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Expo, which develops an eponymous React Native framework and provides cloud services for building cross-platform apps, raised a $45M Series B led by Georgian (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/16/developer-tooling-startup-e…

Developer tooling startup Expo nabs $45M investment - SiliconANGLE
Developer tooling startup Expo nabs $45M investment - SiliconANGLE

from my link log —
Bear generates a compilation database for clang tooling.
https://github.com/rizsotto/bear
saved 2026-05-16 https://dotat.at/:/TS3IS.…

Ich hatte das gestern schon geschrieben: früher war in Westdeutschland heute Feiertag. Tag der deutschen Einheit (ja, kleines deutsch). Warum ausgerechnet der 17. Juni? Deswegen: https://www.bpb.de/themen/deutsche-teilung/517063/aufstand-17-juni-1953/

Aufstand 17. Juni 1953 | Themen | bpb.de
Auf dieser Seite haben wir anlässlich des 70. Jahrestages des Aufstandes vom 17. Juni 1953 alle Angebote der bpb zum Thema gesammelt.

POL-DEL: Landkreis Oldenburg: Diebstahl aus Eisautomat in Dötlingen Zeugenaufruf Delmenhorst (ots) - Am Montag, den 18. Mai 2026, gegen 04:00 Uhr schlugen Unbekannte die Scheibe eines Verkaufsautomaten an der Hauptstraße in Dötlingen ein. Anschließend wurde das in dem Automaten befindliche Speiseeis entwendet. Der ... https://www.

The irony in seeing, within the space of a few days:
A post telling younger folks not to worry about what older folks think about what you enjoy and to just enjoy it.
Another post telling older folks not to worry about what younger folks think about what you enjoy and to just enjoy it.
Just enjoy
https://…

Stephanie Burgis (@stephanieburgis.bsky.social)
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Arguably the most telling section of the White House report relates to its defense of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
The report’s authors bristle at any suggestion that this famously racist law may have been motivated by any kind of racial animus.
After all, such an acknowledgment might raise uncomfortable questions about the policies of Donald Trump and Stephen Miller
—policies that are explicitly modeled on laws like this one.
FOR THOSE UNFAMILIAR:
The Ch…

Racist Law From 1882 Is Not That Racist, Trump Says
Buried in the White House’s broadside against the Smithsonian is a bizarre—and revealing—claim about the Chinese Exclusion Act.

“Britain has been telling itself wildly inaccurate stories about itself for decades. The further those stories have drifted from reality, the worse their ability to govern has become”
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-britain-the-ungoverned-country/

"The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments."
#ClimateEmergency

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

San Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it has deleted the apps (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-demands-ap…

San Francisco Demands Apple and Google Delete AI ‘Nudify’ Apps From App Stores
The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.

New book: Trump mocked Zuckerberg and Bezos by showing associates their fawning texts, saying they were "kissing my ass"; Musk called it "First-class groveling" (Hugo Lowell/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-mocked-m

Trump Mocked Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos by Showing Off Fawning Texts
“You would not believe the texts I got from these tech guys,” NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan quote Donald Trump as telling associates in an upcoming book.