@Techmeme@techhub.socialTether says it has frozen $4.2B of its crypto token over links to "illicit activity", including $3.5B since 2023 and $61M linked to pig-butchering scams (Elizabeth Howcroft/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainabi…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Ordered dithering with arbitrary or irregular colour palettes.
https://matejlou.blog/2023/12/06/ordered-dithering-for-arbitrary-or-irregular-palettes/
saved 2026-02-27
@brian_gettler@mas.toThis Cyndi Lauper tune is probably my favorite track off this brilliant all Inuktitut cover album.
Elisapie, "Taimangalimaaq (Time After Time)" (2023)
https://elisapie.bandcamp.com/track/taimangalimaaq-time-after-time
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
A proposed fix for C/C relaxed atomics in practice.
https://lukegeeson.com/blog/2023-10-17-A-Proposal-For-Relaxed-Atomics/
saved 2023-11-05
@markhburton@mstdn.socialThe watercress dies down in winter but comes back in Spring. It's nearly ready. Here's how I grow it.
The solar watercress garden: how I made one | Uncommontater
https://uncommontater.net/2023/07/23/the-solar-watercress-garden-how-i-made-one/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialeBay says it plans to cut ~800 jobs, or ~6% of its full-time employees, after laying off ~500 people in early 2023 and ~1,000 staff in early 2024 (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-26/ebay-is-…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzAnthony Richardson landing spots: Which teams could pursue former No. 4 overall pick?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/anthony-richardson-landing-spots/
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialRoku reported an $88.4M profit in 2025, after a $498M loss in 2022, a $709.6M loss in 2023, and a $129.4M loss in 2024, boosted by new ad deals and cost cutting (Mark Maurer/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.pageDoes Order Matter : Connecting The Law of Robustness to Robust Generalization
Himadri Mandal, Vishnu Varadarajan, Jaee Ponde, Aritra Das, Mihir More, Debayan Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20971 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20971
arXiv:2602.20971v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Bubeck and Sellke (2021) pose as an open problem the connection between the law of robustness and robust generalization. The law of robustness states that overparameterization is necessary for models to interpolate robustly; in particular, robust interpolation requires the learned function to be Lipschitz. Robust generalization asks whether small robust training loss implies small robust test loss. We resolve this problem by explicitly connecting the two for arbitrary data distributions. Specifically, we introduce a nontrivial notion of robust generalization error and convert it into a lower bound on the expected Rademacher complexity of the induced robust loss class. Our bounds recover the $\Omega(n^{1/d})$ regime of Wu et al.\ (2023) and show that, up to constants, robust generalization does not change the order of the Lipschitz constant required for smooth interpolation. We conduct experiments to probe the predicted scaling with dataset size and model capacity, testing whether empirical behavior aligns more closely with the predictions of Bubeck and Sellke (2021) or Wu et al.\ (2023). For MNIST, we find that the lower-bound Lipschitz constant scales on the order predicted by Wu et al.\ (2023). Informally, to obtain low robust generalization error, the Lipschitz constant must lie in a range that we bound, and the allowable perturbation radius is linked to the Lipschitz scale.
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@cdarwin@c.imThe Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing
public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional,
affirming that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.”
The 2022 measure was enacted by the state’s Republican-dominated legislature over Democrat Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto.
It was struck down the next year by a lower court.
The state’s high court ruled the “Constitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funnel…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineKumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Amazon rainforest flipped to carbon source during 2023 extreme drought, study shows"
#AmazonRainforest #Environment
@usul@piaille.frVoyage rocambolesque ou bienvenu en Mongolie
https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2023/02/voyage-rocambolesque-ou-bienvenu-en.html
@jake4480@c.imPlaying that gross, grody Eternal Rot record from 2023 yet again
#NowPlaying
@waidler@bayerwald.socialRückblick 2. Januar 2023
#schnee #bayerwald
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyQ: How does the filling level of Dutch gas storages compare to that of previous years?
A: Not good.
@profcarroll@federate.socialNew Study: Evidence shows how X’s algorithmic feed is radicalizing its users toward the Right. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPeak XV, which split from Sequoia in 2023, raised $1.3B across new India- and Asia-focused funds, bringing its total assets under management to over $10B (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/20/peak-xv-rais…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeI hate how rapidly Intel EOL's CPUs.
Like, my office workstation has a pair of Skylake-SP's (Xeon Scalable Gold 6144) which were launched in Q3 17 and hit end of support in December 2023. That's only six years.
And Vtune 2024.x is the last version that supports it. I have to pin an old version of VTune to be able to do profiling now.
I know it's getting on in years now, but it's still a pretty decent processor (CPUMark per-core performance competitive wi…
@cdarwin@c.imThe unusual electronic and optical properties of #perovskites have long been touted as useful for improving solar cells and television screens,
but these materials have never quite hit the big time.
Existing approaches have hoovered up all the investment and attention, and perovskites remain confined to specialist applications.
Now researchers at Empa, ETH Zurich and the Politecnico…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Dave Okumu And The Seven Generations:
🎵 Blood Ah Go Run (6 Music Session, 8 Apr 2023)
#DaveOkumuAndTheSevenGenerations
https://daveokumu.bandcamp.com/track/blood-ah-go-run-ft-wesley-joseph-eska
https://open.spotify.com/track/691SRHwBq4pHvxhCQmJopY
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyHome Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023) - Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady -
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSources: Starz lays off 7% of staff, 10 months after separating from Lionsgate; it laid off 10% of staff in 2023 (Nellie Andreeva/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/starz-layoffs-post-separation-lionsgate-1236761926/
@jake4480@c.imReally missed hearing this billy woods record from 2023. His one last year was ok, but I dug Maps more. Been a few years. Wow. 🔥
#rap
@nemobis@mamot.frAjit Niranjan writes about the supposed decoupling in #Romania.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/is-romania-blueprint-economic-g…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com @tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineZugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA 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.
@cwilcke@bildung.social
@BugatellyMartin@troet.cafe
@qbi@freie-re.deErsten Band der #Biografie über Walter #Ulbricht beendet.
Ilko-Sascha #Kowalczuk hat da echt ein Meisterwerk abgeliefert. Sehr schade, dass er sich von Social Media verabschiedet hat.
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.sociali 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
@arXiv_csDS_bot@mastoxiv.pagePrune, Don't Rebuild: Efficiently Tuning $\alpha$-Reachable Graphs for Nearest Neighbor Search
Tian Zhang, Ashwin Padaki, Jiaming Liang, Zack Ives, Erik Waingarten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08097 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08097
arXiv:2602.08097v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vector similarity search is an essential primitive in modern AI and ML applications. Most vector databases adopt graph-based approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search algorithms, such as DiskANN (Subramanya et al., 2019), which have demonstrated state-of-the-art empirical performance. DiskANN's graph construction is governed by a reachability parameter $\alpha$, which gives a trade-off between construction time, query time, and accuracy. However, adaptively tuning this trade-off typically requires rebuilding the index for different $\alpha$ values, which is prohibitive at scale. In this work, we propose RP-Tuning, an efficient post-hoc routine, based on DiskANN's pruning step, to adjust the $\alpha$ parameter without reconstructing the full index. Within the $\alpha$-reachability framework of prior theoretical works (Indyk and Xu, 2023; Gollapudi et al., 2025), we prove that pruning an initially $\alpha$-reachable graph with RP-Tuning preserves worst-case reachability guarantees in general metrics and improved guarantees in Euclidean metrics. Empirically, we show that RP-Tuning accelerates DiskANN tuning on four public datasets by up to $43\times$ with negligible overhead.
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@relcfp@mastodon.socialPOSTDOCTORAL POSITION> University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies
https://ift.tt/NWaGujy
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
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@kurtsh@mastodon.socialOver 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSeahawks exercise fifth-year player options for Jaxson Smith-Njigba, Devon Witherspoon https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7135543/2026/03/20/smith-njigba-witherspoon-seahawks-fifth-year-player-option-nfl/
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialA new data release from Eurostat shows just how much the public #EV charging network in Europe has improved in recent years. A single charging point doesn’t make spring, but a network certainly does. More and more Europeans now have five or more charging points within a relatively short distance.
In much of north-western Europe, even within 3 kilometres. Coverage with multiple charging points i…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineEine neue Untersuchung zeigt, dass sich weltweit die Zahl der Tage mit hohem #Waldbrandrisiko seit 1979 fast verdreifacht hat.
2023 und 2024 traten über 60 solcher Tage auf. Forschende führen mehr als die Hälfte dieses Anstiegs auf die #Erderwärmung.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Cash App founder Bob Lee's 2023 killing fed into a narrative pushed by tech leaders like Elon Musk about SF's decline until an acquaintance was convicted (Shawn Wen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@jochenlingelba1@h-net.socialGerade passend zur #Ölkrise und #spritpreis Debatten: 1973 fingen manche Tankstellen an Fahrräder zu verkaufen..
Bild aus diesem schönen Bericht:
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngHoher Ifen (2023)
One of the most unique and geologically interesting and layered mountains in the Northern Alps, including the extremely karst Gottesacker (aka God's Acre, aka Cemetery) plateau with deep caves... one of the areas I'm hoping to explore further this year...
#MountainMonday
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDutch payments company Adyen reports H2 2025 net revenue up 17% YoY to €1.27B and forecasts 2026 net revenue growth at 20%-22%, vs 22.8% est.; ADYEN falls 15% (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/adyen-stock-price-earnings.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Office producer Ben Silverman's Propagate Content raised $50M from Ares Management at a $200M valuation, up 33% from 2023, as part of a creator-economy push (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/mormon-w…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialPOSTDOCTORAL POSITION> University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140643/postdoct…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com @cdarwin@c.imHarry Dunn was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal in 2023, the second-highest civilian honor, which was presented to him by former President Joe Biden.
"I once told Congress,
'I did my job, now you do yours,'"
Dunn says in his announcement video posted Wednesday.
"Well, I'm done waiting."
Dunn will face a crowded field for the Democratic nomination to replace Hoyer,
including established Maryland politicians Del. Adri…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The future of Clang-based tooling.
https://blog.trailofbits.com/2023/07/28/the-future-of-clang-based-tooling/
saved 2023-07-28
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJets to hire Frank Reich as new offensive coordinator: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7007779/2026/02/04/frank-reich-new-york-jets-oc/
@relcfp@mastodon.socialPOSTDOCTORAL POSITION> University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies
https://ift.tt/0GzPZnT
Slave subjectivities in the Iberian Worlds (15th- 20th centuries) Date: October 31,…
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@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Reducing Raspberry Pi 5's power consumption by 140x.
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/reducing-raspberry-pi-5s-power-consumption-140x
saved 2023-11-07
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn 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…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Argentinian president, Javier Milei,
is facing his lowest approval ratings since taking office in 2023
as newly published evidence allegedly reveals a
$5m financial agreement connected to his public endorsement last year of a controversial crypto project.
The scandal has tarnished crypto’s reputation across Argentina
and set back the ambitions of industry insiders who saw the country as fertile soil for the growth of digital money.
Milei’s promotion of…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Margaret Glaspy:
🎵 Act Natural (6 Music Session, 19 Sep 2023)
#MargaretGlaspy
https://margaretglaspy.bandcamp.com/track/act-natural
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IvHM9pA4qT5Uiu6bqRwGS
@relcfp@mastodon.socialPOSTDOCTORAL POSITION> University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion & The Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20140643/postdoct…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFormer Mercor staffers describe "operational mishaps" at the $10B startup, including employee fraud, a security breach, and suspected North Korean infiltration (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbe…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Alogte Oho and his Sounds of Joy:
🎵 La Ka Ba'a (6 Music Session, 19 Aug 2023)
#AlogteOhoandhisSoundsofJoy
https://alogteohoandhissoundsofjoy.bandcamp.com/track/la-ka-baa
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Y62CbvptkVHpq6OsmFceu
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Clark:
🎵 Town Crank (6 Music Session, 15 May 2023)
#Clark
https://clark.bandcamp.com/track/town-crank-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/7w77Bte17HghSNsC22mFXU
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
BC Camplight:
🎵 The Last Rotation of Earth (6 Music Session, 11 May 2023)
#BCCamplight
https://bc-camplight.bandcamp.com/album/the-last-rotation-of-earth
https://open.spotify.com/track/07MmMkkxvMpcc9uvfjj46i
