@Techmeme@techhub.socialSpectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B valuation, up from $750M in 2024 (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/all-deals/2026/07/15/spectro-cloud-b…
@cdarwin@c.imAlaska US Senate candidate Mary Peltola has rejected the support of Kamala Harris, her fellow Democrat,
after the 2024 presidential candidate sent out a seemingly unsolicited fundraising appeal on Peltola’s behalf.
Harris, who lost Alaska – typically a Republican-voting state – by 13 points during her unsuccessful White House run, on Wednesday sent an email from her political organization to supporters of Peltola, a former US House member.
“If there’s anyone who can flip Al…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
It's always TCP_NODELAY. Every damn time.
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html
saved 2024-05-09 https://
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social“Buildings are the single largest energy consumer in Europe. Transposition and implementation of the #EPBD is key to boosting the EU's current very low annual energy renovation rate (1%), reducing bills for citizens and businesses and the EU's dependence on imported fossil fuels, and achieving a zero-emission and fully decarbonised building stock by 2050.”
@degrowthuk@mstdn.socialHe won't declare actions for an #EmergencyBrake though. Because 'growth'.
Headline: Andy Burnham to chair emergency Cobra meeting amid extreme heat.
https://gettingreal.org.uk/2024/05/02/
@cdarwin@c.imIn what environmental advocates describe as
“another gift to the fossil fuel industry,”
🆘the Trump administration plans to end rules limiting the release of planet-heating emissions from power plants that burn coal and gas.
🔥Power plants are considered the largest industrial source of greenhouse gas emissions in the US and account for about a quarter of the nation’s climate pollution, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In 2024, the EPA under the B…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"An Idaho county banned renewables. It’s having second thoughts."
#US #USA #America #Renewables
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineAnzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
@NFL@darktundra.xyzCommanders' Jayden Daniels aims to remind people of his talent: 'I can't live off’ 2024 season https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-jayden-daniels-aims-to-remind-people-of-his-talent-i-can-t-live-off-2024-season
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received $100B in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 (Patricia Kowsmann/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/cryptocurrency-sanctions-evasion-d02b…
@scott@carfree.cityThis story buries the lede that the three biggest donors to the SF Democratic Party are, literally, Republican donors.
1. Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, whose top backer is William Oberndorf, a "Republican mega-donor" according to April 2024 Mission Local coverage;
2. Chris Larsen, who co-founded Ripple, which donated to Trump's White House ballroom per CNN;
3. SF Believes, funded by "MAGA WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum"
The SF Democratic Par…
@anneroth@systemli.socialDer Energieverbrauch von Google ist in einem Jahr, von 2024 bis 2025, von 31 auf 43 Terrawattstunden (TWh) gestiegen.
Der Effekt von generativer KI, also all den Chatbots, ChatGPT etc.
Wir sollten das nicht als unveränderbar hinnehmen.
https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07…
@krone@frawas.deWegen „Äußerungen“ - Stadt verweigert Lugner Ehrung, Mausi will kämpfen #News #Nachrichten
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineHäufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe AI frenzy has divided the VC market, as the gap between top and bottom performers has more than doubled for 2024 funds compared to funds from 2017 to 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-08-04/big…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"First Permit to Clean Up Old Mine Waste Issued for WA State Under 2024 ‘Good Samaritan Act’"
#US #USA #America #Environment
@colinpurrington@flipping.rocksIn case anyone wants to know what mosquito buckets are: https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/
@marcel@waldvogel.familyFinally caught up with this two-year-old archive (🫣).
It'sage isn't relevant, as it talks about things that are unlikely to change: Your data is only yours if you also have it on physical media in your possession. (And stored there in open formats.)
Because services will come and go, promises will be forgotten, data loss will not cause more than a shy "sorry". Especially for free online services, but it also happens for paid services.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
International meteor organization / international fireball program: amateur data collection of meteor events.
https://www.imo.net/observations/fireballs/fireball-report-program/
saved 2024-05-12
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngAllgäu, Late Summer (2024)
(Almost too cliché, but it doesn't take away its beauty...)
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #Photography
@scott@carfree.cityThe Mission voted against giving the SFPD drones by 20 points.
Now SFPD is flying more drones here than any other neighborhood.
This is an occupation.
Sources: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-drones-22325281.php
@padraig@mastodon.ie
@arXiv_physicsgeoph_bot@mastoxiv.pageTwo kinds of robustness are not the same: disentangling fault tolerance and low-SNR robustness in multi-domain event detection on real data
Isao Kurosawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29339 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.29339 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.29339
arXiv:2606.29339v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reliable event detection underpins induced-seismicity monitoring for Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) and geothermal operations, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), and industrial condition monitoring. In each setting a detector must stay reliable both when sensors fail and when the signal is buried in noise. These two failure modes are routinely conflated, and architectural complexity is often credited with robustness it may not deserve. We assemble a unified binary event-detection benchmark from three physically distinct real sources -- Hi-net seismic waveforms, Utah FORGE 2024 borehole DAS, and MAFAULDA industrial vibration -- each mapped to a common 8-channel, 256-sample representation, and evaluate a fault-tolerant detector (CEPHALON) trained with per-sample sensor-dropout against standard detectors (a 1D convolutional network, a temporal convolutional network, and a compact Transformer) trained with an identical recipe. On clean data every model is near-perfect (AUC ~ 0.99). Under progressive sensor loss, simple models with sensor-dropout are already robust and CEPHALON holds no advantage. Under additive noise, however, CEPHALON degrades far more gracefully: at -2.5 dB its overall AUC is 0.939 versus 0.532-0.572 for the convolutional baselines. Same-architecture ablations isolate the cause: disabling internal redundancy at inference reduces the low-SNR advantage only modestly, whereas removing sensor-dropout training collapses it (0.899 to 0.603 at -5 dB). The training recipe is therefore the dominant cause and parallel redundancy only secondary. We release a complete, numbered, reproducible pipeline so that every figure can be regenerated.
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@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats are seeing positive signs in a South Texas congressional seat that looked, on paper, like one of the harder places for the party to win back in 2026.
Democrat Bobby Pulido leads Republican Representative Monica De La Cruz in Texas’ 15th Congressional District, according to a new House Majority PAC-sponsored poll, conducted by Normington Petts and Associates, and shared with Newsweek on August 4.
Donald Trump carried the redrawn district by nearly 18 points in 2024,
@vosje62@mastodon.nl @cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump’s legal team is making an 11th-hour attempt to block a court order
that would grant the BBC access to the president’s financial records,
as part of his multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the British broadcaster.
Trump claims that the BBC’s 2024 documentary on the January 6 attacks have damaged the president’s business interests.
In July, a Miami-based judge ruled that the president would have to start handing over detailed financial records to the BBC b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (Tracey Tully/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregion/noncitizen-voting-new…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzStructure and Dynamics of the Inner #Corona Measured from the DEB Initiative 2024 #Eclipse Image Sequence: #CitizenScience and Solar Structure: https://aasnova.org/2026/08/03/featured-image-citizen-science-and-solar-structure/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Reddit, Politico, and others mull cutting Google's access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/googl…
@bibbleco@infosec.exchangeStill no place for Emily Thornberry in the new #Burnham cabinet? Has she got something in her background file that makes her a ministerial no-no? She seems like a major backbench talent, it was a big surprise that Starmer didn't give her a job in July 2024.
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngFlood Gates (2024)
#TextureTuesday #LichenSubscribe #Photography #Texture
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Michael Kiwanuka:
🎵 Floating Parade (6 Music Session, 15 Nov 2024)
#MichaelKiwanuka
https://open.spotify.com/track/2xFbAWIz53Cdxu4kdgV5iG
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Lava La Rue:
🎵 LOVEBITES (6 Music Session, 15 Jul 2024)
#LavaLaRue
https://lavalarue.bandcamp.com/track/lovebites
https://open.spotify.com/track/1S0pfbAf3gyE4IksFF3mmw
