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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.
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Implementation strategies for mutable value semantics.
https://www.jot.fm/contents/issue_2022_02/article2.html
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Do you (sometimes) use print() or message() for debugging your code? Next time you can use {icecream} instead: #rstats

Ice Cream for R Programmers - Turtletopia: a blog about programming in R
Icecream is a tool which may serve as a more sophisticated replacement of using print while debugging.

"Fatih Birol said that Europe’s low electrification rate — electricity’s share of the energy consumed in the EU — of around 23 per cent is holding back the bloc’s competitiveness and economic “sovereignty”.
[..]
In a joint interview with Europe’s energy commissioner Dan JŸrgensen, both leaders said that Europe needed to electrify its economy faster after facing two energy crises in less than five years."

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

At least 80% of the world lives under light-polluted skies
—a figure that rises to 99% in America and Europe.
A paper published in Science found that between 2011 and 2022 the night sky grew almost 10% brighter each year.
With so many places awash with artificial light, people are increasingly seeking out the darkness.

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.

"Heat waves: Expert tips on redesigning UK homes to cope with hotter temperatures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

Heat waves: Expert tips on redesigning UK homes to cope with hotter temperatures
As the UK prepares for the third heat wave of 2026, most people will be hoping to keep cool at home. Building regulations to protect homes from overheating were introduced in 2022. These require all new homes to be checked at the design stage to see if they might be at risk of overheating. If the overheating risk is high, the architect has to make changes to the design.

🇺🇦 #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

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

„Drei Jahre lang - von 2022 bis 2025 - hatten die Forscher das etwa 3.500 Quadratkilometer große Einzugsgebiet der Unteren Spree zwischen Spreewald und Berlin untersucht.
Laut dem Bericht zählt die Region zu den wasserärmsten Gebieten Deutschlands. Die Grundwasserstände seien lokal seit dem Jahr 2000 um bis zu drei Meter gesunken.“
Genau hier baut Schwarz-Digits ein riesiges #Rechenzentrum

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 …

My favorite New Order performance in Los Angeles since '88.
(I wonder if being on the bill with the Pet Shop Boys nudged them to bring their A-game.)
▶️ New Order 2022-10-08 Los Angeles, Hollywood Bowl - Full Show 4K
https://youtube.com/watch?v=JPgymX2flVk&…

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

Washington’s battleground 3rd District is a high priority for both parties.
The district went for President Trump in 2024 while reelecting moderate Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
Gluesenkamp Perez, a centrist who was first elected narrowly in 2022 and has made a name for herself by sometimes breaking with her party,
successfully fended off primary challengers on Tuesday to advance to the November ballot.
Republican Braun, a retired Navy captain, won the other sp…

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.
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Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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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

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]

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

Spännande artikel om högerns historieskrivning av ekonomisk utveckling i Sverige - jag är, gällande ekonomisk teori, endast en taskspelare. Men jag tycker att många argument pekar mot en osund och selektiv historieskrivning. #svpol #ekonomi

„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.

First, 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…

Overtraining as the path to human-like AI