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"How Can Nonprofit Presses Advance the Diamond Ecosystem?"
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/how-nonprofit-presses-can-advance-diamond-oa
"Earlier this year, three nonprofit…

Flexible Connection Agreements can help to connect new loads to the grid before firm capacity is available.
But that does require proper oversight: although beggars can’t be choosers when it comes to grid access, the regulator certainly can.
New RAP briefing on Europe's hope for unlocking grids.
https://www.

Flex to connect
Connection requests for renewable generation, EV chargers, data centres and battery storage are surging across Europe and the grid can't keep up with this

Polymarket partners with Chainalysis to deploy detection models to "surface patterns consistent with insider knowledge in prediction markets" and other tools (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Seven Social Sins
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.
— Frederick Lewis Donaldson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_So

"The Commodification of Sensitive Open Data" @ Katina Magazine
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/open-knowledge/2026/the-commodification-of-sensitive-open-data
"Governments enable corporations to…

Hey cool, flowers to myself: Starting this week, I will be Acting Professor at Ruhr-University #Bochum holding the chair of Anthropology of Knowledge.
This will be for the summer term and lots of fun, esp. in teaching controversy mapping, reading extraction, and discussing post-socialist economies.

RE: https://apobangpo.space/@bich/116830773027187529
Pretty soon no person educated in Texas, Florida, or other confederate states will have the skills and knowledge to obtain any but a menial job.

Hrmm...looks like Furnace, sounds like a Genesis/Mega Drive, notes are definitely Final Fantasy. Think I'm gonna give this a show with my very limited knowledge on FM synth/tracking.
#music

Sources: AI video startup Higgsfield is in talks to raise $300M to $500M at a $5B pre-money valuation, more than 4x its valuation in a January 2026 round (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-video-startup-talks-quadruple-va…

AI Video Startup in Talks to Quadruple Valuation to $5 Billion
AI video startup Higgsfield AI is in talks with investors to raise $300 million to $500 million at a valuation of $5 billion before the investment, according to two people with knowledge of the fundraising efforts. A valuation at that level would be more than four times its valuation in a ...

"Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space"
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/
"Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digit…