…I took a look at the 80 businesses which Bond Capital cite that they are invested in.

Of those 80 brands:

- 27 self-declare themselves to effectively be in the AI Kool Aid space
- a further 5 are what I would describe as AI-affiliated
- 3 are more in the space of machine learning (i.e. without full-on AI-goggles wrapped around them)
- 3 are in the crypto space (one in NFTs!)

So I wonder how Substack’s funding runway looks when the AI bubble bursts for 40% of its principal investor’s bets?

@quixoticgeek here near Antwerp our big tree out front is shedding leaves like it's October, hoping this last bit of rain and what we are supposed to get next week stables as well. Genieten Germany!

Voilà un titre magnifiquement tronqué

Die Technologiestiftung Berlin will mit der Kiezbox 2.0 eine solarbetriebene, dezentrale und resiliente Kommunikationsinfrastruktur für Berlin entwickeln, die Umwelt- und Sensordaten erfasst und in Krisensituationen gemeinsam mit weiteren Kiezboxen ein unabhängiges WLAN-#Mesh-Netzwerk bereitstellen kann. Dazu sucht sie eine Person als Embedded Software and Network Engineer in Festanstellung für einen Job mit #OpenWrt, Wi-Fi + #LoRa Mesh.

https://technologiestiftung-berlin.jobs.personio.de/job/2745978

@codinghorror ABBA - Money Money Money

תענוג (מפוקפק) לקרוא את הדיון על הערך "הפנקס האדום". זה אנציקלופדיה או תגובות למאמר בטמקא?

#ויקיפדיה

https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%97%D7%94:%D7%94%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%A1_%D7%94%D7%90%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9D

Indigenous cultures are known for a “7 generations” disposition.

Our culture struggles to hold focus on 7 months

#climateDiary

@xahteiwi back in the 70s my parents would often remark “new and improved” sarcastically. Because the English will reach for sarcasm before word splicing

So yeah, if you're a good faith booster, I get how frustrating that has to be, and I even have some sympathies. But you've also got to recognize that boosterism of any kind is way the hell out on a limb; it may not seem like it in tech influencer circles, but it is. More to the point, if you want to be able to change anything, you've got to come to terms with that bad faith actors are making sure the rest of us are sick and tired of boosterism.

Hey, I have an idea.

*Fuck* Hakeem Jeffries.

In the fullness of time, space, and the incomprehensible infinities of square dance night at the Hilbert Hotel, it may turn out that the boosters have the right of it and we critics were wrong.

Even should such miracles come to pass, that does not mean that our criticisms were wrong or invalid given what we know *now* — as opposed to what we might come to learn in some hypothetical future.

RE: https://c.im/@BBC/117144240968313104

Years ago when I lived in Canterbury, they brought in a phone to pay thing for parking. I wrote a letter to Canterbury city council saying this was a bad idea as someone could put a sticker over the phone number, and scam people for their credit card details. CCC said this wasn't a realistic attack, and they proceeded with the roll out.

The phone number is now a QR code.

And I was fucking right.

Le discours de @marinetondelier aux #jde2026 #LesEcologistes est combattif et engagé.

Lors de la révolution française des membres de la noblesse ont accepté d'abandonner leurs privilèges pour une société plus juste et égalitaire.

Aujourd'hui les privilégiés du système participent de moins en moins à l'effort commun et font peser sur les plus précaires les conséquences du dérèglement climatique, dont ils sont pourtant largement responsables...

#Presidentielle2027

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H7LEx5IPNZQ

All by way of getting at that if you use AI, and believe that you are correct and justified in doing so, that still doesn't make the criticism go away.

In this case it gets kinda convoluted because so many boosters have acted in terrible faith, including violating consent at every turn in order to collect training data and push products. Critics and bystanders are, at times, pretty reasonably fed up with that shit.

That means that a lot of the normal channels for resolving criticism are gone.

Se noi di sinistra fossimo tanti come ci illudiamo AvS prenderebbe più voti, e anch e gli altri ancora più a sx
@macfranc @emama @politica

"All media is social media now. And it’s not just why this is a story that’s gotten so under my skin [...]. It’s also the involvement of the Guardian. Its leadership has issued what amounts to a cease-and-desist letter of anyone questioning anything about its decisions and is now gaslighting Jason Arday’s family and friends and anyone with a pulse who witnessed this entire episode in real time."

Follow-up article on #JasonArday by Carole Cadwalladr:

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-arday-reckoning

@pallenberg 🤔🤔

One of the most useful German nouns is the Swiss coinage "Verschlimmbesserung", which is a portmanteau of Verschlimmerung (deterioration) and Verbesserung (improvement) and describes the act of making something worse in an attempt to make it better.

If your language has an equivalent expression, please share and explain it below.

Boosts for reach appreciated!