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In 2020, Scotland generated 32TWh of electricity from wind alone.
https://www.scottishrenewables.com/our-industry/statistics
In 2023, Scotland consumed 21.8TWh of electricity in total.

Renewable Energy Facts & Statistics | Scottish Renewables
Scotland's renewable energy sector in numbers. Scotland’s renewable energy sector is growing and developing year-on-year. Discover facts, statistics and figures from Scotland's renewable energy sector.

Survey: US employees who use AI at work at least a few times per year rises from 21% in 2023 to 40% in 2025, and 19% report frequently using AI, up from 11% (Ryan Pendell/Gallup)
https://www.gallup.com/workplace/691643/work-nearly-doubled-two-years.aspx

AI Use at Work Has Nearly Doubled in Two Years
White-collar workers and leaders are the primary users. Leaders can further drive AI adoption by clearly communicating why and how to use it.

Folgten Ladung nicht - Kindersarg-Diebe könnten straffrei davonkommen #News #Nachrichten

A Visit to Reading Hydro by TTK Energy Group (2023) - An interesting visit: the River Thames Scheme should build in more hydropower! - https://www.earth.org.uk/Reading-Hydro-TTK-visit.html

A Visit to Reading Hydro by TTK Energy Group (2023)
An interesting visit: the River Thames Scheme should build in more hydropower!

NFLPA executive director Lloyd Howell Jr. was not advised to resign from firm seeking NFL minority ownership: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6486656/2025/07/10/nflpa-lloyd-howell-jr-carlyle-group/

If you read the "Bluesky requires IDs now" post:
1. This only applies to UK users.[1]
2. It's because the UK is building a surveillance state that requires websites and apps to do this, not because Bluesky is evil.[2]
3. It's either that or shut down in the UK.
Whether you like it or not, this also affects Mastodon—and even personal blogs with comments enabled.[3]
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Safety_Act_2023
[3] https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/law/doing-an-osa-assessment-for-my-single-user-fedi-server.html

Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
Matan Ben-Tov, Mor Geva, Mahmood Sharif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12880 https://

Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
We study suffix-based jailbreaks$\unicode{x2013}$a powerful family of attacks against large language models (LLMs) that optimize adversarial suffixes to circumvent safety alignment. Focusing on the widely used foundational GCG attack (Zou et al., 2023), we observe that suffixes vary in efficacy: some markedly more universal$\unicode{x2013}$generalizing to many unseen harmful instructions$\unicode{x2013}$than others. We first show that GCG's effectiveness is driven by a shallow, critical mechani…

When will the FBI release the documents that prove Stanley Kubrick is a time traveler who came forward in time to 2023 for movie ideas and after seeing the Barbie movie decided to make a whole movie based on the opening sequence.

OceanGate? More like Heaven's Gate
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jun/11/titan-sub-disaster-netflix-documentary

Entdeckt in der ARD Mediathek
@… : Was bleibt https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL3RhdG9ydF8yMDI0LTAxLT…

Constrain magnetar parameters by taking into account the evolutionary effects of radius and moment of inertia with \emph{Swift}/XRT data
Lin Lan, He Gao, Shunke Ai, Wen-Jin Xie, Yong Yuan, Long Li, Li-Ping Xin, Jian-Yan Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11110

Constrain magnetar parameters by taking into account the evolutionary effects of radius and moment of inertia with \emph{Swift}/XRT data
A newly born millisecond magnetar has been proposed as one possible central engine of some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with X-ray plateau emission. In this work, we systematically analyzed the \emph{Swift}/XRT data of long GRBs with plateau emission that were detected before 2023 December, and estimated the magnetar parameters by considering the $R/I$ evolutionary effects, and investigated possible relationships among these parameters and their relation to the GRB jet and magnetar wind radiation. W…

Influential scientists shape knowledge flows between science and IGO policy
Kimitaka Asatani, Yurie Iwata, Yuta Tomokiyo, Basil Mahfouz, Masaru Yarime, Ichiro Sakata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06753

Influential scientists shape knowledge flows between science and IGO policy
Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) increasingly rely on scientific evidence, yet the pathways through which scientific research enters policy remain opaque. By linking 230,737 scientific papers cited in IGO policy documents (2015-2023) to their authors and collaboration networks, we identify a small group of policy-influential scientists (PI-Sci) who dominate this knowledge flow. These scientists form tightly interconnected, internationally spanning co-authorship networks and achieve policy…

New report details global drought impacts #environment

New report details global drought impacts
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln's National Drought Mitigation Center and the United Nations' Convention to Combat Desertification have released a report outlining the impacts of drought around the world since 2023.

Abkommen: USA dürfen Militärbasen in Dänemark errichten
Die USA können künftig in Dänemark Militärstützpunkte errichten, dort Soldaten stationieren und militärisches Material aufbewahren. Das dänische Parlament genehmigte ein entsprechendes Abkommen, wie die dänische Nachrichtenagentur Ritzau berichtete.
Die Vereinbarung wurde bereits im Dezember 2023 unterschrieben, also bevor Donald Trump zum zweiten Mal zum US-Präsidenten…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine erhält Leichname von Gefallenen ++
Die Ukraine hat die sterblichen Überreste von mehr als 1.200 getöteten Soldaten erhalten. Russland meldet einen Vorstoß im Westen der ukrainischen Region Donezk.

Heizungsgesetz - wie Populisten die Wärmewende behinderten
> Was die Studienautoren überrascht hat, waren weniger die typisch populistischen Diskurs-Strategien als vielmehr die Akteure selbst, sagt Haas: "Wie nah die Argumentationsweise der Unionsparteien an der der AfD war. Die AfD war sicher noch schärfer und polemischer, aber insgesamt lässt sich da in der Logik der Argumentation eine große Nähe feststellen."

I'm all for electrification of energy demand, e.g. for cars, home heating, and industrial processes.
But we shouldn't be betting the climate on it alone. The share of electricity in global final energy consumption reached 20% in 2023, up from 18% in 2015 (IEA, 2024):
https://www.iea.o…

FuboTV agrees to pay $3.4M to settle a 2023 class action lawsuit alleging it violated US and California privacy laws over user data; Fubo denies the claims (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/fu…

Fubo May Owe You Money After Agreeing to Pay $3.4 Million to Settle Class Action Lawsuit Over Privacy Violations | Cord Cutters News
FuboTV Inc. and FuboTV Media Inc. have agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging the companies violated federal and California privacy laws, including the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), and California Civil Code § 1799.3. The lawsuit claims Fubo improperly collected, stored, used, […]

OMD at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, performing 'Anthropocene' June 21, 2025.
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zTghGUFb7Ajrn5ghO9ZQl?si=XNxEhurBRXaWIu3kJmY42Q&context=spotify:album:2yW1JUK…

Anthropocene
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark · Bauhaus Staircase (The Complete Edition) · Song · 2023

Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Outbursting Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
Ruining Zhao, Bin Yang, Michael S. P. Kelley, Silvia Protopapa, Aigen Li, Yang Huang, Jifeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03247

Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Outbursting Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks
We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations of the outbursting, Halley-type comet 12P/Pons-Brooks. Three NIR spectra were obtained during two outbursts in October and November 2023, with the 3-meter Infrared Telescope Facility and the Palomar 200-inch Telescope, respectively. The NIR spectra exhibited absorption features at 1.5 and 2.0 $μ$m, consistent with the diagnostic absorption bands of water ice, superimposed on a red dust-scattering continuum. We find that the absorption ban…

Maar een kwart 😃 , prima score
#politiek

Kwart kiezers is vertrouwen kwijt in alle politieke partijen: 'Neem ze niet meer serieus'
Een kwart van de kiezers is het vertrouwen in alle politieke partijen kwijt. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van het RTL Nieuwspanel. Het gevoel leeft zeer sterk bij kiezers die bij de laatste Tweede Kamerverkiezingen in 2023 nog op Nieuw Sociaal Contract stemden (32 procent), maar ook bij mensen die toen voor de BBB (28 procent) of PVV (26 procent) kozen.

from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…

Our Home
- #PianoImprov #NowPlaying -
https://muz4now.com/2023/our-home-pian

Our Home - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Zimní pneu – Nahšč
#alternative

Sources: Meta offers to buy ~49% of Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross's VC fund NFDG; about half of NFDG's first fund of ~$1.1B, raised in 2023, has been invested (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https:/…

Für die Hörer der #Podcast Ep. 3
https://tino-eberl.de/podcast/episode-3-neuigkeiten-aus-der-bastelstube/
hier nur mal so zum Verständnis eine aktuelle…

DreamState - Awakening
The final release in the DreamState series
- #DreamState #NowPlaying -
https://

DreamState - Awakening - #DreamState #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The average surface temperature of the Mediterranean Sea is at record level for this early in summer, at 3°C above the 1982-2011 average. Could end up well above the 2023-2024 record summer peaks (Jul-Aug) of 28°C.
https://www.ceam.es/ceamet/SST/SST-trend.html

Statistical analysis of interplanetary shock waves measured by a Solar Wind Analyzer and a magnetometer onboard the Solar Orbiter Mission in 2023
Oleksandr Yakovlev, Oleksiy Dudnik, Anna Wawrzaszek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19986

Statistical analysis of interplanetary shock waves measured by a Solar Wind Analyzer and a magnetometer onboard the Solar Orbiter Mission in 2023
Interplanetary (IP) shock waves are greatly interesting, as they represent significant phenomena in near-Earth space and are direct drivers of geomagnetic and radiation storms. Moreover, various data and parameters are being explored for the identification and characterization of these waves. The spatial dimensions of shock waves vary significantly with the conditions and parameters of the propagating medium. For example, the radii of curvature of the shock wave fronts can vary by several hundr…

The Extended SONICOM HRTF Dataset and Spatial Audio Metrics Toolbox
Katarina C. Poole, Julie Meyer, Vincent Martin, Rapolas Daugintis, Nils Marggraf-Turley, Jack Webb, Ludovic Pirard, Nicola La Magna, Oliver Turvey, Lorenzo Picinali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05053

The Extended SONICOM HRTF Dataset and Spatial Audio Metrics Toolbox
Headphone-based spatial audio uses head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to simulate real-world acoustic environments. HRTFs are unique to everyone, due to personal morphology, shaping how sound waves interact with the body before reaching the eardrums. Here we present the extended SONICOM HRTF dataset which expands on the previous version released in 2023. The total number of measured subjects has now been increased to 300, with demographic information for a subset of the participants, provi…

Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06448 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings
Global university rankings have transformed how certain institutions define success, often elevating metrics over meaning. This study examines universities with rapid research growth suggestive of metric-driven behaviors. Among the 1,000 most publishing institutions, 98 showed extreme output increases between 2018-2019 and 2023-2024. Of these, eighteen were selected for exhibiting sharp declines in first and corresponding authorship. Compared to national, regional, and international norms, thes…