2026-01-12 02:25:23
🇺🇦 #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
🇺🇦 #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
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…
“DHS is not above the law, and the people of Minnesota are certainly not beneath it”
Market Value 💵
市场价值 💵
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
On Thursday, the California Coastal Commission voted to approve a permit allowing the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, perched above Avila Beach of San Luis Obispo County,
to continue operating through at least 2030.
The controversial decision was conditioned on Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), the plant’s operator, agreeing to permanently conserve 4,000 acres of surrounding land from commercial or residential development.
The decision carries powerful consequences for the…
Waters above the Firmament
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/
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…
Well that was fast. I'm Unclear how this is different from just raising the cap $1 million dollars.
#nwsl
Eastern gray squirrels, Sciurus carolinensis, apparently sharing a nest-hole in the wintery woods near Acton, Massachusetts
#naturalist
Here's a photo that's a bit different from my usual style.
I took it with the tele lens on last weekend's hike. The inversion caused such a great sea of clouds with just some sole islands.
This kind of weather really offers such unique motives. And again: it was worth carrying the zoom lens up there :-D
Enjoy!
#photography
"New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record"
#Hawaii #Climate #ClimateChange
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.
This was too good to be checked…
But it’s bullshit.
She never said that.
(plonk) @… https://mastodon.scot/@BlytheCycles/11604739239…
🏜️ Death Valley plant yields blueprint for building heat-resilient crops
#plants
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
SERVALAN: Then why don't you see if you can find us a drink. We have things to talk about.
[Bluff above the beach. Dayna, Lauren, and Mellanby watch as the Sarrans attack the hatch]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/340 B7B3
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).
Broadcom reports Q4 revenue up 28% YoY to $18.02B, vs. $17.49B est., and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates, with AI chip sales doubling to $8.2B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/11/broadcom-avgo-q4-earnings-2025.html
When you say "we don't need user research, I already know what users want" this is what you look like
#ux #UXDesign #userresearch
Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!
---- - Johann Most - ----
The Executive Branch Discovers Judicial Independence, Hates It - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2026/02/the-executive-branch-discovers-judicial-independence-hates-it/
🇺🇦 #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
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 …
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…
"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
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/
I fully agree, no borders—prison abolition, and honestly this tracks because Snufkin spends the series tearing down private property signs.
#Anarchism #Anarchy #Moomins
The Durutti Column - "Another Setting" (1982)
#NowPlaying
Ed Zitron offers 15K words on whether Nvidia is like Enron (or several other famous fraudsters) or not. It's amusing and erudite and most people just won't have time to plow through it. Which is a pity, because 80% of the way through there’s a section called:
“Is NVIDIA Shipping Millions Of GPUs And Putting Them In Warehouses? Where Are The 6 Million Shipped Blackwell GPUs?”
His findings are absolutely shocking. Tl;dr: That headline just above.
@… I edited post above by hand and fixed the source of the issue. Thanks!
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/
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
Beautiful night in the woods. It didn't rain at all and we woke up to an awesome sunrise instead of the pouring rain we usually get. I'm not used to packing up my shelter and having it be dry.
Should be a good day of training.
#SearchAndRescue #SoOthersMayLive
Almost dropped my phone out the bus window taking pictures of the view I've seen almost every day for 30 years.
#SanFrancisco
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.
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
🇺🇦 #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
Amogy is piloting ammonia-to-power systems that convert ammonia to hydrogen for fuel cells, targeting zero-emission shipping and heavy industry.
BRAC is recycling single-use plastics in Bangladesh, cutting landfill emissions and replacing virgin petrochemicals.
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Frozen fog
...spontaneously forming all around us on our evening walk, as if by magic.
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite
If you’re wondering how you can help…
If you’re in MSP: talk to your neighbors, find the people who are doing organizing work, and get involved. Find something and show up for it. Info & resources here: https://monarcamn.org
If you’re elsewhere in the US: talk to your neighbors •now• about what’s happening, and get your support networks set up •before• this comes to where you live — unless of course it already has, in which case see above.
If you’re not in the US, spread the word about what’s happening here. Make the shame of ICE known internationally.
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
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/
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…
From #AnnafromUkraine @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
🧵 👇
MOSCOW SKY CHAOS: THOUSANDS CANCELLED FLIGHTS AND CLOSED AIRPORTS Vlog 1281: War in Ukraine
#Ukraine controls the skies above #moscow
Scott Wiener is trying to change the slogan from "Abolish ICE" to "Abolish and replace ICE."
I guess he figures there still needs to be *some* agency that deports international students who criticize Israel, a Trump regime priority he's bolstered in California by co-authoring #AB715.
#silentSunday
Condor. August 2018
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $6.19B, Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4.62B, and forecasts FY 2026 revenue above estimates (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/adobe-forecasts-annual-reven…
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
#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…
It is not #metalmonday but I can't really wait.
Orbit Culture - Death Above Life
https://youtu.be/4Z5KP0qRS3M?si=cDcrI4uG5LeBdxLP
You probably like this:
…
Thanksgiving, Above All, Celebrates Our Escape From a Pre-Liberal World (Arthur Melzer/The UnPopulist)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/thanksgiving-above-all-celebrates
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p28#a251127p28
Moody Urbanity - Relations V 🪢
情绪化城市 - 关系 V 🪢
📷 Minolta Hi-Matic AF
🎞️ Shanghai GP3 400 Pan
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
"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."
🥳🥳🥳
Microwave Signature of the Emerging Abrikosov Lattice Above $H_{c2}$
Hang Zhou, Zhanghai Chen, A. A. Varlamov, Andreas Glatz, Yuriy Yerin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08586 https:…
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
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
CSS:
🎵 Let's Make Love And Listen To
#CSS
https://cocolah.bandcamp.com/track/lets-make-love-and-listen-to-death-from-above
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Jd9W7k8DTnBSovDSxK77n
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…
Sources: SpaceX plans an IPO in mid-to-late 2026, seeking to raise far above $30B and targeting a ~$1.5T valuation, potentially making it the largest IPO ever (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-09/spacex-…
I stayed at Ashworth by the Sea when I visited Hampton Beach a few weeks ago because I saw the sign over and over when I was a kid and they were open for the off season
#photo #photography #buildings
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
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
Oh, almost forgot #silentsunday!
My last hike led me to this summit which is usually very well visited.
But given the weekday & weather, I was totally alone while I was up there. Noone around. No human made sound. Just me and nature. It felt so much like real freedom.
#hiking
“Pete Hegseth, much like the president he serves, sees himself as, essentially, above the law, as unconstrained by legal procedure.”
Foreign policy analyst Matt Duss discusses the brewing conflict within the Trump administration over the leadership of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,
including his involvement in a leaked announcement of U.S. strikes on Yemen in March
and the chain of command behind U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Toblinger Knoten / Torre di Toblin
(October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography
"How to build giant solar plants in mountainous areas"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables
Scientists just found a game-changing way to check on dolphin health without stressing them out.
Researchers at Flinders University are using drones with thermal cameras to measure dolphin body temperature and breathing rates from above. No more invasive capture methods or stressful probes—just non-invasive monitoring that keeps dolphins safe while giving conservationists the data they need.
New report confirms 2025 among Hawai'i's driest, warmest on record #Hawaii
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Daz-I-Kue:
🎵 K.A.T.H.Y.
#DazIKue
https://nervousrecords.bandcamp.com/track/daz-i-kue-k-a-t-h-y-kisses-above-to-honor-you-feat-cortney-lafloy
Rare Colours Blues 🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 🔷🔷
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Harman Phoenix 200 II (FF)
#filmphotography #Photography #Art
"The reasons for Starmer’s exceptional servility are well understood. He has pinned disproportionate hopes for the revival of Britain’s floundering economy on trade with the US, an activity which is now conducted purely at Trump’s caprice.
"Above all, his “coalition of the willing” striving to prolong the Ukraine war depends on US military, intelligence and logistical support for the foreseeable future."
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…
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
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/
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…
Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC
Moody Urbanity - Urbana Composita 🌆
情绪化城市 - 建构城市 🌆
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Activists are capturing and burning methane at an abandoned Colorado coal mine
as a “macro solution” for the climate
The methane destruction project above Paonia could be a global model for reducing emissions of a potent greenhouse gas
https://coloradosun.com/2025/12/03/pao
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…
Australia is connecting Snowy 2.0 to the grid with 800 new transmission towers, unlocking 2.2 GW of renewable power.
Vikram Solar opened a 5 GW plant in Tamil Nadu, scaling India's solar capacity.
Bolivia created the Loma Santa Indigenous Conservation Area, protecting Amazon forests under Indigenous stewardship.
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An overview of AI in 2025, including arguments for and against above-trend model capabilities growth, the state of evals, and the safety of reasoning models (Gavin Leech/LessWrong)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Q9ewXs8pQSAX5vL7H/ai-in-2025-gestalt
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
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…
Report: SpaceX is expected to make around $15B in revenue in 2025, increasing to between $22B and $24B in 2026, with the majority coming from Starlink (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/spacex-pursue-2026-i…
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…
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
IBM agrees to acquire data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B in cash, above its ~$8B market value as of its December 5 close, paying $31 per share (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears…
Sources: IBM is in advanced talks to buy data streaming software maker Confluent for ~$11B, above its market value of ~$8B as of December 5 close (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/ibm-nears-roughly-11-billion-de…
Foxconn reports Q4 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$82.7B, above ~$77B est., and record December revenue up 31.8% YoY to ~$27.5B, driven by AI and networking demand (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/foxconns-q4-revenue-surges-2207-yea…
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…
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