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😘 The emotional burden of flirting on your phone: Lies, ghosts, and crumbs of attention
https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-07-21/the-emotional-burden-of-flirting-on-your-phone-lies-ghosts-and-crumb…

The emotional burden of flirting on your phone: Lies, ghosts, and crumbs of attention
Toxic behaviors, such as ghosting or intermittent flirting to maintain the other person’s interest, damage self-esteem, increase feelings of loneliness, and fuel dating app fatigue

Vinay Prasad,
a critic of broadly administering coronavirus shots
who became the Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine and gene therapy regulator in May,
was ousted Tuesday,
according to two people familiar with the situation.

Prasad had recently come under fire from some Republicans and conservative activists,
including far-right activist Laura Loomer,
over his approach to drug approvals and his previous support for Democratic politicians.

Vocal FDA critic who became top agency vaccine regulator abruptly departs
Vinay Prasad, who became prominent as a critic of coronavirus vaccine policy, briefly served as the FDA’s top regulator of vaccines, gene therapies and the blood supply.

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

'Colors' by @… from earlier this month -- a great read: https://artlung.com/blog/2025/08/07/colors-indieweb-carnival

ArtLung: Colors ~ 07 Aug 2025

Sources: Menlo Ventures targets ~$1.5B for new funds to invest in AI ventures, including $650M for early-stage startups, and $850M for later-stage companies (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/menlo-venture

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Robinhood announces an expanded offering of tokenized US stocks across Europe, crypto staking in US, a Layer 2 blockchain for real-world asset settlement, more (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/30/robinhood-crypto-cannes.html

Robinhood expands its global push, minutes from crypto chief's old cramped apartment in Cannes
Robinhood is offering tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs across Europe, crypto staking in the U.S., perpetual futures for eligible EU traders, and a new blockchain.

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

Google unveils Gemini AI features, like select to search, for Chromebook Plus laptops like Lenovo's new $649 14" flagship with MediaTek's Kompanio Ultra chip (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/690885/googl

Chromebook Plus laptops like Lenovo’s sleek, new 14-incher are getting free Gemini AI features
Google adds new Gemini features like select to search to Chromebook Plus laptops. Lenovo’s Chromebook Plus 14 also debuts with a new processor for on-device AI.