May 2026 was the second-warmest May on record globally, in between 2024 and 2025.
The global average temperature was 15.81°C, 0.55°C above the 1991-2020 average for May and 1.42°C above the estimated 1850-1900 pre-industrial average for the month.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-
"Scientists said the high of 15.4 °C broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2 °C. “This is absolutely crazy,” said Raúl Cordero, an Ecuadorian climate professor at the University of Groningen. “It is also about 20 °C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.”
(Degree symbols added for clarity.)
this came to me in a dream and i thought it was the funniest shit ever
@… #VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid
Is this article too praiseful (at least the part I can see above the paywall)? Well…
When I complain about executive types at Target, CBS, Google, Apple, etc. who rolled over and played dead the instant fascism farted in their general direction…it’s not like I’m expecting them to form the New French Resistance or something. I’m just expecting them to respond to wildly inappropriate power grabs with modest but firm refusal. That’s it. And that’s what Powell did.
So I say yeah, go ahead and lionize him for 15 min, even if just to shame Tim Cook.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-jerome-powell-fed-legacy/
The weirdo skittish cat (Widget) is currently sitting inches above my head and licking her chops. It's really creeping me out.
Aviation / flight sim geeks: There's plenty of flight sims focused on fixed wing airline flying, combat, etc.
But are there any for more technical / specialized operations? I'm picturing "DCS for wildland firefighting and SAR" where you get to pilot a rotary or fixed wing water attack aircraft, land on a lake to refill then dump it on the flank of a fire, hover above a rocking ship to lower a rescue swimmer to it (maybe the latter being a team game with NPC or players…
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…
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…
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Are bikes DEI, or are they a miracle? (Or both?)
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The most useful thing I did this week was appear on Ezra Klein’s New York Times podcast to talk about the rise of clean energy. He framed the story well, and asked generous and sharp questions, and my only regret is that I was too jacked up going in (this is one of the very few remaining real forums in American journalism) and so I think I interrupted him at several points when I just…
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
I know that even mediocre salsa is still better than no salsa, but last night I went to Oyamel and today I went to random taqueria to avoid eating at McDonald’s or Popeyes and whew, Oyamel’s salsa is just heads and shoulders above this!
#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…
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…
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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“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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Слово тижня: Стискфляція
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Тепер і ви знаєте, як називається ця бісяча маркетингова тактика.
Чому її використовують? Бо ζхζоζ…
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
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…
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…
I love how slowly the coins appear above the buildings, giving a moment of calm and contemplation after the battle
#BadNorth #IndieGame
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.
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
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
Why does Canada’s $20 bill look like it has a scene from a horror flick on it?
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.
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
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."
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
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lmao!
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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…
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
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
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-…
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…
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…
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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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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
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
(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.)
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…
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城市的幻影和谬误 - 公园的一天 VII ⛲️
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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
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…
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
Perfection Because It Doesn’t Exist 🌅
完美因为完美不存在 🌅
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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.
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…
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
Same Place 🗿
同一個地方 🗿
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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’ …
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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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…
Mistakes and None Thereof IV ❌
错误和当中没有错误 IV ❌
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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…
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-…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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-…
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
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…
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
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…