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Startups from the pre-ChatGPT era face a reckoning in private markets; PitchBook: half of US unicorns haven't raised in three years, 220 are "fallen unicorns" (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/ai-startup-valuations-pre-chatgpt.html…

'Disrupted or dead': AI is crushing a generation of startups built before ChatGPT
The AI boom that has funneled more than $250 billion into OpenAI and Anthropic has left hundreds of startups built before ChatGPT's arrival in 2022 stranded.

Monochrome thi.ng (2022)
An old exploration using only circles and the SDF-based fully parametric typeface I created as part of the work on my S-TRACE piece...
See here for other related WIP of this perpetually unfinished project:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/tagged/STRACE

"Sing along if you've ever worked on a building site or actually just worked a day in your life."
The Mary Wallopers, "Building Up and Tearing England Down" (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXHyLMWDFoY

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

On Website Technicals (2022-09) - Tech updates: TX down, spelingg, bad words, structured data. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-64.html

On Website Technicals (2022-09)
Tech updates: TX down, spelingg, bad words, structured data.

NFL news roundup: Chiefs agree to terms with 2022 first-round CB Kaiir Elam; Bengals sign CB Ja'Sir Taylor https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-thursday-april-2

'Fair Share' outpaces other revenues
The Fair Share surtax is a 4% tax on annual income above $1 million in Massachusetts,
which was approved by voters in 2022
The funds are dedicated to public education and transportation.
As of 2026, it has generated over $2.3 billion for these purposes.
The new forecast from the Executive Office of Administration and Finance anticipates that the Commonwealth will collect a total of $44.9 billion in revenue this year,…

'Fair Share' Millionaire Tax Continues to Exceed Expectations - Streetsblog Massachusetts
The Commonwealth's budget office expects that Fair Share tax collections will be $300 million higher in fiscal year 2027.

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Wenn ihr in Hamburg seid, könnt ihr mir Samstag um 16:00 beim Singen zusehen, in der St Petri Kirche in der Mönckebergstraße

Sequoia says Doug Leone is returning in a newly created role of chairman, after he announced his retirement in 2022 from his role as "senior steward" (Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/03…

Billionaire VC Doug Leone Back Investing At Sequoia In Chairman Role
Three years after his official retirement, the Midas List investor is back as a partner making active investments at the blue chip Silicon Valley fund.

Labor Department: motion picture and video production employment is down 30% since its late-2022 peak as studios make less content and move production abroad (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/see-how

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Raiders sign fifth-round pick CB Hezekiah Masses https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fifth-round-pick-hezekiah-masses-cornerback-california-golden-bears-football-2026-draft

Microsoft stock plunged 23% in Q1, a steeper drop than any of its tech peers or the Nasdaq, and its steepest quarterly drop since the 2008 financial crisis (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/microsofts-stock-closes-worst…

Microsoft closes worst quarter on Wall Street since 2008 on AI concerns: 'Redmond is in a pickle'
With Microsoft losing almost a quarter of its value this year, investors have reset the company's earnings multiple to the lowest since late 2022.

Several years ago, a street medic described a system like this and wanted to know if it could be built.
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/08/the-tak-ecosystem-military-coordination-goes-open-source/
Back then there was just no way to make it happen. Hardware was too expensive. We couldn't really ever get it cheap enough, per medic, to deploy. Best I could put together was a bunch of burner phones.
But now it's starting to really make sense. LoRa is cheap, and possibly cheaper in bulk. And it wouldn't be necessary to build everything since ATAK-CIV exists and has several open source implementations. It can even tie in to drones (which are illegal to bring to protests in at least a few states).
This has a lot of potential applications for street medic coordination, protest marshal coordination, and for airsoft teams...

from my link log —
Covid-19 will never become endemic.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155
saved 2022-01-16

Why Covid-19 will never become endemic
For most of the pandemic Australia has worked to contain the virus through evidence-based public health measures such as border closures, case finding, contact tracing, quarantine, social distancing, vaccines and, at times, lockdown. Sadly, the weaponisation of lockdown as a pointscoring issue and emotional trigger has led to a conflation of lockdown with all other public health measures, most of which do not impinge on freedoms. Denial is a major theme during the pandemic.

Katharina Reiche fordert also langfristige Lieferverträge für Erdgas, um die Gasversorgung sicherzustellen.
Funfact: 2022 wurden langfristige Lieferverträge mit Katar geschlossen. Die Lieferungen sollten im Frühjahr 2026 beginnen.
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/lng-katar-100.html

Energiepolitik - Flüssigerdgas aus Katar - eine (langfristige) Perspektive?
Katar und Deutschland haben sich auf einen LNG-Liefervertrag geeinigt. Mindestens 15 Jahre lang will das Emirat jährlich zwei Millionen Tonnen Flüssigerdgas liefern - allerdings erst ab 2026. Was bedeutet das Abkommen angesichts der Energiekrise in Deutschland? Eine Einordnung.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Sports Team:
🎵 R Entertainment (6 Music Session, 4 Nov 2022)
#SportsTeam

In a joint filing, Elon Musk and the US SEC say they are ready to move toward a trial over Musk's alleged failure to disclose his Twitter stake in 2022 (Nicola M White/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

#scifi #scifimovies

Ah, Dall-E c. 2022. What amazing things we could do.

Americans' savings rate falls to lowest level since 2022 as inflation outpaces paychecks (Kamaron McNair/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/savings-inflation-americans-financial-stress.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260528/p114#a260528p114

Several years ago, a street medic described a system like this and wanted to know if it could be built.
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/08/the-tak-ecosystem-military-coordination-goes-open-source/
Back then there was just no way to make it happen. Hardware was too expensive. We couldn't really ever get it cheap enough, per medic, to deploy. Best I could put together was a bunch of burner phones.
But now it's starting to really make sense. LoRa is cheap, and possibly cheaper in bulk. And it wouldn't be necessary to build everything since ATAK-CIV exists and has several open source implementations. It can even tie in to drones (which are illegal to bring to protests in at least a few states).
This has a lot of potential applications for street medic coordination, protest marshal coordination, and for airsoft teams...

#Java records & compact constructors
https://mikemybytes.com/2022/02/16/java-records-and-compact-constructors/

Vilken rubrik. Heise finns även i Hope Not Hate:s bok om Combat 18, där nåt kalas hos honom beskrevs.
https://expo.se/fordjupning/den-sista-viljan-sa-fick-terrornazisterna-ett-svenskt-arv/

Den sista viljan – så fick terrornazisterna ett svenskt arv
I mars 2022 dyker en av Europas mest ökända militanta nazister upp på ett vårdhem på Ekerö. 90-åriga Gunilla Heinz har ett drygt år kvar i livet när hon förs ut ur landet. Trots de anhörigas oro ser hennes arv ut att gå rakt in i den våldsbejakande tyska naziströrelsen.

Keynote from rstudio::conf 2022: The past and future of shiny. #rstats

Accessible does not mean exploitable - HiPERCAM reveals the ultra-fast rotation of 2022 OB5: #Asteroid 2022 OB5 Spins Too Fast For Current Prospectors Highlighting the Divide Between "Accessible" and "Exploitable": https://www.universetoday.com/articles/asteroid-2022-ob5-spins-too-fast-for-current-prospectors-highlighting-the-divide-between-accessible

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

➡️ Ten Boy Summer
#bookmarks

Ten Boy Summer
Ten Boy Summer were a four-piece emo band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin that were briefly active around 1993. They only recorded one demo tape, ...

'An old photo of a very large BBS' posted in 2022, and a writeup about it. #BBS

Several years ago, a street medic described a system like this and wanted to know if it could be built.
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/08/the-tak-ecosystem-military-coordination-goes-open-source/
Back then there was just no way to make it happen. Hardware was too expensive. We couldn't really ever get it cheap enough, per medic, to deploy. Best I could put together was a bunch of burner phones.
But now it's starting to really make sense. LoRa is cheap, and possibly cheaper in bulk. And it wouldn't be necessary to build everything since ATAK-CIV exists and has several open source implementations. It can even tie in to drones (which are illegal to bring to protests in at least a few states).
This has a lot of potential applications for street medic coordination, protest marshal coordination, and for airsoft teams...

Hey America, your President just spent $1 billion of your money in order to NOT get more energy from offshore wind.
TotalEnergies accepts $1B offshore wind buyout, pivots to oil and gas in US 😠 https://www.utilitydive.com/news/trump-administra…

Trump administration plans $1B buyout for offshore wind leases: NYT
TotalEnergies purchased the Carolina Long Bay and Attentive Energy leases for a total of $955 million in 2022. The Trump administration wants to offer the company $928 million to give them up.

from my link log —
C isn't a programming language anymore.
https://gankra.github.io/blah/c-isnt-a-language/
saved 2022-03-17 https://

C Isn't A Programming Language Anymore - Faultlore

Rumor is the US triple tapped the school in Iran.
Not just a war of choice, potus and kegsbreath have a war crime of choice. War crimes of choice.
https://volitionmaximus.substack.com/p/the-us-triple-tapped-the-iranian

from my link log —
Maidenhead locator system map (with small squares).
https://dxcluster.ha8tks.hu/hamgeocoding/
saved 2022-10-18 https://

Large-scale sporting events cause unexpected air pollution, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/01/large-scale-sporting-events-cause-unexpected-air-pollution-study-shows

🧸 Spotted a bear lately? You're not alone—why sightings are on the rise
#bears

Spotted a bear lately? You're not alone—why sightings are on the rise
By the time Kim Ring arrived at her neighbors' yard that spring afternoon in 2022, their chicken coop was a flattened pile of lumber surrounded by feathers. The poultry had been raided by a bear. At the neighbor's request, Ring and her husband headed into the woods abutting their home in the rural Massachusetts town of Ware, in the hopes of finding any fluffy survivors. What they encountered instead was a bear with her two cubs in a tree—the mother bear downing one of their neighbor's chicken…

Joey Aguilar, QB from Tennessee, signs with Jacksonville Jaguars as UDFA: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7200739/2026/04/25/joey-aguilar-jaguars-tennessee-nfl-undrafted-free-agent-2026/

Do you (sometimes) use print() or message() for debugging your code? Next time you can use {icecream} instead: #rstats

Ice Cream for R Programmers - Turtletopia: a blog about programming in R
Icecream is a tool which may serve as a more sophisticated replacement of using print while debugging.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Alice in Chains:
🎵 Them Bones
#AliceinChains
https://sixdust.bandcamp.com/track/alice-in-chains-them-bones-2022-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4A065x9kJt955eGVqf813g

On Website Technicals (2022-01) - Tech updates: sitemap timestamp changes, power system tweaks, RE Utils V1.1.12, Christmas dip, desktop page experience, not indexed. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-56.html

On Website Technicals (2022-01)
Tech updates: sitemap timestamp changes, power system tweaks, RE Utils V1.1.12, Christmas dip, desktop page experience, not indexed.

Spännande artikel om högerns historieskrivning av ekonomisk utveckling i Sverige - jag är, gällande ekonomisk teori, endast en taskspelare. Men jag tycker att många argument pekar mot en osund och selektiv historieskrivning. #svpol #ekonomi

The CFTC files alongside Gemini to nullify Gemini's $5M settlement in January 2025, arguing that the agency's current management wouldn't have pursued the case (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/05/27

U.S. CFTC files request to erase Gemini settlement that it no longer considers fair
The regulator went back to analyze the 2022 case and decided that it wouldn't have been pursued under current management and practices.

Past/Present: Former Cowboys WR T.Y. Hilton announces retirement https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-former-cowboys-wr-t-y-hilton-announces-retirement

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

#silentSunday
Coopers Hawk. December 2022.

"“Well, Parts of Linguistics Is Open…”: Insights into Linguists’ Diverse Understandings of Open Science"
https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.7974
"[…] The study aims to gain insights into th[e] misalignment by exploring linguists’ understanding of what constitutes [

Titans select Carnell Tate, WR from Ohio State, with No. 4 pick in 2026 NFL Draft https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7212087/2026/04/23/carnell-tate-ohio-state-titans-nfl-draft-pick-4-2026/

Urlauber schockiert - Säure statt Süßes: Ostercoups der Säure-Einbrecher #News #Nachrichten

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz

Past/Present: Former Cowboys WR T.Y. Hilton announces retirement https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-former-cowboys-wr-t-y-hilton-announces-retirement

Blake could barely make a living illustrating other people’s work, and it left no time for his own art.
He yearned for a different technique that could achieve the same result in less time and with less toil.
No such technique existed.
So he invented it.
Rather than cut the shapes onto the plates with his sharp steel burin, he painted directly onto the copper with a quill or brush dipped in acid-resistant varnish, then bathed the plates in acid, which stripped a layer …

The Most Valiant Way to Complain Is to Create: William Blake and the Stubborn Courage of the Unexampled
“The Eye altering alters all.”

Over the weekend, I read Rebecca Campbell's Arboreality (2022). It's an enthralling novella about climate catastrophe, community, and collaboration with the natural world. The story, set in British Columbia, bounces between loss and hope, suggesting that doing the hard work of building a new world from the ashes of the old is how one staves off despair and keeps hope alive.
Check it out.
#SolarPunk

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1290226 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

The inner working of parquette/arrow data in R: #rstats

Unpacking Arrow Datasets – Notes from a data witch
A comment on how Datasets work in Apache Arrow. I’m not really sure who the audience for this one. Am I just talking to myself? Probably.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

No first-rounder, no problem? Broncos out of Round 1 for the third time in five drafts https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48432975/denver-broncos-no-first-round-pick-third-2022-nik-bonitto

Cowboys safety Markquese Bell arrested, charged with drug possession https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7188504/2026/04/11/cowboys-markquese-bell-arrest/

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Yuga Labs settles its 2022 lawsuit against artist Ryder Ripps and Jeremy Cahen over their alleged copycatting of its BAYC NFTs; the terms were not disclosed (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/04/08/y…

Yuga Labs settles Bored Ape NFT lawsuit, ending fight over alleged copycat tokens
The settlement avoids a trial and ends the dispute over the RR/BAYC NFTs, which claimed to parody Bored Ape Yacht Club, one of the most recognizable NFT brands.

NFL wins collusion grievance, but ruling reveals push to limit guaranteed contracts https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7187713/2026/04/10/nfl-collusion-grievance-win-nflpa/

An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users take 67% of profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/poly

Von Miller seeks 'closure' with Broncos as he enters free agency, but is he a good fit?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/von-miller-broncos-reunion-free-agency/

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …