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300-Millionen-Ausstieg - So belog René Benko seine Hausbank Raiffeisen #News #Nachrichten

BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023 (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/business/buy-now-pay-later.html

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent
The rapid growth of pay-later loans raises questions about whether their popularity is driven by consumer preference or desperation.

from my link log —
gefs: a good enough filesystem for Plan 9.
https://orib.dev/gefs.html
saved 2023-04-29 https://dotat.at/:/ZGRFE.html

NFL Network: Steelers trading 2023 first-round OT Broderick Jones to Cowboys https://www.nfl.com/news/steelers-trading-2023-first-round-ot-broderick-jones-to-cowboys

"We are like individual cancer cells becoming self aware of the situation" — that is actually a great analogy for the #ClimateEmergency
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: Just Stop Oil!?: The Economic Foundation We Ignore | Frankly Archives 39 (2023)
Episode webpage:

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens explores money, energy, economy, and the environment with world experts and leaders to understand how everything fits together, and where we go from here

Gold Finger (2023)
...actually, that mountain is called Schneck and is one of the most unique peaks in the northern Alps, here seen from the northern approach. For some other views see here:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111515716091637065

How a 2023 deal that gave Pennsylvania newspaper LNP to public radio station WITF brought financial woes and self-dealing allegations, and ultimately fell apart (Carolina Abbott Galvão/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/what-happened-

What happened in Lancaster?
The saga of a public radio station, a regional newspaper, the Pennsylvania family that funded them, and an NPR host turned nonprofit executive.

Former Dallas Cowboys 1st-Round Pick Released by Jets https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/first-round-pick-mazi-smith-released/

FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/alternative-social-media-ap…

Instagram alternative Retro raises $21M for close friends sharing
In 2023, ex-Instagram employees launched a new app called Retro. It's one of many new social media apps taking on Big Tech platforms.

Despite the 2026 summer box office tracking to hit $4.5B, outperforming 2019 and 2023, total admissions through mid-August stand at 547.1M, below 2019's 795.9M (Bob Mondello/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5923629/movie-summer-box-office

Relive Dolly Parton's iconic Cowboys' Thanksgiving halftime show performance https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/25/dolly-parton-dallas-cowboys-halftime-show/91460640007/

A look at Kioxia, the Japanese memory chipmaker that went from being cash-strapped in 2023 to an expected 30-fold jump in operating income in Q1 FY 2026 (Bloomberg)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Mitski:
🎵 Bug Like An Angel (6 Music Session, 1 Nov 2023)
#Mitski
https://mitski.bandcamp.com/track/bug-like-an-angel
https://open.spotify.com/track/45KMdPDdZTxcXW3lw10R70

Q&A with AG Sulzberger on the NYT's OpenAI lawsuit, the NYT's success, Trump's attacks on the press, how reporters at other outlets are self-censoring, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-a…

Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

Dak Prescott could be the NFL's MVP in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/dak-prescott-could-be-the-nfls-mvp-in-2026

A compact transient meteor shower was detected during 2026 July 13-19 UT which may be related to asteroid 2023 VN9: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005700/CBET005732.txt -> New #MeteorShower Identifies #Asteroid as a Cloaked #Comet: https://www.seti.org/news/new-meteor-shower-identifies-asteroid-as-a-cloaked-comet/