2026-05-23 07:04:33
Entspannt auf den Balkon frühstücken und dem Knallen vom Schießstand lauschen. Als wäre jedes Wochenende Silvester. #Altenbeken
Entspannt auf den Balkon frühstücken und dem Knallen vom Schießstand lauschen. Als wäre jedes Wochenende Silvester. #Altenbeken
The Department of Homeland Security warns it will run out of money to pay airport security workers in the coming weeks despite a $10 billion fund for DHS created by the “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Maybe they can bring lunch to work, carpool and stop ordering avocado toast. Or even better: abolish ICE and solve two problems.
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Похоже, что вчера в @… заблокировали все публичные серверы #Chatmail для #DeltaChat. Я создала два теста для OONI Probe, чтобы вы могли проверить блокировки у себя.
1. Тест Chatmail:
Bannon: Trump's ICE airport deployment is 'test run' for ICE at polls (Jacob Knutson/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/bannon-trump-ice-airport-deployment-test-run-2026-midterm-elections/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260323/p84#a260323p84
Bollocks from TSSA.
HS2 is over-specified: lower speed would use less energy, pollute less and be safer.
HS2 must run at full speed from day one, TSSA says | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hs2-must-run-full-speed-day-one-tssa-…
Cowboys Would Hit Home Run In 2026 Draft By Trading George Pickens https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-would-hit-home-run-2026-nfl-draft-trading-george-pickens
One last example:
The first LLM code example that really made my eyes pop was early after the release of GPT, when somebody got it to combine Breakout with Conway’s Game of Life (a truly delightful idea). It worked!
Funny thing: the Breakout code and the Life code had a •completely• different style and flavor. Red flag. In about 15 minutes of web searching, I was able to find one of the projects (can’t remember if it was the Breakout or the Life half) which it had copied wholesale, with just a few variable renames. And the other half? It was in Python, but it used dictionaries where it really should have used objects — tons of `thing["prop"]` where it should have said `thing.prop`, and lots of other un-Pythonic stuff besides. It was a machine translate of code from another language, very likely Javascript.
The entire thing was a plagiarized Breakout and a plagiarized Game of Life, one transpiled, and all stuck together in a single run loop. To be fair, figuring out how to (1) run both halves of the logic from a single loop and (2) count the Life cells as Breakout bricks is work I'd cheer on from a second-semester intro CS student! It's not, however, quite what's being sold by these companies.
6/
I missed the 100 MWh total energy production milestone of @… after 5 years.
Currently at
104 MWh production
35 MWh load
12 MWh purchased
-> 75 % self sufficiency (no battery)
"Brazil's reserves run on too little funding, with Amazon getting just 20% needed"
#Brazil #Amazon #Environment
Essentially, we seem to know that super intelligence can't exist due to computability constraints. (You can't build any computer big or powerful enough to actually be the AGI god they're trying to create.) But I don't know if we have any idea what the limit is before that.
LLMs (and SLMs) are very efficient at very specific tasks, far better than humans. But they are not better for a lot of tasks. It may just always be prohibitively expensive to use LLMs for certain tasks.
We've already run in to training ceilings where additional training decreases performance. We've run in to security problems (like guard rails basically can't ever actually exist because there are infinitely many ways around them, and those ways can literally just be solved for. See https://llm-attacks.org/)
Reality Labs lost $80B , but it still makes all of Meta's hardware, and reflects Mark Zuckerberg's desire to run a business without Google or Apple as middlemen (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-mark-zuckerber…
@… Here’s a macro I use when I run into issues like this:
> This is an automated message to let you know that this issue requires additional input from the original poster and for the health of the repository issue tracker the issue will be closed. This is to help alleviate issues hanging open waiting for a response from the original poster.
> Do not let the issu…
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Soulwax:
🎵 Run Free (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #Soulwax
https://soulwax.bandcamp.com/album/all-systems-are-lying-run-free-nite-versions
https://open.spotify.com/track/6FpGarU82UbiZXyI7Dyh6M
Each week, Metacurity offers our subscribers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to in the daily crush of news.
This week's selection covers
--France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches,
--AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio,
--Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle,
-- Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention,
--Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety an…
I followed a link to a Milwaukee Business Journal article. I also run Pi-hole on my network. The page showed a pop-up that said:
"We noticed that you might be using an ad blocker. Keep reading for only $4."
I mean, sure, but also I can close the browser tab for freeeeeeeee!!!!
‘Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth, not one of them through the Strait of Hormuz,”
said Bill McKibben, American environmentalist
https://www.thenational.scot/business/25957356.dependency-oil-ludicrous-scotlands-green-…
A message especially for my Canadian male followers out there today, but it applies to all.
If you see a story from a woman calling out the behaviour of a man, believe them. Yes, believe them over the 'bro’, especially when there are multiple corroborating stories.
Don’t feign impartiality.
Don't ignore.
Just believe them, it's not that hard.
It's long past time we do this as the default.
It will make us all better in the long run.
That is all.
#BelieveWomen #Tech #Mastodon
OK so... Silver nitrate, sodium chloride, and potassium bitartrate are all here.
First step will be conversion of silver nitrate to chloride. I have 25 grams but don't want to use too much at a time so I'll do 500 mg for the first run.
That's 2.95 mmol of silver nitrate so I need 172 mg of sodium chloride to be stoichiometric. But to ensure a 100% conversion of the expensive silver salt I'll add an excess, aiming for around 250 mg.
The reaction is 1:1 so a p…
InsideSD, a site run by city government, dominates Google's AI-powered search results about San Diego, making government views the only ones most will see (Claire Trageser/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/local/san-diego/2026
now that Muni bus wraps are almost entirely AI ads that alienate 95% of San Franciscans it would be a great time to run a ballot measure to ban them
@… The most ridiculous vehicle ever invented is the non-plug-in hybrid. Literally the only way to charge it is to burn petrol.
Someone I know in rural Ontario settled on that because the Conservative premier squashed the rollout of charge points across the whole province and she was afraid she'd run out of 'juice'. Imagine the repair costs…
I was able to recover a 20 year old gmail account by creating a new hotmail account that matched the recovery address (which I found in an old confirmation). I haven't had direct access to to the account for several years (only through pop3).
I want a No Venture Capital Internet News source where it only covers company not take venture capital. Sounds like a hard business to run.
I had not heard that the US military is cooperating with the small-reactor companies (run by people like Thiel and Andreeson - gee where have we heard those names before?) to transport the prototypes of these small nuclear reactors by air.
Indeed one such flight has occurred (carrying the large pieces of the reactor on a C17.)
Now, I am a supporter of new reactor technology as a way to provide CO2 free baseline power sources until such time as we can go full solar/wind/tidal etc…
Exiting the Billionaire Castle
#EuropeanSovereignty
Cool
The Virtual OS Museum opens its doors
#Operating_System
95gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Interesting release from OpenAI: Privacy Filter. A tiny (1.5B parameter) model to redact PII in unstructured text. Seems like it could be useful - and it’s open weights, so you can run it on your machine. https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-privacy-filter
Cruise ships are disaster for the climate and Cascadia
Cruise ship trips out of Seattle are more popular than ever. According to the Port of Seattle, Seattle's 2025 cruise season set new records, with 950,000 passengers, 289 sailings, and 67 percent of ships using electric plug-in power while they were docked in Seattle. The Port says these cruises (which mostly sail to Alaska and back) boosted Seattle's economy by $1.3 billion.
What the Port doesn't talk about ...
Size isn’t everything in #StarTrek. Unless of course when it is a question for #TrekTriviaTuesday.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
Vote will run for 24h, then I will reply with the correct answer.
How long was a…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Run the Jewels:
🎵 Legend Has It
#RuntheJewels
https://kidwik.bandcamp.com/album/legend-has-it-kid-w-i-k-s-hashim-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0b7MT4fpCPP2luL199lUeG
Cowboys 2026 Mock Draft Scores Unanimous All-American CB, 'Savvy Run-Stopper' https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-all-american-cb-savvy-run-stopper
Glück, wenn Du in diesem Drittweltstaat eine gute (private?) Krankenversicherung und -Versorgung hast. #USA #FDA
https://ope…
This last week, I heard great explanation of difference between deficit & shortage in context of oil supply.
A deficit is when oil inputs (domestic production imports) is less than consumption.
However, that doesn't immediately result in a shortage, as demand is met by drawing down tanks at transit facilities and refineries.
A shortage is when those tanks run dry, and this person forecast that would begin happening in major Western economies in early June.
1…
As I endeavor to wrangle an errant tagging structure of a PowerPoint file towards an accessible PDF file, I find myself pushing the limits of whatever black magic fuels Acrobat.
I will not relent.
I curse the corporate greed, professional incompetence, and ultimately low-grade, mediocre, evil- manifesting through this fiendish abomination of corrupted deviance and fuckery.
This is no way to run a document object model!
Giants QB Jaxson Dart won't change competitiveness but is focusing on mature scrambling decisions https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-qb-jaxson-dart-won-t-change-competitiveness-but-is-focusing-on-mature-scrambling-decision…
Russian media: Russia opens an investigation into Telegram founder Pavel Durov for "abetting terrorist activities", as it promotes its state-run rival Max app (Max Seddon/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/10181abc-ddd2-416f-8b8c-fd30a8447b82
Hey, loons. ❤️ Finished reading Game Changer last night. VERRRRY nice guest appearance from Rozanov in the last pages. GRRRREAT tease by @rachelreidwrites - that’s of course my saying this with huge hindsight, but hey. Scott had to crawl so Shane and Ilya could run, maybe?
There are three big takeaways that I think still apply.
First, recognize that people want change and are looking for candidates who will upend a political and economic system that they see as broken and corrupt.
Second, be willing to build the broadest coalition possible and work hard to persuade people who may disagree with you on some issues that we Democrats hold pretty sacred.
Finally, run on a message of hope and unity. The American people are better than our politi…
And I can feel it coming in the air tonight, oh Lord 🎵🎶
Well, I've been waiting for this moment for all my life, oh Lord 🎶🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/133/
173gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Turkey's parliament passes a bill requiring social media and online game companies to restrict access for children under 15, following a school shooting (Andrew Wilks/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/turkey-social-medi…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Malaria!:
🎵 Your Turn to Run (Running remix by Thomas Fehlmann)
#Malaria
https://open.spotify.com/track/2U2HG97f5bZEvMfzQqFcYn
The E.U. Is trying to stall the awarding of a lucrative Balkans pipeline contract to a company fronted by Donald Trump's personal lawyer
Brussels has clashed with Trump over trade, Ukraine and military spending,
but the intervention in the "Southern Interconnection pipeline project" appears to mark the first time it has challenged a commercial venture by those close to the president.
The pipeline will run through Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Under what Bosnia…
Ich hatte eine Direktverbindung gebucht. Drei Stunden, zwei Stops. Der Zug ist ausgefallen. Jetzt bin ich viereinhalb Stunden mit zweimal Umsteigen und neun Stops unterwegs.
#pretixOnTour
Qualcomm stock closed up 11.6% on Friday and is now up 75% in the past month, as the company increasingly becomes a key player in AI devices (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/22/qualcomms-stock-pop-shows-investors-wakin…
103gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Meta will lay off 10% of its staff in May,
according to an internal memo which was published by Bloomberg.
A Meta spokesperson confirmed the report's accuracy to NPR.
The layoffs will take place on May 20 and affect some 8,000 workers.
Meta will also not hire for 6,000 open roles that it had intended to fill.
In the memo, Meta's chief people officer Janelle Gale wrote,
"We're doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more…
Gimlet Labs, which says it is the first "multi-silicon inference cloud" for running AI workloads across diverse types of hardware, raised an $80M Series A (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/23/star
103gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
136gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
175gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Stability AI releases a new family of audio models called Stability Audio 3.0 that is trained on licensed data; the top model can generate six-minute songs (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/stability-ai-releas…
Wir waren im Zentrum für internationale Lichtkunst in Unna (https://www.zfil.de/). Ich fand es toll.
134gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
Hallo Leipzig. #pretixOnTour
85gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Letzte Woche wollte ich Überstunden abbauen und habe gefühlt jeden Tag früher Schluss gemacht. Insgesamt habe ich 7 Minuten abgebaut.
Ich habe tatsächlich an vier von fünf Tagen früher Schluss gemacht. Aber halt nur ein paar Minuten. Und an dem einem Tag, wo ich was fertig gemacht habe, habe ich knapp eine Stunde länger gearbeitet.
(Durch die offene Urlaubsregelung ist das alles vor allem für mich selbst relevant.)
Elon Musk announces Terafab, an Austin-based project run by Tesla and SpaceX to manufacture robotics, AI, and space data center chips for Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-22/elon-m…
80gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Vercel, which helps developers host web apps and AI agents, says its run-rate GAAP revenue hit $340M at the end of February, up 86% YoY, amid the AI coding boom (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2026/03/17/vercel-guillermo-rauch/
81gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
61gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Modal Labs, which offers a serverless cloud platform to build AI apps and run AI inference, raised a $355M Series C at a $4.65B valuation, up from $1.1B in 2025 (Deepa Seetharaman/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/modal-labs-valued-465-b…
The feeling when a four year old script still works. Thanks past me. https://vis.social/@Luca/100634546565811791
97gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
A UK tribunal rules Microsoft must face a lawsuit alleging it overcharged UK businesses to run Windows Server on cloud services from Amazon, Google, and Alibaba (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa…
„While sometimes unavoidable, too many consecutive days like this can exhaust you. Make sure you get enough sleep after days like this.“
149gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
Tim Cook had an extraordinary run and impeccable timing in stepping down, with Apple in a better place than it has ever been as AI becomes its next big test (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/tim-cooks-impeccable-timing/
143gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
162gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
91gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
89gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
87gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
86gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
107gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
150gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
148gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
90gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
171gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
194gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
164gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
182gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
171gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
175gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
200gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2
184gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2
184gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2