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🏭 Yeast cell factory converts methanol into L-lactate for biodegradable plastics
#biotech

Yeast cell factory converts methanol into L-lactate for biodegradable plastics
Methanol is an ideal feedstock for bio-manufacturing. Converting it into lactate, a monomer for biodegradable plastic, offers a promising strategy for addressing the challenge of white pollution. However, it remains difficult to engineer microbes to produce lactate from methanol due to methanol toxicity and strong competition between product synthesis and cell growth.

Russian FLAG in POKROVSK lasted LESS THAN AN HOUR #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/russian-flag-in-pokrovsk-lasted.html

Umstieg auf OLED: Welche iPads und Macs neue Bildschirme bekommen könnten
Bislang nutzt Apple nur beim iPhone und iPad Pro Displays auf Basis organischer Leuchtdioden. Das soll sich deutlich erweitern.

Gilt aber für Mastodon gleichermassen (nicht nur für Matrix) #lasttoot

Millionen Kundendaten vom Wired-Magazin im Netz – Diebstahl bei Condé Nast?
Have I been Pwned listet einen Data Breach für Wired, der sensible Daten von 2,3 Millionen Nutzern umfasst. Mutmaßlich könnten weitere Millionen folgen.

Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to buy NYSE-listed DigitalBridge, a private equity firm that invests in data centers and digital infrastructure operators (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-29…

Folks, just a heads up, I’ve closed new verification sign ups on Gaza Verified for about two weeks.
We will restart scheduling folks for calls on November 14th with calls to resume on November 17th.
We’ve taken this decision to allow @… (who, as you know, is herself being forced to endure Israel’s genocide in gaza) and me time to tend to the peopl…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

It’s funny how many people have no idea how to buy used stuff for non-inflated prices.
Here’s some tips to get you started (for eBay):
1. The first thing about eBay is that most things listed as “buy now” are overpriced—otherwise someone else would have bought it already. You have to always look at sold listings to see what things are actually worth.
2. Use saved searches specifically limited in price and distance.
3. Always sort by newly listed for “Buy Now” and ending soonest for auctions.
4. Look for older buy now listings and make offers. The older the listing the lower you offer. Some tools like flippah.net show you the listed date directly without having to dig deep on the eBay website. You can make offers even when the button isn’t there, just send a message.
5. Never buy anything from sellers with 0 feedback or less than a 98% or so rating.
A general thing to remember is that unless you buy new stuff or see a listing from a store (some categories have a lot of stores, e.g. cameras) you’re likely to deal directly with a private seller and a human being. Be polite and respectful but don’t be afraid to say no. Don’t make insulting offers.

Zhipu AI launches a share sale to raise ~$560M in a Hong Kong IPO at a valuation of ~$6.6B, which would make it the first LLM developer listed in Hong Kong (Themis Qi/South China Morning Post)
https://www.sc…

China’s Zhipu AI launches US$560 million share sale amid heated IPO tech race
The company, marketed overseas as Z.ai, eyes US$6.6 billion valuation with Hong Kong’s first large language model listing.

Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.
My answer is no.
And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan