Yesterday, after a day of documenting some of this year's maintenance works and super lovely, interesting insights and exchanges with the amazing team & volunteers at Breslauer Hütte, we took the Seuffertweg high above the valley towards Vernagt glacier and then back down to civilization. Breathtaking views of the glaciated peaks of the Kreuzkamm (opposite side of the valley), Mitterkar and Wildspitze (3770m, our side) directly above us... Some dodgy exposed & severely eroded section…
3:20 p.m. in the Netherlands, and the first part of the country has reached temperatures above 38°C, with two stations above the 38.4 mark that used to be the all-time national high for 75 years, and was first exceeded in 2019.
#heatwave #extremeweather
The planets #Jupiter (left) and #Venus and the #Gemini stars Pollux and Castor above them this evening - with the Sun 10° below and 10° above the horizon - from Bochum, Germany: exactly two weeks before the planets are closest to each other. (In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_w5MOP0yxo a one-hour documentary about this conjunction, from Austria.)
Pony AI reports Q1 revenue up 145% YoY to ~$34.3M, above $21.7M est., and increases its 2026 robotaxi fleet target by 500 to 3,500 vehicles on fast growth (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-26/pony-ai-…
Waffles, The Hungry :neocat_knife:
"…Larry Krasner, District Attorney of Philadelphia. 'A federal badge is not a license to violate the Constitution, and it is not a shield from state criminal law. We have prosecuted police officers who broke the law. We have prosecuted public officials who broke the law. We will prosecute ICE agents who break the law. There is no category of American who gets to operate above it.'"
"They'll soon see. A surprise from above is never as shocking as one from below."
- Karis Nemik
Big patch of 12°C ( 22F) above normal heat in southern Africa.
That’s dangerous heat (~100°F/38°C) in midwinter.
I’m sure that will be just fine.
Hilarious how LLMs tick the box the comments above tells it if it clicks it I won’t accept it.
Of course harness web fetch tools don’t render comments :)
The Asian Horned Frog IS satisfied. She just looks this way, sometimes.
#Nature #Photography
"A wider amber warning is also in place in Wales, southern England, the Midlands and part of northern England, external, with areas as far north as Manchester expected to see temperatures reach above 30C."
Well we aren't really far north in Manchester but it's just fallen to 30.8 in our shady garden. Was 32.6.
'UK braced for hottest June night after highest temperature of year so far - BBC News'
The redder sun in the skies below
was calling me more than the one above
Above the waves, weightless for seconds
and then soaring free at last
Didn't get my phone/camera out in time, and very hard to make out in the bright sky, but I saw SNBD4 as 3 or 4 planes flying in a cluster, north of the field (and above the pattern) at CYUL. https://scoat.es/@yulalerts/116641706128627569
Some #urban #art: "Time for Green"
A big clock with bent arms, somewhat reading 10 to 3, and an empty small green bottle of herbal liqueur below it, on the sidewalk and a spot of grass. The digits reflect the green of the tree above.
@… thanks. Still the wrong link in the toot above (seen in BSD Cafe Mastodon).
Also in the toot:
"The release schedule for FreeBSD 14.4,"
… and the tag is for 14.4 (not 15.1) …
I have the desire to potter about with plants and get my new raised fruit/veg bed sorted out but apart from the blistering temperatures I've picked up a completely flattening virus from a colleague so I don't have the energy. I keep falling asleep when I sit down. I've put some nasturtium seedlings into a planter, moved the radish planter to the veg area and helped move a couple of bits into our summer seating area and that's me done.
Myself as "tacticool operator" taking pictures of squirrels in front of the A.D. White House -- around this time I'm thinking "gee, my hair gets bunched up in twintails by my hat"
#photo #photography
alpena has a great used record store, noise & toys, and i usually come home with an inch or two of LPs, but not this year bc they’re in the middle of moving to a new space #alas
they don’t sort by categories, just alphabetically. i usually spend hours rummaging for vintage jazz among all the rest, picking up where i left off the following year.
i have found so many gems there
any…
I promise I won’t annoy you with any more posts about the album/collection after this, but I just had to thank Mastodon people who came to the ‘Otherscapes’ listening party yesterday. It made all the work put into it feel better. That anyone would come is encouraging, but especially that some stayed for 5, 6, 7 hours into the 11 hour release. (And to see comments come in when I woke up again a few hours later was a fun indicator of my suboptimal hours of sleep in generall. 😆)
There’s …
I love this #mural I saw in #OrangeMound this morning. It goes on like this for a couple blocks along Carnes, adjacent to the park, painted on the side of a giant warehouse. So many handprints!
#Memphis …
US cybersecurity company Zscaler reports Q3 revenue up 25% YoY to $850.5M, above $835.4M est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; ZS drops 18% after hours (Harshita Mary Varghese/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/zscaler
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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…
A Not So Brave New World 🌐
不太美丽的新世界 🌐
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Europe, next 7 days: up to 18 °C above normal.
“It’s been hot before.” Sure. And the last ten years are the ten hottest ever recorded. This is the second heatwave in a month – made 3–5 times more likely by climate change. We decide how much worse it gets. #ClimateAction #Vote accordingly
New 10x8" silver gelatin print. This one took a lot of refining, back and forth and test strips to achieve the right balance between brightness, contrast (esp. in the brighter parts of the clouds) and smooth mid-tone transitions. So even though this is a contact print from a digital negative, this was the first time in ages (i.e. decades) that I used some physical dodging to soften the horizon and emphasize the haze in the distance a tiny bit more...
How much does it take to hold one tram junction's worth of overhead line? 9 tons of counterweight per pole, apparently.
#Helsinki #umarell
Finally another fun #sunset from Bochum, Germany, today: with the sunspot groups (1)4446 in the upper left, 4444 and 4447 below and 4443 just above the trees - see https://spaceweather.com/images2026/25may26/hmi1898.gif for orientation - easily visible. Bridgecam near max. optical digital zoom.
In the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a #timelapse of hundreds of pictures taken from nearly the same viewpoint over the years. The hardest challenge wasn’t taking the pictures or assembling them, but aligning them.
I’m a human being, not a tripod. The position changes ever so slightly, and so does the exact angle.
Alignment is the process of warping each photo so it…
A good rock, he explained, is flat on the bottom so it sits well, but with a pleasing rounded form above. It should be large enough to be noticed, but not so big that it's difficult to move around.
American issues that Trump doesn't care about:
▫️cost of living
▫️housing
▫️healthcare
▫️democracy
▫️unemployment
How do we know? HE SAID SO. OUTLOUD.
Why do you morons keep voting for him?
☑️ Trump Allegedly Told GOP Leader “No One Gives a [Bleep] About Housing” | The New Republic
CXMT is poised for a debut pop that could lift its market cap several times above its initial ~$85B after raising $9.8B in a hugely oversubscribed Shanghai IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-26/memory…
Small group poses with drum and dragon by Cayuga Lake Inlet -- after this event I went to the Juneteenth celebration at Southside community center as did some of the people pictured; more pictures to come!
#photo #photography
Appalachian Power can’t keep the power on during a few days of rain, but repeatedly claims that the proposed Google data center won’t be a problem.
We lose power multiple times a year. In a rural setting, it’s going to happen - above ground power lines are vulnerable to tree strikes. The vast majority of customers have small generators accordingly. But it seems both inevitable and ludicrous to think they are capable. Residential customers will suffer.
What is the Globemaster doing so low above Zug?
#adsbexchange #c17 #globemaster
Micron reports Q3 revenue up 346% YoY to $41.46B, vs. $35.84B est., gross margin above estimates, and forecasts Q4 revenue above est.; MU jumps 14% after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/micron-mu-earnings-report-q3-2026.html
Evidence for gravitational lensing in IceCube-211208A counterpart PKS 0735 178 - #neutrino lensing proposed: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/549/2/stag658/8697604?login=false -> "Gravitational lensing explains why this blazar is detected at this time as a neutrino emitter: a magnification factor of about 10 can move an otherwise sub-threshold neutrino flux above the alert threshold."
My takeaways:
1. Don’t even try me with your “both parties are the same” BS.
2. Don’t even try me with your “support all Democrats all the time no matter what” BS.
3. We need to make Democrats a •lot• more afraid of getting primaried.
4. Above all, we need to stop imagining the politicians are the leaders of social change. We need to fight every day, in every place we are, to create a reality where trans people are safe and politicians are scared of casting votes like this before we even target them.
2/2
Burn down all fossil fuel infrastructure. #ClimateChange #WildfireSmoke #AQI
Book Review.
I've just read "Dawn" by Octavia E Butler for my Scifi Book Club (and the rest of Lilith's Brood too because I am a swot) and these are the thoughts I have thunk:
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
You know what?
#England may not score a goal, lose every game and never qualify to anything above the group stage, but as far as I'm concerned they just won the World Cup.
https://youtu.be/2umUvkWzzxw…
@… please, what's the AI context?
Seeing #ai above what appears to be photograph, my first guess was that the image is AI-generated.
Brock Bowers' fiancée Cameron Newell has 1-word reaction to Raiders TE being ranked above Travis Kelce at No. 60 in NFL's Top 100 https://www.sportskeeda.com/nfl/news-brock-bowers-fiancee-cameron-ne…
Beautiful PNW summer night
Texas Instruments reports Q2 revenue up 23% YoY to $5.46B, above $5.26B est., net income up 53% to $1.98B, and forecasts $5.65B-$6.15B in Q3 revenue, above est. (Grace Yoon/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
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?
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
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都市的愚弄 ❌
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It’s 13 degrees (Centigrade) above average in southern Germany in the middle of June. Radio station is assuring us that El Niño will (edit: not!) affect Germany much. It‘ll affect South America, Asia and India more. The next radio station runs a commercial for cheap flights to the Maldives.
#ThisIsFine #ClimateDiary
#MountainMonday #mountains
Indian Peaks mountains along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. August 2013
"French weather service says temperature hit 44.3C in Pissos as heat forces Louvre and Eiffel Tower to close early."
That is hot. 32° here where I am in England, and that is far too hot.
France records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across country | Europe weather | The Guardian
https://www.…
Enhancing Attack Detection Capabilities in BACnet/IP Networks Using Machine-Learning Models
Derek Manzella, John D. Hastings
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20686 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20686 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20686
arXiv:2607.20686v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Building Automation Systems (BAS) manage critical building functions using protocols such as BACnet/IP, yet defenders have limited tooling and few labeled datasets for detecting BACnet-specific attacks. This work addresses these gaps through three contributions. First, CISA's Zeek BACnet parser is modified to produce a unified per-packet log, simplifying feature engineering for machine-learning (ML) pipelines. Second, a simulated BACnet/IP testbed is developed using bacpypes3 to model a small commercial HVAC system with physics-based device behavior, schedule-aware controller logic, and per-packet attack labeling. Third, five unsupervised anomaly detection models are evaluated using baseline traffic and six BACnet attack types, including denial of service, reconnaissance, property tampering, and false data injection. Results show that One-Class SVM achieved the strongest overall performance, with an average F1 score of 0.864 across all attacks and F1 scores above 0.99 for high-volume denial-of-service and reconnaissance attacks. Detection is much stronger for high-volume attacks, such as DoS attacks and reconnaissance, than stealthier techniques such as tampering and false data injection, which scored around 77%.
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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.
Registration for the AMA webinar requires a business email address.
The parallel AMA in Reddit is, I think, open to all redditors, however I don't know whether it'll be used for answers from the three people before or during the webinar.
@… FYI the thumbnail in the Foundation's post (above) pictures the three people, <
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.
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-
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My Mom was shown the need for flood insurance by needing to wade to her house near Onekama in 1980. Not a flash flood, just a high water year. Thankfully the house itself stayed most of a foot above the w…
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
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)
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…
Welcome to our real-time Earth imagery stream, featuring the stunning view over Europe, captured by #Meteosat-12 from its geostationary orbit 36,000 km above Earth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nigtvuOspmM - the imagery in this stream is the RGB GeoColour composite with lightning imagery. Updated every 10 minutes, each new image comes from Meteosat Third Generation's (MTG) cutting-edge weather monitoring mission, with a slight delay due to processing. The same for Africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3jRSL3y8Vc. And the announcement: https://www.eumetsat.int/new-satellites-eye-views-europe-and-africa-streaming-online
Where You Tap Matters: A Probe-and-Model Benchmark for Open-Set RF Fingerprinting
Gabriele Oligeri, Savio Sciancalepore, Ingrid Huso, Fatima Al-Mousawi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21564 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.21564 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.21564
arXiv:2607.21564v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Radio Frequency Fingerprint Identification (RFFI) enables transmitter identification at the physical layer by learning device-specific impairments from received signals, yet the literature is inconsistent about where in the receiver chain those samples should be collected. Since distinct transformations are applied to the signal by the different receiver operations, i.e., carrier recovery, gain normalization, pulse shaping, and timing recovery, they can either tighten within-transmitter variability or suppress the features RFFI requires for classification. We present a systematic real-world evaluation of open-set, reconstruction-error RFFI using data collected at five probe points along a standard BPSK receiver chain. Our results show that RFFI is strongly probe-dependent: timing recovery and, to a lesser extent, carrier recovery enable low false-acceptance operation with limited in-distribution-out-of-distribution overlap, whereas other stages often require a false-acceptance ratio above 0.1 to achieve a true-acceptance ratio of 0.9. To test the validity of our findings across model selection, we benchmark several LLM-designed autoencoders using a controlled pipeline that holds preprocessing and MSE scoring fixed. These architectures confirm that RFFI is probe-dependent. Moreover, they do not outperform the baseline at the chosen operating point and typically increase training time. Overall, probe selection dominates reconstruction-based open-set RFFI performance, more than the autoencoder complexity.
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旅行结束 III ✈️
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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!
@… 'militantly "AI"-free' above (an opinion) might be a clue; here's not the place to exchange opinions.
Use the quote feature of Mastodon, if you like. Quote me 🙂
STMicro forecasts Q3 revenue up ~16% YoY to $3.7B, below $3.79B est., and expects AI sales to pass $1B in 2026 and be "well above $2B" in 2027; STM falls 14% (Christina Kyriasoglou/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Remember what I said about flower naming conventions? Well this one is called "Sunrise Dynasty".
#photography #bloomScrolling #tulips
Sources: Zhipu is considering a multibillion-dollar Hong Kong share sale after its stock surged 2,000% since its January IPO, pushing its market cap above $128B (Dong Cao/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
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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
A Conjuring Of Clouds
Yesterday's evening walk... It's been a great week for cloud spotting, but with dozens of storm cells & hail moving through the area all week...
(Also thinking about the connotation to wildfires raging in Canada... 😢)
#MonochromeMonday #LandscapePhotography
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…
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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…
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
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.”
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Valve Steam Machine review: much smaller than PS5, surprisingly smooth, and navigable with any modern gamepad but very expensive and needs manual configuration (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/952765/steam-machine-review
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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)
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…
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ASML reports Q2 net sales of €9.3B, above €8.8B est., a €2.9B net profit, above €2.6B est., and raises its 2026 net sales forecast from €36B-€40B to €43B-€45B (April Roach/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/15/asml-2q-earnings-ai-chips-orders.html
Source: Ancestry.com pitches a risky $1.75B term loan at 4 to 4.25 percentage points above the benchmark to refinance debt from its 2020 Blackstone acquisition (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/b…
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![Temperature anomaly map from TropicalTidbits.Com showing all of Namibia and most of Botswana and RSA in the +3-12°C colors
Labeled:
GFS 2-meter Temperature Anomaly (°C) (based on CFSR 1981-2010 Climatology)
Init: 12z Jul 26 2026 Forecast Hour: [6] valid at 18z Sun, jul 26 2026](https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/116/988/278/176/352/536/original/093862f2a8eaf0b1.jpeg)
