2026-07-17 17:15:59
from my link log —
Earth rotation records spur October vote to avert negative leap second.
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/320185/20260711/earth-rotation-records-spur-october-vote-avert-negative-leap-second.h…
Two 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
Er is een opvangcrisis, geen asiel/migratiecrisis,
Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020 - #opvangcrisis
Got 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…
Seahawks trade idea lands Raiders 2024 2nd-round lineman to help protect Sam Darnold https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/seattle-seahawks/news/seahawks-trade-idea-raiders-lineman-help-protect-sam-darnol…
RE: 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…
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.
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
RE: https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics/116852007606471639
They’re clearly learning from the Israelis.
‘By February 2024, it was reported that "every hospital in Gaza is either damaged, destroyed, or out of service due to lack of fuel…
AI vs cats: An AI image generation takes about 0.1-1Wh, so on gas is under 0.4g CO2 emission.
Keeping a cat causes emissions of about 310kg of CO2 a year, i.e. about 1kg/day. So under 30 seconds of cat gets you one AI image.
Cats also kill billions of birds.
I'm not suggesting getting rid of cats, but please consider that lot before threatening people for the use of AI.
(Gas emission
Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets.html
Burgum was considered the
not-completely-crazy candidate for the GOP nomination in 2024.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mpvq5so5qu2o
40 Prozent des deutschen Mittelstands nutzt KI
Der Anteil der mittelständischen Unternehmen, die Künstliche Intelligenz einsetzen, ist seit 2024 um 118 Prozent angestiegen. Rund 40 Prozent nutzen KI.
https://www.
The Mission voted against giving the SFPD drones by 20 points.
Now SFPD is flying more drones here than any other neighborhood.
This is an occupation.
Sources: https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/san-francisco-drones-22325281.php
Asfinag warnt: - Immer mehr Fahrzeugbrände auf unseren Autobahnen #News #Nachrichten
Random TV recommendation time:
RIVALS on Hulu/Disney
Think British White Lotus meets 1980s Downton Abbey meets UHF.
Full of British Shakespeare actors (David Tennant!) and surprise butts/boobs/penises. And I mean… 96% on Rotten Tomatoes!? I’m so surprised I’ve never heard of it before.
https://www.rottent…
Got the official power numbers from my utility for the April billing cycle.
3572 kWh imported from grid, 200 kWh overproduction exported, for net 3372 kWh consumed/billed.
That is an all-time record for lowest power consumption (at least back to January 2024 which is the oldest bill I have easy access to).
Too bad it's also an all-time *high* for price per kWh - the effective price per kWh after taxes and fees hit 21.7 cents, a 15.4% increase since the start of the year…
In Deutschland wurden 2024 677114 Kinder geboren. Die Bundeswehr möchte auf 280000 wehrdienstleistende aufstocken. Der Wehrdienst dauert aber nur 6 Monate. Um also ganzjährig 280000 wehrdienstleistende zu haben müssen 560000 Menschen eines Geburtsjahrgangs Wehrdienst leisten. Wenn alle Männer Wehrdienst leisten, keiner verweigert, keiner ist untauglich, alle haben deutschen pass, keiner leistet als Doppelstaatler im Ausland (Israel, Ukraine) Wehrdienst, dann kann diese Zahl trotzdem nur erre…
🐴 Firehorse superstition helps uncover why women's education may not drive Japan's fertility decline
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-firehorse-superstition-uncover-women-japan.html
Part of the Communications Act 2003 has come into force.
As a member of the public I'm confused as to why these laws don't automatically sunset if left unactivated. Certainly after more than 20 years, and significant changes in the makeup of Parliament.
(This change is just about classifying significant events, eg, sporting events.)
A good reason to get outdoors in the north shore.
"Since 2024, the Village of Brown Deer has hosted a game every May, hiding a medallion within the village's 4.5-square-mile limits and sending out clues every few days. In previous years, the hunt has drawn thousands of searchers in pursuit of the cash prize and complimentary meal, sponsored by Café Corazon, according to the village."
#BrownDeer #Milwaukee #MedallionHunt
In Deutschland wurden 2024 677114 Kinder geboren. Die Bundeswehr möchte auf 280000 wehrdienstleistende aufstocken. Der Wehrdienst dauert aber nur 6 Monate. Um also ganzjährig 280000 wehrdienstleistende zu haben müssen 560000 Menschen eines Geburtsjahrgangs Wehrdienst leisten. Wenn alle Männer Wehrdienst leisten, keiner verweigert, keiner ist untauglich, alle haben deutschen pass, keiner leistet als Doppelstaatler im Ausland (Israel, Ukraine) Wehrdienst, dann kann diese Zahl trotzdem nur erre…
Dem Congressman Jared Golden just ended his reelection campaign because of threats to his family.
Citing his experience of spending last Thanksgiving in hiding and the escalating wave of political violence and assassinations, Golden announced his retirement.
𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚.
Trump won here by 9 points in 2024.
We are now 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱, and 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀.
Already MAGA is thro…
Area Theorems and Quasiconformal Extensions of Harmonic Mappings with a Pole
Zhijun Chen, Limei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03306 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03306 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.03306
arXiv:2606.03306v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we study the class \Sigma_{H}^{k}(p) of sense-preserving univalent harmonic mappings in the unit disk \mathbb{D} that possess a simple pole at p\in[0,1) and admit a k-quasiconformal extension to the extended complex plane for k\in[0,1). In 2024, Bhowmik and Satpati established an area theorem and derived a sufficient condition for the k-quasiconformal extension of harmonic mappings belonging to \Sigma_{H}^{k}(p) without logarithmic terms. Motivated by their work, we investigate the corresponding problem when a logarithmic singularity is present. Our main contributions are two-fold: we first prove a generalized area theorem for all mappings in \Sigma_{H}^{k}(p); we then obtain a sufficient condition for sense-preserving univalent harmonic mappings in \mathbb{D} to admit explicit k-quasiconformal extensions. These results extend the aforementioned work to the setting where logarithmic singularities are allowed.
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Brandon Aiyuk delivers message in video post, calls 49ers 'little-a-- boys,' tells them to 'stop running from the bill' https://www.nfl.com/news/brandon-aiyuk-delivers-message-in-video-post-cal…
Two kinds of robustness are not the same: disentangling fault tolerance and low-SNR robustness in multi-domain event detection on real data
Isao Kurosawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29339 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.29339 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.29339
arXiv:2606.29339v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reliable event detection underpins induced-seismicity monitoring for Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) and geothermal operations, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), and industrial condition monitoring. In each setting a detector must stay reliable both when sensors fail and when the signal is buried in noise. These two failure modes are routinely conflated, and architectural complexity is often credited with robustness it may not deserve. We assemble a unified binary event-detection benchmark from three physically distinct real sources -- Hi-net seismic waveforms, Utah FORGE 2024 borehole DAS, and MAFAULDA industrial vibration -- each mapped to a common 8-channel, 256-sample representation, and evaluate a fault-tolerant detector (CEPHALON) trained with per-sample sensor-dropout against standard detectors (a 1D convolutional network, a temporal convolutional network, and a compact Transformer) trained with an identical recipe. On clean data every model is near-perfect (AUC ~ 0.99). Under progressive sensor loss, simple models with sensor-dropout are already robust and CEPHALON holds no advantage. Under additive noise, however, CEPHALON degrades far more gracefully: at -2.5 dB its overall AUC is 0.939 versus 0.532-0.572 for the convolutional baselines. Same-architecture ablations isolate the cause: disabling internal redundancy at inference reduces the low-SNR advantage only modestly, whereas removing sensor-dropout training collapses it (0.899 to 0.603 at -5 dB). The training recipe is therefore the dominant cause and parallel redundancy only secondary. We release a complete, numbered, reproducible pipeline so that every figure can be regenerated.
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Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
After reading about today's #Github #security incident, exposing thousands of internal repositories, I'd like to remind you of:
Read That Before You Trust Anything by #Microsoft Once Again
Chainalysis: addresses linked to Iran, Russia, North Korea, and other US-sanctioned entities received $100B in crypto last year, almost 8x the amount in 2024 (Patricia Kowsmann/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/cryptocurrency-sanctions-evasion-d02b…
The 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-…
Peace
2024
Fawzia Khan
Hopkins, #Minnesota
Handwoven wool and cotton, audio recording
current exhibition at the #NorthDakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks (NDMOA)
"It is my conviction that there is no way to peace -- peace is the way."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach
from my link log —
Garbage collection without unsafe code in Rust.
http://fitzgeraldnick.com/2024/02/06/safe-gc.html
saved 2026-04-22 https://
Catching up with The Ultimates (2024) comics, and issue 21 really is subtext-as-text.
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ultimates_Vol_3_21
Wer ohne Schuld ist - #ARD #SWR
#FilmMittwochImErsten
#krimi #crimi
Bitcoin falls below $60K, its lowest level since October 2024, amid a record streak of bitcoin ETF outflows following Strategy's bitcoin sale (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/bitcoin-dismal-week-price-below-all-time-high-crypto-in…
Match Group reports Q1 revenue up 4% YoY to $864M, vs. $855M est., as Tinder's new user registrations grew for the first time since 2024, up 1% (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
🇺🇦 #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
The result that should really cause you to update your beliefs about this year’s midterms is not in the topline or the Times’ official reporting, but hidden deep in the poll’s crosstabs.
A big story of the 2024 election was that Donald Trump made inroads with non-voters who traditionally leaned Democratic, and even got some of them to turn out for him.
But now it’s looking like he has squandered those gains and put his party on the path to midterm defeat in the House
— an…
Filing: SpaceX reports 2025 revenue of $18.7B, up 33% YoY, a $4.9B loss, vs. a $791M profit in 2024, and $20.7B in capital expenditures, up from $11.2B (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technol
Mit Lächeln im Gesicht - Das erschütternde Geständnis des Swift-Attentäters #News #Nachrichten …
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
Apple reaches a $250M settlement in a CA federal court to resolve a false advertising class action lawsuit over the launch of a "personalized" Siri in 2024 (Michael Acton/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f2c6a27e-8ed9-487c-9384-7e0f0dca3061
Filing: Michael Saylor's Strategy bought $2.54B in bitcoin over the past seven days, its largest acquisition since November 2024; Strategy owns ~$61B in bitcoin (Matt Haldane/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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
🇺🇦 #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
#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
RE: #trump
#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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
La Luz:
🎵 Poppies (6 Music Session, 29th August 2024)
#LaLuz
https://bearboneslaylow.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-poppies
https://open.spotify.com/track/4oiZ494M5fJgMhdqew0n8p
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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