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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

A Playbook for Newsrooms: Revolutionizing Election Coverage with AI Part II
Our Goal In the fast-evolving landscape of AI, we saw an opportunity to revolutionize local election coverage in our newsroom by reducing manual,

#TIL: "Anders als arabischer Text, der von rechts nach links gelesen wird, liest man die #arabisch​e Brailleschrift gemäß den internationalen Konventionen von links nach rechts."
– aus dem newsletter 4/2026 des @…

“What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day”
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
Updated just this morning.

What You Can Do as a Web Builder on Earth Day
One easy thing you can do for the earth is not use “AI” tools. Consider this as a programmer, web developer, web designer, copywriter, webmaster, etc. The tools include anything branded as generative AI, LLMs, computer vision tools, Copilot, ChatGPT, Bard, Grok, Dall-e, Midjourney, and so on. If you are…

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 21.04.2026.
412 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

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

AI chipmaker Cerebras set to file for IPO as soon as today
Through the public offering, Cerebras could be worth three times more than what it was in a 2025 funding round, one person said.

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…

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.“

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

Ari Emanuel’s TKO Pay Rises to $67.3 Million
The owner of UFC and WWE released its annual proxy filing Thursday, with Dwayne Johnson also receiving $900,000 for the use of his 'Rock' IP.

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,…

Court clears way for Louisiana law requiring Ten Commandments in classrooms to take effect
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has cleared the way for a Louisiana law requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms to take effect. The full court voted 12-6 to lift a block placed on the law that a lower court first issued in 2024. In the opinion released Friday, the court said it was too early to make a judgment call on the constitutionality of the law. But the six judges who voted against the decision wrote a series of dissents, some saying that the law exposes chil…

🔊 #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

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…

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

In The Lechtal Alps (2024)
Previously (same valley):
#MountainMonday

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!
/2

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…

Exclusive: Chad Rigetti’s Sygaldry raises $139 million to bring quantum hardware to AI data centers
Sygaldry is the company Chad Rigetti cofounded in 2024 after leaving Rigetti Computing.

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:

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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Nia Archives:
🎵 Crowded Roomz
#NiaArchives
https://futurerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/lalkara-crowded-roomz-diljit-dosanjh-nia-archives-welcome-to-future-2-drum-bass-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JH3rxj9e7cY8T1QFgr5mQ

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.

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/

»Ransomware-Angriffe in der DACH-Region steigen deutlich:
Die Bedrohung durch Ransomware wächst weiter. Kaspersky registrierte 2025 in Deutschland 384 Angriffe – ein deutlicher Anstieg im Vergleich zu 233 im Jahr 2024.«
Betreffen kann dies uns alle aber das min die E-Mails kryptografisch signiert sind wenn nicht verschlüsselt, wäre ein Punkt mehr für mehr Sicherheit und setzt nicht blind ua auf Microschrott.
🔓

Ransomware-Angriffe in der DACH-Region steigen deutlich
Die Bedrohung durch Ransomware wächst weiter. Kaspersky registrierte 2025 in Deutschland 384 Angriffe – ein deutlicher Anstieg im Vergleich zu 233 im Jahr 2024.

Schöne Manifestation meines genossenschaftlichen Engagements.
🤍🤎🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈
#FCSP2024 #StPauli #genossenschaft

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…

SP26 Party Profile: Scottish Greens
Currently headed for their best result in history, even accounting for a history of underperforming against polling, the Greens may become a truly national party for the first time this year.

Eating Steak, potatoes, salad, this wine, and watching the Splashdown of Artemis II
#artemis2 #nasa #splashdown

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

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…

Trump’s Iran brinkmanship reaches truce, escalates backlash at home
The president’s ultimatum drew condemnation across the political spectrum and intensified open debate about his credibility, morality and sanity.

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…

2024-25 COVID vaccine 80% effective against death, CDC estimates:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/2024-25-covid-vaccine-80-effective-against-death-cdc-estimates

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)

Don’t Use Web•dev for Accessibility Info
Web.dev is a site from Google Chrome developer relations that provides content both to evangelize Chrome and to more broadly support the web platform. Rachel Andrew’s monthly “new to the platform” posts are effectively required reading to try to stay abreast of the browser support landscape. However, the accessibility content…

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.

Concerns over "apparent move towards lifting the arms licences to Israel that it suspended in September 2024, and the reported transfer of new F-35 fighter jets from a British air base."
While the killing continues.
‘Frankly shameful’ | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/articl

🛠️ Comparing C/C unity build with regular build on a large codebase (2024)
#programming

🇺🇦 #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

Bolivian cities have become dramatically less Indigenous across the board between 2001 and 2024.

2023–2024 El Niño triggered record-breaking sea level spike along African coastlines, study finds #Africa

2023–2024 El Niño triggered record-breaking sea level spike along African coastlines, study finds
Africa's coastlines are under growing threat as sea levels climb faster than ever, driven by decades of global warming caused by human activity, natural climate cycles, and warming ocean waters. Between 2009 and 2024, the continent experienced a 73% increase in sea-level rise, according to a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment.

"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."

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:

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

Meerjungfrau - Mermaid, Copenhagen, Denmark 2024 by me
#meermittwoch

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

Cash-strapped AI chip startup Hailo sees valuation halved to under $500 million ahead of urgent IPO
Israeli firm seeks critical funding through a SPAC merger amid mounting market pressures.

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
The Gits:
🎵 Whirlwind
#TheGits
https://thegits.bandcamp.com/track/whirlwind-2024-remaster

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/

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

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

Mineralogical Society of America (@mineralsocamerica.bsky.social)
American Mineralogist: Myrmekite and antiperthite formation in deformed granite: Chemical and crystallographic constraints on formation mechanisms Yueting Song, Thomas A. Griffiths, Shanrong Zhao, and Rainer Abart https://doi.org/10.2138/am-2024-9715

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 ...

👻 #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

Energiewende-Mythos: „Erneuerbare Energien sind die teuersten“
2024 stammt der meiste Strom in Deutschland aus erneuerbaren Energien – und sie sind günstiger als Kohle oder Gas. Fakten statt Mythen.

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

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

Tech Publications Lost 58% of Google Traffic Since 2024 | Growtika
We tracked the organic search traffic of CNET, Wired, The Verge, TechRadar, and six others from early 2024 to today. Combined, they lost 63 million monthly visits.

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% …

Texas Democrats taste victory,
then turn on each other
Texas Democrats rejoiced Saturday after they flipped a state Senate seat
in a district that Donald Trump carried in 2024 by 17 percentage points,
hailing it as a burst of momentum for the midterms in the historically red state.

But they received a stark reminder of their own divides days later
when former Democratic congressman #Colin

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 …

Kennzahl für Primärenergie sinkt weiter
Deutschlands Stromproduktion wird effizienter: Primärenergiekennzahl erstmals unter 1 – ein Meilenstein für Energiewende und CO₂-Reduktion.

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…

Former Trump Spokeswoman Turns on Him Over Iran War
Caroline Sunshine, who was a spokeswoman for Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, is not thrilled with his recent decisions.

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…

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Gossip:
🎵 Heavy Cross ( Live At 6 Music Festival, 2024 )
#Gossip
https://therockidz.bandcamp.com/track/gossip-heavy-cross-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/4N6R6yqkFUTyF3AYOdR0T7