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US inflation jumped in September,
and by more than expected,
as the soaring cost of motor fuel pushed up the cost of living.
The US Consumer Prices Index roses by 3.7% in the year to September,
up from 3.4% in August.
Economists had forecast a smaller rise, to 3.6%.
Prices rose by 0.6% in Spetember alone.
Gasoline prices jumped by 9.1% in September,
and were 34% higher tha a year ago,
as motorists across America felt the impact of Donald T…

‘Ugly’ jump in US inflation, driven by gasoline prices, in blow to Trump before midterm elections – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, including the IMF meeting in Thailand and the IEA’s new oil market report

eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode will generate less than $1B in ad revenue in 2026; OpenAI projected $2.5B in ChatGPT ad revenue this year (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/openais-ad-business-is-o…

OpenAI’s Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast By 90%, Analyst Says
OpenAI is projecting $100 billion in ad revenue by 2030. Emarketer puts the ceiling for the entire chatbot ad market at just $5.41 billion. 

from my link log —
Intel underestimates fsin error bounds by 1.3 quintillion.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/
saved 2026-07-13

Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion
Intel’s manuals for their x86/x64 processor clearly state that the fsin instruction (calculating the trigonometric sine) has a maximum error, in round-to-nearest mode, of one unit in the last place…

Great Barrier Reef’s Recovery From Bleaching is Aided by Monsoon https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/great-barrier-reefs-recovery-from-bleaching-is-aided-by-monsoon/

Great Barrier Reef's Recovery From Bleaching is Aided by Monsoon
The world’s largest coral system, the Great Barrier Reef, suffered 6 bleaching events since 2016 but this year a monsoon came to the rescue.

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CLOCK & BOTAN - go to blues by train by Izaya
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This is one of three #books I acquired yesterday. The other two are still in the car, I'm in my nightie and it's raining, so they're staying put for now 😄
The Constant Gardener by le Carré, The Golden Hours by Louisa Young and Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett.
I'm particularly looking fwd to TGH, the next in The Cazalet Chronicles, written by EJH's niece. It…

"Sweden to ban forever chemicals from kitchens and clothing by 2028"
#Sweden #PFAS #ForeverChemicals

Sweden to ban forever chemicals from kitchens and clothing by 2028 | The Optimist Daily
Sweden plans to ban PFAS from clothing, kitchenware, and cosmetics by January 2028, joining France and Denmark as EU-wide restrictions lag behind.

eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode will generate less than $1B in ad revenue in 2026; OpenAI projected $2.5B in ChatGPT ad revenue this year (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/openais-ad-business-is-o…

OpenAI’s Ad Business Is on Pace to Miss Its Own Forecast By 90%, Analyst Says
OpenAI is projecting $100 billion in ad revenue by 2030. Emarketer puts the ceiling for the entire chatbot ad market at just $5.41 billion. 

Titans' Robert Saleh not concerned by Cam Ward's struggles vs. Niners: 'No doubt' he is capable https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-robert-saleh-not-concerned-by-cam-ward-s-struggles-vs-niners

Petrochemical industry emissions could climb 50% by 2050, global mapping suggests #environment

Petrochemical industry emissions could climb 50% by 2050, global mapping suggests
Carbon emissions from the petrochemical industry could increase by 50% by 2050, according to new research from the University of Sheffield. The study, published in Nature Sustainability, provides the most detailed data to date on emissions from one of the world's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide.

“These are crimes against humanity which are actively supported by the #Israeli government and are assisted by the indifference and total lack of action by the #IDF and the Israeli police. It’s unforgettable and unforgivable” -- former Prime Minister of

Israeli troops force families from homes amid settler terror campaign in West Bank
Former PM of Israel calls events ‘concerted and meticulous attempt at ethnic cleansing’ against Palestinians

old news but holy shit https://micahflee.com/how-the-knock-off-signal-app-used-by-trump-officials-got-hacked-in-20-minutes/

By the Numbers: Raiders outmatched at the point of attack https://www.raiders.com/news/by-the-numbers-raiders-outmatched-at-the-point-of-attack

It's same ol', same ol' with Cowboys defense as hype gets pushed aside by reality https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/its-same-ol-same-ol-with-cowboys-defense-as-hype-gets-pushed-aside-by-reality

Ukraine update from Giorgio Proviniciali: technology race of war determined by iteration and economy.
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Marsupial Drones Over the Donbas, Among Civilians Killed in Cold Blood by the russians
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

🎉 Die Cartographer Version 2.0.0 ist jetzt verfügbar, dank unserer KollegInnen an der Universität Paderborn und Universität Frankfurt! Mit dieser App lassen sich Anmerkungen hinzufügen und Abschnitte in historischen Musikdokumenten messen – jetzt mit GitHub-Integration für Desktop-Computer und Android-Geräte.
👉https://zenodo.org/records/2188…

Selkirk Member of the Ordovician Red River Formation, aka Tyndall Stone commercially, as seen in Winnipeg, Canada.
Complex 3D burrows are interpreted as Thalassinoides; the color difference is due to dolomite vs calcite matrix. #FossilFriday urban #geology

Getting By
Chelsea and Lily are your typical best friends but with Chelsea having an incredibly type A personality and Lily having your classic type B personality they bring opposing perspectives to life's toughest situations...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/ge…

Stockholm-based Tandem Health, which offers clinicians an AI copilot that generates medical notes during patient consultations, raised a $100M Series B (John Reynolds/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/09/14/swedish-healthtech-…

Tandem Health scores $100M Series B, led by EU’s €5bn tech startup fund
Swedish healthtech startup Tandem Health has raised $100m in a Series B funding round, which was led by the EU-backed €5bn Scaleup Europe Fund, a new investor. The round, which is large for a Series B, also features existing investors Kinnevik, Northzone, Amino Collective, and Visionaries. Tandem did not disclose the valuation the round was raised at. It follows its $50m Series A in 2025, bringing Tandem's total funding to $160m. The Scaleup Europe Fund's investment follows hot on the …

Chinese electricity is now 37% from renewables.
In 2003, renewables’ share of electricity generation was about 15 per cent, nearly all of which was produced by hydropower. By 2025, this had increased to 37 per cent.
getting there. have a sunny day.
from https://www.ft.com/…

Electricity grid fees in the Netherlands up by 19% next year!
This was to be expected given the very high investments in increasing the grid capacity, and it will be followed by further increases in coming years. Cost reduction in the system should be a priority now.
https://www.

Energierekening gaat 140 euro per jaar omhoog door sprong in nettarieven
De energierekening van een gemiddeld Nederlands huishouden gaat volgend jaar weer flink omhoog. De nettarieven die iedereen betaalt voor toegang tot het stroom- en gasnet stijgen snel, vooral door de investeringen in uitbreiding van het stroomnet.

De la Australiana Courtney Barnett, que en noviembre estarš en Fauna Primavera 2026, esto es «Creature of Habit», su mšs reciente trabajo lanzado a principios de este año.
https://album.link/s/6d8sED7egAL2q09h2j3A16

A tourist who was tossed 8ft in the air by a bison at Wyoming’s Yellowstone national park
– an encounter viewed by more than a million social media users thanks to a viral video online
– has been identified as a “community-minded” grandfather from Washington state.
Carl McDaniel had severe injuries including broken bones after Friday’s campsite encounter with the bison,
which was posted to YouTube by the Wyoming news outlet Cowboy State Daily.
A photographer na…

Man tossed into the air by ‘agitated’ bull bison was grandfather visiting Yellowstone with grandson
Carl McDaniel was ‘respectful distance’ from animal when it charged and has severe injuries, including broken bones

the debut novel by richard b. simon is a heady & fun eco-delic aqua-teen coming-of-age sci-fi/fantasy epic. the whales are pissed!
#books

This Be the Verse, by Philip Larkin

Sonnet 032 - XXXII
If thou survive my well-contented day,
When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover
And shalt by fortune once more re-survey
These poor rude lines of thy deceased lover,
Compare them with the bett'ring of the time,
And though they be outstripped by every pen,
Reserve them for my love, not for their rhyme,
Exceeded by the height of happier men.
O! then vouchsafe me but this loving thought:
'Had my f…

Room With A View (2026)
(When 2430m elevation is near the bottom of the valley and the glacier(s) almost still reaching till the doorstep when that hut was built in 1928... now retracted by almost 4km...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

Base pipe vs magrittr pipe: a thread by TimTeaFan: #rstats

Thread by @TimTeaFan on Thread Reader App
@TimTeaFan: I see still a lot of #RStats tweets about the base pipe vs. the {magrittr} pipe, often in favor of the former. I have to admit: I still stick to the magrittr pipe and here is...

Art Adventures sets itself apart from other museum programs by prioritizing experience over curriculum. Rather than focusing on a structured lesson plan, this program is built around creating a genuinely fun museum visit for campers. By leading with enjoyment, Art Adventures allows campers to immerse themselves in discovery and creativity, resulting in an enriching and memorable experience.
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Algorithmics for Safe Bicycle Network Design with
Bounded Detours in Rural Areas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09472

Algorithmics for Safe Bicycle Network Design with Bounded Detours in Rural Areas
We introduce the \emph{Safe Bicycle Network with Bounded Detours} (\emph{SBNBD}) problem, motivated by upgrading rural road networks for bicycle traffic. Given an undirected graph with safe and unsafe edges, edge lengths, upgrade costs, terminal pairs, a budget, and a detour factor $α$, the task is to upgrade unsafe edges so that each terminal pair is connected by a safe path of length at most $α$ times its shortest-path distance in the original network. We study SBNBD from a parameterized …

Well, he thought, since neither Aristotelian Logic nor the disciplines
of Science seemed to offer much hope, it's time to go beyond them...
Drawing a few deep even breaths, he entered a mental state practiced
only by Masters of the Universal Way of Zen. In it his mind floated freely,
able to rummage at will among the bits and pieces of data he had absorbed,
undistracted by any outside disturbances. Logical structures no longer
inhibited him. Pre-conceptio…

A short but fun post about the gotchas of #modeling the world's #geography in #softwaresystems.
Years ago, a colleague of mine told me about two pockets of foreign land surrounded by Switzer…

"Just as with climate breakdown and smoking, the science on harm caused by foods high in fat, salt and sugar is now settled, but the industry continues to deny and distract to delay action. Two weeks ago, a new report highlighted the lengths to which big food has gone to stop governments implementing policies that would tackle the global crisis of diet-related disease.
Since 2010, it and its lobby groups have brought 235 lawsuits against governments."

Why are ultra-processed food firms panicking and suing? Because they know time is running out
As the harm caused by their products becomes more evident, manufacturers are resorting to denial and lawsuits to keep regulation at bay, says former Guardian special correspondent Felicity Lawrence

Here is a list of hashes to remind you that you should really better be in full control of your #firmware and boot chain:
https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-res

Forgotten UEFI shims undermining Secure Boot
ESET researchers discovered 11 vulnerable UEFI shim bootloaders signed by Microsoft that allow attackers to bypass UEFI Secure Boot by exploiting decade-old vulnerabilities.

A windfall tax on cosy crime novels written by celebrities, sounds like a decent policy
https://time.com/article/2026/08/12/count-binface-interview-nigel-farage-british-politics-clacton-byelection/

Introducing Count Binface, Britain's Political Satirist Who Is Standing Against Nigel Farage
Satirical candidates are a long-standing tradition in British politics, but few have made as much of an impression as Count Binface. TIME speaks to the novelty candidate ahead of the Clacton by-election.

Manage the Heat Maltese Style - Avoid your home overheating in summer by using your windows and blinds like the Maltese do on the Med! #BeatTheHeat - https://www.earth.org.uk/manage-the-heat-M

Manage the Heat Maltese Style
Avoid your home overheating in summer by using your windows and blinds like the Maltese do on the Med! #BeatTheHeat

The Name You Cannot Give Yourself
Every semester it happens by the second week. A student in ASL 1, bright and eager and already half in love with the language, waits until the room empties and asks me for a sign name....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/08/13/the-name-…

The Name You Cannot Give Yourself | David Boles, Blogs
Every semester it happens by the second week. A student in ASL 1, bright and eager and already half in love with the language, waits until the room empties and asks me for a sign name. The asking i…

Finished reading "Buckeye" by Patrick Ryan.
Two families in a small Ohio town, tangled together by one impulsive afternoon in 1945, followed across three decades of war, secrets, and quiet self-preservation.
Every character is hiding something, mostly to protect themselves, sometimes carrying the added weight of shielding others too. The result is a slow, patient portrait of emotional distance, and what time can and can't heal.
5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Buckeye
That, as he saw it now, was his life’s work: trying to …

TollBit: median AI scrapes were 4x higher on European sites than North American ones, with local news sites hard hit, as demand for non-English content rises (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/european-publishers-are-getti…

Global Uptake Of Plant-Rich Diets Could Help Reduce Emissions By 76% #nutrition

Global Uptake Of Plant-Rich Diets Could Help Reduce Emissions By 76%
According to a new study, global uptake of plant-rich diets combined with food system transformation could reduce emissions by 76 percent

A livestream of the Made by Google 2026 event hosted by Trevor Noah (Made by Google on YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c84y9gAY90c
http://www.…

An outbreak of diarrhea caused by the parasite cyclospora has risen to more than 3,000 cases in Michigan and Ohio,
and the ongoing investigation suggests lettuce or salad greens may be the source.
However, Michigan health officials said other foods can’t be ruled out and no specific type, grower or supplier has been identified as the source.
“Early information has shown lettuce as a common product that regularly comes up during the investigation,”
Dr. Natasha Bagdasa…

Outbreak of diarrhea caused by parasite jumps to more than 3,000 cases
An outbreak of diarrhea caused by the parasite cyclospora has risen to more than 3,000 cases in Michigan and Ohio.

Steven Wilson anunció la salida de su nuevo šlbum de estudio para el 6 de noviembre. El disco se titula «Requiem for a Village» y ya estš disponible el primer single que lleva el mismo nombre.
https://album.link/s/7JSdfv6Gt8T77yzgakqOP0

"There’s the image of the Green Zone, this Emerald City run by the US in the middle of Baghdad, built by Halliburton and all of these private contractors... these contractors migrated [from Iraq] to Hurricane Katrina, and the idea that these climate disasters are their next growth frontier. Reporters started calling New Orleans ‘Baghdad on the Bayou’. The gang’s all here, there’s Halliburton, there’s Bechtel, there’s Blackwater" -- Naomi Klein

Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursuit of power

Raiders preseason opener 'baptism by fire' for new HC Klint Kubiak https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/08/13/raiders-preseason-opener-vs-cardinals-baptism-…

Chapter two: Shadow
Shadow
Chasing Shadows
Shadow
Shadows

Shadow by Craveit
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24 Israeli military insiders detail the secret methods used by the Israeli military in Gaza, including AI-based systems built to identify large numbers of potential low-ranking Hamas targets, who were then bombed in their homes at night, in the knowledge attacks would also kill their families.

"AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #FossilFuels

AI’s potential climate benefits outweighed by role in boosting fossil fuels, study finds
Modelling finds AI-driven productivity gains in coal, oil and gas enable more emissions than applications in renewables avoid

Room With Another View (2026)
(Same as [1], only here showing parts of the large drop into the glacial canyon(s) below...)
[1] #MountainMonday

hmm is rjk on here? i got a double take reading about https://github.com/RyanJK5/rjk-duck

GitHub - RyanJK5/rjk-duck: Zero boilerplate generic type erasure, powered by C++26 reflection.
Zero boilerplate generic type erasure, powered by C++26 reflection. - RyanJK5/rjk-duck

Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI models and tells creators how to opt out (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/amazon-will-train-o…

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out | TechCrunch
"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."

#funFact In a typical adult human body there around 10 trillion cells, counting all the types. In the human gut alone there are usually around 100 trillion bacteria. As microbiologist Margaret McFall-Ngai puts it, “plants and animals are a patina on the microbial world.”
From “the Strange Order of Things”, by Antonio Damasio.
“I Contain Multitudes”, by @edyong209 is another excellent fora…

Twitch says it intends to use videos streamed on its platform to help train Amazon's generative AI models and tells creators how to opt out (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/12/amazon-will-train-o…

Amazon will train on Twitch streamers' content by default, unless they opt out | TechCrunch
"If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in," Twitch CPO Mike Minton said on a livestream responding to user feedback. "That's honestly the answer."

Cowboys’ Former 1st-Round Pick Released by Dolphins https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dolphins-release-defensive-tackle-mazi-smith/

Vegan Diet Lowers Food Calorie Density by 30%, Explaining Weight Loss Without Portion Cuts https://vegconomist.com/studies-numbers/vegan-diet-lowers-food-calorie-density-30-explaining-weight-loss-without-portion-cuts/…

Vegan Diet Lowers Food Calorie Density by 30%, Explaining Weight Loss Without Portion Cuts - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A low-fat vegan diet reduces the number of calories packed into each gram of food by roughly 30%, giving researchers a mechanistic explanation for why

Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth embellished his ghoulish record of craven violence and cruelty
by announcing that the US will livestream a public execution by firing squad.
The man scheduled to be executed on December 3 is Nidal Hasan, who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in a horrific mass shooting in 2009.
The US has not conducted an execution by firing squad since World War II
or a military execution since 1961.
It has never broadcast a live executio…

The fascist spectacle of streamed executions
It’s a sign of a deeply sick society.

Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg has returned to his position as chairman and CEO "with full support of the board", after an attempted ouster this week (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/auto

Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board | TechCrunch
Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."

Automattic confirms Matt Mullenweg has returned to his position as chairman and CEO "with full support of the board", after an attempted ouster this week (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/auto

Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board | TechCrunch
Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."

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Kinky species by Painbastard
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"Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds
Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says

Post-Perseids Sunrise At Raisting Earth Station (2026)
(Pictures from between 5-6AM this morning... I still need to process the meteor shower images from the hour before, but not holding my breath...)
#LandscapePhotography #RadioTelescope

#mastobada - prénom fé…

Annarella by CCCP – Fedeli Alla Linea
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