"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" is a song by American singer #MichaelJackson. Written by Jackson and released by #EpicRecords on July 10, 1979, the song is the first track on Jackson's fifth studio album #OffTheWall (1979). Additionally, it was Jackson's first solo recording in which he had control of the creative direction. "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" was Jackson's second solo single to hit number one on the #Billboard #Hot100 chart following "#Ben".
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♫ Otra canción que me gusta en Spotify ►«Catch My Disease» de «Ben Lee» en su album «Awake Is the New Sleep»
https://open.spotify.com/track/18qiraxE3JznGhJyx5J28Y #music #spotify #Ben Lee
SpotifyCatch My DiseaseBen Lee · Awake Is the New Sleep · Song · 2005
The winner of the #DNC chair race will help shape the message and priorities of the Democratic party,
giving them a crucial role in the party’s efforts to win back the House of Representatives in 2026.
The race has attracted a large field of candidates
Two state party chairs
– #Ken #Martin of Minnesota
and #Ben #Wikler of Wisconsin
– have emerged as "frontrunners"
The chair candidates have grown punchier as the race draws to a close,
-- and the late entry of #Faiz #Shakir,
who ran #Bernie #Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign,
has injected new energy into the race.
All of the candidates seem to agree that the Democratic party needs to move in a new direction after their 2024 losses, expanding its outreach to the working-class Americans who have lurched to the right in recent years and finding more effective means of communicating their values to voters.
But the candidates have squabbled over the best strategies and prioritization of those goals,
in a display that Shakir said showed a
“lack of ambition and a sense of powerlessness about what the DNC could potentially do”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/31/dnc-chair-election?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The Guardian · DNC to elect new chair as party grapples with how to rebuild after 2024 losses
DNC Chair #Jaime #Harrison,
a former corporate lobbyist and South Carolina party chair who was tapped to be chair by Joe Biden,
-- is not running for another four years in his position.
Two candidates for DNC chair have announced:
first was former Maryland Gov. #Martin #OMalley, a former commissioner of the Social Security Administration,
then Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chairman #Ken #Martin, a vice chair of the DNC.
Others considering runs include Wisconsin Democratic Party chair #Ben #Wikler;
Democratic strategist #Chuck #Rocha;
former DNC vice chair #Michael #Blake, of New York;
former Chicago mayor #Rahm #Emanuel;
and Michigan state Sen. #Mallory #McMorrow.
Another name in the mixis former Texas Rep. #Beto #ORourke.
https://readsludge.com/2024/11/26/a-fight-for-the-soul-of-the-dnc/
Sludge · A Fight for the Soul of the DNCWith the race for DNC chair underway, we spoke with reform-minded DNC members on banning “dark money” in Democratic primaries and ways for the party to reconnect with voters.
I can't wait til #Unilever divests of the ice cream maker #Ben&Jerry in 2025 so I can start buying their ice cream again.
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are both anti-zionist Jewish men who have been speaking up for a free #Palestine for years but haven't been free to do so since their company was bought up by Unilever.
Now the ice cream maker is suing the parent company.
Also, don't forget to use the Boycat App to find out what other Unilever brands to boycott.
Up the close an doon the stair
Ben the hoose wi Burke an Hare
Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief
Knox the boy who buys the beef
—cheery wee 19th-century Edinburgh children’s skipping rhyme
Bodies and academia · The afterlives of anatomical bodies: what museum collections can teach us about our past‘Up the close and doon the stair,/ Ben the hoose wi’ Burke and Hare/ Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief,/ Knox the boy who buys the beef.’ This Scottish children’s rhyme has br…
But gin ye see my face or gin ye hear me,
I daurna’ ask, I maunna’ seek to ken,
Though I should dee, wi’ sic a glory near me,
By nicht or day, come ben, my bairn, come ben!
—Violet Jacob, “Glory”
Violet Jacob’s only son, Harry, was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916
Zoomposium mit Prof. Dr. #Arieh #Ben-#Naim: „Entzauberung der #Entropie“
Der Grundtenor in all seinen Veröffentlichungen und Vorträgen ist, dass wir ein neues Grundverständnis in Bezug auf das Phänomen der Entropie benötigen. Die Entropie, welche ursprünglich aus den Gesetzen der Thermodynamik und hier insbesondere dem 2. Hauptsatz entspringt, wurde aus Ariehs Sicht missbräuchlich und falsch als Konzept auf andere Bereiche übertragen.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/02/22/entzauberung-der-entropie/
Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Arieh #Ben-#Naim: "Demystifying #entropy"
The basic tenor of all his publications and lectures is that we need a new basic understanding of the phenomenon of entropy. In Arieh's view, entropy, which originally stems from the laws of thermodynamics and in particular the second law of thermodynamics, has been misused and incorrectly applied as a concept to other areas of physics, biology and everyday life.
https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/02/22/entzauberung-der-entropie/
Silicon Valley is maximizing profit at everyone’s expense.
It doesn’t have to be this way
A public battle has broken out among the titans of Silicon Valley.
One side, led by #Elon #Musk, PayPal co-founder #Peter #Thiel and venture capitalists #Marc #Andreessen and #Ben #Horowitz,
is backing Donald #Trump for president.
The other, led by LinkedIn co-founder #Reid #Hoffman, is behind Kamala #Harris.
We should not make the mistake of thinking this is a battle over ideology or policy.
It’s a battle to maximize Silicon Valley’s profits regardless of the consequences for society.
On this objective, both sides agree.
Andreessen Horowitz is one of the largest investors in #cryptocurrency and #artificial #intelligence,
and Trump has signaled that he would keep the government out of its business.
Meanwhile, soon after donating $7 million to a Harris super PAC,
Hoffman called for her to oust Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman #Lina #Khan,
who has brought antitrust cases against Big Tech and introduced rules to protect workers.
Silicon Valley, a longtime engine of human achievement,
has become a significant source of human harm.
Aware of the gathering backlash, its leaders have dived into the political fray 
to protect their wealth.
Two Silicon Valley obsessions threaten the most damage:
creating human #addiction to increase profits
and #eliminating #humans altogether to decrease costs.
Social media platforms,
which started out by bringing old friends together and giving voice to the otherwise powerless,
have become “social slot machines”
compelling excessive use.
Gaming companies have a similar objective.
Teenagers today spend more than eight hours a day on screens,
fueling digital advertising revenues that reached $225 billion last year.
Meanwhile, the artificial intelligence revolution promises to cut labor costs.
A recent study by MIT economist #Daron #Acemoglu found that 50% to 70% of the growth in inequality between more and less educated workers can be attributed to automation.
Poverty rates in Silicon Valley’s home state are rising
even as AI makes Big Tech richer.
The broader prospects are equally concerning.
AI is enabling killer robots, autonomous weapons and massively destructive misinformation.
Los Angeles Times · A way out of Silicon Valley's profit-driven devastation
Spending by recently resigned #University of #Florida President #Ben #Sasse is coming under scrutiny
after the student-run newspaper found that he awarded #secretive #consulting #contracts and gave high-paying #obs to former members of his U.S. Senate staff and Republican allies — actions that he defended Friday.
Both Gov. #Ron #DeSantis and Florida’s chief financial officer are calling on the state university system’s Board of Governors to #investigate after The Independent Florida Alligator reported this week that as school president,
#Sasse gave six former staffers and two former Republican officials jobs with salaries that outstripped comparable positions
. Most did not move to Gainesville, but work remotely from hundreds of miles away.
The former Nebraska senator became the school’s president in February 2023.
Overall, Sasse’s office spent $17.3 million during his first year
compared to the 
$5.6 million spent by his predecessor Ken Fuchs in his final year.
The university has an overall budget of $9 billion.
https://apnews.com/article/university-florida-ben-sasse-report-4fb6afff6c7fbfd46b6241b607bff88d
AP News · Ex-University of Florida president gave former Senate staffers large raises, report findsSpending by recently resigned University of Florida President Ben Sasse is coming under scrutiny after the student-run newspaper found that he gave high-paying jobs to former members of his U.S. Senate staff and Republican allies. Reporting by The Independent Florida Alligator shows that spending by the president's office tripled under Sasse as he hired former aides and allies and gave them salaries that outstripped comparable positions. Sasse has defended the expenditures Friday, saying they were needed as the university adds satellite campuses and improves programs in science, technology and medicine. Sasse resigned July 31 after 17 months in office, citing his wife's health problems.
Over the years, #a16z has invested in several well-known companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Lyft, and Slack, among many others.
The firm’s founders #Marc #Andreesen and #Ben #Horowitz have recently said that they are supporting #Donald #Trump in the upcoming presidential elections.
So it comes as little surprise that they stiff the cybersecurity researcher
( @xyz3va ) that saved their bacon
TechCrunch · Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data | TechCrunchVenture capital giant a16z fixed a security vulnerability in one of the firm's websites after being warned by a security researcher.
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The payoff from Thiel’s early gamble in Trump is a lesson that has not passed others by.
As with their other obsession, #crypto, the best time to have invested in Trump was 2016,
and the second best time is today.
We already have a word for what we’re watching now:
it’s #oligarchy.
And we’ve already seen how this plays out.
In Putin’s Russia, political and commercial interests are one and the same.
Thiel is betting
– again
– on the same phenomenon in America.
Betting that he will be first among a new breed of tech bro oligarchs
– a new super-class of #broligarchs.
In Trump’s America, there will be hard choices for everyone, including the billionaires. --
Though it may be less hard for them.
Vance has said he wants to #deregulate crypto and
unshackle AI.
He’s said he’d #dismantle Biden’s attempts to place safeguards around AI development.
And while he has it in for the #legacy #monopolies of Google and Facebook
– the platforms that his ideological bedfellows in the “new right” see as part of the “censorship industrial complex” suffocating rightwing speech
– Silicon Valley is betting on a gloves-off, regulation-free, pro-business #goldrush.
Another Peter Thiel acolyte was on stage at the Republican National Convention last week,
electrifying the crowd:
#Hulk #Hogan.
Hogan is less well known as one of Thiel’s longterm bets, though in some ways he’s even more instructive than Vance.
In 2007, the online magazine #Gawker outed Thiel and ran a series of unflattering articles about him.
It took him years, but he ultimately got his revenge, covertly funding Hulk Hogan to the tune of $10m to sue the publication for invasion of privacy and forcing it into #bankruptcy.
On stage at the RNC, the wrestler, a permatanned orange, ripped off his shirt for the man who increasingly looks like he’ll be America’s next president.
Or, if JD Vance, is correct, the man who will prove to be the #Caesar he says America needs.
A man who he has already urged to fire the nation’s civil servants to “replace them with our people”,
to defy the courts and rule his own way.
Or, to put this in simple terms:
to foment a #coup.
Thiel knows what every investor knows. That a crisis is an opportunity.
And that if Trump succeeds in tearing up the federal administration,
there is not only billions to be made in the ensuing market #turmoil but that a new breed of oligarchs,
close to Caesar’s throne, will be the first to share the spoils.
And chief among them will be Thiel.
It’s not a stretch to see how #Palantir, his data-mining company
– that under the Conservatives got its teeth into the NHS
– will profile and surveil and target Caesar’s enemies.
And Thiel’s track record in winning, in successfully betting on the longest of odds, on biding his time, is maybe the most chilling of all the factors in a fortnight that has started to feel like the start of a run on the bank.
Biden’s debate disaster,
Trump’s victorious assassination survival,
and now Silicon Valley’s ascension to the presidential ticket.
The broligarchs have made their move
– and the rest of us need to understand exactly what that means.
Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain
Less than a month after Donald Trump was elected president in November 2016,
he invited the cream of Silicon Valley's #tech #elite to a meeting at his transition team’s headquarters at Trump Tower.
It was an awkward affair.
Facebook’s Sheryl #Sandberg, Google’s Larry #Page and Amazon’s Jeff #Bezos had facial expressions that ranged from a semi-rictus grin to full tech-mogul-in-a-hostage-situation.
But then, in a sense they were. There was a new sheriff in town – and none of them had seen him coming.
But one person was in his element. Seated next to Trump, uncomplicatedly beaming, was a South African-born tech entrepreneur whose early investment in Facebook had made him billions.
And if this past week marked an inflection point, and there are many reasons to believe it did,
the seeds of it were planted in the summer of 2016.
This was when Trump was the outside candidate. The man no respectable west coast tech entrepreneur or east coast business elite wanted to touch.
Last week marked a decisive end to that era.
A week in which Donald Trump not only appointed a #tech #bro to be his second in command, choosing Senator JD #Vance to be his VP,
but in which he received the benediction of the tech bro-in-chief, #Elon #Musk.
Musk has said he will donate $45m a month to Trump’s campaign, though his ongoing endorsement on X,
the platform he bought and owns, is worth countless millions more.
But it’s some lesser-known figures in Silicon Valley who last week boarded the Trump bandwagon who are perhaps even more telling.
#Marc #Andreessen and #Ben #Horowitz, who own one of the most storied and influential venture capital (VC) firms in Silicon Valley,
have declared they’re all in for Trump alongside a host of lesser-known but important names who have either followed suit or who beat them to the punch,
including the #Winklevoss twins and investors and podcast hosts #Chamath #Palihapitiya and #David #Sacks.
Back in 2016, Peter Thiel was the voice in the wilderness. And in that meeting in Trump Tower, it was Thiel’s hand that Trump picked up and stroked.
(And whose data mining firm, #Palantir, picked up billions of dollars in contracts from Trump’s Department of Defense, and, most controversially, Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, where it profiled and surveilled migrants.)
The principle that underpins Silicon Valley investing is to bet early and bet big.
It worked for Thiel with Facebook. It worked for Thiel with Trump. And last week another of his bets paid off, though few could ever have predicted how spectacularly.
Because JD #Vance, the new potential VP, is Thiel’s creature.
He is a man Thiel moulded in his own image through lavish investments in his business and political careers.
Thiel gave Vance a job at his VC firm, #Mithril #Capital, backed him to start his own venture fund, #Narya #Capital, then later invested $15m in his successful run for the senate.
Max Chafkin, Thiel’s biographer, describes Vance as his “extension”.
The Guardian · Tech broligarchs are lining up to court Trump. And Vance is one more link in the chain
The ewes round our house are getting pretty tired of the lambs and the lambs are obviously very hungry, so for twenty hours a day from 4am to midnight it's constantly loud cries of BBBEEEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNN everywhere, all day. Which is especially annoying when your name happens to be Ben.
Unilever spaltet Eiscreme-Geschäft ab
Der britische Konsumgüter-Konzern Unilever spaltet sein Eiscreme-Geschäft ab. Die Marken Langnese, Magnum und Ben & Jerry's sollen in eine eigenständige Firma ausgelagert werden.
tagesschau.de · Unilever spaltet Eiscreme-Geschäft ab
Right … for all the #DrWho fans, here?
This is my review of #TheUnderwater Menace, episode 3.
https://youtu.be/S_E7RVYW0qQ?si=2QnARtH-43qlSvbS
Yes: there’s at least a couple of flaws in it.
#Ben and #Jamie have a right ol’ comedy mix-up!
Enjoy!
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Me: right-handed, right pocket
#Ben (15): right-handed, left pocket (weirdo)