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from my link log —
Commodore 64 Theremin.
https://www.linusakesson.net/hardware/theremin/
saved 2022-08-31 https://dotat.at/:/4O…

Greater Manchester election analysis.
The ‘unfathomable’ fall of Labour’s Greater Manchester https://manchestermill.co.uk/the-unfathomable-fall-of-labours-greater-manchester/

Lazyweb: Has anybody spotted a news article or data source that quantifies the voter composition of the new TN districts — as Harris/Trump, or 2022 House results, or whatever? I’m wondering just how far underwater each of the 9 new districts is.

The inner working of parquette/arrow data in R: #rstats

Unpacking Arrow Datasets – Notes from a data witch
A comment on how Datasets work in Apache Arrow. I’m not really sure who the audience for this one. Am I just talking to myself? Probably.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116547833070885370
Since February 2022.
To put this into perspective, that’s roughly equivalent to the number of US servicemen killed AND wounded during the entirety of the Vietnam War.

Had you or I - you know, non $billionaires - done this we would have had to pay a far, far, far, far, far ... larger fine.
But Elon M, being apparently the chosen one gets away with a fine of $1.5million - about one percent of one percent of his wealth - on a deal that made him $billions and screwed over a lot of other people.
"SEC and Elon Musk agree to settle lawsuit over Twitter buyout in 2022"

SEC and Elon Musk agree to settle lawsuit over Twitter buyout in 2022
The SEC and Elon Musk agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by the regulator last year against the world's richest person.

Back in 2022, after #StormArwen, I rolled up a section of the fence around my wood so that I could haul fallen timber out of the south end of my wood. There's still a lot of fallen timber there, but I think I have hauled out as much as I practically can. So today I decided to get the fence back up.
Of course, brambles had grown through the rolled up fence, so it was far beyond my stre…

A profile of William Savitt, Sam Altman's lead lawyer against Elon Musk, who represented Twitter against Musk in 2022 and helped OpenAI's for-profit transition (Jacob Shamsian/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/william-sa

He beat Elon Musk in court once. Sam Altman hired him to do it again.
A former cab driver and rock band singer, William Savitt is now at the top of an elite law firm with experience defeating Elon Musk in court.

"As global 30×30 goal lags, Colombia shows how progress can be made"
#Colombia #Environment #Conservation

As global 30x30 goal lags, Colombia shows how progress can be made
In 2022, at the U.N. Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada, 196 nations pledged to conserve 30% of land and inland waters, and 30% of marine and coastal areas, by 2030. Popularly known as “30×30,” and officially known as Target 3, the pledge was one of 23 targets detailed in the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), […]

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz

aus der reihe "über tippfehler in der DOI zufällig gefundene artikel" heute: was mit eichhörnchen, zumindest im titel. :)
"Birds, Groundhogs, and Squirrels" https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.2022.1239

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

An analysis of 1.6M Polymarket accounts since November 2022: 0.1% of users take 67% of profits, with the highest-frequency traders seeing the most success (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/poly

Several years ago, a street medic described a system like this and wanted to know if it could be built.
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/08/the-tak-ecosystem-military-coordination-goes-open-source/
Back then there was just no way to make it happen. Hardware was too expensive. We couldn't really ever get it cheap enough, per medic, to deploy. Best I could put together was a bunch of burner phones.
But now it's starting to really make sense. LoRa is cheap, and possibly cheaper in bulk. And it wouldn't be necessary to build everything since ATAK-CIV exists and has several open source implementations. It can even tie in to drones (which are illegal to bring to protests in at least a few states).
This has a lot of potential applications for street medic coordination, protest marshal coordination, and for airsoft teams...

from my link log —
C99 doesn't need function bodies: VLAs are Turing complete.
https://lemon.rip/w/c99-vla-tricks/
saved 2022-08-04 https://dota…

2026 NFL Draft aftermath: Will any rookie quarterback start in Week 1? https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-aftermath-will-any-rookie-quarterback-start-in-week-1

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,263,850 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/26/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generate…

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated
Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

Raiders sign fifth-round pick CB Hezekiah Masses https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fifth-round-pick-hezekiah-masses-cornerback-california-golden-bears-football-2026-draft

Safety Adderley joins Colts, ending retirement https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48485763/safety-nasir-adderley-signs-colts-ending-retirement