#Startups Weekly

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Nuevas rondas de financiación confirman que el dinero atrae dinero

Bienvenido a Startups Weekly: tu resumen semanal de todo lo que no te puedes perder del mundo de las startups. ¿Lo quieres en tu bandeja de entrada todos los viernes? Regístrate aquí. El dinero atrae dinero, como dice el refrán. Esta semana pareció confirmarlo, con un par de startups anunciando nuevas rondas de financiación solo unos meses después de las anteriores, y nombres familiares lanzando…

[entrackrme]

Indian Startup Funding and Acquisitions News [02 – 07 Sep]

During the week, 26 Indian startups raised around $421.29 million in funding. These deals count 4 growth-stage deals and 16 early-stage deals while 6 startups kept their transaction details undisclosed. Highlights:- 🚀26 startups 💰$420 Mn+ total funding 🌱22 early stage deals 🧑‍💻 5 key hirings 🤝 2 M&A 🚶2 layoffs (70 employees)

[thekredible]

TheKredible - Weekly Startups Funding Highlights (19 Aug - 24 Aug)

According to TheKredible report, this week (19 Aug - 24 Aug), 21 Indian startups raised $144.46 million in funding.

These deals include 5 growth-stage deals raking in $91 million and 13 early-stage deals secured $53.46 million.

Three deals remained undisclosed.

[unpretty]

heyo! you introduced me to garbage day (as well as today in tabs but that is on hiatus from what i can gather). do you have anything similar that you would recommend?

here's the garbage day referral link again because i'm annoying

if you want newsletters, i'm not really subscribed to that many, at least not many similar to garbage day. there's What The Fuck Just Happened Today, which started during the trump years for obvious reasons and also has a podcast version. it's pretty much all politics.

Morning Brew Daily is like. a normie news roundup. maybe not full normie because it's got a certain whiff of bay area tech startup culture on it but it's still a decent morning scroll and better than learning about headlines on tumblr lmao. also if i refer five people i get a free tote. love a free tote. i think they have a video version on youtube and nebula but the dudes are kind of annoying.

Money Stuff by Matt Levine requires you to give your email to bloomberg (ugh) but is more interesting than it has any right to be and is great if you want to learn how everything is securities fraud. there is a weekly podcast roundup if you want to be unsettled by matt levine's voice and not read a very long newsletter every weekday.

none of these really have a garbage day vibe though. when i think of things that have a garbage day vibe i mostly think of Never Post, which is a podcast instead of a newsletter. there are probably a lot of podcasts more in that wheelhouse but that's the first one that comes to mind. also garbage day has a podcast now.

[velvetjune]

Incredible findings with the new photo mode feature of Alan Wake 2 (full text below)

Full text:

Back of book:

BE EXTREMELY SERIOUS!

In this "Camden Gazette Bestseller" nominated masterpiece, seriousness coach, motivational speaker, and startup founder James Hawken explains how having too much fun can lead to a life of sadness. Using his proven "Fun Free" technique, James will teach you how to laugh less, frown more, and become the serious presence our world today desperately needs.

Do you miss the tumbleweeds drifting across the plaines of your existence because those fields are now occupied by loud, obnoxious fun seekers and party-goers? Look no further. "No More Fun" is a scientifically supported, no-nonsense approach to empirical seriousness and a drier, more arid lifestyle.

With "No More Fun" Hawken provides the most complete, practical guide available for a truly serious lifestyle and will show YOU how to get those pesky, playing kids and colorful balloons off the lawn of your life for good!

BECOME A NO FUNNER!

Pages of book:

-worrying that you don't have the fortitude necessary to pursue the No Fun Life. Perhaps you fret that you have spent too much of your life chasing joyful pursuits and have thus glutted the receptors of your brain beyond the capacity for seriousness, like an elastic waistband slackened by years of overindulgent meals. But fear not, gentle reader, even the biggest roller coaster junkies and EDM drop chasing neer-do-wells can still find the ability within themselves to reject “The F Word.” The mind's capacity for seriousness is not an elastic waistband; it's a muscle, and just like a muscle, we can get it back in shape.

So let’s hit the seriousness gym together and turn that fun-loving flab into a muscular love of drab! I will share some examples from my own life of exercises that have been helpful for me in times of the threat of levity.

A few months ago, l was riding my bicycle to the police station to deliver my weekly “Civilian Watch” notes. As my usual route was under construction (the disruptive noise from which | had been certain to mention in my C.W. notes) I was obliged to take an alternative route through the public park adjacent to the police station. This, Im sure you know I take no pleasure in telling you, was a minefield of potential amusements. There were playgrounds with laughing children, dogs chasing tying disks fung carelessly by their owners, joggers enjoying physical activity in garishly colored stretch fabrics... For someone not vigilantly committed to seriousness, such an environment could incite smiles at any moment.

Pulling my tweed jacket tightly about my torso and affixing my best stern look to my face, I began my bike ride past all the ambling, capering, joyful souls engaged in their toxic frivolity with the intent of trying to model - and hopefully inspire - good, serious behavior. But as I rode, turning up my nose at the toddler feeding day old croissants to the ducks, something began to happen. I felt myself movin faster than my gentle pedaling could account for. I felt the wind tugging at the pullstrings of my cycling bonnet. Yes, dear reader, I had accidentally found myself suddenly descending a hill.

As any student of seriousness will recognize, a bicycle and a hill when paired together represent a dangerous combination - It is a razors edge away from the alchemical recipe for whimsy. One misstep could find the predictable, reliable chore of reaching one's destination inadvertently transformed into an enjoyable leisure activity. This is where my seriousness exercises kicked in. I reminded myself that nothing would be gained in reaching my destination sooner - I was not meeting friends, I was not attending some sort of fun fair or cinema - it was work I was going to do at the police station as a member of the Civilian (albeit volunteered, unasked for work, as the Civilian Watch was a creation of my devising, but work all the same).

Next, I used all my will power to ignore anything remotely amusing about the situation, and instead focused on the drudgery or tedium therein. The wind blowing my hair was not a pleasant experience that reminded me of my childhood; it was merely a means for bugs to spatter across my safety goggles and to become ensnared in my pomade. The increased speed from the downward slope was not a relaxing respite from the rest of the ride; it was the potential for danger and a need to apply the brakes so as to not risk injury to myself, others, or public property.

However, ignoring and re-contextualizing are not the only tricks in my anti-fun toolbox. I also highly recommend devising a list of potential Mental Distractions. Think of these as exercises or small tasks, designed to use as much mental activity as possible. Doing them wil fill your "brain space" and crowd out any intrusive "Fun" thoughts. "What sorts of exercises?" did I hear you ask? Well fear not, dear reader, I was about to enumerate a few examples! (Even if that wasn't what you were asking, I still suggest you continue reading.)

The first of my personal favorite Mental Distractions is list recitation. Any sort of list will do, but we must make sure to have a distinct order schema for extra effective results. For example, you could recite the names of your local Chamber of Commerce committee members in order of their seniority. Or your favorite cereal mueslis in descending order of their Daily Fiber. By not only listing, but ranking it will occupy even more "brain space."*

Another excellent Metal Distraction is visualizing your family tree - not as a literal tree mind you, as such frivolous imagery both destructive to the psyche and counter-productive to the intention of the exercise! Once you have carefully mind-mapped your parents, uncles, aunts, grandparents, grand-uncles, grand-aunts, great-uncles, second-cousins and so forth you can then proceed to systematically eliminating member according to who in your family has died until only the living remain. It becomes particularly effective if you also remember the specific way in which each family member has passed. This exercise not only focuses the mind, it doubles as a helpful reminder for what medical screenings or checkups you should request at the doctor's office.

At a recent dinner party I used my sianature "Color Renaming" exercise. In this, I visualize a box of children's crayons. If you’re not familiar, many companies who create such writing implements will often give “amusing” names to the colors. For example, naming the blue after the sky or some songbird or some other frivolity. In this exercise, it is now your turn to be the crayon namer as you ascribe serious, sensible names to the color. Instead of “Macaroni and Cheese,” orange could be named “Biowaste Disposal Container Orange.” “Cornflower Blue” becomes “Heart Pressure Medication Blue.” And so forth.

*Editor’s Note: In the first edition of this book the author wrote “Bran Space” which we thought was a joke. He would like to assure readers it was a “typographical error with no nods towards levity whatsoever”.

[mariacallous]

Several of the most prominent alt-weekly newspapers in the United States are running search-engine-optimized listicles about porn performers, which appear to be AI-generated, alongside their editorial content.

If you pull up the homepage for the Village Voice on your phone, for example, you’ll see reporting from freelancers—longtime columnist Michael Musto still files occasionally—as well as archival work from big-name former writers such as Greg Tate, the Pulitzer Prize–winning music critic. You’ll also see a tab on its drop-down menu labeled “OnlyFans.” Clicking on it pulls up a catalog of listicles ranking different types of pornographic performers by demographic, from “Turkish” to “incest” to “granny.” These blog posts link out to hundreds of different OnlyFans accounts and are presented as editorial work, without labels indicating they are advertisements or sponsored.

Similar content appears on the websites of LA Weekly, which is owned by Street Media, the same parent company as the Village Voice, as well as the St. Louis–based alt-weekly the Riverfront Times. Although there is a chance some of these posts could be written by human freelancers, the writing bears markers of AI slop.

According to AI detection startup Reality Defender, which scanned a sampling of these posts, the content in the articles registers as having a “high probability” of containing AI-generated text. One scanned example, a Riverfront Times story titled “19 Best Free Asian OnlyFans Featuring OnlyFans Asian Free in 2024,” concludes with the following sentence, exemplary in its generic horny platitudes: “You explore, savor, and discover your next favorite addiction, and we’ll be back with more insane talent in the future!”

“We’re seeing an ever-increasing part of old media be reborn as AI-generated new media,” says Reality Defender cofounder and CTO Ali Shahriyari. “Unfortunately, this means way less informational and newsworthy content and more SEO-focused ‘slop’ that really just wastes people’s time and attention. Tracking these kinds of publications isn’t even part of our day to day, yet we’re seeing them pop up more and more.”

LA Weekly laid off or offered buyouts to the majority of its staff in March 2024, while the Riverfront Times laid off its entire staff in May 2024 after it was sold by parent company Big Lou Media to an unnamed buyer.

The Village Voice’s sole remaining editorial staffer, R.C. Baker, says he is not involved with the OnlyFans posts, although it appears on the site as editorial content. “I handle only news and cultural reporting out of New York City. I have nothing to do with OnlyFans. That content is handled by a separate team that is based, I believe, in LA,” he told WIRED.

Likewise, former LA Weekly editor in chief Darrick Rainey says he, too, had nothing to do with the OnlyFans listicles when he worked there. Neither did his colleagues in editorial. “We weren’t happy about it at all, and we were absolutely not involved in putting it up,” he says.

Former employees are disturbed to see their archival work comingling with SEO porn slop. “It’s wrenching in so many ways,” says former Riverfront Times writer Danny Wicentowski. “Like watching a loved home get devoured by vines, or left to rot.”

This is a new twist in the grim growing world of AI slop. WIRED has reported on a variety of defunct news and media outlets that have been resurrected by new owners and stuffed with AI-generated clickbait, from a small-town Iowa newspaper to the beloved feminist blog the Hairpin. In the case of the alt-weeklies and OnlyFans listicles, the clickbait is appearing alongside actual editorial content, both archival and new.

It is unclear how this effort has been coordinated between the sites, or whether there are several parallel efforts ongoing to produce OnlyFans-centric listicles. LA Weekly and the Village Voice are both owned by the same parent company, Street Media, and some of their OnlyFans content is identical. Meanwhile, the Riverfront Times publishes its OnlyFans blogs under the byline “RFT staff.”

Street Media owner Brian Calle did not respond to WIRED’s requests for comment. Chris Keating, the Riverfront Times’ former owner, says he is bound by a confidentiality agreement and cannot name the new buyer, but that he “does not believe” Calle is part of the purchasing company controlling the new Riverfront Times.

Daniela LaFave, an Austin-based SEO expert who is bylined on the majority of the Village Voice OnlyFans blog posts as well as some of the LA Weekly posts, confirmed to WIRED that she is the same person named as the author. She declined to answer whether she used AI tools to create the posts.

Another frequent byline on the Village Voice and LA Weekly posts, “Jasmine Ramer,” has published 910 articles primarily for these two outlets in the past year, according to the public relations platform Muck Rack. (Sample headlines: “Top OnlyFans Sluts 2024” and “Top 10 Finnish OnlyFans & Hottest Finnish OnlyFans 2023.”) There is a profile on LinkedIn listed as a senior staff writer at LA Weekly for an Austria-based woman named Jasmine Ramer, but there is little other digital footprint for the writer. When Reality Defender analyzed the profile photo on Ramer’s LinkedIn account, it found it was likely AI-generated. There is also at least one other account using the same photo claiming to be a digital marketing executive in the UK. (WIRED did not receive a response when it asked Ramer for comment via LinkedIn.)

OnlyFans is an online porn behemoth, one which has spawned numerous cottage industries, like professional proxy chatters who impersonate the platform’s stars. There are marketing agencies devoted to promoting OnlyFans creators, and many social platforms from Reddit to X are swarmed with bots trying to entice potential customers. These efforts are known as “OnlyFans funnels.”

Risqué sex ads have played a major role in the rise and fall of some alt-weeklies. The founders of Village Voice Media, which once owned the Village Voice, LA Weekly, and the Riverfront Times as well as other US-based alt-weeklies, created the classified website Backpage.com in 2004 to compete with Craigslist. It created a lucrative revenue stream, buoying many titles for years, but ginned up major controversy for hosting sex ads.

Vice President Kamala Harris, serving as California attorney general at the time, dubbed the company “the world’s top online brothel” in 2016 and arrested its founders and CEO for facilitating prostitution. With this recent history in mind, the decision to lean into sexual advertorial is especially brash.

It may be that these alt-weeklies are creating these blog posts in an effort to drum up web traffic to their sites, which could in turn help boost digital ad sales. They may also be accepting money from the accounts or from representatives of the accounts promoted, which would mean the posts were unlabeled advertorial. “Online ads, print ads, they all dried up,” Rainey says. “But this OnlyFans stuff is there.”

“OnlyFans has no financial arrangement with these outlets,” an OnlyFans spokesperson who identified herself only as “Brixie” told WIRED via email.

“I think the creators are paying,” says Luka Sek, SEO manager for an OnlyFans promotion company called SocialRise. “An agency that handles multiple models, or someone doing the marketing for such agencies.”

Whatever the reason, it marks a grim new pit stop for declining media publications, one in which blatant SEO bait sits side by side with culturally valuable archival journalistic work and, in the case of the Village Voice, ongoing contemporary reportage.

Tricia Romano, a former Village Voice writer who recently published an oral history of the newspaper, The Freaks Came Out to Write, sees the arrival of AI slop as keeping with the recent deterioration of alt-weeklies. “This is the logical dystopian conclusion,” she says. “But who’s reading it?”

[opreaadriann]

Weekly Update - July 14, 2024

Hello, friends! I have some mixed news this week.

First of all, I currently hate doing two version updates. They’re tiring for me and confusing for you. I also hate editing the files to make two different versions of the game. Since I started updating the demo with new content every week, I’ve felt like I’ve kinda killed the game’s hype. Players lose their save files each week since I need to add new variables in the startup file each time and the content is very choice-specific, which means many won’t even see the new stuff coming out.

So, bad news first, I’m going to stop doing weekly demo changes for non-Patreon users. I’ll only do big updates either when finishing chapters or when I feel like the chapter is at a satisfying point.

Good news, however, is that I’m going to release more stuff in the public demo now, just to make sure it’s in a fun state. So, I’m adding the last hobby events alongside Olivia’s relationship event. After this, you’ll have to wait until I’m done with the chapter, since I feel I’ve disappointed you with the unfinished chapter and would like people to see my whole vision when they play it.

Anyway, I’ve written around 3k words this week. Almost finished Connor’s relationship event and fixed most of the inconsistencies with Vivian if you’ve seen her real side.

Thank you all for the continuous support and I’m sorry if I sound a bit down this update. I’ll get my morale back up once I feel the chapter starts looking more complete.

[bottlecaprabbitgames]

Mind Games: Trepidation Chapter 5 FULL Update (and thensome)

It's finally time for the full public release of the Chapter 5 Update! EEP!!! (The weekly update will follow this in a few hours)

The demo link is here.

There is also a Google Form for fun on the thank you page, as I'm curious to how you guys choose your choices in each playthrough! It also provides a feedback area, but no questions are required, and you can answer as you like! (It's also completely anonymous.) You can also find the link for it here.

Dev Log (3/12/2023):

Added the full entirety of Chapter 5, also did some editing to the previous two scenes released in Chapter 5.1.

Added Interlude I.

Added a new variable that tracks your reputation as a P.I.

Added several new outfits.

Revamped the blurb on the startup page, as well as cleaned up the trigger list.

Fixed multiple errors in Chapter 3's meetings.

Small update to Chapter 2.

Updated the previous decisions section of the stats page some. (Still a WIP)

Completely revamped the Relationships page of the stats page.

Gender Update: You can now change your pronouns at any time, regardless of what gender you chose originally. You can find this option on the stats page; it also includes a section to input your own pronouns, and you can change this at will, whenever you want in your playthrough.

QOL: Added a confirmation page to choosing your name and surname, just in case you make a mistake or choose the wrong one by accident.

Several minor changes to wording in various sections of the game.

Several other updates to the stats page.

Added the Google Form to the thank you for playing page.

[solarpunkbusiness]

Meet three startups, from Morocco, Côte d’Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of Congo, that are harnessing technology to provide simple, viable solutions to energy and food security in Africa.

1. Meier Energy, Morocco’s standard-bearer for energy efficiency

Founded in 2020 by Fouad El Kohen, Meier Energy offers businesses tailor-made solutions to kick-start their energy transition. In just four years, it has established itself as one of the leading start-ups in Morocco and is already exporting outside the country. “It’s a young company dedicated to the development and marketing of energy efficiency, electricity and smart grid equipment,” says founder El Kohen. “Our ambition is to support the ecological transition in both Morocco and Africa.”

2. BioAni, the Ivorian start-up that wants to bid goodbye to chemical fertilisers

BioAni sells organic fertilisers produced using black soldier fly larvae, products that are much cheaper than chemical fertilisers. All that remains is for them to convince farmers to change their habits.

It all began in a garage in Abidjan’s Cocody district with food waste and a few larvae. The insects transform this bio-waste into a particularly effective organic fertiliser. Founder Arthur de Dinechin wanted to get involved in an environmental project in Africa, his adopted continent. After trying his hand at plastic recycling, his thoughts turned to agriculture.

“Here in Côte d’Ivoire, millions of people make their living from farming. There are very few resources in place to help them make a profit from this activity,” he says.

3. GreenBox, the storage solution changing Congolese farmers’ lives

GreenBox enables farmers in the Democratic Republic of Congo to store their fruit and vegetables for three weeks instead of two days, using new technology that gives farmers access to remote control of solar-powered cold rooms. These refrigerators also make it possible to establish the state of ripeness of a stored product and ensure its traceability. Its five installations, spread across as many villages, enable customers’ harvests to be monitored in real-time.

Founder Divin Kouebatouka says: “Storage is centralised for the whole village. The cold room is managed by a cooperative. We make racks available to farmers so that they can store their produce. We can’t rent to everyone, so it’s first come, first served.”

For CFA200 a day (around $0.10), farmers are provided with a locker that can hold 30kg of food. “Small farmers, our core target, can’t buy a cold room. That’s why we’ve introduced daily, weekly and monthly rates. Everyone can choose the subscription that suits them best, which is nothing compared to the value of the products they entrust to us,” says Kouebatouka. In addition to his team of 12 employees, a group of five women is responsible for the daily maintenance and management of the cold rooms.

[justforbooks]

Mike Lynch

British tech entrepreneur who sold his Autonomy software group to Hewlett-Packard and was later cleared after a long-running US fraud case

Mike Lynch, who has died aged 59 in the wreck of his yacht, was sometimes described as “Britain’s Bill Gates”. It was a huge exaggeration, but Lynch could claim two parallels with Gates: he developed world-leading technology (in his case in machine learning or AI) and, unlike so many UK scientists, he learned how to turn it into commercial success.

Such was this success that his company, Autonomy, was valued at $11bn when he sold it to Hewlett-Packard in 2011, but the fall-out from the sale would come to overshadow his technological achievements, and lead to a national debate about the circumstances in which UK citizens may be extradited to the US.

Lynch founded Autonomy with two partners in 1996. Its software enabled a computer to search huge quantities of diverse information, including phone calls, emails and videos, and recognise words. He told the Independent in 1999: “The way our technology works is to look at words and understand the relationships because it has seen a lot of content before. When it sees the word ‘star’ in the context of film, it knows it has nothing to do with the word moon. Because it works from text, it can deal with slang and with different languages.”

Autonomy became a leading company in Cambridge’s Silicon Fen cluster and established a base in San Francisco. “We knew we had to be successful in America. It was a question of ‘Go West young man, go to San Francisco and be ignored.’ They found it hard to believe that anyone from England could have anything powerful.” Lynch found what he called the “cold-hearted schmooze” to secure funding tough.

But Autonomy’s software, enabling computers to identify and match themes and ideas, and sort mammoth amounts of data, was licensed to more than 500 customers, including the US State Department and the BBC. It was listed on Nasdaq in 1998 and on the FTSE 100 in November 2000, although its value of £5.1bn would be halved within a few months in the collapse of the technology boom and accusations of over-promotion. In 2005 it bought a major US rival, Verity, for $500m.

Lynch’s profile rose with it. In 2006 he was appointed OBE for services to enterprise and the following year joined the board of the BBC. In 2011 he became a member of the government’s Council for Science and Technology, and was named the most influential person in UK IT by Computer Weekly. In 2014 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society.

Though quietly spoken, he had a reputation for toughness, coloured by a liking for James Bond, which led to Autonomy conference rooms being named after Bond villains, and a tank of piranha fish in reception. (Lynch claimed it belonged to one of his business partners.) Challenged about a company culture where people were “a little fanatical”, he replied: “This is not the place for you if you want to work 9 to 5 and don’t love your work.”

Born in Ilford, east London, to Michael, a firefighter, and Dolores, a nurse, and brought up in Chelmsford, Lynch won a scholarship to the independent Bancroft’s school in Woodford Green, before taking a natural sciences degree at Cambridge, where his PhD in artificial neural networks, a form of machine learning, has been widely studied since.

A saxophone player and jazz lover, he set up his first business, Lynett Systems, while still a student, to produce electronic equipment for the music industry. Later he would attribute some loss of hearing to adjusting synthesisers for bands. He quoted his own experience to highlight the difficulties of finding funding for startup businesses in Britain. He finally negotiated a £2,000 loan from one of the managers of Genesis in a Soho bar.

Lynch’s next venture came out of his research. In 1991 he founded Cambridge Neurodynamics, specialising in computer-based fingerprint recognition. Then he established Autonomy.

The pinnacle of his success appeared to come in October 2011 when Autonomy was purchased by Hewlett-Packard for $11bn and Lynch made an estimated $800m. Shortly afterwards he established a new company, Invoke Capital, for investment in tech companies, and he and his wife, Angela Bacares, whom he had married in 2001, invested about £200m in Darktrace, a cybersecurity company.

But just 13 months after the Autonomy sale, HP announced an $8.8bn writedown of the assets “due to serious accounting improprieties, disclosure failures and outright misrepresentations” which it claimed had artificially inflated the company’s value. The authorities investigated, and while the UK Serious Fraud Office found insufficient evidence, in 2018 the US authorities indicted Lynch for fraud. Soon after, Autonomy’s chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, was found guilty of fraud and sentenced to five years in prison.

In March 2019 HP followed up with a civil action for fraud in London. Lynch spent days in the witness box as the civil action stretched over nine months. It ended in January 2022 with the judge ruling that HP had substantially succeeded, but that damages would be much less than the $5bn they had claimed.

Meanwhile the US authorities sought Lynch’s extradition on criminal charges of conspiracy and fraud. In spite of representations by senior politicians and accusations that the US authorities were attempting to exercise “extraterritorial jurisdiction”, a district judge ruled in favour of extradition.

An application for judicial review and a further appeal failed, and in May 2023 Lynch was flown to the US to be held under house arrest in San Francisco, with the prospect of a 25-year sentence.

Charged with wire fraud, securities fraud and conspiracy, on 18 March this year Lynch pleaded not guilty, alongside his former vice-president of finance, Stephen Chamberlain. On 6 June, they were found not guilty of all charges. Chamberlain died after being hit by a car on 17 August.

Lynch declared that he wanted to get back to what he loved doing – innovating. But he had little opportunity to do so. He soon embarked on a voyage to celebrate his acquittal, with family, colleagues and business associates. It ended with the sinking of his yacht, Bayesian – named after the 18th-century mathematician, Thomas Bayes, whose work on probability had informed much of his thinking – in a violent storm off the coast of Sicily.

Lynch is survived by his wife and elder daughter, Esme. Their other daughter, Hannah, was also on board the Bayesian.

🔔 Michael Richard Lynch, technology entrepreneur, born 16 June 1965; died 19 August 2024

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

[prcg]

Los inversores apuestan por el poder de la luz, los diamantes en la basura y más

Bienvenido a Startups Weekly: tu resumen semanal de todo lo que no te puedes perder del mundo de las startups. ¿Lo quieres en tu bandeja de entrada todos los viernes? Regístrate aquí. Esta semana nos trajo noticias interesantes sobre recaudación de fondos de todo el mundo, e incluso algunas salidas. Pero si buscas OPI tecnológicas, tendrás que mirar a India. Mientras tanto, en Estados Unidos, las…

[entrackrme]

Funding and acquisitions in Indian startup this week [26 – 31 Aug]

During the week, 31 Indian startups raised around $490.32 million in funding. These deals count 7 growth-stage deals and 19 early-stage deals while 5 startups kept their transaction details undisclosed.

If you want to get complete information related to this topic click HERE.

[garyalanhidalgo]

Tabloid Truth: A Queer Cozy Horror Short Story

You’ve heard this story before. It’s often told by a friend. But it happened to their friend or their friend or their friend. A rookie tabloid reporter delves into who haunts Resurrection Road in this queer cozy horror short story.

It’s the early 1990s. Aspiring writer Malcolm Marquez leaves his librarian job and delivering food part-time for his family’s Filipino restaurant. He now works for the startup tabloid Weekly Witness Facts writing about vanishing hitchhikers, scandalous aliens, half-animal, half-boy cryptids, and reclusive undead celebrities before the rent’s due. Does mild-mannered Mal’s life-altering choice have anything to do with his too-drop-dead gorgeous for his own good boss, wheelchair user Cameron Parker? A man he knows is way out of his league, but he’s desperate to impress, anyway.

His Halloween edition mission: identify which former resident left dead there haunts the now-infamous road recently featured on the hit TV show “Unexplained Mysteries.”

As easy as pie?

Read Tabloid Truth now on digital/Kindle Unlimited:

[youjustwaitsunshine]

can we bring back f1 team bosses and ceos talking about the teams drivers in the way in which employers talk about employees and not in this hip startup 'we are all a happy family and have weekly pizza parties' way. can we bring that back. everyone and their mother knows that youd kick any driver to the curb at the slightest notion of a marginally better option so stop acting like f1 teams mate for life

[pink-heart-jam]

BL Recs - Office Romance

Anyone else loves a hot inappropriate office romance? 🌝 I’ve been exploring this genre in manga/manhwa for a while and have found so many gems! This trope usually walks hand in hand with light humour, flirty banter, enemies to lovers and cute slice-of-life (not to mention the sexy a/b/o dynamics!) which I absolutely love. These are all light and fun comfort reads, perfect choices as a palate cleanser between heavier, angsty stories. Here are some personal favourites - I hope you enjoy them!

Ameiro Paradox by Natsume Isaku

A change in the stakeout team throws Onoe, reporter for a weekly magazine, together with his contemporary, Kaburagi, a photographer. Onoe secretly considers Kaburagi his rival, and Kaburagi's haphazard way of doing things goes against Onoe's strong sense of ethics--there's nothing but conflict between them. But, in joint pursuit of a scandal, the two of them begin to care about each other...?

Beta Off Not Dating by Mintran, Saena, Doojja

Juhyeok is a clueless beta who is thrust into the messy world of alpha-omega dynamics when he leaves his wholesome beta college to work at a more diverse company. There, a full-on fistfight and loud makeup. Repulsed by the pheromones that trump common sense in this crazy environment, Juhyeok swears himself off dating until he saves up enough money to move to a faraway haven for betas.

Day Off by Qing Cai

Sometimes sweet, sometimes sour, and always relaxing, this is a fluffy office romance about a powerful yet gentle superior (who’s occasionally a picky eater) and his cute and earnest subordinate (who’s a silly young Gemini).

Doushitemo Furetakunai by Yoneda Kou

On his very first day at a brand-new job, shy Shima is trapped in the elevator with a hungover mess of a guy…who turns out to be his boss. Togawa’s prickly exterior definitely puts the rookie recruit on-edge, but it doesn’t take long before Shima’s every waking thought is invaded by his overbearing yet totally thoughtful superior.

It’s Not Like That by Gangto, Lime

Under pressure from his unimpressed parents, BL writer Lim Iro is forced into applying for a “real” job. But instead of a cover letter, he accidentally submits an unreleased extract from his book instead. Disaster! Or maybe not…? Faced with Iro’s unconventional application, Baek Ho-ryung, the dashing CEO of Beus drinks company, is intrigued.

On or Off by A1

Yiyoung is building a startup with his college friends. They get a chance to present their proposal to SJ Corporation, one of the leading companies in the country. But in the meeting room he sees Kang Daehyung, the extremely handsome company big shot that's very much his type.

Perfect Buddy by Lash, Daki

Seo Hyunsoo is sure of one thing: people are scum and they will always disappoint you. Sure enough, at his very first company dinner after his transfer to a new department, he finds his coworker, the obnoxiously upbeat Baek Youngchan, performing an unsavory deed in the men's bathroom. As much as Hyunsoo would like to avoid Youngchan from that point on, Youngchan seems intent on not letting him out of his sight...

Punch Drunk Love by Moscareto

Park Sunwoo, who prefers a pair of thick glasses and an awkward-fitting suit, is an employee of DM Electronics' Financial Accounting Team. While secretly spying on his unrequited love as usual, he finds out that Jung Taemoon enjoys promiscuous and rough one-night sex.

The New Recruit by Moscareto & Zec

After spending his 20s getting over a crush, Seunghyun vowed to never give his heart to someone in the same field again. Enter Jongchan, Seunghyun's tough new boss with a surprising soft side.

You Get Me Going by Moscareto, Oh doyeon

Despite being thirty-three, Young-won sure is gullible. He falls in love way too easily, comes on way too hard, and still believes that he’ll meet “Mr. Right” sooner or later. Not that he knows who “Mr. Right” is, but he sure does know about “Mr. Wrong,” a.k.a. Kang Hyun-woo. Young-won swears that he’ll never, ever get together with this polar opposite of his, but the universe sure seems to think different.

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Meghan & Harry's six (6) public attempts to blackmail the Windsors/BRF

6th-Feb 2023- Pre-Coronation

5th-Jan 2023- Promo for SpareUs

4th-Dec 2022- Post-Megflix Series

3rd-June 2022- Post-Platinum Jubilee

2nd-April 2021-Post-Oprah Conversation

1st-July 2020- Commonwealth Trust

6th-February 2023

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prince-harry-apologise-skip-coronation-89k2ghpht

5th-January 2023

"Apologise. You know what you did, I know what you did, and I know why you did it. And you've been caught out, so just come clean."

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11634693/Apologise-Prince-Harry-demands-Royal-Family-say-sorry-Meghan.html

4th-December 2022

https://nypost.com/2022/12/18/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-demand-royal-summit-apology/

3rd-June 2022

2nd-April 2021

The source claimed: “The problem with Harry is that he’s hooked on being right and regardless of saying he wants to move on from this. "He won’t back down until he gets some form of apology from his family."

Prince Harry 'wants Royal Family to apologise' over treatment of Meghan Markle - Mirror Online

A source has now told US Weekly magazine that Prince Harry wants an apology from his family, the Daily Star reports.

Last month, Harry bagged a new job as chief impact officer at Silicon Valley mental health startup, BetterUp. It's his first official role at a private company since the Duke and Duchess of Sussex stepped down as senior royals last year.

In his role, he will coach and advocate publicly on topics related to mental health and be involved in charitable contributions and product strategy decisions.

He told The Wall Street Journal that he intended to "help create impact in people's lives".

1st-July 2020

July 7, 2020

Meghan's Prince Harry wants you to apologize for the sins of his ancestors

By Monica Showalter

Going for the wokester cred, Meghan Markle's husband, Prince Harry, would like you to apologize, or rather, 'reflect' on the colonial sins of his ancestors.

As part of the discussion on 'justice and equal rights', Harry said the Commonwealth needs to follow others who have 'acknowledged the past' and are 'trying to right their wrongs', and also admitted to having his own 'unconscious bias.'

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/07/meghans_prince_harry_wants_you_to_apologize_for_the_sins_of_his_ancestors.html