Tootfinder

Q&A with Intuit Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar on the core business of email, acquiring Mailchimp in 2021, generative AI, shutting down TinyLetter, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24115515/intuit-m

Why email still runs the world, with Intuit Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar
Mailchimp, now part of Intuit, is investing in AI and moving on from its rough patch with new CEO Rania Succar.

Krass: DII ist pleite. Das erklärt einiges (wobei da auch die Frage nach Henne und Ei auftaucht ...). In dem im Artikel genannten Haus (Ob. Rieselfeldgraben 11 - Wasser wird gedrosselt, weil DII Schulden bei Stadt/Badenova hat) habe ich bis letzten Herbst gewohnt - und kann den Ärger um fehlende Erreichbarkeit etc. nur unterstreichen. Ach ja ... und meine Kaution kann ich dann wohl auch vergessen ...

Investor von 303 Wohnungen in Freiburg-Rieselfeld ist pleite
Das erklärt so manchen Missstand der letzten Monate: Der Investor, der zum Januar 2021 mehrere hundert Wohnungen in Rieselfeld übernommen hat, ist zahlungsunfähig.

Mike Johnson says Jan. 6 rioters just 'happened to be walking through the building' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/mike-joh-rioters-and-insurrectionists-just-happened-to-be-walking-through-the-building/…

Mike Johnson says Jan. 6 rioters  just 'happened to be walking through the building'
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says some of the people in the halls of Congress during the January 6, 2021 insurrection were “innocent” and just happened to be there, walking about the building. Some are viewing his remarks as a further push by Republicans to whitewash the attack, which led to an...

Newzoo: PC and console game revenues grew 2.6% YoY to $93.5B in 2023, but average quarterly playtime hours fell 26% from Q1 2021 through Q4 2023 (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/games/pc-and-console-market-gr…

PC and console market grew 2.6% in 2023, but playtime hours fell | Newzoo
The PC and console market grew 2.6% in 2023, but playtime hours fell during the year, according to a report by market researcher Newzoo.

Clinical trial registration report 2022: data about clinical trial registration every year since 2015
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-a…

A timeline of the attack on open-source project XZ Utils, which began in late 2021 and led to a backdoor with RCE in Linux distros from Debian, Red Hat, others (research!rsc)
https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline

Panthers showing interest in reunion with former Defensive Player of the Year https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/panthers_showing_interest_in_reunion_with_former_defensive_player_of_the_year/s1_…

Panthers showing interest in reunion with former Defensive Player of the Year
The Panthers have a vacancy at the cornerback spot for the time being, with Donte Jackson having been traded to the Steelers for Diontae Johnson and C.J. Henderson departing in free agency.  Carolina has since signed Dane Jackson, but another move could be coming relatively soon. Carolina is interested in bringing back Stephon Gilmore, who had a one-year tenure with the team in 2021. That season was limited to eight games, but the former Defensive Player of the Year still managed to earn a Pro…

Lzie
"TUNDERE GIRLS SONG Spinoff"
#breakbeats <…

☠️ “Sustainable” company behind POM juice among California’s top paraquat sprayers
https://www.thenewlede.org/2024/04/sustainable-company-behind-pom-juice-among-californias-top-paraquat-sprayers/

"Sustainable" company behind POM juice among California's top paraquat sprayers
By Shannon Kelleher The Wonderful Company, which has been recognized for its sustainability initiatives and owns POM pomegranate juice, Fiji Water, and other popular brands, was among California’s top sprayers of the toxic weedkiller paraquat in 2021, according to a new analysis. The major agricultural company, which grows pistachios, almonds, and pomegranates, was California’s second largest sprayer of paraquat, which has been linked to Parkinson’s disease. Wonderful accounted for over…

Raiders Re-Sign Offensive Lineman Jordan Meredith https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_re_sign_offensive_lineman_jordan_meredith/s1_17391_40183437

Raiders Re-Sign Offensive Lineman Jordan Meredith
The Las Vegas Raiders have re-signed offensive guard Jordan Meredith. Last season, he played in 17 games and started one. Meredith played 92 offensive snaps and 65 snaps on special teams. Meredith signed with the Raiders in February 2022 before signing with the Los Angeles Rams as an undrafted free agent in 2021. He provides depth to the Raiders’ offensive line and will play special team.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09342 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Geometric quantum discord of an arbitrary two-qudit state: the exact value and general upper bounds
The geometric quantum discord of a two-qudit state has been studied in many papers, however, its exact analytical value in the explicit form is known only for a general two-qubit state, a general qubit-qudit state and some special families of two-qudit states. Based on the general Bloch vectors formalism [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 54 195301 (2021)], we find the explicit exact analytical value of the geometric quantum discord for a general two-qudit state of an arbitrary dimension via the paramet…

On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.,
was attacked by a mob of supporters of then-U.S. president Donald Trump,
two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
They sought to keep Trump in power
by occupying the Capitol
and preventing a joint session of Congress counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.
The attack was ultimately unsuccessful in preventin…

The #AngioliniEnquiry has just reported on the policeman #WayneCouzens' murder of #SarahEverard in 2021.
She comments on the standards of behaviour/attitudes in the

2021 retro-link! https://furbo.org/2021/08/25/jsc-my-new-best-friend/ - jsc: JavaScript on the macOS command line.

#climatechange
I’m reviewing the 2023 State of the #Climate report
I am just struck again (yes - intellectually I knew this) that my teen kids’ whole lives have only been hottest years.
It’s scary.
ERA5 (European reanalysis dataset version 5) top-ten Temperature anomaly years
Rank Year Global_Temperature_anomaly (℃) vs 1991-2020 baseline
1 2023 0.60
2 2016 0.44
3 2020 0.43
4 2019 0.40
5 2017 0.34
6 2022 0.30
7 2021 0.27
8 2018 0.26
9 2015 0.26
10 2010 0.13

NFL fifth-year player options: Tracking team decisions for 2021 first-rounders https://theathletic.com/5426637/2024/04/30/2021-nfl-draft-fifth-year-options/

NFL fifth-year player options: Tracking team decisions for 2021 first-rounders
A look at how each 2021 first-round draft pick has performed, as Thursday's deadline for teams to pick up or decline the option looms.

Julia Breitwieser (27) - Dieses Politik-Talent geht bestimmt nicht baden #News #Nachrichten

A timeline of the attack on open-source project XZ Utils, which began in late 2021 and led to a backdoor with RCE in Linux distros from Debian, Red Hat, others (research!rsc)
https://research.swtch.com/xz-timeline

Clinical trial registration report 2022: data about clinical trial registration every year since 2015
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-a…

Bien que la population soit plus sensibilisée Š ce problème qu’auparavant, le « nombre de femmes et de filles assassinées au Québec est toutefois passé de 13 en 2019 Š 24 en 2021 ».
Lu dans l'article «La violence préoccupe le Conseil du statut de la femme». Le Devoir d'aujourd'hui 2 mars.
#Violence

This morning we went along to the Wimbledon Greyhound Welfare kennels for their Easter party.
First order of business though was to take a kennel hound out for a walk!
Here's Ronnie. He's such a character: very young, never raced, heaps of energy and the curliest tail you ever saw on a hound.
https://www.…

Viktigt avslöjande hämtat från Thord Eriksson nya bok, "Det är något genant att vi från svensk sida förefaller ligga i bakkant här". https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/nQkgyx/ud-morkade-de-pinsamma-mejlen-nar-kabul-fol…

UD mörkade pinsamma mejlen
När Kabul föll för talibanerna 2021 var Sverige sämst förberett av alla. Men exakt hur illa läget var mörkades av UD. Alla varningar om att Sverige låg efter i

Plötsligt hjärtstopp hos fotbollsspelare före, under och efter pandemin
https://traningslara.se/plotsligt-hjartstopp-hos-fotbollsspelare-fore-under-och-efter-pandemin/

Insecure Features in PDFs
https://web-in-security.blogspot.com/2021/01/insecure-features-in-pdfs.html

@… https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/112166393856728772

#Movies
Via Captain Howdy @MajorPazuzu
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On this day in 2021, 'Paddington 2' replaced 'Citizen Kane' as the highest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes.

From the vault: 2021
The legacy of French colonial psychiatry
"French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as 'alien' to white ones. It hasn't changed much."
https://africasacountry.com/2021/06/the-legacy-of-fren…

The legacy of French colonial psychiatry
French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. It hasn't changed much.

Pet peeve: #NASA has a Parker Solar Probe Portal (https://science.nasa.gov/mission/parker-solar-probe/), which has as its first listed source ... the Parker Solar Probe Portal. I h…

Parker Solar Probe - NASA Science
On a mission to “touch the Sun,” NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona – the Sun’s upper atmosphere – in 2021. With every orbit, the probe faces brutal heat and radiation to provide humanity with unprecedented observations of the only star we can study up close.

The #AngioliniEnquiry has just reported on the policeman #WayneCouzens' murder of #SarahEverard in 2021.
She comments on the standards of behaviour/attitudes in the

Vibe.co, a self-serve platform that lets SMBs buy video ads on streamers, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Singular, bringing its total funding to around $30M (Alyssa Boyle/AdExchanger)
https://www.adexchanger.com/tv/vibe-co-sec…

Vibe.co Secures $22.5 Million In Series A Funding To Help SMBs Try CTV
Vibe.co announced its $22.5 million Series A round, bringing the company’s total funding to just under $30 million since it launched in 2021.

🔥Tomorrow, this vital program will abruptly end. 🔥
On November 21, 2021, President Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The new law included the ☀️Affordable Connectivity Program☀️ (ACP), which provided up to $30 per month to individuals or families with income up to 200% of the federal poverty line to help pay for high-speed internet.
(For a family of four, the poverty line is currently $31,200.)
On Tribal lands, where internet access…

Why millions of Americans may lose internet access tomorrow
In 2024, reliable access to high-speed internet is no longer a luxury; it is a basic necessity. From job applications to managing personal finances and completing school work, internet access is an essential part of daily life. Without an internet connection, individuals are effectively cut off from basic societal activities.

Everyone Knows That aka. Ulterior Motives, a 16-second clip of a song which was uploaded in 2021 by carl92 has been found.
It turns out to be from an adult film from the 80s
This has been slightly edited to drown out... "noises"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rd4euNwCvo

"An investigation led by The Associated Press found at least 94 people died after they were given sedatives and restrained by police from 2012 through 2021. About half of the 94 who died were Black."
https://apnews.com/a…

Dozens of deaths reveal risks of sedating people restrained by police
An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts. The injections are given by medical personnel during police encounters. The investigation shows how a strategy intended to reduce violence and save lives has resulted in some avoidable deaths. While sedatives were mentioned as a cause or contributi…

Nieuwe olie en gasprojecten goed voor 14 miljard ton CO2
Daar halen we de klimaatdoelen niet mee https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-new-oil-and-gas-projects-since-2021-could-emit-14bn-tonnes-of-co2/

Analysis: New oil and gas projects since 2021 could emit 14bn tonnes of CO2 - Carbon Brief
Burning all the oil and gas from new discoveries and newly approved projects since 2021 would emit at least 14.1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide

The hard disk (3996 GB / 3722 GiB) seems too small! (< 8136190 TB / 7399821 TiB)
Yeah, I think testdisk got a bit confused somewhere because that definitely isn’t an 8 exabyte RAID1 (which would be about the entire size of iCloud in 2021.)

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Johnny Cash:
🎵 A Boy Named Sue (Live)
#JohnnyCash
https://open.spotify.com/track/1YjIjip6wBvtSUlmci3XCj
https://sunchippradio.bandcamp.com/track/johnny-cash-a-boy-named-sue-snes-remix-2021

The ‘fake news’-ification of local news—and what to do about it
from Doron Taussig @…
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/the-fa…

The ‘fake news’-ification of local news—and what to do about it
The Letter from the Editor that ran on March 23, 2021, did not shrink from acknowledging the challenges the Bucks County Courier Times faces reaching conservative readers in its politically diverse community. But Shane Fitzgerald, then the paper’s executive editor, still managed to take a hopeful tone. “We’ve been called biased, fake news, a liberal […]

Filing: API Holdings, the parent firm of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its peak valuation of $5.6B in 2021 (Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/2024/04/exclusive-pharmeasy-raises-216-m…

Exclusive: PharmEasy raises $216 Mn led by MEMG at $710 Mn valuation
PharmEasy has raised Rs 1,804 crore ($216 million) led by Ranjan Pai's Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG) and existing investors.

Worth 34 minutes of your time: Courtney Montour, "Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again" (2021) @…
https://www.nfb.ca/film/mary-two-axe-earley/<…

2021 retro-link! https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/big-bang-beginning-universe/ - Did the Big Bang begin from a singularity? Not anymore.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#OperaOn3
- Terence Blanchard's Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Ryan Speedo Green and Latonia Moore star in Blanchard's drama of a young man's journey, which in 2021 became the first opera by a black composer to be staged at the New York Met
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001ygqw

Timestorm - complete series 🕰️⛈️🇵🇷
Dramatized scifi thriller series for kids and families | Total listening time: 9h 25m
The Ventura twins travel through time to witness their culture’s true history. They visit three continents across five centuries, meeting people who have left their mark on Puerto Rican heritage. All whlile nav...

Timestorm - complete series 🕰️⛈️🇵🇷
Dramatized scifi thriller series for kids and families | Total listening time: 9h 25m The Ventura twins travel through time to witness their culture’s true history. They visit three continents across five centuries, meeting people who have left their mark on Puerto Rican heritage. All whlile navigating school, friendship, and family—and keeping their time-traveling quests a secret. Common Sense Selection, Webby Award honoree (2020), On Air Fest Official Selects (2021), NJ WebFest winne…

Rioter Who Filmed Babbitt Shooting Gets Six Years - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/rioter-who-filmed-babbitt-shooting-gets-six-years/

Rioter Who Filmed Babbitt Shooting Gets Six Years
Washington DC's CBS affiliate reports: A federal judge sentenced the Utah man who filmed the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, 2021, to six years in prison Friday for instigating the mob agai

The pandemic inflicted higher rates of excess deaths on both Republicans and Democrats. But after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, Republican voters in Florida and Ohio died at a higher rate than their counterparts, according to a new study.
Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic's effects on those two states say that from the pandemic's start in March 2020 through December 2021, "excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic v…

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

Stellwerk München Ost
Das Stellwerk am Münchner Ostbahnhof ist bei weitem nicht die einzige Quelle für Störungen im Münchner S-Bahn-Netz und darüber hinaus, aber eine der häufigeren Ursachen. 2021 wurde daher begonnen, ein neues Stellwerk zu errichten. Im Sommer 2023 sollte das neue elektronische Stellwerk in Betrieb gehen, aber im Mai letzten Jahres wurde die Inbetriebnahme auf August 2024 verschoben. Jetzt kam die Nachricht, dass es ein weiteres Jahr länger ...

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that: "The manufacturing sector was responsible for 12% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. **About 75% of those emissions came from burning fuel to create heat**, and the rest were by-products of industrial processes that transform materials into products."
Note: Most low to moderate temperature heat demands could be satisfied with heat pumps rather than burning fuel.

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the Manufacturing Sector
At a Glance When producing goods, the manufacturing sector emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming, both by burning fossil fuels and through certain industrial processes.

Reminders
Trump = Netanyahu
‘Netanyahu is essentially an Israeli Republican’
By Marc Caputo, August 15, 2019
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/15/israel-trump-netanyahu-1465917
Netanyahu’s woes mirror those of his ally Trump
By Joseph Krauss, Associated Press, Nov 22, 2019
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/netanyahus-woes-mirror-those-of-his-ally-trump
Netanyahu... paints his Jewish opponents as weak ... “leftists,” and ... presents himself ... as the only person capable of leading the country.
By Asharq Al Awsat June 10, 2021
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3020331/israel’s-netanyahu-lashes-out-end-his-era-draws-near
Vote for Democracy!

NFL fifth-year option tracker: Full list of every team's decision about first-round picks from 2021 NFL Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/nf…

NFL fifth-year option tracker: Full list of every team's decision about first-round picks from 2021 NFL Draft
The deadline for teams to pick up the fifth-year option is May 2

In which I brush up and release (0.5.0) the “topfew” program I built back in 2021/22 and have been neglecting, but noticed that I was using it all the time so maybe others will too: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/12/Topfew-release

Topfew Release 0.5

#NowPlaying - staying uplifted with this very sweet 2021 album by jonathan richman with his former modern lovers bandmate jerry harrison, among others. https://jonathanrichman.bandcamp.com/a

Cowboys QB room could look vastly different in 2025 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_qb_room_could_look_vastly_different_in_2025/s1_17100_40046120

Cowboys QB room could look vastly different in 2025
One of the hottest topics in Cowboys Nation currently is how the contract negotiations between Dak Prescott and the Dallas Cowboys are going. It's no secret that Prescott is entering the final year of the 4yr/$160 million extension he signed before the 2021 season kicked off. Signing your franchise quarterback to his extension entering his ninth season still in his prime after a season in which he was in the MVP race is a given…right? Pump the brakes a little, and consider the rest of the inf…

"Analysis: New oil and gas projects since 2021 could emit 14bn tonnes of CO2"
#Oil #Gas #Energy #FossilFuels

Analysis: New oil and gas projects since 2021 could emit 14bn tonnes of CO2 - Carbon Brief
Burning all the oil and gas from new discoveries and newly approved projects since 2021 would emit at least 14.1bn tonnes of carbon dioxide

#Movies
Via Captain Howdy @MajorPazuzu
·
19h
On this day in 2021, 'Paddington 2' replaced 'Citizen Kane' as the highest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes.

2021's SB26 summary (it passed): https://legiscan.com/NH/bill/SB26/2021

Seit 2021 macht das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik mit der Kampagne #einfachaBSIchern auf die Risiken im Umgang mit IT-Systemen im Alltag aufmerksam. Im neuen Flight legt das BSI den Fokus auf Smart-Home-Geräte, schreibt #Horizont
Sind wirklich einige witzige Spo…

Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik: So witzig warnen KNSK und das BSI vor smarten Geräten
Seit 2021 macht das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik mit der Kampagne #einfachaBSIchern auf die Risiken im Umgang mit IT-Systemen im Alltag aufmerksam. Im neuen Flight legt das BSI zusammen mit KNSK den Fokus auf Smart-Home-Geräte - und zeigt, wie witzig Werbung für Cyber-Sicherheit sein kann.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.11350 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@…

Large Deviations in the Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process with Slow Boundaries: A Hydrodynamic Perspective
We revisit the one-dimensional model of the symmetric simple exclusion process slowly coupled with two unequal reservoirs at the boundaries. In its non-equilibrium stationary state, the large deviations functions of density and current have been recently derived using exact microscopic analysis by Derrida, Hirschberg and Sadhu in J. Stat. Phys. 182, 15 (2021). We present an independent derivation using the hydrodynamic approach of the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT). The slow coupling intr…

From the vault: 2021
The Nigerian dream is to leave #Nigeria
"In Nigeria, to be an emigrant is to possess illustrious social capital and a badge of honor that is not only reserved for you, but also for your family."

The Nigerian dream is to leave Nigeria
In Nigeria, to be an emigrant is to possess illustrious social capital and a badge of honor that is not only reserved for you, but also for your family.

Fotograaf werd opgepakt en moest spullen inleveren bij A12-demonstratie: onrechtmatig, oordeelt hof - #ADnl
https://www.ad.nl/den-haag/…

2021 retro-link! https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/big-bang-beginning-universe/ - Did the Big Bang begin from a singularity? Not anymore.

Erstmals seit 2021: Alle Bitcoin wieder über eine Billion US-Dollar wert
Die Kursrallye des Bitcoin geht weiter. Inzwischen ist die Kryptowährung insgesamt wieder durchgehend mehr als eine Billion US-Dollar wert.

Der Preis für #Weizen ist nach dem Höchstwert 2022 wieder auf das Niveau von 2021 gesunken (Stand Februar 2024). Trotzdem verkauft #Harry Brot sein Toastbrot immer noch für 1,89 Euro während andere Hersteller den Preis für #Toastbrot

🪨 New analysis reveals the brutal history of the Winchcombe meteorite's journey through space
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-analysis-reveals-brutal-history-winchcombe.html

New analysis reveals the brutal history of the Winchcombe meteorite's journey through space
Intensive new nano-analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite has revealed how it was affected by water and repeatedly smashed apart and reassembled on the journey it took through space before landing in an English sheep field in 2021.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he stands by comments he made in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol that former presidents, including Donald Trump, are
"not immune" from criminal prosecution. 
https://www.

Jerry Jones addresses potential Dak Prescott extension https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jerry_jones_addresses_potential_dak_prescott_extension/s1_127_40048751

Jerry Jones addresses potential Dak Prescott extension
Dallas Cowboys executives Jerry and Stephen Jones may be playing a football front-office version of good cop, bad cop when it comes to negotiating quarterback Dak Prescott’s extension. Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones on Tuesday affirmed the team’s complete focus toward coming to terms with Prescott on an extension. Prescott is entering the final year of the four-year, $160 million contract he signed in 2021. His cap hit for next season is slated to be at around $59.4 million.…

2021 retro-link! https://jfloren.net/b/2021/8/6/1 - A USB adapter for a Depraz mouse.

Francis Scott Key's "Hello, Dali" is going to take awhile.

Timestorm - complete series 🕰️⛈️🇵🇷
Dramatized scifi thriller series for kids and families | Total listening time: 9h 25m
The Ventura twins travel through time to witness their culture’s true history. They visit three continents across five centuries, meeting people who have left their mark on Puerto Rican heritage. All whlile nav...

Timestorm - complete series 🕰️⛈️🇵🇷
Dramatized scifi thriller series for kids and families | Total listening time: 9h 25m The Ventura twins travel through time to witness their culture’s true history. They visit three continents across five centuries, meeting people who have left their mark on Puerto Rican heritage. All whlile navigating school, friendship, and family—and keeping their time-traveling quests a secret. Common Sense Selection, Webby Award honoree (2020), On Air Fest Official Selects (2021), NJ WebFest winne…

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that: "The manufacturing sector was responsible for 12% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in 2021. **About 75% of those emissions came from burning fuel to create heat**, and the rest were by-products of industrial processes that transform materials into products."
Note: Most low to moderate temperature heat demands could be satisfied with heat pumps rather than burning fuel.

Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in the Manufacturing Sector
At a Glance When producing goods, the manufacturing sector emits carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that cause global warming, both by burning fossil fuels and through certain industrial processes.

From the vault: 2021
Israel and African Pentecostalism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b4LWfKr2t8&t=86s
"Pentecostal movements are usually very open to endorsing Zionist theologies - because of the idea that whoever blesses Israel and does th…

The NHTSA closes a 2021 investigation into Tesla's Autopilot and opens a new one to evaluate whether a December 2023 Autopilot recall fix is effective enough (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/26/tesla-nhtsa-…

Tesla Autopilot investigation closed after feds find 13 fatal crashes related to misuse | TechCrunch
The agency opened the probe in 2021, and reviewed hundreds of crashes that involved Autopilot. It says there's a "critical safety gap."

Tracking fifth-year options for 2021 first-rounders: Which have been picked up or declined? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39900614/fifth-year-option-tracker-nfl-players-2021-first-round-draft-class

NFL fifth-year option tracker: 2021 first round draft class - ESPN
The May 2 deadline is approaching for teams to pick up fifth-year options on rookie contracts. Which teams have made a decision?

2021 retro-link! https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/entries/automatic_video_editing.html - Automatic video editing for presentations.

In which I brush up and release (0.5.0) the “topfew” program I built back in 2021/22 and have been neglecting, but noticed that I was using it all the time so maybe others will too: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/12/Topfew-release

Topfew Release 0.5

Retro Grade: Cowboys 2021 draft class, three years later https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/lists/cowboys-2021-draft-class-grade-shadow-draft/

Retro Grade: Cowboys 2021 draft class, three years later
The Cowboys had a ton of picks in 2021 and hindsight is 20/20. They got a few right, but here’s the haul they could’ve ended up with. | From @ArmyChiefW3

2021 retro-link! https://lucky225.medium.com/its-time-to-stop-using-sms-for-anything-203c41361c80 - It’s time to stop using SMS for anything.

A US appeals court reverses a 2021 ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs to offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income consumers (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
New York obtains significant win for states' ability to regulate broadband.

'70M came to arms': Prosecutors claim first rioter inside Capitol ranted about civil war - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/jan-6-2667391367/

'70M came to arms': Prosecutors claim first rioter inside Capitol ranted about civil war
The first person to breach the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, is being accused by federal prosecutors of regurgitating false claims and conspiracy theories about Donald Trump and other politicians in the wake of the former President's 2020 election loss. Michael Sparks has been charged with ...

2021 retro-link! https://mht.wtf/post/tex/ - Expanding TeX's \newif.

2021 retro-link! https://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/design-notes/state-of-valhalla/01-background - State of Valhalla, part 1: value types for the JVM.

SenseTime's stock rises 30% after the company unveiled the latest version of its SenseNova AI model; SenseTime's stock is down 80% since its 2021 HK IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

China’s SenseTime Soars 36% After Unveiling Latest Generative AI Model
SenseTime Group Inc.’s stock soared its most in more than two years after releasing the latest version of its SenseNova generative AI model, highlighting the intense interest surrounding China’s efforts to develop artificial intelligence.

“Unlike the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, those who do not vote or refrain from voting do not threaten violence. Nor do they obstruct the functioning of a governmental institution.
Yet through their inaction, they too impair the political freedom of America that arises from the democratic character of its government and thus violate their elemental duty of citizenship.
We vote to preserve democracy and thus our own freedom.”

Professor Owen M. Fiss on the Importance of Voting
In Why We Vote, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law Owen M. Fiss stresses the importance of voting and examines Supreme Court cases that sought to enlarge the freedom that democracy generates, emphasizing that it's the Court's responsibility to uphold the democratic ideal of the Constitution.

2021 retro-link! https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering - Hiding images in plain sight: an acrylic magic window that can project a picture.

Stephen Jones: Dallas Cowboys ‘more than likely’ will not pick up Trey Lance’s fifth-year option https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/stephen_jones_dallas_cowboys_more_than_likely_w…

Stephen Jones: Dallas Cowboys ‘more than likely’ will not pick up Trey Lance’s fifth-year option
Dallas Cowboys CEO Stephen Jones said Thursday that the team will “more than likely” not pick up the fifth-year option on quarterback Trey Lance. “We won’t get into that,” Jones said. “We’ll kind of see how things go but obviously, being a quarterback, we know how high those options are. It’s more than likely that we won’t pick it up.” The San Francisco 49ers originally selected Lance with the No. 3 overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft out of North Dakota State. Lance suited u…

2021 retro-link! https://monster6502.com/ - MOnSter 6502

Proud Boys appear at Trump rally, drawing condemnation from Biden
At least 10 men wearing the uniform of the Proud Boys,
a violent extremist group,
appeared outside the entrance of a rally here for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump,
prompting condemnation from President Biden’s campaign.

The men
— wearing black and yellow shirts, hats and masks identifying them as Proud Boys
— were seen walking along the line of vendors selling Trump appa…

Proud Boys appear at Trump rally, drawing condemnation from Biden
Members of the violent extremist group were calling for the release of everyone charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Trump has pledged to pardon rioters.

2021 retro-link! https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2021/01/11/stuff-your-logs/ - Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2021/11/24/the-truth-about-inflation/ - The truth about inflation.

Sources: cloud security startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire competitor Lacework for $150M-$200M; Lacework raised $1.8B and was valued at $8.3B in 2021 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/10

Security Startup Wiz in Talks to Acquire Lacework for $200 Million
Cybersecurity startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire Lacework, one of its largest private competitors, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks. The deal values Lacework at between $150 million and $200 million, according to one of the people, a sharp decline from the ...

2021 retro-link! https://2ality.com/2021/06/temporal-api.html - Temporal: getting started with JavaScript’s new date time API.

2021 retro-link! https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-4.html - Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, part IV.

2021 retro-link! https://github.com/austral/austral - austral: a systems language with linear types.

2021 retro-link! https://pdf.math.dev/ - paged.js: beautiful PDFs from HTML.

2021 retro-link! https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/dumping-and-extracting-the-spacex-starlink-user-terminal-firmware/ - Dumping and extracting the SpaceX Starlink user terminal firmware.

2021 retro-link! https://scattered-thoughts.net/writing/mmio-in-zig/ - Memory-mapped IO registers in Zig.

2021 retro-link! https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-output-to-your-cli-app/ - Tips on adding JSON output to your command line utility.