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from my link log —
Optimizing GoAWK with a bytecode compiler and virtual machine.
https://benhoyt.com/writings/goawk-compiler-vm/
saved 2022-02-03 htt…

"Ofcom to investigate complaints of climate change denial for first time since 2017"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Slice, which uses AI agents to encode tax policies and legal rules across 60 countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight, taking its total funding to $32M (Mary Ann Azevedo/This Week in Fintech)
https://www.thisweekinfintech.com/slice-ra

Slice Raises $25M Series A Led By Insight Partners For AI-Powered Global Equity Compliance
Slice Global Equity, an equity compliance and management startup, announced Wednesday that it has raised $25 million in Series A funding. Insight Partners led the financing, which included participation from Fenwick and Cooley LLP and existing backers TLV Partners, R-Squared Ventures, and Jibe Ventures. The round brings Slice’s total

💝 Scientists camouflage heart rate from invasive radar-based surveillance
#sensors

Scientists camouflage heart rate from invasive radar-based surveillance
It's a typical workday and you sign onto your computer. Unbeknownst to you, a high-frequency sensing system embedded in your work device is now tracking your heart rate, allowing your employer to monitor your breaks, engagement, and stress levels and infer alertness. It sounds like a dystopian scenario, but some believe it's not so far from current reality.

Dear women: Trump still grabs you by your pussy. And the grip gets stronger now.
#Trump signs executive order requiring federal contractors to eliminate #DEI practices, mandates strict compliance clauses

`apply` has to deal with that only two kinds of two kinds of things: lambdas and nlambdas, interpreted or compiled. And if I choose to go down the 'compile everything' route, as most modern Lisps do, then I don't have to deal with interpreted functions. But if I do #Clojure like things like 'map in function position', then I add complexity again. And if I do what I want to do, …

How Trump Officials
—Noem, Miller, Patel
—Portrayed Pretti As Violent
Despite Conflicting Evidence
In trying to defend the killing of Alex Pretti on Saturday,
Trump administration officials repeatedly tried to portray him as a violent domestic terrorist
—even an “assassin”
—running counter to emerging video evidence and first-person accounts of the deadly encounter.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed after Pretti’s death he had
“vio…

How Trump Officials—Noem, Miller, Patel—Portrayed Pretti As Violent Despite Conflicting Evidence
Video footage of Pretti’s killing refutes claims from officials that the protester was attacking law enforcement or “brandishing” his gun.

AIPAC Lobbies Against Bill to Make Israel Comply With the Ceasefire
https://zeteo.com/p/aipac-israel-gaza-ceasefire-compliance

Trump's conflicting messages sow confusion over the Iran war (Steven Sloan/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-war-conflicting-messages-f9269cc4fe1cee914501b68ec5b6c217
http://www.memeorandum.com/260328/p29#a260328p29

from my link log —
The world’s most complex machine: ASML and EUV photolithography.
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-worlds-most-complex-machine/
saved 2026-04-26