
2025-08-19 05:04:00
Multiplier, which acquires accounting services firms and scales them with AI, raised $27.5M across a seed and Series A, with the latter led by Lightspeed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/mult
Bram Cohen on algorithms for determining the winner in ranked-choice voting: More complicated than you might think.
https://bramcohen.com/p/variants-on-instant-runoff
Kimmel, on his show: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
Trump regime: We may sue ABC for that.
Walt Disney's ABC: Wait, wait, we're firing him already.
Laut einer Umfrage befürwortet eine Mehrheit der Deutschen (Staatsbürger? In Deutschland wohnende mit oder ohne Aufenthaltsstatus? Deutsche Staatsbürger, die in der Schweiz wohnen oder in Malta oder Dubai?) ein SozialMedia-Verbot für Kinder (Kinder? Also bis zum 14. Geburtstag?) haben will.
Diese Befragten sind ja auch Eltern, also Erziehungsberechtigte von Kindern. Die sorgen dann doch sicher dafür, dass ihre eigenen Kinder bereits jetzt kein SocialMedia verwenden. Es ist technisch garnich…
“Is it an accident that polling this week shows him with the lowest approval ratings he’s had this term? Or that 1 in 4 Trump voters now regret their vote or are disappointed in his performance?
No. It’s not. Americans are turning on him—it’s a fact…one thing nearly all Americans agree on is that speech must not be censored. These attacks are going to backfire. They already are.”
茶々が何か訴えかけるときはコレです。なんか鳴きます。
#chacha_cat #cat
@… ist einfach dreimal mehr Rock n‘ Roll als ich!
https://mastodon.social/@dasnuf/114870073223503954
If you've watched a YouTube video in the last few years, you know this is going to work. 😂 Who isn't holding their microphone these days? https://www.threads.com/@chriswelch/post/DOvmOquDkIa
blame Iran, or something https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114708489569380526
»Cracking bcrypt: New-gen hardware speeds up password hacking«
Personally, I prefer Argon2id and yescript. I assume that these are more secure than the bcrypt, which is outdated in my opinion, but which is still running on servers very often today.
🔓 https://specopssoft…
Wadephul verlangt von Putin Zustimmung zu Waffenstillstand
Außenminister Johann Wadephul verlangt von Kremlchef Putin als Voraussetzung für das angestrebte Zweiertreffen mit dem ukrainischen Präsidenten Selenskyj die Zustimmung zu einem Waffenstillstand. Nach dem konstruktiven Treffen von US-Präsident Trump mit Selenskyj, Kanzler Merz und anderen europäischen Staats- und Regierungschefs im Weißen Ha…
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'Gonna get his wish': Top Dem warns Trump to get 'wonderful secrets' spilled - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/msn/trump-epstein-2673355461/
I'm so old I remember when some people claimed the iPad would save print journalism.
Raus in die Welt mit dem #Kundenglücklichmachungsposteinlieferungsgeräusch!
Timmermans over onze bijdrage aan internationaal recht. 🎯🎯🎯
Debat Direct
https://debatdirect.tweedekamer.nl/2025-09-18/financien/plenaire-zaal/algemene-politieke-besc…
How to use the #SKA to observe air shower radio emission and figure out where the #CosmicRays actually come from. #ag2025goerlitz
CEO Meredith Kopit Levien says the NYT will "not be cowed" by Trump's $15B lawsuit, which she calls meritless, accusing him of enacting an "anti-press playbook" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a2b3b54b-73b4-45b4-a1cb-73cadce46d60
#NowPlaying for some wakeup music - The Cars' masterpiece from 1984, 'Heartbeat City'.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQxo8OvVvJ1UqHvsuYGZXb…
Die von #Dürre betroffenen Flächen weltweit haben sich in den letzten 120 Jahren verdoppelt.
Laut #OECD ist der #Klimawandel der Haupttreiber. Häufigere
Weekend Reads
* IPv6 adoption measurement https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11678
* Starlink capacity analysis https://
Saw this guy a few days ago. Just a few houses up 🦉
Then last night I hear this screech again from our upstairs bedroom window. So I use the Merlin app to identify it as a Great Horned Owl. Then I played the various sounds and learned that this is a juvenile doing a "begging call", which is a raspy screeching sound young owls use to solicit food from their parents.
Kids, man. They always need something.
Jacob Audrey Taves – for now we can be happy we are not on fire
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2025/06/18/jacob-audrey-taves-for-now-we-can-be-happy-we-are-not-on-fire/
Calamus 37 A leaf for hand in hand!
I continue to have little patience for these Whitman entreaties to American unity. The recitation of place names does little for me. But I do appreciate that he's talking more about loving unity between men than some abstract political message.
You friendly boatmen and mechanics! You roughs! ...
I wish to infuse myself among you till I see it common for you to walk hand in hand.
That's the gay part there. It's pretty mild, but still seems striking of talking about two boatmen or mechanics walking holding hands. One might even see an appeal to rough trade.
I am beginning to understand this Whitman concept of "adhesiveness", a brotherly love that could unify a nation. I still prefer a more sexual gay reading but I think his poems work in both ways.
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LOL!
I'd also be protesting if I were Malaysian. 😂
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/114875349534575720
Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been cancelled | The New Disney | LUBACH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX-BQAjeE
> Jimmy Kimmel’s show has been cancelled by Disney because everything now has to go the way Trump wants. Everything has to become MAGA. And if you look at Disn...
NPR: After meeting Putin, Trump changes his position on the need for a ceasefire
#resist
Frage an die Bundespost-Fernmelder unter euch: Von Bell gab es eine ganze Weile lang das "Bell System Technical Journal", in dem verschiedenste Details von Kommunikation auf einem sehr technischen Level beschrieben sind (https://archive.org/search?query=bell system technic…
Vor Flickr: Wie wir unsere Bilder geteilt haben – https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4413-Vor-Flickr-Wie-wir-unsere-Bilder-geteilt-haben.html
#idw Book Launch: Handbuch #Gaming & #Rechtsextremismus https://…
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„Touch The Sky“ by Luisa
Platform: 3D Render
Released: 16 August 2025
Note: 1st in the Evoke 2025 3D Scene competition
#GFX_Luisa #YR_2025 #PF_3DRender
reading LLM-generated code is exhausting. locally plausible, globally incoherent, and most of the problems with it are uncanny mistakes that humans don't make
Lehrerin ist über 15 Jahre krankgeschrieben, will aber nicht zum Amtsarzt https://www.lawblog.de/archives/2025/08/19/lehrerin-ist-ueber-15-jahre-krankgeschrieben-will-aber-nicht-zum-amtsarzt/
heise | Austauschen statt wegwerfen: Powerbanks mit Wechselakkus im Test
Streikt die Powerbank, landet sie meist im Schrott. Nachhaltiger gehts mit einer leicht zu öffnenden Powerbank für 18650-Akkus.
http…
@… Der posiert ja auch auf Fotos mit Nazis weil er zufällig deren Shirtaufschriften nicht gelesen hat.
Scam industry is BIG. Holly s**t.🤯
Be carefull both online and offline.
"The Police in India once raided a single building and found more than 700 employees..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0pyBisfisc
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #EasternEchoes
KIRINJI:
🎵 Sing and Play
#KIRINJI
https://open.spotify.com/track/3gozL69LP9IA9mIGgMEtX7
Sources: at least six of China's biggest VC firms are targeting a combined $2B in new USD-denominated funds to allow overseas investment in Chinese startups (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-18/chi…
Interesting… but why is this at the browser level instead of OS level? 🤔 #Chrome…
jdk: Java SE Dev Kit dependencies (1.6.0.7)
A network of class dependencies within the JDK (Java SE Development Kit) 1.6.0.7 framework. Nodes represent classes and a directed edge indicates a dependency of one class on another.
This network has 6434 nodes and 150985 edges.
Tags: Technological, Software, Unweighted, Multigraph
https://
Linux/Freedesktop, or as I recently started to call it Linux Freedesktop
Replaced article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[2/3]:
- Uncertainty-Aware Adaptation of Large Language Models for Protein-Protein Interaction Analysis
Jantre, Wang, Park, Chopra, Jeon, Qian, Urban, Yoon
Creating Through Limitations – Scales of Creation
#CreativeProcess #composing
https://mu…
Single-file HTML apps – Hyperclay
Experience the Zen of making, hosting, and sharing great software in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file
🐞 #web
Zwei weitere Festival Bookings bestätigt! 🤩😍 #darkkband
Trump und von der Leyen zur Notlage von Kindern
US-Präsident Donald Trump und EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen haben über das Schicksal der im Ukraine-Krieg verschleppten Kinder gesprochen. Jedes einzelne von Russland entführte ukrainische Kind müsse zu seiner Familie zurückkehren, schrieb von der Leyen auf dem Kurznachrichtendienst X nach einem Treffen mit Trump in Washington.
Der US-Präsident sprach auf seine…
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Sources: Vy Capital, which has ~$15B of AUM and is a top backer of Elon Musk's companies, told external investors that it will not raise further outside money (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a33f7366-d8a1-4bb9-a175-e8daa2381d6b
Indeed it does.
Just tested it. Not entirely accurate, but it does hide some stuff.
https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/114875173097890841
montreal: Montreal street gangs (2007)
Network representing relationships between gangs, obtained from Montreal Police’s central intelligence database, spanning 2004 to 2007. Nodes are gangs, and an edge represents some kind of relationship between two gangs (as elicited from interviews with gang members).
This network has 35 nodes and 78 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
MI6 launched Silent Courier, an online portal hosted on the dark web designed to let potential spies from Russia and elsewhere communicate with UK intelligence (Alex Wickham/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
How the #Perseids 2025 performed: global activity profiles from two video networks and radio echos place a single pretty pronounced peak around 23:00 and 18:00 UTC on 12 August, respectively, perhaps probing different dust populations. Visual data (not shown) have the peak around 21:00 UTC but nearly level activity until 2:00 UTC on 13 August: see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-4-august-2025/#Aug16 for the sources and more numbers.
Videokonferenz der EU-Staats- und Regierungschefs nach Ukraine-Gipfel
Nach dem Ukraine-Gipfel in Washington findet heute eine Videokonferenz der EU-Staats- und Regierungschefs statt. Das von EU-Ratspräsident António Costa einberufene virtuelle Treffen soll um 13 Uhr beginnen. In der Videokonferenz soll über den Verlauf der Ukraine-Gespräche in Washington beraten werden.
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Das Milliardenspiel: 25 Jahre UMTS-Auktion
Vor 25 Jahren ging die Auktion der deutschen UMTS-Frequenzen mit einem bis heute unerreichten Rekordergebnis zu Ende. Nur der Finanzminister war richtig happy.
https://www.…
Sometimes I wish I could snoop the IPs of some of the people that follow me. Pretty sure they are not who they say they are.
Kingston Community Energy (2012) - Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Worm Is Green:
🎵 Love Will Tear Us Apart
#WormIsGreen
https://wormisgreen.bandcamp.com/track/love-will-tear-us-apart
https://open.spotify.com/track/41wsXDGrM9AIriyXK5whaY
LA-based Lingokids, an interactive learning app for kids aged 2-8, raised $120M led by Bullhound Capital and General Catalyst to help expand its IP partnerships (Dean Takahashi/GamesBeat)
https://gamesbeat.com/lingokids-raises-120m-for-interactive-learning-…
Bayern will ab 2026 weitere Wasserstoffzüge testen
Wasserstoff gilt als Energieträger der Zukunft. Im Bahnbetrieb wird auch in Bayern ein Wasserstoffzug getestet, weitere sollen folgen.
https://www.
Australien liefert 49 "Abrams"-Panzer an Ukraine
Die australische Regierung hat der Ukraine eigenen Angaben zufolge 49 "Abrams"-Panzer im Wert von 245 Millionen australischen Dollar (160 Millionen US-Dollar) geliefert. "'Die M1A1 Abrams'-Panzer werden einen bedeutenden Beitrag zum laufenden Kampf der Ukraine gegen die illegale und unmoralische Invasion Russlands leisten", sagte Verteidigungsminister…
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Nina Simone's is still the best version of this.
But this one isn't too far back, to be honest.
#music
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Pond:
🎵 The Weather
#Pond
https://themightyweather.bandcamp.com/track/footprints
Really?
Well well well, we do know what really matters, don't we?
https://mastodon.bot/@trending/115046493048172210