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…
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.
This afternoon, fulfilling a Mother’s Day request a day early, the family hiked the Cascades in Pembroke, VA. The trail transits up Little Stony Creek to this fantastic set of falls. We had the fortunate timing of being there not long after heavy rains. Perfect weather for it too.
#hiking #waterfall
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$35.6B, above est., suggesting global chip demand remained intact during the first weeks of the war in the Middle East (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-…
If you're at Macstock this week(end) and would like an Omni sticker or pin, please say hello! (In fact, please say hello whether or not you would like a sticker or pin.)
Can somebody help me figure out this switch? I can't find the right rack ears online and it didn't come with any, but I wanted to rack it above the current core switch.
And I can't figure out how to get this optic in.
The weirdo skittish cat (Widget) is currently sitting inches above my head and licking her chops. It's really creeping me out.
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“Fascism” is not a generic catch-all for everything awful. It is a word with a meaning. My definition of the word is a form of supremacist ethnonationalism that:
(1) demands the eradication of democracy and the installation of a dictator with total power over both government and industry, forcing all individuals to function first and foremost to advance the power of the state,
(2) designates some particular group(s) of people as naturally inferior Others whose presence contaminates society and is an existential threat to it,
(3) blames these Others for society’s problems and calls for their complete subordination, expulsion, or extermination, a project which demands the total militarization of society.
One can quibble over details there, but’s the rough shape of it. As angry as I am over the militarism and imperialism and environmental ruin and oligarchism that’s marbled throughout US politics — and as long as I’ve been putting my boots on the ground against it! — the definition above does •not• apply to every elected official or political party in US politics. But it •does• apply to the Republican Party in its current form.
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The thing I love about this pic, even above other old pictures of people communally watching events?
You know that almost every single person in this picture has a smartphone.
Watching this way is a *choice*, and it’s so cool to me.
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#Kurzgesagt has a new video about how Germany is doomed because of low birth rate and a soon to be defunct retirement system. So far so good but it's a bit concerning that they beat the "taxes are too high so people don't have children" drum and underscore it with this graph. But the tax rate based on income is a curve! Using a bar graph with 4 income brackets of different wi…
My wife just told me that she had the “privilege” to see pictures of machines she designed that were destroyed in Saudi Arabia. A refinery was hit and the flames were 30 feet above the highest stack in the plant. It burned for 3 weeks.
She designed them at least 20 years ago as a young engineer.
#iran #SaudiArabia
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…
A Pizza Delivery (PC, PS5, Xbox) "B" is making her final delivery of the day, but it turns into a surreal journey through a strange world.
So I don't really want to describe this game more than the line above, I feel this is one of those ones it's best to just experience. One of those "artsy" type games. It's introspective at times. You interact with odd characters. There's things to collect and read.
The graphics are pretty simple s…
Urban Illusions and Fallacies - A Day In The Park VII ⛲️
城市的幻影和谬误 - 公园的一天 VII ⛲️
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Really potus? Ya might wanna check a topographical map there, sport.
#USpol
Trans Sky 🏳️⚧️ (2026)
(Picture not taken in the US, but on the 4th of July to boot...)
#LandscapePhotography #Sunset #Alps
Last night I had to do some above-the-OS work on a machine that's in the homelab "rack" (read: shelves).
I plugged in my @… and it was actually really helpful. Last time I tried this, it was right after the kickstarter (and shipping), and it was definitely not-quite-ready then. But with the updates in the meantime, it was actually really nice fo…
Saturday, riding home with a loaded trailer, had a brief mutual admiration society with the guy on the one-wheel carrying a not-small shrubbery in one arm, the rest angled over his shoulder, behind and above him.
Me "NICE!"
Him [makes shaka sign]
He was hauling more stuff on one wheel, than most people do on four.
Prof Sir John Curtice, on the English council election results based on key wards:
"A sharp fall in Labour's performance is accompanied more often by an above average Green performance than it is by a strong Reform performance."
"It should be remembered that Labour may often lose seats to Reform because it is losing votes to the Greens, while the Conservatives are losing votes to Reform. The net effect can be that Labour end up losing a seat to Reform."
I love how slowly the coins appear above the buildings, giving a moment of calm and contemplation after the battle
#BadNorth #IndieGame
Why does Canada’s $20 bill look like it has a scene from a horror flick on it?
Warmest 3 months of April on record, globally:
1. April 2024
2. April 2025
3. April 2026, 1.43°C above the estimated pre-industrial level (together with 2016 and 2020)
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-april-2026
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AltText: A NYTimes-style headline in the usual NY Times font. The headline reads : "You Were In For a Dipshit Take As Soon As You Saw This Font." Above i…
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…
There are people criticizing the plans to bring passenger trains to #Poznań's cargo bypass line.
Well, I for one definitely want to ride a train through this bridge. According to the internets: 2 km long, 10–15 metres above the ground.
Also, I definitely don't want to walk the walkway there. Never.
#rail
It's an incredible thing to have something in my head and then in my hands, or seeing myself wear it in a mirror. It was even more surreal to imagine a space and then be standing in that thing from my imagination.
It still feels a bit hard to believe seeing photos from #Neotropolis last week - this place that people have these cool photos from is the place that previously existed onl…
DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $4.04B, vs. $4.14B est., and forecasts Q2 marketplace gross order value above estimates; DASH jumps 11% after hours (Koyena Das/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra
Perfection Because It Doesn’t Exist 🌅
完美因为完美不存在 🌅
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Lot's of rocks again... Below and above the surface - and learnt about the middle ages in Europe. Now.. Reading 📚
Vacation could be worse 😉
I do not believe there are many people miles above your pay grade, @… .
Accidental Gods: Podcasters Unite! Thinking about systemic change with Tim Logan, Nathalie Nahai, Amit Paul, and Manda Scott
Episode webpage: https://
How it started / how it's going
(Climbed Ben Ledi, a Scottish mountain that is not a Monro, fortunately the top was above the fog and clouds!)
#Scotland #BenLedi #Hiking
Inside Outside 🔲
中间 🔲
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The question is not whether they "consider themselves" above the law. A system is what it does; if the elites are able to exist beyond legal repercussions then it doesn't matter what they claim in public.
This will only change when the people at the top are thrown in jail, and the fear of being thrown in jail for decades makes them behave differently.
As the Eagles said, we haven't had that spirit here since 1969. @…
Sony reports Q4 revenue of $19.4B, above ~$18.4B est., operating profit of ~$1.06B, below ~$1.7B est., and forecasts FY 2027 net profit to rise 13% to ~$7.4B (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/sony-q4-earnings-ps5-gaming-sales-memory-…
A blessed Cinco de Mayo to all who celebrate!
#CincoDeMayo
Some of my favourites from the Whistler exhibition at Tate Britain. It's pretty cool to see all these in person. Whistler's mother is there too, but you know what that one looks like, right? #art #painting #exhibitions…
Today we welcomed Dr. Ramanuj Banerjee, Counselor for Science and Technology at the Indian Embassy in Germany, and representatives from Göttingen International at the University of Göttingen to MPS. It was a wonderful opportunity to present our research and discuss collaborations between scientists from India, Göttingen, and within the Max Planck Society. Thank you very much for visiting!!!
In the photo, from left to right: Netra Bhandari (Director of the India Office, University of Gö…
So far #kitsunekamen has the rule that we only talk with the mask up until we've got a voice ready which is 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 different
#photo #photography
This is insane. I read few days ago how Dawa Sherpa was left behind on Everest. He was considered dead and nobody was sent to rescue him because the mountain had been closed already (late in season).
He found his way back alone after 6 days
#everest
Dem Congressman Jared Golden just ended his reelection campaign because of threats to his family.
Citing his experience of spending last Thanksgiving in hiding and the escalating wave of political violence and assassinations, Golden announced his retirement.
𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦'𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚.
Trump won here by 9 points in 2024.
We are now 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱, 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗴𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗱, and 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘃𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀.
Already MAGA is thro…
Nintendo reports Q4 revenue of ~$2.60B, below ~$2.75B est., net profit of ~$416M, above ~$403.68M est., and forecasts a decline in FY 2027 Switch 2 unit sales (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/08/nintendo-switch-2-price-hike-sales-fa…
(Yes, I implicitly ranked Phantom Menace above Rise of Skywalker. My reasoning is simple: they’re both quite bad, but if you watch Episode I dubbed in a language you don’t speak, it’s a visual treat. I can’t even say that for RoS.)
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…
Block reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $6.1B, vs. $5.9B est., and raises its 2026 gross profit forecast above estimates; XYZ jumps 7% after hours (Isabelle Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/dorse…
I inherited my copy of Plato's Republic from my father, and I have always assumed he got it while he was at university. He probably did. But I assumed he bought it new, and he didn't. He's written his name on the flyleaf, but above it someone else has written 'A H Pearce, Jan 88' (very nice handwriting). The title page dates it to 1881.
So this wee book is probably one hundred and forty five years old. It's in remarkable condition.
We've seen a lot of rocks above and below the earth. A lot of beautiful forests and some castles.
And we've been soooo lucky regarding the weather so far! 🍀
Btw: the "here we go" app seems to be a good replacement for Google maps w.r.t routing to places.
#kitsunekamen with the mask up would tell you CDMX TACOS is the closest thing he's seen to a Los Angeles street taco outside Los Angeles
#photo #photography
AMD reports Q1 revenue up 38% YoY to $10.25B, Data Center revenue up 57% to $5.8B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, as AI chip demand stays strong (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/amd-forec
Same Place 🗿
同一個地方 🗿
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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…
Steps Into The Unknown (2025)
(Actually a lie, since this was taken on the way back, just before sunset, but it was "into the unknown" a six hours earlier... These steps of the only partially secured path are leading up to around 100 meters above/along the increasingly more steep and narrow canyon. The rocks/slopes on the left go up almost another 2000m [out of view, of course]...)
#FootpathFriday
We are at war.
Gas prices are climbing above $5 per gallon across much of the country.
The political apparatus of the country is rife with division, infighting, and bureaucratic chaos that threatens to further upset 250 years of historical precedent.
But look at Marco Rubio over there, getting his groove on.
DJ at a wedding! What a lovely time.
The secretary of state was pictured this weekend behind the turntables at a family wedding queuing up Calvin Harris’ …
3:20 p.m. in the Netherlands, and the first part of the country has reached temperatures above 38°C, with two stations above the 38.4 mark that used to be the all-time national high for 75 years, and was first exceeded in 2019.
#heatwave #extremeweather
Samsung estimates Q2 operating profit of ~$58.44B, a 19-fold jump from a year earlier and above a ~$57.02B estimate, and revenue up 129% YoY to ~$111.7B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/samsung…
My wife and me both have commitments during the day. So we just did a 2h cycling to our beautiful reservoir and back. It went really well and it felt good to be on the bike.
Especially as it's not so hot any more.
Enjoy your weekend!
#cycling #BikeTooter
Mistakes and None Thereof IV ❌
错误和当中没有错误 IV ❌
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Of all continents, Africa is the farthest above its historic norm
— 4.2 F, or 2.3 C higher.
Europe's record-breaking heatwave would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change, scientists say.
Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.02B, above $1.01B est., GTV up 13% YoY to $10.3B, and orders up 10% YoY to 91.2M, as users focus on affordability (Nicholas G. Miller/Wall Street Journal)
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Super Micro reports Q3 revenue up 123% YoY to $10.24B, vs. $12.33B est., forecasts Q4 revenue and adjusted profit above estimates; SMCI jumps 17% after hours (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/super-micro-misses-quarterly-revenue…
GlobalFoundries reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $1.63B, in line with est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted earnings above estimates; GFS closes up 9.28% (Patrick Seitz/Investor's Business Daily)
https://www.investors.com/news/technology/gfs-sto…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Grab reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to $955M, above est., and a $154M adjusted EBITDA, vs. $146.3M est., helped by resilient demand for ride hailing and delivery (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Shopify reports Q1 revenue up 34% YoY to $3.2B, above est., GMV up 34% YoY to $100B, and forecasts weaker Q2 revenue growth; SHOP falls 11% pre-market (Ignacio Gonzalez/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-…
Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $1B, vs. $966M est., MAUs up 11% YoY to 631M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 17% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/04/pinterest-pins-q1-earnings-report-2026.html…
Liftoff Mobile raised $437M in its US IPO, selling 19M shares for $23 each, above its marketed range of $20 to $22, valuing the company at $3.83B (Natalia Kniazhevich/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-…
Quantinuum raised $1.68B in an upsized US IPO, selling 28M shares for $60 each, above its marketed range of $53 to $55, valuing the company at $15.6B (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-…
CoinGecko: Hyperliquid-linked HYPE token is up ~180% YTD, lifting its market value above $16B and pushing it into the top 10 digital assets by market cap (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-03/a-180-cry…
Broadcom reports Q2 revenue up 48% YoY to $22.19B, vs. $22.27B est., and forecasts Q3 semiconductor revenue from AI below estimates; AVGO drops 12% after hours (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/broadcom-forecasts-quarterly-rev…
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…
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
Micron reports Q3 revenue up 346% YoY to $41.46B, vs. $35.84B est., gross margin above estimates, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; MU jumps 14% after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/micron-mu-earnings-report-q3-2026.html
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…
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…
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
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/