Light Streaks — generative photography
A small selection of long-exposures of randomly generated IFS (aka Iterated Function Systems), a family of very oldskool primitive/trivial fractal functions, but which can produce a fairly wide variety of outcomes. Each image is the result of billions of iterations of a single particle being iteratively transformed (meaning the particle's current position is used as the input for computing its next position etc.) For each iteration & posit…
Millardendeal: Mastercard übernimmt das Stablecoin-Start-up BVNK
Mit der 1,8 Milliarden US-Dollar schweren Übernahme baut Mastercard seine Position im Bereich blockchainbasierter Zahlungsabwicklungen aus.
h…
Das SPD-Papier zum #SocialMediaVerbot ist ein interessanter Schachzug: Es ist ja keine Position von Partei oder Fraktion, sondern ein 'Impulspapier' von einigen SPD-Politiker*innen. Die damit den Eindruck geschaffen haben, dies sei *die* Position der SPD.
Es ist ja nicht mal irgendwo auf einer SPD-Website veröffentlicht (oder gut versteckt), vermutlich deswegen.
Wär…
Commissioner Dan JŸrgensen: The EU is in a better position than in 2022, but the scale of the current shock to global oil and gas supplies is greater. Warns against lowering taxes on oil and gas, since that risks keeping demand high, putting pressure on supplies. https://www.…
Donald Trump has criticized the Supreme Court, accusing it of having
"unnecessarily RANSACKED" the United States.
The court
—which has a 6-3 conservative majority, including three justices Trump appointed during his first term
—struck down the president's global tariffs in a 6-3 vote in February.
In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday,
Trump thanked the three justices who sided with him in the case,
but said others
top, so ein "Diplomaten-Auto" mit CC Aufkleber. Damit kann man dann auch ungestraft tagelang in diesem Fußgänger-Übergang parken - für die maximale Behinderung natürlich auch quer!
Von der Position her konnte es sich um den Honorarkonsul von #Kosovo handeln, dessen Büro ist dort nur wenige Meter entfernt.
Und das Ordnungsamt der lokalen Stadtverwaltung? Schaut einfach nur…
New UK #fusion strategy just landed; it's actually got time scales upto the start of the west burton build slated for 2030 but with each stage of what's needed upto then (detail in appendix C):
https://www.
Degrowth and socialist comrades, what should we be doing?
Ted Trainer* This is an attempt to clarify this discussion of degrowth strategy, a topic on which I think there is considerable confusion and mistaken approaches. Debate has recently been fuelled by Jason Hickel’s argument for a socialist position on both the goal and the means do it for degrowth. Liegey, Nelson and Leahy replied against Jason, defending the wide and diverse range of strategies now…
What does creating a visitor experience department look like? We promoted Adam Clark, formerly our Museum Shop manager, to manager of visitor experience in February, and he's brought his understanding of retail management to this new position.
Clark said, “What we need is somebody that can look through the eyes of a visitor and identify micro anxiety points, like pinch points, identify any issues they might run into and try to fix them.”
The Pope is in a unique theological position where he represents the word of God and his actions on earth (to Catholics at least).
Excommunicating Catholics within the Trump administration would send a very very very strong message.
It would also strip any perceived religion-washing these ghouls hide behind.
EU-Gerichtshof macht Weg frei für Glücksspiel-Erstattungen
Glücklose Spielerinnen und Spieler können auf Rückzahlungen hoffen: Der EuGH stärkt ihre Position gegenüber Online-Anbietern ohne Erlaubnis.
https://ww…
America’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
staked his political career on the false belief that vaccines cause autism,
and has used his power to force federal agencies to support his bonkers position:
The CDC’s website now says,
“Studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism."
Thanks to Kennedy and others, measles outbreaks are happening all over the country after the disease was declared officially eliminated in th…
Das solarbetriebene #Stratosphärenluftschiff #HAPSSE2 von Sceye hat bei einem Testflug über 10.300 Kilometer in zwölf Tagen zurückgelegt.
In rund 20 Kilometern Höhe hielt es mehrfach über Stunden seine Position und versorgte sich über
Application of RFSoC Technology for Beam Position Monitors at the SuperKEKB Storage Rings Injection Points
B. Urbschat, G. Mitsuka, L. Ruckman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14870 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.14870 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.14870
arXiv:2602.14870v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In order to achieve its ambitious luminosity target, the SuperKEKB collider must achieve and sustain high beam currents on the order of Ampere in its storage rings. This requires continuous top-up injection and operation with a two-bunch injection scheme, injecting two 96 ns spaced bunches in a single injection cycle. An important input for tuning the injection beam is the position reading from a dedicated beam position monitor (BPM), located after the septum magnets, slightly upstream of where the injected and stored beams converge. Previously, the readout electronics used for these special BPMs were not capable of independent measurement of both bunches in the two-bunch injection mode and modification of the concerned devices and their firmware was not feasible. The opportunity was taken to develop a new readout device based on the AMD/Xilinx RF System on a Chip (RFSoC) platform with the goal of not only providing a sufficiently flexible and performant readout solution for the concerned BPMs, but also to evaluate and gain experience with the platform for beam monitor electronics applications. This paper is concerned with the details of this development as well as evaluation and operation of the developed device.
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Trump has sent letters of invitation to various heads of government to join a new "Board of Peace",
which he will chair.
The organization was envisioned as part of the United Nations–backed effort for the reconstruction and transitional governance of Gaza.
But the new board’s charter, details of which have not been previously reported, appears to give the board a global remit, according to a copy we reviewed.
And the price of a permanent position on the…
Zelenskyy: For the first time in the war, an enemy position was captured entirely by ground robotic systems and drones - without any infantry. A robot entered the most dangerous zones instead of a soldier and took the position : r/ukraine
https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1skw0g4/zelenskyy_for_the_first_time_in_the_war_an_enemy/?solution=a283f9de501e3303a283f9de501e3303&js_challenge=1&token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da586130bbfbdc71f7972c321b087101f9e351
It is not an extreme position to want to be able to think for yourself, to write by just typing words in, to learn things from other people or to make art with your hands.
> "Wenn die SPD wieder beliebter werden will, muss sie Politik für Menschen machen, ..."
Fordert Lars #Klingbeil nicht genau das bereits seit vielen Jahren nach jeder verlorenen Wahl?
Und in welcher Position ist Lars #Klingbeil gleich nochmal?
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Wow. The UMich president’s job is cursed. Last one left to take a job that didn’t end up hiring him, his replacement has a brain tumor that will prevent his taking the position.
> Google calls the illicit activity "model extraction" and considers it intellectual property theft, which is a somewhat loaded position, given that Google's LLM was built from materials scraped from the Internet without permission.
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@… @… scroll position for freeeeeee as long as bfcache is in play weeeeee https://we…
Billionaire mayor who's presiding over massive cuts to public health, street safety, transit, food aid, and public schools in the midst of an AI boom opposes more city revenue.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/sf-lurie-position-business-tax-chart…
Die deutsche Politik liebt die „Mitte“.
Nur leider geht diese Mitte offenbar gelegentlich spazieren – gern ein paar Schritte nach rechts.
@… stellt trocken fest: Seine Position hat sich gar nicht verändert. Der Maßstab schon. Und plötzlich gilt man als jemand, der „nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank hat“.
The top US counter-terrorism official resigns over US-Israeli war on Iran
Joseph Kent, the head of the US national counter-terrorism center, has resigned over the US-Israel war on Iran.
He said in a letter to Donald Trump posted on X that
“Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation”.
Kent, a former Green Beret and CIA operative,
was confirmed to his position in July last year.
His nomination was criticized for Kent’s proximity to white nationalist activist…
Job interview.
Karen: “what do you mean you’re a queer?”
Lawyer: "How would you like to own that business?"
Source: https://www.threads.com/@attorneyryan/post/DVvDsaiFe45
AI Overviews drücken die organische CTR auf Position 1 um bis zu 30 %. 📉Aber nicht überall. Transaktionale Queries (kaufen, Preis, Shop) sind kaum betroffen. Dort zeigt Google weiterhin Produkte und Anzeigen.
Getroffen werden vor allem informationale Keywords: How-to, Definitionen, Vergleiche. Genau die Themen, auf denen viele Content-Strategien aufbauen.
Wer noch "10 Tipps für XYZ" schreibt, verliert Traffic an die Maschine.
Ich kann mich noch im Wahlkampf rundum Baden-Württemberg erinnern wie die Position der Grünen war das unbedingt aus taktischen Gründen sie gewählt werden müssen und nicht Die Linke, auch wenn das knapp bedeuten würde das letzteres keine Fraktion bekommt, weil den Ministerpräsidenten zu stellen so wichtig ist. Die Linke sei eine vergeudete Stimme, auch wenn dessen Einziehen mehrere Mandate und Millionen Euro der AfD entziehen würde.
Nun haben wir den Wahlkampf in Sachsen-Anhal…
It will be interesting to see how many concessions Trump will make. Because it is clear Trump really doesn't want to restart the war against Iran. It must be a great negotiating position for Iran.
#iran #usa #war
With a historic supermajority now secured, the Japanese
Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) under Sanae Takaichi stands at its strongest position in decades.
The collapse of the Centrist Reform Alliance (CRA) in the same election has left Japan’s political landscape without its most prominent counterweight.
The question now is simple: what is left of Japan’s opposition?
Running under the slogan “Citizens First,” the CRA tried to appeal to voters with middle-ground messagi…
Apple throwing some time into bugs today…
• 240961: `position: relative` doesn't work as expected on table row, 26 May 2022, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240961
• 305719: REGRESSION (iOS 26): Datalist options obscure text input, 18 January 2026,
Nvidia will spend $26 billion to build open-weight AI models, filings show https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/ "The move could position the AI infrastructure powerhouse to quickly compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, an…
Nvidia debuts Nemotron 3 Super, a 120B-parameter hybrid MoE open-weight model; filing: Nvidia plans to spend $26B over the next five years to build open models (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/nvidia-investing-26-billion-open-source-models/…
When the Sun was born 4.6 billion years ago, the star was located more than 10,000 light-years closer to the center of the Milky Way from its current position.
Scientists know this based on the Sun’s composition of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium,
which is more consistent with the metals found within the inner regions of the galaxy.
The missing piece of the puzzle, however, was how the Sun managed to get past the Milky Way’s central bar
—a dense region that …
Reviewing applications for career funding is already hard, because you know the applicants’ situation all too well, and you’d like to reward their hard work.
But people really need to understand the goals of these programs! They’re intended to help you obtain a permanent position, not to simply continue what you’ve been doing, or to become even more specialized and to thus effectively reduce your chances of obtaining a permanent position.
Reviewing applications for career funding is already hard, because you know the applicants’ situation all too well, and you’d like to reward their hard work.
But people really need to understand the goals of these programs! They’re intended to help you obtain a permanent position, not to simply continue what you’ve been doing, or to become even more specialized and to thus effectively reduce your chances of obtaining a permanent position.
Reviewing applications for career funding is already hard, because you know the applicants’ situation all too well, and you’d like to reward their hard work.
But people really need to understand the goals of these programs! They’re intended to help you obtain a permanent position, not to simply continue what you’ve been doing, or to become even more specialized and to thus effectively reduce your chances of obtaining a permanent position.
NASA und Artemis-2-Crew bereiten Rückkehr zur Erde vor
Die Crew der Artemis-2 hat die Orion-Kapsel auf Kurs zur Erde gebracht. Das Bergungsschiff der US-Navy ist auf dem Pazifik unterwegs zur Position der Wasserung.
Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP-led AI bills in Nebraska and Tennessee, putting new pressure on GOP state lawmakers who support AI guardrails (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/trump-white-house-gop-states-ai-rules
80 Millionen Galaxien: Gigantischer astronomischer Katalog online einsehbar
Ein Forschungsteam hat unvollständige astronomische Kataloge zusammengeführt und die Position von 80 Millionen Galaxien in einer neuen Datenbank gesammelt.
Anthropic's concerns are legitimate, but its position is intolerable and misaligned with a reality where US foes are developing autonomous fighting capabilities (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropic-and-alignment/
DOJ seeks to undo Bannon’s conviction for defying Jan. 6 subpoena
-- its latest shift in a legal position to benefit a close ally of President Donald Trump.
In a Monday legal filing, the department asked the Supreme Court to send Bannon’s case back to the district court,
where the U.S. attorney filed a separate motion seeking to dismiss the charges against Bannon.
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…
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