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London-based robotics startup Humanoid raised a $152M Series A led by Prime Movers Lab at a $1.35B post-money valuation, bringing its total funding to $270M (John Koetsier/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/

Humanoid Raises $152 Million At $1.35 Billion Valuation: Europe’s Newest Robot Unicorn
Europe has a new unicorn. It's the humanoid robot company Humanoid, which just raised a $152M series A

Netanyahu told Trump the IDF will not withdraw from Lebanon
and that Israel does not consider itself bound by the Lebanon clause in the U.S.-Iran agreement
- Maariv
https://bsky.app/profile/faytuksnetwork.bsky.social/post/3mobrzqw6ed2z

Faytuks Network (@faytuksnetwork.bsky.social)
Netanyahu told Trump the IDF will not withdraw from Lebanon and that Israel does not consider itself bound by the Lebanon clause in the U.S.-Iran agreement - Maariv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
Maxïmo Park:
🎵 Books from Boxes
#MaxïmoPark
https://warprecords.bandcamp.com/track/books-from-boxes
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rorguhPxwrGTp24FkPgXs

Mark Cuban, Jerry Jones Leave Door Open for Mavericks Owner to Buy Cowboys Stake https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/mark-cuban-jerry-jones-open-to-mavericks-owner-buying-stake-in-cowboys

"… I gradually switched from OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks to PC-BSD. Then TrueOS, then FreeBSD-CURRENT. In the midst of all that, something with FreeBSD in September 2012 … probably toying with 9.0 on a PowerPC iMac with failing graphics hardware. Not because I was a glutton for punishment (like, the horror of a command-line loader, and the certainty that hardware was failing) – because there was nothing good to be done with the Mac, and I was curious about non-Apple alternatives to Microsoft…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Kabza De Small:
🎵 Funu (CJ Giovanni Mix)
#KabzaDeSmall
https://cjgiovanni.bandcamp.com/track/kabza-de-small-dj-maphorisa-tresor-funu-cj-giovanni-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IALIByKLOlp8mcmQhR0IQ

"Der #Widerstand des 20. Juli und anderer Gruppen erinnere daran, dass #Demokratie nicht allein durch Institutionen gestützt werde. »Sie lebt von einer Ethik der bürgerlichen Verantwortung – von Menschen, die bereit sind, Verantwortung für das Gemeinwesen zu übernehmen, auch wenn dies unbeq…

Stauffenberg-Gedenken im Bendlerblock: Großneffe von Widerstandskämpfer Bonhoeffer versucht, AfD-Kranz zu entfernen
»Werden wir hier nicht akzeptieren«: Tobias Korenke, Nachfahre des NS-Widerstandskämpfers Dietrich Bonhoeffer, hat einen AfD-Kranz an der Stauffenberg-Gedenkstätte entfernen wollen – und das Gebinde dabei beschädigt.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Nichtseattle:
🎵 Meine Ladies
#NowPlaying #Nichtseattle
https://open.spotify.com/track/2KzhbaZMPr8G4oOAS1jnvu

Investigation: Amazon is buying huge quantities of rare books, scanning them for AI, and destroying them; a tracked Biblio order went to its Las Vegas facility (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/we-tracked-a-shipment-of…

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

There’s a technical term for
“the most senior Catholic in the U.S. government.”
In the Church, they call that a “layperson.”
https://bsky.app/profile/theradr.bsky.social/post/3mprxnk4mf22h

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@theradr.bsky.social)
“'I was the most senior Catholic in the US government,' Vance recalls, affronted, '& the Vatican seemed unwilling to move its moral guidance....'” “The Scottish writer Stephen Daisley [noted the] 'breezy impertinence' [by which] Vance 'tells the pope... that he is in error on Church doctrine.'" [contains quote post or other embedded content]