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Reuters - 'Gaming software provider Unity Software has held recent talks to be acquired by a consortium of investors including private equity firm Silver Lake Partners and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF' 'Valuation of $25 billion was discussed in recent weeks'
@catrionaagg.bsky.social @mathforge.org Dear Catriona, dear Andrew. I'm a big fan of the Puzzles and a lifelong geometry enthusiast. I took the liberty and converted all 440 puzzles and added them to Live Geometry: livegeometry.com/CatrionaAgg Please let me know if this is OK with you.
Catriona Agg's Geometry Puzzles, live
Her felt-tip puzzles redrawn as live geometry: drag the figures and feel what stays the same. Catalogued and solved by Andrew Stacey at Mathforge Notes.
livegeometry.com
Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/
The “ceasefire” will be one year old next week. Since then, Israeli strikes have killed more than 1400 Gazans
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last mo.Israeli strike kills five in Gaza, including four women, health officials say
Canada continues to be shameful on this issue.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2mo agoRoom empties out at the UN as Netanyahu begins his speech.
An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?
For months, Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank have watched their water lines cut and their wells marked for demolition in Israel’s slow strangulation of Palestinian agriculture, as farmers tell Mondoweiss "there is no tomorrow" for them. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/dest...
‘Destroying agriculture is the purpose’: How Israel is drying up the West Bank’s most fertile farmlands
For months, Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank have watched their water lines cut and their wells marked for demolition in Israel’s slow strangulation of Palestinian agriculture, as…
mondoweiss.net
Sergey Brin is worth about $284 billion. After the proposed ONE-TIME 5% wealth tax, he would have roughly $270 billion. If, after that tragic loss, he spent $1 million every single day and never earned another cent, he would run out of money in the year 2766. Billionaires are an obscenity.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin spending more than $100 million fighting California wealth tax
Brin has been pouring money into Building a Better California, a group that's backing two measures that could nullify a proposed billionaire tax.
latimes.com
It’s rough being a billionaire. First nobody thanks you for ruining search, and then you have to spend your own millions to prevent the serfs from having decent schools
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
fortune.com
Last week, EA said their CEO Andrew Wilson made $39 million in cash and stock awards An alternate measurement puts Wilson's take at $77 million These numbers left me no choice but to make a new Very Tall Chart (If you click, you'll be scrolling for a long time) www.gamefile.news/p/ea-pay-ver...
Game File's new tallest chart ever
EA's CEO did really well this year, so I needed more pixels.
gamefile.news
Just a head’s up to everyone who hasn’t reassessed their relationship with Shopify yet: its CEO is actively pushing far-right politics in Canada, now with Elon Musk’s explicit support!
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 4mo agolol, annnnnnnd there's the nail in the coffin, if there was still any doubt:
Proud of myself today. What started as a simple infinite-grid shader turned into a month-long journey through rendering, maths, and plenty of frustration—but I finally got it working. I wrote about everything I learned: willofindie.com/proj/infinit... #webgpu #rustlang #glsl #realtimerendering
Infinite Grid Shader
Learning to create an infinite grid procedurally using GLSL shaders. This post contains my notes, lessons and findings, and is intended for personal reference. Therefore, you might find errors, misjud...
willofindie.com
dude i like your vids and your fight against govt surveillance but painting anyone who dislikes that you decided to go on Tucker Fucking Carlson's show as a flock shill is stupid.
Palestinians in Gaza have had the opportunity to collectively watch the World Cup, but the man who had been organizing the watch parties was killed by an Israeli strike ahead of the event.
(fun fact only slightly related that not everyone seems to know, you can also use: `ptr,10` to view a pointer as an array of 10 elements)
Friends, they’re not even trying to hide their voter suppression. ⬇️
Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation
Airstrikes, the famous natural phenomenon that routinely traps journalists, trapped a journalist, so random! She died as rescuers waited for permission to save her -- from who and why the permissions wasn't given and what would happen if they didn't get it is absolutely unimportant, trust us.
