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"New Zealand builds an arsenal of tools to battle a ‘wily’ invasive seaweed"
#NewZealand #Environment

New Zealand builds an arsenal of tools to battle a ‘wily’ invasive seaweed
BAY OF ISLANDS, Aotearoa New Zealand — Since an invasive seaweed called caulerpa was discovered in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2021, forming meadows that blanketed parts of the seabed, it’s taken on an almost mythical status among people who spend time in coastal waters. “It’s so wily and so resilient,” Michele Rogalin-Henderson, a doctoral candidate […]

from my link log —
Optimizations enabled by -ffast-math.
https://kristerw.github.io/2021/10/19/fast-math/
saved 2021-10-19 https://

from my link log —
The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t.
https://www.osnews.com/story/133160/the-nokia-n900-the-future-that-wasnt/
saved 2021-03-18

Nielsen: NBC's telecast of the Emmys drew 6.7M viewers on Monday night, down 9% from 2025's 7.4M on CBS, which was the awards show's best performance since 2021 (Selome Hailu/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/emmys-2026-ratings-viewers-1236863148/

Emmys 2026 Ratings: 6.7 Million Viewers, Down 9% From Last Year
NBC's telecast of the Emmys hit 6.7 million viewers, a 9% decrease from 2025.

A record 42 startups became decacorns so far in 2026, beating 2021's 34; PitchBook: the average time to hit $10B dropped to 5.5 years in 2025 vs. 9.4 in 2020 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/09/decacorns-record-venture-capital

Minting decacorns at a record pace
Startups are reaching $10 billion valuations faster, and more frequently.

Yes, contract goes back to 2021.
(see 3rd para)
https://www.irishrail.ie/en-ie/about-us/iarnrod-eireann-projects-and-investments/investment-new-trains

Drei/drei der Bücher von Claire North, die ich gelesen habe, fand ich extrem beeindruckend - und alle drei, auch wenn es einen Hauch gemeinsamer Themen gibt (Hybris v.a.) sehr unterschiedlich. Gelesen habe ich Harry August (2014/lit fic mystery), Notes from the Burning Age (2021/dystopia/clifi) und Slow Gods (2025/~space opera).

I didn't even know that 'Big Time Rush' is active, again, since 2021 👀
Currently listening to their newest album 🥰

Analysis of 857 releases from nine Chinese AI labs between 2021 and September 2026: just 3.6% disclosed safety results, and only 1.1% did so at launch (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/beijing-will-not-pace-the-frontier

Beijing Will Not Pace the Frontier: China’s Speed-First AI Safety Regime
AI safety is on fire.

Media Partners Asia: sports rights fees have risen 58% since 2021 to $5.7B in Asia, and streamers will pay for 50% of them in 2026, up from 36% in 2021 (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/sports/news/indian-premie…

Indian Premier League Leads as APAC Sports Rights Growth Slows
Media Partners Asia report values Asia Pacific’s commercial sports economy at $16.2 billion as rights-fee growth slows to 1%–2% a year.

A report on the discovery of an evolving extended azimuthal structure trailing the previously known arc system along Neptune's Adams ring, at about 62930 km from the planet's center: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005700/CBET005759.txt - this extended material was first detected on 2021 Oct. 7 and 8 UT in images obtained with the 10-m Keck II telescope and later confirmed in images obtained on 2022 July 12 with the James Webb Space Telescope Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). #Neptune

Could the NFL scheduling formula undergo a massive change? Jerry Jones hints at one possible future tweak

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jerry-jones-hints-at-possible…

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

You can still get America.gov’s chatbot to come out of its shell if you encourage it gently, with technocractic enticements and a pinch of ignorance.
#Jan6 #ChatBots #americagov

Game Preview: Raiders kick off 2026 season against the Dolphins https://www.raiders.com/news/game-preview-las-vegas-raiders-vs-miami-dolphins-nfl-week-1-2026-kirk-cousins

Wenn ich höre, dass Innenminister #Dobrindt Abschiebungen nach #Afghanistan erweitern will, muss ich an diese Doku denken:

die story - Frauen in Afghanistan: Leben unter den Taliban - hier anschauen
Seit August 2021, seitdem in Afghanistan wieder die Taliban an der Macht sind, hat sich das Leben von Frauen, von Müttern, Töchtern und Schwestern, dramatisch verändert.

from my link log —
From Julia to Rust.
https://miguelraz.github.io/blog/juliatorust/index.html
saved 2021-06-05 https://…

Former Dallas Cowboys EDGE Lobbies for NFL Comeback With Team https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/former-dallas-cowboys-edge-everson-griffen-lobbies-nfl-comeback

from my link log —
An oral history of Bank Python.
https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
saved 2021-11-04 https://dotat.at/:/AWH0A.h…

An oral history of Bank Python
The strange world of Python, as used by big investment banks

I couldn't help but notice someone's been PUSHING their repo on Codeberg. Every time I navigate to the Explore page, their repo is always there and always "updated now" so I dug into it.
It has a monolithic main.rs file that's 3.1k lines long, latest commit literally lists Cursor as a co-author, obvious LLM patterns in the code itself, unit & integration tests for a BINARY. Cherries on top, 2021 edition in its Cargo.toml file, it has only 8 commits total, with…

Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
Gregor Schubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11626
arXiv:2608.11626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study proposes that firms move along an "organizational technology ladder": adopting one technology transforms hiring and work processes and builds skills and organizational capital that change the cost of adopting subsequent technologies. I study how firms' adoption of remote work technology during the COVID-19 period shaped later uptake of generative AI. Using U.S. job-posting data and an instrumental-variables strategy based on predicted differences in labor-market pressure to offer remote work, I estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in remote hiring in 2021-2022 increases the share of job postings mentioning generative AI in 2023-2024 by 0.4 percentage points across firms and 0.7 percentage points across occupations within firms. I provide evidence on mechanisms consistent with a technology-ladder channel: remote work adoption shifts hiring toward technical and managerial capabilities that predict faster conversion of generative AI exposure into adoption. Firms with return-to-office mandates---interpreted as revealing low remote productivity---exhibit a substantially larger response of generative AI adoption to remote work, consistent with an organizational frictions channel.
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NFL Week 3 bold predictions: Raiders upset Saints to improve to 3-0! Baker Mayfield bounces back https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-3-bold-predictions-raiders-upset-saints-to-improve-to-3-0-baker-mayfield-bounces-back

from my link log —
Cranelift progress report: a look back at 2021.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/cranelift-progress-2021
saved 2021-12-16

Cranelift Progress Report: A Look Back at 2021
The past year has been a productive one for the Cranelift project! Cranelift is the Bytecode Alliance’s native code compiler that serves as the foundation for the Wasmtime and Lucet WebAssembly virtual machines, and is used in other cont...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Japan:
🎵 Quiet Life
#Japan
https://djstevejones1.bandcamp.com/track/japan-quiet-life-electro-re-cut-2021
https://open.spotify.com/track/7GTcfdzY73zsDINXbBzV7B

🔊 #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/m0030vhr

64. Energy-Charts Talks 01.10.26:
#Strompreisentwicklung für #Neukunden in #Deutschland seit 2021
#Energiewende #Kriege #Irak #Russland #fossileRohstoffe #Strompreis

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe (6 Music Session, 11 Jan 2006)
#Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17

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

🔊 #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/m0030w28