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from my link log —
How to include Git version information in a Golang binary.
https://blog.carlana.net/post/2023/golang-git-hash-how-to/
saved 2024-05-13

DoorDash agrees to a $131.5M settlement with NYC's DCWP to resolve a year-plus investigation into its compliance with the city's 2023 delivery driver pay law (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

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 —
gefs: a good enough filesystem for Plan 9.
https://orib.dev/gefs.html
saved 2023-04-29 https://dotat.at/:/ZGRFE.html

ICE detains Nicaraguan journalist and asylum-seeker Luis Galeano, whom the Ortega-Murillo regime stripped of citizenship in 2023 for opposing the government (Timothy Pratt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/16/nicaraguan…

An arbitrator orders Uber to pay $40M to the parents of a woman fatally hit by a car after an Uber driver ordered her out of his car in 2023 (Christine Hauser/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/business/uber-payment-woman-killed-f…

Der https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/ enthält jetzt auch die Daten von 2025. Wie immer belegen die Zahlen den Erfolg der "Vision Zero Fortschritt" der Petrolköpfe und Auto-Ideologen. Schwerverletzte leicht Rückläufig, Tote und Leichtverletzte gehen weiter rauf. Der Straßenterror bleibt …

Worüber 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.

“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…

Am #SeefelderPlateau fährt der öffentliche Verkehr des Verkehrsverbund #Tirol (VVT) vollständig elektrisch.
Seit Juli sind dort auch alle Busse als #EBusse unterwegs. Gleichzeitig wurde das …

In DRC, Virunga deforestation escalates as fighting sends refugees into park
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/in-drc-virunga-deforestation-escalates-as-fighting-sends-refugees-into-park/

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Good thing I have no use for a TV.
I just hope I don't need to DIY my next monitor.

#Netanjahu ist ein Behemoth, ein der Kriegsverbrechen beschuldigter rücksichtsloser und krimineller Egomane.
Warum ertragen ihn die aufgeklärten nicht ultraorthoxen und regliös-fanatischen BürgerInnen in Istrael?
Das wirft Fragen auf.

Paramount and Netflix end their 2023 animated film agreement; Skydance's Swapped is one of Netflix's most-watched movies of all-time with 144.9M global views (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/09/paramount-netflix-animated-films-12…

Paris 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 -

@… @… 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.

Elokuu oli maailmanlaajuisesti lämpimin #ympäristö

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.

from 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

Anyone 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…

Je moet dan wel goed met verveling om kunnen gaan
A nematode survived 46,000 years in permafrost
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190950660/nematode-worm-permafrost-discovery-frozen

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

Der 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.

#ClimateChange #ClimateWarming Mass balance of the #Greenland and #Antarctic

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I run my own Pleroma (not Mastodon) server and I'm not missing much for a singles user. If anything I would cut off features. YMMV.

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…

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)

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I got a booster from RokotePalvelu earlier this year. Fully paid out of pocket.
I can afford it. A lot of people can't. Most people have been led to believe they don't need…

@… @… have you not paid attention to all the borderline racist abuse David Tolnay and his enablers poured on JeanHeyd Meneide in 2023 after trying to demote his RustCon 2023 keynote and he decided to withdraw instead?

Guardrails 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

Postal Workers Become Largest Union To Demand Ceasefire in Gaza | Portside
https://portside.org/2023-11-10/postal-workers-become-largest-union-demand-ceasefire-gaza

🇺🇦 #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

from my link log —
Oglaf search index.
https://files.selfawaresoup.com/oglaf-indexer/
saved 2023-09-18 https://dotat.at/:/ID73X.h…

ICYMI: HHS extended a deadline to make healthcare apps / sites / kiosks accessible, kicking it to 2027 / 2028.
More:
https://www.lflegal.com/2023/07/healthtech-accessibility/
And:

On Monday, the Supreme Court denied Trump’s petition for certiorari in
Trump v. Carroll
with no noted dissents.
The 2023 jury verdict finding that Trump sexually abused and defamed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll
is now final.
The president is out of courts to shop this to,
and he’ll get no more appeals.
And since he had to prepay the judgment and deposit it with the court
— along with interest!
— Carroll won’t have to wait for him to…

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spanish_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

Bryan Johnson,
a 48 year old American entrepreneur,
has made headlines for his outlandish anti-ageing techniques
-- spending millions of dollars in a bid to extend his life
and reduce his biological age to that of an 18-year-old.
Johnson refers to his Benjamin Button-esque ways as
‘Project Blueprint’,
meticulously taking 54 supplements a day,
eating every meal between 6am and 11.30am,
and following a strict exercise regimen.
In 2023, …

Price 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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from 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…

@… also worth contrasting with his appalling treatment by the Rust leadership, primarily David Tolnay, when his keynote for the 2023 RustCon was yanked. Some of the comments after that were borderline racist:

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Well put.
Rutte doesn't have any room left for self-respect.

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

from my link log —
A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language.
https://github.com/annacrombie/meson-raytracer
saved 2023-11-19 https://

Estimated Demand for Mega-Constellation Internet Service
Akhil Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08851
arXiv:2608.08851v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The near-term growth of the commercial space economy and sustainability of the low-Earth orbit (LEO) environment depends on the commercial prospects of large LEO satellite telecommunications constellations (``mega-constellations''). If successful, mega-constellations can spur competition between launch providers, which may lead to lower launch prices. They may also demand orbital sustainability services and/or generate additional collision risk, which may in turn affect space sustainability interests. Consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services is critical to their commercial success. This analysis presents a method to estimate consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services, using SpaceX's Starlink over December 2021--November 2023 as an example. This analysis finds that Starlink users are highly concentrated in the wealthiest countries. It also finds that consumer demand for Starlink is growing more slowly than orbital capacity is being added and more slowly than demand for non-Starlink internet overall. Continuation of these trends may indicate that the market for mega-constellation internet is less lucrative than previous forecasts have indicated.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ryanjess77/116967826500999130
'Afgelopen vijf jaar [aug 2025] is de Nederlandse aanschaf van Israëlische wapens geëxplodeerd.
Met een pakket orders ter waarde van 1,9 miljard euro is Nederland een van de belangrijkste klanten van de Israëlische wapenindustrie geworden. De helft daarvan is besteld na de start van het Israëlische offensief in Gaza in oktober 2023. De genocide heeft daar kortom geen enkele rem op gezet.'
https://paxvoorvrede.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Policy-Paper-Hoe-Nederland-de-Israelische-wapenindustrie-spekt.pdf (PDF)
Een verbod op goederen uit illegale nederzettingen als afleidingsmanoeuvre voor de miljarden die we aan Israëlische wapens afnemen.

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What I really want for sure is "The Jackpot" in print.

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I've read the Sprawl Trilogy several times and watched the Blade Runner movies several times too. And I love them.
Yet, it's hard to be excited about these two projects because they are being produced as series by the usual culprits.

Remember "The Peripheral" in 2022?
Cancelled after the 1st season - and it…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Gretel:
🎵 Apple Juice (6 Music Session, 11 Jan 2023)
#Gretel
https://grrretel.bandcamp.com/track/apple-juice
https://open.spotify.com/track/3A5aS28dQBFswox9AefLSX

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Eliades Ochoa:
🎵 Chan Chan (6 Music Session, 29 Oct 2023)
#EliadesOchoa