2026-04-11 13:01:40
Eating Steak, potatoes, salad, this wine, and watching the Splashdown of Artemis II
#artemis2 #nasa #splashdown
During the 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump privately told donors about one of his favorite negotiating tactics,
recounting at a New York fundraiser in May how he would deter Chinese or Russian aggression
by threatening to bomb Beijing or Moscow.
“He thought I was crazy,”
Trump said of Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s response.
“He didn’t believe me, except 10 percent.
And 10 percent is all you need.”
The story, which has not been confirmed by R…
Democrats Pulled Off Their Biggest Shift Yet Among House Specials Since 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/elections/georgia-house-special-shifts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p10#a260408p10
Geheimnisvolle Orte: Berlin von unten – Geschichten aus dem Untergrund - #ARD #rbb
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL3JiYl8yYzM0MzE5NS0yZTFhLTRjMmQtYWFiZS1mY2VkYmNiNjMyNzRfcHVibGljYXRpb24 (2024, 43min)
'Spuren der Verganhenheit' onder Berlijn.
Eens wat anders dan een crimi.. 😊
2015 bij de rbb en nu al bij de ardmediathek.de.
Aansluitend:
Geheimnisvolle Orte
Bahnhof Friedrichstraße - Agentenschleuse und Grenzpassage
Enjoy!
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👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
Chrome’s developer properties have been problematic for years so this just corresponds to its descent into disrepute.
Ref: https://adrianroselli.com/2024/07/dont-use-webdev-for-accessibility-info.html (it discusses developer•chrome•com)
Ahead of the Holyrood elections in May, two more party profiles from Allan at Ballot Box Scotland.
Scottish Greens: https://ballotbox.scot/sp26-party-profile-greens/
"Despite an ill-fated spell in government from 2021 to 2024, the Greens are currently on tr…
Docs: Israeli AI chip startup Hailo is pursuing an urgent IPO via a SPAC merger at a valuation of less than $500M; it was last valued at $1.2B in 2024 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/rj000qzaowx
POL-STD: Süderoogsand / Flensburg / Hamburg: Leichenfund auf Süderoogsand - Ermittlungsbehörden suchen Zeugen bei Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst Stade (ots) - Am Dienstag, den 09.07.2024, wurde auf der Sandbank Süderoogsand im schleswig-holsteinischen Wattenmeer eine männliche Wasserleiche aufgefunden. Im Zuge der rechtsmedizinischen Untersuchung konnte die Identität des Verstorbenen ...
Not surprising at all, but first time I'm seeing an example of reaction diffusion patterns in granite:
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gl3xultyaxwitlx5r5qmlxvq/post/3miqqqfvyzs27
"U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says.
The figure continues the year-over-year record trend as it is up 26% compared to 2024, when Americans lost $16.6 billion to cybercrime."
Will the 49ers trade, release or keep Brandon Aiyuk? Breaking down the options https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48414734/brandon-aiyuk-contract-trade-san-francisco-49ers-commanders
Analysis: 10 major tech publications lost 58% of their Google traffic since early 2024, falling to a combined 65M monthly visits in January 2026; some lost 90% (Yuval Halevi/Growtika)
https://growtika.com/blog/tech-media-collapse
Consciousness Explained Away: Daniel Dennett’s Illusionism and the Theory That Spends Its Own Foundation
When Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, the philosophical world lost one of the last serious defenders of a position so counterintuitive that even sympathetic readers spent decades trying to talk themselves into it. Dennett argued, across more than fifty years of writing, that consciousness as we ordinarily understand it does not exist.…
👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“.
Eine Umfrage hat diesen Glauben in der deutschen Bevölkerung erst 2025 wieder gezeigt. Schauen wir uns die Kosten an. Wie schneiden
Kuba Suder's blog:
How Bluesky works,
What works well and what doesn’t,
And also, what’s likely coming next.
https://mackuba.eu/2024/02/21/bluesky-guide/
Ik lees èn hoor dat we een koude winter hebben gehad. Ik heb dat niet zo ervaren. Even gekeken wat mijn warmtepomp ervan vond, die stemt zijn stookgedrag.af op de gemeten buitentemperatuur.
Ik neem een ruime winter, van 1 oktober t/m 31 maart.
24/25: 1563 kWh.
Nu: 1510 kWh
De afgelopen winter was dus iets minder koud dan de winter ervoor, iets, in elk geval op het paadje naast de schuur, waar de temperatuur gemeten wordt. De verdere instellingen van de warmtepomp zijn ge…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Gits:
🎵 Whirlwind
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/whirlwind-2024-remaster
🛠️ Comparing C/C unity build with regular build on a large codebase (2024)
#programming
Meerjungfrau - Mermaid, Copenhagen, Denmark 2024 by me
#meermittwoch
«Von 500 auf 5.000 MByte — Windows-Updates werden immer größer
Seit September 2024 sind Updates in Windows 11 um den Faktor 10 gewachsen. Das liegt am Betriebssystem selbst, aber auch an Microsofts KI.»
Sorry, wirklich nötig für ein Betriebssystem ist dies nun nicht aber dies für die unnötige Datenüberwachung (KI) die als nötig deklariert wird.
😒
Der #Primärenergiebedarf für Strom ist 2024 erstmals unter 1 Kilowattstunde pro Kilowattstunde gesunken.
Der sogenannte „nichterneuerbare kumulierte Energieverbrauch“ (KEVne) liegt bei 0,92 und zeigt die steigende #Energieeffizienz im deutschen Strommix.
Gründe …
But first, needed to walk to nearby grocery store to buy a malbec. Opted for the San Uberto 2024 because it was the cheapest. But also got a bottle of Cordero Con Piel De Lobo 2025 for me, not the flies, because I liked the label. #wine #swarthmore #alcohol
A case study of using AI to aid election coverage at Bay City News, starting in 2024 and refining later, aiming to reduce journalists' manual, repetitive tasks (Ciara Zavala/Local News Matters)
https://localnewsmatters.org/2026/04/2
And here the crappy external camera with the low data rate actually delivered: the #ZodiacalLight pyramid at the beginning of the #SolarEclipse for #ArtemisII - it stayed visible in the live feed for 10 minutes! Contrary to the NASA commentary this was not the first time such an observation had been made by humans in the vicinity of the Moon - the Apollo 11 crew made it on 19 July 1969: https://www.facebook.com/dan.fischer.393/posts/pfbid02mf6UK3L2j5SgPiQsJk9JVYmo6XvZwDDZ23BYpXwJPDszaSpUYzuinkMyHzh9RF8Rl -> https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2024/07/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-juli-2024/#Jul26
It Can Now Be Plainly Said:
Trump Is Planning a November Coup d’État
During the campaign, it was kind of hard to picture the specifics of how Trump might pull such a thing off.
Alas, it’s getting less hypothetical by the week.
Back in 2024, Kamala Harris and the Democrats struggled to convince voters that a second Donald Trump term would constitute a serious threat to democracy.
We can debate the effectiveness of her, and their, rhetoric.
But on a cert…
Öffentlichkeitsfahndung nach mehrfacher Volksverhetzung
„Im Zeitraum vom 19. April 2024 bis 11. März 2025 wurden von einem bislang noch unbekannten Mann handgeschriebene Karten mit rassistischem und ausländerfeindlichem Inhalt in mehrere Briefkästen in Mehrparteienhäuser, überwiegend in den Ortsteilen Walle und Überseestadt, geworfen.“
Has anyone else noticed that procurement/supply chain people have gotten more aggressive in the past few years? I've had to deal with a string of mean ones since 2024. The one I'm currently dealing with reminds me of Lydia from Breaking Bad.
Österreichische Netzbetreiber sperren bei ihren #DNS bestimmte Domains auf Begehren behaupteter Rechteinhaber. Die Regulierunsbehörde hat überprüft, ob das rechtens ist, und ist Ende 2024 zu dem Schluss gekommen, dass die
"vorgenommenen DNS-Zugangssperren zu den Domains
„megakino.rip“, „megakino.biz“, „megakino.ink“, „megakino.men“, „megakino.me“ und
„megakino.ws“ keinen Verstoß…
Cerebras files to go public on Nasdaq and reports $510M in 2025 revenue, up 76% YoY, with a net income of $87.9M, up from a $485M net loss in 2024 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/17/cerebras-new-ipo-ai-chips.html
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: First Night
Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto and Beethoven's 5th Symphony. Featuring the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sophie Bevan, Isata Kanneh-Mason, the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002v1rh
Trump describes Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer whose 2024 Paris Olympics match became a flashpoint in the transgender athlete debate, as a man who transitioned to womanhood.
-- She was not.
Khelif is a woman who was assigned female at birth. The entire anecdote, used to justify policy, rests on a lie.
Similarly, Trump claims that Somali-Americans in Minnesota have 94% unemployment.
-- The actual labor force participation rate for that community is approximately 70% …
The levels of victimhood demonstrated by the "strudel studio" author charging $49 per year for the free/open source @… project, wrapped in their closed source editor plugin and abusing the (unregistered) strudel trademark with zero prior engagement with the community.
At this point if I looked I'd probably find many more similar projects an…
I bought those very same memory sticks for €130 in October 2024. Now they are being sold for €510. The motherboard that I ordered alongside this RAM cost €212, the same motherboard now being sold for €174.
One other thing that annoys me to no end is that AMD recently worked with Sony to bring FSR 4.1 INT8 to PlayStation, but also AMD won't even acknowledge the existence of FSR 4.0.2 INT8, let alone deliver it officially, for PC GPUs that they released 2-3 years ago.
@… I have found some forum posts that confirm the above. EagleFiler 1.x requires Rosetta 2.
I also read that a 2.0 version is in the works since late 2024. No further updates since though.
Donald Trump’s illegal war in Iran is so unpopular, his own former spokesperson is calling him out.
During an appearance on Fox News Monday night, #Caroline #Sunshine pointed to a statement from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine,
who said that the United States could “expect to take additional los…
Schöne Manifestation meines genossenschaftlichen Engagements.
🤍🤎🏴☠️🏳️🌈
#FCSP2024 #StPauli #genossenschaft
Sygaldry, which wants to design AI data center servers that integrate quantum hardware and classical chips, raised a $34M seed and a $105M Series A (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/14/exclusive-chad-rig…
Filing: Netflix plans a $25B share buyback, adding to a Dec. 2024 program that still has $6.8B for purchases; NFLX is down 13% since its Q1 earnings on April 16 (Amy Thomson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
In The Lechtal Alps (2024)
Previously (same valley):
#MountainMonday
Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 21.04.2026.
412 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…
NFL Draft prospect Rueben Bain Jr. involved in fatal car accident in 2024, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-draft-prospect-rueben-bain-jr-fatal-car-accident/
Filing: TKO Group CEO Ari Emanuel's pay package in 2025 was $67.3M, up from $18.1M in 2024, and President Mark Shapiro's compensation hit $42.6M, up from $31.9M (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 15.04.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Elbow:
🎵 Lovers' Leap (6 Music Session, 27 Mar 2024)
#Elbow
https://audiovertigoexplicit.bandcamp.com/track/lovers-leap
https://open.spotify.com/track/79MLUDVaih5Rck23zNOUJg
POL-WL: Verkehrsunfallstatistik der Polizeiinspektion Harburg für das Jahr 2025 Buchholz (ots) - Verkehrsunfallstatistik der Polizeiinspektion Harburg für das Jahr 2025 Im Jahr 2025 erfasste die Polizei im Landkreis Harburg 6974 Verkehrsunfälle, das sind 56 Unfälle weniger als im Vorjahr (Vergleichszahlen des Vorjahres 2024 ... https://www.
Hoher Peißenberg (September 2024)
(From my series In The Lands Of Via Claudia Augusta, the ancient and most important Roman road through the Alps which connected the Po Valley in the south with Augsburg and the Danube as northern terminus)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 15.04.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1290226 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
A U.S. appeals court has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring poster-sized displays of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms to take effect
The six judges who voted against the decision wrote a series of dissents,
with some arguing that the law exposes children to government-endorsed religion in a place they are required to be,
presenting a clear constitutional burden
Circuit Judge James L. Dennis, an appointee of Democratic President Bill Clinton,…