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[Thread] A dashboard shows the past 25 years of NYT coverage, across 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, and 26K reporters; Israel-Gaza dominates international coverage (Ted Alcorn/@tedalcorn)
https://x.com/tedalcorn/status/2043760109302464583

Ted Alcorn (@TedAlcorn) on X
I built a dashboard to explore the last 25+ years of @nytimes coverage. 1.5B words, 2.2M articles, 26K reporters. It's fascinating to look at the world’s preeminent news organization not as daily stories but as patterns of attention, ebbing and flowing. https://t.co/CoE22qsBtb

Sources: Binance has fired its employees in late 2025 who uncovered evidence that Iran received $1B through Binance between March 2024 and August 2025 (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/13/binance-investigators-fired-iran-sanctions-potentia…

Exclusive: Binance fires top investigators who claim to have uncovered evidence of Iranian sanctions violations
Internal findings by the fired investigators reviewed by Fortune pointed to over $1 billion in Tether flowing through Binance to Iran-linked wallets.

When the Strait of Hormuz opens up, there will be a lot more interest in getting out of the Gulf than in sailing into it. To get the oil and gas flowing again, you'll need both, though. That will take a while.

Nice here in the fediverse.
But have you ever been to Ankh-Morpork?
City of a thousand surprises
#GNUPterry #gnuterrypratchett #GNUSirPterry

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright,
a former fracking executive,
was accused on Tuesday of manipulating global markets
after he posted a striking claim on social media:
The American Navy, he wrote, had “successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz to ensure oil remains flowing.”
The post on X was deleted minutes later,
after “oil prices slid at their steepest pace in years,” according to the Wall StreetJournal.
The White House pres…

Trump Energy Chief Accused of Manipulating Oil Markets With Deleted Post About Strait of Hormuz | Common Dreams
"The fusion of war-making and market manipulation by top Trump officials isn't entirely without precedent," said one observer, "but the speed and brazenness does seem new."

Anthropic says its run-rate revenue hit $14B, growing over 10x annually in the past three years, and Claude Code's run-rate revenue hit $2.5B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/anthropic-closes-30-billion-funding-r…

Anthropic closes $30 billion funding round as cash keeps flowing into top AI startups
After OpenAI raised the largest private tech financing round on record last year at over $40 billion, Anthropic is now second, with its $30 billion raise.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Reinartz:
🎵 Empty Time (A Flowing Out)
#Reinartz
https://reinartz.bandcamp.com/track/empty-time-leaking-skin
https://open.spotify.com/track/6VYFWxaDPnOJn6uUgoGMWu

Good Morning #Canada
Today is a twofer of #CanadaRivers as we countdown the longest rivers in Canada.
#23 is the Red River which flows for 890 km, originating at the confluence of the Bois de Sioux and Otter Tail rivers between the U.S. states of Minnesota and North Dakota, flowing northward through the Red River Valley and continuing into Manitoba. It empties into Lake Winnipeg, whose waters join the Nelson River and ultimately flow into Hudson Bay. The river only falls 70 metres over it's length, so there are no hydroelectric opportunities, but because it drains a large watershed of 287,500 km2 it experiences significant spring volumes. This has led to calamitous (love that word) floods plaguing southern Manitoba for centuries. Flood canals and ice cutting (physical removal of large blocks every spring) have mitigated the risks but not eliminated them.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Hydrology
https://www.gov.mb.ca/mti/wms/floodcontrol/redriverbasin/historic.html

Entering the wild canyon...
(May 2024, IIRC it was the same day @… happened to be there too [unknowingly to us]...)
#FootpathFriday #NaturePhotography

Sources: the US DOJ is investigating Iran's use of Binance to evade sanctions, focusing on money flowing to networks backing terror groups like Yemen's Houthis (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…

Google the price of oil, and you’ll most likely find two widely quoted prices for the commodity, one in the United States, the other in Europe.
These prices, which are constantly changing on electronic markets, suggest that although the war with Iran has made energy a lot more expensive, things are not nearly as bad as they were four years ago, after Russia invaded Ukraine.
But if you needed an actual tanker full of oil — and quickly — it would cost you dearly.
On Tuesday, …

Iran War Drives Deeper Oil Shock Than Prices Reveal
The war with Iran is preventing huge amounts of oil from flowing out of the Persian Gulf, but the prices that many people track don’t fully capture the scale of the disruption.

Why forest loss is making our watersheds leak rain #environment

Why forest loss is making our watersheds leak rain
It's a well-established fact that forests and water are deeply connected. For decades, paired-watershed experiments—a scientific method for evaluating land-use impacts on water quantity or quality—have shown that when we lose forests, the total amount of water flowing through our rivers tends to rise.

You know how you’re in the middle of a process and you refresh a web page and it loses state?
So that sucks.
With Kitten¹ – when using the new state-maintaining/class-based and event model-based component model – it’s easy to have flowing interfaces that animate between states, etc., that don’t lose state if you refresh the page (or open another tab).
What you can’t do on the Web, however, is restore the state of any cross-origin iframes. (As you have no visibility into th…

emulsification in a stunning manifestation.
#espresso #coffee

>Mom: "Your fishtank seems to be flowing slowly"
>Dad: "No, it's fine, it's not supposed to flow strongly"
>Me: *looks*
>Me: "No, mom is very much right"

How Beijing Restored its Aquifer and Reversed its Groundwater Depletion https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/how-beijing-restored-its-aquifer-and-reversed-its-groundwater-depletion/

How Beijing Restored its Aquifer and Reversed its Groundwater Depletion
While aquifers around the world are low, Beijing and Wisconsin have succeeded in restoring groundwater–and dried-up springs are flowing anew.

From Ukraine: Considering the politics of American citizens.
Those who didn't vote at all are the most despicable and unforgivable.

By not voting against Trump, they silently supported him.
When fascism and cruelty are on the ballot, voting is a moral obligation.
All of the deaths coming from Trump's cruelty, all of the blood flowing today and going forward- is blood on their hands.
People who "don't do politics" let the whole world d…

Is There A Red-Line To Non-Voters?
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

"‘The world is transitioning away from fossil fuels’: Gulf oil investors turn to African renewables"
#Africa #FossilFuels #Energy

Fossil fuel shocks strengthen Gulf investment in African renewables
Gulf oil money is flowing into African renewables – and the Iran war is only accelerating the trend.

Countries meet to press Iran to reopen strait
In a televised address Wednesday night, Trump said countries that depend on oil flowing through the Strait of Hormuz “must grab it and cherish it”
— because the U.S. would not.
No country appears willing to try and open the strait by force while fighting rages and Iran can target vessels with anti-ship missiles, drones, attack craft and mines.
French President Emmanuel Macron said opening the strait by force is “unrealist…

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I don’t think Trump is unsophisticated in the way he wields language
— far from it.
He can load up the graphic detail through vivid, dynamic verbs when he wants to,
-- such as in one of the stories of bravery he told in his State of the Union address, perhaps with the help of his speechwriters:
“He absorbed four agonizing shots, shredding his leg into numerous pieces. … And even as he was gushing blood, which was flowing back down the aisle — helicopter lands at a s…

Opinion | What Trump Is Doing to the English Language
There is a morality to verbs, especially in political speech.

Made new test prints on some off-cuts, using a slightly stronger developer solution than usual to see impact on max. depth. The main image (Eagle Creek, Oregon) is using 18% sodium acetate (curve corrected negative), the test strips are of 20% and 15% solutions (both uncorrected). The phone capture doesn't really show the differences too well, but I think I will go for the 18-20% from now on...
(Btw. The original image is here:

March 2024:
As rains continue to fill local lakes and reservoirs,
onlookers are eagerly anticipating seeing the water of Napa County’s Lake Berryessa overflow into its funnel-like spillway, dubbed
“the Glory Hole,”
which channels water 200 feet straight down near Monticello Dam and into Putah Creek on the other side.
During these overflows, the water flowing into the hole looks like the drain of a giant bathtub, or a wormhole to another dimension.
For those…

How Lake Berryessa’s ‘Glory Hole’ works and how it got its name
This story was originally published in March 2024As rains continue to fill local lakes and reservoirs, onlookers are eagerly anticipating seeing the water of Napa County’s Lake Berryessa overflow into its funnel-like spillway, dubbed…

Founders are increasingly leasing multimillion-dollar mansions in San Francisco's wealthy neighborhoods as corporate HQs and hacker houses, amid the AI boom (The San Francisco Standard)
https://sfstandard.com/2026/03/17/move-garages-startups-now-hatc…

In SF’s newest gold rush, startups are competing for mansions
With VC money flowing, the new trend across San Francisco is leasing multimillion-dollar hacker houses.

Just returned from a short walk and experiencing our first snow melt around the new neighbourhood. At our house inspection last April the 2 sump pumps in the basement were running constantly due to a heavy rain outside. The ditches were full of fast flowing water and since we were so close to the lake I asked our agent to check into any flooding problems. We were told that there were no issues at our end of the small community but a little further south was designated a flood zone. Our new neighbours confirmed that there has been no flooding on our street in 30 years.
These photos were taken 2 streets south of us, perhaps a metre difference in elevation. Town of Innisfil crews were out blocking streets with cones and keeping culverts free of ice and debris. I now understand why almost no houses/cottages in this area have basements.
#Spring2026

With a stroke of his pen, Trump made the oil flow on behalf of Sable Offshore 
— oil that hadn’t flowed for 10 years.
It began flowing from underwater oil wells located seven miles out to sea.
It flowed up to what used to be Exxon’s massive industrial plant along the Gaviota Coast.
And, ultimately, it flowed into two old pipelines that caused the 2015 massive oil disaster,
-- pipelines so corroded that Sable had to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to patc…

Why Trump’s Order to Restart Oil Production Along Santa Barbara’s Coast May Not Be the Final Word
History shows that in California, the battle over Sable Offshore is still ongoing.

Group of four at Fairy Festival
#photo #photography #portrait #groupportrait

Good Morning #Canada
#20 on our countdown of #CanadaRivers is the Back River, which flows for 974km across NWT and Nunavut. It drains an area of 106,500 km2, flowing from Contwoyto Lake north of Great Slave Lake, NWT, northeast across the Barren Lands of Nunavut to Chantrey Inlet in the Arctic. The river is named for Sir George Back, who first explored it in 1834. The original name was Thlew-ee-choh, likely Dogrib for "great fish river." It has a vertical drop of just over 380m over it's length with 83 rapids challenging serious canoists and kayakers. The British film, Beacon Six, was televised by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, showing the rugged landscape during a 1962 canoe expedition.
From 1963–1965, anthropologist Jean Briggs did field research with the Utkusiksalinmiut Inuit living at the opening of Back River and Chantrey Inlet, resulting in her work Never in Anger, as well as helping to compile an Utkuhiksalik dictionary.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Adventure
https://community.nrs.com/duct-tape/2014/10/17/35-days-arctic-canoeing-back-river/

#13 is a lucky number for me as I wore it on my hockey jersey for 20 years of unremarkable performance in industrial and adult leagues and didn't die. And that brings us to #13 on our countdown of #CanadaRivers.
The Ottawa River begins at Lac des Outaouais, north of the Laurentian Mountains of central Quebec, flowing west to Lake Timiskaming. From there its route has been used to define the interprovincial border between Quebec and Ontario. The 1,271 km river has a watershed of 146,300 km2, ultimately draining into the St. Lawrence River. It served as a major trade route for Indigenous people and Ottawa means "to trade" in Algonquin. The river, it's surrounding forests and Indigenous people were all severely impacted by the forestry industry. Lumberjacks brought disease and over-hunted local game, logs jammed the river and dams were constructed to control water levels for moving timber. Today 50 dams, reservoir and hydroelectric, exist on the Ottawa.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Hydrology
https://leveller.ca/2015/11/ottawa-river-watershed/

Good Morning #Canada
We're now getting to the big ones... as we break into the top 10 in #CanadaRivers. The South Saskatchewan River is #10, beginning at the confluence of the Bow and Oldman Rivers in southern Alberta and ends at the Saskatchewan River Forks, the confluence of the South and North Saskatchewan Rivers which then becomes the Saskatchewan River. Flowing for 1,392 km it drains a watershed of 146,100 km2, 1,800 of which are in Montana, USA.
Major dams were constructed on the river to prevent flooding, for reservoirs, irrigation, and for hydroelectric power. The South Saskatchewan provides approximately 19% of the hydro-electricity generated by SaskPower. A 2009 WWF Canada report analysed the river flow on ten Canadian rivers & found the South Saskatchewan River was most at risk. Climate change, agricultural & urban infrastructure water use, and dams producing hydroelectricity, have all combined to reduce the flow of the river by 70%.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Hydrology
https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/a-prayer-not-a-protest/

Good Morning #Canada
We're only at #11 on our ##CanadaRivers countdown but it's legendary for a number of reasons. The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for 1,375 km into the Strait of Georgia just south of the City of Vancouver. The river drains a watershed of 233,100 km2 and each year it discharges about 20 million tons of sediment into the ocean. Named for explorer Simon Fraser, the river courses through more than a half-dozen distinct geo-climactic zones, North America’s most diverse indigenous landscape and the essence of B.C. history.
It's a relatively young river, at just over 9,500 years old, and also virtually pristine through it's upper reaches because of #Salmon. The river attracts millions of spawning Salmon every year and the fishing industry fought to keep the Fraser from being dammed to protect spawning grounds.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Ecosystem
https://youtu.be/CjXgkm49DOI