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The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist
https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/06/10/the-rise-of-spotify-and-the-costs-of-the-perfect-playlis…

The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist - 'Mood Machine' by Liz Pelly
Mood Machine' by Liz Pelly

2027 will Amazon "Spaceballs 2" ins Kino bringen
Nach genau vierzig Jahren soll ein neuer Teil der Kult-Parodie "Spaceballs" erscheinen. Deren Schöpfer Mel Brooks ist dabei, ebenso Teile des Original-Casts.

Mississippi Cotton Farmers Face Tough Decisions Amid Falling Prices, Rising Costs (Mississippi Free Press)
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-cotton-farmers-face-tough-decisions-amid-falling-prices-rising-costs/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250714/p113#a250714p113

We see cops going crazy.
There will be lawsuits.
Cops and the places that hire them will incur legal costs and even higher payouts for damages.
This is likely to force cities to raise taxes to cover those costs or, more likely, to cover the massive increase in insurance premiums that cities will have to pay in the future.
Of course, ultimately it will be you and me - taxpayers - who foot these bills for the insane excesses of cops.

Starting to think about GPU acceleration of protocol decodes (rather than just basic math blocks) in ngscopeclient.
Here's the filter graph I'm thinking of using as a benchmark: dual lane QSGMII, 20M points per channel.
The filter graph takes 944 ms end to end to run on my box (2x Xeon 6144 2080 Ti).
Major time consumers:
* Eye pattern (~345 ms)
* QSGMII (~337 ms)
* CDR PLL (~310 ms)
* 8B10B (~160 ms)
* SGMII (~120 ms)
Note that the …

Heading south on the Coast Starlight again! So many flowers blooming, these are all around the San Jose Diridon station.
#Amtrak #CoastStarlight #Tågskryt

Leftover taco lunch: Ground beef and onion, Mexican shredded cheese, delicious combination of fresh, chopped garden peppers. 1 minute and 30 seconds in the microwave. On store-bought corn tortillas.
#CookWithWes

Spain-based Multiverse Computing, which makes tools to compress LLMs by up to 95% using "quantum-inspired" networks, raised a €189M Series B and has 100 clients (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/mult

Multiverse Computing raises $215M for tech that could radically slim AI costs | TechCrunch
Spanish startup Multiverse Computing announced that it raised an enormous Series B round on the strength of a technology it calls “CompactifAI.”

The Real Costs of Trump's Parade (Will Selber/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-real-costs-of-trump-parade
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p36#a250613p36

🔥 Ribeye magic in the making! Just dry-brined this beauty for tonight’s cook. Gave it a light coat of Pam to help the rub stick, then hit it with Hardcore Carnivore Texas Jalapeño Salt and a generous dusting of coarse black pepper. Can’t wait to see how this crust turns out! 🥩💥 #CookWithWes