2026-07-19 10:09:03
Oh, you’re an angel investor, are you?
Which angel, exactly?
🤔
Internal memo: Meta is reassigning 7,000 workers to four new units focused on building AI tools, two days before it is set to lay off 10% of its workforce (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/technology/meta-reassigns-7000-employees-…
"10 Tips for Goal-Oriented Science Communication" @ De Gruyter Communications
https://blog.degruyter.com/10-tips-for-goal-oriented-science-communication/
"Building a bridge between science and society takes more than passion – it take…
OHAI Mastodon v4.5.10
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.10
#AntiAKW Kommende Woche: #Castor 9 & 10 von 152 nach Ahaus
Aktuellen Informtionen zufolge sollen in der kommenden Woche zwei weitere #Atommmüll behälter von
Assisting the last mile with smart glasses: towards user-centric LLM prompt engineering for visually impaired people #AI
In New York social circles, he was known as the “Jewish James Bond”:
a refugee from Nazi Germany whose gratitude to his American hosts was such that he volunteered to join the US army and became the CIA’s first station chief in Berlin as a mere twentysomething,
filing early warnings about Soviet activity that have been credited with ringing in the cold war.
Like 007, Peter Sichel also appreciated a fine tipple, and after leaving the US foreign intelligence service it was h…
#Großbritannien plant ein Verbot von #SocialMedia-Plattformen für unter 16-Jährige.
Betroffen wären unter anderem #TikTok,
Ziemlich obskurer Solar PV Speicher bei Lidl im Angebot. Die Beschreibung ist äußerst dürftig.
Weiß jemand, welches Gerät dahinter steckt?
https://www.lidl.de/p/tronic-solarstromspeicher/p10077980
Farmers backed Trump. Now some say they're losing patience. (Matthew Choi/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/19/farmers-backed-trump-now-some-say-theyre-losing-patience/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzgxODQxNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzgzMjIzOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODE4NDE2MDAsImp0aSI6ImRkNjFhNDlmLWI5ZTgtNDc3OC04NWE3LTQwZjM4ZmQ2YzEzZiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9wb2xpdGljcy8yMDI2LzA2LzE5L2Zhcm1lcnMtYmFja2VkLXRydW1wLW5vdy1zb21lLXNheS10aGV5cmUtbG9zaW5nLXBhdGllbmNlLyJ9.BOWDi2reIW-AWLIhVUJTm1R6uY_fr2jvW9RxCtvc6bw&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p10#a260619p10
Ich lese gerade wieder Merz sei ein „kleiner Mann mit (zu) großen Ambitionen“, und nein, diese Beschreibung ist elitär und unzutreffend.
Daß der sogenannte „kleine Mann“¹ in bedeutende Positionen gelangen kann, ist ein Grundversprechen der Demokratie. Merz mag ein Spießbürger sein, der sprichwörtliche kleine Mann war er nie.
Was Merz fehlt, ist menschliche Größe, Ehrfurcht von der Würde des Menschen. Die Haltung, die Brandt den Kniefall von Warschau ohne Pathos oder Kitsch mögli…
"Durchsage ihres Lokomotivführers: Wegen einer Stellwerkstörung kann diese S11 ab Winterthur nicht weiterfahren. Sie müssen mit einem anderen Zug nach Zürich weiterfahren."
Montag.
#SBB #övlife #Winterthur
In Mexico we say “estoy mšs exprimido que un limón de fonda” and I think this is beautiful
Commanders WR Terry McLaurin 'loves' idea of getting 10 targets a game in David Blough's offense https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-wr-terry-mclaurin-loves-idea-of-getting-10-targets-a-game-in-david-blough-s-offen…
The ocean demands more billionaires 🌊
もうすぐ夏至と聞いて
tfw when you’re rich and discover you have been scammed https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/car-owners-are-revolting-over-teslas-self-driving-promises-b76edcdd?mod=hp_lead_pos9
"‘Mega-consumers’ of food and energy cost environment $5.7tn a year, study finds"
#Energy #Environment #Climate
Der Elefant im Plenarsaal, ich sag nichts mehr dazu: „10. März 1950: Alt-Nazi Wolfgang Hedler hetzt im Bundestag gegen Widerstandskämpfer*innen und Jüdinnen und Juden. Herbert Wehner und andere SPD-Abgeordnete prügeln ihn daraufhin aus dem Parlament. Ein Sinnbild für den Kampf um die junge Demokratie“
Off the metro in leafy Frederiksberg, where the streets are refreshed and hanging with the scent of the lilacs after the rain
#simpleJoy
from my link log —
chibicc: a small C compiler.
https://github.com/rui314/chibicc
saved 2020-10-04 https://dotat.at/:/HB8B4.html
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kehlani:
🎵 Morning Glory
#Kehlani
https://open.spotify.com/track/0kas95RruYRVqrOb07rgkh
Top 10 Dallas Cowboys of 2026: Tyler Smith Aiming for Another Pro Bowl https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/top-10-dallas-cowboys-2026-tyler-smith-aiming-another-pro-bowl
Årets fŸrste strandtur! #ellidsbøl #jammerbugten
I forgot to mention in the newsletter yesterday, but Metacurity is on a publishing hiatus today in honor of Juneteenth. Wishing everyone a meaningful holiday!✊
#LG-Monitore schleusen Werbeschleuder ein
https://www.heise.de/news/LG-Monitore-schleusen-Werbeschleuder-ein-11369530.html
Der meiner Meinung nach Intere…
Tomorrow marks 10 years since Prince passed. For the first time, I gathered nearly two decades of my writing, podcasts, talks & more into one curated resource, including playlists, rarities, a review of every video he ever made, and collaborations I did with his estate. I close it out with a talk I gave in Minneapolis on Prince’s birthday just after he passed – one of my most personal ever, and one I’m most proud of. I hope you’ll check it out.
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration
For some it's an ego surfing metric, for others an indicator how much of their published material/output was present in the training datasets of LLMs and now is encoded in their model weights...
https://intheweights.com/
"This site queries all models with something like "Who is ? Give up to 10 results, e…
Gamedev/graphics/graph theory people: right now the filter graph editor (imgui-node-editor) in ngscopeclient uses a simple spline curve when drawing edges from one node to another, ignoring everything in its path (i.e. edges can cross nodes).
Is anyone interested in trying to rework this to add a bit more intelligence to the routing? It needs to be fast with up to a few hundred nodes in a typical worst-case scenario, and generally "stable" (small motions of a node should not …
«Hunderte bösartige npm-Pakete im AntV-Ökosystem entdeckt:
Das Datenvisualisierungs-Ökosystem AntV war Ziel einer Mini-Shai-Hulud-Lieferkettenattacke mit Hunderten schädlicher npm-Pakete.»
Schon wieder viele npm-Pakete. Liegt das an npm selber oder ist dies im allgemeinen ein Code-Struktur-Fehler? Betreffen tut es schlussendlich alle User dieser Software, auch wenn die es "nur" nutzen.
🧑💻
Design Diskussion: ich bin immer noch nicht überzeugt, dass runde Displays mehr sind als Nostalgie wegen der alten Armbanduhren. Das sieht mir doch immer so aus, als ob man eigentlich sinnvoll nur den Teil benutzen kann, der ungefähr die Form der Apple Watch hat. Oben und unten werden dann immer Logos oder abgerundete Buttons eingefügt und das Display muss größer sein, als Kompromiss, damit man überhaupt was lesen kann.
Heute in #Stuttgart die beeindruckende Performance "Passing" von Smadar Goshen miterlebt, die über den Pragfriedhof führte und an der Gedenkstätte Nordbahnhof endete. Von dort wurden ab 1941 Juden mit dem Zug deportiert.
Mehr Infos:
https://
Properties of Heavy Cosmic Nuclei Phosphorus, Chlorine, Argon, Potassium, and Calcium - Results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer: #ISS #AMS02 #CosmicRays
❔ How can climate mobility function as a proactive strategy for women and marginalised groups? What influences decision-making processes to migrate or to stay? What do governments and stakeholders need to do to increase women's agency?
📝 New Paper Published:
Human mobility as a climate and disaster risk management strategy: Addressing intersectional vulnerability and enhancing women's agency
🔗
I haven't been paying attention to the World Cup, but I do think it's cool that Kid1 has decided to support Côte d'Ivoire because that's where one of his teachers is from.
Impressive real-world numbers of EDF 🇫🇷 (with its smart charging subsidiary DREEV) for charging a fleet of electric waste collection trucks:
10 MWh of charging for 10 trucks, at a cost of minus €129, by collecting otherwise wasted energy and providing grid support
#EV #Flexibility
robert hunter's foray into horror comics (with a wisp of sci-fi), written in 1995 with art by timothy truman. a bit overwrought, but genuinely creepy & weird, & fun to read him in this mode. https://archive.org/details/dog-moon
Gestern dann zweimal mit dem #Lastenrad #rausgeschafft, einmal am Nachmittag zum Einkaufen und Abends nach Termin beim Velomech in der Stadt den Rückweg etwas ausladender gestaltet und die Landschaft genossen. Insgesamt knapp 35km und gute 250 Garmin-Höhenmeter bei sehr angenehmen Wetter.
phpc.social is now running Mastodon 4.5.10, released ~10 minutes ago. #mastoAdmin
#FotoDerWoche mit blau-schwarzer Biene statt schwarz-blauer Politik.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/07/photo-of-the-week-blue-bee/
Most people in history would not be impressed to hear that some people live past 75 today. They would be flabbergasted to hear that most people live past 75.
Es gibt viele gute Gründe gegen die sog. "Nachhaltigkeits"-Initiative. Sie würde aber vor allem auch an den Grund- und Menschenrechten rütteln und direkt und indirekt zu mehr Überwachung führen, wie die @… schreibt. Weil die Initiative de facto die Kündigung der Europäischen Menschrenrechtskonvention
I want Mike Duncan's "Revolutions" but covering the Spanish Civil War, China, Cuba, Algeria, Vietnam, and the various anti-colonial struggles, then come back to France for May 1968, and a few others, maybe ending with the Zapatistas, Rojava/DAANES, the Gen Z uprisings, and maybe introducing Myanmar.
Axios: Trump-Branded Mega AI Center Is On The Rocks - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/04/axios-trump-branded-mega-ai-center-is-on-the-rocks/
Primer to get you started with Optimization and Mathematical Programming in R #rstats
"ALIMA – Sacherschließung unterstützt durch große Sprachmodelle. Ein Werkstattbericht"
#Inhaltserschließung
RE: https://puntarella.party/@antanicus/116775628271606884
Only if you believe in facts though, right?
The EU fines Alibaba's online marketplace AliExpress €550M for failing to do enough to prevent the sale of illegal products, the largest DSA fine to date (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/13c385e7-600f-471a-858e-6f1970802a10
RE: https://hostux.social/@grumpyoldtechie/116238894250231701
"I only use half-duplex, because that's the only way to have polite conversation"
:shukusai02:
It's not often you can describe a scientific article as an absolute banger, but I'm revisiting again the paper on ESM-snowMIP by Menard et al 2021 and it really is an absolute banger. Completely genius paper. I remain also amazed that such a candid article got through review..
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/102/1/BAMS-D-19-0329.1.xml
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony:
🎵 Tha Crossroads
#BoneThugsNHarmony
https://bigdealwhocares.bandcamp.com/track/1996-bone-thugs-n-harmony-tha-crossroads
https://open.spotify.com/track/5KSJ9k1FYjFLnIRlJT2wF8
From a Chinese state-sponsored news outlet. Can you say pot-kettle-black?
"Investigations found that the foreign intelligence agency had taken control of multiple routers within China and used them as platforms to send phishing emails disguised as invitations to participate in review work or traffic violation payment notices, targeting staff at key institutions."
How exactly does one darl?
I keep hearing people say someone is "darling" but to me it looks like they're just sitting around not doing anything in particular
from my link log —
Spork: A posix_spawn you can use as a fork.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3713082.3730396
saved 2026-05-19 https://
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116774309298367911
I don’t think LLMs will be with us for long,
at least not in their current form.
But I do think that we’re living through a period of generational damage, one that will take years to repair -- if not decades. …
A Third Galaxy Missing #DarkMatter along a Trail of Galaxies in the NGC 1052 Field: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae6b8d -> A Yale-led team of astronomers found a third galaxy devoid of dark matter — located alongside the other two in a formation that has never been seen before: https://news.yale.edu/2026/06/16/third-times-charm-row-faint-galaxies-without-dark-matter
Na, klebt Ihr bei der Sommerhitze auch schon am Schreibtischstuhl fest und träumt von arktischen Temperaturen im Wohnzimmer? 🥵 Dann haben wir gute Nachrichten für alle, die in einer Eigentumswohnung leben.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-1136869?wt_mc=sm.red
It was never easier to support a band:
just click the link and LIKE THE COMMENT with our name in it:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYfHHi0DBUq/?carousel_share_child_media_id=3899863847308332045_11297…
Sealioning cultists are swarming like muggen and earn the same treatment.
“Oil hits three-month low, markets soar as U.S. and Iran announce peace deal.”
And the people who were murdered? Just the cost of doing business. Consequences for the murderers: zero.
But hey, you get cheap gas again and Wall Street’s happy so what do we care, right?
I’d say we’re lemmings but we’re not. Lemmings aren’t evil.
KPMG partners with Anthropic to embed Claude into its tax and advisory platforms; KPMG's tax and legal services unit saw revenue grow ~8% YoY to $9.3B in 2025 (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cfo-j…
"Many of 1988’s droughts and floods, heat waves and hurricanes were random events, the roll of the dice. But the dice are being weighted. In coming years they will fall hot and stormy-side uppermost more often"
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Ryuichi Sakamoto:
🎵 A Day in the Park
#RyuichiSakamoto
https://stevenjulien.bandcamp.com/track/a-day-in-the-park
https://open.spotify.com/track/12nOrDNXyGYPYOpBiq7JRx
Tesla peilt in Deutschland Expansion an
Die Nachfrage nach Elektroautos zieht wieder an. Das gibt dem Autobauer Tesla Rückenwind für seine Produktionspläne.
https://www.heise.de/news/Tesla-peilt-in-D…
Anyone know how to get rid of an old ionization smoke detector (Am-241 based) in or near kitsap county WA? My local household hazmat site won't take them for some reason
RE: https://mastodonczech.cz/@jirirbr/116775196894528223
Oopsie, you go sign up right away then. Twat.
At Turkey’s showcase diplomatic conference in the Mediterranean resort town of Antalya over the weekend, the United States was rarely the official topic of conversation.
But coursing through the discussions among the thousands of participants
— including dozens of heads of state and other senior officials from Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia
— were questions about how to respond when the United States disregards its allies and the global order it long professed to …
The Lucy flyby of (52246) #Donaldjohanson - a bilobed #asteroid with tumbling rotation: #Lucy Reveals Wobbling, Peanut-Shaped Asteroid: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/nasas-lucy-reveals-wobbling-peanut-shaped-asteroid/
50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead conclude 3 nights in passaic, new jersey, broadcast on WNEW. spring ’76, show #11
soundboard https://archive.org/details/gd1976-06-19.sbd.digitalrbb.miller.111852.flac16
video:
Sources: Chinese AI startup Moonshot told investors it would revamp its corporate structure to pave the way for a Hong Kong IPO and comply with Beijing's rules (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-19…
from my link log —
Weighted round robin / weighted random integers with the golden ratio low discrepancy sequence.
https://blog.demofox.org/2020/06/23/weighted-round-robin-using-the-golden-ratio-low-discrepancy-sequence/
Windows-Update außer der Reihe korrigiert Performanceprobleme
Microsoft verteilt ein ungeplantes Windows-Update. Es soll Probleme beheben, die insbesondere bei Dell-Computern aufgetreten sind.
https://www.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Massive Attack:
🎵 Exchange
#MassiveAttack
https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/track/massive-attack-exchange-shrunken-head-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2HuMQkNVpFIsur2cRWWQmX
Standard Chartered plans to cut nearly 8,000 back-office positions by 2030, a 15% reduction in support functions in hubs like Bengaluru, amid growing AI usage (Arjun Neil Alim/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/ff678495-2a99-4a70-a340-31c0f8094b4c
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is seeking U.S. Federal Communications Commission approval to operate a
51,600-satellite "orbital data center" network.
Today, the Center for Space Environmentalism officially filed their opposition to its application.
https://www.
The Maximum Particle Energy Gain during #MagneticReconnection: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae3ca1 -> NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew in and out of the solar corona and found a source of high-energy particles that no existing model had predicted: https://spacedaily.com/n-nasas-parker-solar-probe-flew-in-and-out-of-the-solar-corona-and-found-a-source-of-high-energy-particles-that-no-existing-model-had-predicted/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pram:
🎵 Sleepy Sweet
#Pram
https://pram.bandcamp.com/track/sleepy-sweet
https://open.spotify.com/track/4EVt4oeXzDsbgRn1nkV9t1
Elon Musk's OpenAI loss is set to speed up the AI juggernaut amid rising opposition; the case offered a rare glimpse into tech's workings, ending with a whimper (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/technology/elon-musk-openai-trial.html…
Favorite upside down laptop brand?
The only federal program dedicated to family planning for poor women has gotten a "pro-life" MAHA makeover
Is Trump Taking Taxpayer Dollars for Contraception and Spending it on Erectile Dysfunction, Porn Addiction, and Faster Sperm?
https://www.throughline.news/p/is-trump-ta
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Neekeetone:
🎵 Jungle Request
#Neekeetone
https://open.spotify.com/track/13XFgyA8i986Syh4NFoxs4
ICYMI: "The thirteenth flight test of #Starship is preparing to launch as early as Thursday, July 23. The 90-minute launch window will open at 5:45 p.m. CT." So says https://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-13
A look at Russia's push to develop homegrown AI talent, as the country is hampered by scarce access to AI hardware and a brain drain of top technical talent (Nikita Ostrovsky/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/06/18/russia-ai-putin-chip-us-china/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Steve Coleman and Five Elements:
🎵 Round Midnight
#SteveColemanandFiveElements
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DzGwrYrfEE5cDWN2AVdqZ
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Chicago Underground Duo:
🎵 The Gathering
#ChicagoUndergroundDuo
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/track/the-gathering
https://open.spotify.com/track/0xIuIS0OvZdQKwgskkgUIS
Hive stock jumps 10% in premarket trading after announcing a $220M, three-year GPU cloud contract with Bell Canada and Cohere, as it pivots from bitcoin mining (James Van Straten/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/06/1
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Tempers:
🎵 Cold and Cruel
#Tempers
https://open.spotify.com/track/2MojUnIZUHC1sqE9CTvCkP