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Zorgelijke situatie bij het OM qua ICT.
https://www.…

Officieren van justitie moedeloos en gefrustreerd door aanhoudende ict-problemen, zegt vakbond van magistraten
Openbaar Ministerie: Het OM dreigt de loyaliteit van medewerkers te verliezen, waarschuwt de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Rechtspraak. „De emoties rijzen aan alle kanten de pan uit. Men ziet het niet meer zitten.”

Die RISM-Ländergruppe Deutschland und die @… laden vom 13.–14.11.2025 zur interdisziplinären Tagung „Musikdrucke im digitalen Wandel. Perspektiven ihrer Dokumentation, Repräsentation und Vernetzung“ nach Dresden ein. Fachvertreter*innen aus Musik-, Buch-, Informationswissenschaft und Kunstgeschichte werden zum Umgang mit historischen Musikdrucken im di…

Sources: OpenAI makes a five-year business plan to meet $1T spending pledges; it currently books ~$13B in ARR, 70% of which comes from consumers using ChatGPT (Financial Times)

(An overdue) super chill Friday night #Music4Coding night... Next up Scottish artist Petrichor with my fave track from their Cloud Chamber EP (2017), just all-round beautiful and very fitting to what "petrichor" describes... the smell/feeling after a summer rain...
Koh-Rah

A profile of Ivan Urgant, a popular Russian late-night TV host who became a pariah after his suspension in February 2022 for opposing the invasion of Ukraine (Paul Sonne/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/wo…

Ivan Urgant Was Russia’s Late-Night King Until Putin’s War in Ukraine
Ivan Urgant was an unstoppable Russian megastar. Then he expressed opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

😰 It's end-of-year concert season. Why do some kids struggle with performance anxiety?
https://theconversation.com/its-end-of-year-concert-season-why-do-some-kids-struggle-with-performance-anxiety-271099

It’s end-of-year concert season. Why do some kids struggle with performance anxiety?
Even megastars like Barbra Streisand have suffered from stage fright.

Behold, the 1200 meter tall "Labyrinth" ice wall/fall at Morteratsch, Bernina group, Engadin. September 2024.
(A special place if you ever wanted/needed to feel real small, surrounded by majestic fourthousanders...)
#MountainMonday #MonocrhomeMonday

Majestic Labs, which makes patent-pending server architecture that promises more memory capacity, raised $100M, including a $71M Series A led by Bow Wave (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/10/majestic-labs-meta-google-ai-funding.html
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Former Google, Meta executives raise $100 million for high-capacity AI servers startup
The three plan to sell high-memory server technology.

OpenAI's blockbuster deals with Nvidia and AMD add a new layer to its complicated ownership structure and will dilute existing shareholders like Microsoft (George Hammond/Financial Times)