2026-02-24 11:03:08
Leading curves.
(Near/below Holzgauer Wetterspitze, Lechtal Alps, November 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps
Analysis: the crypto industry has spent $288M on the 2026 US midterms so far, over double the 2024 cycle; crypto PAC Fairshake is the US' fifth most-funded PAC (Molly White/Citation Needed)
https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/
A U.S. appeals court has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms to take effect
The six judges who voted against the decision wrote a series of dissents,
with some arguing that the law exposes children to government-endorsed religion in a place they are required to be,
presenting a clear constitutional burden
Circuit Judge James L. Dennis, an appointee of Democratic President Bill Clinton,…
Ähnlichkeiten mit dem Challenger-Unglück liegen auf der Hand.
NASA Chief Classifies Starliner Flight As 'Type A' Mishap, Says Agency Made Mistakes - Slashdot https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/0…
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.02.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1228115 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
I woke up angry today.
ICE spokesperson Lindsay Williams is a liar, who is bad at lying.
“Asked if the ICE officers chased Lopez, Williams said: ‘Chased? I wouldn’t say that. They followed him until he crashed.’”
Wouldn’t say that? How about: ICE was committing crime (their standard procedure), someone died, they’re the killers. Your people killed a school teacher, Williams.
Have the day you deserve, you apologist scum.
Ukraine's SBU captures Russian soldier suspected of executing 9 Ukrainian POWs in 2024: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/ukraines-sbu-captures-russian-soldier.html
Just an unsolicited product plug, if you’re in Western Canada. The house we bought in late 2024 has Vinyltek windows, installed during a 2010-12 renovation, and a few of them were a bit twisted out of shape or had dysfunctional open/close/lock controls. So we called up and their guy came by and fixed them all in less than an hour, no charge. https://www.vin…
CZ returned to the US for the first time since his release from prison in 2024, to attend a WLF event at Mar-a-Lago attended by Brian Armstrong and others (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/pardon…
J'ai une question pour l'ARCEP. Il y a UNIQUEMENT en France, que l'on a ces appels abusifs, ces numéros usurpé, le non respect totale de la réglementation. En Belgique, Allemagne, Italie, il n'y a rien de cela. Et chez l'ARCEP, il se passe: Rien! Ah oui, on fait la statistique des victimes. Y a un pilote dans l'avion?
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Gits:
🎵 Beauty of the Rose
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/beauty-of-the-rose-2024-remaster-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/7mIbOgXh41SMbQo13oobgc
I'm shocked, shocked, that waiving the transfer tax on downtown office to residential conversions did not result in a single such conversion happening.
Well, not that shocked. (The real point of March 2024 Prop C was the sneaky provision letting the SFBOS reduce the transfer tax altogether without an election. Not to produce housing but to cut downtown landlords' taxes.)
The EU approves UMG's $775M acquisition of Downtown Music, a deal UMG expects to complete in the coming weeks after announcing it in December 2024 (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/m…
Perplexity says it has no plans to further pursue advertising, which it introduced in 2024, phasing out ads late last year over fears it would erode user trust (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6eec07a5-34a8-4f78-a9ed-93ab4263d43c
Fed agencies ordered to patch Dell bug by Saturday after exploitation warning https://therecord.media/fed-agencies-ordered-to-patch-dell-bug-after-exploitation-warning
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 17.03.2026.
397 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
2024-25 COVID vaccine 80% effective against death, CDC estimates:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/2024-25-covid-vaccine-80-effective-against-death-cdc-estimates
Filed Chromium bug #483413444: Invalid `aria-level` values incorrectly default to 1
https://issues.chromium.org/issues/483413444
Which addresses the regressions I found yesterday:
I generally hate buying new computing devices and try to make them last as long as possible. I bought a used/refurb iPad 5th Gen in 2022 for $199 and got 2 years of solid use before I upgraded to a 6th Gen in 2024 (for $170) so I could use an Apple Pencil.
I then put the old 5th Gen on my trainer bike as a video player and it still works great.
But sadly, two years in the 6th Gen now has dead spots on the screen. I may need to replace it.
1/n
From No. 3 picks to Super Bowl LX: Redrafting the 2018 and 2024 top 10 as Sam Darnold, Drake Maye face off
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-redraft-2018-2024-sam-darnol…
Ik vind zo'n winst van banken pervers. Waarom moet een bank zoveel winst maken? Dat betekent dat hun klanten minder waar voor hun geld krijgen. œf ze moeten teveel betalen voor een lening, óf ze krijgen te weinig rente op het spaargeld.
Bijna 5 miljard euro winst voor Rabobank, goede doelen profiteren mee
Klarna reports Q4 revenue up 38% YoY to $1.08B and a $26M net loss, down from a $40M profit in Q4 2024; KLAR is down 50% since its September 2025 NYSE IPO (Laith Al-Khalaf/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dbe5de32-1274-4adc-9e14-c05823ca9d76
Tomb Raider: Peru
This is the 1996 game called Tomb Raider, as opposed to the 2013 game called Tomb Raider. I completed the 2013 game called Tomb Raider back in 2014, and then I completed the sequel to that game (a 2015 game called Rise of the Tomb Raider) in 2024. I have previously completed the 1996 game called Tomb Raider, back in 1998, after I had completed the 1997 game called Tomb Raider II.
@… I've lived in DC since 1989 {edit: since 1984, 1989 in this house] and find it heartbreaking. But I've felt that way since late 2024, so I'm getting used to it, sadly.
Cowboys' 2024 Breakout Star Not Opposed to Return to Dallas https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/cowboys-2024-breakout-star-not-opposed-return-dallas
RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/115993692644831667
That’s a 31-point swing in margin from 2024.
RE: https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/115825823351632755
Top-3 warmest years globally, out of 135:
1. 2024
2. 2023
3. 2025
Concerns over "apparent move towards lifting the arms licences to Israel that it suspended in September 2024, and the reported transfer of new F-35 fighter jets from a British air base."
While the killing continues.
‘Frankly shameful’ | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/articl
Found an old power bill while cleaning up. In the end of 2018 I was paying 9.05 c/kWh for the first 600 kWh and 10.94 above.
Now it's 15.1 and 17.0.
The rate of increase was very much nonlinear though: from October 2018 to October 2024 (six years) the tier 1 rate only climbed by 27%.
It went up 10.5% in 2024 and 20.7% in 2025 alone.
In diesem Essay aus Mai 2024 erklärt Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, weshalb in gesellschafltichen Umbruchzeiten oft dritt- oder vierklassige Politiker in Regierungsverantwortung kommen.
https://europa.blog/de/das-ist-populismus/
ICE detention facilities in FY 2026.
Colors are by type of contract, though many of the "jails" are themselves state facilities operated by private prison corporations, Bolded names indicate facilities opened or reactivated since October 1, 2024.
#ICE #immigrationdetention
@… how come I see these in my feed? I suspect they have a “science” hashtag, but I don’t see it in the app.
https://reddthat.com/post/61631735
Anyway to show those?
Elphi, Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg 2024
#FensterFreitag #windowfriday
Kamala Harris rebrands and revives KamalaHQ as Headquarters, a "Gen-Z led progressive content hub", in partnership with People For the American Way (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/kamala-harris-kamalahq-he…
James Talarico’s victory in the Democratic Senate primary race in Texas
was powered in part by a sizable advantage among Latino voters,
a sought-after group that Democrats are hoping to win back.
Latino voters, historically a Democratic-leaning group,
have been slowly shifting to the right, including a significant move toward Trump in 2024.
This year’s midterm elections will be closely watched to see whether these voters who were moved to support Republicans tw…
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
Sources: Grafana Labs, which makes cloud and AI monitoring tools, is in talks to raise at a $9B valuation, up from $6.6B in 2024; its ARR hit $400M in Sept. (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/grafana-labs-talk-raise-9-billion-valuati…
Australian teen first person in world known to have died of meat allergy triggered by tick bite | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/26/teenager-jeremy-webb-died-tick-bite-meat-allergy
Comeback Player of the Year? How Christian McCaffrey bounced back in most impressive year yet https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47769168/san-francisco-49ers-christian-mccaffrey-comeback-player-year-candidate-2025…
Finally, a more modest increase in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the December average was 427.5 ppm, that's 2.1 ppm more than last year
#emissions #co2 #climatechange…
Liveübertragung: Donnerstag, 26. Februar, 15.05 Uhr
Der #Bundestag berät ein Gesetz zum Schutz von #Journalisten und anderen öffentlich tätigen Personen vor missbräuchlichen #SLAPP Klagen. …
London-based Lawhive, whose lawyers and AI tools help individuals and SMBs automate legal tasks, raised a $60M Series B, after a $40M Series A in December 2024 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/05/lawhive-ai-law-firm-startup-series-b-ventu…
Sonos plant schon wieder eine komplett neue App. Die Nutzer tuen mir schon etwas leid. https://www.mobiflip.de/sonos-plant-schon-wieder-eine-komplett-neue-app/
A $5$-Approximation Analysis for the Cover Small Cuts Problem
Miles Simmons, Ishan Bansal, Joe Cheriyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.01462 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.01462 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.01462
arXiv:2602.01462v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the Cover Small Cuts problem, we are given a capacitated (undirected) graph $G=(V,E,u)$ and a threshold value $\lambda$, as well as a set of links $L$ with end-nodes in $V$ and a non-negative cost for each link $\ell\in L$; the goal is to find a minimum-cost set of links such that each non-trivial cut of capacity less than $\lambda$ is covered by a link. Bansal, Cheriyan, Grout, and Ibrahimpur (arXiv:2209.11209, Algorithmica 2024) showed that the WGMV primal-dual algorithm, due to Williamson, Goemans, Mihail, and Vazirani (Combinatorica, 1995), achieves approximation ratio $16$ for the Cover Small Cuts problem; their analysis uses the notion of a pliable family of sets that satisfies a combinatorial property. Later, Bansal (arXiv:2308.15714v2, IPCO 2025) and then Nutov (arXiv:2504.03910, MFCS 2025) proved that the same algorithm achieves approximation ratio $6$. We show that the same algorithm achieves approximation ratio $5$, by using a stronger notion, namely, a pliable family of sets that satisfies symmetry and structural submodularity.
toXiv_bot_toot
SiriusXM reported Q4 net income of $99M vs. $287M a year ago, rev. of $2.19B vs. $2.17B est., and "robust" guidance including an in-car audio focus; SIRI up 9% (Adam Jacobson/Radio & Television Business Report)
https://rbr.com/sirius-xm-shares-soar-on-earnings-st…
A good thing the republicans just gerrymandered texas assuming theyd keep the latino voters they picked up in 2024 forever!
https://bsky.app/profile/isilanor.bsky.social/post/3mdrjno2ngs2f
US envoys to Israel blocked early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/early-warning-apocalyptic-wasteland-gaza-blocked-by-us-envoys-israel-2026-01-30/ (3:38min video)
Diplomaten van de VS in Israel hielden in januari 2024 ambtsberichten tegen omdat de beschreven omstandigheden om Gaza niet 'gebalanceerd genoeg' waren.
Maar de regering Biden en de Democraten hadden al moeite hoe met Gaza om te gaan.
Bitcoin dived below the $73,000 mark on Tuesday, hitting its lowest price since November 2024 as heavy selling resumes amid mounting geopolitical concerns (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/bitcoin-price-today.html
Nielsen: ~32.6M viewers watched Trump's State of the Union address, not including people who watched via streaming; Fox News led with 9M viewers (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/bu…
New testing on heading levels past 6:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/05/level-setting-heading-levels.html#Update01
Chromia:
• will make invalid `aria-level` values on `<h#>` level 1 instead of the `<h#>` level, and
• invalid …
Bitcoin fell below $70,000, its lowest level since President Trump's election in November 2024 and down 44% from its October 2025 peak, as global markets fall (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
SMIC reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.49B, above est., net profit up 61% YoY to $172.85M, above $139.5M est., and 2025 revenue of $9.33B, above 2024's $8.03B (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busin…
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…
Phobos ransomware leader facing 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to hacking charges https://therecord.media/phobos-ransomware-leader-facing-20-years
Starz reports Q4 revenue fell to $322.8M vs. $344.5M a year ago, net loss narrowed to $20.7M vs. $31.8M a year ago, and US streaming subs hit 12.7M, up 370K QoQ (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/starz-subscribers…
A Chinese hospital says Alibaba's PANDA AI tool has analyzed 180,000 CT scans and detected ~24 pancreatic cancer cases since its deployment in November 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/world/a…
"India expected to install about 42.5 GW of new solar capacity in 2026"
#India #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
A record 129 press members were killed in 2025, the second consecutive YoY record; Israel was responsible for two-thirds of killings in 2025 and 2024 (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/special-reports/record-129…
Global fintech VC funding rose 27% YoY in 2025 to $51.8B; Y Combinator was the most active investor in the space, participating in 151 deals, up 24.8% YoY (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/most-active-fintech-inve…
Coupang reports Q4 revenue up 11% YoY to $8.8B, below $8.9B est., and a net loss of $26M, versus $131M net profit in Q4 2024, hurt by fallout from a data breach (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co
Hathern (Charnwood, Leicestershire), June 2024
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingplace #documentingspace
Aug. 12 2024. IIRC I risked my life a bit taking this picture in #Ahmedabad #Gujarat #India. 😅
#photography #amateur #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
378 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1202874 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …