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THE POD GENERATION Trailer (2023) Emilia Clarke, Sci-Fi Movie #youtube
🏈 @… #NFL
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How is it that Jason Kelce sounds like a journeyman electrician but Travis Kelce sounds like Malibu’s Most Wanted
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his "foundational contributions to the theory of computation", including his work on randomness (Stephen Ornes/Quanta Magazine)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/avi-wigders
From Bill McKibben
new figures last week showed that atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide—reached new all-time highs last year.
The global surface concentration of CO2, averaged across all 12 months of 2023, was 419.3 parts per million (ppm), an increase of 2.8 ppm during the year. This was the 12th consecutive year CO2 increased by more than 2 ppm,
Little Kitty Big City: not a great start
When I first heard of Little Kitty Big City, in a Nintendo Indie showcase, I thought it looked fun - it was obviously inspired by the excellent Untitled Goose Game, but allowed you to play as a cat across a wider and more vertical area. The fact I had only heard of it at this point (in late 2023) rather than back in 2021…
The Crime at Camp Ashwood 🕵🏼♀️👻🏕
Dramatized crime mystery series | Desperate to finally solve the decades-old cold case of her best friend’s murder, Margot Ingell returns to the scene of the crime. Will the discovery of a long-lost diary reveal the killer, or will the secret forever remain at the bottom of Camp Ashwood’s lake?
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#FactFriday
Even when you get a ecard from an actual #friend on your #birthday from a legit birthday card website, it STILL could be from a
Top QB prospects Drake Maye, Jayden Daniels to visit Commanders https://www.nfl.com/news/top-qb-prospects-drake-maye-jayden-daniels-to-visit-commanders
Thus far, the Supreme Court’s rulings in both the 14th Amendment and presidential immunity case have helped to reinforce Trump’s narrative that these criminal indictments aren’t really about him, they are about his legions of MAGA followers.
In equating his problems with their problems, Trump has ample fodder
— bogus as it may be
— to once again argue that his legal troubles are not of his own doing, but rather, the work of political adversaries who have been conspiring to i…
«La inflación rampante se ha comido estas subidas y ha causado que las rentas de los españoles no hayan avanzado en los últimos cuatro años. Y este hecho se ha visto agravado por la intensa escalada de los tipos: las familias han destinado 10.000 millones de euros mšs al pago de intereses hasta un total de 24.000 millones, alrededor del 2,5% de su renta bruta disponible. Es un 70% mšs que el año anterior y de lo que se abonaba antes de la pandemia.»
@…
check out this thread
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112410315322827303
A simple copy paste from 2022 to 2023.
Can’t wait to anal ize the 2024 one.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1765956299081105625?s=61
Little Kitty Big City: not a great start
When I first heard of Little Kitty Big City, in a Nintendo Indie showcase, I thought it looked fun - it was obviously inspired by the excellent Untitled Goose Game, but allowed you to play as a cat across a wider and more vertical area. The fact I had only heard of it at this point (in late 2023) rather than back in 2021…
From Bill McKibben
new figures last week showed that atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide—reached new all-time highs last year.
The global surface concentration of CO2, averaged across all 12 months of 2023, was 419.3 parts per million (ppm), an increase of 2.8 ppm during the year. This was the 12th consecutive year CO2 increased by more than 2 ppm,
"UK records 189,000 new solar installations for 2023"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Solar #SolarPower
#Phaenologie #Behrendorf #Wische Dauergrünland Ergrünen Beginn 05.03.2024 (27.03.2023)
16WW Coronalog - Timeline - A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown - https://www.earth.org.uk/cor…
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#FactFriday
Even when you get a ecard from an actual #friend on your #birthday from a legit birthday card website, it STILL could be from a
Gazprom reports nearly $6.9 billion in net losses in 2023: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/gazprom-reports-nearly.html
Antoine Winfield working toward a deal to make him NFL's highest-paid safety, Bucs optimistic, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/an…
Dies war die #Fotografie der Seite 9 aus der kritischen Textreihe zu Künstlicher Intelligenz von #capulcu auf der steht, wie KI einen vermutlich neuen Schritt zur Sicherung der Akkumulation darstellt
Explainable machine learning predictions of perceptual sensitivity for retinal prostheses https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/ad310f Preprint at
Update:
Tipps zur Passwortsicherheit
#SMS von
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
On the Daily Show, Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to have FTC's Lina Khan for his Apple podcast; Apple abruptly ended Stewart's TV show in October 2023 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/jon-stewart-apple-ftc-chair-interview…
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
«La inflación rampante se ha comido estas subidas y ha causado que las rentas de los españoles no hayan avanzado en los últimos cuatro años. Y este hecho se ha visto agravado por la intensa escalada de los tipos: las familias han destinado 10.000 millones de euros mšs al pago de intereses hasta un total de 24.000 millones, alrededor del 2,5% de su renta bruta disponible. Es un 70% mšs que el año anterior y de lo que se abonaba antes de la pandemia.»
A simple copy paste from 2022 to 2023.
Can’t wait to anal ize the 2024 one.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1765956299081105625?s=61
🐿️ A future food boom rescues the negative effects of early-life adversity on adult lifespan in a small mammal
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2681
👍 Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs strips Saudi Arabia's Almarai subsidiary Fondomonte of water leases | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2023/10/04/saudi-arabia-stripped-leases-arizona-drought-pumping-groundwater-fondomon…
RT by @GildaSahebi: Schönen Mittwoch!
https://www.t-online.de/digital/kolumne-nicole-diekmann/id_100353308/miss-germany-2023-apameh-schoenauer-entlarvt-sexismus-im-netz.html
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Something something rule of law: A Brazil court has banned Bolsonaro from running for election until 2030
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185364211/brazil-bolsonaro-court-banned-election
Bei den Hackdays #oddmo24 will ich heute meine Karte der #Wasserkrise vorstellen, lernen wie ich sie auf das nächste Level bringe und Begeisterte und Mitstreiter finden.
neue Ausgabe der Zeitschrift 027.7:
"The Global Impact of #Library #Publishing. Proceedings of the IFLA Library Publishing SIG Satellite Programme and the Open Session at WLIC 2023 in the Netherlands"
BE NOT AFRAID 👁️🔥🔮
Narrated biblical comedy | Enoch, an incompetent angel is running a podcast. His job is to report on important and historical events for mortal prophets across spacetime. Come along on as he forgets primitive concepts like the linear progression of time, and tries to discover what it means to be ...
https://www.<…
#Covid
Repräsentative Stichprobe SentiSurv RLP per 28. Februar:
7d-Inzidenz 385 [270-533]
Etwa jede 260. Person infiziert sich pro Woche. Kumulative Inzidenz 2023: ~57%. Seit Inzidenzminimum und Start Phase 2 bis 28.02.: ~39%.
25% more passengers traveled by Ukrainian railways this year compared to 2023: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/more-passengers-traveled.html
#climatechange
I’m reviewing the 2023 State of the #Climate report
I am just struck again (yes - intellectually I knew this) that my teen kids’ whole lives have only been hottest years.
It’s scary.
ERA5 (European reanalysis dataset version 5) top-ten Temperature anomaly years
Rank Year Global_Temperature_anomaly (℃) vs 1991-2020 baseline
1 2023 0.60
2 2016 0.44
3 2020 0.43
4 2019 0.40
5 2017 0.34
6 2022 0.30
7 2021 0.27
8 2018 0.26
9 2015 0.26
10 2010 0.13
"UK records 189,000 new solar installations for 2023"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Solar #SolarPower
Dies war die #Fotografie der Seite 9 aus der kritischen Textreihe zu Künstlicher Intelligenz von #capulcu auf der steht, wie KI einen vermutlich neuen Schritt zur Sicherung der Akkumulation darstellt
Shout out to 040 Hosting for consistently great support over the last decade (and then some). I'm only a small customer and they just get in there and fix it if I have any issue. Recommended.
https://040hosting.eu/2024/02/05/040hostin…
Microsoft aktualisiert Windows 11 automatisch auf 23H2
Microsoft installiert jetzt automatisch das 2023-Update auf mehr Windows-11-Systemen. Zuvor war das Update optional.
https://www.heise.de/news/Mi…
Smartphone-Top-Ten 2023: Sieben von zehn Bestsellern waren iPhones
Mit iPhone 13, 14 und 15 ist es Apple im vergangenen Jahr gelungen, die Verkaufscharts zu dominieren. Das besagt eine Analyse von Counterpoint.
https://…
Oh wait that's 2023
Tiny Central Coast newsroom Lookout Santa Cruz wins Pulitzer Prize
As legacy publications celebrated their Pulitzer Prize wins Monday,
bottles of champagne were also uncorked at Lookout Santa Cruz,
a fledgling 10-person newsroom based on the second floor of a former bank on Santa Cruz’s quiet, tree-lined Pacific Avenue.
“What a day!” said Ken Doctor, the Lookout’s chief executive and founder. “It’s incredible!”
The online news organization won the prize for it…
I wrote up a small article on how to structure providers in #react. By splitting data in to different providers you can save a lot of render time around the app.
https://stefanhayden.c…
Klarna reports 2023 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$2.28B, a $241M net loss, down from $1.01B in 2022, with credit losses falling by 32% in 2023 to $369M (Financial Times)
https://t.co/NTUKa51q8c
In the most recent six days, our #PV production exceeded the power consumption of our house, charging the battery well above the configured minimum SOC (but not full yet).
Yesss! 😃 😎 ☀️
Our seven-month period of independence from the power grid is near.
Background:
A look at 2023 media CEO pay amid industry contraction: Charter CEO Chris Winfrey, $89M; Endeavor CEO Ari Emanuel, $84M; WBD CEO David Zaslav, $49.7M; and more (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/05/ceo-salaries-2023-hollywood-media-12359…
The Hidden People 🧚♀️👊✨
Urban Fantasy | A creepy modern fantasy that begins as a murder mystery and becomes a dark fantasy adventure filled with action, Irish and Norse folklore, and fae. Come for the creepy mysteries and stay for the fantasy action.
Female-led cast, LGBTQ performers and characters
3 seasons, 66 epis...
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Cowboys’ starting defensive line was exposed in 2023 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_starting_defensive_line_was_exposed_in_2023/s1_17100_40059417
Tiny Central Coast newsroom Lookout Santa Cruz wins Pulitzer Prize
As legacy publications celebrated their Pulitzer Prize wins Monday,
bottles of champagne were also uncorked at Lookout Santa Cruz,
a fledgling 10-person newsroom based on the second floor of a former bank on Santa Cruz’s quiet, tree-lined Pacific Avenue.
“What a day!” said Ken Doctor, the Lookout’s chief executive and founder. “It’s incredible!”
The online news organization won the prize for it…
RT by @ShouraHashemi: Fordere die sofortige Freilassung von #WladimirKaraMursa: https://bit.ly/3SYvS8C
Der Russe wurde am 11. April 2022 in der Nähe seiner Wohnung in Moskau festgenommen und u a …
Why Drugs Are Disappearing From Your Insurance Coverage | Portside
https://portside.org/2023-12-03/why-drugs-are-disappearing-your-insurance-coverage
Bloomberg: At least $488 million in sanctioned goods entered Russia from EU in 2023: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/26/bloomberg-at-least.html
Venture funding to Black-founded US startups in 2023 totaled $705M across 191 deals, or less than 0.5% of all venture funding, down from $2.4B in 2022 (Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/diversity/venture-funding-black-founded-star…
Netflix licenses the first season of the OnlyFans original series House of Sims, which debuted on OFTV in May 2023, in the UK (Kasey Moore/What's on Netflix)
https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/news/netflix-licenses-its-first-show-fr…
Liars & Leeches 🧍🏿♀️👁🕴
Dramatized supernatural horror series | The first original audio drama from Hemlock Creek Productions, LIARS & LEECHES delves deep into the complicated horrors of grief, trauma, resilience, and steadfast human determination to uncover the truth.
1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Jun 15, 2023.
Cowboys’ starting defensive line was exposed in 2023 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-starting-defensive-line-was-exposed-in-2023/
EA plans to cut 5% of its workforce, part of a plan that includes reducing office space and sunsetting some games; EA employed 13,400 workers as of March 2023 (Alex Koller/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/28/ea-layoffs-…
"Butterfly study finds sharpest fall on record for small tortoiseshell in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Butterflies
Moore v. Harper ARGUED: 12/7/2022
The Supreme Court Considers the **Independent State Legislature Theory**, shoots it down! #law
**DECISION**: 6/27/2023: In a 6-3 opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court's majority found that the Constitution's Elections Clause does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elec…
US Treasury says threat to sanction 3rd-country banks has impacted Russian funding flows: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/26/us-treasury-says.html
Below find the list of the most visited cities in the world by international tourists:
1 Istanbul, Turkey: 20.2 million
2 London, United Kingdom: 18.8 million
3 Dubai, United Emirates: 19.8 million
4 Antalya, Turkey: 16.5 million
5 Paris, France: 15.5 million
6 Hong Kong: 14.7 million
7 Bangkok, Thailand: 12.2 million
8 New York, USA: 11.7 million
9 Cancun, Mexico: 10.8 million
10 Mecca, Saudi Arabia: 10.8 million
Source: Eurom…
Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/games/unity-appoints-ex-zynga-exe…
Infrastructure Ministry: 93% of Ukrainian agricultural exports exit Ukraine by sea, river: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/23/infrastructure-ministry-of.html
Leaving Corvat 🍔🐦⬛😴
Dramatized surreal post-modern urban fantasy travelogue | They call me Sleeper. I worked the same brain dead job, at the same fast food place, all of my life. And I’ve always lived in the same town. No one that lives in Corvat, ever leaves. Until today. Today I leave. Join my on my adventure.
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https://www.…
There are more billionaires than ever before.
The world has 2,781 people with fortunes exceeding $1bn, an increase of 141 on 2023, according to Forbes’ annual ranking of the world’s richest people.
The billionaires are also collectively worth more than ever, with combined assets estimated at $14.2 Trillion
– a 2 Trillion dollar increase on 2023 and more than the GDP of every country except the US and China.
Their collective wealth has risen by 120% in the past decade…
Filing: Roblox paid out a record $740.8M to over 12,000 game creators in 2023, up 19% YoY; ~3,500 creators earned over $10,000, and ~750 earned over $100K (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sources: Stripe and some investors agreed to buy $1B of current and ex-employees' shares, valuing it at $65B, up from $50B in 2023, but down from $95B in 2021 (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stripe-valuati
Latvia to become first EU country to ban imports of grain from Russia, Belarus: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/latvia-to-become.html
Latvia to become first EU country to ban imports of grain from Russia, Belarus: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/latvia-to-become.html
Apple's reversal on RCS wasn't forced by the EU, but likely by China, whose government began codifying in 2023 a requirement for new 5G devices to support RCS (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2024/02/eu_rcs_imessage
How tech workers, spurred by geopolitical threats, are embracing battlefield tech; PitchBook: VCs invested $108B in defense tech companies between 2021 and 2023 (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/…
Avail, a modular blockchain project spun out of Polygon in 2023 to streamline the rollup experience, raised a $27M seed co-led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/279095/peter-thiel-founders-fund-avail-f…
Expedia plans to cut about 1,500 roles this year, mainly in its Product & Technology division; the company had 17,100 employees at the end of 2023 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2024/expedia-group…
In a first, Apple had the top seven best selling smartphones globally in 2023, and Samsung had three; iPhone 14, 14 Pro Max, 14 Pro, and 13 topped the list (Counterpoint Research)
https://www.counterpointresearch.com/insig