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Putin in panic: Donbas slips from Russia's grip!: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/28/putin-in-panic-donbas-slips.html

«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

Join 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/

Scrappy Hour on Instagram: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW Cactus Club- meet 8:30a; wheels up 9:00a EAST SIDE/RW The Daily Bird-meet 9:00a; wheels up 9:15a TOSA Rocket Baby- meet 9:00; wheels up 9:15a Then, we SHBBQ at South Shore Park! We’ll bring some dogs and veggie alternatives. A couple sides. And a cooler of mixed bevies. We’ll bring a couple grills too. Last year our gang showed up with some really delightful offerings! There was homemade bread, and baked goods and side salads. It ruled. So feel free to bring what ever you would like to share with everyone. It will be much appreciated. Bring a baseball mitt and we’ll have a catch. Have a frisbee, bring that too. If it’s hot, good luck keeping me out of that lake, so bring your suit. If you have any questions, as always hit us up and we’ll try to answer. All our love, SH ✌️🚲🏃‍♂️☕️ #coffeeoutsidemke #scrappyhourmke"
107 likes, 8 comments - scrappyhourmke on August 24, 2025: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW …

Selenskyj 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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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Erneut Tote nach russischem Angriff ++
Die Ukraine meldet zwei Tote nach erneuten russischen Angriffen in der zentralukrainischen Region Dnipropetrowsk. Das US-Außenministerium hat den Verkauf von Waffen an die Ukraine genehmigt.

Wieder einmal ist es #SchiffsSamstag. Heute mit einer Begegnung des historischen Seglers FULVIA mit dem gleichfalls historischen Dämpfer BUSSARD bei Warnemünde.

@… 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.

DMPC-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…

DMPC-Swarm: Distributed Model Predictive Control on Nano UAV swarms
Swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly becoming vital to our society, undertaking tasks such as search and rescue, surveillance and delivery. A special variant of Distributed Model Predictive Control (DMPC) has emerged as a promising approach for the safe management of these swarms by combining the scalability of distributed computation with dynamic swarm motion control. In this DMPC method, multiple agents solve local optimization problems with coupled anti-collision constr…

South Africa's coal mines are leaking methane, and no one knows how much #SouthAfrica…

South Africa's coal mines are leaking methane, and no one knows how much
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, and oil and gas production). It is also emitted by agriculture (especially livestock and rice paddies), and decomposing waste in garbage dumps.

⚡ 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

I'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...