 @benb@osintua.eu
 @benb@osintua.eu @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social
 @gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«So does it matter how many questions you ask an AI chatbot, or AI search summaries you generate? Yes, but not as a tally of your sins. It doesn’t matter whether each prompt costs the energy equivalent of nine seconds of television or nine days. Instead, what matters is that each prompt is a signal to the AI provider and its investors to grab more energy, period, from whatever source they can»
Great work by @… about the "dispersal trick" of big tech et al.
https://medium.com/@dnafus/why-saying-ai-uses-the-energy-of-nine-seconds-of-television-is-like-spraying-dispersant-over-an-f0d0cfd67d68
 @rasterweb@mastodon.social
 @rasterweb@mastodon.socialJoin us for a casual Scrappy Hour bike ride on Sunday, August 31st. 🚴♀️ 
We'll roll out from Rocket Baby just after 9am and head to the Domes... There's about four or five of us so far but we welcome anyone to join us!  🚴 
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNvbxVRXHS1/ 
 @ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.social
 @ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.socialSelenskyj warnt vor neuer russischer Großoffensive
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj warnt vor einer weiteren großangelegten Offensive der russischen Truppen im Donbass. Der Raum um Pokrowsk sei weiterhin am stärksten gefährdet. "Die Konzentration (an Truppen) dort liegt bei bis zu 100.000, das ist das, was wir heute Morgen haben", sagte Selenskyj der Nachrichtenagentur Interfax Ukraine zufolge bei einem Gespräch …
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 @MartinM@norden.social
 @MartinM@norden.socialWieder einmal ist es #SchiffsSamstag. Heute mit einer Begegnung des historischen Seglers FULVIA mit dem gleichfalls historischen Dämpfer BUSSARD bei Warnemünde.
 @philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com
 @philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… Little known fact: That’s the namesake of Dunkin’ Donuts.
They opened as Pump-and-Dumpkin’ Donuts in New York, but once they started computerizing their systems in the 1970’s a character limit forced them to shorten the name.
 @arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.page
 @arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageDMPC-Swarm: Distributed Model Predictive Control on Nano UAV swarms
Alexander Gr\"afe, Joram Eickhoff, Marco Zimmerling, Sebastian Trimpe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20553 h…
 @Dragofix@veganism.social
 @Dragofix@veganism.socialSouth Africa's coal mines are leaking methane, and no one knows how much #SouthAfrica…
 @benb@osintua.eu
 @benb@osintua.eu⚡ Urgent! A few hours ago, Russia destroyed another thermal power plant in Donbas! #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/urgent-a-few-hours-ago.html
 @rasterweb@mastodon.social
 @rasterweb@mastodon.socialI'm going to a local bike shop today, which will be the third local bike shop I've used in the last two years.
This one is run by a guy (family business for decades) who got me a wheel for my "dumpster bike" back around 1992 or so.
I should write up a post about my various bikes over the years...