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Stock trading app Ajaib raised a $270M Series C from SBI Holdings, the largest round since 2022 in Indonesia, where startups raised just ~$340M last year (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-…

Something, something, Blockchain, something …
https://musermeku.org/museums-nft/

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 12 nodes and 72 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 24. Juli 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Trogon". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

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

from my link log —
Deriving a bit-twiddling hack: signed integer overflow.
https://grack.com/blog/2022/12/20/deriving-a-bit-twiddling-hack/
saved 2022-12-21 …

"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html

In 2022 I drove across Canada from Ottawa to northern BC. I remember driving for three full days around the top of Lake Superior with a wall of mostly dead trees on either side of the road the whole way, thinking, man when Ontario burns, there's going to be no stopping it. And here we are.
Via Bluesky:

Tausende Handys in NRW-Gefängnissen entdeckt
Mehr als 6800 Handys wurden seit 2022 in NRW-Gefängnissen entdeckt. Ein Bericht für den Landtag zeigt, wo besonders viele Geräte auftauchen.
https://www.

Tausende Handys in NRW-Gefängnissen entdeckt
Mehr als 6800 Handys wurden seit 2022 in NRW-Gefängnissen entdeckt. Ein Bericht für den Landtag zeigt, wo besonders viele Geräte auftauchen.

16WW Eddi PV DHW Diverter Export Margin Analysis (2022-08) - Chosing a more grid-friendly value for the Export Margin based on 3 years' export data. #simulation #gridFriendly #diversion - …

16WW Eddi PV DHW Diverter Export Margin Analysis (2022-08)
Chosing a more grid-friendly value for the Export Margin based on 3 years export data. #simulation #gridFriendly #diversion

Water systems are ripe for cyberattacks,
experts warn after suspected Iranian hacks
In late 2022, Microsoft detected the hack of a water system in Guam
that U.S. intelligence agencies in the following months determined was orchestrated by China.
The idea wasn’t new.
The spy agencies had long watched as Iran targeted Israeli water systems.

“That another nation state was doing it to us
— that was unsettling,” recalled one former U.S. official,

Water systems are ripe for cyberattacks, experts warn after suspected Iranian hacks
As lawmakers call for protections after incidents in 12 states, an EPA rule that Republicans fought would “remove most of the low-hanging fruit,” a cybersecurity expert said.

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"

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

AfD-MdB Köhler beklagt die Abschiebung von Nancy Mensah nach 24 Jahren auf Borkum. Bemerkenswert.
Sie wurde nicht abgeschoben, weil der Staat versagt hat – sondern weil er genau so funktioniert, wie die AfD es will: Titel abgelaufen, kein Ermessen, Vollzug.
Als der Bundestag 2022 das Chancen-Aufenthaltsrecht beschloss, stimmte die AfD dagegen.
Erst das Instrument bekämpfen, dann das Ergebnis beweinen. Beileidskarte des Täters. 1/2

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Baccara:
🎵 Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
#Baccara
https://sonnenwellen.bandcamp.com/track/baccara-yes-sir-i-can-boogie-geh-haim-illegal-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/2LScqpywMqGcnum6nNaxXX

from my link log —
Algorithms for modern hardware.
https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/
saved 2022-10-14 https://dotat.at/:/HHA79.html

The International Online Organ Forum is the place to go if you are interested in organ music or think you might be. It's on several social media channels (not Mastodon - yet!). Sign-up for their free monthly newsletter and get an amazing free feature-length organ film each month, FREE too. https://io-of.org/st-vi…

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

On July 31, President Volodymyr Zelensky disclosed estimates revealing that Russian forces had suffered around 1.6 million military casualties since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, including approximately 700,000 killed.
https://kyivindependent.com/general…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,480,750 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
The figure includes 1,450 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Pleased to share that my paper, "Practitioners at the Limit: Bereavement, Mockery and Ideology in Response to Crisis" is now available as a preprint on arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30667

Practitioners At The Limit: Bereavement, Mockery and Ideology in Response to Crisis
After decades in which the software industry heroized its technical employees, our current moment finds those employees in crisis. Economically, they are squeezed by a job market that has turned on them since Elon Musk gutted Twitter in 2022. Politically, their craft is continually pressed into the service of an ever tighter alliance between Big Tech and authoritarianism. Professionally, they find themselves less and less able to contribute anything good to anyone within business models that ar…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

London-based Nscale agrees to acquire Anyscale, a source says for ~$1.65B; Anyscale, which helps AI workloads run more efficiently, had a $1B valuation in 2022 (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

from my link log —
Hard mode Rust.
https://matklad.github.io//2022/10/06/hard-mode-rust.html
saved 2022-10-07 https://…

Eine schöne Kurzgeschichte, für jeden, der schon man im Ruhewagen durch Telefonierer genervt wurde. 😁
Excuse Me, this is the Quiet Car
https://www.castofwonders.org/2022/05/cast-of-wonders-496-excuse-me-this-is-the-quiet-car/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Marías:
🎵 Heavy
#TheMarías
https://lamorn.bandcamp.com/track/20221123-the-marias-heavy-lamorn-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ShRHPAiiIrh0arZbSFmx1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
New Order:
🎵 Bizarre Love Triangle
#NewOrder
https://waldodj.bandcamp.com/track/new-order-bizarre-love-triangle-waldo-edit-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/6wVViUl2xSRoDK2T7dMZbR

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

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 6 nodes and 26 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

from my link log —
Histogram vs empirical cumulative distribution function (eCDF) for dataviz.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2022/09/02/ecdf.html
saved 2026-07-31

"U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a 2022 injunction against applying the law to colleges and universities"
Court issues major blow to DeSantis's "Stop WOKE Act" & calls it "a breathtaking assertion of power" - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/07/court-issues-major-blow-to-desantiss-stop-woke-act-calls-it-a-breathtaking-assertion-of-power/

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
Gregor Schubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11626
arXiv:2608.11626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study proposes that firms move along an "organizational technology ladder": adopting one technology transforms hiring and work processes and builds skills and organizational capital that change the cost of adopting subsequent technologies. I study how firms' adoption of remote work technology during the COVID-19 period shaped later uptake of generative AI. Using U.S. job-posting data and an instrumental-variables strategy based on predicted differences in labor-market pressure to offer remote work, I estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in remote hiring in 2021-2022 increases the share of job postings mentioning generative AI in 2023-2024 by 0.4 percentage points across firms and 0.7 percentage points across occupations within firms. I provide evidence on mechanisms consistent with a technology-ladder channel: remote work adoption shifts hiring toward technical and managerial capabilities that predict faster conversion of generative AI exposure into adoption. Firms with return-to-office mandates---interpreted as revealing low remote productivity---exhibit a substantially larger response of generative AI adoption to remote work, consistent with an organizational frictions channel.
toXiv_bot_toot

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Everything but the Girl:
🎵 Missing
#EverythingbuttheGirl
https://urmetk.bandcamp.com/track/everything-but-the-girl-missing-urmet-k-2022-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1LLYmUrNeb77HTwtr4e2Wr

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1446414 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

from my link log —
Thoughts on FORTH programming.
http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/articles/forth.txt
saved 2022-05-29 h…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsRaveForever
System F:
🎵 Out Of The Blue
#SystemF
https://davidheart.bandcamp.com/track/systemf-outoftheblue-davidheart-holidays-2022-mashup
https://open.spotify.com/track/7fIfO8fZ55Eq5qtd5vCd6z

#Tatort - Hochamt für Toni - #ARD #BR
#krimi #crimi

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Kokoroko:
🎵 We Give Thanks (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2022)
#Kokoroko
https://brownswoodrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/we-give-thanks
https://open.spotify.com/track/1whO1RzuS19yG358T4d8G6

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