2026-07-16 12:10:39
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
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
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.
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…
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…
Er is een opvangcrisis, geen asiel/migratiecrisis,
Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020 - #opvangcrisis
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…
Der Energieverbrauch von Google ist in einem Jahr, von 2024 bis 2025, von 31 auf 43 Terrawattstunden (TWh) gestiegen.
Der Effekt von generativer KI, also all den Chatbots, ChatGPT etc.
Wir sollten das nicht als unveränderbar hinnehmen.
https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07…
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
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
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…
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.
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
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
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.
Source: Netflix raised $1B from a US high-grade bond sale, its first since a debut deal two years ago (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/netflix-returns-to-the-high-grade-bond-market-after-2024-debu…
Asfinag warnt: - Immer mehr Fahrzeugbrände auf unseren Autobahnen #News #Nachrichten
Inducing lucid dreaming with multisensory stimulation: a preregistered multi-center study #SSILD
Equivalence of Lin--Lu--Yau curvature and 1/2-Ollivier curvature on weighted graphs
Shiping Liu, Yunyan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05939 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.05939 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.05939
arXiv:2608.05939v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this note, we prove that, on weighted graphs, the Lin--Lu--Yau curvature coincides with the $p$-Ollivier curvature up to scaling whenever the idleness parameter $p\geq 1/2$. Moreover, the threshold $1/2$ is sharp. This extends an earlier result of Bourne et al. (Ollivier--Ricci idleness functions of graphs, SIAM J. Discrete Math., 32 (2018), no. 2, 1408-1424), where combinatorial graphs were considered. This observation yields a simple proof for the global existence and uniqueness of solutions of the Lin--Lu--Yau curvature flow in Bai et al. (Ollivier Ricci-flow on weighted graphs, Amer. J. Math. 146 (2024), 1723-1747).
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from my link log —
The X window system at 40.
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/07/x-window-system-at-40.html
saved 2024-07-04 https://
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?
Burgum was considered the
not-completely-crazy candidate for the GOP nomination in 2024.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mpvq5so5qu2o
An wie vielen Tagen im Jahr ich überhaupt aufs Rad steige:
2020: 20 %
2022: 64 %
2023: 88 %
2024: 99 %
2025: 97 %
2026: 100 %
Das ist der Wandel, der mir selbst am wenigsten aufgefallen ist. Nicht weiter, nicht schneller. Nur keine Lücken mehr.
Irgendwann hat es aufgehört, eine Entscheidung zu sein.
#Radfahren
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:
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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Happy 50th #anniversary to you, #Z80! 🥳
https://www.to…
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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What happened to Brandon Aiyuk? How ex-All-Pro went from $120 million to on the outside looking in on NFL
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/what-happened-to-brandon-aiyuk-49ers/
Den judiska dj:n Barbara Butch - känd från OS-invigningen 2024 - tvingades avbryta en spelning i helgen efter att föremål kastats mot henne av Palestina-aktivister som hävdar att hon är ”medskyldig till folkmord”. https://www.dn.se/varlden/palestina-aktivis…
Fruits Of Labor (Of Love)
(A 10x8" silver chloride print I made last night of a scene captured in the Bernina Range in 2024, which reminded me of 18th century landscape painting...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
Survey: 77% of US adults support in-class cellphone bans for middle and high school students, up from 74% in 2025 and 68% in 2024; just 18% oppose such bans (Jeffrey Gottfried/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20
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…
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…
'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
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-…
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
Still no place for Emily Thornberry in the new #Burnham cabinet? Has she got something in her background file that makes her a ministerial no-no? She seems like a major backbench talent, it was a big surprise that Starmer didn't give her a job in July 2024.
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
Eagles' Saquon Barkley doesn't 'want to be remembered for' hurdle: 'I'm ready for the next one' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-saquon-barkley-doesn-t-want-to-be-remembered-for-hurdle-i-m-ready-for-the-n…
from my link log —
Garbage collectors are scary.
https://www.enyo.de/fw/notes/garbage-collectors-are-scary.html
saved 2024-05-12 https:…
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach
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…
I've 884 pics from Aug. 2024 alone from #India visit. Already reviewed most of them but dropping a third would still leave me 583. At least a half of those are worth publicly sharing, but I doubt I'll ever get around to sharing even 100.
So much beauty will stay unshared. 😥
#photography #dilemma
NFL.com | Official Site of the National Football League https://www.nfl.com/news/myles-garrett-won-t-push-aaron-donald-s-difficult-comeback-decision-with-rams
🇺🇦 #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
Source: Tencent is in talks to acquire Israeli game developer SuperPlay in a deal valuing SuperPlay at $1B-$1.5B; Playtika acquired SuperPlay in 2024 for $690M (Golan Hazani/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hkvfmqsvme
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…
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.”
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
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,
Index Ventures has raised $2B in new capital: a $900M venture vehicle, $400M for seed financing, and an addition of $700M to a 2024 $1.5B growth fund (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Singapore-based Ant International, a payments company which spun out of Ant Group in 2024, raised $1.2B from investors including Ant Group and Alibaba (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/ant-international-raise…
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
"I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in The Hague,” Mamdani said.
“He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court,
and what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many,
purely because of what his actions have wrought over these past many years.”
The International Criminal Court issued a warrant for Netanyahu’s arrest in 2024 for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine,
including “s…
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
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)
/2
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
440 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
440 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
🇺🇦 #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
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
440 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
RE: #trump
🇺🇦 #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
#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
#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