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Mac Jones confirms Kyle Shanahan wanted to draft him to 49ers in 2021: 'He wanted me to be here' https://www.nfl.com/news/mac-jones-confirms-kyle-shanahan-wanted-to-draft-him-49ers-2021

from my link log —
Debugging random slow writes with GIN indexes in PostgreSQL.
https://iamsafts.com/posts/postgres-gin-performance/
saved 2021-04-06

Many folks are reflecting on Prince’s extraordinary halftime performance, the greatest of all time. What you may not know is that it was a profound, nuanced statement and a powerful reclaiming of a proud Black music tradition. Some background: https://anildash.com/2021/02/05/how-pri…

How Prince won the Super Bowl
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

I love Deerhoof’s Actually, You Can not just as a great, fun album but as a time capsule from an optimistic moment. In late 2021, we seemed to be emerging from the shadows of Trump and Covid-19—who’d have thought the Four Seasons presser and the vaccines, respectively, didn't end them? The music bottles up joyful, radical imaginings of a better world that were in the air since the George Floyd rebellion, not yet extinguished by the reactionary “crime” panic to come.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
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Trump’s Department of Justice moved to dismiss a criminal case against his former aide
Steve Bannon,
connected to his refusal to testify before Congress relating to the investigation into the January 6 insurrection.
The controversial hard-right strategist,
an ally of Trump,
was convicted in 2022 on two counts of contempt of Congress
after refusing to appear for a deposition before the House committee that investigated the 2021 attack on the Capitol
a…

theme from the A-team starts playing
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/former-special-counsel-jack-smith-to-start-law-firm-with-other-former-prosecutors

Former special counsel Jack Smith will start law firm with other former prosecutors
Former special counsel Jack Smith and three other former prosecutors who investigated President Donald Trump and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are starting their own law firm, which will launch in January, Law.com reports.

Linus on point as always.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/10/957
(yes it's old, but I just found it haha)

#OTD 2021

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1244930 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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…

Japan and the Octopus Trap of Modernity (file under: Takotsubo is not only a cardiac disease)
https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/journal/2021/6/10/cgq5rildc4mxhatmak817jxn3f9bef

Genealogies of Modernity — Japan and the Octopus Trap of Modernity
What we see in Japanese modernity, according to Maruyama, is a national franchise of these “idols of the market place” through the continuous specialization and internal diversifications that multiply these groups. Takeshi Morisato on how Japan became trapped in a hyper-specialized version of mode

The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Coordinator of the Instituto Resiliencia. Originally published in Spanish, in Revista Ecologista No. 108, 01/06/2021 . Translated by Mark H Burton…

In Defence of a Basic Land Income
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By …

Leaked Thrive deck: $26.8B in AUM as of June 30, 2025, deal value peaked in Q4 2021, positive DPI for four early funds, including 2.4x for 2016's Thrive V, more (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/exclusive-thrive-netted-24x-dpi-from

SCOOP: Thrive Netted 2.4x DPI from 2016 Fund. Here's Thrive's $10 Billion Pitch.
We've got an inside look at Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital's performance

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.

from my link log —
Fitting cubic Bézier curves.
https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2021/03/11/bezier-fitting.html
saved 2021-03-14 h…

Sony schließt Bluepoint Games nach weniger als fünf Jahren
Mit erstklassigen Remakes machte sich Bluepoint Games einen Namen. 2021 wurde das Studio von Sony gekauft – jetzt wird es überraschend geschlossen.
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It’s worth noting that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originator of the bad deductive rule in question, spent his later years falling for and vehemently defending a variety of hoaxes involving fairies and communicating with the dead:
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-175-ghost-racket-crusade-10-22-2021/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Willie Colón:
🎵 Idilio
#WillieColón
https://djkoko00.bandcamp.com/track/willie-colon-idilio-chakal-reepercusions-2021
https://open.spotify.com/track/6VQ2fI8goSX8mpSvytXkXR

Sony just killed Bluepoint games, a studio that worked marvelously. Stupid industry.
https://www.theverge.com/games/881578/sony-close-bluepoint-games-studio-remaster-remake-demons-souls-shadow-colossus-god-of-war…

Sony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes
Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation studio behind well-received remakes like Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls. Sony purchased it in 2021.

Eight Sleep, which sells smart mattress accessories to track sleep patterns and adjust temperatures, raised $50M at a $1.5B valuation, up from $500M in 2021 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/04/eight-sleep-raises-50m-at-1-5b-valuation/

Eight Sleep raises $50M at $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Eight Sleep said it was free-cash-flow positive in 2025, and plans to use the new funding for new products, global expansions, and clinical validation.

Where would Fernando Mendoza rank among QBs drafted in Round 1 over the past five years? https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/48016742/nfl-draft-ranking-first-round-quarterbacks-2021-2026-prospects-fern…

The idea for the program started back in 2021,
as severe drought conditions enveloped agricultural powerhouse states across the country.
The $400 million, according to Montaño Greene, was set to be distributed through the Commodity Credit Corporation,
a financial institution used to implement specific agricultural programs established by the federal government.
By the close of 2024,
she said the Biden administration had entered final agreements with selected r…

Did the USDA just forget about $400M in drought aid for farmers?
More than a year later, not a dollar has been spent — and no one knows what happened to the money.

⚠️ AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
I discovered 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 for myself in my ill-fated research project of 2021!
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-01-ai-generate-intimacy-exceeds-human.html

AI can generate a feeling of intimacy that exceeds human connections
People can develop emotional closeness to artificial intelligence (AI)—under certain conditions, even more so than to other people. This is shown by a new study conducted by a research team led by Prof. Dr. Markus Heinrichs and Dr. Tobias Kleinert from the Department of Psychology at the University of Freiburg and Prof. Dr. Bastian Schiller from Heidelberg University's Institute of Psychology. Participants felt a sense of closeness especially when they did not know that they were communicatin…

Does Order Matter : Connecting The Law of Robustness to Robust Generalization
Himadri Mandal, Vishnu Varadarajan, Jaee Ponde, Aritra Das, Mihir More, Debayan Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20971
arXiv:2602.20971v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bubeck and Sellke (2021) pose as an open problem the connection between the law of robustness and robust generalization. The law of robustness states that overparameterization is necessary for models to interpolate robustly; in particular, robust interpolation requires the learned function to be Lipschitz. Robust generalization asks whether small robust training loss implies small robust test loss. We resolve this problem by explicitly connecting the two for arbitrary data distributions. Specifically, we introduce a nontrivial notion of robust generalization error and convert it into a lower bound on the expected Rademacher complexity of the induced robust loss class. Our bounds recover the $\Omega(n^{1/d})$ regime of Wu et al.\ (2023) and show that, up to constants, robust generalization does not change the order of the Lipschitz constant required for smooth interpolation. We conduct experiments to probe the predicted scaling with dataset size and model capacity, testing whether empirical behavior aligns more closely with the predictions of Bubeck and Sellke (2021) or Wu et al.\ (2023). For MNIST, we find that the lower-bound Lipschitz constant scales on the order predicted by Wu et al.\ (2023). Informally, to obtain low robust generalization error, the Lipschitz constant must lie in a range that we bound, and the allowable perturbation radius is linked to the Lipschitz scale.
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Scott Borchetta, who founded Big Machine Records and signed Taylor Swift in 2006, is leaving Hybe America, which bought Big Machine in 2021; Hybe retains assets (Jem Aswad/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/scott-borchetta-exit…

Scott Borchetta to Exit Hybe America, Relaunch Big Machine Records
Hybe America has announced that Big Machine founder Scott Borchetta is leaving the company. He will relaunch his Big Machine Records.

The Glorious Exclamation Mark: Carla Bley Interviewed | The Quietus (2021)
https://thequietus.com/interviews/carla-bley-interview/

from my link log —
Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages (or any static file hoster).
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages/
saved 2021-05-02

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

eBay agrees to acquire secondhand clothing app Depop from Etsy for ~$1.2B in cash; Etsy bought Depop in 2021 for $1.6B; ETSY jumps 17% after hours (Niko Gallogly/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/business/etsy-depop-ebay.html

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Warren G:
🎵 Regulate
#WarrenG
https://axelvicious.bandcamp.com/track/warren-g-regulate-axel-vicious-2021-edition
https://open.spotify.com/track/5EEOjaJyWvfMglmEwf9bG3

from my link log —
Several ways is which software can be surprisingly slow.
https://gregoryszorc.com/blog/2021/04/06/surprisingly-slow/
saved 2021-04-07

A recent study conducted by Crosstown LA, examining vehicular collisions in Los Angeles intersections,
found that some are far more perilous than others. 
According to the numbers, the intersection at Figueroa and Slauson is the most dangerous in the city.
The study utilized data collected by the Los Angeles Police Department
Per the data, between 2021 and 2025 alone, that intersection was subject to some 66 traffic accidents. 
The intersection of Sepulveda and R…

The most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles
Over the past decade, the city’s streets have become significantly more lethal…

Japanese Religions 46/2
https://ift.tt/EHp5h1s
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://ift.…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1228115 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

A trial date has been set for Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC.
On Thursday, Judge Roy K. Altman of the Southern District of Florida set a provisional start date of ⭐️February 15, 2027, for a two-week trial. 
The lawsuit was filed following the release of an episode from Panorama,
the BBC's investigative documentary series, titled
"Trump: A Second Chance?"
In it, the BBC cut together two parts of Trump's January 2021 speech to …

Date set for Trump's $10 billion lawsuit over BBC documentary
A federal judge has set the date for the president's push to punish a news organization he dislikes, again.

A look at Hyundai's Atlas humanoid robot, slated for assembly tasks in 2028; Hyundai has invested billions in robotics since acquiring Boston Dynamics in 2021 (Hyonhee Shin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

from my link log —
How David Kindersley’s serifs lost the road war but won the streets.
https://thebeautyoftransport.com/2021/11/03/how-serifs-lost-the-road-war-but-won-the-streets/
saved 2026-02-12

How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets
It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads Research Laboratory is revving the engine of his Morris Oxford and preparing to release the handbrake. W…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
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"China expects up to 287 GW of new PV capacity additions in 2026"
#China #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables

China expects up to 287 GW of new PV capacity additions in 2026
China’s PV industry expects 238 GW to 287 GW of domestic capacity additions in 2026 as it pivots away from volume-led growth after a loss-making year driven by overcapacity and sharp price declines. The shift follows rapid expansion in 2021-25 that lifted cumulative capacity above 1.2 TW, annual additions beyond 300 GW and exports over $180 billion.

CFP: Im Schatten der Aufklärung: kanonisches und marginales Denken in literarischen, philosophischen und religiösen Diskursen über die Bildung im 18. Jahrhundert (13.02.2026)
https://ift.tt/hv1kudK
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RE…

from my link log —
What engineers can teach (and learn from) programmers.
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/crossover-project/what-we-can-learn/
saved 2021-01-22

Donald Trump followed through on his threats to sue the BBC over its editing of his remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, for a documentary.
The following can be attributed to Seth Stern, director of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“If any ordinary person filed as many frivolous multibillion-dollar lawsuits as Donald Trump, they’d be sanctioned and placed on a restricted filers list.
By my count, Trump has demanded at least $65 billion in damages from media outlets i…

Trump’s BBC lawsuit is nonsense, like his others
His frivolous damages theory concedes that Trump views the presidency as a for-profit venture

from my link log —
FAQs on aerosol transmission of COVID-19.
https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols
saved 2020-10-06 https://dotat.at/:/8RYZW.html

FAQs on Protecting Yourself from Aerosol Transmission
FAQs on Protecting Yourself from COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission Shortcut to this page: https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols Version: 1.88, 13-Aug-2021 Click here to jump over the scientific & historical details and go straight to the recommendations, Click here for automatic translation into many l...

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1202874 registrierten Anlagen.
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Eagles offensive coordinator search: 12 candidates to replace Kevin Patullo https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6967896/2026/01/13/eagles-offensive-coordinator-candidates-search-kevin-patullo/

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
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CFP: Im Schatten der Aufklärung: kanonisches und marginales Denken in literarischen, philosophischen und religiösen Diskursen über die Bildung im 18. Jahrhundert (13.02.2026)
https://ift.tt/jhlZ9iv
CFP: [FRISTVERLÄNGERUNG] Variations 28/2021: Gender through technology (25.09.2021) Call…
via Input 4 RE…

from my link log —
Of donkeys, mules, and horses: data structures for network prefixes in Rust.
https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/donkeys-mules-horses/
saved 2021-05-27

Of Donkeys, Mules & Horses
A quest for the perfect data-structure to store and retrieve a full table of IP Prefixes, while maintaining the hierarchical relations.

from my link log —
HTML5 genetic algorithm 2D car thingy.
https://rednuht.org/genetic_cars_2/
saved 2021-03-10 https://dotat.at/:/4M01I.html<…