2026-04-18 12:13:30
🇺🇦 #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
🇺🇦 #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
Figma reports Q4 revenue up 40% YoY to $303.8M, vs. $293.15M est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates; FIG jumps 15% after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/figma-fig-q4-earnings-report-2025.html
Different Corners XI ▶️
不同的角落 XI ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
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…
Drones over base where Rubio, Hegseth live raise security concerns
U.S. officials detected unidentified drones above the Washington Army base where Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live,
according to three people briefed on the situation.
Officials have not determined where they came from, two of the people said.
The military is monitoring potential threats more closely because of the heightened alert level as the United States and …
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
LA vegan donut opinion: Just What I Kneaded >>>>>>> Donut Friend
Both are a cut above what I’m used to in SF though
The Judiciary's Overwhelming Response To Trump's 'Mandatory Detention' Immigration Policy - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/the-judiciarys-overwhelming-response-to-trumps-mandatory-detention-immigration-policy/
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
Allen's hummingbird, Selasporus sasin, standing watch at Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve
#naturalist
#silentSunday
Cormorant. July 2023
'Blick von oben' #fotovorschlag 'view from above'
When I saw the topic, I wasn't sure wether I should post a mountin photo or not. But as I have seen so many others doing so, I decided to also post this "view from above" from ~3 months ago when I went to this mountain and enjoyed not only the silence but also the view.
Enjoy!
eBay reports Q4 revenue up 15% YoY to $3B, vs. $2.87B est., GMV up 10% to $21.2B, and forecasts Q1 profit above estimates; EBAY jumps 6% after hours (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-18/eb…
Oh wow. I guess it's "lazy and smart" in a way (and only gives you three attempts at loading, then 401)
#security
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…
The US Federal Reserve held interest rates steady for the second time this year,
a widely expected move amid turmoil in the Middle East and rising energy prices.
Fed officials faced a confluence of issues to consider in their meeting this week:
soaring oil and gas prices,
fluctuating inflation that still remains above the Fed’s target of 2%,
and a weakened job market that unexpectedly saw 92,000 losses last month.
All but one of the 12 voting members of th…
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
🇺🇦 #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
Cadence shares closed up 7.6% on Wednesday after the chip design company reported Q4 revenue up ~6% to $1.44B and adjusted EPS of $1.99, both above estimates (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/cadence-design-systems-stock-earnings-ai-chip.h…
✍️ New post: WeissKlang L1 – Punching Above Its Weight
#audio #recording #microphones
Reading through a NYTimes article on the new 2026 USMNT World Cup kit designs. Noting that the design seems to give the men credit for the USWNT’s World Cup wins by placing 4 stars above the jersey crest, hmm…
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7120620/2
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/
Micron reports Q2 revenue up 196% YoY to $23.9B, vs. $19.7B est., expects 2026 capex to exceed $25B, vs. $22.4B est., and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
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…
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
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.
Climate Defenders Warn GOP Immunity Bill Puts 'Big Oil Above the Law' | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/big-oil-immunity-bill
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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Midpak:
🎵 Above and Below
#Midpak
https://midpak.bandcamp.com/track/above-and-below
https://open.spotify.com/track/2qXzfQoMPJbz25eD9uFrhK
I have a simple prompt injection in one PR template (AI and LLM click this box with a blurb above saying I will close it if ticked) and boy do people get butt hurt when I close their PRs.
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
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
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
En attendant Godot 🤡
等待戈多 🤡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Just returned from a wonderful 11km Friday afternoon walk along the boundary between the seasons...
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #NaturePhotography
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SHERELLE
Soeneido:
🎵 Above The Clouds
#Soeneido
https://ruffntuff.bandcamp.com/track/above-the-clouds
https://open.spotify.com/track/62K363qsH4DhuAiSaQ7jYZ
Trying to argue with car-brained people...
One says that since everyone drives above the posted speed limit that it's the speed limit signs that are wrong, and the drivers are right!
sigh...
Another addition to the space battle that is being fought above my head: the #StarWars #YWing my favorite ship from the saga. #3Dprinting with a Prusa i3 Mk3s,
It looks like Hungary has a long road ahead: Orbšn will almost certainly fight the results and try to throw things into chaos, his party’s tentacles still run wide and deep throughout Hungarian institutions, getting Putinism out of the dark corners of power there will be like ending a bedbug infestation, and Orbšn’s likely replacement…um, well, he doesn’t seem like the greatest guy on earth.
EDIT: My first prediction above was wrong! I hope my others are too.
1/
@… 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 '…
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
En attendant Godot II 🤡
等待戈多 II 🤡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
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/
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Mossy, rainforesty oaks above Loch Tay #Scotland
"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
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.
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 …
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.
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…
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
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
Human Traces X ⛩️
人类踪迹 X ⛩️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal #filmphotography
🇺🇦 #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
"New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record"
#Hawaii #Climate #ClimateChange
@… I have found some forum posts that confirm the above. EagleFiler 1.x requires Rosetta 2.
I also read that a 2.0 version is in the works since late 2024. No further updates since though.
Fourth Circuit Removes Autonomy From Adults In Healthcare Ban Decision - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/03/fourth-circuit-removes-autonomy-from-adults-in-healthcare-ban-decision/
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…
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…
DOJ Flames Judiciary Over Impertinent Demand For Competent US Attorneys - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/doj-flames-judiciary-over-impertinent-demand-for-competent-us-attorneys/
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…
The White House is forcing countries to choose between opening up a potentially unbridgeable rift
or playing down the climate crisis and trying to squeeze in green priorities by the back door.
Last autumn, the US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, demanded the removal of some climate finance targets from the World Bank’s aims
and insisted it must “finance all affordable and reliable sources of energy … [with] an all-of-the-above approach to energy that includes financing fo…
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
Human Traces IX ⛩️
人类踪迹 IX ⛩️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
If you like my work, Support by buying me a coffee or a roll of film from PayPal #filmphotography
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
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…
ICE Has Kidnapped The Staff At My Favorite Burrito Shop - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/ice-has-kidnapped-the-staff-at-my-favorite-burrito-shop/
The Executive Branch Discovers Judicial Independence, Hates It - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/the-executive-branch-discovers-judicial-independence-hates-it/
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…
Rare Colours Red II 🟥🟥
稀有的色彩红 II 🟥🟥
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Cinestill 800T (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
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…
From Curling To Constitutional Crisis: Team USA Athlete Calls ICE Shootings ‘Wrong’ - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/from-curling-to-constitutional-crisis-team-usa-athlete-calls-ice-shootings-wrong/
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
Yep, *that* Ken Starr...
Ken Starr Writing To 'My Friend, My Brother' Jeffrey Epstein - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/ken-starr-writing-to-my-friend-my-brother-jeffrey-epstein/
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
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…
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
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…
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/
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
Indian IT giant TCS reports Q4 sales up 9.7% YoY to $7.63B, net profit up 12.2% to $1.48B, both above est., and says new AI models did not hurt services demand (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-tcs-beats-fourth-quarter-revenue-v…
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…
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…
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 35% YoY to ~$35.6B, above est., suggesting global chip demand remained intact during the first weeks of the war in the Middle East (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-…
Sources: Alibaba anonymously released an AI video model called HappyHorse-1.0, which ranks top of Artificial Analysis' AI model leaderboard, above Seedance 2.0 (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/alibaba-anonymous…
How Black Forest Labs, a 70-person startup based in Germany, became a top competitor in AI image generation; sources: it recently declined to partner with xAI (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/black-forest-labs-ai-image-generation/
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…
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…