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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

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
440 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/business/atlassian-te…

Atlassian Illegally Fired Worker in Rare Legal Victory for Tech Worker
A federal labor law judge determined last week that the software maker Atlassian had illegally fired an employee who questioned company policy changes.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
MFSB:
🎵 Love Is the Message
#MFSB
https://djkik.bandcamp.com/track/mfsb-love-is-the-message-reboost-dj-kik-re-edit-2023-master
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GbBfA4tgiCpNXHIEogoJP

A district court judge dismisses Trump Media and Technology Group's $3.8B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against WaPo; TMTG is considering an appeal (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20

Judge rules for The Washington Post in $3.8B defamation suit brought by Trump Media
The social media company failed to identify convincing evidence that The Post acted with actual malice, a federal judge in Tampa ruled.

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
440 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

In Chicago, the Deaf Will Sing Don Giovanni
Since we opened ASL-Opera.com in September 2023, one question has arrived more often than any other: how rare is it, exactly, for an opera company to present a foreign-language title in American Sign Language?...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07…

LwM output! 'We present a dataset of text from English-language newspaper articles that describe some sort of accident involving machinery. The articles were annotated by volunteers on Zooniverse between 2019 and 2023. The articles were selected from over 20 newspaper titles published between 1835 and 1920.' https://doi.org/10.23636/xrk4-45…

#TuneTuesday (Jul 7)
The Netherlands’ 🇳🇱 entry for #Eurovision 2023 was “Burning Daylight” by Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper. Maybe it’s because it’s not the usual kitschy Eurovision song why I like it a lot (and why it wasn’t in the final), but it actually reminds me of “Arcade” by Duncan Laurenc…

Sharp proper estimation of fixed-component Gaussian location mixtures in polynomial time
Hengzhi He, Guang Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12701 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12701 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12701
arXiv:2608.12701v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We consider a mixture of at most $k$ unit-covariance Gaussians in $\mathbb{R}^d$ whose means belong to a fixed-radius ball, with no separation or minimum-weight condition. Doss, Wu, Yang and Zhou (2023) proved that the minimax Hellinger risk is of order $\sqrt{d/n}\wedge 1$ and constructed a proper polynomial-time estimator with the slower general bound $(d/n)^{1/4}$; obtaining the sharp rate in polynomial time for fixed $k\geq 3$ was left open. We resolve this question. The key device is a moment-fiber range finder. A second-moment subspace controls the energy missed by projection. We then estimate finitely many one-free-index Hermite contractions. These vector-valued contractions recover every tensor component containing exactly one missed direction at the sharp $\sqrt{d/n}$ scale. Every remaining term contains at least two missed factors and is therefore controlled by the residual second-moment energy. The resulting subspace has dimension depending only on $k$. Exhaustive moment fitting in this constant-dimensional space produces a proper mixture and, together with the dimension-free moment characterization of Gaussian mixtures, achieves the optimal Hellinger rate in polynomial arithmetic time for every fixed $k$.
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Titans sign 2023 first-round pick Peter Skoronski to contract extension https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7366580/2026/08/07/titans-peter-skoronski-contract-extension/

from my link log —
Oops! We Automated Bullshit.
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit
saved 2023-11-17 https…

2023 war ich in Wien bei der #Regenbogenparade. Jetzt wurden die drei Männer veturteilt, die die Veranstaltung sptengen wollten.

Bryan Johnson,
a 48 year old American entrepreneur,
has made headlines for his outlandish anti-ageing techniques
-- spending millions of dollars in a bid to extend his life
and reduce his biological age to that of an 18-year-old.
Johnson refers to his Benjamin Button-esque ways as
‘Project Blueprint’,
meticulously taking 54 supplements a day,
eating every meal between 6am and 11.30am,
and following a strict exercise regimen.
In 2023, …

Billionaire who injected blood to live forever has incurable disease
Billionaire biohacker Bryan Johnson, aka the man determined to live forever, has revealed he has an incurable autoimmune disease.

ZwanzigFuckingDreiundzwanzig?!?!?!?!
https://innn.it/afdverbot?lid=ch5a1cz76tap&utm_kwd=260625 - SIGN - afdverbot - WINNER - FL - Batch 1
Wieso sind da erst 1,2 Mio Untersc…

2023 war ich in Wien bei der #Regenbogenparade. Jetzt wurden die drei Männer veturteilt, die die Veranstaltung sptengen wollten.

Gentle Giant "Give it Back" (2023 Steven Wilson Remix)

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Give It Back (Steven Wilson 2023 Remix) by Gentle Giant
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An wie vielen Tagen im Jahr ich überhaupt aufs Rad steige:
2020: 20 %
2022: 64 %
2023: 88 %
2024: 99 %
2025: 97 %
2026: 100 %
Das ist der Wandel, der mir selbst am wenigsten aufgefallen ist. Nicht weiter, nicht schneller. Nur keine Lücken mehr.
Irgendwann hat es aufgehört, eine Entscheidung zu sein.
#Radfahren

Reading "Singularity Sky" by @… .
Recently learned a bit about the Eschaton. Finally.
I'm now at the revolutionary dialectic exchange between Burya Rubenstein and Sister of Stratagems, the Seventh.
"Only sapient organism could exhibit superlative irrationally".
😬

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://

UK government data: ~35% of UK businesses with 10 staff report using AI, up from 12% in September 2023; average number of AI tools is 1.6, up from 1.4 in 2023 (Delphine Strauss/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/1ab00e18-995a-4cda-b76b-00ba6c043863

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

Faktencheck: Die „NPD Bayern"-Neugründung ist echt – aber Vorsicht. Das ist NICHT die alte NPD. Die benannte sich 2023 in „Die Heimat" um. Gegner der Umbenennung gründeten unter dem alten Namen eine Abspaltung (Schwarzbach, Ex-Hamburg). Der Verfassungsschutz nennt sie „deutlich neonazistischer" als Die Heimat. >600 Mitglieder bundesweit.
Ironie: Sie ehren Udo Voigt (†17.7.25) als „ihren" – der war bis zuletzt Vize bei der konkurrierenden Heimat.

Making Rust supply chain attacks harder with Cackle
Alex is a software engineer who has built a tool which she licences to her customers. She only has a small number of clients, but they like her tool. She built her tool using Rust, with about 20 direct dependencies from crates.io. When you count indirect dependencies, her tool has about 250 dependencies.
— by @…

Q&A with AG Sulzberger on the NYT's OpenAI lawsuit, the NYT's success, Trump's attacks on the press, how reporters at other outlets are self-censoring, and more (Katie Drummond/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-a…

Can the New York Times Save Journalism From Our AI Overlords?
In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

#ThursDeath this week is one man project GATEWAY from Bruges. This is some heavy, crushing shit from Belgium. What an LP this is. This is 'Galgendood' from 2023.
https://gatewayband.bandcamp.com/album

from my link log —
No vehicles in the park: a game about content moderation.
https://novehiclesinthepark.com/
saved 2023-06-24 https://dotat.at/:/1BJCD…

Just did very approximate calculations; with 10g of lithium per drone*, and assuming the Russian and Ukrainian drone efforts consume 5m units a year**, that'd be ~50 tons of lithium deposited into the environment per year, mostly within, let's say, 50km of the grey zone***. It's only about $20,000 / ton****, which means $1m of metal*****.
So to answer my own silly question: no, it won't be economically viable to scalp the top few inches of topsoil and extract the lithium from it.
* Roughly right for quadcopters / small FPV; larger and longer range ones will have more, so this is a bottom bound. (OTOH longer range UAVs will tend to use ICE kerosene rather than batteries
** Changing all the time as both sides try expanding production as fast as they can manage. Ua are scaling much faster at time of writing
*** Handwaving. Contact zone's hardly moved since early 2023; OTOH Ua are pushing range limits on small battery-powered form factor, saw a 60km claim for the Logistics Lockdown operation the other day
**** There was a big spike to the $70-8000 range in 2022; median price is closer to $10k than $20k
***** (IDK the chemistry but presumably it's in an exciting range of different compounds, depending on how many bits the battery was blown into, how hot / pressured the blast wave was a few tens of mm from the boom, what other stuff was in the vicinity that the lithium would combine with, etc etc.

Tyreek Hill says he has 'no power' in injured left leg 10 months after surgery https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7465986/2026/07/23/tyreek-hill-leg-injury-surgery/

UPLOAD-ANYON: Progress Towards an Optimised Twisted Anyon Cavity with High-Sensitivity AM-Noise Detection for an Ultralight Axion Dark Matter Search
Robert Crew, Emma Paterson, Maxim Goryachev, Eugene Ivanov, Pashupati Dhakal, Tugrul Talha Ersoz, Michael Tobar, Jeremy Bourhill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19225 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.19225 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.19225
arXiv:2608.19225v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a superconducting single-mode microwave haloscope based on helical cavity resonators for the detection of ultralight dark matter axions over the mass range $10^{-18}$ to $10^{-13}\,\mathrm{eV}$. Building on the single-mode helical-cavity concept introduced by Bourhill et al. [Phys. Rev. D 108, 052014 (2023); arXiv:2208.01640], we use an inverse-design framework to develop practical resonator geometries compatible with superconducting niobium fabrication. The optimisation employs a figure of merit derived to minimise the measurement time required to achieve a fixed experimental sensitivity. Relative to the heuristic M\"obius-geometry benchmark, the best subtractively manufacturable bulk-niobium design achieves a figure of merit more than three orders of magnitude larger. An experimentally informed microwave interferometric readout model, incorporating measured electronics noise and active suppression of pump amplitude noise, is used to project the sensitivity of the proposed experiment. For an acquisition time of three months, the haloscope is projected to reach $g_{a\gamma\gamma}<10^{-11}\,\mathrm{GeV}^{-1}$ across more than four orders of magnitude in axion mass. The projected sensitivity extends approximately one order of magnitude below the current exclusion limits set by CAST, providing a practical pathway towards a high-sensitivity direct search for ultralight dark matter axions.
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Amazon says its business sales unit, Amazon Business, reached $60B in annualized gross sales in Q2, up ~71% from 2023, and serves 11M organizations worldwide (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können

Neo-Nazi Leader Admits Civil Rights Violation In 2023 New Hampshire Drag Queen Story Hour Protest [Video] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/07/neo-nazi-leader-admits-civil-rights-violation-in-2023-new-hampshire-drag-queen-story-hour-protest-video/

Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können

from my link log —
The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines. A “Miyake Event” would be far worse.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/
saved 2023-09-11

The Carrington Event of 1859 Disrupted Telegraph Lines. A “Miyake Event” Would Be Far Worse - JSTOR Daily
We don't know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past—while posing a threat to our future.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117015434798858894
Still laughing about this, the Anthropic chatbot saw the system date is 2026 and concluded that "this must be staged" (because the training data it's trained on probably ends in 2023 or whatever) and ignored the instruction that "you're in sandbox".
Truly the brightest minds of a generation working on this stuff. A veritable techbro brains singularity.

Vanaf zaterdag geen scheepvaart op Twentekanaal vanwege droogte | Transport Online
https://www.transport-online.nl/133012/vanaf-zaterdag-geen-scheepvaart-op-twentekanaal-vanwege-droogte/ (2026)
Weet u het nog? Paar jaar geleden vond iemand t nog een goed plan om er een SMR neer te zetten.... 🙃
Kleine kerncentrales in Twente? Klimaatminister legt bal bij gemeenten en provincie - 1Twente
https://www.1twente.nl/artikel/3242978/kleinschalige-kerncentrales-in-twente-klimaatminister-legt-de-bal-bij-gemeenten-en-provincie (2023)
(Dat gelijk duidelijk was dat de locatie totaal niet geschikt was, was geen reden om gelijk te stoppen met dat plan..)

Changes in Pluto’s Atmosphere Based on Stellar Occultation Data from 2017 to 2023: #Pluto

Patrick Frei, député UDC en Argovie, en détention préventive, fait l’objet d’une enquête pour multiples tentatives de meurtre, viols aggravés et actes sexuels avec des enfants. L’affaire a éclaté après la découverte d’un flagrant délit par la mère d’une victime en septembre 2023. La victime avait 15 ans.
https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/suisse-alemanique/prison-a-vie-requise-contre-un-ex-depute-udc-accuse-d-avoir-drogue-et-viole-plusieurs-femmes-et-une-mineure

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

#Tatort - Azra - #ARD #ORF
#krimi #crimi #Sonntagskrimi