Tootfinder

Next part of my dad's HiFi is trying to understand his home built amp; it needs a bit of a front clean but was working OK. It's dated 1977, but has obviously been tinkered with over time - the power transistors on the back are dated from early 70's before I was born, but then there's a little preamp in there from mid-90's; so I need to figure it out.
#electronics

E-Rezept einlösen: So geht's
Mit dem neuen Weg für die elektronische Verordnung werden die meisten E-Rezepte eingelöst. Neben der Gesundheitskarte gibt es aber noch weitere Möglichkeiten.
https://www.heise.de/ratgeber/…

How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out's The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI's Sora, a first from a major record label (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts

Washed Out's new music video was created with OpenAI's Sora tech
Washed Out is the first major music artist to commission a music video using OpenAI's Sora text-to-video technology.

"Trump is telling the same lies that every wave of migrants who came to the United States has always been subjected to," he said. "When the Jews came, when the Germans came, when the Italians came. Irish. We were told the same thing, lose our culture, lose our language, drive down wages, and the crime will go up. And exactly the opposite has happened."
'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument - Raw Stor…

'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument
Longtime Republican strategist Rick Tyler slammed former President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant vision for the future in an MSNBC panel on Wednesday, following a political event in Michigan the previous day in which Trump warned that immigrants would invade people's houses if he's not elected.In pa...

Follow the money in Trump's $450 million NY fraud case
#trumpfraud

Trump's $450 million NY fraud case explained
Follow the money in the $450 million scam behind Trump's conviction for fraud.

Alstom unterliegt in Streit um S-Bahn-Vergabeverfahren vor Berliner Kammergericht
Berlin und Brandenburg können mit ihrer gemeinsamen Ausschreibung für die S-Bahn fortfahren. Das Kammergericht Berlin hat die meisten Beschwerdepunkte des Bahnherstellers Alstom abgewiesen.
http…

Alstom unterliegt in Streit um S-Bahn-Vergabeverfahren
Berlin und Brandenburg können mit ihrer gemeinsamen Ausschreibung für die S-Bahn fortfahren. Das Kammergericht Berlin hat die meisten Beschwerdepunkte des Bahnherstellers Alstom abgewiesen.

“1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds”.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/1-in-5-americans-think-violence-may-solve-u-s-divisions-poll-finds

1 in 5 Americans think violence may solve U.S. divisions, poll finds
Most Americans, no matter their political affiliation, do not believe that violence is a solution to domestic political divisions, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll.

Defense Dollars: What's in the Record Pentagon's 2025 Budget Plan: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/03/defense-dollars-whats.html

How the AI-generated music video for Washed Out's The Hardest Part was created entirely using OpenAI's Sora, a first from a major record label (Wendy Lee/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts

Washed Out's new music video was created with OpenAI's Sora tech
Washed Out is the first major music artist to commission a music video using OpenAI's Sora text-to-video technology.

There's been a ton of conversation about the xz exploit, but the real reason this kind of thing could even happen is because of *human* vulnerability, not a technology vulnerability. So we have to take a deep look at how we truly support the people who make open source happen. Here's the real, substantive investment @… has been providing:

What can you actually do to reduce the threat of hacks like xz?
With the recent xz hack in the news, it's crucial to support maintainers of open source projects. Fastly has been doing just that with our open source program, Fast Forward.

I sense it's matter-of-factly the case that there's a miracle going on — there actually is — and it's everything.
And it's my sense that #Zen shikantaza ("just sitting") #meditation is, matter-of-factly, that.
🙂 🙏

These bloody morons,
when will they get it that they are useless ?
Before and after video
https://x.com/levarstoney/status/1763939420510593242?s=61

Mayor Levar M. Stoney (@LevarStoney) on X
Donald Trump is coming to Richmond today for a campaign rally. As our city’s Mayor, I’m here to remind you that Trump’s bigoted message has no place in our city or in our Commonwealth. We will re-elect President Biden in November.

I wonder who's invited.

Japan's Nikkei index crossed the 40,000 threshold for the first time early Monday on robust technology issues following the advance of their U.S. counterparts late last week.
The Nikkei benchmark quickly topped the 40,000 line after the market opening. In the first 15 minutes of trading, the 225-issue #Nikkei #Stock

Nikkei tops 40,000 for 1st time after upbeat Wall St.
Japan's Nikkei index crosses the 40,000-point threshold for the first time on robust technology issues following the advance of their U.S. counterparts late last week.

"South Africa's new energy plan needs a mix of nuclear, gas, renewables and coal, says expert"
#SouthAfrica #Energy #FossilFuels

South Africa's new energy plan needs a mix of nuclear, gas, renewables and coal, says expert
South Africa's economy has been hard hit by 15 years of loadshedding (rolling blackouts). The country's coal-fired power plants have a maintenance backlog and frequently experience unexpected technical failures. On the other hand, South Africa has committed, under the Paris Agreement, to transition to low-carbon energy generation technologies by 2050. This puts South Africa at an energy crossroads where it needs well thought out policy development and implementation to make the transition possi…

Anyone who peruses the cereal aisle at the supermarket knows two things:
1. It ain't cheap.
2. It ain't food.
The sugar-coated, chemically flavored crap that Kellogg's sells should never pass your lips. Hard to imagine that Kellogg's started out as a health food company,
https://

“Australia's zero greenhouse gas ambitions could be set back if a vast reserve of carbon stored in a seabed off Western Australia is released into the atmosphere, according to a leading marine ecologist.
World Heritage-listed Shark Bay has the planet's largest reserve of seagrass meadows, but more than a quarter were lost in a marine heatwave in 2011.”
<…

This is why in EU funded (#HorizoneEurope) projects, the commission demands that a copy of every publications is *ALSO* archived in a repository like #Zenodo - and they have full guidelines as to preserving open access to science via their

I think that's great. Somebody's got to start this work. Oregon is a good place for that I think. Therapists will need to get personally involved with the stuff to really understand what's going on here, though. The restrictions on the therapists seem misguided. https://kolektiva.social/@Leftis…

Pay attention to Dr. Hayhoe's advice: https://climatejustice.rocks/@kathhayhoe/112039486415949361

Pay attention to Dr. Hayhoe's advice: https://climatejustice.rocks/@kathhayhoe/112039486415949361

First of this year's dragonfruit in this morning's breakfast, with last of the mangoes and passionfruit now in peak of season with a bucket a day to pick. Before the dragonfruit, it was mango, peaches and Tropical Anna apples. The guavas and tamarillos will be next, and there's 3 big bunches of bananas on, and citrus. Looks like we're nearly at the point, in this 4yr old retrosuburban adventure, of being able to pick fruit for breakfast year round, and that's such an ind…

St Mary's Kempley
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/st-marys-church-kempley/
Has the oldest timber roof of any building in England and incredible medieval wall paintings.

I've been reading Ray Dailo's "Principles for dealing with the changing world order" in which he charts the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms and dynasties.
The main cycle, he reckons is:
1) Winner of a war consolidates power, unites the population (often through oppression)
2) A smart cooperative equitable educated society with meritocracy means good societal progress and wide sharing of the wealth.
3) Long period of peace, building good tech and military and financial systems.
4) Leadership corrupts: Excessive debt, money-printing, inequality, financial ruin, no sense of solidarity, then a natural disaster pushes it over the edge
5) The fall: Escalating rebellions, very bad inequality, internal conflicts
6) Civil war, revolution, eventually a strong leader proves the winner and back to 1.
We in the western civilization are very clearly in the late states of this kind of cycle, and it's frankly terrifying with the weapons we have these days when it comes to a war.
The leadership is too corrupt to try and fix the inequality or invest in that well educated, equitable, cooperative society.
He explicitly agrees with Marx and implicitly with me a lot more than I'd have expected from the rabid capitalist that Ray Dailo is.
It's interesting to hear his emphasis on inequality and how a prosperous society depends upon sharing the gains of prosperity widely. You tend to hear hyper-capitalists mostly emphasizing that capital's gains should go to capital, and Ray is certainly suggesting the opposite here. That if that happens, it corrupts the leadership and ends with cronyism and debt and revolution.
We seem to basically agree what creates good prosperous peaceful civil society, and that capitalism in the Anglican world isn't doing it, and that fucked up corrupt government is why we aren't doing it.
We'd offer fairly different prescriptions though I think.
#reading #books #economics

When I want my mind blown, I compare former world's largest supercomputers to the tech I have around.
ASCI Red, the world's fastest supercomputer until the year 2000, was 150m² large, consumed 850,000W of power …and was slower than an iPhone 14 Pro, which uses ~6W.
ASCI Red had over 1TB of RAM, which may still sound impressive, except that RAM was 2× slower than the iPhone's 1TB SSD.

If anyone here is a fan of #Shakespeare and #Bollywood, I just caught 'Cirkus' and it's lovely! It's a remake of the 'Comedy of Errors'. You'll laugh, you'll cry, it's better than Cats :-)
Also, because I was clearly on a theme, 'What's Love Got To Do With It…

Sprung
It's a "dating game". In fact, it's a "choose the correct response from this limited list and we'll let you progress" game. It's dull and poorly thought out and overly random. The thing is, though, you get the idea it's going to be quite short, so it's worth just trying each choice until you get the right one in the knowledge it's one step closer to the end of the game. I want to complete it, even if it is really quite crap.
…

> What's on your mind?
Today, it's the CIA's own _Simple Sabotage_ field manual
you can get it from the CIA themselves
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
Favorite …

So, I gotta say this film music concert was freakin' amazing.
Hans Zimmer's Time performed live by an orchestra has a power of squeezing a tear out of me.

Check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Havoc following the attack on Change Healthcare deepens
--DOJ indicts IRGC-linked hacker for massive cyberespionage campaign,
--N. Korea conducted cyber attacks on S. Korea's semiconductor companies,
--Russian intel eavesdropped on German military brass via WebEx,
--CryptoChameleon phishing targets FCC employees,
--German cops seize Crimemarket,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/healthcare-havoc-following-attack-change-healthcare-deepens

Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
GAN: I think he's crashed.
BLAKE: Well, don't think; let's search.
https://blake.torpidity.net/s/203/427 B7B4

Scaramucci's 11 days in Trump's Whitehouse are obviously hilarious, but this interview is actually quite interesting
[Leading] 60. Anthony Scaramucci: What it's like to be Donald Trump's Communications Director #leading

Leading - 60. Anthony Scaramucci: What it's like to be Donald Trump's Communications Director - Podcast Addict
Would a second Trump presidency be far more right wing? What drives the former US president? Is he trying to do a deal with Taylor Swift?In this week's episode of Leading, Rory and Alastair are joined by Anthony Scaramucci, Trump's former spin doctor, where he answers all these questions and more.Buy tickets now for our October TRIP Election Tour:https://www.aegpresents.co.uk/event

From CBC
Did you get a text with your SIN that claims to be from Canada Revenue Agency? It's a scam
Fraudulent texts Canadians receiving include a person's name and other info
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-w

Did you get a text with your personal info that claims to be from CRA? It's a scam | CBC News
Tax season is here and with it, a new scam. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre says it involves a text message, containing a person's name and personal info, that appears to come from the Canada Revenue Agency. The warning comes as Ontario Provincial Police launch Anti-Fraud Prevention Month.

Yesterday at Lynah Rink: Cornell's Big Red defeated the Quinnipiac Bobcats 5-0 at Women's Ice Hockey. Here: Quinnipiac's № 37 Logan Angers successfully defends her goal from Cornell's № 19 Karel Prefontaine.
#sports #hockey

Preservation challenges in the digital age.
#archiving

More than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet
An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge.

"Trump is telling the same lies that every wave of migrants who came to the United States has always been subjected to," he said. "When the Jews came, when the Germans came, when the Italians came. Irish. We were told the same thing, lose our culture, lose our language, drive down wages, and the crime will go up. And exactly the opposite has happened."
'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument - Raw Stor…

'It's a loser': Republican strategist torches Trump's latest 'inhumane' argument
Longtime Republican strategist Rick Tyler slammed former President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant vision for the future in an MSNBC panel on Wednesday, following a political event in Michigan the previous day in which Trump warned that immigrants would invade people's houses if he's not elected.In pa...

Sources: Bill Gates remains intimately involved in Microsoft's operations, advising on strategy, nurturing Microsoft's relationship with Sam Altman, and more (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates

Bill Gates is still pulling strings at Microsoft, overseeing AI ideas
Insiders say he's Microsoft's secret weapon in the AI wars

Opinion: Call of Duty's Modern Warfare III whitewashes the Kremlin's crimes: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/04/opinion-call-of.html

National impact of local elections
Arizona's Native vote is critical to protect our voting rights
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/3/2226885/-The-n…

The national impact of local elections. Arizona's Native vote is critical to protect voting rights.
We want to talk about Arizona’s County Board of Supervisors races, and why they are so critical to our community, and, frankly, the country. Fact 1: County Board of Supervisors Oversee Election Administration Across Arizona The county board of...

YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

YouTube Says OpenAI Training Sora With Its Videos Would Break Rules
The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator would be an infraction of the platform's terms of service, YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan said.

So ist der Plan für die S-Bahnstrecke Hattingen-Witten-Hagen
Es sieht gut aus für die Wiederbelebung der Bahnstrecke Hattingen-Witten-Hagen. Aktuelle Pläne – und wo in Welper ein Bahnhalt entstehen soll.
https://www.waz.de/staedte/h…

So ist der Plan für die S-Bahnstrecke Hattingen-Witten-Hagen
Gibt es bald neben der S3 auch eine S22, die zwischen Essen, Hattingen, Witten, Wengern und Hagen fährt?

TT
Danes are the 3rd richest population in the EU and they have the highest consumption based CO2emissions of all - 11 tonnes per Dane per year.
It's primarily food. And let's be really honest, it's primarily meat and dairy.
#DanishCrown

One of the fediverse's great strengths is that you can block entire collections of ill-intentioned morons at once. My own policy is to defederate any server with "shitpost" in the domain name.
If only I could do that to my "fuck your feelings" magat neighbors.

St Mary's Kempley
https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/st-marys-church-kempley/
Has the oldest timber roof of any building in England and incredible medieval wall paintings.

He is not wrong !
https://x.com/warwatchs/status/1764410286545530942?s=61

War Watch (@WarWatchs) on X
🇸🇾⚡ Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad: • The West is ridiculous and sometimes stupid. They started the embargo on Cuba 60 years ago, on Syria in 1979, and on Iran in the same year. Now they're doing it to Russia and China. What will be the result? After a while, the West will…

Ambassador: Washington doesn't support strikes with U.S.-made weapons in Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/03/ambassador-washington-doesnt.html

If you don't like Joe Biden's economy, consider what the alternative is:
Authoritarians always screw up the economy
— come to think of it, GOP presidents have done that for decades
https://www.salon.com/2024/05/04/dont-like-t…

If you don't like Joe Biden's economy, maybe you need to think clearly about the alternative
Commentary: Anyone who thinks Donald Trump's economy was better hasn't been paying attention

From CBC
Did you get a text with your SIN that claims to be from Canada Revenue Agency? It's a scam
Fraudulent texts Canadians receiving include a person's name and other info
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-w

Did you get a text with your personal info that claims to be from CRA? It's a scam | CBC News
Tax season is here and with it, a new scam. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre says it involves a text message, containing a person's name and personal info, that appears to come from the Canada Revenue Agency. The warning comes as Ontario Provincial Police launch Anti-Fraud Prevention Month.

Before you head out for the weekend, check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--Germany blames Russia for attack on Social Democrat Party
--Security agencies say Russian hackers have hit more water plants,
--Man sentenced to 6.5 years for selling counterfeit Cisco gear,
-- Israeli man wanted by US busted in London for PR firm espionage,
--Microsoft warns that April patches break VPN connections,
--Kimsuky exploits DMARC for phishing,
--CISA's KEV speed remediation,
--Microsoft adds security chiefs,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/germany-blames-russia-attack-social-democrat-party

Preservation challenges in the digital age.
#archiving

More than 2 million research papers have disappeared from the Internet
An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge.

Wholesome tech post!
(They're rare, so it's worth celebrating!)
https://fosstodon.org/@Nathaniellockhart/112380910601772854
Via @…

X's audio and video calls, which are enabled by default, are peer-to-peer, revealing users' IP addresses to each other, unless they enable a privacy setting (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/elon-musk-x-twitter-calling-privacy…

X's new calling feature hurts your privacy — here's how to switch it off | TechCrunch
TechCrunch ran tests of the feature to analyze how the calling feature works and to understand the risks associated with it.

YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

YouTube Says OpenAI Training Sora With Its Videos Would Break Rules
The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator would be an infraction of the platform's terms of service, YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan said.

Neal Katyal on Twitter: "Judge Cannon just rejected Trump's bogus Presidential Records Act defense, but only for now. She has (weirdly and pointedly) refused to actually decide the issue, despite Jack Smith's warning that double jeopardy would then apply. I think Smith has no choice but to go to the 11th… https://t.co/JcQzqOCJEl…

Neal Katyal (@neal_katyal) on X
Judge Cannon just rejected Trump's bogus Presidential Records Act defense, but only for now. She has (weirdly and pointedly) refused to actually decide the issue, despite Jack Smith's warning that double jeopardy would then apply. I think Smith has no choice but to go to the 11th…

"More funding for buses means less traffic congestion on the road, less pollution in the air and more jobs for American workers," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in a statement. "Thanks to the president's infrastructure law, we are bringing thousands of new, clean buses to communities large and small across the country."
Read more:

Biden Administration invests $1.5 billion in clean buses - UPI.com
The U.S. Department of Transportation is investing $1.5 billion in zero-emission buses and the infrastructure, facilities, and workforce that go along with them. 

How is your house ?
https://x.com/johnlefevre/status/1775363255113756835?s=61

John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) on X
The United States pays the salaries and pensions of Ukraine government officials. Here are their houses:

Russian Media Monitoring: Examining Ukraine’s Temporary Derogation of ECHR Rights Written by Matt Wickham UCMC/HWAG analyst Russian propaganda seeks to depict human rights in Ukraine as deteriorating, Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/russian-media-

X's audio and video calls, which are enabled by default, are peer-to-peer, revealing users' IP addresses to each other, unless they enable a privacy setting (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/elon-musk-x-twitter-calling-privacy…

X's new calling feature hurts your privacy — here's how to switch it off | TechCrunch
TechCrunch ran tests of the feature to analyze how the calling feature works and to understand the risks associated with it.

In 2019, when Britain’s Labour Party pledged to review the country’s legacy of colonialism, Nigel Farage, then the leader of the Brexit Party (now Reform UK), warned Britons against obsessing “about the past.”
“It was a different world, a different time,” he said.
Months later, as Black Lives Matter protests swept across the Atlantic and amid calls for a reevaluation of revered historical figures with records of racism,
then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson echoed this view. <…

Review: Amitav Ghosh's 'Smoke and Ashes' and Sathnam Sanghera's 'Empireworld': How Colonialism Shaped Today's World
Two new books turn a spotlight on how the colonial past lives on in unacknowledged ways.

Republicans want to rename Dulles airport after the orange one.
Maybe just call it Flying Felon Field.

‘Quite excited to see this going on’: Writer for conservative media outlet whose ‘only regret’ was not stealing computers in U.S. Capitol riots on #Jan6 arrested, feds say

Writer for conservative media outlet faces charges in Jan. 6 riots, feds say
A writer for a conservative media outlet surrendered this week to face charges in the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.

How Meta's VR bet has played out a decade after its acquisition of Oculus; the company's metaverse division lost $42B between the end of 2020 and Q1 2024 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/04/facebooks-oculus-acquisition-turns…

Ten years later, Facebook's Oculus acquisition hasn't changed the world as expected | TechCrunch
Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of

How is your house ?
https://x.com/johnlefevre/status/1775363255113756835?s=61

John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) on X
The United States pays the salaries and pensions of Ukraine government officials. Here are their houses:

Bob Iger says "succession is the board's No. 1 priority" and that the search committee met seven times in 2023; Iger's contract extension runs through 2026 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/bob-iger…

Iger on Proxy Battle: Disney Board's Top Priority Is CEO Succession
Bob Iger said the Disney board is proceeding with "urgency" in trying to identify the next CEO and called the proxy fight a "distraction."

Ukraine's government reaches agreement with Palantir to accelerate demining through AI: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/03/ukraines-government-reaches.html

An interview with Saber founder Matthew Karch on criticism of Embracer, joining Embracer's board in 2020, layoffs, and Embracer's $2B Savvy deal breaking down (James Batchelor/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/sabers-matther-karc…

Saber's Matther Karch: "Don't bet against Embracer"
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inboxEmbracer Group has become a cautionary tale…

Canadian 🇨🇦 Gestapo
https://x.com/chrisdacey/status/1775204563676492044?s=61

Dacey Media (@chrisdacey) on X
Tell me we aren't living in a police state... This is Alberta, Canada. Heavily armed police in riot gear with their name badges removed line up against peaceful Canadians protesting the national carbon tax. Not a single one of these officers will speak to the people they're…

Bob Iger says "succession is the board's No. 1 priority" and that the search committee met seven times in 2023; Iger's contract extension runs through 2026 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/bob-iger…

Iger on Proxy Battle: Disney Board's Top Priority Is CEO Succession
Bob Iger said the Disney board is proceeding with "urgency" in trying to identify the next CEO and called the proxy fight a "distraction."

US intelligence: Putin spends record amounts on military over 'paranoid fear' of West limiting Russia's power: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/03/us-intelligence-putin.html

DEX Screener: the value of decentralized social platform Friend.tech's native token, the Friend, fell ~98% to below $2 after making its trading debut on May 3 (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)

Crypto’s Social Media Friend Tech Saw Token Value Crash 98%
Friend.tech, one of the most ambitious projects by crypto advocates in the social media sector, saw the value of its new cryptocurrency tumble almost immediately after making its trading debut.

Canadian 🇨🇦 Gestapo
https://x.com/chrisdacey/status/1775204563676492044?s=61

Dacey Media (@chrisdacey) on X
Tell me we aren't living in a police state... This is Alberta, Canada. Heavily armed police in riot gear with their name badges removed line up against peaceful Canadians protesting the national carbon tax. Not a single one of these officers will speak to the people they're…

Internal memo: incoming BBC Chair Samir Shah says safeguarding the BBC's independence and the corporation's finances are his top priorities (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/bbc-tough-financial-si…

New BBC Chair Samir Shah Says He Will Safeguard Its 'Independence'
New BBC chair Samir Shah indicated the broadcaster's independence and financial situation were top priorities as he begins in the role.

As chipmakers move into or expand in the region around Germany's Dresden, skeptics say more government subsidies, skilled workers, and end customers are needed (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/BkNVUzlvJC

Can investment from TSMC, Infineon and others revive Europe's chip dreams?
Skeptics say more government subsidies, skilled workers and end customers are needed

P Diddy story is wild
https://x.com/tommyrazorcuts/status/1764450163874230565?s=61

Thomas Greenberg (@tommyrazorcuts) on X
THIS GUY IS THE BEST!!! DIGGER ON FINDING DIRT!! HAS MY RESPECT ON PUTTING PUZZLES TOGETHER...P DIDDY HAS BEEN FILMING PEOPLE PASSED OUT ON DRUGS AT HIS PARTIES ( HE SLIPS DRUGS IN THEIR DRINKS) FOR 30 YEARS MAKES EPSTEIN LOOK LIKE A AMATEUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YouTube's CEO says OpenAI training Sora using its videos would be a violation of YouTube ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

YouTube Says OpenAI Training Sora With Its Videos Would Break Rules
The use of YouTube videos to train OpenAI’s text-to-video generator would be an infraction of the platform's terms of service, YouTube Chief Executive Officer Neal Mohan said.

While HBO hit streaming DTC profitability under David Zaslav, via licensing to Netflix, slashing marketing, layoffs, and more, WBD's stock is down 25% YTD (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/new…

HBO’s Path to Streaming Profit: Sell to Netflix, Slash Marketing and Crack Down on Sharing
They chased Netflix and then they cut costs. Neither has worked.

After Elon Musk assured right-wingers like Libs of TikTok that X's anti-trans hate policy wouldn't affect them, X updates it with "where required by local laws" (Matt Binder/Mashable)
https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-…

Elon Musk's X has already backed off its new anti-trans hate policy
Musk spent the weekend assuring right-wing users that the policy won't affect them. Now, it's been officially changed.

Do you know what you eat?
Do you?
https://x.com/wallstreetapes/status/1764383793333641471?s=61

Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) on X
American Farmer Heads Into The Grocery Store To Warn Americans About What You’re Eating Popular Name Brand Foods Contain In Their Ingredients Antibiotics Only Available By Prescription Right Alongside “Wood Fibers” “This is a farm boy. We're in a grocery store today to look up…

An interview with Andrew Bosworth on the 10th anniversary of Reality Labs, the past and future of VR/AR/AI, Meta's next AR glasses prototype, and more (Scott Stein/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/ten-years-aft…

10 Years After Facebook Bought Oculus, What's Next for Meta's VR Plans?
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth talks with CNET about the past and future of VR, AR and AI.

Who needs a work horse if you can have a cute dog helping you on the job.
https://x.com/clownworld_/status/1786428353005924740?s=61

Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) on X
Aww little guy is helping 😍

As bitcoin rallies past $67K and nears its all-time high, Coinbase's stock, which hit $46.43 last year, soars to $229.15, nearly doubling in the past month (Niamh Rowe/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/04/coinbase-shares-double-crypto…

Coinbase shrugs off site crash as shares of the top U.S. crypto exchange surge
Shares in Coinbase were up 14% on Monday, the biggest daily jump since January 2022, thanks to crypto's latest bull run.

Durban South Africa, looks beautiful this time of the year.
🙄
https://x.com/mufasa0062/status/1764537512934986202?s=61

Mufasa007 (@Mufasa0062) on X
Brace yourselves. Absolutely disgusting.

Okay, okay without hesitation i can now say Putler will win, no doubt.
https://x.com/lionelmedia/status/1764469040251052071?s=61

🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 (@LionelMedia) on X
What is this?

Shitaly 🇮🇹
had enough too.
You won’t see any of this in the M5M
https://x.com/wayotworld/status/1775276433583280355?s=61

Way of the World (@wayotworld) on X
An enormous procession of Italian men chants "where are the antifascists?" Is it time?

PitchBook and NVCA report: US VC investments in Q1 2024 hit $36.6B, lowest since 2017, across 2,882 deals, down YoY from $51.6B across 4,026 deals (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/u-s-q1-2024-venture-capital-investme…

U.S. Q1 2024 venture capital investments fall 29% to $36.6B | NVCA
The first quarter of 2024 was a relatively calm (or weak if you prefer) quarter for U.S. venture capital investments.

Shitaly 🇮🇹
had enough too.
You won’t see any of this in the M5M
https://x.com/wayotworld/status/1775276433583280355?s=61

Way of the World (@wayotworld) on X
An enormous procession of Italian men chants "where are the antifascists?" Is it time?

What‘s the chance you find that one miserable Karen cunt when 100s of people, and even cops, having a good time?
https://x.com/emilio2763/status/1786329345180549331?s=61

𝕰𝖒𝕲 (@Emilio2763) on X
What a Miserable C*NT…

Marketing lesson:
Take a friend with you on the streets, treat him like shit in front of passersby’s and hand out your leaflets.
🤣😂🤣
Winning!
https://x.com/clownworld_/status/1786680822390751554?s=61

Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld_) on X
Next level marketing 🤣