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Federal lobbying disclosures: Anthropic spent $1.97M in Q2, up 26% QoQ, and OpenAI spent $1.2M, up 18%; Meta remained the largest spender at $5.99M, down 15% (Luke Fountain/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/21/openai-anthropic-ai-lobbying-spending-q2-2026.…

OpenAI, Anthropic boost lobbying as legacy tech and defense spending slips
The two AI developers spent a combined $3.17 million in the second quarter, up 23% from the first three months of 2026.

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libimseti: Libimseti.cz social network (2012)
A network of ratings given between users at Libimseti.cz, a Czech online dating website. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i rate user j, and the corresponding edge weight is the given rating, on a scale of 1-10.
This network has 220970 nodes and 17359346 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

Goodbye, Montecito.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reportedly moving to U.K.
Harry and Markle will maintain their Montecito chateau as well as their Portugal getaway pad
but will reside at a private, non-royal home in the U.K.
The couple wed in 2018 and stepped away from their senior-royal duties in 2020 to head west in an unprecedented move.
Although many were clutching their pearls over what the U.K. tabloids dubbed Megxit

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle leaving SoCal to go back to the U.K.
Six years after leaving the U.K. amid a family feud, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly relocating back to Britain ahead of the school year.

from my link log —
Double-double: 31 decimal digits of precision without leaving the FPU.
https://marekfiser.com/blog/double-double-arithmetic
saved 2026-08-20

Double-double: 31 digits of precision without leaving the FPU
If you ever need more precision than what 15 decimal digits of the double format can offer, there is a neat trick: glue two doubles together and treat them as one number. This gives you ~31 decimal digits for roughly 9x the cost of a plain double in a real kernel (4-12x per isolated operation). With no heap allocation and no dependencies, this puts it almost exactly halfway between a double and an arbitrary-precision library perf-wise. This post explains the error-free transformations that make…

El Niño set to be 'strongest in living memory', says Met Office
https://www.bbc.com/weather/articles/c3ekg93vjz9o
Quick! Let’s build more data centres! The billionaires will save us! Oh, and let’s drop more bombs on Brown people. That might help too.

El Niño set to be 'strongest in living memory', says Met Office
Scientists say the growing El Niño weather pattern is an "unprecedented event" and means 2027 is likely to be the world's hottest year on record.

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010) - Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon -

Super-Insulating Our Living Room (2010)
Learn how we retrofitted interior wall insulation for winter warmth and summer cool, and trimmed our carbon footprint. #aerogel #frugal #cutCarbon

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#Klimafolgen im Alltag: #Lebensmittel werden durch #Extremwetter teurer.

Klimafolgen im Alltag: Diese Lebensmittel werden durch Extremwetter teurer
Spürst Du’s auch im Portemonnaie? Der Klimawandel lässt Lebensmittel teurer werden – hier liest Du, warum das so ist.

libimseti: Libimseti.cz social network (2012)
A network of ratings given between users at Libimseti.cz, a Czech online dating website. A directed edge (i,j) means that user i rate user j, and the corresponding edge weight is the given rating, on a scale of 1-10.
This network has 220970 nodes and 17359346 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Weighted

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
#Klimafolgen im Alltag: #Lebensmittel werden durch #Extremwetter teurer.

Klimafolgen im Alltag: Diese Lebensmittel werden durch Extremwetter teurer
Spürst Du’s auch im Portemonnaie? Der Klimawandel lässt Lebensmittel teurer werden – hier liest Du, warum das so ist.