My Fediverse Digest for November 2025
A monthly digest of my thoughts, links, and updates from the Fediverse for November 2025.
Nov 01
12:21 PM
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-01
It’s time to select the Friday news dump for this week’s most skillfully buried story.
Just as the world was gearing up for Halloween weekend, “Chat Control” withdrawal meant no candy for anti-privacy proponents in the EU.
In this news cycle, loss of support for a controversial proposed policy known as “Chat Control” forcing tech companies to scan private, encrypted messages, was skillfully buried on a Friday news dump. Had this news broken earlier in the week, it would have reignited a back and forth news cycle between privacy advocates and anti-privacy safety groups.
Also, giving notice at the end of tech earnings week right before a holiday weekend is savvy news management by euphemism. The result is a collapse of a major mass surveillance proposal positioned instead as a simple obscure administrative step (“instead support voluntary scanning”).
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-11-01
Nov 03
01:32 PM
🤓 Both excited & sad that Supervised Reinforcement Learning (SRL) is in the news but not Survival Research Laboratories (SRL)
07:41 PM
📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-03
Today’s top technology performers included companies specializing in semiconductors, IT data services, and software.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/markets-monday-for-2025-11-03
Nov 04
10:29 PM
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-04
💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.
• Mimic Robotics (AI for robotic hands): $16M
• Augmented Intelligence (neuro-symbolic AI): $20M
• Teleskope (AI for security): $25M
• Daylight (AI-native cybersecurity): $33M
• Hippocratic AI (health care AI agents): $126M
• Beacon Software (AI software acquisition): $250M
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-11-04
Nov 06
12:22 AM
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-05
First, a wacky wonderful video. Second, a wayback nostalgia tome. Third, a whoa we’re getting older moment.
Wacky Wonderful
Pachelbel’s Chicken
• Canon in D
• Clucking good
• Very virtuoso
Wayback
Open Handset Alliance Announcement
• November 5, 2007
• The birth of Android
• 34 initial members
Whoa
Space-based Scalable AI Infrastructure
• AI in orbit
• Satellite of love LEO
• All along the watchtower?
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-11-05
10:39 PM
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-06
Let’s turn back the clock and see what the tech world was buzzing about on this day in years past.
5 Years Ago: November 6, 2020
Netflix invented a TV station… then went all-in on offering a variety of linear and live programming.
10 Years Ago: November 6, 2015
Verizon determined hyperscale is expensive… then moved to AWS 8 years later.
15 Years Ago: November 6, 2010
Amazon acquired Quidsi… then shut it down 7 years later.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-11-06
Nov 07
08:40 PM
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-07
AI deals were the biggest story of the week.
• OpenAI + AWS = ~$38B
• Microsoft + IREN = ~$10B
• Apple + Google = ~$1B
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-11-07
Nov 08
08:14 AM
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-08
Once again, I’ve selected a Friday news dump item that reached a peak level of trope, cliché, or bromide on the slowest news day, clearly attempting to avoid wider coverage. This week’s award for “peak patronizing publishing” hoping the story has zero momentum heading into the weekend.
It seems that several of the world’s largest tech companies will disregard all prior instructions on publishing their workforce diversity reports. For several years, these tech companies provided diversity reports as a cornerstone of corporate PR and proof of a commitment to social progress transparency.
Perhaps all the oxygen, ink, budget, and C-suite attention has been sucked into the AI arms race at these companies. The “old” problems, like transparency in hiring, are now a distraction and previous social commitments were just an AI hallucination.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-11-08
Nov 09
06:32 PM
#gotosocialadmin Upgraded to v0.20.1 More Sinister Sloth 😈😈
Nov 10
08:02 PM
📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-10
Today’s top movers show a clear focus on the physical hardware underpinning the industry.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/markets-monday-for-2025-11-10
Nov 11
05:21 PM
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-11
💰 + 🤖 Funding continues to flow for AI, crypto, and more.
• Finnable (AI powered digital lending): $28.19M
• Lighter (an AI to crypto pivot with Ethereum L2 & DEX): $68M
• Neros (CV AI military FPV drones): $75M
• Wonderful (client-facing AI agents): $100M
• Clio (AI legaltech): $500M
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-11-11
Nov 12
05:33 PM
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-12
First, a wacky wonderful video. Second, a wayback nostalgia tome. Third, a whoa we’re getting older moment.
Wacky Wonderful
How to Start an F-16 (Bully in the Alley Remix)
• A Top Gun sea shanty
• How to enter the danger zone
• Motor Sergeant Frank Tree style
Wayback
On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem
• Alan Turing’s 1936 paper
• Presented to the London Mathematical Society
• Birth of the “Turing machine”
Whoa
Shot: Michael Caine’s “catchphrase”
Chaser: Michael Caine’s “AI”
• Not many people know that
• Early answering machine
• AI powered machines
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-11-12
Nov 14
09:04 PM
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-13
Let’s see what the tech world was buzzing about on this day in years past.
5 Years Ago: November 13, 2020
Apple OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) comes to light.
10 Years Ago: November 13, 2015
Google Chrome comes to iOS.
15 Years Ago: November 13, 2010
Netflix comes to Windows Phone 7 and Android.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/tech-throwback-for-2025-11-13
Nov 15
06:56 AM
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-13
Let’s see what the tech world was buzzing about on this day in years past.
5 Years Ago: November 13, 2020
Apple OCSP (Online Certificate Status Protocol) comes to light.
10 Years Ago: November 13, 2015
Google Chrome comes to iOS.
15 Years Ago: November 13, 2010
Netflix comes to Windows Phone 7 and Android.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-11-13
06:56 AM
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-14
Everything is bigger in Texas, right?
💰 + 🤖 The biggest story this week was Google dropping $40B on new data centers in Texas. Oh, and Berkshire Hathaway disclosed a new $4.3B stake in Alphabet.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-11-14
08:24 AM
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-15
The goal of Sneak Peak Saturday is to sift through the Friday news cycle for the stories designed or timed to be forgotten by Monday that represent peak patronizing publishing.
On Friday it was learned that Apple, the world’s most valuable company, is engaged in finding a new CEO per Financial Times reporting. Of course, this may not be news to those that understand succession planning but it would likely move markets if announced “suddenly” on a Monday.
Yes, looking at you, Bloomberg News “we move markets” writers 👀. So, a Friday news dump ensures there is no immediate market to react and gives the media a full 36 hours to digest, report, and neutralize the shock of what would normally be part of sensible succession planning for any organization.
By Monday morning, it’s “known” information rather than a breaking bombshell and begins socializing the inevitable. Also, floating thee name of a likely successor, John Ternus, might just be enough detail to satisfy curiosity or presumptively address any concerns about physical objects as a continued growth engine for the company.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-11-15
Nov 17
10:37 PM
📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-17
Today was a slow day for the screener with only one top tech mover.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/markets-monday-for-2025-11-17
Nov 18
07:35 PM
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-18
💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.
• Peec AI (AI brand search visibility): $21M
• Sphere (AI tax compliance platform): $21M
• Agentio (AI creator campaign automation): $40M
• Maxima (AI automated accounting tasks): $41M
• Lambda (AI compute cloud infrastructure): $1.5B
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-11-18
Nov 19
10:17 PM
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-19
First, a wacky wonderful video. Second, a wayback nostalgia tome. Third, a whoa we’re getting older moment.
Wacky Wonderful
Homestar Anniversary Merch
• 25 years of the website (and counting)
• Trogdor the Burninator Polo
• Whimsical Harlequin playing cards
Wayback
Amazon Kindle Launched (2007)
• “The iPod of reading” debuts at $399
• Sold out in 5.5 hours
• Whispernet (Sprint EVDO, no Wi-Fi needed!)
Whoa
Gemini 3 Arrives
• “Deep Think” reasoning mode
• Google Gemini turns 3 after only 2 years 7 months
• Multimodal mastery (Video-MMMU 87.6%)
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-11-19
Nov 20
08:38 PM
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-20
Here is what was making waves in tech history on this day.
5 Years Ago: November 20, 2020
The orderly transfer of power for the US Govt was performed… using a Google Workspace and Titan Security Keys.
10 Years Ago: November 20, 2015
If you were a cola fan, you might have been in the market for… the Pepsi Phone.
15 Years Ago: November 20, 2010
COICA (Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act) was the latest bill attempting to balance concerns with censorship and IP protections… it would fail, but only to be rewritten as the PROTECT IP Act… which also failed to advance.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-11-20
Nov 22
01:42 AM
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-21
📈 ⛏️ 💰 The biggest story this week was NVIDIA’s Q3 earnings.
The shovel-selling business remains the only sure bet in town for now. Pricing power consumption is a beautiful thing.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-11-21
09:22 PM
#gotosocialadmin Upgraded to v0.20.2 Even More Sinister Sloth 😈😈😈
10:05 PM
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-22
The goal of Sneak Peak Saturday is to sift through Friday news dumps for the stories designed or timed to be forgotten by Monday that represent peak patronizing publishing.
This time, it’s a tale as old as Silicon Valley, where the “safety first” mission statement for physical intelligence is alleged to have ignored all previous instructions. The title of this tale is, “Figure AI sued by its (former) head of product safety”.
Combined with misanthropic misalignment of non-physical intelligence training, this could lead to a dystopian outcome. If the literally skull-crushing allegations are true, this would alter the “move fast and break things” cliché to convey an even more chilling connotation in our likely future.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-11-22
Nov 24
09:34 PM
📈 Markets Monday for 2025-11-24
The screener is lighting up with a very specific theme today: Future Compute Architecture.
Quantum Computing is having a breakout moment with double-digit gains.
Digital Infrastructure & Crypto Mining trade is back, likely driven by the continued pivot toward high-performance computing (HPC) capacity. Also, optical connectivity and autonomous systems point to a big day for the hardware layer of the stack.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/markets-monday-for-2025-11-24
10:08 PM
I’ve always wondered if there was AI to do the automatic version of this manual approach to iso a riff #chuggachuggachugga
https://looptube.io/?videoId=Q7SedYMP-PA&start=114.22610294117669&end=122.1775708458563&rate=1
Nov 25
07:59 PM
🔥 Hot Takes Tuesday for 2025-11-25
💰 + 🤖 Funding for AI-anything companies continues.
• Cerrion (AI factory video monitoring): $18M
• Opti (AI identity security platform): $20M
• Harmonic (Mathematical reasoning AI model): $120M
• Picnic (AI-powered online grocery delivery): ~$450M
• X-energy (Nuclear reactors for AI): $700M
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/hot-takes-tuesday-for-2025-11-25
Nov 26
05:02 PM
🤪 Wacky Wednesday for 2025-11-26
Wacky. Wayback. Whoa.
First, a Shatner remix for safety. Second, an acquisition for the ages. Third, a red planet anniversary.
Wacky Wonderful
Eat, Fry, Love: A Cautionary Remix (REUPLOAD)
• Shatner’s safety soliloquy
• Turkey fryer fire fear
• Moister tastier remix
Wayback
AOL buys Netscape for $4.2bn
• Browser wars ending
• Dial-up dominance
• Dot-com billions
Whoa
InSight Mission
• Seven years since touchdown
• Mapping Mars’ insides
• Seismic science legacy
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/wacky-wednesday-for-2025-11-26
Nov 27
06:06 PM
🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-11-27
Looking back on this day in tech history… Let’s take a look at what was making headlines on this day many years ago.
5 Years Ago: November 27, 2020
Five years ago, SignalFrame (Wireless Registry) briefly entered the lexicon of IoT data harvesting via mobile app SDKs that enabled smart phones to canvas “billions of detectable WiFi and Bluetooth signals”… and is now part of PWC.
10 Years Ago: November 27, 2015
Ten years ago, the Microsemi acquisition of PMC-Sierra powered the progression of the 5G and cloud backbones… and is now part of Microchip Technology.
15 Years Ago: November 27, 2010
Fifteen years ago, Angry Birds reached 7M downloads… and is now part of Sega with 5B+ downloads.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/throwback-thursday-for-2025-11-27
Nov 28
10:12 PM
✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-11-28
The story that caught my eye this week was an audacious attempt by Google to turn its custom silicon advantage into an external revenue stream. By pitching TPUs directly to the largest customers AND rivals like Meta, Google is potentially disrupting NVIDIA’s pseudo-monopoly gross margins.
As for why this caught my eye, NVIDIA’s defensive “delighted” PR message was worded in a very “happy for you” meme way and the reactions from the community have been fascinating. But, by way of analogy, if David Bar can buy up EPG, then perhaps NVIDIA can buy up HBM.
Or, said another way, NVIDIA’s wording may be a subtle attempt to get ahead of future government regulatory bodies that could delay (prevent?) value chain vertical integration M&A approvals that would harm competition. Then again, any OLESTRA / EPG to HBM / SRAM analogies could lead to more (unique) digestive discussion than these very different industries would care to encourage.
Flaky crust vs. antitrust anyone? 🍪🤖
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/final-thoughts-friday-for-2025-11-28
Nov 29
12:48 AM
I finally got around to enabling search [1] via #pagefind for #11ty. However, as #pagefind is a client side solution, this required #Cloudflare #RocketLoader to be turned off and a cache purge to ensure Chrome users with #uBlock were not impacted. Seems like a good tradeoff as I don’t use that much javascript.
04:37 PM
🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-11-29
While Thanksgiving leftovers digested and the consumer mosh pit of Black Friday rolled into motion, the futures financial system scrambled and needed some HugOps. Indeed, the narrative of decentralized, resilient, redundant cloud infrastructure isn’t defacto and is not ubiquitous (yet).
CME Group operates the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange and is on track to be a massive Google Cloud customer over the next several years. But due to the current CME Group architecture used to deliver those services, a “cooling systems issue” meant the operation halted.
In 2025, a single physical point of failure to a cooling system can freeze global futures markets for hours. Even in our timeline of increasing compute density and strained power grids, thermal management is still a critical uptime vulnerability and we are only as robust as our HVAC design.
Read the full post here: https://fudge.org/archive/sneak-peak-saturday-for-2025-11-29
