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from my link log —
What exactly was the point of [ “x$var” = “xval” ]?
https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1035
saved 2021-04-12 https://

Bans of and challenges to reading material in K-12 schools have been on the rise since 2021,
when the American Library Association and PEN America noticed a sharp uptick in the number of books on the no-no list.
The classics of the banned-book genre remained
— “Brave New World,” “Animal Farm,”“Beloved”
— but those were joined by an escalating list of picture books of two-dad families, young-adult novels tackling race or suicide, graphic novels in which teens make inf…

Why not just ban all the books?
Keyword searches for "justice" and "pride" drive what ideas are being kept from kids.

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...

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.

Source: Nvidia is marketing its first corporate bond sale since 2021, seeking to raise $20B across seven tranches with maturities ranging from two to 30 years (Brian W Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…

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

"Illegal e-waste trade turns Bangladesh into net importer"
#Bangladesh #Technology #EWaste

Illegal e-waste trade turns Bangladesh into net importer
In Bangladesh, poor oversight of unlawful cross-border trade in hazardous electronic waste continues, turning the country into a net importer of electronic waste. The country has rules to control e-waste. It is also a party to the Basel Convention and has introduced its own laws, like the Hazardous Waste (E-waste) Management Rules (2021). However, enforcement […]

🌱 Im Forschungsprojekt „nascent-SolaRegio“ wurde untersucht, welche landwirtschaftl. Betriebe grundsätzlich gute Voraussetzungen für eine Umstellung auf Solidarische Landwirtschaft mitbringen.
📊 Das Ergebnis: Rund 16.000 Betriebe (knapp 7 % aller landwirtschaftlichen Betriebe in DE!) weisen Merkmale auf, die eine Umstellung begünstigen. Besonders häufig sind darunter kleinere Betriebe sowie ökologisch wirtschaftende und direktvermarktende Höfe.
🚜 Das Potenzial für weitere Solawis i…

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?

Oh, so Svelte is basically also under the Vercel umbrella? 🙄 (Since 2021? I somehow missed that…)
This is why we can’t have nice things.

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…

(2021) The Defensive Activation Theory: REM sleep as a mechanism to prevent takeover of the visual cortex https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.632853/full So we should disrupt REM sleep for better masteri…

Frontiers | The Defensive Activation Theory: REM Sleep as a Mechanism to Prevent Takeover of the Visual Cortex
Regions of the brain maintain their territory with continuous activity: if activity slows or stops (e.g., because of blindness), the territory tends to be ta...

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…

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…

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!

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Let me post yet again this brilliant French-language version of the old blues standard, "Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home":
Myriam Gendron, "Poor Girl Blues" (2021)
https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/track/poor-girl-blues

from my link log —
PostgreSQL text search: balancing query time and relevancy.
https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/postgres-text-search-balancing-query-time-and-relevancy/
saved 2021-10-21

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…

Second Enphase AC Battery Home Storage (2021-09-15) - And then there were two! 40 minutes to double our grid-coupled storage. #storage #grid #selfConsumption -

Second Enphase AC Battery Home Storage (2021-09-15)
And then there were two! 40 minutes to double our grid-coupled storage. #storage #grid #selfConsumption

UMG shares fall 25%, the record company's worst day since its 2021 IPO, following disappointing Q2 results; UMG is down 40% over the past 12 months (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/univ

from my link log —
A prototype original iPod.
https://panic.com/blog/a-prototype-original-ipod/
saved 2021-10-25 https://dotat…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
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 …

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…

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

from my link log —
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC.
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html
saved 2021-09-05

from my link log —
Smooth voxel terrain: isosurface extraction with marching cubes and surface nets.
https://0fps.net/2012/07/12/smooth-voxel-terrain-part-2/
saved 2021-01-08

Smooth Voxel Terrain (Part 2)
Last time we formulated the problem of isosurface extraction and discussed some general approaches at a high level.  Today, we’re going to get very specific and look at meshing in particular.…

from my link log —
DART: the Disability Attitude Re-adjustment Tool.
https://www.kingqueen.org.uk/dart/
saved 2021-09-15 https://dotat.at/:/XV51Q.htm…

DART – the Disability Attitude Re-adjustment Tool
I’ve written a Guide for Disabled People to Sue Service Providers for Disability Discrimination, as Unrepresented Litigants in Person in England. (Otherwise known as DART – the Disabili…

🇺🇦 #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