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Scientists race to save Florida’s coral reef as El Niño heats the ocean
The waters off the coast of South Florida were already growing warm by late June
— ominously warm to Ken Nedimyer and other scientists and conservationists
still scarred by a devastating 2023 marine heat wave
that led to the worst mass coral bleaching event on record in the state.

Nedimyer, technical director for the nonprofit Reef Renewal USA,
and other colleagues kicked into gear. …

Over the last few weeks I've had a nice combination of vacation and some research using Bayesian Optimization (BO) for high harmonics generation. (Inspired by the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 - https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/press-release/ )
They …

Just got a letter from the US State Department's FOIA office regarding a request made in October 2023, basically asking if I'm still interested.
Yes.

August 2026 was the hottest on record globally, followed by 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The temperature was well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial.
From Copernicus ECMWF
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

"United Utilities fined nearly £1m after discharging raw sewage along Lancashire coast"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Sewage

Baker Mayfield, Buccaneers agree to 3-year contract extension: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7366483/2026/09/08/baker-mayfield-bucs-contract-extension/

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With extra squeeze and torque for blaming the Covid lockdowns.

How a 2023 deal that gave Pennsylvania newspaper LNP to public radio station WITF brought financial woes and self-dealing allegations, and ultimately fell apart (Carolina Abbott Galvão/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/what-happened-

from my link log —
Behind the scenes of Rust string formatting and format_args!().
https://blog.m-ou.se/format-args/
saved 2023-12-05 https://dotat.at…

@… @… I am new to Rust (only about a year), but Tolnay came to my attention in 2023 due to the JeanHeyd Meneide RustCon fiasco and his very objectionable handling of it.

Die Ars Elextronica (#aec) in #Linz habe ich seit Jahren nicht einmal mehr wahrgenommen.
Aber jetzt finde ich es spannend, nachdem eine Jury Forensic Architectur mit einer Nike ausgezeichnet hat, für "A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023"
Weil LH Stelzer darin Antisemitismus sieht, kommt er nicht zur Preisverleihung. Und der Leiter des AEC muss…

Paxton’s former top law enforcement official endorses Talarico
David Maxwell, a former Texas Ranger decorated for his decades of service,
reported Paxton to the FBI in 2020 for alleged abuse of office to criminally help one of his donors
— an investigation that formed the basis of Paxton’s 2023 House impeachment.
Paxton was acquitted by the state Senate, and the Justice Department declined to pursue federal charges.

Paxton fired Maxwell and other OAG staffers …

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

„War sehr emotional“ - Steirer traf Lebensretter nach dreijähriger Suche! #News #Nachrichten

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Well put.
Rutte doesn't have any room left for self-respect.

"Antarctica gained a record 695 billion tons of ice. Scientists found the surprising reason"
#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Price Responses of Rwandan Tungsten Exports under Conflict Minerals Regulation
Haruka Nagamori, Kazuhiko Nishimura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08690 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08690 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08690
arXiv:2608.08690v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Section 1502 of the Dodd--Frank Act, enacted in 2010, requires U.S.-listed companies using tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (3TG) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries to disclose information on the minerals' origins. Concerns have been raised that the regulation may have induced a de facto embargo through avoidance of sourcing from the covered region. However, how the price responsiveness of mineral exports evolved under changing institutional and market conditions remains insufficiently understood. Since tungsten production in the covered region is concentrated almost entirely in Rwanda, this study examines the price responsiveness of Rwandan tungsten exports from January 2009 to December 2023.
Because missing export quantity data prevent continuous observation of export unit values, we apply the identification approach of Nakano and Nishimura (2025), combining monthly mirror trade data from UN Comtrade with exchange rates and a world average price. An importer fixed-effects model is estimated using export value as the dependent variable, with the sample divided into four periods according to changes in the institutional and market environment.
The results reveal substantial temporal variation in price responsiveness. A statistically significant negative price response is observed in Period 1 ($\eta=-20.814$, $p<0.01$), disappears in Period 2 ($\eta=1.814$, $p>0.10$), reappears in Period 3 ($\eta=-5.277$, $p<0.01$), and disappears again in Period 4 ($\eta=0.440$, $p>0.10$). Coefficient-difference tests confirm significant changes between Periods 1 and 2 ($p=0.0021$) and between Periods 3 and 4 ($p=0.0006$). These findings suggest that the price responsiveness of Rwandan tungsten exports varied substantially over time rather than following a uniform trajectory after the regulation.
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#Antisemitismus, #Holocaustleugnung, #Volksverhetzung. Ein #Reichsdepp, der auch noch seit Jahrz…

João Donato – A Bad Donato (1970) (2023 Verve By Request) – Flabbergasted Vibes
Is this the Brazilian “Electric Mud”?
https://flabbergasted-vibes.org/2026/08/30/joao-donato-a-bad-donato-1970-2023-verve-by-request/

Bitcoin rises above $80K after jumping 20% last week, its biggest three-day gain since 2023; US spot bitcoin ETFs had $1.92B in net inflows last week (Lee Ying Shan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/bitcoin-price-near-80000-cryptocurrency…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

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'`,…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Stephen Sondheim, Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford & Sweeney Todd 2023 Broadway Company:
🎵 'A Little Priest' from Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
https://open.spotify.com/track/2FQFo6HPO82LsdlcJeDJ4B

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Beck:
🎵 Loser
#Beck
https://wickit.bandcamp.com/track/eazy-e-vs-beck-loser-in-the-hood-wick-it-blend-2023
https://open.spotify.com/track/5NTZM8YYeKM2YsGSffVIge

Magellan AI says BetterHelp is the top podcast advertiser of all time, spending $242M on ads since 2023; in 2025, its ad team worked with 1,500 creators (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-09-03/…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1488280 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Estimated Demand for Mega-Constellation Internet Service
Akhil Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08851
arXiv:2608.08851v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The near-term growth of the commercial space economy and sustainability of the low-Earth orbit (LEO) environment depends on the commercial prospects of large LEO satellite telecommunications constellations (``mega-constellations''). If successful, mega-constellations can spur competition between launch providers, which may lead to lower launch prices. They may also demand orbital sustainability services and/or generate additional collision risk, which may in turn affect space sustainability interests. Consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services is critical to their commercial success. This analysis presents a method to estimate consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services, using SpaceX's Starlink over December 2021--November 2023 as an example. This analysis finds that Starlink users are highly concentrated in the wealthiest countries. It also finds that consumer demand for Starlink is growing more slowly than orbital capacity is being added and more slowly than demand for non-Starlink internet overall. Continuation of these trends may indicate that the market for mega-constellation internet is less lucrative than previous forecasts have indicated.
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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…

I broke up with 1Password a little over 3 years ago.
It was clear to me that I should no longer trust them with the most intimate of my personal data. I was with them from 2008 to 2023 (15 years).
They got a LOT of investment very quickly, and started pushing their hosted service—HARD. I need to have agency over my own credentials data, not trust a service to stay up.
To me, this was the start of them showing us who they really are (and I even tolerated it for a bit).

An Alien Mind -- In mid-2023, within the "RLSlow" research project, we saw the first results ... (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/an-alien-mind
http://www.memeorandum.com/260907/p56#a260907p56

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All your .org are belong to US

(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.

Former Dallas Cowboys 1st-Round Pick Released by Jets https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/first-round-pick-mazi-smith-released/

Guardrails enable you to defend against prompt injection or jailbreak attacks by your coding agents. In our tutorial on agentic software engineering, we provide an overview of the options available to you for this purpose: https://agentic-software-engineering.r

Informal initiatives have been launched in recent years to address broader military uses of AI and autonomy,
such as for target generation and decision support.
One such effort is the Netherlands and South Korea-led REAIM
(Responsible AI in the Military Domain).
REAIM has held three international summits since 2023 to promote awareness and international engagement,
each generating important outcome documents.
The U.N. General Assembly has also entered thi…

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'`,…

The Drone flights vs car break-ins chart in this article is fascinating: It shows a sharply declining rate of car break-ins, and then, as drone flights are introduced later in 2024, the rate of decline slows.
And "The SFPD increased patrols in bipping hot spots like Fisherman’s Wharf starting in 2023. Cops also started using bait cars and building cases against major bipping gangs. " And that correlates with the fastest rate of decline - good, old fashioned policing.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Despite the 2026 summer box office tracking to hit $4.5B, outperforming 2019 and 2023, total admissions through mid-August stand at 547.1M, below 2019's 795.9M (Bob Mondello/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/08/26/nx-s1-5923629/movie-summer-box-office

A profile of Suno, which has been used by more than 100M people since 2023 and has 2M paid subscribers, as it faces copyright lawsuits from UMG and Sony Music (Bloomberg)

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 378 nodes and 3267 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

AI & water,
"Experts stress that, overall, data center water consumption pales in comparison to the usage by industries like agriculture and some kinds of manufacturing. Researchers have estimated that data center cooling systems consumed 66 billion liters of water in 2023, less than 1 percent of the nation’s total consumption."
#AI #water

from my link log —
Oglaf search index.
https://files.selfawaresoup.com/oglaf-indexer/
saved 2023-09-18 https://dotat.at/:/ID73X.h…

Diese Nachricht deutete darauf hin, dass auch Netanjahu diesem Denkmuster folgt und lieber sein Volk opfert, wenn er dafür seine Macht behalten kann... von anderen Völkern ganz zu schweigen.
Was für ein Desaster!
#Putin #Netanjahu #TechBros #neueWege #gemeinsam #wegVomDualismus

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On the other hand CSS...

Die #Bundesnetzagentur hat Zuschläge für 27 innovative #Photovoltaik-Projekte mit #Batteriespeicher und insgesamt 482 Megawatt erteilt.
Die Gebotspreise sind seit 2023 um m…

from my link log —
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem: polyfills gone rogue.
https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-6/
saved 2023-09-21

Changes in Pluto’s Atmosphere Based on Stellar Occultation Data from 2017 to 2023: #Pluto

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I reckon Finland (where I live) would send the President to negotiate (read: make whatever necessary concessions) with the orange wrecking ball, over a game of golf.

That's only slightly better than what can be said about Spain or Portugal which are just as critically dependent on those services.

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 145 nodes and 2403 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Suede & BBC Concert Orchestra:
🎵 She's In Fashion (Radio 2 Piano Room, 21 Feb 2023)
#Suede #BBCConcertOrchestra

ChatGPT is a bullshit generator.
To understand AI, we should think harder about bullshit
-- Submitted by Alan Blackwell on Thu, 09/11/2023
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit

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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A Note on the Identification Step in "A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals"
Henri Ker\"anen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10596 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10596 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10596
arXiv:2608.10596v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The New Keynesian example of Beraja (2023) is not identified at its printed calibration: more than one structure satisfies every condition of its identification step. Two of the paper's six identifying restrictions coincide on equilibrium equations consistent with the printed reduced form, leaving eleven conditions to determine an equation's twelve coefficients. The note derives the rank condition the identification step requires, computable from the reduced form and the restrictions alone. The note also documents and corrects a misprint in the paper's counterfactual display. A one-clause amendment to the paper's Theorem 1 restores its conclusion.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
corto.alto:
🎵 Slope (6 Music Session, 15 Nov 2023)
#cortoalto
https://cortoalto.bandcamp.com/track/slope-4
https://open.spotify.com/track/7KWUeJYo8dNzqsCylvz1hL