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Seattle-based Brinc Drones, which makes 911 response drones, raised $125M led by Motorola Solutions, bringing its total funding to more than $280M (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/motorola-leads-125m…

Motorola leads $125M round for Brinc, fueling 911 drone expansion amid U.S. import crackdown
Seattle-based 911 drone maker Brinc raised $125 million led by Motorola Solutions, at a valuation the company says has nearly doubled from a year ago. The funding will support expanded manufacturing and a new Seattle headquarters and factory later this year.

Trying the Socratic method teaching people about how air conditioning is life-saving and not some optional convenience, but I'm failing.
Maybe I need more coffee. Yes, more coffee will fix it.
Caffeine—cause of and solution to all problems.

EU Member States are deprioritising 'non-wires' solutions or non-fossil flexibility as alternatives for network expansion.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/20…

A Complete Characterization of Finite-Order Entire Solutions to Fermat-Type Partial Differential-Difference Systems in $\mathbb{C}^n$
Sujoy Majumder, Jhilik Banerjee, Abhijit Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05240 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.05240 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.05240
arXiv:2606.05240v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The primary objective of this paper is to determine the explicit existence form and structure of finite-order entire solutions in $\mathbb{C}^n$ of the following system of Fermat-type partial differential-difference equations: \[\begin{cases} \left(\frac{\partial f_1\left(z\right)}{\partial z_1}\right)^{n_1} (f_2 \left(z c\right)-f_1(z) )^{m_1}= 1,
\medskip \left(\frac{\partial f_2\left(z\right)}{\partial z_1}\right)^{n_2} (f_1 \left(z c \right)-f_2(z) )^{m_2}= 1, \end{cases}\]
for different choices of the positive integers $n_1$, $n_2$, $m_1$, and $m_2$, where $c=(c_1,c_2,\ldots,c_n)$. We characterize the precise structure of finite-order transcendental entire solutions and extend the results of Xu et al. \cite{XLL1} from the setting of $\mathbb{C}^2$ to the more general space $\mathbb{C}^m$. In addition, several examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and sharpness of the main results.
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Quebec hydropower is now flowing to New York City—1.25 GW of clean electricity displacing fossil generation.
Meanwhile, Twelve launched America's first commercial e-jet fuel plant, turning CO2 and renewable power into synthetic jet fuel.
And China brought online a massive solar-battery-hydrogen complex to power industry with renewables.
Real infrastructure. Real progress. Today.
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Just finished "What Elephants Know" by Eric Dinerstein. Leaves me with very mixed feelings: it's a novel in many ways about Nepal, and I don't doubt that the author's experience living there gives him a not-insignificant window into the culture, plus there are multiple people mentioned in the acknowledgements as judging faithfulness to Nepali culture. I myself have no direct connection to the country, nor enough knowledge to see any clear inaccuracies in the writing, nor ways in which it directly disrespects the culture.
That said, my instincts say this is a portrayal of the culture and country that probably elides much about the downsides of foreign influence and the monarchy (something I naturally distrust as an anarchist). At minimum, the internal contradiction is clear between the police as an inept and dangerous institution when encountered directly, but as a clean and unproblematic way to resolve problems with criminals when the Maroons subplot needs wrapping up. This is typical of neoliberals who have begun to acknowledge the most obvious problems with police but who refuse to admit the necessity of police abolition. Furthermore, there's a strong thread of white saviorism thrown in, and a big piece of meritocracy to go along with it. This story presents only highly particular fictionalized solutions to the real structural problems facing the elephants and other animals it describes, and the solutions it imagines require reliance on institutions which are in the real world fundamentally untrustworthy.
I enjoyed learning about the ecology of the Nepali borderlands, and about the cultures surrounding elephants there, plus some of the diversity of religions and cultures that interact in the area, and the story was satisfyingly written in terms of the main character's trials and responses to them, if I disregard the issues mentioned above.
If anyone has recommendations for novels in English (including via translation) by actual Nepali authors, I'd love to hear them, as I'll be looking for that perspective to balance this one.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

Following a blockbuster IPO earlier this month,
Elon Musk’s SpaceX experienced a rude awakening.
The rocket company’s shares have now been sliding for four consecutive days,
wiping out nearly all the gains the public offering had initially made.
Now the broader stock market is experiencing a similar and intensifying sell-off.
S&P 500 futures slid 1.6 percent on Tuesday,
while Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 2.8 percent, on track to wipe out over $1 trillio…

Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing
The global stock market is experiencing an intensifying sell-off, intensifying fears of a bursting AI bubble.

#goodmorning
I spent yesterday loosing myself in my IT setup and still don't really know if I'm following a good solution. But I've learned a bit about Forgejo...

“Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:        
And Lo! The Hunter of the East has caught                        
The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light”
(Edward FitzGerald and the Rubšiyšt of Omar Khayyšm, 1st edition 1859)
#Poetry #Translation

Juvenile white sharks are already appearing along the California coastline,
fleeing warmer than usual waters in Mexico during what’s expected to be an incredibly strong El Niño.
But while shark experts say it could be the sharkiest summer in California in a decade,
they also say beachgoers shouldn’t be too alarmed as the apex predators have spent generations learning what’s on the menu.
And humans aren’t their preferred food

California braces for its sharkiest summer in a decade – but experts say don’t panic
Young great white sharks are returning in large numbers, but researchers say humans are not on the menu