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In March 1977, Kraftwerk released their Trans-Europe Express album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiN26vn2ec
(LP Version)
Written by Ralf Hutter & Emil Schult
Produced by Ralf Hutter & Florian Schneider

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Kurt Vile:
🎵 Pretty pimpin
#KurtVile
https://open.spotify.com/track/47cNDW1xyM03mT2kseO41a
https://kurtvile.bandcamp.com/track/pretty-pimpin

Cybersecurity startup Zafran, which develops risk mitigation services, emerges from stealth with a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjhhpaz10

After fleeing Iran and an illustrious career in Israeli intelligence, Sanaz Yashar raises $30M for cyber start
Zafran, founded in 2022 by Yashar (CEO), Ben Seri (CTO) and Snir Havdala (CPO), develops a risk and mitigation platform to pinpoint the ‘exploitable’ threats in the organization and to mitigate their risk by mobilizing existing security controls

In March 1977, Kraftwerk released their Trans-Europe Express album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiN26vn2ec
(LP Version)
Written by Ralf Hutter & Emil Schult
Produced by Ralf Hutter & Florian Schneider

In order to maintain a financial and significant stock exchange environment you need an active trading economy. Because in the end it is a long term Ponzi scheme, you have to keep pumping in new money, new transactions because most of the value is in people's heads, it's sentiment.
External events can affect markets and sentiment and chaotic events just effect them chaotically.
Random burbling...

Outside of Game Pass (specifically on consoles/pc), #Xbox hasn't felt so aimless since the initial Xbox One days. More discless systems, very far between traditional Xbox tentpole releases, seemingly dropping retail presence. None of this affects Xbox gamers right now, but the future seems muddy and a little dark. Those Xbox studios better start pumping out some exciting things for us to hav…

In case you missed it, go read this investigation into stolen and trafficked artifacts making their way to the Met by @… (from 2023):

More than 1000 artifacts in Metropolitan Museum of Art catalog linked to alleged looting and trafficking figures - ICIJ
Reporters pinpointed the pieces, from India to Italy to Egypt, in North America’s largest museum. What do the findings mean for the Met’s future – and the future of all museums?

This is cool https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/04/seaweed-mining-precious-metals-clean-energy/678225/

Pumping Paracetamol