2026-10-12 13:05:13
How Amazon's Zoox, which has ~100 AVs in its fleet, is utilizing social media influencers, community events, and ad campaigns to compete with Waymo in SF (Emmy Martin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/technol
The Fluke current clamp meter probe I ordered came in. Preliminary single-point measurement of the lab mini-split is showing roughly 5.1A at 240V, or 1.22 kW, draw for cooling.
This is of course a one-time measurement and I don't know how much higher or lower it gets over time with changes in weather etc. But that's a fair bit of juice 24/7.
As thousands of authors await their cut from Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement, some say they are getting left out amid competing book ownership claims (Neil Vigdor/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…
POL-NOM: Diebstahl von Altmetall (Kupfer und Messing) Bad Gandersheim (ots) - Tatort: 37581 Bad Gandersheim, Braunschweiger Straße 1A Tatzeitraum: Dienstag, 04.08.2026, 18.00 Uhr - Mittwoch, 05.08.2026 gegen 07.30 Uhr Im oben genannten Tatzeitraum kam es in der Braunschweiger Straße 1A in Bad ... https://www.presseportal…
How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims (Cal Newport/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/opinion
Long shot but can anyone tell me which one of these Philips OneBlade QI 1864 charger socket pins is 5V and which is GND? Before I just YOLO it and potentially fry it? 😅 I lost the USB to proprietary cable, multimetering the socket didn't help and this info is apparently nowhere to be found. 😑
UPDATE: Might figure it out from this:
Fox News pulling Maria Bartiromo off the air reflects a growing willingness to break from Trump on certain issues, following its $787.5M Dominion settlement (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/busines…
How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000 people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/technol
[1A Beitragsbebilderung, Chapeau!]
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000333110/in-welchem-wiener-freibad-gibt-es-die-besten-pommes-frites?ref=niewidget&rank=1
@… Moin Udo, einen extra schönen Tag heute und bis morgen! 😎🙋🏽♀️
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🍀 Master: Weserrenaissance --> Wesersandstein, Schaufassaden mit Kerb- und Diamantschnittbändern, geschwungene Schweifgiebel mit Voluten, Utluchten (ebenerdige Erker), Obelisk- und Kugelbesatz, Roll- und Beschlagwerk, figürliche Masken ...
Sources: the Pentagon has subjected roughly 50 military officers and civilian employees on the Joint Staff to polygraph tests over leaks to journalists (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/us/poli
The Data Center Conundrum (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/opinion/data-center-ai-resistance.html?unlocked_article_code=1._1A.3YxI.nNHPptCtCG8_&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260909/p125#a260909p125
ESPN ranks Cowboys' two receivers back to back and proves their 1A and 1B claim was not just talk https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-george-pickens-es…
Military Aide Accidentally Deploys Emergency Slide on New Air Force One (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/us/politics/emergency-slide-air-force-one-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1._1A.fNrk.ZZa1AGm8blWc&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260909/p116#a260909p116
It's absolutely not true that we shot all our missiles but we are going to go bananas tracking down who revealed that we shot all our missiles.
(Courtesy of HelenKennedy.com)
✅ In Major Leak Hunt, Pentagon Gives Polygraph Tests to Joint Staff Members - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/us/politics/pentagon-staff-polygraph-tests.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-1A.u63T.gQL6J8XHIqdZ&smid=url-share
@… Moin Udo, bis morgen! 🙋♀️
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🍀 Master: Die Emmer entspringt im Teutoburger Wald bei Langeland, fließt durch Lügde und mündet bei Emmerthal in die Weser.
White House denied CNN, MS NOW, Politico staffers access on Saturday; CNN calls it an "illegal assault"; Politico says it will "vigorously defend" its 1A rights (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/white
Maria Bartiromo's Downfall at an Increasingly Cautious Fox News (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/business/media/maria-bartiromo-fox-news.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-1A.RxZb.BDmZHN307z_k&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260905/p11#a260905p11
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Inside the D.O.J.'s Investigation of Fauci and Other Virus Scientists (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/health/fauci-morens-covid-prosecutions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-1A.cXEe.nhHGowsvcUEC&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260905/p19#a260905p19
"Indiana can’t penalize doctors for telling minors where they can access out-of-state abortions—and that doctors don’t need parental consent to do so. It’s a crucial decision amid escalating attacks on minors’ abortion rights, particularly teens’ right to travel for care.
The judge upheld a previous decision that determined Indiana’s “aid-and-assist” law blocking providers from sharing information about legal abortion in other states to be a violation of the 1A."
https://jessica.substack.com/p/a-surrogacy-custody-battle-indianas
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Ethel Smyth:
🎵 Suite for Strings, Op. 1a - V. Allegro con moto
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