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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.

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.

from my link log —
A history of parsers of the Ruby programming language.
https://railsatscale.com/2024-04-16-prism-in-2024/
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Prism in 2024
In Ruby 3.3.0, a new standard library was added to CRuby called Prism. Prism is a parser for the Ruby language, exposed as both a C library (optionally usable by CRuby) and a Ruby library (usable as a Ruby gem). The Prism project represents many person-years worth of effort, and is the result of a collaboration between Shopify, CRuby core contributors, other Ruby implementation authors, and Ruby tooling developers.

What Raiders Gained and Potentially Sacrificed in 2024 NFL Draft https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-what-gained-potentially-sacrificed-2024-nfl-draft

📢 Anschlag auf Weihnachtsmarkt: Lebenslange Haft für Todesfahrer von Magdeburg
Das Landgericht Magdeburg hat gegen den Todesfahrer des Anschlags auf den Weihnachtsmarkt von 2024 mit sechs Toten die Höchststrafe verhängt. Es verurteilte den Angeklagten Taleb A. unter anderem wegen Mordes zu lebenslanger Haft und stellte die besondere Schwere der Schuld fest. Eine Anordnung der Sicherungsverwahrung bleibt vorbehalten.
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Anschlag auf Weihnachtsmarkt: Lebenslange Haft für Todesfahrer von Magdeburg
Das Landgericht Magdeburg hat gegen den Todesfahrer des Anschlags auf den Weihnachtsmarkt von 2024 mit sechs Toten die Höchststrafe verhängt. Es verurteilte den Angeklagten Taleb A. unter anderem wegen Mordes zu lebenslanger Haft und stellte die besondere Schwere der Schuld fest. Eine Anordnung der Sicherungsverwahrung bleibt vorbehalten.

Have a fabulous birthday, America!
“Cruising Queens”
2024, Moises Salazar Tlatenchi. Oil on canvas, glitter, and yarn.

#TIL Das Hörbuch "Die Brandstifter" von Annika Brockschmidt gibt es 2x auf #Spotify: Einmal als Hörbuch und nochmal als Album. Das Album ist das ungekürzte Hörbuch und ist ohne Hörbuchguthaben hörbar.

Die Brandstifter [Wie Extremisten die republikanische Partei übernahmen (Ungekürzte Lesung)] – Álbum von Annika Brockschmidt | Spotify
Annika Brockschmidt · Álbum · 2024 · 207 Songs

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

(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…

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.

Seit 2024 heizt die Abwärme eines Rechenzentrums in Floridsdorf das benachbarte Krankenhaus, deckt dort zwischen 50 und 70 Prozent des Wärmebedarfs und spart jährlich rund 4000 Tonnen CO2.

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/

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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What happened to Brandon Aiyuk? How ex-All-Pro went from $120 million to on the outside looking in on NFL

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/what-happened-to-brandon-aiyuk-49ers/

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: First Night
Clara Schumann's Piano Concerto with star soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony take centre stage alongside a world premiere of Ben Nobuto's Hallelujah Sim.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002zcwy

« Target Israel and we will target you » ~ twelve republican senators including Rubio 2024
« If you move forward with the measures indicated in the report, we will move to end all American support for the ICC, sanction your employees and associates, and bar you and your families from the United States. You have been warned. »

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
DEADLETTER:
🎵 More Heat! (6 Music Session, 16 Sep 2024)
#DEADLETTER
https://deadletter-band.bandcamp.com/track/more-heat
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZhwXB5goScBW6ZyDCyZlY