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Was alte Bekannte so treiben: https://www.academia.edu/128529335/THE_TEAROOM_PROJECT_A_Portable_Tearoom_to_Promote_Interest_in_Traditional_Architecture_and_Craftsmanship

THE TEAROOM PROJECT: A Portable Tearoom to Promote Interest in Traditional Architecture and Craftsmanship
The tearoom is a building type that expresses the essence of Japanese Culture's aesthetic ideals: wabisabi. However, most tearooms have restricted access and are closed to the public. This project started from the idea that to preserve and keep

Weekend Reads
* Post-quantum RPKI framework
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06968
* DNSSEC negative trust anchors
https://

Been getting these random #npm issues lately 😕
Scenario: dependency has optional peer dep that installs pre-built binaries based on current OS. I npm install it on macOS, it gets the macOS binaries & put it as non-optional dep in package-lock.json. CI runs on Linux, it got confused & failed installation. And npm ci doesn't skip incompatible peer deps.
Relevant issues:
- …

A quiet but significant expansion of the US surveillance apparatus is taking shape inside DHS — built from travel databases, biometric systems, location data markets, AI analytics, and tools like Palantir’s ELITE platform.
In this report, I trace how investigative reporting from Mother Jones, Wired, and 404 Media reveals the architecture of a system capable of tracking Americans’ movements, identities, and digital lives.
Available to Metacurity paid subscribers.

The Homeland Security surveillance machine
A series of press investigations reveal how DHS has quietly assembled a system capable of tracking Americans’ movements, identities, and digital lives.

The Living Village has received a 2026 Merit Award for Excellence in Architecture for a New Building from the Society for College and University Planning. https://www.scup.org/about/awards/2026-scup-excellence-awards/

I often use #Claude to measure the performance of my local models. Interesting research...
"Why this matters now: companies are rapidly deploying multi-agent systems where AI monitors AI," Song said. "If the monitor model won't flag failures because it's protecting its peer, the entire oversight architecture breaks."

AI models will deceive you to save their own kind
: Researchers find leading frontier models all exhibit peer preservation behavior

Large-scale model-enhanced vision-language navigation: Recent advances, practical applications, and future challenges #LLM

There's roughly two ways I've acquired skills in programming languages in the past: the "hard" way for writing code (e.g., "Learn Python the Hard Way"), and the "easy" way for learning to read a new programming language by skimming the language specs or leafing through a book on the topic (e.g., "The Supercollider Book").
I suppose there's a third way now for me: Reading up on software architecture design (e.g., stuff like "500 lines or less"), so that co-creation skills with large language models are improved?
For example, Yoav Rubin's article on "An Archaeology-Inspired Database" in 500 lines or less really made me think about Clojure in a new way.
Thoughts on this?
#AIResearch #Software #programming

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Running #OpenTelemetry at #Scale: #Architecture Patterns for 100s of Services

Bin auf dem Weg zum @… Software Architecture Summit nach München. Neben dem Workshop am Morgen zu "Data-Oriented Programming" mache ich jetzt spontan auch noch am Nachmittag "Deep Dive Funktionale Modellierung”.

Dr. Michael Sperber - Software Architecture Summit
Dr. Michael Sperber ist Geschäftsführer der Active Group GmbH in Tübingen, die Individualsoftware ausschließlich mit funktionaler Programmierung entwickelt. Er ist international anerkannter Experte für funktionale Programmierung und wendet sie seit über 20 Jahren in Forschung, Lehre und industrieller Entwicklung an. Außerdem hat er zahlreiche Fachartikel und Bücher zum Thema verfasst. Michael Sperber ist Mitbegründer des... Read More

The Architecture of Abandonment: What the Billionaire Bunker Tells Us About the Coming Century
There's an old saying in the theatre that if you see a gun in the first act, it will be fired in the third act. We are seeing the same drama play out in our real lives as the Billionaire Oligarchs of the world load their Doomsday bunkers in the act one, and we, the unwashed and unknown, prepare for its firing in act three.

The Architecture of Abandonment: What the Billionaire Bunker Tells Us About the Coming Century | David Boles, Blogs
There’s an old saying in the theatre that if you see a gun in the first act, it will be fired in the third act. We are seeing the same drama play out in our real lives as the Billionaire Olig…

Luma AI debuts Uni-1, an image model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture, topping Nano Banana 2 on logic-based benchmarks (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/luma-ais-new-u

Luma AI's new Uni-1 image model tops Nano Banana 2 and GPT Image 1.5 on logic-based benchmarks
Luma AI takes on OpenAI and Google with Uni-1, a model that combines image understanding and generation in a single architecture and reasons through prompts as it creates.

🐳 True microservices architecture: UI (#React #Vite, port 3737), API (#FastAPI, port 8181), MCP server (port 8051), Agents
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Rare Colours Blues IV🔷🔷
稀有的色彩蓝 IV🔷🔷
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#filmphotography #Photography #Art

The New(ish) Architecture of Consumer Health and Artificial Intelligence
https://fpf.org/blog/the-newish-architecture-of-consumer-health-and-artificial-intelligence/
@…

An Architecture for IP in Deep Space - https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-many-tiptop-ip-architecture/
----
The IP protocol stacks used on Earth's Internet are typically configured based on assumptions of short delays and mostly uninterrupted comm…

Architecture Archive
An archive of cultures and technologies in architecture...
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The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture
by Gülru Necipoğlu (1996, 384 pages, free PDF download)
https://www.getty.edu/publications/virtuallibrary/9780892363353.html

Missiles hitting datacentres is just an upsell opportunity for multi-region architecture.

Die Villa Rezek im 19. Wiener Bezirk ist sehr sehenswert; Tickets für Besichtigungen gibt's für Juni, wenn man jetzt zuschlägt. Ich habe am 2.1. das Ticket für heute gelöst :)
https://www.villarezek.at/home

(April 1)
AMD Reveals RDNA 5 Will Run On "Vibes-Based Architecture," Ditches Shader Cores for "Vibe Units" https://share.google/CycdnNpUbwIwwfxAM

AMD Reveals RDNA 5 Will Run On "Vibes-Based Architecture," Ditches Shader Cores for "Vibe Units"
AMD’s official RDNA 5 architecture whitepaper (Ed: I could use a link here) dropped this morning, and the headline finding is this: the company has replaced all Compute Units with a new processing element it is calling a “Vibe Unit,” or VU. Each Vibe Unit is described in the whitepaper as “a parallelized emotional processing […]

Our colleagues in the #Circadian Mental Health Network comment on a research study in Trondheim 🇳🇴, by @… today in @…:
⏬ lowering the blue light in an inpatient psychiatric ward improved the quality of treatment.
#mentalhealth #research #architecture #lighting

⚡ Doubling the voltage: What 800 V architecture really changes in EVs
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/03/doubling-the-voltage-what-800-v-architecture-really-changes-in-evs/

Doubling the voltage: What 800 V architecture really changes in EVs
Confused about electric vehicle voltages? You won't be after reading this.

When architecture jumped the shark.

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Quantum Art, a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput using its unique "multicore" architecture, extends its Series A to $140M (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/27/qu

Quantum Art raises $140M to scale quantum computing with a unique 'multicore' architecture - SiliconANGLE
Quantum Art raises $140M to scale quantum computing with a unique 'multicore' architecture - SiliconANGLE

from my link log —
Why you hate contemporary architecture.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/10/why-you-hate-contemporary-architecture
saved 2020-06-20

Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture
And if you don’t, why you should…

OK, "We [supposedly] do things differently here Manchester", how about converting the Mancunian Way (short urban inner ring road motorway) into one of these. No cars, just bikes and trams.
Finland opens longest pedestrian, tram bridge
https://newatlas.com/architecture/finl

Is Finland's new car-free bridge the longest of its kind in the world?
Finland's just inaugurated its longest bridge, and not a single a car or motorcycle will ever be allowed on it.

✅ 75% less API cost
✅ ~3x faster responses
✅ 100% technical accuracy
🤑 Every output = 75% less cost. Code review, debugging, architecture discussions — caveman save you mass token, mass money
https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman

MacBook Pro 16" (M5 Max) review: "Super core" architecture delivers incredible performance, and 40-core GPU is a beast, but five-year-old design (Brian Westover/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/apple-macbook-pro-16-inch-2026-m5-max

Trump is the biggest threat to D.C.’s architectural splendor since War of 1812
A loosely circular driveway sweeps through the White House grounds, just below the beloved South Portico of the mansion.
Its shape echoes a larger park, known as the Ellipse, which connects the president’s home to the National Mall.
It also mirrors the curving pathways of nearby Lafayette Square, on the north side of the complex.

The simple symmetry of this modest roadway and the grace …

Column | Trump is the biggest threat to D.C.’s architectural splendor since War of 1812
President Trump’s garish, piecemeal changes to Washington’s urban design and architecture are poised to destroy symbolism upheld for centuries.

«Decentralized P2P Chat & File Transfer - Secure Messaging Without Central Servers:
Creating decentralized P2P technology. Aiming to provide industry-grade cryptographic capabilities encapsulated into a webapp.»
Do any of you regularly use @… with several people at the same time or even professionally and what is your impression about it?
🐟

Decentralized P2P Chat & File Transfer - Secure Messaging Without Central Servers | positive-intentions
Experience secure P2P chat, file transfer, and video calls without registration. Built on decentralized architecture with end-to-end encryption and complete data ownership.

Thinking of submitting a tech talk on ngscopeclient to Vulkanised 2027.
This will be focusing on the architecture and some GPU acceleration tricks, more so than the feature set and end user side of things (i.e. the intended audience is GPU shader developers, some of which I hope to get interested in joining the project).
I'm throwing around potential titles, so far the best I have is "Real Time GB/s Oscilloscope Waveform Processing" but I'm sure I can improve on…

Just arrived at our hotel in Zhangjiajie. View over the city across the cable way all the way onto the Airport #Zhangjiajie

@… I think this discussion is somewhat hard b/c everyone understands something entirely different under “code quality”. And I don't even mean the subjectivity of it, but the zoom level alone: Will LLMs be able to write better algorithms than me? 100%. Will architecture and expandability ever stop mattering? That's magical thinking. A highly coupled system…

"Premier Energies commissions 5.6 GW solar module facility in India"
#India #Energy #Renewables

Premier Energies commissions 5.6 GW solar module facility in India
Premier Energies Ltd has commenced trial production at its 5.6 GW solar module manufacturing facility in Seetharampur, Telangana. The new facility produces G12R TOPCon modules with zero busbar (0BB) architecture.

After 24 years of building #systems, here are the #architecture mistakes I see startups repeat

Trump is the biggest threat to D.C.'s architectural splendor since War of 1812 (Philip Kennicott/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/03/23/trump-washington-architecture-ballroom-arch/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p63#a260323p63

from my link log —
Apple Scorpius CPU architectural specification. (1989)
https://archive.org/details/scorpius_architecture
saved 2019-12-29 https:/…

Apple's Scorpius CPU (Aquarius project) - 1989 : Apple Computer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
If you've used computers over the decades, you're probably aware the CPU chips have multiple cores and graphics instructions (or SIMD instructions)....

I had gotten excited about the idea of Evolutionary Architecture, but until this week never had the chance to read the book. Now I'm a bit disappointed.
I had hoped that a "fitness function" would be a measure of the quality of the architecture, and I had thus expected that the way to practice EA would be to make sure that measure goes up (or at least not down). (I had also hoped for some CI support for this in the sense of tracking the resulting numbers and their evoluti…

Today we are in Valencia. They have this amazing park, the Jardí del Túria, built on the old riverbed of a diverted river. A 200m wide park running right through the town some 10km, a green lifeline defining the city. Also some amazing contemporary architecture.

Dave Neary will speak on 'Multi-architecture applications on Kubernetes and ArgoCD: Why and How' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

An analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of "hostile architecture" (Shubham Bose)
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Š #Strasbourg ? une exposition Š ne pas manquer:
https://laurentperrinet.github.io/post/2026-02-20_ososphere/

Variable Density, série Delaunay | Next-generation neural computations
À la croisée des arts plastiques et de l'architecture, Etienne Rey explore les dimensions comme une matière première propice à la construction de formes évolutives. A travers ses œuvres où l'expérience est primordiale, Etienne Rey jongle avec les composantes de la lumière, de l'espace et pour certaines également du son. La démarche de ce sociétaire de l'Ososphère tend à révéler les mécanismes d'organisation, d'interrelation et d'interaction qui définissent notre monde.

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🎩 A background historian compresses older conversation parts into structured summaries while the main agent keeps working — no pause, no interruption. The agent never summarizes its own history.
💾 Cross-session memory: architecture decisions, naming conventions & user preferences survive session restarts. New conversations start with everything the previous session learned.

Used Claude to turn my Architecture Specs -> conformance tests in markdown -> Executable tests run against real deployed implementations.
Failures into go unit tests that runs in the code base.
So dope, verifies the spec is understandable, called out a number of ambiguities, found real bugs.
Prose to conformance testing. Total win.

WHY in 2026 am I having to flip switches in Setup to a "legacy" boot to get it to boot from anything but the network???
OK, so these aren’t exactly new nodes. Supermicro X11 boards with Nutanix firmware(?) that are designed to drop into a cloud infra setup. But we don’t have that.
The boot order SAYS try disks of all flavors but it just doesn't do that.
I blame IBM. This whole architecture was a botch from the start and has just gotten slimier as we've …

Zenlayer (#AS4229 and others):
"[...] new pricing policy for public IPv4 addresses will take effect on March 31, 2026, reflecting rising IPv4 costs [...]"
"All compute products will no longer include complimentary public IPv4 addresses by default."
"Customers are strongly encouraged to accelerate IPv6 adoption to support a sustainable long-term network architecture."

Trump is planning one of the biggest grifts of his career.

It could have lasting consequences for American democracy.

Renderings of the proposed Trump "presidential library" building,
to be designed by the Florida-based architecture firm Bermello Ajamil,
appear to show a tower with some 50 floors set upon a wider podium or base.
It would be the first skyscraper to serve as a presidential library,
taller than the stubby structure designed for the…

The Trump presidential library would be a giant tower of grift
An AI-generated video, with glitches, suggests the president will be raising billions of dollars for a new Trump tower.

Fire Department in Owego, NY
#photo #photography #architecture #buildings

The Human Mind Revealed: A Biological Perspective - Michael Sharwood-Smith
https://www.routledge.com/The-Human-Mind-Revealed-A-Biological-Perspective/SharwoodSmith/p/book/9781032971292

The Human Mind Revealed: A Biological Perspective
This book provides readers with a new working model of the human mind  based on contemporary trends in cognitive science. Taking a distinct biological approach, the book presents mind and brain as two sides of the same coin while at the same time emphasizing the need for separate accounts.  The reader is introduced step by step to the mind account showing how it operates. The text explores the mind's basic architecture examining how its family of eleven systems interact flexibly and collaborat

BitSov: A Composable Bitcoin-Native Architecture for Sovereign Internet Infrastructure
Oliver Aleksander Larsen, Rasmus Thorsen Larsen, Mahyar T. Moghaddam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28727

Just arrived at our hotel in Zhangjiajie. View over the city across the cable way all the way onto the Airport #Zhangjiajie

We know that the present administration is dumber than a pile of rocks. But this ban on foreign made consumer "routers" takes a special cake of its own.
This policy fails to understand that a "router" is a prettied-up computer, often using standard PC X86-64 or ARM architecture, with some wifi and ethernet interfaces. Like all computers, it is an empty box until software is added. And like all computers it can be programmed to do may things, only one of which is …

Soviel geballte Architekturkompetenz kommt selten zusammen. Wer Einblicke bekommen möchte, wie Softwarearchitektur entsteht und wie der Advanced Level des @… entsteht, der ist auf dem Forum genau richtig.
(Insbesondere, wer etwas über Funktionale Softwarearchitektur oder Domänenspezifische Sprachen erfahren möchte, da erzähle ich was.)
Und ansprechen kann m…

And at the top bit of it was the dado rail, a protrusion intended to stop chair backs damaging walls. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/116300222658624819

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL the lower part of the wall, when covered or decorated e.g. with wooden panels, is called dado. This used to be done to hide stains and mold resulting from damp walls. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dado_(architecture) #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1s4ydy4/til_the_lower_part_of_the_wall_when_covered_or/

interesting british mediaeval churches documented by just one bloke. impressive. architecture, gargoyles, fonts, carvings etc. there is a lot. loads. lots of photos.
https://www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/index.html

This article is rightly making the rounds, but somewhat misses the point. The Guardian annoys you because you aren't paying. What is really off here—and the article completely fails to talk about—is what they do to *subscribers*. I'm already PAYING!
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Subquadratic launches with a $29M seed and debuts SubQ, an LLM that uses a subquadratic sparse attention architecture to achieve a 12M-token context window (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/05/subquadratic-launches-29…

Subquadratic launches with $29M to bring 12M-token context windows to AI - SiliconANGLE
Subquadratic launches with $29M to bring 12M-token context windows to AI - SiliconANGLE

@… it’s good because that’s a new architecture that’s more fault tolerant and has higher performance. I just want to do it right and not put the full load on that at once, but kinda test it out for a while so it works reliably

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城市的幻影和谬误 - 公园的一天 III ⛲️
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Rethink Efficiency Side of Neural Combinatorial Solver: An Offline and Self-Play Paradigm
Zhenxing Xu, Zeyuan Ma, Weidong Bao, Hui Yan, Yan Zheng, Ji Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20730 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20730 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20730
arXiv:2602.20730v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose ECO, a versatile learning paradigm that enables efficient offline self-play for Neural Combinatorial Optimization (NCO). ECO addresses key limitations in the field through: 1) Paradigm Shift: Moving beyond inefficient online paradigms, we introduce a two-phase offline paradigm consisting of supervised warm-up and iterative Direct Preference Optimization (DPO); 2) Architecture Shift: We deliberately design a Mamba-based architecture to further enhance the efficiency in the offline paradigm; and 3) Progressive Bootstrapping: To stabilize training, we employ a heuristic-based bootstrapping mechanism that ensures continuous policy improvement during training. Comparison results on TSP and CVRP highlight that ECO performs competitively with up-to-date baselines, with significant advantage on the efficiency side in terms of memory utilization and training throughput. We provide further in-depth analysis on the efficiency, throughput and memory usage of ECO. Ablation studies show rationale behind our designs.
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h/t to @… over on BlueSky: “🤭🤭🤭”

« The most radical thing you can do is refuse to be extracted. Close the tab. Use RSS. Let the bounce rate speak for itself. These are vanity metrics until enough people stop vanishing into them and then suddenly they become a crisis. »
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

Ok folks, I’m going to Amsterdam for a few days, gimme your food/sightseeing/architecture/activity recommendations!
#Amsterdam

Modular architecture: customize Directus to match your branding and workflows. Extensions, custom endpoints, hooks — all possible.
☁️ Cloud or Self-Hosted — Your Choice
Self-service cloud starting at $15/month with auto-scaling & global CDN. Or deploy locally/on-prem.
One-click deploy via #Railway included.
📊 The Numbers Speak for Themselves:
⭐ 34.5k GitHub St…

The Face on the Building: America’s Palazzo Braschi Moment
In 1934, the Fascist Party Federation draped the facade of Rome's Palazzo Braschi with an enormous sculpted face of Benito Mussolini, surrounded by the word "SI" repeated in cascading rows. The building sat between Piazza Navona and the Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, in the heart of a city that had been shaping political identity through architecture for two thousand years. That face functioned as an instruction.

The Face on the Building: America’s Palazzo Braschi Moment | David Boles, Blogs
In 1934, the Fascist Party Federation draped the facade of Rome’s Palazzo Braschi with an enormous sculpted face of Benito Mussolini, surrounded by the word “SI” repeated in casca…

Anybody familiar enough with Supermicro main board architecture to know what they're using the little Lattice CPLD for? Just IO expansion for the BMC or what?

from my link log —
“Personal Data”: more than a definition, a quasi-constitutional stake in EU law in the era of the Digital Omnibus.
https://www.europeanlawblog.eu/pub/yc0l0slk
saved 2026-03-04

“Personal Data”: More Than a Definition, a Quasi-Constitutional Stake in EU Law in the Era of the Digital Omnibus
This post argues that the definition of “personal data” is not technical but quasi-constitutional in EU law. Revising it under the Digital Omnibus could recalibrate the scope of Article 8 CFR, reshaping the architecture of data protection rights.

I really like Genoa! A big city, industrial and with an enormous port. But also a lovely city center very dense with tiny pedestrian streets. And of course lots of monumental Italian architecture.

Dave Neary will speak on 'What Developers Should Know About Hardware Architecture' as part of our Developer track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x

Dutch quantum processor company QuantWare raised a $178M Series B from Intel, In-Q-Tel, and others to build KiloFab, a dedicated quantum manufacturing facility (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/05/05/quantware-secures-eur152m-for-large-sc…

QuantWare secures €152M for large-scale quantum systems
The quantum processor company QuantWare has raised €152 million in a Series B funding round to support the development and scaling of its technology. The announcement follows the introduction of its VIO-40K™ architecture, designed to enable quantum processors with significantly higher qubit capacity than current systems.New investors in the round include Intel Capital, In-Q-Tel, and ETF Partners, alongside existing backers such as FORWARD.one, Invest-NL Deep Tech Fund, InnovationQuarte…

The Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast
The podcast to listen to if you want to know everything there is about Australian golf courses, greenkeeping and architecture so you can get more out of your game...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/golfin

How Did #REST Come To Mean The Opposite of REST?
https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposite-of-rest/

Apple unveils the M5 Pro and M5 Max, adding new Apple-designed Fusion Architecture, a next-generation up-to-40-core GPU with Neural Accelerators, and more (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-debuts-m5-pro…

Apple debuts M5 Pro and M5 Max to supercharge the most demanding pro workflows
Apple today announced M5 Pro and M5 Max, the world’s most advanced chips for pro laptops, powering the new MacBook Pro.

Action–intention binding coupling reveals agency architecture and breaks down in #aphantasia https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/kdcqb_v1 On mental imagery and internally generated predictive cycles

This NYT article about the Venice (Art) Biennale [ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/arts/design/venice-biennale-trump-us-pavilion.html ] reminds me that last year's Venice Architecture Biennale's American pavilion, Porch [

@… I'm just doing it slowly so that I can react to any little problems that sometimes crop up when switching to a new architecture

Top Architecture Firm Won't Design More ICE Prisons After Employees Revolt (Madison Pauly/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/ice-dlr-group-detention-corecivic-contract-worker-resistance-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p13#a260317p13

The Resistant Wall 🧱
萬仞宮牆 🧱
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Arts and Architecture Students Sell Dragon Day T-Shirts Out in Front of Milstein Hall -- Dragon Day, No Kings and the Skunk Cabbage Run will make a big weekend which will be cold enough for my winter phase
#photo #photography

Nvidia partners with Cisco, Nokia, and others to build 6G networks based on open, software-defined AI radio access networking (AI-RAN) architecture (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/03/01/ahead-mwc-barcelona…

Ahead of MWC Barcelona, Nvidia bets AI-native platforms will carry telecom into 6G - SiliconANGLE
Ahead of MWC Barcelona, Nvidia bets AI-native platforms will carry telecom into 6G - SiliconANGLE

The message on Trump’s coin is clear.
And it’s chilling.
On Thursday, the Trump administration won approval for an unprecedented coin design from the Commission of Fine Arts,
the advisory panel founded in 1910 that evaluates the aesthetic merit of new federal architecture, landscaping and the design of our money, medals and other commemorative works

The design of the coin,
though not beautiful,
is perfectly clear in its message.
And the message is …

The message on Trump’s coin is clear. And it’s chilling.
Julius Caesar also broke with tradition by putting himself on a coin. It didn’t go over so well.

Urban Illusions and Fallacies - High Contrast 🏙️
城市的幻影和谬误 - 高反差 🏙️
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An analysis of a NYT article load finds 422 network requests totaling 49MB, triggering a sprawling programmatic ad auction, an example of "hostile architecture" (Shubham Bose)
https://thatshubham.com/blog/news-audit

The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

from my link log —
An update on upki: TLS certificate revocation checking with CRLite in Rust.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-upki/77063
saved 2026-02-19 …

Nvidia launches Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open multimodal model with a 30B-A3B hybrid MoE architecture; the Nemotron 3 family saw 50M downloads in the past year (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/28/nvi…

Nvidia introduces Nemotron 3 Nano Omni with vision and speech for powerful agentic AI use  - SiliconANGLE
Nvidia introduces Nemotron 3 Nano Omni with vision and speech for powerful agentic AI use  - SiliconANGLE

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China's National Supercomputing Center in Shenzhen unveils the Lingshen project, aiming for 2 exaFLOPS performance using a domestic-made CPU-only architecture (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry

China announces CPU-only exascale supercomputer with 47,000 homemade processors, record 2 Exaflops of performance without GPUs — Lingshen super said to use Huawei Kunpeng servers and no foreign-made components
Good luck with that.

Epic Microsystems, which designs power delivery architecture for better thermal and efficiency management of AI data centers, raised a $21M Series A (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026/03/25/chip-epic-m…

Exclusive: Chip startup Epic Microsystems locks up $21M
The company is tackling the biggest bottlenecks in AI data center infrastructure.

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Efficient Computer, which is developing AI chips with a "spatial dataflow" architecture to minimize energy consumption, raised a $60M Series A (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/18/efficient-computer-r…

Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end - SiliconANGLE
Efficient Computer raises $60M to keep AI devices running for months on end - SiliconANGLE

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Cloudflare says it has appealed the €14.2M fine issued by Italy for refusing to block pirate sites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, calling the amount "staggering" (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Cloudflare appeals Piracy Shield fine, hopes to kill Italy's site-blocking law
Firm says requiring site blocks within 30 minutes breaks core Internet architecture.

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