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

A profile of Sarah Guo, Greylock's youngest GP before founding Conviction in 2022, which has since backed six of the 21 AI-native companies now worth over $10B (Dom Cooke/Colossus)
https://colossus.com/article/sarah-guo-conviction/

Sarah's Wager
Sarah Guo built Conviction into the venture firm closest to the AI frontier. Now she's betting against its biggest companies.

from my link log —
Querying PostgreSQL tables from DuckDB.
https://duckdb.org/2022/09/30/postgres-scanner.html
saved 2022-09-30 https://

Querying Postgres Tables Directly from DuckDB
DuckDB can now directly query tables stored in PostgreSQL and speed up complex analytical queries without duplicating data.

Brian Flores subpoenas 25 NFL teams to delay discrimination lawsuit, league alleges https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7293681/2026/05/20/brian-flores-nfl-discrimination-lawsuit-team-subpoenas/

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.

Alisa Bowen, president of Disney since late 2022, is leaving to become CEO of Disney-controlled Fubo, succeeding David Gandler, who led Fubo for over a decade (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/alisa-bowen-ceo-fubo-disney-plus-1236806015/

Alisa Bowen Exits Disney+ to Become CEO of Disney-Controlled Fubo
Alisa Bowen, who has served as president of Disney+ since 2022, is leaving that role to become CEO of Fubo, the internet TV streaming service that is majority owned by Disney.

I have NEW HAIR 😍

Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, raised a $62.5M Series B led by Camber, following a $7M Series A in 2022 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/malaysias…

Malaysia's AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions | TechCrunch
Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.

"'…war is hitting…global economy in cumulative waves: 1st through higher energy prices, then higher food prices, & finally, higher inflation, which will push up interest rates & make debt even more expensive,' said Indermit Gill…World Bank Group's Chief Economist '…poorest people, who spend…highest share of their income on food & fuels, will be hit…hardest…All of this is a reminder of…stark truth: war is development in reverse.'"

Middle East War to Spark Biggest Energy Price Surge in Four Years
Energy prices are projected to surge by 24% this year to their highest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as the war in the Middle East sends a severe shock through global commodity markets, according to the World Bank Group's latest Commodity Markets Outlook.

Greater Manchester election analysis.
The ‘unfathomable’ fall of Labour’s Greater Manchester https://manchestermill.co.uk/the-unfathomable-fall-of-labours-greater-manchester/

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

from my link log —
C23 is coming: here's what's on the menu.
https://thephd.dev/c23-is-coming-here-is-what-is-on-the-menu
saved 2022-08-05

C23 is Finished: Here is What is on the Menu
It’s That Blog Post. The release one, where we round up all the last of the features approved since the last time I blogged. If you’re

An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generate…

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

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