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foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Austin-based Aalo Atomics, which is building a modular nuclear reactor and data center, set to finish construction in 2026, raised a $100M Series B led by Valor (Julia Hornstein/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/aalo-atomi

Aalo Atomics lands $100 million to launch nuclear reactors to power AI
Aalo Atomics raises $100 million to mass-produce nuclear reactors to power data centers amid the growing energy demand from AI.

Appeals court upholds $1M in fines against WA restaurant for violating COVID restrictions • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/08/15/appeals-court-upholds-1m-in-fines-against-wa-restaurant-for-violating-covid-restrictions/

Russia moves to restrict foreign messaging apps on Putin’s order: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/20/russia-moves-to-restrict-foreign.html

Hegseth moves to restrict journalistic reporting at the Pentagon
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/hegseth-unveils-new-restrictions-pentagon-press-access/story?id=125754272

NFL roster cuts: Tracking player releases ahead of the 2025 roster deadline https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-roster-cuts-tracking-player-releases-ahead-of-the-2025-roster-deadline

Trumps Strategie in deutschem Gewand
Die Union bereitet den Boden, um Richter*innen mit einfacher Mehrheit wählen zu können. Union und AfD hätten dann genug Bundestagsmandate, um ohne Mitsprache der demokratischen Parteien die Richter*innen am Verfassungsgericht zu wählen. Sie bräuchten dann keine Mehrheiten mehr, um die Verfassung zu ändern, sie könnten wie Trump einfach gefügige Leute installieren, die die Verfassung nach den Werten ihrer Parteiideologie umdeuten.

Stimmen zum Brosius-Gersdorf-Streit: Kulturstaatsminister Weimer für Änderung des Richterwahlverfahrens
Hätte der Eklat um Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf vermieden werden können? Nach der vorerst gescheiterten Richterernennung regt Wolfram Weimer eine Reform des Wahlverfahrens an, um Extremisten im Bundestag auszubremsen.

HUN-REN RCNS and its consortium receive prestigious European funding for the first human testing of a prosthesis designed to restore vision https://www.ttk.hun-ren.hu/en/recent-news/

HUN-REN RCNS and its Consortium Receive Prestigious European Funding for the First Human Testing of a Prosthesis Designed to Restore Vision
Over the past five years, the Belgian startup ReVision Implant has been developing a groundbreaking brain prosthesis that aims to partially restore vision to the blind. A consortium was formed to carry out the first human testing of the technology, consisting of the manufacturing startup and three research groups, including the

This is long, but hits on something that has been bothering me about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, too.
https://reactormag.com/bioessentialism-in-star-trek-strange-new-worlds/

In Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Is Biology Destiny? - Reactor
Vulcans are logic machines, Gorn are monsters... or so Strange New Worlds might have us believe.

Memo: Meta restructures Superintelligence Lab; Alexandr Wang heads TBD Lab, Robert Fergus heads FAIR, Nat Friedman heads products, Aparna Ramani heads Infra (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Restructures AI Group Again in Pursuit of Superintelligence
Meta Platforms Inc. is splitting its newly formed artificial intelligence group into four distinct teams and reassigning many of the company’s existing AI employees, an attempt to better capitalize on billions of dollars’ worth of recently acquired talent.