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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-06 01:19:41

Marc Andreessen is one of America’s most well-known investors and an outsize figure in the so-called fintech industry.
His firm seeded eight companies since 2016 that landed in the crosshairs of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
-- the small watchdog agency that Congress created after the 2008 financial crisis to protect vulnerable consumers from exploitation.
Some of those inquiries have resulted in consent orders, fines and, for one company, a lifetime industry ba…

Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Bet Big on Trump. It’s Paying Off for Silicon Valley.
The Trump administration’s gutting of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been good for venture capitalists like Andreessen, who previously accused the agency of “terrorizing” fintech startups and crypto companies.

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-02-04 15:00:54

"Air pollution crosses borders, and so must the policies aimed at tackling it"
#Pollution #AirPollution #Environment

Air pollution crosses borders, and so must the policies aimed at tackling it
Parts of India, including the capital Delhi, were once again covered in thick smog recently as toxic pollution from industry and crop-burning engulfed the region. Even though India's National Clean Air Program has advanced clean air action, air pollution remains a reoccurring problem.

@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-01-03 07:30:25

Column of smoke seen, loud noises heard in Venezuelan capital (Reuters)
reuters.com/world/americas/lou
memeorandum.com/260103/p3#a260

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-28 11:15:25

Tracxn: VC funding for Indian startups fell 17% YoY to $10.5B in 2025 across 1,518 deals, down ~39% YoY; AI startups raised $643M, up 4% YoY, across 100 deals (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/12/27/indi

India startup funding hits $11B in 2025 as investors grow more selective | TechCrunch
Startup funding rounds in India fell sharply in 2025 as investors concentrated capital into fewer companies.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al
2026-01-01 19:51:11

Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.
Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.
They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.
To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone…

Web page that looks like a browser error being served from https://report.error-error.com… rollingstone.com Oops, something went wrong. Please disable features that may affect the website, and refresh the page. In most cases, disabling the adblock feature resolves the issue. Support: rollingstone@error-report.com Fix the issue button. Error: iframe load error: safari/firefox iframe timeout
Screen you see when you press the fix the error button: Click on the service you are using to resolve the issue. • AdGuard Adblock Plus • Adblock ® Ghostery @ Browser Guard • 1Blocker| Support: rollingstone@error-report.com
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
2026-01-30 23:32:03

Democratic fundraising SMS spam:
“Life hasn’t always been easy. As the proud daughter of a union pipefitter and an F-16 fighter jet, I crawled my way up the broken glass of the capitol building steps to rein in greedy corporate lima bean cartel criminals. In this 10,000-word biographical essay, I will…”
Republican fundraising SMS spam:
“Stop ignoring us, you utter shitsack. Click here to pledge your firstborn daughter to Trump: […] Can he count on you? This is your last chance!”

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-02-02 17:54:14
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We all need a sweet tush on Monday, right? And who better to provide it than golden Aphrodite herself?
#BumDayMonday #GreekRomanArt

Photograph of a Greek Gold Aphrodite Hairpin dated to the 1st century BCE. This long and elegant gold hairpin is adorned with a charming figurative scene: positioned at the top of a Corinthian capital featuring an abundance of acanthus leaves, a small Eros offers the necessary support to the goddess Aphrodite who rests above him, her foot balanced over a dolphin. Eros holds a mirror in his hands as the nude goddess appears to adorn herself, adjusting one of her anklets to complement the snake-…
@cjust@infosec.exchange
2026-01-31 17:05:41

#Shitpost #Shitposting #melaniamovie

The image is a black and white poster for a film titled "MELANIA". At the top, the text "A NEW FILM" is centered. Below this, the film title "MELANIA" is displayed in large, bold, sans-serif capital letters. Underneath the title, the tagline "MAKE FUCK, GET GREEN CARD" is written in a smaller, grey, sans-serif font. The main visual element is a woman, presumably Melania, seated in a modern, minimalist chair. She is wearing a black suit jacket over a white collared shirt and black trousers. Her…
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-11-28 02:27:42

He has labored in the fields every summer and on weekends during the school year since he was 11 years old to help his mother, who also picks berries.
His siblings, uncles and cousins — four of them minors — work in local strawberry fields.
Jose said that some days he didn’t fill many boxes and earned less than minimum wage for the hours he worked,
Awhich would be a violation of state child labor laws.
He described toiling under the hot sun in fields where employers f…

California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-11-26 11:06:09

PitchBook: US AI and robotics VC deals are up over 4x since 2023 to $160B so far in 2025, while comparable China deals are just $10B , up from $9.24B in 2023 (CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/11/26/cnbc-china

CNBC's The China Connection newsletter: Foreign investors warm to China’s cheaper AI valuations despite fears of a U.S. bubble
For all the worries about a bubble in U.S. AI spending, capital flows into China's tech sector is far less, pushing startups to do more with less.