident. I'm not knowledgeable of the issues NYC faces. Thus, I didn't endorse anyone for NYC mayor.
I will comment on #Cuomo. Resigned in disgrace in 2021 — that should've ended his political career. Lost the Dem primary in June — that should've ended his mayoral ru…

Multicolor photoreactions of the red light-activated channelrhodopsin Chrimson https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2513375122 Chrimson is "the first rhodopsin successfully applied to restore vision in a blind patient."
(2021) Partial recovery of visual function in a b…

Erst die Flutkatastrophe und dann das :/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Leberkasverbrechen/comments/1p13znq/ahrtal_2021/

Commanders to start QB Johnson vs. Cowboys https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47407565/commanders-qb-josh-johnson-make-first-nfl-start-2021

En 2018, un verdict belge semblait enfin mettre fin Š une affaire vieille de 20 ans.
En 2025, certaines indemnisations sont toujours en suspens.
Pendant ce temps, en France, l’enquête OKC/Spatz — rouverte officiellement en 2021 — n’a toujours pas abouti.
Cela interroge :

'Always have class, and be humble': Some of the late John Madden's most memorable quotes https://www.raiders.com/news/always-have-class-be-humble-most-memorable-quotes-late-john-madden-nfl-2021

from my link log —
OpenHaystack: tracking your Bluetooth devices with Apple's "Find My" network
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack
saved 2021-10-03

GitHub - seemoo-lab/openhaystack: Build your own 'AirTags' 🏷 today! Framework for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network.
Build your own 'AirTags' 🏷 today! Framework for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network. - seemoo-lab/openhaystack

Sources detail how Tiger Global fueled the COVID-era unicorn bubble that burst ahead of the AI boom; the firm recently shared its $12.7B 2021 fund is now up 16% (Issie Lapowsky/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/tiger-global-unicorn-investment-crash/

Big bets and broken unicorns: Tiger Global’s rise and reckoning
The fast-money pandemic era helped build billion-dollar startups around the world — then brought many down just as quickly. Will the AI boom be a repeat?