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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

SoftBank’s Son ‘was crying’ about the firm's need to sell its Nvidia stake
SoftBank Group founder Masayoshi Son has downplayed his firm's decision to dump its Nvidia position, saying he "was crying" to sell the shares. 

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Free yourself from the Spotify desktop client with spotifyd.
https://jonathanchang.org/blog/setting-up-spotifyd-on-macos/
saved 2020-10-18

Free yourself from the Spotify desktop client with spotifyd
How to save a ton of memory and compute power by switching to a Terminal-based Spotify client.

Musik-Streaming: Spotify führt Gruppenchats ein
Seit dem vergangenen Jahr kann man auf Spotify mit Freunden chatten. Nun führt der Musik-Streaming-Dienst auch Gruppenchats ein.
https://www.heis…

How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point (Kat Tenbarge/Spitfire News)
https://spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-deepfakes-abuse-elon-musk
http://www.memeorandum.com/260102/p46#a260102p46

Another evening, another few filters getting OOM speedups.
Tonight it was invert (27.3x, trivial memory bound shader that just outputs negative x[i] for each output sample) and the 8B/10B decode (didn't even bother to GPU it, just removing the redundant sampling operation by using the new CDR recovered-data output was enough for a 12.1x speedup and 6ms on my 50M point benchmark is fast enough I'm in no hurry to GPU... but at faster data rates with lower oversampling factors it …

SoftBank says it has completed a $22.5B investment in OpenAI, finalizing its up to $40B investment commitment announced in March and taking its stake to ~11% (SoftBank Group Corp.)
https://group.softbank/en/news/press/20251231

Completion of Additional $22.5 Billion Investment in OpenAI | SoftBank Group Corp.
SoftBank Group Corp. today announced that it has completed an additional investment of $22.5 billion in OpenAI on December 26, 2025 (U.S. time) at the second closing of The Company’s investment of up to $40.0 billion committed on March 31, 2025.

It's really not hard to get off Spotify
-- there are a lot of apps and websites to help you transfer your playlist.
We're just so used to it that it seems easier to stay than go.
But when you're spins are funding death, it's a small thing you can do to make a difference
https://

Henny Gesserit (@nmjmredux.blacksky.app)
It's really not hard to get off spotify, there are a lot of apps and websites to help you transfer your playlist. We're just so used to it that it seems easier to stay than go. But when you're spins are funding death, it's a small thing you can do to make a difference [contains quote post or other embedded content]

I don't necessarily agree with everything in this podcast but it made me think about various issues around AI.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1S8FEbhkaQQ8Yrx4e3f5Vh?si=WrPPgrXfQJWJZts1p2liZA&t=5818&pi=745nmQIBTOK…

„Speedball“ angespielt: Der Amiga-Klassiker von 1990 ist zurück
Rebellion bringt „Speedball“ nach 36 Jahren zurück – doch die Essenz des Originals verpufft in einer seelenlosen Neuinterpretation.
https://www…