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Deion rips 'foolish' reports on Shedeur draft prep https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45435167/deion-sanders-pre-draft-reports-shedeur-sanders-did-hurt

Might I suggest that it's not only Musk's politics that are preventing people from buying Teslas, but also the slap-dash approach to road safety and crash investigation, releasing products that aren't ready, and lying at investor conferences that might also be the problem?

Welp, after breaking out the level and getting everything perpendicular: those shelves are absolutely driving me crazy as it still looks like everything is sloped. Ended up buying the full-length T2 shelves and that should fix the problem. If not then I will resort to more drastic measures.
#minirack #homelab

The US is finally building its National Database of Ruin.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/

U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

Hacker Conference HOPE Says U.S. Immigration Crackdown Caused Massive Crash in Ticket Sales
https://www.404media.co/hacker-conference-hope-says-fewer-people-buying-tickets-because-u-s-immigration-crackdown/

What a headline:
"OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience"
😬
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/chatgpt-head-tells-court-openai-is-interested-in-buying-chrome/

FUCK YOU nvidia!!!
8Gb vram is paltry and not worth buying anymore.

WPP rebrands GroupM as WPP Media after reportedly laying off dozens of staffers in recent weeks (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/wpp-media-groupm-rename-advertising-1236411920/

WPP Erases 'GroupM,' One of Madison Avenue's Most Influential Names
WPP will rename its influential GroupM media buying operation, calling it WPP Media and focusing more intently on A.I. and data

Realizing one reason I'm finding ChatGPT useful right now is it's (so far) relatively unsullied by ads. It makes all sorts of terrible mistakes but at least there's not a human adversary trying to trick me into buying things I don't want.

If it involves buying something, it might not actually be what we're looking for

As a lifelong ThinkPad user and fanboy, I'm seriously considering buying the Asus Zenbook S14 OLED... and how well does such a Zenbook (dedicated “Copilot PC”) work with Linux?
Should I or shouldn't I...?
https://www.asus.com/laptops/for-home/zenb

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.07385 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

Partial Allocations in Budget-Feasible Mechanism Design: Bridging Multiple Levels of Service and Divisible Agents
Budget-feasible procurement has been a major paradigm in mechanism design since its introduction by Singer (2010). An auctioneer (buyer) with a strict budget constraint is interested in buying goods or services from a group of strategic agents (sellers). In many scenarios it makes sense to allow the auctioneer to only partially buy what an agent offers, e.g., an agent might have multiple copies of an item to sell, they might offer multiple levels of a service, or they may be available to perfor…

Hacker Conference HOPE Says U.S. Immigration Crackdown Caused Massive Crash in Ticket Sales
https://www.404media.co/hacker-conference-hope-says-fewer-people-buying-tickets-because-u-s-immigration-crackdown/

I’m buying computer parts from Germany thanks to the peculiar political choices of the nearby island

Agent-based Liquidity Risk Modelling for Financial Markets
Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Rory Baggott, Namid Stillman, Jianfei Zhang, Dingqiu Zhu, Tao Chen, Justin Lyon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15296

Agent-based Liquidity Risk Modelling for Financial Markets
In this paper, we describe a novel agent-based approach for modelling the transaction cost of buying or selling an asset in financial markets, e.g., to liquidate a large position as a result of a margin call to meet financial obligations. The simple act of buying or selling in the market causes a price impact and there is a cost described as liquidity risk. For example, when selling a large order, there is market slippage -- each successive trade will execute at the same or worse price. When th…

#Tesla shares are kind of slowly recovering their past price.
I suspect it's not just people "buying the dip", but also "the market" reacting to boycotters being caught.
Please, be careful, be smart, don't get caught.
#boycotttesla

Whatever is left of our constitutional rights and liberties exists mostly in the gaps between what the government knows about us. This is the beginning of the end. Soon, when conservatives are in charge, they'll make us follow their stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not, and when liberals are in charge, well, they'll make us follow [i]their[/i] stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not.
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U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

Resistance is not always taking place in the public space. It isn't always loud and visible.
It's also the way you think, how you act, how you react to the acts of others, and your buying and voting behaviour.
Also, not all resistance is shared with the world.
#BeKind

Curious about what the experience has been like for anyone buying a #Linux device from Star Labs. Was it worth it? I'm currently looking at their tablets since I've always wanted a decent Linux tablet, doubling as a light work station with a Bluetooth keyboard.

Smart algorithms you’re having there, #wallstreet hi-speed traders, insta buying bacause a guy with BLOOMBERG in his tag spread misinfo.

I looked into buying a solar charged battery bank. This product category is completely dominated by no-name 3rd party sellers. 🚩
Charge time is key. No listing had even a rough estimate for solar charge time. 🚩
An example unit claims max solar power 1.13 w, with enough battery power to charge an iPhone 14 Pro twice. Working from that, you'd need ~25 hours of full sun to fully charge. I'd roughly estimate that means at least 3 days in summer. Not quite worthless, but close…

What I don't get about promoted boycott days is
What the hell are you doing ever buying through Amazon?! Boycott always not just for one useless day.

Everyone's complaining about Nintendo Switch 2 games costing 80 dollars and I'm here buying Mafia 3 Definitive Edition for my Legion Go for 80 cents. #Gaming

Me buying a house: Man, these mortgage payments are so much higher than rent...
Me now: Man, these mortgage payments are so much lower than rent...
#MorningMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyfeK6ozRJ

I... got scammed.
By https://firstpressgames.com .
I wanted to buy a birthday present, and I didn't expect this company to be so problematic.
One month later without getting anything from them, nor responses to my messages... and it crosses my mind that I should have checked online reviews for that e-commerce business before buying anything... and there you go: 1.4 stars out of 5 (no one gave more than 2 stars).
The few reviews that gave 2 stars are something like this, YEARS of delay: https://gamepad.club/@vny/110691909210001220
All of the public reviews use the word scam in one or another language, no exceptions.
Then I checked their social accounts, and... of course, they blocked comments everywhere, to avoid the possibility of angry people popping up and pointing to their shady behavior.

Was a lil pricey but don't regret my @… Laptop 13 purchase one bit. @… Alpine skin was not the easiest to get on right but is very nice as well. Can't imagine myself buying something else. Fedora Workstation is…

I'm giving away some technical #books, preferably around #Osona / #Vic , but any #Catalonia town around the R3 line down to #Barcelona is also ok. I don't have a car and I'd prefer not having to package and send them.
The publisher made some mistakes so I have duplicates, the ones I'm giving away:
- Math for Security
- The Shape of Data
- Statistics Done Wrong
- The Rust Programming Language (2021 Edition)
I'd also prefer giving it to people who can't afford buying expensive books often, for economical fairness reasons.
⁨#Giveaway⁩ ⁨#donation⁩ #bookstodon #freebooks