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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…

Survey: 77% of US adults support in-class cellphone bans for middle and high school students, up from 74% in 2025 and 68% in 2024; just 18% oppose such bans (Jeffrey Gottfried/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

More Americans now support than oppose all-day school cellphone bans
Three-quarters of U.S. adults support in-class school cellphone bans, and for the first time, more now support than oppose all-day bans for middle and high schoolers.

Cigarette butts make up 12% of aquatic litter, global review finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/09/cigarette-butts-make-up-12-of-aquatic-litter-global-review-finds/

Cigarette butts make up 12% of aquatic litter, global review finds
Cigarette butts account for roughly 12% of the litter found in rivers, lakes and beaches surveyed for a recent global review. Researchers pooled data from 130 studies conducted in 55 countries between 2013 and 2024. Across all ecosystems, including both aquatic and terrestrial, researchers found on average a density of 1 cigarette butt every 4 […]

jeff parker ETA IVtet o'clock. https://archive.org/details/etaivtet-2024-12-02

Jeff Parker ETA IVtet 2024-12-02 Public Records
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet2024-12-02, Early and Late setsBrooklyn, NYPublic RecordsJay Bellerose - drums & percussionAnna Butterss - bassJosh Johnson - alto saxophone & pedalsJeff Parker - electric guitar & pedals

The Vikings were finished with J.J. McCarthy. So why did the Giants want him? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7640655/2026/09/29/jj-mccarthy-giants-vikings-trade/

President Trump asks SCOTUS to overturn an $83.3M award a jury told him to pay E. Jean Carroll in 2024 for defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault (Abbie VanSickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/2…

Trump Asks Supreme Court to Overturn $83.3 Million Award in Carroll Defamation Case
President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.

Little Red Dots.
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-distant-primordial-object-may-be-a-newborn-little-red-dot

Freehand, which builds AI agents to manage supply chain spend and operations for Fortune 500 companies, raised a $75M Series B, after a $25M Series A in 2024 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/transportat…

Freehand Raises $75M Series B To Automate Fortune 500 Supply Chain Spend
Freehand has raised $75 million in Series B funding to scale autonomous AI agents that manage supply chain spend and back-office operations for enterprises.

The volume (parts 1 and 2) the paper appeared in has a lot of interesting contributions on writing systems, including Donald Knuth's remarks on the grapholinguistic model of TeX (start of Part 2).
https://doi.org/10.36824/2024-graf1
https://doi.org/10.36824/2024-graf2

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

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

#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…

Der Dänemark-Krimi: Das Mädchen im Kirchturm • Fernsehfilm Deutschland 2024 -#ARD
#crimi #krimi #DerDänemarkKrimi

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.

New publication on the linguistic (specifically, grammatical) properties of #emojis , based on a student's Bachelor thesis. It took two years from the conference presentation to publication, but now it's finally out. #linguistics #openAccess #writing https://doi.org/10.36824/2024-graf-reis

Results? EU depends on US tech
Amazon, Microsoft and Google now account for 70% of the European cloud market while European providers only capture 15% of their domestic market
This is down from 29% in 2017. However, European providers have more than tripled their revenues from 2017 to 2024, but the market grew by a factor of six
This dependence on US technology has spiralled into security concerns, as the American 2018 CLOUD Act gives the US access to data collected in overseas data centres