2025-10-05 14:01:03
How video games are shaping a generation of boys, as a survey says US males aged 15 to 24 now spend ~10 hrs/week on average on games, over 2x the time from 2010 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/upshot/
How video games are shaping a generation of boys, as a survey says US males aged 15 to 24 now spend ~10 hrs/week on average on games, over 2x the time from 2010 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/upshot/
Pokrovsk in Russia's grip as sister city stares down encirclement: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/pokrovsk-in-russias-grip-as.html
You know what? :angery:
*downgrades your firmware*
Not judging the merits of trying to insult a pile of sand with "clanker"…
…but wouldn't it be more fun and productive to insult the douchebro fartwaffle creators of AI?
Having been a (light but regular) Wikipedia editor for many years has made me reflexively disbelieve anything I read or hear that includes a number but doesn’t provide a citation to back it up. I think this is a good habit?
Here we go again ... Jared #Isaacman has been nominated for NASA Administrator a second time: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/04/trump-nominates-isaacman-nasa-administrator-00636497 and
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/trump-will-re-nominate-isaacman-for-nasa-administrator/. Also https://x.com/rookisaacman/status/1985796145017471442 = a looong statement by him about his leaked document (the 'Athena' plan) mentioned e.g. in https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/11/capitol-hill-is-abuzz-with-talk-of-the-athena-plan-for-nasa/ and https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/03/jared-isaacman-confidential-manifesto-nasa-00633858
NFL Week 14 injury report: Player statuses for all 14 games https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-14-injury-report-player-statuses-for-all-14-games
I've spent enough time in Florida to know that it is a horrible place to live except during a few winter months (and even then, Florida is always a social and cultural nightmare.). So I would guess that these people have several "homes".
However, I would suspect that there are people out there who might consider this kind of concentration of $billionaires as a convenient kind of "targeting coordinates".
'‘The Mamdani effect’: wealthy New Yorkers show …
King Charles decries ‘Russian aggression’ in pledge on defending Europe | Germany | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/03/german-president-state-visit-uk-windsor-king-charles
Anzahl der #Batteriespeicher je #Batterietechnologien in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.11.2025.
2273 nicht aktive und 2 Batteriespeicher ohne Inbetriebnahmedatum wurden a…
Aus aktuellem Anlass: Demokrat*in sein heißt auch immer Antifaschist*in zu sein.
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@MargaXeyat/11548757841974360…
So many conversations about AI literacy and training for museum, library and archive staff at #FF2025! Perhaps we need a RAG chatbot for finding existing training resources in whatever flavour you need
Cuando algunos estadounidenses intentan hablar sobre autenticidad. 😆
«Contó que había ido a Costa Rica a tomar ayahuasca –y cito– en un ambiente adecuado, con gente indígena, en medio de la selva. Aquí hay que aclarar también que la ayahuasca es una bebida que viene de una planta amazónica, no nativa de Costa Rica. Y tampoco es usada por los grupos indígenas costarricenses. Pero bueno…»
https://radioambulante.org/audio/doctor-iboga
Yowzer, take a break from reading all the election news by checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--EU cops bust money launderers who set up crypto fraud network,
--OFAC sanctions DPRK firms for supporting criminal activity,
--Probe reveals how easy it is to intercept EU and NATO sensitive movement data,
--KC PD hack exposes misconduct details,
--Nikkei Slack hack exposes data on 17K employees an…
RE: https://moo.nz/@Tatjna/115657762894893625
Bingo. This is entirely self-defeating. It's preserving the fictional profits of unsustainable producers. Their profits are funded by future generations who'll have to spend far more than these folks are profitin…
Ukrainian drone strikes have cut Russia’s oil-refining volume by as much as one-fifth,
posing a challenge to Russia’s federal budget,
which relies on oil and gas revenue for as much as half of its spending
The military campaign aligns with diplomatic pressure from Donald Trump,
who has focused on pressuring countries to reduce their purchases of Russian energy.
However, the payload of these drones is significantly less than the Tomahawk cruise missile,
whi…
This week’s @… radio episode promotes today’s Last #BandcampFriday Before New Years
Grab these links and give some #accordion artists a gift of inva…
Spent the night in #SanFrancisco - nice view from the W hotel this morning. #Photography
Just me trying to reconcile Baseline listing `<track>` as “widely available” and all browsers shown with green checks when down the page there’s an entire row of red Xes for one of the core accessibility features of `<track>`.
#HTML #accessibility
@norbert@tretkowski.de @… @… @… @…
#NowPlaying the absolute banger from 2000, dead prez' genius LP 'Let's Get Free'. Damn, I listened to a lot of this one back then. Like visiting an old friend
https://youtu…
📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…
from my link log —
Quantitative metaphors for sizes in biology.
https://press.asimov.com/articles/metaphors-size
saved 2025-11-05 https://
What Trade War? China's Export Juggernaut Marches On (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/03/world/asia/china-exports-trump-tariffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p39#a251104p39
RIVM update rioolwaarden en percentage positief Sars-Cov-2.
Na de stijging vorige week, deze week juist weer een daling.
Er zitten 7 nieuwe dagen in de data, van 27/10-2/11 met resp. 95%-1% van de meetstations. Vooral de laatste drie dagen stellen nog weinig voor qua data.
Het gewogen gemiddelde is wel gezakt van rond de 765 naar rond de 665.
#qp2t
Massive Luftangriffe auf weite Teile der Ukraine
Die russische Armee hat erneut größere Drohnenschwärme zu Zielen in der Ukraine gestartet. Die ukrainische Flugabwehr berichtete von einer Reihe von Einflügen von Kampfdrohnen im Osten und Süden des Landes. In weiten Teilen des Landes wurde Luftalarm ausgelöst.
Die Großstadt Saporischschja geriet am frühen Morgen in einen kombinierten Angriff von Drohnen und Kampfflugzeugen, w…
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I consider myself an anarcho‑syndicalist, and to stay true to that, I must be honest with myself and with others. I reject political parties and reformist trade unions because I believe real emancipation cannot come from institutions built on hierarchy or compromise. When someone joins a union that ties itself to a political party or to representative institutions, I no longer feel that we share the same basic ground. For me, any step into party politics, parliamentary games, or electoral st…
Eine spannende Diskussion war das mit drei Generationen, die über jüdisches Leben sprachen: Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Daniel Neumann und Noemi Goldberg bei der Eröffnung der jüdischen Kulturwochen #Stuttgart im Rathaus. Wirklich ein beeindruckendes Programm, das man hier einsehen kann:
O lala, Der Herr der Ringe: Die Ringe der Macht in der ZDF Mediathek. Nice
#herrderRinge
Let us go then you and I
while the night is laid out against the sky
like a smear of mustard on an old pork pie.
"Nice poem Tom. I have ideas for changes though, why not come over?"
-- Ezra
Windows:
"Windows update is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions" 🌱
Also, Windows:
"We don't support Windows 10 anymore so we ask users to dump their 500 million computers that are "too old" to run Windows 11 and buy new hardware"
Also, Windows:
"We will keep trying to force our users to use #Copilot, what, our carbon emissions have inc…
Gibt es bei #Linux eigentlich auch Jugendschutzmöglichkeiten? Also Begrenzung der Bildschirmzeit und Jugendschutzeinstellungen für Browser & Suchmaschinen?
Buch “CIPOG-EZ und CNI-CIG im Auge des Sturms”
"CIPOG-EZ und CNI-CIG im Auge des Sturms" Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit und schwere Menschenrechtsverletzungen gegen indigene Gemeinschaften in Guerrero, Mexiko
in Hamburg erhältlich in der Buchhandlung im Schanzenviertel und im Infoladen Schwarzmarkt
UBURGRUND – Vexjamen
#by
I, erm. I don't know what to think about this.
"BBC: Giant purple dinosaur caught fly-tipping on CCTV"
It was captured on video so there is no doubt that there was indeed a giant purple dinosaur fly-tipping. #Essex (of course!)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c8r3pgr5jdxo
In diesem Artikel werden Wege aufgezeigt, dem drögen Smalltalk zu entgehen und stattdessen etwas Interessantes daraus zu machen.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2
A US federal judge rules that OpenAI must produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT user logs in the copyright lawsuit brought by the New York Times and other news outlets (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/o…
Ya las calles del centro de San José 🇨🇷 estšn con iluminación navideña que tienen figuritas de animales tropicales, como ranas, mariposas, lapas, tortugas y ¡hasta una danta!
#CostaRica
Proposed development in Marina is only 11% affordable, a pathetically low percentage, yet “It would…provide six times more affordable homes than have been built in the Marina District in two decades — only 14 below-market-rate units have been constructed since 2005.”
Says so much about the degree to which affordable housing has been both underinvested in and kept out of wealthy neighborhoods.
@… Mais, mais, ils pourraient voter pour des partis autres que l’UDC!
Jeg har sat mit hold i Kriminallingvistik til at diskutere deres ideer til eksamensemne to og to. Her er et brus af stemmer 😊
Thank you #rhel
A thoughtful #Scottish husband was putting his coat and hat on to make his way down to the local pub.
He turned to his wee wife before leaving and said,
‘Abigail - put your hat and coat on, lassie.’
She replied, 'Awe Dear heart, that's nice - are you taking me tae the pub with you? '
'Nay,’ Fraser replied ‘I'm turning th…
KI-Update Deep-Dive: Wie Kirchen mit KI umgehen
Die großen christlichen Kirchen in Deutschland sehen in KI ein nützliches Werkzeug, warnen aber vor dem Verlust des menschlichen Miteinanders.
https://www.
Malaysian authorities are using drones, power sensors, and tips to hunt Bitcoin miners over power theft, which cost a state energy company $1.1B over five years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Unicorn barf PC is fully back into action!
NFL Week 14 staff picks: Bears-Packers Round 1, decisive battles in AFC North, South https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6858882/2025/12/03/nfl-week-14-picks-bears-packers/
Simultaneously NASA and ESA have published new spacecraft images of #3IATLAS, https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/2025/12/04/nasas-hubble-space-telescope-revisits-interstellar-comet/ from the Hubble Space Telescope on 30 November (just the inner coma with a central condensation) and https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2025/12/Comet_3I_ATLAS_shows_activity_in_Juice_navigation_camera_teaser from Juice's NavCam on 2 November with an early sighting of the plasma tail - more contributions to understanding the behavior of the interstellar visitor.
Eyeing https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/stmicroelectronics/STM32MP257F-EV1/24740245 again.
It has a M.2 connection so I can play with PCIe, the FMC isn't broken out so it won't be trivial to interface with an FPGA…
How 'bout some articles of tossing his ass in jail while we're at it? #WarCrimes and all...
Democrat announces articles of impeachment against Hegseth
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/03/pete-hegseth-impeachment-democrat-shri-thanedar
Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von #Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
The week's cyber news is really heating up so check out today's Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Two cyber pros became cybercriminals to launch a ransomware campaign,
--Hackers infiltrated trucking and freight companies,
--Lawmakers probe Flock Safety insecurities,
--SK Telecom advised to pay $208 per hacking victim,
--Hackers stole 50K CCTV clips using admin123 password,
--AN0M phone snags 55 more vi…
So, when it comes to taking responsibility for our climate sins, our Gov't are dishonourable (even traitors) to NZers and our entire region. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/580824/government-rejects-all-of-…
“Many questions remain about the fund-raising for this project,
including the amount of each contribution,
the agreement reached with each contributor,
what promises may have been or may yet be made in exchange for what presumably will be substantial contributions,
and why the White House chose to allow donors to remain anonymous,”
Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote in letters to several donors
Once again I wonder "Do the authors/maintainers of LibreOffice actually use it?"
For example, I am here on MacOs (Tahoe) and the buttons in LibreWriter to control Bold, Italic, etc are effectively same-color-on-same-color-background, in other words, unreadable. The only time they are actually visible is when the "Dark" theme is used.
Almost every time I use LibreOffice I am reminded why people pay actual $$ for products like Word/Office365.
from my link log —
Vivaldi: a decentralized network coordinate system for predicting RTT.
https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/papers/vivaldi:sigcomm/paper.pdf
saved 2025-11-04
A Russian opposition figure tries — and fails — to mythologize Zelensky: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/a-russian-opposition-figure-tries.html
Justice Dept. defends Lindsey Halligan against unlawful-appointment criticism (Jeremy Roebuck/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/03/justice-department-bondi-halligan-appointment/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251104/p46#a251104p46
Another #GlasgowByNight pic (the Bell tower of the university of Glasgow)
Taken yesterday by R. Grieves
#Glasgow #UniversityOfGlasgow
#Erntedank mit dem ev. Kindergarten. Immer wieder ein Highlight und schön anzusehen:
https://www.youtube.com/live/N142HAJFjqA?si=Fzst3YKgYWVomkXW
Wie sieht Ernteda…
KI-Update: KI-Zentren im Orbit, Huxley-Gödel, Arxiv-AI Slop, KI und Bewusstsein
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.
« ‹ Pour nous, le droit de vote doit être consécutif Š la naturalisation ›, sans quoi, les personnes ne sont pas assez bien formées au système politique suisse et pourraient ne pas se servir correctement d'un bulletin, soutient Lionel Dugerdil.»
Ah ! Étranger trop bête !
AWS says it is developing the Fastnet subsea cable to connect Maryland and Ireland, aiming to launch by 2028 with a capacity of 320Tbps and buried ~1.5m deep (Emily Forlini/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/amazon-equips-next-underwater-ca…
How fragmented sanctions prolong the war and empower Russia’s defense industry: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/how-fragmented-sanctions-prolong-the.html
Germany reaffirms commitment to #SKAO as major contract signed: https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/announcements/2025/8 - OHB Digital Connect will supply 86 highly sensitive receivers for the SKA-Mid radio telescope, currently under construction in South Africa’s Northern Cape; the €10.7m contract is the first to be awarded to Germany since it joined the Observatory just under a year ago.
Deutschlandkarte mit der Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke je Bundesland pro 10000 Einwohner in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025 in einer Farbskala-Darstellung.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: #Steckersolaranlage
A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation
run by armed contractors
—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-is-building-a-24-7-shadow-transporta…
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump's Boat Attacks (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/us/politics/trump-boat-attacks-killings.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p142#a251204p142
Trump rages at 'sleazebag' governor for refusing to free 'elderly' MAGA acolyte - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2674368195/
Documents: Foxconn's subsidiaries and China's Luxshare plan expansions in Vietnam to boost gaming device production, reinforcing Vietnam's supply chain role (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
@… C’est vrai, dans les reportages de la RTS, on ne l’explique pas vraiment. Cet article fournit quelques indices, comme le fait que les diplômés de l'Université œuvrant pour une collectivité publique ont vu leur rémunération baisser de 11%, alors qu'elle augmentait de 8% en entreprise. Pour l’Unil, les coupes proposées posent en effet des problèmes majeurs qui vo…
FIRES in Russia's rear – Ukrainian drones ATTACK! Putin threatens with a non-existent fleet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/fires-in-russias-rear-ukrainian.html
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag
Putin doesn't care about Russia – he enjoys war #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/putin-doesnt-care-about-russia.html
First of Its Kind: Webb Telescope Spots a Planet Losing Its Atmosphere
https://scitechdaily.com/first-of-its-kind-webb-telescope-spots-a-planet-losing-its-atmosphere/
Supreme Court Lets Texas Use GOP-Drawn Voting Map for 2026 (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/supreme-court-lets-texas-use-gop-drawn-voting-map-for-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p141#a251204p141
@… C'est vrai!
Putin lies to Russians about Kupiansk and surrounded battalions #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/putin-lies-to-russians-about.html
Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,242 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.0 %
KI-Update: ChatGPT-Werbung, KI-Persönlichkeit, Chatbot Ello, Apple-Video-KI
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.
FBI insiders reveal they're being pressured to investigate Dems who angered Trump: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fbi-2674368226/
Baidu says its Apollo Go robotaxi hit 250,000 weekly orders globally as of October 31, matching Waymo's 250,000 weekly paid US rides reported in April 2025 (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/china-baidu-robotaxis-alphabet-waymo-.html…
❗️The world feels that there is a chance to end the war, says Zelenskyy #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/03/the-world-feels-that-there.html
How RFK Jr.'s Vaccine Policy Put a Doctor-Turned-Senator in a Political Bind (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/rfk-cdc-bill-cassidy-7a059080
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p143#a251204p143
Wie lange dauert es heute im Schnitt, um 1 #Gigawatt #Solarleistung zu installieren?
Für Freunde der #Kernkraft: Das ist ein fedder
Decentralized exchange Ostium raised a $20M Series A led by General Catalyst and Jump Trading, a source says at a ~$250M valuation, after previously raising $8M (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/03/ostium-series-a-fundraise-perpetuals-perps-cry…
"Abcarian: Does Donald Trump really think he can run for president again in 2028?" - Election Law Blog
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=152369
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach #Solarpaket…
#heiseshow Spezial: Wir bauen die Enterprise-D von Lego
In der #heiseshow: In unserem vorweihnachtlichen Spezial bauen wir im Livestream die Enterprise-D von Lego. 3600 Teile müssen verbaut werden.
HBO Max: Streaming-Dienst ab 13. Januar in Deutschland
Nach langer Wartezeit gibt es einen Start-Termin für HBO Max: Am 13. Januar kommt das Streaming-Abo nach Deutschland. Los geht es ab 6 Euro im Monat.
https://www.<…
MH370: Unterwasserroboter sollen über elf Jahre vermisstes Flugzeug aufspüren
Eine Suchaktion mit Unterwasserrobotern soll das Wrack des seit elfeinhalb Jahren vermissten malaysischen Flugzeugs des Fluges MH370 aufspüren.