Tootfinder

Piper Sandler survey of 6,020 US teens: 33% now own a VR device, up from 31% in fall 2023, and weekly usage of VR devices increased to ~13% from ~10% (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/09/survey-teenagers-using-more-vr-devices/<…

Survey shows that teenagers are using more VR devices in the US
The AR/VR device market has always been considered a niche. Even with the launch of the Apple Vision Pro earlier...

Strange Stories from Odd Folx 😱🏳️‍🌈🎭
Narrated multigenre anthology | Short stories written by LGBTQIA2S folk! A showcase of own voices talent.
1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Sep 12, 2023.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/strange-stories-from-odd-folx<…

Strange Stories from Odd Folx 😱🏳️‍🌈🎭
Narrated multigenre anthology | Short stories written by LGBTQIA2S+ folk! A showcase of own voices talent. 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Sep 13, 2023.

Wegen Transparenz weise ich darauf hin, dass ich die von mir für #digitalcourage e.V. aufgesetzte Mastodon-Instanz digitalcourage.social zwar technisch betreue (administriere), aber seit Ende 2023 keinen Einfluss mehr auf Moderationsentscheidungen habe.
Das gleiche gilt für die von @…

More #SuperbOwl pics

A US official says SpaceX's Pentagon contract to deploy terminals in Ukraine between June 2023 and May 2024 is worth $23M; the deal may not be renewed (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

SpaceX’s Pentagon Contract to Supply Starlink in Ukraine Is Worth $23 Million
The Pentagon revealed that its contract to deploy Elon Musk’s Starlink terminals in Ukraine is worth $23 million, finally putting a dollar figure on a deal that has embroiled one of the world’s richest men in the Russia conflict — sometimes to his own chagrin.

ℹ️ Beitrag im Liveblog gelöscht oder nicht zuordenbar, es folgt die alte Version:
USA senden Ukraine beschlagnahmte Waffen
Die US-Regierung hat der von Russland angegriffenen Ukraine eigenen Angaben nach tausende beschlagnahmte Maschinengewehre aus dem Iran geschickt. Die Waffen seien vom US-Militär und den Streitkräften von Verbündeten auf vier Schiffen ohne Flagge zwischen 2021 und 2023 im Arabisc…
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Lieferung aus dem Iran: USA schicken beschlagnahmte Waffen in die Ukraine
Tausende Sturmgewehre und eine halbe Million Schuss Munition: Die USA haben nach eigenen Angaben beschlagnahmte Waffen aus dem Iran, die für die Huthi-Rebellen im Jemen bestimmt waren, in die Ukraine geschickt.

https://www.jackdavison.co.uk/willem-dafoe-modern-weekly-china-2023-04

Jack Davison
London based portrait and documentary photographer.

Kenneth Gainwell describes Eagles' 2023 collapse, as team lost six of seven to close season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kenneth

Kenneth Gainwell describes Eagles' 2023 collapse, as team lost six of seven to close season
Gainwell opened up on the Eagles' collapse

For #ThursDeath this week, something special I somehow missed from 2023.
Canada's COPROLITH (what's in the water up there in Canada?) released this grody, crushing, disgusting self-titled demo last year. It starts with this wall of sound type riff and then it devolves into this midtempo riff, and goes back and forth.. THIS is the shit I LOVE. And then 6 tracks of this. 🤯
Rotted Life…

According to the FBI, the US suffered a record loss of $12.5 billion due to online crime in 2023. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1b9qjjr/

Tenacious D 2024 tour dates
#TenaciousD #JackBlack

Tour - Tenacious D
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With X and Reddit limiting API access, third-party developers are looking into Mastodon and Bluesky, but some are hesitant to build revenue-generating apps (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/09/social-network-a…

Social networks are getting stingy with their data, leaving third-party developers in the lurch | TechCrunch
2023 was the year social networks realized that they were sitting on massive troves of data. And some companies, such as Twitter (now X) and Reddit,

Strange Stories from Odd Folx 😱🏳️‍🌈🎭
Narrated multigenre anthology | Short stories written by LGBTQIA2S folk! A showcase of own voices talent.
1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Sep 12, 2023.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/strange-stories-from-odd-folx<…

Strange Stories from Odd Folx 😱🏳️‍🌈🎭
Narrated multigenre anthology | Short stories written by LGBTQIA2S+ folk! A showcase of own voices talent. 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Sep 13, 2023.

Cowboys Sign Seven Draft Picks Including OT Tyler Guyton https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_sign_seven_draft_picks_including_ot_tyler_guyton/s1_17039_40345625

Cowboys Sign Seven Draft Picks Including OT Tyler Guyton
The Dallas Cowboys have signed seven of their 2024 draft selections, including first-round pick Tyler Guyton, according to Todd Archer. Guyton, 21, began his career at TCU as a tight end before transferring to Oklahoma and converting to offensive tackle. He was a one-year starter at right tackle and was named honorable mention All-Big 12 in 2023. Guyton had an excellent pre-draft process and tested like an exceptional athlete at the Combine. The Cowboys used the No. 29 pick in the 2024 draft on…

This piece, by Samuel Earle is very good, IMO. It's important.
It shows the how the far right weaponises some topics as a way to divide people, in its efforts to destroy the Conservative party as well as progressives. I worry for the future of democracy itself.
"Loud and uncowed: how UnHerd owner Paul Marshall became Britain’s newest media mogul"

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Days of Early Music Festival 2023 from Bratislava
Members of the Lotz Trio and Musica Florea, soprano Michaela Riener and their artistic director Róbert Šebesta in music by Telemann and his contemporaries. Penny Gore presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yr8q

Kenneth Gainwell describes Eagles' 2023 collapse, as team lost six of seven to close season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kenneth

Kenneth Gainwell describes Eagles' 2023 collapse, as team lost six of seven to close season
Gainwell opened up on the Eagles' collapse

#GISChat & #QGIS users: Did you like the monthly plugin update blog posts?
e.g. https://blog.qgis.org/2023/…

Plugin Update August 2023
In August 13 new plugins that have been published in the QGIS plugin repository. Here’s the quick overview in reverse chronological order. If any of the names or short descriptions piques you…

AFC Contender May Trade for Former Second-Round Pick https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/afc_contender_may_trade_for_former_second_round_pick/s1_17198_40343699

Deutsche Bahn: Internationaler Fernverkehr übersteigt Vor-Coronaniveau
2023 waren mehr Passagiere der Deutschen Bahn grenzüberschreitend unterwegs als im Jahr 2019.
https://www.

Binance sources and documents: internal investigators, dismissed in late 2023, found evidence of market manipulation by DWF Labs and secret trading accounts (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/cur…

https://www.jackdavison.co.uk/willem-dafoe-modern-weekly-china-2023-04

Jack Davison
London based portrait and documentary photographer.

You Feeling This? 🌆🫂🛟
Dramatized slice-of-life | A fiction podcast mixtape about love, the people who make up Los Angeles County, and how the heartbreak, the yearning, and the need for connection is something everyone is searching for. These are the stories that define the people of Los Angeles.
The majority of the c...
https://w…

You Feeling This? 🌆🫂🛟
Dramatized slice-of-life | A fiction podcast mixtape about love, the people who make up Los Angeles County, and how the heartbreak, the yearning, and the need for connection is something everyone is searching for. These are the stories that define the people of Los Angeles. The majority of the cast, crew, writers and performers are PoC and identify as LGBTQ+ women. The show debuted at Tribeca Festival. 0 seasons, 13 episodes as of Jun 28, 2023.

"High work autonomy builds a free and relaxed working atmosphere, facilitating knowledge creation and self-determination."
Measuring the decent work of knowledge workers: Constructing and validating a new scale (Yan Geng Gao 2023)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti

Cosmic-ray confinement in radio bubbles by micromirrors
Robert J. Ewart, Patrick Reichherzer, Archie F. A. Bott, Matthew W. Kunz, Alexander A. Schekochihin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05110

Cosmic-ray confinement in radio bubbles by micromirrors
Radio bubbles, ubiquitous features of the intracluster medium around active galactic nuclei, are known to rise buoyantly for multiple scale heights through the intracluster medium (ICM). It is an open question how the bubbles can retain their high-energy cosmic-ray content over such distances. We propose that the enhanced scattering of cosmic rays due to micromirrors generated in the ICM, as proposed recently by Reichherzer et al. (2023), is a viable mechanism for confining the cosmic rays with…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
Bizarre Inc:
🎵 I'm Gonna Get You (feat. Angie Brown)
#BizarreInc
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MfZ9GpIwgexz22lOHIP4y
https://retrosoundwave.bandcamp.com/track/bizarre-inc-im-gonna-get-you-short-edit-2023

Dirt 🚜 🌆 🤔
Dramatized mystery scifi series | A man’s journey to unlock a family mystery—and find things long ago buried.
Focus is on Washington state, inspired by family history
3 seasons, 22 episodes as of Aug 23, 2023.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/dirt

Dirt 🚜 🌆 🤔
Dramatized mystery scifi series | A man’s journey to unlock a family mystery—and find things long ago buried. Focus is on Washington state, inspired by family history 3 seasons, 22 episodes as of Aug 24, 2023.

Sources: Gopuff, one of the last fast-delivery startups in the US after Getir's exit, burned ~$400M in 2023 and wants to start generating cash by early 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fast-delive…

Fast-Delivery Survivor Gopuff Burned $400 Million Last Year
Instant-delivery pioneer Gopuff is the last speedy-delivery startup left standing in the U.S. after its best-funded competitor, Getir, said last week it would pull out of the country. That’s left Gopuff in the same position it was in 10 years and billions of dollars ago: trying to beat DoorDash. ...

Reports: Commanders to sign DE Dorance Armstrong, C Tyler Biadasz https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/reports_commanders_to_sign_de_dorance_armstrong_c_tyler_biadasz/s1_17049_40091527

Reports: Commanders to sign DE Dorance Armstrong, C Tyler Biadasz
Center Tyler Biadasz and defensive end Dorance Armstrong agreed to join the Washington Commanders, following new head coach Dan Quinn from Dallas, according to reports. Biadasz, 26, started 53 games in four seasons with the Cowboys since entering the NFL in 2020 as a fourth-round pick out of Wisconsin. Armstrong, 26, had a breakout season in 2023, finishing second to Micah Parsons with 7.5 sacks in the regular season, with Quinn running the Cowboys' defense. Armstrong has 23.5 sacks and 14 star…

Words #Biden used that were never before uttered in a #StateOfTheUnion speech:
cease-fire
bowing
ancestral
backload
nonstop
gouging
shrinkflation
Houthi
snack
clue
criminalizing
fetus
IVF
kidding
underfunded
unforgivable
carjackin…

Quiz: Which president introduced these words to the State of the Union?
Biden introduced “ironworkers” and “pistol” into State of the Union history in his 2023 address. Can you guess who was the first president to say these other words?

Former Texas DT T’Vondre Sweat arrested, charged with driving while intoxicated https://theathletic.com/5397949/2024/04/08/tvondre-sweat-arrest-dwi-texas/

Former Texas DT T’Vondre Sweat arrested, charged with driving while intoxicated
The 2023 Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year played 62 games at Texas and accumulated 127 total tackles. He won the 2023 Outland Trophy.

Sources: French AI startup Mistral AI is nearing a deal to raise ~$600M at a $6B valuation, after raising $500M at a $2B valuation in December 2023 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/te…

EVs for light vehicles were 36% of Chinese auto sales in Q4 2023. And look at light trucks (16%) and heavy trucks (10%). https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-03-05/china-s-clean-truck-surprise-defi…

A collaborator in the US is reporting occasional issues loading https://www.journal18.org / http://www.journal18.org but I can't replicate the…

#16 Cold (Fall 2023)
Feeling cold is increasingly a privilege in our warming world. Regions of the world known for temperate, moderate climates are becoming accustomed to erratic weather. Cooler areas of the globe are warming, and warmer areas becoming too hot to occupy.

CBO has published an infographic showing the breakdown of the 2023 US Federal Budget, Revenue, and Mandatory Spending.
See:
Federal Budget: https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2024-03/59727-Federal-Budget.pdf
Federal Revenues:

"High work autonomy builds a free and relaxed working atmosphere, facilitating knowledge creation and self-determination."
Measuring the decent work of knowledge workers: Constructing and validating a new scale (Yan Geng Gao 2023)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti

16WW Coronalog - Timeline - A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown - https://www.earth.org.uk/cor…

16WW Coronalog - Timeline
A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown

Lobbying by the Big Borrow Checker is real:
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/ONCD-2023-0002-0045

Spirit Box Radio 📻👻🌟
Dramatized horror series | A cosy horror fiction podcast about a radio show for enthusiasts of all things arcane.
3 seasons, 93 episodes as of Jul 12, 2023.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/spirit-box-radio

Spirit Box Radio 📻👻🌟
Dramatized horror series | A cosy horror fiction podcast about a radio show for enthusiasts of all things arcane. 3 seasons, 93 episodes as of Jul 13, 2023.

Fascinating research: Hippocampal-occipital connectivity reflects autobiographical memory deficits in aphantasia
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.08.11.552915v1

Südhessen ist bereits das sechste Mal in Folge sicherste Region in Hessen und zählt damit auch zu den sichersten bundesweit, aber in #Darmstadt ist im letzten Jahr eine Zunahme an Kriminalität zu beobachten

Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik Südhessen für 2023 veröffentlicht: Ordnungsdezernent Wandrey betrachtet Zunahme der Kriminalität in Darmstadt mit Sorge und kündigt Gegenmaßnahmen an | DarmstadtNews.de
Polizeipräsident Björn Gutzeit hat am Donnerstag, 28. März 2024, die Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2023 für die Region Südhessen vorgestellt. Und die Zahlen zeigen, dass auch in Darmstadt im letzten Jahr eine Zunahme an Kriminalität zu beobachten war. Ordnungsdezernent Paul Georg Wandrey betrachtet diese Entwicklung mit Sorge: „Leider müssen wir zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass die Kriminalität auch

On a variational problem related to the Cwikel-Lieb-Rozenblum and Lieb-Thirring inequalities
Thiago Carvalho Corso, Tobias Ried
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04347

On a variational problem related to the Cwikel-Lieb-Rozenblum and Lieb-Thirring inequalities
We explicitly solve a variational problem related to upper bounds on the optimal constants in the Cwikel--Lieb--Rozenblum (CLR) and Lieb--Thirring (LT) inequalities, which has recently been derived in [Invent. Math. 231 (2023), no.1, 111-167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-022-01144-7 ] and [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 23 (2021), no.8, 2583-2600. https://doi.org/10.4171/jems/1062 ]. We achieve this through a variational characterization of the $L^1$ norm of the Fourier transform of a function and…

Hab in 2024 jetzt schon 36 Bücher komplett gelesen zusätzlich 9 Stück nach verschiedenen Leselängen abgebrochen... echt krass. In 2023 habe ich ca. 50 Bücher komplett gelesen in 2022 etwa 30, insofern bin ich echt hart am Bücherwurmen - und es tut mir wahnsinnig [!] gut.
Die Zeit dafür hab ich, weil ich aktuell ansonsten kein einziges regelmäßiges Hobby hab, keinen Sport mache und auch etwas weniger Netflix und quasi keine Mediatheksinhalte gucke, würde ich sagen. Gibt halt wichtig…

For fans of Australia's policy of using Nauru to park or dump refugees they might like to read this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-10-28/nauru-files-whistleblower-speaks-for-first-time-detention/103014888
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Nauru Files whistleblower speaks for first time about Australia's offshore detention leak
Simone' was the worker behind 'The Nauru Files' — the largest leak inside Australia's system of offshore detention. She's never spoken out to reveal why she did what she did — until now.

Vielleicht suche ich mir doch besser woanders einen Job.
"The Economist’s glass-ceiling index
Our annual measure of the role and influence of women in the workforce"
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/glass-ceiling-index

Another fabulous episode!
Episode 170: Printers, Plague and Poets | The History of English Podcast
https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2023/09/05/episode-170-printers-plague-and-poets/

"Back to Basics: Forwarding References" by Mateusz Pusz at #cppcon 2023 is superb. Hour-long but appropriately so for the material. #video #grateful
Does require "intermediate level"

Die ePetition 160866 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Steuerrecht mit dem Titel
Abschaffung der Vorabpauschale bezüglich der Investmentbesteuerung von Fonds und ETFs
kann nur noch weniger als 5 Tage mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 97 Mitzeichnende. Nach Ende der Mitzeichnungsfrist wird die Petition von einem MdB im Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags bearbeitet und entschieden werden. Sollte bis zum Ende der Mitzeichnunungsfrist das Quorum erreicht werden, wird der ganze Peti…

Midnight on Mercy Mountain 🌌🎤🏳️‍🌈
Dramatized comedy series | Local Mercy Mountain radio show host Julian Glass broadcasts the late-night activities of the residents of a small, supposedly normal, Appalachian town.
Produced by a queer creator.
1 seasons, 17 episodes as of Nov 12, 2023.
https://www.

Midnight on Mercy Mountain 🌌🎤🏳️‍🌈
Dramatized comedy series | Local Mercy Mountain radio show host Julian Glass broadcasts the late-night activities of the residents of a small, supposedly normal, Appalachian town. Produced by a queer creator. 1 seasons, 17 episodes as of Nov 13, 2023.

From Sightline
British Columbia Just Took First Place in Pro-Housing Policy
In just one month in 2023, the province legalized fourplexes, allowed apartment buildings up to 20 stories near all #transit stations, eliminated public hearings for plan-compliant buildings, ended parking requirements in transit-oriented districts, and announced that it is considering single-stair reform.

British Columbia Just Took First Place in Pro-Housing Policy
In just one month in 2023, the province legalized fourplexes, allowed apartment buildings up to 20 stories near all transit stations, eliminated public hearings for plan-compliant buildings, ended parking requirements in transit-oriented districts, and announced that it is considering single-stair reform.

Der #DWD meldet: 2023 war in Deutschland das wärmste seit Messbeginn 1881
#AfD fragt: Welche #Messstationen im Jahr 1881?

AfD fragt nach Messstationen des Deutschen Wetterdienstes
Berlin: (hib/HAU) Auf eine Pressemitteilung des Deutschen Wetterdienstes (DWD) vom 29. Dezember 2023, wonach das Jahr 2023 in Deutschland „das wärmste seit Messbeginn 1881 war“, geht...

Chile, 1973: eyewitness testimony.
Voz IX: ‘I watched as bonfires of books and papers were burned’ | Latin America Bureau https://

Voz IX: ‘I watched as bonfires of books and papers were burned’ | Latin America Bureau
In August last year, with the 50th anniversary of the coup d’état in Chile fast approaching, Tom Gatehouse interviewed his father Mike Gatehouse about his experiences of being arrested by the military and taken to the National Stadium, and continuing to campaign for human rights.

ISW: Russian forces have seized 505 square kilometers since October offensive: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/29/isw-russian-forces.html

“When Bangladesh’s Minimum Wage Board met in November 2023 to decide wages for garment workers, trade unions called for a monthly Living Wage of 23,000 taka (approx £172), given that the previous wage of 8,000 taka (£60) was a poverty wage that made fruit a luxury item. Protests erupted when the Board announced a new wage of just 12,500 taka (£90). The state cracked down on the protests—killing four workers and arresting thousands more including trade union organisers.”

Wages Not Warrants
Protest photos, remembering Rana Plaza and resisting the crackdown in Bangladesh.

Adrian Tchaikovsky Will No Longer Cite His 2023 Hugo
https://file770.com/adrian-tchaikovsky-will-no-longer-cite-his-2023-hugo/
<< kudos, I didn't expect that.

Nicht nur für Nerds - Deb Chachras Buch How Infrastructure Works (2023) beginnt als techniksoziologische Einführung in große technische Systeme, endet aber nicht dort, sondern bettet Infrastrukturen in Diskurse um Ausbeutung, Externalitäten und Risiken ein - und schließt mit einer umfassenden Anleitung für den Aufbau einer tatsächlich nachhaltigen Zukunft.
Dazu erläutert sie sechs Handlungsmaxime: 1/2

It's the middle of winter, and more than 100 wildfires are still smouldering | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/climate/wildfires-zombie-fires-canada-bc-alberta-1.7119851

It's the middle of winter, and more than 100 wildfires are still smouldering | CBC News
"A lot of people talk about fire season and the end of the fire season, but our fires did not stop burning in 2023," said a wildfire crew chief in Fort Nelson, B.C. There are still 94 active fires in British Columbia and another 54 in Alberta, holdovers from last year's record-breaking wildfires.

The best time to stop using Chrome is already. The next best time to stop using Chrome is now.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/googles-widely-opposed-ad-platform-the-privacy-sandbox-launches-in-chrome/

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

Salzachau bei Tittmoning. Sommer 2023. I bin da Woifgang, und do war I moi dahoam. #onepicaday #revue400se #kodakgold200

Globaler Musikmarkt: CD- und Vinyl-Verkäufe wachsen stärker als Streaming
Die weltweiten Einnahmen der Musikindustrie sind 2023 um 10,2 Prozent gestiegen. Der größte Treiber waren Streams, doch auch physische Produkte sind gefragt.

An independent investigation commissioned by OpenAI has found that Sam Altman's conduct before his ouster "did not mandate removal" (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/8/24094885/openai-sam-altman-investigat…

Sam Altman rejoins OpenAI’s board after investigation into sudden firing
An outside law firm cleared OpenAI CEO Sam Altman of the events leading to his sudden ouster in 2023. He will rejoin the company’s board of directors.

#BuchMesseZuHause :
Stellt eure neuen oder alten Bücher vor!
Mein neuestes Buch durfte Oktober 2023 in die Welt: "Das Fröschlein der Prinzessin" ist ein für meine Verhältnisse sehr niedliches, lesbisches Märchen-Mash-Up (Mix aus mehreren Ursprungsmärchen), das durch eine fiktionale Märchenforschungserzählung in mein Gesamtwerk rund um die Wesen von Arl-Sere eingebu…

Moonbase Theta, Out 🌑🏳️‍🌈😱
Dramatized scifi | It is 2098. The last moonbase, Theta, is twenty weeks from being decommissioned. Join the crew as they reach out to share the beauty, isolation ,frustration, love, enmity, humour, and the tragedy, as all count down to the operation’s end … and what comes after.
4 seasons, 97 e...
ht…

Moonbase Theta, Out 🌑🏳️‍🌈😱
Dramatized scifi | It is 2098. The last moonbase, Theta, is twenty weeks from being decommissioned. Join the crew as they reach out to share the beauty, isolation ,frustration, love, enmity, humour, and the tragedy, as all count down to the operation’s end … and what comes after. 4 seasons, 97 episodes as of Oct 01, 2023.

Cargill corporation really are neutral evil
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/12/amazon-rainforest-cargill-indigenous-activist-destruction

Cowboys reciben dos picks compensatorios para draft 2024 https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-reciben-dos-selecciones-compensatorias-x9784

Cowboys reciben dos picks compensatorios para draft 2024
Los Cowboys recibieron oficialmente dos selecciones compensatorias para el draft de este año después de las salidas de Dalton Schultz y Connor McGovern como agentes libres en 2023.

Opinion | A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/

A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.
There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. So why is everyone behaving like normal?

WBD reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $10.3B, adjusted EBITDA down 5% YoY to $2.5B, 97.7M global streaming subscribers, and a $103M streaming profit for 2023 (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros. Discovery Q4 Report: Losses Narrow Despite 14% Ad Dip
Warner Bros. Discovery Q4 Report: Losses narrowed despite a 14% decline in advertising revenue as cost controls boosted the bottom line

NIVEL cijfers van week 7.
De griepepidemie is duidelijk op zijn retour, maar het aantal 'griepachtige klachten' gevallen zit nog net boven het basisniveau.
#qp2t

Who Killed Alaska? 🐕🔮👻
Dramatized mystery adventure | A private detective and an eccentric stoner compete to solve a mysterious death. Join Boo and Denver for this charming adventure, full of friendship, threats, threats of friendship, and just a touch of witchcraft.
A queer perspective and a neurodivergent perspectiv...
https:/…

Who Killed Alaska? 🐕🔮👻
Dramatized mystery adventure | A private detective and an eccentric stoner compete to solve a mysterious death. Join Boo and Denver for this charming adventure, full of friendship, threats, threats of friendship, and just a touch of witchcraft. A queer perspective and a neurodivergent perspective. Includes found family and necessary breakdowns. Depicting characters who "feel strange," because a lot of us feel strange a lot of the time. 2 seasons, 19 episodes as of Oct 05, 2023.

Cosmic Batter
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Cosmic Batter | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Cosmic Batter Host: Karla Herschell Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Philosophy, Spirituality First Episode: 2023 What is reality really made of? I am your host Karla and welcome to…

Here is a sneak preview of my latest—on "California Forever" (the Solano County tech city), AI images, Thomas Kinkade, Christian Eschatology, the Singularity, and more—written only for you and me, not for some scurrilous, paywalled academic publication.
https://varnelis.net/cal…

California Forever or, the Aesthetics of AI images
This past August (2023), a new urban project called “California Forever” was announced, promising a walkable city for 400,000 in Solano County, not far from the Bay area. Critics soon pointed out several flaws in the renderings the company distributed. First, even though the venture was backed by billionaire Silicon Valley investors such as Laurene ... Read more

Good Morning #Canada
And Happy Canada Book Day to all you avid readers across the country. Canada Book Day is celebrated annually on April 23rd to promote reading and books (duh), and coincidentally on the same day as World Book Day. Here's a particularly rosy outlook, with a small sample size, on Canadian reading habits from an organization that supports the book publishing industry.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Reading
https://seo-writer.ca/blog/canadian-book-reading-statistics-2022-2023-complete-canada-survey-data/

Some interesting bits in this report from the German government's hydrogen agency (which includes the centre for charging infrastructure...). They have regular 'clean room' discussions with manufacturers about their roadmap, projections etc.
The element highlighted by the German Ministry of Transport is that carmakers expect to reach the target of 15 million EVs by 2030 (although it's only 13.4 BEVs and 3.2 PHEVs).
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16,6 Millionen Elektro-Pkw bis zum Jahr 2030 - NOW GmbH
NOW veröffentlicht Factsheet zu Marktentwicklung aus Herstellerperspektive

On a variational problem related to the Cwikel-Lieb-Rozenblum and Lieb-Thirring inequalities
Thiago Carvalho Corso, Tobias Ried
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04347

On a variational problem related to the Cwikel-Lieb-Rozenblum and Lieb-Thirring inequalities
We explicitly solve a variational problem related to upper bounds on the optimal constants in the Cwikel--Lieb--Rozenblum (CLR) and Lieb--Thirring (LT) inequalities, which has recently been derived in [Invent. Math. 231 (2023), no.1, 111-167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00222-022-01144-7 ] and [J. Eur. Math. Soc. (JEMS) 23 (2021), no.8, 2583-2600. https://doi.org/10.4171/jems/1062 ]. We achieve this through a variational characterization of the $L^1$ norm of the Fourier transform of a function and…

‘Green Onions’ 60th Anniversary (2023)
https://www.didiermary.fr/green-onions-60th-anniversary/
L’album “Green Onions” de Booker T. & The MG’s a été remis en vente le 24 février 2023, dans une version Deluxe pour célébrer le 60ème anniversaire de sa s…

'Green Onions' 60th Anniversary - Didier J. MARY (blog)
Green Onions' 60th Anniversary - L'album de Booker T. & The MG’s est remis en vente le 24 février 2023, dans une version Deluxe.

Fantasy futures: Where to draft your favorite Dallas Cowboys https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/fantasy_futures_where_to_draft_your_favorite_dallas_cowboys/s1_13132_40341308

Fantasy futures: Where to draft your favorite Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboys scored more points than any NFL team last year, so why not get “America’s Team” onto your fantasy team? Here’s where you’ll find them based on the earliest mock drafts. QB Dak Prescott Prescott’s 4,516 yards were third most in the NFL, but his 36 touchdowns led the league in 2023. As a result, he finished sixth overall in fantasy scoring, third among quarterbacks. Of course, throwing to CeeDee Lamb, last year’s second-leading receiver, doesn’t hurt either. In …

The kids are obviously a problem: Trump Ally Says Key to Republicans Winning Elections Is to Stop College Kids From Voting
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/clea-mitchell-donald-trump-restrict-college-voting

Trump Ally Says Key to Republicans Winning Elections Is to Stop College Kids From Voting
Obviously coming up with policies that are, y’know, popular with college kids, is out of the question.

Ukraine verdreifacht 2023 ihre Waffenproduktion
Die Ukraine hat nach Angaben des Industrieministeriums in Kiew ihre Waffenproduktion im vergangenen Jahr verdreifacht. Für dieses Jahr sei eine "beträchtliche Erhöhung der Munitionsproduktion" geplant, heißt es weiter. 500 Unternehmen seien inzwischen im Verteidigungssektor des Landes tätig, darunter 100 staatliche und 400 private Firmen.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Mützenich: Kanzler wird "Taurus"-Bedenken erläutern ++
Laut SPD-Fraktionschef Mützenich wird Kanzler Scholz bald seine Bedenken gegen eine "Taurus"-Lieferung erläutern. Die Ukraine hat nach eigenen Angaben einen Plan für eine neue Offensive. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

Cargill corporation really are neutral evil
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/12/amazon-rainforest-cargill-indigenous-activist-destruction

Die #COVID-19-Lockdowns im Frühjahr 2020 haben zu einer signifikanten #Reduzierung der #Luftverschmutzung in der

Air pollution reductions caused by the COVID-19 lockdown open up a way to preserve the Himalayan glaciers
Abstract. The rapid melting of glaciers in the Hindu Kush Himalayas (HKH) during recent decades poses an alarming threat to water security for larger parts of Asia. If this melting persists, the entirety of the Himalayan glaciers are estimated to disappear by end of the 21st century. Here, we assess the influence of the spring 2020 COVID-19 lockdown on the HKH, demonstrating the potential benefits of a strict emission reduction roadmap. Chemistry–climate model simulations, supported by satell…

Footage of the battle in the city of #Karabulak in #Ingushetia.
According to the Russian media, FSB special forces there blocked Islamic State militants in one of the houses.
Apparently, the apartment where they settled in was shot with a grenade launcher. But the shooting from the apartment is still tak…

Политика Страны
Кадры боя в городе Карабулак в Ингушетии. Как заявляют российские СМИ, спецназ ФСБ там заблокировал в одном из домов боевиков Исламского государства. Судя по всему, по квартире, где они засели, выстрелили из гранатомета. Но стрельба из квартиры все равно ведется. Ряд росс…

Mainzer Langzeitstudie zum #Medienvertrauen für das Jahr 2023: Damit vertrauen 44 Prozent der Deutschen den Medien eher oder voll und ganz, 31 Prozent nur teilweise. Bei jedem vierten Bürger ist die Glaubwürdigkeit der Medien jedoch tendenziell verloren gegangen.
Trotzdem zeigten die Ergebnisse deutlich, "dass die meisten Menschen in dem sehr vielfältigen Medienangebot in Deuts…

Kolumne: Das Altpapier am 18. April 2024 – Was die Medien-Bubble so bewegt
In Leipzig finden gerade die Medientage Mitteldeutschland statt, wozu nicht nur gern gesehene Gäste der Medienelite eingeladen sind. Außerdem gibt es neue Zahlen zum Medienvertrauen in Deutschland.

Neurotic Literature 🧐💀🫢
Narrated comedy series | Total listening time: 5h 01m
What dreadful thing threatened the fortunes of the Kingdom of Haufzeignet? How did a dinner engagement cause Lord Trivett’s world to fall apart? What was the phrase that destroyed Mary’s life? From writer James Lark, a series of short stories...
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Neurotic Literature 🧐💀🫢
Narrated comedy series | Total listening time: 5h 01m What dreadful thing threatened the fortunes of the Kingdom of Haufzeignet? How did a dinner engagement cause Lord Trivett’s world to fall apart? What was the phrase that destroyed Mary’s life? From writer James Lark, a series of short stories about people who are probably worse off than you are. 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of May 16, 2023.

Neurotic Literature 🧐💀🫢
Narrated comedy series | Total listening time: 5h 01m
What dreadful thing threatened the fortunes of the Kingdom of Haufzeignet? How did a dinner engagement cause Lord Trivett’s world to fall apart? What was the phrase that destroyed Mary’s life? From writer James Lark, a series of short stories...
http…

Neurotic Literature 🧐💀🫢
Narrated comedy series | Total listening time: 5h 01m What dreadful thing threatened the fortunes of the Kingdom of Haufzeignet? How did a dinner engagement cause Lord Trivett’s world to fall apart? What was the phrase that destroyed Mary’s life? From writer James Lark, a series of short stories about people who are probably worse off than you are. 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of May 16, 2023.

Analysis: between 2019 and the end of 2023, women's share of tech jobs rose from 31% to 35% in the US, 23% to 25.2% across the EU, and 29% to 32% in the UK (Financial Times)
https://t.co/SNkc8ZjMJ3

Gender gap in tech jobs narrows across advanced economies
Strong demand for IT jobs and flexible arrangements help more women join workforce in US, EU and UK

Dolphins will not use franchise tag on DT Christian Wilkins: Sources https://theathletic.com/5316108/2024/03/04/dolphins-franchise-tag-christian-wilkins/

Dolphins will not use franchise tag on DT Christian Wilkins: Sources
The 28-year-old is coming off his best season in 2023 with nine sacks and 23 quarterback hits.

Analysis: 10 Chinese entities acquired advanced Nvidia chips embedded in Supermicro, Dell, and Gigabyte products between November 20, 2023 and February 28, 2024 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-

Lithuanian second hand marketplace Vinted reports 2023 revenue up 61% YoY to €596.3M and a €17.8M net profit, up from a €20.4M loss in 2022 (Zosia Wanat/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/vinted-startup-lithuania-profit-news/

Vinted reaches profitability and reports 61% revenue growth last year
The Vilnius-based company is backed by some of the world’s leading VC firms, including Accel, Lightspeed, EQT and Insight Partners.

IAB and PwC report on US digital ad sales in 2023: total revenue grew 7.3% YoY to $225B, digital video grew 10.6% to $52.1B, and digital audio grew 18.9% to $7B (Hana Yoo/AdExchanger)
https://www.adexchanger.com/online-adverti<…

Digital Ad Revenue Growth Decelerates Again in 2023, Per IAB Ad Revenue Report
US digital ad revenue grew at a slower rate in 2023 compared to 2022, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report.

Dallas Cowboys sign free agent linebacker Damien Wilson https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_sign_free_agent_linebacker_damien_wilson/s1_17236_40300457

Dallas Cowboys sign free agent linebacker Damien Wilson
The Dallas Cowboys are bringing linebacker Damien Wilson back to the squad for the 2024 season, according to ESPN’s Todd Archer. Wilson became a free agent in March after signing to the active roster to end the 2023 regular season. He didn’t play in a game for the Cowboys in 2023, but provided depth on the practice squad, then the active roster. The Cowboys originally drafted Wilson with a fourth-round pick in the 2015 NFL Draft. He played out his rookie contract, before signing deals with …

Chargers' J.K. Dobbins says he's '100 percent,' excited to reunite with Gus Edwards, Greg Roman https://www.nfl.com/news/jk-dobbins-no-setbacks-gus-edwards-greg-roman-chargers

Chargers' J.K. Dobbins says he's '100 percent,' excited to reunite with Gus Edwards, Greg Roman
After recovering from another season-ending injury suffered in 2023, new Chargers running back J.K. Dobbins said Monday that he feels good and is ready to shake off any negative associations.

The great American tax haven: why the super-rich love South Dakota
It’s known for being the home of Mount Rushmore – and not much else.
But thanks to its relish for deregulation, the state is fast becoming the most profitable place for the mega-wealthy to park their billions
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Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle Chuma Edoga signs new contract https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_offensive_tackle_chuma_edoga_signs_new_contract/s1_17236_40191102

Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle Chuma Edoga signs new contract
Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle Chuma Edoga has signed a new contract to stay in DFW after one season with the organization, according to Michael Gehlken. Playing in all 17 regular season games for Dallas at various positions, Edoga made six starts in 2023, which is the second-most yet in his five-year NFL career. He played for the Cowboys on a one-year deal for $1.23 million and is now signing on a veteran salary benefit deal with a “sizeable guarantee.” Edoga is a former third-round pick …

An interview with Apple Arcade's Senior Director Alex Rofman: the service hit record highs on all "critical metrics" in 2023, and will feature Vision Pro games (Keith Stuart/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/apr

Sources: in 2023, Abu Dhabi's G42 and the US Commerce Department held talks that led to G42 agreeing to pare back its China presence to avoid punitive measures (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

G42 Made Secret Pact With US to Divest From China Before Microsoft (MSFT) Deal
Microsoft Corp.’s just-announced partnership with Abu Dhabi’s G42 followed behind-the-scenes negotiations between the US government and the Middle Eastern firm, which agreed to divest from China and pivot to American technology.

Filing: MGM sues the FTC to stop an investigation into a 2023 cyberattack and asks for Chair Lina Khan's recusal; Khan stayed at the MGM Grand in September 2023 (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

MGM Resorts Sues US FTC to Stop Investigation of Casino Hack
MGM Resorts International sued the Federal Trade Commission to stop an investigation into how it dealt with a cybersecurity attack last year.

Source: Mistral is in talks with investors about raising several hundred million dollars at a $5B valuation, after raising $415M at a $2B valuation in Dec. 2023 (Kate Clark/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mi

Mistral, an OpenAI Rival in Europe, in Talks to Raise Capital at a $5 Billion Valuation
Mistral, a Paris-based startup developing artificial intelligence that is open source, has been speaking to investors about raising several hundred million dollars at a valuation of $5 billion, according to a person with direct knowledge. The company, which has just recently begun to generate ...