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@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-10-29 16:11:20

China is expediting IPO approvals amid its AI rivalry with the US, recently approving listings for chip designers MetaX and Moore Threads in just three months (The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/ch

China Fast Tracks Tech IPOs to Counter US AI rivalry
The tech rivalry with the U.S. has made China take an unusual step: It is accelerating the pace at which startups go public in hopes of increasing investment in the tech sector. In recent months, securities regulators in China approved the public listings of two chip designers, MetaX and Moore ...

@offenenetze@chaos.social
2025-10-30 16:48:27

Prinz William gewinnt Rechtsstreit im Fall um Paparazzifotos
spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/gro

Französisches Magazin »Paris Match«: Prinz William gewinnt Rechtsstreit im Fall um Paparazzifotos
»Paris Match« veröffentlichte Fotos von Prinz William und Herzogin Kate mit ihren Kindern im Urlaub. Nun musste das Blatt eine Erklärung veröffentlichen.

@ebinger@bildung.social
2025-08-29 20:33:42

Heute ging es für mich - ab jetzt alleine - 150 km von Cremona bis nach #Ferrara. Das war eine echte Herausforderung. Dreimal habe ich den Akku nachgeladen. Einmal sehr gut zu Mittag gegessen. Es ging am Po vorbei durch die Po-Ebene. Am Ende kam der Wind nicht wie am Vormittag von vorne, sondern schräg von hinten. Das hat gut getan. Morgen dann wieder mehr Bilder ...

Radweg Schild
Hier darf man seinen Akku nicht laden
13 Euro für ein komplettes Mittagsmenü
Kirche mit Kirchturm
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-10-29 20:40:59

Meta recorded a one-time income tax charge of $15.93B related to Trump's Big Beautiful Bill and expects 2025 capex of $70B-$72B, up from a $66B-$72B forecast (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
reuters.com/business/metas-pro

@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-08-28 00:30:00

Uneven Lives VII 👁️
不工整人生 VII 👁️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ERA 100, expired 1994
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

• English Alt Text: Black-and-white image of a person squatting on a brick sidewalk with a painted bicycle symbol, possibly eating or drinking. A ghostly double exposure effect and tree shadows create a moody, artistic scene. • 中文替代文字： 黑白图像，一人蹲在铺有砖块并标有自行车符号的人行道上，似乎在吃或喝东西。图像中有树影和幽灵般的双重曝光效果，营造出一种情绪化的艺术氛围。
• English Alt Text: Black-and-white photo of two delivery riders on motorcycles parked under a tree on a city sidewalk. One box shows the logo “闪送.” A bicycle rider and a car are visible on the street, with tall buildings in the background. • 中文替代文字： 黑白照片，城市人行道上两名快递员骑摩托车停在树荫下，其中一个快递箱上印有“闪送”标志。街道上有骑自行车的人和一辆汽车，背景是高楼建筑。
• English Alt Text: A black-and-white photo of a person standing beside a bicycle on a tree-lined sidewalk, facing an empty road. Abstract white shapes from film damage or double exposure add a surreal, artistic effect. • 中文替代文字： 一张黑白照片，画面中一人站在树荫人行道上的自行车旁，面朝空旷的马路。图像边缘和中央有抽象白色图形，可能是胶片损坏或双重曝光造成，增添了超现实的艺术感。
• English Alt Text: A black-and-white photo of a city street in front of the “Da Jiao Ting International Business Hotel.” Several vehicles, including a white van labeled “Maximum capacity: 10 people,” a bus, and a car, are parked outside. Reflections and silhouettes suggest the photo was taken through a window. • 中文替代文字： 黑白照片，城市街道场景，位于“大郊亭国际商务酒店”前。酒店外停有多辆车，包括一辆标有“准乘10人”的白色面包车、一辆公交车和一辆轿车。图像中有反光和人影，显示照片可能是透过窗户拍摄的。
@offenenetze@chaos.social
2025-10-30 16:48:23

Prinz William gewinnt Rechtsstreit im Fall um Paparazzifotos
spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/gro

Französisches Magazin »Paris Match«: Prinz William gewinnt Rechtsstreit im Fall um Paparazzifotos
»Paris Match« veröffentlichte Fotos von Prinz William und Herzogin Kate mit ihren Kindern im Urlaub. Nun musste das Blatt eine Erklärung veröffentlichen.

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-10-27 03:00:46

Day 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen

@ErikJonker@mastodon.social
2025-09-25 18:33:54

‘Als de TikTok-deal met China doorgaat, krijgt Trump er mogelijk een propagandakanaal in de VS bij’

‘Als de TikTok-deal met China doorgaat, krijgt Trump er mogelijk een propagandakanaal in de VS bij’
Mathijs de Weerdt | hoogleraar algoritmes: De VS en China zijn het zo goed als eens over een opsplitsing van TikTok. Daardoor krijgt president Donald Tump er mogelijk een hem gunstig gezind mediakanaal bij, waarschuwt algoritme-expert De Weerdt. „De app kan pro-Trump-filmpjes voorrang geven.”

@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-08-27 00:30:01

Uneven Lives VI 👁️
不工整人生 VI 👁️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ERA 100, expired 1994
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

• English Alt Text: Black and white photo of a busy urban street with people standing and conversing on the sidewalk, one person leaning against a wall using a phone, and reflections in glass adding depth; cars, buses, and buildings visible in the background. • 中文替代文字： 黑白街景照片，几位行人站在人行道上交谈，一人靠墙看手机，玻璃反射增添层次感；背景中有汽车、公交车和建筑物。
• English Alt Text: Black and white image of a street with a truck, a black car, and a white car; two people in the foreground, one wearing a hat and standing, the other wearing a cap and mask while looking at a phone; buildings and trees behind a fence in the background. • 中文替代文字： 黑白街道照片，左侧有卡车，中间是黑色轿车，右侧是白色轿车；前景中两人，一人戴帽站立，另一人戴鸭舌帽和口罩看手机；背景有建筑和树木，被围栏隔开。
• English Alt Text: Black and white photograph of modern high-rise buildings with stepped architecture and many windows, set against a partly cloudy sky. • 中文替代文字： 黑白照片展示现代高层建筑，结构呈阶梯状，窗户众多，背景是部分多云的天空。
• English Alt Text: Black and white photo of an urban lot filled with rubble, debris, and overgrown plants; two vehicles are parked in the center, with tall buildings in the background, a fence on the right, and trees on the left. • 中文替代文字： 黑白城市空地照片，地面布满瓦砾、杂物和杂草，中间停着两辆车；背景是高层建筑，右侧有围栏，左侧是树木。
@leftsidestory@mstdn.social
2025-08-26 00:30:00

Uneven Lives V 👁️
不工整人生 V 👁️
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ERA 100, expired 1994
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

English Alt Text: Black-and-white photo of two people talking near a modern building with reflective glass. A large abstract sculpture made of geometric shapes stands in the foreground. A patterned tall building is visible through the glass in the background. 中文替代文字： 黑白照片中，两人站在现代玻璃建筑前交谈。前景是一座由几何图形组成的大型抽象雕塑。背景玻璃后可见一栋带有独特图案的高楼。
English Alt Text: Black-and-white image of a city street with a double-decker and a single-decker bus. Two pedestrians walk along the sidewalk; one wears a long dress and carries a bag, the other wears a shirt and pants. The double-decker bus has Chinese characters and an “EV” sign. 中文替代文字： 黑白城市街景，一辆双层巴士和一辆单层巴士停靠在路边。两位行人走在人行道上，一位穿长裙提包，另一位穿衬衫和裤子。双层巴士上有“EV”标志和中文文字。
English Alt Text: Black-and-white photo of a person wearing a visor and face mask, seen from behind while standing on a sidewalk. In the background, a car drives by, a cyclist rides along the road, and another pedestrian walks near a building with trees and a fence. 中文替代文字： 黑白照片中，一位戴遮阳帽和口罩的人从背后拍摄，站在人行道上望向街道。背景中有一辆汽车驶过，一人骑车经过，另一人沿着有树木和围栏的建筑旁行走。
English Alt Text: Black-and-white city street scene featuring a bus labeled “669,” a pedestrian crossing the road with a backpack and bag, and two cyclists riding side by side. An overpass, buildings, and a fence line the background, capturing a moment of urban movement. 中文替代文字： 黑白城市街景，左侧是一辆标有“669”的公交车，一名行人背着背包和提袋穿越马路，右侧两人并肩骑行。背景有高架桥、建筑物和街边围栏，展现城市生活的动态瞬间。