Holly Neiweem
@holly-neiweem.bsky.social
Investor | Apprentis Ventures, Managing Partner | Girl mom x3 | Enjoys dry humor & women’s sports
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Special congrats to my microwave who has been wrong for six months but is now back to actually telling the time
November 3, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Special congrats to my microwave who has been wrong for six months but is now back to actually telling the time
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A new report finds corporations like Kroger and McDonald's are using digital loyalty programs to track your data and potentially charge you more.
It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR
It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR
The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)
Robert Reich
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 10:31 PM
A new report finds corporations like Kroger and McDonald's are using digital loyalty programs to track your data and potentially charge you more.
It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR
It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.
Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR
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Berk Bytes security snapshot:
▪️ MAPP → pre-patch SharePoint exploits
▪️ Remote dam gate = OT online exposure risk
▪️ Dealer portal client-side auth → admin over 1k+ dealers
▪️ 1,200 cybercrime arrests across 18 African countries
▪️ China’s nationwide HTTPS reset
www.linkedin.com/pulse/berk-b...
▪️ MAPP → pre-patch SharePoint exploits
▪️ Remote dam gate = OT online exposure risk
▪️ Dealer portal client-side auth → admin over 1k+ dealers
▪️ 1,200 cybercrime arrests across 18 African countries
▪️ China’s nationwide HTTPS reset
www.linkedin.com/pulse/berk-b...
Berk Bytes 8/28
Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest AI & cybersecurity developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This week we dive into Microsoft's controve...
www.linkedin.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Berk Bytes security snapshot:
▪️ MAPP → pre-patch SharePoint exploits
▪️ Remote dam gate = OT online exposure risk
▪️ Dealer portal client-side auth → admin over 1k+ dealers
▪️ 1,200 cybercrime arrests across 18 African countries
▪️ China’s nationwide HTTPS reset
www.linkedin.com/pulse/berk-b...
▪️ MAPP → pre-patch SharePoint exploits
▪️ Remote dam gate = OT online exposure risk
▪️ Dealer portal client-side auth → admin over 1k+ dealers
▪️ 1,200 cybercrime arrests across 18 African countries
▪️ China’s nationwide HTTPS reset
www.linkedin.com/pulse/berk-b...
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Legacy train systems exploited. Malware exfiltrating via DNS TXT records. A single email triggers a £2B fallout. AI-generated bug reports weaponized as DoS. Berk Bytes breaks it down. ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/berk-b...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/berk-b...
Berk Bytes – July 22, 2025
Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest AI & cybersecurity developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This week we dive into why train hacking to...
www.linkedin.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Legacy train systems exploited. Malware exfiltrating via DNS TXT records. A single email triggers a £2B fallout. AI-generated bug reports weaponized as DoS. Berk Bytes breaks it down. ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/berk-b...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/berk-b...
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Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” Kyle Chayka writes.
A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts
Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original.
www.newyorker.com
July 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers. “But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too,” Kyle Chayka writes.
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This week's Berk Bytes by Vincent Berk, Partner at Apprentis Ventures:
🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes 6/30
Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest AI & cybersecurity developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This week we dive into the dangerous imprec...
www.linkedin.com
June 30, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This week's Berk Bytes by Vincent Berk, Partner at Apprentis Ventures:
🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
🔹Agentic AI goes off-script
🔹Iran's cyber lockdown
🔹Deepfake Zoom attacks
🔹Weaponized browser notifications
🔹The real story behind the “16B credential breach”
🔗 ⬇️
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
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The suicide rate for veterans is 50 per cent higher than that of the general population, and a quarter of V.A. workers are veterans. Nonetheless, Veterans Crisis Line employees were among the workers targeted for termination by the Trump Administration.
The Department of Veterans Affairs Is Not O.K.
V.A. insiders describe themselves as miserable—and they worry that the Trump Administration will do long-term damage to the agency.
www.newyorker.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The suicide rate for veterans is 50 per cent higher than that of the general population, and a quarter of V.A. workers are veterans. Nonetheless, Veterans Crisis Line employees were among the workers targeted for termination by the Trump Administration.
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Modern security is upside down: old systems confuse hackers, new ones spy on you.
▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes 5/28
Cybersecurity Insights - May 28, 2025 Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes where we explore the latest cybersecurity & AI developments that matter to business leaders, startups, and technologists. This w...
www.linkedin.com
June 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Modern security is upside down: old systems confuse hackers, new ones spy on you.
▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
▪️Updates as bait & switch
▪️Solar panels as national security risks
▪️A teen’s $M school data heist (and why ransom doesn’t work)
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
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The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. resulted in the closing of 16 agricultural-innovation labs on the campuses of 13 U.S. universities. “By killing these programs,” an agricultural economist said, “you’re putting America at a competitive disadvantage.”
The Farmers Harmed by the Trump Administration
Four months ago, the government cut funding to agricultural labs. Kansas farmers and researchers say they can see the damage.
www.newyorker.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
The dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. resulted in the closing of 16 agricultural-innovation labs on the campuses of 13 U.S. universities. “By killing these programs,” an agricultural economist said, “you’re putting America at a competitive disadvantage.”
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Berk Bytes: Vincent Berk unpacks key cyber trends—AI-generated vulnerability reports swamping open-source devs, leaked ops from hacked ransomware gangs, and cracks in the myth of foolproof end-to-end encryption.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
Apprentis Ventures: Berk Bytes
Cybersecurity Insights - May 12, 2025 Happy Monday! Welcome to this week's Berk Bytes, where we explore the latest cybersecurity developments. This week we look at how AI-generated vulnerability repor...
www.linkedin.com
June 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Berk Bytes: Vincent Berk unpacks key cyber trends—AI-generated vulnerability reports swamping open-source devs, leaked ops from hacked ransomware gangs, and cracks in the myth of foolproof end-to-end encryption.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/appren...
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Data from the BOND Trends–Artificial Intelligence May 2025 report.
June 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Data from the BOND Trends–Artificial Intelligence May 2025 report.
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The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
May 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
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US stocks underperform rest of world by widest margin since 1993
https://www.ft.com/content/f3a7d677-bdf1-4a85-8ae3-aaea668d8c07
https://www.ft.com/content/f3a7d677-bdf1-4a85-8ae3-aaea668d8c07
US stocks underperform rest of world by widest margin since 1993
Investors fear Trump’s tariff blitz will lead to US stagflation while weak dollar adds to woes
www.ft.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
US stocks underperform rest of world by widest margin since 1993
https://www.ft.com/content/f3a7d677-bdf1-4a85-8ae3-aaea668d8c07
https://www.ft.com/content/f3a7d677-bdf1-4a85-8ae3-aaea668d8c07
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I fought damn hard to create the 988 Hotline because help should not be hard to get – regardless of who you are or where you live.
This is wrong and cruel – and you can be sure I will fight this. www.axios.com/2025/04/23/l...
This is wrong and cruel – and you can be sure I will fight this. www.axios.com/2025/04/23/l...
LGBTQ+ youth suicide hotline among proposed HHS budget cuts
Mental health challenges are pervasive among LGBTQ+ youth.
www.axios.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I fought damn hard to create the 988 Hotline because help should not be hard to get – regardless of who you are or where you live.
This is wrong and cruel – and you can be sure I will fight this. www.axios.com/2025/04/23/l...
This is wrong and cruel – and you can be sure I will fight this. www.axios.com/2025/04/23/l...
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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Donald Trump's unpredictable tariff policies have unsettled the venture capital world, further darkening an already gloomy outlook for IPOs. www.wired.com/story/tariff...
Investors Worry Trump’s Tariffs Could Cause a ‘World of Hurt’ for Startups
Donald Trump's unpredictable tariff policies have unsettled the venture capital world, further darkening an already gloomy outlook for IPOs.
www.wired.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Donald Trump's unpredictable tariff policies have unsettled the venture capital world, further darkening an already gloomy outlook for IPOs. www.wired.com/story/tariff...
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“A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months”
New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them
Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.
www.nbcnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“A groundbreaking microscope at Harvard Medical School could lead to breakthroughs in cancer detection and research into longevity. But the scientist who developed computer scripts to read its images and unlock its full potential has been in an immigration detention center for two months”
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Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.
Stem cells to treat Parkinson's? Two small studies hint at success
Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Two new studies suggest that Parkinson's disease can potentially be treated with stem cells placed in a patient's brain.
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As anyone who followed the stock market during the 2008 financial crisis can tell you, big swings up-and-down are a bad sign, not an indication that things are about to start steadily rising again.
April 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
As anyone who followed the stock market during the 2008 financial crisis can tell you, big swings up-and-down are a bad sign, not an indication that things are about to start steadily rising again.
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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
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Prediction:
Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.
April 10, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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“While the new tariffs may eventually be negotiated down, we should prepare for a fundamental shift in trade and capital flows. This is not a change in policy; it’s a structural change."
- Citi CEO Jane Fraser
- Citi CEO Jane Fraser
April 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“While the new tariffs may eventually be negotiated down, we should prepare for a fundamental shift in trade and capital flows. This is not a change in policy; it’s a structural change."
- Citi CEO Jane Fraser
- Citi CEO Jane Fraser
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I’ve spent eight long years helping women access capital. Can you imagine what would happen if they suddenly didn't need to?
...I believe we're about to find out.
My latest for @fortunemagazine.bsky.social - seedstrapping, tiny teams, and how AI will blow the doors of entrepreneurship wide open.
...I believe we're about to find out.
My latest for @fortunemagazine.bsky.social - seedstrapping, tiny teams, and how AI will blow the doors of entrepreneurship wide open.
April 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I’ve spent eight long years helping women access capital. Can you imagine what would happen if they suddenly didn't need to?
...I believe we're about to find out.
My latest for @fortunemagazine.bsky.social - seedstrapping, tiny teams, and how AI will blow the doors of entrepreneurship wide open.
...I believe we're about to find out.
My latest for @fortunemagazine.bsky.social - seedstrapping, tiny teams, and how AI will blow the doors of entrepreneurship wide open.
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In just 10 weeks, @buildwithtori.com & @reedharmeyer.bsky.social built a tiktok alternative, got the investment @mcuban.bsky.social, and grew their beta so fast that it no longer fit on testflight.
I'm proud to be the second check in.
Congratulations @skylight.social!
I'm proud to be the second check in.
Congratulations @skylight.social!
April 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
In just 10 weeks, @buildwithtori.com & @reedharmeyer.bsky.social built a tiktok alternative, got the investment @mcuban.bsky.social, and grew their beta so fast that it no longer fit on testflight.
I'm proud to be the second check in.
Congratulations @skylight.social!
I'm proud to be the second check in.
Congratulations @skylight.social!