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heise | Interview: Diese Risiken birgt der Einsatz von Rasterfahndungsoftware
Deutsche Polizeien wünschen sich Rasterfahndungssoftware oder nutzen sie schon. Wie riskant das ist, erklärt Surveillance-Experte Arthur Holland Michel.

Sometimes I miss building ridiculous electronic/noise sculptures...
#maker

Click Whir Squee
Occasionally I show up at Milwaukee Makerspace with no clear idea of what might happen when I'm there. This piece, titled "Click Whir Squee" is the result of one such visit. Another member brought in a box of old computer hardware, including a Hewlett Packard Colorado T100E Tape Backup Drive. Being a fan of old [...]

foursquare: Foursquare NYC restaurants (2012)
Two bipartite networks of users and restaurant locations in New York City on Foursquare, from 24 October 2011 to 20 February 2012. In one network, an edge denotes a check-in event of a user at a restaurant. In the other, an edge exists if a user left a tip/comment on a restaurant. Metadata include comments.
This network has 6410 nodes and 10377 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata

Sources: after Trump let Nvidia resume H20 chip sales to China, Nvidia told Chinese customers it has limited stocks and doesn't plan to restart production (Qianer Liu/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidias-china-restart-f…

Nvidia’s China Restart Faces Production Obstacles
President Donald Trump’s recent decision allowing Nvidia to resume sales of the H20 artificial intelligence chips to China sent its Chinese customers—mostly big tech firms like ByteDance and Alibaba—into a frenzy to snap up chips before the U.S. administration changes its mind again. Nvidia’s ...

Appeals court upholds $1M in fines against WA restaurant for violating COVID restrictions • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/08/15/appeals-court-upholds-1m-in-fines-against-wa-restaurant-for-violating-covid-restrictions/

I wrote up a post about fixing a watch band because I really need to remember it's better to repair the things you have instead of binning it and buying a new one...
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/08/17/fixing-a-watch-band/

Fixing a Watch Band
Let's repair things when we can...

Memo: Meta restructures Superintelligence Lab; Alexandr Wang heads TBD Lab, Robert Fergus heads FAIR, Nat Friedman heads products, Aparna Ramani heads Infra (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta Restructures AI Group Again in Pursuit of Superintelligence
Meta Platforms Inc. is splitting its newly formed artificial intelligence group into four distinct teams and reassigning many of the company’s existing AI employees, an attempt to better capitalize on billions of dollars’ worth of recently acquired talent.

I also wrote up a post about biking to work! I definitely want to do this more. Kind of bummed I need to drive tomorrow as I have some errands to run after work (and have to bring home a 27" monitor) but I'll bike into work again this coming week!
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/08/1

I eBiked to Work!
And I wasn't totally sweaty...

I wrote a post about how I 3D printed a bunch of letters to stencil a protest sign...
➡️ #3Dprinting