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German AI startup Black Forest Labs, which develops the open-source Flux image models, raised $300M at a $3.25B valuation, up from $1B in September 2024 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1acae2af-c0da-4be3-9cd9-af6120d1f7aa

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…

Transformation!

Oud-generaal Peter van Uhm verloor zijn zoon in Afghanistan, dan komt Trump met zijn uithaal: ‘Hoe kan hij dat nou zeggen?’ | Binnenland | De Gelderlander.nl
#aanrader

Grit Lemke fängt in “Kinder von Hoy” den Vibe von Hoyerswerda ein: Menschen eingespannt zwischen Glück und Terror. Oder:
“Zukünfte, die vorzeitig abgebrochen werden”.
Mehr als nebenbei korrigiert sie dutzende Missverständnisse, vom Osten bis nach Mosambik.
#Buchempfehlung

Damn - a picture from last year at Tipaza, Algeria just came up and that hit hard - it _really_ matters they we get out there and see stuff. The world is amazing.

Wir heißen Jacqueline Klusik-Eckert (@…) im Namen des Deutschen Verbands für Kunstgeschichte e.V., Evelyn Gius (@…) im Namen des Verbands der Digital Humanities Deutschland

Matthias Crauwels will speak on 'Data on Kubernetes / stateless storage' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

Jetty protecting the harbor immediately south of Portsmouth, NY seen from Odiorne State Park
#photo #photography #jetty