@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-prices-for-apple…
@cdarwin@c.imA 2022 risk assessment by the Bucharest City Committee for Emergency Situations estimated that
a major earthquake could severely damage about 23,000 buildings across the city,
kill approximately 6,500 people
and leave a further 16,000 seriously injured
https…
@tschfflr@fediscience.org"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
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialSignificant steps forward in enabling electric cars in Europe to feed energy back into the grid:
#V2G
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_
@NuclearDisorder@mastodon.socialHeute vor 61 Jahren: Am 17. Juni 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Tiny Tot". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.dedom: 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
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @Techmeme@techhub.socialFiling: college social app Fizz accuses Maveron's Jerry Lu of giving confidential info to rival Sidechat after he met with Fizz as a potential investor in 2022 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/10/fili
@StephenRees@mas.toWhich Vancouver parties support proportional representation?
by Fair Vote Canada | Sep 12, 2026
https://www.fairvote.ca/12/09/2026/which-vancouver-parties-support-proportional-representation/
In the 2022 Vancouver municipa…
@frankel@mastodon.top
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl 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:
@wraithe@mastodon.socialThis is Kevin Durant, and here’s a NPR story about this:
And I can affirm, having had NPR come on way too high after leaving the volume up, they’ve got some solid bass in some of their shows 😂
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/18/1087632011/coda-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialApple raises the price of Apple Music, with the individual plan up by $1 to $11.99, and some Apple One bundles, the first price hike for Apple Music since 2022 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/17/apple-raises-prices-for-apple…
@cdarwin@c.imWater 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,
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyHome 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 -…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl 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
@cdarwin@c.imOn 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…
@servelan@newsie.social"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/
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineJährlicher 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:
@wraithe@mastodon.socialMe Playing Overwatch for the first time since 2022: yeah, this is still fun! Wonder where all the toxic people went?
Me playing OW in comp: ah
@cdarwin@c.imFirst, let’s talk about “grokking”.
In 2022, OpenAI published a paper showing that if you train a model on a simple dataset
(for instance, a simple mathematical operation like division),
and keep training it long after the training looks like it’s stalled out,
the model will suddenly make a massive jump in capability.
Why does this work?
The first stage of training is like rote memorization:
the model has to compress as much of the training data as…
@vosje62@mastodon.nlRE: #bavovna
'On 25 April 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, explosions rang out at a military base and an oil depot in the Russian city of Bryansk.[3] As per the Russian government standards, Russian media reported the explosion as a khlopok, a "pop".[1] However, when the announcement was translated into the Ukrainian language, the machine translation program confused the identically written words for "pop" and "cotton", and translated khlopok into Ukrainian as bavovna (Ukrainian: бавовна), a word which unambiguously means "cotton".[4][5] '
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavovna
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
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
