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@cdarwin@c.im
2026-08-16 18:02:32

In the summer of 2023, gearing up for his bid for a second term, President Joe Biden gathered with a cadre of wealthy donors at a $7.5 million mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut.
As the $25,000-a-seat fundraising dinner began, the president turned to thank his host:
Stephen Mandel,
a billionaire hedge fund manager and devoted Democratic donor.
“I wouldn’t be here, standing here as president of the United States, without a lot of you in this room,”
Biden told the…

How A Hedge Fund Billionaire Became The Democrats’ New Kingmaker
Stephen Mandel is bankrolling a new political apparatus built to “redefine” the Democratic Party — but what does he actually want?

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2026-09-10 05:19:02

August 2026 was the hottest on record globally, followed by 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The temperature was well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial.
From Copernicus ECMWF
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

Bar graph showing 40 years of August temperatures, around 0.5C above pre-industrial in the 1980s, and around 1.5C now.
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
2026-09-12 07:54:05
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I got a booster from RokotePalvelu earlier this year. Fully paid out of pocket.
I can afford it. A lot of people can't. Most people have been led to believe they don't need…
@haayman@todon.nl
2026-09-05 05:25:59

Je moet dan wel goed met verveling om kunnen gaan
A nematode survived 46,000 years in permafrost
npr.org/2023/07/30/1190950660/

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-25 14:05:43

Core inflation rate hit 3.4% in May, highest since October 2023, Fed's preferred gauge shows (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2026/06/25/pce-inflat
memeorandum.com/260625/p38#a26

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-07-08 00:25:04

A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved a $46.75 million settlement for victims of a 2023 data breach
at ‌the genetic testing company 23andMe,
which exposed genetic and other personal information of an estimated 6.9 million customers.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brian Walsh in St. Louis said the settlement was fair and equitable, and in the best interest of a trust overseen by the company's ⁠bankruptcy administrator.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-21 22:25:55

Amazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M organizations worldwide (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-06-21 20:42:02

from my link log —
The case against self-closing tags in HTML.
jakearchibald.com/2023/against
saved 2024-04-05

The case against self-closing tags in HTML
The history, facts, and opinions.

@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-08-01 00:00:05

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'`,…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023). 2956 nodes, 116922 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fly_larva
@outer@mas.to
2026-06-25 22:32:30

Liquid Bewitchment ( [Essay](publicdomainreview.org/essay/l) by James Brown, Public Domain Review, 2023.)
...gin to England was delirious...as tipplers reported a range of effects: loss of reason, frenzy, madness, joy, and death.
...James B…

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/399847 Engraving print, from 1751, by William Hogarth, called Gin Lane. Drunk people are falling down in the foreground, buildings are falling down in the background.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de
2026-06-21 00:00:05

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'`,…

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023). 2956 nodes, 116922 edges. https://networks.skewed.de/net/fly_larva