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The Supreme Court issued a wave of opinions last week, wrapping a 2024-25 term filled with major victories for Donald Trump’s agenda.
Amid high-profile decisions on nationwide injunctions, LGBTQ books, trans health care, and more,
the court made the unusual choice to delay a ruling on
"Louisiana v. Callais":
-- a redistricting case that could alter the future of voting rights across the country.
The court order did not explain the justices’ rationale…

The Supreme Court Delayed a Ruling That Could Shape Voting Rights Across the US
The court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act.

Sources: Samsung is delaying completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024 before being pushed to 2026 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/S…

Samsung delaying completion of US chip plant due to lack of customers
South Korean chipmaker in no rush to install equipment at Texas factory

Krugman’s musical coda today was the walk-up music for my keynote address at the 2024 NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie!

12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

Christian McCaffrey limited by calf injury at 49ers practice https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6599904/2025/09/04/christian-mccaffrey-injury-calf-49ers/

Happy Fourth of July. A fine new recording that's worth a listen today.
Ben Folds with the National Symphony Orchestra, "But Wait, There's More" (live, 2024)
Wait, there's more.
Don't think we can take too much more.
Pray that there's a bottom somewhere in sight.
Brothers and sisters hold tight.
https://

"Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme"
#Australia #Batteries #Energy

Australia may install 220,000 home batteries under subsidy scheme
Australia is on track to surpass 2024 home battery installation records, with July data from SunWiz indicating that up to 220,000 units could be deployed in the first year of the federal Cheaper Home Batteries subsidy.

Mit der #Zukunftsklage wollen wir vor dem Verfassungsgericht BVerfG erreichen, dass die BundesRegierung den Klimaschutz ernst nimmt.
Unsere von @… engagierte Anwältin Roda Verheyen schreibt uns:
"Obwohl das neue Sonderverm…

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 […]

June 2024 I installed #veeam B&R on my #foreniscs workstation because I had to tinker with some of this stuff... never touched it ever since
But it kept sleeping as a time-bomb on my workstation...
Today.. out of nowhere ... as I was writing a report, clicking through XWF and …

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".)

Last year I raised the idea of Open Source Quality Institute: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/01/OSQI
Today, I’m wondering if anyone has tried to launch an Open-Source-Maintainer guild or union or whatever? It could set rates and draft contracts…

OSQI

12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.CO. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.CO/new
[1/1]:
- Constraining primordial non-Gaussianity with DESI 2024 LRG and QSO samples
E. Chaussidon, et al.

Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings
Chu Wing So, Chun Shing Jason Pun, Shengjie Liu, Sze Leung Cheung, Ho Keung Kenneith Hui, Kelly Blumenthal, Constance Elaine Walker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02019

Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings
Light pollution, a typically underrecognized environmental issue, has gained attention in recent years. While controlling light pollution requires sustained efforts, Earth Hour offers a unique natural experimental setting to assess temporary lights-out measures. Using photometric and spectroscopic sensors, we observed up to 50% night sky darkening during Earth Hour from 2011 to 2024 in Hong Kong, primarily as a result of a small but critical number of lights-out instances in central business di…

Jason Pierre-Paul reflects on the Fourth of July accident that took his fingers and changed his life. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45582506/jason-pierre-paul-fourth-july-fingers-accident-ten-years-later-n…

Internal data: Amazon registered 5.4M US Prime sign-ups over the 21-day run-up to Prime Day and the four-day event, ~116K less than 2024 and 106K below its goal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Internationaler Tag der Kokosnuss – World Coconut Day 2024
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191531

Jason Pierre-Paul training for return to NFL, says it would be 'dope' to play for Giants again

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jason-p

Event-by-event vortex rings in fixed-target p Ar collisions
David Chinellato, Michael Lisa, Willian Serenone, Chun Shen, Jun Takahashi, Giorgio Torrieri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00512

Event-by-event vortex rings in fixed-target p+Ar collisions
We present event-by-event simulations for central asymmetric p+Ar collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 68$ GeV to investigate the formation and evolution of vortex-ring structures from the early-stage longitudinal flow velocity profile. Our predictions for their imprints on Lambda hyperon's polarization observables are complementary to those presented in Ref. [Phys.Rev.C 110 (2024) 5, 054908] and can be explored in the future fixed-target collisions at the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) e…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 539 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29461 Unterschriften bis zum 09.07.2025.

Ex-Dolphins DB Reshad Jones scammed out of $2.58 million in grand theft, money laundering scheme, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

Bernie Sanders dives into a key House battleground Trump carried in 2024 with a new endorsement (Alexandra Marquez/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/bernie-sanders-dives-key-house-battleground-trump-carried-2024-new-end-rcna213874
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p14#a250619p14

Christian McCaffrey injury: 49ers star running back limited during Thursday's practice with calf issue

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/christi

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

Raiders Trade Pitch Lands Breakout WR from 2024 NFL Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-trade-pitch-lands-breakout-wr-from-2024-nfl-season/?adt_ei=[email]

Studios are rereleasing old films in theaters, helping them pad out thin slates; Universal has 12 rereleases on its 2025 slate, vs. four in 2024 and two in 2023 (Esther Zuckerman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/movies/rereleases-black-swan-…

Why ‘Black Swan,’ ‘Jaws’ and ‘Clue’ Are Coming Back to Theaters
The multiplex is awash in titles that are 15, 20, even 60 years old. Nostalgia is a factor but economics play a big part, too.

2024: in der EU soll besser vor Vergewaltigung geschützt und #JaHeißtJa als Standard gesetzt werden. Aber die #FDP in der Bundesregierung blockiert und Deutschland geht zusammen mit Frankreich dagegen.

Richtlinie zu Gewalt gegen Frauen: Warum Deutschland kein EU-Gesetz gegen Vergewaltigung will
Es begann als ambitioniertes Vorhaben der EU-Kommission gegen sexualisierte Gewalt. Bei den heutigen Trilog-Verhandlungen droht jedoch ein Debakel. Ausgerechnet Deutschland blockiert eine europaweite Regelung gegen Vergewaltigung. Und der Rat möchte den besseren Schutz vor bildbasierter Gewalt und Deepfakes verwässern.

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/use-of…

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area

"Tämän vuoden alussa perusterveydenhuollon maksuja nostettiin kuitenkin 22,5 prosenttia ja erikoissairaanhoidossa 45 prosenttia. Vuonna 2024 maksuja oli korotettu jo 20 prosenttia."
#sote #terveydenhuolto #hallitus

Asiakasmaksujen perintä johtaa ulosottoihin
Helsingissä ulosottoon päätyi yli 50 000 maksua, eniten hammashoidon ja vanhusten hoidon maksuja.

from my link log —
Thoughts on hashing in Rust.
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/thoughts-on-rust-hashing/
saved 2024-12-13

Thoughts on Rust hashing
In languages like Python, Java, or C++, values are hashed by calling a “hash me” method on them, implemented by the type author. This fixed-hash size is then immediately used by the hash table or what have you. This design suffers from some obvious problems, like: How do you hash an integer? If you use a no-op hasher (booo), DoS attacks on hash tables are inevitable. If you hash it thoroughly, consumers that only cache hashes to optimize equality checks lose out of performance.

"Umgang mit dem Unsichtbaren – Neurodiversity-Management in Bibliotheken" https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2024-0005

Cyber Security Educational Games for Children: A Systematic Literature Review
Temesgen Kitaw Damenu, \.Inci Zaim G\"okbay, Alexandra Covaci, Shujun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17414

Cyber Security Educational Games for Children: A Systematic Literature Review
Educational games have been widely used to teach children about cyber security. This systematic literature review reveals evidence of positive learning outcomes, after analysing 91 such games reported in 68 papers published between 2010 and 2024. However, critical gaps have also been identified regarding the design processes and the methodological rigour, including lack of systematic design, misalignment between proposed and achieved learning outcomes, rare use of control groups, limited discus…

Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how Trump's civilian agency cyber budget cuts for FY2026 could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.
Thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Munish Walther-Puri of NYU's Center for Global Affairs, and former US cyber official Amélie Koran for their insights.
Trump see…

Trump seeks unprecedented $1.23 billion cut to federal cyber budget
Trump’s 2026 budget would slash cyber spending by over $1 billion from 2024 levels, a move that could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.

I woke up at 3am, and while trying to get back to sleep thought about how there will be literally thousands of men loose in society who have done unspeakable things during the brutal and disgraceful conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
Some will be caught and tried for war crimes, but most won't. They'll walk past you on the street, have jobs.
It feels like a ticking time bomb.

In a burst of planning, I just booked a RT flight to SFO to attend the NFS 40th birthday celebration at MSST 2025 next month a hotel room in Santa Clara for a couple nights another night near SFO so I can go visit a buddy in Oakland for a day. I'll book DTW bus tix later.
https://www.msstconference.org/

#PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
https://jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/pgbouncer-is-useful.html

People are still not paying nearly enough attention to what @… wrote here:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
“The American right is a brittle coalition.”
The topic above is a prime example. There are two MAGA constituencies here — employers and workers — who think they’re about to get exactly opposite things. Both are going along with the ICE program because they think they’re the ones who will really get what they want in the end. At least one of them is going to get screwed over.
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‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 303 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29697 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44246518 is that still named the slashdot effect, or is slashdot effect something for old people only?

The dispute has been fanned by nationalist sentiment,
compounded by a bitter feud between two powerful politicians:
Hun Sen, who ruled Cambodia with an iron fist for four decades before handing power to his son Hun Manet in 2023,
and Thaksin Shinawatra, the former populist leader of Thailand, whose daughter Paetongtarn Shinawatra became prime minister in 2024.
Both former leaders remain highly influential.
On Thursday night, Thaksin said on social media he had…

Translation Groups for arbitrary Gauge Fields in Synthetic Crystals with real hopping amplitudes
Marco Marciani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08461 https://ar…

Translation Groups for arbitrary Gauge Fields in Synthetic Crystals with real hopping amplitudes
The Cayley-crystals introduced in [F. R. Lux and E. Prodan, Annales Henri Poincaré 25(8), 3563 (2024)] are a class of synthetic lattices whose Hamiltonians are symmetric under the simply transitive action of a generic discrete group G. We show that these systems naturally realize the generalization of the so-called magnetic translation groups to arbitrary discrete gauge groups. The one-body dynamics mimics that of a particle carrying multiple charges, each experiencing a distinct static gauge-…

Started watching Presence after seeing a few recommendations for it. I'm not usually into straight up ghosty type flicks but this one's done in a fairly unique way. Digging it.
#movies

Presence (2024)
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.

#Frauenfussball #BSCYBFrauen #Bern
Sie spielte seit 2024 für die Bernerinnen und gewann mit ihnen im Sommer die Schweizer Meisterschaft...

Was weiter geschah: YB verpasste Noa Schärz einen Maulkorb

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

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

Replaced article(s) found for physics.space-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.space-ph/new
[1/1]:
- GIC--Related Observations During the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm in the United States
Wilkerson, Weigel, Thomas, Bor, Oughton, Gaunt, Balch, Wiltberger, Pulkkine…

Coronal dimmings from active region 13664 during the May 2024 solar energetic events
Amaia Razquin, Astrid M. Veronig, Karin Dissauer, Tatiana Podladchikova, Shantanu Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04818

Coronal dimmings from active region 13664 during the May 2024 solar energetic events
Coronal dimmings are regions of transiently reduced brightness in extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft X-ray (SXR) emissions associated with coronal mass ejections (CMEs), providing key insights into CME initiation and early evolution. During May 2024, AR 13664 was among the most flare-productive regions in recent decades, generating 55 M-class and 12 X-class flares along with multiple Earth-directed CMEs. The rapid succession of these CMEs triggered the most intense geomagnetic storm in two deca…

Assignment of collision-induced four-level double-resonance transitions in the 3${\nu}$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ ${\nu}$${_3}$ spectral region of methane
Kevin K. Lehmann, Isak Silander, Adrian Hj\"alt\'en, Michael Rey, Aleksandra Foltynowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13644

Assignment of collision-induced four-level double-resonance transitions in the 3$ν$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ $ν$${_3}$ spectral region of methane
Optical-optical double-resonance (OODR) spectroscopy using a narrow-linewidth pump and a frequency comb probe has previously been used to measure and assign sub-Doppler transitions in the 3$ν$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ $ν$${_3}$ spectral region [J. Chem. Phys. 161, 124311 (2024)] when pumping from the J = (7, A${_2}$) ground state. Doppler-broadened double-resonance transitions were also observed in those OODR spectra. In this paper, 68 of these Doppler-broadened transitions are assigned to four-l…

'Ninja with the smoke bombs' and 'Harry Potter': Nicknames help bond Saints WRs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45569031/new-orleans-saints-wide-receivers-camaraderie-2025-season

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
A Certain Ratio:
🎵 All Comes Down To This (6 Music Session, 17 Apr 2024)
#ACertainRatio
https://acertainratio.bandcamp.com/album/it-all-comes-down-to-this
https://open.spotify.com/track/0s8vKvPVS6QuhMFe1VPgV0

Multi-polarization during the 9th European Parliament
Sebastiao Rosalino, Ant\'onio Curado, Fl\'avio L. Pinheiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03214 h…

Multi-polarization during the 9th European Parliament
Brexit, a global pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and record inflation - few legislative bodies have faced such a cascade of shocks as the European Parliament did during its 9th term (2019-2024). Using the Bipartite Configuration Model and a set of network statistics, this research explores how multi-polarization was characterized during this term by constructing and analyzing co-voting networks across all legislative subjects and within specific legislative subjects. The results cont…

Researchers have found the
fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution released by wildfires
is even more toxic than air pollution from other sources.
One possible reason is the high level of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
mixed with various levels of other known neurotoxic particles that can be found in smoke,
including heavy metals.
These particles can reach the brain via the olfactory nerve
and pass through the blood–brain barrier,
…

Here's how much each NFL team made in national revenue in 2024 as revealed by Packers financial report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres-h

Call for Papers: ICMS 2026 Panel, "The Imagined Woman" https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20121835/call-papers-icms-2026-panel-imagined-woman

from my link log —
Ki: wireless power for kitchen appliances. (video)
https://youtu.be/90Q7OM3W8T0
saved 2024-10-12 https://dotat.at/…

Will Chargers WR Ladd McConkey make a Year 2 jump? Jim Harbaugh says he's been 'uncoverable'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/will-ch