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Updated my acting coaching carrd site:
https://davidaugust.carrd.co/

David August - Acting Coaching
Actor, acting coach, writer and director David August's carrd site.

Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an est. ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, eclipsing ~$1.35T in balance sheet debt (Kohei Yamada/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technolo…

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding
Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows

Apple’s innovating again, y’all!
#Apple

Lubach legt goed uit in #diepDuikDonderdag waarom je de #huggingface hack niet zomaar moet wegbagatelliseren. Het is naïef om zomaar te veronderstellen dat AI onze vanzelfsprekende grenzen eerbiedigt of te veronderstellen dat AI bedrijven daar heus wel een goede beveiliging voor zullen inbou…

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is proposing to subsidize liability insurance for state and local officers who are trained and deputized to enforce federal immigration laws, according to a planning document published Friday.
ICE’s partnerships with local departments have soared since Trump returned to the White House last year
and may get an additional boost with liability insurance
by removing a hurdle that has made some local police departments reluctant to join.…

ICE pitches plan to fund liability insurance for local officers
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pitching a plan to help shield local police officers who make immigration arrests from possible financial consequences if they are accused of on-duty misconduct. A planning document released Friday says the agency is proposing to subsidize liability insurance for state and local officers who are trained and deputized to enforce federal immigration laws. ICE’s partnerships with local departments have soared since President Donald Trump returned to th…

RE: https://todon.eu/@dbattistella/116944127241604271
Whatever I drank like several old fashioneds today

UK-based automotive dealership software maker Pinewood agrees to a £545M cash takeover by US private equity firm Ridgeview, after an Apax takeover fell through (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b36d4655-b05f-46a9-87b2-145437dbdc3b

‘The biggest threat is the president’
Election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November,
despite truce in bitter power struggle
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j

‘The biggest threat is the president’: election fears in Arizona as Trump sows fresh doubts
Experts warn election denialism could bubble up again in November, despite truce in bitter power struggle

I made a Spreadshirt account because Threadless wouldn't accept a new upload today (weird).
It is here: #tshirt

David Sacks says "Dario Amodei believes frontier AI is too powerful to distribute; we believe it is too powerful to centralize" after Amodei shared policy ideas (David Sacks/@davidsacks)
https://x.com/davidsacks/status/2089227290769080656

David Sacks (@DavidSacks) on X
Some thoughts on Dario’s post: 1. Dario does not actually address Gavin Baker’s account of what he said – something he could easily deny if it were inaccurate. 2. Dario claims his critics live in a “bubble” where all regulation equals regulatory capture. He calls this an overly