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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.

from my link log —
Booleans are a trap.
https://katafrakt.me/2024/11/09/booleans-are-a-trap/
saved 2025-06-30 https://

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 197 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29803 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

„Methodisch mag es da Unterschiede geben, doch der Trend ist stets der gleiche: Wer viel besitzt, kann sich die besten Anlageprofis leisten und dadurch höhere Renditen erwirtschaften als Normalverdiener – und wird somit fast von allein noch reicher.“ -So die SZ.
Das Schlüsselworte sind hier „quasi“ und „fast“, denn: natürlich passiert es nicht von alleine, sondern es wird dafür weltweit geschuftet, in Lohnarbeit oder sklavenähnlichen Verhältnissen. Und: Ein Großteil des Reichtums besteh…

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024) - The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump - https://www.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2024)
The 2024 EOU diary, including finally ditching fossil gas... #yearInReview #heatPump

👇 👇 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/04/saying-trump-is-dangerous-is-not-enough-bernie-sanders-on-biden-billionaires-and-why-the-de…

Battery electric vehicles had a market share of 18% last month in Germany; sales 45% higher than in May 2024.
China's BYD up 824%, easily surpassing Tesla (down 36%), but still only 4% share in Germany's BEV market.
https://www.

How Falcons RB Bijan Robinson plans to emulate Saquon Barkley's explosiveness, impact in 2025 season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-fal

Dangerous Questions in Astronomy Education
Michael Fitzgerald, Rachel Freed, Dan Reichart, Kate Meredith, Kalee Tock, Daryl Janzen, Saeed Salimpour, Jennifer Lynn Bartlett, Matthew Beaky, Art Borja, Ken Brandt, Jim Buchholz, Patricia Craig, Anthony Crider, Richard Datwyler, Marta Dark-McNeese, Anna DeJong, Donovan Domingue, Debbie French, Oliver Fraser, Amy L. Glazier, Enrique Gomez, Erika Grundstrom, Nicole Gugliucci, Kevin Healy, Ardis Herrold, Ian Hewitt, Jack Howard, Katherine Hunt…

Dangerous Questions in Astronomy Education
As astronomy enters an era defined by global telescope networks, petabyte-scale surveys, and powerful computational tools, the longstanding goals of astronomy education, particularly introductory ``ASTRO101'', but equally encompassing both higher and lower level courses, warrant fresh examination. In June 2024, the AstroEdUNC meeting at UNC--Chapel Hill convened 100 astronomers, education researchers, and practitioners to synthesise community perspectives on the purpose, content, and delivery o…

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…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1014651 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings
Chu Wing So, Chun Shing Jason Pun, Shengjie Liu, Sze Leung Cheung, Ho Keung Kenneith Hui, Kelly Blumenthal, Constance Elaine Walker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02019

Natural experiments from Earth Hour reveal urban night sky being drastically lit up by few decorative buildings
Light pollution, a typically underrecognized environmental issue, has gained attention in recent years. While controlling light pollution requires sustained efforts, Earth Hour offers a unique natural experimental setting to assess temporary lights-out measures. Using photometric and spectroscopic sensors, we observed up to 50% night sky darkening during Earth Hour from 2011 to 2024 in Hong Kong, primarily as a result of a small but critical number of lights-out instances in central business di…

Bears' DJ Moore shares poor body language directive from Ben Johnson: 'Don't put it on film'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bears-d

A new report shows that Trump was more desperate for cash in 2024 than we knew (Zeeshan Aleem/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-businesses-money-presidency-report-rcna216784
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p131#a250703p131

Jean-Sébastien Bach, Fantaisie BWV 542 - Pauline Klaus, violon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebA9HamBOy8
> Jean-Sébastien Bach, Fantaisie BWV 542Pauline Klaus, violonArrangement : Tedi PapavramiLive concert Eglise de Cordon, 2024

from my link log —
The SLAX scripting language: an alternative syntax for XSLT.
http://juniper.github.io/libslax/slax-manual.html
saved 2024-11-25

„This year, over 11.7 million people applied for Schengen short-stay visas. Globally, demand rose by more than 13%.
But for African applicants, that just meant more money lost.
Analysts estimate Africans lost €60 million (around US$67.5 million) in visa fees in 2024 alone — just for rejections.“
Via Sham Jaff's excellent newsletter https:…

Jason Pierre-Paul reflects on the Fourth of July accident that took his fingers and changed his life. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45582506/jason-pierre-paul-fourth-july-fingers-accident-ten-years-later-n…

Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 'Recall' feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot PCs
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/windows-recall-general-availabilit…

Mise Š jour de fin d’année 2024 #ChardonsBleus #Justice #Cagnotte #Metoo

Green Bay Packers DL Kenny Clark says he played through 2024 foot injury: 'It was a tough year for me'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/gree…

The best NFL draft pick at every slot ... ever: Who lands in our 1-262? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45597769/picking-best-nfl-draft-picks-ever-every-slot-common-era-1967-2024

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Favourite (6 Music Session, 15 Jul 2024)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/track/favourite
https://open.spotify.com/track/7oG9qhZ0UaQEoUGJJVXh1U

University of Chicago Becker-Friedman Institute of Economics just published research this April 2025 of how Generative AI has had "almost no significant wage or labor impact so far".
✅ Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

Choosing a hash function for 2030 and beyond: SHA-2 vs SHA-3 vs BLAKE3
As everyone knows, "temporary fixes" are nothing but temporary.
Unfortunately, the same is true for cryptography: unless security is your core value-proposition, crypto algorithms are almost never updated, and that's how we end up with SHA1-hashed password in 2024 🤦‍♂️
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Healing Melodies
#HealingMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/healing-melod

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Why is my Chumby’s CPU usage always 100%?
https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2024/04/why-is-my-cpu-usage-always-100-upgrading-my-chumby-8-kernel-part-9/
saved 2025-01-13

https://timesofsandiego.com/crime/2025/06/18/sdpd-plate-reader-data-breach-early-days/
“San Diego’s settings were meant to bar other agencies from searching San Diego data, but there was a misconfiguration leading to almost three weeks where…

San Diego police admit license plate reader data breach in early days of program
The SDPD's license plate reader database was searched nearly 13,000 times during the early weeks of its use in 2023 and 2024.

Project MUSE - CrossCurrents: Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024 https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55074

Project MUSE - CrossCurrents-Volume 74, Number 4, December 2024

How it's started /
How it's going
Sosu.
by ズヴィーン/zveen(#art

#ファプタ 攻撃と防御モード - ズヴィーン/zveenのイラスト - pixiv
2024

approximately no one's noticing but stack overflow is reaching its maximum number of questions.
that's because every day, every unanswered, unupvoted, uncommentedon question older than a year gets deleted (see the big jump up on the graph in April 2024). those deletions are now neck and neck with new questions coming in on weekdays. those deletions dwarf new questions coming in on weekends, so the site's already shrinking on weekends.
it was fun while it lasted <3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44246518 is that still named the slashdot effect, or is slashdot effect something for old people only?

Es ging doch nur darum, das Rezept für den übelst lekkeren Hefezopf, der immer bei den F-Runden serviert wird, vor den Grühünen geheim zu halten! 🥹
#FDP #Lindner
Quelle:

Assignment of collision-induced four-level double-resonance transitions in the 3${\nu}$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ ${\nu}$${_3}$ spectral region of methane
Kevin K. Lehmann, Isak Silander, Adrian Hj\"alt\'en, Michael Rey, Aleksandra Foltynowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13644

Assignment of collision-induced four-level double-resonance transitions in the 3$ν$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ $ν$${_3}$ spectral region of methane
Optical-optical double-resonance (OODR) spectroscopy using a narrow-linewidth pump and a frequency comb probe has previously been used to measure and assign sub-Doppler transitions in the 3$ν$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ $ν$${_3}$ spectral region [J. Chem. Phys. 161, 124311 (2024)] when pumping from the J = (7, A${_2}$) ground state. Doppler-broadened double-resonance transitions were also observed in those OODR spectra. In this paper, 68 of these Doppler-broadened transitions are assigned to four-l…

Today in “silly billboards in my community”. The first is by the very “truthful” (/s) people at LNGfacts.ca. Of course, the word "LNGfacts" does not appear anywhere in the dictionary because it's made up nonsense. Just like the "fact" that LNG “makes Canada stronger”... like we're going to win the war in Ukraine with our LNG or fend off #TheAmericanFascist. (Note: LNG is a tool of fascists not the other way around)
This billboard used to say “BC LNG WILL REDUCE GLOBAL EMISSIONS”... with a link to ‘bclnghelps.ca' but that was so clearly a lie that they were forced by the courts to remove it and delete their website, but I made a website instead in their honour called: bclngburns.ca
Back to today's billbboard though... Here's a fact from February 2025: “European LNG imports fell by 19% in 2024 as gas consumption reached an 11-year low, thanks, in part, to renewable energy additions.” (#BCPoli #BCLNG #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionRebellion #LNG #NaturalGas #Europe #EU #Ukraine #Russia

Publishing's class problem
The 2024 data shows a similar picture of middle-class origin dominance of publishing. Although there are year-on-year variations, since 2019 there has consistently been more than 60% proportions of middle-class origin people in publishing occupations. In the same period, working-class origin proportions have never been above 20%.
#FederatedMemory

After a full day of sessions, come relax and connect with fellow attendees at our Get-Together on 16 June, generously sponsored by our partner Search Guard. Enjoy tasty food, drinks, and live music – a fantastic opportunity to meet new people and catch up with familiar faces.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwo…

Wow. I remember when $MSFT was $8/share. But AI is just "slop" & has no value, right? 🙄
✅ NEWS: Hottest Job in Corporate America? Executive in Charge of A.I.
https://kurtsh.com/2024/04/18/news-hottest-job-in-corporate-ame…

‼️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.

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 248 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29752 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

from my link log —
Ki: wireless power for kitchen appliances. (video)
https://youtu.be/90Q7OM3W8T0
saved 2024-10-12 https://dotat.at/…

Bird of the Day — Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Kansas 2024
#Birds #NaturePhotography #Nature #Wildlife

Richard Sherman charged with DUI stemming from 2024 arrest https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6434019/2025/06/18/richard-sherman-dui-charge-2024-arrest-seahawks/

from my link log —
EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
saved 2024-10-28

EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their c…

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Fontaines D.C.:
🎵 Boys In The Better Land (Glastonbury 2024)
#FontainesDC
https://fontainesdc.bandcamp.com/album/chequeless-reckless-boys-in-the-better-land
https://open.spotify.com/track/7cucVWdmNeaPJuo7WkxaZ8