NEW – Factcheck: No, Europe is not having its ‘quietest’ year for wildfires ✍️ @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org 💬 With comments from @calxcunningham.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/pDQGTR3
Örjan
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We got new research out today y'all--if you study TikTok, buckle up because we found something wilddddd... arxiv.org/abs/2608.09917 (accepted @ ICWSM 2027)
WhichTok? Comparing Three TikTok Data Acquisition Tools
TikTok's global growth has made it a prime platform for both entertainment and political discourse, prompting increased social science research. However, this rapidly evolving research field faces a f...
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Ember: Electric Asia How Asia is leading the electric age, powering its rise and reshaping the global order. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...
Electric Asia | Ember
How Asia is leading the electric age, powering its rise and reshaping the global order.
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Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air 2026 revised edition · work in progress AUTHOR David J. C. MacKay — with revisions by Örjan Lundberg oluies.github.io/climate/
Sustainable Energy — Without the Hot Air
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Mikael Weissmann och Niklas Nilsson (red): Russia’s War in Ukraine and Modern Warfare, Oxford University Press (open access). academic.oup.com/book/63147
ENISA Secure by Design and Default Playbook got published. www.enisa.europa.eu/sites/defaul... It’s a practical guide to secure by design and default principles for SMEs. I am happy to share that I am one of its contributors. #threatmodeling #securebydesign #enisa #security
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Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
The Republican collapse seems to be picking up steam this week, as a flood of new polls came out with many showing Democrats topping the generic ballot polling open.substack.com/pub/usapolli...
The Republican Collapse Is Picking Up Speed
Fresh surveys show Democrats strengthening their position with just months until election day
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My talk at @localfirstconf.com is up, in which I argue that local-first has a role to play in improving the resilience of democratic societies in an era of geopolitical tensions. I'm pretty happy with how this talk turned out www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Ru...
Martin Kleppmann — Local-first in an unstable world
YouTube video by Local-First Conf
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German Government agrees to phase out Germany’s landmark fixed feed-in tariffs for new small solar PV www.cleanenergywire.org/news/governm...
Government agrees to phase out Germany’s landmark fixed feed-in tariffs for new small solar PV | Clean Energy Wire
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A study reveals how blind and low-vision users use agentic programming to create personalized assistive technologies, producing 37 bespoke tools to address unmet needs. This approach democratizes technology creation and empowers users to envision tailored solutions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21760
Bespoke Visual Assistance: What and How do Blind and Low-Vision People Create with Agentic Programming?
ArXiv link for Bespoke Visual Assistance: What and How do Blind and Low-Vision People Create with Agentic Programming?
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Underhållningslitteratur får inte recensioner i media om författaren inte själv är journalist, men man kan lita på att Logementet recenserar: http://dlvr.it/TTky6J Satellithjärta är #1 Storytel spänning, #2 Bokus e-bok, #3 Akademibokhandeln deckare, #3 Bokus ljudbok
Forest Fire Cause, Effect, and Long-Term Solutions u.osu.edu/forest/2026/...
Forest Fire Cause, Effect, and Long-Term Solutions | Global Forests
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New blog post that describes the ideas behind our award-winning paper on securing AI agents: martinodersky.substack.com/p/tracked-ca...
Tracked Capabilities for Safer Agents
This post describes the ideas behind our paper “Securing Agents with Tracked Capabilities”
martinodersky.substack.com
My second book, coauthored with my son, published today. That book, American Energy: A History of Power, Progress, and Change, traces the forces that powered the rise of the U.S. and transformed everyday life, from wood and coal to oil, natural gas, nuclear power, and renewables. a.co/d/04K1QCHz
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Indeed, down to the last day. We're a smidge under $35,000 going to World Central Kitchen ( @wck.org ) and I would love if we could get over that line (you can move the donation sliders so they can get more). So if you're in a non-Commonwealth country and want a bunch of my stuff in ebook form, go!
Humble@humblebundle.com · 3w agoLast call on The John Scalzi Collection: Old Man's War & More, with books like: - Old Man’s War - Starter Villain - Redshirts - and more! Supports @wck.org | https://bit.ly/448EYpA
1/ The world's songbirds sing in just 8 basic sounds. And where a bird lives decides which ones it uses. My first PhD paper is out now in @science.org (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee6239) Here is what we found:
Why media lawyers fear Donald Trump may try to use the Espionage Act to prosecute journalists for publishing classified information. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Trump’s War on Journalists
The recent subpoenas of reporters make clear that the President is trying to threaten the press. Few protections are in place to stop him.
newyorker.com
Managing the mismatch: The role of flexibility on the path to a carbon-neutral energy system www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Managing the mismatch: The role of flexibility on the path to a carbon-neutral energy system
A rapid expansion of system flexibility is essential to integrate increasing shares of renewable energy into future energy systems. However, flexibili…
sciencedirect.com
the Jacobian Conjecture prompt is 2 pages also. Over half of it is “search and coordination requirements” aaronlou.com/jacobian_cou...
mr. TIM@timkellogg.me · 4w agoif you read the prompts for these big math problems, they’re non-trivial i like to laugh at how prompt engineering is dead, but goddamn, you still need a working mental model for how LLMs think, and that’s not easy
EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/eu-politicians-investigated-pegasus-spyware-then-it-ended-up-on-one-of-their-phones/
EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.
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Björn Jeffery: För Silicon Valley är Sverige ett kap www.svd.se/a/k0QoXA/att...
Björn Jeffery: För Silicon Valley är Sverige ett kap
Amerikanska techbolag köper svensk el, lockar svenska entreprenörer och flyttar svenska bolag till USA. Politiker och näringslivet applåderar. Men när allt mer hamnar i amerikanernas händer kan Sverig...
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Lunds kommun finansierar Kremlpropaganda och stödjande av de krigsförbrytande fascisterna i Ryssland och Moskva, se uppdatering på bloggen. Lunds domkyrka for attention.
Lars Wilderäng@larswilderang.cornucopia.se · 4w agoUkraina: Omfattande bombningar mot Moskva, inklusive ytterligare Wildberrieslogistik – elva ryska fartyg bombade
We've spent all summer killing civilians in Ukraine. @amnesty.org's account hasn't mentioned it once. Wonder why.
11 hours of 4K content about Spark Streaming 4.x just for 35 bucks? It's a bargain if you ask me 🤷 rockthejvm.com/courses/apac... #scala
Apache Spark Streaming with Scala
Unlock the power of Apache Spark Streaming with Scala. Learn to process massive data in real time, integrate with Kafka, JDBC, Cassandra, and other tools, and manage live data streams with ease. Ideal...
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A BIS analysis argues the AI buildout is outpacing prior infrastructure booms and warns, “The larger the boom, the deeper the eventual bust.” Their model suggests that investment is 50% above the efficient level. www.bis.org/publ/work136...
Example: Develop Linux applications in a container machine with Visual Studio Code github.com/apple/contai...
container/examples/container-machine-vscode at main · apple/container
A tool for creating and running Linux containers using lightweight virtual machines on a Mac. It is written in Swift, and optimized for Apple silicon. - apple/container
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The company employs college students, working parents, and caregivers who desperately need a workaround. They can call the shots on their part-time schedule—whether that means unloading trucks before sunrise or working a sanitation shift after the kids are asleep. https://bit.ly/4vo2auQ
Fortune 500 Land O’Lakes is letting workers choose what days and times they work—and the flex jobs are getting 25% more applicants than full-time gigs | Fortune
The famed food giant selling butter sticks, whipped spreads, and shredded cheeses changed its policy after flexibility became workers’ top priority.
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