2025-09-22 01:10:38
In an interview, Brian Armstrong says Coinbase plans to become a financial super app that integrates its crypto offering with traditional banking services (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/09/20…
In an interview, Brian Armstrong says Coinbase plans to become a financial super app that integrates its crypto offering with traditional banking services (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/09/20…
"Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, "
(Original title: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity)
Robo Falcon 2.0: Roboterfalke startet wie ein Raubvogel
Der Roboterfalke Robo Falcon 2 hat eine neue Flügelkinematik erhalten. Lebensechte Starts und langsamer Flug sollen nun möglich sein.
https://www.
Another post talking about mapping all of my bike rides...
#biking
The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, and Rupert Murdoch file to dismiss Trump's $10B defamation lawsuit over Jeffrey Epstein report, saying "the article is true" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/09/trump-wall-street-journal-je…
»5.000 Euro bitte, Mark Zuckerberg:
Meta kann beobachten, was Menschen in der Online-Apotheke machen oder auf einer Dating-Seite. Dagegen zu klagen, wird gerade deutlich einfacher«
Eine berechtigte Klage und doch ist das Aushorchen zB mittels Plugins zu verhindern. Meta ist diesbezüglich nicht der einzige Konzern der uns aushorcht aber vielen ist es nicht bewusst oder gar absolut egal.
🕵️ €
@… unfortunately no!! 😭
The near unanimous verdict from over 100 top business leaders, representing some of the world’s largest companies and most iconic brands:
Trump’s policies aren’t working.
These opinions were all about business results, by the way:
the reasoning was independent of personal politics or industry sector,
it always came back to the bottom line.
Business leaders at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute’s CEO forum worry that Trump is undermining an economic…
#Maischberger: 2 Gäste, ein Mann, eine Frau. Beide fallen dem anderen ins Wort. Die Frau wirft ein "Fallen Sie mir nicht ins Wort, ich habe das auch nicht getan." Der Mann sagt sorry und verstumnt. Das Problem: Die Frau ist Muttersprachlerin und ist gut zu verstehen, auch mit den Einsprachen. Der Mann spricht zwar schnell, mit großem und reichem Vokabular und richtiger Grammatik. Trotzdem ist es anstrengend seiner Rede zu folgen und nötig bis zum Ende zu hören, um sicher zu sein worauf er hinau…
#Maischberger: 2 Gäste, ein Mann, eine Frau. Beide fallen dem anderen ins Wort. Die Frau wirft ein "Fallen Sie mir nicht ins Wort, ich habe das auch nicht getan." Der Mann sagt sorry und verstumnt. Das Problem: Die Frau ist Muttersprachlerin und ist gut zu verstehen, auch mit den Einsprachen. Der Mann spricht zwar schnell, mit großem und reichem Vokabular und richtiger Grammatik. Trotzdem ist es anstrengend seiner Rede zu folgen und nötig bis zum Ende zu hören, um sicher zu sein worauf er hinau…
Thanks in part to @… and his investigations, I have replaced a massive space heater called a "Class A audio amplifier" with a tiny Class D whose cost is proportional to its volume, and am very pleased. So much space restored in the cabinet, so much wasted energy recovered, and to my aged ears no diminution in quality. 5 stars.
Is the plural of “emoji”:
And that's why I publish my photos under CC 😍 https://amerika21.de/2025/09/277057/argentinien-milei-verliert-im-parlament
"‘A resistance to AI’: The author inviting readers to contribute to a mass memoir"
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/22/richard-beard-universal-turing-machine
The actual "memoir":
Poisoning crisis could drive vulture extinction in South Africa’s Kruger region https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/poisoning-crisis-could-drive-vulture-extinction-in-south-africas-kruger-region/
lol albanien wir in deutschland haben auch ne KI ministerin lasst euch was neues einfallen
the frow show is back in the safe, perfumed garden of @…, filling in for daniel blumin & playing music to tune in to tune out to, from now 'til midnight ET. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250922…
Judge Says Work on Revolution Wind Can Proceed, for Now - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/climate/revolution-wind-trump-orsted.html
“the ‘entirety’ of the East Wing, which traditionally ••houses the first lady’s offices••”
Oh, I’d missed that detail. Could this whole thing be out of spite at Melania?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/22/east-wing-demolished-ballroom-construction/86841156007/
Ooo, my small parcel form King's Seeds has just arrived **rubs hands**... my greenhouse is about to have some new residents...
Lol ...
Rembrandt als 'plagiaat pleger'.
😅
#Nieuwsuur
Trump säger i FN att USA ska ta initiativ till ett globalt system för att kontrollera biologiska vapen, baserat på "AI-verifiering som alla kan lita på" och som "många säger är bland det bästa som hänt, men det kan också vara farligt, men det kan också vara väldigt bra."
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T after you.
The Trump administration is expected to link autism to Tylenol use during pregnancy (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/09/22/nx-s1-5550153/trump-rfk-autism-tylenol-leucovorin-pregnancy
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p133#a250922p133
„Sie beraten schon lange mietrechtlich im Berliner Mieterverein. In welcher Situation befinden wir uns gerade?
Es ist Wildwest, was hier abgeht. Fälle, von denen ich früher nicht zu träumen gewagt hätte. Kriminelle Machenschaften und Verstrickungen, die früher undenkbar waren. Damals wurde augenzwinkernd auch mal was gemacht, was nicht in Ordnung war. Aber das war nicht so flächendeckend wie heute. Es gibt Vermieter, die Scheiben einschlagen, nur damit die Wohnung nicht wieder vermietet…
And hat tip to Nick for the speedy solution.
#FuckYouAppleForMessingWithMyWorkflows
🛫 Flight attendants have gone 50 years without ground pay—here's the reason behind it
#labor
‼️Die #Petition
"Weitere Erforschung der Augenerkrankung Glaukom sowie Entwicklung neuer Therapien vom 01.08.2025"
hat bisher 58 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29942 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.
/me loading Tylenol into the breech of a shotgun purchased without any ID or background check at a gun show.
At least one of these has been rendered safe from children.
Really wish we had a class like this at RPI back when I was there.
https://people.engr.tamu.edu/spalermo/ecen720.html
This is what I thought "advanced computer hardware design" would be.
Nope. It was doing IDE hard drive controllers on XC4000 se…
and one by one, the humane computing orgs pivoted to AI
"Wir können das auf die einfache oder auf die harte Tour machen." – klingt nach drittklassigem Thriller aus der Ramschkiste, wurde aber ernsthaft von Trumps FCC-Mann Carr gesagt. Ironie der Geschichte: Die „harte Tour“ besteht darin, Jimmy Kimmel von der Bühne zu zerren, um Deals für Senderbosse zu sichern. Demokratie, jetzt auch als Sonderangebot | Kolumne: Das Altpapier am 19. September 2025 | #USA
Das ist alles nur noch peinlich
https://www.zeit.de/mobilitaet/2025-09/schnieder-lockert-puenktlichkeitsziele-der-deutschen-bahn-gxe
Indian AI app development platform Rocket.new raised a $15M seed led by Salesforce Ventures; it has 400K users, including 10K paid subscribers (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/22/rocket…
"A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. [...] In collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, our research team at BetterUp Labs has identified one possible reason: Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."
"Unlike this mental outsourc…
Source: Disney CEO Bob Iger and Dana Walden, co-chair of Disney Entertainment, made the decision to return Jimmy Kimmel Live! to air (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/22/disney-abc-jimmy-kimmel-return.html
»Sicherheitslücke in ChatGPT — Angreifer konnten sensible #EMail-Daten abgreifen:
#Sicherheit'sforscher von Radware haben eine schwerwiegende #Sicherheitslücke im "Deep Research"…
@… not this (very specific) time
The only phrase that sums things up is "I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills!"
I don't know how the experts I hear on NPR can talk after hearing a Trump audio clip that is clearing the ramblings of a madman and not call it out as such.
They somehow remain all serious and explain things clearly. How do they do it?
#USPOL
ich hasse es wenn sänger.innen beim refrain das mikrofon ins publikum halten statt selbst zu singen
ich werfe eventim 200€ für ein ticket in den schlund und soll dann auch noch selber singen? pfff näää
Cats love me salads fear me
#UsPol #FreeSpeech #Kimmel
"Jimmy Kimmel will return to TV after highly criticized suspension"
Huh, how time flies. 6 or 7 years ago, at the OER Foundation, for whom I work as Open Source Technologist, we decided to replace our MailChimp with, eventually, a self-hosted instance of Mautic (https://mautic.org) to communicate with learners taking courses in our online open university courses (
If a person is FAMOUS in this country, they have to go on the ROAD for
MONTHS at a time and have their name misspelled on the SIDE of a
GREYHOUND SCENICRUISER!!
Bondi taps Trump's former personal attorney as a top federal prosecutor (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/22/bondi-taps-lindsey-halligan-federal-prosecutor-00575547
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p108#a250922p108
Source: Stripe is in talks to buy back shares from its VC backers at a $106.7B valuation; Sequoia bought $861M worth of shares in 2024 at a $70B valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/23/stripe-buy-back-stock-vc
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,416 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.38 %
@… When I first moved to Pasadena, the two drive-thru dairies there I knew of were notorious for selling you weed (before it was legal) if you asked for a special product
Any reading recommendations for a small collective looking to move from google dependency to self-hosting?
We're collecting some resources here:
https://doc.patternclub.org/s/QCwRlvO1A#
I hadn't had a drink in ages and don't particularly feel like changing this. But otherwise this could be an amazing self-research project for my Spanish learning!
«The 2025 #IgNobel Peace Prize went to researchers who proved a popular myth: a small dose of #alcohol can improve foreign language pronunciation!»
https://mstdn.science/@serhii/115241769055871087
War hier mal die Studie zur Zukunft des Lesens Thema? Gibt es threads dazu? Posts? https://www.ifd-allensbach.de/fileadmin/AWA/AWA_Praesentationen/2025/02_AWA2025_Mavrogiannis_Zukunft_des_Lesens.pdf
I feel this so deeply in my bones.
Working in an agency full of creatives this very much speaks to me.
https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/115253241854400858
Cascade PBS in Seattle lays off 12% of staff, or 17 employees, due to the federal funding rescission and will stop producing long-form written journalism (Julian Wyllie/Current)
https://current.org/2025/09/cascade-pbs-cuts-12-of-staff/
»PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of stored data. Data is encrypted and decrypted in the browser using 256bit AES in Galois Counter mode«
The AES-GCM 256 encryption is a component of any popular web browser, so this tool is also easy to use safely.
🔏 https://privatebin.info
We have power and we should use it: keep voting with your wallet.
https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-kimmel-suspension-supporters-94b79634a19b2c4ce70a2b4195ef1175
wann genau ist heute eigentlich die entrückung
Come, muse, let us sing of rats!
-- From a poem by James Grainger, 1721-1767
Milwaukee is getting a "slingshot bar" and we've already got an "axe throwing bar"...
So I guess all the activities I did as a kid (and got in trouble for) are now encouraged... but with alcohol!
🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Warum werden Menschen immer wieder von #Hochwasser überrascht?
Wenn #Starkregen zur Gefahr wird, spielt oft mehr mit hinein als man denkt – auch das Thema Vorbereitung. Viele unterschätzen immer noch die
Federal judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA medical research grants (Jaweed Kaleem/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-22/rita-lin-federal-judge-restores-ucla-nih-grants
http://www.memeorandum.com/250922/p136#a250922p136
Wie viele Menschen weigern sich beharrlich, einen Job anzunehmen? Es sind wohl weit weniger als 100, zeigt eine Untersuchung des IAB: https://www.hinzundkunzt.de/buergergeld-totalsanktionen-haben-keinen-effekt/
Auterion, which provides autopilot and swarming software for military drones, raised $130M led by Bessemer at a $600M valuation, says it has ~$100M in revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
DallasNews Corporation shareholders approve a merger with Hearst, shutting out an unsolicited bid from an affiliate of Alden Global Capital (Javier E. David/Dallas Morning News)
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2025/09/23/dallasnews-corpor…
Cross-Plattform-Applikationen mit Rust 1: Langlebig und flexibel
Die plattformübergreifende Entwicklung ohne Framework hat einige Vorteile, und die Programmiersprache Rust eignet sich gut für die Umsetzung.
🦀 https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Cr…
@… only corvettes go to heaven
schade dass es in der mensa kein happy meal mit labubu gibt
I try to appreciate when people tell me I'm wrong and suggest a better way to do things. (Most of the time, anyway!)
Filing: CFPB scrapped a 2024 Apple credit card settlement implemented under Biden, ending oversight requirements years early; Apple had already paid a $25M fine (Christian Martinez/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
@… Congratulations on the release!!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/115254458216672707
The more people dead in the US the fewer people there are and the easier it will be to control the citizens?
Google adds Gemini to Google TV, starting on TCL's new QM9K series TVs and expanding to Google TV Streamer 4K and other major TV brands later in 2025 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/782500/google-gemini-ai-assistant-smart-tv-tcl
Chinese movies have averaged ~20% of the global box office since 2020, with 98% of their earnings coming from their domestic market, as America's dominance ebbs (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-china-box-office/
@… yeah, it’s only a matter of time before Bluesky flips the switch to monetize — it will be interesting to see if algorithmic customization will be enough to survive the same problems that plague every ad-supported network (my hunch is no)
If I say "Enjoy your privilege!" do you consider that an insult?
Or is it just the person who thought it was an insult considers it an insult and that's what's wrong with them...
Sources: humanoid robotics startup 1X is seeking to raise up to $1B at a $10B valuation, more than 12x its previous valuation from a January financing (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/humanoid-robot-developer-1x-targ…
some good insight here into how (I try) to navigate conflicts on social media (which can be very confusing to folks that are very accustomed to shouting and being shouted at): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omc37TvHN74
Part of the bike lane "slalom course" on Hampton Avenue on my ride to work...
The freeway entrance ahead is closed but honestly I don't know what good putting these in the bike lane does besides get in my way.
#biking #bikeTooter
MediaTek unveils its 3nm Dimensity 9500 mobile SoC, featuring an 8-core CPU, 12-core GPU with hardware ray tracing, and its ninth-gen MediaTek NPU 990 (Hadlee Simons/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/mediatek-dimensity-9500-launch-3598962/
@… SCV’s needed!
Filing: Strava voluntarily dismissed its patent lawsuit against Garmin, for allegedly infringing its heat map and segments features, just 21 days after filing (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/strava-drops-voluntarily-lawsuit-again…
One thing I wasn't ready for on the bike commute was the bugs. Riding next to the river in summer is wonderful, but now when I head home the bugs are out, and they are tiny little bastards that fly into my face and my arms and get stuck on me. I do not love it. Hoping this works.
#biking #bikeTooter
@… ooh let me know if you find any good games for this
Over 200 prominent figures, including senior staffers at AI companies, call for international action to create "red lines" for AI development by the end of 2026 (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/nobel-laureate…
Pan Yay! Got the Ortleib panniers and wow are they nice. Bonus that my backpack fits nicely in one of them.
#biking #bikeTooter
Sometimes I words get up mixed in morning the when not I am awake totally.
Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/app…
Baidu and Swiss Post's PostBus plan to launch Baidu's Apollo Go autonomous vehicle service in Switzerland, testing in December ahead of rollout by Q1 2027 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/baidu-expands-robotaxi-push-swit…
Q&A with GM CEO Mary Barra and CPO Sterling Anderson on GM's plans for AI and autonomous driving, ditching Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/803379/gm
The UK CMA says it will label Apple and Google as having "strategic market status", imposing stricter rules on how they run their platforms to boost competition (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2c19c17a-b184-4e05-95de-2274a7f1ca76
Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (Brooke Singman/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple…