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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.

Consistent irresponsibility: in May 2024, OpenAI disbanded its Superalignment team and subsequently its AGI Readiness team as well. Now it is the turn of the Preparedness team. Other senior staff from the security and ethics departments have also left the company.
#OpenAI #ITSecurity

I'm reading the Scottish Government's latest #Biodiversity Action Plan. A great deal of it is pure fantasy unless we also urgently tackle the #ClimateEmergency (which we are not doing) but the ambition is good.

Biodiversity: delivery plan 2024 to 2030
The first in a series of rolling Delivery Plans which form part of our Strategic Framework for Biodiversity, in conjunction with the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy. It includes actions needed to ensure we are on track to achieving the vision and outcomes in the Strategy.

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
440 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

"Trail cameras capture adorable sighting of first wild pine marten babies born in a century"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Animals

Trail cameras capture first wild pine marten babies born in the UK in a century
The new kits are the offspring of a group of endangered pine martens who were released into the wild in 2024 and 2025.

"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html

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.

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.

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
440 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday in a federal case in relation to the killing of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson in 2024.
Mangione confessed that he shot and killed Thompson outside a New York City hotel on 4 December 2024.
In his federal case, he faced stalking charges, after other charges, including murder, were dropped.
“I shot Mr Thompson in Manhattan and he died,” Mangione said towards the end of a hastily scheduled, 45-minute hearing.
He added: …

Luigi Mangione pleads guilty to causing UnitedHealthcare CEO’s death in federal case
Plea comes weeks before separate case is scheduled to start in New York, and could throw proceedings into disarray

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-

from my link log —
Concurrency vs paralellism.
https://www.tedinski.com/2018/10/16/concurrency-vs-parallelism.html
saved 2024-04-09

Concurrency vs parellism
The difference, and what is means to design for each.

Mam wśród otwartych projektów fotograficznych jeden, który jest poświęcony mojemu obecnemu miejscu zamieszkania. A odkąd mam w planach wyprowadzkę, trochę więcej spaceruję po dzielnicy i demokratycznie fotografuję wszystko, co mi wpadnie w oko.
Któregoś kwietniowego popołudnia moją uwagę przykuły pozostałości po ewangelickim cmentarzu przy ul. Kamykowej na wschodniej Białołęce.
Często wydawało mi się, że na tym zapomnianym przez stołecznych włodarzy zadupiu miasta nie było wcześniej nikogo ani niczego, a deweloperka wyrosła z niczego na pustych łąkach.
Tymczasem przez stulecia na tych terenach mieszkali niemieccy osadnicy z Holandii, tzw. olędrzy (olendrzy). Uciekali oni ze swoich domów przed wojną i prześladowaniami religijnymi i zakładali osady na trudno dostępnych terenach; z czasem asymilowali się z miejscowymi pomimo różnic językowych, narodowościowych i religijnych. Ślady ich bytności da się odnaleźć do dzisiaj - cmentarze lub ich pozostałości są rozsiane po całym kraju.
II wojna światowa zakończyła okres olenderskiego osadnictwa, zaś cmentarz przy Kamykowej popadł w ruinę. W 2012 roku zachowane płyty nagrobne przeniesiono do lapidarium niedaleko innego cmentarza ewangelickiego u zbiegu ulic Ruskowy Bród i Mańkowskiej.
W połowie 2024 roku, pomimo braku zezwolenia urzędu dzielnicy, jeden z deweloperów rozpoczął na Kamykowej prace przygotowawcze pod budowę nowego osiedla. Po protestach mieszkańców i interwencji konserwatora zabytków prace zostały przerwane, a cmentarz doczekał się (po 12 latach 😓) wpisania do rejestru zabytków.
No i tak o. Czasami nie trzeba iść daleko, żeby przekonać się, jak długa jest historia migracji i wielokulturowości w tym naszym grajdole. Niestety – również niewiele trzeba, by ślady tej historii zatrzeć.

It's somewhat oddly satisfying that, after all this time, @…'s core idea from his 2024 #XOXO talk is still spreading and growing. 🌻

Tell them that somebody cared - Finest Day
Yesterday I received an informational flyer from my local municipality in my mailbox. It's about an upcoming road closure due to the replacement of water mains and the installation of...

Less than two measly years ago, OpenAI and Microsoft agreed on a "novel" definition of AGI:
"The two companies reportedly signed an agreement last year stating OpenAI has only achieved AGI when it develops AI systems that can generate at least $100 billion in profits. That’s far from the rigorous technical and philosophical definition of AGI many expect."

Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of AGI: Report | TechCrunch
Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup's profits, according to a new

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. @…

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…

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

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).

Started as a "cozy afternoon MTB #cycling loop" and ended with apersonal record over 40km 🤔
Fun fact: the whole loop was exactly 40.01km long. But it was a good ride and I feel so much better now.
#bikteooter

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

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…

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

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

Source: Apple passed $10B in annual sales in India for the first time in FY 2026, up from $9B in 2024-25 and $6B in 2022-23, as it expands its retail footprint (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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.

If true, this will be a fail at the first hurdle.
Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling - BBC News
#ClimateCollapse

Burnham to announce plans for new North Sea oil and gas drilling
Drilling has become a controversial topic for the Labour party after the 2024 manifesto pledged to not issue new licences.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

#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…

🇺🇦 #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

from my link log —
Formal methods: just good engineering practice?
https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/04/17/formal.html
saved 2024-04-18 https://

Remember the disastrous way Columbus handled its breach two years ago? The city's IT director, who is partially responsible for the mess, is retiring and will be lauded by the city council.
https://www.wosu.org/politics-g…

Columbus' IT director retiring nearly two years after major cyber attack exposed citizens' data
Soon after the city first noticed something was wrong on July 18, 2024, officials shut down systems to thwart the attack. The action shut down the city's systems for months, leaving some systems not fully operational until 2025.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.07.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1446414 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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

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What should Vikings do with J.J. McCarthy? Divorce seems inevitable after losing starting job to Kyler Murray

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/what-should-vikings-do-with-j-j-mccarthy/

This powerful predictor of longevity isn’t what you think
The single leg balance test is considered a leading indicator of neuromuscular aging, says a 2024 Mayo Clinic study.
“The duration an individual, whether male or female, can maintain balance on one leg,” it concluded, “emerges as the most reliable determinant of aging, surpassing strength, gait, and other balance parameters.

Why balance is a predictor of longevity and healthy aging
Move over strength and cardio, researchers reveal why balance is the missing piece in healthy aging — and how simple daily movements can lower your risk of injury.

#introduction
After a very long break, I'm (finally) back on Mastodon.
I'm gonna re-introduce myself: My name is Mark Zhou / EnmakaiDev. I'm a hobbyist developer and FOSS advocate who's been daily driving Linux since 2024.
I make projects primarily with Rust, and for myself but still decide to share (some of) them with the world only to leave a mark (ge…

VC funding in physical AI companies totaled $47.4B across 521 deals in H1, up 80% from H1 2025, and more than the $41.9B invested from 2022 to 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/physical-ai-funding-startups…

VCs Pour Billions Into Physical AI As The Next Wave Of AI Investing Takes Shape
In the first half of 2026, global venture funding in the physical AI space totaled $47.4 billion across 521 deals, per Crunchbase data. That’s up dramatically — almost 4x — compared to the second half of 2025 when startups in the sector raised $12 billion across 470 deals.

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

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/117021215493505628
In September 2024,
billionaire hedge-fund owner John Paulson
— an adviser to the president and one of his biggest fundraisers
— gave an interview supporting Trump’s tariff proposals on CNBC.
“What …

Index Ventures has raised $2B in new capital: a $900M venture vehicle, $400M for seed financing, and an addition of $700M to a 2024 $1.5B growth fund (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

#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…

We're not weird, you're weird: Republicans use Democrats' 2024 attack against them for midterms (Raquel Coronell Uribe/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/republicans-use-democrats-2024-weird-attack-line-midterms-rcna594462
http://www.memeorandum.com/260830/p33#a260830p33

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 30.06.2026.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Renner's 2027 NFL Draft scouting series: Ranking the top 10 safeties, including the next Kyle Hamilton?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2027-nfl-draft-safety-rankings/…

With the death of the Belgian theoretical physicist François #Englert on 18 June at the age of 93 - https://home.cern/francois-englert-1932-2026/ - all three 'fathers' of the Brout-Englert-Higgs field have passed away: Englert's associate Robert Brout had died in 2011, its independent proposer Peter Higgs in 2024. Particles thus no longer have mass: hold them tight ...

To be honest up front:
I'm about to ask for your help.
But first, I want to tell you why it matters so much right now.
The Democratic Party is in a do-or-die moment.
In 2024 we lost a winnable election to a corrupt, authoritarian billionaire — 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘔𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘹𝘵.
Here's my honest pitch:
W𝗲 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
– 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗽…

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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Frankie Paul:
🎵 Sara
#FrankiePaul
https://romey.bandcamp.com/track/sara-romey-ukg-remix-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Ya07tHmIjByMs9rBmVDUv

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

Autocrats often tell us what they intend to do, and Trump was no exception.
He ran for president on a platform of helping some of the world’s most murderous leaders.
During his campaign, he repeatedly “joked” about becoming a dictator himself,
and declared at a June 2024 rally that
a “smart president” would not consider North Korea, China, and Russia as enemies,
and would “make them do great.”
In case this message was not clear enough, he asserted in Oct…

Trump: Sabotaging America So That Autocracies Can Prosper
And the Hypocrisy of MAGA’s “Anti-Communism”

Structure and Dynamics of the Inner #Corona Measured from the DEB Initiative 2024 #Eclipse Image Sequence: #CitizenScience and Solar Structure: https://aasnova.org/2026/08/03/featured-image-citizen-science-and-solar-structure/

RE: #NOS
#DebatDirect
#wolven #debat

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