
2025-06-21 14:42:03
from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26
from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26
Amazon ends an experiment started in 2023 to make same-day deliveries with drivers in Kia Souls and will rely on Amazon Flex drivers who use their own cars (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Maar een kwart 😃 , prima score
#politiek
In its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times stories.
In its response, OpenAI described this as a “fringe behavior” and a “problem that researchers at OpenAI and elsewhere work hard to address.”
But is it actually a fringe behavior?
And have leading AI companies addressed it?
New research—focusing on books rather than newspaper articles and on different compa…
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…
https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/06/18/sdpd-plate-reader-data-breach-early-days/
“San Diego’s settings were meant to bar other agencies from searching San Diego data, but there was a misconfiguration leading to almost three weeks where…
DC Circuit orders EPA to review 2023-2025 biofuel standard for environmental harms | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-orders-epa-to-review-2023-2025-biofuel-standard-for-environmental-harms/
That’s an excellent move.
Let’s make it national.
Decades ago, my first wife was a librarian and met a lot of people. She was a friendly person. She befriended a guy who seemed to misunderstand friendship. We ended up having to refuse entry to CPS twice in the ensuing 3 weeks. Thankfully, they didn’t deem either anonymous report worth seeking a warrant.
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…
Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.06.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 989236 registrierten Anlagen.
12.347 mehr als am 11.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1923 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
NIH shells out $10M to research health effects of 2023 train disaster in East Palestine, Ohio (Ryan King/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/19/us-news/nih-shells-out-10-million-to-research-health-effects-of-2023-train-disaster-in-east-palestine/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p76#a250619p76
Männerfeindliche Straftaten jenseits der linken, rechten, ausländischen oder religiösen Ideologie habe von 2023 bis 2024 um 300 Prozent (!) zugenommen.
(Vier Fälle statt zuvor einen!)
Quelle: Factsheet BKA zu politlisch motivierter Hasskriminalität.
https://www.
Krugman outlines a constellation of possible causes around a core theme: extreme uncertainty.
“What does a business do in the face of this kind of uncertainty? It tries to avoid making commitments that it may soon regret.”
Krugman tries to tie it all to Trump’s recent actions, which is dubious: the post-college job market has been crap since 2022 or 2023; Krugman’s own graph suggests it started worsening circa 2018. The larger theme of uncertainty, however, fits that timeframe.
Deuce Vaughn: Once a fun story, now a sad reality https://insidethestar.com/deuce-vaughn-once-a-fun-story-now-a-sad-reality
from my link log —
Deploying IPv6-mostly access networks.
https://labs.ripe.net/author/ondrej_caletka_1/deploying-ipv6-mostly-access-networks/
saved 2023-05-07
"World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange
In einer Stadt leben, in der die Möglichkeiten zum Abstellen von Fahrrädern rund um ein Großevent wie die #KielerWoche einen Artikel in der Lokalzeitung bekommen, weil es ein solches Event gibt, weil es ein breites Angebot mit Fahrradabstellanlagen gibt, weil es Leute gibt, die sich dafür verantwortlich fühlen und gute Arbeit machen, weil es Leute gibt, die Fahrrad fahren und das brauchen...
Our Oil Climate Index plus gas now has 2023 data for full life cycle emissions of oil and gas by field: https://rmi.org/the-oil-and-gas-sector-is-leaking…
Rashee Rice will be 'ready to go' for Chiefs training camp: What does his return mean for Kansas City?
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rashe…
Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1923 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage
A vital voice in country music offering a rambling take-down of so much that's wrong in the US:
"Go ahead and shoot me if it floats your little boat
But I'll live by my conscience even if that's all she wrote"
Iris DeMent, "Going Down to Sing in Texas" (2023)
https://…
Active InSAR monitoring of building damage in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas War
Corey Scher, Jamon Van Den Hoek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14730 https://
Building Blocks of a User Experience Research Point of View
Patricia Diaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15332 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506…
Der gesamte contentindustrielle Journalismus ist eine gigantische Kopiermaschine für industriell erzeugte Dummheit geworden, und über dem breiten Tor, das in die Idiocracy und das nächste finstere Mittelalter führt, stehen als flammendes Menetekel die Worte Breaking News
#Selbstzitat | Quelle:
Nippon Steel’s $14.9bn acquisition of US Steel closed on Wednesday,
confirming an unusual degree of power for the Trump administration after the Japanese company’s 18-month struggle to close the purchase.
Under the deal terms, Nippon bought 100% of US Steel shares at $55 a share, as it first laid out in its December 2023 offer for the well-known and struggling steelmaker.
A press release on the filing also discloses details of a national security agreement inked with the Tr…
In late 2023, the US Army Drill Team did things like this, yet yesterday, under the command of potus and kegseth, the Army had difficulty walking in step with one another.
Unless there's another reason the soldiers would break step...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbR96SWcP
@… Got an email this morning telling me I could log in and download my HESTA statement so I could complete my HCC renewal. Estimated completion 16-23 July. Current HCC expires 12 July. I'm hoping ruefully that the notes on my account (from 2023) after might speed it up a little especially as I have been known to contact the minister after it too…
Friedensaktivist Hamza Howidy, aus #Gaza nach Deutschland geflohen, soll abgeschoben werden. Es gibt eine Petition:
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/onlin
Detecting Narrative Shifts through Persistent Structures: A Topological Analysis of Media Discourse
Mark M. Bailey, Mark I. Heiligman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14836
Armed Conflict Location and Event Data gathers information on political violence worldwide.
❝These 50 [most violent] countries, ACLED says, account for 97 percent of all political violence in the world.
The United States is fiftieth—right behind Libya at 49.❞
That was in 2023.
https://newrepublic.com/article/196851/america-political-violence-terrifying-turning-point
Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
Matan Ben-Tov, Mor Geva, Mahmood Sharif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12880 https://
New poll on "abundance agenda" shows majority still support local decision-making.
Do you support or oppose limiting local zoning rules to build more homes? Yes 28% No 43%
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-approval-at-42-democrats-up
BUT…
Just don't miss today's Metacurity for a raft of Iran-related cyber developments and the other critical infosec news you should know today, including
--Israel-linked hackers destroyed data at Iran’s state-owned Bank Sepah
--Israel-linked hackers stole $48m in crypto from Iran,
--Iran urges removal of WhatsApp from phones,
--Iran shuts down internet amid Israel strikes,
--US critical infrastructure girds for Iranian cyber threats,
--UK ICO fines 23an…
Wero: Luxemburg stößt hinzu
„Ab Juni 2026 können Kunden von Spuerkeess, BIL, POST Luxembourg, Raiffeisen und BGL BNP Paribas die digitale Wallet Wero nutzen.“
„Zu erwähnen ist auch die geplante Integration von Payconiq, das 2023 von EPI übernommen wurde. Die Umstellung soll schrittweise erfolgen, wobei Payconiq voraussichtlich bis September 2026 vollständig durch Wero ersetzt wird.“
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On Mar 24, 2023 I watched
𝗕𝗔𝗬𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗖𝗛 Season 6 Episode 16 “𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗹𝗹” 26 Feb 1996 with #PamelaAnderson #DavidHasselhoff #JennyMcCarthy
Exploring Economic Sectoral Dynamics Through High-resolution Mobility Data
Timothy F Leslie, Hossein Amiri, Andreas Z\"ufle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13985
Density estimation via periodic scaled Korobov kernel method with exponential decay condition
Ziyang Ye, Haoyuan Tan, Xiaoqun Wang, Zhijian He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15419
Voxan Roadster vs. Citroën DS 21 https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2023/11/03/voxan-roadster-vs-citroen-ds-21/
“Noor, who made so many friends on Bluesky since she started an account there in the summer of 2023, had her account suddenly suspended on Friday. Bluesky did not send a reason for the suspension, so while she wrote an appeal, she did not know what actions she was appealing, so as of now it's still suspended. She’s been silenced, and effectively disappeared.”
Charged-particle production in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at 5.36 TeV with ALICE
Tulika Tripathy (for the ALICE collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14989
Rotational Variables: Kepler Versus ASAS-SN
Jack Stethem (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University), Christopher S. Kochanek (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University), Anya Phillips (Center for Astrophysics - Harvard and Smithsonian), Lyra Cao (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University), Marc Pinsonneault (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, Center for Cosmol…
Cada vez que veo noticias sobre las IAs como esta pienso que aquí nos enteramos de estas miserias, se comparten, se comentan... pero ¿y fuera? Por ejemplo, la gente en general es consciente de lo que supone para su privacidad que una IA grabe y "transcriba" una conversación confidencial con su médico?
Infinite lexicographic products of positional objectives
Antonio Casares, Pierre Ohlmann, Micha{\l} Skrzypczak, Igor Walukiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14544
Hey, Jörg Schoppmeyer opened his talk at the #SolarEclipse Conference in Leuven on imaging annular eclipses without filters with one of my Australian pictures from 1999 (upper right): see https://geocities.restorativland.org/CapeCanaveral/5599/aus99/story.html for how they originated. Schoppmeyer's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbtQrHdl5Og of the 2023 ASE actually found scientific use: https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2024_2.pdf#page=3 (once again confirming the larger solar diameter https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/114681336115327260 had determined by an entirely different technique). 6/n
2023 wurden in Deutschland erstmals über 10 Millionen Quadratmeter #Gründächer neu angelegt.
Das ist ein Rekordwert laut #BuGG-Marktreport. Der Markt für #Gebäudebegrünung
Thank you for the nice #qgisuc2025 summary and for the #Trajctools shout out, @… !
Layered tree-independence number and clique-based separators
Cl\'ement Dallard, Martin Milani\v{c}, Andrea Munaro, Shizhou Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12424
Juneteenth - what you and I need to know https://muz4now.com/2023/juneteenth-what-you-and-i-need-to-know/
Heute vor 2 Jahren: Am 14. Juni 2023 erklärte der belarussische Präsident Aleksander Lukaschenko in einem Fernsehinterview mit dem russischen Staatssender Russia-1, dass #Belarus, wie am 25.03.23 durch Putin angekündigt, #Kernwaffen von Russland erhalten habe.
Extreme values of derivatives of the Dedekind zeta function of a cyclotomic field
Zhonghua Li, Yutong Song, Qiyu Yang, Shengbo Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12342
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
Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Ruoqian Zhu, Dave Love, Scott Powers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13779
The Second and Third Data Releases from the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey
Adam C. Schneider, Frederick J. Vrba, Justice Bruursema, Jeffrey A. Munn, Mike Irwin, Mike Read, Watson Varricatt, Tom Kerr, Klaus Hodapp, Simon Dye, Stephen J. Williams, Andrew T. Cenko, Trudy M. Tilleman, Marc A. Murison, Barry Rothberg, Scott Dahm, Bryan Dorland, Andy Lawrence, Kenneth C. Chambers
Who is realistically going to carry around a second digital camera with them? Of course cameras are better than smartphones, but the best camera is the one you have with you at the moment.
I've taken thousands of photos that I never would have thanks to my iphone.
https://
Sign-Rank of $k$-Hamming Distance is Constant
Mika G\"o\"os, Nathaniel Harms, Valentin Imbach, Dmitry Sokolov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12022 ht…
crossMoDA Challenge: Evolution of Cross-Modality Domain Adaptation Techniques for Vestibular Schwannoma and Cochlea Segmentation from 2021 to 2023
Navodini Wijethilake, Reuben Dorent, Marina Ivory, Aaron Kujawa, Stefan Cornelissen, Patrick Langenhuizen, Mohamed Okasha, Anna Oviedova, Hexin Dong, Bogyeong Kang, Guillaume Sall\'e, Luyi Han, Ziyuan Zhao, Han Liu, Tao Yang, Shahad Hardan, Hussain Alasmawi, Santosh Sanjeev, Yuzhou Zhuang, Satoshi Kondo, Maria Baldeon Calisto, Shaikh Muh…
BBC bias on Israel
From Jonathan Cook. (Substack link, sorry.)
"In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel's destruction of Gaza"
For example,
"... the distinguished Israeli historian Avi Shlaim lives in the UK and teaches at Oxford University. ... Shlaim is both knowledgeable about the history of Israeli colonisation of Palestine and truly independent. He is in a position to dispassionately provide the context BBC audiences need to make judgments about what is going on and who is responsible for it.
"And yet extraordinarily, Shlaim has never been invited on by the BBC. ... He is one of the prominent Israelis we are never allowed to hear from, because they are likely to make more credible and mainstream a narrative the BBC wishes to present as fringe, loopy and antisemitic."
Plus some media analysis stats such as:
"The BBC mentioned “occupation” – the essential context for understanding the relationship between Israel and Palestinians – only 14 times in news articles when providing context to the events of 7 October 2023. That amounted to 0.3% of articles. Additional context – decades of Israeli apartheid rule and Israel’s 17-year blockade of Gaza — were entirely missing from the coverage."
#Israel #Palestine #history #Gaza #media #BBC #JonathanCook
Are BLS monthly numbers still trustworthy?
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/06/04/ADP-May-jobs-lowest-since-2023/8661749044732/
The peculiar hard state behaviour of the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1727.8$-$1613
A. K. Hughes, F. Carotenuto, T. D. Russell, A. J. Tetarenko, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, R. M. Plotkin, A. Bahramian, J. S. Bright, F. J. Cowie, J. Crook-Mansour, R. Fender, J. K. Khaulsay, A. Kirby, S. Jones, M. McCollough, R. Rao, G. R. Sivakoff, S. D. Vrtilek, D. R. A. Williams-Baldwin, C. M. Wood, D. Altamirano, P. Casella, N. Castro Segura, S. Corbel, M. Del Santo, C. Echiburu-Trujillo, J. van den Eij…
She started bike riding in 2023 - and achieved the outright endurance #JOGLEJOG world record in 2025 - wow!
https://road.cc/content/news/sarah-rug
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
The Outstanding Talk Series Emmy category will have only three nominations in 2025, down from five in 2023, due to getting just 13 submissions (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/late-night-talk-emmy-category-three-nominatio…
from my link log —
Implementing dependent types in pi-forall.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02129
saved 2025-06-06 https://dotat.at/…
Latitudinal dependence of the solar wind during periods of high and low activity through interplanetary scintillation
A. Waszewski, J. S. Morgan, R. Ekers, M. Johnston-Hollitt, M. C. M. Cheung, N. D. R. Bhat, R. Chhetri, S. C. Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14155
"Jacqueline Rivault's two grandchildren, who were French citizens, were killed in October 2023 by 'two F16 missiles fired by the Israeli army.'"
French grandmother files 'genocide' complaint over Gaza killings
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/police-and-justice/article/2025/06/06/french-grandmother-files-genocide-complaint-over-gaza-killings_6742078_105.html
Could Cowboys trade former 2nd-round pick before rookie deal done? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/15/cowboys-trade-luke-schoonmaker-consideration/84204653007/
Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
Matan Ben-Tov, Mor Geva, Mahmood Sharif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12880 https://
Sources: Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel have bought out investors in their media company, Tucker Carlson Network; the two had raised $15M for TCN in 2023 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/13/tucker-carlson-investors
I don’t know, asshole, was 1947 worth it? Was close to 80 years of settler colonialism and apartheid worth it? Is the current genocide of the Palestinian people being committed by israel worth it? https://ravenation.club/@welkin7/114652095075122736
#ThursdayFiveList #CaliforniaDreaming
Elisapie, "Californiamut (Going to California)" (2023)
https://youtu.be/XLqvn-ykvmY
On the intervals for the non-existence of covering systems with distinct moduli
Jack Dalton, Nic Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11359 https://
A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…
Profile of Dominick McGee, a right-wing X influencer who has amassed 1.5M followers and made $157K since 2023 by spending 11 hours daily posting about politics (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/technol
Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots to inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 (Ian Thomas/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/gecko-robotics-…
The rate of descent did not slow as much as expected,
and the spacecraft probably made a hard landing.
The laser instrument that measured how high Resilience was above the surface was slow in making its measurements,
which may have contributed to the problem.
“At this point, we do not know clearly about the cause,”
Takeshi Hakamada, the chief executive of Ispace, said in translated remarks.
The loss of the second mission could lead NASA to rethink its pla…
Wusstet Ihr....
Die erste #Balkonsolaranlage wurde bereits am 14.04.1923 auf einer #Gartenlaube errichtet.
Damals arbeitete das #Marktstammdatenregister noch mi…
CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-06/venture-capital-…
Soderle, und hier haben wir nun auch noch die kumulative Grafik mit der Anzahl der Balkonkraftwerke.
Hab noch den Endpunkt rangebastelt, damit man die Summe sieht.
Von der diese Woche vermeldeten Million sind wir zumindest offiziell noch etwas entfernt, wobei Sebastian ja von einer hohen Dunkelziffer ausgeht.
Wieso haben wir eigentlich eine Dunkelziffer? Faulheit? Ungenehmigt?
#Balkonkraftwerke
from my link log —
The yaml document from hell.
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell
saved 2025-04-11
A federal appeals court denies Trump's request for a rehearing in the E. Jean Carroll case, where he was found liable in 2023 for sexual abuse and defamation (Graham Kates/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/appeals-court
Was kann man noch alles so mit den Rohdaten des Marktstammdatenregisters machen?
Man kann berechnen, wie viele #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr gebaut wurden.
#Balkonsolar #Solarenergie
Skyral, a London-based modeling and simulation startup developing AI-based digital twin tech for defense, healthcare, and other sectors, raised a $20M Series A (Lucy Adams/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/04/uk-based-sk
Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Zubau (netto) der Leistung von Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland.
Hoffe, es stimmt. Wer Langeweile hat, kann ja mal nachrechnen. 😆
#Balkonsolar #Energiewende
Tencent Music agrees to buy podcasting startup Ximalaya for $1.3B in cash, plus some stock, in a bid to become China's Spotify; Ximalaya had 303M MAUs in 2023 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Im Jahr 2024 wurden mehr als zwei Drittel aller neuen #Wohngebäude in #Deutschland primär mit #Wärmepumpen beheizt.
Ihr Anteil hat sich in zehn Jahren mehr als verdoppelt. Tr…
Disney closes its deal with Comcast to buy out NBCUniversal's 33% stake in Hulu, paying an additional $439M, after agreeing in 2023 to pay $8.61B (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://