2026-03-15 16:51:00
Pentagon vergibt 20-Milliarden-Auftrag an Anduril
Das Rüstungs-Startup Anduril muss sich lange keine Sorgen um seine Zukunft machen: Das Pentagon bezahlt bis zu 20 Milliarden US-Dollar.
https://www.
Pentagon vergibt 20-Milliarden-Auftrag an Anduril
Das Rüstungs-Startup Anduril muss sich lange keine Sorgen um seine Zukunft machen: Das Pentagon bezahlt bis zu 20 Milliarden US-Dollar.
https://www.
Real estate agent brothers
Tal, Oren and Alon Alexander
– known as ‘closers’
– are on trial in New York for
sex trafficking
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/15/alexander-brothers-trial?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Amazon stock fell for the ninth straight day on Friday, its longest losing streak since 2006, opening at $244.98 on Feb. 3 and closing at $198.79 on Feb. 13 (Rani Molla/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/amazon-just-matched-its-longest-losin…
"Alain Souchon : « Un hommage venant de la Comédie-Française, c’est grisant »"
https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2026/03/16/alain-souchon-un-hommage-venant-de-la-comedie-francaise-c-est…
Senate Braces for Showdown Over Trump-Backed Voter-ID Rules (Lindsay Wise/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/senate-braces-for-showdown-over-trump-backed-voter-id-rules-148f9af9
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p42#a260315p42
“Why can’t he just arm a foreign genocide like the last guy?” https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/116410956514666667
Was man 1963 unter Sanierung verstand – und 20 Jahre später https://weddingweiser.de/was-man-1963-unter-sanierung-verstand-und-20-jahre-spaeter/
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#RecordReview
- Janacek's Sinfonietta
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Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sfcv
Are the Trump regime's continuing attempts to kill the Mauna Loa time series of atmospheric CO₂ having an impact now? The March update on the @climate.noaa.gov website is already 10 days late, while the data are there. https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/mlo.html
"I think a lot of times I see people talk about this stuff in relation to AI. It's right to talk about it, but I hate when people act like AI is the only tech that has these problems. What you see with AI now is a reflection of the broader tech and internet industry that has grown for the past 20-30 years."
References provided 😔
https://www.tumblr.com/teledyn/808733064965570560/anatomy-of-an-ai-system?source=share
En Route To Fellaria
(This is just a tiny fragment, but it was one of the most memorable days and places I had a chance to visit in 2025... Surreal not just because of the many colors and textures at this time of year [late September], but also the vastness and traces of processes so much larger & older than life...)
#MountainMonday
«New security flaw found in Microsoft Notepad courtesy of its latest “innovative” additions»
Exactly in such places there should be no code errors. Markdown in text editor really shouldn't be the problem. But now Microsoft is showing us how AI coding (not) works and how error-prone it is.
P.S. I use Vim for the markdown, text & code files.
📝
Mining’s toxic timebomb: dams full of poisonous waste are dotted around the world. What happens when they burst? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/13/minings-toxic-ti…
New blog post and some photos
#photography
Do any of the other major hallucination machines besides Claude have known/documented kill switch keywords?
Heureux de lire un article qui comprend bien les enjeux de la gestion des vulnérabilités et qui reflète bien notre démarche avec le projet GCVE.
"Le Global CVE Allocation System, soutenu par l’UE, a été lancé début janvier. Cet événement fait suite aux problématiques de financement du programme CVE, opéré par MITRE Corporation et soutenu par le gouvernement américain. L’initiative illustre la manière dont l’UE affirme son influence normative tout en atténuant sa dépendance aux infrastr…
Both me and @… are suffering from no-clue-what-should-this-thing-be-named-syndrome
Durch einen Zufall habe ich erfahren, wie die Tarife der Sex-Worker in der von mir aus gesehen nächstgelegenen Großstadt sind
30 Euro für 20 minuten
50 Euro für eine halbe stunde
100 Euro für eine Stunde
ich nehme alles zurück, was ich je zur Verteidigung von männern gesagt habe und empfehle studium des Dreisatz.
Andererseits habe ich heute einen nachhaltigen Kauf gemacht und den Preis erfolgreich um 18,1% heruntergehandelt (natürlich in einem Laden, der keiner Kette …
Durch einen Zufall habe ich erfahren, wie die Tarife der Sex-Worker in der von mir aus gesehen nächstgelegenen Großstadt sind
30 Euro für 20 minuten
50 Euro für eine halbe stunde
100 Euro für eine Stunde
ich nehme alles zurück, was ich je zur Verteidigung von männern gesagt habe und empfehle studium des Dreisatz.
Andererseits habe ich heute einen nachhaltigen Kauf gemacht und den Preis erfolgreich um 18,1% heruntergehandelt (natürlich in einem Laden, der keiner Kette …
from my link log —
Retrofitting JIT compilers into C interpreters with ykllvm.
https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/retrofitting_jit_compilers_into_c_interpreters.html
saved 2026-04-15
Abortion is a Religious Freedom: Opinion
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/04/16/abortion-is-a-religious-freedom-opinion/
Have a terrible chest cold starting this week. Coughing up things I can only describe as "Lovecraftian" and "Eldritch Horrors”.
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Kula Shaker:
🎵 Wormslayer
#NowPlaying #KulaShaker
https://open.spotify.com/track/5FWqneq0F4uLrGY0am6chu
Expect total #enshittification of #Snapchat to start in 3 .. 2 .. 1 ...
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Snap Inc blames AI as it lays off 1,000 workers
#Job Suche im Raum #RheinNeckar im Bereich #Biotechnologie - am Liebsten so richtig im Labor. Gerne boosten - für jemanden aus meinem persönlichen Umfeld
Warum heisst Q6Q7 eigentlich noch nicht „Q six seven“?
#Monnem
Ich schaue beinahe jeden Tag den Podcast der 20-Uhr-Tagesschau, und jedesmal, wenn ich die Fanfare »D-G-A-H-Cis-D« höre, während im Hintergrund die Hackfressen der BRD und der Welt durchgespult werden, singt es leise in mir mit »Deutschland, leck mich am Arsch«.
Ich verdiene langsam eine Tapferkeitsmedaille dafür, dass ich nicht einfach sofort wegklicke…
I'm trying to practice saying things we know are true more often
Jetzt mal raus mit der Sprache: Wer von Euch hat sich in der Straße von Hormuz festgeklebt?
Hm???
#Fedle #6 4/6
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https://fedle.fedilab.app/share/162
Ich bin es leid, noch immer irgendwelche Erklärungen, Entschuldigungen oder sonstigen Rechtfertigungen zu hören.
Egal von wem, egal zu welchem Thema.
Wer mit Nazis kollaboriert, ist Nazi.
Das war vor ~90 Jahren schon so und das hat sich auch heute nicht geändert.
3️⃣Nope nope nopety nopers.
Baldwin NAMED gamergate, and I’ve seen nothing from him since, no redressing of his BS or staking a better place. So f him.
AND at this point, Amos Burton has been everything Jayne was (more & better) backwards, and in pumps.
The character ain’t needed, in any sense.
#CFP: Second Annual UNCG Game Studies Conference Give and Take: Transactional Experiences in Gaming
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Friday and Saturday, March 20-21, 2026
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@…
Any chance for slides? 🎀
Was haben Influenza, Influenzer und Künstliche Inteligenzia gemeinsam? (2004)
#sociolgy
Crosslisted article(s) found for nlin.PS. https://arxiv.org/list/nlin.PS/new
[1/1]:
- Turing patterns in Matrix-Weighted Networks
Anna Gallo, Wilfried Segnou, Timoteo Carletti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.13080 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatstatmech_bot/116079407955524567
toXiv_bot_toot
Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…
Analysis: DRAM and NAND memory prices have jumped 600% over the past year for routers and set-top boxes, hitting telcos targeting aggressive broadband rollouts (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/in
Starmer distances UK from Iran war as EU leaders rule out sending warships 👏 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/16/starmer-distances-uk-from-iran-war-as-eu-leaders-rule-out-sending-warships
Resisting the…
Six congressional primaries that explain where the country is headed (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/15/take-primary-democrats-republicans-midterms/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p10#a260215p10
Interne Chats: Live-Nation-Mitarbeiter finden Kunden „so dumm“
Das Kartellverfahren um Ticketmaster droht ohne Urteil zu enden. Jetzt gibt es neue Beweisanträge mit internen Chats über extreme Konzertpreise.
htt…
Ahh too bad! https://www.nolto.social shut down.
But this shows the potential!
> Within a few weeks, almost a thousand people signed up. Companies created pages. Articles were posted. Events were shared. I never marketed it. It spread through blogs and word of mouth.
There IS a market!
Republicans/Absolute Freaks Want To Make Teen Pregnancy Great Again
https://www.wonkette.com/p/republicansabsolute-freaks-want-to
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Pulp:
🎵 Help The Aged
#NowPlaying #Pulp
https://goodknightproductions1.bandcamp.com/track/help-the-aged
https://open.spotify.com/track/2KmI1IcNSOhfUzLD357i3Z
@… I'm just doing it slowly so that I can react to any little problems that sometimes crop up when switching to a new architecture
Reiner Ruf in der #StuttgarterZeitung heute wieder on point:
"Das entspricht dem Zustand unserer Gesellschaft, deren utopisches Potenzial sich in der Hoffnung erschöpft, dass alles so bleibt, wie es ist."
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2️⃣ I’ve said before, I think Firefly could be “Rebooted” Š la BSG complete rewrite and fix all the crap stuff that Whedon slopped in without thinking. Could be done. Would love to see it. Living old cast could show up as new characters. Could be fun.
Enroll: Mediterranean Magic: An Introduction (June 29 – July 2: Remote) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20141761/enroll-mediterranean-magic-introduction-june-29-july-2-remote
@…
Any chance of getting 1-2 more rows of chairs to bUm box? A dozen people are sitting on the floor, or standing.
Z.ai launches GLM-5-Turbo, a closed-source, faster, and cheaper variant of GLM-5 optimized for agent-driven workflows and OpenClaw-style tasks (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/z-ai-debuts-faster-cheaper…
It would take a small pickup for Democrats to gain control of the House, where they hold four fewer seats than Republicans, with three vacancies.
Winning back the Senate is a bigger lift; they would have to gain four seats, and this year’s map has them mostly playing defense of the ones they hold.
Given how many districts and states are safely in the hands of one party or the other,
the vast majority of congressional races will effectively be over when a primary win…
Reading at the end of an article from a neuroscientist, expert in their field, author of dozens of papers, professor at a renowned university, that "the author used an AI-based tool to improve clarity and readability" makes me so sad..
Can the "AI" tool really improve what the author wrote in the first place, in a way that they couldn't have done themselves with their own brain?
If that was going to take too much time, is the "improvement" really worth using a resource-hungry and u…
Pentagon 'preparing for something much bigger' after string of military conflicts: analyst - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-iran-2676751419/
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Telekinesis:
🎵 Please Ask For Help
#NowPlaying #Telekinesis
https://telekinesis.bandcamp.com/track/please-ask-for-help
https://open.spotify.com/track/1xfx5HZEY2iAE5pznOaZjl
Nvidia announces the Nvidia Groq 3 LPX, an inference server rack featuring 256 Groq 3 LPUs and 128GB of on-chip SRAM, available in H2 2026 (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-peripherals/2026…
AP Exclusive: Europe has 'maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left,' energy agency head warns (John Leicester/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-europe-jet-fuel-flight-cancellations-birol-6e67fafd493861b3858de5548aa77703
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p93#a260416p93
1️⃣ I suspect that Hatchs’ revived BSG would have been a terrible fanservice kind of revival and I suspect same of Fillions animated attempt. It would be a shadow of a deeply flawed show and Firefly is missing (at least one) irreplaceable character, depending on timeline (RIP Ron Glass)
South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/13/south-asia-in-transition-a-literary-cartography
In Hong Kong, companies have received “America 250” forms from the U.S. consulate
soliciting donations.
In Japan, companies have heeded the call and committed to tens of millions of dollars in contributions.
In Singapore, the American ambassador pressed for donations before a room full of executives at a dinner at one of the city-state’s most expensive hotels.
The solicitations from the diplomatic outposts come as Trump's allies are aggressively raising money for a…
Sam Altman says that India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, the app's second-largest userbase after the US, ahead of the AI Impact Summit (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/15/india-has-100m-weekly-active-chatgpt-u…
The post-boomer GOP is coming -- 2028 will define it (Peter Giunta/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5782988-republican-party-generational-shift/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p41#a260315p41
Well, now that we know the details of Nathan Fillion’s aspirations for Firefly;
1: I wish him all the Richard Hatch1️⃣ reviving “Battlestar Galactica”2️⃣
2: Baldwin being involved3️⃣ makes an animated comeback DOA as far as I’m concerned; so then we’re back to 1.
71st Annual Willa Cather Spring Conference https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/11/71st-annual-willa-cather-spring-conference
The racist online video that Donald Trump recently shared and then deleted generated a bipartisan furor
-- because of its portrayal of Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
-- What was little remarked on was how it presented Trump himself — as the “King of the Jungle.”
After a year back in the White House, Trump’s efforts to promote himself as the singularly dominant figure in the world have become so commonplace
that they no longer seem surprising.
He regularly d…
Republican Party of Eau Claire County headquarters vandalized (Kim Leadholm/WEAU-TV)
https://www.weau.com/2026/02/14/republican-party-eau-claire-county-headquarters-vandalized/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260215/p24#a260215p24
Barack Obama:
"It is important for us to recognize the unprecedented nature of what ICE was doing in Minneapolis, St. Paul,
the way that federal agents
— ICE agents
— were being deployed, without any clear guidelines, training, pulling people out of their homes …
tear-gassing crowds simply who were standing there,
not breaking any laws,” Obama said.
He added that American citizens should be commended for engaging in “peaceful protests and shinin…
2026 Wenshan x TSA International Conference: Shakespeare Across Centuries: Reception, Resonance, and Reinvention https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/11/2026-wenshan-x-tsa-international-conference-…
Sources: the WH is pressuring Utah Republican State Rep. Doug Fiefia to abandon HB 286, an AI transparency and kids' safety bill similar to California's AI law (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/15/white-house-utah-ai-transparency-bill
Sources: Apple tweaked its Maps app for Tesla before the EV maker's planned addition of CarPlay; low-cost MacBook will get an aluminum chassis in playful colors (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters
This statue was too controversial for a Dallas airport. Why did the Texas Rangers give it a home? (Sam Blum/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7197558/2026/04/15/texas-rangers-statue-dallas-jay-banks-segregation/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260416/p84#a260416p84
1st Indigenous Wisdom International Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/13/1st-indigenous-wisdom-international-conference-on-indigenous-knowledge-systems
Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday.
“And so these disruptions are gonna disru…
Entering War's Third Week, Trump Faces Stark Choices (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/us/politics/trump-stark-choices-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p39#a260315p39
Literaturas modernas y estudios literarios en el primer cuarto del siglo XXI https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/11/literaturas-modernas-y-estudios-literarios-en-el-primer-cuarto-del-siglo-xxi
Both imploding nuclear superpowers from the Cold War
have become a threat to humanity’s attempts to establish global peace and security.
From Ukraine to Gaza, from Venezuela to Greenland, events are moving very quickly, and this will not likely let up in 2026.
We need difficult, pivotal changes if we are to meet the threats to our sovereignty.
Neo-liberal corporate globalization,
which spread more quickly after the demise of the Soviet Union,
did not bring …
DACA delays lead to lost jobs, less stability and anxiety over potential deportation under Donald Trump (Chicago Tribune)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/15/daca-delays-trump-immigration/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p44#a260315p44
Ruralities, Artistic Ecologies and Sustainable Futures https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/12/ruralities-artistic-ecologies-and-sustainable-futures
Halcyon, which uses AI to aggregate documents from public utility commissions, energy regulators, and more, raised a $21M Series A led by Energize Capital (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/03/16/halcyon-funding-21-million
Afghan who fought with US special forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for deadliest year of detention in more than two decades (Josh Marcus/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/afghan-death-ice-mohammad-paktyawal-b2938902.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p43#a260315p43
Call for Papers: ‘Video streaming policy and genre on demand’ https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/12/call-for-papers-‘video-streaming-policy-and-genre-on-demand’
Netflix reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $12.3B, vs. $12.2B est., net income of $5.28B, and forecasts Q2 EPS below estimates; NFLX drops 8% after hours (Molly Schuetz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-16/netf…
Reading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026) https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/13/reading-the-faerie-queene-…
Donald Trump warns Nato faces 'very bad future' if allies fail to help US in Iran (Edward Luce/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1ca6d121-760b-4ec5-b6ad-514fdaa94873
http://www.memeorandum.com/260315/p57#a260315p57
Jensen Huang says Nvidia expects to generate $1T from its Blackwell and Rubin chips through the end of 2027, after previously forecasting $500B by 2026's end (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
1st Indigenous Wisdom International Conference on Indigenous Knowledge Systems
https://ift.tt/6hu2bsU
updated: Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pmfull name / name of organization: INDIGENOUS WISDOM: A…
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Copenhagen-based Spektr, which develops AI agents for compliance teams in financial services, raised a $20M Series A led by NEA, taking total funding to $26M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/fintech-compliance-founders…
South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography
https://ift.tt/PvFNHcl
updated: Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pmfull name / name of organization: Editors, South Asia in…
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Alibaba's new Token Hub unit releases Happy Oyster, a new AI world model that can create 3D environments, interactive videos, films, video content, and games (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-16/al…
South Asia in Transition: A Literary Cartography
https://ift.tt/PvFNHcl
updated: Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pmfull name / name of organization: Editors, South Asia in…
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Roku says it is in 100M homes globally and its devices are used by "more than half of all US broadband households"; Roku had $4.15B in 2025 platform revenue (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Reading The Faerie Queene – Narrative, Character, Form (Marathon Reading and Symposium, Tampere, Finland, 22-26 May 2026)
https://ift.tt/MIVmCwy
updated: Friday, February 13, 2026 - 12:13pmfull name / name of organization: Tampere…
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Canva unveils Canva AI 2.0, which can generate editable layered designs from conversational prompts using Canva's foundation model built specifically for design (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20