Tootfinder

"Onder topman Wael Sawan kijkt Shell kritischer naar projecten voor duurzame energie. De productie van fossiele brandstoffen krijgt juist meer prioriteit."
Dus zo weinig mogelijk investeren in Shell lijkt me. Oude economie.
https://www.nu.nl/economie/…

Shell verkoopt opnieuw duurzame projecten in onder meer Nederland
Shell verkoopt zijn Europese activiteiten voor hernieuwbare energie op land, zoals wind- en zonneparken, aan het Franse TotalEnergies. Het gaat om projecten in Nederland, Italië, Spanje en het Verenigd Koninkrijk. De verkoop past in de fossiele koers van Shell.

Shell gaat weer ‘full fossile’.
Fossiele subsidies maken meer kapot dan u lief is. Aandeelhouders denken niet aan hun en uw (klein-)kinderen.
#boycotShell

Shell verkoopt duurzame projecten en wil meer investeren in fossiele brandstoffen
Shell verkoopt zijn zonne- en windparken in Europa aan TotalEnergies. De ‘groene projecten’ leveren het bedrijf te weinig op. De keuze past bij de strategie: Shell richt de blik buiten Europa.

Spreekt voor zich. Hun bedrijfsfocus is ten slotte om de aarde zo snel mogelijk op te warmen.
Shell verkoopt Europese zonne- en windparken aan TotalEnergies https://nos.nl/l/2625348

Shell verkoopt Europese zonne- en windparken aan TotalEnergies
Het gaat om onderdelen in Nederland, Italië, Spanje en het Verenigd Koninkrijk.

Internet, mal mir eine Karikatur, wo Merz vor so einem heftig qualmenden uralten Verbrenner steht, in dem Exxon, Shell, BP und all die anderen Fossil-Kapitalistys sitzen,und mit der Handkurbel die Wirtschaft ankurbelt.¹
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¹ja, die Redewendung wurde ca. 1925 vom Anlassen eines Verbrennerautos² mittels Handkurbel in Zeitungsartikeln auf die Wirtschaftspolitik übertragen.
²die damals bereits die E-Autos weitgehend verdrängt hatten

Shell Recharge UK is introducing cheaper charging rates for electric cars around midday during the summer months and at night all year round.
Available only via their app – not for roaming users or adhoc users – unfortunately!
https://www.shell.co.uk/electric-vehicle-c

Neue PC-Spiele im August 2026: „Mortal Shell II“
Im August geht das Soulslike „Mortal Shell II“ an den Start. Außerdem werden „Hell Let Loose: Vietnam“ und „Star Wars Zero Company“ veröffentlicht.
https://www.

Neue PC-Spiele im August 2026: „Mortal Shell II“
Im August geht das Soulslike „Mortal Shell II“ an den Start. Außerdem werden „Hell Let Loose: Vietnam“ und „Star Wars Zero Company“ veröffentlicht.

Fish shell adding support for Darcs is something I truly didn't have on my 2026 bingo card! It was the first DVCS that clicked with me after I bounced of Arch and before hg/git came on the stage. I could even host source trees on my homepage!
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/…

Add `fish_darcs_prompt` by toastal · Pull Request #12860 · fish-shell/fish-shell
Improves on the prompts floating around the internet (which I forked a long time ago)—specifically copied the ability to reorder statuses from the other VCSs, added ! for showing that there are mer...

"De groene praatjes van Shell zijn bullshitbruin" (en die van de meeste andere olie, gas en kolenbedrijven ook ) https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/08/02/de-groene-praatjes-van-shell-zijn-bullshitbruin-a4933596?gift_token=4933596~1786357701~8461zGC_TN2dSsAGxzbXqQ~grbQGx7V_KJC-5LYOzLySVc41gyIBas2MN-0OdNghTY

Undo: because rm -rf doesn’t have to be forever.
This looks useful. Anyone tried it?
#undo #terminal

undo, revert your last shell command
rm -rf the wrong directory? One word puts everything back. A safety net for the shell, on any Linux.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistInResidence
Saya Gray:
🎵 SHELL ( OF A MAN )
#SayaGray
https://sayagray.bandcamp.com/track/shell-of-a-man
https://open.spotify.com/track/79ckbJiCdKrGYPTmpFlc7u

Agent libOS: A Library-OS-Inspired Runtime for Long-Running, Capability-Controlled LLM Agents
Yingqi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03895 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.03895 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.03895
arXiv:2606.03895v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents are evolving from request-response assistants into long-running software actors: they maintain state across model calls, fork subtasks, wait for external events, request human authority, generate tools, and perform side effects that must be resumed and audited. This paper presents Agent libOS, a library-OS-inspired runtime substrate for LLM agents. Agent libOS runs above a conventional host operating system; it does not implement hardware drivers, kernel-mode isolation, or a POSIX-compatible operating system. Instead, it treats an agent as an AgentProcess: a schedulable execution subject with process identity, parent-child lineage, lifecycle state, a tool table derived from an AgentImage, typed Object Memory, explicit capabilities, human queues, checkpoints, events, and audit records. Its central design rule is tools are libc-like wrappers; runtime primitives are the authority boundary. Filesystem access, object access, sleeps, human approval, JIT tool registration, and external side effects are checked at primitive boundaries under explicit capabilities and policy.
We describe the design, threat model, Python prototype, and safety-oriented evaluation. The current prototype implements async scheduling, namespace-local Object Memory, runtime-integrated human approval, one-shot permission grants, per-process working directories, shell and image-registration primitives, Deno/TypeScript JIT tools over a libOS syscall broker, filesystem/object bridge tools, an injectable Resource Provider Substrate, deterministic demos, real-model smoke scripts, and 123 regression tests at the time of writing. Rather than improving planner accuracy, Agent libOS demonstrates a runtime substrate in which long-running LLM agents can be scheduled, authorized, resumed, and audited without treating tool dispatch as the trust boundary.
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Despite oil spills in Nigeria’s mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/despite-oil-spills-in-nigerias-mangrove-forests-shell-continued-operations-documents-show/

Despite oil spills in Nigeria's mangrove forests, Shell continued operations, documents show
Global oil giant Shell continued operating a compromised pipeline in Nigeria’s Niger Delta despite knowing it posed a pollution risk in the surrounding coastal wetland environment, newly disclosed internal company communications reveal. The emails and memos, reviewed by Mongabay, show senior leadership knew of the poor conditions of the 97-kilometer (60-mile) Nembe Creek Trunk Line […]

Ex-Paramount president Jeff Shell settles with a gambler who accused him of leaking confidential information and sought $150M for off-the-books crisis PR work (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/jeff-shell-cipriani-litigation-set…

Jeff Shell Settles Suit With Gambler Whom He Accused of 'Shakedown'
Jeff Shell has settled litigation with R.J. Cipriani, a Las Vegas gambler who accused him of failing to pay for off-the-books PR work.

Die Shell-Variable $_ kennt ihr natürlich alle. Brauche ich zigfach am Tag. #shell #builtin

A guide to a-Shell
#bookmarks

About the book | A guide to a-Shell

X settles a long-running legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a case that accused brands like Mars and Shell of illegally boycotting X (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e1725176-ebe2-4d29-abe9-a27e11e8c1a8

When did we decide that we needed to call everything a "repl" instead of a shell?

Buggy whip makers didn't innovate either...
Shell plans US$1 billion wind farms sale in renewables exit | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/renewables/shell-plans-wind-farms-sale

"This sea turtle was rescued with a missing flipper and a crushed shell. A special procedure saved his life"
#Turtles #Animals

This special 'vacuum' procedure saved a sea turtle's life after a boat propeller crushed its shell
Kraken, a green sea turtle, is in recovery after a harrowing boat strike in Abu Dhabi.

My wife gets scared when use anything beyond the microwave. I made this yesterday and she had to take the dog for a second walk, just to get out of the house.
This recipe involves mixing three ingredients, poring them into a shell and freezing it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0W9GuCHMJg…

recent-ish reading/rereading. #books

my shell takes 5.5 seconds to start and i'm done with half-measure shell profiling. i'm biting the bullet and yoinking zprof into "zprofline" to do line profiling (instead of function, which there aren't always a lot of in shell) so i can get a nice lcov-like output

One of the hidden powers of NixOS:
#nixos

The Neutral Atomic Hydrogen in the solar neighborhood (NeAtHood) project I. Ghost in the shell - neutral atomic hydrogen in the extended Orion nebula: #OrionNebula: https://www.univie.ac.at/en/news/press-room/press-releases/detail/the-ghost-in-orions-shell

Shell Reports Nearly $7 Billion Profit Amid 'Unprecedented Disruption' (Gregory Schmidt/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/business/shell-profit-oil-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260507/p54#a260507p54

Yes, it is. It also has this appalling change:
Sure, I know everyone (not really) loves git now. I have a GH account. I administer a Gitlab instance.
But I *USE* Subversion. It remains the definitive repository of the ASF software I work with and it’s how my brain works for version control.
Obviously I can still use svn in a shell. Most of my changes are very small, so vi and svn are fine. However, it is sad to see

Ísbúð Vesturbæjar gamla mjólk ice cream with a licorice shell and chocolate flakes. Holy hell this is good.

X settles a long-running legal battle with the World Federation of Advertisers, ending a case that accused brands like Mars and Shell of illegally boycotting X (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e1725176-ebe2-4d29-abe9-a27e11e8c1a8

Ep 1: Ghost in The Shell
Ep 2: Gay out of The Shell

The Butterfly Defect Effect in Cylindrical Shell Buckling: Non-localized Interactions of Localized Imperfections
Uba K. Ubamanyu, Antoine Blond, John W. Hutchinson, Pedro M. Reis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19245 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19245 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19245
arXiv:2607.19245v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We investigate the buckling of axially compressed cylindrical shells containing localized defects, focusing on interactions among multiple defects and between them and the shell edges. Using high-fidelity finite-element simulations, we first characterize the parameter space of single-dimple sensitivity, defect-edge coupling, and pairwise defect-defect interactions. Building on this deterministic baseline, we run stochastic simulations of shells with randomly distributed imperfections whose amplitudes are sampled from a log-normal distribution. Post-buckling deformations form non-axisymmetric, butterfly-shaped patterns whose `wings' reach far across the shell surface. This spatial extent induces unavoidable interactions with neighboring defects and the clamped edges, so that buckling is not necessarily initiated by the deepest defect. A larger defect population raises the likelihood of an extreme defect, producing a statistical size effect: as the mean number of defects grows, the mean knockdown factor decreases asymptotically and its variability decays exponentially. The butterfly defect effect qualitatively explains the scatter in historical experimental data by correlating the knockdown factor with the cylinder length-to-thickness ratio ($H/t$) rather than the radius-to-thickness ratio ($R/t$) alone, thereby establishing $H$ as a key parameter for stability alongside $R$ and $t$. Nonetheless, the knockdown factors obtained here remain well above those reported in historical experiments, indicating that the localized Gaussian dimple, though nearly the worst-case imperfection for spherical shells, is not so for cylinders.
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I don't like #systemd, but I like a giant trashpile of shell scripts trying to implement all the same features even less.
(See also, #launchd.)

This will increase a lot of uncertainty in all areas:
«Artificial Intelligence — Decades-Old Bash Tricks Expose AI Coding Agents to Supply Chain Attacks:
Decades-old Bash shell tricks can bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents, potentially turning malicious repositories into supply chain attack vectors.»
🤜

Decades-Old Bash Tricks Expose AI Coding Agents to Supply Chain Attacks
Decades-old Bash shell tricks can bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents, creating a new software supply chain risk.

Shoutout zu #Shell, #BP, #Exxon & Co.:
#Deutschland verzeichnet mit 41,3 Grad in

Hitzewelle - Deutschland erlebt heißesten jemals gemessenen Tag - 41,3 Grad in Saarbrücken
Der Deutsche Wetterdienst hat nach vorläufigen Angaben mit 41,3 Grad Celsius die höchste Temperatur registriert, die jemals in Deutschland gemessen wurde. Der vorläufige Höchstwert wurde demnach in Saarbrücken gemessen.

Non-dipole effects in two-photon double ionization of the K-shell of a beryllium-like atomic ion
Alexey N. Hopersky, Alexey M. Nadolinsky, Rustam V. Koneev, Julia N. Kolesnikova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27489

Normally I have to script in Windows, so I have a folder `C:\users\me\Dropbox\skripts` that contains it all. This folder is historical and has perl and shell scripts from my UNIX sysadmin days.
Had to do some stuff in WSL and I just discovered that your WSL shell - by default - inherits your Windows `%PATH%` (and handles the mapping into the WSL file system like `C:\` --> `/mnt/c/` etc.)... as I typed a command name in my `skripts` folder and it worked.
So..

Das Kind beschwerte sich kürzlich, dass es zwar #Linux nutzt, aber mit der #Kommandozeile nichts anfangen kann. Welche Ressourcen würdet ihr heutzutage empfehlen, wenn man den Umgang mit der #Shell lernen möchte?…

⚡ Before each prompt direnv checks for an .envrc (optionally .env) in the current and parent directories. If it exists and is authorized, it's loaded into a bash sub-shell and all exported variables are captured and handed to your current shell.
🔐 Security model: a new .envrc is not loaded until you explicitly run "direnv allow". Leave the directory and the variables are unloaded again.

#GardeningLife

• Declare that you will find and deal with whatever is eating your nice plant
• Getting the plant wet at dusk in the hope to trick whoever is eating your plant to show themselves
• Looking at the wet plant
• Finding a snail
• Holding the snail
• Looking at the snail, with it perfect shell, cute eyes and multi-tooth array that's gently…

Had some time during terrible weather to add suspend and resume to my AI harness.
The video (5 minutes) shows how this lets you build shell utilities that can be ^C interrupted and resumed again later so they just keep going. Eventually even on another machine.
Using LLMs and a specific harness to create shell utilities is really interesting and I am quite happy with how this spike is going.

The latest trailer for the upcoming The Ghost in the Shell series. I wasn't aware there's a "The" in the title. But apparently there is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnRcKC4Rgsc

Checking out more power lines around town for no particular reason. This cutout looks funny, like a fuse floating in open air with no cutout door. Wonder if something broke off?

BSDs still need a modern init system that is not a pile of shell scripts. 😬 Now would be a good time to catch up.
https://social.bsdlab.au/objects/29af8064-9c12-4687-87af-701ddde19acd

Jason Tubnor 🇦🇺 (@tubsta@bsdlab.au)
Sounds like we are going to have an influx of new #BSD users. Shame the DE makers pinned to #SystemD as it has made it hard to move things along to give these new users a comparable experience #sys...

the programme de la soirée is to make a few mix tapes, listen to music that i love, and maybe dance with that ladder over there if i manage to drink enough of this cheap (i mean cheap!) italian wine to confuse a ladder for my wife

Very excited about the new stateful components model in Kitten¹ that I’m looking forward to releasing this week (finally) and the amount of visibility you can now get into the flow of your Kitten apps in the Kitten Interactive Shell (REPL)².
Since the new model is a breaking change (Kitten is prerelease) I’m in the middle of updating our own apps/sites and I still need to document everything. So it will take me a few days to do all that but then I’m very much looking forward to focussi…

DOGE’s work is done.
But where are its records?
The Department of Government Efficiency has quietly ended its formal mission,
leaving behind the most transformative restructuring of the federal government in a generation
— and little public accounting of its actions.
The “most transparent administration in history” is using a twofold strategy in an attempt to ensure no DOGE records ever see the light of day.

DOGE is formally done. Where are its records?
Plus: The State Department’s records shell game

> nix shell nixpkgs#uv
copying "/nix/store/0lgkd7b0s5ykklkijr9g62r832qdvgvx-nixos-25.05.20250622.c7ab752/nixos" to the store
Why does it take 30 seconds to (uselessly) copy something from the nix store to the nix store?
#nix #nixos

Shell focust zich op zijn core business: CO2 uitstoten.
https://archive.ph/Xc9E3

Yeah, it's time for a blue shell.

"You have reached the entry processes (the number of simultaneously running php and cgi scripts, as well as cron jobs and shell sessions) limit 151559 times"
This is the markings of a site under permanent DDoS attack by the fucking LLMs, rendering it useless.

Newton: “I don’t know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.”
https://nautil.us/the-loneliest-g…

from my link log —
Notes on using GNU Emacs Tramp in an unusual shell environment.
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsTrampNotes
saved 2026-05-09

The Mortal Shell 2 Beta runs well in steam deck.
#MortalShell2 #Steamdeck #deck

Afromen die hap.
Bijna miljard euro extra winst voor Shell door oorlog Midden-Oosten https://nos.nl/l/2613421

Bijna miljard euro extra winst voor Shell door oorlog Midden-Oosten
Ondanks schade aan raffinaderijen, olievelden en gasinstallaties door aanvallen over en weer in de Perzische Golf maken olie en gasbedrijven hogere winsten dan verwacht.

`compinit` caching and lazy-loading increased my startup time by a factor of 5x! 🚀
Thanks for the pointers, @…!
https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/life-is

Life is too short for a slow terminal
I do all my work in the terminal, so it has to be quick. How my zsh starts in 30 milliseconds without a framework, and how to measure where your own shell spends its time.

I finally adapted my .Xmodmap file to Wayland, after I do not know how many years of procrastinating.
https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2024/04/28/the-simplest-thing-in-the-world-modifing-keymaps-in-wayland/

The Simplest Thing In The World: Modifying Keymaps in Wayland
To remap the PrtSc key to the Hyper modifier key under Wayland with Gnome Shell on Ubuntu/Debian on the 28th of April 2024 (around noon) with a us keyboard mapping (I’m hedging my bets here),…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Queen Ifrica:
🎵 Coconut Shell
#QueenIfrica
https://open.spotify.com/track/4FAvbg8xvz8cAv9faQnnW8

I’ve been doing a bit of Bash shell script writing today and oh wow the amount of quotation marks I am needing to use to add full support for spaces in inputs is wild.
I guess I’ve gotten used to #Powershell where that isn’t necessary for the most part.
#ScottProgramming

Little gopher tortoise. I have never seen one this small before. Must be a recent hatchling. Moved it off the road in the direction it was facing. When we walked back by an nhour or so later it was gone so hopefully it went wherever it wanted to go.
#florida
#GopherTortoise

Remember the cyberattack on Intoxalock, which makes interlock devices for people with drunken-driving convictions? Some poor dude not only had to shell out $700 to get his car towed, but was also fired from his job for missing work.
https://www.kcrg.com/2026/07/31/federal-lawsuit-against-iowa-ignition-lock-company-paused-amid-cyberattack-investigation/

Frühstück #balkonien @…

Damn, qualcomm make getting virt on their hardware a pita (and apparently it's even more impossible on the android systems); this only took a uefi shell script, a seperate dt, a binary file from a (older) windows install, and a gratuitous boot time hack.
[ 0.007729] CPU: All CPU(s) started at
EL2
dg@dragon:~$ qemu-system-aarch64 --enable-kvm -machine virt -cpu host -m 1G -nographic
QEMU 11.0.1 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) info k…

🐚 #direnv is a shell extension that loads and unloads environment variables depending on the current directory. A .envrc file in a project folder gives you per-project environments without cluttering your ~/.profile #opensource

https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@wrog/116755896874528089
stupid version was 60 lines
30 days later, the insane version is ~900 lines of m4 = 2000 lines of shell script (after m4sh has done its bulletproofing)...
...not counting 600 lines of "semi-literate…

Kawkaw 2029

A car just passed by and it literally sounded like a Mario Kart red/green shell ?????????

Zo' oorlog is toch gefundenes Fressen voor de oliemaatschappijen, nietwaar?
Bijna miljard euro extra winst voor Shell door oorlog Midden-Oosten https://nos.nl/l/2613421

Bijna miljard euro extra winst voor Shell door oorlog Midden-Oosten
Ondanks schade aan raffinaderijen, olievelden en gasinstallaties door aanvallen over en weer in de Perzische Golf maken olie en gasbedrijven hogere winsten dan verwacht.

First episode of The Ghost in the Shell is out, but I think I'll reserve judgement for until a few weekly episodes have been released.

The correct way to greet a fascist ICE paramilitary (Shell near Imperial / Central, Willowbrook, CA, 7/11/26, 4:12 PM)
Source:
#ice

GitHub actions: exists
Me: go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script

Who thought it was a good idea to put spinners in a shell script?
`pip install` has been running for a few minutes now at 100% CPU and all progress I see is an effing spinner on the last line.
Had to look at process list to see it's not stuck.
#python #pip

"So instead of eliminating (opens in new tab) 118.3 million permits (opens in new tab), the Air Resources Board will distribute them for free to companies on the condition that they pledge to invest in clean energy projects."
So how will the pledges be enforced, I wonder? I've seen over 30 years of "Here's how we will go green" "commitments" from companies like BP (remember Beyond Petroleum), Shell, BHP Biliton, etc - all reneged
So how wil…

A California environmental board voted to cut $202M from SF’s eco-friendly transit
Muni stands to lose hundreds of millions with changes to a state program that funds public transportation by charging firms for permits to emit carbon.

"So instead of eliminating (opens in new tab) 118.3 million permits (opens in new tab), the Air Resources Board will distribute them for free to companies on the condition that they pledge to invest in clean energy projects."
So how will the pledges be enforced, I wonder? I've seen over 30 years of "Here's how we will go green" "commitments" from companies like BP (remember Beyond Petroleum), Shell, BHP Biliton, etc - all reneged
So how wil…

A California environmental board voted to cut $202M from SF’s eco-friendly transit
Muni stands to lose hundreds of millions with changes to a state program that funds public transportation by charging firms for permits to emit carbon.

RE: #Sysadminnery

Hi. You've reached the level cap of cuteness for today. You can turn off the internet now. 😌
#photography #dogs #sea

The golden robotic arm swung gently beneath the helicopter as it was lowered into its receptacle. I frowned. The fact there were no guide ropes or spotters did nothing to change my conviction that this entire operation is one gruesome OSHA mortality waiting to happen.
"I don't recall ordering this."
"Its twice as efficient," said Eddie the shell claw operator. "Youll catch twice as many shells."
"I don't care about efficiency. Who …

Really appreciating all great work @… has done in bringing all extra goodies to Slackware. Case in point: Mango, Noctalia shell, Ghostty terminal. And i brought Fresh editor along 🤓 More on that tomorrow!
#slackware

USA Today is using AI-assisted, pre-written soccer World Cup "shell files" for breaking news to capture traffic before Google's AI Overviews generate summaries (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/how-usa-today-co-is-tr…

How USA Today Co. is trying to beat AI Overviews on World Cup news
USA Today Co. is using AI tools to beat AI Overviews in the race for World Cup search traffic around breaking news.

🐢 #Atuin is an #opensource shell history tool written in #Rust that replaces your existing shell history with a #SQLite

Hezbollah is on America's doorstep -- our own 'ally' is enabling it (Jose Lev Alvarez/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4665313/brazil-hezbollah-latin-america-threat-shell-company-watchlist-tri-border/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260728/p37#a260728p37

I had an interesting chat with a friend who mentioned a book called "The Living Company." Apparently Shell was one of the few companies that saw the 1970's oil crisis coming and was able to adapt. They did it by talking to a bunch of people randomly about the future, identifying patterns, and coming up with possible future scenarios. They then formed clear plans for these future scenarios, where those plans would cover as many related scenarios as possible.
This was actually really familiar to me, though I hadn't read the book, because that's very close to what the Seattle GDC disaster prep committee did. We identified possible disaster scenarios, then identified preparedness steps that served multiple purposes. We got boxes of n95 masks in 2018 and 2019 for wildfire smoke and did a bit of work building box-fan air purifiers. Over the years we handed out these masks to houseless folks who were most exposed to the smoke. When the pandemic hit, we were able to take some of those boxes to first responders just as manufacturing in China dropped because of their lockdowns and as others started PPE hoarding. We focused on N95 because that was one of the overlap points between the unexpected but catastrophic "flu pandemic" that we knew was possible, and the regular "wildfire smoke" problem we were just getting used to.
The book sounds like it's at least partially influenced by cybernetics. There's this Dutch cybernetics connection that I haven't quite figured out. Anyway, this guy talked about how a company needs to be sustainable and all that. My dude, you worked for an oil company. That is categorically not sustainable. All this aside, I think there are a lot of things we can and should take from capitalists (or take back, in some cases). This practice is one of them.
So maybe get together with friends and talk about what you think might happen. We live in a world of crisis, so I'll always recommend disaster preparedness. But there's more than that.
What do you think will happen in the next 5 years?
Assuming that happens, what actions would you take to push that towards the most positive outcome?
I'm listening to Revolutions and reminded of how much effort monarchies put in to preventing revolutions. Corporations can be even more advanced in their planning and preemption. What would it look like if we planned like that?

Dat zouden meer bedrijven moeten doen. 'Mogelijjk schadelijk' lijkt me een goed criterium. Dus Philip Morris, 3M, Tata, Shell, Bols, Heineken, KLM, Unox, Keurslager, Coca Cola, McDonalds, roep je hele business terug!
Primark roept producten terug: 'Stop onmiddellijk met het gebruik'

Plasma screening and configuration interaction effects induced large enhancement on L-shell photoionization cross sections and opacity
Fuyang Zhou, Shengbo Niu, Simei Lu, Chuangying Li, Xiang Gao, Yong Wu, Yizhi Qu, Jianguo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21238

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Motherlode:
🎵 Soft Shell
#Motherlode
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fePKSvuY7Ezh3VHIsONgU

📊 Two packages ship from one source: pi-recursive (extension only) and ypi (preconfigured CLI with launcher, shell helper and cost/session tools). MIT licensed, mostly Shell and TypeScript.
🌐 https://github.com/rawwerks/ypi

RE: #ScienceSaru

Switchable selective backscatter modulation via the Kerker effect
K. J. Cowan, C. M. Hooper, C. P. Gallagher, S. J. Berry, A. P. Hibbins, A. W. Powell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.18900 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.18900 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.18900
arXiv:2607.18900v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We design a reflective scatterer that operates only in the backscatter direction using modulation of the Kerker effect. This being a phenomena where the resonant modes of a scattering object produce total destructive interference in the backscatter direction. Our design consists of a dielectric shell and an interior metal element that provide the required dipolar contributions for Kerker interference with angular stability. By incorporating a PIN diode, we obtain a scatterer that exhibits strong amplitude modulation in the backscattering direction that is weaker at other bistatic angles. Backscatter modulation is a key technology to connect everyday objects but can be vulnerable to eavesdropping, the device presented in this work may help guard against such flaws.
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Midwest Poultry Services. L.P. Recalls Shell Eggs Due to Possible Salmonella Enteritidis Contamination (Julian Date/US Food and Drug Administration)
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/midwest-poultry-services-lp-recalls-shell-eggs-due-possible-salmonella-enteritidis-contamination
http://www.memeorandum.com/260723/p87#a260723p87

#throwback: I don't know how long this conch has been in my family, but I've seen it since my childhood, generally used like once a year. 🐚
Some of the brown is inherent but the rest should come off if someone cared. Perhaps I should. 😔
#photography #amateur #tbt #throwbackThursday #Thursday #conch #shell #nature

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Burial:
🎵 Shell Of Light
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https://hyperdub.bandcamp.com/track/burial-shell-of-light
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gotta give mass to photons

I am starting to worry.
Dwl installed just fine, I compiled it from source. Learned how-to and applied the specific wlroots version in Gentoo. Applications I need are there. Five patches applied, all good. Even got noctalia-shell running. The project has been revived and a lot of patches have been updated to the latest version in the last month.
I stop tweaking now. Have to end the weekend on a high. Beer is cold. More next week!

Shielded inner-shell transitions in atomic samarium for tests of fundamental physics
R. Aramyan, D. Budker, V. A. Dzuba, V. V. Flambaum, S. G. Porsev, M. S. Safronova, O. Tretiak, K. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.22318

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Me'Shell NdegéOcello:
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Theoretical ab initio Evolution of Satellite Intensity near Threshold for Cu K-shell transitions
Daniel Pinheiro, Gon\c{c}alo Baptista, C\'esar Godinho, Andr\'e Fernandes, Jorge Machado, Pedro Amaro, Nancy Paul, Martino Trassinelli, Miguel Avillez, Paul Indelicato, Jos\'e Paulo Santos, Mauro Guerra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.07…