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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

Filing: SpaceX reports 2025 revenue of $18.7B, up 33% YoY, a $4.9B loss, vs. a $791M profit in 2024, and $20.7B in capital expenditures, up from $11.2B (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/technol

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Pulls Back the Curtain on Its Finances
Mr. Musk’s rocket and satellite maker disclosed its financial performance for the first time, as it prepares to go public in what is set to be one of the largest offerings to date.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Cloud provider Railway says Google Cloud temporarily suspended its account without cause; in 2024, GCP deleted the account of an Australian pension fund (The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/

Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage
This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit

Der Grüne Ortsverband Karlsruhe Nordstadt hat für diesen Freitag eine spannende Lesung mit der Aktivistin und Autorin Penny Prinz im Kulturhaus Mikado organisiert zum Thema Überwachung und Widerstand in Hongkong nachdem die Demokratiebewegung dort niedergeschlagen wurde https://karlsunruh.org/event/745d4b49-

nach der Revolte – Lesung mit Penny Prinz | KarlsUNRUH
Hongkong 2024: Eine Buchhändlerin, die nicht mehr weiß, welche Bücher sie noch verkaufen darf. Eine Dozentin, die nicht denunziert werden will. Ein Gesetz, so vage, dass jeder damit gemeint sein könnte, ein intelligenter Laternenpfahl, und ein anarchistisches Café, das den Zuständen trotzt. Dieser Reisebericht beschreibt den Alltag in einer Stadt, in der die nationale Sicherheit die Freiheit ersetzt hat. Er erzählt von Überwachung, Repression und Widerstand - und einem Modus digitaler H…

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: Update wertet PS-VR2-Grafik merklich auf
Die neueste Beta von Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 beschert der Playstation-VR2-Version einen Qualitätssprung, den in dieser Form niemand erwartet hätte.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: Update wertet PS-VR2-Grafik merklich auf
Die neueste Beta von Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 beschert der Playstation-VR2-Version einen Qualitätssprung, den in dieser Form niemand erwartet hätte.

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

Suomalaiset kuluttavat yhä paljon eläinperäisiä tuotteita #ruoka

Suomalaiset kuluttavat yhä paljon eläinperäisiä tuotteita | Animalia-media
Suomalaisten lihankulutus on pysynyt lähes samalla tasolla kuin vuonna 2024. Kulutus väheni edellisvuodesta vain noin 0,2 kiloa.

Designing single-layer PDMS devices for micron to millimeter-scale deformations
Leon Valentin Gebhard, Alexandre S. Avaro, Gabriel Amselem, Charles N. Baroud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17402
arXiv:2605.17402v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The elasticity of PDMS has played a central role in advancing important microfluidic technologies, ranging from early valves to sophisticated organ-on-a-chip systems. However, most deformable microfluidic devices are based on geometries that require complex multi-layer PDMS architectures and include thin membranes, leading to difficult microfabrication and poor stability. Recently, Jain, Belkadi et al. (Biofabrication 16.3 (2024): 035010) introduced a single-layer device in which a wide and long microfluidic channel was deformed by controlling the pressure in two independent and adjacent air chambers. While they demonstrated the ability to deform the channel ceiling to compress biological materials, the design parameters remain unexplored. Here, we perform a numerical study on 14,336 variants of this device and identify the height of the PDMS layer, the width of the microchannel and the width of the air chamber as the main features that determine the ceiling deformation. Three deformation modes are observed as the geometrical parameters are varied: A U shape with a central minimum, a W shape with two minima and a central maximum, or an inverse U shape with an upward-bulging single maximum. The numerical results are validated in experiments that reproduce the three shapes for the predicted geometries and demonstrate vertical ceiling deformations ranging from a few microns to the millimeter scale. The generality of this approach is demonstrated for two example applications: A fully closing single-layer microfluidic valve and an optical lens of controllable anisotropy. This work leverages the rapid prototyping enabled by 3D printing or micro-milling to open new perspectives in microfluidic actuation.
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"‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?
#Coral #CoralReef #SouthKorea

‘Slumping’ afflicted soft corals around a South Korean island in 2024. Will it return this year?
JEJU ISLAND, South Korea — In April 2025, I zipped myself up into a thick wetsuit and inched down a steep, rocky ledge toward the gray-blue water encircling Beomseom, a small island off the southern coast of Jeju Island in South Korea. Then I leapt into the chilly sea and wriggled into my scuba gear […]

Got my Phlegmesis tapes in from Iron Fortress! They were on sale and I couldn't resist. 'The New Wave of Rotten Fornication' was of course one of my top 20 albums of 2024, and even the Phlegmesis LEFTOVERS are sick.
Here's New Wave if you wanna hear it: https://phlegmesis.bandcamp…

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…

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.

Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

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…

Lionsgate Takes Equity Stake in Runway AI With Plans For AI Show
Lionsgate has taken an equity stake in the generative AI video company Runway and plans to pull from its existing catalogue of franchises for an AI short-form series, expanding a partnership the two companies struck in 2024 and cementing the studio's bullish approach to the technology.

Bright red Indian shot flower (canna indica). Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. November, 2024. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4. #huntingtonlibrary #flowers #bloomscrolling

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.

June 2026 was the second-warmest June on record globally, 0.12°C cooler than the warmest June in 2024.
The average global temperature for the last 12 months (July 2025 to June 2026) was 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average, and 1.43°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.

Verschobene Siri: Apple will 250 Millionen US-Dollar an Kläger zahlen
Apples bereits im Sommer 2024 angekündigte verbesserte Sprachassistentin ist immer noch nicht umgesetzt. In einem US-Klageverfahren gibt es nun eine Einigung.

Verschobene Siri: Apple will 250 Millionen US-Dollar an Kläger zahlen
Apples bereits im Sommer 2024 angekündigte verbesserte Sprachassistentin ist immer noch nicht umgesetzt. In einem US-Klageverfahren gibt es nun eine Einigung.

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

#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…

Endometriose: „Frühe Diagnose ist entscheidend“
Die Zahl der Frauen mit der Diagnose Endometriose ist in den letzten 20 Jahren stark gestiegen – zwischen 2005 und 2024 von rund 230.000 auf gut 510.000. „Diese Zahlen sind ein Beleg dafür, dass die Symptome immer früher und häufiger diagnostiziert werden“, erklärt die Schmerzforscherin Prof. Dr. Esther Pogatzki-Zahn von der Universität Münster der neuen Folge des „Umdenken“-Podcasts. Darüber hinaus spricht sie Hausärzten bei der Diagnose der Krankheit eine wichtige Rolle zu u…

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.

40 Prozent des deutschen Mittelstands nutzt KI
Der Anteil der mittelständischen Unternehmen, die Künstliche Intelligenz einsetzen, ist seit 2024 um 118 Prozent angestiegen. Rund 40 Prozent nutzen KI.
https://www.

40 Prozent des deutschen Mittelstands nutzt KI
Der Anteil der mittelständischen Unternehmen, die Künstliche Intelligenz einsetzen, ist seit 2024 um 118 Prozent angestiegen. Rund 40 Prozent nutzen KI.

Running a TOR snowflake proxy
#tor

Running a TOR snowflake proxy

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.

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

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.
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#AI to recreate F/OSS in a "clean room" without acknowledging that it trained on F/OSS takes copyright evasion to an uncomfortable new level.
To anybody actually versed in machine learning, this …

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.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@rfceditor/116660055140888488
huh, RFCs are published more frequently (on average) than i thought!
first RFC was 7th April 1969
20 000 days after that was 9th January 2024
looks like RFC 10 000 will be betwee…

Burgum was considered the
not-completely-crazy candidate for the GOP nomination in 2024.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mpvq5so5qu2o

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni settle their legal battle over the 2024 film It Ends With Us, avoiding a federal trial that was scheduled to begin in two weeks (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/blake-lively-justin-baldoni-sett…

Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Settle Epic Sex Harassment Lawsuit
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have settled their epic lawsuit over conduct on the set of 'It Ends With Us.

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

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…

"Amazon deforestation is falling, but progress is stalling"
#Deforestation #Amazon #Trees #Environment

Amazon deforestation is falling, but progress is stalling
In 2025, the area deforested in the country fell below 1 million hectares in a year for the first time since 2019. A total of 984,794 hectares of native vegetation were cleared during 2025, a reduction of 20.6% compared with 2024.

Spanne der Bruttospeicherleistung von #Batteriespeicher​n pro Inbetriebnahmejahr von Privatpersonen in Deutschland mit Stand vom 31.05.2026.
419 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefiltert.
Der Datenbestand enthält unplausible Datensätze.

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-…