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BNPL lenders like Flex, Zip, and Affirm are now pitching loans for basic household needs; Americans spent $160B through pay-later loans in 2025, up 2x from 2023 (Stacy Cowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/business/buy-now-pay-later.html

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Lenders Pitch Loans for Needs Like Electricity and Rent
The rapid growth of pay-later loans raises questions about whether their popularity is driven by consumer preference or desperation.

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 -

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

#Steady #Klimacrew
Bereits im Jahr 2023 erregten zwei Anwälte in New York wegen Missbrauchs von ChatGPT Aufsehen. Sie hatten den Chatbot für die Anfertigung von Dokumenten für das Gericht benutzt und es unterlassen, die Ausgaben auf Korrektheit zu prüfen.
Kann man daraus nun etwas lerne…

Anwälte: In Deutschland nichts dazugelernt.
KI im Anwaltsberuf: Warum ungeprüfte Schriftsätze gegen die Sorgfaltspflicht verstoßen können.

from my link log —
Oops! We Automated Bullshit.
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit
saved 2023-11-17 https…

Elokuu oli maailmanlaajuisesti lämpimin #ympäristö

Elokuu oli maailmanlaajuisesti lämpimin - Ilmatieteen laitos
EU:n Copernicus-ilmastopalvelun mukaan elokuu 2026 oli maailmanlaajuisesti mittaushistorian lämpimin elokuu. Samalla se oli mittaushistorian lämpimin kuukausi yhdessä vuoden 2023 heinäkuun kanssa.

Prozess in NÖ - Terroralarm auf Wiener Pride: Zwei Schuldsprüche #News #Nachrichten

Die Letzten Ecken - “Rasender Stillstand” (2023)
Been listening to this track a lot lately. It’s really wild to my ears. Buzzing, menacing synths, clicky electronic drum noises, all mixed together over deadpan vocals. Sounds extremely German/Swiss synth-wave. I love it!
#music #synth

In 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…

The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

🌱 Wie werden landwirtschaftliche Betriebe zu Solawis?
Knapp 30 % der Solawis sind aus bestehenden Höfen entstanden. Meist geht das nicht von heute auf morgen. Viele Betriebe verkaufen ihre Produkte zuerst direkt im Hofladen oder arbeiten nach Bio-Standards. Danach entscheiden sie sich für die Umstellung auf #Solawi.
📖 Du fragst dich, ob Solawi auch für deinen Betrieb ein passender We…

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://

Yesterday's mystery #cloud has been ID'd as #cirrocumulus (or perhaps altocumulus) but in any case of the rather rare #undulatus variety, with the waves caused by wind shear at different altitudes: https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/october-2023/ comes somewhat close; see https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-library/undulatus/ and https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/cloud-library/cirrocumulus/ for details. h/t https://scicomm.xyz/@drlucyrogers@mastodon.social

Panthers not ready to talk Bryce Young extension: 'His ceiling is currently unknown' https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-not-ready-to-talk-bryce-young-extension-his-ceiling-is-currently-unknown

(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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Gotts Street Park:
🎵 Got To Be Good (6 Music Session, 27 Nov 2023) (feat. Pip Millett)
#GottsStreetPark
https://open.spotify.com/track/59QJsTw38Jj13WnR1qz1MC

Wir 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…

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'`,…

Organizational 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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from my link log —
Rust for Morello ARM CHERI: always-on memory safety, even in unsafe code.
https://drops.dagstuhl.de/storage/00lipics/lipics-vol263-ecoop2023/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.39/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2023.39.pdf

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

The Carrington Event of 1859 Disrupted Telegraph Lines. A “Miyake Event” Would Be Far Worse - JSTOR Daily
We don't know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past—while posing a threat to our future.

On Sep 10, 2023 I watched
𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 𝗛𝗔𝗪𝗔𝗜𝗜 10x13 “𝗟𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗱 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀” 17 Jan 2000 #StacyKamano #BrandyLedford #MichaelNewman #SimmoneMackinnon #JasonBrooks #KalaiMiller #BrianKeaulana #BrookeBurns
#RandomBaywatch #Baywatch #BaywatchRewatch