Tootfinder

Paris-based Pivot, which develops AI tools for procurement and financial workflows, raised a $40M Series B co-led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/05/21/pivot-raises-40m-to-expand-ai-pow…

Pivot raises $40M to expand AI-powered enterprise procurement platform
Paris-based Pivot, an AI-powered procurement and finance operations platform, has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series B funding round led by Forestay Capital and Notion Capital, with participation from Greyhound, procurement industry executives and existing investors including Hedosophia, Visionaries Club and Emblem. The latest financing brings the company’s total funding raised since its founding in 2023 to $70 million.Pivot develops an AI operating system designed to help e…

Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse for your seat.
Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023!

from my link log —
Perfect hashing for strings with PEXT.
http://0x80.pl/notesen/2023-04-30-lookup-in-strings.html
saved 2023-05-01 https://

Kurze Rezensionen zu Ken Liu / The Wall of Storms (2021) und V.E. Schwab / The Fragile Threads of Power (2023)
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/05/science-fiction-und-fantasy-im-april-2026/

Science Fiction und Fantasy im April 2026
Im April habe ich tatsächlich nur zwei Bücher gelesen (und auf dem Bildschirm nur ermattet das ZDF-Magazin Royale konsumiert) - gab einerseits anderes, und andererseits nach 10-12-Stunden-Tagen dann auch keine Muße, zu lesen. Beide Bücher kann ich dafür wärmstens empfehlen. Zum einen war dies der

SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP have "reached a tentative agreement" on terms for a successor contract to their 2023 contracts; the deal is now headed for a board review (Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/05/studios-sag-aftra-confirm-new-deal-amptp-123687917…

It’s Official! Studios & SAG-AFTRA Confirm New Deal
As Deadline exclusively reported earlier today, SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers have nailed down a new contract.

Execs at Palantir, whose stock is up ~16x since its AI platform's 2023 debut, often decry other AI as slop, as competition from frontier AI labs stiffens (Heather Somerville/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/for-palantir-ai-is-…

"Climate crisis is accelerating antibiotic resistance across world, study says"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Health

Dokumentationen: Bauen mit Holz · Rettung fürs Klima? - #ARD #Phoenix
#houtbouw

Tracking fifth-year options for 2023 first-rounder... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48358999/fifth-year-option-tracker-nfl-players-2023-first-round-draft-class

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
The Kills:
🎵 103 (6 Music Session, 30 Oct 2023)
#TheKills
https://salinrecords.bandcamp.com/track/can-you-pay-my-bills-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3d1MzZCtQuFmnwjgdW7ZkT

RE: https://mas.to/@seeingwithsound/111834395889199173
(PDF, 2023) Delivering sensory and semantic visual information via auditory feedback on mobile technology

Redraft: What if the Raiders hadn’t taken Tyree Wilson in 2023? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/redraft-what-if-the-raiders-hadnt-taken-tyree-wilson-in-2023-3795392/

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

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:

With Trump’s backing
scandal-plagued Ken Paxton
has won over John Cornyn
in the Texas GOP primary for senator
– but he might lose in November against James Talarico,
a Democrat with a groundswell of popularity
Paxton comes with significant political baggage,
National Republicans worry they will have to spend significantly more with him as the nominee.
Paxton was impeached in 2023 after being accused of corruption,
and reported to the FBI…

The Running of the Chihuahuas - earlier today in Washington DC
#LesserKnownDerbiesAndPrizes
#RunningOfTheChihuahuas
#HashTagGames
(Video from 2…

A US appeals court strikes down a 2023 FCC rule banning broadband access discrimination based on income, race, and more; Chair Brendan Carr welcomes the ruling (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Court strikes down FCC anti-discrimination rule opposed by Internet providers
Chairman Brendan Carr celebrates FCC court loss in case over Biden-era rule.

So big a weekend, I almost missed #MondayRandom10!
1. Black Moth—“Chicken Shit”
2. Two Ton Boa—“Two Ton Boa”
3. Cop Shoots Cop—“It Only Hurts When I Breathe”
4. Ice Nine Kills (ft McKenna Grace)—“Twisting the Knife”
5. The Sword—“How Heavy This Axe (2023 Remaster)”
6. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever—“Falling Thunder”
7. Prayers (ft Travis Barker)—“Young Gods”…

#MondayRandom10, 1 Jun 2026
Listen to #MondayRandom10, 1 Jun 2026 on YouTube Music - a dedicated music app with official songs, music videos, remixes, covers, and more.

1996-2004: being a nerd, exploring tech but not everyone shared/understood my interest
2004-2012: fewer arguments over whether tech's useful, it's just part of life
2012-2023: yeah, tech is OK but look at how the big corps treat women, privacy ...
2023-now: tech can get the f*** out of my life

from my link log —
A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet.
https://electricui.com/blog/spe-sensor-node
saved 2023-09-01 https://dotat…

A deep dive into Single Pair Ethernet - Electric UI
Building an underwater sensor node with SPE and PoDL

from my link log —
RP2040 DMA is Turing complete.
https://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece4760/RP2040/C_SDK_DMA_machine/DMA_machine_rp2040.html
saved 2023-01-21

Starker Auftakt - Grabher sorgt für ersten rot-weiß-roten Sieg #News #Nachrichten

2023 NFL redraft: Top QBs swap places as Day 3 steals -- plus a UDFA -- crash a wildly different Round 1

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2023-nfl-redraft-panthers-cj-stroud…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

from my link log —
A proposed fix for C/C relaxed atomics in practice.
https://lukegeeson.com/blog/2023-10-17-A-Proposal-For-Relaxed-Atomics/
saved 2023-11-05

Activision shareholders reach a $250M settlement over allegations that Microsoft and Activision underpaid them during Microsoft's 2023 acquisition of Activision (Tom Hals/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/a

from my link log —
Serverless functions post-mortem.
https://matduggan.com/serverless-functions-post-mortem/
saved 2023-07-30 https://

St Peter Street, Canterbury, | April 2023
#photography #documentaryphotography #documentingplace #Canterbury