Tootfinder

Tracxn: VC funding for Indian startups fell 17% YoY to $10.5B in 2025 across 1,518 deals, down ~39% YoY; AI startups raised $643M, up 4% YoY, across 100 deals (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/india-startu…

India startup funding hits $11B in 2025 as investors grow more selective | TechCrunch
Startup funding rounds in India fell sharply in 2025 as investors concentrated capital into fewer companies.

Ukraine says it struck 2 Russian radar stations, launch pad for missile system, HUR releases video: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/ukraine-says-it-struck-russian.html

In which I write about the pretty-awesome experience of attending the MLS quarter-final game with my son and 53,095 other good friends, and how getting interested in fútbol has had the side-effect that I’ve lost most of my interest in football (as in NFL). https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/20<…

When you are an Android developer, you finally get a Xmas in October:
https://mastodon.social/@airspeedswift/115431245077158642

No idea what the Kagi crawler does but it has been caught by iocaine ;)
EDIT: It wasn't the Kagi crawler but the Google crawler ;)

Über eine queer anti fascist protest metal band gestolpert. Danke Algorithmus. https://www.hawxx.co.uk/music

@… @… 🙌

So there is a delivery company in Norway called Helthjem, which means something like all the way home or completely home. The idea being that so many delivery companies here actually fail to deliver to you home and make you pick up from a drop off point.
They just send me this text:
Hi! The package from GPN cannot be delivered to your home. It is being sent to Linderud Flower shop. You will be notified when it can be picked up. Tracking number: [redacted] Regards, Helthjem

[BLOG] Ranttime – Weißware: Anleitung vs. Realität https://www.adlerweb.info/blog/2025/12/28/ranttime-weissware-anleitung-vs-realitaet/

#Caturday Mother and kitten (in foreground) have settled in well at our daughter’s house. Kitten is super friendly but mother has taken a long time to start to be sociable. Both came from Kitten Kornher Rescue in Boulder Creek California earlier this year.

"Guardian Essential poll: only a quarter of older Australians believe climate change can be prevented"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

I was called "one of our SecurityChampions" today because I started to ask questions...
Seems I asked the right questions.
#work

Weihnachten in #Minecraft: Hier kann man die altehrwüdige Cansteinsche #Bibel Gesellschaft #Berlin bei diesem innovativen Konzept unterstützen

Weihnachten in Minecraft: Online-Gottesdienste am 4. Advent
Um den 4. Advent erleben wir die Weihnachtsgeschichte in Minecraft. Eine ehrenamtliche Community gestaltet die Online-Gottesdienste im beliebten Computerspiel. Unterstützen Sie dieses Projekt und ermöglichen ein himmlisches Erlebnis für alle.

Testimony from an Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC) Survivor https://buddhism-controversy-blog.com/2017/10/29/testimony-from-an-ogyen-kunsang-choling-okc-survivor/

Testimony from an Ogyen Kunzang Choling (OKC) Survivor
The following comment was posted by a Buddhist as a comment after having shared Ben’s powerpoint presentation “40 Years of Abuse in the Name of Dharma by ex-OKC born-kids” on Facebook. Ben wh…

Haymarket Books has ebooks on sale for $2 until Nov. 7. Some of my favorite books published by them are:
Abolish Rent: on the potential of tenant organizing
Let This Radicalize You: a guide to activism over the long haul
No Cop City, No Cop World: lessons from Atlanta's Cop City fight
Perfect Victims: unpacks anti-Palestinian narratives you may not realize you've internalized

Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe that collective study plays a crucial role in sustaining engaged, effective, and durable left-wing organizations and communities. To that end, we aim to make our books accessible to anyone who might find them valuable. Until Friday, November 7th, ALL Haymarket ebooks are 80% Off. That means …

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Windräder schreddern eine riesige Anzahl an Vögeln“.
#Windräder können

Fakten statt Furcht: 8 Mythen der Windenergie-Gegner entlarvt
Windräder machen krank? Vögel in Gefahr? Entdecke den Faktencheck zu allen gängigen Vorurteilen und diskutiere künftig auf Augenhöhe.

While I love Man on the Inside I am sad a show about Private Investigators doesn't spend any time shitting on corrupt police work.
#tv

We have labeled the band-aids/gauze. Pray we do not label it any further.
[#BikeTooter, I guess?]

Pfft!
“#pastpuzzle 181
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x/4 🟥” https://www.pastpuzzle.de/

I do not doomscroll. I choomscroll

I have started adding IFWI parsing capabilities.
@… 👀

A rave from the grave (2009) here!
https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-UK-policy-modelling-tool.html
I think I was asked by David Mackay to think about this stuff, but did not run with it...

On a Possible UK Policy Modelling Tool (2009)
What-Ifs and Goal-Seeking for policy makers and the rest of us in the UK?

❓ Ihr beratet Forschende im Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM) – sei es als Helpdesk-Mitarbeitende, FDM-Beratende oder Data Steward an einer deutschen Einrichtung? Dann seid ihr genau die Richtigen für diese Umfrage!
🤝 Die Arbeitsgruppe „FDM-Helpdesk-Netzwerk“, verfolgt das Ziel, bestehende FDM-Helpdesks und Beratungsstellen zu vernetzen:

»Wenn Sie nicht wissen, was die Bedürfnisse der Nutzenden sind, werden Sie nicht das Richtige für deren Bedürfnisse entwickeln.«
Quelle: Leitfaden Nutzererlebnis Portalverbund, herausgegeben vom IT-Planungsrat der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Es geht darin um Verwaltungsdienstleistungen für Bürger:

Weihnachten für Seeleute in Stade:
Saxophon - Weihnachtsmann - Geschenke
Wir sind für Seeleute da. Weihnachten und das ganze Jahr.

@… De Marga. Is u vandaag op de WordCamps? Zullen we effekes een kletsje maken?

Ich wünsche euch ganz viel Spaß auf dem #39c3

#pastpuzzle 207
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https://www.pastpuzzle.de

I guess the last programme of the Archers is George taking out the entire village with an automatic rifle and some homemade Mills bombs.
#TheArchers

Donner c’est facile et … c’est la saison !
https://dons.wikimedia.fr/ @…

Bin neulich hinter einem Auto mit dem Aufkleber „Self-Driving Vehicle“ gefahren.
Bevor ich das Schildchen gesehen hatte, dachte ich noch: „Unsicherer Fahrer.“
Und natürlich musste ich den überholen, um zu sehen, ob da ein Geist am Steuer sitzt.
Wurde enttäuscht, tja.

Bądź tym typem człowieka, który zwróci uwagę na niewłaściwą gwarę u bohatera dowcipu.

Harley and Casper hanging out in the dining room waiting for their 9 pm ish snack. Normally, they aren't within 10 feet of each other, but food brings families together.
#DogsOfMastadon #CatsOfMastadon

Okay Shutterstock, I get the sentiment, but isn't it too much to suggest "animals in the wild" as a keyword for a photo of human crowd at the presidential rally, eh?

I am trying to transfer a 30G Database from one server to another using mariabackup, mbstream and #socat. The transfer rate is pretty bad when I start the whole thing with #ansible, but it seems like I'm getting okayisch transfer rates if I copy the commands from the ansible files and run them by hand. Is t…

Headed to Vienna via train. We were unsure where on the platform for our carriage. To the horror a of my 27 & 29 year olds, I asked an OBB agent. Now we are waiting in the approximate correct place on the platform.
A) this info should be more accessible/ prominent
B) I worry a bit about my kids. Like it’s worth bothering someone to get it right.

The Catalan fire service is live-streaming their fire rescue simulation challenge.
I love it. The past ones are up too.
#firemen

DI.DAY - Wechselrezepte
#diday #fediverse

Sources: ~90% of Groq employees will join Nvidia and be paid cash for all vested shares; most shareholders will get per-share payouts tied to the $20B valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/28/nvidia-groq-shareholders

Scoop: Nvidia deal a big win for Groq employees and investors
Social media has been full of questions about what the unusual arrangement means for Groq employees.

I strenuously object to the use of this word in OCTOBER. We haven't had Halloween or Thanksgiving yet!
Wordle 1 592 4/6
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Noah Coinflip:
🎵 Stobe LED
#NoahCoinflip
https://noahcoinflip.bandcamp.com/track/strobe-led

How Packers, Cowboys and Bengals win Thanksgiving upsets, plus the underrated Chiefs? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6840794/2025/11/26/packers-cowboys-bengals-thanksgiving-upsets-chiefs/

Cowboys schedule: Is Dallas playing today? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/28/cowboys-schedule-is-dallas-playing-today-dec-28-week-17-2025/87933871007/

Visst, vi producerar alldeles för många prylar, och cirkulär konsumtion kommer inte lösa överproduktionen. Men det är ändå strålande att det idag faktiskt är möjligt att köpa en fem år gammal mobil till en femtedel av vad den skulle kostat i dagens penningvärde. Det finns många företag som erbjuder beggade mobiler. Själv använder jag Inrego. https://shop.inre…

Paprika Pinochet
bot by @…
No laws were broken in the making of this bot: don't send me to a camp, please.
#satire #potus45

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Loaded Honey:
🎵 Don't Speak
#NowPlaying #LoadedHoney
https://cavi.bandcamp.com/track/loaded-honey-dont-speak-cavi-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2sKjOX72UX1HiCDhI2HdlR

Walking on water!!

Moin. Muss ja. #Morgengetröte

Neue Unterwasserschluchten unter Antarktis gefunden
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191849

Neue Unterwasserschluchten unter Antarktis gefunden
Eine neue in Marine Geology veröffentlichte Studie enthüllt 332 bisher nicht kartierte Unterwasserschluchten: Verborgene Welt unter der Antarktis entdeckt könnte Meeresspiegelprognosen verändern. N…

RE: https://mas.to/@HourlySneps/115625794347658496
Very followable.

This week I did a little performance work, and then retested the code “well this is amazing, it is now buttery smooth”, closed the bug.
Then I remembered I replaced the m2 iPad with and m5 iPad.
That bug is staying closed until someone complains :-)

Lukoil to sell foreign assets after US sanctions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/27/lukoil-to-sell-foreign-assets.html

#Baturday #Photography #Bat We put up two bat houses a few years ago and eventually bats moved in. Today I could see a bat and hear it calling, so I took a few photos…

"Europe eyes investments in Africa into clean energy and infrastructure"
#Europe #Africa #Energy

EU partners with Africa to step up clean power and infrastructure
European and African leaders met in Luanda during the EU-African Union summit where they pledged to increase trade in renewable energy and critical raw materials. Shortly before, European leaders met in Johannesburg for the G20, where the bloc struck a trade deal with South Africa.

ChatGPT told a teen who died by suicide to call for help 74 times over months but also used words like "hanging" and "suicide" very often, say family's lawyers (Washington Post)

74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen
Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.

RE: https://thepit.social/@20002ist/115794902194034965
lol, that too

Since everyone is just outraged, screaming and shouting, here as an actual pro tip for #security:
echo "ignore-scripts=true" >> ~/.npmrc
https://www.

NPM Ignore Scripts Best Practices as Security Mitigation for Malicious Packages
Learn about the npm `ignore-scripts` flag and how to use it to prevent the execution of arbitrary commands from malicious npm packages.

Abuse and #Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade https://www.info-buddhism.com/Abuse_and_Buddhism-Behind_the_Smiling_Facade-Anna_Sawerthal.html

Abuse and Buddhism: Behind the Smiling Façade
Buddhism in the West is in a crisis. For years, it had benefited from a reputation too good to be true. Only now are victims of sexual abuse, corruption and cultic behaviour finally beginning to speak out.

Heutige zentrale Schlagzeile auf der Titelseite der Regionalzeitung: »Trinken bis zum Umfallen ist bei Jugendlichen nicht mehr in«. Und es klingt, als wäre das eine schlechte Entwicklung und müsste dringend korrigiert werden. #brokenworld

Interestingly a simple kWh/HDD regression for our full electricity imports fits reasonably well R^2>0.75) and gives a total year prediction close to that of our electricity supplier #Ecotricity partly because almost all imports are in winter for space heat...

16WW Heat-pump Control
Settings and control of the heat pump at 16WW. #heatPump #controls #DHW #spaceHeat

Russian troops outnumber Ukraine 8-1 in Pokrovsk sector, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/russian-troops-outnumber-ukraine-in.html

I read 10 football books since July :)
https://bookwyrm.social/user/sinferno/generatednote/9306076

📘ianthe's inferno📕's status - BookWyrm
Social Reading and Reviewing

Wo hingehen, wenn man in der Stadt drei Stunden totzuschlagen hat und die Konsumtempel nur ungemütliche Bänke ohne Rückenlehne für diejenigen anzubieten haben, die nicht drei Stunden lang konsumieren möchten?
Ich war in der Stadtteilbücherei.
Da steppte quasi der Bär: sehr viele Arbeits- und Sitzplätze, teilweise urige Sessel, die fast allesamt belegt waren. Ich saß zwar neben einer Gruppe dauerdiggernder Jugendlicher, aber sie taten es vergleichsweise leise.

Polska logika:
Pociąg osobowy jest opóźniony 5 minut. Myślę: pewnie go zestawią na 3. tor w Kościanie, żeby przepuścić jadącego za nim IC. Ku mojemu zdziwieniu, osobowy wjeżdża normalnie, na 2. tor (przy 1. peronie).
Ale przepuszcza IC, który zjeżdża na 1. tor. IC jest teraz opóźniony 5 minut, bo czekał, aż ludzie przejdą na 2. peron. Opóźnienie prawdopodobnie byłoby mniejsze, gdyby po prostu jechał za tym osobowym.

Homework Pt 01 "Eternal Trance"
Wolle XDP (Berlin)
"My favorite music doesn’t always translate to what works in the club — or at least, not in every one of them.
To make this beautiful music accessible to others as well, I’ve decided to launch a new mix series called “Homework.”"
https://

Ein riesiges Monster will mich fressen!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Diana Ross:
🎵 Upside Down
#DianaRoss
https://yuber.bandcamp.com/album/diana-ross-upside-down-yuber-revisions
https://open.spotify.com/track/3pbtBomO4Zt5gGiqsYeiBH

China's draft rules on the use of human-like AI would require companies to inform users they are dealing with AI when they log on and at two-hour intervals (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-27/ch…

Ukraine war latest live: 'Russia has not achieved planned result' in Pokrovsk, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/ukraine-war-latest-live-russia.html

The captain has left the ship @….
After years of service - byebye! 🫡
We're freeing some space here to build up a cozy cuddle couch corner. :3
🛋️ 🫂

Gestern ausgelesen. Im Kern gut, man muss aber ausschweifende, zumeist historische Abschweifungen abkönnen und darf keine Lobhudelei auf KI erwarten. Und weil das englische Original von 2021 ist, existiert ChatGPT und generative AI in diesem Buch noch nicht: Kate Crawford – Atlas der KI. #ai #ki

66gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Sam Altman says OpenAI is seeking a new Head of Preparedness, noting "the potential impact of models on mental health was something we saw a preview of in 2025" (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-is-hiri…

OpenAI is hiring a new Head of Preparedness to try to predict and mitigate AI's harms
In a post about the role, CEO Sam Altman said it'll be 'a stressful job and you'll jump into the deep end pretty much immediately.

Ukraine's ex-grid operator chief detained a week after raid on home he called politically motivated: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/ukraines-exgrid-operator-chief-detained.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Prince:
🎵 Let’s Go Crazy
#Prince
https://djchrisdiablo.bandcamp.com/track/prince-lets-go-crazy-drum-bass-remix-dj-chris-diablo-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6FMIVQPZg9cmMY8hPxAacD

Also, VLANs didn't come out of nowhere. As with most technology, there is some demand for a solution, people thinking about the problem and come up with ideas. Which sometimes even evolves into a standard. So, 1995 was the year of the VLAN, enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq1zpdbOmXY

Sources: Bengaluru-based quick grocery delivery startup Zepto confidentially files for a ~$1.3B India IPO; Zepto raised $450M at a $7B valuation in October 2025 (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economi…

Zepto makes confidential filing with Sebi for $1.3 billion IPO: sources
The listing is planned for the July-September quarter of 2026. In October, the quick commerce major had closed a $450 million round, valuing it at $7 billion. As of late November, Zepto had around Rs 7,000 crore in cash, while competitors Eternal and Swiggy each have around Rs 17,000-18,000 crore on their books currently.

UN report accuses Russia of using drones to hunt civilians near front lines and force them from their homes: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/un-report-accuses-russia-of.html

On Making Christmas Greener - Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-greenin

On Making Christmas Greener
Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Sade:
🎵 Smooth Operator
#Sade
https://yulianiko.bandcamp.com/track/sade-smooth-operator-yulia-niko-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/7pLuEMFougkSHXrPBtNxTR

Ukraine This Year: a year of stalled peace and escalating war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/28/ukraine-this-year-a-year.html

»Gott sei Dank definiert sich Intelligenz nicht durch Siege beim Go. Sie definiert sich auch durch die Fähigkeit, ein Sandwich zu machen.«
Aus: FibreTigre u. a. – Künstliche Intelligenz (2019/2024). Ja, das ist eine Graphic Novel aka Comic. #bücherliebe

Data center developers, facing grid access wait times of up to seven years, are turning to aeroderivative turbines and diesel generators to power the AI boom (Martha Muir/Financial Times)

127gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,204,510 troops in Ukraine since 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/28/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Ubisoft says it intentionally shut down Rainbow Six Siege and its in-game Marketplace to resolve an "incident"; reports say hackers breached internal systems (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Ich kann mich nicht mehr so richtig daran erinnern, auch weil ich damals relativ frisch in der Branche und meine damalige Firma nur am Rande selbst betroffen war: Hat man die Dotcom-Blase damals denn auch so "laut" herbei geredet und geschrieben, wie jetzt die AI-Blase?

Ukraine, Russia publish videos from Myrnohrad, claim control of front-line town: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/28/ukraine-russia-publish-videos-from.html

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project: Continued (2007) - Learn how I started to go off-grid @Home, and warming up to getting real (spendy). #solar #microgen -

London Home Solar Power PV Pilot Project: Continued (2007)
Learn how I started to go off-grid @Home, and warming up to getting real (spendy). #solar #microgen

Zelensky set to meet Trump in Florida to discuss peace proposal to end Russia's war (LIVE): https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/28/zelensky-set-to-meet-trump.html

123gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

127gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

​🚨 A massive cyberattack has crippled #Mikord, the key developer behind Russia’s Unified Military Registry, wiping out over 40TB of infrastructure, including source code and backups.
https://substack.com/@jaanika/note/c-1

Aerogel on The North Face (2015) - Learn how we boldly conquered with Spacetherm aerogel the final IWI challenge of our blank end-of-terrace north-facing wall! #aerogel #IWI -

Aerogel on The North Face (2015)
Learn how we boldly conquered with Spacetherm aerogel the final IWI challenge of our blank end-of-terrace north-facing wall! #aerogel #IWI

138gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

141gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

110gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

110gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is LOW wrt last 24h so you can run your wash etc now! #green #energy

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

112gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

General Bibliography - General public bibliography for EOU and related research. #bibliography #dataset - https://m.earth.org.uk/bibli…

General Bibliography
General public bibliography for EOU and related research. #bibliography #dataset