2025-11-23 02:40:52
A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup Byju's founder Byju Raveendran on Nov. 20 to pay $1B to US lenders, over missing funds from Byju's US unit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/22/byju
A US bankruptcy judge ordered Indian edtech startup Byju's founder Byju Raveendran on Nov. 20 to pay $1B to US lenders, over missing funds from Byju's US unit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/22/byju
Another crazy week is in the can, so before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you should know, including
--DOJ accuses director of defense firm's cyber division of selling secrets to Russia,
--N. Korean IT workers snagged work as animators,
--Ethical hackers breached F1 database and got access to Verstappen's info,
--Hackers enabled theft of Shaquille O'Neal's custom Range Rover,
Dallas Cowboys preview with Logan Paulsen and who's at Fred Smoot's Christmas dinner? https://www.commanders.com/video/dallas-cowboys-preview-with-logan-paulsen-and-who-s-at-fred-smoot-s-christmas-dinner
Dallas Cowboys preview with Logan Paulsen and who's at Fred Smoot's Christmas dinner?
Get your Commanders tickets here! https://bit.ly/3JNUTCP
The views and opinions expressed by our podcast guests and/or hosts are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the Washington Commanders or any of their representatives.
From a selection of 2099 tracks, this is my week's #MondayRandom10:
1. The Smashing Pumpkins, “Lily (My One and Only)”
2. Goldie, "Inner City Life”
3. Qoiet, “cursedOBJECT”
4. Pop Will Eat Itself, “RSVP”
5. Rocky Leon, “Billionaire”
6. Ronnie James Dio, “Love is All”
7. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Relax”
8 Robert Palmer, “Simply Irresistible”
Not sure what the difference between a panel and a"fireside chat" is. There is no fire.
But here's a fireside chat on what nostr is.
Nostr is freedom for Identity. Accounts without hosts. Publishing without publidhers. Censorship resistance without platforms deciding who gets to say what.
It's not a silo in which you can be tapped as the service enshitifies, since it's a protocol with accounts you control, you can't switch clients or relays without loosing social graph or contacts.
Nostr is notes and Other Stuff, what other stuff? the panel is working on an audiobook publishing system with perhaps a required payment and affiliate revenue share. E-commerce, video publishing, zap stream for live video with zap payments.
Onboarding can be tricky with private key management needing to be understood and such a range of options of clients and what relays are. Can we make it easier?
Perhaps by abstracting away the fact it's nostr at all. Devine users don't even know they are using nostr. But this robs users of the understanding they may need to move clients or use the same account for video and notes, say.
Perhaps by making a private messagnger, the panel thinks people are used to using multiple messenger apps. Though I find they hate that, and that's why they refuse to install signal. They feel they don't need it since they already have WhatsApp with a bigger network.
In the end it's education. We have to teach literacy so people can read and write, we have to teach public keys encryption so people can do so securely.
#bitfest #nostr
Scientists Discover Building Blocks of Life in Ice Around a Forming Star (ST6) in Neighboring Galaxy (Large Magellanic Cloud).
https://cmns.umd.edu/news-events/news/marta-sewilo-discovers-building-blocks-life-ice-around-forming-star…
2025 NFL playoff picture: Who's in, who's out and who's in the hunt as the AFC and NFC races heat up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-playoff-picture-standings-wh…
If you read one thing today…
1. You should read more
2. Make it this 👇 https://mastodon.social/@danielquinn/114793526868620928
Trump Officials Plan To Drop Army's Preference For Blind Vendors
The decision was approved by Trump’s education secretary,
Linda McMahon,
the former professional wrestling CEO,
according to a notice.
The Education Department oversees what’s known as the "Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program",
which was created during the Great Depression to help integrate blind workers into the U.S. workforce due to discrimination.
An Education D…
Sonnet 020 - XX
A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,
Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion;
A woman's gentle heart, but not acquainted
With shifting change, as is false women's fashion:
An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling,
Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth;
A man in hue all hues in his controlling,
Which steals men's eyes and women's souls amazeth.
And for a woman wert thou f…
Les aviso que ya estš disponible «FEMME FATALE» el mšs reciente disco de mi querida y súper talentosa compatriota Mon Laferte 🫶🏻
#MonLaferte …
It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it
is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It
isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
-- Oxford University Press, Edpress News
"Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US: 'You are effectively blacklisted by much of the world's banking system'"
https://www.lemonde.fr…
@… And thus Ontario's fascist and irresponsible provincial premier tries to undermine the Prime Minister's careful work at managing Trump whilst shifting Canada's trade elsewhere. Stupid stupid stupid.
He spends $75m on this while destroying Ontarian's social services and destroying the beloved Ontario Science Centre.
Minder baby's met RS-virus op intensive care, prik lijkt te werken
#RSvirus #vaccinatie
Microsoft: “Managers are lame, we need emperors.”
github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/src/cascadia/WindowsTerminal/WindowEmperor.h
Comcast extends Mike Cavanagh's contract through January 1, 2029, and grants a ~$35M performance-based stock package; he's set to become co-CEO in January 2026 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/comcast-…
If you are all still using NASA's GRACE pages for ANtarctic mass budget, you should check out TU Dresden's version - it's a really nice visualisation
https://data1.geo.tu-dresden.de/ais_gmb/index.html
Myles Garrett's forced fumble vs. Geno Smith marks Browns' 10th sack of game https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/video/myles-garrett-s-forced-fumble-vs-geno-smith-marks-browns-10th-sack-of-game
here's my new solution for "i need to send a file to someone and i really don't want them to need anything but the browser"
unsurprisingly, it uses https://codeberg.org/git-pages/git-pages
how to use standard DNS UPDATE in a manner that avoids causing outages like AWS us-east-1 https://lobste.rs/s/mw0pus/summary_amazon_dynamodb_service#c_ux4xlb
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Whitney Houston:
🎵 It’s Not Right but It’s Okay
#WhitneyHouston
https://tfrankdj.bandcamp.com/track/whitney-houston-it-s-not-right-but-it-s-okay-tfrank-dj
https://open.spotify.com/track/0L3ZGGqyaWsgR7qG0DKxvw
In honor of this post, I am refraining from correcting the guy who repeatedly used the phrase "plate teutonics." (without reference to anything even vaguely Prussian)
https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/115429525095825425
The US and EU strike at Putin's oil! Is this the end of the Kremlin's "energy weapon"?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/23/the-us-and-eu-strike.html
Ugh. Listening to Kathryn Ryan interviewing someone from ACC on RNZ's NineToNoon. They talk about 'AI' like it's magic and there seems to be no actual understanding. No questioning whether it's a good idea or bad, what the implications might be, the dependencies it creates, etc. Seems like the inept leading the inepter.
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - @…
"OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, released their own browser called Atlas, and it actually is something new: the first browser that actively fights against the web. Let's talk about what that means, and what dangers there are from an anti-web browser made by an AI company — one that probably needs a warning label when you install it.”
https://www.anildash.com//2025/10/22/atlas-anti-web-browser/
Does Gotham's NWSL Championship final win make them a dynasty?
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/does-gothams-nwsl-championship-final-win-make-them/id1518818543?i=1000738007908
Finally saw this. @… (and me 🙇♂️) featured on @… 's talk "The Future is federated" in #fediday2025 (3-5 Oct 2025)
Link…
:youtube: WHAT'S GOOD INTERNET!!
There's been lots of discourse lately about how it is between Mexico and Spain so Im zippin' this whiteboy homie of mine ~he got a mexican last name he got that blood in him~ ACROSS the atlantic seafloor in Elon Musk's BRAND FREAKIN' NEW HYPERTUBE, a undersea -pneumatic- tube transport! THANK YOU FOR THE BETA ELON!! anyway,, we gonna see how he does with spain!
*camera pans to Nick Fuentes, mouth duct-taped shut, arms str…
The UK's MASTIFF just put out a new EP today, 'For All the Dead Dreams', so I have that #NowPlaying, and it's a great one, of course. I've seen Mastiff described as sludge, doom, or hardcore, but they're a cool mix of.. something crossover-y and I dig it a lot. There's breakdowns. Now THIS is how you do some heavy, brutal (but still melodic, riffy) shit. Behold:
"Arduino wasn’t valuable because it was just a microcontroller company. It was valuable because it was a commons. And you can’t apply enterprise legal frameworks to a commons without destroying it"
You also can't buy a #commons, at least without destroying it as a commons. The key point about a commons is that it isn't property.
I love working with a team that knows our products and each others' strengths. At the Omni Group our average tenure is now over 15 years.
“OK, Ken, by ‘average’ I assume you mean ‘mean’? But some of you old-timers who have been there 30 years are skewing that curve, right?”
Well, I suppose that's true. If we look at the median tenure, that's now at 13.99 years.
(The 2024 report at the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates the median tenure across all indust…
Joe Eskenazi's @… column today speculates that Connie Chan and allies will run a doomed prop to close Sunset Dunes park, just to turn out voters for Chan.
But a good chunk of No on K voters are in congressional district 15, outlined, and can't vote for Chan. #sfpol<…
Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC
Anthropic says Claude's memory feature, initially available for Team and Enterprise users, is rolling out to Pro and Max subscribers (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/one-of-chatgpts-most-helpful-features-is-com…
We should all be furious about Trump's failure to release the Epstein files. We should all be skeptical of what's in them. Not everything the FBI collects turns out to be true.
JUST IN: Judge blocks Trump's attempt to strip security clearance from #whistleblower lawyer
#Mark #Zaid.
Judge Amir Ali (Biden) says the move may violate Constitution's ban on bills of attainder.
Otra chilena, María José Ayarza, mšs conocida como Chini.png, quien es parte de las muy buenas artistas de la escena independiente nacional en la actualidad, hoy publicó su segundo disco:
«★ Vía Lo Orozco ★»
https://album.link/s/7A25C2x3AQ0qSEEe7YoLvK
Jim Harbaugh on Chargers QB's three-TD night: 'Just another stellar performance by Justin Herbert' https://www.nfl.com/news/jim-harbaugh-on-chargers-qb-s-three-td-night-just-another-stellar-performance-by-justin-h…
At least Rubio says what it is...
"US senators say Rubio told them Trump’s Ukraine peace plan is Russia’s ‘wish list’"
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-peace-plan-security-confernece-halifax-senators-6041a181…
A panel on bitcoin treasury companies.
Because investment law makes it hard for institutions to buy bitcoin in their funds. You can't own BTC in you tax free ISA. So some companies that do hold bitcoin, notably microstrategy, became proxy investments. If you can't hold BTC you could maybe own a company that owns BTC instead.
Microstrategy started because it's ceo realized it's dollar treasury was being debased by dollar printing. So tried buying BTC instead, with fantastic success.
Copycat companies proliferated. They boomed and then busted. One panelist calls that a grift. A way to memeticly pump share price.
A line can be drawn between profitable companies just storing their profit in bitcoin Vs those raising debt to buy without having a profitable business.
Imagine a world transiting from using seashells for money to using gold coins. A company gathers seashells from investors to buy gold coins, which will do better than sea shells. Trouble is the next step where the company pays back it's investors with... More seashells.
If you own shares in the company, you do not own bitcoin. You'll just get more old fashioned bank money.
Still. It's worked as marketing, more people being convinced BTC has value.
If you do buy a treasury company, check it's bitcoin not "digital assets" including shitcoins.
#bitfest #bitcoin #bitcoinTreasuryCompanies
DC Vance Joseph on facing the Cowboys: 'It's the NFL dream offense' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/dc-vance-joseph-on-facing-the-cowboys-it-s-the-nfl-dream-offense
Putin's Russia should return to Ukraine its stolen lands and its stolen children, and pay reparations to families for lives lost and property destroyed.
Naturally Trump is against all this, on principle. He doesn't believe in paying bills.
Analysis: as crypto sheds $1T , the Trump family's fortune has fallen to ~$6.7B from $7.7B in early September; President Trump's TMTG stake fell by ~$800M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
If the girl you love moves in with another guy once, it's more than enough.
Twice, it's much too much. Three times, it's the story of your life.
Ouders delen foto's en contactgegevens kinderen vanwege Sinterklaaswinactie
#Intertoys #sinterklaas
The Trump administration's travel ban on five Europeans includes researchers working to tackle online disinformation and abuse, like CCDH founder Imran Ahmed (Adam Satariano/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/business/europe-us-onl…
from my link log —
OpenHaystack: tracking your Bluetooth devices with Apple's "Find My" network
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack
saved 2021-10-03
NFL Week 12 takeaways: What We Learned from Sunday's 12 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-12-takeaways-what-we-learned-from-sunday-s-12-games
Federal judge Mary McElroy has blocked the Trump administration’s
attempt to reallocate federal Homeland Security funding away from states that refuse to cooperate with certain federal immigration enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy’s ruling on Monday solidified a win for the coalition of 12 attorneys general
that sued the administration earlier this year after being alerted that their states would receive drastically reduced federal grants due to their “sanctuary…
The EU warns of possible action after the US imposes travel bans on five Europeans, saying it will defend its "regulatory autonomy against unjustified measures" (Lorne Cook/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/europe-bret
Catalina y Las Bordonas de Oro junto a Américo. ¿Qué tal, ah?
«Una vez mšs»
#CatalinaYLasBordonasDeOro
The conference is over now. I likely wouldn't have come for just a bitcoin thing, but I am very interested in redecentralizing the web, so it's attachment to the nostr day pulled me in.
Everyone I met was friendly and interesting and seems much more interested in making a better money system than in making money for themselves.
Our government and bank money systems are dysfunctional in all kinds of ways which are often less visible than they should be too people using them, especially to those in Europe and America who benefit from the way those systems exploit the global south.
I'm not convinced that fixing that would end wars and fix broken government as some seem to think, but I am sure our money is the source of many problems.
There are many bright, well meaning, and intelligent people building to improve bitcoin in fascinating ways with the hope of having a parallel system to transition to. With lots of work still to be done.
Can it work?
I'm sure I don't know, and I'm sure even if it's a better system it'll come with it's own unfairness and cruelty. Money will continue to be a source of suck and worry.
I'm told that the bigger conferences are often full of shitcoin scammers and suit wearing banksters who are in fact all in it too get rich and rip people off, but I found none of that here.
Here there is a real community of people trying to make the world a better place and improve the lives of their neighbours and governance of their countries.
And in the end building community is the most radical and effective way to change the world regardless of the problems of it's money system.
I had a great time. Thanks to those organising it.
#bitfest #bitcoin
Trump may have just created the "kryptonite" that brings down his second administration,
according to a new report
Trump's MAGA movement coalition has started to crack in recent weeks over the administration's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files,
which Trump promised to release in full during his 2024 presidential campaign.
The administration has sought to withhold files from the public,
and the Justice Department has said it
"nee…
Ross on Dak Prescott: 'I think he's the MVP' of NFL entering Week 8 in 2025 season https://www.nfl.com/videos/ross-on-dak-prescott-i-think-he-s-the-mvp-of-nfl-entering-week-8-in-2025-season-the-insiders…
I hate to break it to you all but flying reindeers aren't in the Bible.
Todd Bowles: Baker Mayfield's MRI to determine availability for Buccaneers' Week 13 game https://www.nfl.com/news/todd-bowles-baker-mayfield-s-mri-to-determine-availability-for-buccaneers-week-13-game
Los cabezas de limón se hacen parte de los lanzamientos de esta semana con «Love Chant». The Lemonheads.
#TheLemonheads
The magat fanatics who are campaigning against the ACA are too brain-numb to understand how bad health insurance was before Obama.
Apple's DMA compliance isn't "malicious", but an effort to balance Apple's privacy focus with the EU's mandate, as iOS 26.2 iPhone/Watch Wi-Fi sync changes show (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2025/11/apple_eu_d…
U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is running a shadow operation inside the White House
in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials, the Kyiv Independent has learned.
Witkoff
— a real estate mogul with no diplomatic background before his appointment
— has emerged as one of the central architects of a new Washington "peace proposal"
that Ukrainian officials say revives the Kremlin's most sweeping demands.
A source in Ukraine's President…
DOGE was a head fake all along.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-doesnt-exist-with-eight-months-left-its-charter-2025-11-23/
Could Christmas night be Travis Kelce's final game at Arrowhead Stadium? https://www.nfl.com/news/could-christmas-night-be-travis-kelce-s-final-game-at-arrowhead-stadium
El nuevo sencillo de Foo Fighters tiene la energía característica de la banda de Dave Grohl y compañía. Es de esas canciones que parecen hechas para ser hitazos de estadio.
«Asking For A Friend»
https://song.link/s/6H8kmcBIUymcI1byu6QCRp
Samsung's Harman agrees to acquire ZF's radar and automotive computing driver-assistance business for €1.5B, as the European auto-supplier sector struggles (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-23…
Background of the speech and debate clause
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S6-C1-3-2/ALDE_00013301/#:~:text=The text and …
NFL Week 12 inactives: Players ruled out for Sunday's 12 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-12-inactives-players-ruled-out-for-sunday-s-12-games
Wife has put this on the TV.
Killer Raccoons 2: Dark Christmas in the Dark https://share.google/We4rKV6SAhh39YVfP
France's La Poste says it has suffered a suspected DDoS attack in "a major network incident" on Monday, which disrupted its postal and banking services (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/23/fran
Donald Trump unveiled a new class of so-called “battleships” on Monday,
but his plans are already hitting rough waters on social media.
In remarks from his Mar-a-Lago estate, the president claimed that the two “Trump Class” military vessels would be
the “fastest, the biggest and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.”
Trump described himself as
a “very aesthetic person” while noting that he,
along with the U.S. Navy,
would wor…
Trump appears to be peddling pardons like a medieval pope selling indulgences.
If Rams are NFL's top team, who is No. 2? Plus: Purdy's performance, 2026 targets https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6916089/2025/12/23/nfl-best-team-2025-rams-seahawks-patriots/
Pet peeve: selfies that are flopped/mirror image. I blame Apple.
The pictures were shocking, but not so shocking as all the things we don’t know about this project, which is being paid for with private donations from some of the wealthiest people and corporations on the planet, all of whom who can directly profit from access to the president.
https://wapo.st/3Whz4OX
Panthers vs. 49ers: Three must-know storylines for Monday's Week 12 prime-time game https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-vs-49ers-three-must-know-storylines-week-12-mnf
Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
There is no US city that more effectively displays the importance of immigrants to the story of America than San Francisco.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/national-guard-deployment-immigration-raids-10-23-25-hnk
Hashrate Index: China's bitcoin mining market share rebounded to 14% by the end of October, making it the world's third-largest miner despite China's 2021 ban (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bitcoin-mining…
Panthers vs. 49ers Week 12 inactives: Players ruled out for Monday's game https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-vs-49ers-week-12-inactives-players-ruled-out-for-monday-s-game
Just another corrupt Trump crony getting a pardon.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/trump-pardons-binance-founder-changpeng-zhao/
Cowboys' Dak Prescott after George Pickens' performance in win over Eagles: 'He's not from this planet' https://www.nfl.com/news/cowboys-dak-prescott-after-george-pickens-performance-in-win-over-eagles-…
The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026 (Bonny Chu/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-
Niners-Colts on 'Monday Night Football': What We Learned from San Francisco's 48-27 win https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-colts-on-monday-night-football-what-we-learned-from-san-francisco-s-48-27-win
Steelers' Mike Tomlin on Aaron Rodgers being inactive vs. Bears: 'That's the prudent play for us to make'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers-mike-tomlin-aaron-rodge…
A fisherman casts a net into a distributary of the Mekong River in Chau Doc, Vietnam. In the background are floating houses where fish are farmed in cages beneath the floor.
#travel
The days of collecting visa stamps in your passport are slipping away as border control points switch to electronic systems that scan the biometric data stored in chips.
Efficient, yes. Romantic, no.
#travel
Dolphins WR Tyreek Hill uncertain about future after knee injury, 'happy' with career he's had https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-wr-tyreek-hill-uncertain-about-future-after-knee-injury-happy-with-career-he-s-had
Trump continues his war on competency.
https://apnews.com/article/diplomacy-ambassadors-state-department-1a10058998c86e799ce4e5132a99da18
Shawn Harris is highly qualified to replace MTG ... in every way except one. See if you can guess what that is
https://www.shawnforgeorgia.com/
Bari Weiss was hired to put an end to CBS News as a legitimate and independent journalistic institution. She's doing exactly what she was hired for.