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An overview of macro tech trends for 2026, as "AI eats the world": bubbles, the AI platform shift, Big Tech FOMO, capex, Nvidia, US power backlogs, and more (Benedict Evans)
https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations

Presentations — Benedict Evans
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. New in May 2025, ‘AI eats the world’.

“When you want to include hyperlinks in your PowerPoint presentations, […] you can remove the recognizable underline, yet still maintain the link.
In short, you do this by removing the hyperlink from text and instead laying a transparent shape over the text…”
Haha, that's cute, Microsoft… 😂

⏳ The #TNC26 Call for Proposals closes this week.
We’re looking for presentations, interactive sessions, and side meetings that encourage collaboration and spark new thinking.
Whether you want to share your research, walk us through a new piece of transformative technology, or lead a discussion on pressing challenges our community is facing, we want to hear from you.
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Through mid-October, IHS had published far fewer posts on Facebook promoting vaccine clinics this year than last.
And in those posts as well as other notices, it replaced language touting immunization’s benefits
with wording that frames both routine childhood vaccinations and annual flu and COVID-19 shots as a personal choice,
advising patients to consult health care providers about their “options regarding vaccines.”
Current and former IHS clinicians told ProPublica…

The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.

What heathens wouldn’t want sounds to add sizzle their presentations

Adobe updates Acrobat to add new AI features, including presentation generation, file editing, and creating podcast summaries from docs stored in Adobe Spaces (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/21/adobe-acr…

Adobe Acrobat now lets you edit files using prompts, generate podcast summaries | TechCrunch
Adobe is adding AI tools to Acrobat, including the ability to generate podcast summaries of files, create presentations, and a way for users to edit files using prompts.

Moderating a panel next week and asked participants to send presentations in advance.
The two #globalsouth panelists sent them in not only in advance, but wonderful, detailed presentations.
The two #globalnorth panelists? Sent them not only late, but half-hone, bare-bones presentations t…

Some people watch TV, play games, go for a walk... to kill time. Others watch 30 year-old presentations to Brampton City Council of the Ontario city's new website while wandering around the archived website itself.
"We've been innovative and we've kept our consumer in mind. That's a small map. So click on that and you get a large version." (at 5:39)​
It's nice to see the speaker using Netscape.

Time is running out to get your talk submitted to speak at SCaLE 23x, March 5-8, 2026, at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California
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⁉️ Ihr habt Fragen, sucht Austausch oder habt Lösungen in den Bereichen #Retrodigitalisierung, #Bibliothek oder #GLAM?
💡 Meldet euch bis zum 21.11. für den Kurs "Digitalisierung für die Ewi…

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In Colorado, students taunted their Black classmates by playing whipping sounds on their cellphones and saying they should be shot “to make us a better race.”
The only two Black students in a small district in Ohio were called the N-word by white peers starting on their first day.
They got accustomed to hearing slurs like “porch monkey” and being told to go pick cotton.
And at a school in Illinois, white students included Confederate flags in their PowerPoint presentations …

Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

from my link log —
How Rust views tradeoffs.
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/rust-tradeoffs/
saved 2019-07-02 https://do…

How Rust Views Tradeoffs
Stephen Klabnik takes a look at some tradeoffs in the design of Rust, and how that makes it more suitable for some kinds of projects than others.

Rewriting Systems on Arbitrary Monoids
Eduardo Magalh\~aes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10564 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10564 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.10564
arXiv:2601.10564v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we introduce monoidal rewriting systems (MRS), an abstraction of string rewriting in which reductions are defined over an arbitrary ambient monoid rather than a free monoid of words. This shift is partly motivated by logic: the class of free monoids is not first-order axiomatizable, so "working in the free setting" cannot be treated internally when applying first-order methods to rewriting presentations.
To analyze these systems categorically, we define $\mathbf{NCRS_2}$ as the 2-category of Noetherian Confluent MRS. We then prove the existence of a canonical biadjunction between $\mathbf{NCRS_2}$ and $\mathbf{Mon}$.
Finally, we classify all Noetherian Confluent MRS that present a given fixed monoid. For this, we introduce Generalized Elementary Tietze Transformations (GETTs) and prove that any two presentations of a monoid are connected by a (possibly infinite) sequence of these transformations, yielding a complete characterization of generating systems up to GETT-equivalence.
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@… Sorry!
BTW, did you see that Beamer presentations won’t be accessible, and you need to use a new class, which is unfinished and only partly compatible: https://www.

@… Sorry!
BTW, did you see that Beamer presentations won’t be accessible, and you need to use a new class, which is unfinished and only partly compatible: https://www.

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Microsoft commissions AT study, which I feel shoehorns ‘AI’ into results.
Non-PDF/UA-compliant report:
https://cdn-dynmedia-1.microsoft.com/is/content/microsoftcorp/microsoft/msc/do…

Just this one trick... to massively inflate the number of Copilot users... Just rename the entire MS Office suite into Copilot
https://www.office.com/
(via @…)

🐘 PostgreSQL? ☁️ Kubernetes? 🦀 Rust? 🛠️ Automation?
If you use it, build it, or broke it—we want to hear about it.
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*waves* at @ukmcg.bsky.social #MuseTech25 folk from #FF2025 - it'd be lovely to see more museum presentations at #FF2026 - and the

If you use Quarto to make presentations for a professional setting, it is important to choose the right theme, e.g. #rstats

GitHub - EmilHvitfeldt/quarto-nes-theme: A Quarto reveal.js theme based on NES.css
A Quarto reveal.js theme based on NES.css. Contribute to EmilHvitfeldt/quarto-nes-theme development by creating an account on GitHub.

Der 8. Workshop befasst sich mit dem Thema „Digitalisierung für die Ewigkeit? – Datenqualität in der Praxis” und möchte sich mit dem Spannungsfeld zwischen Anforderungen und Machbarkeit sowie der Ressourcenverteilung auseinandersetzen.
📆 Wann: 19. und 20. März 2026
📌 Wo: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Haus Unter den Linden.
📢 Der Call for Presentations ist jetzt offen:

The #SeMatS2025 workshop has started this afternoon with a quick introduction by @… with 5 paper presentations and 2 keynotes. There is also a special issue on Semantic Materials Science coming up with the Semantic Web Journal. Stay tuned for further announcements!

Sources: software-focused PE firm Vista plans significant workforce cuts in the coming years as it uses AI to compile presentations, aggregate data, and more (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7e8764f3-7a6d-4d7a-8273-734655bedff2

Just starting: The conference #MetaphorsOfReligion, marking the highlight of the first phase of @…. I look forward to the next three days, including the keynote presentations by Eve Sweetser and Gerard Steen!

Gamma, which uses AI to help create presentations, social media posts, websites, and more, raised $68M at a $2.1B valuation and reports 600K paying users (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/business/dealbook/gamma-ai-fundraise.html

Gamma, a PowerPoint for the A.I. Era, Raises $68 Million
The five-year-old start-up, which has just 52 employees and is profitable, is now valued at $2.1 billion by investors including Andreessen Horowitz.

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Willa Cather Spring Conference 2026 Invitation for Papers or Scholarly Presentations
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updated: Monday, November 3, 2025 - 3:29pmfull name / name of organization: Willa Cather…
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Want to share your open source work at SCaLE 23x? CFP is now open!
🗓️ Deadline: Dec 1
🎤 Submit here: #SCaLE23x

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