🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Khruangbin:
🎵 Balls and Pins ii
#Khruangbin
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Kayxmc2Q0XYXc2CcxNP0C
Shares of Chinese AI chip designer Shanghai Biren Technology (6082.HK)
opened 82.1% higher in their Hong Kong debut on Friday,
kicking off the financial hub's first listing of 2026.
The strong debut follows a blockbuster year for Hong Kong's equity market in 2025
and points to a likely wave of AI and semiconductor offerings this year
as China accelerates efforts to build domestic chip alternatives
in response to U.S. curbs on technology exports.
Tina Smith endorses Peggy Flanagan over Angie Craig in Minnesota Senate race (Lisa Kashinsky/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/02/tina-smith-endorses-lt-gov-peggy-flanagan-in-minnesota-senate-race-00759890
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p72#a260202p72
"Citizen and professional journalists more motivated than Donald Trump lackeys at the Department of Justice continue to uncover disturbing items in Epstein files released to date. Among them, photographs that the DOJ should have been redacted but missed, “including pictures of a young girl kissing Jeffrey Epstein on the cheek and personal data on passports and drivers’ licenses,” CNN found."
Don’t Look Away – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/03/01/dont-look-away-3/
at 11:50 we put the big nyc ball drop livestream on, got bored quick, so mom put on some indian pastor who's accent turns "refuge" into "refuse". we switched back to the livestream with one minute left. when the ball dropped, the camera started showing couples kissing. the second/third one was two gay men. mom and brothers screamed and immediately changed back to the pastor. tone for 2026 immediately set, less than a minute in.
Ion-Scale Wave Emission and Absorption for Non-Maxwellian Velocity Distributions in the Inner #Heliosphere: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL118809 -> U of A researchers unravel mysteries of the solar wind: https://news.arizona.edu/news/kissing-sun-u-researchers-unravel-mysteries-solar-wind
Michał Kiciński, co-founder of CD Projekt and DRM-free digital games store GOG, has acquired 100% of the shares in GOG from CD Projekt (Vikki Blake/Eurogamer.net)
https://www.eurogamer.net/gog-and-cd-projekt-founder-micha-kicinski-acquires-10…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Jean‐Baptiste Lully, Philippe Quinault, Virginie Thomas, Éléonore Pancrazi, David Witczak, Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Écurie, Les Pages et les Chantres du Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles & Alexis Kossenko:
🎵 Atys, LWV 53: Prologue (extract)