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Kim Wilde:
🎵 Kids in America
#KimWilde
https://wolfstax.bandcamp.com/track/kim-wilde-kids-in-america-wolfstax-bootleg
https://open.spotify.com/track/3LaHsdzzmvhx6TJedpomVy
My ADHD finds that phase of a hobby when you learn your way around extremely pleasing.
Soaking about the knowledge like a sponge reading books & articles & forum posts & old newspapers & research papers, watching videos, digesting the wisdom of people from many decades.
(Why would you deny yourself this by asking a chatbot?!)
Sources: Alibaba anonymously released an AI video model called HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibaba-anonymous…
Meander (2025).
(Unlike people who're associating a strong negative connotation with that word, I've always seen active meandering as a strength, a never ending search and adaptation of one's course in changing environments, finding/encouraging/prioritizing flow, learning/sharing/depositing bits of knowledge/material in different places and thereby also changing your local environment, at least a little...)
"Be like water!"
(Edit: fixed typo)
Well, here's an #InOurTime episode which I *think* is not actually an April Fool but real knowledge carefully presented to make it *sound* like an April Fool. But I'm honestly not sure.
Listen to it before checking other sources and see what you think. Whatever, the people who made it had a lot of fun doing so.
In Our Time: Archaea
Starting from: 00:31:10
Episode w…
Maandag knalt het besef er hard in: de hoge energieprijs lijkt minder tijdelijk dan gehoopt | de Volkskrant
Op zich is onbetaalbare olie en onbetaalbaar gas natuurlijk wel een prima klimaatregel
Maar wel maatschappijontwrichtend
En niet leuk voor de hardwerkende Nederlander, of Bengaal
https://archive.ph/j9Dsx
Source: Spark Capital, the first VC firm to back Anthropic in 2023, is raising about $3B in new funds, 50% more than the size of funds it raised two years ago (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropic-backer-spark-c…
Sources: Apollo nears a $3.4B loan deal to a Valor-led investment vehicle to buy and lease Nvidia chips to xAI; through fall 2025, xAI was burning $1B per month (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apollo-nears-3-bil…
Source: Chinese AI startup Zhipu anonymously released its new AI model on OpenRouter under the name Pony Alpha; Zhipu plans to launch GLM-5 later this week (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chinas-zhipu-rolls-new-ai-mo…