2026-05-01 01:25:51
Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates and reports Q2 results above projections in China but below expectations in the Americas and Europe regions (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/ap…
Apple forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates and reports Q2 results above projections in China but below expectations in the Americas and Europe regions (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-30/ap…
Our republic rests on a clear premise:
No branch of government possesses absolute authority,
and no individual is above the law.
In a single stroke, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has dismantled this foundational understanding.
By executing a sweeping settlement with Donald Trump, Blanche committed an unprecedented dual assault on the Constitution,
usurping Congress' power of the purse while shattering the structural boundaries of executive appointmen…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Death From Above 1979:
🎵 Sexy Results
#DeathFromAbove1979
https://asamusics.bandcamp.com/track/sexy-results-death-from-above-1979
https://open.spotify.com/track/01xRIF3Soq30ZllFY1obbl
Weird things that happen when you have a 100GbE pipe to your desk. 8 Gbps of sustained network traffic and the network monitor is like "yeah you're not using much bandwidth"
Also I think there's a 32-bit overflow or something in xfce4-netload-plugin because the rate shows 0.00 Mbps when I get above some threshold (not sure what it is exactly but it's in the 15-40 Gbps range)
The land of the dead's geography was informed by the interplay of sunlight and leaf shadow decorating the ground above
DHS scraps Noem policy requiring secretary's review of all contracts above $100,000 (Nicole Sganga/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-scraps-noem-policy-approval-100000-contracts/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p91#a260401p91
I was explaining to GF last night about all the science that #NASA does above & beyond just shooting stuff into space. Things like "how do you get x ppl to live in a confined space for years without going insane or killing each other". One of the things that experiments like #BioSphere (despite not bein…
New 8TB HDD arrived. Mini PC has been tasked with dd'ing the old drive to the new one. Old drive is SMR IIRC but since I'm just reading from it, transfer speeds are up above 150 MB/s so this should only take...until tomorrow morning. Fair enough.
My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.
Ground control to Major Tom
Your SMTP’s dead
There’s something wrong
Can you read mail, Major Tom?
Can you read mail, Major Tom?
Can you read mail, Major Tom?
Here…am I floating round my tin can
Far, above the moon
WIndows has gone blue
And there’s nothing I can do
*guitar solo*
Morning all! Happy May Morning. #MorrisDance #MayMorning #Folk
Steve Eliovson w/ Collin Walcott - "Dawn Dance" (1981)
#NowPlaying
I have the feeling my smartphone OS is trying to tell me something. OnePlus, never settle.
#slop #OnePlus #NeverSettle
For those wondering about the bizarre Apache helicopter flyover of a No Kings rally and "spontaneous" visit to Kid Rock's mansion, whether it was intentionally orchestrated (seems likely to me) or not, the effect was to send a public signal to the military that acts of allegiance to Trump and his supporters will get rewarded and shielded with impunity, even if they're flagrant violations of military codes and procedures.
It's another step in the fascist playbook of getting the military in line to support tyrannical acts, so it's very much not a "no harm no foul" situation.
As for why I think it's more likely quite deliberate: those helicopters don't fly without thousands of dollars of fuel, air traffic control (or you're creating some *serious* danger going without), and other logistical support. There's no way that level of risk makes personal sense to some random army helicopter pilots, just for the benefit of pulling a public stunt? These aren't random rookies in basic training, it takes serious skill and many hours of training to successfully pilot a helicopter at all. Why risk your entire military career on a stunt, and how did you convince an entire ground crew and air traffic control tower to get in on it? Having some kind of orders/encouragement/guarantee of impunity from above makes the most sense. I'd be 0% surprised if Hegseth directly gave the orders/go-ahead and the show of an "investigation into insubordination" that gets publicly cancelled by Hegseth personally is an entirely intentional result if not the main objective.
Also buzzing the No Kings rally was 100% intentional.
#NoKings
Sacred US 😇
神聖的我們 😇
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal #filmphotography
Meituan reports Q1 revenue up 5.6% YoY to ~$13.5B, above ~$13.4B est., and a ~$1B net loss, its third straight quarter of losses amid a food delivery price war (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/e…
What the company had to say - #Starlink satellite incident: "On Sunday, March 29, Starlink satellite 34343 experienced an anomaly on-orbit, resulting in loss of communications with the satellite at ~560 km above Earth.
Latest analysis shows the event poses no new risk to the @Space_Station, its crew, or to the upcoming launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission. We will continue to monitor the satellite along with any trackable debris and coordinate with @NASA and the @USSpaceForce.
The event also posed no new risk to this morning’s Transporter-16 mission, which was designed to avoid Starlink with payload deploys well above or well below the constellation. The SpaceX and Starlink teams are actively working to determine root cause and will rapidly implement any necessary corrective actions."
'Fair Share' outpaces other revenues
The Fair Share surtax is a 4% tax on annual income above $1 million in Massachusetts,
which was approved by voters in 2022
The funds are dedicated to public education and transportation.
As of 2026, it has generated over $2.3 billion for these purposes.
The new forecast from the Executive Office of Administration and Finance anticipates that the Commonwealth will collect a total of $44.9 billion in revenue this year,…
How Trump wrecked the White House.
#trump #whitehouse
Reddit reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to $663M, vs. $611M est., DAUq up 17% to 126.8M, vs. 125.9M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/reddit-rddt-q1-2026-earnings-report.html
Greets from today's #cycling loop. It's been a great time outside. Friendly cyclists, super views. Some rests to have a snack and refill water.
And at the end some cake 😋
#kochelsee #dasblaueland
Join us TODAY for a fly book launch. “Staying with the Planet” is a sci-fi story about ecological troubles of our modern universities.
⏰ 2pm CET
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Giants Great Elevates Former Cowboys QB Tony Romo Above Peyton Manning, Tom Brady https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/giants-great-elevates-former-dallas-cowboys-tony-romo-above-peyton-manning-tom-brady
HPE reports Q2 revenue up 40% YoY to $10.7B, vs. $9.74B est., Server revenue up 33%, forecasts revenue for FY26 and FY27 above est.; HPE jumps 30% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…
#totp If you wait for it, he'll summon down the dove from above.
The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate has jumped by 10% today,
after Donald Trump vowed to hit Iran “extremely hard” for the next few weeks,
dashing hopes of de-escalation and an early end to the conflict.
US crude is trading at $111 a barrel,
the highest level since 9 March.
This puts a barrel of WTI above the international benchmark,
Brent crude, which has jumped more than 8% to $109.32 a barrel.
Although Trump pledged last night to fini…
SpaceX blacklisted from a Danish pension fund:
"Akademikerpension said in a statement, adding that it was difficult to justify a market valuation above $1 trillion."
"Akademikerpension also said the governance structure of SpaceX was "extremely deficient", adding that Elon Musk is expected to control more than 80% of the voting rights while simultaneously serving as chief executive officer, chief technology officer and chair of the board."
I largely dismiss claims like this from NYT:
https://bsky.app/profile/nytimespr.bsky.social/post/3mi2n44glbk2y
…given reporting showing its leadership has pushed an anti-trans agenda:
“'A Directive From Above': Former NYT Editor Lays Out How Th…
Palo Alto Networks reports Q3 revenue up 31% YoY to $3B, including $388M from CyberArk and Chronosphere, vs. $2.94B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est. (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/02/palo-alto-networks-panw-q3-earnings-2026.html
There are a lot of possible explanations for this:
Maybe the people who aren’t interested in AI also happen to vote for more sessions. (At a quick prod at the data, penalizing votes from people who voted for large numbers of sessions does not seem to change the conclusions above, but I haven’t investigated this thoroughly.)
Maybe AI is a more fragmented topic due to its newness, and interest has not coalesced, leading to a large number of small sessions. (But again, •total• votes for AI, including the whole long tail, were proportionally smaller.)
9/
I am seeing buttercups all over these days -- heading to bed and planning to be at the Ithaca Festival tomorrow!
#photo #photography #flowers
Turing Test 2.0 - Existential Comics https://existentialcomics.com/comic/652
Urban Illusions and Fallacies - A Day In The Park ⛲️
城市的幻影和谬误 - 公园的一天 ⛲️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
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#silentSunday #clouds #sunset
Clouds at sunset. November 2017
Twilio reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.34B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TWLO jumps 17% after hours (Reinhardt Krause/Investor's Business Daily)
https://www.investors.com/news/technology/twilio-stock-twlo-twilio-earni…
📢 Online-Veranstaltung: „Wissenschaft zwischen Wahrheit und Fake – Wenn der Publikationswahn die Demokratie angreift"
🗓 Di, 12.05.2026, 17–19 Uhr per BBB
💻 https://talk.hshl.de/b/for-leg-xnu-btx
Paper Mills, KI-Fälschungen, „Publish or Perish": Wie schützen wir die Integrität…
Thinking a lot about Blatten today: Exactly a year ago, at 15:24 the Birch glacier above the village in the Lötschental valley broke off and formed the largest glacier collapse and landslide in modern Swiss history, burying 90% of the almost 700 year old village, first mentioned in 1343...
ARTE has a nice recent documentary about the event and plans to rebuild:
German version: Der Bergsturz von Blatten - Neuanfang aus dem Nichts
I got 13 500 on the FoodGuessr Daily!
That's 1 580 points above today's average! 🎉
🌕🌕🌕🌖 4 500 (Round 1)
🌕🌕🌕🌘 4 000 (Round 2)
🌕🌕🌕🌕 5 000 (Round 3) 💯
Wednesday, Apr 29, 2026
Play here: https://www.foodguessr.com/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Above the Law:
🎵 Black Superman
#AbovetheLaw
https://frostie.bandcamp.com/track/frostie-vs-above-the-law-black-superman
https://open.spotify.com/track/2RTXQxmxGfG6yLBvA0hULI
Western Digital reports Q3 revenue up 45% YoY to $3.34B, vs. $3.25B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above estimates; WDC drops 7% after hours (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/western-digital-f…
AI stocks vs dot-com bubble: CAPE at 38, concentration above 2000 levels, but companies are actually profitable
🤖 https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-stocks-dot-com-bubble-comparison-market-outlook
Disclaimer: the above is a shitpost.
“IQ” is pseudoscientific racist and eugenicist concept.
✍️ New post: WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight
#audio #recording #microphones
Variety here is "Queen Rania". I am not generally a fan of flower-variety naming conventions, but I do like this flower, in spite of its monarchic name.
#bloomScrolling #tulips #pink
Interesting case. Companies should be able to sell abroad in most cases, but the allegation here seems to be that they went well above that.
The Supreme Court seems likely to shut down a lawsuit by Falun Gong over Cisco’s aid to China https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-china-cisco-falun-gong-lawsuit-c6a1fca49c35e031f9c889ac5bd30276
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
CSS:
🎵 Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
#CSS
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Jd9W7k8DTnBSovDSxK77n
On this day (April 26) in 1994, my favorite band released one of my favorite albums. 'A Date with The Smithereens' features some incredible basslines, Lou Reed on two tracks, and the whole thing is a damn banger.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLP0
US military strikes another boat in Pacific, bringing death toll above 200 (Associated Press)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/29/us-military-boat-strike-pacific
http://www.memeorandum.com/260530/p20#a260530p20
:::RESCUE UPDATE::: 7:04 AM
The two stranded fishermen near Holman Flats on the South Fork Skokomish River have been successfully rescued by the United States Coast Guard and transported to Sanderson Field for medical evaluation.
We are grateful for the coordinated efforts of all responding agencies, communications personnel, and volunteers whose teamwork helped bring this incident to a safe conclusion.
~40
:::UPDATE::: 6:35AM 5/30/26
Overnight, Guardian One success…
"‘Cries of delight’ as Sumatran orangutan filmed using canopy bridge to cross road for first time"
#Orangutan #Animals
It's been a while so it felt like it was "time" for this one again.
#WristCheck
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Beth Orton:
🎵 The Ground Above
#BethOrton
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://bethorton.bandcamp.com/track/the-ground-above
https://open.spotify.com/track/03czEOGf1RDg2FPcl30XCn
The planets #Jupiter (left) and #Venus and the #Gemini stars Pollux and Castor above them this evening - with the Sun 10° below and 10° above the horizon - from Bochum, Germany: exactly two weeks before the planets are closest to each other. (In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_w5MOP0yxo a one-hour documentary about this conjunction, from Austria.)
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 761M, above 759M est., Premium subscribers up 9% YoY to 293M, and a €715M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
Urban Illusions and Fallacies - High Contrast 🏙️
城市的幻影和谬误 - 高反差 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 200 (6x7)
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What does the money machine eat?
It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and,
above all, it eats creativity.
It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
-- William S. Burroughs
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1352864
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Gang Starr feat. Inspectah Deck:
🎵 Above the Clouds
#GangStarr #InspectahDeck
https://owltree.bandcamp.com/track/gang-starr-ft-inspectah-deck-above-the-clouds-owltree-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZBSXNYdTZVaBUQI3E2rF6
No Kings crowd flows out of the Ithaca Commons towards the public library and ultimately Meadow Street
#photo #photography #ithaca
Note that none of the complaints above are about the much-maligned transparency effects (which I have turned off). This is just basic, ground-level 2D design stuff that even this not-a-real-designer rando can pick apart.
The flagship product of one of the wealthiest companies on earth. Seriously.
Sandisk reports Q3 revenue up 251% YoY to $5.95B, vs. $4.72B est., consumer revenue below est., and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; SNDK drops 5% after hours (Britney Nguyen/MarketWatch)
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sandisks
Let us now recite the five kinds of spores....
• Spermatia act like pollen—they can fertilize a mate but can’t infect a plant.
• Aeciospores can’t infect the plant they were produced on—they must infect a different kind of plant, the primary host.
• The spores above are found on the alternate host; those below on the primary host.
• Urediniospores are made in huge numbers on the primary host, and spread infection among plants of the same species, sparking epi…
The View From The Precipice (is always the best!)
(Sonnenberggrat doing its name justice on a sunny late-summer-like day in November 2025, two days before winter arrived in full force...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBethDittoShow
CSS:
🎵 Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
#CSS
https://cocolah.bandcamp.com/track/lets-make-love-and-listen-to-death-from-above
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Jd9W7k8DTnBSovDSxK77n
Apple reports Q2 revenue up 17% YoY to $111.18B, vs. $109.66B est., net income up 19% to $29.6B, and EPS up 22% to $2.01, above $1.95 est. (Apple)
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260430987304/en/
Reddit reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to $663M, vs. $611M est., DAUq up 17% to 126.8M, vs. 125.9M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/reddit-rddt-q1-2026-earnings-report.html
Study: long-shot Polymarket bets on military action, defined as wagers of $2,500 at odds of <35%, have an average ~52% win rate, above 25% for political bets (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/989d335e-275b-4cdc-b51d-4b29fd8895b0
KItsunekamen goes 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐝 with the 9mm; this gallery, supposedly (4/4) of the ITHACON series is really about kitsunekamen because that's what he does
📸 https://www.behance.net/gallery/248422657/9mm-Sunday-ITHACONDowntown-feat-Kitsunekamen
The average temperature over the entire contiguous U.S. (CONUS) in March was 10.5°C, 5.2°C above average, ranking as the warmest March in the 132-year record.
This marks the first time any month's average temperature has exceeded 5°C above its 20th-century baseline.
https://www.ncei.noaa…
European software companies, including SAP, Capgemini, Nemetschek, Hexagon, and Dassault, report better-than-expected earnings despite AI fears and the Iran war (Chloe Meley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Galaxy is Geely’s entry-level brand, and the Geome EX2, also badged as the Starfish in China, was the best-selling car — electric or gasoline — in China in 2025.
The 2026 Galaxy Geome EX2 is an all-electric sub-compact crossover.
It’s the perfect size for an urbanite, and while the exterior styling can’t be characterized as sexy, the EX2 looks the part of a compact hatchback.
It’s the cabin however that really has the EX2 punching above its weight.
The comfort and …
STMicro reports Q1 revenue of $3.10B, above $3.04B est., $171M operating income, above $165.8 est., and forecasts $3.45B revenue for Q2, above $3.21B est. (Nathan Vifflin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/stmicroelectronics-repor…
This is exactly the thing I wonder about. Was it shoved through over internal objections? Was it many teams’ separate good work stuck together too hastily? Was it the wrong kind of pressure from above, or bad taste from below, or what?
It’s frustrating because as a dev I catch glimpses of all the really fantastic engineering work folks at Apple are doing •inside• the box, and they’re feeling very little love for it right now because the •outside•is so clunky.
https://sfba.social/@scm/116296203532915798
Indivisible Tompkins supporter holds sign at East end of Ithaca Commons
#photo #photography #ithaca #ithacafestival
eBay reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $3.09B, vs. $3.04B est., net income up 2% to $512M, GMV up 18% to $22.2B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/ebay
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 761M, above 759M est., Premium subscribers up 9% YoY to 293M, and a €715M operating income (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
NXP reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $3.18B, vs. $3.15B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; NXPI jumps 13% after hours (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-28/nxp-ralli…
Seagate reports Q3 revenue up 44% YoY to $3.11B, vs. $2.96B est., and forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; STX jumps 13% after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/seagate-f…
Source: Cerebras priced its IPO at $185 per share, above the expected range of $150 to $160, raising at least $5.55B and valuing it at $56.4B fully diluted (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/cerebras-prices-ipo-above…
Dell reports Q1 revenue up 88% YoY to $43.84B, vs. $35.43B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 15% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/dell-q1-earnings-report-2027.html
Lenovo reports Q4 revenue up 27% YoY to $21.6B, above $18.7B est., net profit up 479% to $521M, above $271M est., as the PC maker pushes into AI server markets (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/lenovo-q4-revenue-tops…
HP reports Q2 revenue up 9% YoY to $14.4B, vs. $14B est., Personal Systems revenue up 13% to $10.2B, and forecasts Q3 adjusted EPS above estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-27/hp-gi…
Pony AI reports Q1 revenue up 145% YoY to ~$34.3M, above $21.7M est., and increases its 2026 robotaxi fleet target by 500 to 3,500 vehicles on fast growth (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-26/pony-ai-…
US cybersecurity company Zscaler reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $850.5M, above $835.4M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; ZS drops 18% after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/zscaler
Baidu reports Q1 revenue down 1.1% YoY to ~$4.7B, above ~$4.5B est., and net profit down 55% YoY to ~$506.6M, above ~$462.5M est., amid a slow AI payoff (Tracy Qu/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/baid