2026-02-19 01:14:45
Going back to listen to some of my favorite records from 2023 and 2024 and wow. Hell yeah. Haven't heard this stuff in years now and it holds up 😂
Going back to listen to some of my favorite records from 2023 and 2024 and wow. Hell yeah. Haven't heard this stuff in years now and it holds up 😂
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
'Fly, Eagle Fly': Jonathan Jones flies himself to Philadelphia to sign contract https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7129866/2026/03/18/eagles-cb-jonathan-jones-pilot/
In January 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti announced in a memo to staffthat the company was making a hard pivot to AI — years before the word “slop” was added to the public lexicon.
In the memo, which was published roughly two months after OpenAI unveiled its groundbreaking ChatGPT chatbot, Peretti said BuzzFeed would be using the software to enhance the company’s infamous quizzes by generating personalized responses.
The company’s stock price jumped aggressively, from around $3 …
Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Half of the world's coral reefs suffered major bleaching during the 2014–2017 global heat wave, estimates suggest https://phys.org/news/2026-02-world-coral-reefs-major-global.html
from my link log —
SIEVE is simpler than LRU.
https://cachemon.github.io/SIEVE-website/blog/2023/12/17/sieve-is-simpler-than-lru/
saved 2024-01-03
Outtake, which uses autonomous AI agents to help companies detect and remove cyberthreats, raised $40M led by Iconiq, after a $16.5M Series A in April 2025 (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/28/outtake-cyber-openai-ai-raise.html
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 238 nodes and 3755 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
A live view of the #ArtemisII stack on the pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrPD7tfcr0 - where the countdown for the Wet Dress Rehearsal has begun at 1:13 UTC; see https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/31/countdown-begins-for-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal/ for the timeline and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/generalprobe-wet-dress-rehearsal-fur-artemis-ii/ for maaany Artemis-related links going back to 2023.
Erster OLED-Monitor fällt unter 400 Euro
PC-Monitore mit farbstarken OLED-Bildschirmen kommen in der Mittelklasse an. Die Preise sind seit 2023 erheblich gesunken.
https://www.heise.de/news/Erster-OL…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comPHEW! Terminé con cinco minutos restantes.
Here's my short essay from my test. It's about AI, and the impact of technology in general. Go easy on me. (Actual proper citations were not needed)
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La tecnología mšs importante en la sociedad actual es el inteligencia artificial, IA, o el acrónimo inglés, “AI”.
“AI” es una tecnología relativamente nueva. Él aparecí al comienzo del ano 2023 y cambió ršpidamente la manera que los personas en línea buscaban y creaban. Realmente, “AI” no esta inteligente, mejor dicho uno modelo de lenguaje grande, “LLM” en inglés. LLM significa que los ordenadores que les alimentan no usan razón, pero los intentos a predecir una respuesta de una pregunta o mensaje en función de los patrones de palabras y mensajes en les bancos de datos.(1)
La tecnología ha contribuido en gran medida al progreso del sociedad. La tecnología agrícola lo hizo posible para humanidad a crecer y cambiar de nómada a creer asentamientos y eventualmente ciudades mas grandes. La hecha posible a usar recursos del medio ambiente en nos sociedades. Pero la tecnología ha creado grandes problemas también como desigualdad o cambio climštico.
Yo creo que, en la mayoría de situaciones, la tecnología es una fuerza positiva en la sociedad. Las problemas son creado por los personas sin moralidad, a menudo para la acumulación de la riqueza, influencia, y autoridad. Si la población puede mantener la influencia democrštica para reglamentar la tecnología, como la AI, para el beneficio de la población y los individuos, entonces la tecnología puede contribuir a la progresión de la sociedad.
Finalmente, si los individuos son compasivos y respetuosos, la tecnología reflejarš esa también.
1: “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity” #español
Apart from developing a 1st offshore storage site, Denmark awarded subsidies💶 in tenders. Those came with a catch: deliver on time - or face penalties. The winner of the first tender in 2023, Ørsted with two bioenergy🪵🔥 plants, is already struggling with delays.
In the last round, 9 of 10 preselected applicants dropped out, all of them bioenergy🪵🔥 or waste-to-energy🗑️🔥 plants. Did I say 9? Well, 9 announced it, but one mystery🔮 bidder decided to un-drop out. The tender ended with two b…
Diarycast - Year In Review (2023) - The rollercoaster thrills and spills of 2023 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview - https://www.
"2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https:/…
'What Did We Do?': Black Truckers Say They Were Denied Service Before White Server Called Cops to Remove Them from South Dakota Denny’s Restaurant Allegedly Because of Their Race
https://atlantablackstar.com/2023/09/05/dennys-is-under-fire-again-for-allegedly-refusing-to-serve-two-black-men/
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1290226 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
The Federal Court of Appeal delivered two major environmental victories last month. The court found former Fisheries and Oceans Minister Joyce Murray was “procedurally fair and reasonable” when she did not renew licences for open-net salmon pens in the Discovery Islands in 2023. The same court found that the federal government acted well within its purview when it listed plastic manufactured items as “toxic” under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act in 2021.
TIL: DIN 2137-01:2023-08 aka „Erweiterte Tastaturbelegung 1“ [de-E1].
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E1_(Tastaturbelegung)
@axbom@axbom.mePSA: Part of the ongoing #ThingUmbrella maintenance and migration to #Codeberg, I've written a script to batch delete 20600 tags from the Git repo[1], basically any release tags older than 2023-01-01. There're still ~4600 tags remaining, covering all releases since that date. This in…
I noticed only now that the ubiquitous Costa Coffee in Poland is no longer owned by Coca Cola, it's French since 2023 (Lagardère).
From our classic "No Logo" nemesis to a billionaire-controlled #copyright cartel: not sure how I feel about it.
It's one of those chains where a #vegan g…
The Spectator reports a pre-tax loss of £6.6M in 2024, up from a loss of £6.9M in 2023; its 15-month sale process cost the weekly news magazine £11.4M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business…
I am thinking that we are getting close to a domestic version of the March 31, 2004 Fallujah ambush but with ICE goons in lieu of Blackwater goons.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iraqi-ambush-americans-made-mockery-mis…
from my link log —
Mac keyboard layout configuration with hidutil.
https://amitp.blogspot.com/2023/04/mac-keyboard-with-hidutil.html
saved 2023-04-13
Hier mein Versuch einer Rezension zu Ian McDonalds Buch Hopeland (2023) (climate fiction meets hopepunk meets near future SF meets magischen Realismus).
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/03/versuch-einer-rezension-zu-ian-mcdonald-hopeland-2…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
📢 Israel meldet Fund der sterblichen Überreste der letzten Geisel des Massakers vom 7. Oktober
Die israelische Armee hat im Gazastreifen die sterblichen Überreste von Ran Gvili gefunden. Er war die letzte noch vermisste Geisel, die am 7. Oktober 2023 von der Terrororganisation Hamas verschleppt wurde.
➡️
Grubhub plans to remove delivery and service fees on restaurant orders over $50 starting Feb. 2; Grubhub's US market share fell to ~4% in 2025 from 10% in 2023 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-…
Ministry - Goddamn White Trash (Official Music Video) - Premiered on 17 Aug 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8imYWda6MOs
Dutch far-right leader Wilders is losing ground. After his failed government coalition, followed by an election defeat for his PVV (going from 37 seats in 2023 to 26 in 2025), 7 out of his 26 MPs are now jumping ship. That leaves 19, half the number of 2.5 years ago.
https://nos.nl…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Ach sieh mal an.
Merz, als er zu Zeiten der Ampel noch in der Opposition war: Es drohe „Anfang nächsten Jahres ein Blackout“ (gemeint war 2023), falls die Regierung am Atomausstieg festhalte, nämlich wenn die Gasspeicher leer seien und die Leute auf Stromheizung umsteigen würden.
Und, wurden die Gasspeicher leer?
Aktuell hingegen - wo Merz am Ruder ist:
https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Deutsche-Gasvorraete-reichen-theoretisch-noch-fuer-rund-sechs-Wochen-id30306387.html
Grundsatzurteil für den #Klimaschutz: Bundesregierung muss das #Klimaschutzgesetz nachschärfen
"Wir haben in allen Punkten gewonnen und der Präsident des Bundesverwaltungsgerichtes hat der Bundesregierung eine schallende Ohrfeige gegeben.“
J. Resch,
DUH-Bundesgeschäf…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2023: Paradise and the Peri
A rare chance to hear Schumann's opera-oratorio about the child of a fallen angel and a mortal who makes a sequence of offerings to the guardians of Paradise.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002s4zr
Ein Klassiker, den man oft bei WordPress-Blogs sieht: Das Datum in der URL🫣
domain.de/2023/10/mein-artikel
Das wirkt im Moment logisch, ist aber langfristig Gift. ☠️
Wenn man den Artikel 2026 aktualisieren will, steht da immer noch "2023" in der URL.
Das signalisiert dem Nutzer in den Suchergebnissen sofort: "Alter Kaffee."
URL ändern heißt Weiterleitung bauen (nervig).
Deshalb: URLs immer zeitlos halten (/mein-artikel). Dann bleibt der…
Currently retrieving my old blog.rmendes.net data from the internet archive 2020-2023 with the intent to migrate it to this place !
i find it extremely annoying that MacOS 26 screwed up folder icon caching. (2023 M3 iMac w/ 24 GB of RAM and no memory pressure)
this happens not every time but multiple times a day
#GrumpyOldMan
#monsterdon alert!
Full List of 10 US Nuclear Scientists Who Have Mysteriously Vanished or Died Since 2023 as White House Launches Probe
#IBTimes UK so like it's gotta be true …
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/white-house-investigates-scientist-deaths-disappearances-1792020
Call for Participation für den transform_D Summit (18. bis 19. Juni 2026 in Berlin)
Der transform_D Summit 2026 lädt Innovator:innen der Zivilgesellschaft ein, eigene Impulse einzubringen. Ob Digitalisierung, gesellschaftlicher Zusammenhalt oder Klimaschutz – auf der Bühne habt ihr die Chance, Akzente zu setzen und eure Themen mit nachhaltigen Lösungen in einem 60-minütigen Format zu präsentieren.
Bewerbungsphase bis zum 23. 01. 2026
The article is from a few years ago, but the problem still persists. The Robert Roberson case in Texas is a perfect example. "Everybody knows" that shaken baby syndrome kills kids. But the reality is that the science isn't settled. But it's painfully difficult to break the throttlehold that some things have on the court system.
Each year, about 400,000 international students are granted study visas to the UK. A significant proportion do so with the help of education agents: middlemen paid by universities to find foreign students. In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents - but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.
Quote from “Kaine & Rubio Applaud Adoption of Their Amendment to the NDAA to Prevent Any U.S. President from Leaving NATO” 19 July 2023:
https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/k…
Many Amazon climate disasters are missing from official records, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/many-amazon-climate-disasters-are-missing-from-official-records-study-finds/
Insider Predicts What It Will Cost For Cowboys To Re-Sign Brandon Aubrey https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/brandon-aubrey-contract-george-pickens/
Over 30yrs, immigrants produced a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion, including $6.3 trillion from non‑citizens.
They reduced U.S. budget deficits by about 1/3rd over that period.
- Cato Institute, Libertarian think tank
✅ Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023 | Cato Institute
Diarycast - Year In Review (2023) - The rollercoaster thrills and spills of 2023 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview - https://
Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to Facebook and Instagram as the Online News Act is put on the table as part of trade negotiations with the US (Marie Woolf/Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/a
Sources: Ledger is working with banks on a US IPO that could value the French cryptocurrency company at more than $4B; it was valued at $1.5B in 2023 (Financial Times)
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com2025 was third-warmest year on record, research shows https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/2025-was-third-warmest-year-on-record-research-shows/
from my link log —
Bounded flexible arrays in C.
https://people.kernel.org/kees/bounded-flexible-arrays-in-c
saved 2023-01-24 https://
"Germany’s heat pump public discourse is positive but volatile"
#Germany #HeatPumps #Energy
Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können
Shot ...and chaser (and it's only Tuesday): Two new 8x6" prints done over the weekend, from one of my fave repeat hikes in the Allgäuer Alps...
Alpsee and view into the Lechtal Alps (November 2021)
Himmeleck mountain pass with Großer Wilder (October 2023)
I find the aesthetics of the Kallitype process are so nicely complementing the timelessness of these places...
For some of the next prints I will be switching to Rochelle salt as developer for supposedly even…
Canada says it is talking to Meta to restore news to Facebook and Instagram as the Online News Act is put on the table as part of trade negotiations with the US (Marie Woolf/Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/a
China's Green Methanol Industry is racing ahead 🇨🇳🌱⚗️🏎️
Many expect that Green Methanol is the future clean shipping fuel🚢⛽, as well as a promising feedstock for sustainable aviation fuels✈️ & fossil-free plastics🧴
In 2023, something happened in China🇨🇳.
Suddenly, announcements for Green Methanol production plants started appearing. They had one thing in common: they were huge💪. 500,000 tons here, a million tons there🏭🏭🏭
Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023) - Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady -
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
from my link log —
The linguistic registers of Rust.
https://without.boats/blog/the-registers-of-rust/
saved 2023-03-08 https://
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comNYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/mam…
Filings: WBD projects CNN will generate $1.8B in revenue and $600M in adjusted EBITDA for FY 2026; docs show CNN had revenue of $2.2B in 2021 and $1.8B in 2023 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
In opening statements in New Mexico's suit against Meta, state prosecutors argue Meta misrepresented the safety of its platforms, as Meta's attorney pushes back (Morgan Lee/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-new-mexi…
Texans pick up 2027 fifth-year options for C.J. Stroud, Will Anderson, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-cj-stroud-will-anderson-contracts/
from my link log —
Open Props: sub-atomic CSS.
https://open-props.style/
saved 2023-10-14 https://dotat.at/:/IXDBZ.html<…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comWie haben die verheerenden #Waldbrände in den borealen Wäldern 2023 unsere Umwelt beeinflusst? 🔥🌲
Die Feuer in #Kanada setzten rekordverdächtige Mengen an #Kohlenstoff frei und beeinträ…
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 105 nodes and 1426 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
Shares of Zoom jump 10% after analysts at Baird estimated that Zoom's 2023 investment in Anthropic could be worth $2B to $4B, depending on dilution (Nate Wolf/Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/zoom-anth
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com#vereinfachteSprache
Im Jahr 2023 loderten verheerende #Waldbrände in den nördlichen Wäldern. 🌲🔥
Diese Brände setzten sehr große Mengen #Kohlendioxid frei und versch…
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
A federal jury in Phoenix ordered Uber to pay $8.5M to a passenger who said a driver sexually assaulted her in 2023, the first case where Uber was found liable (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/busines
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comDas #Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat entschieden, dass das #Klimaschutzprogramm der #Bundesregierung aus dem Jahr 2023 nicht ausreicht, um die gesetzlichen Ziele bis 20…
Duna, a European fintech making AI-powered identity and compliance tools for banks, raised a €30M Series A led by CapitalG, bringing its total funding to €40M (Tim Barnwell/Silicon Republic)
https://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/european-fintech-st…
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
from my link log —
Normalcy bias: it's not cool to overreact.
https://www.okdoomer.io/its-not-cool-to-overreact/
saved 2023-08-22 https://
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comTrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023 (Alistair Barr/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-isnt-killing-software-co…
#vereinfachteSprache
#Deutschland erlebte 2023 viel #Regen und hohe Temperaturen.
Der Deutsche Wetterdienst sagt, dass 2023 das wärmste Jahr seit 1881 war. Es gab 20 Prozent me…
Cisco warns of critical SD-WAN bug that was actively exploited in zero-day attacks since 2023, as CISA and international partners issue emergency directives (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu