2025-09-09 04:01:00
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Orban claims Ukraine will be divided into three parts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/09/orban-claims-ukraine-will-be.html
How VC firm 1789 Capital grew to $1B in assets with Donald Trump Jr. as a partner; its recent deals include investments in xAI, Neuralink, and Perplexity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-linked-venture-fun…
Piketty with a refreshingly-different take on tariffs: https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/10/07/rethinking-world-trade/
Bill Clinton, who was impeached for committing perjury about sex, may have committed a crime related to sex?
Wait, next are you gonna tell me water is wet?
Sex criminals should be prosecuted. Full stop.
#USpol
Trump's private sector intervention causes heartburn on right
https://rollcall.com/2025/09/05/trump-intel-socialism-republicans-economy/
It occurs to me that the wellspring of malcontent that NZF and ACT are tapping into with their demonisation of their 'woke' strawman is the sense of displacement & discomfort many of the older generation feel - like Aotearoa is increasingly not the sort of place they remember growing up in, where they knew their where they stood.
Their anger with tangata whenua's waxing cultural representation & immigrants from non-European cultures is fascinating for its irony. 1/…
Mamdani, Facing Mistrust Within the N.Y.P.D., Reaches Out to Officers (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/nyregion/mamdani-nypd.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p149#a250908p149
@… your quincuncial posts from may just turned up in my feed reader for some reason
when you wrote “I was just kidding about the name of the quince, which actually has nothing to do with any of this. It is a coincidence.”
i read it to rhyme with quinicidence
i hope that’s what you intended :-)
Happy 33rd birthday, @…!
hot take: they should build a lot of commie blocks in the UK
‼️Die #Petition
"Weitere Erforschung der Augenerkrankung Glaukom sowie Entwicklung neuer Therapien vom 01.08.2025"
hat bisher 79 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29921 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.
As huge companies, giant universities, and $billionaire race to kiss the orange ass, I increasing am losing faith that existing legal, Constitutional, or peaceful procedures are going to end our national nightmare.
"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true."
(Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)
#SAP meldet, dass die Beschäftigten ab 2026 nur noch E-Autos als #Firmenwagen bestellen können.
Insbesondere sind Plugin-Hybride ausgeschlossen. Nach meiner Beobachtung kaufen gerade viele Firmen solche Mogelpackungen. Da ist es gut, dass SAP auf
Everyone is selling innovation and none of it works. What if I started an agency that sold denovation. We'll build you a last-gen project that actually works.
It'll cost twice as much up front, but you won't have to pay to get it fixed once a year forever.
200gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
La prison de Saydnaya, microcosme de la barbarie du régime Al-Assad
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/visuel/2025/01/12/la-prison-de-saydnaya-microcosme-de-la-barbarie-du-regime-al-assad_6493842_321…
"As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours"
#Butterflies #Insects #Environment
🔥 The unexpected upside of Canada's wildfires
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/09/23/climate-change/canada-wildfire-upsides/
🆓
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
The Free Design:
🎵 Lullaby
#TheFreeDesign
https://jazzanova.bandcamp.com/track/lullaby-j-nova-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1sRfMkVhEgXy7W5dG8NRZ4
Eagles acquiring RB Tank Bigsby in trade with Jaguars: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6611866/2025/09/08/eagles-tank-bigsby-jaguars-trade/
Warum heißt es Trigema-Ultras und nicht Gruppies?
Pro-Trump US lawmaker to meet with Putin's envoy this month: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/09/protrump-us-lawmaker-to-meet.html
Sources: OpenAI execs fear rising political scrutiny in California could hinder its for-profit plans and have discussed moving out of the state as a last resort (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-for-profit-conversion-opposition-0…
In a stinging dissent joined by her two liberal colleagues,
Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote:
“Countless people in the Los Angeles area have been grabbed, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed
simply because of their looks, their accents, and the fact they make a living by doing manual labor.
Today, the Court needlessly subjects countless more to these exact same indignities.”
Department of Homeland Security attorneys have said immigration officers target people bas…
It’s a great book. You should buy it.
https://mastodon.social/@tubetime/115341632582142049
ICE launches 'Operation Midway Blitz' targeting immigrants in Chicago (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/09/08/ice-midway-blitz-chicago-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p151#a250908p151
Nach Netflix-Deal: Paramount bietet 108 Milliarden US-Dollar für Warner Bros.
Netflix und Warner Bros. haben sich auf eine Übernahme geeinigt. Nun schaltet sich Paramount ein – und bietet mehr.
…
Definitely not the future.
https://mastodon.social/@harrymccracken/115341019007992956
"In a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) opinion piece published Sunday, the founder/CEO of investment behemoth Citadel criticized Trump's attacks on the Federal Reserve and challenged the credibility of economic data used by the administration to justify the firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
'Shame on the administration': Top GOP megadonor rallies investors against Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/gop-megadonor-trump/
‼️Die #Petition
"Weitere Erforschung der Augenerkrankung Glaukom sowie Entwicklung neuer Therapien vom 01.08.2025"
hat bisher 39 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29961 Unterschriften bis zum 09.12.2025.
Right... I've just set up a new (old school, but up-with-the-times) mailing list manager (Mailman 3 - https://docs.mailman3.org/en/latest/) for Aotearoa NZ communities. Upon reflection, it seems to me that the last generation or 2 of digital community tools has missed the mark, not providing a suitabl…
📔 Exploring how storytelling strategies shape memories
#memory
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Lætitia Sadier:
🎵 By the Sea
#LætitiaSadier
https://laetitiasadier.bandcamp.com/track/by-the-sea
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ahP9XlNMtxPRApWO0tZMt
Wer kann mit dieser Triggerwarnung etwas anfangen?
The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80gl8yvj9go
You have entered the Ice Agt
The largest-ever single-site immigration raid in U.S. history unfolded Thursday
when federal agents arrested nearly 500 workers at a Hyundai facility in Georgia.
Most workers were Korean nationals who were building an electric vehicle battery plant.
Hyundai is investing over $12 billion in a record-setting economic development deal with the state,
and the South Korean government recently agreed to invest hundreds of billions more in t…
'Massive' Russian attack in Sumy Oblast kills 3, injures 2: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/massive-russian-attack-in-sumy.html
What the immigration raids are about -- WHAT THE IMMIGRATION RAIDS ARE ABOUT. (Byron York/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3798172/what-the-immigration-raids-are-about/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p156#a250908p156
'Irreconcilable with our constitutional guarantees': Sotomayor slams SCOTUS in stunning dissent - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-sotomayor/
Looks like the FCC is getting serious about robocalling? https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-415059A1.pdf
The subject line in the mailing list where I saw this is “For those of you who follow this kind of stuff” which turns out to mean that any knowledgeable discu…
Coinbase reopens app registration in India after an over-two-year pause, letting users make crypto-to-crypto trades, and plans to open up crypto buying in 2026 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/07/coin
thinking about that time i mildly freaked someone out by suppressing saccades and refocusing pupils to better track the tip of her index finger she was waving in front of me
apparently it made me look like a cat stalking its prey
New video footage shows there was more to the skirmish last week between a protester and Rep. Tim Burchett -- which ended with the Tennessee Republican forcefully shoving the man.
Burchett characterized the encounter at the time as a heated verbal exchange that grew physical when the demonstrator got in the lawmaker’s face and “bumped” him.
But a recording of the incident, reviewed by POLITICO, shows that prior to the two of them coming face to face, Burchett taunted the man, say…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Julius Rodriguez:
🎵 Dora’s Lullaby
#JuliusRodriguez
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZZGMSB78HzfOLTVQL61ht
Russian stock market plummets to 3-year low after Kremlin statement on 'collapsing' US-Moscow relations: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/russian-stock-market-plummets-to.html
ARD und ZDF übertragen 60 Spiele der Fußball-WM 2026
Alle Deutschland-Spiele der Fußball-WM 2026 werden bei öffentlich-rechtlichen Sendern zu sehen sein – solange sich die Nationalmannschaft qualifiziert.
https://www…
The US FDA qualifies the first AI drug development tool, AIM-NASH, to help doctors assess a severe form of fatty liver disease in drug trials (Sahil Pandey/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar
Dang, they caught wind of my Weather Changing Beaminator 🌬️✈️
Florida attorney general asks public to report weather modification activity at airports
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/florid
'Now this is bromance': Social media erupts over Trump's 'explicit love letter' to Epstein - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-epstein-letter/
Five weeks after Trump fired the chief of the agency that gathers the country’s labor and price data,
his advisers are preparing a report fuming over imagined shortcomings of the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs data
The latest jobs report points to a labor market that's faltering,
but the slowdown may have begun much earlier.
Economists expect the Bureau of Labor Statistics tomorrow to issue a major downward revision,
showing the nation added hundreds of th…
White House Melts Down Over Proof of Trump's Gross Letter to Epstein (Edith Olmsted/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/post/200168/trump-letter-epstein-white-house-melts-down
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p150#a250908p150
YEKATERINBURG IS ON FIRE! 🔥 Fire at the turbine factory! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/08/yekaterinburg-is-on-fire-fire.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Lalalar:
🎵 Abla Deme Lazım Olur
#Lalalar
https://lesdisquesbongojoe.bandcamp.com/track/lalalar-abla-deme-laz-m-olur
https://open.spotify.com/track/4UzO1Aif2GFvVXAlT5JGUD
Supermond, Sternschnuppen – und Wolken am Abendhimmel
Wenn der Mond sich der Erde nähert, erscheint er besonders groß. Jetzt ist es wieder so weit, aber spielt das Wetter mit?
https://www.he…
I like kitties :3
**How Trump Broke the Economy: 32 ways Trump is making us poorer and destroying our future**
https://unprecedented.ghost.io/archive/how-trump-broke-the-economy/?ref=unprecedented-newsletter
Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html
"It was a kidnapping." David Remnick introduces Jonathan Blitzer's reporting on how the Trump Administration declared war on Venezuelan migrants in the U.S. Plus: (David Remnick/New Yorker)
https://link.newyorker.com/view/5bda42982ddf9c506361c5a7oot7f.20dq/6d2f7f88
http://www.memeorandum.com/250908/p148#a250908p148
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Tiger Stripes:
🎵 J's Track
#TigerStripes
https://futuredisco.bandcamp.com/track/js-track-extended-mix
I am happy to be included in any starter packs. I have cat propaganda to spread! :3
Sources: after the Netflix-WBD deal was announced, Larry Ellison called President Trump about how the transaction would hurt competition (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/paramoun…
Scoop: Mamdani ally weighs challenging Hakeem Jeffries (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/zohran-mamdani-ally-challenge-hakeem-jeffries
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p153#a251008p153
Senate Republicans embrace Trump’s call – from his Florida golf course – to replace Obamacare | US federal government shutdown 2025 | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/08/senate-republicans-trump-obamacare
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Roland Clark:
🎵 Wake Up
#RolandClark
https://djrolandclark.bandcamp.com/track/wake-up
https://open.spotify.com/track/2JkoZ6MuK16vsTOaDV2dne
Filing: HashKey, Hong Kong's largest licensed crypto exchange, is aiming to raise up to ~$215M in its IPO in the city (Kumar Tanishk/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/hashkey-launches-hong-kong-ipo-seeking-up…
Senate rejects effort to curb Trump's power to target alleged drug boats (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/09/war-powers-act-vote-senate-venezuela
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p162#a251008p162
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Francesco Almante:
🎵 Chivo Loco
#FrancescoAlmante
https://overtonesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/chivo-loco
"AI is the world's most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine....""
'Breaking Bad' Creator Hates AI, Promises New Show 'Pluribus' Was 'Made By Humans' - Slashdot
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/11/09/047221/breaking-bad-creator-hates-ai-promises-new-show-pluribus-was-made-by-humans
Discord estimates 70,000 users globally may have had government ID photos exposed in a September 20 third-party customer service data breach (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/797051/discord-government-ids-leaked-data-breach
A rightwing late-night show may have bombed - but the funding behind it is no laughing matter (Adam Gabbatt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/oct/08/conservative-late-night-talkshow
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p154#a251008p154
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Pharoah Sanders:
🎵 you got to have freedom (opolopo tweek)
#PharoahSanders
https://markdeclivelowe.bandcamp.com/track/youve-got-to-have-freedom
https://open.spotify.com/track/1sxRufRKMer2iOqxUkdhN4
Posts Calling Luigi Mangione Guilty Did No Harm, Top U.S. Prosecutor Argues - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/nyregion/luigi-mangione-justice-department-posts.html
MetaMask launches in-app perpetual futures trading powered by Hyperliquid, and plans to integrate Polymarket's prediction markets later this year (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/373302/metamask-rolls-out-perpet…
Trump threatens to raise tariffs on Mexico over Rio Grande water deliveries (Daniel Desrochers/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/08/trump-tariffs-mexico-rio-grande-water-00682220
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p141#a251208p141
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Bloodstone:
🎵 Natural High
#Bloodstone
https://jewleean.bandcamp.com/track/bloodstone-natural-high-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/7aKrysuyZvDnU3JwnlO3dd
Bipartisan move to restrict Trump’s Venezuela war powers fails in Senate - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/10/08/venezuela-war-powers-senate-vote/
During a Mumbai trade visit, UK PM Keir Starmer hailed India's digital ID program, Aadhaar, as a "massive success" as the UK plans to introduce digital ID cards (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ce22e78c-4a0c-49ca-a658-f2167df7f31d
Shots fired at immigration agents in Little Village as residents confront Bovino, Border Patrol, authorities say (Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/08/community-members-confront-bovino/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p28#a251108p28
Google's New AI Health Tool: Opt in or Risk Losing Benefits - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/google-ai-health-tool-opt-in-risk-losing-benefits-2025-10
YZi Labs, formerly Binance Labs, announces a $1B Builder Fund to support long-term founders developing on BNB Chain in areas like trading, AI, and DeFi (Logan Hitchcock/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/343392/cz-family-office-kickstarts-1-billion-fund-bnb
…
Kushner role in bid for Warner Bros raises ethical questions, experts say (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/kushner-role-bid-warner-bros-raises-ethical-questions-experts-say-2025-12-08/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p140#a251208p140
How Pathway, a startup developing an alternative to the transformer, aims to use its Dragon Hatchling architecture to create a new class of adaptive AI systems (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-ai…
David AI, which sells audio data sets for AI training, raised a $50M Series B, sources say at a $500M valuation, up from ~$100M from its $25M Series A in May (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…