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This article just cited the Finnish Michaux study. There are others. The whole "industrial renewable energy capture systems" wager has inadequate foundations, which is why the only way is to use much less energy. Hence #degrowth See my article and linked report for the UK case.
Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil? - CounterPunch.org

Is There Enough Metal to Replace Oil?
A key issue for the accomplishment of renewables is power storage because of the impact of wind and solar intermittency, both of which are highly intermittent. Most studies assume gas will be the buffer for intermittency. Other than using fossil fuel such as gas as a buffer, an adequate power storage system to handle intermittency will require 30 times more material than what electric vehicles require with current plans, meaning the scope is much larger than the current paradigm allows.

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

Faster zlib/DEFLATE decompression on the Apple M1 (and x86)
DEFLATE is a relatively slow compression algorithm from 1991, which (along with its wrapper format, zlib) is incredibly widely used, for example in the PNG, Zip and Gzip file formats and the HTTP, …

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,157,400 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/15/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

from my link log —
ROCkN: Providing GPS-quality timing accuracy with portable optical atomic clocks.
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-01-20
saved 2023-10-05

A profile of Ivan Urgant, a popular Russian late-night TV host who became a pariah after his suspension in February 2022 for opposing the invasion of Ukraine (Paul Sonne/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/wo…

Ivan Urgant Was Russia’s Late-Night King Until Putin’s War in Ukraine
Ivan Urgant was an unstoppable Russian megastar. Then he expressed opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Stooges:
🎵 1969
#TheStooges
https://lp-hovercraft.bandcamp.com/track/2022-cover-of-the-stooges-1969

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,225,590 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/17/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

I finally deleted my Twitter account. Created in 2010, got a lot of security news value out of it until around 2022. Then something happened and I created an account on Mastodon and stopped posting at Twitter. Now the value became clearly negative, even for holding an old, inactive account.

"Marine protected areas expanded in 2025, but still far from 30% goal"
#Oceans #Environment

Marine protected areas expanded in 2025, but still far from 30% goal
In December 2022, nearly 200 nations committed to protecting 30% of Earth’s lands and waters by 2030. As of 2025, about 9.6% of the world’s oceans are now covered by marine protected areas, according to the latest global tracking data by the World Database on Protected Areas. This marks a 1.2% increase in 2025, up […]

from my link log —
Hardening snmalloc.
https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc/tree/release_docs/docs/security
saved 2022-05-10 ht…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Drones, incursions, infanterie… « La Russie est beaucoup plus dangereuse en 2025 qu’en 2022 », alerte Michel Goya - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/international/uk…

Drones, incursions, infanterie… « La Russie est beaucoup plus dangereuse en 2025 qu’en 2022 », alerte Michel Goya
Attention à ne pas sous-estimer la menace et la force de l’armée russe. L’ancien colonel Michel Goya met en garde : depuis le semi-ratage ukrainien en 2022, les troupes de Poutine se sont transformées.

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 …

"die neue außenpolitische Positionierung der #USA sei eine "zweite Zeitenwende". Die erste Zeitenwende hatte der damalige Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz 2022 nach dem Überfall #Russland|s auf die Ukraine ausgerufen und eine massive Aufrüstung der Bundeswehr angekündigt. " sagt

Deutsche Politiker besorgt wegen US-Sicherheitsstrategie
Mehrere deutsche Politiker haben besorgt auf die neue US-Sicherheitsstrategie reagiert. Sie werten sie als deutliches Zeichen einer Abkehr von Europa. Der CDU-Politiker Röttgen spricht von einer "zweiten Zeitenwende".

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#MashupChocolateAndFilms

Sequoia announces that Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will be elevated to firm stewards, succeeding Roelof Botha, who led Sequoia solo since 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/04/sequoia-capital-roelof-botha-pat-grady-alfred-lin

Sequoia Capital transitions to new leadership
Alfred Lin and Pat Grady will become Sequoia's new stewards.

📉 Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
#food

Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
As of 2022 alone, Filipinos were eating 2.3 million metric tons more rice than the country produced—an 18% shortfall that has locked the Philippines into deeper dependence on imported rice despite years of government programs to boost local harvests.

On the UK CPO Consultation (2022) - UK central government consulted on the operation of Compulsory Purchase Orders in England and Wales as will affect 16WW. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-2022-CPO-consultation.html

On the UK CPO Consultation (2022)
UK central government consulted on the operation of Compulsory Purchase Orders in England and Wales as will affect 16WW.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…

Robust forecast aggregation via additional queries
Rafael Frongillo, Mary Monroe, Eric Neyman, Bo Waggoner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05271
arXiv:2512.05271v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g. that even under natural assumptions, no aggregation of the experts' individual forecasts can outperform simply following a random expert (Neyman and Roughgarden, 2022).
In this paper, we introduce a more general framework that allows the principal to elicit richer information from experts through structured queries. Our framework ensures that experts will truthfully report their underlying beliefs, and also enables us to define notions of complexity over the difficulty of asking these queries. Under a general model of independent but overlapping expert signals, we show that optimal aggregation is achievable in the worst case with each complexity measure bounded above by the number of agents $n$. We further establish tight tradeoffs between accuracy and query complexity: aggregation error decreases linearly with the number of queries, and vanishes when the "order of reasoning" and number of agents relevant to a query is $\omega(\sqrt{n})$. These results demonstrate that modest extensions to the space of expert queries dramatically strengthen the power of robust forecast aggregation. We therefore expect that our new query framework will open up a fruitful line of research in this area.
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No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Bears elevate 2022 Raiders draft pick amid D'Andre Swift's injury https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/chicago-bears/news/bears-elevate-2022-raiders-draft-pick-amid-dandre-swifts-injury/05a03f6f6…

WTF with a burning marshmallow!!!
Here's a pair of stupid Cheeto appointed "judges" who wrote:
“The historical record makes unmistakably plain that open carry is part of this Nation’s history and tradition,”
These judges have absolutely no foundation for that statement.
The do not seem to comprehen that California was until 1822 part of Spain and until 1846 was a part of Mexico. Our traditions and legal history are quite different than that of the easte…

California's open carry ban unconstitutional, appeals court rules
Judge Lawrence VanDyke, a Trump appointee, said in the 2-1 decision that the state law could not stand under the Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark gun rights ruling.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#CheapSongsOrPoems

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
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

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Ukraine says it has now deployed 30K free physical security keys, called YubiKeys, including 22K to access battle system Delta, up from ~10K in April 2022 (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,151,070 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/09/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Olha que coincidência engraçada. Eu estou ouvindo os episódios do #RPGuaxa em sequência e, como não tenho muito tempo para essas coisas, estou muito atrasado. E o que eu peguei pra ouvir agora é justamente um episódio especial de Natal, só que antigo (acho que é de 2022) rs.
Ališs, pra quem curte RPG eu recomendo muito seguir o podcast "Realidades Paralelas do Guaxinim" do

Big thanks to @… for having me on his podcast. While I never actually went to Ottawa (though I have visited!), it has been quite a journey since landing on the Fedi in 2022.
The struggle continues to try to get our Canadian politicians to understand that *they* will drive viewers no matter what platform they're on.
Also, I am just one person. There are, thankfully, a whole bunch of people trying to accomplish the same goal!
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #Fediverse #DigitalSovereignty #Activism #Ottawa #Parliament

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
#NoseyNeighborASongOrPoem

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,179,790 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,209,880 troops in Ukraine since 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/02/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

I don't know if this is true for all #EpsteinFiles the #DOJ just released but at least for the PDF linked in the quoted Bluesky post:
1. Open PDF in MS Word
2. Select All (CTRL A)
3. Set text color to Automatic
4. Read on
#redacted #technology #incompetence #unprofessional