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Happy 5th birthday to #Wordle!
According to Wordle’s stats, I’ve played 1601 times. And because I first started playing on 5 January 2022, I missed playing 26 times.

Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an est. ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, eclipsing ~$1.35T in balance sheet debt (Kohei Yamada/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technolo…

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding
Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows

Russia has damaged or destroyed nearly 2,000 Ukrainian cultural heritage sites since 2022 — prosecutor general calls Lavra strike deliberate erasure - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/15/russia-has-damaged-or-destroyed-nearly-2000-ukrainian-cultural-heritage-sites-since-2022-prosecutor-general-calls-lavra-strike-deliberate-erasure/

John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation (Liv McMahon/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eyq7rnn22o

ICO boss John Edwards announces resignation following investigation
Edwards has been the boss of the data watchdog since January 2022, and said he had made inappropriate attempts at humour.

„Trotz oder gerade wegen des Krieges sei die Ukraine zu einem Star in der E-Mobilität aufgestiegen. Im Jahr 2022, als Russland die Ukraine angriff, waren noch 48.400 Elektroautos in dem Land zugelassen. Ihr Anteil ist 2025 auf mehr als 252.000 gestiegen.
https://www.zeit.de/mob…

Elektroauto in der Ukraine: Autark durch den Krieg
Ausgerechnet in der Ukraine boomen Elektroautos – trotz der Angriffe auf die Energieversorgung. Reichweitenängste stören offenbar wenig, es zählen andere Qualitäten.

The NYT says it is reviewing columnist Nick Kristof's work that favorably mentioned former donors to his 2022 Oregon governor bid, including Bill Gates (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/14/2026/new-york-times-…

Exclusive: New York Times’ Kristof quoted former campaign donors in columns
The paper had promised that Nick Kristof would disclose when someone he reported on was a donor to his Oregon gubernatorial campaign.

Heute vor 62 Jahren: Am 18. August 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Alva". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Seahawks LB Ernest Jones: Post-Super Bowl victory mindset 'different' than 2022 Rams https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-lb-ernest-jones-post-super-bowl-victory-mindset-different-than-2022-rams

Cowboys Sign ‘Versatile’ 26-Year-Old UFL Offensive Lineman After Workout https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/chris-glaser-signing/

(2022) MOT: Sairaaksi kasvatettu lohi #eläinoikeudet #merenelävät

Sairaaksi kasvatettu lohi | MOT
Suomen myydyin kala on kuolemansairas. Yli 50 miljoonaa Norjassa kasvatettua lohta kuolee joka vuosi stressiin ja sydänsairauksiin. MOT selvitti, millaisissa oloissa suomalaisten suosikkiruoka kasvaa.

Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, raised a $62.5M Series B led by Camber, following a $7M Series A in 2022 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/malaysias…

Malaysia's AI agent-powered messaging app Respond.io raises $62.5M, eyes acquisitions | TechCrunch
Respond.io, one of Malaysia startups to watch, uses AI agents to handle high volumes of customer inquiries and charges per convo, not per seat.

@…
<https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/wfevxe/comment/oo8jg7h/?context=1> last month (in response to a 2022 comme…

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 15 nodes and 83 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Spiel des Jahres Podcast über einen Roman, der in der Brettspielcommunity spielt: Der geheimnisvolle Spyderling (Folge vom 10.06.2022)
Webseite der Episode: https://www.spiel-des-jahres.de/folge-26-der-geheimnisvolle-spyderling/
Mediendatei:

Der geheimnisvolle Spyderling
Der Autor Sascha Macht im Gespräch über seinen Spiele-Roman "Spyderling"

Washington’s battleground 3rd District is a high priority for both parties.
The district went for President Trump in 2024 while reelecting moderate Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
Gluesenkamp Perez, a centrist who was first elected narrowly in 2022 and has made a name for herself by sometimes breaking with her party,
successfully fended off primary challengers on Tuesday to advance to the November ballot.
Republican Braun, a retired Navy captain, won the other sp…

Monochrome thi.ng (2022)
An old exploration using only circles and the SDF-based fully parametric typeface I created as part of the work on my S-TRACE piece...
See here for other related WIP of this perpetually unfinished project:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/tagged/STRACE

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady -…

Home Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Shelves, reading activity etc | decisions.joinbookwyrm.com
"Looking through our Issues log, one of the most consistent sources of both confusion and frustration seems to be both the user interface and the mental model for the related concepts of shelves and readthroughs."
-- Hugh
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Shelves, reading activity etc
Looking through our Issues log, one of the most consistent sources of both confusion and frustration seems to be both the user interface and the mental model for the related concepts of shelves and readthroughs.@Mouse has had a draft PR for this since 2022. We all seem to agree in principle that the current arrangement needs to be fixed, but whilst I personally agree with the gist of Mouse's proposal there (deprecate default/functional shelves completely and use ReadThroughs to hold all reading…

Von Wegen „früher war es auch heiß“ 🤡
Politischer Verbrennerextremismus bringt uns Rekordextreme. Noch nie war es so heiß und auf lange Zeit wird es immer heißer, die Probleme immer extremer. Nicht zufällig, sondern gemacht von der Bundesregierung und ihren Petrobuddies in der Welt.
Der heißeste Sommer unseres Lebens könnte der kühlste für den Rest unseres Lebens sein, wenn die Bundesregierung unsere Verbrennung weiter befeuert.
@…

A Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to the US pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Indian streamer Zee5 pulls human rights drama Satluj, at the center of a government censorship battle since 2022, after two days, citing "current developments" (Stewart Clarke/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/07/satluj-diljit-do…

Human Rights Drama ‘Satluj’ Starring Diljit Dosanjh Pulled From Streaming In India Days After Launch
Satluj, Honey Trehan’s human rights drama starring Diljit Dosanjh, has been pulled days after its launch in India.

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 24 nodes and 122 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

@… Irrelevanter Fun Fact: Ab 2022 erfolgten die Aufnahmen nicht mehr im Studio König sondern im Studio Ehrenfeld.
Dadurch sind die seit 2022 aufgenommenen 130 Szenen dieser sehr starken Solidaritätsaktion sich so ähnlich.
In der laufenden Sendung finde ich es immer noch magisch, wenn das Studiolicht blau-gelb wird.
Übrigens: Bei der letzten Aufzeic…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Crypto-data provider Blockworks says it has acquired its rival Messari; source: Blockworks paid more than $10M for Messari, which was valued at $300M in 2022 (Vicky Ge Huang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/b…

Techbros 2022: “we have invented the world’s most inefficient algorithm”
Techbros 2026: “we’re basing our whole economy on this algorithm and for some reason that we can’t figure out nothing is more efficient but everything sucks now”

For my latest article for Inquirer.net, I decided to talk about something light and fun and it is the daily puzzle game #Gerrymandle. Your aim in the game is to create electoral districts so that your political party wins more districts than other parties.

Gerrymandle: A fun way to steal elections
MANILA, Philippines - Do you still play Wordle, that viral word game that came out in 2021 then got bought by The New York Times in 2022? I still solve Wordle every day—on hard mode!—and have

Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 2022 order restricting Twitter's data use, claiming Twitter no longer exists as X merged with xAI and then SpaceX (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling
Musk can't be trusted to protect X user privacy, public commenters warn FTC.

It's a day later and #footiMac and #newOldiMac are still up and running. Disk usage is stable. Current RAM usage for the database has gone up to 3GB from 1GB since 9PM last night. I'd like to know why. It's not any busier.
I'm running the backup script then later today I'll see if I can investigate more on why the RAM usage fluctuates so much.
I would like to know why it is more stable. Is it because I've simply given it enough room to expand and contract in the colima VM?
Is it because I set the clocks to the same timezone?
Inquiring minds... but I am happy that it is happy. And I have learned a lot and gotten more comfortable with docker. Which has been a goal almost since I joined Mastodon in Nov 2022.
I’m hoping to look for a new macMini now to replace #newOldiMac. If I can get that an SSD to replace the failing SSD in #footiMac and a large HDD for backup that'd be great.
#docker #mastoAdmin #colima #iMac

Just did very approximate calculations; with 10g of lithium per drone*, and assuming the Russian and Ukrainian drone efforts consume 5m units a year**, that'd be ~50 tons of lithium deposited into the environment per year, mostly within, let's say, 50km of the grey zone***. It's only about $20,000 / ton****, which means $1m of metal*****.
So to answer my own silly question: no, it won't be economically viable to scalp the top few inches of topsoil and extract the lithium from it.
* Roughly right for quadcopters / small FPV; larger and longer range ones will have more, so this is a bottom bound. (OTOH longer range UAVs will tend to use ICE kerosene rather than batteries
** Changing all the time as both sides try expanding production as fast as they can manage. Ua are scaling much faster at time of writing
*** Handwaving. Contact zone's hardly moved since early 2023; OTOH Ua are pushing range limits on small battery-powered form factor, saw a 60km claim for the Logistics Lockdown operation the other day
**** There was a big spike to the $70-8000 range in 2022; median price is closer to $10k than $20k
***** (IDK the chemistry but presumably it's in an exciting range of different compounds, depending on how many bits the battery was blown into, how hot / pressured the blast wave was a few tens of mm from the boom, what other stuff was in the vicinity that the lithium would combine with, etc etc.

FCC Expands Ban on Chinese Electronic Imports Amid Security Concerns
Translation: NDAA-compliant gear is still not as good, much less as cheap, as pre-2022 gear from these companies. If you want people to buy US gear, at least make it work as well! BTW, ALL cameras should be on an isolated network. https://ground.news/article/the-us-has-upgraded-restrictions-on-chinese-companies-banning-imports-of-products-from-five-companies-including-huawei

Obsidian Security, which helps companies secure AI agents, raised an $85M Series D at a $1.1B valuation, after raising a $90M Series C in April 2022 (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/obsidian-secu…

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …