2026-05-19 13:15:42
Independents and 2024 non-voters have swung back left (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-19-indies-nonvoters-turned-on-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p20#a260519p20
Independents and 2024 non-voters have swung back left (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-19-indies-nonvoters-turned-on-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p20#a260519p20
Colorado Revises Its AI Act: What Changed and Why
https://fpf.org/blog/colorado-revises-its-ai-act-what-changed-and-why/
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POL-HM: Polizeioberrat Marc-Dennis Pülm verlässt das Polizeikommissariat Holzminden Holzminden (ots) - POR Marc-Dennis Pülm verlässt nach rund anderthalb Jahren das Polizeikommissariat Holzminden und übernimmt künftig eine neue Aufgabe an der Polizeiakademie Niedersachsen. Vom 1. November 2024 bis zum 30. April 2026 leitete ... https://www.
Sharing stats from the UK's #InternationalMuseumDay #IMD2026 @icomuk.b…
Beloved Ex-Browns Star Tabbed to Sign With NFC Contender https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/nick-chubb-nfc-contender/
„Überall, wo Bargeld nötig sei, stießen Geflüchtete schnell an Grenzen. Etwa auf dem Flohmarkt, im Second-Hand-Laden, an der Eisdiele – oder auch, wenn die Kinder Geld für Material oder Ausflüge mit in die Schule bringen müssten.
"Und der Sportverein hat kein Lesegerät, die Kita nicht, die Musikschule auch nicht", stellt Bartelt fest.“
Bilanz nach zwei Jahren. Was hat die Bezahlkarte Geflüchteten - und Brandenburg - gebracht?
Ireland has some excellent writers.
"It seems that losing colonial control of Egypt has not stopped Denial flowing through the British body politic." -- @…
#TLDR: #MorganMcSweeney
University of California’s frontline workers have canceled the
system-wide strike originally planned to begin on Thursday after reaching a tentative agreement with the UC on Wednesday night.
These 42,000 service and patient care workers
— represented by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 (AFSCME)
— have worked without a ratified contract since 2024, due to “stalled” negotiations with the UC, according to union leadership.
Setting up remote access to Bambulab 3D printers that are on a different VLAN than yours is a pain in the ass.
Bambulab has chosen the wrong path. It might carve out a niche among users who aren't very tech-savvy when it comes to 3D printing (and who aren’t interested in learning either), but all of us nerds who have used their printers are going to tell them to go to hell.
By the way, if you're trying to set up remote access using pfSense or OPNsense, here's a great …
Nearly all climate claims by meat and dairy firms amount to greenwashing: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/05/nearly-all-climate-claims-by-meat-and-dairy-firms-amount-to-greenwashing-study/…
A physical tool bar 😉
From the 2024 XOXO talk by @… about the artist Wes Cook.
https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/cabel-sasser/
Spectro 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…
“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.”
#Podcast
Die Zahl der diagnostizierten #Endometriose-Fälle ist in den vergangenen 20 Jahren deutlich gestiegen.
Laut Schmerzforscherin Esther Pogatzki-Zahn deutet dies darauf hin, dass die Erkrankung häufiger und früher erkannt wird. Eine frühe Diagnose kann helfen, Beschwerden gezi…
May 2026 was the second-warmest May on record globally, in between 2024 and 2025.
The global average temperature was 15.81°C, 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average for May and 1.42°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average for the month.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-
Here's What I Told the DNC Autopsy (Rob Flaherty/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/heres-what-i-told-the-dnc-autopsy-biden-harris-2024-lessons-democrats-2028
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p37#a260514p37
Science just proved what we all suspected: the 2024 election was rigged - Alternet.org
https://archive.ph/1vrnD
Bright red Indian shot flower (canna indica). Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. November, 2024. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #huntingtonlibrary #flowers #bloomscrolling
Consciousness Explained Away: Daniel Dennett’s Illusionism and the Theory That Spends Its Own Foundation
When Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, the philosophical world lost one of the last serious defenders of a position so counterintuitive that even sympathetic readers spent decades trying to talk themselves into it. Dennett argued, across more than fifty years of writing, that consciousness as we ordinarily understand it does not exist.…
🐴 Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-firehorse-superstition-uncover-women-japan.html
Got the official power numbers from my utility for the April billing cycle.
3572 kWh imported from grid, 200 kWh overproduction exported, for net 3372 kWh consumed/billed.
That is an all-time record for lowest power consumption (at least back to January 2024 which is the oldest bill I have easy access to).
Too bad it's also an all-time *high* for price per kWh - the effective price per kWh after taxes and fees hit 21.7 cents, a 15.4% increase since the start of the year…
Seoul-based WIRobotics, which develops wearable and humanoid robots and is collaborating with Nvidia and AWS, raised a ~$68M Series B led by JB Investment (Lee Jaewoon/The Elec)
https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=10507
Antenna: bundles make up 33% of new major streaming service subscriptions in the US, and 28% of all subscriptions, up from just 10% of new subscriptions in 2024 (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/…
Musk v. Altman: in closing arguments, Musk's attorney doubled down on claims of Altman's untrustworthiness, while OpenAI's lawyer said Musk has no evidence (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/musk-sam-altman-ope…
from 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
"Experts celebrate record-breaking start for sea turtle nesting season"
#Turtles #Animals
https://www.
During the first seven months of his presidency, the administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children.
During this period in 2025, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was deporting about twice as many parents each month compared with 2024.
The records do not detail how many of these children were detained or deported with their parents, and how many families were split up.
But the data provides one of the starkest views yet of how Trump’s mass depo…
Gibt es weitere Verzögerungen bei der Einführung der e-ID? Ankündigungen vom BAG zu Organspenden deuten darauf hin.
"Das erklärt zumindest teilweise die Verschiebungen bei der Widerspruchslösung: Mitte 2024 sollte sie ursprünglich in Kraft treten. Dann hiess es zweite Hälfte 2026, dann Anfang 2027, heute, laut Tages-Anzeiger, drittes Quartal 2027.
Im Raum steht also offenbar die erneute Verschiebung des E-ID-Termins."
… wettet @…
The 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
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116608809666652889
This is the kind of house cleaning the US should have been doing 2021-2024. And yes, that means Biden, but I lay the blame at least equally on Congress (who are supposed to be the ones taking the lead on legislating, though few of us are old enough to remember) and the press (who should have made this a national conversation).
Powdered & Dusted (2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Alps
Part of the Communications Act 2003 has come into force.
As a member of the public I'm confused as to why these laws don't automatically sunset if left unactivated. Certainly after more than 20 years, and significant changes in the makeup of Parliament.
(This change is just about classifying significant events, eg, sporting events.)
#Steady #Klimacrew
Die Abos der Microsoft-Copiloten sind in Wirklichkeit Eintritt!
Schon relativ früh habe ich eines der Copilot-Derivate ausprobiert. Das war 2024 – glaube ich – und noch lange vor der Copilot-Inflation. Was ich aber nie wusste ist, dass es sich um
Irgendwann mal schreibe ich selbst AGB, welche auf private Regelwerke verweisen, die nur kostenpflichtig verfügbar sind 🤬
So was wie "Für die Gültigkeit dieses Vertrags und der daraus entstehenden Pflichten gelten, sofern nicht schriftlich anders vereinbart, ausschliesslich die Regeln des Handbuchs DMG D&D 5e 2024 in der deutschen Fassung."
#Recht
In Deutschland wurden 2024 677114 Kinder geboren. Die Bundeswehr möchte auf 280000 wehrdienstleistende aufstocken. Der Wehrdienst dauert aber nur 6 Monate. Um also ganzjährig 280000 wehrdienstleistende zu haben müssen 560000 Menschen eines Geburtsjahrgangs Wehrdienst leisten. Wenn alle Männer Wehrdienst leisten, keiner verweigert, keiner ist untauglich, alle haben deutschen pass, keiner leistet als Doppelstaatler im Ausland (Israel, Ukraine) Wehrdienst, dann kann diese Zahl trotzdem nur erre…
Net als bij #Brexit blijft #NigelFarage te koop voor rijke lui https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/29/revealed-nigel-farage-was-given-undisclosed-5m-by-crypto-billionaire-in-2024?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Der 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…
When was #Neuralink #Blindsight first announced, and wat verifiable results have been shown since then? (spoilers: 2024, nothing) https://
Announcement: New Issue of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal
https://ift.tt/zvk4NLK
CALL FOR PAPERS: Modernizing Winter Sam White 05/20/2026 - 9:31pm Announcement Type …
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Halb tot geprügelt - „Pedo Hunter“-Gruppe bestreitet Mordversuch #News #Nachrichten
@dawid@social.craftknight.comIphone 15 pro max żony padł... Podpięty pod kabel, patrzę po 2h - czarny ekran, zero odpowiedzi. Nie był gorący nic, termowizja pokazuje temperaturę otoczenia. Jeszcze mam miernik usb-c - niby pokazuje 30mA poboru, ale już kilka godzin tak i nic - na żadne "magiczne" kombinacje nie reaguje.
Kupiony kwiecień 2024, jest maj 2026 -.- No to już ostatni iPhone w naszym życiu. Żona weźmie moją 14stkę, ja potestuje Fairphonea.
Z wymiany MBP na Framework'a jestem bardzo zado…
Has anyone else noticed that procurement/supply chain people have gotten more aggressive in the past few years? I've had to deal with a string of mean ones since 2024. The one I'm currently dealing with reminds me of Lydia from Breaking Bad.
FanDuel owner Flutter plans to delist its London shares on August 3, citing low trading and high costs; Flutter moved its primary listing to the US in 2024 (Lauren Almeida/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/…
Ruby Red Iowa Backed Trump by 13 Points in 2024. Now It's a Battleground. (John McCormick/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/ruby-red-iowa-backed-trump-by-13-points-in-2024-now-its-a-battleground-b808c363
http://www.memeorandum.com/260502/p20#a260502p20
The Economist says President Luke Bradley-Jones will become group CEO on August 1, as Lara Boro steps down after seven years; he became president in 2024 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news…
🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine
Facing intense internal pressure, DNC releases postelection autopsy | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/democratic-national-committee-autopsy-2024-ken-martin-a4f67256b4c56ba076aece23c22728ad
Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/bitcoin-dismal-week-price-below-all-time-high-crypto-in…
Raiders sign fourth-round pick RB Mike Washington Jr. https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fourth-round-pick-mike-washington-jr-running-back-arkansas-football-2026-draft
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Sahra Halgan:
🎵 Sharaf (6 Music Session, 15 May 2024)
#SahraHalgan
https://open.spotify.com/track/6a7b6cwzpNS1oA6AR4kvt1
Two 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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Jill Biden's Reaction to Biden's 2024 Debate: 'He's Having a Stroke' (Katie Rogers/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/us/politics/jill-biden-joe-biden-2024-debate.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p117#a260527p117
Chainalysis: 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…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 22.05.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
POL-GÖ: (148/2026) Polizeiinspektion Göttingen startet "Aktionsmonat Fahrradsicherung" - Infostände und Präventionsvideos im Juni Göttingen (ots) - GÖTTINGEN (jk) - Im Jahr 2024 wurden in der Universitätsstadt Göttingen 2.803 Fahrraddiebstähle mit einem wirtschaftlichen Gesamtschaden von 4.753.246 Euro verzeichnet. Auf die steigenden Fallzahlen reagierte die Polizei mit ...
SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
Brian Schottenheimer has a decision to make on Jerry Jones’ former first-round pick https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/brian-schottenheimer-faces-call-jerry-jones-first-round-pick/a61…
Analysis: the share of entry-level hiring in India's tech sector fell to ~15% in 2025 from 28% in 2024 as companies shifted focus to AI and automation roles (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.i…
The real reason Democrats lost in 2024 (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-dnc-autopsy-omits-the-biggest
http://www.memeorandum.com/260522/p7#a260522p7
Raiders sign fourth-round pick RB Mike Washington Jr. https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fourth-round-pick-mike-washington-jr-running-back-arkansas-football-2026-draft
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Digital i: YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing globally, rising from 87.2 minutes in 2024 to 99.1 in 2025, while Netflix fell from 100.5 to 93.4 (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
Wer ohne Schuld ist - #ARD #SWR
#FilmMittwochImErsten
#krimi #crimi
Jill Biden says she was "frightened" by Joe Biden's 2024 debate performance, thought he was having a stroke (CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jill-biden-interview-joe-biden-debate-frightened-stroke/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260527/p107#a260527p107
Le monde Š l’envers: la droite tessinoise est fâchée parce que l’Italie veut inciter les frontaliers de travailler de nouveau en Italie, donc réduire l’immigration du travail vers la Suisse.
https://www.rts.ch/info/suisse/2024/article/remous-autour-d-une-taxe-sur-la-sante-pour-les-frontaliers-italiens-28385749.html
Trade Desk's market cap fell ~70% from a December 2024 peak as it contends with frustrated agency partners, competition from Google, and a new entrant, Amazon (Patience Haggin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/bu…
Canada's CRTC formalizes rules requiring streamers to contribute 15% of Canadian revenue to support domestic programming, up from a 5% baseline set in 2024 (Globe and Mail)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/ar…
Filing: SpaceX reports 2025 revenue of $18.7B, up 33% YoY, a $4.9B loss, vs. a $791M profit in 2024, and $20.7B in capital expenditures, up from $11.2B (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technol
One Elite Factor Could Solidify Marist Liufau's Spot On Dallas Cowboys Roster https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/one-elite-factor-could-solidify-marist-liufau-spot-on-dallas-cowboys-roster
SpaceX filing: X's ad revenue was $1.8B in 2025, $1.7B in 2024, and $2.3B in 2023, below Twitter's $4B in 2021; X and Grok now have 6.3M active paid subscribers (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/busine…
A case study of using AI to aid election coverage at Bay City News, starting in 2024 and refining later, aiming to reduce journalists' manual, repetitive tasks (Ciara Zavala/Local News Matters)
https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/04/2
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Sahra Halgan:
🎵 Sharaf (6 Music Session, 15 May 2024)
#SahraHalgan
https://sahrahalgan.bandcamp.com/track/sharaf
https://open.spotify.com/track/6a7b6cwzpNS1oA6AR4kvt1
#Tatort: Diesmal ist es anders - #ARD #WDR
Trailer
#krimi #Sonntagskrimi #LeslieMalton
Trump administration live updates: Senate postpones ICE and Border Patrol funding vote; DNC releases 2024 autopsy report (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-nih-cdc-director-congress-budget-ballroom-funding-live-updates-rcna346230#rcrd110472
http://www.memeorandum.com/260521/p129#a260521p129