2026-02-15 16:13:03
A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided
https://skywriter.blue/@coreyspowell.bsky.social/3meoshhxwic2u
A huge impact 4.3 billion years ago partially melted the Moon's mantle & made it lopsided
https://skywriter.blue/@coreyspowell.bsky.social/3meoshhxwic2u
China’s Edge in an Oil Shock: Electric Cars and Renewables.
Beijing’s decades-long push to reduce its dependence on foreign oil with huge investments in clean energy sources like electric vehicles is now paying off. https://www.nytimes.com/20…
David Cronenberg, master of body horror movies, was born today (March 15) in 1943 (during World War II!)
I saw his films 'Crash' and 'Naked Lunch' early, around the same time, in 1997 or 1998. Since then, I've seen many more of his- I just counted, I've seen 13 of his 23 films, and I've loved all of them. I'm a huge fan. My favorite was Shivers for a while. I'm not sure what it is now. Gotta see those final 10!
Happy birthday, David. We love …
Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra review: Privacy Display works well, meaningful camera upgrades, and sleeker than S25 Ultra, but still huge, expensive, and lacks Qi2 (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/893936/samsung-galaxy-s26-ultra-review-show-of…
"AI needs a lot of code."
No. It needs a lot of data and compute. But the amount of code required is comparatively small and comparatively simple.
People think of "AI" as these huge and complex IT systems when the coding part is mostly 200 Lines of Python.
from my link log —
Towards fearless macros.
https://lambdaland.org/posts/2023-10-17_fearless_macros/
saved 2026-02-15 https://
If I were looking for evidence of extraterrestrial visitation & influence on humans I’d focus on the Eurasian steppes where the indo-European languages and domestication of the horse originated. Two phenomena that had huge ramifications for the world we live in now, and the people living there at that time just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Where else in our prehistory have there been similar focal points with such far-reaching consequences?
As usual, I just look at somewhere in ngscopeclient and more massive speedups fall out.
Today it's the AC couple filter (10x speedup), average (5.6x), and base (2.4x so far from trivial block swaps, but the inner loop is still on the CPU so I expect a huge speedup once I get *that* in a shader).
I can't imagine how fast things are going to get once I have a sizeable fraction of the filter library GPU accelerated.
CBS News report on ICE officer's injuries drew 'huge internal concern' (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/15/cbs-news-ice-officer-injuries
http://www.memeorandum.com/260115/p158#a260115p158
Middle East war having 'huge impact' on EU economy: Commissioner Christophe Hansen - Talking Europe - France 24
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20260313-middle-east-war-having-huge-impact-on-eu-economy-commissioner-christophe-hansen
"UK industry could unlock major energy savings through heat reuse, says new report"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Energy
Den of Angels is a forum dedicated to the appreciation of resin ball-jointed dolls and the artisans who make them, started in May 2002 as a Yahoo! Group
https://denofangels.com/
Microsoft has been rejecting email from independent servers for weeks now. The "rate-limit" mentioned in this article makes it sound like it's an issue with huge amounts of mail, but it's likely triggered by dozens over days.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/use
Sources: Sony is considering pushing back the debut of its next PlayStation console to 2028 or even 2029, as the AI boom fuels huge memory chip demand (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-15/rampant-ai-de…
Dallas Cowboys Have Huge Opportunity For NFL Offseason Trade Activity https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-have-huge-opportunity-nfl-offseason-trade-activity
Insider Drops Huge Raiders News for Defensive Coordinator Role https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insiders-drops-news-defensive-coordinator-role/
The cause of my outage appears to be a hydroelectric failure. PG&E's penstock failed sending a huge flood down the river and stopping the generation at the Colgate Powerhouse. Yet more PG&E infrastructure maintenance failure. At least this time they didn't kill anyone.
Personal Details of Thousands of Border Patrol and ICE Goons Allegedly Leaked in Huge Data Breach (Tom Latchem/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/personal-details-of-thousands-of-border-patrol-and-ice-goons-allegedly-leaked-in-huge-data-breach/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260113/p101#a260113p101
The US used to be really dirty: Environmental cleanup laws have made a huge difference #UnitedStates
Nscale acquires American Intelligence & Power, which owns a 2,250-acre data center campus in West Virginia, where it plans to build up to 8GW of compute by 2031 (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
The existence of Israel is a manifestation of European antisemitism, both historically justifying the project of Zionism and European governments continuing to fund Israel instead of addressing the core role of antisemitism in maintaining (at least) the conservative elements of the neoliberal order.
If antisemitism props up Israel, then a core part of dismantling Israel (and thus saving the lives of Palestinians) is addressing European antisemitism. There are Israeli Jews who would leave if they felt safe to do so. There are Jews demanding Israel be armed, because they don't feel safe anywhere else.
Protest, boycott, take whatever action you feel is appropriate. There is a limit to your ability to convince governments to stop funding genocide, but you can learn about antisemitism and you can work to fight it, especially within "The Left." You can learn to distinguish between legitimate critiques of Israel, and antisemitic ones, and you can stand and call out antisemitic ones.
Honestly, this is some of the easy work that I think a lot of people don't consider even doing, don't even realize it is a thing that can be done.
I'm talking to Israeli folks who identify as being on the Left. It's hard because they've been through a lot of propaganda. Israel is a cult that terrorizes its members. This is important work that can have a huge impact, because it focuses on dismantling the networks of support that reinforce what's happening now.
Meanwhile, I still run into wild things like "Rothschild" conspiracy theories among people who identify with the idea of supporting Palestinians.
Not only can you support the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinian people while opposing antisemitism, but you must actually do both in order to do either. They are exactly the same fight, and anything short of both is thrashing against oneself.
Saw a VW Golf with "Volkswagan" in huge letters across the top of the windshield. No proofreading, we ball!
For around 10 years I've been playing around trying to get GraphViz built for iOS. Admittingly I've not spent huge amounts of time on it but have never quite got it working properly. Have also tried over the last couple of years on and off with various LLMs to see how they would fare also without success.
Had another go this today with Claude Code - and got it working quite nicely! Took a few iterations to get things built properly but have a nice build script and understandab…
I have finally figured out a way to cope with CJK scripts at work, and I've made _huge_ progress on a largely untested codebase
So of course the PMs are super change averse
"Look, I have been doing character encoding fixes since literally 2001"
"can you trust that the tests that I added are the right things"
"you do realize that the current system *doesn't work*, right?"
And each of them gets a "oh I don't know, so…
Oh no. And this follows a huge fire at the Matanzas refinery last year.
Sabotage? It wouldn't be the first time.
Fire at Havana oil refinery as Cuba’s fuel crisis deepens | Humanitarian Crises News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/new…
‘A whole lost culture’: the Irishman reviving the forgotten sport of stone lifting
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/14/stone-lifting-sport-irish-culture-indiana-stones
Former LB Sean Lee says Cowboys will have a huge year in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/former-lb-sean-lee-says-cowboys-will-have-a-huge-year-in-2026
It seems likely that a bright #fireball on the morning of the 12th dropped #meteorites in #Bavaria, says the Czech analysis https://meteor.asu.cas.cz/cz/post/bolid_2026_02_12/ based on data from special cameras: the body came in slowly and at a very shallow angle, so the potential strewnfield is huge and thus a systematic search not viable, and one can only hope for discoveries by chance.
Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year.
What is stopping us from doing it?
A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage,
protect 140,000 people from flooding,
and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every year
good grief, gnuplot is always a huge battle
here's a graph of the length of day (green, microseconds)
and UT1-UTC (purple, milliseconds)
from 1973 until today
the LoD is the difference from 24h, averaged over the previous 12 months - the LoD is _very_ noisy so it's hard to see the trends from a shorter averaging period
UT1-UTC is the integral of the LoD, with leap seconds to keep it in bounds
things have been a bit weird since 2020 because the LoD …
Insider Expects Raiders to Take Big Swing on 30-Year-Old Head Coach https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/head-coach-rumors-davis-webb-broncos/
Website that leaked thousands of ICE agents’ personal information is down after huge ‘Russian cyberattack,’ founder says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ice-information-leak-website-down-russia-cyberattack-b2900713.html
Would anyone else just watch the everliving hell out of a movie about the Choctaw vampire hunters in Sinners?
Aaaaand I have just, in checking my spelling, discovered that there is a HUGE number of people who feel the same.
I'm seeing hangs in 'meld' at the moment with a couple of (large but not huge) log files; hmm - just 100% in the python.
Switched to kdiff3 for the moment.
And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)
Cowboys Urged to Pull Off Shocking Trade With Giants for Kayvon Thibodeaux https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-urged-trade-giants-superstar-kayvon-thibodeaux
oh, Seedance 2 is another huge step forward in video generation. wow. https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1r0wr5l/seedance_2_anime_fight_scenes_pokemon_demon/
@… @… you know what else is huge and will fuck you up for the stupidest reasons?
Ex wives.
Windows 11 finally has a real sudo command (since 24H2) 🚀
Run admin commands directly in the terminal without reopening PowerShell as Administrator. Small change — huge productivity boost.
#Windows11 #DevTools
While I'm talking about new ways to structure computer programs, what does it look like to _push_ data into an LLM? Instead of making it natural language fetching, with huge privilege to do stuff, can we structure things to, say, have one system supply some data context, and push it into an LLM to arrange processing, and that in turn pushes to other systems for action? It's not quite “code and data are separate", but I think the inversion might help mitigate a lot of the lethal trifecta. It also puts humans in the artisan-director seat, rather than the wannabe slave-master's seat, metaphorically.
50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band in berkeley, with an opening set by the rowan brothers. not absolutely certain peter rowan was playing was his bros. at this point, but still a huge bummer to me that he & garcia never performed together again after ’74, despite sharing several bills. now “garcialive vol. 12”:
My new business cards finally came in the mail!
#photo #photography #foxwork #fox
Huge Oil Drilling Plan Threatens Alabama’s Conecuh National Forest https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/huge-oil-drilling-plan-threatens-alabamas-conecuh-national-forest-2026-02-02/
<…Joseph P. Sweatpants 😉 writes:
Ok Machineheads! I hope it's ok to call ourselves that!?! Maybe "loose screws" is better??? Haha. Hey all you Loose Screws, the first This Machine was a huge success!! The New Deal Cafe wants us back!! Basically, we're going to roll every two months. The next This Machine open mic for works of political protest will be Sunday, April 12, sign-ups 1230p, music 1-4p. Watch the news, work on your songs, poems, jokes, etc.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@joyousjoyness/116205809101599721
You will never convince me that the tail-biting horse wasn’t having a huge laugh there.
If we ever get our world back on track, I feel sure that we’ll someday figure out that horses …
AWS signs a two-year supply deal with Rio Tinto to access its Arizona copper mine, the US' first new source in 10 years, as AI data centers create huge demand (Ryan Dezember/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
Harley caught a huge squirrel! My wife saw it at HomeSense and apparently it spoke to her.
#DogsOfMastadon #Squirrel
ICE Detention Centers Face Huge Backlash—Before They’ve Even Been Built https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ice-detention-centers-face-huge-backlash-before-even-built
Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-repeal-landmark-climate-finding-in-huge-regulatory-rollback-ff7d58db?st=7FhEac
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p30#a260210p30
Some _very_ early algorithm concept/pre-viz sketches/explorations for the Tron Legacy (2010) intro sequence. They informed another concept/approach in which we applied a similar algorithm to progressively trace out edges of an initially invisible and super detailed 3D city mesh. This required a lot of effort to retopologize the (huge) geometry supplied and creating a multi-res navigation graph to prioritize long/major edges over shorter ones, filter out undesired edges/directions, thereby cr…
After so many years being a front-end dev, I got to say that huge bulk of the work is just upgrading dependencies. It never ends.
NFL wild-card odds, spreads: Rams huge favorites; Packers-Bears and Bills-Jaguars nearly even https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6942325/2026/01/05/nfl-wild-card-week-odds-rams-packers-bears/
Cowboys Headlines: Gary took pay cut; Dallas pulls interest in polarizing LB https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/03/17/news-headlines-march-16-2026-rashan-gary-pa…
I should have bought that mini PC earlier last year. Unfortunately there were a number of must-do projects and should do projects that popped up that sucked up a huge amount out of our bank account.
Must do
- Furnace & AC - End of life. Went with a good heat pump with a furnace backup to handle those cold days.
- Hot water tank - end of life and Insurance wouldn't pay for repairs if it flooded the basement. The new tank is much more energy efficient.
- Ga…
End of chapter 1.
Since first moment I spoke with Desther I felt a strange feeling. Something didn't go right with him.
PD: I did all henchmen tales too. That guys gave a good rewards.
Chapter 2 here I go.
#neverwinter_nights #videogames
Spend the day talking to workers council members about "AI". And it's kinda wild hearing their stories from the wild: Management is 100% in fantasy "AI" can do everything land and makes huge plans for how to use "AI" to cut workers when real projects that supposedly can do 50% of a specific task end up being able to do 8%. And they still go live. It's fucking bonkers. CEO's are really not okay.
The final trailer for #ProjectHailMary is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0XN3-n-2Lo. And a few have seen parts of the actual movie, some 30 minutes of it: https://gizmodo.com/we-saw-a-huge-chunk-of-project-hail-mary-and-expectations-couldnt-be-higher-2000718974
A preview of Nvidia's 2026 GTC, which kicks off on March 16, where the company is expected to unveil new agentic-optimized CPUs, a CPU-only rack, and more (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/13/nvidia-gtc-ai-jensen-huang-cpu-gpu.html
…
China could emerge a winner from Trump’s global energy shock
The disruption caused by the war on Iran may reveal that years China spent preparing for a global energy crisis have left the country and its economy better positioned than most to endure a long-term hike in the cost of oil and gas.
Through massive stockpiles of crude oil,
an aggressive push into electric vehicles
and huge investments into coal, renewable power and battery storage,
Beijing has worked …
"US is establishing a naval base at Ushuaia, south Argentina
"Approved by US/Israel client Javier Milei while Biden was in White House
"Will cement US dominance of South Atlantic and Antarctic
"US client regime in London already has huge airbase on nearby Malvinas (Falklands)"
https://
Sean Lee: Cowboys are 'going to bounce back and have a huge year' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/sean-lee-cowboys-are-going-to-bounce-back-and-have-a-huge-year
Raiders RB Ashton Jeanty Gifts Veteran with Huge Surprise https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-gifts-veteran-with-huge-surprise
"Fossil fuel pollution’s effect on oceans comes with huge costs"
#FossilFuels #Oceans #Environment
Sean Lee: Cowboys are 'going to bounce back and have a huge year' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/sean-lee-cowboys-are-going-to-bounce-back-and-have-a-huge-year
Raiders add DE Kwity Paye as their huge first day of free agency continues https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-add-de-kwity-paye-as-their-huge-first-day-of-free-agency-continues-3717126/
Salesforce makes Slack's new AI-powered Slackbot generally available, helping users answer workflow questions, draft documents, schedule meetings, and more (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/slackbot-ai-agent-upgrade/
104 year old Eddy Goldfarb has invented over 800 iconic toys- some of my favorites, too. He made Stompers, which were HUGE for me as a kid (I still have several). He also made talking teeth, Kerplunk, just TONS of stuff.
Cool piece via Moss and Fog (the embedded YouTube video here is a cool watch, also): https://
There is never a shortage of cybersecurity news, even on the weekends, so check out today's Metacurity for the most critical developments you might have missed, including
--Russian hackers target Signal and WhatsApp accounts of officials, journalists, and military,
--DPRK hackers use AI to accelerate and expand their schemes,
--Trump promotes offensive operations in cyber strategy and issues cybercrime EO,
--DHS and Secret Service seek real-time access to travel re…
from my link log —
Rust's huge compilation units.
https://pingcap.com/blog/Rust-s-Huge-Compilation-Units
saved 2020-06-23 https://
Tailings dams
– repositories of mining waste that is often toxic and stored under water
– litter landscapes around the world.
Often, they hold huge quantities of poisonous, harmful material .
While tailings dams are theoretically built to last for ever, more extreme weather driven by the climate crisis has changed the risk profile of many structures.
Flooding, intense rainfall and other weather extremes mean that many of them are more unstable, according to ex…
Wild-card round: Rams huge favorites; Packers, Bills, Texans road favorites https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/47499366/2025-nfl-playoffs-wild-card-round-schedule-betting-odds-lines-point-spreads-pr…
'Insane This Is Legal': Bettors Make Huge Profits From Suspiciously Timed Wagers on Iran War | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/insane-this-is-legal-bettors-make-huge-profits-from-suspiciously-timed-wagers-on-iran-war
The Japanese Love Their Prime Minister. This Is Huge (Quico Toro/Persuasion)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-japanese-love-their-prime-minister
http://www.memeorandum.com/260212/p118#a260212p118
Human rights groups hail ‘huge victory’ as six Filton 24 defendants acquitted
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/human-rights-groups-hail-huge-victory-six-filton-24-defendants-acquitted
AND, as a re…
A hospital in the western Polish city of Szczecin has been forced back to a ‘paper-based’ system following a huge cyberattack that has blocked access to the medical facility’s IT system
https://tvpworld.com/91986106/hospital-in-western-poland-hit-by-cyberattack
Raiders Defense Will Play a Huge Role in 2026 https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-klint-kubiak-must-answer-serious-questions-this-side-of-ball
New Cowboys Mock Draft Has Dallas Pulling Off Massive Trade for Top EDGE https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/new-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-massive-trade-top-edge
MAHA allies eye 'huge escalation' in war on vaccines despite a 'rattled' White House - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-vaccines-2675943398/
Javonte Williams re-signing with Cowboys is 'huge', Dak says https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/javonte-williams-re-signing-with-cowboys-is-huge-dak-says
New polling suggests, in the wake of Donald Trump firing former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi #Noem from her position, that a plurality of voters would like to see the firings of numerous other Trump administration officials.
The latest Economist/YouGov poll published on Tuesday found huge support for Noem’s firing.
Just 15 percent said they disapproved of Noem being remov…
Pride in America 'fallen through floor' as Trump's Olympic fury reveals huge swing: CNN (Travis Gettys/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/young-americans-pride-in-country/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260210/p53#a260210p53
Maxx Crosby Reportedly Traded to Ravens for Huge Haul, Including 2026 First-Round Pick https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/maxx-crosby-reportedly-traded-ravens-huge-haul-including-2026-first-round-pick
Javonte Williams re-signing with Cowboys is 'huge', Dak says https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/javonte-williams-re-signing-with-cowboys-is-huge-dak-says
"The annual Ig Nobel Prizes, renowned for celebrating scientific achievements that first make people laugh and then think, are relocating their ceremony from the United States to Europe for the first time"
Concerns over US travel visas sees huge event moved to Europe for first time in 35 years | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-visas-ig-nobel-prizes-europe-trump-b2935119.html
Maxx Crosby Trade Speculation Ignites Huge Claim for Raiders https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/maxx-crosby-trade-speculation-huge-claim/
Bettors on the prediction platform #Polymarket made a killing with suspiciously timed wagers that the United States would attack Iran by February 28
-- the day Donald Trump announced a bombing campaign against the Middle East nation.
Bloomberg reported that six accounts on Polymarket
-- all newly created this month
-- “made around $1 million in profit” by betting on the timing of th…
Broncos make huge Davis Webb OC decision after Raiders head coach news https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/denver-broncos/news/broncos-huge-davis-webb-oc-decision-raiders-head-coach-news/7bc04f74d7d9b4f670…
The methane menace
Oil executives weighing a potential investment in #Venezuela’s fields may want to check out the view from space.
Satellites have detected enormous amounts of #methane billowing from the country’s abandoned oil rigs,
rusty pipelines and other dilapidated energy infrastructure.
…
How the huge data center buildout is heating up local politics in US towns across red and blue states on issues like water, electricity, and noise (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/06/da…
Insider Drops Huge Prediction About Raiders Head Coach Search https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/insider-drops-prediction-head-coach-search/
Cowboys' George Pickens announcement shows Dallas is poised to make huge mistake https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-george-pickens-announcement-dallas-poised-huge-mistak…