2026-02-15 04:06:41
Gloom & Bloom II ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 II ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
TSMC projects capital spending in 2026 at between $52B and $56B, up 25% from 2025, and forecasts ~30% YoY revenue growth in 2026, both above analyst estimates (Bloomberg)
Update on the thread above:
I’m not seeing this pattern anymore; the sharp boundaries no longer show up where you look at where ICE is hurting people. It now has more of the feeling you’d expect it to have if they were targeting people based on race, instead of based on political boundaries. Whatever pattern I was noticing above, real or imagined, it doesn’t hold now.
Today's NYT crossword has a heart in the puzzle design, how cute
The clue above the heart is
LOVETRIANGLES
which I *guess* is sorta Valentine's themed
And right across the middle of the heart is
SEXTAPE
so I wonder if Will Shortz has something to share with the class
Giving up territory in Ukraine is also condemning people living there to live under Russian rule, a harsh dictatorship with limited freedoms, no room for opposition, bad economy etcetera. I don't think many people prefer Russia above living in Ukraine as part of the EU in the near future.
#russia #ukraine
Y’know, if history’s anything to go by, that kind of sentiment’s likely to have your corpse exhumed and tried for regicide. https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116073977239739909
Witnessing Magnetic Reconnection in Tangled Superpenumbral Fibrils around a Sunspot: #Sunspot: https://aasnova.org/2026/03/11/astronomers-see-braided-magnetic-fields-above-a-sunspot/
User: “it’s still freezing and I’ve restarted the machine3 times”
Me: *looking at the machine uptime which says “45 days”*
“Uh-huhn”
User: *sends me screenshot of them selecting “log out” with “restart” clearly marked 3 lines above.
🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
@… indeed.
My screenshot pokes fun at the contrast between the numbers (not at the seriousness of the underlying issues) with GitHub automatically – necessarily – hiding hundreds of points of view, and unfortunately doing so above the number "2".
There's probably scope for GitHub to more intelligently automate the placement of its '…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Above the Law:
🎵 Call It What U Want
#AbovetheLaw
https://open.spotify.com/track/60cS1aPQABn0IlS8xDLA6X
2026 NFL playoffs power rankings: Seahawks top eight remaining teams still vying for a Super Bowl title
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-playoffs-power…
✍️ New post: WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight
#audio #recording #microphones
The transformative power of great music performed by a great artist to lift life above the mundane for a short while.
Bronfman plays Rachmaninov
Piano Concertos 2 & 3 by Yefim Bronfman on Qobuz https://open.qobuz.com/album/amcqot9tkls6b
Pittsburgh-based Skild AI, which makes robotics foundation models, raised a $1.4B Series C at a $14B valuation, up from $4.5B after raising $300M in June 2025 (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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…
Mortgage Rates Rise as Iran War Ripples Through Financial Markets (Kailyn Rhone/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/business/mortgage-rates-rise-above-6-percent.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p72#a260312p72
Stock market hits all-time high as Dow closes above 50,000
The U.S. stock market ended a bumpy week with a bang,
as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 50,000 for the first time.
The Dow crossed the threshold
— an important psychological barrier
— earlier Friday before retreating
and then surging again to close at 50,115.67.
That was a jump of 2.47 percent, more than 1,200 points for the day.
The rally extended to the S&P 500 and the …
I NEED this to be a real weather app omg 🥹
https://dribbble.com/shots/7119800-Foxy-weather
Local community groups? Busting their asses, but they live and die on volunteer support. Legal system? Too slow, too compromised. City, county, state elected officials? Grasping for something they can do. Local police? Useless or worse than useless, of course.
BUT…all the above are formed by, shaped by, and constrained by popular sentiment. An active, defiant citizenry changes how all these institutions behave. Police know, politicians know, and yes, even judges know: they can only stray so far from what people will tolerate.
This active resistance? Hell yeah, it matters. It’s the short-term •and• the long-term.
Just returned from a wonderful 11km Friday afternoon walk along the boundary between the seasons...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
Cowboys can’t sweat the small stuff, must prioritize needs on defense https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/15/cowboys-sweat-small-stuff-must-prioritize-defense-2026/89157269007/
Today, looking out of the window, it’s deceptive. It’s bright, dry and sunny. Looks very spring-like. However, step outside, and it’s like walking into a refrigerator, with the ambient temperature just a couple of degrees above freezing.
Solar power just hit a new milestone. Chinese researchers broke the 10% efficiency barrier for selenium solar cells for the first time, reaching 10.3%.
What makes this exciting: selenium cells have wider bandgaps and high efficiency potential. The team used optimized contacts, light-driven crystallization, and special annealing techniques.
The result? Stable devices that lost minimal efficiency after 1,000 hours of testing.
Working on improving error reporting in ngscopeclient rather than having filters simply silently produce no output, or log to stdout, when something goes wrong.
Here's my current WIP: the block that has problems displays a warning icon and summary title up top, then you can mouse over it to see more detailed error information.
Thoughts? Anything I should change before I start working on adding this sort of feedback to more filter blocks?
Analysis: YouTube surpassed the BBC in monthly audience reach in the UK for the first time in Q4 2025, with 51.9M viewers in December, above the BBC's 50.8M (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/youtube-beating-bbc-barb-viewing-ratings-1236…
Old Street Works, City Road, #London #FensterFreitag
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
Waters above the Firmament
RE: https://mastodon.social/@isaiah/116223186970163061
Coding is not equivalent with "here's the app that we can sell/rent".
Coding is learning. Coding is experimenting. Coding is preparing to maintain. Coding is an experience.
Indeed, for a corporation all the above do not matter. Even worse, it represents costs. Unnecessary costs.
There are many other unnecessary costs but those creating them will tend to ignore them as they are in the decision making positions.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Ray Bryant:
🎵 Up Above the Rock
#RayBryant
https://lennymarcus.bandcamp.com/track/up-above-the-rock
https://open.spotify.com/track/66Q0P99bQz8L0o5YV0qgFg
Divisions and disarray among the extreme right over the US attack on Venezuela: some pro-Trrumpism, some emphasise national sovereignty as sacred above all, and some closer to Russia.
La extrema derecha no sabe cómo colocarse ante la agresión de Trump en Venezuela y el imperialismo de EEUU.
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…
SMIC reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to $2.49B, above est., net profit up 61% YoY to $172.85M, above $139.5M est., and 2025 revenue of $9.33B, above 2024's $8.03B (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busin…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics00sForever
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
February 2026 was the fifth-warmest February globally, with an average surface air temperature of 1.49°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level.
Temperature anomalies were unevenly spread over the world and over Europe.
#ClimateChange
"New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record"
#Hawaii #Climate #ClimateChange
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!
---- - Johann Most - ----
“DHS is not above the law, and the people of Minnesota are certainly not beneath it”
Took a couple of rest days b/c I could feel my hamstring & feared possible injury. After a consideration of time spent in each HR zone over previous runs, it was clear that I was overdoing the pace, even with 4/1 min run/walk intervals. I ~could~ do that pace, but I ~should~ dial it back a bit & build fitness. Anaerobic all the time wasn’t helping.
Cold tonight, just below freezing and 25 mph (40 kph) winds gusting to 50 mph (80.5 kph).
This was too good to be checked…
But it’s bullshit.
She never said that.
(plonk) @… https://mastodon.scot/@BlytheCycles/11604739239…
Market Value 💵
市场价值 💵
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
"Why $100 Oil Isn’t Going to Spark a New Shale Boom"
"So far, nothing has changed for us...even missile strikes aren’t shaking off the lethargy in oil right now."
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Why-100-Oil-Isnt-Goi…
@… I edited post above by hand and fixed the source of the issue. Thanks!
Met Office: 2026 will bring heat more than 1.4C above preindustrial levels https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/18/met-office-2026-will-bring-heat-more-than-14c-above-preindustrial-levels
Apple's decision not to provide security updates unless you change your operating system to the iOS 26 abomination is leading me to avoid them in the future.
Such windows like behavior is not what I pay Apple for. Given that Apple has decided to put their update metrics above customer security leads me to not trust them for the long term.
Switching to Linux will be easy (I used to use it). I don't know what I will do for a phone, maybe just downgrade to a dumb phone mainl…
Approximately 35(ish) years ago Green Day played a show above an abortion clinic on Milwaukee after the “Fireman’s Picnic” in Tichigan, Wisconsin got canceled because someone stabbed an inflatable Hamm’s (Beer) Bear.
Anyway, I hope they tell MAGA to fuck right off today.
February investor memo: Cohere hit ~$240M in ARR in 2025, above its $200M target, with QoQ growth of 50% and average gross margins of ~70% throughout the year (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/ai-startup-cohere-revenue-ipo.html
I fully agree, no borders—prison abolition, and honestly this tracks because Snufkin spends the series tearing down private property signs.
#Anarchism #Anarchy #Moomins
Art by Doug Beekman
#art #DougBeekman #monsters #MonsterArt #fantasy
"Faced with economic stagnation the elites are panicking. Wild eyed in the control room, they thrash around seeking to fix the unfixable, pushing all the buttons, pulling all the levers, to no avail, just making things worse. They try the old mantra “growth”, repeated endlessly, and given a priority above all else"
Reeves says 'more to do' after sluggish GDP growth - BBC News
@… I edited
@… into the post above (they made the call) …
… I can't answer the question (I use VirtualBox, and occasionally VMM, on Kubuntu).
Adobe reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $6.4B, vs. $6.28B est., adjusted EPS above estimates, and forecasts Q2 revenue between $6.43B and $6.48B, vs. $6.43B est. (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa
Nielsen: Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show averaged 128.2M viewers, above 124.9M for the game overall and down from 133.5M for Kendrick Lamar in 2025 (Selome Hailu/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-ratings-123665…
With oil hovering above $100 a barrel for much of Monday
and Middle Eastern allies fearing a further tumble into regional conflict,
Trump appeared in Doral, Florida with the mission of
calming global markets and reassuring skittish allies that he has a clear vision for how to end the largest US intervention in the Middle East since the Iraq war.
If there is one, it was not delivered in this press conference.
In a 35-minute appearance, the US president eschewed th…
An old Hindu legend tells of a king/warlord challenging Shiva (Vishnu, even Buddha in some versions) doubting his power. Shiva snaps his fingers, or in some versions merely gazes, and the defiant man becomes a woman. The newly-minted woman has no choice but to live as woman, and does so to the fullest, marrying above her class, becoming a mother and grandmother. War breaks out, her grandchildren are all killed. She wails over their bodies in the wreckage. In the blink of an eye, he's bac…
Applied Materials reports Q1 revenue down 2% YoY to $7.01B, vs. $6.86B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; AMAT jumps 12% after hours (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-12/appli…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Pelican:
🎵 An Inch Above Sand
#Pelican
https://pelicansl.bandcamp.com/track/an-inch-above-sand
https://open.spotify.com/track/4N6PFGsPddIoXyG0LPoTfN
Rare Colours Blues III🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 III🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
pam bondi screaming that oil is above $100 right now, and that's now we should be talking about - not epstein!
"China expects up to 287 GW of new PV capacity additions in 2026"
#China #Energy #SolarPower #Renewables
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
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
An interview with ex-NYT editor Billie Jean Sweeney, who says the NYT shifted to anti-trans bigotry and disinformation in about 2022, with guidance from the top (David Forbes/Trans News Network)
https://transnews.network/p/a-directiv
Cross To The Other Side ❎
去向另一边 ❎
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Lucky C200
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
BMBL jumps 30% after Bumble reported Q4 revenue above estimates and unveiled an AI-driven app overhaul to lure back users; BMBL is down 90% since its 2021 IPO (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/bumble-shar…
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
Finally, a more modest increase in atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa: based on daily values, the December average was 427.5 ppm, that's 2.1 ppm more than last year
#emissions #co2 #climatechange…
AppLovin reports Q4 revenue up 66% YoY to $1.66B, vs. $1.61B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue and adjusted EBITDA above estimates; APP drops 6% after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/applovin-q4-earnings-software-adtech-ai/
Reddit reports Q4 revenue up 70% YoY to $726M, vs. $665M est., DAUq up 19% to 121.4M, above est., forecasts Q1 revenue above est., announces a $1B share buyback (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/reddit-rddt-q4-2025.html
Airbnb reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $2.78B, vs. $2.72B est., Nights and Seats Booked up 10% to 121.9M, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/q4-airbnb-abnb-earnings-2025.html
Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, Premium users up 10% YoY to 290M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 751M, and a €701M operating income, above €639.1M est. (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…
Some Places with Snow III ❄️
一些有雪的地方 III ❄️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Cloudflare reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $614.5M, vs. $591.3M est., and forecasts full-year and Q1 revenue above estimates; NET jumps 14% after hours (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/10/cloudflare…
Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and MetaX had stellar stock market debuts, but none has sales above 10% of rival Cambricon (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f67a3a6a-d640-4b3f-bf06-dace3164d180
Some Places with Snow II ❄️
一些有雪的地方 II ❄️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Shopify reports Q4 revenue up 31% YoY to $3.7B, vs. $3.59B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue growth at a low-thirties percentage rate, vs. 25% est.; SHOP jumps 10% (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co
Rare Colours Blues 🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
Affirm reports Q2 revenue up 30% YoY to $1.12B, vs. $1.06B est., GMV up 36% to $13.8B, and forecasts Q3 revenue slightly above est.; AFRM drops 6% after hours (Reinhardt Krause/Investor's Business Daily)
https://www.investors.com/news/technology/affir…
Reddit reports Q4 revenue up 70% YoY to $726M, vs. $665M est., DAUq up 19% to 121.4M, above est., forecasts Q1 revenue above est., announces a $1B share buyback (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/05/reddit-rddt-q4-2025.html
Spotify reports Q4 revenue up 13% YoY to €4.5B, Premium users up 10% YoY to 290M, MAUs up 11% YoY to 751M, and a €701M operating income, above €639.1M est. (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02…
The EU says it is considering designating WhatsApp a "very large platform", after WhatsApp published user numbers above the DSA threshold in February 2025 (Louise Breusch Rasmussen/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-cons
Internal memo: Sam Altman tells staff that ChatGPT is "back to exceeding 10% monthly growth", and OpenAI plans to release "an updated Chat model" this week (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/09/sam-altman-touts-cha…