@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialSource: 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…
@hynek@mastodon.socialwow, 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?
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: 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
@heiseonline@social.heise.deCyberkriminalität: Männer für Angriff auf Londoner Verkehrsbetrieb verurteilt
Bei dem Angriff im Jahr 2024 entstand ein Schaden von mehreren Millionen Euro für die Londoner Verkehrsbetriebe.
…
@tschfflr@fediscience.org"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Rink: an open source unit-aware calculator.
https://rinkcalc.app/
saved 2024-04-30 https://dotat.at/:/6J32N.html…
@cdarwin@c.imAmateur astronomer Joël Lapointe stumbled upon what he thought looked like a suspicious pit in Quebec's Côte-Nord region while he was wandering with his Google Maps cursor in 2024.
He was simply trying to plan his camping vacation when he spotted something unexpected on his screen
— what researchers recently confirmed is a previously unidentified, 390-million-year-old meteor crater.
“It was quite an exciting discovery,” said Gordon Osinski, a planetary geology professor …
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaFPF Submits Comments to Inform California Children’s Social Media Protections Rulemaking Process
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-submits-comments-to-inform-california-childrens-social-media-protections-rulemaking-process/…
@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
@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/> | <
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders get answer at DT at No. 13 in CBS Sports 2024 NFL redraft https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/07/07/raiders-select-dt-byron-murphy-no-13-cbs-sports-2024-nfl-redraft…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineZugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
@Techmeme@techhub.social
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- The Lover Friend's Love for the Beloved - Proms 2024
The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Dalia Stasevska performs the UK premiere of Julius Eastman's Second Symphony. Titled The Faithful Friend: The Lover Friend's Love for the Beloved.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002yy1z
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukAI 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
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafeReddit and OpenAI Build Partnership - Upvoted
<https://redditinc.com/news/reddit-and-oai-partner> (2024-05-16)
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialGedegen onderzoek van Trouw en Investico over Nederlandse betrokkenheid bij de Israelische oorlogsmisdaden.
https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/hoe-een-nederlander-in-het-israelische-leger-diende-…
@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 ...
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineSpanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
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@Marwe@troet.cafe @raiders@darktundra.xyzWhat Raiders Gained and Potentially Sacrificed in 2024 NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-gained-potentially-sacrificed-2024-nfl-draft
@UP8@mastodon.social🐴 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe 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
@davej@dice.camp“It was clear he had been expecting a more hostile response.”
Gidlow, Chris—“Arthur the Soldier” (2024). Chaosium, Inc., Ann Arbor MI.
#page42
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineSpanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzHistorical pairing of Jared Verse, Carson Schwesinger to lead Browns defense in post-Myles Garrett era https://www.nfl.com/news/historical-pairing-of-jared-verse-carson-schwesinger-to-lead-browns-defense-in-post-myles-g…
@Defiance@sfba.socialVarious 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
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @hynek@mastodon.socialRandom 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…
@tschfflr@fediscience.org"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs
@raiders@darktundra.xyzWhat Raiders Gained and Potentially Sacrificed in 2024 NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-gained-potentially-sacrificed-2024-nfl-draft
@arXiv_physicsgeoph_bot@mastoxiv.pageTwo 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.
toXiv_bot_toot
@NFL@darktundra.xyzBrandon 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…
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineJährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 30.06.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBitcoin 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…
@cdarwin@c.imThe 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…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Five Americans die every hour from toxic vehicle emissions, study finds"
#US #USA #America #Emissions
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social @presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.dePOL-GÖ: (148/2026) Polizeiinspektion Göttingen startet "Aktionsmonat Fahrradsicherung" - Infostände und Präventionsvideos im Juni Göttingen (ots) - GÖTTINGEN (jk) - Im Jahr 2024 wurden in der Universitätsstadt Göttingen 2.803 Fahrraddiebstähle mit einem wirtschaftlichen Gesamtschaden von 4.753.246 Euro verzeichnet. Auf die steigenden Fallzahlen reagierte die Polizei mit ...
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Elgar and Holst from the 2024 BBC Proms
Senja Rummukainen, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Sakari Oramo in Elgar's Cello Concerto. Later, Jess Dandy and the BBC Symphony Chorus in Holst's The Cloud Messenger.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002wg51
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… surprisingly, I can't find a toot about this (in 2024), which opened the book:
Statement on AI Risk
<https://aistatement.com/>
@tinoeberl@mastodon.onlineKumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTexans, LB Azeez Al-Shaair agree to 3-year extension: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7241235/2026/04/29/houston-texans-extension-azeez-al-shaair/
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Lex Amor:
🎵 Beg (6 Music Session, 24 Sep 2024)
#LexAmor
https://lexamor.bandcamp.com/track/beg-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1IPLicvitfuMtAaAka9XCV
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders sign fourth-round pick RB Mike Washington Jr. https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fourth-round-pick-mike-washington-jr-running-back-arkansas-football-2026-draft
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Sahra Halgan:
🎵 Sharaf (6 Music Session, 15 May 2024)
#SahraHalgan
https://sahrahalgan.bandcamp.com/track/sharaf
https://open.spotify.com/track/6a7b6cwzpNS1oA6AR4kvt1
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders sign fourth-round pick RB Mike Washington Jr. https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-sign-fourth-round-pick-mike-washington-jr-running-back-arkansas-football-2026-draft
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit …
