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…
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."
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…
How Trump wrecked the White House.
#trump #whitehouse
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)
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."
The land of the dead's geography was informed by the interplay of sunlight and leaf shadow decorating the ground above
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
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
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…
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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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…
Morning all! Happy May Morning. #MorrisDance #MayMorning #Folk
Turing Test 2.0 - Existential Comics https://existentialcomics.com/comic/652
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
📢 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…
Urban Illusions and Fallacies - High Contrast 🏙️
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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
🇺🇦 #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
:::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…
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
I am seeing buttercups all over these days -- heading to bed and planning to be at the Ithaca Festival tomorrow!
#photo #photography #flowers
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/
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
#silentSunday #clouds #sunset
Clouds at sunset. November 2017
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…
I got 13 500 on the FoodGuessr Daily!
That's 1 580 points above today's average! 🎉
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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
The Borrowed Saint: The Book That Watched Me Back
I have been thinking about mirrors for forty-eight years. The thinking started in a dressing room at a community playhouse in Lincoln, Nebraska, where a row of mirrors lined the wall above a counter cluttered with spirit gum and cold cream and the residue of faces that had been built and removed hundreds of times. I was thirteen years old and I was watching an actor apply a prosthetic nose, and the thing that struck me…
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
Disclaimer: the above is a shitpost.
“IQ” is pseudoscientific racist and eugenicist concept.
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
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 …
🇺🇦 #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
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
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/
No Kings crowd flows out of the Ithaca Commons towards the public library and ultimately Meadow Street
#photo #photography #ithaca
✍️ New post: WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight
#audio #recording #microphones
"‘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
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.)
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
Didn't get my phone/camera out in time, and very hard to make out in the bright sky, but I saw SNBD4 as 3 or 4 planes flying in a cluster, north of the field (and above the pattern) at CYUL. https://scoat.es/@yulalerts/116641706128627569
"…Larry Krasner, District Attorney of Philadelphia. 'A federal badge is not a license to violate the Constitution, and it is not a shield from state criminal law. We have prosecuted police officers who broke the law. We have prosecuted public officials who broke the law. We will prosecute ICE agents who break the law. There is no category of American who gets to operate above it.'"
Heat dome over Europe scorches UK, France, Spain https://phys.org/news/2026-05-dome-europe-uk-france-spain.html
Exceptionally early heat wave shatters records and brings deaths in Europe
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-…
"They'll soon see. A surprise from above is never as shocking as one from below."
- Karis Nemik
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
Just got the dreadful email from above
"[Entire org of thousands] should work from home tomorrow. More guidance to come tomorrow."
It's Wednesday, and they've been leaking hints about a layoff for weeks.
Here we go.
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…
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
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.
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
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
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
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James And The Cold Gun:
🎵 Above the Lake
#JamesAndTheColdGun
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tmNXPEkONtlFvcCEMyCGT
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…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Girl In The Year Above:
🎵 Mama My Heart Is Achin'
#GirlInTheYearAbove
https://open.spotify.com/track/6tVk7AVFvAa5oSj2YEoB6W
Urban Ridicules ❌
都市的愚弄 ❌
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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…
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
Tectonic Wall
A pretty famous geotope in the Allgäuer Alps with extreme folds and layering. The hundreds of meters thick top layer of mostly Dolomite belongs to the Lech valley thrust sheet (215 million years old) which got pushed above the Allgäu sheet below (190 million years old, here mostly covered by overgrown talus fields) and Radiolarite from the Ruhpolding formation even further below (160 million years old and originally 2000 meter below sea level — hard to imagine!).
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
CSS:
🎵 Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
#CSS
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Jd9W7k8DTnBSovDSxK77n
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Beth Orton:
🎵 The Ground Above
#BethOrton
https://bethorton.bandcamp.com/track/the-ground-above
https://open.spotify.com/track/03czEOGf1RDg2FPcl30XCn
Finally another fun #sunset from Bochum, Germany, today: with the sunspot groups (1)4446 in the upper left, 4444 and 4447 below and 4443 just above the trees - see https://spaceweather.com/images2026/25may26/hmi1898.gif for orientation - easily visible. Bridgecam near max. optical digital zoom.
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…
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…
Flowering Prunus tree on Ithaca College campus during ITHACON
#photo #photography #horticulture #plants
Arts and Architecture Students Sell Dragon Day T-Shirts Out in Front of Milstein Hall -- Dragon Day, No Kings and the Skunk Cabbage Run will make a big weekend which will be cold enough for my winter phase
#photo #photography
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-…
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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-…
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
Intel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.58B, vs. $12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15% after hours (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/intel-intc-q1-2026-earnings-report.html
Xiaomi reports Q4 revenue up 7.3% YoY to ~$17B, narrowly above est., its slowest growth since 2023, as EV sales failed to make up for slumping smartphone demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/…
Texas Instruments reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $4.83B, vs. $4.52B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 8% after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-22/texas-in…