A national poll released this week by The New York Times and Siena University found that Democrats entered the fall with an advantage of nearly nine percentage points over Republicans on the congressional ballot
— an edge similar to 2018, the last time there was a so-called blue wave.
“Republicans are panicking and are on the brink of losing the House, with the Senate not far behind,” Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, said in an interview.
But…
In 2024 I emailed my local MPP because I thought his hotel expenses were fishy. His office responded to me that I was "singling him out" and that all Toronto MPP were doing the same.
Today, my MPP is resigning from his Minister position
Good riddance Stan
https://www.…
If true, this will be a fail at the first hurdle.
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News
#ClimateCollapse
Luckily, I only rarely get calls on my mobile phone—a not-smart-at-all Nokia 3210 (2024). But every time I wonder: is the voice quality of smartphone so much better? I see people happily talking on their smartphones in the metro or the bus, where it's extremely noisy. But I hardly understand a word on the Nokia, even in the best circumstances.
Sources: Shein is targeting a $40B valuation after winning Beijing's approval for a Hong Kong IPO, set for as early as Q3; Shein canceled its US IPO in 2024 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/r…
Yesterday I scrolled through the accounts I'm following and was a bit surprised about the amount of accounts that haven't been active since 2024 :-(
June 2026 was the second-warmest June on record globally, 0.12°C cooler than the warmest June in 2024.
The average global temperature for the last 12 months (July 2025 to June 2026) was 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average, and 1.43°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.
Inducing lucid dreaming with multisensory stimulation: a preregistered multi-center study #SSILD
Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
The Drone flights vs car break-ins chart in this article is fascinating: It shows a sharply declining rate of car break-ins, and then, as drone flights are introduced later in 2024, the rate of decline slows.
And "The SFPD increased patrols in bipping hot spots like Fisherman’s Wharf starting in 2023. Cops also started using bait cars and building cases against major bipping gangs. " And that correlates with the fastest rate of decline - good, old fashioned policing.
I'm not even the first person to say things along this line either:
"Another motivation for reducing the steel intensity of modern society is to limit the consequences of geopolitical conflicts. The more steel we produce for peaceful purposes, the more steel becomes available for war and destruction. Remarkably, the production of military equipment is absent from modern steel statistics, and if mentioned, its share is very low. However, in times of war, steelmaking facilities switch to producing steel for military purposes. The steel industry can thus be converted into a weapons industry at any moment, and there is now a lot more steel production capacity available than there has ever been in history."
https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2024/03/how-to-escape-from-the-iron-age/ buried in the last footnote.
Oh, and that article also shows the math that proves that there is no way to move to EVs without absolutely blowing through the carbon budget. You have to switch to bikes and trains. There's literally no other way to keep an even close to habitable planet.
#TIL Das Hörbuch "Die Brandstifter" von Annika Brockschmidt gibt es 2x auf #Spotify: Einmal als Hörbuch und nochmal als Album. Das Album ist das ungekürzte Hörbuch und ist ohne Hörbuchguthaben hörbar.
Reducing the immigrant labor pool,
imposing tariffs on imports,
and the Iran War
are costing consumers billions in higher out-of-pocket costs.
Trump’s problem now is all three of his major second-term policies are raising prices across a range of commodities, but especially housing, food, and gas.
Throughout the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump, his supporters, and the national punditry invoked that term to indict President Biden’s economic policies.
Although…
Angriff auf Apples Private Cloud Compute: 150.000 Dollar für Sicherheitsforscher
Im Rahmen des PCC-Bug-Bounty-Programms, das seit 2024 Sicherheitsexperten offensteht, kam es zu einem erfolgreichen Angriff. Telemetrie-Daten konnten abfließen.
The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in "moonshot" sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 30.06.2026 Hannover / Bad Bentheim (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und ...
On Website Technicals (2024-09) - Tech updates: anticipating the heat pump, BibTeX crossref, ETag clean-up, APFS defrag, Gallery traffic trim. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-88.html
wow, got one of these on archive.ph linked from https://www.mgaudet.ca/blog/2024/12/30/memories-of-noah-gibbs
has anybody figured out how that's possible?
The EU General Court dismisses Apple's legal challenges against its designation as a DMA "gatekeeper" for its App Store and iOS; Apple filed the case in 2024 (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-court-rej
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
It’s about fucking time.
There’s an opportunity that has just been sitting there waiting for months to impeach everyone, or at least write up the details and force every last Republican to endorse the blatant criminality of each corrupt thug. @…
The first half of 2026 was the 5th warmest on record here in the central Netherlands.
Just following the forecast for the coming 2 weeks, and then the 1991-2020 average (cool by now) would already bring this year into the top-3 warmest since 1901.
75-year-old John Gannon is a lifelong Republican who voted for President Trump says he now regrets that decision after his fiancée was arrested by ICE in Houston.
Video Source
https://reddit.com/comments/1vhb0ns
John Gannon, a lifelong Republican who voted for Donald Trump in 2024, says he…
Various Artists: "No-Ones Listening Anyway - UK DIY Post Punk & Dubs 1980-1984 (Volume 1)". (2024)
An interesting collection of no name UK bands from the early 80s who made some cool music after being inspired by the DIY culture of the time.
#music #compilation
Grindr pays £26M to settle a 2024 UK lawsuit that alleged it shared users' HIV status with ad firms, in breach of UK law (Julia Kollewe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/07/grindr-settle-uk-lawsuit-dating-app-ad…
Ich verstehe das nicht. Wir haben aus guten Gründen den Art. 22 GG, welcher Deutschland davor schützen sollte, dass gegen die freiheitlich demokratische Grundordnung oder dem Bestand der Bundesrepublik Deutschland agiert wird.
Die AfD ist laut Verfassungsschutz gesichert Rechtsextrem, es gibt ein Gutachten dass einen Erfolg im Verbotsverfahren sieht, 2024 gingen mehr als eine Millionen Menschen gegen Rechtsextremismus auf die Straße, 2025 sind in 60 Städten mehrere 10-tausende Menschen…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to be “unmasked” in a forthcoming documentary
simply titled “Musk,”
and the billionaire Trump ally was said Thursday to be “freaking out” over its impending release.
Musk took an outsized role in the 2024 presidential election,
having contributed more than $259 million to support Donald Trump’s campaign.
Musk also had access to an unprecedented amount of data on American citizens during his time leading the short-lived Department of G…
Der https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/ enthält jetzt auch die Daten von 2025. Wie immer belegen die Zahlen den Erfolg der "Vision Zero Fortschritt" der Petrolköpfe und Auto-Ideologen. Schwerverletzte leicht Rückläufig, Tote und Leichtverletzte gehen weiter rauf. Der Straßenterror bleibt …
BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 31.07.2026 Bad Bentheim / Hannover (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und ...
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 31.07.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
'Alte oder besondere Bäume' Der Baum in unserem Hof, durch einen Sturm im September 2024 umgestürzt und jetzt leider keine natürliche Kühlung mehr 😢 #FotoVorschlag
#photography #fotografie
Wettbewerbsverfahren: Apple beginnt Gespräche mit US-Justizministerium
Es geht um Apples iPhone-Ökosystem: 2024 reichte das Department of Justice Klage ein. Nun gibt es Bestrebungen zu einer Einigung – mit ungewissem Ausgang.
Ich reposte für meinen Kumpel auf Bluesky und finde das Thema auch interessant:
Frage an die #mobile.de/#Autoscout24 -Spezialisten für #BEV:
Erkenne ich irgendwo, außer im Freitext, ob ein E-Auto vor 2024 nur einen einpasigen 7,4 kW AC-Lader hat (war bspw. beim
Geoffrey Hinton,
the Nobel prize-winning godfather of AI,
offers a specific use case: leveraging the data into an unfair campaign advantage.
“It’s fairly clear to me that Trump is hell-bent on corrupting the midterm elections,”
he says onscreen.
“If you wanted to corrupt those midterm elections
and you wanted to use AI,
all you needed to do was get detailed information on U.S. citizens.
And what DOGE did looked like just what you would do.”
The EU General Court dismisses Opera's challenge against the European Commission's decision to exempt Microsoft Edge from DMA gatekeeper regulations in 2024 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-court-reje…
I was in the Kawartha region this weekend and randomly drove down a road where I saw a bunch of unhinged signs about paying no taxes and MANY confederate flags.
We don't see a lot of those flags in Canada so I got curious.
Turns out the Guardian made an article on it.
https://www.
Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
Gregor Schubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11626
arXiv:2608.11626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study proposes that firms move along an "organizational technology ladder": adopting one technology transforms hiring and work processes and builds skills and organizational capital that change the cost of adopting subsequent technologies. I study how firms' adoption of remote work technology during the COVID-19 period shaped later uptake of generative AI. Using U.S. job-posting data and an instrumental-variables strategy based on predicted differences in labor-market pressure to offer remote work, I estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in remote hiring in 2021-2022 increases the share of job postings mentioning generative AI in 2023-2024 by 0.4 percentage points across firms and 0.7 percentage points across occupations within firms. I provide evidence on mechanisms consistent with a technology-ladder channel: remote work adoption shifts hiring toward technical and managerial capabilities that predict faster conversion of generative AI exposure into adoption. Firms with return-to-office mandates---interpreted as revealing low remote productivity---exhibit a substantially larger response of generative AI adoption to remote work, consistent with an organizational frictions channel.
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Did you buy a beanie from REI recently?
The Department of Homeland Security might be looking for you.
New court filings allege that Homeland Security Investigations agents subpoenaed the outdoor retailer in March,
requesting the transaction information for “all persons” in the greater Minneapolis–St. Paul area who had purchased a specific type of dark green beanie from the company since 2024.
REI did not respond to questions about whether it had complied with the requ…
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that it had
suspended diagnostic testing for a slew of viruses, including for rabies and a group of pox viruses that encompasses smallpox and mpox.
The CDC has provided diagnostic testing for decades,
offering federal testing services for dozens of illnesses to state and local public health laboratories that are unable to do so independently.
The agency began a review of its offered tests in 2024,
We’re talking big money and big looting.
Trump embraced crypto as a candidate in 2024.
Then he and his family invested like mad in it
– through CIC Digital,
a Trump Organization affiliate that is behind his memecoin, $Trump,
and through another Trump family-backed crypto company, World Liberty Financial,
co-founded by Trump, his sons and the family of the special envoy Steve Witkoff in the middle of the 2024 presidential campaign
(but which the White…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
« Target Israel and we will target you » ~ twelve republican senators including Rubio 2024
« If you move forward with the measures indicated in the report, we will move to end all American support for the ICC, sanction your employees and associates, and bar you and your families from the United States. You have been warned. »
Ich reposte für meinen Kumpel auf Bluesky und finde das Thema auch interessant:
Frage an die #mobile.de/#Autoscout24 -Spezialisten für #BEV:
Erkenne ich irgendwo, außer im Freitext, ob ein E-Auto vor 2024 nur einen einpasigen 7,4 kW AC-Lader hat (war bspw. beim
Sources: Bain Capital stands to make $15B in profits on its 2018 Kioxia buyout, a ~20x return, as Kioxia's stock has surged 5,000% since its December 2024 IPO (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/22bc5436-d5a1-4d03-b8c0-5840f1e3a515
Ein Krimi vom Bodensee: Seeland – #ARD #SWR #krimi #crimi #Sonntagskrimi
#throwback to July *2024* when I walked along the Trinity River in Fort Worth, Texas aka "Panther City", aka "Cow Town". 🐈⬛🤘🎨
#photography #amateur #panther #longhorn #FortWorth #Texas #mural #art #tbt #throwbackThursday
@cdarwin@c.im
