@Techmeme@techhub.socialNex, which makes Nex Playground, raised a $150M Series E; Nex has sold 1M units of the motion-based gaming system targeted toward kids since its launch in 2023 (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nex-playgrou
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines. A “Miyake Event” would be far worse.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/
saved 2023-09-11
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.despanish_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
@aardrian@toot.cafeSo far I’ve written two posts this month:
“Support for `headers` Attribute” which looks at complex HTML tables:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/09/support-for-headers-attribute.html
“Evaluating a Success Criterion” for when you need to know the W3C’s…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deWorüber die New York Times vor zwei Jahren berichtete erzählt die sonstige Medienlandschaft erst heute: Netanjahu wusste von den Angriffen der Hamas mehrere Wochen im Voraus.
02.12.2023: Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago
https://www.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyParis Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -
@krone@frawas.deErstmals seit 2023 - US-Notenbank trotzt Trump: Leitzinsen erhöht #News #Nachrichten
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAm #SeefelderPlateau fährt der öffentliche Verkehr des Verkehrsverbund #Tirol (VVT) vollständig elektrisch.
Seit Juli sind dort auch alle Busse als #EBusse unterwegs. Gleichzeitig wurde das …
@cdarwin@c.imBrandon Herrera, who is the GOP candidate for Texas’s 23rd congressional district, has made a string of insults while fashioning a rightwing online persona as the “AK Guy”, and hosts a YouTube channel with more than 4 million subscribers that tests and reviews firearms.
The comments, first reported by CNN, include Herrera taking aim at people he opposes politically, and women. In a 2023 video, he said that a gun range dummy’s empty head was “full of mush – much like the average Austin …
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyAugust 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
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPublishers in Similarweb's Top 100 Media index spent $113M on paid search in July, up 41% YoY and 274% since 2023, due to the shift to zero-click search (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/publishers-buying-search-traffic/
@primonatura@mstdn.social"United Utilities fined nearly £1m after discharging raw sewage along Lancashire coast"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sewage
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTucker Kraft, Green Bay Packers agree to contract extension: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7370789/2026/09/12/tucker-kraft-contract-extension-packers/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzTrivia Thursday: Who scored first TD in 2023? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trivia-thursday-who-scored-first-td-in-2023
@Carwil@mastodon.onlineJust got a letter from the US State Department's FOIA office regarding a request made in October 2023, basically asking if I'm still interested.
Yes.
@vosje62@mastodon.nlRE: https://mas.to/@rolf/117296670604354138
Best belangrijk artikel (en boek) om het Midden Oosten te kunnen begrijpen.
Mooie afsluiter van het artikel:
'Hoe ziet uw familie Israël nu?
„Mijn tachtigjarige moeder was hier verleden week. Ter promotie van mijn vorige boek over Nederlandse schilders De wereld op zijn kop was ik, vlak na 7 oktober 2023, in de Verenigde Staten. We vierden het met een etentje in een Mexicaans restaurant. Mijn moeder weet wat ik van Israël vind en is geen subtiele dame. Ze begon te gillen: ‘Jij steunt Hamas! Jij steunt terroristen!’ We stopten dat gesprek maar nadat ze mijn boek las, belde ze me op om zich te verontschuldigen. Ze schaamde zich dat ze zichzelf ooit een zionist heeft genoemd.” '
Archive: https://archive.li/zO4h7
@aardrian@toot.cafe“Support for `headers` Attribute”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/09/support-for-headers-attribute.html
Avoid spanning and/or compound table headers given inconsistent support. The `headers` attribute is largely useless, but can impact the experience for S…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTwenty police forces in England and Wales recorded 163 crimes involving keywords like "AI-generated", "deepfake", and "nudify" by July 2026, up from 10 in 2023 (Mark Tovey/Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/1
@Dragofix@mastodontti.fiElokuu oli maailmanlaajuisesti lämpimin #ympäristö
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
@Defiance@sfba.social @tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl 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:
@cdarwin@c.imScientists 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. …
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzTrivia Thursday: Who scored first TD in 2023? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trivia-thursday-who-scored-first-td-in-2023
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl 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
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason"
#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange
@StephenRees@mas.toSpotted 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…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Behind the scenes of Rust string formatting and format_args!().
https://blog.m-ou.se/format-args/
saved 2023-12-05 https://dotat.at…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com @aardrian@toot.cafeAnyone know when the VA pulled its component library?
I was checking a breadcrumb accessibility fix that I linked from a 2023 USWDS bug I filed:
https://github.com/uswds/uswds/issues/5463#issuecomment-2188640853
And the VA appears to have wiped it all…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com10-year Treasury yield hits 5% for first time since 2023 as traders brace for Fed decision this week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/10-year-us-treasury-is-closing-in-on-5percent.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260914/p54#a260914p54
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialMaking Rust supply chain attacks harder with Cackle
Alex is a software engineer who has built a tool which she licences to her customers. She only has a small number of clients, but they like her tool. She built her tool using Rust, with about 20 direct dependencies from crates.io. When you count indirect dependencies, her tool has about 250 dependencies.
— by @…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@sean@scoat.esI broke up with 1Password a little over 3 years ago.
It was clear to me that I should no longer trust them with the most intimate of my personal data. I was with them from 2008 to 2023 (15 years).
They got a LOT of investment very quickly, and started pushing their hosted service—HARD. I need to have agency over my own credentials data, not trust a service to stay up.
To me, this was the start of them showing us who they really are (and I even tolerated it for a bit).
@Techmeme@techhub.social
@servelan@newsie.socialPostal Workers Become Largest Union To Demand Ceasefire in Gaza | Portside
https://portside.org/2023-11-10/postal-workers-become-largest-union-demand-ceasefire-gaza
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineDer August 2026 war mit einer globalen Durchschnitts-Temperatur von 16,96 Grad Celsius der wärmste August seit Beginn des ERA5-Datensatzes. Auch die Meeresoberflächen-Temperaturen außerhalb der Polarregionen erreichten einen August-Rekord. West-Europa verzeichnete seinen bislang wärmsten Sommer. Besonders hohe Meeres-Temperaturen traten an Europas Atlantik-Küste und im westlichen Mittelmeer auf.
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
@seeingwithsound@mas.to(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.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"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
@rakewi@systemli.socialWir 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…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language.
https://github.com/annacrombie/meson-raytracer
saved 2023-11-19 https://
@veit@mastodon.socialGuardrails enable you to defend against prompt injection or jailbreak attacks by your coding agents. In our tutorial on agentic software engineering, we provide an overview of the options available to you for this purpose: https://agentic-software-engineering.r
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Salesforce is leading a $160M raise for HR software company HiBob at a $3.2B valuation, up from $2.66B in 2023; HiBob has raised $700M since 2015 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/salesfo…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl 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
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBethDittoShow
boygenius:
🎵 Cool About It (6 Music Session, 7 Nov 2023)
#boygenius
https://xboygeniusx.bandcamp.com/track/cool-about-it-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5PJH1U5Iie893v48Fl9yaC
@lukem@hachyderm.io"W grudniu 2023 roku otrzymał tytuł Dziennikarza Roku Grand Press (...) W styczniu 2026 otrzymał antynagrodę Hiena Roku"
Zremisowaliśmy 1:1, wszystkie gole strzeliłem ja.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.despanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 378 nodes and 3267 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl 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:
@cdarwin@c.imInformal 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…
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.pagePrice Responses of Rwandan Tungsten Exports under Conflict Minerals Regulation
Haruka Nagamori, Kazuhiko Nishimura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08690 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08690 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08690
arXiv:2608.08690v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Section 1502 of the Dodd--Frank Act, enacted in 2010, requires U.S.-listed companies using tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (3TG) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries to disclose information on the minerals' origins. Concerns have been raised that the regulation may have induced a de facto embargo through avoidance of sourcing from the covered region. However, how the price responsiveness of mineral exports evolved under changing institutional and market conditions remains insufficiently understood. Since tungsten production in the covered region is concentrated almost entirely in Rwanda, this study examines the price responsiveness of Rwandan tungsten exports from January 2009 to December 2023.
Because missing export quantity data prevent continuous observation of export unit values, we apply the identification approach of Nakano and Nishimura (2025), combining monthly mirror trade data from UN Comtrade with exchange rates and a world average price. An importer fixed-effects model is estimated using export value as the dependent variable, with the sample divided into four periods according to changes in the institutional and market environment.
The results reveal substantial temporal variation in price responsiveness. A statistically significant negative price response is observed in Period 1 ($\eta=-20.814$, $p<0.01$), disappears in Period 2 ($\eta=1.814$, $p>0.10$), reappears in Period 3 ($\eta=-5.277$, $p<0.01$), and disappears again in Period 4 ($\eta=0.440$, $p>0.10$). Coefficient-difference tests confirm significant changes between Periods 1 and 2 ($p=0.0021$) and between Periods 3 and 4 ($p=0.0006$). These findings suggest that the price responsiveness of Rwandan tungsten exports varied substantially over time rather than following a uniform trajectory after the regulation.
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@cdarwin@c.imIn 2023, presidential candidate Donald Trump, seemingly out of nowhere, promised to hold a contest that would lead to the creation of 10 “freedom cities” on federal lands.
The trial balloon barely registered at the time, lost in the daily deluge of outrageous claims.
Since the new administration took office, however, would-be country starters have been on a lobbying blitz, determined to turn Trump’s pledge into reality.
“The energy in DC is absolutely electric,”
Tre…
@ose_rouge@don.linxx.netNachzulesen ist das Papier zum Beispiel in der Broschüre »wie hältst du’s mit israel? zum historischen verhältnis der radikalen linken zum zionismus«.
https://adkr.noblogs.org/files/2023/12/radikalelinke-zionismus-broschuere-digital.pdf
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzChanges in Pluto’s Atmosphere Based on Stellar Occultation Data from 2017 to 2023: #Pluto
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com @arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.pageOrganizational 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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@randombaywatch@mastodon.socialOn Sep 10, 2023 I watched
𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗛𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗜𝗜 10x13 “𝗟𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀” 17 Jan 2000 #StacyKamano #BrandyLedford #MichaelNewman #SimmoneMackinnon #JasonBrooks #KalaiMiller #BrianKeaulana #BrookeBurns
#RandomBaywatch #Baywatch #BaywatchRewatch
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Suede & BBC Concert Orchestra:
🎵 She's In Fashion (Radio 2 Piano Room, 21 Feb 2023)
#Suede #BBCConcertOrchestra
