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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

„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.

気になったので確認してみたよ。
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I'm exploring installing R and other stuff on Windows for planning teaching, and I found an answer to a question I didn't know I needed to ask: Don't install R, RStudio, Python, Julia etc on OneDrive
https://tclark89.github.io/quarto-blog/posts/2022-09-20-…

I appreciate Ukraine's continued employment of video game marketing aesthetics.
(Not so much this one, but many of the post-2022 Ukrainian websites evoke the visual style of Cyberpunk 2077 - a game that got its PS5 release around the same time as the Russian invasion.)
https://trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/

TrophyLab
Access to aggressor equipment and its analysis — a platform for those working on defense solutions.

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 16.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Diluted Waters". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

This is a great thread about “breaking in”
And here’s the thing; this is applicable to careers/activities in general not just “breaking into comics”
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4r4x2pmg7tt2qgblhfu7qb7c/post/3mm5qfxjltk2u

Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@planetx.bsky.social)
If we're defining "breaking in" as "publishers and editors now answer your emails," then I broke in when GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR was published in 2022. But I spent many years before that making comics no one read. The road to "breaking in" only makes sense in reverse. If I had not spent... [contains quote post or other embedded content]

In 2022, a group of prominent conservative legal experts
—including former federal judges, Republican election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, former Solicitor General Ted Olson and ex-U.S. Senators John Danforth and Gordon Smith
—released a report titled
"Lost, Not Stolen", concluding that
“Joe Biden was the choice of a majority of the Electors”
and that there was “absolutely no evidence of fraud” sufficient to alter the results.
Independent reviews, …

Important development in AI, "Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI"
https://paulkedrosky.com/chart-of-the-day-small-models-are-closing-the-gap-to-frontier-ai/

Chart of the Day: Small Models are Closing the Gap to Frontier AI
A quiet story in AI isn't that large models keep getting better, it's that small ones are catching up quickly. In 2022, reaching 60% on MMLU, a test of academic reasoning, required a 540-billion-parameter model. By 2024, a 3.8-billion-parameter model hit the same threshold — a 142-fold parameter reduction in

@… @… afair ist das nach zwei Ausgaben 2022 und 2023 eingeschlafen

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

Communication de la Commission
C(2026) 4730 final, 10.07.2026
Guidelines on the Application of Article 13(5) of Directive (EU) 2022/2557 on the Resilience of Critical Entities
La Commission européenne a adopté les lignes directrices non contraignantes prévue Š l’Article 13 (5) de la Directive CER qui visent Š préciser les mesures de #résilience que les

from my link log —
On the DeepMind AlphaTensor new matrix multiplication algorithms.
https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2022/10/06/on-alphatensors-new-matrix-multiplication-algorithms/
saved 2022-10-07

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…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

On Website Technicals (2022-07) - Tech updates: hot, cross (references). - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-62.html

On Website Technicals (2022-07)
Tech updates: hot, cross (references).

Trump bricht bei „Meet the Press" (NBC) das Interview ab, als Moderatorin Kristen Welker ihn nach Belegen für seine „rigged elections"-Behauptung fragt. Seine Antwort: „Ich muss nur hinschauen." Auf ihren Einwand, das sei kein Beweis, beschimpft er NBC, ABC, CBS & CNN als „krumme Sender" und geht. Belege? Wie immer: keine. NBC stufte danach mehrere Aussagen als falsch ein. Schon 2022 lief ein NPR-Interview genauso.

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

The first half of 2026 was the 5th warmest on record here in the central Netherlands.
Just following the forecast for the coming 2 weeks, and then the 1991-2020 average (cool by now) would already bring this year into the top-3 warmest since 1901.

Raiders Quietly Rejected Blockbuster Trade Offer From Rams: Report https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-rams-trade-offer/

Ambassador Bridget Brink here.
Putin just unleashed a nuclear-capable ballistic missile in the heart of Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.
This was part of one of the biggest attacks on the capital since the start of Russia’s war in 2022.
And the Russians say this is just the “beginning” of a new wave of strikes on “decision-making centers” in Kyiv. 
And what has Trump or Vance or even Rubio said?
-- Nothing.
Instead, last week they extended the waiver of sanction…

Bridget Brink (@AmbBridgetBrink) on X
Proud Michigander, former 🇺🇸 Ambassador, grateful for family & country. Running for MI-07 to fight for what’s right here at home.

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 …

These are tricky times for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The “special military operation” he launched against Ukraine in 2022,
intended to last a few days until a puppet regime in Kyiv could be installed,
has now gone on longer than both the Soviet fight against Nazi Germany and all of World War I.
His forces have long ceased making significant gains on the battlefield;
some data even suggest that Russian forces lost territory in April and May.
What …

As the Tide Turns Against Putin, Beware the Drowning Man
Like a struggling swimmer, he may take desperate measures to stay afloat.

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 …

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

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