@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesIn 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.…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social“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.”
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyA Russian ship sank in mysterious circumstances. It may have been carrying submarine nuclear reactors to North Korea
The ship set sail just two months after Kim Jong Un had sent troops to assist with Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, end 2024.
https://…
@cdarwin@c.imAn American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests
has been detained in China for more than 18 months on spying charges,
according to his supporters and a US lawmaker.
💥Youlin Chen, a seismologist, has been “wrongfully detained” since November 2024,
US Senator Edward Markey said in a statement Tuesday.
Donald Trump raised Chen’s detention and asked for his freedom during a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing in May,
according to …
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCalifornia and Google will contribute $20M each over two years to the CA Civic Media Program, far below the $250M promised in 2024, with grants of up to $250K (Ethan Baron/Mercury News)
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/07/14/new
@relcfp@mastodon.socialAnnouncement: New Issue of Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary e-Journal
https://ift.tt/TIS1kHo
Third Symposium on Dance, Music, and Performing Arts of the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia,…
via Input 4 RELCFP
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTwo Scattered Spider members who pleaded guilty in the UK to an August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London are jailed for five and a half years (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyg0y6yg2o
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeExclusive: Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google | Reuters
<https://www.reuters.com/technology/reddit-ai-content-licensing-deal-with-google-sources-say-2024-02-22/> | <
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Nine out of 10 Brazilian cities have experienced climate-related disasters over the past three decades"
#Brazil #Climate #ClimateChange
@ebinger@bildung.socialEin äußerst anregender Dialograum ist entstanden auf der Karlshöhe der @… zum kontroversen Thema Palästina-Israel in der Laubhütte des Friedens. Mit dabei Yad be Yad (https://www.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@0xYumeko/116909082619309252
She knows how to win IN HER MICHIGAN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Says nothing about her appeal statewide. The lesson of 2024 for the state as a whole is that there is a substantial segment of the non-GO…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Space Development Agency(SDA) is a United States Space Force
direct-reporting unit
tasked with deploying disruptive space technology.
One of the technologies being worked on is space-based missile tracking using large global satellite constellations made up of
industry-procured low-cost satellites.
The SDA has been managed by the United States Space Force since October 2022.
By February 2024 the SDA had 38 satellites on orbit.
SDA intends to have…
@scottmiller42@mstdn.socialToday, I'm remembering that time on January 6, 2021 when Lindsey Graham indicated he might actually have a backbone by speaking out against the illegal coup attempt and said that Biden legitimately won the election.
It didn't stick though. He returned to his cowardly support of Turnip leading up to the 2024 election.
https://www.
@jake4480@c.imGot my Phlegmesis tapes in from Iron Fortress! They were on sale and I couldn't resist. 'The New Wave of Rotten Fornication' was of course one of my top 20 albums of 2024, and even the Phlegmesis LEFTOVERS are sick.
Here's New Wave if you wanna hear it: https://phlegmesis.bandcamp…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alYou guys know what to do: report and block this genocide-complicit zionist hasbara account.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing
@gwire@mastodon.socialA BBC presenter talking to a representative of striking doctors, making the suggestion that since doctors already earn more than the average salary people have little sympathy. When saying "that's a lot of money", it comes off as condescending given their own salaries - paid via regressive taxation - dwarf them.
https://www.
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeReddit and OpenAI Build Partnership - Upvoted
<https://redditinc.com/news/reddit-and-oai-partner> (2024-05-16)
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotInteresting 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.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotYou probably do not want to read this.
#GazaGenocide
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148876
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL players who attended Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding, plus a 2024 redraft and the NFL's top duos
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/taylor-swift-travis…
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.dePOL-WHV: 53-Jähriger nach Gerichtsbeschluss in Fachklinik untergebracht Wilhelmshaven/Friesland (ots) - Ein 53-jähriger Mann, der seit Ende 2024 im Bereich der Friesischen Wehde und später in Varel durch wiederholt auffälliges Verhalten in Erscheinung getreten war, befindet sich seit Ende Juni 2026 aufgrund einer ... https://www.
@cdarwin@c.imMicrosoft, Amazon and Google’s collective carbon emissions
have increased by nearly a fifth in the past year,
driven largely by datacentre construction.
In the financial year ending March 2026, the three tech companies emitted
119m mTCO₂e (metric tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent),
or about a third of those of France.
The previous year, they emitted roughly 101m mTCO₂e,
roughly equivalent to the 2024 emissions of Czechia.
The US companies’ cl…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom 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
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyJune 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.
@pygospa@social.linux.pizzaIch 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…
@Marwe@troet.cafe
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
Wah!:
🎵 Seven Minutes To Midnight
#Wah!
https://chrysalisrecords.bandcamp.com/track/seven-minutes-to-midnight-2024-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tTQI4VZI7K9OQ9thMWmT8
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUK-based journalist advocacy group Article 19 says eight journalists disappeared or were murdered in Mexico in 2025; four journalists were murdered in 2024 (Lizbeth Diaz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioI really should get back into #astrophotography this year. Last year was marred by both bad weather and brainfog. Here's an image from 2024.
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI have a JPC-12 vertical antenna. On the good side, it puts the coil 4' away from the base, reducing coil losses by not putting it at the point with the highest current. On the other hand, it's stainless steel with significant real resistance, so even that reduced current still heats it up substantially. Some of that heat could instead be radiated RF!
I am considering rewinding the coil with lacquered silver-coated copper wire for substantially-reduced real resistance, as KA7O…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineKumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.deBPOLD-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 ...
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeThis Fediwall seems to have lost everything except an initial post from January 2024:
https://fediwall.social/?servers=newsmast.community&tags=…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (George Packer/The Atlantic)
https:…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialThe predictable effect of the European levies on EVs is that they have led to fewer EVs and more plug-in hybrid cars, which, in practice, have been shown time and again to offer barely any CO₂ savings. We remain dependent on imported fossil fuels.
https://www.electrive.com/2026/06/19/eu-…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe 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…
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Thee Sacred Souls:
🎵 Lucid Girl (6 Music Session, 17 Sep 2024)
#TheeSacredSouls
https://supapatselectah.bandcamp.com/track/thee-sacred-souls-lucid-girl
https://open.spotify.com/track/5TdnxXaZIqJjASZaJQrW2e
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Waxahatchee:
🎵 Right Back To It (6 Music Session, 12 Jul 2024)
#Waxahatchee
https://waxahatchee.bandcamp.com/track/right-back-to-it
https://open.spotify.com/track/17Zzi8qsn8mdm0t0JTGeQo
@smurthys@hachyderm.io#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
