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Heute ist bei uns in #BadOeYnhausen das #Stadtradeln gestartet und ich habe letztes Jahr schon etwas dazu geschrieben, was sich auch in diesem Jahr nicht geändert hat:

Eftersom DN avslöjade Säpos mångåriga slarv efter att Le Monde redan avslöjat *exakt* samma problematik i Frankrike (och hos fler världsledare) i oktober 2024 finns en rad filmer som förklarar hur det går till.

I en serie artiklar under beteckningen #StravaLeaks har Le Monde publicerat pedagogiska filmer som visar hur information finns att hämta publikt, och vilka riskerna är.

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Invisible Illusion – Curse Of Knowledge
#abstract

Confirmed: July average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was ~2.3 ppm higher than last year, at 427.9 ppm.
Overall, we're still speeding in the wrong direction!
#co2 #emissions #climatechange

Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024) - The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump - https://www.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024)
The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump

Ex-Raiders GM Tom Telesco reveals quarterbacks Las Vegas considered drafting in 2024 https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/ex-raiders-tom-telesco-quarterbacks-…

Anyone else being ghosted since 8 months by @… for a ⌚ #PineTime warranty case? I eventually received an email in October 2024 where they confirmed they'll send me a replacement. I regularly followed up via Mastodon and email, but have been ghosted since, no react…

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".)

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

Former Steelers standout receiver plots NFL comeback: 'I am the strongest and fastest I've ever been'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/for…

Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications
Cynthia Kop (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Helida Salles Santos (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05219

Proceedings of the 19th International Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications
This volume contains the post-proceedings of the 19th LSFA, which was held in Goiânia, the capital of Goiás state in Brazil, from September 18 to September 20, 2024. Logical and semantic frameworks are formal languages used to represent logics, languages and systems. These frameworks provide foundations for the formal specification of systems and programming languages, supporting tool development and reasoning. The aim of this series is bringing together theoreticians and practitioners t…

Healing Melodies
- we've known for a long time that music has healing power -
#HealingMusic #NowPlaying
https://

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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!

Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW$_1$
Carl Ingebretsen, Bryce T. Bolin, Robert Jedicke, Peter Vere\v{s}, Christine H. Chen, Carey M. Lisse, Russet McMillan, Torrie Sutherland, Amanda J. Townsend
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23736

Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW$_1$
Pre-impact detection asteroids (PIDAs) may be detected only a few hours before their impact with Earth, providing a brief opportunity to characterize them before impact. We describe the characterization of PIDA 2024 RW$_1$, which was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on 2024 September 4 at 05:43 UTC, before it entered the atmosphere near the northern Philippines at 16:39 UTC. We observed 2024 RW$_1$ with the Astrophysical Research Consortium Telescope Imaging Camera on the Apache Point Astr…

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Deutschland.
2024 war das heißeste Jahr seit Beginn der Messungen, mit 2,7 °C über dem langjährigen Mittel.
Die Zahl der #Hitzetage hat sich seit 1950 verdre…

Juli 2025: Viel Regen, wenig Sonne und trotzdem zu warm
Auf den trockenen, sonnigen Juni folgte ein feuchter, trüber Juli, meldet der Deutsche Wetterdienst. Wie waren die Temperaturen in Ihrer Region?

Ah, current plans for today: find some way to get Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 running on my computer. So far I've managed to select my starting airport/airfield and then the game hangs. It's progress, but I have a feeling this fight is going to go on for awhile considering the game hangs immediately afterwards.
#linux

Thinking Beyond Visibility: A Near-Optimal Policy Framework for Locally Interdependent Multi-Agent MDPs
Alex DeWeese, Guannan Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04215

Thinking Beyond Visibility: A Near-Optimal Policy Framework for Locally Interdependent Multi-Agent MDPs
Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (Dec-POMDPs) are known to be NEXP-Complete and intractable to solve. However, for problems such as cooperative navigation, obstacle avoidance, and formation control, basic assumptions can be made about local visibility and local dependencies. The work DeWeese and Qu 2024 formalized these assumptions in the construction of the Locally Interdependent Multi-Agent MDP. In this setting, it establishes three closed-form policies that are tr…

Democrats' 2024 Autopsy Is Described as Avoiding the Likeliest Cause of Death (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/democrats-2024-autopsy-harris-biden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk8.5bA7.DMIFme0Pd3Jb&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p4#a250719p4

An analysis of 15M biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

"World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

@… This posted last year explains it
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/1448844-eurovision-vo…

My removal from #nasa #nyc continued afoot.
I haven’t said much of it here — but my competitive grant proposals (nasa scientists get funded this way since full cost accounting hit in 2004) have been chosen, but not funded.
There is no grant money to distribute. Folks in the know have seen that - ROSES, the acronym for research opportunities in science, does not have a 2025 call and the 2024 chosen post January 2025 don’t have money getting distributed.
If I cannot get proposals funded I will be in the same situation as every other soft money researcher.
So the soft RIF is coming for me and 1000’s of others.

It's always a good day when you have "always comb foo = bar" and using foo instead of bar changes the run time of your simulation by almost 100K clock cycles.
I have to assume this is a Vivado simulator bug present in both 2024.1 and 2025.1, but don't yet have a fully reduced test case other than an always_ff block somehow having input and output changing on the same clock edge.

REfugEEs From Beyond – Odd Spede Noisecore
#byncsa

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

XR Extreme Reach: in 2024, only 9% of TV ads had closed captions and 1% had audio descriptions, despite over half of adults watching content with captions on (TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/06/xr-report-accessibility-advertising/

XR: Most TV ads lack accessibility features like captions
The shortcoming means viewers with disabilities aren't engaging with brand messaging on TV.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00353 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

ILC250 Cost Update - 2024
The International Linear Collider was conceived as a global project for an energy-frontier electron-positron collider.It employs superconducting RF and nano-beam technologies with a center-of-mass energy of 500 GeV. Its cost was estimated in 2013, based on the Technical Design Report published in 2013.Japan's high-energy community proposed to host the ILC in Japan as a Higgs boson factory at 250 GeV in its first phase, and a revised cost estimate was conducted in 2017 to host it in Japan. Howev…

MOA-2022-BLG-091Lb and KMT-2024-BLG-1209Lb: Microlensing planets detected through weak caustic-crossing signals
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond, Hongjing Yang, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Tanagodchaporn Inyanya, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Przemek Mr…

MOA-2022-BLG-091Lb and KMT-2024-BLG-1209Lb: Microlensing planets detected through weak caustic-crossing signals
The light curves of the microlensing events MOA-2022-BLG-091 and KMT-2024-BLG-1209 exhibit anomalies with very similar features. These anomalies appear near the peaks of the light curves, where the magnifications are moderately high, and are distinguished by weak caustic-crossing features with minimal distortion while the source remains inside the caustic. To achieve a deeper understanding of these anomalies, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of the lensing events. We carried out binary-len…

Our trip down Müller's play started over a decade ago, with rehearsals finally starting a year before the pandemic. The script has so many facets, it's imperative to give a production a unique focus. It took us until 2024 to find ours: Amidst all the brutality and perversion, it's a love story.
https://chao…

Theater U34 (@theateru34@chaos.social)
Attached: 1 image We're on our way to Edinburgh - six nights at the Fringe with "Quartet", Heiner Müller’s take on de Laclos's "Dangerous Liaisons”. The script starts off with “Drawing room before the French Revolution/bunker after World War III” ... See you in the bunker at Paradise in Augustines, Aug 4-9, 19:05. https://www.theater-u34.de/quartet/

L’Opus Dei mis en cause dans une affaire de traite d’êtres humains en Argentine
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/07/17/l-opus-dei-mis-en-cause-dans-une-affaire-de-traite-…

L’Opus Dei mis en cause dans une affaire de traite d’êtres humains en Argentine
Suite à des plaintes de femmes affirmant avoir travaillé sans salaire et dans des conditions très difficiles pour l’institution catholique conservatrice, le numéro deux de l’organisation, basée à Rome, pourrait être mis en examen. Quatre responsables argentins ont déjà été mis en examen en 2024.

Native American teens kayak river to celebrate dam removals, symbolizing restoration and honoring ancestors. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Native American teens kayak US river to celebrate dam removals
Four dams were dynamited and removed between 2023 to 2024, freeing hundreds of miles of the Klamath.

Der Wedding liebt Erika! https://weddingweiser.de/der-wedding-liebt-erika/

@… read this from last year and it explains what happened again this year
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/14

Steelers training camp: Why Jaylen Warren is in line for big season after injury-plagued 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/steelers…

Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
https://www.

EXCLUSIVE. Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
INTERVIEW. "Le Point" met with the co-founder and CEO of the secure messaging app Telegram, who was charged in August 2024. A sweeping discussion on politics, power and democracy.

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Harrison Katz, Erica Savage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21298 https://ar…

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Using every U.S. Airbnb reservation created from 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2024, weighted by nights booked, we document a lasting shift toward longer stays after the COVID 19 shock. Mean nights per booking rose from 3.7 before the pandemic to a stable 4.1 to 4.4 after 2021; the median increased from two to three nights and the weighted standard deviation nearly doubled to seven nights, indicating a heavier tail. Negative binomial regression shows that, relative to the restriction perio…

Cannot even find where i read it but because i first read about an alleged breach of data from the Israeli government held by the Iranian government (on Mossad agents, recordings from secret cameras installed by Netanyahu to get compromising info on potential rivals, and much more, apparently all from a 2024 hack or leak) i have not been able to shake the twisted thought that the war Israel has now started against Iran is the new worst ever fallout for bad information security.

Installing Whoogle on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in 2025
I had to update the instructions for my 2024 article. Here it is:
https://theprivacydad.com/installing-whoogle-on-a-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-in-2025/

Dallas Cowboys' LB DeMarvion Overshown video shares encouraging injury update https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-demarvion-overshown-video-encouraging-injury-update

NASA: May 2025 was the 2nd warmest May on record, globally: 1.07°C above the 1951-1980 average. Only May 2024 was warmer.
Highest anomalies in the Siberian Arctic, Central Asia, and the West-Antarctic.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

@… Then read or listen to this post from last year and it will all make sense
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/14

The European Commission accepts Corning's offer to end exclusivity terms in its supply contracts, ending an antitrust investigation opened in November 2024 (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Contribution of expert aggregation to temperature prediction part I
L\'eo Pfitzner (GMAP), Olivier Wintenberger (SU), Olivier Mestre (GMAP), Marion Riverain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15217

Contribution of expert aggregation to temperature prediction part I
Many Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models and their associated Model Output Statistics (MOS) are available. Combining all of these predictions in an optimal way is however not straightforward. This can be achieved thanks to Expert Aggregation (EA) [Cesa-Bianchi and Lugosi, 2006, Gaillard et al., 2014, Wintenberger, 2024] which has many advantages, such as being online, being adaptive to model changes and having theoretical guarantees. Hence, in this paper, we propose a method for making de…

Bumble plans to cut 30% of its workforce, or about 240 roles, and invest the ~$40M saved annually into new product and tech development; BMBL rises 20% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/bumble-layoffs.html

Bumble jumps 26% as dating company plans to axe 30% of workforce
Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, returned to the role earlier this year.

Sources and docs: Amazon Prime Video ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-doubles-prime-video-ad-load/

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour
The move could lower CPMs but potentially hurt performance.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1039061 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

If you watched #Eurovision and wondered what the hell just happened after Israel received nearly five times more points from the public than from the juries you should read this:
https:…

Analysis of Floating-Point Matrix Multiplication Computed via Integer Arithmetic
Ahmad Abdelfattah, Jack Dongarra, Massimiliano Fasi, Mantas Mikaitis, Fran\c{c}oise Tisseur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11277

Analysis of Floating-Point Matrix Multiplication Computed via Integer Arithmetic
Ootomo, Ozaki, and Yokota [Int. J. High Perform. Comput. Appl., 38 (2024), p. 297-313] have proposed a strategy to recast a floating-point matrix multiplication in terms of integer matrix products. The factors A and B are split into integer slices, the product of these slices is computed exactly, and AB is approximated by accumulating these integer products in floating-point arithmetic. This technique is particularly well suited to mixed-precision matrix multiply-accumulate units with integer s…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

AI, AGI, and learning efficiency
My 4-month-old kid is not DDoSing Wikipedia right now, nor will they ever do so before learning to speak, read, or write. Their entire "training corpus" will not top even 100 million "tokens" before they can speak & understand language, and do so with real intentionally.
Just to emphasize that point: 100 words-per-minute times 60 minutes-per-hour times 12 hours-per-day times 365 days-per-year times 4 years is a mere 105,120,000 words. That's a ludicrously *high* estimate of words-per-minute and hours-per-day, and 4 years old (the age of my other kid) is well after basic speech capabilities are developed in many children, etc. More likely the available "training data" is at least 1 or 2 orders of magnitude less than this.
The point here is that large language models, trained as they are on multiple *billions* of tokens, are not developing their behavioral capabilities in a way that's remotely similar to humans, even if you believe those capabilities are similar (they are by certain very biased ways of measurement; they very much aren't by others). This idea that humans must be naturally good at acquiring language is an old one (see e.g. #AI #LLM #AGI

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Eurochem, Zug, Switzerland
Reuters identified five chemical companies, in which five Western-sanctioned billionaires hold stakes, that provided more than 75% of the key chemicals shipped by rail to some of Russia's largest explosives factories from the start of the war until September this year, according to the railway data.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-billionaires-whose-chemical-factories-fuel-russias-war-machine-2024-12-30/

Good Morning #Canada
It's #FridayThe13th, which is a lucky day for me as 13 is my favourite number. 13th place was also Canada’s rank in the 2024 Happiest Country study, but unfortunately, we fell to 18th place in 2025. IMO, having #PeePee trash Canada and the government incessantly for the past few years has contributed to that drop. We also have a lot of work to do to match the happy Nordic countries in social and economic support.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BeHappy
https://gfmag.com/data/happiest-countries/

#Satellitendaten zeigen einen Rückgang von 22 % bei 16 #Kaiserpinguin-Kolonien in Teilen der #Antarktis zwischen 2009 und 2024.
Hauptursache ist der Verlust stabiler

Emperor penguins show dramatic decline in one region of Antarctica, satellite photos show
WASHINGTON — The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released Tuesday

Der Winter 2024/25 brachte in den #Alpen teils Rekord-#Trockenheit und extremen #Schneemangel.
An der #Zugspitze

Alpen-Bilanz 2024/25: Rekord-Trockenheit und Schneemangel
Rekord-Trockenheit in den Alpen: Im Winter 2024/25 fiel mancherorts so wenig Schnee wie seit über 90 Jahren nicht mehr. Auch an der Zugspitze wurden Negativrekorde gemessen.