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Der #AI-Hype kennt offenbar keine Grenzen....

Eagles' Lane Johnson on Barkley: 'We'll see the Saquon from two years ago' https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-lane-johnson-on-barkley-we-ll-see-the-saquon-from-two-years-ago

"EU's race for lithium and rare earths sidelined calls to reduce consumption, finds study"
#EU #EuopeanUnion #Lithium

EU's race for lithium and rare earths sidelined calls to reduce consumption, finds study
In 2024, the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) came into force. The regulation is intended to secure Europe's supply of critical raw materials, especially minerals and metals such as lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements. The EU is therefore focusing on reducing its dependence on third countries such as China, boosting domestic minerals and metals production, and expanding recycling. In a study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers at the Helmholtz Centre for Environme…

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

Same place, but what a difference two and a half years make... 🤩
2026 (this morning):
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/117088174194004767
2024 (foggy & freezing winter morning):

🚀 Am Do, 20.08., 10 Uhr beraten wieder Expert:innen aus den geisteswissenschaftlichen @… - Konsortien @…, @…

Raiders intriguing rookie CB to take field for first time since 2024 https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/13/raiders-drafted-rookie-cb-jermod-mccoy-ta…

Alaska US Senate candidate Mary Peltola has rejected the support of Kamala Harris, her fellow Democrat,
after the 2024 presidential candidate sent out a seemingly unsolicited fundraising appeal on Peltola’s behalf.
Harris, who lost Alaska – typically a Republican-voting state – by 13 points during her unsuccessful White House run, on Wednesday sent an email from her political organization to supporters of Peltola, a former US House member.
“If there’s anyone who can flip Al…

Home - Mary Peltola
It's simple: The fight for Fish, Family, Freedom depends on fixing the rigged system in DC.

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

“Major COVID study that fueled vaccine skepticism retracted over ‘misinformation’”
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/major-covid-study-that-fueled-vaccine-skepticism-retracted-over-misinformation/…

Major COVID study that fueled vaccine skepticism retracted over ‘misinformation’
This study was originally published in 2024 and was criticized as being misleading by other scientists at the time

Reuters wiederholt die Behauptung das ein Journalist Mitglied der Hamas gewesen sei, obwohl eben dieser Journalist ihnen einen Pulitzer-Preis gewonnen hat.
Anas Al-Sharifs Team hat Reuters in 2024 den Pulitzer Preis in „Breaking News Photography” gewonnen und wurde 2025 in einem israelischen Angriff auf ein Krankenhaus ermordet. Reuters nannte ihn nach seinem Mord einen Hamas-Terroristen.
Laut dem 972 Magazine arbeitet eine Spezialeinheit des israelischen Militärs name…

Funny to see this article from 2024 getting some traffic today. There's supposed to be a solar eclipse, and as I wrote, you can expect a particular search query to trend because us humans are predictable in our stupidity.
https://coywolf.com/news/seo/people-se

People searching ‘eyes hurt after eclipse’ spike after solar eclipse
Google searches for "eyes hurt after eclipse" spiked after the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse, driven by fake glasses, eye strain, and unprotected viewing.

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

The Drone flights vs car break-ins chart in this article is fascinating: It shows a sharply declining rate of car break-ins, and then, as drone flights are introduced later in 2024, the rate of decline slows.
And "The SFPD increased patrols in bipping hot spots like Fisherman’s Wharf starting in 2023. Cops also started using bait cars and building cases against major bipping gangs. " And that correlates with the fastest rate of decline - good, old fashioned policing.

Rest in peace, Bip City
Car break-ins, long a symbol of dysfunction in San Francisco, have fallen precipitously in recent years. Surveillance technology is partly to thank.

The Drone flights vs car break-ins chart in this article is fascinating: It shows a sharply declining rate of car break-ins, and then, as drone flights are introduced later in 2024, the rate of decline slows.
And "The SFPD increased patrols in bipping hot spots like Fisherman’s Wharf starting in 2023. Cops also started using bait cars and building cases against major bipping gangs. " And that correlates with the fastest rate of decline - good, old fashioned policing.

Rest in peace, Bip City
Car break-ins, long a symbol of dysfunction in San Francisco, have fallen precipitously in recent years. Surveillance technology is partly to thank.

You guys know what to do: report and block this genocide-complicit zionist hasbara account.
#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing

BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 31.07.2026 Bad Bentheim / Hannover (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und ...

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.

August 2026 was the hottest on record globally, followed by 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The temperature was well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial.
From Copernicus ECMWF
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

AI vs cats: An AI image generation takes about 0.1-1Wh, so on gas is under 0.4g CO2 emission.
Keeping a cat causes emissions of about 310kg of CO2 a year, i.e. about 1kg/day. So under 30 seconds of cat gets you one AI image.
Cats also kill billions of birds.
I'm not suggesting getting rid of cats, but please consider that lot before threatening people for the use of AI.
(Gas emission

Fuel mix disclosure data table, 2024-2025

Seahawks to sign former Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold amid legal troubles: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7506931/2026/08/13/seahawks-sign-terrion-arnold-lions/

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach

Emeline Rochefeuille & Daniel Pavlov - Pros Jack & Jill - HO 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyx5c7mcfwY

Analysis: since August 2024, the Daily Mail, BBC News, Fox News, and CNN have each gained more than 11M core TikTok followers; Fox News grew from 91K to 11.5M (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/social_media/the-news-…

The news publishers on Tiktok with biggest growth since 2024
Press Gazette analysis shows the biggest and fastest-growing of the major news publishers on Tiktok, with data from August 2026.

new gorgeous solo zither tape by drew gardner, recorded live on the frow show in 2024. https://worriedsongs.bandcamp.com/album/white-clouds-for-thousands-of-miles

Sinds juni 2024 zijn we #VanGasLos met een bodemwarmtepomp. Werkt allemaal volgens verwachting, behalve dan dat de convectoren-radiatoren op de bovenverdieping het net niet warm genoeg krijgen en we ook wat betere koeling zouden willen. Daarvan hadden we toen besloten dat even aan te zien. En nu, 1 1/2 zomer en 2 winters later hebben we besloten dat het beter moet en heb ik het installatiebedri…

Raiders get answer at DT at No. 13 in CBS Sports 2024 NFL redraft https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/07/07/raiders-select-dt-byron-murphy-no-13-cbs-sports-2024-nfl-redraft…

Die offizielle 1,5-Millionen-Marke ist geknackt. 😁
Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1500720 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das…

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

This new energy supplier in Belgium (Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels) provides access to the TSOs' imbalance prices. It works with smart control of devices (EVs and heat pumps) and is now accepting early bird interest requests.
https://10senergy.com

Last year, Dutch government agency PBL used an IEA wholesale natural gas price forecast of €20 per MWh by 2030 for its Climate & Energy Outlook (KEV 2025), sharply down from the 2024 price.
Today, the price is €68 per MWh, almost double the 2024 price.
Interesting to see what PBL will take in this year's KEV edition; expected 14 September.

Präsident enthüllt: - Ex-ÖFB-Teamchef Franco Foda lehnte Millionen ab #News #Nachrichten

Ich lass das hier mal so stehen
#nosvp #climatecrisis #globalwarming #klimakrise

"Wissen im Netzwerk: Praxisrelevante Ansätze zur Überführung von Forschungsdaten digitaler Editionen in Knowledge Graphs": Masterarbeit von Simone Franz am @… 2024
https://doi.org/10.18452/38321

Schon die Einleitung beeindruckt. Die heutige USA reiht sich nahtlos in die Aufzählung der Autokratien der Welt ein. Das konnte Applebaum 2024 nicht wissen, aber in der Rückschau erschüttert das schon sehr. Ich bin gespannt auf ihr Buch „Die Achse der Autokraten“ in der Ausgabe der #büchergildegutenberg

I was in the Kawartha region this weekend and randomly drove down a road where I saw a bunch of unhinged signs about paying no taxes and MANY confederate flags.
We don't see a lot of those flags in Canada so I got curious.
Turns out the Guardian made an article on it.
https://www.

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…

Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
Gregor Schubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11626
arXiv:2608.11626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study proposes that firms move along an "organizational technology ladder": adopting one technology transforms hiring and work processes and builds skills and organizational capital that change the cost of adopting subsequent technologies. I study how firms' adoption of remote work technology during the COVID-19 period shaped later uptake of generative AI. Using U.S. job-posting data and an instrumental-variables strategy based on predicted differences in labor-market pressure to offer remote work, I estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in remote hiring in 2021-2022 increases the share of job postings mentioning generative AI in 2023-2024 by 0.4 percentage points across firms and 0.7 percentage points across occupations within firms. I provide evidence on mechanisms consistent with a technology-ladder channel: remote work adoption shifts hiring toward technical and managerial capabilities that predict faster conversion of generative AI exposure into adoption. Firms with return-to-office mandates---interpreted as revealing low remote productivity---exhibit a substantially larger response of generative AI adoption to remote work, consistent with an organizational frictions channel.
toXiv_bot_toot

Allgäu, Late Summer (2024)
(Almost too cliché, but it doesn't take away its beauty...)
#MorningWalk #LandscapePhotography #Photography

🚀 Unsere FDM-Beratung steht wieder an!
💽 Expert:innen aus den geisteswissenschaftlichen @… - Konsortien @…, @…

On the good news & how to front: Shared learning in organizing to #MakePollutersPay - 2 success stories, and #APEN shares their playbook:
https://www.

Campaign Playbook: How Richmond Made Polluters Pay - APEN Action
In 2024, a coalition of residents, community organizations, unions, and workers in the refinery town of Richmond, California, took on the city’s biggest polluter — the Chevron Richmond Refinery — with a historic refinery tax measure. The Polluters Pay measure was led by environmental justice groups Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) Action and Communities for […]

#doctorsfordrabusafiya
Le Dr Hussam Abu Safiya est pédiatre. Il dirigeait l’hôpital Kamal Adwan, dans le nord de Gaza.
Arrêté par l’armée israélienne le 27 décembre 2024, il est depuis maintenu en détention sans inculpation ni procès.
Les Nations unies et Amnesty International ont dénoncé le caractère arbitraire de sa détention. Son avocat fait état d’une grave détériorat…

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…

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

Author of Democrats' 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/us/politics/democrats-autopsy-2024-election-dnc.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p12#a260803p12

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

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

As the UK government presses again for unwarranted access to private user data,
Apple has issued another complaint asking the country's independent judicial body to intervene.
In 2024, the UK reworked its laws to give it the authority to not only legally, but also secretly, demand Apple help it spy on iPhone users around the world.
Following US complaints, the UK backed down, only to try again in October 2025.
Now according to the Financial Times, Apple has file…

UK faces new legal fight from Apple over backdoor access to iCloud data
As the UK government presses again for unwarranted access to private user data, Apple has issued another complaint asking the country's independent judicial body to intervene.

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.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Today I found a open source thing for doing _exactly what I needed_ but then it didn't work and I inspected the source code and found that it uses services that are no longer online.
Turns out it was all vibe-coded and the LLM referenced services that are long dead presumably because the training data ends with 2024 or so and it just assumed the services are still up.
The person doing the vibe coding didn't bother to check. Now the code is up on Github and you get recommend to use it by search engines. Great stuff.

Don’t look now, but suddenly the U.S. Senate is in play
At the start of this election cycle,
it looked like winning control of the Senate was all but out of Democratic reach.
There are 35 contests on the ballot in November.
Of those, nearly two dozen are effectively over before they’ve even started,
given the advantage one party holds over the other.
Of the remainder, most are being held in states Trump won in 2024,
which makes them, broadly speaki…

Democratic Senate control has moved from a reach to a toss-up
The four-seat gain Democrats need to win control once seemed all but out of reach. Odds are looking up, though the party still faces a tough path, with toss-up races in a half dozen (mostly red) states.

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:

"The individual views that Britons are most likely to both hold and incorrectly think are the most common public view – are that the 2024 England rioters had legitimate concerns (24%) and that people should not be able to identify as a different gender than their birth gender (also 24%)"

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Psychedelic Furs:
🎵 The Ghost in You
#ThePsychedelicFurs
https://glennlimbaga.bandcamp.com/track/the-psychedelic-furs-the-ghost-in-you-glenn-limbaga-2024-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/04BQXS1HwzNpfZ2Wvw2RIy

W sobotę 27 czerwca na kiermaszu w trakcie Palestine Solidarity Days w Warszawie będą do nabycia 3 egzemplarze mojego DIY-owego albumu pt. “Voices Against”.
Album zawiera 19 zdjęć 13x18 i eksploruje różne formy sprzeciwu wobec ludobójstwa na narodzie palestyńskim, które udokumentowałem od maja 2024 do stycznia 2026 - od protestów i demonstracji, przez sztukę uliczną, po akcje bezpośrednie. Każdy egzemplarz jest opieczętowany, ponumerowany, ręcznie opisany i opakowany w eleganckie pudełko.
Dochód z jego sprzedaży zostanie przekazany na Fundusz Ocalałych ze Strefy Gazy uruchomiony przez Polsko-Palestyńską Organizację Na Rzecz Sprawiedliwości “Kaktus”.
Warszawa, Plac Zabaw nad Wisłą, od godz. 12.
Zapraszam do nabycia 🙂

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Adrianne Lenker:
🎵 Free Treasure (6 Music Session, 1 May 2024)
#AdrianneLenker
https://trvbot.bandcamp.com/track/free-treasure-adrianne-lenker-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zGhR60NOVSgtzNEQNcHav

“But in Europe we know how to make buildings and they’re much better at retaining heat”
https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and-updates/temperature-related-mortality-burden-worsen-europe-2024-08-22_en

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
BIG SPECIAL:
🎵 DUST OFF / START AGAIN (6 Music Session, 13 May 2024)
#BIGSPECIAL
https://open.spotify.com/track/2sUmTnB0rBgpx9DTcZUrQK