2026-05-20 08:28:21
Sacrificing you to a dragon As A Service
Sacrificing you to a dragon As A Service
Q&A with Harvey CEO Winston Weinberg on launching the legal AI startup in 2022, how AI could shake up law firm business models, legal AI competition, and more (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/47eafdcb-5a0a-4515-a07a-70e89ad2fa78
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from my link log —
Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on arm64 and x86.
https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2022/08/20/faster-zlib-deflate-decompression-on-the-apple-m1-and-x86/
saved 2022-08-20
On Website Technicals (2022-08) - Tech updates: FUELINST glitch, review pros and cons, a11y, fanlife, Save-Data, traffic nadir, JXL. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-63.html
"Heat claimed more than 200,000 lives in Europe since 2022: WHO"
#Health #Climate #ClimateChange
"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:
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.
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…
Kuala Lumpur-based Respond.io, which uses AI agents to manage customer conversations, raised a $62.5M Series B led by Camber, following a $7M Series A in 2022 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/malaysias…
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…
The NYT says it is reviewing columnist Nick Kristof's work that favorably mentioned former donors to his 2022 Oregon governor bid, including Bill Gates (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/14/2026/new-york-times-…
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 …
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.
🇺🇦 #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
Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 14. Juni 2023 erklärte der belarussische Präsident Aleksander Lukaschenko in einem Fernsehinterview mit dem russischen Staatssender Russia-1, dass #Belarus, wie am 25.03.23 durch Putin angekündigt, #Kernwaffen von Russland erhalten habe.
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 -…
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.
Large-scale sporting events cause unexpected air pollution, study shows https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/01/large-scale-sporting-events-cause-unexpected-air-pollution-study-shows
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 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…
Monochrome thi.ng (2022)
An old exploration using only circles and the SDF-based fully parametric typeface I created as part of the work on my S-TRACE piece...
See here for other related WIP of this perpetually unfinished project:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/tagged/STRACE
from my link log —
Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations.
https://blog.apnic.net/2022/03/08/authenticated-bootstrapping-of-dnssec-delegations/
saved 2022-04-10
Sju dagar före invasionen röstade Ukraina igenom en lag om molnmigrering. Åtta dagar senare var den avgörande. Nu tar europeiska regeringar liknande beslut, pressade av krig och en oförutsägbar allierad. Sverige rör sig, men utan tydlig riktning.
https://carlheath.se/nycklarna-till-dig…
Industrial electrification is now a security imperative, finds Oxford analysis. “Industry has now lived through two major fossil fuel shocks in three years. First the 2022 gas crisis and now Hormuz. At some point you have to ask: how many times does the alarm have to go off before we change the system?”
"Period of extreme heat in Europe, with important role of climate change."
@… says it like it is, written by weatherman and climate scientist Peter Kuipers Munneke.
https://nos.nl/l/2619698
That was the Dreadnought’s “Vicky’s Polka” (2022)
Only polka I know that makes me cry every time 🪗😢
#ListeningClub #Polka #Accordion
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
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
"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/
[OT] FT: #SpaceX handed lowest possible ESG rating by MSCI - Triple C score puts Elon Musk's company on par with Russia after 2022 invasion of Ukraine https://www.ft.com/content/a0dd4ea7-ef3d-4
Weil ich gerade sehr merkwürdige Follower kriege und es ja wohl auch eine Schwemme an (schlafenden) Fake-Accounts gibt:
Accounts ohne Bio und ohne irgendwelche Beiträge, anhand derer ich erkennen kann, dass es sich um eine echte interessierte Person handelt, entferne ich.
Bei Gelegenheit werde ich diesen Sommer in den Ferien auch mal aufräumen und inaktive Accounts rauswerfen.
Manche sind nach 2022/23 ganz offensichtlich einfach weitergezogen.
FreeBSD rescue(8) lacks instructions for users of root-on-ZFS:
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=rescue&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-current> (2022)
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Elliott Smith:
🎵 Baby Britain
#ElliottSmith
https://loganlynn.bandcamp.com/track/baby-britain-elliott-smith-cover-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/3pwj90XGAD6I0jO3q6fkCx
🇺🇦 #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
from my link log —
Commodore 64 Theremin.
https://www.linusakesson.net/hardware/theremin/
saved 2022-08-31 https://dotat.at/:/4O…
RE: #AltText.
Color Therapy. Noisy evolution.
Two snapshots of my piece C-SCAPE, 2022, a multi-organism 1.5D cellular automata simulation. Patterns of symbiosis and annihilation.
Made with #CSCAPE
Former Disney CEO Bob Iger rejoins Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital in an advisory role; he served as a venture partner at Thrive in 2022 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/bob-iger-returning-to-joshua-kush…
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…
Seeing Inside the Storm: Improving Nowcasting by Integrating Meteorological Drivers
Minghui Qiu, Jun Chen, Lin Chen, Weifeng Chen, Shuxin Zhong, Zhidan Liu, Yu Zhang, Kaishun Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24067 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.24067 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.24067
arXiv:2605.24067v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Most nowcasting systems, built on radar reflectivity, focus on current precipitation, ignoring the atmospheric precursors -- such as low-level convergence, turbulent eddies, and latent heating -- that offer a fleeting window to foresee storm birth. We introduce MeteoLogist, a physics-inspired radar intelligence framework that models the full life cycle of convection -- from its precursors to organized storm evolution. However, exploiting these precursors is non-trivial: they originate from multiple meteorological drivers -- thermodynamic, kinematic, and microphysical -- that evolve asynchronously (C1) and remain spatially fragmented (C2). To this end, MeteoLogist designs three tightly integrated components. The Physics-Tailored Encoders process radar echoes according to their intrinsic physical scales and semantics, forming thermodynamic, kinematic, and microphysical streams that capture distinct dynamical regimes. The Temporal-Phase Aligner addresses C1 by leveraging causal temporal attention to capture when and how different drivers interact and activate. The Cross-Field Spatial Aggregator addresses C2 through cross-regional fusion, aligning weak and scattered precursors across neighboring cells to expose upstream triggers and enforce spatial coherence. Evaluated on 3D-NEXRAD (2020--2022, US-wide), MeteoLogist boosts high-impact detection (CSI40) by 9.7% over strong baselines, and achieves a remarkable 37.67% gain during the storm-developing stage -- demonstrating true foresight in sensing storms before they appear. The code can be found in the supplementary material.
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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 …
from my link log —
jlibtool: A replacement for libtool written in C.
https://github.com/alandekok/jlibtool
saved 2022-08-03 https://dotat.at/:/TN3…
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 23.04.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 40. Atombombe "Muscovy". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
from my link log —
Someone’s been messing with Python’s floating point subnormals!
https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-with-my-subnormals.html
saved 2022-09-06
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
from my link log —
If multicast is the answer, what was the question?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09029
saved 2022-11-23 https://dotat.at/:/K9DVS.html…
#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
"Arizona Supreme Court upholds anti-dark money law passed by voters in 2022" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=156986
from my link log —
C23 is coming: here's what's on the menu.
https://thephd.dev/c23-is-coming-here-is-what-is-on-the-menu
saved 2022-08-05