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Web directory: AmigaSource celebrates its 25th anniversary with a relaunch
In 2001, Scott A Pistorino submitted a news item to amiga-news.de to mark the launch of his project. Twenty-five years later, the website is celebrating its anniversary with a relaunch.
Turquie | Carney conclut sa visite dans une mosquée à Istanbul
L’avion qui le transportait a atterri à Ottawa samedi. Le premier ministre Mark Carney est revenu au pays après avoir passé trois jours à renforcer les liens économiques et politiques du Canada avec la Turquie.
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1272546/ Bristol Bears v Exeter Chiefs: Five takeaways as hosts show ‘different edge’ in ‘slobberknocker in a slip-and-slide’ while England star’s efforts leave their mark #Bristol #ExeterChiefs #HomePage #News #Premiership #Rugby #Sports #UK #UnitedKingdom
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Enjoy this beautiful tune from our white-handed gibbon family and celebrate International Gibbon Day! 🎶🎵
Gibbons often "sing" in the morning to communicate with their family and mark their territory to other neighboring groups. https://t.co/MGC0akyGLh
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The CONOPs for NASA Artemis IV mission to the moon using Blue Origin -
- No in-orbit refueling
- Launch of 3 transfer stages, which together operate as a multistage rocket
- Launch of the Mark 2 lander
- Docking with transfer stages in low earth orbit
- Travel to lunar elliptical polar orbit
- SLS and Orion separately travel to lunar orbit
- Orion docks with lander
- Mark 2 landing with 2 astronauts
- Mark 2 launch and docking with Orion
- Orion ride back home
Hey kids! Did you know?
In OG Bladerunner (1982) Roy the Replicant says #SixSeven about the 1hr 15 mark.
"Six.. Seven.. Go to Hell or go to Heaven"
Way to yoink me out of Movie Immersion Mode, and doubt reality again. It's a simulation. I KNEW IT
https://www.europesays.com/3329731/ Ex-NZSAS commander blasts current NZDF leadership – and NZ First’s Ron Mark says he’ll get rid of them #Accountability #And #backs #believes #Bernard #blasts #Commander #COMMANDERS #criticisms #Current #david #defence #edge #exnzsas #failures #fighting #firsts #Fisher #force #former #get #hell #isherwood #LEADERSHIP #Lost #mark #Minister #NewZealand #NZ #nzdf #nzsas #of #replaced #reports #rid #ron #says #SENIOR #them #through #wants #what
Canada and Turkey forge trade and defense deals as Carney looks beyond US | National
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a “strategic…
#EuropeSays #Turkiye #Ankara #national
https://www.europesays.com/turkiye/64738/
India stirs up its gastronomy with French cooking schools
NEW DELHI, India — Fiercely proud of its culinary traditions, India is increasingly open to foreign influences, with French cooking schools attracting students eager to make their mark on the country’s growing…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchcuisine #Cooking #francais #france #French #gastronomy #india #its #Schools #stirs #up #with
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2870742/india-stirs-up-its-gastronomy-with-french-cooking-schools-6/
"Two Weeks to Go": Derek Lowe, Science.
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/two-weeks-go
"Two weeks to go. The election might mark the beginning of a Second Reconstruction (suggested motto: “Let’s Do It Right This Time”), or it might be the start of something much worse. Two weeks. Good luck to us all."
#science #governance
"The principles and strategies that over multiple generations have made the U.S. the world’s leading nation in effect are on the ballot, and these midterms mark a potential turning point.
Let’s focus on three pillars that explain the rise, strength and resilience of our nation -
1. Education
2. Immigration
3. The norms that govern our politics, economics and society."
All have been pulverized by Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/opinion/midterms-trump-america.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LFE.yo9q.vM5qPEaOjOe6&smid=url-share
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I voted in Virginia this morning. Yes on marriage equality. Yes on reproductive rights. Yes on voting rights for all. Straight Democrat. I even voted for Mark again, though he needs to retire.
🚀 The M-Ecosystem Devroom is coming to FOSDEM 2027!
📅 Sunday, January 31st 🇧🇪
Evolving from MariaDB, MySQL & Friends, our new devroom brings together MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, VillageSQL, and the wider open-source database ecosystem.
🤝 Different projects, shared roots, one community!
📢 Mark your calendar, spread the word, and join us in Brussels!
#FOSDEM2027 #mEcosystem #MySQL #MariaDB #Percona #VillageSQL #ourSQL #OpenSource
#StarTrek & #StarWars have for years had an obsession with the actors who originally appeared in them, an idiosyncrasy of the era of photography, film & television.
Star Trek has finally passed that point with TOS. The Abrams films introduced an entirely new cast playing these old, familiar characters. While that may have been polarizing for a lot of fans, it broke the barrier. Now SNW has a complete third cast playing the original Enterprise crew from TOS.
Lucasfilm went to great, AI-driven lengths in 2022 to bring Mark Hamill back as a 20-something Luke Skywalker when the actor was past 70 in "The Book of Boba Fett." Eventually they’ll have to recast or abandon the character.
Meanwhile the Star Trek: TNG cast keeps reappearing, as recently as Star Trek: Picard. Sooner or later, it won’t be possible to reassemble them all & the roles may eventually be recast in new material.
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#27 El Orfanato (2007)
This is pretty good! I think it kind of chickens out on the ending. But to be honest, I spent most of it distracted because the Wikipedia entry talks a lot about how they tried to shoot it to emulate classic 70s Spanish horror, and as someone who has been watching that or adjacent films all month, they missed the mark so hard stylistically.
The young man even makes a call on my behalf, saying he’s just around the corner. I thank him and head off.
Another half hour passes, and then I find myself sitting in a vehicle that reeks intensely of a "new car" smell—with an old bicycle in the back—as I approach my destination. I’ve rented this station wagon for two months; it’s damn expensive. At the address Mark gave me, I find an auto repair shop But someone is already moving in.
Afghan Christian TV channel launches to share the Gospel despite Taliban restrictions
Mozhda TV, which its founders describe as the first Afghan Christian television channel, began broadcasting Saturday, as church leaders, mission partners and Afghan believers gathered to mark its launch.
"Earlier this month, a new report found that, due to deteriorating soil quality, crops including carrots, apples and peas are now 20% to 50% less nutritious than they were in the 1960s. So should we be eating double the amount?"
The report mentioned/linked to is behind a 'subscribe and give us your email address so we can spam you'!
Headline of the report:
"Cereal yields are up 215% per hectare since the 1960s, but more than 2 billion people have at least one clinical micronutrient deficiency.
In collaboration with The Mark Leonard Trust, we produced Hollow Harvests to examine how decades of breeding and farming for yield have left many crops with 20 to 50% less of several key nutrients. A carrot with half the potassium means eating twice as many carrots to get the same benefit."
Download it free without annoying subscription:
Short version:
DSV-HollowHarvest_Exec-Report.pdf
https://drive.proton.me/urls/1T4NRRYMMR#PVCMqfcz4piT
Full version:
DSV-HollowHarvest_Full-Report.pdf
https://drive.proton.me/urls/T4S4XGBBMR#BQndxSaVC5I8
#food #PolyCrisis #poverty #Soil #SoilDegradation #IndustrialAgriculture
Anthropic officially filed its Form S-1 with the SEC on Monday, setting up a Nasdaq listing under the ticker ANT. For two years, the private artificial intelligence market operated on private marks, secondary desk whispers, and venture rounds structured around liquidation preferences. Now we have an audited registration statement. The numbers quantify what the foundation model business actually costs to operate.
For the first half of 2026, Anthropic reported $16.3 billion in revenue, up from $1.2 billion in the first half of 2025. That top line came alongside an operating loss of $693 million, narrowed from a $2.1 billion operating deficit a year earlier. The bottom-line net loss touched $80.7 billion, driven by non-cash mark-to-market adjustments on convertible debt instruments that convert upon the offering. At the customer level, Anthropic counts over 11,900 enterprise accounts generating more than $100,000 in annualized spend, 1,900 spending above $1 million, and roughly 250 paying over $10 million annually.
Enterprise software growth at this velocity usually commands extreme valuation multiples. The constraint sits lower on the statement: the off-balance-sheet commitments.
According to the filing, Anthropic has entered into at least $518 billion in multi-year infrastructure commitments with hyperscale cloud and hardware partners over the next decade. Crucially, roughly 80 percent of those contracts are non-cancelable or require fixed payments regardless of actual server utilization. That includes at least $111.1 billion committed to Alphabet, $110 billion to Amazon, $31.4 billion to Microsoft, and $161.2 billion in equipment lease structures tied to Broadcom silicon.
In classical corporate finance, software companies trade at high multiples because their cost structure scales smoothly: gross margins exceed 75 percent, marginal distribution costs approach zero, and capital expenditures stay minimal. Anthropic's cost profile resembles a capital-intensive utility or an industrial commodity refinery. By signing hundreds of billions in take-or-pay cloud obligations, the lab traded variable margin flexibility for dedicated physical capacity.
That commitment creates severe operating leverage. When enterprise inference demand expands, fixed clusters clear high incremental cash flow. But if demand plateaus, or if competing open-source model architectures depress token pricing faster than hardware amortizes, those fixed obligations do not adjust downward. Every empty megawatt of reserved compute drains gross profit straight through to operating cash flow.
The public markets will not price ANT as an asset-light SaaS business. They will price it as a high-beta spread between token real estate yields and non-cancelable debt-like power contracts. When public trading begins, the entire frontier laboratory cohort will finally get marked to market every single morning.#ai #economics #cloud #finance #software #coding #development #engineering #inclusive #community
The S-1 Reveals the Real AI Balance Sheet
NMI women’s tennis team finishes 3rd at Billie Jean King Cup
The NMI women’s tennis team made up of Maria Isabel Heras, Hyejin Elliott, and Vivian Chung, wrapped up…
#NewsBeep #News #Tennis #3rd #at #Billie #CA #Canada #chrystal #Cup #Finishes #gases #jean #King #leigh #manglona #marianas #marino #mark #mp #NMI #press #rabago #rota #Saipan #Sports #Team #thomas #tinian #today #website #Women's
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/946794/
NMI women’s tennis team finishes 3rd at Billie Jean King Cup
The NMI women’s tennis team made up of Maria Isabel Heras, Hyejin Elliott, and Vivian Chung, wrapped up…
#Tennis #News #3rd #at #Billie #chrystal #CUP #finishes #gases #Jean #King #leigh #manglona #marianas #marino #Mark #mp #news #NMI #Press #rabago #rota #saipan #team #thomas #tinian #today #website #womens
https://www.europesays.com/tennis/92982/
Once Were Lost Xmas Spectacular
Rack-em-up Pool Hall and Bar, Saturday, December 12 at 07:00 PM GMT+11
Hey there friends! Exciting news
The Once Were Lost Xmas spectacular is back with a bang! Mark your calendars for Saturday 12th of December.
Get ready to rock out with us and some great friends before we take a 12-month(ish) hiatus to prepare for our next big adventure. Playing on the night we will have:
The Kittyhawks
Once Were Lost
The Bluntts
Caifein
Only $10 entry and includes free pool
Tickets on the door only
Doors 7pm
Spread the word, gather your buddies, and let's make this show one to remember!
https://melbourne.askapunk.net/event/once-were-lost-xmas-spectacular
By agreement I'm posting this to reach his many friends on FaceBook, LinkedIn, eMail, etc.
Here's the Obituary as released.
https://www.voranfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Mark-Alan-Swanson?obId=49912495
It says "For those who cannot attend the funeral service in person" [in Michigan], "a live stream link will be available the morning of Thursday, October 29th."
Rest in Peace, friend.
What Really Does The Bible Claim The Good News About God Is?
by Mike Edwards
Many of us who grew up and attended the institutional church heard that God mainly wanted to save us from hell so we could go to heaven after death here on earth. All we had to do was say a prayer and mean it: “Thank you Jesus for dying on the cross for my sins. Please forgive me. I receive You as my Lord and Savior. Help me to live for you.” You may think that is a Bible verse. I can find no place in the Bible where Jesus advised followers of such a prayer or declared this the Good News. Jesus didn’t require confessions initially but simply asked people to follow Him.
Mark 1:14,15 says “Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. The time has come, he said. The kingdom of God has come near. Repent, and believe the good news.” Repent refers to a changing of your mind, not dropping to your knees and never sinning again, or we are all screwed! The Good News throughout the Gospels refers to a Kingdom here on earth now. The kingdom of God “has come upon you” (Mt 12:28) and “is in your midst” (Lk 17:21). God’s Spirit is available now, as it was back in the first century, to influence godly living here on earth.
What Really Is The Good News About God According TO The BIble
Mike Edwards was added as a writer and has been a great addition to the Done with Religion site. Mike provides many interesting views and various ways of looking at things. He is not afraid to ask questions and he keeps an open mind as to teachings of the institutional church. Mike also has his own site where he writes at What God May Really Be Like
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Noteworthy News From Raleigh October 25, 2026 Edition
Raleigh and the Triangle have plenty of noteworthy news to follow, from major passenger rail funding and affordable housing progress to new businesses, fall festivals and early voting deadlines. This DoRaleigh roundup brings together updates from Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill, along with North Carolina business and community headlines.
Raleigh Development, Transportation and Community News
S-Line passenger rail receives $550 million in federal funding
The Raleigh-to-Richmond passenger rail project has reached another funding milestone. Federal transportation officials announced $550 million for the S-Line, supporting work toward a route expected to reduce travel time between the two cities by up to 90 minutes while increasing service and reliability. The funding advances the project; it does not mark the start of passenger service.
Source: U.S. Department of Transportation.
Affordable rental homes take shape in Southeast Raleigh
Southeast Raleigh Promise is making progress on Promise 25, a development bringing 25 affordable rental homes to nine city-owned parcels. The city approved $3.3 million in gap financing for the project, which includes a mix of housing types. Initial homes have been completed, with the full project expected to finish by summer 2027.
Sources: City of Raleigh and WRAL.
Downtown South apartment plans move forward
Kane Realty has filed plans for 350 apartments as the first phase of Downtown South, according to Raleigh Magazine. Construction is planned to begin by the end of 2026, making this a development to watch as Raleigh adds housing.
Durham park improvements face delays
Planned amenities at Durham’s East End and Long Meadow parks will not begin construction this fall as originally expected. INDY Week reports that rising costs and design challenges have pushed the work back by approximately two years while officials pursue $15 million in federal grant funding.
Source: INDY Week.
Wake County receives farmland preservation funding
The Wake County Soil and Water Conservation District received approximately $10 million in state funding tied to farmland protection and agricultural growth, according to CBS 17. The awards include $7.9 million for 12 projects and a separate $2 million award, with more than 600 acres slated for permanent protection.
Raleigh tracks progress toward 24,000 trees
Raleigh’s goal is to reach 24,000 trees planted by 2032. The city’s Every Tree Counts initiative includes trees planted by residents, businesses and community partners, giving private-property plantings a role in the communitywide effort.
Source: City of Raleigh.
Midtown real estate forum set for October 27
The Midtown Raleigh Alliance’s Real Estate Forum takes place Tuesday, October 27. Local real estate leaders will discuss housing trends, neighborhood development and projects shaping North Hills and Midtown, according to Raleigh Magazine.
Raleigh Restaurants, Nightlife and New Businesses
Low Bar Lounge opens beneath Whiskey Kitchen
Low Bar Lounge has opened below Whiskey Kitchen in downtown Raleigh. The underground venue offers cocktails, beer, wine and THC seltzers, with nightly service until 2 a.m. The space draws inspiration from a limousine company that once occupied the property and was previously home to digital art venue IMURJ.
Food industry professionals can also look for Sunday Family Meal, a rotating buffet offered Sundays at 5:30 p.m. for $20. Check with the lounge for current availability and participation details.
Sources: WRAL and Raleigh Magazine.
Sippin’ Santa returns to Wye Hill
Wye Hill Kitchen & Brewing will host Sippin’ Santa from November 13 through December 31. The seasonal pop-up brings tropical holiday decorations and themed cocktails to the restaurant at 201 S. Boylan Avenue. Reservations are available through Wye Hill’s event page.
Details: Sippin’ Santa at Wye Hill.
South Block plans North Hills location
Acai bowl, smoothie and juice brand South Block is coming to 4121 Main at North Hills Street. Founded in Arlington, Virginia, the company plans to open beside bartaco in North Hills’ Main District during the first quarter of 2027.
Source: North Hills.
Raleigh construction executive backs luxury handbag brand
Cooper Tacia General Contractors CEO John Cooper has invested more than $1 million in Dadov, the luxury handbag company he co-founded with designer Islam Dadov, according to Triangle Business Journal. The brand debuted at Paris Fashion Week this fall and is exploring boutiques in Paris and major U.S. cities. A standalone Raleigh store is not currently planned, though Triangle retail placement remains a possibility.
Triangle Business, Technology and Education
Raleigh Founded enters a new chapter
Former executive directors Lauren Romer and Jess Porta are taking the lead through their new venture, Lotos Ventures, as Raleigh Founded’s original ownership group winds down operations at the end of October. The transition encompasses the North Street, Downtown Cary and Centennial Campus locations, continuing the coworking community’s mission of connecting entrepreneurs and businesses.
Source: Raleigh Founded’s announcement.
Loren Gold named next Visit Raleigh president and CEO
Loren Gold will become president and CEO of the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau, also known as Visit Raleigh, on January 1, 2027. He succeeds Dennis Edwards, who is retiring at the end of 2026. Gold has served as executive vice president since 2007 and brings nearly four decades of hospitality experience.
Source: Visit Raleigh.
NC TECH recognizes industry leaders
NC TECH announced eight recipients of its 2026 Individual Awards, including SAS CEO Jim Goodnight, Vantaca CEO Ben Currin and Charlotte CIO Markell Storay. The honorees will be celebrated November 16 at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel in the Research Triangle Park area.
Details: NC TECH Awards.
Pendo introduces Floor 404 puzzle game
Raleigh-based Pendo has launched Floor 404, a free daily puzzle game focused on improving AI agents. According to GrepBeat, players solve challenges by supplying virtual agents with better context, illustrating concepts behind the company’s Pendo for Agents platform.
Cary drugmaker announces FDA approval
Asahi Kasei Therapeutics announced FDA approval of Hovilpri, or pritelivir, for mucocutaneous herpes simplex virus lesions that are refractory to standard antiviral treatment in immunocompromised adults. The approval covers lesions with or without resistance to standard treatment. The company expects U.S. availability before the end of 2026.
Source: Asahi Kasei.
Duke and UNC place in WalletHub’s top 25
Duke University ranked No. 14 and UNC-Chapel Hill ranked No. 24 in WalletHub’s 2027 Best Colleges and Universities rankings. The study compares institutions across factors including costs, student selectivity, campus experience and educational outcomes.
Source: WalletHub.
North Carolina ranks fourth for doing business
North Carolina placed No. 4 in Area Development’s 2026 rankings of the best states for doing business. The report highlighted strengths including innovation and research, manufacturing workforce skills, industrial site availability, government responsiveness and business costs.
New Bern entrepreneur wins startup funding
Entrepreneur Dan Spangler won $30,000 in the NC Small Business Center Network’s inaugural startup competition for Rinse-A-Poo, according to Business North Carolina. The ergonomic pet-waste cleanup product will use the funding to move from prototype toward production.
People, Science and Local Learning
Christina Koch takes NASA leadership role
NASA astronaut Christina Koch will become acting deputy chief engineer on November 1, helping oversee engineering across agency programs. Her experience includes the Artemis II mission and a 328-day stay aboard the International Space Station.
Source: NASA.
Wake libraries introduce free STEAM Lab programs
Wake County Public Libraries has launched STEAM Lab for students in third through fifth grades. Free, hands-on activities explore science, technology, engineering, art and math, with topics such as bridge design and geology. Families should check their branch’s calendar for sessions and participation details.
Millbrook staff help welcome a baby
Staff at Millbrook Magnet High School helped a contracted security officer deliver her baby on campus, according to CBS 17. School officials reported that both mother and child were doing well.
Cyclist finishes 22,757-mile journey in Raleigh
Jeff Molby completed a 22,757-mile bicycle journey in downtown Raleigh in October. His ride raised awareness of the American Cancer Society’s Road to Recovery program and the need for transportation assistance for people receiving cancer treatment.
Source: WUNC.
Upcoming Triangle Events and Important Deadlines
Wake County early voting ends October 31
Early voting for the November 3 general election continues through 3 p.m. Saturday, October 31. Wake County voters can use any of the county’s 18 early voting sites. Check official locations, hours and available wait-time information before heading out.
Details: Wake County election information.
Pumpkin Palooza returns to Pullen Park
Pullen Park’s Pumpkin Palooza runs Friday, October 30, through Sunday, November 1, from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The all-ages event features seasonal crafts, games and a digital scavenger hunt compass, with a train ride included. Tickets cost $14, and advance purchase is required.
Tickets and details: City of Raleigh.
Taste of China Festival comes to Cary November 7
The annual Taste of China Festival returns to downtown Cary on Saturday, November 7. The free-to-attend celebration features Chinese food, cultural performances and community activities. Food and other purchases are separate from admission.
Details: Taste of China Festival.
Festifall Arts Market returns to Chapel Hill
The 53rd Festifall Arts Market takes place Saturday, November 7, from noon to 5 p.m. at 100 E. Rosemary Street in downtown Chapel Hill. The free event features handmade goods, local artists and live performances, with pottery, jewelry, soaps, candles and more to browse.
Details: Chapel Hill Community Arts & Culture.
Banana Ball returns to Durham in June 2027
The Loco Beach Coconuts and Firefighters are scheduled to play at Durham Bulls Athletic Park June 18–19, 2027. Fans can join the ticket lottery through October 31, 2026, for a chance to purchase tickets. Joining the lottery does not guarantee access.
Details: Banana Ball schedule and ticket lottery information.
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For #HauntedOctober, here's another round of free download codes for an older album of mine: Fallen are the Domes of Green Amber (2007).
https://brianlavelle.bandcamp.com/album/fallen-are-the-domes-of-green-amber
The music was inspired by a set of prose poems by John Gale published as a slim pamphlet by Mark Valentine in 2005. Diophantine Discs released the original CD of my album in a beautiful printed card wallet. In a strange twist, the artwork which the label used for the album later became the cover artwork for a beautiful landscape-format hardcover of John's work, The Allurements of Cabochon, published by Ex Occidente Press in 2011.
You can redeem a code here: https://brianlavelle.bandcamp.com/yum
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💥Ankündigung! Montag 26.10.2026💥
Ⓐ ★ 📖Anarchistisches Infocafé "System Störungen"📖 ★ Ⓐ
Montag, 26.10.2026 | 19:30 | New Yorck Bethanien, Marielle-Franco-Platz 2a (Mariannenplatz 2a), 10997 Berlin
Anreise: U1, U3, U8 Kottbusser Tor | Bus 140 Mariannenplatz | Bus 147 Adalbertstraße | M29 Rio-Reiser-Platz
📣 Aufruf: https://demo-ticker-berlin.org/?p=9912
#b2610 #AnarchistischesInfocafe
🕢 19:30 Uhr Essen vegan
🕗 20:00 Uhr Veranstaltung
Lesung: Systemstörungen
Tom Schmieder liest aus seinem Buch: Systemstörungen
Für Markus Müller, genannt Mark, Aktivist in der linksradikalen Szene Westberlins der späten 1970er Jahre, war Heimat bislang keine relevante Kategorie.
Ein unfreiwilliger winterlicher Aufenthalt in London, um behördlichen Nachstellungen wegen eines Handstreichs gegen den Oberstaatsanwalt für politische Straftaten, Maximilian von Erbe, zu entgehen, scheint das infrage zu stellen und ihn eines Besseren zu belehren.
Das ändert sich schlagartig bei seiner Rückkehr in die Mauerstadt im Mai 1980, als ihm die vorgefundenen Umstände schonungslos klarmachen, dass Heimat der Ort ist, an dem dir die ganze Scheiße deines Lebens konzentriert um die Ohren fliegt.
Buchvorstellung mit dem Autor Tom Schmieder & Verlag Immergrün.
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2
Orderly: An AI WhatsApp Order-Taker That Refuses to Guess
Small shops often receive customer orders through WhatsApp like:
“2 kg rice, 1 litre oil, and 1 kg sugar.”
But real messages can be much messier — Telugu + English, corrections, unclear quantities, or voice notes.
The difficult part isn't just understanding the message.
The real problem is knowing whether the AI understood the complete order correctly.
That's why I built Orderly.
What I Built
Orderly is an AI-assisted WhatsApp order-taker for small shops.
It converts messy text and voice orders into structured orders and checks them before confirmation.
The core principle is:
AI extracts. Code verifies. Catalog decides. Human confirms when evidence is insufficient.
If the order is clear and the evidence is sufficient, Orderly can mark it CONFIRMED.
If something is unclear, missing, incomplete, or unsafe to verify, it returns NEEDS_REVIEW instead of guessing.
Demo
🎥 Watch the Orderly Demo Video
The demo shows Orderly processing customer orders, validating extracted items, and handling cases where confirmation should not be automatic.
Video Transcript
Hi, this is Orderly, an AI-powered WhatsApp order-taker for small shops.
It handles messy text and voice orders, including Telugu-English messages.
The key principle is:
AI extracts. Code verifies. Catalog decides. Human confirms when evidence is insufficient.
Orderly checks the extracted items against the catalog and validates the customer's request.
If the evidence is sufficient, the order can be CONFIRMED.
If anything is unclear or incomplete, Orderly returns NEEDS_REVIEW instead of guessing.
The goal is simple:
Never falsely confirm an incomplete order.
Try Orderly, explore the code, and share your feedback or ideas for improving safe AI-powered ordering for small shops.
Code
🔗 GitHub Repository
Orderly is built as a small Python application with:
Web interface
CLI
Deterministic validation
Catalog checks
Automated safety tests
Fake extractors for deterministic adversarial testing
How I Built It
The pipeline is:
Customer message → transcription → AI extraction → deterministic validation → catalog verification → confirmation/review
For voice orders, speech is transcribed before extraction.
The AI produces structured order information, but the application does not treat the AI response as proof that the extraction is complete or correct.
The deterministic code checks the extracted information against the customer's message and the shop catalog.
This separation is intentional.
An LLM can misunderstand a message, hallucinate an item, or simply miss something.
So the system is designed so that:
AI proposes. Code verifies. Evidence determines whether confirmation is allowed.
Safety First
One of the biggest risks I focused on was customer-item omission.
For example, if a customer says:
“2 kg rice and 5 litres sunflower oil”
but the AI extracts only:
“2 kg rice”
a normal pipeline might accidentally confirm the incomplete order.
Orderly is designed to treat this as a NEEDS_REVIEW situation rather than assuming that the extracted list is complete.
I specifically tested adversarial cases involving:
Multiple products with one item omitted
Three products with one or more items omitted
Middle-item omission
Final-item omission
The same product with different sizes
Corrections
Mixed Telugu + English orders
“And also” constructions
Long messages containing unrelated text
The goal is not to maximize the number of CONFIRMED orders.
The goal is to avoid falsely confirming an incomplete order.
Why Open Innovation Matters
This project uses open-source AI because useful AI systems should not always require a closed cloud service.
Open models and open-source tools make it possible for developers to experiment, inspect the pipeline, run models locally, and build systems for specific real-world problems.
For a small-shop use case, local and open tooling can also provide more control over how customer data is processed.
The important lesson for me is that open AI becomes more useful when it is combined with traditional deterministic software rather than being trusted blindly.
My Agent Session
I used AI-assisted development to inspect the project, improve the implementation, create adversarial safety tests, investigate edge cases, and verify the application.
The development process focused heavily on finding cases where an AI extraction could appear correct while still being incomplete.
That led to a stronger design principle:
Never confuse a successful AI response with proof that the customer's complete request was understood.
Testing
The automated test suite contains 156 tests: 155 passed, 0 failed, and 1 expected failure (xfail).
Orderly automated test suite showing 156 tests collected, with 155 tests passed, 0 failed, and 1 expected failure (xfail). The terminal output demonstrates the project's deterministic safety, validation, and adversarial testing results.
The expected failure is intentional. It documents a known limitation involving an unknown product such as bellam when the extractor completely omits that product and the customer message does not provide enough recognizable evidence for the completeness checker to detect the omission.
The limitation is documented rather than hidden.
The tests are primarily deterministic safety and validation tests. They use controlled/fake extraction behavior to test whether the application fails safely when extraction is incomplete.
Real-Gemma validation was not performed in the current environment, so these test results should not be interpreted as evidence of real-model extraction quality.
Current Limitations
Orderly is a prototype, not a production-ready autonomous ordering system.
Completeness is difficult to guarantee perfectly for:
Completely unknown products
Ambiguous language
Speech-recognition errors
Unusual phrasing
Product names appearing in unrelated text
Corrections that are difficult to resolve
Messages where the customer's intent cannot be reliably identified
A particularly important limitation is that a completeness checker cannot mathematically prove that an LLM extracted every possible customer intent from arbitrary natural language.
Therefore, the safest behavior is to request human confirmation whenever sufficient evidence is unavailable.
Because of this documented limitation, Orderly should not be considered production-safe for unattended autonomous ordering.
Final Thoughts
Orderly started as an AI order-taking idea, but the more important lesson became verification.
AI is good at understanding messy human language.
Code is better at enforcing deterministic rules.
Putting the two together creates a safer system than relying on either one alone.
AI extracts. Code verifies. Catalog decides. Human confirms when evidence is insufficient.
The most important design decision was not making the AI say CONFIRMED.
It was making sure that when the system cannot establish that the customer's complete request is represented, it refuses to guess.
Try Orderly, explore the code, and share your feedback or ideas for making AI-powered ordering safer for small shops.
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Orderly: An AI WhatsApp Order-Taker That Refuses to Guess
Cancel culture in the West:
Apparently, in Norway (!) there’s a campaign running against Glenn Diesen.
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If you watch Glenn Diesen just once, you’ll probably rub your eyes, too.
Yet then, this is the West, and by now it’s not clear anymore what exactly is positive about it.