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Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia's stock falls 14% after a Bain Capital-backed entity sold $2.1B worth of shares at a discount, stoking AI valuation concerns (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-26…

Chipmaker Kioxia Sinks After Bain-Backed Firm Discloses Selloff
Kioxia Holdings Corp.’s shares dived more than 14% after a Bain Capital-backed entity unloaded $2.1 billion of shares in the Japanese memory chipmaker at a discount, stoking concerns about the lofty valuations of global AI-related firms.

from my link log —
What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work.
https://hackernoon.com/decentralizing-everything-never-seems-to-work-2bb0461bd168
saved 2019-08-31

What to do once you admit that decentralizing everything never seems to work | HackerNoon
Lots of tech projects these days, especially crypto-networks, aspire to decentralization. Or their evangelists say they do, because they feel they need to. Decentralization is the new disruption—the thing everything worth its salt (and a huge ICO) is supposed to be doing. Meanwhile, Internet progenitors like Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Tim Berners-Lee are trying to re-decentralize the Web. They respond to the rise…

Trump has officially given up on any semblance of attempting actual governance
and moved to pure man-baby-without-a-nap tantrum mode.
His latest “countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence” memorandum is basically him screaming
“EVERYONE WHO DOESN’T LIKE ME IS A TERRORIST!” in official government letterhead

Trump Declares Everyone Who Doesn’t Kiss His Ass Is A Terrorist
Trump has officially given up on any semblance of attempting actual governance and moved to pure man-baby-without-a-nap tantrum mode. His latest “countering domestic terrorism and organized p…

Trump to POLITICO: Zelenskyy 'doesn't have anything until I approve it' (Sophia Cai/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/26/trump-to-politico-zelenskyy-doesnt-have-anything-until-i-approve-it-00706783
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p36#a251226p36

My Xmas present! Discount tests!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Happy Mondays:
🎵 Step On
#HappyMondays
https://djantoniroma.bandcamp.com/track/happy-mondays-step-on-ext-intro-outro-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GfVc3sAQnGSZ8J5ngH5ys

when github dies, we'll have go back to running buildbots ourselves. it's annoying, but not _that_ bad; i've done a decent amount of it and i think it'll be okay
an amusing outcome is that writing projects in python now has a direct financial benefit over writing projects in rust

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
Tim Berners-Lee is calling for a return to a decentralized Internet and stronger data privacy, but his arguments could be more inspiring.
😡 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03859-y

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
Tim Berners-Lee is calling for a return to a decentralized Internet and stronger data privacy, but his arguments could be more inspiring.

In interviews, 22 indie food creators say Google's AI Overviews and AI food pics on Pinterest and Facebook have decimated traffic and yielded unusable recipes (Bloomberg)

State Department Intelligence Agency Dissented Over Putin's Appetite for Peace (Brett Forrest/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/putin-ukraine-peace-state-department-c9ed6cef
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p13#a251026p13