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@seav@en.osm.town
2026-05-30 18:07:07

My latest article for Inquirer.net, the digital arm of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, is now up! 🎉
technology.inquirer.net/147036
Here I talk about using technology to ma…

Digitally mapping the Philippines’ historical markers
MANILA, Philippines – Since 2004, the month of May has been celebrated in the country as the National Heritage Month. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed Proclamation No. 439 in order to

@lpryszcz@genomic.social
2026-03-31 09:05:35

"They discovered that land surface temperatures increased by an average of 2°C (3.6°F) in the months after an AI data centre started operations. In the most extreme cases, the increase in temperature was 9.1°C (16.4°F). The effect wasn’t limited to the immediate surroundings of the data centres: the team found increased temperatures up to 10 kilometres away. Seven kilometres away, there was only a 30 per cent reduction in the intensity."

Figure 2: Temperature increase through time over the AI hyperscalers locations centred around the time of start of operations (i=0), according to the procedure described in Section 3 - equation (1). The aggregate average of the LST difference is shown in red solid line. The shaded areas show the interval between the maximum and minimum value of LST increase that has been recorded across the considered AI hyperscalers. The bar across the average line identifies the limit of the 95th percentile o…
Figure 3: Temperature increase through space as a function of the distance from the AI hyperscalers locations, according to the procedure described in Section 2 - equation (2). The same color policy as in Figure 2 applies here.
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-05-30 19:57:20

As climate change makes extreme weather events more intense and frequent, “uninsurable areas” are becoming increasingly common.
They are a clear demonstration that insurance – the mechanism through which modern societies deal with all kinds of risk – is structurally underprepared for this new climate era.
Uninsurable areas refer to places where property insurance has become either impossible to get or to afford.
This can happen because insurers are not offering coverage in a…

Climate change: how fires and floods are creating uninsurable areas across Europe
From California to France and the UK, traditional private markets are buckling under the weight of climate claims.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2026-03-29 20:39:35

Lynch: 49ers' injury conspiracy 'big nothing burger' espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/483409

Lynch says 49ers' injury conspiracy a 'big nothing burger' - ESPN
A few days after the San Francisco 49ers season ended, general manager John Lynch vowed to investigate anything and everything that might have contributed to the team's avalanche of injuries in 2025.

@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2026-04-29 21:56:46

And just when you thought that the Federal Judiciary could not go any lower....
And then they drop a boulder through the bottom of the boat...
'Trump Judge Says Some Women Are Just a “Warm, Wet Hole”'
'Melissa Isaak is part of Donald Trump’s newly appointed class of immigration judges.'

Trump Judge Says Some Women Are Just a “Warm, Wet Hole”
Melissa Isaak is part of Donald Trump’s newly appointed class of immigration judges.

@nemobis@mamot.fr
2026-04-29 22:14:35

À propos of nothing, #GitLab Inc. financial statements are always an interesting read.

«Additional Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2026 Financial Highlights: Customers with more than $5,000 of ARR reached 10,682, an increase of 8% year-over-year. Customers with more than $100,000 of ARR reached 1,456, an increase of 18% year-over-year. Customers with more than $1 million of ARR reached 155, an increase of 26% year-over-year. Dollar-Based Net Retention Rate was 118%.»
«Our effective tax rate decreased by approximately 111.2% for fiscal year 2026 as compared to fiscal year 2025. A tax expense is expressed as a negative rate because of our pretax loss. The increase in tax expense from fiscal year 2025 to fiscal year 2026 was primarily due to the tax benefit recorded in fiscal year 2025 related to the Bilateral Advanced Pricing Agreement (”BAPA”) negotiations between the United States and Dutch tax authorities (“DTA”), as well as the execution of an agreement b…
The table above includes $131 million of remaining non-cancelable contractual commitments as of January 31, 2026 related to two of the Company’s hosting infrastructure vendors.
@cdarwin@c.im
2026-05-30 23:20:50

One of the clearest examples of an uninsurable area to date comes from California.
In 2024, State Farm, one of the largest home insurers in the United States, chose not to renew 72,000 home insurance policies across the state due, in part, to unsustainable wildfire risk.
It was not alone, as six of California’s twelve largest insurers had already paused or heavily restricted new policies.
Homeowners who can no longer find private coverage are directed to California’s insure…

Climate change: how fires and floods are creating uninsurable areas across Europe
From California to France and the UK, traditional private markets are buckling under the weight of climate claims.

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-03-29 22:07:23

As CBS set the stage for Sunday evening’s Elite Eight game between UConn and Duke,
the network aired a feature segment on Huskies forward Alex Karaban and his family, who are immigrants from the Eastern European country of Belarus.
In an emotional, off-script response to the Karabans’ story, TNT Sports commentator Charles Barkley used the opportunity to call for fairer treatment of immigrants in the United States

Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing.bsky.social)
"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-05-29 20:51:54

Protests against immigration enforcement at a facility where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike erupted in fresh violence on Tuesday night
as federal officers sprayed chemicals and charged at demonstrators outside the jail in New Jersey.
Following hours of relative quiet, a day after masked and armored Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel pepper-sprayed US senator Andy Kim, tensions ramped up again outside the Delaney Hall facility on the fifth day of the s…

‘We are not criminals’: protests erupt as hunger strike rocks New Jersey ICE jail
A day after ICE officials pepper-spray senator, tensions ramp up outside facility on fifth day of hunger and labor strike

@cdarwin@c.im
2026-05-31 03:54:48

A sweeping 2023 Texas immigration law that lets state authorities arrest and deport people suspected of having illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border
can go into effect after a federal appeals court on Friday lifted a lower court’s stoppage of certain provisions.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an unpublished order after Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office appealed the lower court’s May 14 injunction,
which had blocked most of the law a day before it was set …

Federal court allows Texas immigration law to take effect, continuing legal seesaw
A U.S. judge on Thursday granted a preliminary injunction against critical sections of Senate Bill 4, but a provision allowing police to arrest people suspected of illegal entry did activate.