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Samsung leads Mistral's €3B round, pushing valuation to €21B(techfundingnews.com)
2 points by ilamont 1mo ago|1 comments
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Canada holds first defense talks with China in more than 8 years(scmp.com)
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Google's failed attempt to license Hollywood IP for its AI tools(latimes.com)
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Florida revokes permits for license plate readers on state highways(wusf.org)
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by ilamont 1mo ago
> It's absolutely shocking to see how poorly companies, and governments, communicate and no amount of AI/LLM usage will change it. Thank you for saying the first part. It truly boggles the mind to see how badly most organizatio
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Has early Scratch experience led to fulfilling careers?(twitter.com)
124 points by ilamont 1mo ago|99 comments
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MIT building 18 closed after possible dimethylmercury contamination(thetech.com)
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by ilamont 1mo ago
When the bubble bursts and tens of millions of people see their retirement accounts with S&P holdings drop 30%, that's when the knives will really come out.
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by ilamont 1mo ago
TFA starts with a picture of Last of Us . Season 1 was amazing for the most part. Even my spouse who has zero interest in video games loved it. And then season 2 started. They forgot their core audience (gamers, horror, fans of post-apocal
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Meta Agrees to Fork over $16B Settlement in Landmark Child Safety Case(mediaite.com)
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The turbulent AI era is here(gatesnotes.com)
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by ilamont 2mo ago
I have one of these too. I can’t believe how long it’s performed at very high levels of use including two external screens and 10-15 memory intensive applications running concurrently, including three different browsers with multiple tabs o
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by ilamont 2mo ago
This is like a story from "Big Vern" in Viz , but instead of Vern being a violent London heavy, it's basically Ho from Slow Horses . https://assets.londonist.com/uploads/2006/12/i875/4998
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Unitree's 45% post-IPO plunge raises concerns over China's robotics bubble(seekingalpha.com)
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by ilamont 2mo ago
Because merchants charge everyone the same price regardless of how they pay Not at many gas stations. Cash gets a discount usually $.10 per gallon. I’ve also started to see restaurants either give a discount for cash, or charge extra for
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by ilamont 2mo ago
> somewhere high atop 345 Park Avenue a Blackstone executive is twirling his mustache while saying "gamify the gravesites". I don't think so. It's more like "hit the numbers no matter what, we don't care wha
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by ilamont 2mo ago
It's Find-a-Grave, an indie genealogy site that was acquired by Ancestry, which itself was acquired by Blackstone sometime in the last decade. Blackstone brought in an ex-Facebook executive to run it, and this was one of the results.
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by ilamont 2mo ago
Well, the other notable fact about this story is it's Blackstone, which has a record of giving managers a lot of leeway to do anything to juice the numbers. Two examples: 1) Hiring 14 year old slaughterhouse workers ( https:/&#x2F
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by ilamont 2mo ago
> I heard in the 50s an american could just startup a business installing septic tanks. But now the same person would need a myriad of regulations to be met, heavy equipment use mandated, all of which raise overhead to a level where its
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by ilamont 2mo ago
> The sequels have been disappointing, they had to be. Scott never owned the rights to Blade Runner and wasn't heavily involved in 2049 . It shows. The script. The choice of actors. Clumsy scenes, like the fight scene at the casino
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Four Years Ago, a Crypto Boss Went Missing. Now His Successor Has(nytimes.com)
58 points by ilamont 2mo ago|16 comments
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by ilamont 2mo ago
This came up about a month ago when someone posted a link celebrating the title cards in Blade Runner. I responded then the same way I will respond now: it’s not just the amazing visuals, it’s also the amazing auditory experience, an additi
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by ilamont 2mo ago
A trend that’s leading to more victims is the wave of boomer retirements. Every year there are millions of new 60 and 70 somethings with lots of time on their hands, many of them loaded to the gills and keen to write that novel/memoir&
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by ilamont 2mo ago
Beat me to it. Why isn’t every unsolicited pitch without an unsubscribe link immediately blocked/marked as spam?
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Rare London bans AI books, asks attendees for help identifying authors using AI(jamesrblatch.substack.com)
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Arizona city sues over fire truck prices(themesatribune.com)
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Google plans to stop making Pixel products in China in 2027(semafor.com)
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Poll showing Bass leading Raman by double digits was bogus "social experiment"(msn.com)
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The Trauma Olympics(brookewarner.substack.com)
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by ilamont 2mo ago
Copyright office registration. If you or your publisher didn't do it, you don't qualify. Some publishers, even big ones, were exposed as neglecting this basic step when the Anthropic case was settled. I would check the settlement

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