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Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024,
following the U.S. elections.
But now, nearly two years later, the social network and would-be X competitor is struggling to hold on to its momentum.
According to data from digital intelligence provider Similarweb,
Bluesky’s mobile app had 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026,
-- down 27.2% year-over-year.
In addition, mobile daily active us…

Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app | TechCrunch
Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.

from my link log —
A history of parsers of the Ruby programming language.
https://railsatscale.com/2024-04-16-prism-in-2024/
saved 2024-04-19 https…

Prism in 2024
In Ruby 3.3.0, a new standard library was added to CRuby called Prism. Prism is a parser for the Ruby language, exposed as both a C library (optionally usable by CRuby) and a Ruby library (usable as a Ruby gem). The Prism project represents many person-years worth of effort, and is the result of a collaboration between Shopify, CRuby core contributors, other Ruby implementation authors, and Ruby tooling developers.

New blog post on the importance of owning physical (and digital) media, when possible: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/the-importance-of-owning-physical-and-digital-media-when-possible

The importance of owning physical (and digital) media when possible
I wrote some about the continued popularity of physical media here in 2024, but I wanted to do one more post on it this year, to also feature some other formats, history, tips and tricks, and outri…

Canadian national Connor Moucka pleads guilty to participating in the 2024 Snowflake hacks involving data theft from at least 165 companies, including AT&T (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/guilty-plea-snowflake-hack-connor-riley-moucka…

Canadian man pleads guilty to Snowflake hacks that led to 165 breaches
A 26-year-old from Ontario faces as many as 32 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud, identity theft and conspiracy charges related to the 2024 hacks of cloud platform Snowflake.

📢 Anschlag auf Weihnachtsmarkt: Lebenslange Haft für Todesfahrer von Magdeburg
Das Landgericht Magdeburg hat gegen den Todesfahrer des Anschlags auf den Weihnachtsmarkt von 2024 mit sechs Toten die Höchststrafe verhängt. Es verurteilte den Angeklagten Taleb A. unter anderem wegen Mordes zu lebenslanger Haft und stellte die besondere Schwere der Schuld fest. Eine Anordnung der Sicherungsverwahrung bleibt vorbehalten.
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Anschlag auf Weihnachtsmarkt: Lebenslange Haft für Todesfahrer von Magdeburg
Das Landgericht Magdeburg hat gegen den Todesfahrer des Anschlags auf den Weihnachtsmarkt von 2024 mit sechs Toten die Höchststrafe verhängt. Es verurteilte den Angeklagten Taleb A. unter anderem wegen Mordes zu lebenslanger Haft und stellte die besondere Schwere der Schuld fest. Eine Anordnung der Sicherungsverwahrung bleibt vorbehalten.

Aaron Donald works out for Rams as he eyes potential return to NFL https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7495221/2026/08/05/aaron-donald-rams-tryout-retirement/

The Lovely Eggs - “Nothing/Everything” (2024)
lo-fi psychedelic punk rock band from Lancaster, England. Married couple.
#music #lofi #alternative

Donald 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…

Trump team pushes to block court order giving BBC access to financial records
President has sued the broadcaster for $10bn, claiming a documentary on 2021 Capitol attack led to financial harm

(2024) Vision without photoreceptors: Crossmodal perception within the blind spots https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2800902 "Participants reported strong illusory percepts within their blind spots, as well as in visible locations", "audition…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
mclusky:
🎵 She Will Only Bring You Happiness
#mclusky
https://mcluskymclusky.bandcamp.com/track/she-will-only-bring-you-happiness-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/6oA4rAGQZ2VLmzL4b6rZaZ

POL-LG: Erfolgreicher Schlag gegen international agierende Rauschgifthändler Lüneburg (ots) - Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung der Staatsanwaltschaft Stade und der Zentralen Kriminalinspektion Lüneburg Bei der ZKI Lüneburg wurde unter Sachleitung der Staatsanwaltschaft Stade seit Oktober 2024 ein Ermittlungsverfahren wegen der ... https://www.

DefoEye: Python-Based Software for Facilitating Time-Series InSAR Analysis of Sentinel-1 Remote-Sensing Data
Alireza Taheri Dehkordi, Hossein Hashemi, Amir Naghibi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04915 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.04915 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.04915
arXiv:2608.04915v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Many existing time-series Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (TS-InSAR) software tools have limitations, including restricted geographic applicability, commercial licensing, and incomplete end-to-end processing support. Although GMTSAR avoids some of these constraints, it still requires substantial manual intervention and C-shell commands, lacks a user-friendly graphical interface, and omits important steps such as interferogram network pruning and anchoring of unwrapped interferograms. This paper introduces DefoEye (v1), an open-source Python-based software package that wraps GMTSAR and provides a unified, user-friendly TS-InSAR workflow for Sentinel-1 data. DefoEye supports parallel job execution, interferogram network pruning, and multiple anchoring options. Its performance was evaluated from 2020 to 2024 in four regions with different geological settings, deformation mechanisms, and atmospheric and climatic conditions. In Bologna, Italy; Gotland, Sweden; and Houston, USA, DefoEye results were compared with observations from 10 GNSS stations and showed strong agreement, with RMSE values of 4.3-11.9 mm and Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.63-0.95. In Karaj, Iran, where GNSS observations were unavailable, DefoEye was compared with other widely used processing tools and achieved similarly close agreement, with an RMSE of 4.8 mm/yr and a Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.98. These results demonstrate that DefoEye provides reliable TS-InSAR products for geological, hydrological, and environmental applications.
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"Defra breached law when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Defra #Bees

Defra breached law when it let farmers use bee-killing pesticide, watchdog says
Office for Environmental Protection finds failures by department when it granted emergency authorisation in 2023 and 2024

DOOM ports for various early digital cameras: https://archive.org/details/doomd_202406

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
The Blackbyrds:
🎵 Do It Fluid (Live at Maida Vale, 2024)
#TheBlackbyrds
https://djchrisdiablo.bandcamp.com/track/donald-byrd-the-blackbyrds-do-it-fluid-dj-chris-diablo-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/3xYsb83PONJhW3geI4B6Ci

W sobotę 27 czerwca na kiermaszu w trakcie Palestine Solidarity Days w Warszawie będą do nabycia 3 egzemplarze mojego DIY-owego albumu pt. “Voices Against”.
Album zawiera 19 zdjęć 13x18 i eksploruje różne formy sprzeciwu wobec ludobójstwa na narodzie palestyńskim, które udokumentowałem od maja 2024 do stycznia 2026 - od protestów i demonstracji, przez sztukę uliczną, po akcje bezpośrednie. Każdy egzemplarz jest opieczętowany, ponumerowany, ręcznie opisany i opakowany w eleganckie pudełko.
Dochód z jego sprzedaży zostanie przekazany na Fundusz Ocalałych ze Strefy Gazy uruchomiony przez Polsko-Palestyńską Organizację Na Rzecz Sprawiedliwości “Kaktus”.
Warszawa, Plac Zabaw nad Wisłą, od godz. 12.
Zapraszam do nabycia 🙂

Voor wie niet slapen kan.
Westend – Nord bei Nordost - #ARD
Trailer:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/nord-bei-nordost/trailer-nord-bei-nordost-westend/ard/Y3JpZDovL2FyZC5kZS92aWRlby0xNTU2NA
Uitzending:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/nord-bei-nordost/westend-nord-bei-nordost/ard/Y3JpZDovL2FyZC5kZS9wbGFuQVJEXzkwMTNmODNmLWMzMTktNDdhYi05ZjM3LTc4YWZiMjQ2MWVkZF9nYW56ZVNlbmR1bmc (2024, 89min)
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RE: #tbt: Beating the heat, back in June 2024. 👇
#throwback #throwbackThursday

RE: #trump