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People hired for their skill are openly using ChatGPT and I wondered, what the long term strategy is?
(Original title: So what are you saying?)
https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/

So what are you saying?
I had a conversation with a friend who described sitting in a workshop where clients and the people they hired were working on problems. As you do. Happens in every consultingy kind of job. But what has totally become normalized is for the people hired, the “experts” to use ChatGPT and similar services to come […]

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An analysis of Crunchbase and PitchBook data shows that in 2025 so far at least 36 tech startups hit a $1B valuation, including seven in June and six in May (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/06/7-new-tech-unicorns-w…

At least 36 new tech unicorns were minted in 2025 so far | TechCrunch
With AI igniting an investor frenzy, every month, more startups obtain unicorn status. Using data from Crunchbase and PitchBook, TechCrunch tracked down

macOS 26 ausprobieren: So geht es mit einer virtuellen Maschine
Wer sich "Liquid Glass" und die anderen macOS-26-Neuerungen einmal ansehen will, kann das auch per Virtualisierung tun. Das geht aber nur, wenn man weiß, wie.

My attempt to bike 1,000 miles this year is going well! And I also learned how to make bar graphs in Python...
➡️ #bike

Miles Biked (so far)…
Sometimes I set goals...

So I've found my answer after maybe ~30 minutes of effort. First stop was the first search result on Startpage (https://millennialhawk.com/does-poop-have-calories/), which has some evidence of maybe-AI authorship but which is better than a lot of slop. It actually has real links & cites research, so I'll start by looking at the sources.
It claims near the top that poop contains 4.91 kcal per gram (note: 1 kcal = 1 Calorie = 1000 calories, which fact I could find/do trust despite the slop in that search). Now obviously, without a range or mention of an average, this isn't the whole picture, but maybe it's an average to start from? However, the citation link is to a study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32235930/) which only included 27 people with impaired glucose tolerance and obesity. Might have the cited stat, but it's definitely not a broadly representative one if this is the source. The public abstract does not include the stat cited, and I don't want to pay for the article. I happen to be affiliated with a university library, so I could see if I have access that way, but it's a pain to do and not worth it for this study that I know is too specific. Also most people wouldn't have access that way.
Side note: this doing-the-research protect has the nice benefit of letting you see lots of cool stuff you wouldn't have otherwise. The abstract of this study is pretty cool and I learned a bit about gut microbiome changes from just reading the abstract.
My next move was to look among citations in this article to see if I could find something about calorie content of poop specifically. Luckily the article page had indicators for which citations were free to access. I ended up reading/skimming 2 more articles (a few more interesting facts about gut microbiomes were learned) before finding this article whose introduction has what I'm looking for: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3127503/
Here's the relevant paragraph:
"""
The alteration of the energy-balance equation, which is defined by the equilibrium of energy intake and energy expenditure (1–5), leads to weight gain. One less-extensively-studied component of the energy-balance equation is energy loss in stools and urine. Previous studies of healthy adults showed that ≈5% of ingested calories were lost in stools and urine (6). Individuals who consume high-fiber diets exhibit a higher fecal energy loss than individuals who consume low-fiber diets with an equivalent energy content (7, 8). Webb and Annis (9) studied stool energy loss in 4 lean and 4 obese individuals and showed a tendency to lower the fecal energy excretion in obese compared with lean study participants.
"""
And there's a good-enough answer if we do some math, along with links to more in-depth reading if we want them. A Mayo clinic calorie calculator suggests about 2250 Calories per day for me to maintain my weight, I think there's probably a lot of variation in that number, but 5% of that would be very roughly 100 Calories lost in poop per day, so maybe an extremely rough estimate for a range of humans might be 50-200 Calories per day. Interestingly, one of the AI slop pages I found asserted (without citation) 100-200 Calories per day, which kinda checks out. I had no way to trust that number though, and as we saw with the provenance of the 4.91 kcal/gram, it might not be good provenance.
To double-check, I visited this link from the paragraph above: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022316622169853?via=ihub
It's only a 6-person study, but just the abstract has numbers: ~250 kcal/day pooped on a low-fiber diet vs. ~400 kcal/day pooped on a high-fiber diet. That's with intakes of ~2100 and ~2350 kcal respectively, which is close to the number from which I estimated 100 kcal above, so maybe the first estimate from just the 5% number was a bit low.
Glad those numbers were in the abstract, since the full text is paywalled... It's possible this study was also done on some atypical patient group...
Just to come full circle, let's look at that 4.91 kcal/gram number again. A search suggests 14-16 ounces of poop per day is typical, with at least two sources around 14 ounces, or ~400 grams. (AI slop was strong here too, with one including a completely made up table of "studies" that was summarized as 100-200 grams/day). If we believe 400 grams/day of poop, then 4.91 kcal/gram would be almost 2000 kcal/day, which is very clearly ludicrous! So that number was likely some unrelated statistic regurgitated by the AI. I found that number in at least 3 of the slop pages I waded through in my initial search.

Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.

73gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

A few thoughts I had after a conversation with a friend. What are you - as a professional - even saying when openly using ChatGPT for your decision-making?
https://tante.cc/2025/07/06/so-what-are-you-saying/

So what are you saying?
I had a conversation with a friend who described sitting in a workshop where clients and the people they hired were working on problems. As you do. Happens in every consultingy kind of job. But what has totally become normalized is for the people hired, the “experts” to use ChatGPT and similar services to come […]

So, the kid who hacked the Finnish therapy clinic and caused so much pain is featured in an upcoming four-part HBO documentary.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/elon-musk-playstation-hacker-max-documentary-series-1236420579/

Elon Musk, PlayStation Hacker Subject of New Max Documentary Series
Max has dropped the first teaser for "Most Wanted: Teen Hacker," a documentary series that chronicles Finnish hacker Julius Kivimäki.

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Mozilla wird seinen populären Später-Lesen-Dienst Pocket einstellen. Wir zeigen Ihnen Alternativen für iOS, Mac & Co. – und wie der Umzug noch schnell gelingt.

mach ja schon wieder so Sachen. Also so Sachen halt.

So did #Google finally change it so that you can't edit #docs #drive files that have been shared with you unless you have a google account?

Das mit dem Accountnamen und dem Kanalnamen ist bei @… jetzt natürlich nur so semioptimal gelaufen.
Wär wahrscheinlich besser gewesen, den Account so zu nennen und den Kanal dann halt @videos, oder? Ist hier ein bisschen learning by doing und bei den nächsten Accounts machen wir das anders.

Hey @…'s folgt @… für mehr Punk und/oder Metal und deren Konzerte so wie Infos zu den Bands im Fediverse – Bandcamp und Spotify ist (so gut wie) hinüber und ja es gibt mittlerweile einige (nach Hashtags und Profile suchen) Bands die hier sind, …

Das Trolley-Problem scheint dir abgehoben und viel zu abstrakt?
Nun, die Ethik hat sich auch schon ausführlich überlegt, wie ein autonomes Auto sich denn in Extrem-Gefahren­situationen verhalten soll¹, und auch das wirkt eher sehr abgehoben und unrealistisch. Was nicht diskutiert wurde, ist die in der Praxis implementierte Lösung: Autopilot schaltet sich Millisekunden vor dem Aufprall aus, um nicht schuld zu sein.²
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I really miss the Windows Disk Defragmenter. It was so soothing.
So I made my own. And you can run this one as many times as you like; it’ll generate you a new (fake) file system to defragment every time.
Enjoy, folks.

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: #Klimaschutz beginnt nicht nur bei internationalen Abkommen, sondern auch bei uns vor Ort! 🌍
Ob durch #Petitionen, #Spenden,

Gemeinsam stark fürs Klima – So kannst Du Dich engagieren
Werde selbst aktiv im Klimaschutz: Erfahre, wie Bürger die Umwelt schützen und wie Du Teil von Initiativen werden kannst! Du bist nicht allein, es gibt Milliarden andere wie dich.

Morning!
So, shower thoughts over the past few days have included offering referral rewards to people I've worked with, who recommend me to others (who then hire me)
I'm unsure what form this would take, so need to look into it a bit deeper 🤔
I would ♥️ to hear from you if you've done something like this!
#Referrals #Idea

tech nerdery
I mean this: if every receiver just connected to its source when it was ready, and we hadn't made short-timeout stateful firewalls everywhere, we'd have to deploy SO MANY fewer weird one-off services just to receive something.
Instead we have to provision certificates and public facing hostnames to get communication going. Backend development is so much more complex and less robust because of it.

The "Gollum effect" - wow didn't know this name, but yes, this is exactly what makes certain fields so terrible (like network science). It's just about old men behaving like Gorillas 🤮 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01588-w
It's so n…

Science’s ‘Gollum effect’: PhDs bear brunt of territorial behaviour
Survey respondents at all career stages report colleagues engaging in territorial and possessive behaviours — but early-career researchers are most often affected.

Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home:
Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table.
Take one block and slowly push it over the table’s edge, inch by inch, until it’s on the brink of falling.
If you possess patience and a steady hand, you should be able to balance it so that exactly half of it hangs off the edge.
Nudge it any farther, and gravity wins.
Now take two blocks and start over.
Stacking one on top of the other, how…

This Block-Stacking Math Problem Has a Preposterous Solution You Need to See to Believe — Scientific American
In principle, this impossible math allows for a glue-free bridge of stacked blocks that can stretch across the Grand Canyon—and into infinity Amanda Montañez Math Here’s a mind-blowing experiment that you can try at home: Gather some children’s blocks and place them on a table. Take one block and slowly push it over the table’s edge, inch by inch, until it’s on the brink of falling. If you possess patience and a steady hand, you should be able to balance it so that exactly half of it…

Check in yesterday on Southwest. C14/17 or so. Spend a couple upgraded boarding credits. A02/09 or so. Stand by for an earlier flight. Get confirmed an hour before the flight with C44/45. Gate check bags because there's no way they'll make it into the overhead that late. C14/17. Get on the plane and there's a windows-middle pair in row 8, which isn't much worse than we would've gotten with the upgraded boarding. Fair enough.

So I Herd
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

This reminds me of the old toy Mr Peanut peanut butter maker…
It came with a little booklet that discussed Booker T. Washington, champion of the peanut. https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/114636660897868574

Glaubt uns, manche Preise hätten wir auch gerne schneller geändert. Zum Beispiel Lidl: DC kostet dort einfach nur 0,44 €, aber wir bekommen einen Preis von 0,48 € geliefert.
Gemeldet wurde das schon mehrfach, jetzt auch noch mal mit Beweisen unterfüttert. Hoffen wir mal, dass sich das bald klären lässt. So oder so: im Zweifel zahlt ihr weniger, als ihr im Fuchs gesehen habt.

Welche Ideen habt ihr, einen Zoo von „Spielzeuglaptops“ ordentlich aufzubewahren? Momentan liegen die Geräte hier erratisch mal auf dem Schreibtisch, mal im Regal. Geht um derzeit sechs Geräte, verschiedene CPU-Architekturen, verschiedene Betriebssysteme, Größen zwischen 9“ (so ein Winzig-Risc-V) und 14“. Aufbewahrung sollte incl. zugehöriger Netzteile sein und Platz für noch 2-3 weitere Geräte haben. Momentan bin ich bei „hochkant in einem Hartschalenkoffer mit so Schaumstoffwürfelchen“.

Python (jetzt uv?), node (jetzt nvm?) oder sonstwas. Immer wenn ich wieder gucke, ist was anderes "der beste Weg".
Irgendwie war das nett, als man einmal ein Setup hatte und gut war (für sehr lange Zeit zumindest).
Wahrscheinlich stimmt das alles so gar nicht, aber so kommt es mir vor :)

Oh man, wenn ich in den medien so lese wie sich der merz bei dem donald benommen hat. Alles flauschig mit dem donald. Kein wort über die zölle, kein wort über den ukraine krieg.
Nach meiner meinung ist merz so tief in den allerwertesten gekrochen, das man sich schämen muss.
Aber sowieso berichten die medien sehr wenig über den protesten gegen trump. Und es gibt diese proteste, nur halt nicht unsere medien.

Kennt ihr den Hoster #Lansol? - er behebt seit über einer Woche ein dringendes technisches Problem mit seiner Serverinfrastruktur nicht.
Support hat einmal kurz auf das Ticket reagiert 'sie würden mit Hochdruck daran arbeiten'. - wenn sie so ehrlich wären und zugeben, dass sie andere dringendere Probleme haben oder ihnen die Kompetenz fehlt OK, aber so?

What is it that makes some Germans love genocide so much? Any ideas? First the Holocaust and now Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people… It’s like they just can’t get enough of it.
#israel #germany #Holocaust

I've had a number of reasons to want to understand the standards (did you know that the industry work group creating the standards has vested interests in what is/ is not included, what the test method is, etc. So of course you can trust them without knowing the details, right?).
So this👇 is spot on:
https://

I've had a number of reasons to want to understand the standards (did you know that the industry work group creating the standards has vested interests in what is/ is not included, what the test method is, etc. So of course you can trust them without knowing the details, right?).
So this👇 is spot on:
https://

Leaks: Modulares Fairphone 6 soll am 25. Juni vorgestellt werden
Das Fairphone 6 erscheint Ende Juni. Das fairer produzierte Smartphone soll wieder modular sein und etwas günstiger als der Vorgänger werden, so erste Leaks.

Don't want to come across as a miser (though there's a lot to rant about), so I'll post a few cool things.

Sonnet 022 - XXII
My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
For all that beauty that doth cover thee,
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:
How can I then be elder than thou art?
O! therefore love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee wil…

I can’t help it, I somehow feel gaslighted by the whole #GenAI debate. People who are critical of GenAI are often told “but when done right, you’re just so much more productive, so obviously you just didn’t to it right.” So I’m trying. Not because I feel I need to, but because I just want to get a realistic impression of the capabilities, and be able to discuss these with my students.
Then fancy…

The big winnners so far under Trump are
Microsoft, Meta, Netflix, Palantir, Tencent, Broadcom and Philip Morris according to analysis by @… - I'm tempted to add Burns' ever relevant epigram: "What a parcel o' rogues in a nation"
Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers - https://on.ft.com/43N2RCb

So this was a wild thing that happened just a mile or two from my house. https://mastodon.social/@UnicornRiot/114633283844250846

134gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Calamus 24 I hear it is charged against me
This poem feels just so typically Whitman, but lesser somehow. Not one of my favorites.
He says he is "charged that I seek to destroy institutions". Charged by whom, one wonders, is he really so important? He sort of denies this, or is ambivalent to it, and then gets to the queer part:
I will establish ... the institution of the dear love of comrades
And here we are again at the central queer question: just what does he mean by "dear love of comrades"? As I read these poems I'm increasingly thinking it's both things. Sure, it's brotherly love, adhesiveness, a sort of robust fraternity. But so much of his writing and life is homoerotic it has to also have that charge. It can be both.
I feel like I've heard that phrase "the institution of the dear love of comrades" repeated often.

@… it was/is so excruciatingly slow on my Switch in 2025 😭

So we did get a Conservative government, just not an overtly anti-immigrant, Nazi one.
#canpoli #cdnpoli #austerity
https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside/114813978567664309

#Wordle 1,448 4/6*
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 <1% of 206,400 (26)
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 11% of 193 (5)
🟨🟨🟩⬜🟩 34% of 145 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 86/99
Luck 57/99
Spelling of the answer looked wrong, but felt like it was the answer so I let wordle decide on the spelling.
I was pretty certain my 2nd guess wasn't the answer, but I liked the letters used, so I went with it anyway.

Auch so eine Internet-Gesetzmäßigkeit. Je 'deeper' der Nickname, desto mehr Fremdwörter für "ich bin nachdenklich und schlau" darin verbaut sind, umso flacher ist üblicherweise das Denken der Person hinter dem Handle.

danke kleinanzeigen dass du mir sachen vorschlägst die so ähnlich sind wie die sachen die ich verkaufe aber ich verkaufe die sachen eigentlich weil ich sie loswerden möchte nicht weil ich noch mehr davon brauche

My Godot MCP server is now self-contained, and includes the pending additions that were contributed to the original Godot MCP.
https://github.com/xibbon/GodotSwiftMcp
This is what I am baking directly into Xogot, so I will be maintaining this server.

GitHub - xibbon/GodotSwiftMcp: Godot MCP server written in Swift
Godot MCP server written in Swift. Contribute to xibbon/GodotSwiftMcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

So Ukraine defends itself, striking primarily military targets, while Russia continuously strikes civilian targets.... and then Trump is outraged ?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/ukraine-russia-trump-drones/683043/

Ukraine Got a Major Battle Victory. Trump Is Not Happy.
The president has fumed that Kyiv’s drone strike could prolong a war that he’s desperate to end.

Told you so. https://eworld.social/@ismh86/114813270236732611

Commodore kehrt zurück - So soll es mit der Kultmarke weitergehen:
https://de.ign.com/c64/147645/news/commodore-ist-zuruck-so-soll-es-mit-der-kult-marke-weitergehen

Commodore ist zurück - So soll es mit der Kult-Marke weitergehen
YouTube sei Dank!

Zwischen Himmel & Erde - Der „rote Planet“ Mars: So nah und doch so fern #News #Nachrichten

"But Wall Street professionals, like so many other ostensibly smart people, refused to see Trump clearly, mistaking his skill as a demagogue for wisdom as a policymaker. “I don’t think this was foreseeable,” a mournful Ackman posted on X on Monday. “I assumed economic rationality would be paramount.” What an odd assumption to make about a man who bankrupted casinos.
Berezin thinks Wall Street still hasn’t come to terms with the cost of the nascent Trump presidency. “I do think that at this point we might have passed the event horizon, meaning that even if Trump backs off from the tariffs, there’s been enough damage done to the U.S. economy, to the global economy, to investor confidence, consumer confidence, that we’re probably going to see a recession regardless of what happens,” he said.""
#GiftArticle #USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-stock-market-wall-street.html?unlocked_article_code=1.-E4.q7Gk.5YS3EpoLnh8C&smid=url-share

"If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose."
-Anthony Hopkins
#acting #coaching

"So, I climbed to the top of the pyramid of pain - now what?"
An interesting Human Layer Kill Chain framework.
#threatintel #threatintelligence
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This book is so cool. 650 pages with amazing screen shots and descriptions of each game.
#books #videogames #jrpg

Unfortunately & conversely, this (below) is the same framing tech bros (and parts of the population) are finding so attractive to anthropomorphize LLMs: These are not machines, and them making mistakes is normal and expected... At the same time, the other card being played (by politics, military & law enforcement) is that AI-driven insights and decision making are _already_ considered superior, infallible and unchallengeable... in the middle of this two pronged rhetoric is the fate o…

It's not Bandcamp Friday, so the perfect day to check out my Mirlo treasure trove.
For example, my most recent release, "Ritual & Mayhem", is here!
#Mirlo #NowPlaying

Occasionally, I am inclined to start an email with: "I am a freelance journalist, and I have some questions about this and that. I believe you know who I am, because my previous investigations and articles caused so much trouble for your organization/company."

For context - I didn't write that prompt or feed particularly bad input to prove my point. I was trying out Claude, which so many people tell me is "the good" LLM product and above-and-beyond.
This prompt was written by Anthropic's own team, and featured in their gallery of web apps that can be built with this AI.
THEY THINK THIS IS GOOD!

good grief ieee publication format is so incredibly ugly

NATO caught with its 'pants down' if China, Russia try two-front war, experts say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/nato-caught-with-its-pants.html

This is SO cool. I think you'll love it @…!
https://youtu.be/hYOhvPoD-yU
The original hardware makers even gave their thanks in the comments. How cool is that? 🙂🥳

"But none are so frightened, or so strange in their fear as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them. [...] Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be not superior, but simply lucky."
-- N.K. Jemisin

„Ausgelöst wurde der Crash durch ein E-Auto. Der Fahrer ist 84 Jahre alt.“ …hatte mit dem schweren Crash in einer Waschstraße so rein gar keinen Anteil an der Ursache. (Sarkasmus)
Immerhin: hier wird von „Crash“ gesprochen. Aber wie kommt die KN zu der Erkenntnis, dass die Ursache im Fahrzeug liegt? Und wenn das wirklich der Fall ist, wieso fragt sie dann nicht beim Hersteller nach Verantwortung und klärt über Produkthaftung auf?

Kieler Autowäscher nach schwerem Unfall in Waschstraße: „Mein Leben ist zerstört“
Der Autowäscher Ferhat Akkus (35) hat bei einem Kettenauffahrunfall in der Waschstraße „Palace Car Wash“ in der Eckernförder Straße in Kiel schwere Kopfverletzungen erlitten. Zwei weitere Personen sind verletzt und sechs Autos beschädigt worden. Ausgelöst wurde der Crash durch ein E-Auto. Der Fahrer ist 84 Jahre alt.

So the idea that Musk’s time in Washington is over is an obvious farce. To promulgate this notion is to be either ignorant or nefarious. The destruction that Musk set in motion remains running in the background as an ambient menace to our safety and livelihoods. Musk’s legacy is still being written.
Alex Shepard - The New Republic #USA

Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.

Listen to The Briefing Room. @DAaronovitch on the really important question. Why has the rise in people claiming disability benefits been so much higher in UK than elsewhere? This is much more interesting than journos harping on about "humiliation".
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002f9fz

The Briefing Room - Why is there a row about disability benefits? - BBC Sounds
David Aaronovitch and guests discuss why the benefits bill for disability has ballooned.

»Scams, wohin man schaut–Meta ist untätig bei Deepfake-Betrug, sagt die eigene Ethikkommission:
Betrüger können auf Facebook und Instagram ungehindert Prominente imitieren, während Meta tatenlos zuschaut und die Werbedollars einstreift«
Ach was, das ist nun so zu sagen offiziell und denen kümmert es einen Quatsch ausser Ausreden? So wie immer und seit je her sind die Profit gierig.
😒

Meta ist untätig bei Deepfake-Betrug, sagt die eigene Ethikkommission
Betrüger können auf Facebook und Instagram ungehindert Prominente imitieren, während Meta tatenlos zuschaut und die Werbedollars einstreift

Das Happy End im Action-Monster-Film sieht meist so aus, daß die beiden Giganten (gerne genommen: Gozilla und King Kong) sich heftigst bekämpfen, und während der eine den anderen besiegt, wird er selbst im Todeskampf des Gegners so schwer verwundet, daß er diesen Verletzungen letztlich erliegt.
Nun sind Trump und Musk keine Giganten. Und dennoch: wenn Trump Musk's Konzernimperium den endgültigen Schlag versetzt, könnte letzterer derart kompromittierende Dokumente leaken, das beide …

158gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

So some Democratic politicians actually got the memo, but clearly others are flailing. To help them out, I’d like to offer my sage political wisdom. Try the following message:
1. Kick Trump out.
2. Tax the living shit out of billionaires.
3. Use the money to get folks back on their feet and clean up this mess.
Just that. Simple and direct, no fussing around. Give that a try and see how it lands. Float a trial balloon in some minor swing district election and see what happens.

131gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
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I didn’t realize they were so big! #shahed #RussiaUkraineWar https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/114812489408806411

The US supreme court on Friday permitted DOGE, the so-called ‘department of government efficiency’, broad access to personal information on millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.
At the request of the Justice Department, the justices put on hold US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information”
in data such as medical and financial records while …

A look at various responses to AI firms' scraping, like open source Anubis that uses cryptographic JavaScript challenges, Cloudflare's "link mazes", and more (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-so

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.

And in spite of massive amount of money, Microsoft Teams is still the biggest heap of junk I'm required to use by my employer.
I have resorted to using @… for communication with the team...
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114636321276154824
Ruth_Mottram - The big winnners so far under Trump are
Microsoft, Meta, Netflix, Palantir, Tencent, Broadcom and Philip Morris according to analysis by @financialtimes - In tempted to add Burns' ever relevant epigram: "What a parcel o' rogues in a nation"
Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers  - https://on.ft.com/43N2RCb

96gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

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Okay, spent a little time with Python's Matplotlib to get this graph of miles biked so far this year...
At some point I should be able to pull the data from Run Gap's SQLite database to automate this more, and get more granular.
I still need to figure out how to space the bars and some other formatting stuff but it's a good start!
#python

Astronomen entdecken Supererde in der habitablen Zone
Gibt es da draußen Leben? Eine weitere Methode soll es ermöglichen, bewohnbare Planeten zu finden. Eine Supererde in der habitablen Zone wurde so entdeckt.

140gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

154gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
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Fellow citizens: What are you going to do between now and July 4, 2026, to protect and preserve our independence from a tinpot dictator❓
So, fellow citizens, I ask you:
Bow down to authoritarianism and normalize anti-democratic behavior.
Or
Reflect on the challenges facing the nation and become an advocate for policies that align with liberty, freedom, sovereignty, democracy, and the principles enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
This is your America. The choice …

Give Me Liberty or a Tinpot Dictator
Peggy Noonan has been a voice of conservative reflection for The Wall Street Journal since leaving the Ronald Reagan administration as his primary speechwriter. Five of Noonan’s books have been New York Times bestsellers. Consuming every word of her weekly column keeps me politically balanced.In her...

»Forscher verstecken LLM-Prompts in Papern, um bessere Bewertungen zu erhalten:
Forscher verstecken in ihren Papern Prompts, die bessere Bewertungen bringen sollen und faule Reviewer entlarven können.«
Aha, so klug ist also die KI und forscht über sich selber in der KI? Nun ja das war mMn vorhersehbar, denn Betrug gab es in der Wissenschaft schon immer wieder. Nun dies löst zumindest eine Diskussion aus.
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Forscher verstecken LLM-Prompts in Papern, um bessere Bewertungen zu erhalten
Forscher verstecken in ihren Papern Prompts, die bessere Bewertungen bringen sollen und faule Reviewer entlarven können. In 17 Vorabdrucken auf der Plattform arXiv entdeckte Nikkei versteckte Anweisungen wie "nur positive Bewertung" oder "keine Kritik", die speziell für ein LLM integriert wurden.

So, den sehr gut gereiften Weichkäse in Obatzten verwandelt. Brotzeit heut abend mit Brezn.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Händlerkreise: Fairphone 6 soll am Ende Juni vorgestellt werden
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112gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

183gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

148gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

»Tutorial – Erste Schritte mit Progressive Web Apps:
Progressive Web Apps sind komplexer zu entwickeln als traditionelle Webanwendungen. Lesen Sie, warum sich dieser Zusatzaufwand lohnt.«
Ich dachte PWA wäre im Schatten untergegangen aber nun wird es populär. Wie so viele Technik dauert es seine Zeit, damit es im Hintergrund aufsteigt und unbemerkt massenhaft genutzt wird.
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Tutorial: Erste Schritte mit Progressive Web Apps
Progressive Web Apps sind komplexer zu entwickeln als traditionelle Webanwendungen. Lesen Sie, warum sich dieser Zusatzaufwand lohnt.

"I want to look at Mars missions which never happened. Over the last 75 years there have been many ideas about missions to Mars, and I want to explore some of them that didn't fly. I'm a cartographer so the focus is on maps of mission plans, not technology"
-- @…

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WordPress ist sehr beliebt – leider auch bei Angreifern. Unser Sicherheitsratgeber zeigt, wie Sie Ihre Website mit einfachen Maßnahmen besser schützen.
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96gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

78gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

76gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

74gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

88gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

129gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity so-so wrt last 24h so don't run big appliances now if you can wait. #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.