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Last Call: Python für Umsteiger – Einstieg in die KI-Sprache für Entwickler
Alle reden von KI und Machine Learning – Python bildet dafür die Basis. Lernen Sie in fünf Webinaren ab dem 25.04. diese Sprache zu beherrschen.

A look at issues and monetization options for Apple CarPlay; sources: Apple plans to produce 20M-25M units of the entry and mid-tier AirPods launching this fall (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet…

Apple (AAPL) Revamped CarPlay Becomes Last Hope After Apple Car Is Canceled
Apple’s new CarPlay interface was originally designed to fend off Android, but now it’s Apple’s last hope to conquer the automotive industry. Also: Suppliers gear up for a major AirPods launch; the US Department of Justice prepares a lawsuit; and Apple buys a Canadian AI startup.

In around 13 hours Mastodon is projected to have 15.000.000 Users!
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/112110208856842868
Another million, steadily growing :mastodance:

Mastodon Users (@mastodonusercount@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image 14,996,674 accounts +87 in the last hour +7,240 in the last day +75,746 in the last week

PM's advisor: Power cuts in Ukraine may last until August: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/16/pms-advisor-power.html

Last Call M365 Copilot im Unternehmen – verstehen Sie das KI-Tool in 5 Webinaren
Ab dem 21. März lernen Sie in fünf Webinaren Microsofts KI-Welt um Copilot kennen. Meistern Sie den KI-Assistenten in Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint und mehr.

Had this cute little guy show up last night to eat the fries that @… threw out in the backyard just outside our back door.
He ate all the fries, and then afterwards grabbed the only porkchop bone that was left and toted it off to wherever he was staying in the woods I guess.
Kumquat, our 4 year old male cat, sat at the back sliding door and watche…

❤️ The Last of Us' gay Bill and Frank episode nominated for a BAFTA
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/03/14/bill-and-frank-gay-romance-episode-the-last-of-us-bafta/

The Last of Us gay romance episode has been nominated for a BAFTA – this is how you can help it win
The love story between Bill and Frank during episode three of The Last of Us has been nominated for a BAFTA award – and you can help it win. 

Irgendwann heute sind wir 15 000 000 !
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/112109737002270803

Mastodon Users (@mastodonusercount@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image 14,996,503 accounts +75 in the last hour +8,056 in the last day +76,412 in the last week

2024 NFL Draft: Finding the next C.J. Stroud, Puka Nacua and more rookie standouts from last season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2

2024 NFL Draft: Finding the next C.J. Stroud, Puka Nacua and more rookie standouts from last season
Who's primed for a big Year 1 in the NFL?

Normales deutsches Brauhaus
Dick's Last Resort - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick's_Last_Resort

The number of people who describe themselves as Republican has slightly declined since the last presidential election.
The polling firm Gallup, which tracks party affiliation monthly, says that those identifying as Republicans has shrunk by two percentage points since 2020.
In February 2020, 30 percent of those Gallup polled said they were Republicans, while 29 percent considered themselves Democrats.

First Past the Post means 100,000 Welsh voters were denied a say in the last local elections https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/first-past-the-post-means-100000-welsh-voters-were-denied-a-say-in-the-last-l…

First Past the Post means 100,000 Welsh voters were denied a say in the last local elections
Local elections are an important part of democracy in Wales. But did you know that thousands of voters have a councillor that nobody voted for at all?Due to the Westminster-style First

🧊 Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/venezuela-loses-its-last-glacier-as-it-shrinks-down-to-an-ice-field

One more from Chickadee Ridge, last March. Bring some birdseed and they’ll flit down from the trees to snack from the palm of your hand.
https://glass.photo/shacker/3HCRb1wBzdCQWbxFmBiPrJ

One more from Chickadee Ridge, last March. Bring some birdseed and they’ll flit down from the trees to snack from the palm of your hand.
Scot Hacker on Glass

In around 13 hours Mastodon is projected to have 15.000.000 Users!
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/112110208856842868
Another million, steadily growing :mastodance:

Mastodon Users (@mastodonusercount@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image 14,996,674 accounts +87 in the last hour +7,240 in the last day +75,746 in the last week

Happy 23rd anniversary to Weezer's green album, released today (May 15) in 2001. Man, did I listen to this album a lot, and I still can. Might be my favorite Weezer record but I hate the last song - luckily it's last and I can just turn it off when it comes on. 😂
I remember following along online as they were making it, they were posting updates. Some great unreleased/b-side stuff from this era, too.

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Last Shadow Puppets:
🎵 Standing Next To Me
#NowPlaying #TheLastShadowPuppets
https://open.spotify.com/track/03F0Hspx6mEkiiYqEzVu5u
https://solaestella.bandcamp.com/track/standing-next-to-me-the-last-shadow-puppets-sol-estella

One Last Show Before the End of the World 🎸😂😭
Dramatized scifi comedy | A local band fighting to play their first, and possibly last, show in their hometown as the world faces impending doom the night of the concert.
1 seasons, 4 episodes as of May 03, 2022.
https://www.theen…

One Last Show Before the End of the World 🎸😂😭
Dramatized scifi comedy | A local band fighting to play their first, and possibly last, show in their hometown as the world faces impending doom the night of the concert. 1 seasons, 4 episodes as of May 04, 2022.

"First report on data collected by record-breaking rowers shows Great Britain's warming seas
Sea surface temperature data collected by an all-female crew of rowers as they raced around Great Britain last summer has found that U.K. coastal seas were on average 0.39°C warmer in 2023, compared to 2022, according to a new report."
#globaleÜberhitzung

First report on data collected by record-breaking rowers shows Great Britain's warming seas
Sea surface temperature data collected by an all-female crew of rowers as they raced around Great Britain last summer has found that U.K. coastal seas were on average 0.39°C warmer in 2023, compared to 2022, according to a new report.

Las Vegas Raiders officially end an era after latest free agency moves https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_officially_end_an_era_after_latest_free_agency_moves/s1_17313_40121385…

Las Vegas Raiders officially end an era after latest free agency moves
The Las Vegas Raiders have officially ended an era after some of the latest league-wide free agency moves. It's no secret that the Raiders have had a lot of turnover over the last twenty years or so, I guess you could say since the last time they won a playoff game. They have had several different regimes within the last five years, and they go through players fairly quickly, especially guys they draft. Whether it be the Jon Gruden regime, Mike Mayock's regime, or even this last regime with Jos…

Been teaching intro CS in Python for 5 years now. Every semester a student (usually inadvertently) teaches me something new. Last semester it was:
d = {}
for d["key"] in stuff:
...
(Works by updating the dictionary value in each iteration, which makes sense)
This semester, it's:
list.insert(-1, item)
(Inserts item before existing last item, so the item ends up at index -2, which is a bit confusing.)
Thankfully, I enjoy the learning process :)
#AcademicChatter

Linux Fu: Stupid Systemd Tricks
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-2fbe3c20-a7637e7db732067c
Linux Fu: Stupid Systemd Tricks Last time, I gave a whirlwind introduction to a very small slice of systemd

"The [Russian] election that began Friday has taken place in a tightly controlled environment where there are no real alternatives to Putin, no public criticism of him or his war in #Ukraine. Putin’s fiercest political foe, Alexei Navalny, died in an Arctic prison last month, and other critics are either in jail or in exile."

Russia election: Putin basks in electoral victory even as Russians quietly protest
Russian President Vladimir Putin is basking in a victory that was never in doubt, as partial election results showed him easily securing a fifth term after facing only token challengers and harshly suppressing opposition voices. With little margin for protest, Russians crowded outside polling stations at noon Sunday, the last day of the election. They were apparently heeding an opposition call to express their displeasure with Putin. Still, the impending landslide underlined that Putin would ac…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #SaraCox
Katy Perry:
🎵 Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)
#KatyPerry
https://open.spotify.com/track/1htQDV8JxSuXG2QsNj5ttr
https://flaxhubzzy.bandcamp.com/album/katy-perry-last-friday-night-flax-hubzzy-remix

Pictures from last night's evening/sunset hike to a 400m tall waterfall at the end of the valley, celebrating several family events/milestones/anniversaries... Felt like we had the whole valley to ourselves (...and the birdies, and hares and bambies on the way)
#WildWednesday #LandscapePhotography

Learned something I didn't know: three-finger tap invokes a menu to undo/redo 🤯
Do you want to undo your last iPhone text without shaking it like mad? This hidden trick makes removing changes super easy https://www.

Do you want to undo your last iPhone text without shaking it like mad? This hidden trick makes removing changes super easy
Just a single swipe away.

Some days you sit at your desk, others, at a cafe, and some days you need a pint or two at a pub.
End result: bug fixed ;)
(Today was the last of the three.)
🐞 👋 🤓

A last long day in the field and in discussion with colleagues. Snow, narwhals, local community discussions, a new snow site and perhaps a new proposal. A lot to process and tomorrow will be busy packing and preparing..
Good night all.
#Greenland #Fieldwork2024

This HOWTO pay maintainers is a great, practical example for how to get some maintainers paid (at least a bit). I especially like the whole debate on _who_ to give money to and that it's not _donations_ but _steady payments_. Good stuff in there, thanks @… for writing it.

Tomb Raider: completed!
I cleared the last enemies from outside the temple on my first attempt, although it was a pretty close thing, relying on me running away and picking them off one by one.  I approached the bridge, and was confronted by a huge monster.  I readied myself for battle ... and then he was blown off the bridge.  Genuinely funny.

Military: Fall of Chasiv Yar would open Russia's way to 'last strongholds' in Donetsk Oblast: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/16/military-fall-of.html

2024 NFL Draft: Finding the next C.J. Stroud, Puka Nacua and more rookie standouts from last season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2

2024 NFL Draft: Finding the next C.J. Stroud, Puka Nacua and more rookie standouts from last season
Who's primed for a big Year 1 in the NFL?

Famous Last Words number 2. A comic on digitalization by Per Axbom

Last, but definitely not least #Highwomen #MusicWomenWednesday https://youtu.be/7D-6nklMMbM?si=X2Bx-8

"Last Summer Was the Hottest in More Than 2,000 Years"
#Climate #ClimateChange
https://e360.yale.ed…

Some insights from my last poll (apparently it's not possible to make a "anyone can see, only followers can vote" poll so it's followers-only)...
Roughly 1 in 6.5 of my followers are trans (about three times the 5% rate reported in a Pew Research survey from 2022). Of the trans folks, about a third are also furries.
I figured there would be a lot of each, but the amount of overlap (especially the lack of cis furries) surprised me: if you're furry and follow …

Ich hab mal wieder ein Notion-Template gebaut. Diesmal ist es ein kleines Personal-CRM-Template und eine Auskopplung aus meiner Komplettüberarbeitung meiner Studiumsorganisation (die demnächst als Template zur Verfügung stehen wird).
https://www.notion.so/templates/people-dir…

It’s moist after the rain last night but besides that it’s mint ( as the cool kids would say)

Over the last few weeks I have rewatched the first four seasons of Star Trek Discovery as a goodbye gesture before now I start watching the final season. I love the future-of-the-future universe part because it shows how hard it is to build sth like a Federation and how it kind of decenters Earth. And so many wild ideas. The spore drive. Species 10-C. So much badass action. And so many feels. Oh, I will miss them all badly. Michael. Saru. Tilly. Reno. Detmer. All of them. Even Grudge.

“Socks, lies, and accessibility”
https://janmaarten.com/gaad-2023/
Where @… shows that just a couple days after

Socks, lies, and accessibility
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is around the corner. Looking back at last year, I found some troubling things people in this field should be aware of. Because they're likely to be repeated.

@…
I’ve been seeing a very minor problem since the last upgrade.
After scrolling for a while the very top of my iPad screen goes blank, losing the time, date, and the wifi icon and battery %. Everything else works fine. Closing the window and reopening it fixes it until it happens again. Haven’t paid close enough attention to see what’s triggering it. Image…

Hey friends!
Last #photo from my #hiking loop with friends! I myself call this spot "the window". It's really like a little window when you climb this mountain, suddenly there's this spot with a view to the south.
Yes the one needle tree is obstructing the view a bit - but …

Facial Features Integration in Last Mile Delivery Robots
Delgermaa Gankhuyag, Stephanie Groi{\ss}, Lena Schwamberger, \"Ozge Talay, Cristina Olaverri-Monreal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09844

Facial Features Integration in Last Mile Delivery Robots
Delivery services have undergone technological advancements, with robots now directly delivering packages to recipients. While these robots are designed for efficient functionality, they have not been specifically designed for interactions with humans. Building on the premise that incorporating human-like characteristics into a robot has the potential to positively impact technology acceptance, this study explores human reactions to a robot characterized with facial expressions. The findings in…

In the last few days, there have been more beaches. I bloody love this part of the world #photography #wales

Looked at my https://adrianco.medium.com account, I have started a bunch of blog posts in the last few months, but haven’t finished them. Need to do some writing and get stuff off the backlog. Too much work-in-progress. Luckily I’m just posting because I feel like it, so the main thing is not to start a…

adrian cockcroft – Medium
Read writing from adrian cockcroft on Medium. Work: Technology strategy advisor, Partner at OrionX.net (ex Amazon Sustainability, AWS, Battery Ventures, Netflix, eBay, Sun Microsystems, CCL).

From a book I saw last week #Meditation

Having the last name "Matters" I feel would really help with self-esteem.

Just realised that late last night in a mildly catatonic state I wrote "reasoning through abjection" instead of "reasoning through abduction" in this draft, which is quite an on-brand slip of the tongue

Holy cow, Ed Zitron can write about the careening rolling disaster that is the useful knowledge of the web being rendered useless by the glue-factories of modern search
https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-great-looting-of-the-internet/

They're Looting The Internet
Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period. Bloomberg reports that the

As I went to bed last night, the moment I laid down, I started to smell toast. Of course, the first thing on my mind was wondering if I was having a stroke.
Luckily I had no other symptoms, and realised that the smell came through my open window...

Musk doesn’t know how to stop the onslaught of bots? The only way is to charge a $1 fee?
Gee, if only you hadn’t fired and turned away your best developers.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/15/musk-charge-new-x-users-fee/#more-942908

Kaiko: trading volume for the top crypto memecoins reached ~$80B in the past week, the highest since October 2021; total market value of memecoins topped $60B (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

Memecoin Trading at Levels Last Seen Before Crypto Bubble Burst
The memecoin frenzy in the digital-asset market shows no signs of stopping, with trading volumes now at levels last seen just before the burst of the last crypto bubble more than two years ago.

I started a 4th self-updating table, this time of #Media accounts on #Threads that have activated federation (aka "that can be followed from #Mastodon). Is this useful, do we need that? I fear that …

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Bother.
I had a spate of technical problems which undermined my mental health over this winter, and in the last couple of weeks I got to the point I thought I'd fixed most of them...
But I haven't fixed all of them, and continuing problems with computer connectivity in particular are leading me back towards crisis. Things are objectively better than they were, but that is very hard to cling on to.

i missed last week because of the eclipse #MondayActionMovie

2022 retro-link! https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Weird%20monitor bugs - Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years.

Calling criticism of #China "yellow journalism" and then writing an article full of unabashed #China praise and zero mention of #Uyghur forced labor (a key component of cheap solar)...is something.
Reali…

Yellow journalism and China - Climate and Capital Media
China added more solar panels last year than the U.S. has in its entire history

First Past the Post means 100,000 Welsh voters were denied a say in the last local elections https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/first-past-the-post-means-100000-welsh-voters-were-denied-a-say-in-the-last-l…

First Past the Post means 100,000 Welsh voters were denied a say in the last local elections
Local elections are an important part of democracy in Wales. But did you know that thousands of voters have a councillor that nobody voted for at all?Due to the Westminster-style First

This month's @… of wisdom hit a little too close to home:
> And while I don't regret sharing so much of my work per se, there were undoubtedly other things I could have been doing with my time that I didn't consider when I first ran git push or npm publish.

Subscribe to Searls of Wisdom
I wasn't content posting all my content to this blog—which you can separately subscribe to via RSS or Mastodon—so I also started a free monthly e-mail newsletter that I call Searls of Wisdom. (A pun that, in hindsight, makes more sense if you already know that my name rhymes with "pearls".) Each month, you'll pay $0 to get my 2¢ on what last month was all about. You'll also get links to the stuff I've been working on and publishing, whether here or elsewhere.

"the number of inmates has climbed in the past year — jumping from around 830 in 2022 to over 1,000"
This is so sad and a sign of failure. It should be an absolute last resort to take away someone's freedom. Many of those inmates are people whose actions, while harmful, stemmed from desperate efforts to just get by. #sfPol

Sheriff addresses  jail lockdown, claims overcrowding main cause
San Francisco county jails have been on lockdown since Friday, following a series of reported attacks by inmates on nine staff members.

This story warms my heart.
“Fine. I'm not going to drive an hour and a half each way, sit in mind-numbing traffic, contribute to pollution, and pay more in taxes.
So like the smart-ass I am, I responded with a succinct message.
"Please let me know when my last day will be so I can inform my team””
#remoteWork

Thread by @Jauwnio on Thread Reader App
@Jauwnio: Two months ago, my fully remote job of 3 years began a campaign to bring all employees back to office. This confused me, as I was originally hired to be fully remote. I lost that status...

I saw Civil War last night. That was a lot better than I was expecting.

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Last Shadow Puppets:
🎵 Standing Next To Me
#NowPlaying #TheLastShadowPuppets
https://open.spotify.com/track/03F0Hspx6mEkiiYqEzVu5u
https://solaestella.bandcamp.com/track/standing-next-to-me-the-last-shadow-puppets-sol-estella

One Last Show Before the End of the World 🎸😂😭
Dramatized scifi comedy | A local band fighting to play their first, and possibly last, show in their hometown as the world faces impending doom the night of the concert.
1 seasons, 4 episodes as of May 03, 2022.
https://www.theen…

One Last Show Before the End of the World 🎸😂😭
Dramatized scifi comedy | A local band fighting to play their first, and possibly last, show in their hometown as the world faces impending doom the night of the concert. 1 seasons, 4 episodes as of May 04, 2022.

Been teaching intro CS in Python for 5 years now. Every semester a student (usually inadvertently) teaches me something new. Last semester it was:
d = {}
for d["key"] in stuff:
...
(Works by updating the dictionary value in each iteration, which makes sense)
This semester, it's:
list.insert(-1, item)
(Inserts item before existing last item, so the item ends up at index -2, which is a bit confusing.)
Thankfully, I enjoy the learning process :)
#AcademicChatter

Logic Analyzers: Decoding And Monitoring
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-d132a6fa-e25baa017efbcb2f
Logic Analyzers: Decoding And Monitoring Last time, we looked into using a logic analyzer to decode SPI signals of LCD displays,

Famous Last Words number 2. A comic on digitalization by Per Axbom

Dark Gallifrey: Morbius Part 1 🕰️🚀🌌
Dramatized Doctor Who scifi series | The time has come for the last Time Lord battleship, the Proteus, to leave the planet Karn and return to Gallifrey victorious. But her voyage home will not be easy. The Captain is sick, the crew is restless, and there are dark forces lurking in the hold below....

Dark Gallifrey: Morbius Part 1 🕰️🚀🌌
Dramatized Doctor Who scifi series | The time has come for the last Time Lord battleship, the Proteus, to leave the planet Karn and return to Gallifrey victorious. But her voyage home will not be easy. The Captain is sick, the crew is restless, and there are dark forces lurking in the hold below... 1 seasons, 1 episodes as of Apr 03, 2024.

TL;DR: maybe.
Does COVID vaccine protect against symptoms of new 'FLiRT' variants?
https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/4653747-will-your-last-covid-vaccine-work-against-new-flirt-var…

Will your last COVID vaccine work against new ‘FLiRT’ variants?
There are two new COVID-19 variants circulating, posing a threat to a summer surge. Is your last vaccine dose still protecting you?

I haven’t mentioned it yet but for my last 3 gym workouts i was listening to #planetrage .
It gets your blood going and rage at those weights.
Death metal ?
Nah, a good old rage is way superior.
@…
@…

Planet Rage
Discussions on all things rage-inducing.

@…
I’ve been seeing a very minor problem since the last upgrade.
After scrolling for a while the very top of my iPad screen goes blank, losing the time, date, and the wifi icon and battery %. Everything else works fine. Closing the window and reopening it fixes it until it happens again. Haven’t paid close enough attention to see what’s triggering it. Image…

Musk doesn’t know how to stop the onslaught of bots? The only way is to charge a $1 fee?
Gee, if only you hadn’t fired and turned away your best developers.
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/15/musk-charge-new-x-users-fee/#more-942908

I started a 4th self-updating table, this time of #Media accounts on #Threads that have activated federation (aka "that can be followed from #Mastodon). Is this useful, do we need that? I fear that …

Bother.
I had a spate of technical problems which undermined my mental health over this winter, and in the last couple of weeks I got to the point I thought I'd fixed most of them...
But I haven't fixed all of them, and continuing problems with computer connectivity in particular are leading me back towards crisis. Things are objectively better than they were, but that is very hard to cling on to.

Climate scientists say they are running out of adjectives to describe recent weather anomalies.
Last year was the hottest on record:
the World Meteorological Organisation said that temperatures were roughly 1.45°Cabove pre-industrial levels.
Samantha Burgess, the deputy director of the EU’s climate agency, said that the second half of 2023 had “truly been shocking”. 

This year could be hotter still.
In June 2023 the world entered an “El Niño” phase.
This nat…

What is going on with the climate?
As El Niño comes to an end, it could offer clues on whether global warming is accelerating

Instead of doing sports I wrote a bit about a hike that we did last year - despite a challenging forecast.
But as we were just well prepared with umbrellas, hats and ponchos we had a unique mountain experience! The rain and wind hit us right at the summit - but it was just a great moment in the elements! I wouldn't want to miss it!
Enjoy!

Against All Odds: A Rainy Adventure to the Summit
Embark on an adventurous journey as we brave the elements on a rainy hike to the summit. Despite ominous forecasts, we seize the opportunity to explore nature's wild side. Join us as we navigate through wind and rain, finding joy and resilience in the face of adversity.

lastfm_aminer: Last.fm social graph
This network contains the social graph of last.fm, a site that provides a streaming radio service, where users can search music and get personalized recommendation. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i follows user j.
This network has 136409 nodes and 1685524 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

#CarsAndCoffee #LagunaSeca #WeirdCarMastodon about 1000 cars attending this morning, also the last chance to see three AZ-1 together before the orange one moves away.

This month's @… of wisdom hit a little too close to home:
> And while I don't regret sharing so much of my work per se, there were undoubtedly other things I could have been doing with my time that I didn't consider when I first ran git push or npm publish.

Subscribe to Searls of Wisdom
I wasn't content posting all my content to this blog—which you can separately subscribe to via RSS or Mastodon—so I also started a free monthly e-mail newsletter that I call Searls of Wisdom. (A pun that, in hindsight, makes more sense if you already know that my name rhymes with "pearls".) Each month, you'll pay $0 to get my 2¢ on what last month was all about. You'll also get links to the stuff I've been working on and publishing, whether here or elsewhere.

Google says Wear OS 5 will consume 20% less battery life and have more useful watch face complications; the Wear OS user base grew by 40% in the last year (Victoria Song/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24156161/wear-os-5-google-io-smartwatc…

Wear OS 5 will triple down on battery life
We got more details on the next version of Wear OS at Google I/O. In Wear OS 5, users will have more battery life and more watchface complications.

Dark Gallifrey: Morbius Part 1 🕰️🚀🌌
Dramatized Doctor Who scifi series | The time has come for the last Time Lord battleship, the Proteus, to leave the planet Karn and return to Gallifrey victorious. But her voyage home will not be easy. The Captain is sick, the crew is restless, and there are dark forces lurking in the hold below....

Dark Gallifrey: Morbius Part 1 🕰️🚀🌌
Dramatized Doctor Who scifi series | The time has come for the last Time Lord battleship, the Proteus, to leave the planet Karn and return to Gallifrey victorious. But her voyage home will not be easy. The Captain is sick, the crew is restless, and there are dark forces lurking in the hold below... 1 seasons, 1 episodes as of Apr 03, 2024.

UCM to be discontinued: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/16/ucm-to-be.html

Longtime followers of myself know about my neighbor Stefan upstairs, who died last July because of cancer.
His wife was mourning for quit some time as we all did when you live close together.
She started doing better about 3 months ago.
I just came home from the gym and she was in tears and i asked what happened.
Turns out she now has breast cancer.
What in the world ???
Do we all have to be tested like Hiob ?
If there’s a God, why does he do such brutall…

Well was going to stream last night and then internet issues. Ah well. 🤣 Stuff outside my control.

UN sanctions monitors: North Korea laundered $147.5M of crypto through Tornado Cash in March after stealing it late last year from HTX crypto exchange (Michelle Nichols/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cyberse

Exclusive: North Korea laundered $147.5 mln in stolen crypto in March, say UN experts
North Korea laundered $147.5 million through virtual currency platform Tornado Cash in March after stealing it last year from a cryptocurrency exchange, according to confidential work by United Nations sanctions monitors seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

Ukrainian Military Update 5/14/24- 5/15/24: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/15/ukrainian-military-update.html

The Last Echoes 🛰️📓😟
Dramatized scifi | A political science fiction podcast fueled by hope and finding meaning in ordinary moments.
1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Aug 06, 2023.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/the-last-echoes

The Last Echoes 🛰️📓😟
Dramatized scifi | A political science fiction podcast fueled by hope and finding meaning in ordinary moments. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Aug 07, 2023.

Lawyers warn that the bill banning TikTok unless it's sold gives POTUS unchecked power to ban any app or site the President deems a "national security threat" (Maxwell Zeff/Gizmodo)
https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-bill-could-get-lot-apps-banned-185133…

The TikTok Bill Could Get a Lot of Apps Banned
The United States could make TikTok the first app banned by law, but technology lawyers warn it won't be the last.

The Last Echoes 🛰️📓😟
Dramatized scifi | A political science fiction podcast fueled by hope and finding meaning in ordinary moments.
1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Aug 06, 2023.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/the-last-echoes

The Last Echoes 🛰️📓😟
Dramatized scifi | A political science fiction podcast fueled by hope and finding meaning in ordinary moments. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Aug 07, 2023.

Minister: Ukraine exported agricultural products worth $22 billion in 2023: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/16/minister-ukraine-exported.html

Banning TikTok is a performative, unconstitutional, authoritarian move that won't stop China from spreading propaganda or getting Americans' data (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/14/once-m…

Once More With Feeling: Banning TikTok Is Unconstitutional & Won’t Do Shit To Deal With Any Actual Threats
Over the last few days, we’ve had a few posts about the latest attempt to ban TikTok in the US (and to people who say it’s only a divestiture bill: there is a ban in the language of the bill if Byt…

Update: Russian attack on Kharkiv kills two: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/16/update-russian-attack.html

Filing: MGM sues the FTC to stop an investigation into a 2023 cyberattack and asks for Chair Lina Khan's recusal; Khan stayed at the MGM Grand in September 2023 (Sabrina Willmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

MGM Resorts Sues US FTC to Stop Investigation of Casino Hack
MGM Resorts International sued the Federal Trade Commission to stop an investigation into how it dealt with a cybersecurity attack last year.

Record longest air raid alert in Kharkiv, six explosions recorded: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/17/record-longest-air.html

Filing: prosecutors ask a judge to sentence SBF to up to 50 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 28; SBF's lawyers had suggested five to six years (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Bankman-Fried Should Get Up to 50 Years in Jail, Prosecutors Say
Prosecutors said Sam Bankman-Fried should get as much as 50 years behind bars for his role in the collapse of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange in “what is likely the largest fraud of the last decade.”

Economy minister cancels conscription exemption for Glovo, Favbet Tech employees: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/16/economy-minister-cancels.html

Sources: Gopuff, one of the last fast-delivery startups in the US after Getir's exit, burned ~$400M in 2023 and wants to start generating cash by early 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fast-delive…

Fast-Delivery Survivor Gopuff Burned $400 Million Last Year
Instant-delivery pioneer Gopuff is the last speedy-delivery startup left standing in the U.S. after its best-funded competitor, Getir, said last week it would pull out of the country. That’s left Gopuff in the same position it was in 10 years and billions of dollars ago: trying to beat DoorDash. ...