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Am Klärwerk #Hamburg entsteht Deutschlands größte #Abwasserwärmepumpe.
HAMBURG WASSER und die Hamburger Energiewerke nutzen künftig die Wärme aus gereinigtem #Abwasser zur Versorg…

#GiftLink 'Studies suggest removing one million people from the rolls for one year could result in about 1,000 additional deaths. It follows that removing more than 11 million people for a decade would likely result in more than 100,000 deaths. Because this figure fails to take account of the degradation of service to those who remain eligible — it could well be an underestimate.'
Opinion | Lawrence Summers: This Law Made Me Ashamed of My Country - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/opinion/trump-bill-medicaid-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U08.GC-A.aZSUDTx9knfS&smid=url-share

Calamus 27 O love!
Odd little poem. On the surface it's a celebration of reinvention, of metaphorically dying and leaving your corpse behind, "always living". I don't find it particularly compelling but it's a mood.
I can't honestly find a particularly gay reading here. Broadly speaking maybe, "coming out" is a kind of reinvention gay people do, leaving our old closeted persona dead and gone. I wouldn't argue Whitman is talking about that though.
One odd thing is the 1860 poem starts "O love!", but there's no love mentioned in the rest of the text. Whitman removed this line in later versions. So who or what is the love referring to?

When There Is No Decoder: Removing Watermarks from Stable Diffusion Models in a No-box Setting
Xiaodong Wu, Tianyi Tang, Xiangman Li, Jianbing Ni, Yong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03646

When There Is No Decoder: Removing Watermarks from Stable Diffusion Models in a No-box Setting
Watermarking has emerged as a promising solution to counter harmful or deceptive AI-generated content by embedding hidden identifiers that trace content origins. However, the robustness of current watermarking techniques is still largely unexplored, raising critical questions about their effectiveness against adversarial attacks. To address this gap, we examine the robustness of model-specific watermarking, where watermark embedding is integrated with text-to-image generation in models like lat…

⭐️Honey bees vs. native pollinators
The damage does not stop with bees. The study highlights that honey bee pollination leads to poorer plant offspring quality compared to native bee pollination.
This happens because honey bees often visit many flowers on the same plant before moving to another.
This behavior increases the chances of self-pollination, which can lead to inbreeding depression in plants.
Such effects could ripple through ecosystems. Plants that rely on nat…

Honey bee invasion: A growing threat to native pollinators
Honey bees outcompete native bees, removing most pollen and threatening wild ecosystems in Southern California.

Right, Google Authenticator is out. Aegis is the new owner of the 2FA service. Gradually removing services from Evil Corp.

Democratic governments* should ALL be against AI - if not for the obvious moral issues, for the fact that
LLMs *pay no taxes*.
When you fire somebody making €60k/year in Germany and replace it with an LLM subscription, you're effectively removing 25K or so from state coffers (because, c'mon, you don't believe OpenAI et al are going to pay taxes, are you?).
* not kleptocracies, of course

This tweaker pack saved my second playthrough of Assassin's Creed Odyssey, this time with Kassandra. The game is so grindy, every opportunity available to avoid paying the Ubisoft micro transaction tax is fair game.
AC Odyssey Tweak Pack
https://www.nexusmods.com/assassinscreedod

AC Odyssey Tweak Pack
This is a lightweight tool which allows the configuration of a few handy tweaks including removing the horse speed restriction, setting a custom XP multiplier, setting custom enemy health and damage m

Im Jahr 2024 wurden mehr als zwei Drittel aller neuen #Wohngebäude in #Deutschland primär mit #Wärmepumpen beheizt.
Ihr Anteil hat sich in zehn Jahren mehr als verdoppelt. Tr…

Mehr als zwei Drittel der im Jahr 2024 errichteten Wohngebäude heizen mit Wärmepumpen
In immer mehr neuen Wohngebäuden in Deutschland werden Wärmepumpen zum Heizen genutzt. Mehr als zwei Drittel (69,4 %) der knapp 76 100 im Jahr 2024 fertiggestellten Wohngebäude nutzen Wärmepumpen zur primären, also überwiegend für das Heizen eingesetzten Energie. Gegenüber 2023 stieg der Anteil um rund 5 Prozentpunkte, gegenüber 2014 (31,8 %) hat er sich mehr als verdoppelt, wie das Statistische Bundesamt (Destatis) mitteilt. Wärmepumpen kommen vor allem in Ein- und Zweifamilienhä…

Major medical organizations are suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Department of Health and Human Services
over actions they call a “public health emergency that demands immediate legal action and correction.”
“He’s doing everything he possibly can to undermine vaccine confidence,”
said Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association,
one of the organizations joining the lawsuit.
“Quite frankly, we’ve had e…

RFK Jr. sued by pediatricians, other medical groups over Covid vaccines
Several major medical organizations are suing Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over removing a recommendation for pregnant women and children to get a Covid shot.