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Esusu, which offers a rent reporting API to Zillow, banks, and others to help renters build credit scores, raised a $50M Series C at a $1.2B valuation (Krysta Escobar/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/esusu-funding-renters-credit-scores.html

Esusu, platform for renters to build credit scores, valued at $1.2 billion in new funding round
Esusu raises $50 million at a $1.2 billion valuation as it helps more renters build credit scores and gain access to mortgages and other financial products.

Mike Johnson criticizes Trump's 10% credit card cap (Kate Santaliz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/mike-johnson-trump-credit-card-cap
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p83#a260113p83

The 1990 Total Recall is one of my favorite movies, and I didn't know David Cronenberg was the original director for it and created the character of Kuato and all the mutants (although it makes perfect sense). The puppet itself was created by Rob Bottin.
How Kuato the mutant was created for Total Recall without any CGI:

How Total Recall Created Sci-Fi Mutant Kuato Without An Ounce Of CGI - SlashFilm
Total Recall's mutant rebel Kuato is one of many impressive non-CGI effects that Rob Bottin provided for Paul Verhoeven's sci-fi film.

Trump warns of ‘very severe things’ if credit card companies fail to lower interest rates to 10% by January 20 | Mint
https://www.livemint.com/economy/trump-warns-of-very-severe-things-if-credit-card-companies-fail-to-lower-interest-rates-to-10-by-january-20-11768183476509.html

GOP leaders throw cold water on Trump's credit-card push (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/13/congress/trump-credit-cards-thune-johnson-00725061
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p147#a260113p147

Texans' Nico Collins carted off field vs. Steelers for concussion evaluation https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6965020/2026/01/12/nico-collins-concussion-texans-steelers/

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company plans to expand its lending to commodities traders "dramatically" after extending ~$1.5B worth of credit to the sector (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11…

Tether Plans ‘Dramatic’ Expansion in Commodity-Trade Lending
Stablecoin giant Tether Holdings SA plans to expand “dramatically” in lending to commodities traders after extending roughly $1.5 billion worth of credit to the sector, Chief Executive Officer Paolo Ardoino said.

A person drove a U-Haul box truck down a street crowded with marchers demonstrating in support of the Iranian people,
causing protesters to scramble out of the way.
The U-Haul truck, with a window and side mirrors shattered, was stopped several blocks away and surrounded by police cars.
Helicopter footage from the Los Angeles news outlet KABC showed officers keeping the crowd at bay
as demonstrators swarmed the truck, throwing punches at the driver and thrusting flagp…

topology: Internet AS graph (2004)
An integrated snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from multiple sources, including the RouteViews and RIPE BGP trace collectors, route servers, looking glasses, and the Internet Routing Registry databases. This snapshot was created around October 2004.
This network has 34761 nodes and 171403 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

PCIe update: I'm now able to parse incoming InitFC1-* DLLPs and store away the credit counts in a register (which I don't actually use for anything yet), and emit a singular InitFC1-P DLLP of my own
Next step will be writing the rest of the setup logic so I can actually fully bring up VC0, then start sending UpdateFC idle DLLPs at regular intervals to keep the link alive when I'm not sending traffic.