@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-08-26 14:42:03
from my link log —
Historical notes on computer word and byte sizes.
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2023-03/2023-03-07.html
saved 2023-03-08
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-08-26 14:42:03
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-29 12:01:26
Sources: People Inc is exploring the sale of The Daily Beast now that the site is profitable under new leadership, after initially trying to sell it in 2023 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/28/daily-beast-people-incorporated
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-07-26 19:58:44
"From "goat" to "despite": How the Words We Teach #English Language Learners Changed, and What That Says About Us" by Jasmine Nackash on The Pudding:
https://pudding.cool/2026/07/essential
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-21 22:25:55
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-…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-07-26 02:00:07
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
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com2026-07-26 00:15:44
@…
What I really want for sure is "The Jackpot" in print.
What I really want for sure is "The Jackpot" in print.
@exil_inselette@norden.social2026-06-26 06:30:10
ZwanzigFuckingDreiundzwanzig?!?!?!?!
https://innn.it/afdverbot?lid=ch5a1cz76tap&utm_kwd=260625 - SIGN - afdverbot - WINNER - FL - Batch 1
Wieso sind da erst 1,2 Mio Untersc…
@bibbleco@infosec.exchange2026-07-13 14:06:28
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.
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-09-02 18:26:25
Spotted owl is extinct in BC, province continues destruction
The Tyee reports on how the last known wild spotted owl in the forests of British Columbia died in 2023. The province and Canadian government never acknowledged the extinction of the spotted owl in Canada, and the Tyee notes that 2,600 other species, including caribou and western screech owls, are threatened with extinction in the province.
BC has repeatedly broken promises to protect old growth and just last month anno…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-06-26 21:31:07
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…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-06-26 21:31:07
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…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-07-29 12:26:31
Cowboys Given One Blunt Reason Not to Be Overlooked https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dallas-cowboys-blunt-reason-not-overlooked/
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-07-06 13:00:26
"Defra breached law when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Defra #Bees
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com2026-07-25 23:28:40
@…
I've read the Sprawl Trilogy several times and watched the Blade Runner movies several times too. And I love them.
Yet, it's hard to be excited about these two projects because they are being produced as series by the usual culprits.
Remember "The Peripheral" in 2022?
Cancelled after the 1st season - and it…
I've read the Sprawl Trilogy several times and watched the Blade Runner movies several times too. And I love them.
Yet, it's hard to be excited about these two projects because they are being produced as series by the usual culprits.
Remember "The Peripheral" in 2022?
Cancelled after the 1st season - and it…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-08-27 09:45:49
Despite the 2026 summer box office tracking to hit $4.5B, outperforming 2019 and 2023, total admissions through mid-August stand at 547.1M, below 2019's 795.9M (Bob Mondello/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5923629/movie-summer-box-office
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2026-08-25 19:29:27
Relive Dolly Parton's iconic Cowboys' Thanksgiving halftime show performance https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/08/25/dolly-parton-dallas-cowboys-halftime-show/91460640007/