
2025-05-31 14:44:46
Small update to my log store build - had a bit of a disaster!
https://www.simoncox.com/post/2024-05-28-log-store-build/#step-12
Small update to my log store build - had a bit of a disaster!
https://www.simoncox.com/post/2024-05-28-log-store-build/#step-12
#ElonMusk #RoyalSociety #USPol
In his response to Geoffrey Hinton on X, "That said, what specific actions require correction? I will make mistakes, but endeavor to fix them fast."
What does the evidence show on the pace of global heating and the causal role of burning fossil fuels?
Does the US public data and funded science come back online "fast"?
➡️ https://climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-2024-first-year-exceed-15degc-above-pre-industrial-level
Ein in Biberach entwickeltes Medikament macht Boehringer Ingelheim reich
https://www.schwaebische.de/wirtschaft/ein-in-biberach-entwickeltes-medikament-macht-boehringer-reich-3463026
> Der Pharmakonz…
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
Biden on 2024 reelection bid: 'I don't have any regrets' (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5327026-joe-biden-2024-reelection-bid-no-regrets/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p22#a250531p22
When You Want To Get High, Go To The Highlands
#travel #inspiration
https://muz4now.c…
A year ago today, I was in SuperCam operations, and about to head to the airport to start my cross-country flying adventure to see the total solar eclipse.
Today I’m in SuperCam ops, but I have other evening plans.
You can read about last year’s trip here: https://cosmicray.ca/writing/TripRepor
Zur Erinnerung:
2024 war ein Rekordjahr für die #Windenergie: Über 2.400 Anlagen mit 14.056 MW wurden genehmigt, fast 1.900 mit 10.996 MW bezuschlagt.
Der tatsächliche Ausbau blieb mit 3.251 MW leicht unter den Erwartungen, doch die Dynamik ist da.
🚨 Encryption isn’t optional anymore. In EdTechSR Episode 342: Jason & I discuss why the FBI wants you on Signal, Google’s antitrust headaches, and AI tools that’ll blow your mind.
🎙️ https://edtechsr.com/2025/05/30/edtechsr-ep-342-encrypted-by-default/
2024 waren wir mit der Schachtour in Aalen und haben dort für einen Tag einen Schachstand im Freibad aufgemacht. Dort wurde viel Schach gespielt und es wurde sogar Unter-Wasser-Schach angeboten. Und Chessy war natürlich auch mit dabei.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:
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
On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie
Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025 - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/
> Unraveli…
Falcons' Darnell Mooney fine with missing 1,000-yard receiving mark in 2024: 'I came here to win games' https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-darnell-mooney-fine-with-missing-1-000-yard-receiving-mark-in…
Dont Make Me Call Her
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
from my link log —
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas: the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending.
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story…
Chatbots in Check: Utah’s Latest AI Legislation
https://fpf.org/blog/chatbots-in-check-utahs-latest-ai-legislation/
@…
»Programmiersprache – Rust 2024 ist die bisher umfangreichste Edition:
Die jüngste Rust-Edition bringt große Neuerungen unter anderem für das Ownership-Modell, Unsafe Rust und Slices.«
Nun gut, dann gibt es mehr zu lernen und dies positiev.
🦀 https://www.…
Warum ich bei der Klimakrise keine Hoffnung mehr habe? Weil das Wort Kapitalismus nicht mal mehr erwähnt wird.
Was soll das?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKR8nWlRtZi/
"The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
vs.
"The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."
By 12pts all voters and by 42pts Dem voters prefer the second statement. They're right!
Cowboys Get Good News on Potential Return of ‘Breakout Star’ on Defense https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/linebacker-demarvion-overshown-thanksgiving-injury-return/?adt_ei=[email]
So, tracked down the issue with Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2024. The default permissions for the HOTAS `/dev/hidraw` devices is too restrictive. This is why neither MSFS 2024 or Elite: Dangerous saw the devices. I added new entries into the `udev` rules to relax the permissions and both games immediately saw the HOTAS.
```
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="231d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0126", MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="hidraw*&q…
Last week I asked Google to stop releasing broken things. Apologists said maybe I needed to contribute more, write code or demos.
Last year I outlined some of what I *have* done and how, for the most part, Google / Web•dev doesn’t give a shit:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/07…
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.
Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs the Dailyhunt news app, by "round-tripping" sales worth ~$60M from 2021-2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
CVE-2024-4367 (PDF.js) is gaining traction in some exploitation-focused Telegram channels...
https://vulnerability.circl.lu/cve/CVE-2024-4367
seen via @…
It's not just the English Channel / La Manche.
28 deaths a day as people try to reach Spanish Canary Islands by raft or open boat.
8 drowned in the harbour on arrival yesterday when theit boat capsized.
Again. Migration by boats will continue until a) source countries get just trade, reparations and an end to neocolonialism, and meanwhile,
b) #SafeRoutes
9.757 perso…
Und wo wir gerade bei underrated Mucke sind: wie konnte Snow Patrol so lange an mir vorbeigehen!?
https://open.spotify.com/album/7cbi6YeBaCjEdyzMdtwG45?si=cCWF1I7gSG-K1LMnEMJd0Q
University of Chicago Becker-Friedman Institute of Economics just published research this April 2025 of how Generative AI has had "almost no significant wage or labor impact so far".
✅ Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf
Deutschland erlebt deutlich mehr #Hitzetage als früher. Zwischen Mai 2024 und Mai 2025 traten 50 extrem heiße Tage auf.
Fast die Hälfte davon lässt sich laut Analyse auf den #Klimawandel zurückführen. Weltweit waren rund vier Milliarden Menschen von zusätzlichen heißen Tagen betroffen. I…
Two rival Amazon influencers seek to dismiss their 2024 copyright case, where one accused the other of posting similar promotional content for the same products (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/676357/amazon-inf…
The chemical yields of stars in the range 9-15 Msun
Marco Limongi, Lorenzo Roberti, Agnese Falla, Alessandro Chieffi, Ken'ichi Nomoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22030
Nouvelle publication: Montées & descentes dans les gares en 2024
👉Sur le portail statistique: https://reporting.sbb.ch/fr/transports?highlighted=3a58b28b54dfca1498a080fae…
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07077 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…
Warum ich bei der Klimakrise keine Hoffnung mehr habe? Weil das Wort Kapitalismus nicht mal mehr erwähnt wird.
Was soll das?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKR8nWlRtZi/
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
From Knowledge to Noise: CTIM-Rover and the Pitfalls of Episodic Memory in Software Engineering Agents
Tobias Lindenbauer, Georg Groh, Hinrich Sch\"utze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23422
Falcons' Darnell Mooney says he 'came here to win' after falling just short of 1,000-yard season in 2024
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…
Sources: Anthropic's annualized revenue hit ~$3B at the end of May, driven by business demand, up from $2B around the end of March and ~$1B in December 2024 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-hits-3-…
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.
Flowing Loops
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
Stalled on getting MSFS 2024 to run, but did clean off the desk a bit. Not the best case scenario, but figured a nice lazy Saturday just relaxing would work out well.
#desktop
from my link log —
Jujutsu (jj), a git compatible version control system.
https://tonyfinn.com/blog/jj/
saved 2024-10-20 https://dot…
FSJ oder BFD im Hafen! Plätze frei!
Maritim
Spannend
Vielfältig
Einblicke in Schiffe und Häfen
Bitte weitersagen: an vielen Orten sind noch Plätze frei für Bundesfreiwilligendienst oder FSJ!
https://seemannsmission.org/freie-stellen-fsj-2025/…
Healing Melodies
- we've known for a long time that music has healing power -
#HealingMusic #NowPlaying
https://
Are there stars in Bluesky after the return of Donald Trump to the White House?
Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Daniel Torres-Salinas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22702
@… announced that Doris Reiter is awarded with the "Emmy Noether Distinction 2024 (mid-career)" ... Go Sis!
https://eps…
Sources: Elon Musk engaged in intense drug use during the 2024 presidential campaign, as he juggled the messy consequences of efforts to produce more babies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon
Unveiling the Complex Jet Dynamics in the Blazar 2021 317 through Multi-Epoch VLBI Observations
Haitian Shang, Wei Zhao, Xiaoyu Hong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Ailing Zeng, Tao An, Xiaopeng Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23082
Absolute masterpiece (if you're into deep, dubby techno...)
Joachim Spieth — Recall (Luigi Tozzi Blue Dub, 2024)
#Music4Coding
@… This posted last year explains it
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/1448844-eurovision-vo…
‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 56 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29944 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.
Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 'Recall' feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot PCs
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/windows-recall-general-availabilit…
Counting Small Induced Subgraphs: Scorpions Are Easy but Not Trivial
Radu Curticapean, Simon D\"oring, Daniel Neuen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22300 h…
#Transit growth outpaces driving growth in Metro #Vancouver
More people in Metro Vancouver are choosing transit over driving as their primary option to get around, according to new data from TransLink. In 2024, there were 7.7 million more trips on transit, an increase of more than three per cent over 2023, o…
George Pickens Joins Cowboys, Raising Expectations and Sending a Message to Eagles https://insidethestar.com/george-pickens-joins-cowboys-raising-expectations-and-sending-a-message-to-eagles
TOC Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies (HIJBS) 7.1, 7.2 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069347/toc-hualin-international-journal-buddhist-studies-hijbs-71-72
Hrmm, seems like my HOTAS setup doesn't work with MSFS 2024 under Linux which is very annoying. Not quite sure _why_ it's not working other than as far as MSFS is concerned it does not exist. `usbreset` shows it and I can see outputs from the device, but for this specific game it's a no-go at the moment. Very annoying.
#linux
@… The Day the Earth Stood Still
https://observaterry.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/retro-review-the-day-the-e…
🔥 Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/armed-groups-cattle-ranchers-drove-35-rise-in-colombias-deforestation-in-2024/
from my link log —
A non-uniform quasirandom number generator for games.
https://taylorpetrick.com/blog/post/quasi-random-dist
saved 2024-08-15
Neu publiziert: Ein- & Aussteigenden an den Bahnhöfen 2024
👉Auf den Statistikportal: https://reporting.sbb.ch/verkehr?highlighted=3a58b28b54dfca1498a080fae762483d
👉Als Karte:
Der Voodoo Zauber #Waffenverbotszone funktioniert nicht 🤡
Warum wundert mich das nicht 🤔
⚠️ Debatte um Verbotszonen: Stadträtin Pape mahnt differenzierte Lösungen an
https://osna.social/@maze/11426097…
FPF and OneTrust launch updated Conformity Assessment under the EU AI Act: guide and infographic
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-and-onetrust-launch-updated-conformity-assessment-under-the-eu-ai-act-guide-and-infographi…
Jämför din förväntade sluttid med löparna från Göteborgsvarvet 21 km från 2024.
Hur snabb är du jämfört med andra löpare? https://peterdahlgren.com/snabb/
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…
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
Borrowing on Belief? Consumer Confidence and U.S. Credit -- A VECM Study
Samiha Tariq, Weikang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21832 https://
Eli Noam, Director, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, introduces an 'International Cooperation on Internet Freedom and Openness' webinar on April 23 2024. #humanrights #openinternet
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20892 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…
Absolute masterpiece (if you're into deep, dubby techno...)
Joachim Spieth — Recall (Luigi Tozzi Blue Dub, 2024)
#Music4Coding
Bei der #NABU-Aktion "Stunde der Gartenvögel" wurden dieses Jahr weniger Vögel pro Garten gezählt als 2024.
Ursachen sind laut NABU #Krankheiten wie das Usutu Virus, #Futtermangel …
2024 waren wir mit der Schachtour auf dem Schulfest des Wilhelmsgymnasiums in Stuttgart-Degerloch. Dort haben wir neben den Feierlichkeiten auch etwas Schach angeboten und unser Maskottchen Chessy war natürlich auch mit am Start.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:
Indian shot flowers with water droplets. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. July, 2024. #laarboretum #flowers #flowerphotography
"Die Beitragsbemessungsgrenze markiert das maximale Bruttoeinkommen, bis zu dem Beiträge in der gesetzlichen Kranken- und Pflegeversicherung erhoben werden. Der Verdienst, der über diese Einkommensgrenze hinausgeht, ist beitragsfrei."
https://www.bundesregierung…
Investigating the 2024 swarm like activity offshore Kefalonia Island aided by Machine Learning algorithms
V. Anagnostou, E. Papadimitriou, V. Karakostas, T. Back
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17221
Demand for LNG in Europe dropped by 18 per cent between 2022 and 2024, and Canadian exports would have a hard time competing in Asian markets, says advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance. “Investing in infrastructure that will be very expensive and likely won’t be profitable will weaken our economy rather than strengthen it,” Renaud Gignac, an economist and senior adviser for the group, said in an interview.
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/
@… read this from last year and it explains what happened again this year
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/14
Response to comment on Mutualism weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
Camille Delavaux, Thomas Crowther, James Bever, Evan Gora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21006
Einige der Absurditäten hatte ich gar nicht mitbekommen oder sie sind wieder untergegangen. #Steuerbetrug ist kein Kavaliersdelikt, auch wenn das laut Wikipedia oft so gesehen wird:
> wobei Steuerhinterziehung am häufigsten in Verbindung damit [#Kavaliersdelikt] gebracht wurde
Publishing's class problem
The 2024 data shows a similar picture of middle-class origin dominance of publishing. Although there are year-on-year variations, since 2019 there has consistently been more than 60% proportions of middle-class origin people in publishing occupations. In the same period, working-class origin proportions have never been above 20%.
#FederatedMemory
I nearly missed the fact it's been a year since I translated @… Meta in Myanmar series to Polish.
A year later, I can confidently say that series radicalized me quite a bit.
I've hated Meta products for a while, so not much has changed in that department.
However, re-reading the story of Rohingya ethnic cleansing over and over again made me grow plenty of sheer anger within me.
Anger over general injustice in the world and stuff.
My third 'era' of photography, involving documenting local activism, with particular attention to oppressed or marginalized groups (tenants, Palestinians, Belarusians - to name just a few) wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had my moment of disillusionment about the whole system we live in.
All of that because I started noticing familiar patterns I haven't been aware before. All stories that involve oppression, genocide, ethnic cleansing or any other kind of systemic cruelty started rhyming to me. Only the context and the environment kept changing.
Literally everything about my current life has changed around April 2024 and only now I'm ready to take a look at that.
Anyway. To all of you who want to read that once again:
Full series in Polish:
https://blog.lukaszwojcik.net/pl/meta-w-mjanmie/
Web Archive copy of the above:
https://archive.org/details/meta-w-mjanmie-pl
Original in English:
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series
Steam Deck popularity(video bookmarks):
5:19 118k Mar 2022
5:25 185k Oct 2022
5:47 101k! Oct 2024
5:51 74k Mar 2025
"Most Popular Gaming Consoles: Data from 1985 to 2025"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4aJdU01hH8
I don't like DumbTube but the v…
Comment on "Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowledge"
John M. Herbert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18196
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04352 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…
Доля расходов россиян на еду подскочила до рекорда с начала войны.
Стремительное ускорение инфляции после накачки экономики триллиоными расходами на войну ударило по карманам российских потребителей. Доля расходов граждан РФ на покупку продуктов питания в апреле 2025 года достигла максимума с начала войны в Украине, показало исследование холдинга «Ромир».
В среднем потребители тратили на еду 34,6% своих расходов против 33% в начале года и 28,6% в апреле-2024. Зафиксированный «Ромир…
Die Anmeldung zum RSR-Ausbildung während der #DEM25 ist noch bis übermorgen möglich - sichere dir hier deinen Platz und lerne alles, was du über die Schachregeln wissen musst: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/termi…
@… Then read or listen to this post from last year and it will all make sense
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/14
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06448 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…
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:…
Stimme noch bis 25. Mai ab, wer die Auszeichnung "Spieler:in des Jahres" für 2024 erhält - hier geht es zu den Kandidat:innen in vier Kategorien: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/spielerdesjahres/2024/
Wie gestalten wir Schach inklusiv? Hier bekommst du konkrete Ideen für mehr Teilhabe in Verein und Verband.
➡️ #DSJAkademie