2026-05-19 08:01:00
Memorial Day sale features $13 Tees and up to 40% off everything else in my Threadless shop.
Starts today and runs through May 26 at 5 PM CT.
(A bonus round is also included with extended deals through June 2 at 5 PM CT.)
Get stuff here: https://
Oura Ring 5 review: impressive thinness, live activity tracking, and conversational AI, but not very durable, LEDs are distracting, and the app is confusing (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
The Deity that Struggles ⛪️
挣扎的神衹 ⛪️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford Pan 400
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Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users privately control what they see in their feed, and launches Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/thre
How gambling companies like FanDuel and DraftKings, as well as Meta and a16z's founders, are pouring millions into state-level election campaigns via super PACs (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20…
Apparently there are too many bears in Japan, they've been using robotic wolves to keep them at bay, and they're running low on the robot wolves.
Just not the headline I expected to read today 😂🐻🐺 https://www.popsci.com/environment/japan-robot-wolf-army
I hope all mastodon instances quickly install Mastodon 4.6 so i can add people from their servers to my "Collections".
#Mastodon46
Neural network surrogates for elliptic #Lambert transfers in preliminary mission design: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/space-technologies/articles/10.3389/frspt.2026.1772629/full -> "In Earth–Mars and multi-planetary flyby case studies, the surrogates preserve the broad features of the classical solutions and identify promising transfer regions."
Bob Dylan "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" OST (1973)
#NowPlaying
Mastodon 4.6 - Mastodon Blog
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/
@… Maybe Windows 95 except with the Windows 7 search in the Start menu and the Windows 7 window tiling features. That would be peak. :)
from my link log —
Seamless application failover using libpq features in PostgreSQL.
https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/10/23/seamless-application-failover-using-libpq-features-in-postgresql/
saved 2019-10-30
MX Linux seems to be a very polished product in the sense that a lot of work has clearly gone into it - and into trying to make it pretty friendly. At least compared to how things used to be. On the other hand it also very much feels like late 90s Linux where everything is cobbled together from all kinds of bits and things are named after application names rather than features. It is kind of fun to have to figure things out this way. Mint/Fedora etc. are so polished these days, you rarely ha…
Bildzeichengenerator: Genmojis sollen in iOS 27 besser werden
Bislang wird Apple Intelligence offenbar zu wenig genutzt. Eines der generativen KI-Features soll nun hübscher werden.
https://www.
Urban Fallacies ❌
城市谬误 ❌
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400 (6x7)
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twitter_higgs: Twitter, Higgs boson (2012)
Data on tweets related to the announcement of the discovery of a new fundamental particle with the features of the Higgs boson on 4th July 2012. Data covers 1-7 July 2012, and includes four types of networks: followers, retweets, replies, and mentions.
This network has 256491 nodes and 328132 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted, Multilayer
Key features that make a planet amenable to life, at least life as earthlings know it:
It should be rocky, be at the right temperature for liquid water to exist and have an atmosphere.
On Thursday, a team of astronomers announced that it had identified a world with all three traits.
“At this point, we have absolutely no evidence for life on the planet,”
said Collin Cherubim, a planetary scientist who recently earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University.
“But we thin…
Meta says Threads now has 500M MAUs, adds a "Your Algo" tool that lets users control what they see in their feed, and brings Communities out of beta (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/thre
App-Store-Anwendung: Apple trackt eingegebene Zeichen
Apple stellt Entwicklern künftig mehr Daten zu Verfügung und arbeitet an neuen Personalisierungs-Features. Das Tracking geht dabei weit, so Sicherheitsforscher.
htt…
I built the @… Stream video manager I've always wanted right into @…. It's privacy-first, free, open source, and you can download and install it today.
Features:
▪️ Manage all of your Cloudflare Stream videos
RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116756562824636737
Ditch Chrome. Ditch it yesterday. It’s already 50% hostile surveillance machine, but that’s soon going to be 100%.
Vivaldi is a fine near-drop-in replacement if you want maximum compatibility. It’s what I use for G-Suite stuff whenever I have to use it.
Waterfox is a Firefox fork that strips out the AI nonsense features. I’ve been happy with it.
Firefox itself has problematic leadership these days, but is still better than Chrome.
Safari on Mac (my daily driver) is a lovely browser, lean and blazing fast compared to Chrome, and great privacy features — though it’s still Big Tech if that’s a problem for you.
In short, you have choices!
@… gaan jullie ook Mastodon 4.6 implementeren, "collecties" lijken me erg handig en ook de nieuwsbrief faciliteit biedt kansen, https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/
Raiders TE Brock Bowers to take stage at music festival https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/18/raiders-te-brock-bowers-take-stage-bottlerock-music-festival/90146030007/
Trump's National Prayer Event Features Speakers Who Smeared Catholicism, Islam (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-national-prayer-festival-speakers-smear-islam-pope-leo_n_6a078931e4b0ee716972c871
http://www.memeorandum.com/260517/p29#a260517p29
"Efforts to Save Kelp Forests from Ocean Warming Are Ramping Up"
#Kelp #Oceans #Environment
Disney says select Hulu subscribers can now link their Hulu profiles to Disney , bringing their Hulu watch history, watchlist, and recommendations into Disney (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/disney-plus-hulu-unified-app-phase…
Urge the Government to Take Action for Animals! #animals
ADAC (German automobile association) tested the vehicle-to-load function on nine EVs — a mostly easy way to power devices directly from your car. Works well, safety features work as they should, but with additional 500 W of standby power not for daily use (and power level not enough for a house)
https://www.…
Few people know that #Uwubernetes is actually real.
It is the name if the #Kubernetes 1.30 release.
https://
«While these privacy concerns swirl, Meta is recruiting celebrities to help push their wearables and suffocate the obvious backlash. Kylie Jenner is the newest celeb to push Meta’s smart glasses, even as women around the world complain about how this is being misused to harass them.
When it comes to protecting your privacy, pasting over your computer’s webcam and turning off Siri won’t cut it, as tech companies stretch their tentacles into every aspect of our lives. And the more these …
Les Ladazz 1989-1993 (2022)
Les Ladazz was a French garage punk/DIY band from Strasbourg, active from 1989 to 1993. This is pretty much all I can find about this band. Never heard of them til a friend played this on his show. They have a familiar sound with some unique quirks.
This retrospective album features a rotation of singers and musicians over the band’s lifetime and was released only on Bandcamp.
Seahawks' Super Bowl ring unveiled: Ranking the five wildest features on Seattle's massive rings
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/seahawks-super-bowl-lx-rings-f…
Bruce Langhorne - "Score For Peter Fonda's 'The Hired Hand'" (1969)
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_koYAGbCizjcUVQ_e2wUyperBnbZSZvjno
Had hoped to work on https://retrofit.sh this week between trips but my laptop screen died in CO and just got word it will take a week to fix after dropping it off in Roseville.
Here’s hoping the backup on my new SSD backup will restore. Unsurprisingly they have to wipe the disk to diagnose the screen.
So I guess my daily routine now consists of waking up, banning a dozen of these, and then going on with my day :neofox_woozy:
Fedi admins and anyone who owns or moderates any forum or site with community features, have you seen stuff like this before?
I noticed them one day, and it got me so worried that I made an auto-report system to catch them when they make them, as the names and their bios are always very similar.
The links always go to Vietnamese gambling sites or clearl…
very disappointed that I can no longer use @… without AI features being shoved in my face
Importantly, `pull_request_target` IGNORES this GitHub security setting: https://docs.github.com/en/repositorie
Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/951147/ go
Designing single-layer PDMS devices for micron to millimeter-scale deformations
Leon Valentin Gebhard, Alexandre S. Avaro, Gabriel Amselem, Charles N. Baroud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17402
arXiv:2605.17402v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The elasticity of PDMS has played a central role in advancing important microfluidic technologies, ranging from early valves to sophisticated organ-on-a-chip systems. However, most deformable microfluidic devices are based on geometries that require complex multi-layer PDMS architectures and include thin membranes, leading to difficult microfabrication and poor stability. Recently, Jain, Belkadi et al. (Biofabrication 16.3 (2024): 035010) introduced a single-layer device in which a wide and long microfluidic channel was deformed by controlling the pressure in two independent and adjacent air chambers. While they demonstrated the ability to deform the channel ceiling to compress biological materials, the design parameters remain unexplored. Here, we perform a numerical study on 14,336 variants of this device and identify the height of the PDMS layer, the width of the microchannel and the width of the air chamber as the main features that determine the ceiling deformation. Three deformation modes are observed as the geometrical parameters are varied: A U shape with a central minimum, a W shape with two minima and a central maximum, or an inverse U shape with an upward-bulging single maximum. The numerical results are validated in experiments that reproduce the three shapes for the predicted geometries and demonstrate vertical ceiling deformations ranging from a few microns to the millimeter scale. The generality of this approach is demonstrated for two example applications: A fully closing single-layer microfluidic valve and an optical lens of controllable anisotropy. This work leverages the rapid prototyping enabled by 3D printing or micro-milling to open new perspectives in microfluidic actuation.
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The New Gerry Mulligan Quartet - "News From Blueport" (1959)
#NowPlaying #GerryMulligan
If you’re a nerd & considering running the Apple beta for iOS, I can say that the developer betas have been the most stable and performant betas in *years* and the new AI features in Siri are very obviously animated by Apple understanding that the stakes could not be higher. It’s pretty good stuff.
Absolutely delightful way to start your day—a life-affirming look at what's important when being creative!
#photography #DigitalCamera #MirrorlessCamera
Bah! I’m going back to Mona 6, at least for a while.
Ideally, I’d like a full-featured Masto client that’s interoperable across OSX/iOS/iPadOS, and that doesn’t charge a subscription.
Mona 6 sorta gave me that, but has quirks I didn’t like—quirks I’d hoped would be fixed in the next version. But version 7 went subscription-model, and I’ll be damned if I pay to rent features I’ve already bought outright in version 6. Fuck that. (1/2)
Anthropic announces a new Claude for Teachers initiative, as part of which it will provide K-12 teachers in the US free access to premium Claude features (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/14/anthropic-is-giving-tea…
from my link log —
Golang's features of last resort.
https://www.arp242.net/go-last-resort.html
saved 2019-11-22 https://dotat.at/:/KJP2P…
The Peeled Emulsion - Unsolicited Selfie
涂层剥落 - 不请自来的自拍
📷 Yashica 635
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
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Communist Cuba Is Leaning on Capitalists as Food and Oil Run Out (Jim Wyss/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-15/trump-s-cuba-fuel-cuts-highlight-private-market-boom-in-crumbling-economy
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p55#a260515p55
Nächste Apple Watch: Diese Features könnten kommen
Kein Hardware-Redesign, dafür aber je nach Variante neue Sensoren und mehr: Zur kommenden Apple Watch gibt es einige interessante Spekulationen.
https://www.
Versant plans to overhaul its free streaming service, dropping the "Fandango At Home" branding in favor of a streamlined "Fandango" name and adding new features (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.
"Beyond Lithium: New Battery Tech Starts to Break Through"
#Batteries #Energy
https://e360.yale.edu…
Great Mastodon improvements
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/06/mastodon-4.6/
How to learn languages for free?
This collection features lessons in 48 languages...
Amharic to Welsh
Download audio lessons to your computer or mp3 player and you’re good to go.
https://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons
Deities of the Past 🗿
过去的神衹 🗿
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High-Order ADER-DG Hydrodynamics with ExaHyPE: Implementation, Validation, and Astrophysical Benchmarking
Andr\'es Mauricio Su\'arez Mantilla, Leonardo Casta\~neda Colorado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17132 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17132 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17132
arXiv:2605.17132v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We describe a high-order ADER-DG solver for the compressible Euler equations within the ExaHyPE framework. The implementation combines a high-order ADER-DG polynomial representation, a local space-time DG predictor, adaptive mesh refinement, and an a posteriori subcell finite-volume limiter. We test the code on a deliberately mixed set of one- and two-dimensional problems: a strong-shock Sod-type problem, the Shu-Osher shock-entropy interaction, the Woodward-Colella blast wave, a contact-driven vortex sheet, and a shock-interface interaction. The one-dimensional cases recover the expected Euler wave patterns and show clear order-dependent gains in smooth and oscillatory regions. The two-dimensional cases probe a different part of the method, namely contact preservation, shear-driven roll-up, baroclinic vorticity deposition, and Richtmyer-Meshkov-type growth. In these tests the high-order update gives the expected resolution away from discontinuities, whereas the subcell limiter keeps the calculation stable near shocks and steep interfaces. The resulting code provides a reproducible ExaHyPE implementation for idealised inviscid, non-relativistic flows in which shocks, contacts, and multidimensional interfaces are the dominant features.
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The 570-megapixel #DarkEnergyCamera (DECam) has captured a vibrant scene, filled with swirls and stars reminiscent of Van Gogh’s The Starry Night: https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2617/ - this new cosmic masterpiece features glowing nebula NGC 6729 on the left and globular star cluster NGC 6723 on the right.
Google unveils Android security features, including protection from spoofed banking calls, default theft protection, and biometric protection for Mark as lost (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/android-security-features-2026-3665372/…
Quick Ways to Help Animals Used in Experiments #AnimalRights
City Silhouettes II 🏙️
城市轮廓线 II 🏙️
📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Xiamen Pan 100 (6x7), expired 1993
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Kushner Disappoints Mideast Clients Who Spent Millions Seeking Sway (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-05-14/jared-kushner-s-dual-role-trump-peace-envoy-and-6-billion-fund-manager
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p54#a260514p54
from my link log —
An overview of language features and implementation tasks that contribute towards the goal of adding dependent types to Haskell.
https://ghc.serokell.io/dh
saved 2026-07-15
A group of digital media veterans led by former Pitchfork and Spin EIC Puja Patel launch Totei, a weekly online magazine dedicated to "craft and craftsmanship" (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/05/17/2026/new-arts…
WhatsApp Plus kommt: Zusätzliche Features für Premium-Nutzer
WhatsApp führt den kostenpflichtigen Tarif „WhatsApp Plus“ ein. Zusätzliche Features ermöglichen Nutzern mehr Möglichkeiten der Personalisierung.
ht…
Civic Museums II 🏛️
民间博物馆 II 🏛️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ LUCKY SHD 400 (FF)
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A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which launched in January and currently has a market value of ~$1M, as other states explore "white labeling" the tech (David Voreacos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/…
The Substance V 🧪
某种物质 V 🧪
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Harman Switch Azure (FF)
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A look at Wyoming's Frontier Stable Token, which launched in January and currently has a market value of ~$1M, as other states explore "white labeling" the tech (David Voreacos/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/…
"Humans Are Changing How Nature Smells, With Risks for Wildlife"
#Nature #Environment
https://e360.yale.edu/features/sm…
Meta launches new AI features, including an "AI Mode" for search that uses Meta AI to surface answers pulled from public posts across the platform (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/metas-new-…
Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including on nutrition, weight lifting, and anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/technology/meta-safety-features-teenage…
"Petrushka" - Igor Stravinsky (Orch. Suisse Romande/Ansermet cond.) (1958)
#NowPlaying
Google's $99 Google Home Speaker, which is built for Gemini for Home and works as a Matter controller, will ship on June 29, nine months after it was announced (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/951147/ go
Apple announces new Apple Intelligence features for its apps, including a Notify Me feature in Safari and a Call Context feature in the Phone app (John Quintet/iPhone in Canada)
https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/2026/06/08/safari-ga…
Google announces Gemini Intelligence, a brand that bundles existing and new Gemini features, including task automation and Create My Widget (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/928724/gemini-intelligence-android-io-autofill
The Substance III 🧪
某种物质 III 🧪
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Harman Switch Azure (FF)
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A profile of Kalshi COO Luana Lopes Lara, who has overseen a tremendous pace of growth over the past year as the company faces political and regulatory backlash (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
Google launches Android 17 and Wear OS 7, first on Pixel devices, with support for the latest AI models, a bubble bar UI, and live updates on Wear OS (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/android-17-lau…
Meta expands Teen Accounts safety features to limit harmful content on Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, including on nutrition, weight lifting, and anxiety (Eli Tan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/technology/meta-safety-features-teenage…
Google says it has worked with Meta and Apple to add creator-focused video-editing tools to Android 17, expand AirDrop connectivity, and more (Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-android-17-tempts-an-iphone-user/
Meta rolls out new features for Ray-Ban Display glasses, including neural handwriting support for all users, and opens up the device to third-party developers (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/930941/meta-ray-ban-display-…
Google rebrands Fitbit Premium as Google Health Premium, adding Gemini-powered coaching and other features, and raises its annual price from $79.99 to $99.99 (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-health-premium-pri…
Coinbase's Jesse Pollak says Jordan Fish, aka "Cobie", will now lead the Base app team after acknowledging some of Base's bets on social features fell short (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/408504/coinba
An interview with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning the dating app into a "global gayborhood" hub with services for HIV treatment, hotel bookings, and more (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
China's EV makers are competing on in-car AI features; ByteDance says its Doubao AI is used in 7M cars across 145 models, including from Mercedes, Audi, and VW (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/01/china-ev-ai-fea…
Interviews with employees and insiders reveal how CXMT is amassing tech, funding, and state support to challenge top memory chipmakers and build local suppliers (Gao Yuan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20