
2025-08-10 09:23:04
LGND, which uses vector embeddings to analyze geospatial data and has an enterprise app to query it, raised a $9M seed led by Javelin Venture Partners (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/lgnd-wants-to-make-chatgpt-for-the-earth/
Something I've seen over and over, the constant claim of right-wing politicians that they're "just joking" about killing people put into better words than I could:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/right-progressive-societies-joke-glastonbury-starve-benefit-rod-liddle-lewis-schaffer
Zelensky urges US senators to 'increase sanctions pressure on Russia': https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/zelensky-urges-us-senators-to.html
The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe,
according to new research.
Cosmologists at Durham University used a new technique combining the highest-resolution supercomputer simulations that exist,
alongside novel mathematical modeling, to predict the existence of missing "orphan" galaxies.
“Reoccupying Gaza is not a strategy, it’s a strategic and moral dead-end”, says Peter Lerner, former English-language spokesperson for the IDF
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-reoccupying-gaza-is-not-a-strategy-its-a-…
"Demissionair minister Femke Wiersma van Landbouw (BBB) heeft „misbruik gemaakt van haar bevoegdheden” door de publicatie van uitstootgegevens van veehouderijen te blokkeren. „Het handelen van de minister kan niet anders worden begrepen dan een actie om de openbaarmaking van de gevraagde emissiegegevens te vertragen”, schrijft de rechtbank Overijssel donderdagochtend in een uitspraak."
Israel kills the press before moving into Gaza City.
https://flipboard.com/@aljazeera/middle-east-news-oapkqap7z/-/a-SK8JM-PRQIqGrxquKaWwhw:a:3199698-/0
Going from: "I wanted the computer to do this well-defined task, and it did it, and saved me some time because I can verify that what it did is aligned with my intent, and correct."
Going to: "I asked the computer random stuff and I'm 'obeying' without knowing why or how the output came about. I don't care much about understanding my own will anymore as long as the software says 'AI' on the label."
now that I’ve got one to replace my rusty old TS3, you may know that the CalDigit TS5 is back in stock in Europe again: https://shop.caldigit.com/eu/Docking-Stations?product_id=226
been loving the deep jams of the motherfuckers jmb & co. album, featuring brian/geologist from animal collective on wild hurdy-gurdy.
profile: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/768378/from-gwar-to-…
How fucking amazing is #OBS ?
If you've ever used it, bung them some money here:
https://obsproject.com/contribute
2025-26 Fantasy Football Rankings Week 2 https://profootballmania.com/2025/09/09/2025-26-fantasy-football-rankings-week-2/
Hi friends of research software 👋
The @… is running a free workshop on test-driven development on Monday.
https://events.digital-research.academ
Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza (Al Jazeera)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/10/al-jazeera-journalist-anas-al-sharif-killed-in-israeli-attack-in-gaza-city
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p59#a250810p59
All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can’t get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.
-- IBM maintenance manual, 1925
Been playing this game I dig on the Android tablet called Dungeon Raid. It's a card flipping dungeon crawler (the dev calls it an 'adventure card roguelike') that's fairly easy to figure out-- lots of strategy and replayability. At first, you can start out playing as either a knight or a vampire, delving down, trying not to die of hunger.
If a relic in a game you can choose is a fried egg, you can probably assume it's a game for me.
There's also Linux, M…
My first submission to OEIS, although mostly the work by Markus Krötzsch.
https://oeis.org/A387334
Robust spatial hearing beyond primary interaural cues in humans over deep neural networks #neuroscience
A book excerpt details how the US animal agriculture industry helped create "ag-gag" laws criminalizing undercover journalism exposing factory farm abuses (Will Potter/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/poli
Wishing my wife good luck with that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BohXQF4dWT0
So, the #Austrian Parliament ignores all expert opinion and ratifies a law to allow #statetrojan #spyware to be bought and used, making the whole population less safe while spending tax money on…
Es muy poco probable que el candidato Kast se pronuncie en contra de la desinformación política en redes sociales puesto que una parte importante de su propia campaña presidencial se basa en mentiras. Como lo de la nota 👇🏻
https://www.
Kiez-Momente: Unter Krähen https://weddingweiser.de/kiez-momente-unter-kraehen/
Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/missouri-governor-repeals-paid-sick-leave-law-approved-last-year-by-voters
Merz will mit Trump telefonieren - Hoffen auf Ergebnisse in Alaska
Bundeskanzler Merz hat angekündigt, noch heute mit US-Präsident Trump zu telefonieren. Das teilte er in einem Interview mit den tagesthemen mit. Hintergrund ist das Treffen Trumps mit dem russischen Präsidenten Putin in Alaska. "Wir bereiten uns intensiv auf europäischer Ebene zusammen mit der amerikanischen Regierung auf dieses Tref…
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It's not quite what the second amendment was meant for, but a lot closer than school children.
A machine learns how to bid in the day-ahead power market https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325005006 @…
In balance news, I manage to calibrate my not-quite-a-trackstand for e-assist and trailer, and I am pretty chuffed. It's helpful to be able to just stop the load and restart it without all that on-and-off-the bike stuff, so, practice, practice, practice. It can be done.
And also, fucking hell, are cars noisy. It's wild that people just accept that. E-cars, too.
GIMLET – Harming One or Another, Who is Keeping Count?
#ambient
Who Says You Can't?!
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I was reflecting that it's about 40 years since I last studied the history of economic thought (at least formally), but also that a lot of it has stayed with me, if faded and incompletely remembered. I idly wondered what I should read to repair the wear, and came across this little gem pointing to some key texts, from Avner Offer https:/…
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Omri:
🎵 Nothing Wrong
#Omri
https://crosstownrebels.bandcamp.com/track/nothing-wrong
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iplrJUdhVjYgAjZGINro8
O pior de tudo? O pior de tudo é que não sopra a porra duma aragem.
Geologist position #NorthDakota Geological Survey, for subsurface #geology, Williston Basin. "Research on oil & gas related topics with opportunities to engage in geothermal, carbon sequestration, and critical minerals projects."
Closing date: July 23, 2025.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Wolf, Beethoven and Schubert at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg
The Modigliani Quartet, with cellist Clemens Hagen, perform Wolf's Italian Serenade, Beethoven's String Quartet No 3 and Schubert's String Quintet in C major.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002hxkm
I think I've almost got #fireflies figured out -- here's a #workinprogress; I gotta go back with my $2 tripod since my Manofrotto is still in pieces since that time I was using it with the ring flash in the studio and it exploded in a fit of paranoia; I think Lenny just cut the ha…
tax prayer
Free stops for self contained RVs are a controversial topic in WA. Some shires have removed stops while others have added facilities. Last night I stopped in the free camp in Norseman which is gaining a good reputation among RVers. About 20 vans there last night.#RoadTrip
Sources: Meta offered Ruoming Pang a $200M pay package over a several-year period in line with Meta's other major AI hires; Apple didn't try to match the offer (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Ugh, they're banning[1] self-importing sunscreens from Europe and Asia. I can only use like one specific Japanese sunscreen that doesn't have crap in it that I'm allergic to.
I guess because freedom and small government or something. /s
[1] https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USDHSCBP/bulletins/3e8b084
Anti-corruption detective charged with graft as conflict with security service escalates: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/anticorruption-detective-charged-with-graft.html
“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,”
Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Sunday morning,
shortly after being driven from the White House to his golf club in Virginia.
“We will give you places to stay,
but FAR from the Capital.”
Trump’s post promoted a previously announced news conference on Monday,
which he has promised,
“will, essentially, stop violent crime” in the capital district,
without explaining how.
In a subsequen…
Habt ihr das schöne Wort „denklogisch“ auch schon in den aktiven Wortschatz übernommen? Für mich die einzige Kleinigkeit an der furchtbaren Brosius-Gersdorf-Sache, die mich nachhaltig bereichert hat.
i know there's many all-stars to choose from but my favorite german word remains Steuererstattung
President Says Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names (Tony Romm/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/10/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.N08.mw9N.6ggFTU9fMYw1&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p3#a250611p3
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,836 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.05 %
Die Geschichte der Versöhnungs-Privatstraße in der Hussitenstraße https://weddingweiser.de/die-geschichte-der-versoehnungs-privatstrasse-in-der-hussitenstrasse/
Rubio fordert Plan zur Beendigung des Ukraine-Kriegs
US-Außenminister Marco Rubio fordert nach einem Treffen mit seinem russischen Amtskollegen Sergej Lawrow einen Fahrplan zur Beendigung des Ukraine-Krieges. Er sprach von einem "offenen und wichtigen Gespräch", in dem er die Enttäuschung von US-Präsident Donald Trump über die mangelnde Flexibilität Russlands übermittelt habe, sagt Rubio in der malaysischen Hauptstadt Kuala L…
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Sources: SoftBank has selected banks for a potential US IPO of its payments app operator PayPay, which may raise over $2B and could take place as soon as Q4 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/softbank-selects-…
On The Couch
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I love Hugo, particularly the idea that I can blitz my entire blog tree with an "rm -rf blog/*" and then restore it with a single line of commands.
Giants vs. Bills odds, predictions, time: No. 1 expert gives free 2025 NFL preseason picks for Saturday
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-
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Ill Considered:
🎵 Satori
#IllConsidered
https://open.spotify.com/track/243Udu1OdrppShRCEoLZk8
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sudan Archives:
🎵 MY TYPE
#SudanArchives
https://sudanarchives.bandcamp.com/track/my-type
https://open.spotify.com/track/3G16TkmTpBp8FyDkgev4Dc
AP is ending its weekly book reviews, beginning Sept. 1.
This was a difficult decision but one made after a thorough review of AP’s story offerings
and what is being most read on our website and mobile apps as well as what customers are using.
Unfortunately, the audience for book reviews is relatively low and we can no longer sustain the time it takes to plan, coordinate, write and edit reviews.
AP will continue covering books as stories, but at the moment those will …
I've got such a backlog of photos: April 13 I took almost 1000 photos including this game at Booth Field and then getting in the mud with daffodils by the commercial strip and the next few days were a flurry of sakuras. Got the best loaded into DxO, here's № 23 Marty Coyne of the Penn Quakers in the middle of sweeping the Big Red
#photo
you know you’re on mastodon when someone posts about accepting imperfections to be a stronger movement and half of the replies are complaining about the moral imperfection of the post https://hachyderm.io/@haubles/115169969055033272
Oh wow, if you ask Grok something it asks the great Elon Musk for guidance....😆
(Source : #grok
The US Senate confirms Jonathan Gould to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Gould was previously the chief legal officer at Bitfury (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/362071/senate-confirm…
Charlie Kirk's honorable legacy of civil discourse (Brad Polumbo/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3802057/charlie-kirks-honorable-legacy-of-civil-discourse/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p145#a250910p145
No Laughing Matter
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Donald Trump threatens a federal takeover of the nation’s capital.
The FBI has begun dispatching about 120 of its agents in overnight shifts to help prevent carjackings and violent crime in Washington, according to two people familiar with the matter,
Trump, who plans a news conference at the White House on Monday on this topic,
compared the forthcoming action against D.C. crime to his administration’s aggressive crackdown against illegal immigration at the southern border…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Nükhet Ruacan:
🎵 Gögle
#NükhetRuacan
https://open.spotify.com/track/5oJaPIVbINrW7PnuPa8KWa
now i really want to try Cheddar Bay biscuits https://mas.to/@carnage4life/114830335171951140
Ultimate Fantasy Football Cheat Sheet: Print. Draft. Win https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45926862/2025-fantasy-football-cheat-sheet-draft-tips-sleepers-busts
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Loaded Honey:
🎵 Don’t Speak
#LoadedHoney
https://cavi.bandcamp.com/track/loaded-honey-dont-speak-cavi-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2sKjOX72UX1HiCDhI2HdlR
Panic after Charlie Kirk shot at Utah Valley University (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/video/panic-after-charlie-kirk-shot-at-utah-valley-university/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250910/p146#a250910p146
Women On The Verge
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
Hey, team! Zoë here, Executive Director of Contest Every Race
(the only organization dedicated to putting Democrats on every ballot, in every race, at scale).
That’s no small feat, because Democrats 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 in over half of U.S. elections.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿, 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝟯𝟳-𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗴𝗮𝗽
— 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀,
𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹-𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁.
I can tell y…
"Benchmarked against real-world case records published each week in the New England Journal of Medicine, we show that the Microsoft AI Diagnostic Orchestrator (MAI-DxO) correctly diagnoses up to 85% of NEJM case proceedings, a rate more than four times higher than a group of experienced physicians. MAI-DxO also gets to the correct diagnosis more cost-effectively than physicians."
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Led Bib:
🎵 Iron Ore
#LedBib
https://open.spotify.com/track/430WX5xG62SNnkHs1knP8E
NFL fines Eagles DT Jalen Carter $57,222 for spitting on Cowboys QB Dak Prescott https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-fines-eagles-dt-jalen-carter-57-222-for-spitting-on-cowboys-qb-dak-prescott
Intel CEO Singled Out by Trump to Visit White House on Monday (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-ceo-singled-out-by-trump-to-visit-white-house-on-monday-10e482af?st=2Lim4C&reflink=article_copyURL_share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p58#a250810p58
Cybercriminals are using AI to execute highly targeted attacks at scale, causing people to unwittingly send money and sensitive information or simply open themselves up to theft.
Hackers are now able to rent generative AI large language models created in the underground cybercrime community to help formulate text-based scams.
But just as generative AI is enhancing and scaling social engineering attacks, so too is it giving defenders a leg up.
Benny Asking People Questions
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Hermeto Pascoal:
🎵 Música da Lagoa
#HermetoPascoal
https://open.spotify.com/track/55Cp1NZP8tDRDgKF2RTEew
Jaguars say Travis Hunter will play more on defense Sunday against Bengals https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6617841/2025/09/10/jaguars-travis-hunter-more-defense-bengals/
Democrats have been completely unable to mount an opposition,
but Vermont's Independent Senator Bernie Sanders is drawing record crowds with his
"Fighting Oligarchy Tour."
Six months into Trump's second term, his quest to remake America rolls along, highlighted by the passage last week of his sweeping domestic policy bill
- despite polls showing it's unpopular with most Americans.
The Future Report
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A former Justice Department official is warning of a
🔥wave of retribution inside the agency.
Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors' offices, told CBS News,
"The rules don't exist anymore."
Hartman, who was fired Monday via a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
is the fourth person connected to the agency's work on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots to be terminated in the past month.
The FinTech Report
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Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election,
has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature
https://www.scmp.com/wee…
So sad to hear the news about @… just now. Always such a stalwart proponent of indie podcasting.
It’s exactly four weeks ago today that the Jeffrey Epstein story broke,
or re-broke in its current form.
On Friday, July 11, the world learned of the tense meeting that took place at the White House that previous Wednesday,
in which FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino clashed with Attorney General Pam Bondi over the handling of the Epstein files.
Bongino was so incensed that he didn’t go to work that Friday
and threatened to resign.
He has, at least for now…
People Want Ducks
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