2026-03-08 15:57:19
✍️ New post: WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight
#audio #recording #microphones
✍️ New post: WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight
#audio #recording #microphones
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 …
🇺🇦 #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
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…
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.
Tech jobs are highly cyclical and lots of the gen AI stuff is ridiculously overhyped, and I’m hopeful that the wheel will keep turning and the professional prospects of software developers will improve again…assuming human civilization survives, that is.
But what I said above applies regardless. We should all be doing this meaning-making work all the time, even in the best job markets. In fact, that work is a part of •making• human civilization survive.
pam bondi screaming that oil is above $100 right now, and that's now we should be talking about - not epstein!
The Justice Department Is Lowering Its Ethical Guardrails - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/03/the-justice-department-is-lowering-its-ethical-guardrails/
Golden Hour Pastoral
(two minutes after sunrise)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
Just curious - do Yanks say 'aye' when not being pirates?
As a Derby person, if someone asks me something informally, I'll often respond with, "Oh aye!" Or, if they're bullshitting, "Oh aye?"
I'm guessing seppos would say "Oh yeah!" or "Oh YEAH?" but let's have a poll. Yaaay!
If you are a USAmerican, do you say 'aye' in the manner described above?
This is not the first, and certainly not the last, collaboration of this kind: a Dutch solar park developer and a developer of charging hubs for heavy-duty vehicles are set to join forces: synergy through improved remuneration and, above all, they will avoid many grid-related (cost) issues
https://www.
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Human Traces - 1000 Gens Pilgrimage ⛩️
人类踪迹 - 萬代瞻仰 ⛩️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky LUCKY SHD 400 (6x6)
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This is my shocked face. I'm just gobsmacked that no one considered this possibility.
https://apnews.com/article/oil-prices-crude-brent-iran-ecab41ec6a365e58282…
Former Biglaw Attorney Was Epstein Victim, Drafted Sex Contract - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/former-biglaw-attorney-was-epstein-victim-drafted-sex-contract/
I went to see an exhibition in #Hamburg today advertised as "from Herakles to Superman". I foolishly assumed there would be some discussion of the elements that make a modern hero vs the ancient Greek heros, similarities & differences between Greek heroes & US-American superheroes, and how heroes reflect society. But the exhibitors decided to make 1 room about US superheroes an…
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
"Bitcoin is crashing hard, reaching historic lows of well below the $70,000 mark. At the time of writing, the token is hovering just above $63,000, levels we haven’t seen since October 2024."
"According to Coindesk, the average cost to mine one Bitcoin is currently around $87,000 — far higher than its current going rate, making it an extremely unprofitable proposition."
🥳🥳🥳
Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
While I have often talked about eutrophication (high nutrients leading to excess algae production), systems worldwide have also undergone oligotrophication: productivity reduction from nutrient decline or ecosystem changes. While lakes becoming clearer is often viewed positively, this results in food web alterations and loss of culturally and commercially importa…
New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record #Hawaii
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Death From Above 1979:
🎵 Cheap Talk
#DeathFromAbove1979
https://open.spotify.com/track/7MowOHgDCm3TdkLwGJ2qgG
Helping in defense against attacks from Iran should be the maximum that Europe does, no involvement in any actions against Iran, on or above it's territory or anything like that. We need maximum resources for security on our own continent and for the war against Russia. It would be typical Trump to first destroy Iran and then ask Europe to clean up his mess...
#iran
Anyone good in statistics who can quickly answer a question? Assume I have an n-digit random binary number (for IT people: a bitstring). I calculate the number of 1s vs. 0s ("Hamming weight"). Expected to be usually ~0.5/50%. How does one calculate the probability for a given length n that it's above or below a certain value, i.e. <=40% or >=60%? And how many inputs would one on average need to get at least one such outlier?
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
City Vibes 🎀
城市律动 🎀
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Finally something useful came out of the royal family: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-king-charles-annex-canada-new-book-9.7153681
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Ray Bryant:
🎵 Up Above The Rock (Single Version)
#RayBryant
https://lennymarcus.bandcamp.com/track/up-above-the-rock
https://open.spotify.com/track/66Q0P99bQz8L0o5YV0qgFg
#WritersCoffeeClub Feb 7: Share a pair of consecutive lines of a current or recent project.
A recent commission:
The sensation of his harsh thrusts blended with another stimulation, something more unusual. He felt a grip on his hips with no one standing behind him, he felt drops of sweat fall on his back even though there was nobody above him, and finally, he realised it wa…
"In the past, whenever there was a financial crisis or a major political conflict, investors would pile into dollar assets, driving the dollar up – as happened during the 2008 financial crisis. That hasn’t happened under Trump; the dollar index has fallen 10% against other currencies in 2025. ...
"The dollar, as the world’s major currency for central bank reserves and in transactions in international trade and finance, has been in gradual decline for decades."
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…
Limiting global warming can reduce US wildfire smoke-related deaths by thousands annually #UnitedStates
How To Podcast By PodcaSTAR With Mel Sargeant
Tune into entertainers, producers, podcasters and radio stars to discover the secrets to being a cut above...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/how-to-podcast/
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."
Close shot of runner with Kennedy Hall in background
#photo #photography #running #flrc
Law School Tells Students, 'You MUST Be Aligned Politically With President Trump,' For Summer Job (Joe Patrice/Above the Law)
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/03/law-school-tells-students-you-must-be-aligned-politically-with-president-trump-for-summer-job/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p37#a260303p37
Sources: online DTC luxury brand Quince is in talks to raise funding at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in July; its annualized revenue run rate has hit ~$2B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/quince-talks-double-valuation-10-billion…
British Sugar, Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025
#photography #ukphotographer #documentingplace #documentingspace
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…
I keep seeing #HamRadio antennas using all sort of huge devices to create links between band segments. Alligator clips. Wago blocks. Mueller clips. Mostly with the antenna wire tied to something stiff that makes it hard to roll up neatly, rather than using flexible cord. I keep looking for and not finding examples of my approach to linking.
My solution is so simple, neat, and tidy…
From The Maple
Amazon ‘Breached’ B.C. Labour Code By Denying Pay Increase
The British Columbia Labour Relations Board’s recent ruling may result in more than $1 million in back wages being paid out
The company broke the law by singling out unionized workers for unfair treatment. "No worker should be punished for exercising their legal right to join a union, and today’s ruling sends a clear message that Amazon is not above the law,” said Unifor president Lana Payne
At first, sexual harassment lawyer Megan Thomas just wanted to put up a modest ad above a garbage can in the back of a New York airport terminal to advertise her law firm's services.
It read:
“When HR called it harmless flirting … we called it exhibit A."
But when the airport authority rejected the ad copy and asked her to tone it down, she filed a lawsuit claiming her free speech rights under the U.S. constitution had been violated
A judge agreed,
and …
Amazon reports Q4 ad revenue up 23% YoY to $21.32B, slightly above expectations, and subscription services revenue up 14% to $13.12B (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/amazon-q4-2025-earnings-capex-advertising-sales…
Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
My brain glitches every time I see some politician, CEO, journalist, artist, etc. posting on Twitter and being quoted by news outlets who, surprise, also are on Twitter. Look, I can only speak for my tiny person, but joining Twitter and getting comfortable on it 16 years ago wasn't any harder than joining Mastodon or Bluesky
1. If you are on X because otherwise you'll lose some of that sweet cash revenue, well, fuck you
2. If you are on X because of the above person, well,…
GOP Wants To Probe Ketanji Brown Jackson For Attending Grammys Because Bad Bunny Was Also There - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/gop-wants-to-probe-ketanji-brown-jackson-for-attending-grammys-because-bad-bunny-was-also-there/
Sickly Red III ⭕️
病态的红 III ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
ICE: Finally, here comes warmer weather, soon it will be above freezing and all this crud will melt and we can drive at freeway speeds on every tiny side street like we keep trying to
MSP: *snrk*
ICE: what
MSP: nothing
ICE: WHAT
MSP: nothing
MSP: …
MSP: …*(potholes)*…
ICE: What? Why are you whispering? What did you just say???
MSP: Nothing!
ICE: <glares>
MSP: “Assholes.” We called you assholes
ICE: …OK then
MSP: hehe *snrk*
Samsung reports preliminary Q1 operating profit of ~$38B, up more than 8x YoY and above ~$27B est., a record, and revenue up 68% YoY to ~$88B (Hyunjoo Jin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sus
Pastel Fog Rise
(Watching the sunrise and a dramatic fog rise on an early summer morning near Zugspitze, 2024. The summit is partially visible through the clouds...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography
#2024YR4 - Identification of Possible Precoveries in 2016 IPTF Data: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00449 -> "These candidate detections, not accounting for any currently-undetected Yarkovsky forces, predict a perilune of 22001 /- 49 km and a perigee of 277534 /- 46 km (relative to the center of each respective body) representing an improvement of > 300 times in the approach distance uncertainty above the existing orbit solution and, if confirmed, decisively ruling out a lunar impact in 2032" -> https://groups.io/g/mpml/message/41437
Life Runners 🪖
生活战士 🪖
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Temps above freezing today means window is open.
The latest in our climate chaos theatre: Arctic ice melting in January!
@… on Bluesky:
SUMMER IN WINTER IN GREENLAND
Crazy Temperatures tonight up to 9C (above summer average), persisting during the day.
24 stations at low elevations out of 31 above freezing today.
Kitsissorsuit is chasing the WORLD RECORD of the highest monthly…
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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Low:
🎵 Below & Above
#Low
https://solow.bandcamp.com/track/as-above-so-below
https://open.spotify.com/track/3bjOIdrOZaBWwez9u3fgVI
Sickly Red IV ⭕️
病态的红 IV ⭕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ CineStill 800T
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography …
Amazon reports Q4 ad revenue up 23% YoY to $21.32B, slightly above expectations, and subscription services revenue up 14% to $13.12B (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/amazon-q4-2025-earnings-capex-advertising-sales…
Greetings, myth lovers!
Since I can't log into @… because the server seems to be down, I'm inviting you to share your favourite #mythology-themed read for
Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-seeks-premium-prices-early-…
Roblox reports Q4 bookings up 63% YoY to $2.2B vs. $2.05B est., DAUs up 69% to 144M, and forecasts FY 2026 bookings above estimates; RBLX jumps 18% after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/roblox-fo
🇺🇦 #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
Trump Admin Calls 'Backsies' On Biglaw Executive Order Appeals - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/03/trump-admin-calls-backsies-on-biglaw-executive-order-appeals/
'Fair Share' outpaces other revenues
The Fair Share surtax is a 4% tax on annual income above $1 million in Massachusetts,
which was approved by voters in 2022
The funds are dedicated to public education and transportation.
As of 2026, it has generated over $2.3 billion for these purposes.
The new forecast from the Executive Office of Administration and Finance anticipates that the Commonwealth will collect a total of $44.9 billion in revenue this year,…
Apple's MacBook Neo poses a big threat to OEMs like HP, Lenovo, and Dell, as their $599 laptops seem inferior and Windows 11's reputation is at an all-time low (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.
We all need a sweet tush on Monday, right? And who better to provide it than golden Aphrodite herself?
#BumDayMonday #GreekRomanArt
Human Traces 🚶
人类踪迹 🚶
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky LUCKY SHD 400 (6x6)
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Uber reports Q4 revenue up 20% YoY to $14.4B, above $14.32B est., Gross Bookings up 22% YoY to $54.1B, trips up 22% YoY to 3.8B, and a $296M profit, below est. (Connor Hart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/busin…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
above me:
🎵 water drops
#aboveme
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://abovemee.bandcamp.com/track/water-drops
https://open.spotify.com/track/1m1lZSgi03KRV7xccyl3qj
Reconstruction of the cold-blooded execution of Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis:
"..while Mr. Pretti is on his knees and restrained, the agent standing directly above him appears to fire one shot at Mr. Pretti at close range. He immediately fires three additional shots."
https://www.
The price of a barrel of West Texas Intermediate has jumped by 10% today,
after Donald Trump vowed to hit Iran “extremely hard” for the next few weeks,
dashing hopes of de-escalation and an early end to the conflict.
US crude is trading at $111 a barrel,
the highest level since 9 March.
This puts a barrel of WTI above the international benchmark,
Brent crude, which has jumped more than 8% to $109.32 a barrel.
Although Trump pledged last night to fini…
Galaxy Digital reports a Q4 net loss of $482M, above $282M est., driven primarily by the crypto market crash, and says its trading volumes declined ~40% QoQ (David Pan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Bird View 🐦
鸟瞰 🐦
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
German chipmaker Infineon reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY €3.66B, above €3.62B est., expects to raise investments to €2.7B in 2026, and forecasts growing AI demand (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Black Flag:
🎵 Rise Above
#BlackFlag
https://spittinbonespunk.bandcamp.com/track/black-flag-rise-above-live
https://open.spotify.com/track/4kFfFe38CRVnTsakUTL4E4
Alphabet says it expects 2026 capex to be in the range of $175B to $185B, above estimates of about $115.26B (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/google-parent-alphabet-forecasts-sharp-surge-2026-capital-spen…
Arm reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $1.24B, vs. $1.22B est., and license and other revenue up 25% to $505M, vs. $519.9M est.; ARM drops 7% after hours (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-cons…
Dell reports Q4 revenue up 39% YoY to $33.4B, vs. $31.73B est., and forecasts FY 2027 revenue above estimates; DELL jumps 10% after hours (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/dell-forecasts-fiscal-2…
Super Micro reports Q2 net sales up 123% to $12.7B, vs. $10.43B est., and expects Q3 net sales above estimates; SMCI jumps 5% after hours (Luke Kawa/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/markets/super-micro-computer-q2-2026-earnings-ai-boom-bubble-s…
Salesforce reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to $11.2B, vs. $11.18B est., forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, and announces a $50B share repurchase program (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sus
Snowflake reports Q4 product revenue up 30% YoY to $1.23B, vs. $1.18B est., and forecasts Q1 and FY 2027 product revenue above estimates (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/snowflake-expects-annual-p…
Seagate reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $2.83B, vs. $2.73B est., forecasts Q3 results above estimates on strong data storage demand; STX jumps 8% after hours (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/seagate-f
Texas Instruments reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $4.42B, vs. $4.44B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates; TXN jumps 9% after hours (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/analog-chipmaker-tex…
Shanghai-based MiniMax reports 2025 revenue up 159% YoY to $79M, above ~$71.4M est., and a $1.87B net loss, up from a ~$465.2M loss in 2024, after its IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-02/china-ai…
Palantir reports Q4 revenue up 70% YoY to $1.41B, vs. $1.33B est., and forecasts FY 2026 and Q1 revenue above estimates; PLTR jumps 6% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/palantir-pltr-q4-2025-earnings.html
Alibaba plans to spend ~$431M in a Lunar New Year campaign starting February 6 to attract users to its Qwen AI app, above Tencent's ~$143.7M and Baidu's ~$71.8M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-seeks-premium-prices-early-…
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…
BitGo raises $212.8M in its US IPO at $18 per share, above the marketed range of $15 to $17 per share, giving it a market value of about $2.1B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-22/bitgo-is-said-to-price-us…