2026-03-07 04:35:30
Kuba Suder's blog:
How Bluesky works,
What works well and what doesn’t,
And also, what’s likely coming next.
https://mackuba.eu/2024/02/21/bluesky-guide/
Kuba Suder's blog:
How Bluesky works,
What works well and what doesn’t,
And also, what’s likely coming next.
https://mackuba.eu/2024/02/21/bluesky-guide/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Gits:
🎵 Whirlwind
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/whirlwind-2024-remaster
Will the 49ers trade, release or keep Brandon Aiyuk? Breaking down the options https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48414734/brandon-aiyuk-contract-trade-san-francisco-49ers-commanders
It Can Now Be Plainly Said:
Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off.
Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.
Back in 2024, Kamala Harris and the Democrats struggled to convince voters that a second Donald Trump term would constitute a serious threat to democracy.
We can debate the effectiveness of her, and their, rhetoric.
But on a cert…
from my link log —
TCP is an underspecified two-node consensus algorithm and what that means for your proxies.
https://morsmachine.dk/tcp-consensus
saved 2024-03-28 http…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@europeanspaceflight/116182982779024614
Two tiny German satellites (PocketQubes) will be among the payloads, ERMINAZ-1U and ERMINAZ-1V: see https://forum.amsat-dl.org/index.php?thread/4540-erminaz-1v-and-erminaz-1u/ and https://destevez.net/2024/06/decoding-erminaz/ for details.
A look at Lisbon's Unicorn Factory, a startup hub where 300 businesses joined in 2025 vs. 250 in 2024; 17 unicorns have moved to Lisbon since hub's 2022 launch (Michael Dempsey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5263ed8c-79dd-460a-b131-56a6fcefeb1e…
Analysis: 10 major tech publications lost 58% of their Google traffic since early 2024, falling to a combined 65M monthly visits in January 2026; some lost 90% (Yuval Halevi/Growtika)
https://growtika.com/blog/tech-media-collapse
I love it when a state gets something right.
https://reason.com/2026/04/03/colorado-becomes-first-state-to-protect-defendants-against-faulty-roadside-drug-tests/
It's finally Friday, but don't leave for the weekend before checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Microsoft bets $10 billion on Japan’s AI buildout and cyber defenses,
--EU pins EC attack on TeamPCP,
--Iowa AG sues UnitedHealth over 2024 attack,
--Residential proxies pose problems for IP reputation systems,
--Him & Hers report Feb. data breach,
--TA416 refocuses efforts back t…
The Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) is a process by which a taxpayer can ask two states (or #tax authorities) to reach an amicable agreement to eliminate double taxation as required by bilateral treaties, where the normal processes have failed.
According to #OECD statistics, in 2016-2024 there were only 19 cases …
Schon seit ein paar Wochen bin ich ein Album der Woche schuldig. Weil ich wegen anderer Dinge nicht so richtig Zeit fand zum bewussten Musikhören, rotierte »Really Good Terrible Things« von North Sea Echos (erschienen 2024) hier mehrere Wochen im Player. Alder/Matheos (früher Fates Warning) machen mal wieder ein eigenes Ding, sie haben sich dieses Mal aber der ruhigen Töne gewidmet. Mir zu langweilig. #rocknroll
One of the saddest disbanding of 2024
I's "はっぴーえんどろーる"MUSIC VIDEO
Ik lees èn hoor dat we een koude winter hebben gehad. Ik heb dat niet zo ervaren. Even gekeken wat mijn warmtepomp ervan vond, die stemt zijn stookgedrag.af op de gemeten buitentemperatuur.
Ik neem een ruime winter, van 1 oktober t/m 31 maart.
24/25: 1563 kWh.
Nu: 1510 kWh
De afgelopen winter was dus iets minder koud dan de winter ervoor, iets, in elk geval op het paadje naast de schuur, waar de temperatuur gemeten wordt. De verdere instellingen van de warmtepomp zijn ge…
Meerjungfrau - Mermaid, Copenhagen, Denmark 2024 by me
#meermittwoch
On Website Technicals (2024-04) - Tech updates: ORCID, RSS work storage, podcast images, transcripts, Apache 2.4 ETag bug, 406 and more 429, less AMP, cacheing tweaks. - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-83.html
Cowboys ‘Team to Watch’ With New $31 Million Trade Candidate https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/zaire-franklin-nfl-trade-candidate-rumors-news/
🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine
Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj000qzaowx
Man pleads guilty in athlete home burglaries case https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/48104437/man-pleads-guilty-2024-athlete-home-burglaries-case
Südhessen bleibt zum 8. Mal in Folge sicherste Region in Hessen — 43.421 Straftaten, -6,7 % gegenüber 2024. Darmstadt als Großstadt liegt dabei über dem Regionsdurchschnitt, was für Städte typisch ist. Schattenseiten: Angriffe auf Polizisten 28 %, Cybercrime seit 2020 fast verdoppelt. Laut FR. #Darmstadt
"Amazon wildfire emissions may be up to three times higher than estimated"
#Wildfires #AmazonRainforest #Emissions
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…
Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024 (Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/jeff-shell-negotiating-exit-…
Was this real? Announcing things is cheap; building things matters🏗️
In 2025, it became clear that it is real.
4 industrial-scale Green Methanol plants are operational in China. In Europe? 1
In 2024, A.P. MŸller Holding (owners of Maersk🚢) created the startup VioNeo, with plans for a fossil-free plastics plant in Antwerp🇧🇪. In 2026, they changed plans & want to build "in China near green methanol supply"
It's oddly satisfying that, after all this time, @…'s core idea from his 2024 XOXO talk is still taking root within me. 🌻
https://thegoodwork.blog/posts/tell-th
An Wiener Gymnasium - Auf Video! Schüler bestellen Stripperin für Lehrer #News #Nachrichten
Als Jugendspielleiterin organisiert sie Freizeiten, Turniere und Meisterschaften und sorgt dabei immer dafür, dass niemand außen vor bleibt.
Ihr besonderes Anliegen: Frauen- und Mädchenschach stärken
Eine absolut verdiente Preisträgerin des Goldenen Chesso 2024!
Bewerbungsfrist für dieses Jahr ist der Montag, 27. April 2026.
Alle Informationen findest du in unserem Artikel:
U.S. forces have launched military operations with Ecuador against
“designated terrorist organizations”
inside the South American country,
Southern Command said Tuesday.
The military released no details on the operations
but suggested in a statement that it was an extension of strikes carried out by the Trump administration
against suspected drug trafficking organizations in the region
In January 2024 gangs stormed a TV station,
taking staff ho…
In 2024, #Finland made some changes to financial support for students (mostly at #university level). Newspapers report on some financial outcomes:
https://yle.fi/a/74…
@… surprisingly, I can't find a toot about this (in 2024), which opened the book:
Statement on AI Risk
<https://aistatement.com/>
Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran is so unpopular, his own former spokesperson is calling him out.
During an appearance on Fox News Monday night, #Caroline #Sunshine pointed to a statement from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine,
who said that the United States could “expect to take additional los…
I've used some questionable pit toilets in my day but I've never worried about falling in.
"This is not the first time accidents involving pit toilets have happened in Australia.
In July 2024, firefighters had to pull apart one such toilet in Indigo Valley in the state of Victoria after a man got stranded in it."
#Australia #PitToilet #Outhouse
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Elbow:
🎵 Balu (6 Music Session, 27 Mar 2024)
#Elbow
https://audiovertigoexplicit.bandcamp.com/track/balu
https://open.spotify.com/track/24ZIUF2vN7ush7CHo607Ox
Yupp, which raised a $33M seed led by a16z crypto in 2024 for a crowdsourced AI model picker, shuts down, saying it didn't reach strong product-market fit (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/yupp-ai-shuts-down-33m-a16z-crypto-chris-…
Alisa Yurchenko https://krautreporter.de/109356-alisa-yurchenko von Kyiv Independent bei @…: Westliche Firmen sind noch in
I'm now blocking AI scrapers on my server using robots.txt and user agent rules
https://microblog.jackiejude.me/posts/202603272011/
The levels of victimhood demonstrated by the "strudel studio" author charging $49 per year for the free/open source @… project, wrapped in their closed source editor plugin and abusing the (unregistered) strudel trademark with zero prior engagement with the community.
At this point if I looked I'd probably find many more similar projects an…
I remember reading cases of "wrongful birth" in which children sued their parents for withholding care (or using voodoo "natural' style medication) resulting in the child being damaged for life.
Seems like that notion - child's rights vs parents - ought to be expanded.
"It’s not just vaccines — parents are refusing other routine preventive care for newborns"
And here the crappy external camera with the low data rate actually delivered: the #ZodiacalLight pyramid at the beginning of the #SolarEclipse for #ArtemisII - it stayed visible in the live feed for 10 minutes! Contrary to the NASA commentary this was not the first time such an observation had been made by humans in the vicinity of the Moon - the Apollo 11 crew made it on 19 July 1969: https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26
I Saw the TV Glow (2024) is streaming free on youtube. it's way too cool for me. I'm gonna pretend I never saw it. this isn't the Midnight Realm, Maddy. it's just the suburbs. 🎵 park that car, drop that phone, sleep on the floor, dream about me
#TIL die fünf häufigsten #nachnamen in der Gemeinde #Genève:
Einwohner: 209061
Anteil des häufigsten Nachnamens: 0,46%
Top-Nachnamen 2024:
Rang 1: da Silva (953)
Rang 2: Ferreira (630)
Berlin 😍
I can relate when #socialmedia is a synonym with the #megacorp #algorithms (because the general public doesn't know about healthy alternatives
Trump describes Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer whose 2024 Paris Olympics match became a flashpoint in the transgender athlete debate, as a man who transitioned to womanhood.
-- She was not.
Khelif is a woman who was assigned female at birth. The entire anecdote, used to justify policy, rests on a lie.
Similarly, Trump claims that Somali-Americans in Minnesota have 94% unemployment.
-- The actual labor force participation rate for that community is approximately 70% …
auston matthews 2024-2026 is the new EP40 2024-2026 or something but who cares it's just sportsball :-)
A Rome court deemed illegal (sent. 01/04/2026, n. 4993) some Netflix continuous price increases since 2017 and instructed to make reimbursements up to 500 euros per user.
"""
Netflix, per il tribunale illegittimi gli aumenti dal 2017 al 2024. Ora rimborsi fino a 500 euro
Un cliente premium che abbia pagato ininterrottamente dal 2017 ad oggi ha diritto alla restituzione di circa 500 euro, mentre un cliente standard alla restituzione di circa 250 euro
"…
Nein, liebe Spammer/Scammer/Phisher oder was auch immer ihr seid: *So* überzeugt ihr mich nicht. Weniger wäre mehr …
https://dnip.ch/2024/04/24/wie-viel-swissness-und-bitcoin-steckt-in-swissbitcoin-etf-betrug-erkennung/
from my link log —
Garbage collection without unsafe code in Rust.
http://fitzgeraldnick.com/2024/02/06/safe-gc.html
saved 2026-04-22 https://
Stephon Gilmore retires: Ex-Patriots CB, former Defensive Player of the Year last played in 2024
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/stephon-gilmore-retires-patriots/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
The Gits:
🎵 Bob (Cousin O.)
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/bob-cousin-o-2024-remaster-1
Goldener Chesso 2024: Walter Rädler
Beim Publikumspreis für Öffentlichkeitsarbeit 2024 war es ein echtes Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen doch am Ende konnte sich Walter Rädler mit starken 88 Stimmen durchsetzen. Diese Auszeichnung zeigt, wie wichtig Sichtbarkeit, Kommunikation und Engagement für unseren Schachsport sind.
Ein verdienter Gewinner des Goldenen Chessos.
Bewerbungsfrist für dieses Jahr ist der Montag, 27. April 2026.
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Idly wondering if this time, the media will clearly identify "fossilflation" as the reason for higher prices for everything as we discussed with @… back in Ep. 221 in 2024 https://
Raiders name Mike Sullivan Quarterbacks Coach https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-name-mike-sullivan-quarterbacks-coach
Exclusive: Trader made nearly $1 million on Polymarket with remarkably accurate Iran bets | CNN Politics #shenanigans
IFG-Ablehnung #BMJV: Unterlagen zu #Quickfreeze aus 2024 dürfen nicht beauskunftet werden, denn
"Würden diese Positionen bekannt und die im BMJV und in der Bundesregierung Beteiligten öffentlich an diesen Positionen festgehalten, würde es im weiteren Verlauf der Beratungen erheblich erschwert,…
Na próxima terça-feira (17), o *Humanitas* recebe o neurocientista Miguel Nicolelis para a conferência:
“A Inteligência não é Artificial. Intenções humanas, extrativismo e o poder por tršs das mšquinas.”
💻 Na conversa, Nicolelis propõe um olhar crítico sobre o avanço da Inteligência Artificial e seus impactos sociais e ambientais. Em 2024, cerca de 300 bilhões de dólares foram investidos em empresas de IA, um crescimento que levanta questões urgentes sobre consumo de energia, šgu…
Hoher Peißenberg (September 2024)
(From my series In The Lands Of Via Claudia Augusta, the ancient and most important Roman road through the Alps which connected the Po Valley in the south with Augsburg and the Danube as northern terminus)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Lynks:
🎵 USE IT OR LOSE IT (6 Music Session, 20 Feb 2024)
#Lynks
https://lynkslynkslynks.bandcamp.com/track/use-it-or-lose-it-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/72YhBiqyf312dbifU3yHbx
"Italy, Spain set solar records in March"
#Italy #Spain #SolarPower #Energy
Me, 2021, on Max Verstappen: Pfft. Crashstappen is a valid name.
Me, 2022-2024, on Max: He’s good, but… he knows people are scared
Me, 2025, on Max: A Goat. He’s on another level
Me, 2026, on Max: can he be in every racing series? dudes got skills.
The dramatic transition of the extreme Red #Supergiant WOH G64 to a Yellow Hypergiant: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19329 - this 2024 paper, already mentioned by me in connection with other observations of that star in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-24-11-2024/ ("Die enge zirkumstellare Umgebung des Roten Überriesen WOH G64 ..."), has now been formally published: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02789-7.epdf?sharing_token=7UR_XvTAZerqnMHPRyA0LtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0N7FejDObMF3AkHA10E71tuouxDX6yP8bM1QCFKGVVZLl8bT37LMadR8u4ukhACilFI60-Zxl0e00Bc0v3qXkG29yIQr7uTE0sd644q7We4d6ay5Tblhxc-UABROlAnuDs=
Ob als Trainer, Mannschaftsführer oder Jugendsprecher bei den Karlsruher Schachfreunden: Er übernimmt Verantwortung, organisiert, motiviert und sorgt dafür, dass wirklich jede die Chance bekommt, mitzuspielen.
Leander zeigt, worauf es im Ehrenamt wirklich ankommt: Engagement, Respekt und Herz.
Ein mehr als verdienter Preisträger des Goldenen Chesso 2024!
Bewerbungsfrist für dieses Jahr ist der Montag, 27. April 2026.
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Filing: Comcast CEO Brian Roberts' 2025 compensation rose 4% YoY to $35.15M, and new co-CEO Mike Cavanagh had a pay package of $71.76M, about 2.5x his 2024 pay (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/comcast-brian-…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.03.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
BPOLD-H: BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 31.03.2026 Hannover (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und den ...
"India expected to install about 42.5 GW of new solar capacity in 2026"
#India #Energy #Renewables #SolarPower
After the Republican midterm disappointments of 2022,
Peter Thiel called for a party that could unite “the priest, the general, and the millionaire”
— a formula that reads, with hindsight, as a precise blueprint for Trump’s second administration:
Christian nationalism, military force deployed at home and abroad, and a financial oligarchy powerful enough to steer the state.
By the election of 2024, the gospel of nostalgia and the gospel of progress had concluded a shor…
Berlin-based Upvest, which builds trading APIs for neobanks and retail lenders, raised $90M in equity, sources say at a $735M valuation, up from ~$413M in 2024 (Arno Schütze/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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.
from my link log —
That British mid-century signage font is called “Festive”.
https://precastreinforced.co.uk/2024/04/22/that-mysterious-font-is-festive-not-stymie/
saved 2026-02-12
Sehenswert!
Christoph Gröner und sein Immobilienimperium
#macht #geld #skrupellos #profalla
Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now $500 more expensive than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/s…
Trey Hendrickson excited for fresh start with Ravens, says he's in a 'win-now window' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7115487/2026/03/13/ravens-trey-hendrickson-2026-nfl-free-agency/
Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjmra11x911g
2026 NFL free agency: Top 10 remaining free agents include 2024 sacks leader, former No. 1 overall pick, more
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/top-10-remaining-2026-nfl-free-agents-m…
Following California implementing a law raising its minimum wage to $20 for more than 500,000 fast-food workers in the state in 2024,
Christopher Thornberg, founding partner of research firm Beacon Economics, offered a warning about the state raising its minimum wage.
“California’s well-intended push to reduce income inequality via wage floors is beginning to have a significant negative impact on some of our most vulnerable workers
—our youth, particularly those from lower-i…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Orbital:
🎵 Spicy (Glastonbury 2024) (feat. Melanie C)
#Orbital
https://darkenergyrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/spicy-crab-of-nighttime
https://open.spotify.com/track/0gpzgpRWayyL8dd7qdRnE4
Beneath Democrats’ near-universal opposition to what they call the president’s “war of choice”
are simmering tensions about the way America should engage with the world,
especially when it comes to the Middle East.
Since losing to Trump and his America First agenda in 2024,
which promised not to start new wars, leading progressives have urged Democrats to reclaim the “anti-war” mantle.
“Voters, especially young people and working families, are exhausted by ‘for…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Orbital:
🎵 Belfast (Glastonbury 2024)
#Orbital
https://magnifiquedjs.bandcamp.com/track/orbital-belfast-magnifiques-auditorium-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2CH4mc6qWAI3ejAdqpON9B
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Orbital:
🎵 Halcyon (Glastonbury 2024)
#Orbital
https://boizo.bandcamp.com/track/orbital-halcyon-boizo-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1A5Ldw4zJ8dGAGy3wE60Ay
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Orbital:
🎵 Deepest (Glastonbury 2024) (feat. Tilda Swinton)
#Orbital
https://orbitalofficial.bandcamp.com/track/deepest
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Tq1aXZOOMvKwYvy5yBxB3
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Gruff Rhys:
🎵 Celestial Candyfloss (6 Music Session, 21 Feb 2024)
#GruffRhys
https://gruffrhys.bandcamp.com/track/celestial-candyfloss
https://open.spotify.com/track/0drFirwZCpz2frsJILGmzU