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A Thousand Meters Above The Valley (2021)
(After this harsh summer, the grasses will probably start looking like this much sooner this year — back then it was late October...)
#ThrowbackThursday #LandscapePhotography

German insurance giant Munich Re agrees to acquire cyber insurance provider At-Bay for $575M; At-Bay has raised $276M and was last valued at $1.35B in 2021 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/3icwf2pbx

Munich Re to acquire Israeli startup At-Bay for $575 million
The German insurance giant is buying the cyber insurtech at less than half its 2021 valuation, as insurers increasingly seek to combine coverage with technology that can prevent cyber losses.

from my link log —
Correct register allocation in Cranelift by fuzzing with a symbolic checker.
https://cfallin.org/blog/2021/03/15/cranelift-isel-3/
saved 2021-03-16

Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Young adults in the U.S. are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs
About half of Americans say they're more concerned than excited about AI, and young adults' concern is rising.

Kuaishou reports Q2 revenue flat at ~$5.2B, meeting est., net income down 36% YoY to ~$467M, the biggest drop since 2021, and Kling AI sales up 200% (Rachel Yeo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-19/kuai…

from my link log —
GhostCell: separating permissions from data in Rust.
http://plv.mpi-sws.org/rustbelt/ghostcell/
saved 2021-05-23 https://

Five years after the Taliban took power, an increasing number of countries are renewing ties or scaling up diplomatic contacts with the hardline Islamists, who seized power in Kabul in 2021 after 20 years of brutal insurgent warfare.
Campaigners fear that the individual contacts by different countries risk undermining “coherent, consistent” demands for an improvement in human rights in return for any diplomatic concessions.
The United Nations described a recent “cascade of [Talib…

Concerns grow over increased global ties with Taliban in Afghanistan
Campaigners fear deeper diplomatic contacts are undermining demands for improvements in human rights

from my link log —
The demise of the once mighty Cambridge and District Co-operative Society.
https://lostcambridge.wordpress.com/2021/03/12/the-demise-of-the-once-mighty-cambridge-and-district-co-operative-socie…

The demise of the once mighty Cambridge and District Co-operative Society
Battered from pillar to post in the late 20th Century, this hugely influential civic society with 83,000 members in 1990 merged itself out of existence as it folded into the national CRS Co-op afte…

Fünf Jahre nach dem sechsten #IPCC-Bericht ziehen Fachleute Bilanz.
Die langfristigen Entwicklungen des #Klimawandels haben sich nach ihrer Einschätzung bestätigt.
Gleichzeitig wurden Szenarien an neue politische und wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse angepasst.
"Die Kurve der

Weltklimabericht 2021: Welche Prognosen waren richtig?
Vor fünf Jahren hat der Weltklimarat IPCC in seinem "Sachstandsbericht" den damaligen Stand der weltweiten Klimaforschung zusammengefasst. Sind die darin enthaltenen Prognosen eingetroffen?

Welch hektisch-überstürzter Abgang der #NATO-Truppen aus #Afghanistan - das ist jetzt fünf Jahre her.
Was geschah eigentlich 2021 - und was hatte das #GoetheInstitut damit zu tun?

from my link log —
Post Office Trial: Marshall spells it out in a speech to University of Law.
https://www.postofficetrial.com/2021/06/marshall-spells-it-out-speech-to.html
saved 2021-06-04

Marshall spells it out: speech to University of Law
Reporting the High Court class action against the UK Post Office

(2021) Psychological complexities of visual restoration https://casereports.bmj.com/content/14/1/e237603 "The effects can be so severe that patients may revert to living in darkness in mimicry of their previous lifestyle, effectively obviating the sight-restoring surgery."

BBC lawyers want to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for both documents and deposition testimony
-- arguing all three have direct knowledge of Trump's intentions behind his January 6, 2021, speech at the Ellipse.
Citing testimony gathered by the House January 6 Committee, the BBC claimed Trump Jr. and Ivanka were present as their father revised the speech and were with him when he delivered it,
while Kushner reportedly drafted a statement condem…

BBC forcibly turned away trying to serve papers to Ivanka and Kushner: report
The BBC's legal team got physically blocked by police while trying to hand court papers to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner at their own Miami home.The incident, reported by Politico, is part of an escalating fight to force President Trump's family into his $10 billion defamation suit against the Brit...

Saturday, Sep 19th, 2026
@ re:sound
(Bldg 34, Mare Island)
#23Five presents:
Kamran Shafii کامران شفیعی
Jamael Smith & Zachary James Watkins
Doors 3:30pm / Show 4pm
Bring a chair or blanket to sit on!
ℹ️ Details:

Re:Sound Channel November 6, 2021
Re:Sound emerges in the Mare Island Historic Core with a new venue and three performances by Bay Area artists working with sound and light.

Airtable sold for over a billion dollar
I don't imagine they will keep this generous free plan for a very long time now..
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/bending-spoons-to-buy-airtable-for-1-28b/

The BBC is seeking to subpoena Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr.,
his daughter Ivanka Trump
and son-in-law Jared Kushner
in connection with a $10 billion defamation lawsuit the president is pressing against the U.K. broadcaster.
Lawyers for the BBC say the Trump family members “without question have personal knowledge” about Trump’s intentions in delivering the speech at the heart of the case:
his Jan. 6, 2021, address to supporters at the Ellipse as the Capit…

Es ist normalerweise nicht meine Art, unfertige Artikel zu veröffentlichen. Aber angesichts des zu erwartenden Umfangs, veröffentliche ich jetzt und liefere einzelne Abschnitte nach, oder nie. Daher setzt euch ein Lesezeichen & holt euch die Updates!
https://mela.de/blog/2026/08/28/mein-w

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…

Welch hektisch-überstürzter Abgang der #NATO-Truppen aus #Afghanistan - das ist jetzt fünf Jahre her.
Was geschah eigentlich 2021 - und was hatte das #GoetheInstitut damit zu tun?

Der Verdacht drängt sich mal wieder auf, dass die vielfach beschworene Wirtschaftskompetenz der CDU eine Mischung aus naiver Marktgläubigkeit und Korruption ist.
https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/energie/id_10…

Gasmarkt "erinnert an 2021": Krieg und Dürre treiben Gaspreise auf neue Höhen
Krieg, Dürre und leere Speicher: Die Lage an den europäischen Gasmärkten spannt sich an. Die aktuelle Situation ähnelt der vor Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs.

Und dann findeste halt (technische) Grafiken aus einem eigenen Vortrag plötzlich im Blogartikel einer völlig fremden Firma.
Ja, mein Kram ist i. d. R. CC0, aber ich finde, sie hätten damals wenigstens Bescheid sagen können (Artikel ist von 2021). In allen meinen veröffentlichten Slide Decks stehen mehrere Kontaktmöglichkeiten und seit 20 Jahren ist keine davon deprecated. Gnah!

Amazon adds a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against it, after removing a similar clause in 2021 (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Die offizielle 1,5-Millionen-Marke ist geknackt. 😁
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1500720 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das…

from my link log —
Enumerating and analyzing 40 non-V8 JavaScript implementations.
https://notes.eatonphil.com/javascript-implementations.html
saved 2021-09-22

@… mir fehlen die Wort für so ein Blödsinnsprodukt. Der gleiche Hersteller (Fanattik) verkauft seit 2021 auch "D&D Ingots": In Metall gegossene Buchcover. Streng limitiert auf 9995 Stück!!1 Gibt's immer noch reichlich auf dem Markt (was immerhin für die Zielgruppe spricht)

Dolphins trade WR Tutu Atwell to Rams for RB Jarquez Hunter: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7543947/2026/08/27/dolphins-rams-trade-tutu-atwell-jarquez-hunter/

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021) - Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers! - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-2.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2021)
Learn how my shiny new AudioMoth will help monitor these night-flying insect chompers!

Fox News names Emily Compagno as a full-time co-host of The Five, starting September 8; Compagno has been the co-host of Outnumbered since 2021 (Caitlin Huston/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fox-news-emily-compagno-123667…

Fox News Names Emily Compagno As New Co-Host of ‘The Five’
Compagno had been a host on 'Outnumbered' and will join 'The Five' in September.

Im Rahmen des Citizen-Science-Projekts "Beweisstück Unterhose" ließen sie im Jahr 2021 tausend Freiwillige mehr als 2000 Unterhosen und 12.000 Teebeutel an rund tausend Standorten in der ganzen Schweiz vergraben.

African e-commerce company Jumia raised $50M, including $25M from the World Bank's IFC; Jumia's US-listed shares have fallen from $60 in 2021 to $6 now (Loni Prinsloo/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I'm watching Jungle Cruise (2021) #JungleCruise

Jungle Cruise
Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021
-- after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
The court filing is tied to a lawsuit filed against Capital One by one of Trump’s financial holding companies shortly after he was sworn into office a second time.
Trump alleges that Capital One illegally closed his accounts for political reasons, following …

Trump accounts at Capital One were closed in 2021 over money laundering concerns
Capital One closed President Donald Trump’s accounts in mid-2021 after flagging financial activity that resembled money laundering. The bank disclosed this in a court filing over the weekend. Trump has sued Capital One, alleging the closures were politically motivated following the Jan. 6 Capitol attacks. Capital One seeks to dismiss the lawsuit, stating the closures followed months of analysis by its anti-money laundering team. Trump has also sued JPMorgan Chase, claiming similar political m…

from my link log —
B-tree path hints.
https://github.com/tidwall/btree/blob/master/PATH_HINT.md
saved 2021-07-30 https://

btree/PATH_HINT.md at master · tidwall/btree
B-tree implementation for Go. Contribute to tidwall/btree development by creating an account on GitHub.

Themis Consensus Extension v1: MEV Mitigation by Randomized Delayed Execution and Intent-Hiding Transactions in Application-Specific Blockchains
Shoeb Siddiqui, Mateusz Nowakowski, Stanislav Vozarik, Gleb Urvanov, Peter Kris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21406 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.21406 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.21406
arXiv:2607.21406v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Maximal extractable value (MEV) arises when privileged participants select, exclude, insert, or reorder pending transactions for private gain. We specify and analyze the Themis Consensus Extension v1, first published by Mangata in 2021. The design separates value extraction by reordering (VER) from value extraction by denial (VED). For VER, block construction and execution occur across consecutive producers: one producer commits a transaction set, and the next derives a publicly verifiable, deterministic, previously un- predictable seed and executes a seed-determined, dependency-preserving permutation. For selective VED, a user may encrypt a transaction for a designated builder and executor. The builder removes an outer layer and commits the opaque inner ciphertext; the executor reveals and executes the plaintext only after commitment. Under selfish but non-colluding validators, an adversary below the underlying consensus fault threshold, secure cryptography, and accountable role performance, the construction limits unilateral post-commit ordering control and hides transaction intent from relays and the builder. It does not provide send-order or receive-order fairness, complete censorship resistance, resistance to builder-executor collusion, or per-transaction price guarantees. We analyze probabilistic extraction, spam, dependent transactions, decryption liveness, session boundaries, total denial, and threshold coalitions. We also document the initial Aura-based Substrate implementation and its subsequent transition to a BABE-based sr25519/VRF seed path, together with delayed execution, Fisher-Yates shuffling, and Xoshiro256 . The result preserves the original proposal while narrowing its claims to explicit assumptions.
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India pledges $13.3B to boost domestic chipmaking, building on a $10B incentive program from 2021, which attracted investments from companies like Micron (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

#Ceuta [1]: 200 Millionen pro Grad Klimaerwärmung.[2]
- Any traces to Elon #Musk? Yes! [3]
- In Marocco ist es zeitweise 20 °C wärmer als sonst! [4]
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Ceuta: Zehntausende Migranten erreichen spanische Exklave
Es ist der größte Zustrom von Migranten nach Ceuta seit 2021. In den vergangenen Stunden gelangen Zehntausende Menschen von Marokko in die spanische Exklave. Der Regionalpräsident spricht von einem humanitären Notstand.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

In a change that could obscure the full human cost of the Trump administration’s mass detention policies,
🔥Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer report deaths of detainees who have recently been released from its custody
The move rescinds a 2021 policy implemented by the Biden administration that required ICE to report to Congress and investigate deaths of detainees that occur within 30 days of their release.
The goal of the 2021 policy was to ensure that ICE cou…

ICE will no longer report deaths of detainees after release from custody
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer report the deaths of detainees who have been released from custody, in a change that could obscure the human cost of the Trump administration's mass detention policies. The move rescinds a 2021 policy that required ICE to publicly report and investigate deaths of detainees within 30 days of their release. This was to ensure that ICE doesn't avoid accountability for deaths by releasing severely ill people from custody. Health experts who have in…

Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons' (Peter Charalambous/ABC News)
https://abcnews.com/US/capital-closed-hundreds-trumps-bank-accounts-2021-anti/story?id=135273257
http://www.memeorandum.com/260804/p3#a260804p3

from my link log —
Caches, modes, and unstable systems.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2021/08/27/caches.html
saved 2021-08-29 https://

The AI frenzy has divided the VC market, as the gap between top and bottom performers has more than doubled for 2024 funds compared to funds from 2017 to 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-04/big…

from my link log —
New Ansible data validation module(s).
https://blog.ipspace.net/2021/03/ansible-validation.html
saved 2021-03-05 https://

New Ansible Data Validation Module(s) « ipSpace.net blog
A few months ago I described how you could use JSON Schema to validate your automation data models, host/group variable files, or even Ansible inventory file. I had to use a weird toolchain to get it done – either ansible-inventory to build a complete data model from various inventory sources, or yq to convert YAML to JSON… and just for the giggles jsonschema CLI command requires the JSON input to reside in a file, so you have to use a temporary file to get the job done.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Capital One bank has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from the Trump Organization over the closure of hundreds of bank accounts back in 2021,
arguing in new papers that the shutdowns were the product of a monthslong anti-money-laundering review
— not retaliation for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, as the Trump family businesses have claimed.
In a motion to dismiss the case filed Friday in a Florida federal court,
Capital One's lawyers wrote that the bank's …

Capital One has never accused the Trump Organization of money laundering.
But the bank's recent disclosure argues that “documents and Plaintiffs’ own ‌allegations make clear that Capital One closed ‌Plaintiffs’ accounts for anti-money laundering (‘AML’) reasons.
“The closures were the result of months of analysis and a careful review by ‌Capital One’s AML team in accordance with bank policies and regulatory guidance.”
Capital One gave notice of its plans to close more …

Capital One says it closed Trump Organization’s accounts after anti-money-laundering review
Disclosure from 2021 investigation marks first time a bank has formally tied money-laundering concerns to Donald Trump

Security Vulnerability Patterns in AI-Generated Code: A Cross-Model Comparative Study
Shanna M. Kahn, John D. Hastings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20713 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20713 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20713
arXiv:2607.20713v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: LLM-based coding tools enable non-expert users to generate routine automation scripts that may enter enterprise workflows without meaningful security review. This study examines that risk directly. Code was collected from ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google Gemini using identical prompts across three automation domains. Claude Code performed a standardized vulnerability review. Each identified vulnerability was scored using CVSS v3.1 and mapped to the OWASP Top 10:2021 and the MITRE ATT&CK frameworks. Every script contained exploitable vulnerabilities. Nine of the 17 identified vulnerability classes appeared in code from all three models, while 14 of the 17 vulnerability classes appeared in at least two models. The weighted CVSS scores across platforms differed by less than 10%. The risk is not tied to any particular model but rather to the task category. Organizations should therefore ask not which tool to trust, but instead whether LLM-generated automation code should be deployed without review.
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from my link log —
Mutable statics in Rust have scary superpowers! Do not use them!
https://blog.kodewerx.org/2021/07/mutable-statics-have-scary-superpowers.html
saved 2021-08-20

Mutable statics have scary superpowers! Do not use them
Video game development, hacking, and debugging. Brought to you by BlipJoy!

Sicherheitsbedenken, umfangreiche Umbauten und ein Unfall Ende 2025 haben Lindes Produktion von grünem #Wasserstoff im Chemiepark #Leuna um Jahre verzögert.
Der 2021 angekündigte PEM-Elektrolyseur sollte bereits 2022 starten und jährlich rund 3.200 Tonnen Wasserstoff produzieren. Bund und Sa…

Chemiepark Leuna: Sicherheitsvorfälle bremsen grünen Wasserstoff aus - Golem.de
Umbauten aus Sicherheitsgründen und ein Unfall haben die Produktion von grünem Wasserstoff von Linde in Sachsen-Anhalt um Jahre verzögert. Die Öffentlichkeit hat davon bislang nichts erfahren.

from my link log —
ECFiber: building a fibre-to-the-premises network in rural Vermont.
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/02/18/building-your-own-fibre-to-premises-network/
saved 2021-02-18

Building your own Fibre-to-Premises Network: The ECFiber Story | APNIC Blog
How to build and operate a FTTH network when existing infrastructure, topography, and low population all work against the need for fast Internet

"Maine's first 'turtle tunnels' help endangered reptiles cross a 'highway of death'"
#US #USA #America #Maine

Maine's 'turtle tunnels' help save endangered reptiles from 'highway of death'
Installed in 2021, local officials now say that there has been a “substantial reduction” in casualties for the endangered species.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ThePeoplesParty with #FemiKoleoso
John Holt:
🎵 You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
#JohnHolt
https://latenighttales.bandcamp.com/track/john-holt-youll-never-find-another-love-like-mine-mad-professor-2021-dub-exclusive-remix-originally-recorded-by-lou-rawls
https://open.spotify.com/track/0Yvo0u1Ks5EiwrT0FvE6gq

from my link log —
The problem with function namespaces and Lisp macros.
https://ianthehenry.com/posts/janet-game/the-problem-with-macros/
saved 2021-10-13 …

Making a Game in Janet, Part 3: The problem with macros
So we’re supposed to be writing a game, right? But in order to make progress, we have to fix a bug. And in order to fix the bug, we have to write a test. And in order to write a test, we have to write a test framework. And in order to write a test framework, we have to understand a thing or two about macros. Okay. So, caveat: I am not a lisp person. I didn’t know very much about macros going into all of this – and I still don’t. But when I started writing Judge I knew, like, only the ab…

from my link log —
Compiling Rust is NP-hard: the pattern match exhaustiveness checker as a SAT solver.
https://niedzejkob.p4.team/rust-np/
saved 2021-07-08 https://

Compiling Rust is NP-hard
...though it's not the flagship borrow checking that's at fault. What I noticed, and would like to share with you today, is that the exhaustiveness checking performed by the Rust compiler on match patterns is a superset of the SAT problem.…

from my link log —
The Negro Subversive on Critical Race Theory.
https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/guest-post-vic-bradley-on-critical
saved 2021-09-18

On Critical Race Theory
A guest post by The Negro Subversive.

from my link log —
Stop your (business rules) engines!
https://adhocteam.us/2017/10/10/stop-your-business-rules-engines/
saved 2021-02-22

Stop your (business rules) engines! | Ad Hoc
One of the many surprising artifacts of the initial failed HealthCare.gov launch was a “business rules engine.” This was a new concept for most of the team that helped rescue the site.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Lemon D:
🎵 This Is L.A.
#LemonD
https://metalheadz.bandcamp.com/track/this-is-l-a-2021-remaster

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- Stephen Sondheim (1930-2021)
Donald Macleod reflects back on the life and work of Titan of Musical Theatre Stephen Sondheim.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030w5r

from my link log —
PostgreSQL is a great pub/sub and job server.
https://webapp.io/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/
saved 2021-12-18 https://

Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server
If you need a publish/subscribe or job server at any point in your project, try using Postgres. It'll give you lots of data integrity and performance guarantees, and it doesn't require you or your team learning any new technology.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
The Shins:
🎵 The Past and Pending (2021 Remaster)
#TheShins
https://theshins.bandcamp.com/track/the-past-and-pending
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Omfr1OV4e0eaLcPe5JFRa