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Das Ende des Thirty Meter Telescopes? – US-Kongress soll kein Geld mehr geben
2024 hat die National Science Foundation erklärt, dass das Geld nur für ein US-Riesenteleskop reicht. Nun soll das Thirty Meter Telescope leer ausgehen.

Offenbar ist #Brandenburg mit Tesla noch nicht genug gestraft. Amazon will auch was vom Wasser.
Und nein, mit 'Souveränität' hat es nichts zu tun, wenn einer von Trumps Buddys hier mehr Geld verdienen will.
Ort ist noch geheim: Internet, kriegen wir das raus?
Amazon will als Cloud-Anbieter 8 Milliarden Euro in Brandenburg investieren | rbb24

from my link log —
Making a compiler to prove tmux Is Turing complete.
https://willhbr.net/2024/03/15/making-a-compiler-to-prove-tmux-is-turing-complete/
saved 2025-08-01

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 02.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

It's amazing to me that people continue to look back at 2024 and angrily blame muslims,non-voters, & leftists for the overwhelming win by Trump. It must be nice to be able to completely ignore reality and learn nothing.
https://www.

Behind Trump’s 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition
Pew Research Center’s in-depth study of its survey respondents who voted in the 2024 election examines turnout, voting patterns and demographics.

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

Chiefs' Rashee Rice says he is 'completely changed' after felony hit-and-run conviction, jail sentencing

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-

The transformative capability of quantum-accurate machine learning interatomic potentials
Alfredo A. Correa, Sebastien Hamel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02328

The transformative capability of quantum-accurate machine learning interatomic potentials
Many materials's properties and phase boundaries are generally not well known under extreme pressure and temperature conditions. This is a consequence of the scarcity of experimental information and the difficulty of extrapolating approximations to the atomic interactions in such conditions. Nguyen-Cong and colleagues, in their publication (J.Phys.Chem.Lett. 15, 1152 (2024)), achieved an impressive result using a SNAP (Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential), an interatomic potential for carbon o…

How-To Use My Release Page – Fun Features #indiemusic #music #originalmusic

How-To Use My Release Page - Fun Features
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Plastik-futternde Pilze:
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/plastic-eating-fungi-could-be-glimmer-hope-cutting-ocean-pollution-2024-08-08/
🍄‍🟫

Miami-based MyPrize, which offers free-to-play social games in the US and crypto games elsewhere, raised $21M at a $250M valuation, taking total raised to $38M (Fiona Simmons/GamblingNews)
https://www.gamblingnews.com/news/myprize-secures-21m-from-in…

MyPrize Secures $21M from Investors, Eyes Further Growth
MyPrize, which launched in 2024, has just closed its latest funding round, securing $21 million from its investors.

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-advertising-chief-taz-patel-departs/

EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
Perplexity’s push into advertising has so far brought in modest revenue as the company eyes new growth and faces mounting legal challenges

from my link log —
UK Online Safety Act Notes for small sites.
https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
saved 2024-12-17

Today I'll introduce you to the last and oldest sibling of our stray cat offspring: this is Nele, born on May 31st, 2024. As her siblings and her mother, she still lives on our property. #caturday #catcontent

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
Subham Bhakta, Igor E. Shparlinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00325 https://

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
A discrete model of quantum ergodicity of linear maps generated by symplectic matrices $A \in \mathrm{Sp}(2d,\mathbb{Z})$ modulo an integer $N\ge 1$, has been studied for $d=1$ and almost all $N$ by P. Kurlberg and Z. Rudnick (2001). Their result has been strengthened by J. Bourgain (2005) and subsequently by A. Ostafe, I. E. Shparlinski, and J. F. Voloch (2023). For arbitrary $d$ this has been studied by P. Kurlberg, A. Ostafe, Z. Rudnick and I. E. Shparlinski (2024). The corresponding equidis…

Heather Honey,
a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election,
has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
in which she’ll help oversee the nation’s election infrastructure.
Honey is a protege of Cleta Mitchell,
a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results.
In 2024, ProPublica reported that Honey had played a key role in Mitchell’s behind-the-scenes effort to change Georgia’…

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

Wow, een jaar lang geen verkeersdoden in Helsinki. Laat dat een voorbeeld zijn voor @… (15 doden in 2022, de laatste cijfers) @… (9 doden in 2024) en andere steden.

A systematic review of research on large language models for computer programming education
Meina Zhu, Lanyu Xu, Barbara Ericson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21818

A systematic review of research on large language models for computer programming education
Given the increasing demands in computer programming education and the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), LLMs play a critical role in programming education. This study provides a systematic review of selected empirical studies on LLMs in computer programming education, published from 2023 to March 2024. The data for this review were collected from Web of Science (SCI/SSCI), SCOPUS, and EBSCOhost databases, as well as three conference proceedings specialized in computer programm…

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record #Svalbard

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record
Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago that is technically a part of Norway, lies about halfway between the northernmost part of Norway and the North Pole. Currently, about 60% of Svalbard's surface is covered in glaciers, but these glaciers are melting rapidly. During the summer of 2024, Svalbard experienced a record-breaking heat wave that melted more of its glaciers than ever before.

Sin noticias de la línea C-9 Cercedilla-Cotos: la renovación, paralizada 🚞
Gracias a @… por su labor de investigación, y por reportar algo que estš pasando desapercibido en los medios...
Espero que lo arreglen antes del invierno ☃️
#MovilidadSostenible

Will Compute Bottlenecks Prevent an Intelligence Explosion?
Parker Whitfill, Cheryl Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23181 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23181

Will Compute Bottlenecks Prevent an Intelligence Explosion?
The possibility of a rapid, "software-only" intelligence explosion brought on by AI's recursive self-improvement (RSI) is a subject of intense debate within the AI community. This paper presents an economic model and an empirical estimation of the elasticity of substitution between research compute and cognitive labor at frontier AI firms to shed light on the possibility. We construct a novel panel dataset for four leading AI labs (OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, and DeepSeek) from 2014 to 2024 an…

Hey! We just came back from a nice afterwork cycling.
Currently we do an hour of easy cycling every day.
Especially after work it really a blessing.
As I'm STILL behind with the recent trips I just browsed the archives for some beautiful memories of a hike last year.
This trail doesn't offer epic vistas but the trail itself is just a gem.
The blog:

As @pluralistic writes here, “the American right is a brittle coalition:”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
We imagine the right as monolithic at our peril. Reply guys love, love, love to lecture me about how These People are all the same. Here’s the thing: they are not, and imagining they are is self-defeating. The right has been •incredibly• effective at finding fracture points on the left and jamming a crowbar into them. It’s time we did the same.
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Stellt euch vor: Ein Asteroid schlägt auf dem Mond ein und ist von der Erde aus zu beobachten! 🌕💥
Genau dieses Szenario könnte am 22. Dezember 2032 Realität werden, wenn der Asteroid 2024 YR4 tatsächlich auf unserem Trabanten einschlägt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10457429

In Buffalo, the Chief of Narcotics and Intelligence for the Erie County Sheriff’s Office can plead guilty to hit-and-run in his county vehicle (while probably drink), intimidate a witness, collude with city police in a possible cover-up, and keep his job.
https://www.

ECSO chief pleads guilty, receives no jail time for string of hit-and-runs
Chief Daniel "DJ" Granville with the Erie County Sheriff's Office appeared in Buffalo City Court on Friday afternoon, according to Niagara County District Attorney Brian Seaman.

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Harrison Katz, Erica Savage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21298 https://ar…

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Using every U.S. Airbnb reservation created from 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2024, weighted by nights booked, we document a lasting shift toward longer stays after the COVID 19 shock. Mean nights per booking rose from 3.7 before the pandemic to a stable 4.1 to 4.4 after 2021; the median increased from two to three nights and the weighted standard deviation nearly doubled to seven nights, indicating a heavier tail. Negative binomial regression shows that, relative to the restriction perio…

from my link log —
strlcpy and how CPUs can defy common sense.
https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/cpu-vs-common-sense
saved 2024-07-25

El Paso heat deaths hit record highs in 2023 and 2024. Advocates say the most vulnerable people are left unprotected
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=fa4ac89bc1&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=72ef7d1ce0
> Get all…

A Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Parameters in Solar Source Regions of Halo-CMEs with and without SEP events
Xuchun Duan, Ting Li, Yijun Hou, Yang Wang, Yue Li, Yining Zhang, Zheng Sun, Guiping Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21907

A Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Parameters in Solar Source Regions of Halo-CMEs with and without SEP events
Large SEPs can cause adverse space weather hazard to humans technology and such events are especially associated with halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs). But in turn, a significant portion of halo-CMEs are not associated with large SEPs. The objective of this study is to gain an understanding of the source region distinctions between halo-CMEs in SEP and No-SEP events. Among the 176 halo-CMEs observed from 2010-2024, we screen out 45 large SEP events and 131 No-SEP events from this dataset. It …

Kurzes Erinnern an ein schweres 2024 – seitdem geht's wieder vorwärts. 💪🏻

This "service" is thanks to the numbskulls the Tories hired when they were still in power. Utter incompetence.

📢 Bundesverwaltungsgericht hebt Verbot des Compact-Magazins auf
Das rechtsextreme Magazin Compact kann weiter erscheinen. Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat das Verbot aufgehoben, das die damalige Bundesinnenministerin Faeser im Sommer 2024 erlassen hatte.
➡️ https://www.

Bundesverwaltungsgericht hebt Verbot des Compact-Magazins auf
Das rechtsextreme Magazin Compact kann weiter erscheinen. Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat das Verbot aufgehoben, das die damalige Bundesinnenministerin Faeser im Sommer 2024 erlassen hatte.

Average-case complexity in statistical inference: A puzzle-driven research seminar
Anastasia Kireeva, Afonso S. Bandeira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22182 h…

Average-case complexity in statistical inference: A puzzle-driven research seminar
These notes describe our experience with running a student seminar on average-case complexity in statistical inference using the jigsaw learning format at ETH Zurich in Fall of 2024. The jigsaw learning technique is an active learning technique where students work in groups on independent parts of the task and then reassemble the groups to combine all the parts together. We implemented this technique for the proofs of various recent research developments, combined with a presentation by one of …

The Composition of Digital Twins for Systems-of-Systems: a Systematic Literature Review
Mennatullah T. Khedr, John S. Fitzgerald
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20435

The Composition of Digital Twins for Systems-of-Systems: a Systematic Literature Review
Digital Twins (DTs) are increasingly used to model complex systems, especially in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and System-of-Systems (SoS), where effective integration is key. This systematic literature review investigates DT composition and verification and validation (V&V) methodologies. Analyzing 21 studies from 2022-2024, we examined composition mechanisms, SoS characteristics, and V&V formality, scope, and challenges. While composition is discussed, formalization is limited. V&V approaches…

APS Explorer: Navigating Algorithm Performance Spaces for Informed Dataset Selection
Tobias Vente, Michael Heep, Abdullah Abbas, Theodor Sperle, Joeran Beel, Bart Goethals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19399

APS Explorer: Navigating Algorithm Performance Spaces for Informed Dataset Selection
Dataset selection is crucial for offline recommender system experiments, as mismatched data (e.g., sparse interaction scenarios require datasets with low user-item density) can lead to unreliable results. Yet, 86\% of ACM RecSys 2024 papers provide no justification for their dataset choices, with most relying on just four datasets: Amazon (38\%), MovieLens (34\%), Yelp (15\%), and Gowalla (12\%). While Algorithm Performance Spaces (APS) were proposed to guide dataset selection, their adoption h…

Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding? https://weddingweiser.de/was-wurde-aus-dem-loch-vom-wedding/

Ende der Bauarbeiten absehbar: Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding?
Reparaturarbeiten an der Seestraße fast abgeschlossen In der Silvesternacht 2024 kam es im Wedding …

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
Khalid M. Saqr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21232 https://…

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
A 20-year analysis of CrossRef metadata demonstrates that global scholarly output -- encompassing publications, retractions, and preprints -- exhibits strikingly inertial growth, well-described by exponential, quadratic, and logistic models with nearly indistinguishable goodness-of-fit. Retraction dynamics, in particular, remain stable and minimally affected by the COVID-19 shock, which contributed less than 1% to total notices. Since 2004, publications doubled every 9.8 years, retractions ever…

Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT
Abdulkareem Alsudais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21825 https://

Exploring the change in scientific readability following the release of ChatGPT
The rise and growing popularity of accessible large language models have raised questions about their impact on various aspects of life, including how scientists write and publish their research. The primary objective of this paper is to analyze a dataset consisting of all abstracts posted on arXiv.org between 2010 and June 7th, 2024, to assess the evolution of their readability and determine whether significant shifts occurred following the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. Four standard re…

UK-based Yoto, whose screen-free speakers for kids play audiobooks and music, reports 2024 revenue up 86% YoY to £94.8M and expects to turn a profit in 2025 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fbd8dbbc-3b47-45d6-a380-1e973c61d903

Exploring the Design Space of 3D MLLMs for CT Report Generation
Mohammed Baharoon, Jun Ma, Congyu Fang, Augustin Toma, Bo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21535

Exploring the Design Space of 3D MLLMs for CT Report Generation
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged as a promising way to automate Radiology Report Generation (RRG). In this work, we systematically investigate the design space of 3D MLLMs, including visual input representation, projectors, Large Language Models (LLMs), and fine-tuning techniques for 3D CT report generation. We also introduce two knowledge-based report augmentation methods that improve performance on the GREEN score by up to 10\%, achieving the 2nd place on the MICCAI 2024 …

I still see no signs that indicate that the D-party has the ability to win seats in 2024 or win the presidency (or house or senate majority) in 2028.
I am perceiving the D-party eroding-itself away leaving individual candidates to run their own campaigns.
Although I am much in favor of the goals of much "identity" based campaign messaging I feel that emphasis on those has cost the progressive/liberal voice too many seats. Those messages, valid and important as they are…

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence (1)
https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/2641/2025/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p63#a250619p63

Stadt Bochum zeichnet sich selbst aus.
„Fortschritte für den Radverkehr: ADFC zeichnet Bochum aus
Die Stadt Bochum hat beim Fahrradklimatest 2024 des Allgemeinen Deutschen Fahrrad Clubs (ADFC) den ersten Platz in der Kategorie Aufholer erhalten.“
https://www.

Fortschritte für den Radverkehr: ADFC zeichnet Bochum aus | Stadt Bochum
Die Stadt Bochum hat beim Fahrradklimatest 2024 des Allgemeinen Deutschen Fahrrad Clubs (ADFC)  den ersten Platz in der Kategorie „Aufholer“ erhalten.

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Le\"ila Moueddene, Nikolaos G Fytas, Bertrand Berche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20084

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Since the landmark work of Lee and Yang, locating the zeros of the partition function in the complex magnetic-field plane has become a powerful method for studying phase transitions. Fisher later extended this approach to complex temperatures, and subsequent generalizations introduced other control parameters, such as the crystal field. In previous works [Moueddene et al, J. Stat. Mech. (2024) 023206; Phys. Rev. E 110, 064144 (2024)] we applied this framework to the two- and three-dimensional B…

Crash Landing
#HardRock #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/crash-landing-nowplaying…

Crash Landing #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Sometime last night, I walked over 2225 km for the year, putting me over my total walking distance for all of last year. Several more months to go!

"Applications of the Critical Incident Technique in Library and Information Science Research: A Literature Review" https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2024-0065

https://open.spotify.com/track/3bRBaAPIdMqP53D29w19d5?si=d153e732854f4b42

Control of pedestal-top electron density using RMP and gas puff at KSTAR
Minseok Kim, S. K. Kim, A. Rothstein, P. Steiner, K. Erickson, Y. H. Lee, H. Han, Sang-hee Hahn, J. W. Juhn, B. Kim, R. Shousha, C. S. Byun, J. Butt, ChangMin Shin, J. Hwang, Minsoo Cha, Hiro Farre, S. M. Yang, Q. Hu, D. Eldon, N. C. Logan, A. Jalalvand, E. Kolemen
https://

Control of pedestal-top electron density using RMP and gas puff at KSTAR
We report the experimental results of controlling the pedestal-top electron density by applying resonant magnetic perturbation with the in-vessel control coils and the main gas puff in the 2024-2025 KSTAR experimental campaign. The density is reconstructed using a parametrized psi_N grid and the five channels of the line-averaged density measured by a two-colored interferometer. The reconstruction procedure is accelerated by deploying a multi-layer perceptron to run in about 120 microseconds an…

Violent crimes dropped 4.5 percent in 2024, FBI says – despite Trump’s claims of out-of-control crime | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/trump-fbi-crime-statistics-2024-b2802577.html

#OTD 2024. Rotterdam.

Fair Data Exchange with Constant-Time Proofs
Majid Khabbazian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14944 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.14944

Fair Data Exchange with Constant-Time Proofs
The Fair Data Exchange (FDE) protocol introduced at CCS 2024 offers atomic pay-per-file transfers with constant-size proofs, but its prover and verifier runtimes still scale linearly with the file length n. We collapse these costs to essentially constant by viewing the file as a rate-1 Reed-Solomon (RS) codeword, extending it to a lower-rate RS code with constant redundancy, encrypting this extended vector, and then proving correctness for only a small random subset of the resulting ciphertexts…

"2025: A landmark year for solar energy"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

2025: A landmark year for solar energy
The IEA-PVPS 2025 Snapshot of Global PV Markets reveals a pivotal moment for solar power: global PV capacity surpassed 2.2 TW, with more than 600 GW installed in 2024 alone. As module prices fell due to oversupply, installation volumes continued to grow, highlighting both the strength and volatility of the global PV industry.

Die Union fordert Krankenhäuser effizienter zu machen. Ich hätte da eine ungewöhnliche Idee: könnten sich Krankenhäuser darauf konzentrieren, eine möglichst effektive Gesundheits­versorgung sicher zu stellen,¹ statt Gewinne machen zu müssen,² könnte das ganz entgegen der neoliberalen Lehre effizienter sein.
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¹z.B. in kommunaler Trägerschaft
²Asklepios Kliniken machte 2024 insgesamt 136 Millionen Euro, Fresenius Helios 772 Millionen Euro, usw, und diese Gewinne werden von un…

Superimposed DMRS for Spectrally Efficient 6G Uplink Multi-User OFDM: Classical vs AI/ML Receivers
Sajad Rezaie, Mikko Honkala, Dani Korpi, Dick Carrillo Melgarejo, Tomasz Izydorczyk, Dimitri Gold, Oana-Elena Barbu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20248

Superimposed DMRS for Spectrally Efficient 6G Uplink Multi-User OFDM: Classical vs AI/ML Receivers
Fifth-generation (5G) systems utilize orthogonal demodulation reference signals (DMRS) to enable channel estimation at the receiver. These orthogonal DMRS-also referred to as pilots-are effective in avoiding pilot contamination and interference from both the user's own data and that of others. However, this approach incurs a significant overhead, as a substantial portion of the time-frequency resources must be reserved for pilot transmission. Moreover, the overhead increases with the number of …

Fantasy Football 2025 draft day targets: Five rookies most likely to break out as league-winning picks

https://www.cbssports.com/fantas…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 373 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29627 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Leo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach in April 2024,
said he did not think a date should be fixed for an Irish unity referendum
as nationalists did not yet have the numbers to win.
But he said planning for a united Ireland should take place.
"I don't think a united Ireland is inevitable, I think it's something that we have to work towards," he said.
"But I think there are a lot of factors that would suggest that we're on that traje…

Leo Varadkar says Nigel Farage as PM would move Irish unity 'centre stage'
The former Irish prime minister says planning should take place for the possibility of Irish unification.

After News Media Corporation announced the closure of 31 outlets in five states on August 6, a publishing group bought 8 papers in WY and another bought 4 in SD (Sarah Raza/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/rural-newsp…

Closed newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are saved as buyers swoop in
A dozen newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are set to publish again after buyers stepped in to keep the communities from becoming news deserts where little or no local media remains. This quick action is notable in an industry where, according to a 2024 report from the Medill School of Journalism, more than two newspapers close each week. Illinois-based News Media Corporation had announced the closure of 31 outlets in five states. Within two weeks, new buyers in Wyoming and North Carolina p…

from my link log —
Minimal version selection revisited.
https://matklad.github.io/2024/12/24/minimal-version-selection-revisited.html
saved 2025-08-06

Einschlag des Asteroiden 2024 YR₄ auf Mond noch einmal etwas wahrscheinlicher
Der Asteroid 2024 YR₄ ist vorerst außer Reichweite unserer Instrumente. Laut der letzten Beobachtung ist ein Einschlag auf dem Mond nun etwas wahrscheinlicher.

Sherrod Brown's Race Will Test Trump Voters' Buyer's Remorse (Alex Roarty/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2024-election/sherrod-brown-ohio-test-trump-voters-buyers-remorse
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p146#a250818p146

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 273 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29727 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

I think the attack on Large Testicles was a false flag.
Trump threatens to ‘federalize DC’ but violent crime dropped 35 percent there in 2024, police say | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/trump-fbi-crime-statistics-2024-b2802577.html

EDO: the NFL brings in $5.2B annually in national TV ads; in 2024-2025 ads on streaming-exclusive NFL games were 66% more effective for brands than TV ads (Jason Notte/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/convergent-tv/nfl-streaming-ads-effective/

Report: The Only Thing Bigger Than NFL TV Ads Are NFL Streaming Ads
New data from EDO finds that ads during football games on Netflix and Amazon last year were more effective than in-game linear.

Highlands Suite
- piano improvisations inspired by the beauty of Scotland -
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
https://

Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-06/venture-capital-…

Venture capital investment rises in L.A., and not just for AI startups
Venture capital investors and private equity firms poured $3.1 billion to fund 144 deals in the L.A. area in the first quarter of this year, up 15% from a year ago.

Massiver Cyberangriff auf US-Provider: Erster Einbruch schon ein Jahr früher
2024 ist mutmaßlich chinesischen Angreifern ein massiver Angriff auf US-Provider gelungen. Eine Malware wurde aber offenbar deutlich früher installiert.

In Rheinland-Pfalz wurden 2024 über 1.100 Megawatt neue Leistung aus Erneuerbaren Energien installiert – ein Plus von 13 Prozent.
Vor allem #Photovoltaik legte stark zu, mit 916 Megawatt Zubau. Spitzenreiter beim PV-Ausbau war die Verbandsgemeinde Zell, beim #Windenergie-Ausbau Ulmen.…

Erneuerbare Energien in Rheinland-Pfalz boomen weiter
Die Entwicklung der erneuerbaren Energien in Rheinland-Pfalz zeigt 2024 ein beeindruckendes Wachstum. Besonders Photovoltaik-Anlagen verzeichnen einen erheblichen Zuwachs.

Canary in the Mine: An LLM Augmented Survey of Disciplinary Complaints to the Ordre des ing\'enieurs du Qu\'ebec (OIQ)
Tammy Mackenzie, Varsha Kesavan, Thomas Mekhael, Animesh Paul, Branislav Radeljic, Sara Kodeiri, Sreyoshi Bhaduri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19775

Canary in the Mine: An LLM Augmented Survey of Disciplinary Complaints to the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)
This study uses pre-trained LLMs to conduct thematic analysis to investigate disciplinary incidents involving engineers in Quebec, shedding light on critical gaps in engineering education. Through a comprehensive review of the disciplinary register of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ)'s disciplinary register for 2010 to 2024, researchers from engineering education and human resources management in technological development laboratories conducted a thematic analysis of reported incident…

from my link log —
Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler concurrency bugs.
https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2024/06/28/mix-testing-revealing-a-new-class-of-compiler-bugs/
saved 2024-06-29

Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler bugs
I’m delighted that Luke Geeson’s work on “mix testing” (a collaboration with James Brotherston, Wilco Dijkstra, Alastair Donaldson, Lee Smith, Tyler Sorensen, and myself) will app…

Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/mus…

Der #Waldzustandsbericht 2024 zeigt, dass nur noch jeder fünfte Baum in #Deutschland als gesund gilt.
#Hitze,

80 Prozent der Bäume in Deutschland haben Schäden
Der Zustand der deutschen Wälder bleibt angesichts von Hitze, Trockenheit und Schädlingen ernst. 80 Prozent der Fichten, Kiefern, Buchen und Eichen sind krank, so das Bundesagrarministerium.

Cannes Lions: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube Shorts now averages 200B daily views, up 186% from 70B daily views reported in March 2024 (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-shorts-200-billion-daily-views/

YouTube Shorts Now Averages 200 Billion Daily Views
YouTube Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, CEO Neal Mohan announced during his keynote at Cannes Lions 2025.

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2024/are-gray-skies-trying-to-bring-us-down-inspiration/

Are gray skies trying to bring us down? #inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Statista expects the global influencer marketing industry to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/influen…

Die Meng Xiang: Fertig, um den Meeresboden zu stalken. 🕵️‍♂️
Das Forschungsschiff, das im November 2024 in Dienst gestellt wurde, soll bis zu 11 Kilometer tief in den Meeresboden bohren und Proben aus bisher unerforschten Regionen sammeln.
Zum Artikel: https://

Court filings: Indian agencies ordered X to remove ~1,400 posts or accounts from March 2024 to June 2025, as X and Modi's government clash over content rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/mus…

Zwischen 2018 und 2024 starben in #Berlin jährlich durchschnittlich 205 Menschen infolge von #Hitze.
In diesem Zeitraum wurden im Schnitt 21 sogenannte #Hitzetage pro Jahr gezählt, an denen die Tem…

Hitzeschutz Berlin - Berlin.de

from my link log —
Boolean blindness.
https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/boolean-blindness/
saved 2024-09-21

Boolean Blindness
I hate Booleans!  But isn’t everything “just bits”?  Aren’t computers built from gates?  And aren’t gates just the logical connectives?  How can a Computer Scientist p…

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out #instrumental #music https://muz4now.com/2024/what-makes-a-

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Cannes Lions: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says YouTube Shorts now averages 200B daily views, up 186% from 70B daily views reported in March 2024 (Kayla Cobb/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/youtube-shorts-200-billion-daily-views/

YouTube Shorts Now Averages 200 Billion Daily Views
YouTube Shorts now averages 200 billion daily views, CEO Neal Mohan announced during his keynote at Cannes Lions 2025.

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 303 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29697 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

https://hpiers.obspm.fr/eoppc/bul/buld/bulletind.145
Paris, 18 December 2024 Bulletin D 144
(er oops looks like they forgot to update the heading, should be 145)
ANNOUNCEMENT OF DUT1
From the 10 July 2025, 0h UTC until further notice, the value o…

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/uzbekistans-first-unicorn-…

Uzbekistan's first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Uzbekistan's Uzum has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China's Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital.

Filing: WBD says it plans to "significantly reduce" CEO David Zaslav's annual pay, including his cash bonus, after shareholders rejected his 2024 pay package (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay to Drop After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a haircut after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026. The company granted him $225 million in stock option awards.

Wusstet Ihr....
Die erste #Balkonsolaranlage wurde bereits am 14.04.1923 auf einer #Gartenlaube errichtet.
Damals arbeitete das #Marktstammdatenregister noch mi…

Analysis: in H1 2025, 500 orgs lobbied the White House and Congress on AI, on par with H1 2024 but up ~2x since 2023; OpenAI spent $1.8M, up from $380K in 2023 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/df01dcf8-dbc4-4b56-8d8b-67b7e6a83eef

from my link log —
Histogramming bytes with positional popcount, GF2P8AFFINEQB edition.
http://bitmath.blogspot.com/2024/11/histogramming-bytes-with-positional.html
saved 2024-11-10

Histogramming bytes with positional popcount (GF2P8AFFINEQB edition)
A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix , I dropped some implementation of byte histogramming without explaini...

Monitoring firm MUSO says piracy hit a low in 2020 with 130B website visits and grew by 2024 to 216B; in Sweden, 25% of those surveyed reported pirating in 2024 (Gabriel V Rindborg/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/

Hab bisschen mit 17 GB #MStR-Daten rumgespielt.
Kann das mal jemand nachrechnen? 🤔 🤪
#Balkonkraftwerk #Photovoltaik

from my link log —
Eidophor: 1950's space age video projection technology. (video)
https://youtu.be/3-BvMcqEc98?si=_OkQjEKADeva4QD5
saved 2024-10-08

Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b69f304c-798e-4dc3-9f17-6f7a7c8d3ac0

How stablecoins are entering the financial mainstream
Usage of the digital assets is growing rapidly, but concerns remain about supervision and their impact on other parts of the financial system

Der Mai 2025 war global der zweitwärmste Mai seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Laut ERA5-Daten lag die durchschnittliche #Oberflächentemperatur 0,53 °C über dem Mittel von 1991–2020 und 1,40 °C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Nur der Mai 2024 war wärmer. In den letzten 23 Monaten überschritt die globale Temperatur 14-mal deutlich die 1,5-Grad-Marke.

Was kann man noch alles so mit den Rohdaten des Marktstammdatenregisters machen?
Man kann berechnen, wie viele #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr gebaut wurden.
#Balkonsolar #Solarenergie

Microsoft says it paid $17M to 344 security researchers across 59 countries between June 2024 to June 2025 via its bug bounty program; the top reward was $200K (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr

Zubau (netto) der Leistung von Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland.
Hoffe, es stimmt. Wer Langeweile hat, kann ja mal nachrechnen. 😆

#Balkonsolar #Energiewende