@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe Athletic is investing in live blogs and video to combat AI scraping; Similarweb says The Athletic had 16.9M unique visitors in January 2026, up 59% YoY (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/the-athletic-invests…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Understanding systemd-resolved, split DNS, and VPN configuration.
https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2020/12/17/understanding-systemd-resolved-split-dns-and-vpn-configuration/
saved 2020-1…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNASA has just provided the timeline for the return of #Crew11: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/01/09/nasa-spacex-set-target-date-for-crew-11s-return-to-earth/ - Wednesday, Jan. 14, 20:30 UTC Hatch closing, 22:00 Undocking, Thursday, Jan. 15, 7:50 Deorbit burn, 8:40 UTC Splashdown.
@rmdes@mstdn.socialThis weekend I worked on my custom /blogroll page
it has 3 input types :
1. you construct the collection by adding blogs manually
2. you import an OPML with your collection
3. you connect your /microsub existing collection to feed the blogroll on the frontend.
https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/02/08/3
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNASA’s #Arcstone instrument, designed to improve the accuracy of lunar calibration, successfully completed its technology demonstration, and now begins extended operations: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/smallsatellites/2026/01/28/nasas-arcstone-instrument-successfully-completes-primary-mission/ - Arcstone launched on June 23 on a SpaceX Transporter-14 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on a six-month mission to measure light reflected by the Moon, which is a stable and potentially highly-accurate calibration source, for satellite sensors
@david@boles.xyzStop Paying Rent on Your Own Words!
Stop paying rent on your own words. For decades, writers were taught that “real” authors have representation, an agent, sometimes even a manager, as if legitimacy were a credential issued by an industry gatekeeper. That belief was formed in an older media economy: fewer publishers, fewer channels, slower production cycles, and a cultural aura around scarcity. In 2026, the belief is not merely old fashioned.
@jake4480@c.im @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzRecording of Monday's SpaceX #Crew12 Prelaunch News Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I12pFrHAuQI - see also https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2026/02/09/nasa-spacex-adjust-crew-12-launch-date-due-to-weather/ for how weather predictions for a specific area led to a launch delay of at least one day.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comGreen Day frontman calls out ICE ahead of Super Bowl: 'Quit that s-tty job you have' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5728186-green-day-billie-joe-ice/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260207/p72#a260207p72
@mia@hcommons.socialNice piece on 'Prototyping semantic search for case law' by PhD student Caitlin Wilson working with the National Archives: 'a user searching for 'divorce' may be shown legal alternatives like '[decree] nisi,' or searching for 'compensation' will suggest terms like 'damages,' or 'reparation''
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@servelan@newsie.socialAnd according to his lyrics, little girls:
Kid Rock: Alternative Super Bowl halftime show for people who ‘love America’
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5726793-kid-rock-alternative-super-bowl-show/
@cdarwin@c.im @david@boles.xyzThe First Thing They Burn: Why War Always Comes for Beauty
When the Mongol army sacked Baghdad in 1258, they did not stop at killing the Caliph. They threw the contents of the House of Wisdom into the Tigris. Manuscripts on astronomy, medicine, mathematics, philosophy, and poetry turned the river black with ink for days. Killing people was not enough. What those people had made, what they had thought and dreamed and rendered into form, that had to be annihilated too.
@cdamian@rls.socialSince I was following too many people anyway, I decided to unfollow everybody
- on Threads
- on Bluesky (via the bridge)
I'll miss some of them, and for others I'll follow their blogs via RSS.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Where Science Meets Storytelling: Twelve Years of the Science Blogs Web Archive" an der Library of Congress:
https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/12/where-science-meets-storytelling-twelve-years-of-the-scienc…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialBloggen sei „alt“ und Websites „peinlich“? So einfach ist’s nicht. @… kontert, dass Blogs mit stabiler URL, eigenem Denken und echter Argumentation dem algorithmisch verkürzten Social-Media-Lärm überlegen sind. Das eigene Web bleibt ein Ort der Freiheit – keine Klick-Ökonomie, sondern Gedankentiefe. 🔗
@mela@zusammenkunft.netAhahaha. Ich habe die Logfiles unseres NGINX-Proxy-Managers jetzt mal Matomo zum Fraß vorgeworfen, um zu sehen, ob es ungewöhnliche Zugriffsmuster gibt.
Und, ja, ich weiß, das Bild ist verzerrt, weil ich bei meinen Blogs Botzugriffe ausfiltere und beim Heimnetz eben bewusst nicht …
Aber es gibt eben mehr Zugriffe auf meine nicht-öffentlichen, selbstgehosteten und rein privat genutzten Dienste, als auf alle meine Blogs und Webangebote zusammen. 😭
@benny@norden.socialScreaming Frog ist die Bazooka im SEO. 🐸
Viele denken, das Tool ist nur für Profis und teuer. Falsch.
Die kostenlose Version crawlt bis zu 500 URLs. Für die meisten kleinen Shops, Blogs oder lokalen Seiten reicht das völlig aus.
Man findet damit in Minuten Broken Links (404), fehlende Title-Tags oder riesige Bilder, die die Ladezeit killen.
Es läuft lokal auf dem Rechner (Windows/Mac/Linux ❤️), die Daten bleiben also bei einem selbst.
Besserer Einstieg geht kaum…
@david@boles.xyzThe Inheritance: When the Body Remembers What the Mind Cannot
Some secrets do not stay buried. They write themselves into blood and bone. They pass from grandmother to mother to daughter through mechanisms we are only beginning to understand. The Inheritance, the second novel in the Fractional Fiction series, asks what happens when a scientist trained to study transgenerational trauma in laboratory mice discovers that the patterns she has been mapping exist in her own…
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaI fucking hate KDE on Wayland. Entire evening wasted thanks to their goddamn fucking unnecessary hardcoded gestures. I am to the point of rebuilding kwin_wayland with the patch from the Arch AUR `kwin-without-gestures` package.
This was supposed to be getting fixed!
https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/1…
@adresscomptoir@mastodon.social“Sie radeln wie ein Mann, Madame!” - ÖNB-Mitarbeiterin Elisabeth Briefer verfasste ein Blogposting zur #Fahrradgeschichte / #CyclingHistory und präsentiert damit zugleich Recherchewege in den Beständen der ÖNB:
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzFinally an #ArtemisII update on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/08/nasa-conducts-repairs-analysis-ahead-of-next-artemis-ii-fueling-test/ - "technicians have replaced two seals in an area where operators saw higher than allowable hydrogen gas concentrations during the test. Engineers are analyzing the removed seals and developing plans to address all issues ahead of the next rehearsal." No date for that new wet dress rehearsal has been set, and a launch date will be determined only after it is over.
@jake4480@c.im
@matthiasott@mastodon.social @memeorandum@universeodon.comBen Stiller asks White House to remove 'Tropic Thunder' clip from Iran video: 'War is not a movie' (Sarah Davis/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5772012-ben-stiller-criticizes-white-house/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260306/p105#a260306p105
@rmdes@mstdn.social @servelan@newsie.socialToo late, he's doubled down: “That staffer should be fired immediately, and the President should publicly condemn this action,” Burns continued. “This kind of insensitive and racist communication does not reflect the heart, values, or leadership of the President of the United States, nor does it represent the America we are striving to build.”
Trump-allied pastor: Staffer who posted Obamas video 'should be fired immediately'
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5727010-racist-video-prompts-outrage/
@ebinger@bildung.socialWir schneiden ein Kreuz und lassen den Edison ein Kreuz abfahren Wir probieren, wie man mit einer coolen Falttechnik und einem einzigen Scheren-Schnitt ein Kreuz bekommt. Siehe dieses Video: Anschließend programmieren wir mit den iPads unsere Edisons so, dass er eine Kreuzform abfährt. Fange mit dem linken kurzen Balken an, dann kannst du mit einer Schleife arbeiten und dreimal das Gle Vollständiger Beitrag:
@david@boles.xyzBeautiful Numbness: The Book I Have Been Writing for Fifty Years
Every book has a birthday, but not every book has a conception date. Some books arrive late and fast, fully formed, demanding to be transcribed before they vanish. The Last Living American White Male was like that. Others accumulate across decades, assembling themselves in the background of a life, borrowing material from every stage and every failure and every standing ovation until the writer finally…
@poppastring@dotnet.socialMaking music with MIDI just got a real boost in Windows 11 https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/02/17/making-music-with-midi-just-got-a-real-boost-in-windows-11/
@MartinM@norden.socialEs sieht so aus, als ob der Artemis-II-Start verschoben wird. Die Startfenster im März würden sich damit schließen, aber wenn die Verschiebung bald erfolgt, bleiben die Optionen für April erhalten.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/0…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzIn a few minutes NASA will host a live news conference at 22:00 UTC from the agency’s headquarters in Washington to discuss the International Space Station and its crew: #ISS crew member.
@edewit@social.linux.pizzaWe created a dynamic editor for Roq https://iamroq.com/ that makes this static site generator like a CMS and because it's webcomponents based, why not make it easy to reuse for everybody. See my blog post about it:
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@david@boles.xyzThe Invisible Ledger: How Digital Currency Threatens the Last Private Thing You Own
There is something seductive about the promise of digital money. It arrives dressed in the language of progress, efficiency, inclusion, and modernization, as though the ability to hold a coin in your hand were a primitive embarrassment that civilization ought to outgrow. Cryptocurrency evangelists speak of decentralization and freedom from institutional control. Central bankers speak of…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialOne thing Mastodon brought me back is the connection to blogs. In the past years, I followed mainly news sites via RSS and "professional IT stuff" only on LinkedIn ...
With the degration of LinkedIn and my increasing commitment to the fediverse, I found the link(s) back to some IT-people and my blogroll is steadily increasing.
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaYo no publico mucho en mi blog, pero el apartado de enlaces sigue creciendo en silencio... https://jdrm.info/pages/enlaces.html 92 enlaces a blogs y pšginas web que he consultado alguna vez o de forma habitual. Lo que me recuerda que tengo que revisar la lista de rss a la que estoy suscrito porque fijo qu…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAmazon Threat Intelligence observed sustained targeting of global infrastructure between 2021-2025, with particular focus on the energy sector, by Russian state-sponsored threat actors.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/
@Europablog@mastodon.socialDie Essays von Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer zu den politischen Entwicklungen von der konstitutionellen zur absoluten Demokraite in den USA und in Europa (aus De Morgen 2024 und 2025) in deutschsprachiger Übersetzungen:
https://europa.blog/de/category/blogs/ilja-leonard-pfeijffer/
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Pigments of the Imagination: Art & Archaeology from Across the Colour Spectrum" Bodleian Libraries blog: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/sackler/2026/01/23/pigments-of-the-imagination-art-archaeology-fro…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toBrainwaves meet spatial computing: Cognixion Vision Pro #noninvasive
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialVom „Klowand“-Vorwurf zur Randnotiz: Horst Schulte blickt auf 20 Jahre Blogdebatte zurück. Die große Gegenmacht zum Journalismus ist daraus nicht geworden. Stattdessen diskutieren Blogs oft über sich selbst – während draußen Medienstrukturen real schrumpfen. Ein nüchterner, aus meiner Sicht korrekter Blick auf die Blogosphäre.
htt…
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.socialUhuh the server that holds my blogs has been under attack from China. dcscience.net (blog) and onemol.org.uk (serious stuff) have been down for lots of 5 - 10 minutes periods during the last couple of days. It's improving now, thanks to the wonderful people at #PositiveInternet,
#posipeople
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzDoes the Measured Abundance Suggest a Biological Origin for the Ancient Alkanes Preserved in a Martian Mudstone? #Mars Organics: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/02/06/nasa-study-non-biologic-processes-dont-fully-explain-mars-organics/
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@benny@norden.socialEin Klassiker, den man oft bei WordPress-Blogs sieht: Das Datum in der URL🫣
domain.de/2023/10/mein-artikel
Das wirkt im Moment logisch, ist aber langfristig Gift. ☠️
Wenn man den Artikel 2026 aktualisieren will, steht da immer noch "2023" in der URL.
Das signalisiert dem Nutzer in den Suchergebnissen sofort: "Alter Kaffee."
URL ändern heißt Weiterleitung bauen (nervig).
Deshalb: URLs immer zeitlos halten (/mein-artikel). Dann bleibt der…
@rmdes@mstdn.social @servelan@newsie.socialUkraine is leading a military revolution but needs more Western support - Atlantic Council
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/ukraine-is-leading-a-military-revolution-but-needs-more-western-support/
@ebinger@bildung.socialUnser Luanti Video ist fertig Die Schülerinnen und Schüler der Reli digital AG haben sich große Mühe gegeben, endlich ist das Video – rechtzeitig vor Weihnachten – fertig. Viel Spaß beim Anschauen! Auf Peertube: Auf Youtube: Zur Anleitung: Wir bauen die Bibelgeschichte mit den Königen aus dem Morgenland in Luanti Allgemeine Anleitung: https:…
@david@boles.xyzThe Dying Grove: A Novel Born from the Collision of Joyce and Mycorrhiza
Some books are written. Others are grown. "The Dying Grove" belongs to the second category, and that distinction is not metaphor but method. This novel, the first in a new series called Fractional Fiction, emerged from an experiment in literary hybridization: what happens when you take the formal architecture of modernist masters and seed it with contemporary scientific research? The result is…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialWo sind die jungen Bloggerinnen und Blogger? Wahrscheinlich dort, wo wir Älteren nicht hinschauen. Mehr Respekt gegenüber den neuen Video-Formaten - solange die Qualität stimmt. Vielleicht sind Reels, Shorts und Creator kein Gegenentwurf sind, sondern eine moderne Weiterentwicklung? #Bloggen
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The Euclid-Mullin sequence of prime numbers.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/a-curious-sequence-of-prime-numbers/
saved 2019-05-26
@cdamian@rls.socialBlog Roll and Podcast Roll
I have been meaning to do this for a while. Finally, @… made me do it.
I added a blog roll and a podcast roll to this site.
Both pages will be updated as my subscriptions change … if I remember.
<…
@jake4480@c.im @cdarwin@c.imKey Figures in the Hunt for Osama bin Laden
⭐️Alfreda Frances Bikowsky
Role: Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station
Background: Started her CIA career in the 1990s as a Soviet analyst. Promoted to Deputy Chief of the Bin Laden Issue Station after the USS Cole bombing in 2000, and became Chief by March 2003.
Controversies: Involved in the CIA's interrogation program and linked to the extraordinary rendition of Khalid El-Masri. Criticized for her role in the tortur…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNew observations of the #NearEarthAsteroid #2024YR4 with the #Webb Telescope are now also, like the recently discovered precovery positions, firmly excluding a crash into the Moon: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/planetary-defense/2026/03/05/new-nasa-asteroid-observations-eliminate-chance-of-2032-lunar-impact/ - all the studies (and speculations) about consequences for Earth of such a lunar impact are now merely an exercise. But one day ... ;-)
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPolitico names Tessa Berenson Rogers as Politico Magazine's editor and Giuseppe Macri as Playbook editor (Alisa Vasquez/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-press/2026/01/22/politico-a…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social @hikingdude@mastodon.socialHey folks, when you come across a cool blog post, please
- link it in your blog if you have one
- Post a link here
I've found the best blogs from links here and also when an article referenced other blogs.
Keep in mind, the inter-NET needs links. Otherwise it's no net.
#blogging
@memeorandum@universeodon.comYe apologizes for antisemitic remarks: 'I lost touch with reality' (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5706421-ye-kanye-west-anti-semitic/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260126/p65#a260126p65
@david@boles.xyzI Wrote the Book I Was Born to Write
Fifty years is a long time to prepare for a single sentence. I did not know I was preparing. I thought I was living, which I was, and writing, which I was, and teaching, which I was, and publishing, which I was. I thought the Fractional Fiction novels and the EleMenTs trilogy and the Prairie Voice reporting and the Human Meme episodes and the dramatic literature and the ASL linguistics and the cultural criticism were separate…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialKI im Blog? LLM nutzen für Recherche, Textkorrektur oder Bilder? Kein Ding – nur bitte mit Kennzeichnung. Wer’s versteckt, verkauft Illusion statt Inhalt. | #Couchblog 👀 #Blogs #KI
@david@boles.xyzThe Curated Self as the New Delusion
There is a specific, modern anxiety that is difficult to name. It is not the dread of a specific event, but a low-grade, constant hum of disconnection. It’s the feeling of living in a world that is eerily frictionless, a world that reflects your own thoughts back at you with placid, unwavering agreement. It is the anxiety of a consensus of one; the quiet, digital loneliness of being the only person in your own universe.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
The use of the word 'robust' to describe software in UK law.
https://ials.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2019/06/25/the-use-of-the-word-robust-to-describe-software-code/
saved 2019-12-20
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@servelan@newsie.socialTimes Square will mark America’s 250th with special July ball drop
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5663592-times-square-ball-new-years-americas-250th-2026/
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzIn 10 minutes the #ArtemisII Fueling Test News Conference will stream at https://www.youtube.com/live/ycqk3uN_N6g - as announced in https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/03/nasa-conducts-artemis-ii-fuel-test-eyes-march-for-launch-opportunity/ and https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2018578937115271660 the first launch attempt has already been moved to March.
@rmdes@mstdn.social @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThere have been FOUR #SolarFlares in the X class over just 20 hours: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/solar-cycle-25/2026/02/02/sun-releases-4-strong-solar-flares/. But the consequences for Earth will be practically zero: https://bsky.app/profile/vincentledvina.bsky.social/post/3mdv7xktvs22b and https://x.com/JAtanackov/status/2018334607653937177 - what a waste ... ;-)
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJane Fonda: Authoritarianism now in 'every single nook and cranny of our government' (Ryan Mancini/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5702383-jane-fonda-authoritarianism-alert/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260123/p73#a260123p73
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe Wet Dress Rehearsal for #ArtemisII has begun in earnest with the tanking of the SLS Core stage now underway as planned: frequent updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zDlM8d4Q7g (the pictures here from https://images.nasa.gov/ show yesterday's sunrise and moonrise behind the stack on the pad).
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialImmer wieder die gleiche Frage: Wo sind die jungen Blogger:innen?
Meine Antwort: Sie bloggen – nur nicht so, wie wir es gewohnt sind.
Reels, Shorts und Videos sind für viele heute das, was Blogs früher waren.
Meine Gedanken in 60 Sekunden.
#60Sekunden #Bloggen
@david@boles.xyzThe Cooperator’s Dilemma: How Martin Nowak’s Mathematics of Kindness Became a Blueprint for Control
Martin Nowak wanted to prove that cooperation is the animating force of evolution. He succeeded. His mathematical models, published across decades of work at Oxford, Princeton, and Harvard, demonstrate with formal rigor that cooperation is not an anomaly in a competitive world but a fundamental mechanism by which biological complexity arises. Genomes cooperate. Cells…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzRE: #ArtemisII WDR: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/03/artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal-test-terminated-at-t-515/ - a lot of unfinished business ...
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe #Artemis stack on the pad in a good image from the ISS: https://x.com/Astro_ChrisW/status/2018365716181705015 - processed with IrfanView, using AutoAdjustColors and contrast adjustment. Meanwhile the Wet Dress Rehearsal is in trouble because of - you guessed it - a hydrogen leak. Since the updates on https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ have become super-sparse it's hard to tell how serious the problem is.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comNicki Minaj makes surprise appearance at Turning Point conference (Tara Suter/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5659269-nicki-minaj-trump-newsom-turning-point-usa/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251221/p60#a251221p60
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialWelche Blogs, Newsletter und Stimmen prägen meine tägliche Lektüre – und warum Social Media dabei kaum noch eine Rolle spielt. Ein persönlicher Blick auf meine Informationsquellen 2025, – und auf die Frage, ob mir KI-Agenten künftig helfen oder nur vorfiltern. #MeineNews2025
@david@boles.xyzThe Metropolitan Opera is Dying Because It Wants to Die
The pinnacle of the Performing Arts in America is collapsing not from the weight of its chandelier, but from the brittleness of its imagination. The Metropolitan Opera has chosen extinction over evolution, and the evidence is no longer circumstantial.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA live view of the #ArtemisII stack on the pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrPD7tfcr0 - where the countdown for the Wet Dress Rehearsal has begun at 1:13 UTC; see https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/01/31/countdown-begins-for-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal/ for the timeline and https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/generalprobe-wet-dress-rehearsal-fur-artemis-ii/ for maaany Artemis-related links going back to 2023.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.d…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.socialClaudia Klinger (@…) warnt davor, dass wir längst nicht mehr nur KI trainieren - sie trainiert auch uns. Wenn Menschen schreiben wie Maschinen, ist das vielleicht effizient, aber nicht menschlich. #KI
@david@boles.xyzPostmodernism and Christianity
A lot of people think that postmodernism is always the enemy of Christianity, but that is an oversimplified scenario. Postmodernism has many ideas that can be combined with Christianity. One may view it as a problem, but it can be a resource for Christian philosophy, Christian mysticism, Christian apologetics, and even for the understanding of the Bible.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzWith the delay of the #ArtemisII WDR to Feb. 2 finally confirmed - #Crew12 pre-launch presser day: #NASA yet, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5-5By97H_8 promises to carry the first presser at 16:00 UTC - beware: shocking preview image - while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLxcA8Crpkg will carry the second one with the crew at 18:00 UTC).
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.depolblogs: Political blogs network (2004)
A directed network of hyperlinks among a large set of U.S. political weblogs from before the 2004 election. Includes blog political affiliation as metadata.
This network has 1490 nodes and 19090 edges.
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https://networks.skewed.d…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAnd the #ArtemisII stack is back in the VAB, arriving around 1:00 UTC today: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/25/nasa-artemis-ii-rocket-returns-for-repairs/ - while in the assembly building, technicians will troubleshoot the helium flow issue to the rocket’s upper stage, replace batteries on the rocket’s upper stage, core stage, and solid rocket boosters as well as service its flight termination system.
@david@boles.xyzThe Wound Remains Faithful: A Tragedy of Nora
It has taken me more than fifty years to write this book. That sentence appears in the author's note, but it deserves to open this introduction because it explains everything that follows. The Wound Remains Faithful is not a thriller. It is not a mystery. It does not offer the satisfaction of solved cases or the comfort of justice delivered. It…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzDetection of an NH3 Absorption Band at 2.2 μm on Europa: #Europa, Recent Study Shows: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/01/29/nasas-galileo-mission-points-to-ammonia-at-europa-recent-study-shows/
@david@boles.xyzReal ID: Federal Mandate, National Card, or Something Worse?
The Real ID is now the law of the land, but it is not the law most Americans think it is, and the story of how it arrived at your local DMV is a twenty-year saga of congressional sleight-of-hand, serial postponement, and a quiet transformation of the American driver's license into something it was never designed to be. The question everyone should be asking…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNear the end of a sad journey ... the #ArtemisII stack almost back at the VAB after crawling for 9 1/2 hours, from the live feed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCrPD7tfcr0 - see https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/ for updates.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzDue to weather, NASA now is targeting early Wednesday, Feb. 25, to roll the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft for #ArtemisII off the launch pad and back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/23/nasa-targets-artemis-ii-rollback-on-wednesday/ - cold temperatures and high winds are expected Tuesday, and rolling on Feb. 25, gives teams enough time to complete preparations at the launch pad that were limited today by high winds in the area.
@david@boles.xyzMiscast: The Playwright Decides, and No One Else Gets a Vote
There is a moment in the life of every playwright when someone walks into a rehearsal room and announces that the character you wrote is not, in fact, the character you wrote. The director has a vision. The institution has a policy. The casting committee has decided that your Irish Catholic mother from the Southside of Chicago would be better served by an actress who has no connection to the world you built…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNASA is taking steps to potentially roll back the #ArtemisII rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after overnight Feb. 21 observing interrupted flow of helium to the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/21/nasa-troubleshooting-artemis-ii-rocket-upper-stage-issue-preparing-to-roll-back/ - the upper stage uses helium to maintain the proper environmental conditions for the stage’s engine and to pressurize liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant tanks; the systems worked during NASA’s Artemis II wet dress rehearsals, but teams were not able to properly flow helium during normal operations and reconfigurations following the wet dress rehearsal that concluded Feb. 19.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz"After running through terminal count for the #ArtemisII wet dress rehearsal, the launch team paused the clock at T-33 seconds in the countdown," says https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/live-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal-coverage/: "Teams are now reconfiguring and replenishing the liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen systems, in order to recycle back to the T-10 minute mark and perform another run of terminal count. [...] The entire recycle process lasts approximately 60 to 90 minutes."
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzA the press conference #ArtemisII launch after the WDR went so well - see also https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/nasa-begins-artemis-ii-launch-pad-ops-after-successful-fuel-test/ issued just after it had ended - but this will not be confirmed before the Flight Readiness Review late next week.
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz45 minutes til the simulated #ArtemisII launch, and according to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KYhqePsm38 and https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/19/live-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal-coverage/ the 2ns wet dress rehearsal is going to plan. How the outcome will be reported: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-provide-coverage-of-artemis-ii-wet-dress-rehearsal/
