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from my link log —
Rust for Morello ARM CHERI: always-on memory safety, even in unsafe code.
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics/lipics-vol263-ecoop2023/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.39/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.39.pdf

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

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent
The rapid growth of pay-later loans raises questions about whether their popularity is driven by consumer preference or desperation.

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

"Rhossi, a rare sea turtle, recovers after 5,000-mile trek from Wales to Texas"
#US #USA #America #Turtles

Rhossi, a rare sea turtle, recovers after 5,000-mile trek from Wales to Texas
Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, near death on Welsh beach in 2023, is thriving in Houston despite lingering pneumonia

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.

Report: Seahawks CB Devon Witherspoon agrees to four-year, $132M extension https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-devon-witherspoon-four-year-132m-extension

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 …

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier "for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter"

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…

Gun case against Chicago anti-violence volunteer a 'travesty,’ former Education secretary says
Arne Duncan says volunteer Nakia Smith, arrested in a Far South Side police station in 2023, has been "fighting for the good." Smith, a convicted felon, says he was trying to turn in an unwanted gun to the police when he was arrested.

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!

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/

Prozess in NÖ - Terroralarm auf Wiener Pride: Zwei Schuldsprüche #News #Nachrichten

No i na razie tyle z tego, co istotne. Sprawa chyba jest rozwojowa.
Natomiast tutaj mój prywatny komentarz.
Do wczoraj nie miałem pojęcia, że taki festiwal istnieje. Stoi za nim zapewne niewielki sztab ludzi z ograniczoną ilością czasu i energii. Nie wiem, co się działo za kulisami i nie byłem w pokoju, gdy podejmowano decyzje.
Wiem natomiast, czym jest kanał Zero.
I dostrzegam tu ogromną dysproporcję sił. Spore imperium medialne z zasięgami wśród odbiorców z prawej strony sceny politycznej kontra jakiś mały event, na którym odbywa się dyskusja na temat, który u tych prawicowych odbiorców mógłby "zażreć".
I dostrzegam też, że to wszystko dzieje się w czasie, kiedy pod przychodnią aborcyjną AboTak w Warszawie ustawiają się anti-choicerzy i hałasują całymi godzinami. Prezydent Warszawy mimo licznych próśb nie chce rozwiązać zgromadzenia. Jeśli przejrzycie listę zarejestrowanych zgromadzeń publicznych[1^], to znajdziecie multum zgromadzeń na Wiejskiej 9 zgłoszonych na wiele tygodni do przodu.
I dzieje się to w czasie i okolicznościach, w której wiele kobiet jest zmęczonych i wkurwionych na to, że obecna ekipa rządząca zdobyła władzę w 2023 na postulatach związanych własnie z aborcją - jakieś 3 lata po wielkich strajkach kobiet z 2020 - i nie dowiozła żadnego. W efekcie jest tak, że mamy wybory za dwa lata i sondaże wskazujące na to, że prawica w jakimś kształcie dojdzie do władzy.
Więc w tym kontekście odwołana dyskusja o aborcji na festiwalu w pcimiu dolnym oraz obecność w tej historii znanego medium prawicowego wybrzmiewa znacznie mocniej i wyzwala zrozumiałe emocje.
I na koniec - dorzućcie się na kolektyw Legalna Aborcja. Stronę internetową już chyba będą miały, ale jakiś dodatkowy sprzęt pewnie im się przyda.
https://patronite.pl/z/stronaLEGALNEJABORCJI
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[1^]: https://bip.warszawa.pl/web/stoleczne-centrum-bezpieczenstwa/zgromadzenie-publiczne

Wir waren sehr glücklich mit der Abschlussveranstaltung unserer #Fachgruppe im Juni! Die Teilnehmer*innen haben die Veranstaltung moderiert, Vorträge gehalten und das Publikum befragt. Trotz der großen Hitze kamen gut 60 Gäste. Darunter Menschen mit und ohne Behinderung, Freund*innen der Fachgruppe, ehemalige Teilnehmende, aber auch Menschen, die beruflich im Bereich Inklusion arbeiten. Danke…

#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…

Anwälte: In Deutschland nichts dazugelernt.
KI im Anwaltsberuf: Warum ungeprüfte Schriftsätze gegen die Sorgfaltspflicht verstoßen können.

Cowboys’ Newly Cut Quiet Defender Sent Strong Message to NFL https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cowboys-josh-butler-sent-strong-message/

(YouTube, 2023) This seeming "reconstruction" is misleading: not reconstruction but rather neural signal pattern matching with video frame lookup https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zBZySKWAqA Seeing through the eyes of a mouse by decoding its brain signals.

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

After raising $51 million, Minimus shuts down as Twistlock founders return remaining cash to investors
The cybersecurity startup failed to gain enough commercial momentum to continue operating. Customers will have 60 days to migrate before the company's registry is switched off. 

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…

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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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:

@… @…: Letztes Posting von @… ist von 2023. Der Account scheint nicht …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
Aretha Franklin:
🎵 Save Me
#ArethaFranklin
https://titandavis2.bandcamp.com/track/titan-davis-vs-aretha-franklin-save-me-exclusive-remix-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mvKpoeI6sq6osDtSb9xcF

Panthers not ready to talk Bryce Young extension: 'His ceiling is currently unknown' https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-not-ready-to-talk-bryce-young-extension-his-ceiling-is-currently-unknown

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Stephen Sondheim, Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford & Sweeney Todd 2023 Broadway Company:
🎵 'A Little Priest' from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
https://open.spotify.com/track/2FQFo6HPO82LsdlcJeDJ4B

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Datagraver/117018780549451431
Ahh ... Degene die ik dus hoorde vertellen dat de EU-ETS markt faalt 'omdat de prijs onderuit gaat' was dus een jokkebrok die in 2023 was blijven hangen.
Waarvan acte...

"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/

Eagles signing defensive tackle Jalen Carter to 4-year, $152 million extension https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7475346/2026/07/28/eagles-jalen-carter-contract-extension/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Gotts Street Park:
🎵 Got To Be Good (6 Music Session, 27 Nov 2023) (feat. Pip Millett)
#GottsStreetPark
https://open.spotify.com/track/59QJsTw38Jj13WnR1qz1MC

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Isaac Hayes:
🎵 Theme From Shaft
#IsaacHayes
https://orenamram.bandcamp.com/track/isaac-hayes-theme-from-shaft-oren-amram-2023-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3126iwAXVfyNQDP5iW2OAr