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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…

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I hereby declare the IRS, DOJ and all federal agencies can never investigate me, my family members and companies for any reason, in perpetuity.
I am hereby above the law forever.
You see how ridiculous that sounds when I say it? It remains just as ridiculous when the acting Attorney General says it.
The AG does not have the authority to declare that any more than you and I do.
#USpol

What is so bewildering about Trump’s cruelty is how it has been allowed to pass, its casualness.
Donald Trump hovers above the circus of death and chaos.
Trump defies attempts to make his actions cohere with any particular strategy.
His wars, killing of innocents, and indeed, the threatening of entire civilisations are reshaping the world,
but without him even having orchestrated some master plan.
He is animated by little more than momentary impulses and resent…

40°C: @… forecast for Reading, UK, home of the #ClimateStripes...
Never been hotter than 37.6°C there, and never above 34°C in June!

Beam me back, Scotty!
(To one of my favorite places on this planet... We went till the foot of the 1000 meter tall vertical ice fall in the very back, past the beaten paths... #FootpathFriday and belated #ThrowbackThursday time)

Much to no one's surprise, the NYT remains complete garbage.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a5fwvpvub5e7mxaebuxn3tuu/post/3mmctjlxg2jws

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News (@froomkin.bsky.social)
Call me naive, but I was really hoping for a serious NYT news analysis about how these corrupt acts set Trump above the law, make a mockery of separation of powers, violate the 14th amendment, and cannot stand. Instead: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/trump-fund-legal-questions.html

LOL!

Seeing little ant mounds formed along cracks in the sidewalk and thinking about how they're basically playing Dwarf Fortress down there underground and I'm seeing the hauled-away dirt come out above ground. Every grain in their mounds is another bit of tunnel or nesting chamber down below.
#ants

After getting our new fridge, we packed our cycles and did a nice loop in the neighbourhood. It's been a bit warm but with enough water it went quite well.
Enjoy your Saturday!
#cycling #BikeTooter #tegernsee

"India curtailed 2.1 TWh of renewable electricity in fiscal year 2025–26"
#India #Energy #Renewables

India curtailed 2.1 TWh of renewable electricity in fiscal year 2025–26 - pv magazine Global
Ember's analysis found that about 2.1 TWh of renewable electricity generation was curtailed in fiscal year 2025–26, equivalent to 1.3% of total renewable generation, to keep coal-fired power plants operating at their minimum technical load. The report estimates that around 10 GWh of energy storage, charged during peak midday solar generation hours, would have been sufficient to absorb this surplus renewable output, maintain coal plants above their minimum technical load, and avoid the curtail…

Sources: Nintendo asked partners and suppliers to assemble ~20M Switch 2 consoles by March 2027, ~20% above the 16.5M public sales outlook issued in early May (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)

For anyone in central Oklahoma in search of some family entertainment, I highly suggest the Vernardos circus in North OKC. They are here for one more week. A really great special circus experience for one and all.

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🇺🇦 #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

Well this is interesting. Last night during the workstation outage the grid power voltage to my house reached the highest level I've ever seen, 257V across the two nominally 120 legs (meaning they were 128.5V RMS above/below neutral). And a day or two earlier it dropped down to 235V.
Almost certainly unrelated, they don't pull enough power for this to make a difference and are on double conversion UPS so the voltage they saw wouldn't change. But the timing is curious, as is…

I love to see the crushing ethereal cloud landscapes above the painfully material rural decay of Ohio but I want the two desegregated and thats always what its been about

I'm posting this photograph to confirm my suspicion that the preview card above looks terribly compressed. Is this a known issue with all sites or is iNaturalist doing something unusual? #inaturalist #photography

Trump's energy boss: gas may stay above $3-per-gallon into 2027 (Ben Geman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/19/gas-prices-below-3-dollars-2027-midterm-iran
http://www.memeorandum.com/260419/p36#a260419p36

#silentSunday
Cormorant. July 2023

Cascais, Portugal
#travel

Pulitzer Prize board members complain about Trump in court
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/yet-to-produce-a-single-written-response-frustrated-pulitzer-prize-board-members-tired-of-trump-acting-like-hes-above-the-law-in-discovery-ask-judge-to-act/

Happy 5th birthday to #Wordle!
According to Wordle’s stats, I’ve played 1601 times. And because I first started playing on 5 January 2022, I missed playing 26 times.

Netherlands-based ASM, whose deposition tools are used to make advanced chips, projects Q2 revenue of ~€980M, above €886.8M est., driven by AI demand (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-21/a…

Call for Book Reviewers
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I am actually above the law, in a cosmic sense.

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Nice view yesterday evening.
Jupiter, Moon and Venus side by side. Castor&Pollux above.
Too bad I had no good camera and had to use my phone. :(
#planets #astrophotography

Bound-state QED test above the Schwinger limit with kaonic fluorine
F. Clozza, S. Manti, F. Sgaramella, L. Abbene, F. Artibani, M. Bazzi, G. Borghi, D. Bosnar, M. Bragadireanu, A. Buttacavoli, M. Carminati, A. Clozza, L. De Paolis, R. Del Grande, K. Dulski, C. Fiorini, I. Fri\v{s}\v{c}i\'c, C. Guaraldo, M. A. Iliescu, P. Indelicato, M. Iwasaki, A. Khreptak, J. Marton, P. Moskal, H. Ohnishi, K. Piscicchia, F. Principato, A. Scordo, M. Silarski, D. Sirghi, F. Sirghi, M. Skurzok, J. S…

Another day (well) above 30°C in the Netherlands, and even 35°C in the south. @NOS keeps choosing fun pictures with this kind of news, but it isn't funny anymore. https://nos.nl/l/2619358

Derde tropische dag van het jaar eindigt met onweer en regen
De temperatuur liep vandaag op tot boven de 30 graden. De een zocht bewust het zonnetje op, de ander bleef expres binnen.

50 years ago yesterday, the debut of phil lesh’s side jam, touloos ta truck (aka toulousse, aka too loose to truck), at river city in fairfax (with father guido sarducci!), feat. terry haggerty (from sons of champlin) on guitar, plus hardcore marin locals john allair on organ, & steve mitchell on drums. a few notches above the garcia band energy-wise, some of the groovier lesh. soundboard:

Oh wow. I guess it's "lazy and smart" in a way (and only gives you three attempts at loading, then 401)
#security

Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 5.5% YoY to $1.24B, vs. $1.22B est., AI Companion paid users up 184%, forecasts FY 2027 revenue above est.; ZM jumps 8% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05…

#ElNino forms, expected to strengthen, say NOAA forecasters: https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/el-nino-forms-expected-to-strengthen-say-noaa-forecasters - prolonged period of above-average temperatures in the equatorial Pacific expected to peak this winter.

Surfing Ability Summit page at 200% with my keyboard (as one does) and came across this weird control.
Turns out it’s a roled-up button that launches Microsoft Immersive reader. Which is crap at 200%, it turns out.
Anyway, use native HTML buttons and let users rely on their browser’s reader mode.

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Question: I'm designing the board game version of my digital game. I have two levels in the digital game: the ground where the spider walks along, and just above where the fly, flies.
The fly isn't in the sky, though. I can't call it sky because it is at human-level and players assume sky means above all our heads.
What do you think I could call this area above the ground?

More than 17,000 people were under evacuation orders in southern California on Tuesday as a wildfirethreatened suburban homes.
The wind-driven #Sandy fire was reported Monday in the hills above Simi Valley, about 30 miles (48km) north-west of Los Angeles.
By Tuesday morning, it had consumed more than 2 sq miles of dry brush and destroyed at least one home, according to the Ventura county fire dep…

Remember what I said about flower naming conventions? Well this one is called "Sunrise Dynasty".
#photography #bloomScrolling #tulips

Energy Secretary Says Gas Prices May Stay Above $3 Until 2027 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/world/middleeast/energy-secretary-gas-prices.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260419/p55#a260419p55

Had to get rid of some ants in the garden. My daughter was not pleased about this deathly maneuver but accepted it if we also set up grave stones for the ant’s memorial!
So if you need some crafts gravestones you know where to look for!
#RIP Ants

Sources: UK-based CuspAI, which aims to use AI for discovering new materials, is in discussions to raise at least $200M, taking its valuation to over $1B (Yazhou Sun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-20…

The Honest Button
The crosswalk button at the corner of my downtown intersection has an LED above it that lights up red and says "Wait!" when you press it. The traffic signal does not change any faster. No wire runs from the button to the signal timer. The LED is connected only to the button itself, and it does the single job of telling the pedestrian to wait.

The Honest Button | David Boles, Blogs
The crosswalk button at the corner of my downtown intersection has an LED above it that lights up red and says “Wait!” when you press it. The traffic signal does not change any faster. …

@… Ha ha! Thanks for listening. One principle above all - if what you're doing is working for you, keep going!

I went out into the wood to try to assess what dangerously unstable trees still standing in places where they could cause damage when they fall.
Needless to say, besides the two trees that have already collapsed above the house, there's at least one and possibly two unstable trees hanging over the house.
H'mmm...
#TheJoyOfCrofting

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

Well, what I’m wondering is, what are these people who “work very closely with Claude” gonna do when they or their institutions have to pay the full price for access to the chatbots?
Go back to writing mediocre articles themselves?
[EDIT: removed the link, because things may not have been quite the way they were presented. More generally, and not wrt. to a specific individual, the question posed above is still valid, though.]

@… see above ⬆️

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Scientists said the high of 15.4C broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2C. “This is absolutely crazy,” said Raúl Cordero, an Ecuadorian climate professor at the University of Groningen. “It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.”
#ClimateCrisis

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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…

The office last night. Rialto Square Theater, #Joliet, IL.
Built in 1926; surely one of the most beautiful buildings in America.
#chicago #LiveMusic

"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.)

Finally, Volkswagen is launching a V2G tariff in Germany. It is now scheduled for launch in Q4 2026.
Although Volkswagen was the first German car manufacturer to release bidirectional charging functionality in their vehicles, they are now behind BMW, Mercedes and Ford (whose EVs use VW technology) in terms of announcing an actual charger and tariff bundle.

Students enjoying themselves on a spring day
#photo #photography #portrait #groupportait

Well, no, there are people on the list above brand strategists...
#AI #LLM

Eugene Healey on Instagram: "Technology was supposed to free us. Instead, it just gave us more work. Today: why the backlash to AI follows the same pattern as every major technological disruption in history - and what that means for the brands caught in the middle. -- Follow @eugbrandstrat for more insights on how brands can effectively navigate modern digital spaces."
3,896 likes, 102 comments - eugbrandstrat on April 13, 2026: "Technology was supposed to free us. Instead, it just gave us more work. Today: why the backlash to AI follows the same pattern as every major technological disruption in history - and what that means for the brands caught in the middle. -- Follow @eugbrandstrat for more insights on how brands can effectively navigate modern digital spaces.".

this came to me in a dream and i thought it was the funniest shit ever
@… #VOTV #VoicesOfTheVoid

Ende Mai 2026 wurden im #Atlantik und im #Mittelmeer deutlich erhöhte #Meeresoberflächentemperaturen gemessen.
Daten des

Ongoing marine heatwave in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea | EU Space Support Office
In late May 2026, several countries in Western Europe faced above-average temperatures. During the same period, large areas of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea also recorded above-average sea surface temperatures.

First try propagating plants from cuttings. The little ones with 1 or 2 leaves are coyote mint cuttings

My jar of goodies — Observe, reflect, engage
https://jar.tiddlyhost.com/#2026-04-17-Fri
The verb “calls” in the verse above is a present active participle. His call, made initially at conversion, still is active. But the emphasis is on the Caller, more than the time of…

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This front page, above-the-fold article about Hany Farid is a good read. I know him ever so slightly from when our paths crossed in steganography research 25 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/ai-d

In Age of AI, World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes
In the age of A.I., Hany Farid is struggling to prove what’s real before the internet decides for itself.

Just got confirmation that I will be documenting and helping with some maintenance works at Breslauer Hütte, before the main season starts. This hut, built in 1882, is one of the oldest high-alpine mountain huts in the eastern Alps, and located just below Wildspitze (3768m), Tyrol's highest mountain.
The hut belongs to the Breslau section of the Alpenverein (now based in Stuttgart) and it's their upcoming 150th anniversary next year. Aside from the repair work, for me it's a long await…

Climate Defenders Warn GOP Immunity Bill Puts 'Big Oil Above the Law' | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-oil-immunity-bill

Antarctica’s west coast is missing an area of winter sea ice the size of France,
sparking concerns for threatened penguins other marine life and global sea levels.
One expert said the loss of ice in the Bellingshausen Sea was “depressing”
and the failure of ice to form could have intensified a heatwave over the continent’s peninsula
Last week saw daytime temperatures peak at 15.4C
which is more than 20C above average.

"Fleet of ‘Flying Ferries’ Will Provide Zero-Emission, Silent EV Boats for Travelers Along Norway’s Busy Coast"
#Norway #Boats

Fleet of ‘Flying Ferries’ Will Provide Zero-Emission, Silent EV Boats for Commuters and Tourists Along Norway’s Coast
Tourists and commuters along Norway’s coast will soon travel aboard “flying” electric ferries—quietly whizzing above the water from Candela.

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

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Floating static geometry bug IRL
(Looks around for matrix agents in suits and earpieces)

#photography #bloomScrolling #tulips #pink

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…

Cerebras prices IPO above expected range, as Wall Street braces for AI tsunami
Cerebras raised $5.55 billion in its IPO, and with the chipmaker's offering, investors are gearing up for some even bigger AI deals later this year.

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-

Somewhat shaky proof that the skies above over the International #DarkSky Community MŸn and Nyord - https://darksky.org/places/mon-and-nyord-dark-sky-community/ - are good indeed: out of cam vertical 60 seconds f/2.8 shot at ISO 1600 (camera lying on an unstable table) from a place between Elmelunde and NŸrreby, still no sky background appearing. The SQM reading in the zenith was consistently 21.7 mag./sq.arcsec.

Amazing image from Artemis II

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Maui, looking north from SE coast
Haleakala peeking above the clouds, Molokini in the foreground.

I got quite a few photos Tuesday for which I didn't give somebody a token but I am prioritizing portraits for processing since I know people are waiting for them; here is a wide angle of the four season garden in the ILR courtyard with a class discussing outdoors
#photo #photography

"‘A huge anomaly’: Antarctica records winter temperatures 20C warmer than normal"
#Antarctica #Climate #ClimateChange

Record winter heat in Antarctica is worrying scientists
The new heat record comes amid a prolonged heatwave that has seen maximum daily temperatures above zero degrees for three consecutive weeks.

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Too high concentrations of PFAS 'forever chemicals' found in all waterways and lakes of the Dutch rural province of Friesland, often a factor of 1 to 10 above the legal limit, and sometimes worse than that. Water management board asks for a complete ban. https://nos.nl/l/2619066

PFAS in alle Friese wateren aangetroffen, waterschap wil verbod
Het Friese waterschap bracht als eerste op provinciaal niveau in beeld waar PFAS in wateren zat.

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#photography #bloomScrolling #tulips #pink

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Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown.
Scientists said the high of 15.4C broke the previous record set at the same station in 1998 by 2C. “This is absolutely crazy,” said Raúl Cordero, an Ecuadorian climate professor at the University of Groningen. “It is also about 20C above normal for this time of the year. That is a huge anomaly.”

"Record winter temperatures in Antarctic raise fears over speed of climate breakdown"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Antarctic

SpaceX closed up 4.8% on Tuesday with a $2.65T market cap, just above Amazon's, after popping ~12% intraday and briefly overtaking Microsoft's $2.93T market cap (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/16/spacex-stock-rally-market-cap.html

SF vibes are frenetic over the huge divide in outcomes and career uncertainty for software engineers; over 5 years ~10K people in AI attained retirement wealth (Deedy/@deedydas)
https://x.com/deedydas/status/2055491938464489888

Deedy (@deedydas) on X
The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen. Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35.1% YoY to ~$35B, net income up 58.3% YoY to ~$18B, both above est., and says 7nm or smaller chips were ~74% of its wafer revenue (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/16/tsmc-q1-profit-58-percent-ai-chip-demand-reco…

TSMC first-quarter profit rises 58%, beats estimates as AI demand fuels record run
TSMC reported another quarter of record profit, with the company expecting AI demand to continue to grow.

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Figma reports Q1 revenue up 46% YoY to $333.4M, vs. $313.2M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates, citing AI monetization; FIG jumps 8% after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/figma-r

PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised $23.6B YTD, up from $7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/ai

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…

Klarna reports Q1 revenue up 44% YoY to $1.01B, above est., GMV up 33% to $33.7B, active customers up 20% to 119M, and a $1M profit, up from a $99M loss YoY (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/earnings/klar…

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

Cisco reports Q3 revenue up 12% YoY to $15.84B, vs. $15.56B est., forecasts Q4 revenue above est., and is cutting almost 4,000 jobs; CSCO jumps 17% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/13/cisco-csco-q3-earnings-report-2026.html

Cisco's stock pops 14% on surging AI orders, as company says it's cutting almost 4,000 jobs
Cisco's AI story has finally started resonating with Wall Street, with the stock hitting a record late last year and continuing to rally in 2026.

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

SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~$11.6B, above ~$1.5B est., driven by a $25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit $64.6B (David Keohane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/85b9fe04-0d70-482e-bd27-9c87c1ebfc01

Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now $500 more expensive than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/s…

Microsoft reveals major price increases for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues: Flagships now $500 more expensive than at launch
Microsoft is raising prices on all its current Surface PC offerings, with the midrange devices now starting at above $1,000, and flagships starting at $1,500.

JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $46.5B, above ~$45.8B est., and adjusted net profit down 42% YoY to $1B, amid a fierce food delivery battle in China (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busin…