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

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

Crash Landing #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

I currently read “It can’t happen here” by Sinclair Lewis from 1935. It's about fictive events in the US in 1936: an election won by a senator turned dictator. It reads like a description of the US 2024/2025, except dear leader is Democrat, not Republican. I'm on page 90 (just finished chapter 11), almost 300 more to read, it really is hard!
As the Trump playbook follows Project 2025, are we completely sure that this is NOT just a rewrite of Lewis' novel?

Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/app…

Meerderheid Tweede Kamer wil meer grenscontroles, hebben allemaal rapport Rekenkamer niet gelezen kennelijk, zo oerdom , pure symboolpolitiek...
https://www.rekenkamer.nl/actueel/nieuws/2025/06/03/binnengrenscontro…

Binnengrenscontroles dragen niet bij aan snellere realisatie beleidsdoelen
Aantal aanhoudingen gedaald In oktober 2024 besloot het kabinet-Schoof tot tijdelijke herinvoering van binnengrenscontroles. Het kabinet wil daarmee irreguliere migratie en grensoverschrijdende criminaliteit tegengaan. Daarmee wil het kabinet de druk op de migratieketen – waaronder de druk op de opvangcapaciteit en lokale huisvesting – verlagen. De eerste resultaten wijzen er op dat hiermee kabinetsdoelen niet sneller worden bereikt dan met de eerdere Mobiel Toezicht Veiligheid-controles (…

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)

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

(2024) Visual neuroprostheses for impaired human nervous system: State-of-the-art and future outlook #BCI

Finished “Orbital” by Samantha Harvey, the short novel and 2024 Booker Prize winner. I am at a loss to understand how that could possibly be so. I hated it. Because it is short and in hope there was something redeeming, I saw it through, regrettably.
There are moments of beautifully lyrical prose, but my god… just endless lists of things. The book is plotless, which can work in an essay structure. But it needs to be compelling. This wasn’t.
1/5 stars ⭐️

Orbital
A slender novel of epic power and the winner of the Boo…

Nika Soon-Shiong, LAT owner Patrick Soon-Shiong's daughter, becomes Drop Site News' publisher, as the left-leaning outlet hits ~400K subs since its 2024 launch (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/14/2025

‘The verdict of history will be merciless’: A new left media rises in the age of Trump
Drop Site News is bringing on a new publisher as it and other leftist news sites get scoops and momentum.

Manufacturing employment has been falling since April,
and job growth is slower than it was between January 2024 and August 2024.
The timing of the manufacturing declines corresponds with the Trump administration’s disastrous tariff policies,
which are projected to cost American households $2,400 annually.
Since Donald Trump’s tariff announcement in April 2025,
overall manufacturing employment has declined by 42,000,
while job openings and hires have fall…

Sources: Mistral AI is finalizing a €2B investment that values the company at €12B, in its first fundraise since June 2024, when it was valued at €5.8B (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/mis…

A Home-heat Carol (2024-12) - Low-carbon heating at home with solar diversion and storage and heat pump. #heating #DHW #storage -

A Home-heat Carol (2024-12)
Low-carbon heating at home with solar diversion and storage and heat pump. #heating #DHW #storage

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

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07226 https://…

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Generative Artificial Intelligence is reshaping online communication by enabling large-scale production of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) at low cost. While its presence is rapidly growing across the Web, little is known about how MGT integrates into social media environments. In this paper, we present the first large-scale characterization of MGT on Reddit. Using a state-of-the-art statistical method for detection of MGT, we analyze over two years of activity (2022-2024) across 51 subreddits rep…

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

Nothing more to be said here…
“An inmate who has pleaded guilty to murdering Robert Pickton in prison last year says he did it for the serial killer's victims.
Martin Charest admitted on Thursday morning to fatally assaulting Pickton with a broken broom handle at the Port-Cartier federal penitentiary in May 2024.
Charest pleaded guilty to first-degree murder during a court appearance in Sept-Îles, Que., northeast of Quebec City.
Pickton was convicted in 2007 of six counts of second-degree murder, but confessed to killing a total of 49 women whom he lured to his pig farm near Vancouver.
A statement of facts read out in court detailed how Charest locked himself into a room with Pickton and assaulted him twice while guards were unable to enter.
Charest told the judge he murdered Pickton after the serial killer had continued to brag about the murders and told other inmates he'd commit more crimes if he was ever released.”
#Justice #Canada #RobertPickton #MMIWG #Indigenous
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pickton-s-killer-murder-charge-1.7643499

Got the 🇨🇭 #SwissAI #Apertus model - one of the very few completely opensource LLMs - running locally!
Next step: finetuning on historical low-resource languages (like Middle High German).
#FOSS

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Arianna Pera, Veronica Jude, Ceren Budak, Luca Maria Aiello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757

Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Digital media have become central to how labor unions communicate, organize, and sustain collective action. Yet little is known about how unions' online discourse relates to concrete outcomes such as representation elections. This study addresses the gap by combining National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) election data with 158k Facebook posts published by U.S. labor unions between 2015 and 2024. We focused on five discourse frames widely recognized in labor and social movement communication res…

HLTCOE at TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
Eugene Yang, Dawn Lawrie, Orion Weller, James Mayfield
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00143 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00143

HLTCOE at TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
The HLTCOE team applied PLAID, an mT5 reranker, GPT-4 reranker, score fusion, and document translation to the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR track. For PLAID we included a variety of models and training techniques -- Translate Distill (TD), Generate Distill (GD) and multi-lingual translate-distill (MTD). TD uses scores from the mT5 model over English MS MARCO query-document pairs to learn how to score query-document pairs where the documents are translated to match the CLIR setting. GD follows TD but uses p…

AI search engine startup Exa Labs raised an $85M Series B led by Benchmark at a $700M valuation, up 10x on its 2024 Series A, and plans to grow its GPU cluster (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/…

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/

Study: between August 2024 and June 2025, the number of women working as creators on US streaming originals hit 36%, a record and up from 27% the year prior (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Shows Created by Women Rise Sharply, but Only on Streaming TV
Far more shows on streaming services are being created by women, a new study found. That number on broadcast networks, though, remained stagnant.

🔊 #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

Crime in large cities in the aggregate is lower in states with Democratic leadership.
But Trump focuses his ire almost exclusively on large blue cities in blue states,
sidestepping political conflict with Republican governors.
Trump threatens to deploy national guard units to Chicago and Baltimore,
ostensibly to quell violence,
a pattern has emerged as he describes which cities he talks about.
Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC and Baltimore.
But …

Healing Vibe – happy inspirations of all sorts #healing #inspiration #inspirations #musician

Healing Vibe - happy inspirations of all sorts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Multi Scale Analysis of Nifty 50 Return Characteristics Valuation Dynamics and Market Complexity 1990 to 2024
Chandradew Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00697 https://

Multi Scale Analysis of Nifty 50 Return Characteristics Valuation Dynamics and Market Complexity 1990 to 2024
This study presents a unified, distribution-aware, and complexity-informed framework for understanding equity return dynamics in the Indian market, using 34 years (1990 to 2024) of Nifty 50 index data. Addressing a key gap in the literature, we demonstrate that the price to earnings ratio, as a valuation metric, may probabilistically map return distributions across investment horizons spanning from days to decades. Return profiles exhibit strong asymmetry. One-year returns show a 74 percent p…

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

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

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.

Healing Harp – plucking the strings of my heart #healing #inspiration #musicianresources #musiciantips

Healing Harp - plucking the strings of my heart
Stan Stewart - @muz4now