Tootfinder

Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers travel-focused co-branded credit cards and an app, raised $63M led by GC, a source says at a $500M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/indian…

General Catalyst just led a $63M bet on India's travel payments market | TechCrunch
Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, said the deal doubles its valuation.

The Dutch tax authority, after advice by McKinsey, is in the process of outsourcing the collection of VAT (€1.5 billion per week) - a core activity - to a US company called Fast Enterprises, handing the Trump regime another unique tool to apply pressure.
https://www.

Eerenberg drukt Amerikaanse aanbesteding btw-systeem door, ondanks waarschuwingen experts
Het kabinet wil de uitbesteding van de software achter de btw-inning aan een Amerikaans bedrijf doorzetten. Dat schrijft staatssecretaris van Financiën Eelco Eerenberg (D66) in een brief aan de Kamer. Eerder uitten techexperts kritiek op de aanbesteding, omdat hiermee het innen van miljarden euro’s aan belasting in gevaar zou kunnen komen.

from my link log —
Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside.
https://shnatsel.medium.com/safe-simd-in-rust-even-on-the-inside-c6f1ff381828
saved 2026-06-20

Safe SIMD in Rust, even on the inside
Rust’s SIMD abstractions were not as safe as I’d like. Until now.

This is the most detailed picture of a human cell ever made 🧪
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX1CGIZMKJs/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Sam Bousaba on Instagram: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building proteins by linking amino acids together. In eukaryotic (human) cells, a ribosome typically adds about 5–10 amino acids per second (not ~20). Since a single cell can contain millions of ribosomes, protein production is massive—resulting in millions to tens of millions of peptide bonds formed per second per cell. The microtubules act as an internal transport network. Motor proteins such as kinesin move along these tracks, carrying cellular cargo. They “walk” step by step using ATP, at speeds of roughly 500–1000 nanometers per second. Each cell contains a dense network of these filaments, with many motor proteins moving simultaneously. Just beneath the cell membrane lies the actin cortex, a dynamic meshwork that helps maintain cell shape and resist mechanical stress. This structure is continuously remodeled—assembled and disassembled—allowing the cell to adapt to its environment. Now scale this up. Across ~37 trillion cells, each containing millions of ribosomes and hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, your body is constantly producing energy in the form of ATP. Total ATP turnover is enormous—roughly equivalent to your body weight in ATP recycled every day. The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched out, measures about 2 meters. Across all your cells, this would span distances comparable to traveling from Earth to the Sun and back many times (the exact multiple depends on assumptions about cell count and DNA packing). None of these processes are under conscious control. They began when you were a single cell and have continued uninterrupted ever since."
62K likes, 2,387 comments - scienceoftheuniverse on May 2, 2026: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building prot…

Eric Schmidt: "If someone offers you a seat on the rocket ship, you do not ask which seat, you just get on.”
Just for your edification, and this is important:
YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT GET ON ANY ROCKET SHIPS UNLESS YOU MADE SURE, OVER SEVERAL YEARS OF INTENSE STUDY AND TRAINING, THAT IT IS SAFE TO DO SO.*
*hint: it's not safe to go to space

🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭
Keine SVP-Schweiz!
Wirklich nicht.
🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭
#Schweiz #SVP

10 Mio. X Nein
Wir sagen Nein zur SVP-Schweiz!

Some of these are pretty reasonable! If you allow them for anyone, you probably make it so to compete at all requires everyone to follow suit. That's bad when those things have life-altering health implications.
But all of these things ultimately shape who is allowed to compete at the peak levels.
it's not always good! Honestly baseball is way less interesting to watch in the majors because everyone's great, all the plays are maximal capability, and it's kinda predictable. You don't end up with many of those "holy shit what just happened? that was awesome!" plays that are so much fun to watch. So as a spectator, these rules aren't always great. Sometimes you want to nerf the peak performance until the game is interesting. Sometimes you don't.
In F1, a huge part of the game is the nerding out about the rules and how to evade them cleverly to get peak performance. And the inside baseball on that is way more fun to watch than the race. The race is just cars going zoom and occasionally crashing, interrupted by amazing choreography in the pits.
There's a reason women's soccer is so much more fun for me to watch than men's. It's not been optimized so hard that the game isn't predictable in kind if not outcome. Plus the camaraderie shown is great.
But looking at all this, we gotta ask, what's sport's function in our societies? Why do we do this?

Weltraumschrott von SpaceX vor Einschlag auf dem Mond: NASA-Sonde soll nachsehen
In zwei Wochen wird eine SpaceX-Raketenstufe auf dem Mond einschlagen, auf der Erde wird das wohl nicht sichtbar sein. Ein NASA-Orbiter soll später nachsehen.

Weltraumschrott von SpaceX vor Einschlag auf dem Mond: NASA-Sonde soll nachsehen
In zwei Wochen wird eine SpaceX-Raketenstufe auf dem Mond einschlagen, auf der Erde wird das wohl nicht sichtbar sein. Ein NASA-Orbiter soll später nachsehen.

Climate alarm!
This is NOT within normal bounds for the Netherlands: the second half of June is now forecasted to become the warmest in 126 years, beating June 2023 by a margin of over 3°C!
24-hour average of 23.4°C, in this forecast.

Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/sam-altman…

Sam Altman Offers YC Founders $2 Million in OpenAI Tokens For Equity
OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman late Tuesday offered to invest $2 million in every startup currently in the Y Combinator startup accelerator program—not in cash, but in OpenAI tokens. “I am excited to see what will happen with tokenmaxxing startups, both for how they work internally and the products they can build,” Altman posted on X after unveiling the offer in a talk to YC founders