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@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz
2026-02-28 03:57:37

Wonder why anyone in Aotearoa NZ is celebrating RocketLab's US launch in aid of the US military. For his own gain and glory, Peter Beck (I don't see justification for his honourific) betrayed the trust of the kaumātua of Mahia Peninsula and sold us all out to perhaps the least honourable country in the world these days. Here's the story if you haven't already seen it:

Mahia, We Have A Problem
As superstar Kiwi startup Rocket Lab takes on work for the US military, a tiny beach community faces some major moral dilemmas.

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-01-28 02:27:31

Jets Insider Reveals Ex-Raiders HC Jon Gruden’s Big Decision heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas

Jets Insider Reveals Ex-Raiders HC Jon Gruden’s Big Decision
Former Las Vegas Raiders head coach Jon Gruden has been out of the NFL coaching ranks since 2021, following his second stint, which ended with his resignation. Since then, Gruden hasn’t taken a head coach or any coaching gig, but did have a consultant role with the New Orleans Saints in 2023.Nonetheless, could Gruden be ditching his media career again for the NFL? That might not happen again. According to Zack Rosenblatt of The Athletic, the New York Jets reached out to Gruden about joining A…

@newsie@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-25 15:23:11

Chinese prosecutors raise alarm about growth of domestic IP theft therecord.media/china-domestic

Chinese prosecutors raise alarm about growth of domestic IP theft
China's top prosecutorial agency said authorities have handled hundreds of domestic cases involving commercial espionage and technology leaks since 2021.

@gray17@mastodon.social
2026-04-20 01:28:43

since 2021, Tomohiro Okazaki has been doing stop-motion animation of matchsticks, posting as oo_kk_aa on instagram. occasionally he posts collections to youtube. this is group 18, from 2025-02-01 to 2025-05-22
youtube.com/watch?v=hjls49EsCSE

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-04-04 17:42:01

from my link log —
The case of the curiously slow shader.
raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2021/0
saved 2021-04-29

The case of the curiously slow shader
These days, a significant amount of my time and energy is getting piet-gpu, a compute-focused 2D rendering engine, to run well on mobile hardware. Not too long ago, I got it running on Pixel 4, and breathlessly waited for the performance numbers, which turned out to be… disappointing. I was able to figure out why, but therein lies a story.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-02-06 22:28:17

The far-right influencer and
US Senate candidate Jake Lang
has been arrested after recording himself damaging an
anti-ICE-sculpture at Minnesota’s capitol
amid the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s crackdown there.
On 5 February, Lang,
who received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump over his role in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
posted a video on X of himself kicking down the sculpture,
which was made from ice

Far-right influencer and US Senate candidate arrested for damaging anti-ICE sculpture
Jake Lang, a pardoned January 6 rioter, posted a video of himself kicking down the sculpture at Minnesota’s capitol

@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
2026-02-28 08:55:23

Bizarrely warm end of the winter, here in the Netherlands: average temperature in the last part of February (21-28/29) was more than a full degree higher than the previous record set just five years ago:
10.5°C, that's warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for April!
Peak was above 17°C.

Table showing #1 2026 10.55 #2 2021 9.53 #3 1997 9.09
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-28 12:24:09

Where would Fernando Mendoza rank among QBs drafted in Round 1 over the past five years? espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_

NFL draft: Ranking Fernando Mendoza vs. recent first-round QBs - ESPN
Let's rank every quarterback picked in Round 1 from 2021 to 2025 based on predraft evaluations -- and then slot in the expected No. 1 pick for 2026.

@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
2026-01-28 14:01:23

Probing jet base emission of M87* with the 2021 #EventHorizonTelescope observation: aanda.org/articles/aa/full_htm -> Probing the jet base of M87's supermassive black hole: eventhorizontelescope.org/news / mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressrelease - observations with the Event Horizon Telescope enable researchers to localize the likely base of the central outflow in a massive galaxy.

@raiders@darktundra.xyz
2026-02-16 22:54:28

Raiders, big events fuel Allegiant Stadium growth despite Vegas downturn reviewjournal.com/business/sta

Raiders, big events fuel Allegiant Stadium growth despite Vegas downturn
Allegiant Stadium drew 1.7 million fans in 2025 and 7.4 million since 2021, outperforming a 7.5% drop in Las Vegas tourism and weaker room tax collections.

@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-28 15:42:02

from my link log —
How we made Typerighter, the Guardian's style guide checker.
theguardian.com/info/2021/jan/
saved 2021-01-29

The Guardian Engineering Blog - How we made Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker
Lots of regular expressions, and a timely demonstration by an editorial colleague, led to a two year side-project that eventually ended up in production