2026-04-14 21:31:31
Signs of things to come
#gardening
Signs of things to come
#gardening
Roads are going downhill already and we even haven’t even got to the main event yet.
#mnwx
Pas de hashtag (allez okay mot-croisillon) pour les municipales ?
#frpol
The FBI said a glove found two miles from #Nancy #Guthrie’s Arizona home could match the gloves worn by an “armed” person seen in surveillance footage outside her front door the morning she disappeared, according to the Associated Press.
This comes after the FBI released new photos and videos from Guthrie’s doorbell …
Startup Photreon will Wasserstoff mit Sonnenlicht gewinnen
Bisher wird grüner Wasserstoff per Elektrolyse gewonnen. Das Startup Photreon setzt stattdessen auf Photokatalyse.
https://www.
Die Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung hat jedes Bild veröffentlicht das Leute in einer Fotobox aufgenommen haben auf dem Opernball zum Valentinstag. Ein schlechter Tag um Affären zu haben 😂
Oh, hello, thank you for joining us, you’re just in time for human extinction because we’re stupid. Would you like a drink?
RE: https://mastodon.art/@weirdsatellite/116236345822822852
My base of operations!! 🙀🥗
The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
There are volumes to be written about this poll
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sbdnltkjqzeb5qshxmi7wu2i/post/3meudkau3xb26
jetzt ist ein guter zeitpunkt effiziente software zu bauen
Dallas Cowboys Add 31-Year-Old NFL Vet to Revamped Coaching Staff https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-add-31-year-old-nfl-vet-revamped-coaching-staff
Yes, this Gov't Coalition's decision to slash funding to basic science (and trivialising science as 'a black box you crank and money comes out' with their stupid consolidation of scientific organisations) is a travesty for present and future Aotearoa NZ.
Some of our most educated, capable, earnest people are being spurned by our dumbest & least capable - namely those making up this Coalition. Once we lose specialised scientists, they probably won't come back.…
CS researchers: NSDI 2027 explicitly declines to include work in some topics that are technically in scope (search for "Moreover, NSDI does not include work in…"). Are there other elite conferences that are also doing this? Pointers welcome, thanks!
https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi27/c
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,253,270 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Warum #Katzen immer auf den Pfoten landen
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000312110/raetselhaftes-kunststueck-warum-katzen-immer-…
Zion Young, a trade for A.J. Brown rank among Patriots top choices in first round of 2026 NFL Draft
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking-patriots-top-five-first-round-o…
RE: https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat/116403486703540080
“Highly curated” is hilarious given we know Apple’s app store is not thanks to work from CMA under DMA.
I hope Apple makes those people whole after its failure to honor its promise to cu…
Blast from the Past! 2009 when we did a radio commercial for Bucketworks, and old hackerspace in Milwaukee.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2009/03/25/bucketworks-radio-commercial/
Het stupide kabinet Evilgoz-1 maakt er een staatsrechtelijke bende van.
Wat een verrassing.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/verdwijnen-van-minister-zonder-portefeuille-leidt-tot-staatsrechtelijke-verr…
Endlich Wero ausprobiert, wie so‘n Vollnerd (einen Euro bekommen und einen Euro zurückgeschickt).
I’m shocked I haven’t sold out PyTexas yet! What’s up Austin, I even got a fresh haircut! #Python
https://pretix.eu/pytexas/2026/
gnutella: Gnutella p2p networks (2002)
A sequence of 9 snapshots of the Gnutella peer-to-peer file sharing network from 5-31 August 2002. Nodes are hosts in the Gnutella network topology and edges are connections between them.
This network has 62586 nodes and 147892 edges.
Tags: Technological, Peer-to-peer, Unweighted
https://
Excellent analysis of the war with Iran. (Bluesky link)
#iran
Democrats to force House GOP vote on ending Iran war
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5832270-house-democrats-iran-war-vote/
@… True!
WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/technology/ftc-ad-companies-settlement.html
* Ihr bekommt eine Kategorie im Forum, die ihr selbst gestalten könnt. Eigenes Logo, eigener Hintergrund, eigene Mitglieder, eigene Moderation, beliebige Unterkategorien etc.
Ihr entscheidet, ob ihr öffentlich sein oder "unter euch bleiben" wollt, ob eure Community föderiert wird, ob ihr Kalender, RSS oder Mastodon-Accounts importiert.
Kurz: Wir geben euch alles an die Hand, was Discourse zu bieten hat. Ihr bekommt eine schlüsselfertige Wohnung in unserem Haus und wir h…
Two days into the semester, and already two successful PhD defenses. Congratulations to Sebastian Reimann and Adam Roussel, the first PhDs coming out of @…! It's great to see these years of work coming together like this.
Die Deutsche #Umwelthilfe unterstützt den Vorschlag von Bayerns Wirtschaftsminister Hubert #Aiwanger für eine Sonderausschreibung von 5000 Megawatt #Windenergie, um bereits genehmigte Projekte …
Spliffripper - Funeral Bong
#TuneTuesday #SmokeAndSmokingSongs
RE: https://mastodon.social/@benpate/116403046724832335
Good news on its own but encryption is pretty far down on the list of security issues with Mastodon direct messages— sharing the same interface as public messages and adding anybody who gets mentioned…
Tomorrow leaving for AnimeCon, Friday-Sunday, we go to war (with my urges to spend my entire savings to buy merch). :D
Podcasts https://rmendes.net/podcasts
Nice android update!
#nwsl
Nach dem skandalösen Ausschluss des ukrainischen Skeleton-Fahrers Wladislaw Heraskewytsch bleibt das IOC seiner Linie "unpolitischer", spricht politisch parteiischer, Spiele treu.
https://www.watson.ch/sport/olympia-2026/2
RE: https://mastodon.social/@GeologyWonders/116394005149774483
Infinity Stone #7
🤩 Emojis und unsere Forschung dazu auf Zeit.de! Wenn Ihr Zugang habt, könnt Ihr auch selbst noch mit (über 50k anderen) abstimmen, was Emojis für euch bedeuten: @… #linguistik #emojis https://www.zeit.de/digital/2026-03/emojis-bedeutung-smiley-symbole-unterschiede
I don't want to know banksy's identity. I want it to remain a wonderful mystery.
Iran strikes back after US bombs an oil-critical Iranian island as Mideast war enters third week (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/iran-iraq-us-trump-march-14-2026-oil-prices-a2399398b4c590995b814d7640362a11
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p34#a260314p34
I drunk an ocean of burning hydrocarbons and the soda machine just showed me a kawaii angel
One of my fave scenes from "Two & a Half Men": Judith meets Camille... with Charlie on the keys. 🤣
#comedy #humor #twoandahalfmen
Hunting Soul
There’s a lot of people at the store for some reason. #mnwx
World Computer Day: 80 Jahre ENIAC
Vor 80 Jahren wurde ENIAC der Welt vorgestellt. Nicht der erste, aber der wichtigste Computer seiner Zeit.
https://www.heise.de/news/World-Computer-D
VetternwirtschAfD
The moral bedrock of the United States and Israel is “do as we say or we will fuck you up.”
That’s it.
There’s nothing deeper.
WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers (David McCabe/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/technology/ftc-ad-companies-settlement.html
frage mich wann CDU / CSU wieder asbest und bleihaltiges benzin einführen werden
We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in:
mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitive biometric data that will inevitably be breached.
Every single time.
And every single time it happens,
the politicians who mandated these systems and the companies that built them act shocked—shocked!
—that collecting enormous databases of government IDs, facial scans, and bio…
Andy Allo singing a Prince classic, with Prince on acoustic guitar. Amazing track.
#Prince
The real stars of the winter Olympics are the dapper dudes in the blue coats and caps handing the winners the selfie camera at the end of the medal ceremony.
#MilanoCortina2026
Habermas är död. Sorgligt. Men hans idéer om fungerande kommunikation i demokratier försvinner inte för det. https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2026/03/14…
Judge nukes DOJ subpoenas to Jerome Powell - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2026/03/13/judge-nukes-doj-subpoenas-to-jerome-powell/
Die Deutsche #Umwelthilfe unterstützt den Vorschlag von Bayerns Wirtschaftsminister Hubert #Aiwanger für eine Sonderausschreibung von 5000 Megawatt #Windenergie, um bereits genehmigte Projekte …
If you were to pay for mastodon ads to get folks to sign up where would you buy those ads?
#mastodon
How two lost Doctor Who episodes, not viewed since their airing in 1965, were found and restored; they are the first lost episodes discovered since 2013 (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g7kwq1k11o
Justice Dept. Legal Threat Complicates Trump's Pick for Fed Chair (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/business/federal-reserve-warsh-chair-investigation.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p30#a260314p30
Each page of the book was a sheet of his skin and the Quintillions of information encoded and spiritually transmitted via his cells really strengthened my community organizing and Respect for black bodies
Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/adobes-new…
Stephen Miller’s January 2026 announcement to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers
– telling them that they have “immunity to perform your duties”
and that no “illegal alien, no leftist agitator or domestic insurrectionist” can stop them
– may seem like an extreme statement outside the political mainstream.
And when ICE agents use facial recognition software to monitor immigrants and protesters,
that might seem like an unacceptable invasion of people’s p…
Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS, a text-to-speech model with support for over 70 languages and audio tags that give developers granular speech control (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/google-ships-i
If Your Heart Stopped Right Now, Would a Stranger Save You? It Depends on Your Sex.
https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/if-your-heart-stopped-right-now-would
Really is wild how much little memory Ubuntu uses.
#ubuntu
A look at Now Voyager, a nonprofit bimonthly print magazine focused on long-form international reporting and partly funded by the McCormick Foundation (Alex Vadukul/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/style/a-new-magazine-in-this-media-en…
BOOM: Senate Votes to Block Private Equity from Buying Homes (Matt Stoller/BIG)
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/boom-senate-votes-to-block-private
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p31#a260314p31
バーバラ・セクサロイド
SING OUT, LOUISE!
https://www.singoutlouisenyc.org/
Objection, which aims to use AI and experts to evaluate claims in news stories, debuts with funding from Peter Thiel, Balaji Srinivasan; evaluations cost $2,000 (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/can-
"Over the past few years, multiple studies arguing that amyloid-β is the central driver of Alzheimer’s disease have been retracted. Some scientists have even been indicted for fraud over the issue. All the while, none of the drugs targeting this protein and its pathway have had any real clinical effect."
What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid? - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/whats-the-deal-with-alzheimers-disease-and-amyloid/
Jürgen Habermas, influential German philosopher, dies at 96 (Geir Moulson/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/juergen-habermas-dead-germany-2b541721af6cb19abfaa923359d091b5
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p55#a260314p55
An interview with SemiAnalysis CEO Dylan Patel on logic, memory, and power bottlenecks in scaling AI compute, Nvidia securing TSMC N3 allocation early, and more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)
https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/dylan-patel
Pandora's Revenge: Open The Files, Expose The Epstein Class | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2026/02/pandoras-revenge-open-files-expose-epstein
Pentagon's Boat Bombings Are Illegal, Human Rights Panel Is Told (Carol Rosenberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/us/politics/pentagon-boat-bombings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TFA.OcAd.YrLBVBrF6fNe&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p57#a260314p57
TSMC's N3 logic wafer capacity has become one of the AI industry's biggest constraints, which could push customers to explore greater foundry diversification (SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/the-great-ai-silicon-shortage
BNP Paribas analysis: Anthropic saw visits to its site jump 6.5% after its Super Bowl ad and DAUs jump 11% post-game, outperforming other AI companies (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/anthropic-open-ai-super-bowl-ads.html
Europe’s growing fight over Israeli goods: Boycott movements mushroom | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/16/europes-growing-fight-over-israeli-goods-boycott-movements-mushroom?traffic_source=rss
How Epstein lured girls to his Zorro Ranch and kept authorities away (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epstein-lured-girls-zorro-ranch-new-mexico-investigation-jeffrey-rcna261370
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p56#a260314p56
e-mail from The Women's March:
"Ghislaine Maxwell was Epstein's fixer.
That's exactly what Bondi is doing right now.
Massive redactions. Victims' exposed while powerful men stay hidden. 3 million pages still withheld. And when Ted Lieu confronted her with evidence from the files, she screamed at him instead of answering.
Bondi isn't investigating the men in those files. She's running interference for them.
Every fixer needs a title. Maxwell's was "socialite." Bondi's is "Attorney General."
Iran is receiving 'military cooperation' from Russia and China, foreign minister says (Ayman Mohyeldin/MS NOW)
https://www.ms.now/news/iran-war-military-russia-china-foreign-minister
http://www.memeorandum.com/260314/p68#a260314p68
PHANTOM SIITA is my suggestion for today's #MusicWomenWednesday
Love, Hate
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped. (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260214/p10#a260214p10
Ex-FBI Deputy Director Slams DHS Claims About Latest ICE Shooting: 'They Have No Credibility' (Marco Margaritoff/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew-mccabe-department-homeland-security-no-credibility-ice-shooting_n_69691b03e4b0774cc19f48d7
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p145#a260115p145
Trump Will Keep Nobel Peace Prize Medal Offered by María Corina Machado (NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/foreign-policy/venezuela-maria-corina-machado-offer-give-nobel-peace-prize-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p140#a260115p140
Senators vow to revive crypto bill (Jasper Goodman/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/15/congress/senators-vow-to-revive-crypto-bill-00732862
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p157#a260115p157
Trump, Vance, and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Hate (Andrew Weinstein/Moral Clarity)
https://andrewweinstein.substack.com/p/trump-vance-and-the-mainstreaming
http://www.memeorandum.com/260116/p5#a260116p5