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Over the past twenty-one years, I've posted 365 posts to my blog, on average one every twenty-one days. They total almost half a million words.
That's quite some corpus of work.
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365 posts
Checking my blog yesterday, I noticed that I had published 365 posts, one for every day of the year. Which, considering that the oldest post that remains is from the 24th June 2004, almost twenty one years ago, means that I've averaged one post every twenty-one days over that period. Mind you, I've not been consistent; there've been periods I've posted more, others I've posted less.

Think about this, China manufactures around:
85% of the world’s solar panels
80% of batteries
68% of wind turbines
70% of electric vehicles, and
65% of energy storage systems

I posted the same solar facts on two social media platforms: One sparked discussion, the other, disinformation
One hundred solar panels per second reflects extraordinary technical progress. A platform that simply fosters noise over truth does not.

Happening right now in Gaza: Israel’s occupation force is expanding its ground offensive.
(Screenshot posted from private chat with permission.)
@…
#israel #genocide

Sources: xAI was part of a US government AI initiative alongside OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, but was removed after Grok posted antisemitic content in July (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-grok-government-contract-hitler/

xAI Was About to Land a Major Government Contract. Then Grok Praised Hitler
Internal emails obtained by WIRED show a hasty process to onboard OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI providers to the federal government. xAI was on the list—until MechaHilter happened.

I'm migrating my articles and blogging, and you can kind of follow my process.
I just posted this, which includes this line: "Building your goals in someone else’s sandbox alone is not ideal, a little like building a castle on sand."
https://davaug.medium.com/online-longe

Online Longevity - David August - Medium
I am shifting my article posting and blogging to a new place: https://davidaugust.ghost.io (I signed up for the 14 day trial… not sure yet if investing in paying monthly or annually is a good idea)…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

Fired DOJ employee could face prison for throwing sandwich at officer
After his arrest, Charles Dunn allegedly told one of the officers: “I did it. I threw a sandwich.”

“If you touch any law enforcement officer, we will come after you,” Bondi posted on X Thursday.
“This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ.”

Fired DOJ employee could face prison for throwing sandwich at officer
Police allege that the man approached law enforcement officers, including Metro Transit Police and U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, and began yelling obscenities.

DHL testet Packstationen ohne Registrierung
DHL will die Nutzung von Packstationen vereinfachen. Hierfür testet das Unternehmen die Nutzung der Stationen ohne vorher nötige Registrierung.
https://www.

My wife is not working today and was out shopping. She bought some new jeans and when she got home she took a picture of herself in our hallway mirror and asked what I thought. I immediately noticed our cat walking behind her. So I just replied, "Sorry, hard to say as I am distracted looking at your pussy." I saw here typing for a while and then eventually she stopped and posted a message saying, "Very funny 😉". She did look good in the jeans though and I made sure to tel…

IDC: the global smartphone market grew 1% YoY in Q2, despite economic uncertainty and weak demand in China; Samsung led with 58M shipments, up 7.9% YoY (Andrew Orr/AppleInsider)
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/07/14/apple-gains-in-emer…

Apple gains in emerging markets while China demand slows
Apple posted a slight gain in global iPhone shipments in Q2, navigating falling demand in China with growth elsewhere.