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Not going to link to the context, but whenever you see Katie Miller’s name anywhere, keep in mind that she eagerly married and had a child with her husband Stephen, who is an orc, in 2020.

Happy 80th birthday to Gossamer #cartoons

Happy 80th birthday to Gossamer
Hair-Raising Hare debuted on May 25, 1946. It was directed by Chuck Jones, and was the first appearance of Jones’ big orange monster character, Gossamer. The lobby card for Hair-Raising Hare …

from my link log —
John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous yet surprisingly deep language.
http://raganwald.com/2020/05/03/fractran.html
saved 2020-05-11

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Saving Electricity and Gas (2020) - Meter readings at home. - https://www.earth.org.uk/saving-electricity-2020.html

Saving Electricity and Gas (2020)
Meter readings at home.

(2020) Mihin tarvitsemme eläinkokeita? #eläimet #eläinoikeudet

Mihin tarvitsemme eläinkokeita? | Perjantai
Eläinkokeita tehdään, jotta ihmiset voisivat elää terveempää elämää. Onko niille vaihtoehtoja? Vieraina rottatutkija Tuomas Aivelo ja Eläinoikeuspuolueen Tiina Ollila. Perjantai-dokkari: Tapetaanko hiiri vai ihminen?

Sierra acquires Takeoff, which develops "long-horizon" agents, for an undisclosed sum; founded in 2025, Takeoff neared $10M in annualized revenue in early July (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sierra-acquires…

Sierra Acquires Agent Startup ‘Takeoff’ to Diversify Its Business
In 2020, 22-year-old Aakash Thumaty was a product manager at Salesforce when he wrote an essay, “Value Driven Innovation at Shopify and the Incumbency Trap at Salesforce,” which argued against Salesforce’s subscription-based business model. He sent it to Bret Taylor, who at the time was ...

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

Late #ThursDeath this week, it's still Thursday here for a bit. This week is this unreal new DESECRESY record, 'The Secret of Death'. Supposed to be out today, now, should definitely be up by tomorrow, the 22nd, etc. But these 2 singles are great, and I heard the rest, it is too.

"Evidence 2020 was rigged": Blanche says he's investigating whether "right people" voted - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/17/evidence-2020-was-rigged-blanche-says-hes-investigating-whether-right-people-voted/

Eight Democrats vote to confirm a lifetime judge who wouldn't say Biden won in 2020 (Patrick McNeil/nomination notes)
https://nominationnotes.substack.com/p/eight-democrats-vote-to-confirm-a
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p97#a260519p97

RE: https://mastodon.social/@appassionato/116635660928832452
this core flow change is interesting but it doesn’t correspond to any significant change in LoD
it happened about 10 years before the LoD abruptly dropped in about 2020
(and ther…

I live in a part of San Francisco called the APE Zone.

#USpol #elections

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

The first half of 2026 was the 5th warmest on record here in the central Netherlands.
Just following the forecast for the coming 2 weeks, and then the 1991-2020 average (cool by now) would already bring this year into the top-3 warmest since 1901.

from my link log —
Argdown: A simple syntax for complex argumentation.
https://argdown.org/
saved 2020-06-30 https://dotat.at/:/TFC5Q.html

Ik krijg wel weer een beetje #AuraTimenVibes van het RIVM momenteel.
Weten jullie het nog? #geenredentotzorg #hanta

Visibility nowcasting in South Korea: a machine learning approach to class imbalance and distribution shift
Bong Gyun Shin, Chan Sik Lee, Hyesun Suh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21507 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.21507 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.21507
arXiv:2605.21507v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Atmospheric visibility is a critical variable for transportation safety and air quality management, however, accurate prediction remains challenging due to the complex interactions between meteorological conditions and air pollutants, as well as the rarity of low-visibility events. This study introduces a machine learning framework to nowcast visibility in six major South Korean cities. To handle the imbalance in the 2018-2020 training data, we applied the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique with Nominal and Continuous (SMOTENC) and Conditional Tabular Generative Adversarial Network (CTGAN). An ensemble approach combining machine learning and deep learning models was then used and evaluated on a 2021 test dataset. The results revealed a marked decline in predictive performance in the test set compared to the cross-validation phase. This degradation was attributed to a distributional shift between training and testing periods, which was quantitatively confirmed by measuring the Wasserstein distance of the most influential feature identified by SHAP analysis. In general, this study presents a methodology that aims to simultaneously address the dual challenges of data imbalance and temporal distributional shifts, and emphasizes the necessity of accounting for evolving external environmental factors when implementing nowcasting models on time-series data.
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from my link log —
Rust in a KDE project.
https://jbbgameich.github.io/misc/2020/12/21/rust-in-a-kde-project.html
saved 2020-12-28

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

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Updating the PostgreSQL root.crt file for TLS client auth.
https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/updating-the-postgresql-root-crt-file/
saved 2020-08-25

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Vanha metsäjätti on saanut jättimäärän yritystukia viime vuosina – tutkija: Näin ylläpidetään vanhaa #politiikka

Valtio jakaa yhä yritystukia perinteisille firmoille, etunenässä metsäjätti – katso lista, jota tutkija kritisoi
Katso eniten tukia haalineiden lista vuosina 2020-2025. Eniten tukia saanut UPM kertoo, että tuilla on rakennettu sähkökattiloita ja hankittu biopolttoainetta.

From Licensing to Open Access: Designing a Sustainable Transition in Operational Weather Data
Emma Pidduck, Umberto Modigliani, Victoria L. Bennett, Fabio Venuti, Florian Pappenberger, Florence Rabier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21673 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.21673 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.21673
arXiv:2605.21673v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This translational article documents the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) transition from a restricted data licensing model to open access under CC BY 4.0, completed in October 2025. The policy context included EU open data requirements and alignment with international data exchange frameworks. The transition was implemented through a tiered service model that kept core forecast data open while offering operationally supported delivery as a cost-recovered service. Between 2020 and 2025, ECMWF executed an iterative planning cycle: setting an annual target for revenue reduction, specifying additions to the open tier under that target, provisioning infrastructure, and assessing outcomes to update assumptions. Drawing on internal administrative records (2014 - 2025), we describe design choices, operational constraints, and early outcomes. In the six months following the end of the transition, more than 93% of previously paying organisations retained a Service Agreement, while open endpoint download volumes increased substantially. We discuss trade-offs in defining the open tier (resolution, parameters, schedule), the reduction of compliance overheads formerly associated with redistribution restrictions, and the scalability implications of global distribution. We note an emerging sustainability question as AI-based forecast products become freely available. The early evidence is consistent with the view that a tiered service model can be designed to reconcile open-access obligations with operational sustainability, subject to monitoring over longer contract renewal cycles (typically annual).
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Henry Ruggs could be paroled from prison soon. Here's what you need to know https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7345275/2026/06/10/henry-ruggs-parole-prison-release/

#Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern nach Marktakteur in #Deutschland ab 2012 mit Stand vom 31.05.2026.
Betrachtet werden Datensätze mit Betriebsstatus „akti…

from my link log —
What science can tell us about C and C 's security.
https://alexgaynor.net/2020/may/27/science-on-memory-unsafety-and-security/
saved 2020-05-28

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

I tested the Spartan Mosquito Pro Tech, the Aion Mosquito Barrier, and the Tougher Than Tom Mosquito TNT in my Pennsylvania yard. tl/dr: they don't kill mosquitoes but plenty of Americans are still buying them. #mosquitoes #grifting #pesticides #nature #biology #insects #diptera #carbondioxide #co2 https://colinpurrington.com/2020/08/yeast-based-mosquito-control-devices/?nocache=1

from my link log —
Why was Rachel Whiteread's House demolished?
https://romanroadlondon.com/rachel-whitereads-house-bows-legacy/
saved 2020-10-27

Why was Rachel Whiteread's House demolished? | Roman Road LDN
Why was Rachel Whiteread's House demolished? The story of the inside-out concrete cast of an East End terraced house and its legacy for Bow, East Lond

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List of well-known web sites that port scan their visitors.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/list-of-well-known-web-sites-that-port-scan-their-visitors/
saved 2020-05-31

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

#Speicherkapazität der #Batteriespeicher nach #Marktakteur in #Deutschland