Forgive these sleep-deprived rantings - they come from a happy, people-appreciating place! :D
It has become freshly amazing to me, the many ways of framing or encountering music. As a child it almost always provoked narrative experience; travel escapades - personalities arriving, things happening, a world generating itself. This disappeared fairly quickly from around ten onwards, and went to abstraction: sound as sound, music as music. In feeling out metaphors to try and give it langua…
Burn down all fossil fuel infrastructure. #ClimateChange #WildfireSmoke #AQI
Xiaomi reports Q2 revenue down 6.1% YoY to ~$16.2B and net income down 21% to ~$1.4B, above est., amid a persistent memory shortage and weaker smartphone demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-18/xi…
Drought in the Netherlands: precipitation deficit for the season reached above 300 mm, a rare value, 150% above peak in a mediaan year.
Now forecasted to stabilise thanks to a bit of rain.
Worst in the west of the country.
#drought #ClimateChange
Trump has set up his White House to affirm his frequently arbitrary instincts above all other considerations.
He has insulated himself from opposing views and made internal dissent verboten.
At no point does Trump receive neutral information;
just about everything is tailored to his whims, impulses and mercurial disposition.
The result is that he is isolated from reality to the extent that he is practically living in a fairy tale.
September Descent (2026)
Beautiful late summer day & mood, on the way back down into the valley. Only another few precious weeks until the snow arrives (hopefully)...
Also, just to illustrate that black & white conversion/editing always offers a huge spectrum of possibilities: Here's my current chosen/preferred WIP conversion base edit (second image, with custom fine-tuned weights for primary hues) vs. using the default HSV desaturation route only (which here produces muc…
"Specifically, BEV registrations saw above-average growth of 62%, rising to 78,600 units. [..] Year-to-date figures show a 50% rise in new BEV registrations to 446,600 units."
https://www.vda.de/en/press/press-releases/2026/…
There was once speculation that smoke flies use smoke as a way to rid themselves of mites (see them on fly's abdomen in pic linked above). #mites https://digitalcollections.usfca.edu/digital/api/collection/p15129coll11/id/987/download
This makes sense. I now find very hot days more sapping than when younger. However, over successive heat waves this summer, I seem to have adapted somewhat.
Extreme heat more dangerous for people 60 and over than previously thought | Older people | The Guardian
https://www…
At the Corner IV ✨
在角落里 IV ✨
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wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
the sky above the port was the color of a television tuned to the present terrifying moment.
Yes. It is real. He actually posted it.
(Context: Blue Angels, US Navy precision flight team, flew above beachgoers in Florida and jet wash, the kinetic energy of flight, hit the beachgoers. The flyover is in violation of the law, Navy policy and basic understanding of pilot responsibility for anyone older than 5.)
The flyover: https://yout…
UK local government structures aren't the most exciting, glamorous part of our democratic institutions; but abolishing our local district councils AND the County Council, and replacing it with a new body that will be like a sort of council, covering the whole... county, like the existing council but with fewer elected reps, a bigger budget and bigger coterie of faceless professional administrators. I wonder if the Chief Ex's pay will be above £250K?
So it
- costs a load o…
Der August 2026 war mit einer globalen Durchschnitts-Temperatur von 16,96 Grad Celsius der wärmste August seit Beginn des ERA5-Datensatzes. Auch die Meeresoberflächen-Temperaturen außerhalb der Polarregionen erreichten einen August-Rekord. West-Europa verzeichnete seinen bislang wärmsten Sommer. Besonders hohe Meeres-Temperaturen traten an Europas Atlantik-Küste und im westlichen Mittelmeer auf.
Overlooking Všrpalota, Hungary.
find yourself a sworn enemy that goes above and beyond 🖤
ASML reports Q2 net sales of €9.3B, above €8.8B est., a €2.9B net profit, above €2.6B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €36B-€40B to €43B-€45B (April Roach/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/15/asml-2q-earnings-ai-chips-orders.html
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部分 IV ⚙️
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Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.atom-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.atom-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Electrical Noise Produced by Micron-Sized Particles above a Surface Paul Trap
Ben Saarel, Ozgur Sahin, Hartmut H\"affner, Alpha T. N'Diaye
We Are All on the Decoy Plane
#USpol
This #Yubico #YubiKey Standard from approximately 2012 was on my personal key ring ever since on a daily basis. It has been my first FIDO2 token.
It now ceased to work after approx. 14 years as it's no longer recognized by a computer when plugged in.
Fortunately, it's been mostly replaced…
The new group (1)4489 on the left just above the clouds during today's Bochum #sunset - later timesteps in https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mqmygeisqc22
Water levels in Lake Powell,
the second-biggest reservoir on the beleaguered Colorado River,
are in danger of falling so low that its dam can no longer generate hydropower,
according to a federal analysis released Wednesday.
The new “most probable” forecast from the Bureau of Reclamation projects that
the height of water in Lake Powell,
which sits on the border of Utah and Arizona,
will fall to 3,491 feet by March.
That’s just one foot above
oh wow #footpathfriday again! And I almost missed it. This is from a bike and hike last year which I really really enjoyed.
Afterwards I was quite surprised about the distance and height that I covered. But it was worth it.
#mountains
"This summer was the hottest ever recorded in Catalonia, with temperatures more than 3°C above the 1991-2020 average across 80% of the territory, according to the Catalan Meteorological Service (Meteocat).
Meteocat stations recorded 20 days with temperatures above 40°C between June and August, according to a Catalan News Agency (ACN) analysis, surpassing the previous record of 16 days set last year."
Saw this 4 color eink display in a store showing gray. No obvious pixel half toning. So can they actually do controlled intensity of the pigment somehow within a pixel?
I've only worked with b/w and r/b/w eink but they were all boolean, i.e. a bit plane was on or off there was no gradient capability
There have been recent projects by Historic England and Museum of London Archaeology #MOLA to record historic #ghostsigns Here is an example of a more contemporary one. Presumably John Lewis are no longer "at home"?
California Poppy. Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California, USA. March, 2025. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 40-150mm F.8. #santabarbarabotanicgarden #poppy #flower…
Man: slept pretty good last night, no drinks must've helped.
Next: walks past supermarket, sees new brand, buys beer.
Why? Let's verify the statement above ?
Truer: spineless bastard 😆
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July was the second warmest on record globally, tied with 2024, and just behind 2023.
The global average temperature for July 2026 was 16.90°C, 0.67°C above the 1991-2020 average for July and 1.47°C above the estimated pre-industrial average for the month.
From https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-
duolingo achievement unlocked! (four year streak)
Car juice will be back above $4/gallon on a national average basis in the next couple weeks.
https://bsky.app/profile/peark.es/post/3mqkajtmcms2j
We’ve passed 1.5°C above pre-industrial temperatures. 2.4°C is now unstoppable. Recent projections show we’re on track to reach 3.0°C by 2050, a level of heat that puts billions of lives at risk from un-liveable heat, agricultural collapse, social upheaval, and war. https://4billiondead.org/
Other than that major search engines have been trash for a long time, is there a reason that the Elon Musk's fascist copy of Wikipedia shows up in search results near and sometimes even above the original Wikipedia page in DuckDuckGo (which is mostly Bing under the hood)?
wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…
Shanghai's tech-focused Star 50 index is up 29% in 2026, and its P/E ratio is 150 , above Nasdaq 100's 35, fueled by Beijing's tech push and an investor frenzy (William Sandlund/Financial Times)
Eve Of Dusk Ⅰ (2026)
(Evening walk in the local wetlands)
#SilentSunday #EveningWalk #NaturePhotography
oh heh, in terminator 2 the animator liza keith used a classic CG checkerboard floor as a stand-in when working on the “head through floor” scene, before the background shots were available
james cameron liked the effect so much, they went back to the set and covered every other white floor tile with black…
TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$39.45B, net income up 77.4% YoY to ~$21.9B, both above est., and says chips 7nm or smaller were 77% of its wafer revenue (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/tsmc-second-quarter-profit-.html
Berlin entry always a drama
Well, my years-long streak of 100% BGA yield wasn't going to last forever. It looks like I had two pins on the STM32H7 fail open on one of the scope demo boards I made last weekend, perhaps due to insufficient flux, too rapid a thermal ramp, or not enough time above liquidus.
Easily fixed by squirting a bit of flux under the chip and running a second oven cycle (although I then had to swap a few non-reflowable pin headers that I had put on thinking I was done with high-temp process…
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Santa Barbara County detectives reopen cold-case homicide from 1988
In February 1988, human remains were found in a mountain range above Santa Barbara, which were later identified as those of Mitchell “Buster” Garcia, a Santa Barbara resident.
An investigation at the time determined his death “involved foul play,” but little other information was shared publicly.
“Given the time that has passed,
detectives are reaching out to the public to identify anyone who may h…
During today's #Bochum #sunset the big #sunspot (1)4482 was seen in the lower right while at "10 o'clock" - above the church spire - the new group (1)4489 has just appeared on the disk. Later timestep: https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3mqkjezmlp22g
India's UPI, which has been free for merchants, will impose a 0.4% merchant fee on certain payments above ₹2,000, or $21, from October 15 in a major shift (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/15/indi
August 2026 was the hottest on record globally, followed by 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The temperature was well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial.
From Copernicus ECMWF
#globalwarming #ClimateChange
I don't normally use the tag #ClimateDiary but it's worth mentioning that in South Manchester it stinks of smoke - moorland fires above Oldham brought by a strong ENE wind.
We last had this before the pandemic.
RE: https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/117102183665641304
Creating a permanent caste & class system requires withholding access to education for the "lower orders".
The 1% doesn't want the 99% getting ideas "above their station in lif…
June 2026 was the second-warmest June on record globally, 0.12°C cooler than the warmest June in 2024.
The average global temperature for the last 12 months (July 2025 to June 2026) was 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average, and 1.43°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average.
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Sources: Uber is in advanced talks to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal valuing the German food-delivery company well above its recent market value of €11.2B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-14/uber-is…
Vera Rubin NVL72 inference tests show up to 7x better token throughput per MW vs. Blackwell on a 1.6T DeepSeek model, above Huang's 3x claim for 1T-3T LLMs (Bryan Shan/SemiAnalysis)
https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/vera-rubin-nvl72-agentic-inference…
Fog Over Forggensee (2026)
(Stunning light & fog encounter on a recent early morning walk...)
#LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography #Fog
Nervous investors across big economies have been dumping government bonds,
driving up the cost of borrowing, as surging oil prices amplified fears about rising inflation.
The cost of a barrel of oil jumped 6% to above $107 on Thursday amid concerns that advances by Houthi rebels along the Red Sea coast in Yemen could choke off Saudi crude exports.
The global bond sell-off that has rocked markets in recent weeks resumed in response to the news from the Middle East
– wh…
Mariensprung (2021)
A 160 meter tall waterfall emerging straight out of the rock below the Waxenstein, and a tributary to the Hammersbach in the Höllental (Hell's Valley).
#WaterfallWednesday #Video #POV
eBay reports Q2 revenue up 15% YoY to $3.13B, vs. $3.02B est., GMV up 15% to $22.4B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/ebay-forecasts-quarterly-revenue-above-estima…
In the first half of 2026, more than 140 homes in San Francisco sold for at least $1 million above their asking price,
44 of them in June alone.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/07/san-francisco-home-sale-prices-ai?CM…
Shopify reports Q2 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.6B, above $3.45B est., GMV up 32% YoY to $115.6B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above est.; SHOP jumps 30% pre-market (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/canadas-shopify-for…
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“You’re just watching from above,
and no one is aware that the drone is there,”
Curry says.
“It felt kind of creepy.”
Applied Materials reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $9.12B, vs. $8.99B est., net income up 43% to $2.54B, and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/appl
Yesterday, after a day of documenting some of this year's maintenance works and super lovely, interesting insights and exchanges with the amazing team & volunteers at Breslauer Hütte, we took the Seuffertweg high above the valley towards Vernagt glacier and then back down to civilization. Breathtaking views of the glaciated peaks of the Kreuzkamm (opposite side of the valley), Mitterkar and Wildspitze (3770m, our side) directly above us... Some dodgy exposed & severely eroded section…
NOAA warns 2026 El Niño poised to 'rank among the largest El Niño events in the historical record,'
There is a greater than 80% chance of a rare super El Niño this year.
Impacts to hurricane season and winter are expected.
Waters in a zone of the eastern and central Pacific Ocean near the equator have warmed to 1.2 degrees Celsius
(2.1 degrees Fahrenheit)
above average.
The atmosphere has begun to respond to this warming, according to the CPC.
SMIC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$3B, net profit up 3x to ~$479.2M, above ~$283.1M est., and a 25.3% gross margin, driven by strong mature-node orders (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/ear…
Researchers from the University of Warwick in the U.K. found that the geostationary orbit
— a region of space at the altitude of 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers)
— is full of dangerous, previously unseen bits of space junk that could destroy satellites.
The geostationary orbit is quite unique.
Satellites at this altitude circle Earth in sync with the planet's rotation, appearing permanently suspended above a fixed spot on the equator.
A single satellite in t…
Sunrise In A Scale-free Landscape (2026)
(For reference, the visible valley section is ~6km long... Alt text for more info)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
JD.com reports Q2 revenue down 2.9% YoY to ~$51.4B and net income of ~$1.1B, above ~$964M est., driven by JD Retail profitability and narrowing food losses (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-13…
CXMT overtakes Tencent to become the most valuable Chinese company, with a ~$524B market cap, above Tencent's $510B; CXMT's Shanghai shares jumped 460% at IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
Amsterdam-based neocloud Nebius reports Q2 cloud revenue up 514% YoY to $575M and total revenue of $582M, above $557M est.; NBIS rises 15% , and is up 131% YTD (Paula Doenecke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
Cisco reports Q4 revenue up 18% YoY to $17.25B, vs. $16.82B est., AI infrastructure orders from hyperscalers worth $4B, forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est. (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cisco-forecasts-upbeat-annual-revenue-2026-…
DeepSeek V4 Flash scores 50 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Gemini 3.6 Flash and up 10 points from the preview launch in April (Artificial Analysis)
https://artificialanalysis.ai/article…
Nintendo reports Q1 revenue down 10% YoY to ~$3.3B, above $2.8B est., net income of ~$933M, above ~$495M est., and Switch 2 sales down 34.4% YoY to 3.82M (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/06/nintendo-first-quarter-earnings-switch2.html
Tencent reports Q2 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$30.4B, above ~$30B est., and net income of ~$8.3B, driven by surging WeChat advertising and resilient game spending (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-12/tenc…
Super Micro reports Q4 revenue up 93% YoY to $11.1B, vs. $11.3B est., and forecasts Q1 and FY 2027 revenue above estimates; SMCI jumps 9% after hours (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-11/su…
The UK's Office for National Statistics cites AI as a major driver of the country's summer growth spurt, with GDP growing 0.4% in July, above expectations (Tom Rees/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey signs an EO requiring data centers above 25MW of peak demand to bring their own power and meet 100% of demand with clean energy (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/massachusetts-hits-data-ce…
European startups raised $24B in Q2, up 66% YoY and the strongest quarter in four years; UK startups raised $10.4B, above Germany's $3.2B, and France's $2.4B (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/data-funding-ai-ma-up-europe-q2-202…
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