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Update from Ukraine | Iran's Failed attack | Ruzzians suffered record losses Near Tonenke: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/15/update-from-ukraine.html

South Korea-based AI startup Upstage raised a $72M Series B from investors including SK Networks and SBVA, formerly known as SoftBank Ventures Asia (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-0…

AI Startup Upstage Secures $72 Million for US, Asian Expansion
Artificial intelligence startup Upstage secured 100 billion won ($72 million) from investors including SK Networks Co. and KT Corp. to bankroll an expansion in the US, Japan and Southeast Asia.

A post about Old Bay with a sketch of an Old Bay container because that's the sort of thing I do...
➡️ #art

Old Bay Sketch
Delicious Brand Shrimp and Crab Seasoning...

Broadcom im Visier der EU-Kartellbehörde
EU-Wettbewerbshüter befragen nach Beschwerden gewerblicher Anwender Broadcom zu VMware-Lizenzierungsänderungen. Broadcom reagiert auf die Kritik.
https://www.

Lots of Japanese discord server spam recently. Suspended several domains already and just saw another one. Related to the latest Mastodon, etc., vulnerability maybe?
#fediverse #spam

Interesting pov on the decline of social media traffic to “conservative” sites as a result of meta de-emphasizing news content. No idea whether it’s accurate, but worth pondering.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/…

Right-Wing Media Are in Trouble
The flow of traffic to Donald Trump’s most loyal digital-media boosters isn’t just slowing; it’s utterly collapsing.

The #CDCsays to regularly lick your keyboard for cleanliness

„Paragraf 218 - Regierung will in der Debatte über neue Abtreibungsregeln „Spaltung der Gesellschaft“ vermeiden“
Dann spaltet sich die Gesellschaft halt woanders.
So eine schöne §218-Demo hatten wir schon länger nicht mehr. Ich würde hingehen.

Performance improvements in Safari.
1% here, 0.3% there and six months later you have a 30% boost on a mature codebase.
https://webkit.org/blog/15249/optimizing-webkit-safari-for-speedometer-3-0/

Marlins Outright Matt Andriese
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/open-source-groups-say-more-software-projects-may-have-been-targeted-sabotage-2024-04-15/
Open source groups say more software projects may have been targeted for sabotage

乗っ取りあるよねえ。ソーシャルだもんねえ。

Yikes. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/us/trump-supreme-court-immunity-assassinations.html

Questions About Assassinations Test the Limits of Trump’s Immunity Claim
Three Supreme Court briefs from former military leaders and intelligence officials explore whether presidents may be prosecuted for ordering unlawful killings.

CNN axes King Charles, its weekly one-hour primetime show launched in fall 2023 by Chris Licht with hosts Gayle King and Charles Barkley, due to low ratings (Ariel Zilber/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/media/cnn-…

CNN axes Charles Barkley and Gayle King's weekly show 'King Charles' after 6 months
The CNN weekly prime time talk show co-hosted by basketball loudmouth Charles Barkley and CBS morning star Gayle King has ended a six-month run that failed to produce ratings. The weekly call-in sh…

Just tired of these trials’: Why the MAGA crowd is so thin outside Trump’s New York trial
It was a circus, but an unusually small one.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/15/trump-trial-supporters-maga-new-york-00152339

I do have a set of mp3 files on my Android phone and want to play back (stream) on my #Kodi which runs in the same wifi.
How can I accomplish that? 🤔
#OpenELEC

Musk doesn’t know how to stop the onslaught of bots? The only way is to charge a $1 fee?
Gee, if only you hadn’t fired and turned away your best developers.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/15/musk-charge-new-x-users-fee/#more-942908

'You got a win. Take the win,’
Joe Biden tells Netanyahu
The US will not participate in any Israeli counter-attacks, the US president reportedly said
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/14/bid…

'You got a win. Take the win': Joe Biden tells Netanyahu
The US will not participate in any Israeli counter-attacks, the US president reportedly said

Good night from #Qaanaaq, northern #Greenland...

Cambodia 'Upcycler' Turns Tonnes of Plastic Bottles Into Brooms
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2024-02-15/cambodia-upcycler-turns-tonnes-of-plastic-bottles-into-brooms

"Passion for Provenance (data): On collection data, museum systems and open collaboration via wikis" @… https://

increasing... for 15 years... i mean really.
This is not new.
#dumpFacebook #dumpMeta #dumpZuck

I don’t aim to scare people, but if Trump is incapacitated or dies in the next few months, Nikki Haley likely becomes the nominee.
And she has a better shot of winning than Trump, and she will still implement Project 2025 — and thus autocracy.

Left some #linuxpizza stickers at #fossnorth for those who wants it

Hey, seasoned international travelers, have a moment to give advice? I’m wondering whether this “provide all your passport details” web form from KLM is worth filling out.
It promises to “speed up the check-in process at the airport.” As a software person, the offer I hear is “make your sensitive data pass through even •more• systems with heaven knows what security characteristics.”
If doing it at the airport is 5 min, I’d prefer that. If that’s asking for a headache, then OK, f…

⛳ @… #Golf #TheMasters
Via Clue Heywood @ClueHeywood
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congrats to Scottie Scheffler, a proud graduate of the John C Reilly school of looking simult…

Cool cool.
Always cool to even see and read this on my own app 😄
#PhanpySocial #HackerNews

Surprise?
"Arab States That Stood Up to Iran Won't Be on Board to Assist an Israeli Counterstrike".
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/2

Modest success! Turns out trying to use Windows 10 for speech recognition was the problem. Windows 11 has a much better system and I can use it to dictate stuff easily. Some poorly edited details at https://nelsonslog.wordpress.com/2024/04/13/windows-and-voice-recognition/

Just listened to Todd Conklin’s podcast about a new book out this summer on measuring safety by Sydney Decker and Georgina Poole called “Random Noise”. Controversial and interesting topic. https://overcast.fm/ tF0AO6nvE

The FTC proposes new rules that would make companies liable if they "know or have reason to know" their AI tech is being used to harmfully impersonate consumers (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

FTC Wants to Penalize Companies for Use of AI in Impersonation
The US Federal Trade Commission moved to put new rules into place around impersonation, citing the rising threat of scams enabled by generative artificial intelligence.

A post about Old Bay with a sketch of an Old Bay container because that's the sort of thing I do...
➡️ #art

Old Bay Sketch
Delicious Brand Shrimp and Crab Seasoning...

Türkei: Meta stellt Threads lieber ein, anstatt Daten zu trennen
Meta Platforms soll in der Türkei bei Threads geerntete Daten nicht mit Instagram-Daten zusammenführen. Da sperrt Meta Threads lieber zu.​

Russia claims 10 Ukrainian drones downed in Krasnodar Krai: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/14/russia-claims-ukrainian.html

Stick into what now

Von mir aus kann die FDP gern so weiter machen. Dann landet sie wenigstens stabil unter 5%.

Cubs Place Seiya Suzuki On Injured List Due To Oblique Strain
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

@… おはー！ 🐰 🐰

CNN axes King Charles, its weekly one-hour primetime show launched in fall 2023 by Chris Licht with hosts Gayle King and Charles Barkley, due to low ratings (Ariel Zilber/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2024/04/15/media/cnn-…

CNN axes Charles Barkley and Gayle King's weekly show 'King Charles' after 6 months
The CNN weekly prime time talk show co-hosted by basketball loudmouth Charles Barkley and CBS morning star Gayle King has ended a six-month run that failed to produce ratings. The weekly call-in sh…

Musk doesn’t know how to stop the onslaught of bots? The only way is to charge a $1 fee?
Gee, if only you hadn’t fired and turned away your best developers.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/15/musk-charge-new-x-users-fee/#more-942908

'You got a win. Take the win,’
Joe Biden tells Netanyahu
The US will not participate in any Israeli counter-attacks, the US president reportedly said
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/04/14/bid…

'You got a win. Take the win': Joe Biden tells Netanyahu
The US will not participate in any Israeli counter-attacks, the US president reportedly said

Tfw you haven't checked email in a week. And you're not sure you really want to. But you really need to check the field data is coming in (via email) #CurseOfEmail

Wade ... repeatedly referenced his wife’s affair as the cause of his filing for divorce in 2021 even though no one asked him why he split with his wife but rather when he started his relationship with Willis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024

When Fani Willis took the stand, her fury was precise and laser-focused
Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) sat in the witness seat like it was her throne and she was ready to slice off some heads.

Left some #linuxpizza stickers at #fossnorth for those who wants it

IIRC, there is good research work backing up this from @…: people who’ve been taken in by a con will cling desperately to the con rather than admit (to others and themselves) that they were conned. People are willing to pay a •very• high price to avoid shame.
Rather than taking this only as a judgmental insult (however well deserved), I’m interested in t…

Church of Jeff (@jeffowski@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image #MAGA

⛳ @… #Golf #TheMasters
Via Mark Nagi @MarkNagi
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4h
Never forget that Verne is “Mr. Steal your Girl.”
The story of how Verne met his third (and cu…

Air Force: Ukraine downs 9 out of 9 Russian drones launched overnight: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/16/air-force-ukraine.html

Stick into what now

税のようにお金を集めて分配する流れを追加していこうって感じかなぁ

Taiwan is building its own satellite internet network, as China's threats, Ukraine war, and Elon Musk's total control over Starlink make Taiwan's leaders wary (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/business/taiwan-starlink-satell…

Taiwan Is Building a Satellite Network Without Elon Musk
The island democracy urgently needs an internet backup. Mr. Musk’s total control over his Starlink service, which dominates the market, left Taiwan wary.

Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing "Creator AI" chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's "voice" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/technology…

Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.

Cubs Sign Julio Teheran
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

Israel hails ‘success’ in blocking Iran’s unprecedented attack.
Biden now seeks diplomatic response
Tell 'em, Joe:
If Israel attacks Iran militarily they will do it alone
https://www.lat…

Israel blocks Iran's attack. Biden seeks diplomatic response
Israel has hailed the success of its defenses in the face of an unprecedented attack by Iran

"That means at least three lawsuits brought against him in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol can advance to the next phase — a period of limited evidence-gathering related to Trump’s activities on Jan. 6, 2021 and whether they were official or political in nature."
Trump permits Jan. 6-related lawsuits against him to advance — for now - POLITICO

Hey, seasoned international travelers, have a moment to give advice? I’m wondering whether this “provide all your passport details” web form from KLM is worth filling out.
It promises to “speed up the check-in process at the airport.” As a software person, the offer I hear is “make your sensitive data pass through even •more• systems with heaven knows what security characteristics.”
If doing it at the airport is 5 min, I’d prefer that. If that’s asking for a headache, then OK, f…

#TheMuppets #TheMuppetShow
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6h
Back In 1975, 'The Muppet Show' Predicted What Most Women Would Look Like In 2024 🤣

なるほど、7年前の今日ということか……

Sources: Instagram is in the early stages of testing "Creator AI" chatbots for top influencers, which would automate DM responses to fans in a creator's "voice" (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/technology…

Ready for a Chatbot Version of Your Favorite Instagram Influencers?
Instagram is testing a program that offers its top influencers the ability to interact with their followers over direct messages using a chatbot.

Der Spiegel: German FM is trying to persuade Scholz to hand over Taurus missiles to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/16/der-spiegel-german.html

MLBTR Live Chat
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

When Fani Willis took the stand, her fury was precise and laser-focused
Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) walked into the Georgia courtroom Thursday afternoon where lawyers were arguing over whether she would have to take the stand. It was the back half of the long day’s hearing on whether Willis should be removed from the sprawling election tampering case her office has brought against former president Donald Trump and his associates.
But the debate between t…

When Fani Willis took the stand, her fury was precise and laser-focused
Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) sat in the witness seat like it was her throne and she was ready to slice off some heads.

Israel kills two Iranian generals. Iran retaliates with drones, **99% of which are intercepted**.
Israel hasn't said when it will respond, but there's no doubt it will.
Who's being provocative?
I don't think it's Iran.
Leaders Urge Restraint as Israel Considers Retaliation Against Iran - The New York Times

Israel Intercepted Nearly All of Iran's Missiles, Drones: Live Updates
Nearly all the missiles and drones that Iran and its allies launched at Israel overnight were intercepted. Israel has not made clear how it might respond.

IIRC, there is good research work backing up this from @…: people who’ve been taken in by a con will cling desperately to the con rather than admit (to others and themselves) that they were conned. People are willing to pay a •very• high price to avoid shame.
Rather than taking this only as a judgmental insult (however well deserved), I’m interested in t…

Church of Jeff (@jeffowski@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image #MAGA

As Netflix's new film chief Dan Lin takes charge, the company aims to shift its film strategy to focus on audience appeal and cost efficiency (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/14/bus…

Netflix’s New Film Strategy: More About the Audience, Less About Auteurs
Dan Lin, the streaming service’s new film chief, wants to produce a more varied slate of movies to better appeal to the array of interests among subscribers.

White Sox Close To Signing Tommy Pham To Minor League Contract
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

When Fani Willis took the stand, her fury was precise and laser-focused
Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) walked into the Georgia courtroom Thursday afternoon where lawyers were arguing over whether she would have to take the stand. It was the back half of the long day’s hearing on whether Willis should be removed from the sprawling election tampering case her office has brought against former president Donald Trump and his associates.
But the debate between t…

When Fani Willis took the stand, her fury was precise and laser-focused
Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) sat in the witness seat like it was her throne and she was ready to slice off some heads.

Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain | Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/sleeping-more-flushes-junk-out-of-the-brain/

Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain
Rhythmic activity during sleep may get fluids in the brain moving.

Amid the War, Russian Arms Sales Have Dropped Even More: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/amid-the-war.html

As Netflix's new film chief Dan Lin takes charge, the company aims to shift its film strategy to focus on audience appeal and cost efficiency (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/14/bus…

Netflix’s New Film Strategy: More About the Audience, Less About Auteurs
Dan Lin, the streaming service’s new film chief, wants to produce a more varied slate of movies to better appeal to the array of interests among subscribers.

Brewers Claim Corbin Martin
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

Do you care if your employees are high at work?
I’m betting that more people than I care to admit are on some type of intoxicating or behavior-altering substance while serving my food, cleaning my hotel room or ringing up my groceries.
Good for them.
If I worked these jobs I’d probably be doing the same.
I had friends in college who smoked weed before class and graduated with honors.
I think a few of them still do the same today as lawyers and accountants. …

👍 Mark Cuban Says He's Proud to Pay Taxes in Swipe at Trump
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-cuban-proud-to-pay-taxes-unlike-certain-ex-president-2024-4

Mark Cuban says he's proud to pay taxes in swipe at Trump
"This country has done so much for me, I'm proud to pay my taxes every single year," Cuban wrote on X. "Tag a former president that you know doesn't."

Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles take minority stakes in The Daily Beast; Sherwood will be CEO and publisher, and Coles will be chief creative and content officer (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/busines

Barry Diller Bets on Media Veterans to Turn Around The Daily Beast
The former Disney executive Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles, the former Hearst content chief, are being given a minority stake in the digital tabloid.

Nationals To Promote Mitchell Parker
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles take minority stakes in The Daily Beast; Sherwood will be CEO and publisher, and Coles will be chief creative and content officer (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/busines

Barry Diller Bets on Media Veterans to Turn Around The Daily Beast
The former Disney executive Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles, the former Hearst content chief, are being given a minority stake in the digital tabloid.

Apple has lost its spot as the world’s biggest mobile phone seller after a steep sales drop as South Korean rival Samsungretook the lead in the global market share.
Samsung had been the biggest seller of mobile phones for 12 years until the end of 2023, when sales of Apple’s iPhone models overtook it.

Mariners Sign Beau Taylor To Minor League Deal
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Don Wright, who drew cartoons for The Miami News and The Palm Beach Post, died on March 24 at age 90 (Sam Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/busine…

Don Wright, Editorial Cartoonist With a Skewer for a Pen, Dies at 90
He won two Pulitzers for Florida newspapers, commenting wryly on war, segregation, church scandals and more while reaching readers nationwide through syndication.

Apple has lost its spot as the world’s biggest mobile phone seller after a steep sales drop as South Korean rival Samsungretook the lead in the global market share.
Samsung had been the biggest seller of mobile phones for 12 years until the end of 2023, when sales of Apple’s iPhone models overtook it.

Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Don Wright, who drew cartoons for The Miami News and The Palm Beach Post, died on March 24 at age 90 (Sam Roberts/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/busine…

Don Wright, Editorial Cartoonist With a Skewer for a Pen, Dies at 90
He won two Pulitzers for Florida newspapers, commenting wryly on war, segregation, church scandals and more while reaching readers nationwide through syndication.

Pirates Place Marco Gonzales On 15-Day Injured List
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

A U.S.-led alliance fended off Iranian barrage
Even before their missiles landed, Iranian leaders announced that, in their mind, the score had been settled.
“The matter can be deemed concluded,” the country’s mission to the United Nations posted late Saturday
They added a caveat: Should Israel “make another mistake, Iran’s response will be considerably more severe.”
The U. S. position should be clear:
If Israel attempts a military strike on Iran they will d…

Israel mulls response after U.S.-led alliance fends off Iranian barrage
The nightmare scenario Israeli leaders had long warned about — a direct attack from Iran — showcased the regional coalition and high-tech systems built to repel it.

The Intercept is losing ~$300K/month and could run out of cash by May 2025, according to data from March; its CEO says the projection was a worst case scenario (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/04/14/2024/left-wing-media-meltdown<…

AL West Notes: Stephenson, Canzone, Verlander, Valdez
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

Republican “leaders” at all levels recognized in 2016 the danger Trump represented,
and yet, fearing his and his followers’ vitriol,
mostly kept mum rather than form a united, vocal front against his nomination.
Traditional Republicans who joined the Trump administration naively rationalized that they’d be good influences on the erratic president,
only to learn who was boss.
Trump critics turned into sycophants (here’s looking at you, Lindsey Graham), even aft…

Opinion: Trump inspires yet another profile in cowardice
One after another, American institutions have spinelessly bowed to Trump's power. The latest GOP invertebrates run a foundation meant to honor President Gerald R. Ford.

The Intercept is losing ~$300K/month and could run out of cash by May 2025, according to data from March; its CEO says the projection was a worst case scenario (Ben Smith/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/04/14/2024/left-wing-media-meltdown<…

NL West Notes: Padres, Yankees, Soto, Montgomery, Treinen, Bryant
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

The N.Y. case concerns Trump’s only successful voter deception scheme
“This is the case that reflects the efforts Trump went through to influence the 2016 election
— and it worked. He won the election,”
wrote Karen Friedman Agnifilo,
who worked for decades in the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
“And he only won by a slim margin of fewer than 80,000 votes in three swing states.”
Trump sought to buy off two women who said they had sexual encounters…

The N.Y. case concerns Trump’s only successful voter deception scheme
Steps taken by the former president in the runup to the razor-close 2016 election might have changed the course of history.

Rangers Recall Cole Winn For MLB Debut, Place Cody Bradford On IL
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors

Taylor Swift's music returning to TikTok highlights her power over UMG and its CEO Lucian Grainge, who must now hope other music groups join his TikTok fight (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-…

Taylor Swift's Record Label is Powerless to Stop Her
Shari Redstone believes she's found the right buyer for Paramount. Her fellow shareholders aren't convinced.

Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial is underway
Judge: Jury can be told about Trump’s affair, but not that wife was pregnant


New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan said that jurors can be told about the former president’s past affair with a Playboy model,
but not that Donald Trump’s wife was pregnant at the time.

Trump attorney Todd Blanche argued that the details of Trump’s affair with #Karen

Live updates: Jury selection to begin soon in Trump’s N.Y. hush money trial
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial has begun. He is charged with falsifying business records connected to a hush money payment to Stormy Daniels.

Taylor Swift's music returning to TikTok highlights her power over UMG and its CEO Lucian Grainge, who must now hope other music groups join his TikTok fight (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-…

Taylor Swift's Record Label is Powerless to Stop Her
Shari Redstone believes she's found the right buyer for Paramount. Her fellow shareholders aren't convinced.

Kirby Yates: Fares well in first save
#MLB #Baseball #Rotowire

The AP, ABC, Fox, and other news orgs issue a joint statement urging President Biden and former President Trump to do televised debates ahead of the election (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…

News Outlets Urge Trump and Biden to Commit to Presidential Debates
In an unusual statement, the news organizations said “there is simply no substitute” for a face-to-face debate, a campaign staple since 1976.

The AP, ABC, Fox, and other news orgs issue a joint statement urging President Biden and former President Trump to do televised debates ahead of the election (Michael M. Grynbaum/New York Times)
https://www.nyt…

News Outlets Urge Trump and Biden to Commit to Presidential Debates
In an unusual statement, the news organizations said “there is simply no substitute” for a face-to-face debate, a campaign staple since 1976.

Ofcom Chair Michael Grade says TV has become more "exploitative and cruel", which makes him "mad", and worries that the UK public are now used as performers (Richard Brooks/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/…

Ofcom Chair Michael Grade says TV has become more "exploitative and cruel", which makes him "mad", and worries that the UK public are now used as performers (Richard Brooks/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/…