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But absurdity is no impediment to religious belief—credo quia absurdum. Working mostly off-campus, I noticed no real change in my own university until the BLM-riot-inspired anti-racism crisis of 2020, when I found that academe, originally a place for the free exchange of ideas, had become almost unrecognizable. Higher education has begun a transformation along the same lines as the 1966 “Cultural Revolution” in Maoist China.

The Multiversity and its Discontents: The Evolution of a Fatal Flaw — Minding The Campus
A well-known podcaster has the custom of going “off the grid” for a month each summer, to gain some perspective. I can beat that: I have been retired from academic teaching and research for nearly 14 years and have rarely visited my campus during that time. But last year, I finally encountered the university first-hand, […]

Rascher und umfangreicher als geplant: Größte 3D-Karte des Universums ist fertig
2021 hat das Instrument DESI mit der Arbeit an der größten dreidimensionalen Karte des Universums begonnen. Sie ist jetzt fertig und viel größer als geplant.

from my link log —
Starlink's high-speed satellite Internet: What's the catch?
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/04/22/starlinks-high-speed-satellite-internet-whats-the-catch/
saved 2021-04-22

Starlink's high-speed satellite Internet: What's the catch? | APNIC Blog
Low earth orbit satellite-powered Internet could be a game-changer for remote areas, but what happens when people in more populated areas want it?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe
#Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17

UMG shares jump 10% following Pershing Square's €56B offer, which is a 78% premium to their April 2 close; UMG is down nearly a third since its 2021 listing (Mateusz Rabiega/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/ackmans-pershing-squa…

wait what? https://www.techmeme.com/260415/p24#a260415p24

Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+
By Bryce Elder / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

Ich möchte anwesende SPD-Sympathisanten nur mal wieder daran erinnern, damit sie es im Tagesgeschehen nicht wieder vergessen und bei der nächsten Wahl nicht wieder aus allen Wolken fallen und einen von »Wir müssen unsere Politik besser kommunizieren« daherfaseln.
Eure Politik wird seit Gasherd Schröder gar prächtig von denen verstanden, die euch wählen sollen, Genosken!

Ballot Box Scotland: Allan has started profiling parties.
Lib Dems: https://ballotbox.scot/sp26-party-profile-lib-dem/
"The smallest party to be elected to Holyrood in 2021, the Lib Dems have been suffering a second era of near-wipeout in their history. ..…

SP26 Party Profile: Liberal Democrats
The Lib Dems have had a decade of stagnation in the Scottish Parliament, born of an oddly FPTP-obsessed strategy for a proportional voting system. This time around that approach may actually bear …

from my link log —
The tao of Unicode sparklines.
https://blog.jonudell.net/2021/08/05/the-tao-of-unicode-sparklines/
saved 2021-08-07

The Tao of Unicode Sparklines
I’ve long been enamored of the sparkline, a graphical device which its inventor Edward Tufte defines thusly: A sparkline is a small intense, simple, word-sized graphic with typographic resolu…

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

from my link log —
The case of the curiously slow shader.
https://raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2021/04/28/slow-shader.html
saved 2021-04-29 htt…

Hoy ha muerto #chatcontrol 1.0 https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/the-end-of-chat-control-is-an-opportunity-5-point-ac…

Ich hatte gestern im physischen Leben eine lange Diskussion über E-Autos und die Zukunft Deutschlands als Industriestandort und so weiter.
Mein Gesprächspartner erzählte von einem Bild einer E-Auto-Halde in Paris. Ich zweifelte die Echtheit an, er beharrte darauf.
Am Ende des Gesprächs zeigte ich ihm diesen Artikel von @… . Er sagte, es geh…

from my link log —
Modern CI is too complex and misdirected.
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/07/modern-ci-is-too-complex-and-misdirected/
saved 2026-02-09

from my link log —
Where there’s a grille: the hidden portals to London’s underworld.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/jun/29/inventive-vents-london-flues-grilles-our-hut
saved 2021-06-30

"If privacy matters to you, this is a required assignment." - Doc Searles
https://doc.searls.com/2026/03/27/if-privacy-matters-to-you-this-is-a-required-assignment/

If privacy matters to you, this is a required assignment
I’m kinda proud of the stars we’ve been bringing to our salon series here at Indiana University since 2021. And there are none I’m more excited to welcome than Helen Nissenbaum, w…

from my link log —
Inko: Friendship ended with the garbage collector.
https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/friendship-ended-with-the-garbage-collector/
saved 2021-08-26

#Tatort: Das Mädchen, das allein nach Haus' geht - #ARD #BR
#WDR
#krimi #crimi

from my link log —
R, OpenMP, MKL, disaster.
https://www.jyotirmoy.net/posts/2021-10-03-r-mkl-openmp.html
saved 2021-10-03 https://

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe
#Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
The Orb:
🎵 Perpetual Dawn
#TheOrb
https://nickynutz.bandcamp.com/track/the-orb-perpetual-dawn-2021-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/34Oyuo4A14MRdn8auc0cix