2025-12-05 00:01:54
Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025
Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025
The afterlife is only terrible for those who are responsible for many others waiting there.
2025 MAINE 2 - TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS ON DANGEROUS WEAPONS POSSESSION
GENERAL
BALLOT MEASURE
estimates
73% of votes counted
Yes. wins.
AP race call at
6:55 p.m. on. Nov. 4, 2025.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/r
TIL about the Octobass as a result of my random YouTube-live-music feed stumbling into a performance of Gounod’s “Messe Solonelle” which is pretty good and, well, has an octobass in the orchestra.
#music
those of you who have recommended Nordic Power Profiler II: in your experience, do the digital channels of the logic analyzer work?
YouTube confirms it removed 700 videos from three prominent Palestinian human rights groups in early October to comply with US State Department sanctions (The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-ri…
Justice Department urges judge to jail former Jan. 6 defendant after alarming return to DC (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/04/justice-department-urges-judge-to-jail-former-jan-6-defendant-after-alarming-return-to-dc-00678109
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p144#a251204p144
Dichte der #Windkraftanlagen je #Bundesland pro 10 km² in Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Nur in Betrieb befindliche Anlagen berücksichtigt.
Die „Ausschließliche Wirtschaftszone“ (Offshore) ist ausgenommen.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
I did a 21 mile bike ride today. Along the way I saw a turkey, found a good pair of scissors, discovered Hidden Lake, and stopped to see Mama Rosa at Firefly Grove Park in Wauwatosa.
#bikeTooter #biking #mke
"We are a higher court, but not a better one": Kagan rages at SCOTUS decision to allow Texas maps - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/04/we-are-a-higher-court-but-not-a-better-one-kagan-rages-at-scotus-decision-to-allow-texas-maps/
Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom #environment
Eureka moment on the EEPROM, I think I just found the column address lines. Need to trace a bit more out to be 100%.
If so, I'll have to rearrange a bunch of schematic and rename a bunch of signals (the slow and arduous way because GIMP and KiCAD don't sync and GIMP has no idea what a netlist is, lol)
Liest von euch wer regelmäßig le monde diplomatique? In den letzten zwei oder drei (?) Jahren erschien mal ein Artikel zu Diversität im Militär und dass diese notwendig sei, um
diverse Gesellschaften zu verteidigen. Ich finde ihn nicht mehr und würde ihn gerne einer kritischen Re-Lektüre unterziehen (Edit: ich finde ihn nicht im Online-Archiv und zweifle an meinem Gedächtnis)
The most exquisite peak in culinary art is conquered when you do right by a
ham, for a ham, in the very nature of the process it has undergone since last
it walked on its own feet, combines in its flavor the tang of smoky autumnal
woods, the maternal softness of earthy fields delivered of their crop children,
the wineyness of a late sun, the intimate kiss of fertilizing rain, and the
bite of fire. You must slice it thin, almost as thin as this page you hold
in …
Ein Link ins @… Archiv von Anno Domini 2016:
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Anwalt-Mitchell…
Breken met populisten: "Het werkt misschien rustgevend, de ogenschijnlijke beschaving die Jettenbal lijkt te brengen, maar het is wel zaak wakker te blijven. Liefst met de sleutelbos in de vuist en de keukenmessen uit het zicht. We weten niet waar dat demissionaire coalitietuig toe in staat is als ze merken dat het Nederland menens is om met hun populisme te breken." https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/12/04/breken-met-populisten-a4914451?gift_token=4914451~1765536039~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~DkswDlENxO8ZZr1uBC7Hr3NIviTp4ZU-q_trfKo__oQ
🦗 Insects on the space menu: A sustainable food source for future missions
#food
I managed to get out and I can confirm snow and ice on forest roads.
But it was fine. It all was a bit more technically challenging than usual.
Maybe I've got to clean my bike tomorrow.
#cycling #mountainbiking
A NATO first: construction of a Ukrainian defense plant begins in Denmark: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/a-nato-first-construction-of.html
And also about heating pads and aging...
The interview kinda spun out, but in a fun way. https://flipboard.com/@npr/music-fru3ssldz/-/a-ikPV7EP6SASNRUMrhn_LMQ:a:3195441-/0
♫ Top 5 artists of the Last.week: Pedro Aznar (65) The Beatles (32) Milo j (29) Clara Cantore (23) Pulp (23). #myweekcounted 559 Scrobbles with Lastfm #music via @…
There were 20 or so cars at my local election precinct this evening when I drove by. Our Georgia ballot is thin, with a couple of local issues and the relatively obscure state public utilities commission.
Voters are stirred up. This is a good thing. Early voting turnout has been unusually strong.
Y'all.
I *just* learned that hidden in a menu, the macOS "Music" app still has the "Visualization" feature that made me fall in love with my friends Macbook back in 2009.
AND IT'S EVERYTHING I NEEDED RIGHT NOW.
RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/115664356576500268
It’s strange how even someone like Putin can sometimes end up on the same side as the rest of the world in opposing U.S. imperialism.
When you see something memorable, do you write it down, or write it up?
#NowPlaying the absolute banger from 2000, dead prez' genius LP 'Let's Get Free'. Damn, I listened to a lot of this one back then. Like visiting an old friend
https://youtu…
Just learned that Symfony 7.4 ships with Multi -Step form support.
That's exactly what I need for my current project. Nice!
https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-4-multi-step-forms
This holiday season, maybe consider buying gifts from fair trade places like Ten Thousand Villages or directly from artisans (e.g. @…) rather than from big box stores.
#ShopSmall
Muss immer daran denken, dass deren Stimme bei einer Wahl gleich viel wert ist wie meine
https://www.reddit.com/r/ichbin40undSchwurbler/comments/1oobbna/die_wahrheit_über_den_neuen_ballsaal/
Nothing rudert bei Bloatware und Werbung ein wenig zurück
Nothing rudert bei seinem Ausflug in die Bloatware-Welt ein Stück zurück. Zudem sagt der Hersteller, dass man der Community zuhöre.
https://www.
#pastpuzzle 190
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https://www.pastpuzzle.de
82gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Dudu Pukwana:
🎵 Pezulu
#DuduPukwana
https://open.spotify.com/track/3tOpUuqzmAMw8O7AWnCOh4
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
Colts GM Chris Ballard is ‘All. Chips. In.’ with trade for Sauce Gardner https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6778696/2025/11/04/colts-sauce-gardner-jets-trade-chris-ballard/
Back to work from the Alps 🏔️
#StayGrounded
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Obongjayar:
🎵 Not in Surrender
#Obongjayar
https://obongjayar.bandcamp.com/track/not-in-surrender
https://open.spotify.com/track/1RP8ezSFLQ3hIDQ3GqKbw7
Manno .. schon 8 Uhr und ich wollte doch was ganz anderes machen, stattdessen sitze ich hier und schreibe Tröts .. Warummm nurrrr ? 🤣
Chinese AI chipmaker Moore Threads raised ~$1.13B in the year's second-largest onshore IPO, valuing it at ~$7.6B, with the retail portion oversubscribed 2,750x (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…
RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@nielso/115660588546486607
Aw yes, KiloMegabit per second (KMbps)
Supreme Court judges and federal judges will continue to be paid due to Article III of the U.S. Constitution that specifies
judge’s compensation “shall not be diminished” during their term.
https://scdailygazette.com/2025/10/03/
#GitPages now implements an audit system that allows on-line, background processing of uploaded content to e.g. scan it for viruses, phishing, and other abusive material
I consider this table stakes for any service with open registration, so now I can finally say that git-pages is _almost_ done (it needs a GC and a few minor fixes to other functions)
Letters to the editor from writers using AI chatbots are flooding scientific journals, likely written by writers seeking to boost their number of citations (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/letters-to-the-editor-ai-chatb…
Pardoned Democrat Henry Cuellar wants GOP to probe his prosecutors (Benjamin Guggenheim/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/henry-cuellar-pardon-investigation-00679552
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p130#a251205p130
I did a 21 mile bike ride today. Along the way I saw a turkey, found a good pair of scissors, discovered Hidden Lake, and stopped to see Mama Rosa at Firefly Grove Park in Wauwatosa.
#bikeTooter #biking #mke
“Someday, with the right man in the White House, there will be a Department of Jesus, yes and a Secretary of Jesus.… Dismantle the New Deal, reverse the effects of World War II, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can’t you feel it, all the dangerous childish stupidity—“I don’t like the way it came out, I want it to be my way.” Thomas #Pynchon, Vineland
Fortune suggests uses for YOUR favorite UNIX commands!
Try:
ar t "God"
drink < bottle; opener (Bourne Shell)
cat "food in tin cans" (all but 4.[23]BSD)
Hey UNIX! Got a match? (V6 or C shell)
mkdir matter; cat > matter (Bourne Shell)
rm God
man: Why did you get a divorce? (C shell)
date me (anything up to 4.3BSD)
make "heads or tails of all this"
who is smart
(C shell)…
Docusign reports Q3 revenue up 8% YoY to $818.4M, vs. $807.1M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below estimates; DOCU drops 6% after hours (Arvelisse Bonilla Ramos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/do…
Another Russian tanker attacked by marine drones off Turkey’s coast, third such incident in four days: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/04/another-russian-tanker-attacked-by.html
Strands #642
“Feeling peckish?”
💡🔵🔵🟡
🔵🔵🔵🔵
I loves me some raw hot Postscript.
@… You work with animals.
Lang leve de Nederlandse nuchterheid en tolerantie... Hoofdpiet Niels van der Laan met de dood bedreigd door rol in Sinterklaasjournaal https://www.nu.nl/cultuur-overig/6378315/hoofdpiet-niels-van-der-laan-met-de-dood-bedreigd-door-rol-in-sinterklaasjournaal.html
75gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Ruta Di:
🎵 Perfect As It Is
#RutaDi
https://open.spotify.com/track/2ctWdoyvCZWI0XIogyy1By
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Zailee Haze:
🎵 Inside Out
#ZaileeHaze
https://open.spotify.com/track/0hRp3EtgLN3eiSqt5DMYTX
PBS SoCal laid off 10% of staff, amounting to 10 positions, in October, citing the loss of $4.3M in federal funding (Julian Wyllie/Current)
https://current.org/2025/11/pbs-socal-cuts-10-of-workforce/
Aaron Glenn is buried under the monumental challenge of being the Jets coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6692394/2025/10/05/aaron-glenn-jets-head-coach-challenge-nfl/
‼️Die #Petition
"Weitere Erforschung der Augenerkrankung Glaukom sowie Entwicklung neuer Therapien vom 01.08.2025"
hat bisher 74 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29926 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.
Two studies suggest AI chatbots can shift political views more effectively than TV campaign ads, especially by presenting many claims, regardless of accuracy (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
Trump Again Names Jared Isaacman to Lead NASA After Pulling His Nomination (Kenneth Chang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/nasa-isaacman-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p150#a251104p150
Waymo erhöht Tempo im Wettlauf mit Tesla
Die Google-Schwester Waymo gilt als führend bei Robotaxis. Doch Musk will Tesla zur Nummer eins machen. Jetzt erhöht der Platzhirsch das Tempo.
https://www.he…
The NHTSA asks Waymo about its self-driving vehicles illegally passing school buses, including 19 times in Texas this year, as part of a probe opened in October (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-probes
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Paul Wright, Hidemi Suzuki, Antonio Vivaldi, Natsumi Wakamatsu, Sayuri Yamagata, Staas Swierstra, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra & Paul Dyer:
🎵 Concerto for 4 violins, cello and orchestra in F, Op.3 No.7
#PaulWright
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would review a Hawaii law that forbids gun owners from bringing firearms on private property without the property owner’s explicit permission.
If the law falls, the court could make it significantly harder for states and cities to keep guns out of everyday life.
💥Wolford v. Lopez traces its origins to the Supreme Court’s recent decisions that rewrote the nation’s gun-related jurisprudence.
The court’s conservative majority fir…
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn't radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers (CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/04/politics/strike-lawmakers-briefing-radio-survivors
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p126#a251204p126
Short seller Grizzly shorts London-listed Trustpilot, alleging the review site pressures businesses to pay for subscriptions; Trustpilot refutes the claims (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/trustp…
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people, memo says (Adam Rhodes/Prism)
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/04/prison-rape-elimination-act-trans-intersex-trump-doj/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p127#a251204p127
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Johann Sebastian Bach, Kadri Toomoja, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir & Tõnu Kaljuste:
🎵 Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn, BWV Anh 159
#JohannSebastianBach
https://open.spotify.com/track/6snbFlTHAtMUf9nKbtxK1Y
Nvidia und Apple bescheren Foxconn mehr Umsatz
Foxconn hat 2025 18 Prozent mehr Umsatz gemacht. Verbraucher kaufen zwar weniger vernetzte Geräte, aber der KI-Boom gleicht das mehr als aus.
https://www.
Google debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M context window (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/
US strikes another boat in the Eastern Pacific, killing four, amid escalating questions about its counter-drug offensive (Samantha Waldenberg/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/12/04/politics/us-strike-eastern-pacific-drug-boat
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p129#a251204p129
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Tryani Collective:
🎵 Learn To Live With It
#TryaniCollective
https://open.spotify.com/track/03HYmpVkcBoEETU0yw9DKb
Sources: Masayoshi Son plans with the White House to build "Trump Industrial Parks" in the US to produce AI infrastructure parts, funded by Japan's trade deal (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trump-softbank-ma
Republicans Reprise Unfounded Claims of Widespread Election Interference (Steven Lee Myers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/us/politics/republicans-reprise-unfounded-claims-of-widespread-election-interference.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p152#a251104p152
US and Canadian authorities warn that Chinese hackers are using the Brickstorm malware to install backdoor access within unnamed government and IT entities (A.J. Vicens/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-…
Mamdani's Mayoral Run Gave Gen Z More Than Politics (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/nyregion/mamdani-young-voters.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p26#a251105p26
Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/04/sign-language-interpretation-white-house-briefings-ruling-00636782
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p153#a251104p153
Broadview conspiracy defendants want to see if White House played a role in their case (Jon Seidel/Chicago Sun Times)
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/12/04/broadview-conspiracy-defendants-want-to-see-if-white-house-played-a-role-in-their-case
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p130#a251204p130
Lumia, which uses AI to analyze interactions between autonomous agents and humans, raised an $18M seed led by Team8 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/12/04/agentic-ai-security-lumia-team8
Chi Ossé ends early bid to challenge Jeffries (Faith Wardwell/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/chi-osse-ends-bid-to-challenge-jeffries-00679466
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p125#a251205p125
The Supreme Court gave Trump a big redistricting win. But the fight is just getting started. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/trump-redistricting-fight-indiana-pressure-00678789
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p144#a251205p144
Apple says general counsel Kate Adams and policy chief Lisa Jackson will retire, and Jennifer Newstead, Meta's former chief legal officer, will replace Adams (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/apple-announces-departure-lisa-jackson-k…
Sources: WeRide is set to raise ~$308M in its Hong Kong listing, planning to price shares at ~$3.48, representing a ~4% discount to its Monday Nasdaq close (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/weride…
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people (Kylie Mohr/SFGATE)
https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/national-parks-change-prioritizes-trump-birthday-21219336.php
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p145#a251204p145
Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/google-replit-ai-vibe-coding-anthropic-cursor.html
Intel shelves plans to spin off or sell a stake in its networking division NEX, after deciding that the business is more likely to succeed as an internal unit (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-03/intel-perfo…
Instacart launches an AI shopping assistant as part of its white-label e-commerce service, which powers the online shopping sites for some grocery chains (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/instacart-…
Sources: SoftBank agrees to sell a large portion of its stake in InMobi back to the Indian mobile ad company for ~$250M, reducing its holding to <10% from 30% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/softbank…
Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Snowflake and Anthropic announce a multi-year $200M deal to make Anthropic's Claude models available on Snowflake and deploy AI agents across enterprises (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/snowflake-narrows-lo…
Sources: Beijing-based Cambricon plans to more than triple its AI chip production to 500K units in 2026, including 300K of its advanced Siyuan 590 and 690 chips (Yuan Gao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
How Portugal is investing ~4.6% of its GDP around the port of Sines, seeking to transform it from a tourism-dependent economy to a tech and industrial hub (Sofia Horta e Costa/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Source: Anthropic projects revenues of up to $70B in 2028, up from ~$5B in 2025, and expects to become cash flow positive as soon as 2027 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-projects-70-billio…