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Insurance tech company Ethos, last valued at $2.7B in 2021, files for a US IPO ; its revenue rose 54.9% YoY to $183.7M in H1, with net income up 64% to $30.7M (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/09/26/sequoia-accel-ethos-ipo…

Sequoia, Accel-backed Ethos files for IPO
The life insurance tech company was last valued at $2.7 billion.

Marc Maron on Anti-Woke "comedians". 🎯
I still think the best explanation for the anti-woke comedy thing is the "rebel comedian" ethos. These clowns think they're pushing back on suppression of speech, but they're just punching down.
I also notice Howie Mandel tries to downplay the influence (not "power") comedians with large platforms have.

A one-time national guardsman, who deployed for civil affairs, can absolutely lecture *checks notes* the most senior generals and admirals in the US armed forces on whatever “warrior ethos” is.
It’s a protein powder, right? Warrior Ethos sounds like a protein powder available from the tiktok shop.
https:/…

Hegseth to tell generals about the 'warrior ethos' in rare gathering: Sources
Officials say the gathering could last just 30 minutes.

"nothing says “fearless military leadership” like being absolutely terrified of books about civil rights and the radical concept that people of different backgrounds might have something to contribute."
The “Warrior Ethos” According To Trump: A Field Guide To Being Scared Of Everything | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/the-warrior-ethos-according-to-trump-a-field-guide-to-being-scared-of-everything/

Hegseth tells troops to resign if they oppose his plan to scrap 'woke' policies and restore warrior ethos (Morgan Phillips/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hegseth-tells-troops-resign-oppose-his-plan-scrap-woke-policies-restore-warrior-ethos
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p84#a250930p84

❝Arduino will retain its independent brand, tools, and mission, while continuing to support a wide range of microcontrollers and microprocessors from multiple semiconductor providers as it enters this next chapter within the Qualcomm family.❞ https://ar…

Qualcomm is buying Arduino, releases new Raspberry Pi-esque Arduino board
Qualcomm claims Arduino will keep its own branding and “open source ethos.”…

Charting Uncertain Waters: A Socio-Technical Framework for Navigating GenAI's Impact on Open Source Communities
Zixuan Feng, Reed Milewicz, Emerson Murphy-Hill, Tyler Menezes, Alexander Serebrenik, Igor Steinmacher, Anita Sarma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04921

Charting Uncertain Waters: A Socio-Technical Framework for Navigating GenAI's Impact on Open Source Communities
Open Source Software communities face a wave of uncertainty as Generative AI rapidly transforms how software is created, maintained, and governed. Without clear frameworks, communities risk being overwhelmed by the complexity and ambiguity introduced by GenAI, threatening the collaborative ethos that underpins OSS. We conduct a scenario-driven, conceptual exploration using a socio-technical framework inspired by McLuhan's Tetrad to surface both risks and opportunities for community resilience a…

Behind the Blog: Speculation, Distraction, and Smart Glasses https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-speculation-distraction-and-smart-glasses/

#Hegseth:
End #climatechangeworship
The regime has declared war on our planet.
https://bsky.app/p…

AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 (@anthropocenempg.bsky.social)
➕ warrior ethos #Hegseth: End #climatechangeworship The regime has declared war on our planet.

#uspol

So, been wondering why my mic audio has been absolutely wretched over the last few videos and such. Come to find out, if you accidentally wreck almost all of the settings on the compressor/gate then things are going to go very, very poorly. Did a quick test run in OBS and everything sounded so much better.
Current setup for the microphone: Earthworks Audio Ethos -> Universal Audio SOLO/610 -> dbx 286s -> [insert generic audio interface] -> Linux rig

"Hegseth must realize his key warrior ethos is off base, or face "peril"
Retired military officer issues Pete Hegseth a stark warning: 'Ignore at your own peril' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-warning-peril/

How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing new and expanded government contracts and becoming the S&P's top-performing stock of 2025 (Washington Post)

In Trump’s Washington, Palantir is winning big
From warfighting and tracking deportations to writing State Department cables with AI, the company is benefiting from a new technology-driven cost-cutting ethos.

Apache Foundation has changed its logo.
https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/introducing-the-asfs-new-logo

Introducing The ASF’s New Logo  - The Apache Software Foundation Blog
Last year we shared that The Apache® Software Foundation (ASF) would be evolving its corporate logo and brand system to better represent our enduring ethos of community over code. Today, we are proud to unveil the new ASF logo.  Why an Oak Leaf? The centerpiece of our new logo is an oak leaf, chosen for […]

Moscow tries to open a new front by subverting the democracy of Moldova. A cost-effective means of waging war, and perfectly within the Russian ethos.
Disgusting.
News from the trenches of democracy, provided by one of the few remaining true journalists reporting from Ukraine.
He shared the friend link to bypass the paywall:

Moscow Might Open a New Front of the War During the Moldovan Elections
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

Transfer Learning via Lexical Relatedness: A Sarcasm and Hate Speech Case Study
Angelly Cabrera, Linus Lei, Antonio Ortega
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16555 https://

Transfer Learning via Lexical Relatedness: A Sarcasm and Hate Speech Case Study
Detecting hate speech in non-direct forms, such as irony, sarcasm, and innuendos, remains a persistent challenge for social networks. Although sarcasm and hate speech are regarded as distinct expressions, our work explores whether integrating sarcasm as a pre-training step improves implicit hate speech detection and, by extension, explicit hate speech detection. Incorporating samples from ETHOS, Sarcasm on Reddit, and Implicit Hate Corpus, we devised two training strategies to compare the effec…

Stephen Miller delivered a eulogy for Charlie Kirk that served as a battle cry for the Trump administration’s state-sponsored war on his perceived foes
—a war for which Miller is the primary strategist.
The speech was a jarring piece of rhetoric.
It is a perfect encapsulation of the ethos of Trumpism,
boiling away the president’s idiosyncratic habits of mixing insult comedy and weird digressions into his rhetoric
and leaving, in Miller’s voice,
a residue…

Stephen Miller’s Hypocrisy Is Right There in His Speech
In the White House adviser’s view, violent rhetoric is allowed only when he and Trump are the ones spewing it.