Bitcoin rises above $80K after jumping 20% last week, its biggest three-day gain since 2023; US spot bitcoin ETFs had $1.92B in net inflows last week (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/bitcoin-price-near-80000-cryptocurrency…
Die Temperatur des Nordatlantik ist inzwischen fast so hoch wie in 2023. Es ist wirklich beängstigend.
https://norden.social/@carbonwoman/113655977792201490
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
445 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
445 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…
Over the past three years, the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen an average of some 47% per quarter.
That is a 13-fold drop every year
– a faster rate than any other transformative technology in history.
https://epoch.ai/publications/the-plunging-…
Sources: Hugging Face has been exploring a sale that could value it at $13B , up from $4.5B in 2023, and has been working with a bank to gauge bidders' interest (Katie Roof/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/hugging-face-could-be-acquired-1…
#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
"look, he ran a hedge fund on his own from 2017 to 2023 that went from $5 billion in assets to $577 million, lost 18 of his 20 investors during that period. "
Bessent's spotty history of financial management dredged up over new proposals - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/bessent-failures/
Just arrived, the result of a rabbit hole I went down recently.
Harich 'Communism without Growth' (1975 Ge, 2034 Sp)
Not available in English ttbomk, but I can read this translation.
Really interesting engagement with the Meadows Limits to Growth report, from the GDR. Parallel to another from Zagreb at the same time.
The quality of the bits I've read is great.
Verso UK should bring it out.
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 145 nodes and 2403 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
Yvonne Bloor habe ich kürzlich eher zufällig beim Notenstöbern entdeckt: Ihre Musik gefällt mir sehr gut. Studiere gerade "Wedding Song" ein (aus: Heartstrings. Collected Guitar Works, vol. 3). Das Stück gefällt mir sehr gut; hier spielt die Komponistin es selbst, großartige Artikulation und Phrasierung:
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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@… Anfang 2023 hab ich damit experimentiert. Hat Anfangs Spaß gemacht, wurde aber relativ bald sehr generisch.
https://www.dnddeutsch.de/zwie…
The Drone flights vs car break-ins chart in this article is fascinating: It shows a sharply declining rate of car break-ins, and then, as drone flights are introduced later in 2024, the rate of decline slows.
And "The SFPD increased patrols in bipping hot spots like Fisherman’s Wharf starting in 2023. Cops also started using bait cars and building cases against major bipping gangs. " And that correlates with the fastest rate of decline - good, old fashioned policing.
The Drone flights vs car break-ins chart in this article is fascinating: It shows a sharply declining rate of car break-ins, and then, as drone flights are introduced later in 2024, the rate of decline slows.
And "The SFPD increased patrols in bipping hot spots like Fisherman’s Wharf starting in 2023. Cops also started using bait cars and building cases against major bipping gangs. " And that correlates with the fastest rate of decline - good, old fashioned policing.
July was the second warmest on record globally, tied with 2024, and just behind 2023.
The global average temperature for July 2026 was 16.90°C, 0.67°C above the 1991-2020 average for July and 1.47°C above the estimated pre-industrial average for the month.
From https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-
In the summer of 2023, gearing up for his bid for a second term, President Joe Biden gathered with a cadre of wealthy donors at a $7.5 million mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut.
As the $25,000-a-seat fundraising dinner began, the president turned to thank his host:
Stephen Mandel,
a billionaire hedge fund manager and devoted Democratic donor.
“I wouldn’t be here, standing here as president of the United States, without a lot of you in this room,”
Biden told the…
BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023 (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/business/buy-now-pay-later.html
Over the last few weeks I've had a nice combination of vacation and some research using Bayesian Optimization (BO) for high harmonics generation. (Inspired by the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/press-release/ )
They …
João Donato – A Bad Donato (1970) (2023 Verve By Request) – Flabbergasted Vibes
Is this the Brazilian “Electric Mud”?
https://flabbergasted-vibes.org/2026/08/30/joao-donato-a-bad-donato-1970-2023-verve-by-request/
Might move Home Assistant to another device. It's getting memory hungry and has started to chew CPU a bit more with all my sensors. I have a Pi5 8GB with a Waveshare NVMe sidecar that's been sitting unused since I bought it in 2023, which seems like a fine target. Now is not the time to be investing in hardware!
Gartner nennt es das größte Infrastrukturprojekt der Menschheitsgeschichte. Man könnte es auch die teuerste Wette aller Zeiten nennen: Amazon, Alphabet, Meta und Microsoft haben seit 2023 über eine Billion Dollar in KI verbuddelt, meldet Bezmalinović bei heise online. Der freie Cashflow? Nur noch 7 Mrd. Dollar. #KI #BigTech
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
440 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
"We are like individual cancer cells becoming self aware of the situation" — that is actually a great analogy for the #ClimateEmergency
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens: Just Stop Oil!?: The Economic Foundation We Ignore | Frankly Archives 39 (2023)
Episode webpage:
Gold Finger (2023)
...actually, that mountain is called Schneck and is one of the most unique peaks in the northern Alps, here seen from the northern approach. For some other views see here:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111515716091637065
Contrary to whatever Daniel Laurie says, San Francisco is full again! You missed the window between 2019 and 2023, I promise there will be another one in just a little bit! (As I sit in a parklet reading the new book "City on the Edge")
Die Ars Elextronica (#aec) in #Linz habe ich seit Jahren nicht einmal mehr wahrgenommen.
Aber jetzt finde ich es spannend, nachdem eine Jury Forensic Architectur mit einer Nike ausgezeichnet hat, für "A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023"
Weil LH Stelzer darin Antisemitismus sieht, kommt er nicht zur Preisverleihung. Und der Leiter des AEC muss…
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
The federal court system will not give a youth-led constitutional climate lawsuit additional consideration
after a panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a petition to rehear the case before the full circuit.
Lighthiser v. Trump is one of a series of youth-led climate change lawsuits brought by Our Children’s Trust,
an Oregon-based advocacy law firm, which also successfully litigated Held v. Montana in 2023,
a landmark climate case that found the Mon…
Karin Kneissl, Ex-Außenministerin Österreichs, lebt seit 2023 in einem 400-Seelen-Dorf in der Region Rjasan. Im Interview beschreibt sie: In russischen Dörfern fehlt fast die gesamte Generation zwischen 15 und 50. Verbreiteter Alkoholismus, Mütter, die Schnaps statt Essen kaufen. Staatlicher Druck auf Frauen, mehr Kinder zu bekommen. Sie zählt die Folgen einzeln auf – über dem Sofa hängt Putins Porträt. Weggehen? Für sie „eine dumme Frage".
@… @… @…
Yeah, it's enough to require a backup, w…
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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Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
440 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 702 nodes and 11960 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
That feeling when your renderer can handle a component that outputs HTML inside link text in Markdown that’s embedded in HTML.
(Yes, I’m bragging.)
#Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech
A profile of Suno, which has been used by more than 100M people since 2023 and has 2M paid subscribers, as it faces copyright lawsuits from UMG and Sony Music (Bloomberg)
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
Scientists race to save Florida’s coral reef as El Niño heats the ocean
The waters off the coast of South Florida were already growing warm by late June
— ominously warm to Ken Nedimyer and other scientists and conservationists
still scarred by a devastating 2023 marine heat wave
that led to the worst mass coral bleaching event on record in the state.
Nedimyer, technical director for the nonprofit Reef Renewal USA,
and other colleagues kicked into gear. …
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
#ThursDeath this week is one I'm surprised I haven't done yet, Portland, Oregon's TORTURE RACK and their masterpiece of a record from 2023, 'Primeval Onslaught'.
https://listen.20buckspin.com/album/pr
@… @…
I'm using Qwant too.
It is temporarily unavailable fairly often for me. Do you see that as well?
August 2026 was the hottest on record globally, followed by 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The temperature was well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial.
From Copernicus ECMWF
#globalwarming #ClimateChange
Nakia Smith says he walked into a Far South Side Chicago police station to get a gun off the street.
Instead, he walked out in handcuffs.
Three years later, the 51-year-old anti-violence volunteer is set to go on trial Monday on gun charges that could send him to prison for decades.
Smith, a convicted felon, was arrested March 4, 2023, after officers found a loaded .45-caliber handgun in his coat pocket inside the Calumet District police station, 727 E. 111th St.
He sa…
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
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 145 nodes and 2403 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
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
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,…
#Steady #Klimacrew
Bereits im Jahr 2023 erregten zwei Anwälte in New York wegen Missbrauchs von ChatGPT Aufsehen. Sie hatten den Chatbot für die Anfertigung von Dokumenten für das Gericht benutzt und es unterlassen, die Ausgaben auf Korrektheit zu prüfen.
Kann man daraus nun etwas lerne…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
from my link log —
HVM: higher-order virtual machine, a massively parallel, optimal functional runtime in Rust.
https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM
saved 2023-03-07 htt…
A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved a $46.75 million settlement for victims of a 2023 data breach
at the genetic testing company 23andMe,
which exposed genetic and other personal information of an estimated 6.9 million customers.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Brian Walsh in St. Louis said the settlement was fair and equitable, and in the best interest of a trust overseen by the company's bankruptcy administrator.
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 515 nodes and 6379 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/alternative-social-media-ap…
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1488280 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Informal initiatives have been launched in recent years to address broader military uses of AI and autonomy,
such as for target generation and decision support.
One such effort is the Netherlands and South Korea-led REAIM
(Responsible AI in the Military Domain).
REAIM has held three international summits since 2023 to promote awareness and international engagement,
each generating important outcome documents.
The U.N. General Assembly has also entered thi…
from my link log —
ROCkN: Providing GPS-quality timing accuracy with portable optical atomic clocks.
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-01-20
saved 2023-10-05
Paxton’s former top law enforcement official endorses Talarico
David Maxwell, a former Texas Ranger decorated for his decades of service,
reported Paxton to the FBI in 2020 for alleged abuse of office to criminally help one of his donors
— an investigation that formed the basis of Paxton’s 2023 House impeachment.
Paxton was acquitted by the state Senate, and the Justice Department declined to pursue federal charges.
Paxton fired Maxwell and other OAG staffers …
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1446414 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
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:
ChatGPT is a bullshit generator.
To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit
-- Submitted by Alan Blackwell on Thu, 09/11/2023
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Die offizielle 1,5-Millionen-Marke ist geknackt. 😁
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1500720 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…