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Oh goody, a LinkedIn connection request with a message!
Let’s break this down:
> …vc backed…
Focused on quarterly profits / RoI instead of outcomes.
> …invite-only…
NDAs and other gag agreements.
> …openAI browser…
Chromium that begs authors for ARIA to parse content.
> …seeing promising results…
Which aren’t genuine results.
> …goal is 100% WCAG testing…
Ah, snake oil.
> …with high capture rates.
Sales…

There has been an insane amount of high-profile cybersecurity developments since Friday morning, so check out today's Metacurity for what you might have missed over the weekend, including
--US issues seizure warrants for Starlink terminals in Myanmar cyberscam compounds,
--US citizens plead guilty to aiding DPRK IT worker fraud,
--$28B tied to cybercrime activity over the last two years,
--Princeton got hit by a data-stealing cyberattack,
--Anthropic's r…

US issues seizure warrants for Starlink terminals in Myanmar cyberscam compounds
US citizens plead guilty to aiding DPRK IT worker fraud, $28B tied to cybercrime activity over the last two years, Princeton got hit by a data-stealing cyberattack, Anthropic's report of autonomous AI Chinese hacks hits pushback, Cybercom invests in cyberwarfare AI agents, much more

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

The Most Luminous Known Fast Blue Optical Transient AT 2024wpp - Unprecedented Evolution and Properties in the Ultraviolet to the Near-Infrared / in the X-rays and Radio: #LFBOT

Pernice Lafonk and his new scifi erotica book, Legacy of Booty 🥰 (7:33) ->
Kenan Thompson's Alter Ego Pernice Lafonk Introduces The Legacy of Booty - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5LcXtQmX1Y

User interface pretending to be human: fraud.
Statistical sentence generation described as “intelligence”: fraud.
Telling people, often children, to commit dangerous or criminal acts: all sorts of crimes.
Scientific papers generated, non-existing cases quoted at court, homework faked, artists ripped-off: fraud and copyright infringement.
Training based on unlicensed works: copyright infringement.
Data centers with tax incentives and special energy pricing: theft.
Promises to investors of AGI: fraud.
Government bailouts with taxpayer money: theft and fraud.
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Media and politicians: This is innovation, don’t get left behind.

I senaste avsnittet av Hälsoveckan diskuterar jag och Erik de nya kostråden i USA. Det är ett fantastiskt motsägande dokument där du hittar gott om saker som går emot varandra tillsammans med en premiss som gör att i princip all forskning som finns på nutrition blir irrelevant i förhållande till vad de anser vara naturligt.
USAs kostråd har något som alla kan tolka som positivt | Podcast

How Skövde, a small Swedish city of 58,000, built a local video game ecosystem via a degree for game developers at University of Skövde and a startup incubator (Ralph Jones/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/dec/12/sko…

There are few good things to be said about US medical insurance or those awful Pharmaceutical Benefits Manager (PBM) companies.
However, the R's are pushing to create "savings" plans so that people can try to self-insure (probably many will buy some sort of additional "catastrophic" coverage.)
But there is at least one thing positive to say about existing medical insurers and PBMS - they have large numbers of people who go over doctor bills to see if they …

[Mal die Rosebar Centrala ausprobiert, nach einigen Empfehlungen im Umfeld: Weine interessant, Speisen fand ich weniger anregend als erhofft -- sehr gut, aber halt jetzt nicht so diese osteuropäische Note, für die das Lokal gepriesen wird. Und diese recht beliebige Speisenfolge beim Sharing-Prinzip, nun ja, damit komm ich einfach nicht klar.]