
2025-06-13 22:01:28
Oracle stock jumped 24% this week, its best performance since 2001, and is up 29% in 2025, vs. Nasdaq's 1%, after the company reported cloud momentum (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/oracles-stock-on-pace…
Oracle stock jumped 24% this week, its best performance since 2001, and is up 29% in 2025, vs. Nasdaq's 1%, after the company reported cloud momentum (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/oracles-stock-on-pace…
Wie sich Jugendliche durch Computerspiele radikalisieren
Extremisten nutzen die Online-Plattformen immer häufiger als Rückzugsräume - und als Rekrutierungslager für Jugendliche.
https://www.
After stabilizing around 2000-2005, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas methane started to rise again, accelerating until a few years ago.
At least the increase seems to be slowing down since 2021.
From the @NOAA ESRL site, now threatened by the Trump regime.
#emissions #methane
Wow, C2PA Content Credentials working in the wild. In Chrome, anyhow. If you install this extension: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/c2pa-content-credentials/mjkaocdlpjmphfkjndocehcdhbigaafp and then visit a page on …
Russia blames Western sanctions for collapse of UN food deal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/13/russia-blames-western-sanctions-for.html
Sources: USAGM told employees of VOA's Persian-language service who were placed on administrative leave to return to their roles amid the Iran-Israel conflict (Ben Johansen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/13/voa-persian-service…
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Null is problematic, but why? Let's see why, and let that guide us to new alternatives. #PHP
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@crell/much-ado-about-null
I spotted this '100 best movies of all time' (maybe most popular/influential, see how they chose them) list via Empire, some I agree with, some I'm disturbed by. Now I can't stop thinking about it. Check the list, agree/disagree? What would YOUR top ones be? I'm gonna throw mine together and see what I get. Can I even come up with 100 that are WORTHY? 😂
idea: real-world version of anubis
it gives you an MD5 hash to calculate and you have to do it with a pen and paper
the first time you do something unpleasant, it's one round. then it's two. then... you get the idea
‼️Die #Petition
"Verpflichtende Vorschriften zur Verwendung von Vogelschutzfolien an Glasfronten für Bestands- und Neubauten vom 28.04.2025"
hat bisher 73 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29927 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.
Analysis on the above from the indispensable @…:
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114673445143829091
@… did you have to sign a waiver?
leute ich bin enttäuscht
warum läuft https://istspahnnochimamt.de ins leere?
How to Prepare a Strong Tech Resume: Tips and Step-By-Step Guide from a Recruiter
https://relocateme.substack.com/p/how-to-prepare-a-strong-tech-resume
One of the reasons that ICE can't entirely get away with the whole masking thing is that there was a guy who sued because 5 unknown (to him) DEA agents busted in to his house without a warrant and beat and threatened him and his family.
Positive, specific identification isn't necessary, IOW.
this was where it all started
https://wetdry.world/@brew/111066983285070008
Last leg on our brief history of NLP (so far) is the advent of large language models with GPT-3 in 2020 and the introduction of learning from the prompt (aka few-shot learning).
T. B. Brown et al. (2020). Language models are few-shot learners. NIPS'20
https://…
https://www.bitsight.com/blog/bitsight-identifies-thousands-of-compromised-security-cameras
Bitsight Identifies Thousands of Security Cameras Openly Accessible on the Internet
Mother Nature says #noKings?
https://dmv.community/@rvaweather/114678893197691719
Worth a read...
"What Exactly Is Required to Preserve Our Democracy?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/07/what-exactly-is-required-to-preserve-our-democracy/683492/
Gerade die erste Folge "For all Mankind" gesehen. Wenn man ein paar NASA-Biografien gelesen hat, z.B. von Gene Kranz und Michael Collins, kommen einem ein paar Stellen ziemlich vertraut vor. 😀
In Texas a child is conceived in the fleeting moment between way too drunk and not drunk enough.
In case you haven't seen it yet, check out the analysis of the devastating state of [mostly] modern #OpenSSL by members of haproxy at https://www.haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-stacks
The MRI at Iceland's biggest hospital Landspítalinn is broken at the moment.
A scrubber that cleaning personal brought into the room is now stuck inside. 😂
Repairs are under way
https://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2025/06
It's #PrideMonth, so we have some same sex love this #PhallusThursday! 🏳️🌈
#EtruscanArt @…
Tell everyone you know in the Netherlands to hurry up and sign.
https://eliitin-some.fi/@miiamustang/114495332170190839
14 June 2025 is World Blood Donor Day.
"Blood donation is a collective effort and a powerful act of solidarity. By coming together as a community of donors, we ensure a steady and safe blood supply for all who need it.
Anyone, anywhere, who needs a transfusion should have timely access to safe blood."
http…
Caramella Girls - Caramelldansen HD Version (Swedish Original) Official
#NowPlaying
Yes, please. Denny’s? iHop? Hello? #EV
https://insideevs.com/news/760076/waffle-house-bp-pulse/
Street trees unequally distributed across Canada, study finds #Canada
#Cargobike-Menschen aufgemerkt. Heute Abend in #Hamburg (#Oberhafen): Magazin-Veröffentlichungsfest.
#til
The built in calculator app on the iPhone can do all sorts of conversions.
Long-press the icon at bottom left and you get a pop-up menu. Slide the toggle on and the default $ to € currency converter appears. There’s a bazillion other currencies available too. But you can also choose among 15 other unit conversions, like weights, energy, force, pressure.
No worries people, the good news is Hegseth on Defense means it is the weakest departement ever. But shall we stop with the whole "NATO Act", it is clearly gone... Also a small detail, there is no need for a contingency plan because the US already has a large base and military in Greenland. But it fits with Hegseth's absolute stupidity.
"Hegseth says the Pentagon has contingency plans to invade Greenland if necessary"
xAI issues lengthy apology for violent and antisemitic Grok social media posts (Hadas Gold/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/07/12/tech/xai-apology-antisemitic-grok-social-media-posts
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p58#a250712p58
The Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners & reduces benefits for the poor.
☑️ NYTimes: Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/ups…
A White House memo says David Sacks and Craft Ventures are divesting holdings in AI companies and hyperscalers like xAI and Meta (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/13/david-sacks-xai-meta-ai
全脳はちょっと(?)
Arabic news channel Alhurra has replaced its programming with an image accusing the USAGM of illegally withholding Congress-approved funding for its parent MBN (Matthew Keys/The Desk)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/alhurra-calls-out-usagm-funding-cuts/
Three of the new advisers appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to guide the government on immunization policy
took part in lawsuits casting doubt on the safety or efficacy of vaccines,
public records show.
In dismissing all 17 members of an influential Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel on Monday,
Mr. Kennedy cited what he said was a history of conflicts of interest that he claimed made those experts a “rubber stamp” on approving …
How we decreased #GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2025/06/05/how-we-decr…
I don't need a gym. I get fit doing burpees.
It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"[Constellation] Aquila. This is the eagle which is said to have snatched #Ganymede up and given him to his lover, Jove . . . And so it seems to fly above Aquarius, who, as many imagine is Ganymede."
Pseudo-Hyginus, As…
My random PR of the day https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/114673699086891556
"Auto/light/dark mode" for jointhefediverse.net …
Climate change action could dramatically limit rising UK heat wave deaths #UnitedKingdom
Biden Says He Made the Clemency Decisions That Were Recorded With Autopen (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/politics/biden-pardon-autopen-trump.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p57#a250713p57
FL Christian School Teacher Busted In Child Sex Sting - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/fl-christian-school-teacher-busted-in-child-sex-sting/
The Republican megabill now before the Senate cuts taxes for high earners & reduces benefits for the poor.
☑️ NYTimes: Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/12/ups…
President Trump's 2024 financial disclosure report shows he earned ~$57M from his stake in World Liberty Financial and $1.2M from an NFT licensing deal (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/politics/trump-disclosure-cryptocu…
DP ……どきどきポヤッチオだな。
The case of an independent publisher banned from county buildings in Jeff Davis County, Texas, raises questions about who gets to call themselves a journalist (Carlos Nogueras Ramos/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/07/11/we
ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens
Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own -- even if officials have not provided any assurances that the new arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said in a memo this week.
Todd M. Lyons, the acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, wrote in a memo to the ICE workforce We…
Canary, which offers hotel guest management tools, raised an $80M Series D led by Brighton Park Capital, valuing the company at about $600M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/hotel-mana…
Hervé Villechaize was a sex symbol in Munchkinland.
Study reveals the extent to which nanoplastic pollutes the North Atlantic #Atlantic
UnitedHealth's Campaign to Quiet Critics (David Enrich/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/business/unitedhealth-insurance-criticism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V08.FBF6.C3sYCNsGliJe&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p51#a250712p51
Trump ordered to return control of California National Guard to governor
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/trump-guard-california-newsom602riya.html
misskey.cloud、17:00頃からつながらなかったようで、ご迷惑お掛けしました!
メンテは別途予定していますが、ひとまず復帰、安定して動くようになると思います。
Tel Aviv-based Tastewise, which uses gen AI to automate sales and marketing for food and beverage companies, raised a $50M Series B led by Telus Global Ventures (Ryan Barwick/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-de…
WBD plans to shut down its linear multiplex channels HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax, and OuterMax on August 15, 2025; HBO Family launched in December 1996 (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/hbo-is-shutting-do…
Chris Landry has a green card.
Lived in the US since he was 3 years old.
But, "In 2004 and 2007, Landry faced charges of marijuana possession and driving w a suspended license... suspended sentence & paid his fines."
"never thought that that would threaten my status"
https://www.nbcnews.com/ne…
THE NASTIEST PARTS OF YOUR BODY!
You won't believe number 17!
Plastics threaten ecosystems and human health, but evidence‑based solutions are under political fire https://phys.org/news/2025-07-plastics-threaten-ecosystems-human-health.html
Trump warns a strike on Iran 'could very well happen' if no nuclear deal is signed (NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/12/nx-s1-5431758/trump-iran-strike-nuclear
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p162#a250612p162
Israel attacks Iran, targeting nuclear program with airstrikes
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/israels-defense-minister-announces-special-situation-after-israeli-attack-on-iran.html
Source: Ramp raised $200M led by Founders Fund, valuing the startup at $16B, up from $13B in March, when it conducted a $150M share sale (Emily Mason/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-13/ramp-hits-16-b…
Every tenth of a degree matters; each increment of global warming will bring a relatively larger increase in adverse societal and ecological impacts than the last.
https://mastoreader.io/?url=https:%2F/c.im/@cdarwin/114843468388096178
Byron Allen settles with McDonald's over his $10B 2021 lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of racial stereotyping in its ads budget; terms were not disclosed (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sus…
Andrew Cuomo set to run as an independent in NYC mayoral race -- but there's a catch (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/07/13/us-news/andrew-cuomo-set-to-run-as-independent-in-nyc-mayoral-race/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p55#a250713p55
Sources: Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans to cut ties with the company after the Meta deal; Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI also plan to step back (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/google-scal…
Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday, with explosions booming across Tehran as Israel said it targeted nuclear and military sites.
The attack comes as tensions have reached new heights over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Israel is targeting Iran’s nuclear sites:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel targeted Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz and the country’s ballistic missile program,
as well as top nuclear scientists…
Trump ordered to return control of California National Guard to governor (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/trump-guard-california-newsom602riya.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p160#a250612p160
Cloud computing startup Crusoe plans to buy ~$400M worth of AI chips from AMD to rent to customers for its US data center that will come online by fall (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/neocloud-c…
The National Institutes of Health is responsible for more than 80% of the world’s grant investment in biomedical research.
Its funding has sparked countless medical breakthroughs
— on cancer, diabetes, strokes
— and plays a fundamental role in the development of pharmaceutical drugs.
Scientists compete vigorously for a slice of the more than $30 billion that the agency doles out annually;
they can spend years assembling grant applications that stretch thousand…
Grok Chatbot Mirrored X Users' 'Extremist Views' in Antisemitic Posts, xAI Says (Kate Conger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/technology/x-ai-grok-antisemitism.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p49#a250712p49
Ellipsis Health, which developed an AI voice agent to check in on patients between doctor visits, raised a $45M Series A led by Salesforce, Khosla, and CVS (Brian Gormley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
The "Delicate, Beautiful, Tiny" Fascism of Kristi Noem (Inae Oh/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/kristi-noem-lamonica-mciver/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p152#a250613p152
Current and former employees of OpenAI have sold nearly $3B worth of shares in tender offers since 2021, with $1.5B going to SoftBank alone (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-employees-cashed-3-bil…
There has been an increase of arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since Trump began his second term,
with reports of raids across the country.
-- Yet the majority of people currently detained by ICE have no criminal convictions.
Of those who do, relatively few have been convicted of high-level crimes
— a stark contrast to the chilling nightmare Trump describes to support his border security agenda.
“There’s a deep disconnect between the rhetoric …
When a radical performance artist has command of an army (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/06/12/when-a-radical-performance-artist-has-command-of-an-army
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p150#a250613p150
Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm (Justin Weinberg/Daily Nous)
https://dailynous.com/2025/07/12/philosophy-professor-reportedly-assaulted-abducted-during-ice-raid-on-farm/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p40#a250713p40
Trump Withdraws From Agreement With Tribes to Protect Salmon (Chris Cameron/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/us/politics/trump-withdraws-from-agreement-with-tribes-to-protect-salmon.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p159#a250612p159
Trump Pleads With Followers to Back Bondi in Dispute Over Epstein Inquiry (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/us/politics/trump-bondi-epstein-bongino.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WE8.RFDy.jjKymSGwUuDS&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p60#a250712p60
ICE memo outlines plan to deport migrants to countries where they are not citizens (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/12/immigrants-deportations-trump-ice-memo/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p62#a250712p62
Gov. Hobbs demands inquiry into federal response to Grand Canyon Lodge fire (Perry Vandell/Arizona Republic)
https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2025/07/13/hobbs-inquiry-north-rim-fire/85145940007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p56#a250713p56
Tigers players aren't worried about deportation but union suggests they carry documents (Carlos Monarrez/Detroit Free Press)
https://eu.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2025/07/13/tigers-arent-worried-about-deportation-but-told-to-carry-documents/84507852007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p59#a250713p59
REGARDING THE PROPOSED ACQUISITION OF UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION BY NIPPON STEEL CORPORATION (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/regarding-the-proposed-acquisition-of-the-united-states-steel-corporation-by-nippon-steel-corporation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p153#a250613p153