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from my link log —
Do not taunt happy fun branch predictor.
https://www.mattkeeter.com/blog/2023-01-25-branch/
saved 2023-01-25 https://

Chambers has said that he has known since 2015 that he was on the US federal government’s radar,
due to activism against police in Atlanta.
A self-described communist and anti-imperialist, he is heir to one of the richest families in the US,
the owners of Atlanta-based Cox Communications.
He sold stock back to his family worth about $250m in mid-2023 and since then has been funding an estimated 100 projects in 20 countries, Schnabel said.
She said that includes,…

Wife of US heir and activist donor on fighting his extradition to US: ‘It’s incredible that this can happen’
Stella Schnabel says Trump administration is falsely accusing James ‘Fergie’ Chambers of contributing to Hamas

Connie Chan Rocks. Thank you Nancy Pelosi-- good pick to endorse for your seat.
Connie Chan represents the Internet Archive district in San Francisco, and got unanimous support for: Digital Library Rights, and Internet Archive Day resolution in 2025, and got the Internet Archive Hero award in 2023!

Der https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/ enthält jetzt auch die Daten von 2025. Wie immer belegen die Zahlen den Erfolg der "Vision Zero Fortschritt" der Petrolköpfe und Auto-Ideologen. Schwerverletzte leicht Rückläufig, Tote und Leichtverletzte gehen weiter rauf. Der Straßenterror bleibt …

The first half of the summer was the hottest on record here in the central Netherlands (1901-2026)

I'm technically not a manager but I'm juggling enough things at work right now that I've just set up the second calendar, one of my favourite ways to give the impression of having ducks in a row https://lornajane.net/posts/2023/managers-secret-second-calendar
(One of the ducks is a chicken, and the row was inspired by a fractal, but I'm getting there)

Navigating Cross-Border Data Transfers in the ASEAN Region: An Analysis of Developments from 2023 to 2026
https://fpf.org/blog/navigating-cross-border-data-transfers-in-the-asean-region-an-analysis-of-developments-…

RE: https://flipboard.com/@aljazeera/middle-east-news-oapkqap7z/-/a-ZpdrFSfMRYG5FIWpd6WQ1w:a:3199698-/0
Oct 7th, 2023?
Try May 15th, 1948.
78 years of settler colonialism, ethnic clean…

I wish #mypy would slow down with adding new features to mypyc, and instead focused on fixing the train wreck that mypyc is right now (since 2023 at least). Like, if your code crashes hard with assertions enabled, then it's broken, period. Ignoring proper testing and shoving the issue under the carpet doesn't make it right.
#Python

from my link log —
gefs: a good enough filesystem for Plan 9.
https://orib.dev/gefs.html
saved 2023-04-29 https://dotat.at/:/ZGRFE.html

Former Raiders WR Henry Ruggs denied parole nearly 5 years after deadly car crash https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/former-raiders-wr-henry-ruggs-denied-parole-nearly-5-years-after-deadly-car-crash-3…

A study of Waymo robotaxi data for 13.8M trips from August 2023 to December 2025: the share of miles driven with a passenger onboard climbed from 36% to 56% (Jonathan M. Gitlin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/06/robotaxi…

Autonomous vehicles were supposed to cut traffic—what if they don't?
Data shows Waymo's robotaxis are empty for almost half of the miles they drive.

Armenien wählt erneut den prowestlichen Premier Paschinjan – trotz massivem Druck aus Moskau.
Putins Favorit Karapetjan landet weit hinten .
Für Russland ein herber Rückschlag: Armenien entfernt sich seit der Ukraine‑Invasion zunehmend von Moskau.
2023 fiel die Unterstützung für Russland drastisch, weil Moskau Armenien in Bergkarabach kaum half.
#russland

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and first-time candidate,
defeated 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette on Tuesday in Colorado’s 1st Congressional District primary,
-- the latest signal that progressive momentum and backlash against the Democratic establishment are spreading nationwide.
“We won tonight, but this is also something so much bigger than this moment,”
Kiros, who was fired from the law firm Sidley Austin in 2023 for speaking out in support o…

Another Blow to Democratic Establishment as Melat Kiros Unseats 30-Year Incumbent in Colorado | Common Dreams
“We won tonight, but this is also something so much bigger than this moment," said Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist.

from my link log —
A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language.
https://github.com/annacrombie/meson-raytracer
saved 2023-11-19 https://

Tower of St. Mary Magdalene, Burgate, Canterbury | April 2023.
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #documentingplace

Designed-Source Reductions and a Dual-Purpose Feasibility Band for Semantic Rate-Distortion
Joss Armstrong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11280 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11280 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11280
arXiv:2606.11280v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The joint rate-distortion framework of Stavrou and Kountouris (IEEE Transactions on Communications 2023) characterises dual-fidelity tradeoffs for semantic communication on stochastic semantic sources. Many task-oriented communication systems instead use designed sources, where the semantic object is a deterministic oracle allocation $\phi^(t)$ rather than a stochastic quantity given by nature. We isolate the subclass of designed sources under smooth concave utility with assumptions A1, A2 and Euclidean allocation codomain, and restrict the encoder class to deterministic common-category mappings. Within this subclass the SK exponential-tilting decoder and generalised Blahut--Arimoto iteration specialise to conditional-mean decoding and Lloyd--Max stationarity on $\phi^(t)$. When the second fidelity is a monotone single-letter distortion, the joint problem stays inside the SK admissible class; the common-category SK rate is lower-bounded by the max of the corresponding Shannon rate-distortion functions, with equality only when the common-category reconstruction is compatible and RDF-optimal. When the second fidelity is aggregate verification, the joint problem leaves the SK single-letter class and admits a constrained-design feasibility band $R_{\min}(\varepsilon^) \leq R \leq R_{\max}(\beta^)$ of width $\log_2(K_{\max}/K_{\min})$ bits in partition cardinality. The reduction and the band are scope statements on the SK apparatus, not modifications to it. A smart-grid economic-dispatch example with a non-technical-loss-detection contrast illustrates the band.
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Footage of a French aid worker describing a mass grave holding
300 bodies in Gaza,
including small children allegedly killed with their hands tied,
has gone viral, reigniting international calls for accountability amid documented evidence of similar conditions at multiple Gaza hospital sites.
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor,
a Geneva-based human rights organisation,
has been systematically documenting mass graves across Gaza since October 2023,
recordi…

Euro-Med Monitor: Children With Bound Hands in Gaza Mass Graves
The UN demands independent investigations as international pressure mounts for insight into mass graves found at Gaza hospitals.

Former Raiders WR Henry Ruggs denied parole 3 years into prison sentence https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7351395/2026/06/11/henry-ruggs-parole-denied-nevada/

I wonder which version of the inerrant word of God they chose. The top 10 options (from Wikipedia):
"The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association release monthly and annual statistics regarding the popularity of different Bibles sold by their members in the United States. In 2023, the top 10 best-selling translations were the following:[19]
New International Version
King James Version
English Standard Version
New Living Translation
Christian Stan…

Texas makes Bible passages required reading for millions of public school students
Critics say mandating Bible reading for over 5m students breaches constitutional separation of church and state

I wonder which version of the inerrant word of God they chose. The top 10 options (from Wikipedia):
"The Evangelical Christian Publishers Association release monthly and annual statistics regarding the popularity of different Bibles sold by their members in the United States. In 2023, the top 10 best-selling translations were the following:[19]
New International Version
King James Version
English Standard Version
New Living Translation
Christian Stan…

Texas makes Bible passages required reading for millions of public school students
Critics say mandating Bible reading for over 5m students breaches constitutional separation of church and state

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Everything but the Girl:
🎵 Run A Red Light (6 Music Session, 19 Apr 2023)
#EverythingbuttheGirl
https://open.spotify.com/track/74ixyNYERpYysIIIjcYGBK