
2025-08-26 15:09:53
Ukraine to relax border crossing rules for men aged 18-22 on Aug. 26: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/ukraine-to-relax-border-crossing.html
Ukraine to relax border crossing rules for men aged 18-22 on Aug. 26: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/ukraine-to-relax-border-crossing.html
Improvements in the Reconstruction of IceCube Realtime Alerts / IceCat-2 - Updated IceCube Event Catalog of Alert Tracks / Two 100 TeV #Neutrinos Coincident with the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 7469: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06957 / https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06176 / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adb031/meta -> Source Desperately Sought: https://news.rub.de/english/2025-08-22-astrophysics-source-desperately-sought -> Detecting Neutrino Trajectories in Real Time: https://news.rub.de/english/press-releases/2025-08-22-cosmic-radiation-detecting-neutrino-trajectories-real-time
Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bundesregierung: Deutschland ist in Technologiebereichen von US-Firmen abhängig
When boycotting Israeli goods (have you heard, they’re committing genocide), make sure you check for country of origin on the label, not just the barcode that starts with 729.
https://www.ipsc.ie/press-releases/a-note-on-barcodes-israel-…
A profile of Gunnar Wiedenfels, the "hard-nosed accountant" who is WBD CFO and future Discovery Global CEO after the split from WBD, managing CNN, HGTV and TNT (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/gunnar-wiedenfels-finance-chief-to-lead-w…
Ich gebe in diesem Moment eine Präsentation über Mastodon :mastodon: an der Leibnizschule Hannover 🚩
Forty-four US AGs sign an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies, warning they'll be held accountable if their AI chatbots knowingly harm children (Samantha Cole/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/44-attorneys-general-to-ai-chatbot-companie…
@… so, i'm looking at the built-in capacitor multiplier schematic in falstad. it does have the two graphs be the same, as promised, yes. but changing R2 makes absolutely no difference. and also removing R2/U1 makes no difference. where is the multiplication?
@… I would push back on that! Sometimes a site being down is better than a site leaking sensitive info, as a counterexample 😅
from my link log —
Swarm testing data structures.
https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-04-23-swarm-testing-data-structures/
saved 2025-04-30
EU wildfires worst on record as burning season continues https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/22/eu-wildfires-worst-year-on-record-as-season-continues
More rain! OMG, I love it so much.
Trump's Stunning Power Grab on Elections (Barton Gellman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/opinion/trump-voting-mail-in-ballots.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gk8.ImSf.-QnH9mQ2MNvx&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p38#a250824p38
"Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study"
#AirPollution #Pollution #Health
(Nimer's blog) Beyond the verbal descriptions: My dreams for a multisensory future #blind
Mission Impossible: Final Trainwreck. Need help here. Should I..
Speaking at a campaign rally Cuomo said Mamdani had run a “really smart and good and impactful campaign”.
“Tonight is his night. He deserved it. He won,” Cuomo said
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/24/new-york…
#China hat als erstes Land weltweit die Marke von 1.000 GW installierter #Solarleistung überschritten.
Allein im ersten Halbjahr 2025 wurden 210 GW neu zugebaut. Das Land setzt gezielt auf Erneuerbare Energien, um fossile Abhängigkeiten zu verringern und seine industrielle Position zu stär…
How to watch NFL games in 2025: RedZone, streaming, TV channels, broadcast info and more https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6501477/2025/08/25/how-to-watch-nfl-2025-streaming-tv-channel/
How much energy does your AI prompt use? It depends.
“[…]grid operators are freaking out. Tech companies can’t just keep doing this. Things are going to start going south.”
www.sciencenews.org/article/ai-energy-carbon-emissions-chatgpt mobile_share=true
#ai #aienergyconsumption
The ultimate answer to the flag mafia.was written in 1878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kiLApX8FbQ
I'm a (mostly) happy user of #Musescore but I'm taking a look to the other notation softwares. Which one do you use or recommend from the other 2 notation softwares still alive today (#finale is dead)?
#SheetMusic
Miau, all ihr schönen crazy cat ladies! ☺
Ich hab da mal was vorbereitet.
(Echt 925 Sterling Silber, handgemalte 8mm #wandklexschmuck Galaxien)
Zu finden auf https://www.wandklex.art/product/galaxiefarbe-aus-14-farben-waehlbar-handgemalte-galaxie-gefasst-in-925-sterling-silber-ohrstecker-katzenoehrchen-442449.
The orders of complexity of websites (and what they imply for the design of web platform features) #design
Our #personalscience wiki got a lot of LLM-generated spam posts in the past days, so it's once again time to rotate the captcha questions.
How has some fun ideas for questions "AI" struggles with? I've already added questions about the number of "R" in blueberry & strawberry 😂
#citizenscience
»Filz aus nachhaltig recycelten PET-Flaschen." — Vorher Plastik ist auch nachher Plastik. Von nachhaltig keine Spur. #justthinkin #greenwashing
Any good selfhostable webuis for yt-dlp out there that lets you like download a bunch of videos from different places at the same time and like having individual progress bars and individual errors for them?
Stumbled across my old NeXT "floptical" disc while looking through old boxes at the office! I've been wondering where this had gone for a few decades now: I have archives of most of my files from 1992 (when we founded Omni) through the present, but this was where I had archived my active files for several of the years prior.
Now to see if any of our NeXT cubes still has a working magneto-optical drive that can read this data…
The Information War Report is back—LIVE tonight at 8 PM EDT!
Milo & Brian explore how media is covering Trump’s threats to civil rights & global stability, plus why local journalism is key to democracy.
Don’t miss it:
https://mediaanddemocracyproject.substack.com
As of today, people in the UK visiting sites likely to host pornographic, self-harm, eating disorder and suicide-related content will have to prove they are over 18.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/age-verification-comes-into-force-in-t…
TIL: Franz Josef Wagner (das ist so ein ganz furchtbarer Bild-Schreiber) und Andreas Baader, der Begründer der RAF, waren gemeinsam bei den "Schwabinger Krawallen" https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/alex-assmann/im-gefaengnis-frei.html
Club de Toby progresista. Columna de Paula Escobar.
https://wallabag.altgr.xyz/share/68ab9399491cf7.63415961
Link original 🔗
‘Frog in boiling water’: Nicolle Wallace warns US creeping toward crisis under Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/nicolle-wallace-2673917768/
Ende des Liveblogs
Wir schließen den Liveblog für heute. Vielen Dank das Interesse!
📑 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-ukraine-montag-522.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tages…
Trump sagt, ihr könnt euch amerikanische Inhalte aneignen, wie ihr wollt: "Wenn jemand ein #Buch oder einen Artikel liest, hat er sich umfangreiches #Wissen angeeignet. Das bedeutet jedoch nicht, dass er gegen das #Urheberrecht
Sehr gut. Die Unterkunft des Vertrauens im Lande der Eidgenöhsen schickt schon vorab das ÖPNV-Ticket, das in der Unterkunft mit drin ist, damit man das auch zur Anreise nutzen kann.
I've completed my move away from Google Workspace for my email and calendars. I dumped Google for search months ago but the mail move took a little more time. I do not want to support Google financially and if I can avoid using their services I will.
What a nice and #foss service for anonymous email forwarding with #openpgpg support.
https://addy.io/
Little bit of sun and our bananas started ripening in the bag. First of 5 bunches we have on, two ladyfingers, two cavs, and this one a ducasse. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden
Gestern fuhr ich an zwei Menschen vorbei, die offensichtlich gerade neue Mountenbikes mit extrem lauten Freiläufen zur Probe gefahren sind.
Und ich war so genervt davon, dass ich vergaß, freundlich zu grüßen
Russian attacks kill 1, injure 15 in Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html
@… somewhere, Google Tag Manager’s ears are tingling
Climate change amplifies extreme rains more than light precipitation, study finds #environment
Sources: Meta is in advanced talks to buy PlayAI, which uses AI to replicate voices for interfaces that are as "responsive as a conversation between two people" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Penske Media sells TVLine, a site launched in 2011 that focuses on TV news, interviews, and reviews, to Static Media, which owns SlashFilm, The List, and more (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/tvline-acquired-static-med…
DOT repaints Pulse crosswalk for a second time. FHP and OPD watching site (Natalia Jaramillo/Sun-Sentinel)
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/08/24/dot-repaints-pulse-crosswalk-for-a-second-time-fhp-and-opd-watching-site/?share=taptanuhtsu8il8sisai
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p36#a250824p36
The much anticipated tenth test flight of the #Starship - an assessment in https://milesobrien.substack.com/p/starship-at-the-crossroads-can-test - could come at 23:50 UTC tonight: SpaceX's webcast will be at https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1yoKMPRjeYYxQ while others are already running at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qmknQKRsIM and https://www.youtube.com/live/C7WmlTp7ue0 and https://www.youtube.com/live/QFFysWdL4wI
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Fun and weirdness with SSDs and PostgreSQL.
https://vondra.me/posts/fun-and-weirdness-with-ssds/
saved 2025-08-21
Natürlich trag ich mein handgemaltes #wandklexschmuck-Zeugs auch selber! Nach langer Zeit mach für Euch mal wieder mein privates Schatzkästchen auf und erzähl dabei die zugehörigen #klexklusiv-Geschichten - diesmal mit festlichem Anlass, aus Gründen. ☺
#meetthemaker
Läser om algblomning och hur farligt det är för hundar. Att det påverkar hundar så här snabbt och är så här allvarligt hade jag inte koll på. Superläskigt... 😳
https://firstvet.com/sv/artiklar/algfoergiftning-hos-hundar
Trump says he discussed Russia’s nuclear disarmament with Putin: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/trump-says-he-discussed-russias.html
Microsoft has unveiled “Copilot Vision”, a successor to the controversial Recall feature, as part of its expanding suite of AI tools for Copilot PCs – and it's already drawing criticism for its privacy implications.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/w…
Judge Releases Teens Charged in ‘Big Balls’ Assault in Blow to Trump
https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-releases-teens-charged-in-big-balls-assault-in-blow-to-trump/
Ukraine verurteilt Woody Allens Teilnahme an russischem Filmfestival
Die Ukraine hat US-Regisseur Woody Allen wegen seiner Online-Teilnahme an einem von der russischen Regierung unterstützten Filmfestival scharf kritisiert. Allens Teilnahme sei "eine Schande und eine Beleidigung" für die ukrainischen Schauspieler und Filmemacher, die durch russische Kriegsverbrechen getötet oder verletzt worden seien, erklärte das ukrainische…
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Die SP Zürich im Kampf gegen sich selbst. Und gegen eine FDP, die immer noch glaubt, dass Menschen weniger krank werden wenn es mehr kostet. #zürich #prämienverbilligung
The variables they introduce for 'playing' are really thought provoking... and yes, the video explains the answer.
▶️ This game theory problem will change the way you see the world - Veritasium
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mScpHTIi-kM&si=r2pxhpSLnnkbQ5Dp
I don't like triaging emails and teams messages after a vacation.
Vivani subsidiary Cortigent (which took over the visual prosthesis technology of Second Sight Medical Products) claims that "Argus II has been discontinued due to the small population of patients with RP" https://www.cortigent.com/argus-ii after 350 blind people had received the Argus II retinal …
Trump-linked firms
cash in on mineral lobbying deals
as US cuts aid
https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/transition-minerals/revealed-trump-linked-firms-cash-in-on-mineral-lobbying-deals-as-…
@… the takeaway I’m reading is that it’s a common problem for WordPress sites to need that ol’ Windows-machine-style reformat (for whatever reason)
Heat-styling hair care products release billions of nanoparticles that can accumulate in lungs, engineers find https://phys.org/news/2025-08-styling-hair-products-billions-nanoparticles.html
Polish president's veto won't threaten Ukraine's Starlink access, Nawrocki's office claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/polish-presidents-veto-wont-threaten.html
A cosmic formation site of silicon and sulphur revealed by a new type of #supernova explosion: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.02054 -> What Lies Beneath The Outer Layers Of A Star? https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/supernova-inner-core/
Reeves sends Mississippi National Guard troops to DC. Should they be in Jackson? Take our poll (Mississippi Clarion Ledger)
https://eu.clarionledger.com/story/news/2025/08/22/mississippi-national-guard-troops-deployed-to-washington-dc-should-troops-deploy-in-jackson-ms-crime/85779464007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p42#a250824p42
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Minimal version selection revisited.
https://matklad.github.io/2024/12/24/minimal-version-selection-revisited.html
saved 2025-08-06
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Netflix acquires the Japanese media rights to carry the 2026 World Baseball Classic, marking the first time it will stream a live event in Japan (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/world-baseball-classic-netflix-japan-3ca47c79a174e31…
Trump dämpft Erwartungen an mögliches Putin-Selenskyj-Treffen
US-Präsident Donald Trump hat sich zurückhaltender zu einem möglichen Treffen zwischen dem russischen Präsidenten Wladimir Putin und dem ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj geäußert. "Ich weiß nicht, ob sie sich treffen werden. Vielleicht werden sie es tun. Vielleicht auch nicht", sagte der Republikaner in Washington auf Nachfrag…
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@… I had to read it three times before I realized it said hero and not villain 😅
The clothes that never die: How fast fashion is burying Africa in plastic https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/the-clothes-that-never-die-how-fast-fashion-is-burying-africa-in-plastic/
Dark wounds on icy moons - Ganymede's subsurface ocean as a dark matter detector: #DarkMatter Detector: https://gizmodo.com/a-physicist-wants-to-turn-jupiters-largest-moon-into-a-gigantic-dark-matter-detector-2000645934 - Ganymede, the biggest moon in our solar system, could hold clues to dark matter, according to a new proposal.
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Lecture notes on the π-calculus and Concurrent ML.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~fp/courses/15312-f04/handouts/26-picalc.pdf
saved 2025-07-26
Die Abschwächung des Golfstroms durch den #Klimawandel birgt große Risiken für Europa. Wie beeinflusst das Schmelzen des Grönlandeises und das Einströmen von #Süßwasser in den #Nordatlantik
Selenskyj spricht mit Kellogg über Russland-Sanktionen
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat nach eigenen Angaben mit dem US-Gesandten Keith Kellogg über mögliche Sanktionen gegen Russland gesprochen. Bei einem Treffen in Kiew sei es um Wege gegangen, Moskau zu "echten Verhandlungen zu zwingen und den Krieg zu beenden", teilte Selenskyj in einer Online-Erklärung mit.
"Sanktionen, Zölle - alles muss auf dem Tisch …
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Ghislaine Maxwell just made Trump look even more guilty (Dean Obeidallah/The Dean's Report)
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/ghislaine-maxwell-just-made-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p41#a250824p41
Yesterday, I got the server buttoned up but I still need to get an operating system installed on the new SSD. I also have a DMG image of the old SSD. I think that the plan is to sit somewhere comfortable with a laptop this week and get an operating system installed on it through my JetKVM.
Surya - Foundation Model for Heliophysics / SuryaBench - Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Machine Learning in Heliophysics and #SpaceWeather Prediction: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14112 / https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14107 -> Here comes a foundation model for the Sun: https://research.ibm.com/blog/surya-heliophysics-ai-model-sun?previewToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpZCI6MTEsImlhdCI6MTc1NTYyMTUwOSwiZXhwIjoxNzU1ODgwNzA5LCJzdWIiOiI0NDY1In0.pv2-edPifhET2uDPQB4hsp4HsBzhZycvMcFlZpjFQKA -> NASA and IBM Unveil AI That Helps Scientists Forecast Solar Storms: https://gizmodo.com/nasa-and-ibm-unveil-ai-that-helps-scientists-forecast-solar-storms-2000645123 - experts recently identified major gaps in their ability to forecast space weather; Surya aims to fill them.
Weather tracker: monsoon rains cause deadly floods in Pakistan and India https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/22/weather-tracker-monsoon-rains-deadly-floods-pakistan-india
Trump berichtet von weiterem Telefonat mit Putin
US-Präsident Donald Trump hat nach eigenen Angaben seit dem Ukraine-Treffen im Weißen Haus vergangenen Montag mit Kremlchef Wladimir Putin gesprochen. Der Republikaner bejahte eine entsprechende Frage einer Journalistin und erklärte, jedes Gespräch, das er mit Putin führe, sei "ein gutes Gespräch". Wann genau das erneute Gespräch stattfand, sagte Trump nicht. Vor Journalisten m…
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This Weekend in Politics, Bulletin 193. (Ron Filipkowski/Meidas )
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weekend-in-politics-bulletin-c91
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p40#a250824p40
I made five breakfast burritos yesterday. Thank you, previous me.
A Letter to Emmanuel Macron (Charles Kushner/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-letter-to-emmanuel-macron-cf01bc5e
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p39#a250824p39
The New Acronym Driving South Korea's Summit With Trump: MASGA (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/the-new-acronym-driving-south-koreas-summit-with-trump-masga-aed1aad9
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p37#a250824p37