Tootfinder

A look at Quincy, a rural Washington farming town of 8,500 that benefited from a data center boom as its poverty rate fell from 29.4% in 2012 to 6.2% in 2024 (Nathaniel Meyersohn/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/08/11/business/data-centers-ai-economy

‘Brand-new everything’: How data centers transformed this small town’s economy
A $15 million aquatic center with a six-lane pool, waterslides and a lazy river opened in Quincy, Washington, a few weeks ago.

from my link log —
Shortcat: Manipulate macOS masterfully, minus the mouse.
https://shortcat.app/
saved 2024-06-06 https://dotat.at/:/PB30H.html

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Bluesky was one of the bigger beneficiaries of the exodus from Elon Musk’s X in November 2024,
following the U.S. elections.
But now, nearly two years later, the social network and would-be X competitor is struggling to hold on to its momentum.
According to data from digital intelligence provider Similarweb,
Bluesky’s mobile app had 10.4 million monthly active users worldwide in June 2026,
-- down 27.2% year-over-year.
In addition, mobile daily active us…

Bluesky’s active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app | TechCrunch
Over a year following its post-election surge, Bluesky’s mobile app is seeing a continued decline in active users, though its remaining community is still relatively engaged.

July was the second warmest on record globally, tied with 2024, and just behind 2023.
The global average temperature for July 2026 was 16.90°C, 0.67°C above the 1991-2020 average for July and 1.47°C above the estimated pre-industrial average for the month.
From https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-

Inducing lucid dreaming with multisensory stimulation: a preregistered multi-center study #SSILD

Doch wieder kostenlos: Der PIN-Rücksetzdienst für Online-Ausweis ist zurück
Wer die PIN für den E-Perso verlegt hat, konnte die seit 2024 nicht mehr zurücksetzen lassen, ohne ins Bürgeramt zu gehen. Das ist jetzt wieder möglich.

Doch wieder kostenlos: Der PIN-Rücksetzdienst für Online-Ausweis ist zurück
Wer die PIN für den E-Perso verlegt hat, konnte die seit 2024 nicht mehr zurücksetzen lassen, ohne ins Bürgeramt zu gehen. Das ist jetzt wieder möglich.

Trump bereichert sich, weil es „niemanden interessiert" – und baut Kontrolle gegen Wissenschaft, Justiz und Kritiker auf. Musk, Kushner, Palantir: Geld und Überwachung verschmelzen zu einem System. Midterms? 2016, 2024 lehren: nicht zu früh freuen.
#Trump #Palantir

PhD Research Plan Sketch (2024) - An outline plan for research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research -

PhD Research Plan Sketch (2024)
An outline plan for research into optimising UK domestic wet heating system retrofit. #PhD #heating #research

from my link log —
Performance culture.
http://joeduffyblog.com/2016/04/10/performance-culture/
saved 2024-06-01 https://

Aaron Donald works out for Rams as he eyes potential return to NFL https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7495221/2026/08/05/aaron-donald-rams-tryout-retirement/

👻 #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.

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. @…

I love Debian

Sources detail Intel's turnaround under Lip-Bu Tan as AI demand for CPUs boosts business; Intel's deal to make Arm's AI data center chip fell through in 2024 (Michael Acton/Financial Times)

Why I recommend #Renovate over any other dependency update tools
https://www.jvt.me/posts/2024/04/12/use-renovate/

When the University of Minnesota (UMN) extended an offer to historian Raz Segal
to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in June 2024,
it did so upon the near-unanimous recommendation of a committee of academics after a rigorous search process.
The scholars had enthusiastically praised Segal, with one committee member describing a presentation he gave as “breathtaking”.
But five days after making the offer, the university abruptly withdrew it,
citi…

An Israeli professor lost a prestigious US job offer after speaking out on Gaza. Now the university is paying him $250,000
The University of Minnesota withdrew an offer for Raz Segal to lead its Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies after an organized campaign against his hiring

The DoJ claims up to 250k registered voters in CA NV NJ PA are non-citizens. If that's true and they're all in CA and they all vote and they all vote the same way, that could swing a vote by 1.1-1.6% (CA has 23.2M registered voters; 16.1M voted in 2024). CA has no senate races this cycle and the Dem gubernatorial candidate leads the polls by 16.1%.
CA has 48h to validate the list—an impossible task.
"I have serious doubts about the reliability of your data and accuracy of your claims, since my office has not shared our statewide voter registration list with DHS or any other federal agency or official," [CA Secretary of State] Weber said …
The Republican administration claimed Nevada had 1,500 noncitizen voters on its voter rolls. But after the federal government identified them to the state, the number of actual registered noncitizens turned out to be zero.
#USpol

Pass dal Güglia
Sep 29, 2024
Sep 28, 2026
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography

ZeroHeight readers should be aware AudioEye is a litigious company that sues detractors:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/01/audioeye-has-dropped-its-suit-against-me.html
They should also know its overlay never worked, a signal its services are p…

#AudioEye Has Dropped Its Suit Against Me
AudioEye has dropped its lawsuit against me as part of a settlement agreement. The specific legal details are at the end of this post. Index for this post: Joint Statement Impact, Abridged SLAPP Everybody Lost Legal Details Wrap-up Related CAO Hire: 8 February 2024 Talk References (Added 7 July 2024)…

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.
toXiv_bot_toot

Donald Trump’s legal team is making an 11th-hour attempt to block a court order
that would grant the BBC access to the president’s financial records,
as part of his multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the British broadcaster.
Trump claims that the BBC’s 2024 documentary on the January 6 attacks have damaged the president’s business interests.
In July, a Miami-based judge ruled that the president would have to start handing over detailed financial records to the BBC b…

Trump team pushes to block court order giving BBC access to financial records
President has sued the broadcaster for $10bn, claiming a documentary on 2021 Capitol attack led to financial harm

Finally caught up with this two-year-old archive (🫣).
It'sage isn't relevant, as it talks about things that are unlikely to change: Your data is only yours if you also have it on physical media in your possession. (And stored there in open formats.)
Because services will come and go, promises will be forgotten, data loss will not cause more than a shy "sorry". Especially for free online services, but it also happens for paid services.

The US DOJ and TikTok reach a $400M settlement to resolve allegations TikTok violated COPPA; the DOJ filed the lawsuit in 2024 (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/21/doj-tiktok-biden-lawsuit-settlement

Scoop: DOJ, TikTok settle for $400 million in children's privacy suit
The settlement ends a lawsuit filed by the Biden administration.

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).

Canadian national Connor Moucka pleads guilty to participating in the 2024 Snowflake hacks involving data theft from at least 165 companies, including AT&T (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/guilty-plea-snowflake-hack-connor-riley-moucka…

Canadian man pleads guilty to Snowflake hacks that led to 165 breaches
A 26-year-old from Ontario faces as many as 32 years in prison after pleading guilty to fraud, identity theft and conspiracy charges related to the 2024 hacks of cloud platform Snowflake.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

"Ørsted turns on 500 MWh battery project with co-located solar in Texas"
#US #USA #America #Teax

Ørsted turns on 500 MWh battery project with co-located solar in Texas - pv magazine Global
The Old 300 Storage project has reached commercial operations and is now fully integrated with the ERCOT grid, using made-in-America Tesla battery energy storage systems (BESS). It is co-located with a 430 MW solar project that was switched on in 2024.

Washington’s battleground 3rd District is a high priority for both parties.
The district went for President Trump in 2024 while reelecting moderate Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.
Gluesenkamp Perez, a centrist who was first elected narrowly in 2022 and has made a name for herself by sometimes breaking with her party,
successfully fended off primary challengers on Tuesday to advance to the November ballot.
Republican Braun, a retired Navy captain, won the other sp…

POL-LG: Erfolgreicher Schlag gegen international agierende Rauschgifthändler Lüneburg (ots) - Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung der Staatsanwaltschaft Stade und der Zentralen Kriminalinspektion Lüneburg Bei der ZKI Lüneburg wurde unter Sachleitung der Staatsanwaltschaft Stade seit Oktober 2024 ein Ermittlungsverfahren wegen der ... https://www.

Study: Palantir's European units made €440.5M in 2024 revenue but reported sharply lower margins than its US operations, helping cut its European tax bill (Antoaneta Roussi/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/palantir-funnels-earnings-us-avoids-e…

Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds
A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.

Titans waive QB Will Levis, ending 3-year tenure with franchise: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7550710/2026/08/30/will-levis-titans-waive-nfl/

In Nevada, Republicans are seeking to flip a southern Clark County district that covers part of Las Vegas.
Democratic Rep. Susie Lee,
who won reelection in 2024 as Trump carried the district,
faces Republican Marty O’Donnell,
who won Trump’s backing.
The race is rated as competitive by Cook, with a “lean Democratic” rating that very slightly favors Lee;
Republicans hope strong turnout in support of Nevada GOP Gov. Joe Lombardo,
who is up for reele…

Meet Susie - Susie Lee for Congress

We're approaching three years since October 7 and three years of genocide in Gaza.
Israeli killings of Palestinians had totally detached from attacks on Israelis by mid-2024.
Even if one treated all hostage deaths as happening in 2025, the ratio was 144-to-1.

Author of DNC's 2024 "autopsy" says he concluded Gaza war hurt Harris (Holly Otterbein/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/08/06/dnc-2024-autopsy-author-gaza
http://www.memeorandum.com/260806/p129#a260806p129

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

This post gets regular inline updates:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/04/what-you-can-do-as-a-web-builder-on-earth-day.html
Today I added a Nature article, the Web Sustainability Guidelines Impact Ratings, and the Carbon in Context calcula…

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…

The Western states hold four of the nation’s
18 toss-up races as rated by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
Two are for Republican-held seats in Arizona,
both in districts that Trump carried narrowly in 2024,
and both top targets of Democrats.
In an open Phoenix-area district,
Democrat Amish Shah,
a physician and former state lawmaker,
faces Republican Jay Feely,
a Trump-endorsed former NFL player.

Amish for Arizona

(2024) Vision without photoreceptors: Crossmodal perception within the blind spots https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2800902 "Participants reported strong illusory percepts within their blind spots, as well as in visible locations", "audition…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1488280 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

from my link log —
A history of Psion and Symbian.
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/of-psion-and-symbian
saved 2024-06-23 https://

Of Psion and Symbian
Mobile before iOS and Android

An investigation reveals Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4B as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion operation since May 2024 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ill

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Die #Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen #Gasheizungen

Mythos: „Die Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen Gasheizungen“
Wärmepumpen auf dem Vormarsch: Warum der angebliche Einbruch 2024 in Wahrheit kein Rückgang war – Marktanteil im Faktencheck.

Democrats are seeing positive signs in a South Texas congressional seat that looked, on paper, like one of the harder places for the party to win back in 2026.
Democrat Bobby Pulido leads Republican Representative Monica De La Cruz in Texas’ 15th Congressional District, according to a new House Majority PAC-sponsored poll, conducted by Normington Petts and Associates, and shared with Newsweek on August 4.
Donald Trump carried the redrawn district by nearly 18 points in 2024,

Democrats Favored to Flip Texas House Seat Trump Won by 18 Points
A new poll has put Democrat Bobby Pulido ahead of Republican incumbent Monica De La Cruz in Texas’ 15th Congressional District.

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

Za'Darius Smith coming out of retirement to join Falcons: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7516962/2026/08/18/zadarius-smith-falcons-signing/

from my link log —
ChatGPT is bullshit.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5
saved 2024-06-29 https://

ChatGPT is bullshit - Ethics and Information Technology
Recently, there has been considerable interest in large language models: machine learning systems which produce human-like text and dialogue. Applications of these systems have been plagued by persistent inaccuracies in their output; these are often called “AI hallucinations”. We argue that these falsehoods, and the overall activity of large language models, is better understood as bullshit in the sense explored by Frankfurt (On Bullshit, Princeton, 2005): the models are in an important way…

African defense tech company Terra Industries, founded in 2024, raised a $52M seed round from 8VC and others, and says it's on track to book $100M in contracts (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/17/terr

Terra Industries closes $52M seed round to build defense infrastructure for the Global South | TechCrunch
African defense tech company Terra Industries announced an additional $18 million in funding, bringing its seed round to $52 million.

On May 2, 2024, Arizona governor Katie Hobbs signed a bill to repeal a near-total abortion ban from 1864 that the Arizona Supreme Court had reinstated on April 9, 2024.
The ban was not enforced by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, and the repeal took effect on September 14, 2024.
As a result of 2024 Arizona Proposition 139, the Arizona constitution codifies legal abortion up to the point of fetal viability

Arizona voters approve amendment enshrining abortion rights in state constitution
NBC News projects the constitutional amendment has won enough votes to pass. It’s one of 10 pro-abortion rights measures on the ballot across the country Tuesday.

Deshaun Watson doesn't 'care' whether Browns fans boo him during preseason game https://www.nfl.com/news/deshaun-watson-doesnt-care-browns-fans-boo-him

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Nubya Garcia:
🎵 Clarity (6 Music Session, 2 Oct 2024)
#NubyaGarcia
https://nubyagarcia.bandcamp.com/track/clarity-outerlude
https://open.spotify.com/track/3gvSk09m7tUz3hUa8BCrqF

China's National Data Administration says the country's daily AI token consumption hit 140T in March 2026, up from 100T in December 2025 and 100B in early 2024 (Minxiao Chang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/arti

Insert token: how China’s surging AI use is turning compute into currency
As the cost of running AI models continues to drop, the token economy is reshaping ecosystems far beyond corporate cubicles.

Gas prices were a staple of GOP ads in 2024. Now it's Democrats' turn. (Jessica Piper/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/19/gas-prices-midterms-affordability-ads-01041175
http://www.memeorandum.com/260819/p9#a260819p9

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Royel Otis:
🎵 If Our Love Is Dead (6 Music Session, 3 Dec 2024)
#RoyelOtis
https://open.spotify.com/track/1x1zGuT83cK1gDYZzCSVrk

Straks om 2015 op Das Erste, maar al te zien in de ardmediathek.de:
#Tatort: Roomservice - #ARD #SWR #crimi #krimi #Sonntagskrimi

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Shabaka Hutchings:
🎵 Living (6 Music Session, 11 May 2024)
#ShabakaHutchings

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Lava La Rue:
🎵 LOVEBITES (6 Music Session, 15 Jul 2024)
#LavaLaRue
https://lavalarue.bandcamp.com/track/lovebites
https://open.spotify.com/track/1S0pfbAf3gyE4IksFF3mmw

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
beabadoobee:
🎵 Take A Bite (6 Music Session, 9 Jul 2024)
#beabadoobee
https://sonicgazer.bandcamp.com/track/take-a-bite-beabadoobee-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GClDyMiSLrpzjzwIfWRIa

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
MJ Lenderman:
🎵 Wristwatch (6 Music Session, 10 Dec 2024)
#MJLenderman
https://mjlenderman.bandcamp.com/track/wristwatch
https://open.spotify.com/track/4j2DQgFAyVuKOBFpq4vEPR