2025-12-02 06:15:07
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
SSD-Preise steigen rasant an
https://www.heise.de/news/…
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
SSD-Preise steigen rasant an
https://www.heise.de/news/…
a16z releases a report, with Mercury data, on the top 50 AI companies startups pay for; OpenAI leads, followed by Anthropic, Replit, Freepik, and ElevenLabs (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/a-ne
“Israel’s army is using remote-controlled vehicles packed with explosives to demolish entire neighbourhoods in besieged Gaza City after issuing a ‘last chance’ to leave warning to hundreds of trapped Palestinians.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/livebl…
Nie wieder Treuhand
Trump regime renames National Renewable Energy Laboratory to National Laboratory of the Rockies...
https://www.gravityisgone.com/a-collective-wtf-national-renewable-energy-laboratory-gets-a-trumpian-name-change/
"a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles."
"Waymo recently released data covering nearly 100 million driverless miles ... When compared to human drivers on the same roads, Waymo’s self-driving cars were involved in 91 percent fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes and 80 percent fewer crashes causing any injury. It showed a 96 percent lower rate of injury-causing crashes at intersections...deadliest I encounter in the trauma bay.&q…
A 260 meter, 65 floor sky scraper in Zermatt... "a symbolically disruptive gesture that radicalizes the densification trend found in mountain resorts"
Very much hoping this proposal will be shut down before it gets traction! 🤬
https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/gall…
In neither this year nor the next should anyone expect Russia to propose a deal that is meaningfully different from what it has already.
How do we change the circumstances?
There are two main levers.
The first deteriorates conditions inside Russia to the point that Mr. Putin is forced to consider ending the war as the lesser evil,
and it is achieved by imposing sanctions that would be powerful and smart enough to erode Russia’s capacity to wage war and significantly i…
Why is it that not a single university knows the correct plural of "alumnus"
Or for that matter, the singular. If a university refers to graduates (or graduates refer to themselves) as alum(s), they should be entitled to their tuition back because they have clearly not learned.
»Ansgar Heise, Politik und Die Familienunternehmer: "Scheinheiligkeit und Wegducken"«
— vom @…
Mir ist erst jetzt aufgefallen, dass @… unter Kritik ist und das zurecht. Da ich noch keine…
#AdventOfSystemSeeing @… I started a bit late but had a go at Day 1, draw a bicycle. …
heise | Bluthochdruckwarner in der Apple Watch: So arbeitet die neue Funktion
Hypertonie ist eine oft erst spät entdeckte Volkskrankheit. Die Apple Watch soll das ändern. Wir zeigen, wie gut es funktioniert – und die Einschränkungen.
Pro tip: did you know you can tell what language a puppygirl speaks by the sounds they make?
"Awawawa" is a dead giveaway they're a native German speaker.
If they speak English, it's going to be "rerererere" instead.
#Hebammenhilfevertrag - immer wenn so zwanghaft positiv klingende Namen für politische Entscheidungen verwendet werden, ist Vorsicht geboten.
Es geht um Hebammen. Okay. Es gibt einen Vertrag. Verstanden. ...aber wem wird geholfen?
Wenn ich das richtig verstehe, gibt der Vertrag Anreize Hebammen zu überlasten. Und möglichst vier und mehr Geburten gleichzeitig auf eine Hebam…
Marco Rubio's Sales Pitch: War in Venezuela (David Dayen/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/2025/12/01/marco-rubios-sales-pitch-war-in-venezuela/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p1#a251202p1
National Renewable Energy Laboratory no longer exists.
Release: Energy Department Renames NREL 'National Lab of the Rockies' | NREL
https://www.nrel.gov/news/detail/press/2025/news-release-energy-department-renames-nrel-'national-lab-of-the-rockies'
Ich habe gerade herausgefunden, dass Albert Einstein eine reale Person war.
Bisher dachte ich er wäre nur ein theoretischer Physiker.
#flachwitzfreitag
Democrats get to see what they've lost.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/barack-obama-democratic-party?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
This is one of these days when you discover that you left your shoes out to dry, and now you have very cool shoes.
Es gibt ja in Japan diese "Plain Halloween" (地味ハロウィン) Reihe, wo Menschen alltägliche Szenen in realistischer Verkleidung nachstellen. Die Serie von 2025 ist noch nicht draußen, aber hier als Service die von 2024 maschinell übersetzt:
https://
The National Archives Updates Service Fees https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/the-national-archives-updates-service-fees/
Speak My Language
Shares stories of Indigenous Australians who are engaging in their passions while also living with a disability...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/speak-my-language/
RE: #KI kann nichts wissen und sie kann nichts verstehen...
KI sucht auch keinen Sinn, KI-Ergebnisse erscheinen im besten…
Wymyśliłem komiks, ale nie będę próbował osiągnąć poziomu pięciolatka rysującego niedominującą dłonią z zamkniętymi oczami.
Pierwsza ramka: osoba dziennikarska zadaje pytanie: "Czy obecność kociej sierści na łóżku wpływa na DNA dziecka?"
Druga ramka: kadr przesuwa się bok, w kadrze pojawia się osoba-naukowiec, biały fartuch z długopisem w kieszonce, okulary, kocie uszy i ogon. Odpowiada: "Nie."
A surpresa do dia: hš (pelo menos) um grupo acapella português. E não é nada mau.
#MusicaPortuguesa #music #acapella
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Kate NV:
🎵 Kata
#KateNV
https://katenv.bandcamp.com/track/kata
https://open.spotify.com/track/7bXjxOg5egnmFIt3UsitDP
#Phantastikprompts 3.10.:
Hast du auch schon mal Sachbücher geschrieben? Wenn ja über was? Hat es etwas mit dem zu tun was du aktuell schreibst?
Bisher nicht. Blogposts, teilweise lang genug, dass ich sie als Broschüre verkaufen könnte, allerdings durchaus.
Den da beispielsweise:
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#Breakfast
- Brighten your day with classical music
Tom McKinney presents Radio 3's Breakfast show. To get in touch, email 3breakfast@bbc.co.uk
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mk5f
@…
"Kohler can access your ass from toilet camera"
And many of the people that support him, let me guess…white and rich? Shocking. https://mastodon.social/@jakelazaroff/115304688954799868
#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 02 - Power
CATO: Overlooked. It's self-maintained. Powered by our sun, it will last forever. This generation, even Gunn Sar, believes it to be some kind of magic that keeps the chambers light and warm. A computer is like some ancient god to them.
AVON: What about the Seskas?
Strava sues Garmin for allegedly infringing two patents related to its segments and heatmap features and violating a 2015 agreement between the companies (Ray Maker/DC Rainmaker)
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/10/strava-sues-garmin-demands-stop-sell…
Lieferung innerhalb von 30 Minuten: „Amazon Now“ in den ersten US-Großstädten
Zehn Jahre nach dem „Same-Day-Delivery“ beschleunigt Amazon einige Zustellungen noch einmal deutlich. Das gilt aber nur für ausgewählte Waren in zwei Städten.
Don't forget to be a little weirdo today.
The Grinch did nothing wrong. He wasn't *stealing* #Christmas, he was just gathering a corpus for training his #AI model. Investors are already lining up with their billions to fund the construction of the Whoville Data Center, ignoring concerns from residents.
Is it really foss?
Where Projects are Evaluated — To see if they're as free and open source as advertised. The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth.
This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.
💻 https://isitreallyfoss.com
Close-up view of the audio-responsive LED floor installation I co-created for the KEF Muon launch in 2007 @ Sala del Cenacolo (Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milano). The animation was repurposed from one of my first projects I created with Processing (in 2003)...
The 2 meter tall speakers were designed by Ross Lovegrove and made from milled solid aluminium...
The installation was created by Moving Brands (my old employer), a short video of the project/instal…
ICE Transfers 18 Migrants From Guantšnamo, Emptying Detention Site (Carol Rosenberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/us/politics/migrants-guantanamo-detention-removal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p6#a251003p6
Sammelklage gegen Vodafone zieht sich in die Länge
Vodafone erhöhte die Preise für 10 Millionen Kunden. War das rechtens? Verbraucherschützer klagen, doch die Sammelklage nimmt nun einen Umweg über Luxemburg.
https://ww…
An analysis of Waymo's data covering ~100M driverless miles across four US cities: Waymo cars have far lower crash rates per million miles than human drivers (Jonathan Slotkin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o…
#SteadySupporter
Zahlen aus den #USA zeichnen ein überraschendes Bild: Während Milliarden in KI-Technologien investiert werden, sinkt bei großen Unternehmen die KI-Nutzung.
Was ist da los? Ein Blick auf die Umfrageergebnisse und möglich Konsequenzen. Es bleibt spannend in den nächste…
‘We Must Stop Tinkering Around the Edges’: Van Hollen Makes Case for Medicare for All Amid ACA Fight | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/van-hollen-medicare-for-all
Christianity as a power tool. Again. Crusaders, Teutonic Knoghts, Conquistadores, the Inquisition; all are inspiration for MAGA.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/jd-vance-usha-christianity?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Ashes Rugby League
A podcast dedicated to previewing the most anticipated international series in two decades...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ashes-rugby-league/
Did a little night swim yesterday. It was actually dark but the camera makes it look more like dusk. Water at 10°C #uckermark #coldswim
Wy też zawsze macie zapas czystych ręczników papierowych w lewej kieszeni, prawda? (Do prawej trafiają użyte.)
Schokolade - ein sinnliches Material, das verstanden und gefühlt werden will, damit es seine Freiheit ausleben und sich mit Leidenschaft und Emotion entfalten kann
Discovering Wawa Wiwa comics has made my day: #happiness
Series C, Episode 10 - Ultraworld
ULTRA 1: We have collected a great deal of information about earth and its dominant species, with one important omission. We intend to rectify that deficiency.
DAYNA: And if we agree?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/310/505 B7B5
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Home Front:
🎵 Watch It Die
#HomeFront
https://arewenothomefront.bandcamp.com/track/eulogy
Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance
[…] From passports to colonial passbooks, from welfare cards to border regimes, the apparatus of identification has always been tied to domination. Digital ID is simply the latest iteration of this long history, but with a scale and sophistication that makes its dangers even more profound. […]
👷
Ärztin zur E-Patientenakte: „Unverschämtheit, dass die Preise da drin stehen“
Ärzte kritisieren die aktuelle Umsetzung der E-Patientenakte und wünschen sich, dass die bisherigen Systeme erst stabil laufen, bevor weitere kommen.
Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword (Zane Irwin/KCUR)
https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2025-10-02/director-of-eisenhower-library-in-kansas-ousted-after-refusing-to-give-trump-administration-a-sword
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p143#a251002p143
Trade data shows South Korea's chip exports rose 38.5% YoY to a record $17.26B in November, driven by strong data center demand and higher memory prices (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/south-korea-…
#SteadySupporter
Künstliche Intelligenz optimiert die #Strahlentherapie. Neue Systeme passen #Bestrahlungspläne in Echtzeit an, indem sie
'Stupid Rules': Hegseth Endorsed Summary Execution Of Military Captives In 2019 - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/pete-hegseth-war-crimes
Patient PrepRheum Podcast
Exploring important and often-misunderstood aspects of living with autoimmune arthritis and related conditions here in Australia...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/patient-preprheum/
verblichene Metamorphose
AI is Dumber on Mondays
It's Monday morning. My coffee is hot, my IDE is open, and Claude Code just suggested I fix a bug by... creating the exact same bug in a different file. Cursor is hallucinating function names that don't exist. Codex thinks undefined is a valid return type in TypeScript.
Did the AI catch a case of the Mondays?
🤔
Oftewel hoe de 'in' in in-formatie steeds meer dezelfde betekenis kreeg als de 'in' in in-sane, in-firm, in-ept, in-sincere, etc.
Hoe Amerika een land werd waarin leugens niet meer worden achterhaald door de waarheid https://www.
Uber acquihires Belgian data labeling startup Segments.ai to expand its lidar data labeling capabilities; its founders and staff will join Uber AI Solutions (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Faces:
🎵 Bad 'n' Ruin
#Faces
https://open.spotify.com/track/3LgBgR8bWBlPkskCYgw5IF
Elise Stefanik is Johnson's latest challenge as he struggles to keep control of the House (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/elise-stefanik-mike-johnson-feud-00674030
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p178#a251202p178
#Batteriespeicher sind zentral für die #Energiewende, können aber längere #Dunkelflauten allein nicht überbrücken.
Sie stabilisieren Netze und helfen, Strom aus
Waymo's self-driving cars appear to be bending traffic laws and growing impatient with pedestrians as the company seeks to make them "confidently assertive" (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/…
Despite loss, Democrats overperformed in bright red Tennessee House race (Andrew Howard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/02/tennessee-aftyn-behn-matt-van-epps-democrats-00674118
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p174#a251202p174
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Anna von Hausswolff:
🎵 Stardust
#AnnavonHausswolff
https://annavonhausswolff.bandcamp.com/track/stardust
https://open.spotify.com/track/6KWt47cpOrc0mWWrNmb6lg
Stripe agrees to acquire Metronome, which offers APIs to help SaaS companies charge customers based on usage and has raised $128M in total funding (Scott Woody/Metronome)
https://metronome.com/blog/important-company-update
Ex-Honduras president, convicted of drug trafficking, freed on Trump pardon (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/02/hernandez-trump-pardon-prison-honduras/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251203/p1#a251203p1
Analysis: sports volumes on Kalshi approach $1B a week, with open interest in sports contracts regularly above $100M, significantly higher than other categories (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e80df917-2af7-4a37-b9af-55d23f941ec6
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Dean Johnson:
🎵 A Long Goodbye
#DeanJohnson
https://deanjohnsongs.bandcamp.com/track/a-long-goodbye
https://open.spotify.com/track/62w3sawAiMk48AcuzVTQXv
U.S. Diplomats Report Broken Morale and Abandoned Careers (Michael Crowley/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/state-department-morale-survey.html?unlocked_article_code=1.508.50Wo.bhqQOVMzRFlU&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p177#a251202p177
IBM releases Granite 4.0, an open source "enterprise-ready" LLM family with a hybrid architecture, claiming it uses significantly less RAM than traditional LLMs (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/western-qwe…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou:
🎵 Song of Abayi
#EmahoyTseguéMaryamGuèbrou
https://thiopiques.bandcamp.com/track/the-song-of-abayi
https://open.spotify.com/track/185EiYT58r61hdnHxjKVzT
National Guard presence may deter crime, but experts warn of the long-term costs (Martin Kaste/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/02/nx-s1-5558372/national-guard-deter-crime-long-term-cost
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p152#a251002p152
Sources: delays in the deal to send Nvidia's AI chips to the UAE, announced in May, are frustrating Jensen Huang and administration officials like David Sacks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/nvidia-trump-uae-chip-deal-delay-c49aaa5c…
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE official sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi says the DOJ requested its removal (Ashley Oliver/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple-takes-down-ice-trac…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Dove Ellis:
🎵 Pale Song
#DoveEllis
https://open.spotify.com/track/5NbilllIdF8lp4FmdX7OF8
Trump's immigration raids continue through Halloween in Chicago and Los Angeles (Lauren Aratani/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/trump-immigration-chicago-los-angeles-halloween
http://www.memeorandum.com/251101/p51#a251101p51
Trump administration pauses immigration applications from nationals of 19 countries (Zoë Richards/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-administration-pauses-immigration-applications-19-countries-rcna247106
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p179#a251202p179
What the special election in Tennessee's Seventh District means for the 2026 midterms (G. Elliott Morris/Strength In Numbers)
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-special-election-in-tennessees
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p175#a251202p175
RFK Jr. is very worried about anti-Christian bias at HHS...under Biden (Marisa Kabas/The Handbasket)
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/rfk-jr-anti-christian-bias-hhs-survey-biden
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p176#a251202p176
Trump-backed Republican keeps crucial congressional seat in GOP hands with special election victory (Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/republicans-keep-crucial-congressional-seat-gop-hands-special-election-victory
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p173#a251202p173
Pope Leo Confronts Trump: Don't Invade Venezuela -- and No "Solo Deal" in Ukraine (Christopher Hale/Letters from Leo)
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leo-confronts-trump-dont-invade
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p172#a251202p172
Rand Paul: Hegseth is either 'lying to us' about boat strike or 'he's incompetent' (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5631028-paul-questions-heggeth-competence/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p171#a251202p171
Nearly a third of Americans have had a 'romantic relationship' with an AI bot, new survey says (Mike Bedigan/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/americans-romantic-relationships-ai-chatbot-study-b2838217.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p1#a251003p1
ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: 'We Are Determined to Fight This' (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/iceblock-owner-after-apple-removes-app-we-are-determined-to-fight-this/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p151#a251002p151
Trump asks 9 colleges to commit to his political agenda and get favorable access to federal money (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-political-agenda-colleges-federal-money-756407729a3b16c7bb51564d5056084c
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p149#a251002p149