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Toronto-based quantum computing company Xanadu says it will go public in the US and Canada via a SPAC, in a deal that values the combined business at ~$3.6B (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/xanadu-to-go-public-on-nasdaq-and-tsx-in-3-6-billion-u…

Xanadu to go public on Nasdaq and TSX in $3.6-billion USD SPAC deal
Toronto-based quantum computing firm Xanadu has struck a deal to go public by merging with a SPAC called Crane Harbor Acquisition Corp.

MyJobQuote, a trades-booking business, includes dubious "experts" who have provided AI-generated or misinformed commentary to the UK press at least 600 times (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Dubious experts deployed by MyJobQuote published more than 600 times in UK press
A network of apparently fake experts has polluted the British media with at least 600 pieces of often AI-generated and misinformed commentary.

The government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade, is coming in a few days,
offering 600 million tons from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming.
The sales are a signature piece of Trump’s ambitions for companies to dig more coal from federal lands and burn it for electricity.
Yet most power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years, an Associated Press data analysis shows.
Three other mines po…

Trump wants to mine more coal from public lands as appetite for it lags
U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade. About 600 million tons of the fuel will be auctioned from publicly owned reserves next to strip mines in Montana and Wyoming. Data analyzed by The Associated Press shows most of the power plants served by those mines plan to quit burning coal altogether within 10 years. The sales are a signature piece of President Donald Trump’s ambitions to dig and burn more coal from federal lands. The…

In Onlinezeitungen dominieren wenige User den unangenehmen Ton auf der Seite
#Hassrede #PublicDiscourseIndicator
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🐘 Unfinished infrastructure, wasted public funds: Colombia's 'white elephants' exposed
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20251106-colombia-white-elephants-unfinished-infra…

The Observers - Unfinished infrastructure, wasted public funds: Colombia's 'white elephants' exposed
In Colombia, an Instagram account called "White Elephant" exposes unfinished infrastructure (often referred to as “white elephants”), the waste of public funds and irregularities surrounding certain toll booths. The account visits the sites, then posts videos and files complaints to pressure officials and companies. The Observers team spoke to the individual behind this account followed by more than 300,000 people.

I began posting this around year 2000.... It still seems quite valid.
The First Law of the Internet
Every person shall be free to use the Internet in any way that is privately beneficial without being publicly detrimental.
The burden of demonstrating public detriment shall be on those who wish to prevent the private use.
Such a demonstration shall require clear and convincing evidence of public detriment.
The public detriment must be of such deg…

RE: #Peršmanhof: Ermittlungen eingeleitet"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Public Enemy:
🎵 Prophets of Rage
#PublicEnemy
https://djbanekroll.bandcamp.com/track/13-dead-prez-happiness-public-enemy-prophets-of-rage-track-mashup
https://open.spotify.com/track/3s3n2yEQrRFIZDrKnpHJvV

Physicist Steve Hsu says he has published a peer-reviewed theoretical physics paper whose main idea came from GPT-5 (Steve Hsu/@hsu_steve)
https://x.com/hsu_steve/status/1996034522308026435

steve hsu (@hsu_steve) on X
I think I’ve published the first research article in theoretical physics in which the main idea came from an AI - GPT5 in this case. The physics research paper itself (on QFT and state-dependent quantum mechanics) has been published in Physics Letters B. I've written an

Sources: Vox Media's board has discussed spinning off its podcast network due to active interest; Penske may be interested in Vox's digital publishing assets (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/vox-media-explores-sale-podcast-publishing…

Scoop: Vox Media board has discussed spinning out podcast network
Vox Media has received active interest in its podcast network from strategic and financial sponsors.