@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-05-21 11:42:02
from my link log —
Where is the most densely populated square kilometre in the UK?
http://www.statsmapsnpix.com/2023/02/where-is-most-densely-populated-square.html
saved 2023-02-05
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-05-21 11:42:02
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-20 12:11:03
Prelude, which helps companies with digital onboarding, raised a $20M Series A led by podcaster Harry Stebbings' 20VC, bringing its total funding to $27M (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/05/20/20vc-leads-20m-series-a-investment-in-…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-05-23 16:18:02
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-06-20 08:42:32
Climate alarm!
This is NOT within normal bounds for the Netherlands: the second half of June is now forecasted to become the warmest in 126 years, beating June 2023 by a margin of over 3°C!
24-hour average of 23.4°C, in this forecast.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-17 20:50:00
@laxsill@social.spejset.org2026-05-20 09:42:56
Content warning: sexual assault
It’s a simple proposition: Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape.
Supporters of Israel made that point after the brutal sexual assaults against Israeli women during the Hamas-led attack on
Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu and many U.S. senators, including Marco Rubio,
condemned that sexual violence, and Netanyahu rightly called on “all civilized leaders” to “speak up”
@wvmierlo@zirk.us2026-06-20 17:26:31
The Simmons Memorial, Dane John Gardens, Canterbury | April 2023
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-07-20 20:42:03
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
@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com2026-05-18 12:09:06
https://www.portugalresident.com/portuguese-air-crew-transports-passenger-positive-for-hantavirus/
The airline also said that the protection given to the Portuguese crew: surgical masks and gloves, was sufficient – and that “all security measures were complied with”.
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Giving the crew only surgical masks for protection is criminally negligent.
The airline also said that the protection given to the Portuguese crew: surgical masks and gloves, was sufficient – and that “all security measures were complied with”.
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Giving the crew only surgical masks for protection is criminally negligent.
@arXiv_csIT_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-06-11 07:34:19
Designed-Source Reductions and a Dual-Purpose Feasibility Band for Semantic Rate-Distortion
Joss Armstrong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11280 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11280 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11280
arXiv:2606.11280v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The joint rate-distortion framework of Stavrou and Kountouris (IEEE Transactions on Communications 2023) characterises dual-fidelity tradeoffs for semantic communication on stochastic semantic sources. Many task-oriented communication systems instead use designed sources, where the semantic object is a deterministic oracle allocation $\phi^(t)$ rather than a stochastic quantity given by nature. We isolate the subclass of designed sources under smooth concave utility with assumptions A1, A2 and Euclidean allocation codomain, and restrict the encoder class to deterministic common-category mappings. Within this subclass the SK exponential-tilting decoder and generalised Blahut--Arimoto iteration specialise to conditional-mean decoding and Lloyd--Max stationarity on $\phi^(t)$. When the second fidelity is a monotone single-letter distortion, the joint problem stays inside the SK admissible class; the common-category SK rate is lower-bounded by the max of the corresponding Shannon rate-distortion functions, with equality only when the common-category reconstruction is compatible and RDF-optimal. When the second fidelity is aggregate verification, the joint problem leaves the SK single-letter class and admits a constrained-design feasibility band $R_{\min}(\varepsilon^) \leq R \leq R_{\max}(\beta^)$ of width $\log_2(K_{\max}/K_{\min})$ bits in partition cardinality. The reduction and the band are scope statements on the SK apparatus, not modifications to it. A smart-grid economic-dispatch example with a non-technical-loss-detection contrast illustrates the band.
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@david@boles.xyz2026-07-10 13:20:01
In Chicago, the Deaf Will Sing Don Giovanni
Since we opened ASL-Opera.com in September 2023, one question has arrived more often than any other: how rare is it, exactly, for an opera company to present a foreign-language title in American Sign Language?...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07…
@mia@hcommons.social2026-07-07 16:25:24
LwM output! 'We present a dataset of text from English-language newspaper articles that describe some sort of accident involving machinery. The articles were annotated by volunteers on Zooniverse between 2019 and 2023. The articles were selected from over 20 newspaper titles published between 1835 and 1920.' https://doi.org/10.23636/xrk4-45…
@seav@en.osm.town2026-07-07 15:24:56
#TuneTuesday (Jul 7)
The Netherlands’ 🇳🇱 entry for #Eurovision 2023 was “Burning Daylight” by Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper. Maybe it’s because it’s not the usual kitschy Eurovision song why I like it a lot (and why it wasn’t in the final), but it actually reminds me of “Arcade” by Duncan Laurenc…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-06 20:07:58
Bryan Johnson,
a 48 year old American entrepreneur,
has made headlines for his outlandish anti-ageing techniques
-- spending millions of dollars in a bid to extend his life
and reduce his biological age to that of an 18-year-old.
Johnson refers to his Benjamin Button-esque ways as
‘Project Blueprint’,
meticulously taking 54 supplements a day,
eating every meal between 6am and 11.30am,
and following a strict exercise regimen.
In 2023, …
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-06-10 09:36:26
Potential Aaron Donald return has the Rams buzzing: 'It would be one fun year' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7346419/2026/06/10/aaron-donald-rams-return-unretire/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-07 21:01:14
A district court judge dismisses Trump Media and Technology Group's $3.8B defamation lawsuit filed in 2023 against WaPo; TMTG is considering an appeal (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/20
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-10 21:50:57
A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/business/atlassian-te…
@stargazer@woof.tech2026-07-03 08:12:13
https://www.kalushstalbud.com.ua/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/horodok-11-of-15-scaled.jpg
Ось так, поступово перебираючи (і маплячи) об'єкти КалушСтальБуд, дійшов до TBF Group. Яка в місті Городок (sic) Львівської області.
Якщо назва …
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-05-18 20:46:07
Meeting with the team of Chambre 999 - EV - Cannes 2023
https://youtube.com/watch?v=_1DdwMnoXCM&si=GGHaxYJm9odNMVfS
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-07-10 20:22:01
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-05-06 11:42:04
from my link log —
The problem with counterfeit people. (paywall)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/problem-counterfeit-people/674075/
saved 2026-05-05
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2026-06-25 11:00:04
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'`,…
@wvmierlo@zirk.us2026-06-19 16:59:01
Hospital Lane, Canterbury | April 2023
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #documentingplace
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-04-24 20:30:52
Cost to Build a Natural Gas-Fired Power Plant Surges by 66% in two years, BNEF Says. The average project expense for a US gas power plant with combined-cycle turbines, the more efficient CCGT type, rose to $2,157 per kilowatt last year from less than $1,500 in 2023.
https://www.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-07-05 11:42:02
from my link log —
No vehicles in the park: a game about content moderation.
https://novehiclesinthepark.com/
saved 2023-06-24 https://dotat.at/:/1BJCD…
@krone@frawas.de2026-05-25 12:26:20
Starker Auftakt - Grabher sorgt für ersten rot-weiß-roten Sieg #News #Nachrichten
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-04-29 18:26:13
SpaceX's draft IPO filing: from 2023 to 2025, Starlink's individual subscribers rose from 2.3M to 8.9M, revenue grew from $3.9B to $11.4B, and ARPU fell 18% (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/spacexs-starli…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-06-04 09:11:02
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.05.2026.
419 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-07-12 17:42:02
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…
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-05-26 19:54:35
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-04-27 20:42:02
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
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-07-03 14:16:02
Kumulativer Zubau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen minus Stilllegungen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Wie Solarparks Biodiversität fördern können
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-07-09 20:42:02
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://
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk2026-04-27 12:58:37
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Sampa the Great:
🎵 Let Me Be Great (6 Music Session, 5 Jul 2023)
#SampatheGreat
https://sampathegreat.bandcamp.com/track/let-me-be-great
https://open.spotify.com/track/7sXjwoCydLIZlJ1WpIyh9J
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
@wvmierlo@zirk.us2026-06-14 08:48:20
The Bishop's Finger, Canterbury | April 2023
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #documentingspace
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-04-29 02:20:27
Pop Around the Clock: Sting: My Songs - Live at Château de Chambord - #ARD #sat3
#PopAroundTheClock #Sting
@wvmierlo@zirk.us2026-06-10 18:04:20
The Goods Shed, Canterbury West station | April 2023
#photography #blackandwhitephotography #monochrome #documentingplace
