2026-06-18 02:41:03
A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/0…
A survey of US adults: 49% reported using chatbots in 2026, up from 33% in 2024, 24% said that they use chatbots on a daily basis, and 44% said they use ChatGPT (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2026/0…
Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24
- the first time that had happened over a five-year period.
Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected.
"It's incredible to think that a single jab can almost eliminate a particular type of cancer,"
said Prof Peter Sasieni, the lead researcher at Queen Mary University of London.
Noam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-j…
#Podcast
Die Zahl der diagnostizierten #Endometriose-Fälle ist in den vergangenen 20 Jahren deutlich gestiegen.
Laut Schmerzforscherin Esther Pogatzki-Zahn deutet dies darauf hin, dass die Erkrankung häufiger und früher erkannt wird. Eine frühe Diagnose kann helfen, Beschwerden gezi…
Survey: 81% of INN newsrooms used AI-based tools in 2025, compared to 63% in 2024 and 34% in 2023; common uses include meeting transcription and data analysis (Sophie Culpepper/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/ai-use-g
Texans WR Tank Dell is 'almost there' in return from 2024 injury: 'It's light at the end of the tunnel' https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-wr-tank-dell-is-almost-there-in-return-from-2024-injury-it-s-light…
"‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?
#Coral #CoralReef #SouthKorea
May 2026 was the second-warmest May on record globally, in between 2024 and 2025.
The global average temperature was 15.81°C, 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average for May and 1.42°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average for the month.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-
I finally adapted my .Xmodmap file to Wayland, after I do not know how many years of procrastinating.
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2024/04/28/the-simplest-thing-in-the-world-modifing-keymaps-in-wayland/
Siempre es importante fiscalizar las obras públicas, cuestionar cuando no se cumplen cronogramas o presupuestos.
Pero hay que tener en cuenta que en todo el planeta las grandes obras públicas siempre enfrentan retos de todo tipo, especialmente cuando son obras de infraestructura o energía enormes.
Acš el medio de comunicación costarricense La Nación reporta sobre una nueva postergación en la fecha de entrega de un proyecto geotérmico, explica que hubo un atraso inicial en la perf…
Gedegen onderzoek van Trouw en Investico over Nederlandse betrokkenheid bij de Israelische oorlogsmisdaden.
https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/hoe-een-nederlander-in-het-israelische-leger-diende-…
As the 2024 election approached,
advertisements began popping up in key swing states suggesting local officials had discretion not to certify elections.
The advertisements were misleading.
Certification is not optional,
and officials are required to certify the vote once the proper process for any election challenges are complete and an official challenge is complete.
The warnings, nonetheless, arrived at a moment when Donald Trump and allies seemed to be geari…
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
New bike day. I'll be bringing this new 2024 Royal Enfield Super Meteor home this afternoon. I wanted the Classic 650, but we couldn't come to terms on financing. This saves on my monthly payment and cuts a year off the loan, and I've ridden these bikes and loved them.
#motorcycles #royalenfield
ITV says advertising revenues from the World Cup are about 30% higher than those from Euro 2024; Telemundo says it sold out of key World Cup ad inventory (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/48f2f704-74e0-40e0-b657-253d48e657f7
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
Amazon says its data centers used ~2.5B gallons of water in 2025, or 0.12 liters of water per kWh, and water use at sites it owns and operates fell 2% from 2024 (Anvee Bhutani/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/t…
Users of the world’s largest search engine will see, in response to their queries, a summary generated by an AI bot developed by a corporate behemoth with close ties to the Trump White House.
This seismic move builds upon the launches of AI Overview in 2024 and AI Mode in 2025,
shifting toward nearly eliminating the user’s ability to search autonomously,
and toward an overwhelmingly AI-driven experience of the internet (and therefore, for many people, of life).
We mus…
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…
Here's my blog post on how to make a mosquito bucket. Has a dozen or so tips, plus a video of mosquito larvae in a jar that looks like a lava lamp. https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/
Lionsgate and gen-AI company Runway expand their partnership, giving Lionsgate an equity stake in Runway and launching a program to develop and produce new IP (Corbin Bolies/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/lionsgate-equity-st…
Obviously, deporting this dangerously dead person must be a priority for ICE.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/03/north-carolina-judge-deport-teen-murder-victim?CMP=share_btn_url
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…
"Amazon deforestation is falling, but progress is stalling"
#Deforestation #Amazon #Trees #Environment
Running a TOR snowflake proxy
#tor
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…
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Unternehmen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
…
A Not-so-Common Sunflower. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. July, 2024. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #laarboretum #sunflower #bloomscrolling
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 ...
"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
from my link log —
Scanners work fine over iSCSI.
https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2024/05/08/jbos/
saved 2024-05-09 https://dotat.a…
Challenger: US tech companies announced cuts to 38,242 jobs in May, the most since August 2024, taking 2026's total so far to 123,653 cuts, up 65% YoY (Julia Fanzeres/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-…
🇺🇦 #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
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
I added a PDF to my page about mosquito-killing buckets in case anyone wants to print something off to give to neighbors. Link to the file is near the bottom. #mosquitoes https://colinpurrington.com/2024/08/bti-honeypot-traps/
Our #VFXPipeline, database and renderfarm also supports shot numbers with emojis. Need to find my post about this from a few years ago 😁
Maybe I should test it again to make sure it still works. Back then, all I had to do was disable a regular expression that enforced alphanumeric characters.
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/
Suomalaiset kuluttavat yhä paljon eläinperäisiä tuotteita #ruoka
Support among men was central to Trump’s 2024 victory,
helping deliver key swing states and underpinning his electoral coalition.
A sharp reversal within that group signals a potential vulnerabilityif the trend persists.
A sustained decline among men risks weakening Trump’s core electoral support heading into a politically sensitive period of his presidency as the November midterms approach.
The newest survey shows Trump with 38 percent approval and 59 percent disap…
Area Theorems and Quasiconformal Extensions of Harmonic Mappings with a Pole
Zhijun Chen, Limei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03306 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03306 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.03306
arXiv:2606.03306v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we study the class \Sigma_{H}^{k}(p) of sense-preserving univalent harmonic mappings in the unit disk \mathbb{D} that possess a simple pole at p\in[0,1) and admit a k-quasiconformal extension to the extended complex plane for k\in[0,1). In 2024, Bhowmik and Satpati established an area theorem and derived a sufficient condition for the k-quasiconformal extension of harmonic mappings belonging to \Sigma_{H}^{k}(p) without logarithmic terms. Motivated by their work, we investigate the corresponding problem when a logarithmic singularity is present. Our main contributions are two-fold: we first prove a generalized area theorem for all mappings in \Sigma_{H}^{k}(p); we then obtain a sufficient condition for sense-preserving univalent harmonic mappings in \mathbb{D} to admit explicit k-quasiconformal extensions. These results extend the aforementioned work to the setting where logarithmic singularities are allowed.
toXiv_bot_toot
A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (George Packer/The Atlantic)
https:…
🇺🇦 #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
Former 6th Round Pick Named ‘Biggest Surprise’ for Cowboys https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/wide-receiver-ryan-flournoy-biggest-surprise/
A reminder that the obsession 50 years ago was #overpopulation — it was the scary message next to every practical environmental message about pollution, etc
Fast forward to now, and the opposite is true — no longer a case of “don’t worry, it’s just wealthy nations breed less”
In fact, environmentalism was always right about pollution — but the scary message is everything cost…
The interior department is canceling a rule that put conservation on equal footing with development,
as Donald Trump’s administration eases restrictions on industries and seeks to boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land.
The 2024 rule adopted under former president Joe Biden was meant to refocus the interior department’s Bureau of Land Management,
which oversees about 10% of land in the US.
It allowed public property to be leased for restora…
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…
Historical pairing of Jared Verse, Carson Schwesinger to lead Browns defense in post-Myles Garrett era https://www.nfl.com/news/historical-pairing-of-jared-verse-carson-schwesinger-to-lead-browns-defense-in-post-myles-g…
Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeichern pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.05.2026.
419 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.
AI market research platform AlphaSense raised $350M from Vitruvian, Accenture, and others at a $7.5B valuation, up from $4B in 2024, ahead of a possible IPO (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
Donald Trump has tapped David Venturella,
-- a former ICE official and executive at the private prison company GEO Group, which operates the notorious Delaney Hall facility in Newark New Jersey
-- to replace Todd Lyons as head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
GEO Group saw its profits jump from $32 million in 2024 to more than $254 million in 2025
as the Trump administration expanded government contracts with ICE jails nationwide.
Setareh Ghandehari, advo…
Brandon Aiyuk delivers message in video post, calls 49ers 'little-a-- boys,' tells them to 'stop running from the bill' https://www.nfl.com/news/brandon-aiyuk-delivers-message-in-video-post-cal…
Ampere: KPop Demon Hunters exceeded one billion viewing hours; its success brings into question whether Netflix will keep reducing commissions of kids' content (Neil Batey/C21Media)
https://www.c21media.net/news/success-of-k
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
The Three Degrees:
🎵 TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)
#TheThreeDegrees
https://kitremakes.bandcamp.com/track/mfsb-with-the-three-degrees-t-s-o-p-the-sound-of-philadelphia-dj-kit-remakes-2024-115bpm
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).
Angie Craig is a cryptocurrency shill:
#Minnesota #mnpol
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
Lithuania-based Vinted says it completed an ~€880M secondary share sale led by EQT, Teachers' Venture Growth, Schroders at an €8B valuation, up from €5B in 2024 (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8410967c-c713-46d1-a5e6-42cfc3b6528c
Angie Craig is a data center cheerleader:
#Minnesota #mnpol