Alphabet has lined up banks to sell a rare 100-year bond,
stepping up a borrowing spree by Big Tech companies racing to fund their vast investments in AI this year.
The so-called century bond will form part of a debut sterling issuance this week by Google’s parent company, said people familiar with the matter.
Alphabet was also selling $20 billion of dollar bonds on Monday
and lining up a Swiss franc bond sale, the people said.
The dollar portion of the deal was…
Nachdem sich auch Liam Neeson als $EXPLETIVE herausstellt, zur ewigen Diskussion ob man Kunst und Künstler nicht trennen müsse:
Wenn man das müsste und könnte, dann würde Kunst nicht in über die Person und Persönlichkeit von Künstlern beworben und verkauft.
Elon Musk's X Appears to Be Violating US Sanctions by Selling Premium Accounts to Iranian Leaders (David Gilbert/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-x-premium-accounts-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p24#a260212p24
The reason "AI" has settled on "chat" as interface is because what they are actually selling is domination. They are selling you having a personal slave. That's their hook.
RE: https://phpc.social/@syntaxseed/115855415960085751
I have such conflicted thoughts on this.
What happened? Gross. It's very much a harm as a systemic effect of "AI"
But also _open source industry_ is in fact a thing I think has been deeply destructive and somewhat replaced the collectivist work done before. We could go back to that. That was good stuff.
But TailwindCSS is super popular.
I also think it's a bad technology, meant to undermine the foundations and design of CSS, leading us to technically worse places.
Also the business? It is selling themes and components.
That's a really hard business to be in. The time to buy a license comes in a project's lifecycle too early, so people avoid it. It's a weird business. Not one I think people should plan to have work.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115883311391995330
Do you remember when companies made money by a) making things that people wanted and b) selling those things to people at prices they could afford?
You know, instead of buying each other up and lit…
Does anybody in #Berlin (or at least EU) know of a place where I can have two perfume bottles (laser) engraved with a design of my choice?
My searches resulted only in
a) companies selling laser engravers, which are great but a bit overkill for my needs
b) companies engraving whatever I want provided I order at least 100k bottles
c) companies that are nowhere near Europe
…
Market Value 💵
市场价值 💵
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
PS. With all the Discord stuff, in case you wonder why you never see me promoting Matrix, it’s not because it’s a usability nightmare (which it is) but because it’s made by the kind of people who’d be happy to call ICE a customer.
The “F” in FOSS doesn’t stand for fascism.
@…
Crypto custody company BitGo aims to raise up to $201M in its IPO on the NYSE at an up to $1.96B valuation, selling 11.8M shares at $15 to $17 per share (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/crypto-cust…
#OpenAI is looking for money. Subscription fees and selling ads is not enough.
Now they try to get a cut from the money you make thanks to #AI.
This also implies that any promises ever made not to look into your prompts and answers may be moot.
Do you want to go to #disobey2025 ?
Tickets were sold out in record time. But do not worry! They have a bunch of tickets they will be selling via a raffle – so this will not be a speed contest. The raffle is open until December 15th 23:59 Finn time (UTC 2).
Check the raffle out here:
Bonus: una banda que no conozco, pero vi que su disco publicado hoy ya tiene bastante buenas calificaciones.
«Selling A Vibe» por The Cribs
#TheCribs
Everyone is selling innovation and none of it works. What if I started an agency that sold denovation. We'll build you a last-gen project that actually works.
It'll cost twice as much up front, but you won't have to pay to get it fixed once a year forever.
Alphabet raised almost $32B in debt in less than 24 hours; it sold sterling- and Swiss franc-denominated offerings following Monday's $20B dollar debt sale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…
I'm quite impressed by Fluxpose. It's making me consider selling half of my base stations (not all cause you never know if I will ever need them again) and get a kit once I get my hands on the Steam Frame.
I've rooted for BS tracking for so long because it was the best option out there, but the downsides it brings can be quite annoying sometimes. Plus, the Steam Frame is fully portable and BS tracking is not.
Also I recently learned that Fluxpose was made by an Spanish…
Selling Privacy in Blockchain Transactions
Georgios Chionas, Olga Gorelkina, Piotr Krysta, Rida Laraki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08096 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08096 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08096
arXiv:2512.08096v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study methods to enhance privacy in blockchain transactions from an economic angle. We consider mechanisms for privacy-aware users whose utility depends not only on the outcome of the mechanism but also negatively on the exposure of their economic preferences. Specifically, we study two auction-theoretic settings with privacy-aware users. First, we analyze an order flow auction, where a user auctions off to specialized agents, called searchers, the right to execute her transaction while maintaining a degree of privacy. We examine how the degree of privacy affects the revenue of the auction and, broadly, the net utility of the privacy-aware user. In this new setting, we describe the optimal auction, which is a sealed-bid auction. Subsequently, we analyze a variant of a Dutch auction in which the user gradually decreases the price and the degree of privacy until the transaction is sold. We compare the revenue of this auction to that of the optimal one as a function of the number of communication rounds. Then, we introduce a two-sided market - a privacy marketplace - with multiple users selling their transactions under their privacy preferences to multiple searchers. We propose a posted-price mechanism for the two-sided market that guarantees constant approximation of the optimal social welfare while maintaining incentive compatibility (from both sides of the market) and budget balance. This work builds on the emerging line of research that attempts to improve the performance of economic mechanisms by appending cryptographic primitives to them.
toXiv_bot_toot
Anyone interested in some old collectible toys? I'm selling a few Littlest Pet Shop accessories, some Pokémon and anime figures and some manga.
They belonged to my wife and her sisters. Some things are selling at a loss. I just don't want to throw them out.
Check out my eBay page. I'm mostly shipping worldwide from Australia.
AU: https:/…
They’re selling a what now
We Are Selling With Lee Woodward
A weekly podcast about real estate, business and tackling life's challenges...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/we-are-selling/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@alatiera/116041284960493206
Look: If I ever take a job at big tech as Mark Zuckerberg's court jester or Sam Altman's conscience or whatever. Drag me. Give me all the shit in the world. Make every EUR I got for selling …
@…
At the neighborhood party you may be asked to wear a name tag with your first name. The initial contact and conversation is more relaxed as no one wants to talk about their work. Your neighbors want to know how you feel about that ungodly reno going on down the street, share stories about your kids, and swap anecdotes about pets. Definitely cats... lots of cat sharing. It's a community where no one is selling, no one is recording data, and there's no unfathomable app pushing conversations into your group. The goal is to go home feeling closer to your community and more empathy for its members.
On compute as a commodity “people might be open to a new bespoke pickle vendor. So we're pickling some compute and selling that.”
And
“Our mission is to spread the joy of programming, both in people's personal lives and at work.”
[contains quote post or other embedded content] https://bsky.app/pro…
Guardian repeats story that Venezuela's oil production low due to corruption and lack of investment.
Actually, the Maracaibo basin is beyond peak extraction so costs rising. And Orinoco oil is heavy, tarry, and hard to get (deep under the rainforest).
Of course the blockade is also part of the reason, and maybe flight of technical staff.
Oil prices fall after Trump says Venezuela will send up to 50m barrels to US | Oil | The Guardian
I mean, spam sucks obviously, but occasionally one leaks through the filters that makes me smile.
There’s a URL in the signature which I whimsically followed, the headline there is: “The place where you can build and buy a whole qubit.”
#xml
I drove through Tennessee yesterday on my way home. From the big electric billboard selling no-prescription ivermectin, I gather they have a lot of problems with worms there.
You're going to want to sit down for this.
Or maybe not.
Kohler has started selling a smart camera. For your toilet. Yep, a camera.
And in typical #IOT fashion, lo and behold, it's not secure.
I wasn't too happy with the synthetic materials used in my Chinese bedsheets, and I couldn't find anyone making cotton ones, or even selling me their designs.
Now they are made in Germany instead.
We're selling an Xbox Series S toaster in the Company Store. If you're a friend of mine, guess what you're getting for Christmas? 🤣
#xbox #toaster #microsoft
Trump admin selling off historic public art to the highest bidder - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-destroying-art/
America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets. But it's not enough to know that the system is rigged. Everybody knows the system is rigged. To build a movement and save our future, we have to know how it is rigged and who rigged it.
Selling a Home Is Too Taxing - WSJ #homes
Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
It'…
Flatpak keeps complaining about dependencies, so software vendors adjust their bundling strategies...
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/12893
I am not sure I got the selling point of Flatpak at this point. Wasn't the point to get rid of the dependency…
... I'm not too sure if that is feasible, though. I have a former coworker who stopped writing code to start selling houses and I figured that I'm going to start by picking his brain over a cup of coffee.
I also figure that I have ~5 years before the cost of doing such a thing will normalize in any way in America. If every part of the process has a 150% tariff on the cost of materials, it probably won't be worth it.
At a hearing last week, members of the "Senate Special Committee on Aging" criticized generic drug manufacturers
for routinely concealing the locations of their drugmaking plants
as well as the suppliers that provide key ingredients.
ProPublica described this lack of transparency — and how it was enabled by the Food and Drug Administration — in a series of stories that found
the agency had quietly allowed troubled foreign drugmakers to continue selling gene…
From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…
From the article: "He added: “It’s something where it’s moving very quickly and people don’t necessarily have time to absorb it or figure out what to do.”"
That impersonal, natural "it" is moving - Not the people developing the models and selling them (or inflicting them), not the wealthy investors demanding market share, not the sci-fi addled techbros (Muskrats?) imagining that if only we get AGI all problems will be solved tomorrow, - all wanting to be first. Oh…
The whole thing is optimized for scams, deception and other criminal behavior:
- user interface that deceptively pretends it's a human you're talking to
- claims from companies highly exaggerate capabilities
companies and "experts" constantly hype "AGI" which they (funnily enough) do to both make investors greedier and spread fear and as a distraction because these algorithms can't actually do what they keep promising
- large-scale accounting and financial fraud (e.g. what Nvidia is doing with circular selling)
- biggest case of copyright infringement in history
Note: I think the underlying technology is really cool, and definitely has use cases and can be used for actually good things. But: some technology just has more downsides than upsides, and some should only be used by experts in controlled environments. Leaded gasoline, asbestos and chlorofluorocarbon are also all really cool technology.
In this case perhaps the techology itself doesn't do anything inherently bad, however the people making it are lying about what it can do, the people selling it are motivated purely by greed and the people using it (often forced to do so) are being deceived.
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
BREAKING: RUSSIA STARTS SELLING GOLD RESERVES Vlog 1234: War in #Ukraine
#Russia has started selling off its
#NowPlaying Dreamt I had a side hustle selling banana slugs from my backyard to the fancy downtown restaurant. https://ratskinrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-bell…
OVH claims that they use a "quantum computer" to improve their SSL security. I'm not gonna complain about the marketing term SSL, but... no, a quantum RNG is not a quantum computer. It's also... something that has been around for decades. And QRNGs don't do anything useful. That doesn't stop some companies from selling them for a lot of money.
Trump on Sunday threatened military action against Colombia,
telling reporters that such an operation "sounds good to me."
"Colombia is very sick, too, run by a sick man, who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States,
and he's not going to be doing it very long,"
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, in an apparent reference to Colombia's President Gustavo Petro.
LinkedIn seems to be selling/sharing email addresses with random spammers now, ugh. Can't say I'm surprised, but it's still annoying.
"Henry Bolton, former politician who was the leader of the UK Independence Party, is utterly aghast at the rumors that Trump is sending emissaries to moscow to rubber-stamp putin’s invasion. If this is true, Bolton argues, Trump isn’t just selling out Ukraine, he’s tearing up every rule that’s kept europe relatively peaceful for the last 50 years and confirming to every tin-pot dictator that borders are just suggestions."
Some People Get It – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2025/11/30/some-people-get-it/
Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/bitcoin-price-today.html
US tech stocks and bitcoin rally after three days of selling; Nasdaq Composite closed up 2.18%, Broadcom 7.22%, Strategy 26.11%, and bitcoin rebounded to ~$70K (Emily Herbert/Financial Times)
OpenText is selling its analytics business Vertica to Rocket Software for $150M to reduce its outstanding debt, its second business unit sale within five months (Alex Riehl/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/opentext-sells-analytics-database-vertica-to-pay-down-debt…
eBay seller selling camera as “tested working” and says they can’t show me a picture of the battery compartment and can’t test because “they don’t have batteries” (camera takes normal AA batteries).
sure Jen
For more than a decade, Russia’s so-called #probiv market
– a term derived from the verb
“to pierce” or
“to punch into a search bar”
– has operated as a parallel information economy built on a network of corrupt officials,
traffic police,
bank employees and l
ow-level security staff willing to sell access to restricted government or corporate databases.
While l…
Andy Jassy taps Dharmesh Mehta, Amazon VP of worldwide selling partner services, as technical advisor, a "shadow" role often leading to greater responsibilities (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/04/amazon-jassy-new-shadow-advisor-d…
My decision – Alex Vindman
Hi – my name is Alex Vindman, and I have made the decision to run for the United States Senate in Florida.
Over two decades ago, I swore an oath to protect this country when I joined the U.S. Army.
I honored that oath in 2019 by blowing the whistle on Donald Trump’s corrupt phone call with Ukraine -- an act that led to Trump’s first impeachment and cost me my military career.
People told me to keep my head down. But my family came here as …
Oracle is selling $25B of bonds to help finance its AI buildout, in what is set to be the biggest high-grade US offering since Meta's $30B bond sale last year (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-02…
At a Tokyo forum, Masayoshi Son says he "was crying" over SoftBank selling its $5.83B Nvidia stake but "I just had more need for money to invest in OpenAI" (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/softbank-m
UK crypto buyers are required to share their account details with tax officials starting January 1 or face penalties, as the UK seeks to collect unpaid taxes (Rachel Clun/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgl2je65klo
Circana: EA's Battlefield 6 became 2025's best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut; Pokémon is 2025's fastest-selling physical game (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says selling AI chips to China is a blunder with "incredible national security implications", calling it a "big mistake" and "crazy" (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/ar…
Insurance tech company Ethos raised ~$200M in its Jan. 29 IPO, selling 10.5M shares at $19 each; it reached a $1.1B market cap, below its 2021 $2.7B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/how-sequoi…
Shares of Shenzhen-based OneRobotics opened flat in their HK debut after the Chinese home robotics maker raised $210M by selling 22M shares at about $9.50 each (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/markets/ipo/amazo…
Alibaba starts selling Quark S1, its first smart glasses powered by its Qwen AI models, for ~$537 in China, and plans to release international versions in 2026 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-27/ali…
Sources: China's review of Meta's Manus deal was spurred by what officials called "selling young crops", a concern over cross-border transfer of emerging tech (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9496e2bc-f67a-4db7-b5af-f760fedeb666
<…
The US' TikTok deal is a win for ByteDance: it will keep and license the algorithm instead of selling it, and continue to run TikTok's commercial activities (Jim Secreto/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/59b91fc8-03a1-48df-9821-e2fdff24bd33
<…
Xbox had a terrible 2025: Microsoft canceled games and raised console and Game Pass prices, Costco stopped selling Xbox, and Valve's Steam Machine upstaged it (Devindra Hardawar/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/2025-was-the-year-xbox-died-130…
Circana: the Switch 2 ended December and 2025 as the US' best-selling video game hardware, offsetting declines among rivals to lift overall hardware spend by 9% (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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