According to Xin Zhi Yuan reports,
the list of 2026 Fields Medal winners has been unexpectedly leaked.
Two Peking University alumni, Wang Hong and Deng Yu, are both on the list
— marking the first time Chinese mathematicians will claim the highest honor in mathematics in the same edition.
Someone discovered four Fields Medal laureate lecture fields marked “HIDDEN” in the front-end code of the ICM 2026 official schedule.
A single curl command generated by Codex c…
Is emoji interpretation just a "fun" summer topic, or does emoji misinterpretation ever become serious, like in court discussions? - In face there have been several cases both in North America and Europe where emoji meanings were negotiated in court! I keep a collection of them because it's a nice intersection with my alter ego, the "forensic" linguist. For example, in cases from Canada and Bavaria, judges had to decide whether a thumbs-up 👍 in a chat was meant as a signal of agreement (to a contract or contract amendment), or whether (like the senders argued) it constituted only an acknowledgement of receipt of the message. In both cases, the context was super important - how did the parties interact before, what else was said in the chat, etc. Interesting! #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
vibe based politics spans across the entire spectrum
And this is apparently what passes for journalism today.
No, the raging Zionist Robert Kraft who rounded up a posse of stadium owners to cancel Macklemore for supporting Gaza during his set is *NOT* doubling Macklemore’s $1M donation to Gaza.
Ed both-sides-on-genocide Sheeran asked Kraft “to match a $2m (£1.5m) donation to ‘aid in the region’” (
Hokay, loons. Can you workshop this with me? A T-shirt with BOTH Shane and Ilya saying BUT DADDY, I LOVE HIM. Not THEM or BOTH OF THEM.
More, one saying about the other, rather than ME saying about either of them, right? But it’ll still make some kind of sense, right? No? Yes? #HeatedRivalry
macOS 27 Golden Gate review: addresses many Tahoe-era Liquid Glass issues and has useful new AI features, but no Intel support and uses a lot of storage space (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/macos-27-golden-gate-t…
both will hart & bill doss are gone, but miraculously the 3rd olivia tremor control album is coming out this fall. i don't know which of those facts is the most unlikely, but i know there's only one that i want to believe. apparently there's going to be a CD longbox edition, too. https://
My mental health is falling apart again. This is both really annoying and very boring. I am unlikely to be as active on social media for a while, and, in particular, I won't be responding to private messages from people I don't know.
If I can't keep myself reasonably sane I can't help anyone.
I need to concentrate on regaining my balance and putting in place the things I need for my personal wellbeing.
Halfway the EU gas storage filling season, the Netherlands is lagging. Our storages are only at 31% now, way behind the EU average of 53%, and other major storage countries like France (52%), Germany (45%) and Italy (71%).
Based on security of supply advice by Gasunie, Dutch government had set a target of 80% by 1 November 2026. Our EU obligation is 74%. Both would practically seem out of reach by now, which is unfortunate in view of our dependence on LNG imports in an unstable world.
It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth
have both failed.
-- Kim Hubbard
Only in #Japan - the government and a company both respond to my requests for interviews/comments, but the leading local environmental group on this topic? Nope...too "busy"
I can work in both French and English. I'm interested in infrastructure roles.
#infrastructure #sysadmin #sre
∩ Ludovic Hirlimann :
"I've been remote, fully since 2009 and would like …
The two best methods for storing cucumbers both involve refrigerator storage and a zip-top bag. Wrapping each cucumber in paper towels and stash in a sealed bag, and placing cucumbers in a sealed bag with a metal spoon.
The director-general of Germany's second largest public broadcaster has forbidden an artist to perform a song he was invited to for the 100th edition of a political comedy show, against the protest of the show runners.
The name of the song: Keine Angst (can mean both, don't be afraid and no fear) by Danger Dan
The song calls to stand up to fascism. The name of the director-general who forbid the recording? Himmler.
Under The Cap
Each episode dives into the stories of people who embody the values of surf lifesaving, both on and off the beach...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/under-the-cap/
My second #ClimateDiary post:
Water butts all empty, as of last night. We carried dozens of watering cans full of water, both for the containers, and for the first time, for plants growing in our sandy soil, which were beginning to suffer. And of course, all the washing up water goes on the garden too.
A new DC bidirectional charger for the German market, developed for The Mobility House. It is the first #V2G charger to support 800V vehicles, such as Mercedes'. Supporting both older and current bidirectional charging standards should make it compatible with a broad range of vehicles.
Both teams gifting chances and both largely wasting them. Szoboszlai in alone and was off balance trying to stay onside (he was miles onside)
#LFC
Just finished "Forgive Me Not", a beautiful and touching fairy tale graphic novel by Mari Costa. Only thing I dislike about it is the royalty, which it honestly could have worked just as well without...
I actually liked the resolution of the climax a lot; many writers would have created a lesser scene for one or both characters.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
www.maptap.gg September 17
99🎯 99🎯 98🎯 100🎯 100🎯
Final score: 994
1. x: 4,995 pts, 1.5 km, 1 min, 18 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 3,870 pts, 382 km, 22 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 1,367 pts, 1,935 km, 28 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 4,387 pts, 195 km, 12 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 4,866 pts, 41 km, 42 sec, 0 steps
Total: 19,485 pts, 2,554 km, 3 min, 2 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1205 — 31,269/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆9,747 · 📅 2y · 🌍 1.3mi
2️⃣ 🏆3,747 · 📅 11y · 🌍 1404.4mi
3️⃣ 🏆9,283…
stf's law:
when a politician or a political initiative says it's about protecting kids, you can be sure it's either dystopian shit, or some capitalistic colonization of public goods.
(probably both)
U.S. President Donald Trump is blaming Canadian forest management for the smoke that has blanketed parts of the United States, threatening to increase tariffs to compensate for U.S. expenses caused by plummeting air quality.
But a wildfire expert says the President’s claims lack grounding in science and excoriated the remedies aimed at Canada as being unreasonable.
#REALITYCHECK…
celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 514 nodes and 3531 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
Trust in both Moscow and Moscow’s proxies has collapsed in Crimea.
People have realized that Russia has abandoned them to their fate.
“There is no unity among Crimeans; it’s every man for himself.
The profiteers are doing quite well
—they’re selling fuel and generators along the highways and jacking up food prices.
So all the slogans about the universal unity of Crimeans are lies
—a piece of propaganda with no basis in reality.
Trust in Aksyonov has b…
The eligible hiring pool at the FBI must be getting really small...or freaky.
#USPol
Providence from the East Bay Bike Path today. The funny/weird part of the Canadian wildfire-induced smog is that even though we had a heat-alert, it was actually quite…cool, both yesterday and today.
Actually, should the plural be "emoji" or "emojis" ?? 😵💫 - Both are used frequently! I think "emoji" reminds us of other loan words that end in "-i" in the plural, like "celli" or "radii" or "tori" or all the pastas. That's why many people feel that "emoji" is plural enough 😅 . But the word is from Japanese, and is called "emoji" in the singular, from "e" = picture and "moji" = character. (In contrast to "emot-icon", the word "emoji" doesn't have anything to do with emotion!) So my vote is for the regular English plural "-s", yielding "emojis" ✅ #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
As reported here 3 weeks ago a third planet of #BetaPictoris was discovered independently with two methods - today both papers have been published formally 'side by side': https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae80a0 and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae801b -> Faintest planet ever imaged from Earth found after more than 10 years of hide-and-seek / NASA’s Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2609/ / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-discovers-hidden-planet-in-famous-star-system/
www.maptap.gg July 17
98🎯 99🎯 97🔥 88🎉 80✨
Final score: 895
1. x: 4,719 pts, 86 km, 24 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 1,577 pts, 1,721 km, 32 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 63 pts, 6,517 km, 40 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 4,956 pts, 13 km, 2 min, 29 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 2,276 pts, 1,174 km, 46 sec, 0 steps
Total: 13,591 pts, 9,512 km, 4 min, 51 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1143 — 43,731/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆8,338 · 📅 7y · 🌍 1.6mi
2️⃣ 🏆9,056 · 📅 0y · 🌍 275.9mi
3️⃣ 🏆7,500 · 📅 9y …
I'd like my next job to have something more than Linux, yes, I'm looking at your FreeBSD.
#runbsd #freebsd #getfedihired
∩ Ludovic Hirlimann :
"I can work in both French and English. …
It’s been described as “the mother of all earthquake faults,”
the source of both our geological birth and, perhaps, our ultimate undoing.
But the most unnerving thing about the San Andreas fault these days may be its silence.
It’s a mystery scientists are still trying to unlock.
The San Andreas is central to any discussion of California.
It’s the massive 800-mile spine of the state,
trundling up the Coachella Valley to the San Gabriel Mountains,
and p…
I know I’m late to the party to @…’s post “Is it ethical to use AI?”, where she argues that “AI is just technology”. It’s been festering inside me, and Martin Fowler’s mention of the article that calls AI “a technology that is so powerful and so useful”, and therefore “there’s no ethical gain from renouncing the use of AI”. (Especially as both have provided th…
I cannot believe how good this novel is. Elias Khoury was a genius. It’s about the parallels between Palestinians and Jews, how both were victims, seen through a Palestinian orphan who passes as Jewish in Haifa and New York, but you should read this even if you’re uninterested in/tired of that topic because it’s simply brilliant literature.
TSMC reports Q2 revenue up 36% YoY to ~$39.45B, net income up 77.4% YoY to ~$21.9B, both above est., and says chips 7nm or smaller were 77% of its wafer revenue (Jenny Lee/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/16/tsmc-second-quarter-profit-.html
Sharp Minimax Theory for Randomized Experiments
Timothy Sudijono, Edgar Dobriban, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13822 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13822 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13822
arXiv:2608.13822v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study minimax-optimal designs and estimators for estimating the sample average treatment effect in finite population randomized experiments, where both design and estimator are unrestricted. For binary potential outcomes, we show this minimax risk is equivalent to the minimax risk $\rho_n^*$ of an estimation problem with $2$ unknown parameters. We leverage this reduction to establish a second-order risk expansion $\rho_n^* = n^{-1} - Cn^{-4/3} o_n(n^{-4/3})$ for an explicit constant $C$ related to the Airy function. The minimax risk is attained by Bernoulli randomization with a nonlinear shrinkage estimator. Our results show that standard procedures such as complete randomization with difference in means are only minimax optimal up to first order in $n.$ We derive further results on admissibility of these procedures and discuss the practical implications of our results.
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celegans_2019: Complete C. elegans neurons (2019)
Networks among neurons of both the adult male and adult hermaphrodite worms C. elegans, constructed from electron microscopy series, to include directed edges (chemical) and undirected (gap junction), and spanning including nodes for muscle and non-muscle end organs.
This network has 468 nodes and 3701 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted
{ggtintshade} adds a tint/shade aesthetic to ggplot2 in addition to hue. This makes it possible to show groups and subgroups using related colours, and works for both nested and crossed designs: https://github.com/wkumler/ggtintshade
@… horrible. My SIL and BIL are both in the UP, scheduled to leave today, I think.
@… I'm taking it back on the 26th. This is the double-decker shuttle, I've only taken the single-decker one. What they are not showing is the 1 hour reporting time and the interminable line for border controls, both French and UK, along with possible security cecks. On my way in, the trains were delayed over 1 hour and the wasted time at Eurotunnel was 1/3 of the total …
Californians are deeply pessimistic about the direction of the state and nation, expecting tough economic times and are sour on both major political parties, according to a new poll.
Nearly 80% of likely voters say
14 statewide propositions and dense wording make the ballot overwhelming,
shortly before mail-in voting begins for more than 23 million Californians.
Likely voters are split over a one-time wealth tax on billionaires and rival measures that could nullify i…
Just got new tube of soldering paste (the blue one on left), but still not shure if it will somehov be any better than the one i was getting earlier.
I honestly want to try and get the "better" ones which are almost all sold in US, but i cant get them because either they dont deliver in Moldova or the services which deliver stuff from other countries here consider for some reason flux to be dangerous...
If you know anything good for soldering that sels worldwide please …
Dude, seriously — this last week has been the longest month of my life.
Both utterly unforgettable, and unfathomable relief having completed it.
www.maptap.gg July 18
99🎯 97🔥 98🎯 99🎯 62🫣
Final score: 875
1. x: 4,438 pts, 178 km, 55 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 3,774 pts, 420 km, 33 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 4,398 pts, 191 km, 41 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 2,145 pts, 1,262 km, 1 min, 16 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 2,491 pts, 1,039 km, 1 min, 20 sec, 0 steps
Total: 17,246 pts, 3,090 km, 4 min, 46 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1144 — 43,516/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆9,942 · 📅 1y · 🌍 396m
2️⃣ 🏆9,560 · 📅 1y · 🌍 45.0mi
3️⃣ 🏆9,134…
Democrats have slammed Donald Trump’s Thursday night speech
where he repeated conspiracies and unfounded claims that both the 2020 election was stolen,
and the current state of election integrity is compromised.
Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, said the address was
a “pathetic attempt” by the president to cast doubt on the fact that he lost the 2020 election.
The Senate minority leader said that Trump is evading discussing contentious policy issues,
www.maptap.gg June 18
98🎯 98🎯 99🎯 82👏 61😔
Final score: 823
1. x: 2,634 pts, 956 km, 43 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 191 pts, 4,867 km, 41 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 3,151 pts, 689 km, 33 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 4,611 pts, 121 km, 20 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 70 pts, 6,357 km, 2 min, 15 sec, 0 steps
Total: 10,657 pts, 12,990 km, 4 min, 32 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1114 — 36,026/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆8848 - 📅5y - 🌍2.0 km
2️⃣ 🏆5165 - 📅4y - 🌍3174.8 km
3️⃣ 🏆2512 - 📅8y - 🌍118…
sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 403 nodes and 1417485 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
In all, 57 Trump officials are worth at least $100 million,
including 17 ambassadors
and the remaining 40 in senior posts across the executive branch.
Look no further than Trump’s Cabinet.
Eight of its 23 members fit the category,
notably Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Education Secretary Linda McMahon, both billionaires.
www.maptap.gg August 17
98🔥 100🎯 84😁 91👑 53🤫
Final score: 798
1. x: 4,835 pts, 50 km, 49 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 4,570 pts, 134 km, 1 min, 21 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 4,824 pts, 53 km, 42 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 1,055 pts, 2,321 km, 49 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 3,443 pts, 557 km, 1 min, 41 sec, 0 steps
Total: 18,727 pts, 3,115 km, 5 min, 21 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1174 — 43,112/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆9,897 · 📅 1y · 🌍 1.3mi
2️⃣ 🏆8,661 · 📅 0y · 🌍 521.4mi
3️⃣ 🏆5,52…
Converse bounds for multiple graph alignment and correlation detection based on last matching
Taha Ameen, Bruce Hajek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.14450 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.14450 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.14450
arXiv:2608.14450v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The paper focuses on information theoretic converse bounds for the alignment of $m$ correlated graphs and for the detection of correlation among $m$ graphs. A simple idea for $m\geq 3$ is that if the alignment of $m-1$ of the graphs is revealed as extra information (by a genie for example) then it is still necessary to produce the alignment between the one remaining graph and the others, i.e. the last matching must be accomplished. For both Gaussian and Erdos-Renyi models, the last-matching problem is equivalent to one with two observed graphs, providing a path to extend converse bounds for $m=2$ to larger $m$. While the method is rather obvious for alignment, we show that the method can also be used to derive converse bounds for weak detection of correlation.
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sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 403 nodes and 1417485 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
Grand Staircase-Escalante’s stunning slot canyons and dramatic vistas make it instantly recognizable.
Bears Ears’ red-rock canyons house culturally significant petroglyphs and ancient dwellings that have endured for centuries.
Right now they are facing unprecedented attacks–again.
Donald Trump just took executive action to virtually eliminate both of these iconic Utah national monuments,
slashing their boundaries by more than 90%.
Vital wildlife habitats,
Valve says the Steam Frame is priced at $1,059 for the 256GB model and $1,299 for the 1TB version, both of which come with a copy of Half-Life: Alyx (Adam Vjestica/The Shortcut)
https://www.theshortcut.com/p/steam-frame-price-…
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 349 nodes and 1393 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gra…
Generalization Error Estimation for Primal--Dual Algorithms in Non-Smooth Regression
Kai Tan, Pierre C Bellec
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13870 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13870 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13870
arXiv:2608.13870v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper studies trajectory-wise estimation of generalization error for primal--dual algorithms in non-smooth regression. Motivating examples include \(\ell_1\)-penalized least absolute deviations regression and square-root Lasso regression, where the data-fitting loss is non-differentiable and existing risk estimators for gradient-type optimization paths do not apply directly. We develop a general recursive framework that includes the Chambolle--Pock algorithm and related primal--dual splitting methods. We estimate risk by correcting each in-sample fitted value with a weighted combination of past dual iterates. The ideal weights are Stein derivative contractions and depend on the design covariance. We construct replacement weights from observable derivative contractions of the fitted-signal trajectory, yielding a covariance-free, data-driven correction. For high-dimensional Gaussian designs and fixed finite iteration horizon, we prove finite-sample guarantees for both estimators. For square-root ridge, we further establish a matched-Gaussian universality result beyond Gaussian designs. Numerical experiments show that the proposed estimators accurately track the out-of-sample risk along finite optimization paths.
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Michigan voters are sharply divided between Republican Mike Rogers
and Democratic nominee
Abdul El-Sayed,
according to a Fox News poll that finds significant challenges for both candidates
in a race considered critical for control of the Senate.
The first survey since last week’s primaries finds Rogers with a narrow
51 percent to 47 percent edge among registered voters,
within the survey’s three-percentage-point margin of error,
which estimates…
www.maptap.gg September 16
99🎯 100🎯 99🎯 100🎯 96🔥
Final score: 985
1. x: 3,011 pts, 756 km, 19 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 4,342 pts, 210 km, 1 min, 53 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 3,663 pts, 464 km, 1 min, 13 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 4,969 pts, 9.3 km, 24 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 13 pts, 8,933 km, 44 sec, 0 steps
Total: 15,998 pts, 10,373 km, 4 min, 33 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1204 — 40,275/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆7,493 · 📅 10y · 🌍 1190ft
2️⃣ 🏆6,879 · 📅 13y · 🌍 3.2mi
3️⃣ …
Since the day she began her campaign for Congress,
Paige Cognetti, the Democratic mayor of Scranton,
has centered her pitch to voters on the prodigious stock tradingof the House Republican she is seeking to unseat,
Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr. of Pennsylvania.
“This year he’s already made 600 trades,” Ms. Cognetti said in the announcement video for her campaign in September.
“Sold Chinese stocks the week of a tariff.
Buys missile stocks before a war.
www.maptap.gg July 16
100🎯 98🎯 100🎯 67🫢 81🌟
Final score: 842
1. x: 2,103 pts, 1,292 km, 1 min, 10 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 4,947 pts, 16 km, 35 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 4,705 pts, 91 km, 27 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 18 pts, 8,393 km, 51 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 1,363 pts, 1,939 km, 43 sec, 0 steps
Total: 13,136 pts, 11,730 km, 3 min, 46 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1142 — 42,480/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆8,511 · 📅 3y · 🌍 366.1mi
2️⃣ 🏆9,059 · 📅 0y · 🌍 274.0mi
3️⃣ 🏆7,961 · …
House Republicans on Wednesday made another attempt to answer Donald Trump’s demand for new restrictions on voting nationwide
by linking the measure to an unrelated spending bill and passing both largely along party lines.
The effort was the latest attempt by congressional Republicans to pass the Save America Act,
which would ban mail-in ballots and impose new identification requirements on voters when they register and cast ballots.
While the Trump administration ha…
www.maptap.gg August 15
96🔥 95🏅 97🔥 100🎯 94🏅
Final score: 967
1. x: 1,279 pts, 2,034 km, 3 min, 0 steps
2. x: 13 pts, 8,912 km, 34 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 41 pts, 7,181 km, 26 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 1,560 pts, 1,738 km, 17 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 4,706 pts, 91 km, 20 sec, 0 steps
Total: 7,599 pts, 19,956 km, 4 min, 37 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1172 — 39,258/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆6,999 · 📅 15y · 🌍 72m
2️⃣ 🏆8,896 · 📅 5y · 🌍 185m
3️⃣ 🏆9,907 · 📅 1y · 🌍 1448m…
Let’s talk about the billionaires
— the folks cutting the line while the rest of us pay the bill.
They don’t need another champion in Congress.
I’m not going to the Senate to fight for guys like Elon Musk,
and I don’t believe in tax cuts for the wealthiest people on the planet.
That might not be a popular opinion in Washington, but here in Maine, the vast majority of folks would agree.
Except Susan Collins.
Susan Collins has hardly met a billionaire…
www.maptap.gg August 16
97🔥 100🎯 100🎯 96🏅 97🔥
Final score: 976
1. x: 4,771 pts, 70 km, 57 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 4,765 pts, 72 km, 50 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 873 pts, 2,603 km, 24 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 66 pts, 6,448 km, 51 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 4,531 pts, 147 km, 30 sec, 0 steps
Total: 15,006 pts, 9,340 km, 3 min, 31 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1173 — 42,831/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆6,100 · 📅 4y · 🌍 1305.3mi
2️⃣ 🏆9,910 · 📅 1y · 🌍 1268m
3️⃣ 🏆9,942 · 📅 0y · 🌍 1.…
The first phase of Donald Trump’s war on Iran ended in defeat and humiliation.
Iran emerged battered but stronger, with two new weapons:
control of the Strait of Hormuz
and a demonstrated drone and missile force that can cripple the economies of its Persian Gulf neighbors and wreak havoc on U.S. bases.
Both are new instruments of power more usable than nuclear weapons.
The two New Jersey property managers Trump sent to negotiate his surrender produced a poorly …
Throughout today’s confirmation hearing for Todd Blanche, Democratic and Republican lawmakers have questioned whether the
$1.8bn “anti-weaponization” fund created to compensate the president’s allies
– namely January 6 defendents
– has been definitively abandoned by the Trump administration.
Blanche sought to underscore that the slush fund is “dead”, as he fielded questions from senators on both sides of the aisle.
“The settlement fund is just not …
Data centers powering the AI boom have been spewing out a staggering amount of pollution by relying on fossil fuel-powered generators.
And given the industry’s unrelenting appetite for more infrastructure supporting ever-more-resource-intensive AI models,
the trend is only going to get worse from here.
It’s reached the point that AI is giving the fossil fuel industry a substantial leg up,
as a new paper published in the journal NPJ Climate Action details.
The au…
www.maptap.gg September 15
98🎯 96🔥 81🌟 92🏆 86🎓
Final score: 890
1. x: 3,232 pts, 651 km, 39 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 2,922 pts, 801 km, 19 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 4,203 pts, 259 km, 34 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 4,516 pts, 152 km, 20 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 214 pts, 4,699 km, 24 sec, 0 steps
Total: 15,087 pts, 6,562 km, 2 min, 16 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1203 — 34,821/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆9,782 · 📅 2y · 🌍 2971ft
2️⃣ 🏆6,112 · 📅 13y · 🌍 241.1mi
3️⃣ 🏆7,265 · 📅 9y ·…
Senators in both parties say the odds are rising of another government shutdown in September
after Trump demanded that GOP leaders abolish the filibuster or face a spending showdown and another shutdown.
Trump blindsided GOP leaders on Monday when he warned there could be another shutdown if Senate Republicans don’t abolish the filibuster,
which would allow them to pass the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act and spending legislation without any Democra…
www.maptap.gg July 14
89👑 100🎯 95🏅 78🌞 78🌞
Final score: 847
1. x: 4,801 pts, 61 km, 1 min, 3 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 65 pts, 6,486 km, 43 sec, 0 steps
3. xtralia: 1,952 pts, 1,403 km, 1 min, 0 steps
4. x: 2,760 pts, 886 km, 2 min, 55 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 4,724 pts, 85 km, 37 sec, 0 steps
Total: 14,302 pts, 8,921 km, 6 min, 18 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1140 — 38,968/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆9,996 · 📅 0y · 🌍 194m
2️⃣ 🏆8,816 · 📅 1y · 🌍 394.2mi
3️⃣ 🏆9,23…
BBC lawyers want to subpoena Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner for both documents and deposition testimony
-- arguing all three have direct knowledge of Trump's intentions behind his January 6, 2021, speech at the Ellipse.
Citing testimony gathered by the House January 6 Committee, the BBC claimed Trump Jr. and Ivanka were present as their father revised the speech and were with him when he delivered it,
while Kushner reportedly drafted a statement condem…
www.maptap.gg July 15
96🔥 100🎯 100🎯 99🎯 100🎯
Final score: 993
1. x: 1,816 pts, 1,511 km, 1 min, 12 sec, 0 steps
2. x: 159 pts, 5,146 km, 25 sec, 0 steps
3. x: 191 pts, 4,868 km, 40 sec, 0 steps
4. x: 3,869 pts, 382 km, 39 sec, 0 steps
5. x: 4,964 pts, 11 km, 39 sec, 0 steps
Total: 10,999 pts, 11,918 km, 3 min, 35 sec, 0 steps
TimeGuessr #1141 — 35,121/50,000
1️⃣ 🏆8,348 · 📅 6y · 🌍 1.2mi
2️⃣ 🏆6,000 · 📅 17y · 🌍 25m
3️⃣ 🏆8,763 · 📅 2y…
Ukraine will only halt attacks on Russian energy targets if the enemy does likewise and the US guarantees it,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
The announcement came after Donald Trump’s uncorroborated claim that both sides have agreed to such a ceasefire.
Neither Ukraine nor Russia had said so at time of writing.
The US president regularly claims to have brokered what turn out to be nonexistent or extremely shortlived deals between foreign adversaries or with his o…
David Schenker, a former State Department official in the first Trump administration,
said the increasing economic pressure may actually prompt Trump to compromise on the strait,
even if it’s likely to have profound negative implications on global trade.
“There will be a lot of spin both ways, but my guess is that the president has tipped his hand as to the urgency for him of resolving the crisis,”
said Schenker, now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East …
As the implementation of AI disrupts dozens of industries,
it isn’t surprising that a crop of recent television shows and movies are depicting the villainy of this rapidly changing technology.
After all, screenwriters have been at the forefront of this fight.
“We were on the front lines as both the people who are being stolen from,
and the people whose work is being used to eliminate them,”
Carolyn Lipka, who co-wrote Hacks’ QuikScribbl episode, told The Flytr…
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116919466945948663
The implementation of AI in the workforce is inherently anti-worker and anti-human,
both in how it might replace us and in how it might force workers to push themselves to inhumane levels of work to prove their wort…
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