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NJ Governor says a software error at DMV led to the improper voter registration of ~6,600 noncitizens between June 2023 and June 2024; 400 of those cast ballots (Tracey Tully/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/nyregion/noncitizen-voting-new…

D.M.V. Error Led to 400 Noncitizens Voting in New Jersey, Governor Says
A software glitch in 2023 at the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles led to roughly 6,600 noncitizens being registered to vote, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced on Tuesday.

@… yeah! I am now remembering Copa America 2024 had a pink card too

Four million users of Seoul's public bike-sharing service Ttareungi who had their data stolen in a breach will receive a 30-day pass worth a measly $3.40.
https://www.koreajoongangdaily.com/korea/seoul-to-compensate-4-mi…

Seoul Ttareungi data breach: 4 million users to get free 30-day bike pass
Seoul’s Ttareungi bike-sharing service will give a free 30-day pass to about 4 million users affected by a 2024 data breach. The leak exposed personal information of roughly 4.62 million users, city officials said.

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.

Robert Reich, always on point. 🎯

An 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 …

US expert on underground nuclear tests held in China for 18 months
An American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests has been detained in China more than 18 months on spying charges, according to his supporters and a US lawmaker.

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
440 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…

#USpol #elections

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…

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.

Viidelle syytteet: Syyttäjä vaatii kahta miljoonaa euroa Suomussalmen raakkutuhoista #Suomussalmi

Viidelle syytteet: Syyttäjä vaatii kahta miljoonaa euroa Suomussalmen raakkutuhoista
Raakkutuho paljastui Suomussalmen Hukkajoella elokuussa 2024, kun rauhoitettujen jokihelmisimpukoiden päältä oli ajettu metsätyökoneella toistuvasti.

Emeline Rochefeuille & Daniel Pavlov - Pros Jack & Jill - HO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyx5c7mcfwY

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.

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.

President Trump asks SCOTUS to overturn an $83.3M award a jury told him to pay E. Jean Carroll in 2024 for defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault (Abbie VanSickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/2…

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn $83.3 Million Award in Carroll Defamation Case
President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

75 years ago the Soviet #SpaceDogs Dezik and Tsygan became the first vertebrates to survive a spaceflight, if only a suborbital one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dezik_and_Tsygan (and see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/06/11/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-11-juni-2024/ for the first vertebrate to reach space but didn't make it back alive two years earlier).

I updated “Don’t Disable Form Controls” with a suggestion on what to do with submit buttons:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/02/dont-disable-form-controls.html#SubmitInstead
And no, making them read-only is not it, so don’t:

Don’t Disable Form Controls
Just another usability and accessibility pro telling authors not to do the thing they continue to do. It’s Ok to Disable Buttons There are plenty of cases where you want to disable a button until a user takes a conscious action to enable it, such as when launching nuclear missiles.…

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…

Palestina-aktivister tvingade judisk dj att avbryta spelning
Spelning av den lesbiska och judiska dj:n Barbara Butch stoppad av Palestina-aktivister i Frankrike – väcker debatt om gränsen mellan Israelhat och antisemitism

Ein Wert, der mein Fahren besser beschreibt als Kilometer:
Anteil der Zeit, die ich auf Tour stehe statt fahre.
2022: 36 %
2024: 48 %
2026: 56 %
Mehr als die Hälfte der Zeit stehe ich inzwischen. Pausen, Fotos, Kaffee, Schauen.
Das ist keine Verschlechterung. Das ist der eigentliche Punkt am Reisen.
#Bikepacking

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…

Grindr pays £26m to settle UK lawsuit over allegedly sharing users’ HIV status
US-owned dating app allegedly allowed ad firms access to private information in breach of UK law

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.

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-…

EU plans additional tariffs on Chinese PHEVs - electrive.com
Although the EU has imposed additional tariffs on Chinese battery-electric vehicles since late 2024 over concerns about market-distorting subsidies, plug-in

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…

ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.

Cowboys Predicted to Cut Ties With 25-Year-Old Amid Position Change https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/marist-liufau-position-change/

Employees say the five-person editorial staff of Restart, a games site funded by Walmart and managed by marketing agency Moonrock, has been laid off (Aftermath)
https://aftermath.site/restart-layoff-walmart-moonrock/

Restart, Walmart's Gaming Site, Lays Off Entire Editorial Team
The site started in December 2024

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. @…

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…

from my link log —
Leveraging Zig's allocators.
https://www.openmymind.net/Leveraging-Zigs-Allocators/
saved 2024-06-07 https://

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

🛌 Wissen fürs Kopfkissen: 📖
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine

Steckersolaranlagen für Deinen Balkon: Sparen mit der Energiewende
Spare Stromkosten mit einem Balkonkraftwerk! Finde heraus, was die neuen Regelungen 2024 für Dich bedeuten. Einfach installieren und profitieren.

Sources: Reddit, Politico, and others mull cutting Google's access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/googl…

In the Senate today, lawmakers plan to question US trade representative Jamieson Greer.
Ron Wyden, the Senate finance committee’s top Democrat, said that
Donald Trump’s “tariff spree” has “hammered” farmers and small business owners in his home state of Oregon
– particularly in communities which voted for the president in 2024.
“Like so many other promises, Donald Trump has made to working people, The second he set foot in the White House, he did nothing to put Americ…

Trump trade envoy grilled about ‘tariff spree’ and price rises for Americans in Senate hearing – US politics live
Jamieson Greer faces senators’ questions about latest round of tariffs and impacts on cost of living of Trump policies

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:

Sources: Reddit, Politico, and others mull cutting Google's access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/googl…

from my link log —
CAP twelve years later: how the "rules" have changed.
https://www.infoq.com/articles/cap-twelve-years-later-how-the-rules-have-changed/
saved 2024-03-07

CAP Twelve Years Later: How the "Rules" Have Changed
The CAP theorem asserts that any networked shared-data system can have only two of three desirable properties (Consistency, Availability and Partition Tolerance). In this IEEE article, author Eric Brewer discusses how designers can optimize consistency and availability by explicitly handling partitions, thereby achieving some trade-off of all three.

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:

🇺🇦 #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

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Industrial-strength windshield wiper. 🚎⚙️💪
(Aug. 25, 2024, Shimoga #India)
#WindowFriday #FensterFreitag #Window #rain #bus #travel #photography #video