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30%
👉 The damage caused by a disaster can be reduced by 30% if an early warning is issued within 24 hours.
1/3
👉 About 30% of the global population are not yet covered by early warning systems.
50 years
👉 On average, from 1970-2019, a weather, climate or water-related disaster has occurred every day.
5x
👉 The number of disasters has increased five-fold over a 50-year period (19070-2019).
50%
👉 50% of all disasters recorded over a 50-year …

Early warning system

U.S. citizen detained by ICE in L.A. says she wasn't given water for 24 hours
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-citizen-detained-ice-l-says-wasnt-water-24-hours-rcna224493

U.S. citizen detained by ICE in L.A. says she wasn't given water for 24 hours
A U.S. citizen who was detained by immigration agents and accused of obstructing an arrest, before her case was ultimately dismissed, said she is still traumatized by what happened.

GPT-5 surrendered to the hackers in 24 hours and gave out a "recipe" for a bomb, more likely 4o
https://itc.ua/en/news/gpt-5-surrendered-to-the-hackers-in-24-hours-and-gave-out-a-recipe-for-a-bomb-more-likely-4o/

GPT-5 surrendered to the hackers in 24 hours and gave out a "recipe" for a bomb, more likely 4o
Two different teams of researchers tested GPT-5's weaknesses using, among other things, multi-step "narrative" attacks. As a result, the most advanced

Rams have an unusual travel plan for London game that no NFL team has ever attempted

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams-have-unusual-travel-plan-for-london-game/

Raiders QB Geno Smith says MNF performance 'hard to watch' but he's learned from it https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/09/17/raiders-qb-geno-sm…

"Electricity from renewables overtakes coal in Australia for the first time"
#Australia #Energy #Renewables

FLARE USA returns to Columbus Circle
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/10/14/anti-trump-encampment-returns-to-union-station-after-bizarre-permit-revocation-saga/

Anti-Trump Encampment Returns to Union Station After Bizarre Permit Revocation Saga - Washingtonian
A 24-hour anti-Trump protest encampment outside Union Station has had its event permit reinstated after it was cleared by US Park Police and National Park Service employees earlier this month. The continuous encampment, which is run by FLARE USA, had been operating with a permit in Columbus Circle since May 1. In the early-morning hours

Did Apple TV commit user-interface suicide in the last 24 hours?
We are seeing an obsolete login, lost users, and a on-screen menu system with items slopping onto one another.
All within the last 24 hours.
This is via the AppleTV app on a Roku.

half my posts in the last 24 hours were made while unironically listening to Sabrina Carpenter. guess which

Deep uGMRT observations for enhanced calibration of 21 cm arrays -- I. First image and source catalogue
Khandakar Md Asif Elahi, Samir Choudhuri, Nirupam Roy, Md Rashid, Philip Bull, Dharam Vir Lal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09571

Deep uGMRT observations for enhanced calibration of 21 cm arrays -- I. First image and source catalogue
Radio-interferometric arrays require very precise calibration to detect the Epoch of Reionization 21-cm signal. A remarkably complete and accurate sky model is therefore needed in the patches of the sky used to perform the calibration. Instruments such as HERA, which use a redundant calibration strategy, also require a reference sky model to fix degenerate gain solutions. We have carried out a deep (20 hours) observation using the upgraded GMRT to make a high-fidelity sky model of one of the HE…

⏰ London Stock Exchange considers 24-hour trading to stimulate market
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/21/london-stock-exchange-24-hour-trading-boost-market

Office Hours With Sohan & Hameda
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

@… the window from the timeline I measured was ~5 hours but to solve the root issue would require architecture changes to npm publish workflows — but until something changes upstream, yeah — more alerts! more emails! I want to know every time a build dependency in my projects is compromised as soon as possible so that I can make the best choices for my projects
Fro…

oh, okay i guess

Got suspended from Lantian Graber's Wild Ride for 24 hours

Perhaps worth noting usxports, past references, if the same function, appear to have been under .mil names
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115191994244102322

Non-Kramers State Transitions in a Synthetic Toggle Switch Biosystem
Jianzhe Wei, Jingwen Zhu, Pan Chu, Liang Luo, Xiongfei Fu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07797 https://

Non-Kramers State Transitions in a Synthetic Toggle Switch Biosystem
State transitions are fundamental in biological systems but challenging to observe directly. Here, we present the first single-cell observation of state transitions in a synthetic bacterial genetic circuit. Using a mother machine, we tracked over 1007 cells for 27 hours. First-passage analysis and dynamical reconstruction reveal that transitions occur outside the small-noise regime, challenging the applicability of classical Kramers' theory. The process lacks a single characteristic rate, quest…

At 3:00 UTC Saturday the "24 Hours of the #Planetarium" online event begins, with new streams starting every 4 hours:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkq-i57J_LY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHf0Sv1c2WM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kDL8_cobtE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iC2pCZttA68
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0Q8uN9iBq4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMmDUswjVsY
In one playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkq-i57J_LY&list=PLqscU0F-NkNTEtXqzbT92y-zFWjA_Ie6o&index=9 - and see https://iauoutreach.org/global-projects/100-hours-of-astronomy for the "100 Hours of Astronomy" project this is part of.

24 hours inside Pokrovsk as Russia closes in on key Ukrainian city: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/hours-inside-pokrovsk-as-russia.html

This weekend, it was Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Flooding after up to 350 mm (14 inches) of rain within 24 hours. Way more than a used-to-be-1-in-1000-years event.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange

Heavy Rains in Wisconsin Lead to Flooding and Early Closure of State Fair
Record-setting rainfall caused intense flooding in and around the Milwaukee area starting on Saturday night.

Listen to 8 hours of sound dedicated to Palestine - and act -
#DoingGood #EndGenocide
https://

Listen to 8 hours of sound dedicated to Palestine - and act - CDM Create Digital Music
Music and sound are not action -- at least, not normally. But sound can recenter you, rewire your brain, and let you catch your breath before that action. So I find myself returning to this eight-hour broadcast by London's Sister Midnight FM, which includes Palestinian artists who have long been featured on CDM, including Muqata'a, bint mbareh, and Dakn.

“A string of bands have pulled out of a UK music festival hours before they were due to perform after Irish band The Mary Wallopers said they were ‘cut off’ for displaying a Palestinian flag.
The Last Dinner Party, Cliffords and The Academic announced on Saturday that they would no longer be performing at the Victorious festival in Portsmouth following Friday’s incident.
…
Rock band The Last Dinner Party said they would boycott the festival in a statement shared on their Inst…

Bands pull out of UK music festival after The Mary Wallopers say they were ‘cut off’
Irish folk group displayed Palestinian flag on stage in Portsmouth

I think I'll hold my $MSFT, thank you very much.

✅ Microsoft market cap tops $4 trillion after hours on earnings beat - CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/30/microsoft-market-cap-tops-4-trillion-after-hours-on-earnings-bea…

Microsoft officially tops $4 trillion in market cap, joining Nvidia in exclusive club
The software giant reported better-than-expected quarterly results and said Azure's annual revenue topped $75 billion.

Good riddance. "Six days a week, 24 hours a day, two police officers within it would be paid overtime, which comes out to time-and-a-half." Think what we could've done to actually help people with this money. https://missionlocal.org/2025/09/sfpd-

SFPD nixes 24/7 bus at 16th and Mission, offers varying rationales
The command unit was placed at the BART plaza to demonstrate the city’s commitment to addressing drug use and vending

@… https://collectedephemera.substack.com

Collected Ephemera | Jay Hinman | Substack
A deep dive into the paper, magazines and marginal collectables I've accumulated over the years, especially 60s & 70s political rabble-rousing, underground music, smut, hippy/biker stuff, postcards and much else. Click to read Collected Ephemera, by Jay Hinman, a Substack publication. Launched 2 hours ago.

So @… reminded me of something I kind of love. The Japanese "30-hour system". Used in nightlife, broadcasting, and transport, the time extends the day past midnight to keep late-night events grouped with the same calendar day. So a club open from 11PM to 1AM might list its hours as 23:00–25:00.
We should all adopt this!
Sadly Wikipedia does n…

ServiceNow reports Q2 revenue up 22.5% YoY to $3.22B, vs. $3.12B est., and net income up 47% YoY to $385M, fueled by AI growth; NOW jumps 7% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/servicenow-now-q2-earnings-2025.html

ServiceNow lifts guidance on AI growth
"Every business process in every industry is being refactored for agentic AI," said ServiceNow chair and CEO Bill McDermott in a release.

"all babies must be conceived the old-fashioned way, through two minutes of vigorous thrusting and fluid exchanges, followed by a good two hours of gnawing disappointment and regret."
Heritage Foundation Wants You To F*ck For America!
https://www.wonkette.com/p/heritage-foundation-wants-you-to

It's end-of-the-season tournament time and the sportsball team I coach will be playing 2 to 3 games in the next 24 hours and up to 6 games over the weekend. I'm already exhausted and I'm only just putting on my uniform.

Taking a last hit of sugar (couldn’t get a nap) before #id24 kicks off in UNDER TWO HOURS:
https://inclusivedesign24.org/2025/schedule/
I have technical hosting duties for the first 5 hours…

About 65 hours in to Xenoblade 3. Having a great time. I think the story is not the best in the world but the gameplay is really great.
#videogames

Rädda Valhallabadet! I have spent so many enjoyable hours of my life in this lovely public swimhall from the 1950s. Goteborg would not be Goteborg without it. Please sign this petition to save it from unnecessary demolition:
https://www.mittskifte.org/petitions/radda-valhallabadet

Rädda Valhallabadet!
Valhallabadet är inte bara en byggnad med stora kulturhistoriska och arkitektoniska värden utan Göteborgs första och enda demokratiska centralbad med en halv miljon besökare varje år.  Att riva ett fullt fungerande badhus för att bygga ett nytt på samma ställe strider dessutom mot de klimatmål- och hållbarhetsmål som vi har förbundit oss att leva upp till nationellt såväl som lokalt.

Things that were great this weekend: playing copious amounts of FF6. Put in about 24 hours into the game and I'm still not halfway in. Just an awesome game.
Things that weren't a great idea this weekend: Putting in 24 hours to the game. I swear that starting work this morning I could literally see CRT scanlines on my monitors while writing Terraform.
#retrogaming

Mass evacuations in flood-hit Punjab hit 300,000 following alerts by India https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/mass-evacuations-in-flood-hit-punjab-hit-300000-following-alerts-by-india/

Mass evacuations in flood-hit Punjab hit 300,000 following alerts by India
SHER SHAH, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say nearly 300,000 people have been evacuated in the past 48 hours from flood-hit areas of eastern Punjab province, bringing the total number displaced since last month to 1.3 million. Authorities on Wednesday were struggling to divert overflowing rivers onto farmlands to protect major cities, as part of one […]

ok so it turns out that using "your own" anycast infra (renting a shared /32, since a /24 costs waaaay too much) is actually quite straightforward? *shuffles five hours lost to baroque BGP software and stupid fucking TCP MD5 option under the desk*
if i knew this i'd not have bothered with IaaS providers (primary occupuation: billing. secondary occupation: pro-AI extremist rants on the blog full of contept for their customers)

going through my months-old screenshots and this motherfucker is a recurring pattern

And another thing for those of you that get discouraged trying to learn music:
my brain is a weird old thing… The first day I try something new it's just a massive struggle but give it 24 hours to percolate, and the next day it's like 100% easier

Our brains 🧠 are funny sometimes.. now that we own a black car for the first time (as of three weeks ago)… and now that I have driven it for 24 hours over the past week (up to Nova Scotia and back)….
… I am suddenly noticing how many black cars there are on the roads of New England and Atlantic Canada! 😃😮🤯
I had never really paid attention… but now I am seeing them everywhere!

And 2.5 hours later, Starlink is back. The service rather unimpressively promises 99.9% uptime, or about 9 hours of outages a year. So they can do this about once a quarter and still meet their sandbagged goal.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#SundayMorning
- Your perfect Sunday soundtrack
Sarah Walker with three hours of classical music to reflect, restore and refresh, whether you’re here for the first time or every week with your morning cuppa.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002h7vp

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek

The Untold Saga of What Happened When DOGE Stormed Social Security
DOGE has ignored urgently needed reforms and upgrades at the Social Security Administration, according to dozens of insiders and 15 hours of candid interviews with the former acting chief of the agency, who admits he sometimes made things worse.

32°C as a nightly low temperature in Shanghai, city of 30 million. Climate change hitting hard now.
https://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3lw2gy4h3jk2k

Extreme Temperatures Around the World (@extremetemps.bsky.social)
Deadly heat in CHINA. Suffocating heat 24 hours with record hot nights. In particular brutal Minimum of 32.2C at Shanghai which is the hottest night in history for one of the oldest observatories in Asia Nearly all countries in the world have broken heat records in the past weeks. Unprecedented

#Israel must be stopped by any means necessary. By sanctions or by force. Israel is starving the entire Gaza population with the stated intent of wiping it.
https://www.

Request below.
One of our users was lost trying to use Godot's Tile/Terrain support - we had adapted that system to the iPad.
The most effective way of using it today in Godot or Xogot is to spend a few hours looking for explanations on YouTube, and this was not great.
Miroslav took a stab at using our "Guide the user" idiom to try to simplify this process and steer users towards making it work.
The request is: are there other things you find hard to do …

I ordered a thing from Amazon while I was away from home. Bizarrely their delivery to a nearby counter was much swifter than their delivery to the address I was at, so I chose the counter.
They failed to deliver to the counter two days in a row because the business the counter was at lied about their opening hours. I had to cancel the order.
(1/3)

"Low effort, unhelpful AI generated work is having a significant impact on collaboration at work. Approximately half of the people we surveyed viewed colleagues who sent workslop as less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output. Forty-two percent saw them as less trustworthy, "
(Original title: AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity)

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and colla…

The shooting at a Catholic school in Minneapolis was the fourth deadly shooting in the city in just over 24 hours.
In total, the string of violence has left at least five people dead and 25 injured, according to the police.

Live Updates: Motive Sought in Minneapolis Catholic School Shooting That Killed 2 Children and Injured 17
Of the 17 injured, 14 were children and three were adults in their 80s. Officials were looking at the social media content of the suspect, who was also dead.

A gay school superintendent US citizen was detained and traumatized by CBP personnel at Houston airport returning from vacation.
#lgbtq #cbp #ice

Outrage after CBP detains gay VT superintendent for hours
Local officials and national lawmakers are expressing anger over U.S. citizen Wilmer Chavarria’s “deeply disturbing” encounter while returning from vacation with his husband.

"A tree a minute for 24 hours: the young Victorian forest that was planted in a day"
#Australia #Trees #Environment

Especially with service businesses, there’s a sweet spot between “not busy enough to survive” and “the line is too long.”
Went to order a pick-up pizza from the best local place, which happens to be run by a family out of a half-apartment-half-household-paint-store, and was previously only open on Thursday nights and Saturday afternoons. They’ve been hit by the influencers lately, and started offering Uber Eats.
They were sold out for the day when I got the urge, a couple hours a…

Cowboys teammates have been voicing support of Micah Parsons for past 24 hours https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/01/teammates-are-supportin…

Jimmy Kimmel's 28-min return monologue gets 13M views in 14 hours on YouTube; his current most-watched monologue, on his son's health issues in 2017, has 14M (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

Jimmy Kimmel’s Return Monologue on Way to Breaking Host’s YouTube Views Record
Kimmel's emotional and highly anticipated return to ABC is racking up views and might become the most popular 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' monologue on YouTube.

Me: why am I so tired at 1:30a?
Earlier me: flew to Iceland, slept a couple of hours on the plane, landed at 6a, did some stuff, did some shopping, took a short nap, more shopping, drinking, dinner, more drinking, and around 29k steps.

Good morning from Harlem
#GoodMorningFromHarlem

Chinese Livestreaming 'Virtual Human' Salespeople Are Outselling Their Human Counterparts https://www.404media.co/chinese-livestreaming-virtual-human-salespeople-are-outselling-their-human-counterparts/

I decided to test it out by posting this image on TikTok, and it reached almost 1K views in less than 24 hours.
I don’t plan on using TikTok long-term and might even remove this upload, but I just wanted to try it out with some Norwegian hashtags.
https://www.tiktok.com/@emma_erik2000/phot

If #AI is allegedly so good for worker productivity and improving efficiency across organizations, why are the AI companies making their own employees work 72 hour workweeks?
If the tech actually helped them get more done faster, wouldn’t they have SHORTER workweeks? Why aren’t they using their own tools to help their employees?
Context: #Anthropic earlier this year, and they told me that this is a job with far longer work hours than any other place they’ve worked at.
They are also pulling 60 hour weeks there, they have zero tolerance for remote work, because the culture is “you don’t want to be left behind”. This person basically disappeared from social life once they took this job. I had never seen them so tired before.

Friends, tips and thoughts please.
I'm moving my daughter from Paris to Glasgow in a few weeks. I look forward to it, but I also dread it a little. Hurray for Scotland, meh for long distance travel.
Are there any fun things to do along the way that don't take too long? Any tips or recommendations?

LOL
Kimmel's monologue was put on youtube 11 hours ago. By now it has 10 million views.
Way to go, fascists.

Air quality in Iowa is now "unhealthy." The air is hazy and when I stick my nose outside, I can smell smoke.

United sent me a happy-birthday "free upgrade to Economy Plus!"... Less than 24 hours after I booked multiple flights for next month, and already paid for Economy Plus on some of them. Offer not valid on existing bookings.
Thanks, United. Thanks so much...

Leeds former head teacher faces no charges following terrorism arrest for holding up a graphic from a satirical magazine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz9kdq84j3lo

Leeds former head teacher's terror arrest shock over protest cartoon
Jon Farley is held by police under the Terrorism Act for six hours over a placard he was carrying.

"Any tutorial on how to set it up currently?"
I've got you. Just follow these simple instructions.

Turning a paddock into a forest in just 24 hours - a filmmaker's inspiring climate action story. Individual and community efforts like tree planting can make a big impact in fighting climate change. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Russian attacks kill 7, injure 28 in Ukraine over the past 24 hours: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/19/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html

Four NFL trades made in less than 24 hours, plus landing spots for Anthony Richardson and other backup QBs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/four-nf

Since I no longer have any gaming hardware, I completely missed the fact Mafia: The Old Country came out.
It was the game I had intended to play on Xbox when I still had one years ago.
After a few hours spent watching the walkthrough on YT I figured this is not my vibe any more.
I appreciate they deviated from this traditional formula of open world city with cars and guns into something roughly similar to Red Dead Redemption. But it's not exactly something I imagined when I was still waiting for the release.
I dunno. I'm not saying this game looks bad, but I might not be in the place to appreciate it any more.
#gaming #gameing

Finally some information about this strange guy who ride like a train in front of the whole pack. Source: dotwatcher.cc
Nicolas Chatelet #tcrno11cap46: The Quiet Master of Suffering
Nicolas Chatelet isn’t new to long, brutal efforts. In 2020, the Parisian maths teacher rode 11 reps of Plateau de Beille, climbing 21,165 metres in 24 hours – the highest known vertical gain. He fue…

Eating a whole cheese pizza when you’re lactose intolerant is a choice…
That I made 2 hours ago.

Guess the provider, or for half the points the country. Bought a new sim card, took 1-2 hours to activate and pre pay 30 days, then 1 hour of usage, and then it got blocked (according to customer service - another 2h of suffering: unfounded suspicion of terrorism, no less). Unblocking takes at least 5 days, while the 30 days prepaid are ticking. Fuckers. The terrorists have won.😡

2 1/2 hours away for the West Coast broadcast of Jimmy's return!
(Or you can just watch it here)
▶️ Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
https://youtube.com/watch?v=c1tjh_ZO_tY&si=jyLPPLvL7vYWTBBV

Nice #ListeningClub reflection after a week that included 32 hours notice to disassemble my apartment as part of the rehab of our building
These will be my windows for the next two years 🫩

Rose Mulet found my video with 12 views talking about her and she fucking commented on it.
Girl, stop googling yourself and go outside for a few hours.

Seems like old news now, but war.gov arrives
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/115158020378882617

I had a terrible idea some seconds ago, lucky us all that I did not share it.
Had to do with a "useless feature request" I had...like tied to security of the Mastodon account...making you being able to "lock down" your Mastodon account for 24 hours or more...where every toot gets delayed...
but this idea I had to scrap.
Reason: (#)UnnecessaryComplexity
#DumbFeatureRequests

SloPalSpeech: A 2,8000-Hour Slovak Speech Corpus from Parliamentary Data
Erik Bo\v{z}\'ik, Marek \v{S}uppa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19270 https://arx…

I think I want to try a ZX Spectrum Next setup on MiSTer to see if I should get the Kickstarter hardware. Does anyone know of any packs that combine the free/demo Next software so I don’t have to spend hours scraping it from various places on the net? I have found packs of the classic Spectrum software.

Status of the Trinity PeV Neutrino Observatory
S. Stepanoff (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. N. Otte (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Bagheri (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. Barletta (for the Trinity Collaboration), D. Bergmann (for the Trinity Collaboration), J. Blose (for the Trinity Collaboration), J. Bogdan (for the Trinity Collaboration), A. M. Brown (for the Trinity Collaboration), L. Cedeno (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Doro (for the Trinity Collaboration), M. Fe…

Big Tech and finance companies are telling H-1B employees to get to the US in under 24 hours https://www.businessinsider.com/big-tech-employees-h-1b-visa-travel-return-trump-eo-2025-9

@… Pages are offline again. Any prognosis?
#codeberg

what's the inverse of sweatin' to the oldies? is it sweatin' to the newbies? either way, cool your head with 3 hours of (mostly) new music, including some fresh live tapes, on last night's frow show on @…. https://wfmu…

IBM reports Q2 revenue up 8% YoY to $16.98B, vs. $16.59B est., and software revenue up 10% to $7.39B, vs. $7.49B est.; IBM drops 5% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-23/ibm-po…

"A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: while workers are largely following mandates to embrace the technology, few are seeing it create real value. [...] In collaboration with Stanford Social Media Lab, our research team at BetterUp Labs has identified one possible reason: Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."
"Unlike this mental outsourc…

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appears polished but lacks real substance, offloading cognitive labor onto coworkers. Research from BetterUp Labs and Stanford found that 41% of workers have encountered such AI-generated output, costing nearly two hours of rework per instance and creating downstream productivity, trust, and colla…

I should leave. I'm supposed to be at work in 2 minutes.
#BinaryWatch #WristCheck

Italy's Meloni backs Ukraine security plan that gives allies 24 hours to send troops if Russia invades again, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/italys-meloni-backs-ukraine-security.html

New Atlantic hurricane Humberto beats intensity forecasts every time, growing from a tropical storm to a cat. 4 major hurricane with winds of 220 km/h in 24 hours.
Fueled by the warm ocean.
(Expected to curve back into the North Atlantic, fortunately)
Via Eric Holthaus on Bluesky

Raiders are officially in the market for a quarterback https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/23/raiders-in-market-for-quarterback-injury-aidan-oconnell-waiver-wir…

The last 25 years of photographing buildings and landscapes has taught me that being in the right place at the right time helps define the quality of a photograph.
My camper van gets me into places at times that I wouldn’t normally be able to access.
I can now stay over on sites to monitor the local conditions and light levels throughout a full 24 hours.
I’m cut free of the bonds of ‘out of town’ accommodation and site access logistics.
Travelling in the van has been…

Van Life Gallery
My van, Woody, is my time-travelling machine, taking me to some remarkable places that have altered my mind like wine through water.

Microsoft Q4: revenue up 18% YoY to $76.4B, Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud revenue up 16%, net income up 24% to $27.2B; MSFT jumps 6% after hours (Microsoft)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/fy-2025-Q4/press-release-webcast

How about we stop producing and using plastic? This is getting absurdily ridiculous..
"Scientists have discovered that waxworm caterpillars can break down polyethylene plastic, one of the most common and persistent pollutants on Earth. These “plastivores” metabolize plastic into body fat within days, offering a striking potential solution to the global waste crisis. But there’s a twist: on a plastic-only diet, the caterpillars weaken and die quickly."
These “plastivore…

These “plastivore” caterpillars can devour a plastic bag in just 24 hours
Scientists have discovered that waxworm caterpillars can break down polyethylene plastic, one of the most common and persistent pollutants on Earth. These “plastivores” metabolize plastic into body fat within days, offering a striking potential solution to the global waste crisis. But there’s a twist: on a plastic-only diet, the caterpillars weaken and die quickly.

Packers Make NFL Overtime History in Tie Against Cowboys https://www.si.com/nfl/packers/onsi/packers-make-nfl-overtime-history-in-tie-against-cowboys

LOTUSDIS: A Thai far-field meeting corpus for robust conversational ASR
Pattara Tipaksorn, Sumonmas Thatphithakkul, Vataya Chunwijitra, Kwanchiva Thangthai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18722

crypto.gov has arrived
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114948514901920888

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MongoDB reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $591.4M, vs. $553.9M est., net loss down 14% to $47M, and increases its full-year guidance; MDB jumps 28% after hours (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
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Raiders announce first big wave of cuts as they work toward 53-man roster https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/08/25/raiders-first-big-wave-18-waived-released-53-man-roster-cuts…

Why Russia's war won't end yet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/why-russias-war-wont-end.html