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today, we're announcing our €3,8M ($4.5M) seed financing round, led by byFounders with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Antler, Thomas Dohmke (former CEO of GitHub), Avery Pennarun (CEO of Tailscale) among other incredible angels.
read more on what's next: blog.tangled.org/seed
Apple is adding video support to its podcasting apps — that’s great. But the way it’s doing so might jeopardize the openness that’s kept podcasting from getting enshittified like every other form of media. It’s not too late for them to fix this. anildash.com/2026/02/28/a...
This draft Trump EO on voting is even nuttier than you imagined. Zeroing out all voter rolls and making everyone re-register in person. Mandatory annual online re-registration. Requiring anyone casting an absentee ballot to find a notary. No dropboxes. All post-election disputes federalized. 😟
When you have an audience or a business you have to ensure that you always provide a lot more value to people than you extract from them. If you don't then, long term, it all breaks down.
Young people I talk to today...they feel like the whole entire world has broken this contract with them.
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: When you talk about the economy, we cut inflation in half
KERNEN: But when Trump came into office, it was about where it is right now
MULLIN: But we stabilized it
Age verification vendor Persona left frontend exposed, researchers say
To demonstrate the privacy implications, researchers took a closer look and found a publicly exposed Persona frontend on a US government-authorized server, with 2,456 accessible files. You read that right. According to researcher "Celeste" the exposed code, which has now been removed, sat at a US government-authorized endpoint that appears to have been isolated from its regular work environment. In those files, the researchers found details about the extensive surveillance Persona software performs on its users. Beyond checking their age, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks, runs facial recognition against watchlists and politically exposed persons, screens "adverse media" across 14 categories (including terrorism and espionage), and assigns risk and similarity scores. Persona collects —and can retain for up to three years —IP addresses, browser and device fingerprints, government ID numbers, phone numbers, names, faces, plus a battery of "selfie" analytics like suspicious-entity detection, pose repeat detection, and age inconsistency checks.
According to The Rage, Discord has stated it will not continue to use Persona for age verification. However, other platforms reported to use Persona include: • Roblox: Uses Persona's facial age estimation and ID verification as the core of its "age checks to chat" system. • OpenAl / ChatGPT: OpenAl's help center explains that if you need to verify being 18+, "Persona is a trusted third-party company we use to help verify age," and that Persona may ask for a live selfie and/or government ID. • Lime: The ride-sharing service deploys custom age verification flows with Persona to meet each region's unique requirements. We don't just report on threats - we help protect your social media Cybersecurity risks should never spread beyond a headline. Protect your social media accounts by using Malwarebytes Identity Thett Protection.
Persona, the age verification company used by Roblox & Discord was hacked.
And despite the company & platforms claiming Persona utilised “zero knowledge” methodologies to verify age, they are gathering user data.
Palantir is one of Persona’s main investors.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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You've heard that something is going on with colon cancer. I'm working on a thing...let me know what you think!! Is it helpful? What would you do different?
hankgreen.com/crc
A graph of US imports form Taiwan and China showing imports from Taiwan reaching $300B annualized as imports form China sink to $250B annualized
Crazy milestone in the US trade data released today—America now imports more directly from Taiwan than from China for the first time since 1992
The trade war has cut US direct trade with China, and the AI boom has caused a surge in spending on Taiwanese-made semiconductors
A federal research lab formerly known as the National Renewable Energy Laboratory laid off 134 employees this week.
Skeleton has got to be the most "absolutely NOT" sport.
The TACO cycle:
Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.
So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.
The TACO trade
Great piece. I'm thrilled that this was the first result that popped up when I searched for "open source grammar checker".
www.makeuseof.com/stopped-payi...
a graph of the year-on-year change in US tech employment
The US tech sector continues losing jobs—overall, employment decreased by 5k last month and is down 19k over the last year
That's not as bad as the worst of the 2024 tech-cession, but extremely bad compared to the 2022 boom or even pre-2020 norms
a graph of US blue collar job growth
The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the early pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 145k as manufacturing, transportation, & mining industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out
These are US National Park and other travel related stickers.
posting without comment
Number of new vaccines licensed per decade that were the first vaccine against their respective disease. The number goes up over time.
National reported cases of vaccine preventable diseases in the United States. The number goes down significantly over time with the introduction of vaccines for each respective disease.
Still wonderful progress being made in vaccine developments. Excellent data visualizations and a quick flyover of vaccine history in this article.
worksinprogress.co/issue/the-...
Trump: "It's gonna make a lot of money"
2008: America needs a president who can answer the phone at 3 am
2026: America has a president who wakes up at 3 am and threatens World War III
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
This is incredible. Google Suite for the Epstein files:
www.jmail.world
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols
Playback 2025 is officially here! Your top podcasts, ratings, minutes listened, and more are ready to explore in-app. And fun fact: your stats will keep updating through to the end of the year 🥳
Wrote about the ridiculous new Trump visa rules that will stop those who worked in trust & safety from getting visas at the same time MAGA folks are demanding more trust & safety work.
Today, we're opening up Seams Alpha (seams.so), a social web annotation built in the Atmosphere. We're hoping it helps with collective sense-making.
This is just the start, there's still lots to do!
We'd love if you tried it with us.
this shit is just beyond parody, man
An almost all white, snowy scene in Chicago's Grant Park. A few sledders come down a hill in the foreground and mid ground. A statue of General John Logan is covered in snow in the middle of the frame, while blotted out skyscrapers are barely visible in the background.
Sledding amongst skyscrapers in #Chicago on an incredibly snowy Novemeber day
🎵 Really enjoy Snarky Puppy's orchestral album, Somni, today.
music.apple.com/us/album/som...
