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Our Mind on Music Podcast: Interview with Stan Stewart
https://ourmindonmusic.wordpress.com/2024/03/18/our-mind-on-music-podcast-interview-with-stan-stewart-aka-stanley-g-of-muz4now/

Our Mind on Music Podcast: Interview with Stan Stewart (aka Stanley G) of Muz4Now
In this week’s episode, we have the pleasure of interviewing Stan Stewart (aka Stanley G), a talented musician from Muz4Now. Stan is known for his captivating piano improvisations and heartfe…

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

Mit Roger und dem Petermännle im Tonbachtal
https://www.nationalpark-schwarzwald.de/nationalpark/blog/2024/mit-roger-und-dem-petermaennle-im-tonbachtal

from my link log —
Hacking Kia: remotely controlling cars with just a license plate.
https://samcurry.net/hacking-kia
saved 2024-09-27 https://

Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate
On June 11th, 2024, we discovered a set of vulnerabilities in Kia vehicles that allowed remote control over key functions using only a license plate. These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in about 30 seconds, regardless of whether it had an active Kia Connect subscription.

Männerfeindliche Straftaten jenseits der linken, rechten, ausländischen oder religiösen Ideologie habe von 2023 bis 2024 um 300 Prozent (!) zugenommen.
(Vier Fälle statt zuvor einen!)
Quelle: Factsheet BKA zu politlisch motivierter Hasskriminalität.
https://www.

Christus in der Tiefe - den haben wir heute tatsächlich gesehen in der Bucht von San Fruttuoso. Ein wunderschöner Ort mit Kloster. Ein 78 Jahre alter früherer Dorfbewohner hat uns mit seinem Ruderboot dort hin gebracht. Durch die Wasserlupe konnte man ihn gut erkennen, auf dem Foto kommt das leider nicht raus. In der Kirche gibt es aber eine Kopie. Hier habe ich letztes Jahr eine Andacht dazu gemacht:

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

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.

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.

9-game starter emerging as Cowboys sleeper at linebacker in 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/18/cowboys-lb-marist-liufau-ready-to-step-into-bigger-role-in-2024/85…

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 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/
@…

Highlands Suite
- piano improvisations inspired by the beauty of Scotland -
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
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Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Eidophor: 1950's space age video projection technology. (video)
https://youtu.be/3-BvMcqEc98?si=_OkQjEKADeva4QD5
saved 2024-10-08

#FensterFreitag
Córdoba, May 2024.

“Excursion (same-day) travel to the United States by automobile dropped abruptly at the start of 2025, after holding consistently positive throughout 2024. Same-day returns fell by 40.3% year over year in May 2025”
That is an extremely high amount of change. After September 11, it was in the 30% range.
I miss my cross-border trips, but it’s just a bad risk reward calculation right now. #canada

Suomessa on 31.12.2024 mennessä havaittu hyväksytysti 496 luonnonvaraiseksi luokiteltua lintulajia #luonto

BirdLife Suomi | Suomessa havaitut lintulajit
Yhdessä lintujen puolesta

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
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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.

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

Während eines ... Deep Listening-Workshops im Jahr 2024 entdeckten sie, dass sie reiche innere Welten und Traumleben als Inspirationsquellen für ihre Musik teilen

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Ruoqian Zhu, Dave Love, Scott Powers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13779

Ball path curvature and in-game free throw shooting proficiency in the National Basketball Association
Basketball shooting coaches agree that smoother shooting motions are better, but there is less agreement about what "smooth" means quantitatively or what part of the shooting motion needs to be smooth. Using ball tracking data from the 2023-2024 National Basketball Association regular season, we explore the relationship between ball path curvature and free throw shooting performance. We fit Bézier curves to the ball tracking data in the sagittal plane and test different methods of calculating …

To Grok: "Why is Neuralink so vague about their Neuralink Blindsight brain implant, describing it as technology to "generate visual perception" - even unpatterned flashes of light qualify as such?" https://x.com/i/grok/share/vI84HuktzHHh093wRbd6YzHXl …

Dont Make Me Call Her
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Don’t Make Me Call Her | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Dont Make Me Call Her Host: Grace Lam Category: Comedy Sub-Category: Comedy Chats & Interviews First Episode: 2024 What can a former Vogue fashion editor talk about? Fashion? Nah—way more!

Trevon Diggs progressing well in recovery from 2024 injury: 'All signs are positive' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trevon-diggs-progressing-well-in-recovery-from-2024-injury-all-signs-are-positive…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Michael Kiwanuka:
🎵 Floating Parade (6 Music Session, 15 Nov 2024)
#MichaelKiwanuka
https://open.spotify.com/track/2xFbAWIz53Cdxu4kdgV5iG

Raiders' Contender for Comeback Player of the Year https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-maxx-crosby-pro-bowl-pete-carroll

Digging My Way Out
#BeBetter #NowPlaying
https://

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Pre-perihelion radio observations of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with Tianma radio telescope
Juncen Li, Xian Shi, Jianchun Shi, Yuehua Ma, Bin Yang, Jian-Yang Li, Zexi Xing, Man-To Hui, Zhen Wang, Ruining Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06936

Pre-perihelion radio observations of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with Tianma radio telescope
{The multiple outburst events of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks during its 2024 apparition offer a unique window into highly-active volatile releasing processes not observable during quiescent periods. We performed radio observations of comet 12P/Pons-Brooks with the Tianma-65m radio telescope, targeting the OH and NH$_3$ inversion lines at 18-cm and 1.3-cm, respectively. By monitoring 12P at different heliocentric distances on its inbound journey, we aim to provide insights into the comet's volatile co…

Tidal Triggering of Magnitude 7 Earthquakes by Jupiter
E. W. Holt, Eric Newman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07064 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07064

Tidal Triggering of Magnitude 7+ Earthquakes by Jupiter
This work uses a chi-squared test of independence to determine if days that include earthquakes greater than or equal to magnitude 7 (M7+) from 1960 to 2024 are truly independent of the position of Earth in its orbit around the sun. To this end, this study breaks up Earth's orbit into days offset on either side of two reference Earth-Sun-Planet orientations, or zero-points: opposition and inferior conjunction. A computer program is used to sample U.S.G.S. earthquake and N.A.S.A. Horizons epheme…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Sleater‐Kinney:
🎵 Say It Like You Mean It (6 Music Session, 23 Jan 2024)
#SleaterKinney
https://sleaterkinney.bandcamp.com/track/say-it-like-you-mean-it-1
https://open.spotify.com/track/2EgYIE84KYjf52Sw2WW4x4

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
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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.
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