2025-12-30 02:55:43
Shares of Insilico rose 45% in their Hong Kong trading debut after the AI drug discovery startup raised $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M in 2024 revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/a…
Shares of Insilico rose 45% in their Hong Kong trading debut after the AI drug discovery startup raised $293M in an IPO; Insilico reported $85M in 2024 revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-30/a…
Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html
Globally, four out of five want their countries to strengthen commitments to address climate change.
https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/worlds-largest-survey-climate-change-out-heres-what-results-show<…
#Helen (the energy company of #Helsinki) in 2024 has installed a 148 MW wind power plant.
https://www.helen.fi/en/n…
The Trump administration helps Tenet Media's Lauren Chen return to the US; she lost her visa after a 2024 indictment alleging illicit funding from Russia's RT (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-chen-t
From the D-Day ceremony in Normandy, France on Jun 6, 2024, marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
A WWII veteran tried to kiss Zelensky’s hand. #Zelensky stopped and hugged him. “No, you saved Europe. You are our hero.”
A leader who has the humanity to respect & revere our veterans. Imagine that.
The US Treasury has lifted sanctions on three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa, reversing a designation imposed by the Biden administration in 2024 (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/treasury-sanctions-intellexa-removed
Donald Trump Jr. joined
Unusual Machines’ advisory board in November 2024
-- U.S. government contracts soon followed
CEO Allan Evans told Forbes the advisory board was created when Donald Trump Jr. was named to it,
and that he believes it has four other members,
but he declined to name them or share if they are associated with the Trump Organization.
Likewise, the company’s website does notappear to mention any members other than Donald Trump Jr.
Earl…
Grundeinkommen mal anders.
https://noc.social/@todayilearned/115639265788636490
"Brits heading for Spain may soon have to wear a face mask again due to the huge surge in flu and Covid cases."
Everyone else will be exempt or what? 🥴
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2140229/spain-covid-flu-alert-new-rules-hospitals…
North American box office in 2025 will fall far short of the $9B most analysts expected, flat from 2024 levels and well below the pre-pandemic norm of $10B-$11B (Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/box-office-struggled-2025-hits-1236617641/
(PhD thesis, 2024) Prototyping phosphene vision: Simulation-based optimization of visual neuroprosthetics using deep learning #BCI
Treasury removes sanctions for three executives tied to spyware maker Intellexa https://therecord.media/treasury-sanctions-intellexa-removed
In 2025, several books saw audiobook sales outperform hardcovers, even as digital audiobook growth slowed to 1% through October after 2024's ~24% jump to $1.1B (Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/lis
Democrats divided over how to retake House, Senate majorities (Alexander Bolton/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5661739-democrats-debate-2024-election-lessons/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251224/p12#a251224p12
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
SOAK:
🎵 Bleach (6 Music Session, 25 Nov 2024)
#SOAK
https://soakinbleach.bandcamp.com
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aCOnhe1Krk6u2WmaxdgCp
Among the top 10K artists streamed in Australia from 2021 to 2024, Australian artists fell ~20% as algorithms make English-speaking artists compete globally (The Australia Institute)
https://australiainstitute.org.au/post
Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplace
I love working with a team that knows our products and each others' strengths. At the Omni Group our average tenure is now over 15 years.
“OK, Ken, by ‘average’ I assume you mean ‘mean’? But some of you old-timers who have been there 30 years are skewing that curve, right?”
Well, I suppose that's true. If we look at the median tenure, that's now at 13.99 years.
(The 2024 report at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates the median tenure across all indust…
Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen:
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/afd
Morning hike in the Lechtal Alps (October 2024)
We seemingly had the valley all to ourselves, for the first few hours the valley floor still mostly frozen with crunchy hoarfrost until the sun was high enough in the sky. The cirque at the end of the valley already completely in deep winter. These transitions (often within just a few minutes) are so magical and unique to mountain regions...
#FootpathFriday
WebKit Bug 277290 AX: Scrolling containers inoperable with keyboard (July 2024, critical):
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277290
I’m betting if we can convince the Google Chrome team that this is preventing uptake of CSS carousels they’ll dispatch an engineer to fix i…
Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingbritain #documentingplace
A fragment of a Chinese rocket stage - 2024-173L - 'landed' in Western Australia on 18 October: #SpaceJunk
"Every year, thousands of people across Europe fall ill after eating contaminated food, with eggs, meat and ready-to-eat (RTE) food products among the most frequent sources of infection. "
Serious Listeria infections rising in Europe, EU report warns https://www.efsa.…
Duo Mimikry gewinnt "Knurrhahn"
Das Duo überzeugte beim Wilhelmshavener Festival der Kleinkunst 2024 mit pantomimischer Comedy.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-21.11.2025-duo-mimikry-knurrhahn.html
Foto Copyright Duo Mimikry
Pelican is putting out a 12" EP 'Ascending' on January 9 with Flickering Resonance era tracks. The last two had a limited release in 2024, and the title track was left off Flickering Resonance as they felt it was more its own thing. Didn't know if I was gonna like Geoff Rickly's (from Thursday) vocals on the 'vocal version' of 'Cascading Crescent', but it rips: <…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Beethoven, Brahms and Sarah Gibson
In this Prom from conductor Anja Bihlmaier and the BBC Philharmonic, Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is balanced by Beethoven’s joyful Violin Concerto and Sarah Gibson’s warp & weft.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002n8h1
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Nearly $900 Million Flowed in Secret to Help Harris and Trump in 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/harris-trump-dark-money-democrats-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p109#a251217p109
Google’s vibe-coding tool, Opal,
is making its way to Gemini.
The company on Wednesday said it is integrating the tool,
which lets you build AI-powered mini apps,
inside the Gemini web app,
allowing users to create their own custom apps,
which Google calls Gems.
Introduced in 2024,
Gems are customized versions of Gemini designed for specific tasks or scenarios.
For instance, some of Google’s pre-made Gems include
a learning coach,…
A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/14/how-irobot-lost-its-way-home/
Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html
Das #bpkFotoarchiv der @… erprobt seit 2024 #KI-gestützte Erschließungsmethoden, um seine mehr als 12 Millionen Bildmotive besser zugänglich und nutzbar zu machen.
Ste…
Bengals waive embattled WR prospect Burton https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47250476/bengals-cut-ties-embattled-wr-prospect-jermaine-burton
Cyclo-logistique en Belgique
- plus de 5 millions de colis livrés Š vélo en Belgique, soit 70 % de plus qu’en 2023
- 10 millions de km parcourus par des coursiers Š vélo, soit 30 % de plus
- 4112 tonnes de CO₂ évitées et 12 millions € de coûts externes économisés
https://
UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/10…
"An increasing number of homes in the Netherlands are heated without the use of natural gas. In 2024, 11.2 percent of homes were fully gas-free, up from 8.7 percent in 2022. These homes are usually heated using a heat pump or are connected to a collective district heating system."
https://www.cbs.…
Re-doing a #MusicWomenWednesday from 2024, as the video I'd linked to disappeared and I had to grab a new one.
When I was a kid in the 90s, I had a Wax Trax video compilation on VHS that had this great cover of Patsy Cline's "Walking After Midnight" done by Los Angeles' BRAINDEAD SOUND MACHINE. This was the first way I ever heard this song, and I'm crazy about th…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Le gouvernement vaudois a plongé le canton dans une situation paradoxale: le frein Š l’endettement est activé alors qu’il n’y a quasiment pas de dettes (0,71% de taux d’endettement en 2024), il connaît une crise politique profonde alors que sa situation financière est loin d’être problématique.
https://www.letemps.ch/opinions/y-a-t-il-un-pilote-dans-le-canton-de-vaud?shouldPreventPurchase=true&inAppView=3.19.0&didomiConfig.user.externalConsent.value={"purposes":{"consent":{"enabled":["abtesting-p6FL2BYL","audiencem-hJxaeGrR","cookies","create_ads_profile","create_content_profile","device_characteristics","geolocation_data","improve_products","market_research","measure_ad_performance","measure_content_performance","parselyne-Ya2EC4dG","select_basic_ads","select_personalized_ads","select_personalized_content","use_limited_data_to_select_content"],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"vendors":{"consent":{"enabled":["amazon","c:aws-cloudfront","c:bannerwise-EeHwBjLT","c:chartbeat","c:cloudflare","c:echobox-GqD96L9K","c:forecast-ZRJPAUT7","c:googleana-4TXnJigR","c:hotjar","c:jsdelivr-xdD77X6w","c:jw-player","c:kameleoon-experiment","c:kameleoon-personalization","c:keycdn","c:linkedin","c:magnitein-ePEpbCQ7","c:meta-43HDmFRa","c:microsoft","c:nonli-jnWf8kqD","c:pianohybr-R3VKC2r4","c:pinterest","c:spyri-XAtBPx3i","c:tapadinc-VDTUUcKw","c:tiktok-KZAUQLZ9","c:unrulygro-nKyLqdKi","c:youtube","facebook","google","twitter",1,10,1020,1021,1028,1046,1069,108,109,11,1126,12,120,1269,128,13,130,131,1310,132,136,137,138,142,143,1449,154,156,16,164,202,209,21,211,23,238,24,241,243,25,253,264,28,284,290,30,301,32,36,39,4,412,422,45,469,475,493,50,519,52,559,58,61,612,617,68,684,69,73,76,77,783,790,793,80,81,811,84,85,855,898,91,92,95,965,98],"disabled":[]},"legitimate_interest":{"enabled":[],"disabled":[]}},"user_id":"36B03261-8BC8-4FB4-A026-0543FF748710","created":"2025-05-28T08:36:56.058Z","updated":"2025-11-08T21:05:15.048Z","source":{"type":"app","domain":"ch.letemps.LT"},"action":"webview"}
Source: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/live…
U.S. layoffs totaled 71,321 in November and 1.17 million this year.
It’s the most since 2020 and a 44% increase from 2024.
Recent Layoffs:
UPS: 48,000 employees
Amazon: Up to 30,000 employees
Intel: 24,000 employees
Microsoft: 15,000 employees
2026 will be the year of mass unemployment.
https…
GPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Newsletter)
https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and-useful-patterns-for-…
Source: livestream shopping app Whatnot nears ~$1B in revenue for 2025; Whatnot says it has passed $6B in gross sales this year, more than doubling 2024's sales (Ann Gehan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/live…
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1192237 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Uniform ergodicity of geodesic slice sampling
Mareike Hasenpflug
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06748 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06748
In the USA there's now bipartisan acceptance that "steaks cost almost 17% more than a year ago" ,[1] 60 % of shoppers buy less beef,[2] 37 % consider plant-based substitutes[3] but not clear how many would simply increase e.g. pulses or go fully #vegan. Prices of lentils are down[4] and production of pulses is expected to go up.[5]
[1]
Note on Robins' Conjecture in Dimension Four and Higher
Oleg Asipchuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26587 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26587
Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07226 https://…
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Browns QB Deshaun Watson designated to return to practice for first time since Achilles injury
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-qb-deshaun-watson-practice-injury-sh…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
BODEGA:
🎵 Shiny New Model (6 Music Session, 3 Jun 2024)
#BODEGA
https://bodegabk.bandcamp.com/album/shiny-new-model
https://open.spotify.com/track/6n4a29V8m31YOzvZ1z1jST
An appeals court in Missouri
✅has ordered the rewording of a misleading explainer for a Republican-backed ballot measure
🔥that aims to undo a previously passed initiative that expanded abortion and reproductive rights in the state.
The order from the three-judge panel within Missouri’s Western District of Appeals
represents the second time in just a few months that the explanation accompanying the anti-abortion ballot measure was found to be confusing or deceptive.
#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
US and Israeli cloud data management startup Eon raised $300M led by Gil at a $4B valuation, up from $1.4B in November 2024, taking its total funding to $500M (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/cloud-data…
The Academy reports fiscal 2025 revenues of $269.2M, up from $263.1M in 2024, after cutting expenses from $220.1M to $208.1M; Oscars revenue grew to $150.5M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
just looking at my archive of postgresql backups over the past 2 years of my mastodon instance.
In December 2023 just shy of 1 year since spinning it up, the compressed gz file of the database was 600MB.
By Aug 2024 it was 988MB
In April 2025 it was 1500MB
Today it is 1800MB.
That is a 2 user instance. Not small!
#selfhost #footiMac #Debian #mastodon #fediverse #upgrade
CANI files a CA ballot measure to let an oversight board review and undo nonprofit conversions in science and tech since Jan. 2024, indirectly targeting OpenAI (Keach Hagey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-complet
A profile of Dario Amodei and Anthropic, which is on track to hit a nearly $10B annualized run rate by the end of 2025, more than 10x what it generated in 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/article/anthropic-ceo-d…
TSMC reports a 16.9% rise in October sales, the slowest pace since February 2024, highlighting uncertainty over the AI boom's sustainability; TSMC is up 37% YTD (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…
Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen
Armis, which helps businesses secure and manage IoT devices, raised $435M at a $6.1B valuation, up from $4.2B after raising a $200M Series D in October 2024 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/armis-raises-435-million-at-6point1-bi…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Louis Culture:
🎵 Babe (6 Music Session, 8 Oct 2024) (feat. Tora-I)
#LouisCulture
https://open.spotify.com/track/4DbsTW4h2gjwdpC9W9iID4
#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …