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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.

#TIL vimeo staff picks still exist: https://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/staff-picks/

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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

Jets Predicted to Cut Former Cowboys’ 1st-Round Pick https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/cut-first-round-pick-mazi-smith/

@… Anfang 2023 hab ich damit experimentiert. Hat Anfangs Spaß gemacht, wurde aber relativ bald sehr generisch.
https://www.dnddeutsch.de/zwie…

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

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/

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"

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

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:

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…

Hugging Face could be acquired for $13 billion amid AI boom
Hugging Face, an AI developer platform, has been exploring a potential $13 billion sale, highlighting its key role in the AI ecosystem.

"Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada's record 2023 wildfire season, study finds"
#Canada #Emissions #Wildfires

Burning soil and peat drove most emissions in Canada's record 2023 wildfire season, study finds
Most of the carbon released during Canada's record-breaking 2023 wildfire season came from burning soil and peat, rather than trees, according to new research from McMaster University.

@… @… I am new to Rust (only about a year), but Tolnay came to my attention in 2023 due to the JeanHeyd Meneide RustCon fiasco and his very objectionable handling of it.

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…

Expert Backgrounder: What to Watch for at This Week’s Pivotal International Meeting on Autonomous Weapons
A United Nations gathering this week could prove pivotal for the international governance of lethal autonomous weapon systems.

QB Will Levis, 2023 second-round pick, being waived by Titans https://www.nfl.com/news/qb-will-levis-2023-second-round-pick-being-waived-by-titans

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 …

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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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:

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/

The CFTC permanently bans Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from trading in markets it oversees as part of a settlement resolving its 2023 lawsuit against him (Jesse Coghlan/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/cftc-permanently-bans-celsius-mashinsky…

CFTC Settlement Bans Celsius Founder Mashinsky From Trading
Celsius founder and former CEO Alex Mashinsky agreed to a permanent trading and registration ban in a settlement with the CFTC.

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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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Everything but the Girl:
🎵 Nothing Left To Lose (6 Music Session, 19 Apr 2023)
#EverythingbuttheGirl
https://lcaise.bandcamp.com/track/everything-but-the-girl-nothing-left-to-lose-lcaise-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kBxLsHaPmjHHBV0eUqSmx

Will Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs' offense rebound from a three-year drought? Five keys to a turnaround

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/patrick-mahomes-chiefs-offense-rebound/…

In a 2023 interview, Trump's new FDA pick laid out a vision for 'conservative-based' science (Adam Kovac/Yahoo News)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/2023-interview-trump-fda-pick-133000541.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260826/p87#a260826p87

AI & water,
"Experts stress that, overall, data center water consumption pales in comparison to the usage by industries like agriculture and some kinds of manufacturing. Researchers have estimated that data center cooling systems consumed 66 billion liters of water in 2023, less than 1 percent of the nation’s total consumption."
#AI #water

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/

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 #ChrisHawkins
corto.alto:
🎵 Slope (6 Music Session, 15 Nov 2023)
#cortoalto
https://cortoalto.bandcamp.com/track/slope-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KWUeJYo8dNzqsCylvz1hL