@dichotomiker@dresden.network2026-08-18 12:27:05
#TIL vimeo staff picks still exist: https://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/staff-picks/
@dichotomiker@dresden.network2026-08-18 12:27:05
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-18 21:08:16
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,…
@paulwermer@sfba.social2026-08-14 11:43:07
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.
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2026-08-14 11:43:07
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.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-08-11 13:01:02
"Amazon deforestation alerts fall to lowest level since 2013, Brazilian data show"
#Brazil #AmaonRainforest #Trees
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-09-14 14:16:35
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…
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-08-07 15:44:13
Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada's record 2023 wildfire season, study finds #Canada
@arXiv_mathST_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-08-14 07:59:32
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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@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-09-10 05:19:02
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
@krone@frawas.de2026-07-14 12:55:21
Prozess in NÖ - Terroralarm auf Wiener Pride: Zwei Schuldsprüche #News #Nachrichten
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-12 21:08:24
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
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-08-07 13:00:05
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
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-23 19:20:34
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…
@jake4480@c.im2026-08-27 11:47:48
#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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-09-04 06:50:49
Magellan AI says BetterHelp is the top podcast advertiser of all time, spending $242M on ads since 2023; in 2025, its ad team worked with 1,500 creators (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-09-03/…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-07-11 06:08:01
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.
@Speckdaene@nrw.social2026-08-21 12:38:02
#Nordstadtblogger Netzwerk gegen #Antisemitismus #Dortmund organisiert Reihe zum 7. Oktober - Drei Jahre nach dem Terrorangriff der
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-08-12 14:06:50
Didn't get to see a total eclipse yet since I picked up astrophotography, but here's the annular one in 2023, as seen from Roswell, New Mexico.
Very simple setup with a professional-grade telescope solar filter film (from Baader) and a small handheld Nikon J5 mirrorless camera.
I would recommend NOT to use those cardboard eclipse glasses for photography, it's way too easy to get it wrong and ruin your camera sensor (or worse, your eyesight if you look through e.g. a DSLR and it accidentally slips).
If you don't really know what you're doing it's much better to just enjoy an event like this directly with the eclipse glasses on your face. (It's safe to look directly during totality, and totality only.)
There will be plenty of pictures!
#astrophotography
@stargazer@woof.tech2026-07-03 08:12:13
https://www.kalushstalbud.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/horodok-11-of-15-scaled.jpg
Ось так, поступово перебираючи (і маплячи) об'єкти КалушСтальБуд, дійшов до TBF Group. Яка в місті Городок (sic) Львівської області.
Якщо назва …
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-08-13 07:39:17
Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
Gregor Schubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11626
arXiv:2608.11626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study proposes that firms move along an "organizational technology ladder": adopting one technology transforms hiring and work processes and builds skills and organizational capital that change the cost of adopting subsequent technologies. I study how firms' adoption of remote work technology during the COVID-19 period shaped later uptake of generative AI. Using U.S. job-posting data and an instrumental-variables strategy based on predicted differences in labor-market pressure to offer remote work, I estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in remote hiring in 2021-2022 increases the share of job postings mentioning generative AI in 2023-2024 by 0.4 percentage points across firms and 0.7 percentage points across occupations within firms. I provide evidence on mechanisms consistent with a technology-ladder channel: remote work adoption shifts hiring toward technical and managerial capabilities that predict faster conversion of generative AI exposure into adoption. Firms with return-to-office mandates---interpreted as revealing low remote productivity---exhibit a substantially larger response of generative AI adoption to remote work, consistent with an organizational frictions channel.
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@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-09-09 10:00:18
"United Utilities fined nearly £1m after discharging raw sewage along Lancashire coast"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sewage
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-08-24 13:35:45
Minimus, a cybersecurity startup started by Twistlock founders, shuts down after failing to gain enough commercial momentum; Minimus raised a $51M seed in 2023 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bj0s5ikdmx
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-09-07 12:14:02
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-08 16:54:47
@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.
@primonatura@mstdn.social2026-07-31 13:00:28
"Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada's record 2023 wildfire season, study finds"
#Canada #Emissions #Wildfires
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-06-20 08:42:32
Climate alarm!
This is NOT within normal bounds for the Netherlands: the second half of June is now forecasted to become the warmest in 126 years, beating June 2023 by a margin of over 3°C!
24-hour average of 23.4°C, in this forecast.
@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-08-21 07:58:08
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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@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-09-06 12:14:01
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:
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-09-06 10:12:01
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
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-08-29 14:10:40
A compact transient meteor shower was detected during 2026 July 13-19 UT which may be related to asteroid 2023 VN9: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005700/CBET005732.txt -> New #MeteorShower Identifies #Asteroid as a Cloaked #Comet: https://www.seti.org/news/new-meteor-shower-identifies-asteroid-as-a-cloaked-comet/
@servelan@newsie.social2026-08-21 02:02:51
"PublicSquare, the MAGA-branded marketplace that launched with Donald Trump Jr. chanting "USA, USA" on the New York Stock Exchange floor in 2023, has all but collapsed, and the president's eldest son cashed fat checks the entire way down. [I]ts stock has cratered a jaw-dropping 99%. The New York Stock Exchange has also warned it may delist the company because of its poor performance."
Trump Jr. quietly banked $42k a month as MAGA Amazon bled dry: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-jr-2677741627/
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-07-31 20:20:13
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.
@Simone21@mastodon.social2026-09-08 14:13:42
Diese Nachricht deutete darauf hin, dass auch Netanjahu diesem Denkmuster folgt und lieber sein Volk opfert, wenn er dafür seine Macht behalten kann... von anderen Völkern ganz zu schweigen.
Was für ein Desaster!
#Putin #Netanjahu #TechBros #neueWege #gemeinsam #wegVomDualismus
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-08-21 05:13:26