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GPU architecture resources.
https://interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/gpu-architecture-resources/
saved 2020-05-15

GPU architecture resources
I am often get asked in DMs about how GPUs work. There is a lot of information on GPU architectures online, one can start with these: Render Hell 2.0: Easy to follow and thorough introduction with …

LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142905/janet-gyatso-being-animal-kin-buddhist-resourc…

#Python is just doing great. We're not having impossible constraints, as some projects need old #setuptools for pkg_resources, and other projects are starting to require newer setuptools for some fancy new features. And ofc after promising to release pkg_resources standalone over a month ago, setuptools upstream didn't deliver.
#Gentoo

Progress in #Firefox for #JpegXL: While the latest nightly for Android still needs image.jxl.enabled=true in about:config, it now renders
https://

JPEG XL Test Page – JPEG XL
Try if your browser supports JPEG XL images.

LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142905/janet-gyatso-being-animal-kin-buddhist-resourc…

"Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/rainforests-pushed-to-breaking-point-by-new-demands-for-resources-re…

"Rainforests pushed to breaking point by new demands for resources, report says"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/20/rainforests-pushed-to-breaking-point-by-new-demands-for-resources-re…

The Purpose of Protocols
https://connectedplaces.online/the-purpose-of-protocols/

The Purpose of Protocols
Every open social protocol generates shared resources, but none has produced a governance framework adequate to those resources. So who fills that vacuum?

After Cleveland.com faced backlash for posting AI-generated videos to promote its podcasts, an editor said "we don't have resources to do it any other way" (Sean Keeley/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/newspapers/clevela…

Cleveland.com slammed for using AI slop videos to promote podcasts
Cleveland.com received significant negative responses to AI-generated videos on social media to promote their podcasts.

"Brazil's reserves run on too little funding, with Amazon getting just 20% needed"
#Brazil #Amazon #Environment

Brazil's reserves run on too little funding, with Amazon getting just 20% needed
Human development is driving numerous global species to the brink of extinction, threatening essential resources like water and soil, and contributing to climate change. Conservationists have shown that putting critically threatened areas under protection is vital if nations are to slow or reverse these trends, and global frameworks such as the Convention on Biological Diversity have identified the creation and maintenance of protected areas as the cornerstone of such efforts.

Pattern Formation in a Spatial Public Goods Dilemma due to Diffusive or Directed Motion
Yuxuan Zhao, Kaisheng Zhu, Yefei Zhang, Daniel B. Cooney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21025 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21025 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.21025
arXiv:2603.21025v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The costly provision of public goods serves as a model problem for the evolution of cooperative behavior, presenting a social dilemma between the collective benefits of shared resources and the individual incentive to free-ride in resource production. The spatial structure of populations can also impact cooperation over public goods, as diffusion of public goods and intentional motion of individuals towards regions with greater resources can interact with population and public goods dynamics to produce heterogeneous patterns in the spatial distribution of strategies and resources. In this paper, we build off a model introduced by Young and Belmonte for the reaction dynamics of interacting individuals and explicit public good, deriving a system of PDEs that describes the spatial profiles of strategies and the public good in the presence of both diffusive motion of individuals and resources and chemotaxis-like directed motion of individuals in response to gradients in the concentration of public goods. Through linear stability analysis, we show that spatial patterns in strategic and public goods profiles can emerge due to either Turing instability with high defector diffusivity or a directed-motion instability through strong sensitivity of cooperators towards increasing resource concentration. We further explore the emergent spatial patterns with a mix of weakly nonlinear stability analysis and numerical simulation, showing that diffusion-driven instability appears to increase cooperation and public goods across the spatial domain, while directed motion of cooperators towards regions with great public goods provision tends to decrease cooperation and environmental quality across the environment.
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Beneath Arctic ice, a vast fossil fuel footprint is colliding with Indigenous lands and wildlife #Arctic

Beneath Arctic ice, a vast fossil fuel footprint is colliding with Indigenous lands and wildlife
Arctic fossil fuel development shows significant overlaps with Indigenous communities and ecologically sensitive areas, which might support calls from some scientists to keep Arctic fossil fuels in the ground, according to a study published in PLOS One by Daniele Codato of the University of Padova, Italy, and colleagues. The Arctic is a frontline for fossil fuel development and climate change impact, long portrayed as a region with abundant undiscovered oil and gas resources, while warming at a…

So one of the authors is Nicholas Carlini, who works for Anthropic. This is basically an ad for the three letter agencies to use Claude. It massively over-promises compared to what the actual paper says.
But, it is important. First, this is really about silencing people. The threat of identification is designed to make people afraid to talk online. There's a massive asymmetry between the fascists and the people. The fascists are weird racists and pedophiles who are obsessed with control. No one likes them. No one likes their ideas, because their ideas are creepy and bad.
When they talk about their ideas, that people should be murdered or kidnaped based on their skin color, that there should be a national dress code, that people's sex lives should be monitored, that children should be treated like objects that are owned by the parent (specifically, one parent), that people with different skin color or uteri should be considered as livestock, people fucking hate it because it's awful. When we talk about our ideas, that everyone should be able to eat and take care of themselves, that people who can't take care of themselves should be taken care of, that we should live in a society that values life, that we should live in harmony with nature, people like those ideas. When fascists out us for talking about those ideas, people support us. When we out people who are working as fascist goons those people have to face social consequences.
Everyone hates these people. The US government is currently less popular than it has ever been. The only way they can keep power is by making everyone think that they aren't extraordinarily unpopular. The only way to do that, the way authoritarian have always done it, is to make everyone afraid to talk.
But, yes, what this paper is saying is actually kind of bad. It looks like people who don't take any precautions at all in separating identities can be identified about 30% of the time (based on the results). It's unclear how this will actually work in the real world. Larger corpses will probably have more data, making connecting things easier.
This isn't as good as a human trying to dox someone. It's not going to work as well. It may only work in a small number of cases. There will be false positives (just like there are with people doing the work). It's probably not cheaper than hiring people. But it does mean that you can just dump money into a machine that has no ethical framework and get data out. That's the point. It's hard to find humans who will do evil shit like help dictatorships target human rights activists, but if a machine can do it for twice the price then it's a better deal for the dictatorship.
For most people, you just shouldn't care. This isn't for you. As long as you keep doing what you're doing, and you can keep everyone else doing what they're doing, then there aren't enough resources to actually target you. Even if they know who you are, there are just too many people who hate them and too few goons.
For people who might actually be targeted, there are a lot of things. First, keep in mind what you're putting into anonymous accounts. Any feature that's connected to your real life is a feature that can be extracted to identify you. This has always been true, it just may be easier to find now. Your identities should be totally siloed. It's also harder to identify you if you're writing anonymously as a collective. Collectives are better anyway because they can help check your thinking. When you write as a collective, you can help clean up each other's personal details and language. A collective develops its own voice, which is distinct from individual contributors. If you do this, and you also present your work as being from one "person," then it becomes even harder for anyone (systems or individuals) to really figure it out.
I'm not going to do a full deep dive on this because I just don't have time, but your existing threat model should *already cover these threats* if you need to make sure your writing remains anonymous.
This paper doesn't present any novel methodologies. It just extracts a bunch of features, which a human would extract as notes, and tries to correlate those between identities, which is how human researchers work. Linguistic forensics were mentioned (not by name) in the paper, but the actual methodology doesn't actually seem to use them.
So a thing with less ethics can do a worse job for more money (when adjusted for the real, not investor deflated, price of tokens). It's worth knowing. It's not the end of the world, but it is a good reminder to check your threat model and make sure it's up to date.

the "Deal man" from the Dover Museum sure looks familiar #stonks
https://www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Information-Resources/The-Collection/The-Deal-Man.as…

Democratizing AI: A Comparative Study in Deep Learning Efficiency and Future Trends in Computational Processing
Lisan Al Amin, Md Ismail Hossain, Rupak Kumar Das, Mahbubul Islam, Saddam Mukta, Abdulaziz Tabbakh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20920 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20920 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.20920
arXiv:2603.20920v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The exponential growth in data has intensified the demand for computational power to train large-scale deep learning models. However, the rapid growth in model size and complexity raises concerns about equal and fair access to computational resources, particularly under increasing energy and infrastructure constraints. GPUs have emerged as essential for accelerating such workloads. This study benchmarks four deep learning models (Conv6, VGG16, ResNet18, CycleGAN) using TensorFlow and PyTorch on Intel Xeon CPUs and NVIDIA Tesla T4 GPUs. Our experiments demonstrate that, on average, GPU training achieves speedups ranging from 11x to 246x depending on model complexity, with lightweight models (Conv6) showing the highest acceleration (246x), mid-sized models (VGG16, ResNet18) achieving 51-116x speedups, and complex generative models (CycleGAN) reaching 11x improvements compared to CPU training. Additionally, in our PyTorch vs. TensorFlow comparison, we observed that TensorFlow's kernel-fusion optimizations reduce inference latency by approximately 15%. We also analyze GPU memory usage trends and projecting requirements through 2025 using polynomial regression. Our findings highlight that while GPUs are essential for sustaining AI's growth, democratized and shared access to GPU resources is critical for enabling research innovation across institutions with limited computational budgets.
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I guess my work laptop will need to have a catastrophic failure before it will be replaced. Request for replacement was denied. It was supposed to be a new machine, when I arrived two years ago it was 'sorry, your laptop was assigned to someone else. Here is a refurbished model almost at end of life'.
Multiple black screens. Cannot connect two monitors, keyboard, mouse and headset without it complaining about resources in the USB-C hub. Monitors won't show full resolutio…

LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT
https://ift.tt/L8ua4YK
Treaties and Empire Seminar Series: Trần Thị Xuân (Hamburg University) - Interpreters and Foreign…
via Input 4 RELCFP

AFT boss Randi Weingarten tapped union resources worth over $1.4M to write 'manifesto' book (Carl Campanile/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/19/us-news/aft-boss-randi-weingarten-tapped-union-resources-worth-over-1-4m-to-write-manifesto-book/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p88#a260519p88

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DV6Us8pMwpy/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Yuval Noah Harari on Instagram: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 2025. Watch the whole thing via link in bio. #YuvalNoahHarari #NewWorldOrder #Iran #Israel #Ukraine"
13K likes, 272 comments - yuval_noah_harari on March 15, 2026: "The past few decades have been the first time in human history that states have consistently spent more on their citizens’ health than on war. With the threats to Greenland and Taiwan, and the wars in Ukraine and Iran, are we entering a new imperial era where countries must again focus their resources on weapons? From Building Trust in the Age of Disinformation – What Future Awaits Us? With Prof. Marijana Grbeša in October 20…

After 17 years of many manuscripts cleaned submitted to #arxiv, I finally automated and wrote down the process, see: https://github.com/NERDSITU/research-resources/blob/main/a…

@… @… In part the problem is that internet infrastructure has been invested in and managed in a centralized way for so long that it takes significant investment of resources and time to develop any reasonable a…

The fact the United States is currently creating facts claiming that Cuba isn't being starved by them, but that the Cuban government is actually at fault and using all the resources which would otherwise help the population (somehow), really makes me think about all the other times I've heard this rhetoric in history.

“When you have excellent resources, be it physical, medical, psychological, social, educational, that does increase player readiness.”
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/20/teen-sensatio…

On Electric Vehicle Energy Demand Forecasting and the Effect of Federated Learning
Andreas Tritsarolis, Gil Sampaio, Nikos Pelekis, Yannis Theodoridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20782 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20782 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20782
arXiv:2602.20782v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The wide spread of new energy resources, smart devices, and demand side management strategies has motivated several analytics operations, from infrastructure load modeling to user behavior profiling. Energy Demand Forecasting (EDF) of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipments (EVSEs) is one of the most critical operations for ensuring efficient energy management and sustainability, since it enables utility providers to anticipate energy/power demand, optimize resource allocation, and implement proactive measures to improve grid reliability. However, accurate EDF is a challenging problem due to external factors, such as the varying user routines, weather conditions, driving behaviors, unknown state of charge, etc. Furthermore, as concerns and restrictions about privacy and sustainability have grown, training data has become increasingly fragmented, resulting in distributed datasets scattered across different data silos and/or edge devices, calling for federated learning solutions. In this paper, we investigate different well-established time series forecasting methodologies to address the EDF problem, from statistical methods (the ARIMA family) to traditional machine learning models (such as XGBoost) and deep neural networks (GRU and LSTM). We provide an overview of these methods through a performance comparison over four real-world EVSE datasets, evaluated under both centralized and federated learning paradigms, focusing on the trade-offs between forecasting fidelity, privacy preservation, and energy overheads. Our experimental results demonstrate, on the one hand, the superiority of gradient boosted trees (XGBoost) over statistical and NN-based models in both prediction accuracy and energy efficiency and, on the other hand, an insight that Federated Learning-enabled models balance these factors, offering a promising direction for decentralized energy demand forecasting.
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H H forgot the most important point to managing stress, "Try guillotining the Epstein class."

"Creating a writing and dissemination toolkit for faculty scholarly writing and publishing"
https://doi.org/10.3897/ese.2026.e183055

"Portugal has just used up its natural resources for 2026. Is the rest of Europe doing any better?"
#Portugal #Resources

These EU states have already used up their natural resources for 2026
Humans use as much ecological resources as if we lived on 1.7 Earths, meaning many European nations have already reached 'Overshoot Day'.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hughsie/116272060914902883
It's important to stress what it means to run infrastructure.
In so many cases is it the part that takes most of the resources, far more than the actual development, especially when demand in…

Meine Arbeit als Wissenschaftler ist sehr abwechslungsreich weil ich in einer core facility arbeite (Advanced Medical BIOimaging: #AMBIO) und weil ich einem Transregionalen SFB im Projekt für Infrastruktur (INF) beschäftigt bin.
Eine Aufgabe: Kollegys in #RDM /

Today is UN World Day for Glaciers, so I'm re-posting some relevant messages & personal experiences with disappearing glaciers in the Alps:
Interactive visualization of changes in glacier length
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/113191569344705725
One of the birth …

World Day for Glaciers - 21 March
The United Nations international days are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to reinforce achievements of humanity.

Now, more than ever, it's essential to practice good mental hygiene, work on emotional regulation, and guard against social media psyops. You never know when you'll need those inner resources.

@… Hello, Evan.
We're considering ways to prevent the URL of an ActivityPub Note object from being a URL of a completely unrelated third party, as this can be undesirable.
Do you know of any resources that describe the specifications …

There are some changes for the 2026 tax filing season that people who are 65 years of age and older should be aware of.
The most recent being the enhanced deduction for seniors
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2026-filing-season-updates-and-resources-for-…

New research reveals repeated flooding is altering Florida freshwater resources #florida

New research reveals repeated flooding is altering Florida freshwater resources
Heavy rains causing repeated river flood intrusions into Florida's freshwater springs are changing the function of the clear natural resource. Findings from University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) researchers Paul Donsky and Matt Cohen reveal that these intrusions can cause flow reversal, worsening already present problems.

Do you have experience developing Open Educational Resources (OER) or developing educational software? The Journal of Open Source Education (JOSE) is looking for reviewers to help with our check-list driven peer review process. Happy to answer questions about reviewing for JOSE if you're interested.
https://forms.gle/Rizd3TcHnQKhrbYY7

Tools of Repression - PHR #immigration #protests

Tools of Repression - PHR
Drawing on four decades of research on the health and human rights harms of CCWs, a team of PHR experts have documented injuries from these weapons and identified the prominent role certain lesser-known CCWs have played in policing U.S. protests throughout 2025 and 2026.

North Korea-linked hackers stole ~$577M across the Drift Protocol and KelpDAO hacks in April, accounting for 76% of total crypto hack losses so far in 2026 (TRM Insights)
https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/north-korea-sto…

North Korea Stole 76% of All Crypto Hack Value in 2026 — With Just Two Attacks | TRM Blog
North Korea stole USD 577M in just two crypto hacks in 2026 — Drift Protocol and KelpDAO — accounting for 76% of all hack losses through April.

The Accessibility Conformance Testing (ACT) Task Force has published its rules, letting you filter automated rules:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/act/rules/?requirements=a,aa&status=approved&imp…

All ACT Rules
Accessibility resources free online from the international standards organization: W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).

I've been playing around with GNU Octave in the terminal while taking my Linear algebra course. So far it's run everything I've thrown at it in Matlab syntax without question, and it's really been helpful grinding through assignments.
Yet another reminder of how awesome Free Software is, what a perfect match it is for academic use and what a terrible shame it is that almost no universities take advantage of such resources, always seeming to prefer proprietary crap.

Such a long article that can be summarised in "Venezuela is a US's banana republic and there won't be elections any time soon because Trump & friends only care about its natural resources".
Honestly, the article is a shame.
https://…

‘Feels like an illusion’: how Trump seizing Maduro has changed little in Venezuela
Some feel optimistic change will come, but for many it’s business as usual for the movement Hugo Chávez started

The other day, my friend shared this video on consulting collectives, which is when "a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others" :
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUDtOqGkTmY/…

JANEL ABRAHAMI | Career Advice for the Future of Work on Instagram: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or on vacation, and big clients often want teams, not individuals. But going back to a traditional agency or corporate job means giving up your autonomy + flexibility. So, consulting collectives are the clever middle ground no one’s talking about. Here’s how they actually work. @freelancingfemales @dreamersdoers @linkedinnews @entrepreneur @entreprenistas"
55K likes, 1,355 comments - janelabrahami on January 28, 2026: "Are you already doing this? How does it work for you? ⚡️ Consulting Collective (noun): when a small group of independent consultants or freelancers share clients, resources, and revenue on specific projects while maintaining their independence on others. Like the Avengers, but for client work. The solo consultant life is lonely and limiting, because you can only take on so much work, you have no backup when you’re sick or o…

#DataCite Schema 4.7 is available ⤵️
Supporting DOIs for Presentations and Posters
As suggested by community members, we’ve added new types for Presentations and Posters to the resourceTypeGeneral controlled vocabulary. These additions will make it possible to consistently distinguish these important output types that are integral parts of the research life cycle, helping harvester…

California Committee Approves Bill to Stop Taxpayer Bailout of Oil Companies https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/california-committee-approves-bill-to-stop-taxpayer-bailout-of-oil-compa…

California Committee Approves Bill to Stop Taxpayer Bailout of Oil Companies
Center for Biological Diversity: SACRAMENTO, Calif.— The California Assembly Natural Resources Committee today approved a bill that would push companies to clean up their old oil and gas wells instead of leaving taxpayers on the hook for cleanup costs.

If you don’t have the resources to write and understand the code yourself, you don’t have the resources to maintain it either.
Any monkey with a keyboard can write code. Writing code has never been hard. People were churning out crappy code en masse way before generative AI and LLMs. I know because I’ve seen it, I’ve had to work with it, and I no doubt wrote (and continue to write) my share of it.
What’s never been easy, and what remains difficult, is figuring out the right probl…

I created a Workshop called "Naming Files and Folders - Best Practices at the Microscope" and now the slides and examples are published under #CCBY40, so feel free to use and adapt if you are working in #RDM as well. I am open for Feedback.
This was work for the CRC TRR 384 "IN-CODE",…

Never mind the particular interest you might choose to focus on. The world is overwhelmed with problems we can name.
Take a step backwards and consider that everything about our way of life is wrong, and this plethora of problems is the proof in the pudding.
Consider the plentiful resources available, but instead of being used for humanity, they are being hoarded and used against humanity.
The answer is simpler than most people can recognize: it is just a matter of redistri…

Well-written article from Marlink on the Black Shrantac #ransomware group. I like that they have sections on “What defenders should watch for” and “How to reduce exposure” in addition to IOCs.

"For decades we've lived on abundant energy and resources that appeared to be infinite. But that foundation no longer exists."
A tour of every Spanish region with a stellar line-up of speakers.
It's the mind of thing needed in the UK, in addition to the Emergency Briefing film that's being rolled out.
NO ES NORMAL, no fue y no sera
http…

NO ES NORMAL, no fue y no sera
Nunca fue sostenible.

I’m glad the Wisconsin Bike Fed is getting in front of the ebike issue.
#bikeTooter

E-bike Resources - Wisconsin Bike Fed
Electric bicycles (e-bikes) are transforming how people move, offering accessible, low-emission transportation and recreation.

Thousands of non-Mexican migrants deported from the US
are being left in southern Mexican cities far from the border,
often without legal status or resources.
Many are elderly, ill, or have lived most of their lives in the US,
and now face unsafe conditions and limited access to aid.
Human rights advocates warn the policy violates international protections and leaves deportees in a 'quasi-stateless limbo.'
Cases include a trans woman deported to …

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

Short-term survival of #tardigrades (Ramazzottius cf. varieornatus and Hypsibius exemplaris) in #martian #regolith simulants (MGS-1 and OUCM-1): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/shortterm-survival-of-tardigrades-ramazzottius-cf-varieornatus-and-hypsibius-exemplaris-in-martian-regolith-simulants-mgs1-and-oucm1/8A91986096FB533FB264DD056F549DF2 -> ‘Water bears’ reveal potential for adapting, protecting Martian resources: https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/water-bears-reveal-potential-adapting-protecting-martian-resources - microscopic tardigrades help inform how simulated Martian soil might support plant life and mitigate contaminants shedding from human explorers, researchers report -> Scientists Finally Found Something Tardigrades Can’t Survive: https://gizmodo.com/scientists-finally-found-something-tardigrades-cant-survive-2000728358 - tardigrades are practically invincible on Earth, so scientists looked to outer space in search of their kryptonite.

Given the way things are going in the US, corporations seem to have more freedom of speech than university students. And it might not be long before datacenters have more rights than women.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/202…

👨🏿‍🚒 Wildfire posts can save crucial minutes, but one hidden effect is reshaping how crews and resources get deployed
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-wildfire-crucial-minutes-hidden-effect.html

Wildfire posts can save crucial minutes, but one hidden effect is reshaping how crews and resources get deployed
Social media posts are a double-edged sword for public agencies that respond to emergencies such as wildfires. New research from the University of Waterloo shows that while posts by citizens who see emergencies in the making can help first responders spring into action faster, they may also result in costly overreaction.

"We are in a period where we face huge challenges on many fronts: the planet is burning, the species which provide the ecosystem services we depend on to survive are going extinct, we are fighting wars over resources. We need to focus on the real risks we face. #ArtificialGeneralIntelligence is not one of these. It may happen, but probably not soon. If it does happen, i…

AGI Will Not Have a Lizard Brain
Rejoice, for even though we do, verily, walk through the valley of the shadow of death, not all the phantasms we see in the valley are as dark as they appear.

As a (software) company of the near future you likely going to own nothing at all. You rent software for administration, you rent compute and storage to run your stuff and you rent AI as "brains" to do the work. All subject to the discretion of those vendors to change or remove features or stop supply at all. You'll spent a significant portion of your resources to adapt to their constant change.
Not sure that's an environment a company can operate in.

Please, for the love of all that is holy in this world, Microsoft, please fix Defender so that it is not constantly running, or constantly running when I turn on my machine, or whatever. I could handle a 15-minute suck of all my system resources once per day, ideally outside a primetime window, but whatever you're doing is ridiculous. I can't work.

Interactive map tracks detention centers and provides resources
https://prismreports.org/2026/03/12/detention-centers-map-freedom-for-immigrants/

The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and the full weight of the institution is being brought to bear. The audience in the theater knows the official is lying or incompetent or both. The audience at home, watching the real version of the same press conference…

The Rehearsal State: When Governance Becomes Performance | David Boles, Blogs
There is a scene in every disaster movie where the official steps to the podium, adjusts the microphone, and assures the public that resources are being mobilized, plans are being activated, and th…

If a convoy came under attack from Iranian missiles or drones, the escorting warship would have only seconds to respond.
Similar escort and air defence efforts have already been seen in the Red Sea against Houthi attacks, so there is a working model.
The problem is that such operations consume major resources and are extremely costly if they are to be sustained for every transit.
The danger would not come only from the air or the shore.
Iran could also rely on swarms…

The challenges of securing Hormuz as 6 nations issue joint statement - Naval News
The leaders of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan and Canada issued a joint statement on the Strait of Hormuz. They expressed their readiness to contribute to appropriate efforts to ensure safe passage through the Strait. As things stand today however, such a task appears to be rather difficult.

On that topic, see my text in the “Software in Context” section at the bottom of this reading assignment from one of the courses I teach:
“Generating code is the easiest part of software development.”
https://comp127.macalester.digital/f25/resources/classes_objects_state_behavior/

This post is a placeholder for any potential discussion or feedback on my blog's links page: https://theprivacydad.com/links/

SAP is perhaps the antithesis of flexibility, which is why it is often used in complex administrative systems, such as those found in many energy companies. So it's good news that there is now a module available to link Enode's flexibility engine, which works with a wide range of consumer devices.

Enode x SAP: SAP has chosen Enode to enable residential flexibility within SAP Distributed Energy Resources | Enode
Energy retailers are moving from experimentation to long-term decisions about residential flexibility. Today, flexibility needs to operate as part of day-to-day business, not as a side initiative. SAP sees that shift clearly. That’s why SAP has chosen Enode to enable SAP Distributed Energy Resources, a solution supporting residential distributed energy resource (DER) flexibility within SAP environments. The partnership brings Enode’s full product capabilities into the SAP ecosystem, allow…

The UK unveils Sovereign AI, a £500M fund to invest in domestic AI startups, starting with Callosum, which builds software to help different chips work together (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-uk-launches-its-dollar675-million-soverei…

The UK Launches Its $675 Million Sovereign AI Fund
In a bid to minimize dependence on technology from other countries, the UK government is plowing resources into homegrown AI startups.

It's also worth thinking about interpersonal conflict between marginalized people with different experiences. Who mediates? How? How do you account for your existing biases when mediating people with different experiences of oppression than your own?
Practice can help answer those questions before you have to "do it live." I'd personally love resources on this, because I had to "do it live" as an organizer, and that was awful.

Have You Ever Thought About Drones in MISP?
To better support the documentation and analysis of drone-related incidents, several new resources have been integrated into MISP.
#drone #drones #intelligence

An old SSD, an 80mm fan I had lying around, a Raspberry Pi 4, and a 3D-printed case make up the new (and likely temporary) home for Home Assistant.
For now, I have modest plans for this setup, but once I get the hang of it, I might need to upgrade the hardware if I run out of resources to add new self-hosted home automation devices.
#selfhosted

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources #nutrition

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources | NutritionFacts.org

"Are government subsidies undermining conservation efforts in Australia?"
#Australia #Conservation

Are government subsidies undermining conservation efforts in Australia?
Australia has long struggled to reconcile its environmental ambitions with the structure of its economy. The country is both a global biodiversity stronghold and a major exporter of resources, agricultural commodities, and energy. A new study led by Paul Elton of the Australian National University suggests that this tension is embedded not only in land […]

november17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata

"OER as Dynamic Digital Commons: Toward Maintenance and Governance"
https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.20076
"Academic libraries have been instrumental in supporting the creation and adoption of open educational resources (

Since Trump’s decision to snatch Maduro in January and reboot relations with his successors,
the five-star hotel has become the nerve centre of Washington’s efforts to steer a country some now call a US protectorate
– and which Trump has even said he hopes to turn into the 51st state.
“It’s [effectively] the US embassy.
I don’t think anybody’s going to work at the actual embassy,”
said Phil Gunson, a Caracas-based political analyst for Crisis Group.

Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’ and Disintegration - bellingcat https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2026/03/30/explosive-misinformation-a-guide-to-mushroom-clouds-sonic-weap…

Explosive Misinformation: A Guide to Mushroom Clouds, ‘Sonic Weapons’ and Disintegration - bellingcat
Explosives test in Canada. Source: Defence Research and Development Canada.

@13a@mastodon.social
And my question is - given the limited resources (people, materials, equipment) is MEER the best use of those resources, or do we end up with a "sunk cost" related problem :"well we've invested a lot of money here, and temps are down so we don't need to do anything else."
(I'm a chemist, worked in industry & the latter is a known problem; since retiring I have been engaged in advocacy and have seen how politicians respon.…

@13a@mastodon.social
And my question is - given the limited resources (people, materials, equipment) is MEER the best use of those resources, or do we end up with a "sunk cost" related problem :"well we've invested a lot of money here, and temps are down so we don't need to do anything else."
(I'm a chemist, worked in industry & the latter is a known problem; since retiring I have been engaged in advocacy and have seen how politicians respon.…

Sources: Ramtin Arablouei, co-host and cofounder of NPR podcast Throughline, left the network after it opened an investigation into his workplace conduct (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/business/media/npr-pod…

NPR Podcast Host Ramtin Arablouei Exits Amid Workplace Inquiry
Ramtin Arablouei, a co-host of “Throughline,” left the network after an employee made a human resources complaint about his behavior.

Amazon begins three-hour deliveries in ~2K US cities and towns and one-hour deliveries in hundreds of those areas, after 2025 pilots; 90K products are eligible (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/17/amazon-rolls-out-1-ho…

Amazon rolls out 1-hour, 3-hour delivery as ultrafast shipping trend grows in the U.S.
Amazon is speeding up deliveries even further after investing significant money and resources to make same-day shipping the standard.

Amid a contentious feud with Pope Leo XIV regarding U.S. military interventions over the past several months,
including the war in Iran,
the Trump administration has
⚠️ended an $11 million contract with the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami.
The contract through the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) gave funds to the organization to provide housing and other resources for migrant childrenwho entered the country without parents or adult family members.

Trump Admin Cuts $11 Million in Grant Funds to Catholic Org Amid Feud With Pope
The funds went to an organization that provides shelter and other resources to unaccompanied migrant children.

Logistics in the technical sense (part of supply chain management) is a subset of logistics in the vernacular sense ("the handling of the details of an operation"). You can explore this second and more general sense, and thereby build an understanding of the first and more technical sense, by iteratively asking the question, "how does one make that happen" and follow questions from there.
A big part of organizing is figuring out the (vernacular) logistics (and helping others figure it out). You want to organize a seed swap? Ok. How does one make that happen? Well, you need seeds, people, a place, and perhaps a time. How does one make that happen? You can forage seeds or you can buy seeds for a garden and swap extras. How do you get people to come? Well, figure out where you want people to come from and choose an accessible place. What's the easiest thing to do? Get people from your neighborhood. How does one make that happen? Well, maybe put up flyers. How does one make that happen? Well, print them on your printer if you have one, or at a library, then go post them up. Etc.
Keep asking questions until you either find a roadblock that you can't find a way around, or you find things you can do yourself (one of those things you can do yourself is asking friends to help).
If you practice the exercise of thinking about how things happen, you can start to find things that you can do yourself. You can start to understand what exists now, and you can imagine what's possible. By thinking about logistics, you can figure out how to replace things when they collapse or are dismantled. You can also identify things that can't easily be replaced, and try to figure out alternatives.
This practice is good for figuring out how to build, but it can also be a valuable practice for figuring out how to resist. Concentration camps and ethnic cleansing also require logistics. Mass displacement means moving people. How does one do that? People are generally going to be moved in planes or buses. How does one do that? Well, people get loaded on to planes or buses in specific places. Planes and buses need fuel. Planes are fueled at their airports, which may well be the same places where people are loaded on to them. There is a fuel depo and a fuel truck that makes flying people out of a specific place possible. How does the fuel get to that fuel depo? Well, that fuel is probably also delivered by truck. Someone drives those trucks. Someone fuels those planes. Someone clears the planes for takeoff. Someone fuels those busses. Someone drives those busses. And so on.
Logistics networks can be highly complex. The more complex the operation, the more possible points of failure and more possible points where pressure can be applied, where operations can be disrupted. Ethnic cleansing is a complicated operation. The logistics of disrupting complicated things tend to be much less complicated than the logistics of the complicated things themselves.
The Right has exploited this fact for a long time. Centralized social services are logistically complex. Public infrastructure is logistically complex. By destroying these things, they can loot public resources by privatizing the infrastructure and functionality.
But the things that support the Right are even more logistically complex. Oil, cars, AI data centers, internal paramilitary, these are extremely complicated and fragile. There are numerous pressure points, all of which can respond to numerous strategies.
If we want to win, we should reduce the influence of politics over the things we care about. We should focus on building distributed mutual aid networks that don't rely on state funding and aren't subject to the whims of politicians. This is also known as "dual power." That is, creating counter-institutions outside of the dominant political system. The Right already does this in the form of churches and corporations.
As we reduce our complexity, we can then press our complexity advantage against the things for which the Right *needs* the state: the apparatus of violence needed to maintain capital and enforce the dominant order.

"Pesticides from flea treatments and sheep dips found at damaging levels in Welsh rivers"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wales

Pesticides from flea treatments and sheep dips found at damaging levels in Welsh rivers
Pesticides used in pet flea treatments occur widely in Welsh rivers and were detected in over three quarters of river water samples, finds new research by Cardiff University and Natural Resources Wales. The study found that two pesticides from flea treatments, imidacloprid and fipronil, exceeded safe levels in almost half of the samples from urban locations.

A great conversation with Bruce Nordman about how prices and automation can work together to ensure that distributed energy resources, such as electric vehicles, are charged (or discharged) optimally. He also dispels fears of synchronised peaks.
https://www.volts.wtf/p/the-case-for-using

The Wild Wild Western Water Wars - The American Prospect #water

The Wild Wild Western Water Wars
As a changing climate bakes and dries up the Colorado River, the seven basin states can’t agree on how to share the declining water resources.

Sources: Intel has begun testing production of "low-end/legacy iPhone, iPad, and Mac processors"; Apple thinks TSMC's resources will continue tilting toward AI (@mingchikuo)
https://x.com/mingchikuo/status/2054987772289810884

郭明錤｜Ming-Chi Kuo (@mingchikuo) on X
AI Is Reshaping Advanced-Node Resource Allocation: Apple, Intel, and TSMC in a Three-Way Shift

BuzzFeed warns that it lacks the resources to fund its cash obligations over the next year and is exploring options, as it reports a Q4 loss of $26.8M (Elias Schisgall/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/buzzf

"Kontext und Klarheit: Fachspezifische #Metadaten für offene Bildungsressourcen (#OER) zu #DataLiteracy"

The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community.
SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018.
POLICE AND SHERIFFS:
Cannot ask about your immigration status.
Cannot arrest you only for having a deportation order or for most other immigration violations.

California Values Act (SB 54) - ACLU of Socal
The California Values Act (SB 54) ensures that no state and local resources are used to assist federal immigration enforcement and that our schools, our hospitals, and our courthouses are safe spaces for everyone in our community. SB 54 was signed into law on October 5, 2017 and went into effect January 1, 2018. POLICE […]

Thanks to Malthus, we have focused on food as the limit to population growth. For some reason, we have failed to consider how demands on other resources may have limits that we cannot afford to cross.
The global sand crisis: it’s being used up faster than it can be replaced

LECTURE> Janet Gyatso on “Being With Animal Kin: Buddhist Resources for a Posthuman Ethics” - Tue Mar 3, 4-5:30 PT https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20142905/janet-gyatso-being-animal-kin-buddhist-resourc…

Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela
— experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts,
a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview Friday.
Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Absolute Resolve were carried out by the joint force in June 2025 and January 2026, respectively.
Pentagon leadership have touted the rai…

EXCLUSIVE: Space Force’s role in Iran, Venezuela raids fueling push for more resources
Space Force guardians provided critical support during high-profile U.S. military operations in Iran and Venezuela — experience that underscores the need for additional resources to prepare the service for future conflicts, a senior official told DefenseScoop in an exclusive interview.

New Mexico's Meta lawsuit: some police officers testify that Meta's AI is sending a flood of "junk" CSAM reports that are draining resources and slowing cases (Katie McQue/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/25/…

Privacy Guides: Independent Privacy & Security Resources #privacy #recommendations

Privacy Guides
Established in 2021, Privacy Guides is the largest impartial, non-profit media outlet focused on finding privacy tools and learning about protecting your digital life.

The condition of the economy of the Russian Federation is now more complicated than in recent years
Due to a strong ruble, high interest rates, shortage of labor resources and budget restrictions,
Reserves in the economy are largely exhausted,
said the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov,
speaking on Friday at the All-Russian Forum of Entrepreneurship Support Infrastructure "My Business" in Vsevolozhsk.

Решетников заявил, что резервы в экономике РФ во многом исчерпаны
Ситуация в экономике РФ сейчас более сложная, чем в последние годы, на фоне крепкого рубля, высоких процентных ставок, дефицита трудовых ресурсов и бюджетных

An OpenAI note to investors after Anthropic announced Mythos says OpenAI's early push to increase computing resources gives it a key advantage over Anthropic (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Why Hasn’t Trump Mentioned Iran’s Oil?
Usually he encourages the seizure of natural resources as repayment for war
https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/03/trump-oil-iran-venezuela/686271/

Why Hasn’t Trump Mentioned Iran’s Oil?
Usually he encourages the seizure of natural resources as repayment in war.

Pope Leo XIV has said that the world is being “ravaged by a handful of tyrants” who spend billions on war
“Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain,
dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth,”
Leo told a gathering at Saint Joseph Cathedral in western Cameroon.
“They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation,
yet the resources need…

ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 AI model is held back by limited compute resources that create a bottleneck, forcing users to wait hours to generate a single video (Zeyi Yang/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-bytedances-…

ByteDance’s AI Ambitions Are Being Hampered by Compute Restraints and Copyright Concerns
ByteDance’s new Seedance 2.0 AI video model seemed unstoppable—until heavy demand strained the company’s compute capacity and copyright complaints began piling up.

Elon Musk says he spent time with Anthropic "to understand what they do to ensure Claude is good for humanity"; Musk called Anthropic "evil" and "misanthropic" (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-spacex-compute-deal-col…

Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
In an unexpected turn, the two companies signed a deal for Anthropic to use computing resources from Elon Musk’s xAI.

Despite heavily tilting the electoral playing field in its favor
—through extreme gerrymandering,
extensive use of state resources for partisan ends,
near-total media dominance,
flagrant use of deepfake videos,
and alleged vote-buying
—Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his Fidesz party suffered a crushing, historic defeat in the country’s election Sunday.
Orban conceded defeat and congratulated his opponent,
Tisza Party leader Peter Magya…

Why Viktor Orban’s Fidesz Party Lost
The opposition’s stunning victory offers lessons for U.S. Democrats—and a warning for Trump’s allies.

A new law in Argentina, approved on Wednesday by 137 votes to 111, with three abstentions,
will enable provincial authorities to decide which glaciers are protected and which are open for development based on whether they represent a “relevant water function”
“What is at stake is the protection of key water reserves in Argentina,”
says Andrés Nšpoli, a lawyer and executive director of the Foundation of Environment and Natural Resources (Farn), an environmental and human rig…