Tootfinder

Milestone
2022

Time says revenue from events is on pace to make up over 50% of total revenue, up from 28% in 2023; it hosted 11 events in 2022 and plans to host 40 this year (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/time-events-revenue-driver/

How Time Turned Events Into Its Biggest Revenue Driver
The business is on pace to generate more than 50% of its total revenue in 2026 

Panel rules NFL teams didn't collude on QB deals https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48456898/panel-rules-nflpa-says-not-enough-proof-collusion

from my link log —
Illuminating synchronization edges for ThreadSanitizer.
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/10/03/
saved 2022-10-04 https://

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Portishead:
🎵 Wandering Star
#Portishead
https://andrewcolohan.bandcamp.com/track/portishead-wandering-star-cover-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/7h14W1uQK7sjpVI1oVTobt

#GrindayFriday this week is 2022 self titled LP by Seattle grind/powerviolence trio NURSER. They kinda remind me of Mastiff or Napalm or something like that. No frills, just grinding and violence: https://nurserdeath.bandcamp.com/album

‼️Wir haben doch jetzt wieder eine „Energiekrise“.🔌
Also eine #Fossilkrise, wie bereits 2022.
Hab grad gelesen, dass die Leute in meinem Bezirk für 5-EUR-Tanken, wenn sie kein Geld haben, oder #ÖPNV nehmen.
Gibt es bereits laute Forderungen nach einer Wiederauflage vom 9‑EUR-…

German quick grocery delivery startup Flink raised $100M led by Prosus, a source says at a $900M valuation; Flink was reportedly valued at $5B in May 2022 (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

from my link log —
Async Rust in ScyllaDB: performance, pitfalls, profiling.
https://www.scylladb.com/2022/01/12/async-rust-in-practice-performance-pitfalls-profiling/
saved 2022-01-13

Async Rust in Practice: Performance, Pitfalls, Profiling
Learn how our developers used flamegraphs to diagnose and resolve performance issues in our Tokio framework based Rust driver.

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Every single day, the whole debacle with Blake Lemoine feels so much more quaint than the mass delusions we’re uncovering now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.

Tight end Isaiah Likely agrees to 3-year, $40 million deal with Giants: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7090486/2026/03/09/isaiah-likely-giants-nfl-free-agency-2026/

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 3. März 2022 wurde das #Kernkraftwerk #Saporischschja eingenommmen nachdem am 28. Februar russische Streitkräfte in der Südukraine vorrückten.

#DDA "Seltene #Vögel in Deutschland 2023" ist erschienen und kann bestellt werden, "Seltene Vögel in Deutschland 2022" gratis als pdf.

Chiefs trade CB Trent McDuffie to Rams for package of draft picks: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7086935/2026/03/04/chiefs-rams-trent-mcduffie-trade/

On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html

On UK Central Heating Season (2022)
Home heating dates.

Already 6 years old, so not even taking into account post-2022 hyperscaling, this is a sobering, very rational and well argued 20 min presentation for some cold flush reality check of the hot fever dreams of AI proponents (and all YOLO energy/resource guzzlers of any walk/standing):
Blip (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cd…

from my link log —
Is wine fake?
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/1/is-wine-fake
saved 2022-11-21 https://dotat.at/:/G73NM.html

"Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind"
#Trees #Environment
https://

Tree planting can combat urban heat, but some neighborhoods are falling behind
Sydney communities may be missing out on crucial tree planting projects intended to combat urban heat, leaving western and eastern parts of Greater Sydney with less protection from extreme heat, a University of Sydney-led study has revealed. In a surprising finding, the researchers found that while Greater Sydney's total tree canopy increased by 4.2% from 1.514 billion square meters to 1.578 billion square meters between 2016 and 2022, this growth was not evenly distributed.

Micron breaks ground in New York for its memory manufacturing complex, announced in 2022, that it says will be the largest semiconductor facility in the US (Glenn Coin/Syracuse Post-Standard)
https://www.syracuse.com/micron/2026/01/mi

Micron breaks ground on massive chipmaking plant that could transform Central NY
The project could be the largest private investment in New York state history.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Warpaint:
🎵 Champion (6 Music Session, 4 May 2022)
#Warpaint
https://warpaint.bandcamp.com/track/champion
https://open.spotify.com/track/4PCOZeCLR4p8cvVBuGgfhm