2026-02-08 06:37:54
Sitting outside on a park bench, eating my Passover lunch, thinking of this terrible joke that my father used to tell every year: https://www.accidentaltalmudist.org/holidays/2023/04/03/blind-man-on-passover/
Shortly after the war in Gaza began in 2023,
Bellingcat introduced a free tool authored by University College London lecturer and Bellingcat contributor, Ollie Ballinger,
that was able to estimate the number of damaged buildings in a given area.
This helped monitor and map the scale of destruction across the territory as Israel’s military operation progressed.
Bellingcat is now introducing an updated version of the open source tool
— called the Iran Conflict D…
Filing: the US SEC settles with Tron founder Justin Sun over its 2023 case that alleged securities fraud; a Tron-affiliated company will pay the $10M fine (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/05/sec-justin-sun-reach-sett…
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
Quote from “Kaine & Rubio Applaud Adoption of Their Amendment to the NDAA to Prevent Any U.S. President from Leaving NATO” 19 July 2023:
https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/k…
A new data release from Eurostat shows just how much the public #EV charging network in Europe has improved in recent years. A single charging point doesn’t make spring, but a network certainly does. More and more Europeans now have five or more charging points within a relatively short distance.
In much of north-western Europe, even within 3 kilometres. Coverage with multiple charging points i…
from my link log —
A proposed fix for C/C relaxed atomics in practice.
https://lukegeeson.com/blog/2023-10-17-A-Proposal-For-Relaxed-Atomics/
saved 2023-11-05
RE: https://social.linux.pizza/@bauspanderu/110164549497422993
Hey, guess what 2023 me, you were right. A little disappointing, but hey, better than nothing (and makes for a good ending).
I haven't had this much fun watching a movie in a loooong while. I'm…
Sea's NY-listed shares fell as much as 27% on March 3, their worst intraday drop since 2023, after reporting Q4 net income up 73% YoY to $410.9M, vs. $442M est. (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
10 things my wife learned from her first 100 miles e-biking to work
https://electrek.co/2023/12/11/everything-my-wife-learned-from-her-first-100-miles-e-biking-to-work/
The Spectator reports a pre-tax loss of £6.6M in 2024, up from a loss of £6.9M in 2023; its 15-month sale process cost the weekly news magazine £11.4M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business…
Hier mein Versuch einer Rezension zu Ian McDonalds Buch Hopeland (2023) (climate fiction meets hopepunk meets near future SF meets magischen Realismus).
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/03/versuch-einer-rezension-zu-ian-mcdonald-hopeland-2…
NFL fifth-year options: Tracking team decisions on 2023 first-round picks https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7236596/2026/04/29/nfl-fifth-year-options-tracker-2023-picks/
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 21.04.2026.
412 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
Past/Present: CB Stephon Gilmore officially retires https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-cb-stephon-gilmore-officially-retires
Deutsche Telekom erhöht DSL-Tarife für Bestandsverträge von vor April 2023
Die Deutsche Telekom hebt Preise an. Betroffen sind DSL-Verträge, die vor April 2023 geschlossen wurden.
https://www.
📢 Kenianer Sawe bricht Marathon-Weltrekord und läuft erstmals unter zwei Stunden
Der Kenianer Sabastian Sawe ist in London als erster Mensch in einem offiziellen Wettkampf einen Marathon unter zwei Stunden gelaufen. Der 29-Jährige gewann bei dem prestigeträchtigen Rennen in 1:59:30 Stunden und war damit schneller als der bisherige Weltrekordhalter, sein Landsmann Kelvin Kiptum, der 2023 in Chicago 2:00:35 Stunden lief.
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China's Green Methanol Industry is racing ahead 🇨🇳🌱⚗️🏎️
Many expect that Green Methanol is the future clean shipping fuel🚢⛽, as well as a promising feedstock for sustainable aviation fuels✈️ & fossil-free plastics🧴
In 2023, something happened in China🇨🇳.
Suddenly, announcements for Green Methanol production plants started appearing. They had one thing in common: they were huge💪. 500,000 tons here, a million tons there🏭🏭🏭
This Cyndi Lauper tune is probably my favorite track off this brilliant all Inuktitut cover album.
Elisapie, "Taimangalimaaq (Time After Time)" (2023)
https://elisapie.bandcamp.com/track/taimangalimaaq-time-after-time
Fifth-year option tracker for first-round picks from 2023 NFL Draft https://www.nfl.com/news/fifth-year-option-tracker-for-first-round-picks-from-2023-nfl-draft
The First Quantitative Study of #Cometary Tail Regrowth following a Coronal Mass Ejection-driven Disconnection Event: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ae3bdb -> Watching C/2023 P1 Regrow Its Tail: https://aasnova.org/2026/04/13/comets-are-lizards-watching-c-2023-p1-regrow-its-tail/
Back-to-back Amazon droughts trigger record forest stress #Amazon
> "Energy use per ChatGPT prompt has fallen by a factor of 10 since 2023."
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications
Past/Present: CB Stephon Gilmore officially retires https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/past-present-cb-stephon-gilmore-officially-retires
Study: only ~3% of Polymarket accounts drove most price discovery in 2023-2025, suggesting market accuracy comes from an informed minority, not crowd wisdom (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/04/2
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 21.04.2026.
412 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
China's Green Methanol Industry is racing ahead 🇨🇳🌱⚗️🏎️
Many expect that Green Methanol is the future clean shipping fuel🚢⛽, as well as a promising feedstock for sustainable aviation fuels✈️ & fossil-free plastics🧴
In 2023, something happened in China🇨🇳.
Suddenly, announcements for Green Methanol production plants started appearing. They had one thing in common: they were huge💪. 500,000 tons here, a million tons there🏭🏭🏭
#silentSunday
Bee leaving flower. July 2023
Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, following a 2023 pilot (Aditya Soni/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/accenture-roll-out-…
Wo gibt's die geringsten Einkommen in D?
(Spoiler: Spritpreis spielt keine Rolle)
3 von 5 im Ruhrgebiet beim Ranking der niedrigsten realen Einkommen:
2. Gelsenkirchen
3. Duisburg
5. Herne
23.000€ und weniger pro Jahr.
Basis ist eine Datenauswertung des IW Köln zu regionalen Preisen in kreisfreien Städten, Kreisen sowie Stadt- und Landkreisen in Deutschland, die mit Einkommensdaten des Statistischen Bundesamtes verknüpft wurden (aus 2023).
So, endlich durch mit Ian McDonalds Opus Magnum "Hopeland" (2023) - eine Vision der gar nicht so fernen Zukunft (und einer möglichen nahen Vergangenheit), ein Buch, das mich zu gleichen Teilen erschreckt-überrascht und begeistert hat; in dem die Südsee, Island, Grönland (!), Irland und vielleicht auch Fairy vorkommen ...
fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…
We are fucked.
#AMOC #ClimateChange
🌡️ Globale Erwärmung beschleunigt sich: 2023/24 lagen die Durchschnittstemperaturen erstmals 1,5°C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Die DGI unterstützt den #Klimaaufruf 2025 von Deutscher Physikalischer Gesellschaft (#DPG) und Deutscher Meteorologischer Gesellschaft (
YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube TV is getting "fully customizable" multiview, letting users pin up to four live streams, after a limited rollout in 2023 (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/streaming/919958/youtube-tv-custom-multiview-ch…
I've updated (mostly culled) my list of Milwaukee Mastodon users.
This list used to be over 80 people, but the vast majority only posted in 2022/2023. A few straggled into 2024. I removed anyone who hasn't posted more than once in 2025.
It kind of sucks, but meh... it is what it is.
Also, I should try to find more people. And, move this off of GitHub at some point.
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Summer is getting longer, and it's happening faster than we thought #environment
https://xeiaso.net/blog/alvis/
It's kind of hilarious that Xe wrote this in 2023, I read it then and thought it was too far fetched because no IT dept would ever trust an AI to *talk to customers* for them, let alone have access to the database and other things to try to fix problems on its own, and n…
A look at the continued success of Korean content on Netflix, where subscribers watched 51B hours of Korean movies and TV shows between 2023 and 2025 (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/913101/netflix-korean-movies-tv-shows
Bengaluru-based stock trading platform Sahi raised a $33M Series B led by Accel at a $200M valuation to expand into margin trade funding, commodities, and more (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t
Schonmal keine AfD auf dem Oberbürgermeister-Posten in #Schwerin.
Es gibt sie noch, die guten Nachrichten. 😊
https://www.schwerin.de/politik-verwaltung…
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.comHere's what I wrote about N₂O emissions in 2023: https://industrydecarbonization.com/news/the-avoidable-super-greenhouse-gas-from-fertilizer-nylon-and-vitamin-b3-production.html
And here more recen…
Detailing Cowboys' scouting process to land Caleb Downs https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/detailing-cowboys-scouting-process-to-land-caleb-downs
Flock of Pelicans flying over the beach. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. May, 2023. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 12-40 F2.8. #moonstonebeach #pelican #birds
Raiders Announce Major Reason for Tyree Wilson Trade Decision https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/saints-tyree-wilson-trade-reason/
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani allows city agencies to use TikTok, with some restrictions, reversing a 2023 ban his predecessor enacted over data security concerns (Chris Sommerfeldt/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/31/mam…
SAG-AFTRA contract negotiations with Hollywood begin for actors; the 2023 post-strike deals are set to expire on May 1 for writers and June 30 for actors (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/business/media/hollywood-ac…
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Nvidia stock rose 18% over the past ten days, its longest winning streak since 2023; Jensen Huang said in March that Nvidia has $1T of GPU orders through 2027 (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/nvidia-stock-nvda-ai-streak.html
Survey: only 35% of Virginia voters are comfortable with new data center construction, down from 69% in 2023, and just 37% support data center tax breaks (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/15/data-centers-poll-virginia/…
Global smartphone shipments fell 4.1% YoY in Q1, the first decline since 2023, amid a memory chip crunch; Samsung's shipments grew 3.6% and Apple's grew 3.3% (IDC)
https://www.idc.com/resource-center/press-releases/1q26-mpt-top5/
#monsterdon alert!
Full List of 10 US Nuclear Scientists Who Have Mysteriously Vanished or Died Since 2023 as White House Launches Probe
#IBTimes UK so like it's gotta be true …
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/white-house-investigates-scientist-deaths-disappearances-1792020
Analysis: nearly 90 schools and 600 students globally have been impacted by AI-generated deepfake nudes; North America had nearly 30 reported cases since 2023 (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-nudify-schools-global-crisis/
spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 121 nodes and 1793 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: