2025-12-17 06:29:00
SoftBank Group Corp was among the Japanese tech stocks that fell on Dec. 18, as AI infrastructure spending worries on Wall Street crossed into the Asian markets (Lim Hui Jie/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/18/japan-tech-stocks-plun…
So how long until the Firefox logo becomes another AI company logo that looks like a butthole?
:firefox: https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo
heute war ich bei DJ Gysi... was ein tolles Event
DEBATE: Is Trump a viable mediator for peace?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/debate-is-trump-a-viable.html
Unless it’s a G5 PowerBook I’m not really interested #old
Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/merger-deals/2025/12/15/cvent-300m-goldcast-buy
@… as
This is a lovely review of my latest Buildings&Cities paper on clinic layouts at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust
https://sustainableconstructionreview.com/2025/06/12/moorfields-eye-hospital-redesigns-pa…
We •also• want forces that pull toward convergence and consesnsus: forces that challenge ideas with contrary evidence — and forces that challenge vile ideas with “ugh, wtf, go away you Nazi turd.”
Yes, the latter too! Filtering is a crucial part of free society. You can’t have a useful discussion about climate change or global trade or time zones if you always set aside plenty of time for dingbats who insist the Earth is flat.
It’s not that people don’t think that! It’s that the idea deserves no more time and attention than that necessary to refute it — because it’s absurd and harmful and counterproductive.
3/
@…
THIS HOUSE WE BELIEVE:
SCREAMING IS SELF-CARE
Two explosions targeted a railway line that connects Poland and Ukraine. Prime Minister Tusk is calling these attacks “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.”
[@… on Bluesky]
from my link log —
NetBSD on the last G4 Mac mini (and making the kernel power failure proof).
http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2019/06/and-now-for-something-completely.html
saved 2019-06-30
Cars and RVs surged into Yosemite national park throughout the weekend,
as visitors from around the world came to enjoy the crisp autumn weather,
undeterred by a lack of park services and the absence of rangers.
National parks have largely been kept open through the lapse in US federal funding that has left workers furloughed and resources for the parks system more scarce than usual.
But as the US government shutdown enters its third week and legislators warn that the…
Does each boat strike off the coast of Venezuela save 25,000 US lives? | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/18/does-each-boat-strike-off-the-coast-of-venezuela-save-25000-us-lives?traffic_source=rss
In my rush to get out today's Metacurity early, I completely dropped the ball on this big OT development.
Venezuela Says Oil Export System Down After Weekend Cyberattack
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-1…
🥠 Der Fachinformationsdienst für Kommunikations- und Medienwissenschaft (@…) lädt zum nächsten Kapitel der Online-Vortragsreihe "FID Media Bites" im WiSe 25/26 ein!
🚀 Unsere NFDI4Culture-Kolleg:innen Andrea Polywka @… und A…
Jeffrey Epstein Had Access to Trump's Inner Circle, While Working With Steve Bannon (Nafeez Ahmed/Byline Times)
https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/17/jeffrey-epstein-had-access-to-trumps-inner-circle-while-working-with-steve-bannon/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p164#a251117p164
«In recent months, multiple experts who track botnet and proxy activity have shared that a great deal of content scraping which ultimately benefits AI companies is now leveraging these proxy networks to further obfuscate their aggressive data-slurping activity.»
Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies – Krebs on Security
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/aisuru-botnet-shifts-from-ddos-to-residential-proxies/
Nifty preprint with an experiment coevolving Brassica rapa with pollinating, herbivorous butterflies. With bumblebee co-pollinators or heat stress added, the plants evolved stronger anti-herbivore defense; with both bees and heat, they evolved... to attract butterflies?
https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.06.686
Bike Stats for mid-October... It's starting to get a little dark out when I bike home from work... may need to up my lighting game a bit.
#bikeTooter
Prince Andrew hasn’t been known to the public as Duke of York ever since he became know to the public as Andrew the Paedophile. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/17/prince-andrew-to-give-up-royal-titles
Ook so i'm not making any progress on the shower situation tonight.
For the STM32MP2 FPGA test board I'm setting a goal: do not buy a single new component. Just order a board and populate it entirely from what I have on the shelf.
Good morning! First snow around, a day of workshop ahead, #commuting by train again.
Yesterday I had to go by car - I admit that I found it quite annoying to be forced to concentrate on the traffic. But I also attended a #meetup which brought a good insight.
Anyways, enjoy your day!
Now playing some LOUD, raw, feedbacky d-beat punk rock from St. Louis' DRILL. This is their demo from May. Did I mention how insanely fucking raw and feedbacky it is? 😂 The vocalist's screams and screeches, some great riffage and such. You KNOW I love shit like this.
https://drill314.bandcamp.com/album/de
¿Cómo anda esa resaca electoral, compatriotas?
Jullie moeten allemaal verplicht deze aflevering van Lubach kijken.
Over stikstof.
Een fantastische uitleg van wat er mis is met de stikstof in ons land en met de ‘oplossing’ van de BBB.
Nou ja echt verplicht is het niet natuurlijk maar je bent gewaarschuwd: dit wil je niet missen.
https://youtu.be/PJj…
A new 'hypertropical' climate is emerging in the Amazon, exposing trees to deadly stress https://phys.org/news/2025-12-hypertropical-climate-emerging-amazon-exposing.html
„Es geht um die Wurst“ – und darum, den Blick zu bewahren. Diese Woche: die absurde Debatte um vegane Wurst, das nervige Dauergepiepse moderner Autos, journalistische Wortspiele über Trump und warum wir nicht in jedes Würstchen beißen sollten, die une die AfD hinhält. #Wochenschau
In case you want to go to the best conference in the north: #disobey2025 ticket sale starts in a few seconds
Https://tickets.disobey.fi
Minister Wiersma haalt bakzeil na stikstofruzie: nieuwe ondergrens alleen als die juridisch houdbaar is | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/minister-wiersma-haalt-bakzeil-na-stikstofruzie-nieuwe-ondergrens-alleen-als-die-juridisch-houdbaar-is~b83614a3/#Echobox=1760723331
Beste kiezer,
Verlos ons met de verkiezingen van partijen met dit soort ministers.
Alsjeblieft..
Kiez-Momente: Hinterhof der Kuscheltiere https://weddingweiser.de/kiez-moment-hinterhof-der-kuscheltiere/
📢 EU-Kommission schlägt Abkehr vom Verbrenner-Aus vor
In der EU sollen nach dem Willen der Europäischen Kommission auch nach 2035 Autos mit Verbrennungsmotor neu zugelassen werden können. Der Großteil neu zugelassener Autos soll künftig aber trotzdem elektrisch sein.
➡️ https://www…
The penultimate talk at #12Clouds is Akshay M talking about Agent Name Service (ANS), a DNS-like trust layer for AI agent deployments
Tu sais que t'es en train d'aller trop loin quand pour tester une fonctionnalité de ton programme (un client SSH), tu te retrouves Š implémenter un serveur SSH, un serveur DNS et un serveur HTTP et une PKI pour ton test E2E.
Heureusement, c'est facile Š faire en Go 😅
NFL trade deadline 2025 players to watch: Mark Andrews, Trey Hendrickson and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6719151/2025/10/16/nfl-trade-deadline-2025-mark-andrews-trey-hendrickson/
Während bei meinem eigenen Blog die Fediverse-Integration eher ächzt und stöhnt, hat es beim Auftritt des grünen Ortsverbands sehr gut und problemlos geklappt - ab sofort sind die Gundelfinger Grünen (zumindest mit dem Feed unserr Website) unter @… auch hier zu finden.
(Noch offene Frage: wie verlinke ich außerhalb des Fediverse auf einen Fedi-Handle? Und auch …
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
4400 km lang: Aktives Unterseekabel für Vermessung von Erdbeben benutzt
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115727454978689313
I'm hungry send toot :huemanatee:
The US FCC announces proceedings to potentially bar Hong Kong telecom HKT and its subsidiaries from accessing domestic US networks, citing its ties to China (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/us-block-h
It's fascinating that we largely went from a network of personal computers processing data locally that could access an open hypertext system linking together millions of websites…
…to phones with proprietary closed apps that often largely are little more than little windows to timesharing mainframes.
@… Wasn’t I already following you?? Oh well, I am now!
E.W. Scripps' board unanimously rejects Sinclair's unsolicited acquisition proposal of $7 per share in cash and stock, offered in November (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/scripps-rejects-sinclair-unsolicited…
Donald Trump is worried that Republicans aren’t as afraid of him as they used to be.
Despite his self-billing as a dealmaker,
the president has only ever had one tool to control his party: fear.
GOP politicians have been afraid of career damage and literal physical harm if they crossed him.
Trump is not above reminding elected officials that he has unhinged followers who are known to be violent.
But as his approval ratings fall and the 2026 midterm elections …
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bericht: Meta konnte betrügerische Werbung zurückdrängen, hat aber aufgehört
Ok sooo... How minimal do i want to make this stm32mp2 fpga test board?
I'm tempted to go bare bones, no ddr, minimal bom, entirely from parts i have on the shelf to keep costs down.
On one hand it'll be a waste of potential, on the other hand I have plenty of "real" projects coming up and the main goal is to de-risk them. I'm probably never going to use the ddr and it'll increase layout complexity a lot.
Een kat in het nauw maakt rare sprongen.
Deze sprong is vooral ook heel lelijk en op de man spelen ipv op de bal.
Ik hoop dat de meeste kiezers dit doorzien.
https://nos.nl/collectie/14002/liveblo…
ICE voodoo doll discovered in New Orleans as immigration crackdown continues (WVUE-TV)
https://www.fox8live.com/2025/12/17/ice-voodoo-doll-discovered-new-orleans-immigration-crackdown-continues/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251218/p2#a251218p2
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@rOpenSci/115735884137280347
Nice to see @… give some advice on how people can move/mirror to e.g. @… while continuing to be part of rOpenSci!
NATO sees no major Russian military response if Ukraine receives Tomahawks: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/nato-sees-no-major-russian.html
Next at #12Clouds we have Sophia Solomon talking about using Elastic Agent Builder with Biological Data
This Week in Sports Trivia: October 16, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6720263/2025/10/16/this-week-in-sports-trivia-october-16-2025/
Erinnert ihr euch an die Grenzwächter, die in der Aktion "Knobli" im Vorarlberg Schweizer EInkaufstouristen beobachteten, die Hanfsamen und Anbauzubehör kauften?
Sie zogen ihren Strafbefehl wegen Verletzung fremder Gebietshoheit weiter ans Bundesstrafgericht in Bellinzona - und wurden freigesprochen, mit Entschädigung (rechtskräftig).
SK.2024.68 Urteil vom 7. Oktober 2025
lol eBay #retrocomputing listing
Inside Hyperliquid, a booming DEX for perpetual crypto futures still controlled by a small insider group, raising questions about how decentralized it really is (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
‼️Die #Petition
"Erweiterung des Leistungsumfangs der GKV im Zusammenhang mit Prostataerkrankungen vom 22.06.2025"
hat bisher 102 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29898 Unterschriften bis zum 20.10.2025.
USAGM is relocating from its current offices in Washington, DC, to a building apparently used by NASA; source: the old building is to be demolished (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/12/usagm-relocating-nasa-building-kari-lake/
After bringing white South Africans to the United States as refugees earlier this year,
the Trump administration is now reportedly considering granting protection to members of far-right European parties.
According to the New York Times, the proposal that Donald Trump is now weighing would prioritize Europeans who are allegedly
“targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”
The pro…
EU-Digitalgesetze: US-Regierung droht Spotify, DHL, SAP, Siemens & EU-Konzernen
Die weitreichenden Digitalgesetze der EU sind den USA schon länger ein Dorn im Auge. Weil Brüssel geforderte Änderungen ablehnt, droht die US-Regierung jetzt.
Joe Rogan is unpleasantly surprised by Trump's actions. He's hardly alone (Aaron Blake/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/16/politics/joe-rogan-trump-surprise-analysis
http://www.memeorandum.com/251017/p3#a251017p3
RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/115729839724981403
Based on the rounds this made, I wonder if I should make a small blog post about which FLOSS projects I'm donating to as my "Christmas gifts"?
‼️Die #Petition
"Unbeschränkte Steuerpflicht für deutsche Staatsangehörige mit Wohnsitz im Ausland vom 06.08.2025"
hat bisher 194 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29806 Unterschriften bis zum 23.10.2025.
OpenAI updates ChatGPT Images to generate images up to 4x faster and edit more precisely, and adds a new section in ChatGPT's app and website for images (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Kinderhilfswerk: Entschieden gegen Social-Media-Verbot für Kinder
The US threatens economic penalties against European companies like Spotify if the EU does not roll back regulations and lawsuits targeting US tech giants (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/business/economy/us-eu-tech-penalties.html
Deciding when to recess the House to "district work periods" isn't some inherent or longstanding power of the Speaker.
It was only added to the rules for the first time in this Congress.
Otherwise this would have required the full House to vote on it, which could have been defeated.
As expected, in order to avoid a vote on extension of the ACA,
Mike Johnson is gaveling the House into recess.
Furious progressives swarm Schumer's job as Democratic leader (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/schumer-democratic-leader-senate
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p168#a251117p168
RE: https://en.osm.town/@PanoramaxContribs/115735038443336675
Nice, adding the names did work as expected!
WBD recommends shareholders reject Paramount's unsolicited cash bid, calling the offer "illusory" and saying it believes Netflix's proposal is still superior (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
How Lionsgate built a roster of about 15 TikTok movie fans to make "fan edits" to market movies, using language that feels "native to the platform" (Ethan Shanfeld/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/lionsgate-tiktok-fan-edits-1236551825/…
Jährlich genehmigte #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.10.2025.
Genehmigt bedeutet noch nicht gebaut oder in Betrieb. Nicht alle Anlagen benötigen eine Genehmigung.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Was passi…
More than 50 Amazon employees seeking to unionize
walked off the job early Tuesday morning at a Riverside delivery facility, according to the Teamsters.
The overnight walkout marked what union leaders say is the beginning of a new organizing drive for Amazon workers in the Inland Empire,
under which workers are demanding better working conditions and pay for the value they bring to the e-commerce giant.
Workers at the Krameria Avenue facility in Riverside, dubbed DJT6 …
Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-says-ai-is-causing-a-…
'It broke me': Inside the FBI hunt for the online predators who persuaded a 13-year-old to die (William Wan/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/white-tiger-764-fbi-search/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251017/p2#a251017p2
U.S. senators announced plans on Friday to force a vote on a resolution
to prevent military action against Venezuela without congressional authorization,
seeking to rein in Donald Trump's escalation of pressure on President Nicolas Maduro's government.
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, who is sponsoring the war powers resolution with fellow Democrat Adam Schiff of California and Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky,
said he was responding to the repeated U.S…
Exclusive: AOC says Jeffries primary challenge not a "good idea" (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/aoc-jeffries-chi-osse-new-york-democrats
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p169#a251117p169
Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners is exiting from Paramount's takeover bid for WBD, citing changed investment dynamics since it joined the bid in October (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-16/ku…
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
"Das #Plastikproblem kann man gar nicht lösen."
Wenn man gegen
Larry Summers "stepping back" from public roles after Epstein files release (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/18/larry-summers-harvard-epstein
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p166#a251117p166
Viven, which builds AI "digital twins" that grant employees access to crucial information when coworkers are unavailable, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/15/e…
WBD recommends shareholders reject Paramount's unsolicited cash bid, calling the offer "illusory" and saying it believes Netflix's proposal is still superior (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
Trump Has the Power to Release the Epstein Files, With or Without Congress (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/us/politics/trump-epstein-files-congress.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p167#a251117p167
Sources: WBD is preparing to tell its shareholders to reject Paramount's latest offer and plans to recommend they support the existing deal with Netflix (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/warner-preparing-t…
Ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton indicted on charges of mishandling classified information (Caitlin Doornbos/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/16/us-news/ex-trump-national-security-adviser-john-bolton-indicted-on-charges-of-mishandling-classified-information/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p111#a251016p111
Texas sues Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense and TCL, alleging they fail to adequately notify users that their CTVs record what they display for ad targeting purposes (Christina Van Waasbergen/Courthouse News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/texas-ag-sues-smart-tv-mak…
First ever antifa-related charges filed in attack on Texas ICE facility (Tasha Tsiaperas/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/16/antifa-terrorism-charges-texas-ice-facility-attack
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p98#a251016p98
Congressional Black Caucus PAC uses Young Republicans' texting scandal to hit Lawler (Cheyanne M. Daniels/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/10/16/congress/mike-lawler-young-republicans-ad-00611542
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p97#a251016p97
'I am deeply ashamed': Larry Summers to step back from public commitments after new Epstein emails (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/-deeply-ashamed-larry-summers-jeffrey-epstein-emails-rcna244526
http://www.memeorandum.com/251117/p163#a251117p163