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A NOAA ‘Hurricane Hunter’ crew flew out of Portland International Airport to collect storm data for six weeks.
Scientists say they now have a better picture of how atmospheric rivers work.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/04/19/pdx-hurrica…

‘Hurricane Hunter’ crew spent 6 weeks at PDX, studying atmospheric rivers
A NOAA “Hurricane Hunter” crew flew out of Portland International Airport to collect storm data for six weeks. Scientists say they now have a better picture of how atmospheric rivers work.

Bumblebees collect up to 7 times more toxic metals than honeybees #environment

Bumblebees collect up to 7 times more toxic metals than honeybees
Bumblebees are picking up dramatically more toxic heavy metals than honeybees, even when both species forage in the same places. Researchers warn that this hidden pollution could quietly reduce their ability to find food, reproduce, and keep colonies healthy.

EU folks: What are the tax etc. implications if I, as a non EU resident/citizen with no existing business connection to the EU, want to offer a paid training at a conference in Europe? Do I have to collect VAT or sales tax or something along those lines? Or if I'm not a European citizen/business or collecting less than X million EUR in the tax year am I tax-exempt?
Is this such a paperwork nightmare I shouldn't even attempt it unless an existing EU entity wants to handle all of…

Don't answer the first question
https://lalitm.com/post/dont-answer-the-first-question/

Phase 1: Collect underpants
Phase 2: AI
Phase 3: Profit

Begging for My Mother: Find A Grave and the Strangers Who Collect Our Dead
This morning I signed into Find A Grave to update my mother's memorial and discovered that I no longer manage her page....
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07/14/begg

Begging for My Mother: Find A Grave and the Strangers Who Collect Our Dead | David Boles, Blogs
This morning I signed into Find A Grave to update my mother’s memorial and discovered that I no longer manage her page. No email warned me. Nothing in my account records the change. Six famil…

You owe me a meow 🫵
(and I'm here to collect) :3

Fascist checkpoint of local police racially profiling drivers to demand papers and collect commissions from ICE (Kenansville, NC, 7/16/26)
More Info:
#ice

I also think they missed badly on Marmadashvilli. I had kept an open mind for a while, but his unwillingness to come out and collect long balls and his panic booting the ball downfield have been concerns. Villa had great shot placement today, but many of those felt like other keepers (not just Alisson) would have reached them.
He was dreadful today.
#LFC

"AI is going to replace a lot of jobs."
Ok, what do you think is gonna happen when you stop paying the "don't riot" bill? How long can you go without paying that bill before an angry mob is gonna come to collect? You can tell from their vacant eyes that they never considered that.
They're gonna go in their bunkers... And then what? They all care about getting into the bunkers and never consider that the doors can be welded shut and the vents filled with concrete.

Doctors In Tennessee Now Have To Give The Government Detailed Information About Their Trans Patients (Levi Kalish/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tennessee-gov-bill-lee-signs-law-to-collect-transgender-patient-private-medical-data_n_69e2a299e4b09c81bf1892b8
http://www.memeorandum.com/260508/p64#a260508p64

Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000 camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/human…

This startup is betting India's gig economy can train the world's robots | TechCrunch
Human Archive, a startup founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical training data that AI and robotics labs are racing to acquire.

Disney says its live-action Moana was set to collect ~$43M at the Box Office over the weekend, below its $60M goal, and just ~$95M worldwide; Moana cost ~$250M (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/12/business/media/moana-box-office-dis…

‘Moana’ Falters at the Box Office, Casting Doubt on Disney’s Formula
The live-action remake took in roughly $43 million over the weekend in North America, about 30 percent less than Disney had expected.

"Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space"
https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-in-isbn-space/
"Libraries have been trying to collect humanity’s knowledge almost since the invention of writing. In the digit…

Fernando Mendoza, A’ja Wilson among top winners at ESPYs https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/fernando-mendoza-aja-wilson-among-top-winners-at-espys-3851162/

iPadOS 27 (iPad is my beta test platform):
- Welcome!
- Apple wants to collect Analytics
- (some other stuff)
- How much liquid glass do you not want?
Hope the analytics are measuring everyone immediately turning that liquid glass defeater WAY up.

Der Artikel »Wie LLM-Agenten Open-Source-Projekte gefährden« von Frank (@…) und mir ist im Linux-Magazin (@…) erschienen:

The first version of tempolocus, v1.0.0, is out.
tempolocus analyses time-series activity patterns to infer likely locations.
I’ve been experimenting with this idea for years, but AI-assisted development now makes it much easier to collect and maintain country-specific holidays and their many exceptions.
#threatintel

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law
after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages
— The amendment is proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law

California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages — amendment proposed by the same lawmaker who wrote the original law
SteamOS could still be affected

Common grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) at the water bowl. I recently learned (minutes ago) that they collect fecal pellets from the their nests and drop them into birdbaths. This one is definitely looking guilty. #tmi #birds #grackles #nature #birdbath

Printing in the 'before times':
Printing in the 'safe print' times:

• launch the printing program
• log in to the printing program
• use your phone to get a code to log in to the printing program
• print the document via the printing program
• go to the printer
• use your work id card to pull your print
• open your emails to retrieve your printing code
• login to y…

I’m writing today’s Gist in the quiet before everyone else in the house wakes up.
The cat has just come in from a night in the rain, furious.
I have a coffee and a weekend paper to browse while I collect my thoughts.

"However, a US intelligence report in 2021 ... conducted under John Ratcliffe, Trump’s then-director of national intelligence and his present CIA director, found China attempted to collect information on US voters, public opinion and political parties going as far back as 2008. Typically, such data is publicly available and cannot be used to alter votes."
Did China steal 2020 US election data, as Trump claims? | US Elections 2020 News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/17/did-china-steal-2020-us-election-data-as-trump-claims?traffic_source=rss

No, I can't see any possible way this could be a bad thing.
https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never thought that would happen here.”

Extremely stupid and self-destructive, not wanting to collect climate data.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/climate/ocean-observatories-initiative.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nFA.m9…

Trump Administration to Dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative
The $368 million network of instruments collecting data in both the Atlantic and Pacific has been critical to climate and ocean research.

A Pizza Delivery (PC, PS5, Xbox) "B" is making her final delivery of the day, but it turns into a surreal journey through a strange world.
So I don't really want to describe this game more than the line above, I feel this is one of those ones it's best to just experience. One of those "artsy" type games. It's introspective at times. You interact with odd characters. There's things to collect and read.
The graphics are pretty simple s…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sloan:
🎵 Collect Yourself
#Sloan
https://open.spotify.com/track/6UgnA2gjgCG59mewDtCT5p

videogame genre roulette: extraction dating sim. you're an alien xenobiologist dropping into various town and city environments, and your goal is to collect human sperm samples while tangling with magical jealous rivals, cybernetic conspiracy theorists, and polymorphic government agents

Good news. Got a collect call from "Bob Wehadababyitsaboy".
#goodNews #celebration #announcement

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

About the Greek word logos, λόγος. Usually translated as "word", but a lot is lost in translation when doing so. Wiktionary says "speech, oration, discourse, quote, story, study, ratio, word, calculation, reason". The etymology is from proto-Indo-European "leǵ-" meaning to collect, to gather.
Philologist Erik Ellis has thought a lot about logos, and says that the best English translation he has found for logos is "account". Both a bank account an…

Here’s a petition by MP Jenny Kwan to the House of Commons to withdraw Bill C-22
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7416
Simply:
1) Withdraw the bill
2) Don’t collect & retain metadata
3) Don’t wea…

For conference organization, I would be lost without SwitchDrive—and without my colleague!
Me: We need something to store and edit all admin things
Colleague: I'll create a SwitchDrive folder
Me: And how do we collect those videos?
C: Here’s your SwitchDrive folder
Me: And also for sharing research school material?
C: SwitchDrive
tbc
Really, #SwitchDrive

J'ai commencé une petite collection des médias Québécois sur la fediverse / Mastodon. Uniquement les médias, pas des journalistes, etc.
https://jasette.facil.services/collections/116840975385455610
Faites moi signe pour ceux que j'ai oublié

Browns QB Shedeur Sanders graduates from University of Colorado Boulder https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-qb-shedeur-sanders-graduates-from-university-of-colorado-boulder

Collect 139,377 brown rocks
Defeat Ug-Thak, Lord of Skags
Pilfer lost staff of Mount Schuler
Defeat Destroyer of Worlds
Dance, dance, baby
#OddScavengerHuntClues
#HashTagGames

"#Wakelet as a tool for archiving online debates on (academic) events" by @…
https…

Tardigrade hunting is the first small step in a gargantuan, wildly ambitious scientific undertaking:
to sequence the genomes of all life on Earth.
Accompanied by Prof Mark Blaxter,
who leads the institute’s Tree of Life program,
Morek, a postdoctoral researcher and tardigrade expert,
goes on to collect lichen from a walnut tree on the lush campus, before returning to the lab with his samples.

Hunting the tardigrade: one small step in sequencing DNA of all life on Earth
As this year’s invertebrate of the year competition launches, we join scientists studying last year’s winner

Hasbro is doing a one-off 60th anniversary Action Man figure. The file card lists his birthplace as "Coalville, Leicestershire" - the location of the Palitoy factory in the 1960s.
https://www.hasbropulse.com/product/gi-joe-classified-series-action-…

G.I. Joe Classified Series Action Man 6" Scale Action Figure - Hasbro Pulse
Collect the Action Man 6" scale action figure inspired by the 1996 United Kingdom version of G.I. Joe to your Classified Series collection.

The Art of Reflection (PC) What if you could pass through the mirror to solve the puzzles?
So this game is more or less Portal but remove the portal gun and add mirrors. No "story" or narration to explain why you're in this maze floating in space, or why you're tasked with solving puzzles in it in order to get to cylinders that have musical instrument symbols on them. Once you collect them, you can return to the hub of the current section you're working on and p…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureaucrats are reportedly planning to use specialty facial recognition glasses to collect data on Americans in real time,
independent journalist Ken Klippenstein revealed.
Financial statements viewed by Klippenstein point to the development of a facial recognition platform modeled after commercially available AI smart glasses,
like Meta’s widely-panned“pervert glasses.” ICE’s in-house model, it seems,
will allow agents to monitor vi…

Leak Shows ICE Planning to Use Facial Recognition Glasses to Identify Targets in Real Time
Newly leaked documents revealed the existence of the government's in-house facial recognition platform, coming soon to an ICE agent near you.

Mark Carney thought he was "selling a bridge" to poor stupid Donald Trump. Welp, looks like we're the ones who got sold down the river.
Seems all of Donald's deals go bad for him…. except with Canada. Nice work banker guy, nice work.
"the agreement makes no mention of Canada’s interest expenses or debt payments related to the bridge.... Under the original deal, Canada paid the entire C$6.4 billion ($4.6 billion) construction cost on the condition that it would collect all the toll revenue until it was repaid.”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli #USA #TheAmericanFascist #Grift #Corruption
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-17/carney-s-gordie-howe-bridge-deal-splits-50-of-net-revenue-for-15-years?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4NDMwNTEyOCwiZXhwIjoxNzg0OTA5OTI4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSUJIRzNLSUpIOTQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzNTk2NzdDODA0QTY0N0JGQTZDQTdEMzgzM0VCNjRCQSJ9.sH1woMeKVF9PJBMLZFt8RjXKFa4rKGf-5siuR2xMKY8

US bus drivers, and all union employees should take notes.
Strike...but make it hurt the right people
Do the job, but refuse to collect fares.
#Union #Transit
https://japantoday.com/category/national/okayama-buses-strike-by-continuing-to-run-and-refusing-to-take-anyone’s-money

E. Jean Carroll Moves to Collect the $5 Million Trump Owes Her (Angie Orellana Hernandez/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/donald-trump/e-jean-carroll-trump-lawsuit
http://www.memeorandum.com/260701/p64#a260701p64