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The science in this article is a bit too hard for me but it sounds like excellent news 🙂
"Scientists achieve ‘impossible’ solar efficiency in renewables breakthrough"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/solar-pane…

Scientists achieve ‘impossible’ solar efficiency in renewables breakthrough
‘Spin-flip’ technique promises to shatter efficiency limits

My moment of clarity in the last few weeks was coming back to “Oh right, copyright is a hack, and one that is not serving us, particularly us on the margins”
The moral rights of authorship and the way we situate our legal process of ownership are, actually, kinda at odds. And it entirely misses the idea of a commons, both as community and as a cultural base to draw from.
I've long believed that we, collectively, should own our culture — to have modern myths be Copyright 1972 LucasFilm, the traditional songs we sing Copyright 1922, now owned by Warner/Chappell Music is one of the things I find repugnant about the situation we find ourselves in.
That said, reconciling that with the behavior of the AI companies, _particularly_ the American ones? It's hard. Google abuses its monopoly position; Microsoft has forced harmful and terrible tooling on people at every turn; OpenAI is run by someone who actively despises art and does not understand it; and Anthropic is run by a guy who is trying to make sure the apocalypse has a pleasant demeanor and doesn't offend any corporations on the way. All of the above have scraped the web with no active consent — and that's largely fine, that's what putting things in common _is_, that's the beauty of the open information world we have the remnants of — but also actively evading measures people put in place to stop it and with absolutely no willingness to engage with the process. Extracting from the commons _is_ the tragedy of the commons.
It does not mean that enlarging the commons with the resulting tools is bad. The doctrine of original sin is a Christian concept I do not subscribe to. The concept of 'fruit of the poisonous tree' is a legal tool to fix power relations not a moral stance. They're worth understanding, but they are not absolute moral stances that are self-evident.
These are not harmless tools, but so too putting hard regulation and corporate, legalistic scrutiny on everything has a vastly negative impact: it is a yoke on human creativity and community to the reins of capital.
And, so too, disruption has huge costs. We are, apparently, committed to doing things the worst possible way. One can just hope that we capture the good too, because the ride has started and it's rather late to get off.

The first thing I saw on the fediverse this morning had the effect of putting a song in my head.
It's noon now and the song is still there so better just listen to it!
So here's an interesting orchestral version I never heard before
11 - Lilium - Elfen Lied - Symphony of Fate

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I keep seeing #HamRadio antennas using all sort of huge devices to create links between band segments. Alligator clips. Wago blocks. Mueller clips. Mostly with the antenna wire tied to something stiff that makes it hard to roll up neatly, rather than using flexible cord. I keep looking for and not finding examples of my approach to linking.
My solution is so simple, neat, and tidy…

I wish Tucker Carlson was less well-trained in the forensic arts.
Heard him on Vox’s “Today Explained” being extremely precise in what he said, what he evaded, and where he steered his filibusters. And I hate the fact that some of it makes partial sense. If you accept his factual premises, he makes a LOT of sense.
I am not sure that it matters whether “young white men” are deluded or not, if they’ve all been convinced that they are being oppressed. People act on their beliefs, n…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116003453964958203
OMG, YES, THANK YOU
In two sentences, a torpedo through the heart of both DHS as a racist secret police •and• AI as an accountability sink.

After fifteen months of hacking since our last post on the Hurd, we now present the 64-bit Hurd on Guix. Read all about it in this new post:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2026/the-64-bit-hurd
[Much of] This work was sponsored by NLnet -- thank you!

As tear gas engulfed the protest witnesses recalled hearing six loud bangs;
a video posted on social media recorded eight,
as well as countless smaller pops.
At least eight arcs of smoke flew far over people’s heads,
as though aimed at the back of the crowd.
“I know they would do anything,
that they would hurt people,
that they’ve murdered people and shot them in the back 10 times,”
said Cassie Broeker, a Portland resident who came to protes…

How to tear gas children
A family-friend labor march full of teachers and nurses in Portland, Oregon ended with tear gas billowing over several blocks.

The Atlantic hired ~30 WaPo reporters in the last couple of years, including four since WaPo's cuts, indicating WaPo retention issues; Atlantic has 200 staff (Michael Calderone/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journali…

Washington Post Upheaval Redraws the DC Media Map | Analysis
The Atlantic, NOTUS and City Cast nab Washington Post alums, while Politico’s new editor promises to invest “significantly and immediately.”

The Taiwanese band Sorry Youth (never heard of them before) made a collab song with Ayuni