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Fruits Of Labor (Of Love)
(A 10x8" silver chloride print I made last night of a scene captured in the Bernina Range in 2024, which reminded me of 18th century landscape painting...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Two Scattered Spider members who pleaded guilty in the UK to an August 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London are jailed for five and a half years (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gyg0y6yg2o

Teen hackers jailed after live streaming cyber attack on TfL
Owen Flowers and Thalha Jubair were convicted for their roles in the attack, which led to large costs for Transport for London.

Reuters wiederholt die Behauptung das ein Journalist Mitglied der Hamas gewesen sei, obwohl eben dieser Journalist ihnen einen Pulitzer-Preis gewonnen hat.
Anas Al-Sharifs Team hat Reuters in 2024 den Pulitzer Preis in „Breaking News Photography” gewonnen und wurde 2025 in einem israelischen Angriff auf ein Krankenhaus ermordet. Reuters nannte ihn nach seinem Mord einen Hamas-Terroristen.
Laut dem 972 Magazine arbeitet eine Spezialeinheit des israelischen Militärs name…

I have one for #GrindayFriday this week. This is one man deathgrind project NAILGUT from Kelowna, British Columbia, and their brief 4 song EP 'Distorted Perceptions of Reality' from 2024. It's nasty, grody, grindy, sludgy stuff with chainsaw guitars and bashing drums. I love it.

A Hong Kong court convicts Dow Jones of deterring WSJ reporter Selina Cheng from exercising union rights but acquits it of dismissing her in 2024 for doing so (Danny Vincent/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/10/wall-st…

Wall Street Journal publisher convicted in Hong Kong of deterring reporter from union role
Dow Jones convicted of one count of deterring Selina Cheng from role at Hong Kong Journalist Association but cleared of second charge

Paris-based Arlequin AI, which is developing proprietary models based on topological neural networks, raised a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine and OTB (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/09/10/arlequin-ai-lands-eur28m-to-sca…

Arlequin AI lands €28M to scale topological neural network technology
Paris-based AI company Arlequin AI has raised €28 million in Series A funding to accelerate the development of its topological neural network architecture and expand the international deployment of its technology. The round was co-led by redalpine and OTB Ventures, with participation from Bpifrance’s Defence Innovation Fund. Existing investors Vsquared Ventures and 10x Founders increased their stakes, while Xavier Niel also joined the round.Founded in 2024 by Hugo Micheron, a special…

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.
…

Renner's 2027 NFL Draft scouting series: Ranking the top 10 safeties, including the next Kyle Hamilton?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2027-nfl-draft-safety-rankings/…

The Drone flights vs car break-ins chart in this article is fascinating: It shows a sharply declining rate of car break-ins, and then, as drone flights are introduced later in 2024, the rate of decline slows.
And "The SFPD increased patrols in bipping hot spots like Fisherman’s Wharf starting in 2023. Cops also started using bait cars and building cases against major bipping gangs. " And that correlates with the fastest rate of decline - good, old fashioned policing.

Rest in peace, Bip City
Car break-ins, long a symbol of dysfunction in San Francisco, have fallen precipitously in recent years. Surveillance technology is partly to thank.

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.

"Some designs of emojis are very different for the same codepoint, especially the ones depicting emotions/reactions. Examples coming to mind are 😨, 🔫. What are your thoughts on this?" - The (water) pistol 🔫 was originally a hand gun which looked a lot more real. In response to its frequent use in criminal or other unsavory contexts (e.g., as a threat), most platforms replaced it with the colorful plastic toy gun design in 2018. (In 2024, Elon Musk had it turned back into a realistic hand gun for the Twemoji design 🙄)
I'm torn. On the one hand, I don't think we can stay on top of all potential uses of emojis (or should even try to limit them) and people who want to use emojis for threats probably can still do so. On the other hand, I do find it rather hard to imagine that the green plastic 🔫 could be used as a threat... so... I guess good job, designers/tech firms? #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://emojipedia.org/pistol#designs

Er is een opvangcrisis, geen asiel/migratiecrisis,
Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020 - #opvangcrisis

Migratiesaldo gedaald tot onder de 100.000, het laagste punt sinds 2020
Het aantal eerste asielaanvragen daalde vorig met een kwart ten opzichte van 2024.

Brian Schottenheimer, Cowboys lose key pass rusher for start of 2026 NFL season https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-lose-charles-snowden-three-game-suspension/76542357b63b576f4cc8f5d2

Did "vibe coding" used to mean something else, before the prevalence of stochastic bullshit machine emitting code-shaped text vomit? I have a vague memory of it involving /fun/ before 2024.
#fuckai #vibecoding #askfedi

Viidelle syytteet: Syyttäjä vaatii kahta miljoonaa euroa Suomussalmen raakkutuhoista #Suomussalmi

Viidelle syytteet: Syyttäjä vaatii kahta miljoonaa euroa Suomussalmen raakkutuhoista
Raakkutuho paljastui Suomussalmen Hukkajoella elokuussa 2024, kun rauhoitettujen jokihelmisimpukoiden päältä oli ajettu metsätyökoneella toistuvasti.

Interesting to compare the author Neal Stephenson's profiles on X/twitter vs. Bluesky.
He has 89,4 K followers on X, where he still posts, but just under 10 K on Bluesky, where he doesn't post at all.
He has many fans on the fediverse who discuss his books, but he is not here.

Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/apple-openai-lawsuit-trade-secrets.html

Apple sues OpenAI alleging trade secret theft, says scheme was 'at every level'
The two companies entered into a high-profile partnership in 2024 when ChatGPT was integrated into the iPhone's operating system.

POL-WHV: 53-Jähriger nach Gerichtsbeschluss in Fachklinik untergebracht Wilhelmshaven/Friesland (ots) - Ein 53-jähriger Mann, der seit Ende 2024 im Bereich der Friesischen Wehde und später in Varel durch wiederholt auffälliges Verhalten in Erscheinung getreten war, befindet sich seit Ende Juni 2026 aufgrund einer ... https://www.

Asfinag warnt: - Immer mehr Fahrzeugbrände auf unseren Autobahnen #News #Nachrichten

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

Bin über ein Windpark-Thema bei der Bayernpartei gelandet und wollte wissen, wie weit die von der AfD weg ist. Also beide Programme gelesen.
Grundsatzprogramm 2011/17: „deutlich verstärkte Nutzung von regenerativen Energiequellen", ausdrücklich Ausbau von Windkraft. Dazu Atomausstieg.
Wahlprogramm 2024: „Im windarmen Bayern ist Windkraft leider nicht zielführend." Nein zu „überdimensionierten Windparks".
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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.

Mit der Studie ergibt vieles wieder Sinn, wenn davon gesprochen wird, dass »die Politik«™ Sorgen ernst nehmen müsse – die Sorgen sind nämlich rassistischer Natur und weniger Abstiegsängste. Passt auch zum Sachsen-Anhalt-Monitor 2025, demzufolge 90 Prozent mit ihrem Leben zufrieden sind. Nur die Ausländer, Schmarozer und Queers stört den Deutschen.

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.08.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten vor 2018 durch Registrierungsdatum ersetzt. Sonderregelungen nach

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…

"Wissen im Netzwerk: Praxisrelevante Ansätze zur Überführung von Forschungsdaten digitaler Editionen in Knowledge Graphs": Masterarbeit von Simone Franz am @… 2024
https://doi.org/10.18452/38321

Ex-Biden officials deny Marc Andreessen's claims that they discussed secret plans to ban AI startups at a May 2024 White House meeting, pushing him toward Trump (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/10/marc-andreessen-…

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

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.

"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

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)

Amelia Dimoldenberg says she plans to end her YouTube series Chicken Shop Date after its upcoming season; launched in 2014, the series hit 1B views in 2024 (Lily Ford/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Amelia Dimoldenberg Is Bringing ‘Chicken Shop Date’ to an End
The beloved YouTube series, in which the British presenter awkwardly interviews A-listers across film, TV, music and sport, will wrap up with its upcoming season.

Al wat ouder (2024) maar fijn paper over AI & Software engineering/coding. Zowel voor "believers" als totale sceptici 🙂
"tl;dr: Chill, y'all: AI Will Not Devour SE"
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.00764

tl;dr: Chill, y'all: AI Will Not Devour SE
Social media provide a steady diet of dire warnings that artificial intelligence (AI) will make software engineering (SE) irrelevant or obsolete. To the contrary, the engineering discipline of software is rich and robust; it encompasses the full scope of software design, development, deployment, and practical use; and it has regularly assimilated radical new offerings from AI. Current AI innovations such as machine learning, large language models (LLMs) and generative AI will offer new opportun…

"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 @…:

German software giant SAP says it is encouraging workers to invent new, more valuable jobs aided by AI, in a bid to avoid layoffs; SAP cut ~10K staff in 2024 (Jim Tankersley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes…

Can Companies Embrace A.I. Without Layoffs? This One Says It Is Trying to.
The German software giant SAP says it is betting that employees can reinvent jobs instead of eliminating them. Experts are divided on whether it will work.

What feels different with these Cowboys? 5 reasons the vibes are positive before Week 1 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7560510/2026/09/03/cowboys-season-expectations-positive-playoffs/

Analysis: since August 2024, the Daily Mail, BBC News, Fox News, and CNN have each gained more than 11M core TikTok followers; Fox News grew from 91K to 11.5M (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/social_media/the-news-…

The news publishers on Tiktok with biggest growth since 2024
Press Gazette analysis shows the biggest and fastest-growing of the major news publishers on Tiktok, with data from August 2026.

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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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.

Author of Democrats' 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter (Shane Goldmacher/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/us/politics/democrats-autopsy-2024-election-dnc.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260803/p12#a260803p12

Präsident enthüllt: - Ex-ÖFB-Teamchef Franco Foda lehnte Millionen ab #News #Nachrichten

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.

Angie Craig is a cryptocurrency shill:
#Minnesota #mnpol

#Streudiagramm der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit …

« 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 #CraigCharles
Adrianne Lenker:
🎵 Free Treasure (6 Music Session, 1 May 2024)
#AdrianneLenker
https://trvbot.bandcamp.com/track/free-treasure-adrianne-lenker-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zGhR60NOVSgtzNEQNcHav

Wow... a nearly 70% drop in Labour Day border crossing this year since 2024 from Metro Vancouver area to Washington State.
"Numbers for the Peace Arch, Pacific Highway, Lynden and Sumas ports of entry show a 49 per cent decline in the number of southbound vehicles with B.C. plates visiting Washington State during Labour Day this year, compared to 2025, and that becomes a drop of 67 per cent when compared to Labour Day 2024.
There were 1,465 trips this year, compared to 2,900 in 2025 and 4,385 in 2024.”
#ElbowsUp #USA #Canada #TradeWar #TheAmericanFascist
https://albernivalleynews.com/2026/09/09/southbound-b-c-washington-border-crossings-fall-49/

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

The progression of the #poolpond #backyardproject over the past 2 years. I started it on Labour Day of 2024.
The first picture is August 3, 2024 as the last true “before times” picture. We started by demolishing the old shed… but the pond work itself didn’t start until Labour Day that year!
We’re getting there! It is almost starting to look like a backyard again :)
A few important things remain from the original yard. The fence, which was mostly just renewed and heightened for bylaw, not changed. The hazelnut tree, which has dealt wi5 all the earthly disturbances surprisingly well. It is full of nuts again this year. The rhubarb, which is impossible to kill if we wanted to and is as big as ever, and the chicken coop and run, which has been moved around but will find a spot eventually.
#diy #patience #gardening #landscaping