Tootfinder

Sources: Advent and Stripe are no longer pursuing a deal to acquire PayPal; the group offered to pay $60.50/share in July, valuing PayPal at $53B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-28/advent-stripe-consort…

Democrats and Republicans are pressuring TV stations in opposite ways over the rates they charge political parties and super PACs for ads after a court ruling (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/28/midterms-2026-democrats-republicans-ad-rate…

Scoop: Dems and GOP squeeze TV stations in ad rate war
How stations respond will effectively decide whose money goes further in the 2026 election.

Fusion von T-Mobile USA mit Sprint bringt Deutsche Telekom vor Gericht
2020 fusionierte T-Mobile USA mit Sprint. Hat sich die Deutsche Telekom dabei unrechtmäßig bereichert? Gab es Insider-Geschäfte? Prozessiert wird in Delaware.

Fusion von T-Mobile USA mit Sprint bringt Deutsche Telekom vor Gericht
2020 fusionierte T-Mobile USA mit Sprint. Hat sich die Deutsche Telekom dabei unrechtmäßig bereichert? Gab es Insider-Geschäfte? Prozessiert wird in Delaware.

Wenn Die Linke eine Zeitung besitzt, Anteile dran hält, oder in irgendeiner Verbindung dazu steht, dann ist das irgendwie das Neue Deutschland, die Junge Welt, oder Jacobin. Zeitungen und Magazine die sich offen als Links bezeichnen und ehrlich über ihre politische Voreingenommenheit sind.
Wenn die SPD eine Zeitung besitzt oder Anteile dran hat, dann ist das Madsack, das Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND), die Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung (HAZ). Zeitungen welche von sich selbst be…

Eine sehr schöne Sache an der nun von den USA als terroristisch deklarierten Blog-Plattform noblogs.org ist, dass diese Blogs direkt mit dem Fediverse verbunden werden können, durch das Plug-In ActivityPub.
So könnt Ihr meinem (inzwischen sehr trägen) Blog annalist hier direkt folgen und direkt von hier aus auch dort kommentieren:
@…
…

»Eine Änderung im Web-Archiv des Bundestags sorgt für Verwunderung: Die Jahre 2005 bis 2016 sind dort nicht mehr verfügbar, angeblich aus "urheberrechtlichen Gründen". (…) In einem Punkt waren sich jedenfalls viele aus der meist juristisch bewanderten Community einig: "Urheberrechtliche Gründe" wirkten vorgeschoben.«

Internet-Auftritt des Bundestags: Wo ist das Web-Archiv?
Eine Änderung im Web-Archiv des Bundestags sorgt für Verwunderung: Die Jahre 2005 bis 2016 sind dort nicht mehr verfügbar, angeblich aus "urheberrechtlichen Gründen". Doch es bleiben Fragen offen – und das Parlament hüllt sich in Schweigen.

US Treasury sanctions against Autistici/Inventati, including noblogs.org, are obviously meant to target people who host their blogs there, in a violation of their first amendment rights.
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10076

@… says here
"If you think that property rights are a tool for achieving human rights, then you're on the left".
I think he's radically wrong. Property rights are incompatible with human rights: you can have one or the other, but not both.

@… もう一回買って比較をですね……

Working with an #acting #coaching client, we found our way to have them engage with the core of the character more and so their chest voice engaged more too; such a cool way to invoke technique through emotion (the opposite can also be done).

Beim #Windpark #Löberitz nahe #Zörbig werden fünf Anlagen aus dem Jahr 2003 durch drei leistungsfähigere

Energie: Repowering: Alte Windräder bei Zörbig werden ersetzt
Hier finden Sie Informationen zu dem Thema „Energie“. Lesen Sie jetzt „Repowering: Alte Windräder bei Zörbig werden ersetzt“.

The question Ronald Reagan asked on 28 October 1980, at the end of his televised debate against Jimmy Carter:
“Are you better off now than you were before this presidency?”
Unless you’re very, very rich, the answer is obviously:
“No, I’m worse off.”
https://www.

This is the question Democrats should ask voters in order to win this November
They should ask the question Reagan asked at the end of his debate against Jimmy Carter: ‘Are you better off now than you were before this presidency?’

Oha, #thuerpag trendet auf #Mastodon.

How to spot a psychopath
"Mitchell built a template of 20 attributes, divided into four clusters, and 25 tactics that would identify a high-functioning persistent predatory personality type. Cluster one includes a need for control; a grandiose sense of self; pathological inner response to challenge; vengefulness; refusal to compromise. Cluster two includes being predatory or exploitative; sadistic and cruel; having a low regard for laws, agreements, social and moral codes; no boundarie…

How to spot a psychopath: ‘It’s like the difference between a domestic cat and a wild cat’
People with persistent predatory personalities cause an inordinate amount of pain. Recently, our shared understanding of them has grown – and it could help protect us

"Ratko Mladic, the 'butcher of Bosnia', was the man behind the genocide in Srebrenica."
Headline by Dutch @…
When Netanyahu passes away, will we read
"Netanyahu, the 'butcher of Palestine', was the man behind the genocide in Gaza" ?
Or the more likely
"Controversial Netanyahu managed to maintain a str…

'Matlin and Chakraborty designed a study around influence functions, a technique that estimates how much any single training document – an article, post, or page a model trained on – shaped how the model answered a particular benchmark question. Add those estimates up across the data, and you can see which kinds of writing – literary, technical, and so on – support a given ability in the model. But that holds only if you can confirm the model actually trained on the documents in question…

Worth #reading this piece - a level-headed take on #China and how its changed.
https://www.chinafile.com/reporting-op…

App Life in China
“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovingly-renovated toy factory in Shanghai. China was my home for 20 years, before moving to the U.S. in 2015. This was my first visit since the pandemic. Almost a decade away from the place where I got married, had kids, started a few companies, and sold one. It may be hard to make money in Ch…

New NERDS paper on ‘Data production biases in human mobility data’
https://nerds.itu.dk/2026/08/27/new-nerds-paper-on-data-production-biases-in-human-mobility-data/

Um brasileiro e um argentino estão passeando num parque. De repente,
um deles encontra uma lâmpada mšgica, de onde sai um gênio. Como são
dois, o gênio decide conceder um desejo a cada um. O argentino pede:
-- Gênio, você poderia construir em volta de meu lindo país muros
altíssimos, de modo que os brasileiros invejosos não venham nos encher
o saco?
-- Desejo concedido -- diz o gênio.
O brasileiro, que tinha ouvido tudo, pergunta ao gênio:
-- Gênio…

I made a short URL so I could get to the Milwaukee County Vehicle Crash Dashboard easily...
http://p2url.com/mkecrashes
#milwaukee

RE: #PIM talk at #hackmas

Ich habe seit Anfang 2025 glaube ich jede Folge @… gehört und fand sie meistens ziemlich gut.
Aber die aktuell Folge hier (#LdN490) ist mit A b s t a n d die beste, weil hier mal wirklich kontroverse Positionen in einem hoch relevanten Thema aufeinander treffen und richtig gut Argumente ausgetauscht werden. Absolute Hörempfehlung. 👍
…

LdN490 Pazifismus: Lässt sich Putin wirklich mit Gesang aus der Ukraine vertreiben? (Olaf L. Müller, Professor für Philosophie)

"Large Language Models as Judges for Human Subject Indexing"
https://doi.org/10.1080/01639374.2026.2714375
"The study evaluates LLMs as judges for human subject indexing by comparing their performance against a manually curated gold standard across descriptions of…

U.S., Iran in fresh clashes amid peace talks (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/iran-war-us-military-strikes-peace-talks
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p135#a260527p135

Essential thread 👇
https://mastodon.social/@weatherwest/116989729029443214
weatherwest@mastodon.social - In recent weeks, there has been a remarkable surge in large, intense, fast-moving, and unfortunately in many cases destructive/deadly wildfires in multiple Northern Hemisphere regions spanning a wide range of climates & ecologies, but they all share one key commonality. [Thread]

This is called a feature, not a bug, you nits.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/travel/europe-summer-heat.html

RE: https://dice.camp/@chgowiz/117168631314482483
Wasn't the first time Optimus died traumatic enough?

New HoneyWorks Storylines? :gnulightened:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd-RGW7FvSw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7h-bGKWOeY…

Die Urlaubswoche zuhause unter anderem genutzt, um meiner neun Jahre alten mechanischen Tastatur mal eine Grundreinigung angedeihen zu lassen...

Toward Simp Liberation?
#politics

I don't wish to seem cold and uncaring, but I really don't give a shit what Hasan Piker has to say about anything to anyone.
Touch grass, people.

Meer nog dan de redelijk constante uitgaven zit er een probleem in de bijzonder hoog oplopende vermogenspositie van de fondsen waar her kabinet maar al te graag een graai uit neemt.
Werkenden dokken stiekem al jaren
De pinautomaat voor VVD-beleid
Tijmen de Vos, Hendrik Noten en Felix Kram
#nlpol

'Burnham said he wanted "every leader in this country signed up" to having "good jobs in every community".'
A great improvement on the vacuous and ecologically ignorant 'economic growth in every postcode'.
Andy Burnham calls National Economic Council summit with UK nations - BBC News
https://www.

Burnham calls summit of first ministers of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
The announcement comes as Burnham holds his first official visit to Wales since becoming prime minster.

(1) 📢Triple Reminder - Anmeldefristen enden⏰ ⏰ ⏰
Hallo, liebe Communities, gern möchten wir euch auf drei tolle Projekte bzw. Veranstaltungen hinweisen, für die die Anmeldefrist in den kommenden Tagen endet. Noch nicht eingereicht/angemeldet? Hier geht es lang 👇
🏆 DigAMus Award 2026 - Die besten Digitalprojekte der Museen
09.11.2026, Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (im Rahmen des 6ten NFDI4Culture Community Plenary)
⏰ Einreichung bis 31.8.:

#JustSayin

Turns out I’m not smarter than a fish.
#DeepThoughtsWhileFishing #HashTagGames

There's a new SwampGas zine coming out soon -- SwampGas issue #3!
While you wait for it, why not check out the first two issues? They're free, and they're rad as fuck. ⬇
SwampGas #1: https://quietmeow.itch.io/swampgas-1-zine
SwampGas #2:

Swampgas #1 - Winter 2025 by Quiet Meow Design
Issue 1 of a new zine with art, poetry, stories, music reviews & previews

Weil Radfahren in #Dresden gefährlich ist, kontrolliert die Polizei Radfahrende. 🤦
Morgen werden dann potentielle Mordopfer kontrolliert, weil ermordet werden gefährlich ist?
h…

Radfahren in Dresden besonders gefährlich - Kontrollaktion der Polizei
In Dresden passieren im Vergleich zu anderen Großstädten besonders viele Unfälle mit Radfahrerin, teilweise auch tödlich. Die Polizei kontrolliert deshalb in dieser Woche verstärkt Rad- und Autofahrer.

Ga nou slapen, sukkel!

@… I think I have written similar texts...

Merz demonstriert bezüglich Klima die Anwendung des PAL-Feldes¹ als Mittel der Politik.²
__
¹Problem-anderer-Leute-Feld https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Somebody_Else's_Problem_Field
²besonders wirksam bei Menschen mit eher konservativem³ bis rea…

Somebody Else's Problem Field
A Somebody Else's Problem field, or S.E.P., is a useful way of safely protecting something from unwanted eyes. Slartibartfast's ship, Bistromath, was covered in an S.E.P. field. An S.E.P. can run almost indefinitely on a torch or a 9 volt battery, and is able to do so because it utilises a person's natural tendency to ignore things they don't easily accept, like, for example, aliens at a cricket match. Any object around which an S.E.P. is applied will cease to be noticed, because any...

Typical - rain again for the second test!
#cricket

Dazu habe ich erst beim dritten Fall und Small Talk zum Thema Urlaub erfahren, dass der Mitschöffe für dieses Jahr ebenfalls aus Polen stammt.
Denn weder ihm noch mir merkt man was an. Und ich habe bei polnisch klingenden Nachnamen längst aufgegeben nachzufragen, weil dann doch viele deutsch sind.
Gleich zu Polnisch geswitcht und Freude gehabt.

really amazing short video on the creative process.
OK Go Sandbox - A Good Plan
#music

Wie viel Lebenszeit ich doch damit verbrate, herauszufinden, über welches Bibliothekskonto, ich Zugriff auf einen Text bekomme.  😑

CISA says that cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure targeted 100 internet-exposed water and wastewater systems in July, largely attacking PLCs (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/cisa-confirms-hackers-ta…

CISA confirms hackers targeted over 100 US water systems during July | TechCrunch
The federal cyber agency's warning comes amid a wave of suspected Iran-backed cyberattacks targeting critical water systems across the United States.

„GTA 6“: Rockstar zeigt 25 Minuten Gameplay auf Netflix
Rockstar Games hat umfangreiche Gameplay-Szenen aus „GTA 6“ veröffentlicht – bislang nur auf Netflix. Das Video verrät auch Story-Elemente.
https://www.

„GTA 6“: Rockstar zeigt 25 Minuten Gameplay auf Netflix
Rockstar Games hat umfangreiche Gameplay-Szenen aus „GTA 6“ veröffentlicht – bislang nur auf Netflix. Das Video verrät auch Story-Elemente.

Stars and Stripes' publisher Max Lederer, EIC Erik Slavin, and reporter Lara Korte sue the DOD, claiming their firings were retaliatory and broke federal law (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Stars and Stripes employees sue Pentagon over firings at military newspaper
The publication’s publisher, its editor in chief and a reporter allege that the government violated their First Amendment rights to free speech.

同じサーバに複数アカウント作るの別に構わないよ。Bot設置する人もいるし、用途で使い分ける人もいる。
ウチなんかだと、元々個人的な話をする目的でアカウント持ってたけど、Pawooのコンテンツ投稿用のアカウントも引っ越しするのでもう一つ、みたいなのもアリだよって言ったばかり。
モデレーションペナルティを回避しようとして増やしたり、嫌がらせ粘着用を何度も作っては消してとか、そういうのは根本的にダメ。
あと大抵は、サーバ管理者が複数アカウント持ってるけど、そういうときはだいたいgmailの 入りアドレスとか使うことが多いんじゃないかな。 infoとか。
Misskeyのドライブの最大容量とか、一人あたりの制限が設定されている場合に、制限回避でアカウント作ろうとしたら嫌がられるかもね。

Critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Log4j2. Party like it’s 2021.
https://github.com/hypnguyen1209/log4j2-rce

GitHub - hypnguyen1209/log4j2-rce: Pre-auth RCE via FilteredObjectInputStream MarshalledObject bypass in Apache Log4j 2
Pre-auth RCE via FilteredObjectInputStream MarshalledObject bypass in Apache Log4j 2 - hypnguyen1209/log4j2-rce

BitGo agrees to buy NYDIG's institutional trading business and related assets, expanding BitGo's derivatives offerings; ~30 NYDIG employees are joining BitGo (Tanaya Macheel/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/27/bitgo-to-a

BitGo to acquire NYDIG’s institutional trading business as crypto trading rebounds
BitGo is expanding its institutional capabilities just as activity in the crypto market is showing signs of picking up after a prolonged trading slump.

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 1,337 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.4 %

Petrichor, Visualized (2026)
(From our morning walk yesterday, 15 mins after the heavy rain shower passed, dense localized mist with small light shafts forming all over the little creek in this canyon. Absolute magic... and the scent, of course! 🤩)
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography

Nachfrage (vermutlich BSW): Ist das #thuerpag zu retten und wie?
TLfDI: öffentlichen Raum klar definieren, mögliche EU-Rechts-Widrigkeit wegen KIVO klären. Grundsätzlich ist es "rettbar".

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dh2026daejeon/117164576091601156
Great reflections on being able to answer questions in your first language, and on the trickiness of publishing work on building infrastructure, applying methods rather than producing more…

Does anybody know a tool where I can provide a (long) list of #hashtags and which checks back with my #Mastodon account and makes sure I follow all of those hashtags (invokes follows if appropriate)? 🤔

Green gentian,
formally Frasera speciosa
(it also goes by the common name monument plant),
is known for the notable habit of growing for many years as a large basal rosette
and only once producing a tall stalk of flowers.
The plants die immediately after setting seed.
Another plant known for a similar life history is the century plant,
Agave americana, which typically lives one to three decades before producing a flowering stalk 25 to 30 feet tall a…

Green gentians live for decades, but only flower once
It appears that, for a plant that will flower only once, having offspring flower over a period of at least 40 years is a way of hedging one’s bets in an

One is not born a woman, one becomes one.
-- Simone de Beauvoir

A fortnight ago, I posted a blog post about the risk of mass deaths given the #metoffice predictions for summer temperatures mid-century; but then I noticed I'd made a significant mistake, and rolled it back.
I've now revised it. It's not quite as bleak as it was. It's pretty bleak.

The 'everyone dies' event comes home
On 23^rd June, the Meteorological Office published a [blog post](https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/blog/2026/uk-could-see-45c-by-2056-scientists-reflect-on-1976-heatwave-anniversary) in which they claimed that 'UK could see 45°C by 2056'. As you'll know, I've blogged before of the issue of [excessive heat events](https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-output/2021-11-15-the-everyone-dies-event-class/) in our changing climate. So the fact that they projected temperatures above 35° Celsius wi…

"Ich muss mich als Stadtrat darauf verlassen, was Experten und Verwaltung sagen." so Zastrow.
Wozu musst Du Dich auf Experten verlassen, wenn Du eh nicht auf die hörst?
https://www.saechsische.de/lokale…

„Dwarf Fortress“ nach 20 Jahren: „Wir stecken jetzt in diesem Ökosystem fest“
„Dwarf Fortress“ war 16 Jahre lang gratis, erst dann kam die Steam-Version. Entwickler Tarn Adams über Geld, KI-Psychosen und ein Spiel ohne Ende.

„Dwarf Fortress“ nach 20 Jahren: „Wir stecken jetzt in diesem Ökosystem fest“
„Dwarf Fortress“ war 16 Jahre lang gratis, erst dann kam die Steam-Version. Entwickler Tarn Adams über Geld, KI-Psychosen und ein Spiel ohne Ende.

"It Was Dolly’s World, We Were Just Living In It" @ Gapingvoid
#DollyParton

Dreigen met vertrekken zal ongetwijfeld diverse krachten in Zeist in beweging hebben gezet ...
KNVB ziet af van verhuizing naar Almere en blijft in Zeist
https://nos.nl/artikel/2615983-knvb-ziet-af-van-verhuizing-naar-almere-en-blijft-in-zeist

Trump Is Remaking the World Map. What Could Go Wrong? (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/opinion/trump-world-map-borders-countries.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p138#a260527p138

Die Erbschaften von Milliardären können allein schon deswegen nicht stärker besteuert werden, weil dies negativen Einfluß auf die Parteispenden haben könnte.
#pol #depol

I have written a movie review of a movie I have not yet seen. I read one too many reviews of it, and figured I'd give it a shot.
Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
I hope you find it entertaining!
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/movie-re

Movie Review of The Odyssey: title read, movie not seen
What’s with starting “into the middle of things” (Latin: in medias res)? It is crazy, right? Who would do that (except all the movies that do that)? Who would do that enough over multiple millennia so that people over centuries would have to come up with an entire phrase

Als Schöffin heute gelernt: Haben Verurteilte eine Strafe zu zahlen, geht die entweder an die Geschädigten oder an eine gemeinnützige Organisation. Dabei gibt es einen Sammelfonds, der verschiedenen Orgas zugute kommt. Man kann aber eine spezifische Orga wählen.
Der Angeklagte entschied sich für Kinder mit Behinderung.
Es hieß, die würden am meisten von allen bekommen, weil alle sich für sie entscheiden. Ältere Menschen, Opfer von Verkehrsunfällen etc. würde selten jemand berücks…

Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/ai-uber-spending

Exclusive: Uber cuts AI costs even as usage jumps
Companies are finding creative — and cheaper — ways to increase their AI use.

Netflix's preview of GTA VI drew millions of views to influencers' livestreamed reactions on Twitch and YouTube, where IShowSpeed immediately drew 1.7M views (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Was steckt hinter dem Wasserverbrauch von KI?
Seit Monaten erscheinen Presseartikel, die den #Wasserverbrauch von KI kritisieren. Viele beinhalten keine weiteren Erklärungen und lassen den Leser rätselnd zurück.
Was bedeutet eigentlich #Wasserverbrauch

Wie viel Wasser verbraucht KI wirklich und was steckt hinter der Kritik?
Wie viel Wasser verbrauchen KI-Rechenzentren wirklich? Fakten zu direktem und indirektem Wasserverbrauch und mögliche Lösungen im Überblick.

Successfully returned from our rescue & retrieval mission of my son's Apple Pencil which fell through the decking at a café yesterday. He made some wire hooks to lift it back out through the gap between the boards, like a pro... Result: E-waste avoided and 149 Euro saved (what an absolute rip off)!

RE: https://lasersword.club/@bnys/117162093896978784
Using a term with a somewhat racist etymology is never cool. https://

RE: https://hcommons.social/@pfitz/117168426175621610
There also seem to be a number of cases in the UK, as I know a few people it's hit quite hard recently

* dpkg ponders: 'C ' should have been called 'D'
-- #Debian

Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangersand impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software,
the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that.
In the process, legislators amended the bill to make it even more confusing,
while failing to address the risks to privacy, speech, and consumer rights.
We must renew our call on legislators to drop this bill as it heads to the state senate,
and protect the to…

We Can Still Stop California’s 3D Printer Surveillance Scheme
Ignoring EFF’s warnings about the dangers and impossibility of implementing a new mandate for 3D print surveillance software, the California State Assembly has signed off on legislation to do just that. In the process, legislators amended the bill to make it even more confusing, while failing to address the risks to privacy, speech, and consumer rights. We must renew our call on legislators to drop this bill as it heads to the state senate, and protect the tools of creators in the state.

Workday reports Q2 revenue up 12.8% YoY to $2.65B vs. $2.63B est., and total subscription revenue backlog up 8% YoY to $27.4B, vs. $28.6B est. (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-27/workday-po…

"Dolly Parton – Ikone und soziales Gewissen der USA" @ Bayern2-#radioWissen
#DollyParton

Pentagon puts building blocks in place for Cuba invasion (Paul McLeary/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/27/cuba-us-military-attack-00938740
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p133#a260527p133

Das #ZDF berichtet über die Klausur zu den geplanten Reformen und kommentiert: „Das Ziel ist klar: Geschlossenheit“.
Das beinhaltet einiges, was an politischer Bericht­erstattung und Politik schiefläuft.
Ich hatte erwartet Ziel könnte sein, sich inhaltlich zu bestimmten Themen­bereichen zu besprechen und gemeinsame Positionen zu finden, ggf. auch inhaltlich etwas zu erarbeiten, Konflikt…

Sources: the FTC has been investigating whether YouTube broke consumer protection laws by violating its own policies when suspending accounts or banning content (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-27/us-ftc-probing-…

I usually don't mind waiting for crowd-funded hardware to be shipped, but also I really want to get my hands on my #Jolla phone. Please hurry up, dear Finnish Linux phone manufacturer!

A US judge blocks the Pentagon from blacklisting Anthropic, ruling that its designation as a supply-chain risk was "illegal and baseless" (Jack Queen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-blocks-pentagons-an…

Dopamine, emotional regulation, healing, health and more - a great episode of Hidden Brain on 'what art does for your brain' with Daisy Fancourt and of course Shankar Vedantam
https://www.hiddenbrain.org/podcast/what-art-does-for-your-brain/

Republicans brace for money problems in Texas after Ken Paxton's win (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/republicans-money-problems-texas-ken-paxton-win-rcna347185
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p141#a260527p141

Ein Linker ist in der Informatik, was aus einzeln wenig wirksamen ein großes Ganzes bildet, das viel bewegen kann.
#pol

RE: https://hci.social/@RaphaelWimmer/116993262301407840
Über Bayern's jüngstes KI-Verbot-Verbot...
"Indem es Hochschulen und Lehrenden die Freiheit zur Entscheidung über die Nutzung von KI in unbeaufsichtigten Prüfungen nimmt, macht es den Weg alle…

Analysis: Puck's reported $250M valuation sounds wildly overpriced and could force the hand of existing investors who have been reluctant to sell to RedBird (Rick Ellis/Too Much TV Newsletter)
https://www.toomuchtv.com/p/the-unlikely-250-million-valuation-of-puck…

Sources: federal authorities prepare to charge a US serviceman and a KPMG employee with insider trading on prediction markets, as part of a new batch of cases (Dave Michaels/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/regulation/u-s

America built the world's greatest research engine. Now it's shrinking. (Sally Kornbluth/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/26/opinion/science-funding-cuts-mit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p139#a260527p139

Identitäts­politik ist, wenn die Beteiligten versuchen zu setzen, was „normal“ ist.
Was wir als „normal“ verinnerlicht haben, nehmen wir als gegeben hin, was anders ist, muß sich rechtfertigen. Für „normal“ ist „das ist halt so“ ein gültiges Argument. Damit kannst du durchsetzen, was du nicht begründen kannst, damit kannst du schön unterschwellig Macht ausüben. Dieses „normal“ wird als gesetzt bei jeder Argumentation mitgefühlt und macht eine offene, gleichberechtigte echte Diskussion …

Sources: the FTC has been investigating whether YouTube broke consumer protection laws by violating its own policies when suspending accounts or banning content (Bloomberg)

MS Now will fill its weekend evening schedule largely with taped video podcasts, expanding its use of Crooked Media content, starting June 28 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/ms-now-video-podcasts-weekends-alex-witt-exit-12…

MS NOW Will Expand Video Podcasts on Weekends, Alex Witt Plans Exit
MS NOW Will Expand Video Podcasts on Weekends, While Veteran Alex Witt Plans Exit

Sources: Anthropic discussed buying AI chip startup MatX for ~$7B, but talks are no longer active; MatX is now seeking to raise new capital at a ~$4B valuation (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/anthrop…

Last.fm announces it is an independent company again, 19 years after being acquired by CBS; it plans to keep its current team and continue the service as normal (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2182644/lastfm-independent-company-cbs-paramo…

Last.fm goes independent after breaking up with Paramount Skydance - Engadget
Last.fm is now an independent company, nearly two decades after it was acquired by CBS.

Sources: Cognition is generating ~$900M in annualized revenue, up more than 3x since the start of the year, and executives project it will end 2026 with $1.5B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-cognitions-booming-growth-h…

Inside Cognition’s Booming Growth, High Cash Burn
Revenue is surging at Cognition and several other AI application providers, previously unreported data show, offering some reassurance to investors and hardware suppliers that startups can thrive despite competition from Anthropic and OpenAI. Cognition, which makes the Devin coding assistant, is ...

Sources: Nvidia paused some deals with AI cloud providers in the revenue-sharing program it announced in July; Nvidia says the program is still in place (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/nvidia-pauses-revenue-sharing-deals-with-ai-cl…

Sources: Town, which develops enterprise personal AI assistants, is in talks to raise at a $1B valuation in a round led by Index Ventures (Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/amid-personal-assistant-investor

Amid Personal Assistant Investor Frenzy, Town Nears $1 Billion Valuation in Round Led by Instinct-Backer Index Ventures
Town, the buzzy enterprise personal agent, is raising at $1 billion, sources tell us

Alphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied "unfair" charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store (Alistair Gray/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1d990ab8-bb28-43b6-b9bc-daeb8a32c58f

OpenAI says reward hacking, an AI alignment problem in which a model takes unintended actions to achieve a goal, was a primary driver of the Hugging Face breach (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
Two new reports from OpenAI and METR shine new light on the OpenAI-Hugging Face cybersecurity incident that rocked the AI industry in July.