Tootfinder

“The colonial monopoly on violence is backed by the liberal demand of nonviolent resistance.”
— tsengputterman, 2024 on Twitter

Skydance TV President Matt Thunell will run a merged division with Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, reviving Paramount TV Studios which was shut down in 2024 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/skydance-tv-matt-thunell-paramount…

Skydance TV's Matt Thunell to Oversee Paramount Studios
Skydance Television president Matt Thunell is set to add oversight of Paramount TV Studios to his duties amid the pending closure of the deal.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 02.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/chat

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines | TechCrunch
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.

An Eclipse of Another Kind – Standing Down #eclipse #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/an-eclipse-of

An Eclipse of Another Kind - Standing Down
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Making a compiler to prove tmux Is Turing complete.
https://willhbr.net/2024/03/15/making-a-compiler-to-prove-tmux-is-turing-complete/
saved 2025-08-01

Confirmation of an investigation into Jack Smith comes after Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, a Republican,
requested last week that Smith be investigated for
“unprecedented interference in the 2024 election”.
The Hatch Act,
a federal law passed in 1939, limits certain political activities of federal employees.
Trump, along with other prominent Republican lawmakers, have argued that Smith’s investigations into Trump amounted to illegal political activity.
Smi…

It's amazing to me that people continue to look back at 2024 and angrily blame muslims,non-voters, & leftists for the overwhelming win by Trump. It must be nice to be able to completely ignore reality and learn nothing.
https://www.

Behind Trump’s 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition
Pew Research Center’s in-depth study of its survey respondents who voted in the 2024 election examines turnout, voting patterns and demographics.

On 2nd stint with Cowboys, veteran CB looking to land in right slot https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/03/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-43-cb-kemon-hall/85381100007/

Sota eläintarhoista #eläimet #eläinoikeudet

Sota eläintarhoista
Kysymys eläinten oikeudesta hyvään elämään hiertää niin eläintarhoja kuin tutkijoitakin. Englantilainen kahden eläintarhan omistaja haluaa sulkea Euroopan eläintarhat ja vapauttaa eläimet luontoon. Ruotsalaisten eläintarhojen edustajat sanovat, että eläintarhoja tarvitaan nyt enemmän kuin koskaan. Samaan aikaan eläinkarkulaiset ja eläintenhoitajien kuolemat aiheuttavat toistuvia skandaaleja. Voiko eläintarhassa vierailla hyvällä omallatunnolla? Tuotanto: SVT, 2024.

Blue Dasher dragonfly resting on a blade of grass. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. June, 2024. #descansogardens #bluedasher #dragonfly

Browns coach Kevin Stefanski enters his most important season surrounded by uncertainty https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6592772/2025/09/03/browns-kevin-stefanski-2025-season/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Mahler's Fifth Symphony
The entire Hallé family of orchestra and choirs celebrate Sir Mark Elder’s last season as Music Director after 25 years in the role.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ggcj

52 responses.
Numbers of participants:
— 13 in the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey
— 12 in the 2025 Laptop and Desktop Workgroup survey
— 20 in the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey.
36 of 52 found the poll in Reddit.(I inadvertently created a fourth choice by changing "The" to "the".)

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 02.08.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse

You.com, which pivoted from AI search to enterprise AI tools, raised $100M led by Cox Enterprises at a $1.5B valuation, after a $50M Series B in September 2024 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ladies & Gentleman... the amazing Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge
#mucke

Won No Teg
Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge · Wine On Venus · Song · 2024

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/south-africa-to-ban-highly-toxic-pesticide-terbufos/

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

@… @… je viens de découvrir que linuxjobs.fr est down depuis août 2024 😟

Dentsu: the video game industry attracts less than 5% of global ad spend despite 3.4B gamers worldwide; 60 game-based productions were in development in 2024 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-g…

Video Game Industry Draws Less Than 5% of Ad, Marketing Spend
According to a new report from Dentsu Gaming, less than 5% of global media investment goes toward the the video game industry.

Chiefs' Rashee Rice says he is 'completely changed' after felony hit-and-run conviction, jail sentencing

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-

Hitting Geodesic Intervals in Structurally Restricted Graphs
Tatsuya Gima, Yasuaki Kobayashi, Yuto Okada, Yota Otachi, Hayato Takaike
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01413 https://…

Hitting Geodesic Intervals in Structurally Restricted Graphs
Given a graph $G = (V,E)$, a set $T$ of vertex pairs, and an integer $k$, Hitting Geodesic Intervals asks whether there is a set $S \subseteq V$ of size at most $k$ such that for each terminal pair $\{u,v\} \in T$, the set $S$ intersects at least one shortest $u$-$v$ path. Aravind and Saxena [WALCOM 2024] introduced this problem and showed several parameterized complexity results. In this paper, we extend the known results in both negative and positive directions and present sharp complexity co…

The ASPIICS solar coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation flying mission. Scientific objectives and instrument design
A. N. Zhukov, C. Thizy, D. Galano, B. Bourgoignie, L. Dolla, C. Jean, B. Nicula, S. Shestov, C. Galy, R. Rougeot, J. Versluys, J. Zender, P. Lamy, S. Fineschi, S. Gunar, B. Inhester, M. Mierla, P. Rudawy, K. Tsinganos, S. Koutchmy, R. Howard, H. Peter, S. Vives, L. Abbo, C. Aime, K. Aleksiejuk, J. Baran, U. Bak-Steslicka, A. Bemporad, D. Berghmans, D. Besliu-Ionescu, S…

The ASPIICS solar coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation flying mission. Scientific objectives and instrument design
We describe the scientific objectives and instrument design of the ASPIICS coronagraph launched aboard the Proba-3 mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) on 5 December 2024. Proba-3 consists of two spacecraft in a highly elliptical orbit around the Earth. One spacecraft carries the telescope, and the external occulter is mounted on the second spacecraft. The two spacecraft fly in a precise formation during 6 hours out of 19.63 hour orbit, together forming a giant solar coronagraph called AS…

Amazon shuts down watering hole attack attributed to Russia’s APT29 hacking group https://therecord.media/amazon-shuts-down-apt29-watering-hole-attack

Sources: In 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-explored…

Apple Explored Launching a Cloud Service for Developers
Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps for the iPhone and Mac, in what would be a hugely ambitious move that would pit it against Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The idea discussed was for Apple to rent ...

A bibliometric analysis on the current situation and hot trends of the impact of microplastics on soil based on CiteSpace
Yiran Zheng, Yue Quan, Su Yan, Xinting Lv, Yuguanmin Cao, Minjie Fu, Mingji Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01520

A bibliometric analysis on the current situation and hot trends of the impact of microplastics on soil based on CiteSpace
This paper aims to comprehensively grasp the research status and development trends of soil microplastics (MPs). It collects studies from the Web of Science Core Collection covering the period from 2013 to 2024. Employing CiteSpace and VOSviewer, the paper conducts in - depth analyses of literature regarding the environmental impacts of microplastics. These analyses involve keyword co - occurrence, clustering, burst term identification, as well as co - occurrence analysis of authors and institu…

Cowboys' WR Jalen Tolbert suddenly finds himself on the roster bubble https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/cowboys-wr-jalen-tolbert-suddenly-finds-himself-on-the-roster-bubble

Scoop: Top Biden aide was promised $8 million for 2024 win (Alex Thompson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/31/donilon-biden-2024-reelection-testimony-congress
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p127#a250731p127

Gr\"obner-Shirshov bases of Rota-Baxter algebra of weight $\lambda$ with spectrum lying in $\{0,-\lambda\}$
H. Alhussein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01614

Gröbner-Shirshov bases of Rota-Baxter algebra of weight $λ$ with spectrum lying in $\{0,-λ\}$
It is known that if $A$ is a finite-dimensional unital algebra equipped with a Rota-Baxter operator $R$ of weight $λ$, then spectrum of $R$ is a subset of $\{0,-λ\}$. We are interested on finding all consequences of the Rota-Baxter relation and the relation of the form $R^k(R+λ{\rm id})^l = 0$. In 2024, H.~Qiu, S. Zheng, Y. Dan solved this problem for $k = l = 1$ and $λ\neq0$. We find a Gröbner-Shirshov basis of the ideal generated by these two relations in general case.

LLM-Based Identification of Infostealer Infection Vectors from Screenshots: The Case of Aurora
Estelle Ruellan, Eric Clay, Nicholas Ascoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23611 https…

LLM-Based Identification of Infostealer Infection Vectors from Screenshots: The Case of Aurora
Infostealers exfiltrate credentials, session cookies, and sensitive data from infected systems. With over 29 million stealer logs reported in 2024, manual analysis and mitigation at scale are virtually unfeasible/unpractical. While most research focuses on proactive malware detection, a significant gap remains in leveraging reactive analysis of stealer logs and their associated artifacts. Specifically, infection artifacts such as screenshots, image captured at the point of compromise, are large…

An analysis of 15M biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheMorningAfterMix
Junior Parker:
🎵 Tomorrow Never Knows - 2024 Remastered Version
#JuniorParker
https://open.spotify.com/track/0NePSDqSog58laOB2cX2EH

When Donald Trump addressed the nation in the early hours of November 6, 2024, he didn’t just celebrate his improbable return to the White House.
He hailed an unprecedented political realignment.
“This campaign has been so historic in so many ways,” he said.
“We’ve built the biggest, the broadest, the most unified coalition.
They’ve never seen anything like it in all of American history.
They’ve never seen any.
Young and old, men and women,
rural …

Everybody Hates Trump Now
Six months after Trump bragged about a “historic” realignment, voters from across the political spectrum have soured on the president.

Liveblog vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.
🔗 https://www.

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
Mehr zu

With Elon Musk news at a low ebb, here’s a blast from the past.
Remember last year when Elon Musk set up a $1m daily sweepstakes for swing state voters who signed a petition, creating a controversy over vote-buying?
Do you remember the part where the sweepstakes turned out to be a scam with handpicked winners, as freely admitted by his own lawyers?
Promptly leading to a class action for fraud?
Well, that class action has now survived a motion to dismiss.

How-To Use My Release Page – Fun Features #indiemusic #music #originalmusic

How-To Use My Release Page - Fun Features
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

Von #umverkehR @…
Volkswillen respektieren: Mobilitätswende statt Autobahnausbau.
Die Ablehnung des Autobahnausbaus vom 24. November 2024 war der Wendepunkt in der Schweizer

Petition Mobilitätswende statt Autobahnausbau
Wir fordern den Bundesrat auf, den Volkswillen zu respektieren und die Schweizer Klimaziele zu erreichen. Der Autobahnausbau muss endgültig gestoppt und die Gelder aus dem Strassenfonds in die Mobilitätswende investiert werden.

from my link log —
UK Online Safety Act Notes for small sites.
https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
saved 2024-12-17

Wanna lose your money? Here's the #1 suckers & losers bets in Las Vegas:
❌ 6:5 Blackjack
❌ Triple-zero Roulette
❌ Mandatory sidebet tables
❌ Big Wheel anything
❌ Capped odds bets in craps
☑️ 2024 #Vegas DisAdvantage Awards | Worst #Gambling in

Javonte Williams Wins Brian Schottenheimer’s Trust Ahead of Week 1 https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/javonte-williams-confidence-lead-running-back-preseason/?adt_ei=[email]

Mise Š jour de fin d’année 2024 #ChardonsBleus #Justice #Cagnotte #Metoo

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
https://www.iwr.de/news/china-ueberschreitet-als-erstes-land-der-welt-die-marke-von-1-000-gw-solarleistung-news39292

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
Münster – China entwickelt sich immer schneller zum Motor für den globalen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien. Allein in den ersten sechs Monaten des Jahres 2025 wurden in China neue Solaranlagen mit einer Leistung von 210 GW (210.000 MW) neu errichtet. Das ist deutlich mehr als die gesamte installierte Solarleistung in den USA mit rund 178 GW (IRENA, 2024); Deutschland liegt Ende letzten Jahres bei 100 GW (MaStR, BNetzA).

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
Ferdinand Thein, Hendrik Ranocha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21427

Computing Radially-Symmetric Solutions of the Ultra-Relativistic Euler Equations with Entropy-Stable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods
The ultra--relativistic Euler equations describe gases in the relativistic case when the thermal energy dominates. These equations for an ideal gas are given in terms of the pressure, the spatial part of the dimensionless four-velocity, and the particle density. Kunik et al.\ (2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2024.113330) proposed genuine multi--dimensional benchmark problems for the ultra--relativistic Euler equations. In particular, they compared full two-dimensional discontinuous Galerkin…

even more famous!
https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-10/that-ferrari-isnt-going-to-pay-for-itself-the-controversial-rise-of-jeremy-fragrance-the-perfume-influencer.html

diveXplore at the Video Browser Showdown 2024
Klaus Schoeffmann, Sahar Nasirihaghighi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20560 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20560

diveXplore at the Video Browser Showdown 2024
According to our experience from VBS2023 and the feedback from the IVR4B special session at CBMI2023, we have largely revised the diveXplore system for VBS2024. It now integrates OpenCLIP trained on the LAION-2B dataset for image/text embeddings that are used for free-text and visual similarity search, a query server that is able to distribute different queries and merge the results, a user interface optimized for fast browsing, as well as an exploration view for large clusters of similar video…

@… Why have you branded your "Edinburgh" account with the union flag instead of the Saltire?

from my link log —
How to avoid out-of-thin-air atomics without really trying.
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p3064r2.pdf
saved 2025-07-15

Crash Landing #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Crash Landing #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting and Trading Competition 2024
Jethro Browell, Dennis van der Meer, Henrik K\"alvegren, Sebastian Haglund, Edoardo Simioni, Ricardo J. Bessa, Yi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01579

The Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting and Trading Competition 2024
The Hybrid Energy Forecasting and Trading Competition challenged participants to forecast and trade the electricity generation from a 3.6GW portfolio of wind and solar farms in Great Britain for three months in 2024. The competition mimicked operational practice with participants required to submit genuine forecasts and market bids for the day-ahead on a daily basis. Prizes were awarded for forecasting performance measured by Pinball Score, trading performance measured by total revenue, and com…

Simultaneous observations of multiple ELVES and SPRITES at the Pierre #Auger Observatory: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11641 -> "the Pierre Auger Observatory has exploited a dedicated trigger and its very high time resolution to study ELVES and harvest record samples of multiple ELVES using the Fluorescence Detector (FD). In 2017, after extending the readout of trace lengths to 0.9 ms, we started observing other types of light transients from the base of the ionosphere, such as HALOS, which deserved further investigation. In December 2023 and April 2024, we installed two additional cameras (TLECAMs), which allow us to perform simultaneous detection of these transients with higher space resolution and longer integration times. Here, we present our first simultaneous observations of SPRITES and ELVES by both TLECAMs and FD."

I have finally accepted that I am a weird bird when it comes to guitars—I generally have one that I do everything with. Every time I've had another one, they gather dust until I move them on. I've never collected, never found a use for more than one.
My number ones:
2019-23 was a PRS 594, kept until this week
2023-24 Schecter USA Nick Johnston, which was traded for...
2024-25 PRS Studio
(1/n)

Miami-based MyPrize, which offers free-to-play social games in the US and crypto games elsewhere, raised $21M at a $250M valuation, taking total raised to $38M (Fiona Simmons/GamblingNews)
https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/myprize-secures-21m-from-in…

MyPrize Secures $21M from Investors, Eyes Further Growth
MyPrize, which launched in 2024, has just closed its latest funding round, securing $21 million from its investors.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Russland meldet Einnahme weiterer Ortschaft in Ostukraine
Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben die Ortschaft Osarjaniwka in der ostukrainischen Region Donezk eingenommen. Dies teilt das Verteidigungsministerium in Moskau mit. Die Angaben lassen sich von unabhängiger Seite nicht überprüfen.
📑

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

from my link log —
Development notes from xkcd's "Machine".
https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
saved 2024-05-09 h…

Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
How we designed xkcd's massive rube goldberg machine game in 3 weeks.

Heather Honey,
a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election,
has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
in which she’ll help oversee the nation’s election infrastructure.
Honey is a protege of Cleta Mitchell,
a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results.
In 2024, ProPublica reported that Honey had played a key role in Mitchell’s behind-the-scenes effort to change Georgia’…

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024) - The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump - https://www.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024)
The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump

Mapping Gamma-Ray Bursts: Distinguishing Progenitor Systems Through Machine Learning
Sharleen N. Espinoza, Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning, Michela Negro, Roseanne M. Cheng, Nicol\'o Cibrario
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20214

Mapping Gamma-Ray Bursts: Distinguishing Progenitor Systems Through Machine Learning
We present an analysis of gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor classification, through their positions on a Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) plot, constructed by Negro et al. 2024, from Fermi-GBM waterfall plots. The embedding plot has a head-tail morphology, in which GRBs with confirmed progenitors (e.g. collapsars vs. binary neutron star mergers) fall in distinct regions. We investigate the positions of various proposed sub-populations of GRBs, including those with and without…

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

A Price to Pay: U.S. Lawmaker Efforts to Regulate Algorithmic and Data-Driven Pricing
https://fpf.org/blog/a-price-to-pay-u-s-lawmaker-efforts-to-regulate-algorithmic-and-data-driven-pricing/
@…

WBD Chair Emeritus John Malone says he discussed WBD-Fox merger with Rupert Murdoch in July 2024; sources say a possible deal was raised but not pursued (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3a32fdcb-1248-4721-8269-2867dc5e4d78

Overly academic/distanced ethical discussions
Had a weird interaction with @/brainwane@social.coop just now. I misinterpreted one of their posts quoting someone else and I think the combination of that plus an interaction pattern where I'd assume their stance on something and respond critically to that ended up with me getting blocked. I don't have hard feelings exactly, and this post is only partly about this particular person, but I noticed something interesting by the end of the conversation that had been bothering me. They repeatedly criticized me for assuming what their position was, but never actually stated their position. They didn't say: "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, it's actually Y." They just said "I'm bothered you assumed my position was X, please don't assume my position!" I get that it's annoying to have people respond to a straw man version of your argument, but when I in response asked some direct questions about what their position was, they gave some non-answers and then blocked me. It's entirely possible it's a coincidence, and they just happened to run out of patience on that iteration, but it makes me take their critique of my interactions a bit less seriously. I suspect that they just didn't want to hear what I was saying, while at the same time they wanted to feel as if they were someone who values public critique and open discussion of tricky issues (if anyone reading this post also followed our interaction and has a different opinion of my behavior, I'd be glad to hear it; it's possible In effectively being an asshole here and it would be useful to hear that if so).
In any case, the fact that at the end of the entire discussion, I'm realizing I still don't actually know their position on whether they think the AI use case in question is worthwhile feels odd. They praised the system on several occasions, albeit noting some drawbacks while doing so. They said that the system was possibly changing their anti-AI stance, but then got mad at me for assuming this meant that they thought this use-case was justified. Maybe they just haven't made up their mind yet but didn't want to say that?
Interestingly, in one of their own blog posts that got linked in the discussion, they discuss a different AI system, and despite listing a bunch of concrete harms, conclude that it's okay to use it. That's fine; I don't think *every* use of AI is wrong on balance, but what bothered me was that their post dismissed a number of real ethical issues by saying essentially "I haven't seen calls for a boycott over this issue, so it's not a reason to stop use." That's an extremely socially conformist version of ethics that doesn't sit well with me. The discussion also ended up linking this post: https://chelseatroy.com/2024/08/28/does-ai-benefit-the-world/ which bothered me in a related way. In it, Troy describes classroom teaching techniques for introducing and helping students explore the ethics of AI, and they seem mostly great. They avoid prescribing any particular correct stance, which is important when teaching given the power relationship, and they help students understand the limitations of their perspectives regarding global impacts, which is great. But the overall conclusion of the post is that "nobody is qualified to really judge global impacts, so we should focus on ways to improve outcomes instead of trying to judge them." This bothers me because we actually do have a responsibility to make decisive ethical judgments despite limitations of our perspectives. If we never commit to any ethical judgment against a technology because we think our perspective is too limited to know the true impacts (which I'll concede it invariably is) then we'll have to accept every technology without objection, limiting ourselves to trying to improve their impacts without opposing them. Given who currently controls most of the resources that go into exploration for new technologies, this stance is too permissive. Perhaps if our objection to a technology was absolute and instantly effective, I'd buy the argument that objecting without a deep global view of the long-term risks is dangerous. As things stand, I think that objecting to the development/use of certain technologies in certain contexts is necessary, and although there's a lot of uncertainly, I expect strongly enough that the overall outcomes of objection will be positive that I think it's a good thing to do.
The deeper point here I guess is that this kind of "things are too complicated, let's have a nuanced discussion where we don't come to any conclusions because we see a lot of unknowns along with definite harms" really bothers me.

Informal Education is Essential to Physics: Findings of the 2024 JNIPER Summit and Recommendations for Action
Alexandra C. Lau, Jessica R. Hoehn, Michael B. Bennett, Claudia Fracchiolla, Kathleen Hinko, Noah Finkelstein, Jacqueline Acres, Lindsey D. Anderson, Shane D. Bergin, Cherie Bornhorst, Turhan K. Carroll, Michael Gregory, Cameron Hares, E. L. Hazlett, Meghan Healy, Erik A Herman, Lindsay R. House, Michele W. McColgan, Brad McLain, Azar Panah, Sarah A. Perdue, Jonathan D. Perry, …

Informal Education is Essential to Physics: Findings of the 2024 JNIPER Summit and Recommendations for Action
In order to reach the full civic and scientific potential of physics, this white paper calls for a culture change in physics to recognize informal physics education (also referred to as public engagement or outreach) as an essential disciplinary practice. That is, engaging in informal physics education (IPE) is part of what it means to ''do physics.'' In June 2024, we hosted a summit with forty-two members of the Joint Network for Informal Physics Education and Research (JNIPER) to discuss conc…

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?
Ori Press, Brandon Amos, Haoyu Zhao, Yikai Wu, Samuel K. Ainsworth, Dominik Krupke, Patrick Kidger, Touqir Sajed, Bartolomeo Stellato, Jisun Park, Nathanael Bosch, Eli Meril, Albert Steppi, Arman Zharmagambetov, Fangzhao Zhang, David Perez-Pineiro, Alberto Mercurio, Ni Zhan, Talor Abramovich, Kilian Lieret, Hanlin Zhang, Shirley Huang, Matthias Bethge, Ofir Press

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?
Despite progress in language model (LM) capabilities, evaluations have thus far focused on models' performance on tasks that humans have previously solved, including in programming (Jimenez et al., 2024) and mathematics (Glazer et al., 2024). We therefore propose testing models' ability to design and implement algorithms in an open-ended benchmark: We task LMs with writing code that efficiently solves computationally challenging problems in computer science, physics, and mathematics. Our AlgoTu…

"Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find"
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find…

Die zweite und letzte Ernte von Rote Bete.
Dieses Jahr sind die Knollen größer gewachsen als 2024. Das wird nochmal ein großer Topf #Borschtsch. Es gibt immer noch keinen #Weißkohl im Handel, also muss wieder

Magneto-Thermal Coupling and Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions Inferred from Microwave Observations
Alexey A. Kuznetsov, Gregory D. Fleishman, Gelu M. Nita, Sergey A. Anfinogentov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18647

Magneto-Thermal Coupling and Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions Inferred from Microwave Observations
The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic field above sunspots, is a promising but barely exploited tool for studying the coronal magnetic field and plasma. We analyzed the microwave observations of eight solar active regions obtained with the Siberian Radioheliograph in years 2022-2024 in the frequency …

from my link log —
Tiling with three polygons is undecidable.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11582
saved 2024-11-21 https://dotat.at/…

Tiling with Three Polygons is Undecidable
We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons (either allowing or forbidding reflections)? This result improves on the best previous construction which requires five polygons.

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Beethoven, Bruckner and Tüür
Yunchan Lim makes his Proms debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Paavo Järvi, performing Beethoven’s final piano concerto, the ‘Emperor’.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h1td

NFL QB Tiers 2025: Lamar Jackson cracks Tier 1, Jayden Daniels sets rookie record https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6514160/2025/08/11/nfl-qb-rankings-tiers-2025-jackson-daniels/

Crash Landing
#HardRock #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/crash-landing-nowplaying…

Crash Landing #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

Swinging, Fast and Slow: Interpreting variation in baseball swing tracking metrics
Scott Powers, Ronald Yurko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01238 https://

Swinging, Fast and Slow: Interpreting variation in baseball swing tracking metrics
In 2024, Major League Baseball released new bat tracking data, reporting swing-by-swing bat speed and swing length measured at the point of contact. While exciting, the data present challenges for their interpretation. The timing of the batter's swing relative to the pitch determines the point of measurement relative to the full swing path. The relationship between swing metrics and swing outcomes is confounded by the batter's pitch recognition. We introduce a framework for interpreting bat tra…

from my link log —
Minimal version selection revisited.
https://matklad.github.io/2024/12/24/minimal-version-selection-revisited.html
saved 2025-08-06

Newsmax reports Q2 revenue of $46.4M, up 18.4% YoY, a net loss of $75.2M, compared with a $4.8M loss in Q2 2024, primarily due to settlement costs with Dominion (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/newsmax-q2-2025-earnings-report/

Newsmax revenue climbs to $46 million during Q2
August 19, 2025 - The company renewed its carriage deal with Comcast, inked a new talent agreement with Greta van Susteren and expanded its reach on Hulu with Live TV.

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Diarycast - Year In Review (2024) - The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump - https://www.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024)
The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump

Highlands Suite
- piano improvisations inspired by the beauty of Scotland -
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://

Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Sources: Paramount layoffs could affect 2,000 to 3,000 employees and are expected by early November; Paramount had 18,600 employees globally as of December 2024 (Brent Lang/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paramoun…

Paramount Layoffs: Thousands of Job Cuts Expects by Early November
Paramount will enact steep layoffs by early November after closing its merger with Skydance.

Filing: OnlyFans took in $7.2B from subscribers in FY ending Nov. 2024, up from $6.6B YoY, and paid out $5.8B, up from $5.3B; creator accounts grew 13% to 4.6M (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7d936956-f1b9-4fe4-b3de-feaddac79953

from my link log —
Updating a large codebase to Rust 2024.
https://codeandbitters.com/rust-2024-upgrade/
saved 2025-02-07 https://…

Panthers' Xavier Legette ejected after fight; Dave Canales admonishes WR for putting team at 'disadvantage'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/pa…

Cybercriminals are using AI to execute highly targeted attacks at scale, causing people to unwittingly send money and sensitive information or simply open themselves up to theft.
Hackers are now able to rent generative AI large language models created in the underground cybercrime community to help formulate text-based scams.
But just as generative AI is enhancing and scaling social engineering attacks, so too is it giving defenders a leg up.

The hacking underworld has removed all of AI's guardrails, but the good guys are closing in
Fake Taylor Swift ads and malicious QR codes are just some of the newest ways cybercriminals are using AI as the cat-and-mouse cybersecurity game heats up.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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from my link log —
Boolean blindness.
https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/boolean-blindness/
saved 2024-09-21

Boolean Blindness
I hate Booleans!  But isn’t everything “just bits”?  Aren’t computers built from gates?  And aren’t gates just the logical connectives?  How can a Computer Scientist p…

from my link log —
Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler concurrency bugs.
https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2024/06/28/mix-testing-revealing-a-new-class-of-compiler-bugs/
saved 2024-06-29

Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler bugs
I’m delighted that Luke Geeson’s work on “mix testing” (a collaboration with James Brotherston, Wilco Dijkstra, Alastair Donaldson, Lee Smith, Tyler Sorensen, and myself) will app…

from my link log —
Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways.
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/type-inference/
saved 2024-10-17 https…

Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election,
has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature
https://www.scmp.com/wee…

Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election, has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature.

from my link log —
Post-mortem of network outage affecting OpenStreetMap.org in December 2024.
https://operations.osmfoundation.org/2025/02/15/post-mortem.html
saved 2025-02-15

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

Filing: WBD says it plans to "significantly reduce" CEO David Zaslav's annual pay, including his cash bonus, after shareholders rejected his 2024 pay package (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay to Drop After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a haircut after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026. The company granted him $225 million in stock option awards.

from my link log —
Histogramming bytes with positional popcount, GF2P8AFFINEQB edition.
http://bitmath.blogspot.com/2024/11/histogramming-bytes-with-positional.html
saved 2024-11-10

Histogramming bytes with positional popcount (GF2P8AFFINEQB edition)
A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix , I dropped some implementation of byte histogramming without explaini...

Wusstet Ihr....
Die erste #Balkonsolaranlage wurde bereits am 14.04.1923 auf einer #Gartenlaube errichtet.
Damals arbeitete das #Marktstammdatenregister noch mi…

from my link log —
Bril: an intermediate language for teaching compilers.
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/bril.html
saved 2024-07-27

from my link log —
Legacy safety: the Wrocław C wg21 meeting.
https://cor3ntin.github.io/posts/profiles/
saved 2024-12-04 https://