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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.

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.

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-

This article is more than 1 year old
Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between the billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications
“If people like Musk get Trump re-elected, they’ll expect all kinds of regulatory gifts in their favour,”
said Fiona Hill,
who is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the chancellor of Durham University and a defence adviser to the UK governm…

Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report
Alleged talks between billionaire and Russian president could have enormous security implications

from my link log —
CO2 helps viruses stay alive longer in the air.
https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/04/co2-ventilation-research-virus-airborne-life-haddrell-celebs/
saved 2026-07-06

A new discovery about carbon dioxide is challenging decades-old ventilation doctrine
CO2 is a good proxy for how much exhaled — and potentially infectious — air is in a room. New research suggests the more CO2 there is, the more virus-friendly the air becomes.

NFL players who attended Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding, plus a 2024 redraft and the NFL's top duos

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/taylor-swift-travis…

No idea if this looks reasonable, but it's a start. objdump from Synopsys' open source toolchains looks similar.
Ref:
https://foss-for-synopsys-dwc-arc-processors.github.io/documentation/2024.06/toolchain/
Addendum: also r…

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.

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.
…

Running a TOR snowflake proxy
#tor

Running a TOR snowflake proxy

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.

Wegen „Äußerungen“ - Stadt verweigert Lugner Ehrung, Mausi will kämpfen #News #Nachrichten

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).

The AI boom is fueling a resurgence in VC bets in "moonshot" sectors such as BCI; Dealroom says non-AI deeptech funding has topped $150B since the start of 2024 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)

2024 NFL redraft: Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels or Drake Maye at No. 1?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-nfl-redraft-caleb-williams-jayden-daniels-drake-maye/

"Out of Bib – Lernen auf dem Campus: Eine vergleichende Analyse zu Ergebnissen aus einer Studie der Nicht-Benutzung in Kooperation mit ausgewählten deutschen Hochschulbibliotheken" von Miriam Wildermuth in den Berliner Handreichungen zur Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft des @…:

"Super Disco Pirata: De Tepito Para El Mundo 1965-1980" (2024)
Incredible 2xlp compilation of bootlegged Cumbia recordings popularized by the "sonideros" in Mexico City.
https://youtu.be/OrwwXWPzmnk

BPOLD-H: Bilanz der vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen an der deutsch - niederländischen Grenze in Niedersachsen im Zeitraum vom 16.09.2024 bis einschließlich zum 30.06.2026 Hannover / Bad Bentheim (ots) - Seit dem 16. September 2024 kontrolliert die Bundespolizei in ganz Deutschland den grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr mit vorübergehend wiedereingeführten Binnengrenzkontrollen. Für Reisende zwischen Niedersachsen und ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
mclusky:
🎵 She Will Only Bring You Happiness
#mclusky
https://mcluskymclusky.bandcamp.com/track/she-will-only-bring-you-happiness-2024-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/6oA4rAGQZ2VLmzL4b6rZaZ

from my link log —
Scanners work fine over iSCSI.
https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2024/05/08/jbos/
saved 2024-05-09 https://dotat.a…

Just a bunch of scanners (JBOS?)
Can you run scanners over iSCSI?

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

Full Match | The Judgement Day (Finn Bšlor & JD McDonagh) vs Social Elite (Matthew Smyth & Sean Guinness) at OTT's 10th Year Anniversary show from 26th October 2024
#prowrestling #wwe #wrestling

Former 6th Round Pick Named ‘Biggest Surprise’ for Cowboys https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/wide-receiver-ryan-flournoy-biggest-surprise/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Angélica Garcia:
🎵 Juanita (6 Music Session, 5 Jun 2024)
#AngélicaGarcia
https://angelicagarcia.bandcamp.com/track/juanita-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/20xUkZt5wVADOO7kZxGtpK

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

from my link log —
Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to quantum field theory.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10981
saved 2024-02-18 https://dotat.at…

Smoothed asymptotics: from number theory to QFT
Inspired by the method of smoothed asymptotics developed by Terence Tao, we introduce a new ultra-violet regularisation scheme for loop integrals in quantum field theory which we call $η$ regularisation. This allows us to reveal a surprising connection between the elimination of divergences in divergent series of powers and the preservation of gauge invariance in the regularisation of loop integrals in quantum field theory. In particular, we note that a method for regularising the series of na…

Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing $75M, equal to what Thrive invested in 2024 (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-investi

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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The convicted fraudster George Cottrell transferred a total of more than $2m to his mother, Fiona Cottrell,
in the days before her 2024 donations to Reform UK, the Guardian understands.
Financial industry sources told the Guardian that Fiona received one deposit of $1.4m and two tranches of more than $300,000 each
– money she attributed to having come from her son, George, when bankers asked about the deposits.
On each occasion, the Guardian understands transfers were…

Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son

Angie Craig is a cryptocurrency shill:
#Minnesota #mnpol

from my link log —
A history of Psion and Symbian.
https://www.abortretry.fail/p/of-psion-and-symbian
saved 2024-06-23 https://

Of Psion and Symbian
Mobile before iOS and Android

In honor of the current over-the-top #HeatWave in Western Europe here is #DavidGilmour performing the 1970 #PinkFloyd piece "Fat Old #Sun" in #Rome in 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvP1sQGKREM. Other recordings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs5x6WBylnw (2024, same tour), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJTplhld7Ro (2016), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeGn6hvhuso and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSqlI-HYuCA (both 2006).

👻 #Mythos zum #Frühstück: 😱
„Die #Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen #Gasheizungen

Mythos: „Die Wärmepumpe ist zu teuer - die Leute kaufen Gasheizungen“
Wärmepumpen auf dem Vormarsch: Warum der angebliche Einbruch 2024 in Wahrheit kein Rückgang war – Marktanteil im Faktencheck.

Angie Craig is a data center cheerleader:
#Minnesota #mnpol

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Michael Kiwanuka:
🎵 Floating Parade (6 Music Session, 15 Nov 2024)
#MichaelKiwanuka
https://open.spotify.com/track/2xFbAWIz53Cdxu4kdgV5iG

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Shabaka Hutchings:
🎵 Living (6 Music Session, 11 May 2024)
#ShabakaHutchings