Oh this is very useful. If you want to disable intrusive, misleading, twat owned AI this is a great help. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

Tesla and SpaceX stock prices are 29.73 and 32.44% down this year/since launch respectively. Has the market woken up to hype?

What would it take to bring Mesa’s open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to Windows? RADV’s experimental Windows port is moving closer to real workloads, while highlighting a key challenge ahead: a stable interface to AMD’s proprietary kernel driver: col.la/portradv @vulkan.org #RADV #Mesa

Cracking Windows Open: Porting RADV to WIN32

RADV’s experimental Windows port explores bringing Mesa’s open source Vulkan driver for AMD GPUs to real workloads while outlining the path toward stable support.

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Europe's on fire. And it's cos we're super-heating our climate.

Everything's on fire

YouTube video by Dr Gilbz

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I lay out Trump's three-part strategy to attack the midterm elections and what we need t do to fight back. Read, share and act! www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

The GOP has a plan to undermine free and fair elections. We must stop them

The GOP is not acting like a party trying to persuade voters to support its candidates — because it isn’t.

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More evidence of Climateflation: This briefing note from researchers at LSE found that last month's heat wave in the UK cost the domestic economy more than £1 billion in lost output due to its effects on worker productivity: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

dear imgui 1.92.9 released! github.com/ocornut/imgu... - new liveedit on/off settings and defaults - tables track topology changes - metal4 rendering backend - timestamped settings entries (for cleanup etc.) - 50+ other changes/fixes (fonts, multi-select, popups, backends etc.).

Every world region has warmed since the mid-20th Century. The Arctic and Europe seems to be warming more than other regions though.

A betting account in the name of George Cottrell, the convicted fraudster who bankrolled Nigel Farage, received almost $9mn in cryptocurrency from unidentified sources while he was providing gifts to the Reform UK leader great work from @annasophiegross.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b74c...

Betting account in George Cottrell’s name received $9mn in crypto from unidentified sources

Deposits in Polymarket wallet came as convicted fraudster was providing gifts to Farage

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Are we ready for AI and all of it's potential? www.bbc.com/news/article... Errr. No. Not even close. In a connected world we are in a vulnerable world.

OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack

It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.

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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 447 - July 19th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Two-thirds of global energy is wasted, mostly as combustion heat. Electrification gets rid of most of that waste rather than replacing it. From my keynote at the Eurelectric PowerSummit.

The 2020 election was not rigged and no votes were changes. Donald Trump's reaction was to sue and incite a violent insurrection in the Capitol. Donald Trump is once again laying the groundwork to try to overturn elections he is about to lose. We need to be prepared and to fight back.

Vulkan's hardest topic, rebuilt around the modern standard. This series replaces legacy 1.0 barrier soup with `vk::DependencyInfo` and timeline semaphores, then uses that foundation to architect an engine-grade frame loop. docs.vulkan.org/tutorial/lat... #vulkan #gpu #cpu #synchronization

Research shows that people who report being abducted by aliens also have a higher incidence of sleep paralysis. Anomalistic psychologist Chris French explains how his terrifying phenomenon aligns with accounts of alien abductions. Watch the full talk: youtube.com/watch?v=i8mjM3PB_Tk

New Tutorial - OpenXR and Vulkan 1.3 Spatial Computing Walking from the OpenXR/Vulkan 1.3 handshake all the way to multi-GPU CAVE installations and light-field rendering — everything needed to ship real spatial computing applications. docs.vulkan.org/tutorial/lat... #Vulkan #OpenXR #spatial #3D

*Take your Vulkan renderer into stereo, headset, and beyond.* The most expansive series in the collection, walking from the OpenXR/Vulkan 1.3 handshake all the way to multi-GPU CAVE installations and light-field rendering — everything needed to ship real […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Does replacing parking with bike-lanes hurt restaurant business? Of course not, as this new peer-reviewed STUDY of 15 years of Montreal data showed. ACTUALLY, downtown experienced significant restaurant growth after bike lanes were installed. @momentummag.bsky.social momentummag.com/do-bike-lane...

One way of seeing climate change in action is looking at 1200 year continuous data from Japan about cherry tree blossoming.

Why is AC so rare in much of Europe? Well, until recently it simply wasn't hot enough to need it. Here is the average number of days above 30C (86F) for major cities over time:

*Run trained neural networks on the GPU — your way, your pipeline.* A pragmatic, three-path series: integrate battle-tested libraries (TensorFlow Lite, ONNX Runtime, PyTorch Mobile, DirectML), compile models through an ML compiler (IREE, TVM, OpenXLA), or […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

🚨 #SavingSessions alert! 🚨 📅 POWER DOWN 8-9PM TODAY (9 JULY) 🐙 Earn 137 Octopoints per kWh saved vs normal 📍All Regions involved! Keep your fans on and try to stay cool! Just shift heavy appliances (like washers & dishwashers) outside the hour!

R2-D2 Robot Down in Desert

ALT: R2-D2 Robot Down in Desert

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Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 445 - July 5th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

🚨 BREAKING: The EU's Electrification Action Plan has leaked. Having read the full draft, my verdict: the diagnosis is right and there are lots of nuggets of gold in the Plans. The question now is whether the ambition survives into law. My analysis: janrosenow.substack.com/p/europes-el...

Europe’s electrification rate has been stuck at 23% for a decade. The Commission finally has a plan.

The Commission's leaked Electrification Action Plan could finally accelerate Europe's stalled transition, if it delivers on electricity prices and implementation.

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ICE is not slowing down murdering brown skinned people

Second person in 4 days is fatally shot in Memphis by federal task force member

The second fatal shooting in four days by a federal crime-fighting task force in Memphis is under investigation.

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One month in one country 2700 heat-related deaths. Why isn't major news worldwide? The record breaking heat waves we are experiencing across the world is directly connected to global warming caused by burning fossil fuels. We have to transition ASAP, the survival of our families depend upon it.

Cecilia Keating@ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org · 4w ago

NEW: During last month’s record-breaking heatwave, there were more than 2,700 heat-related deaths in France. That’s according to new analysis for @carbonbrief.org from @ccallahan45.bsky.social and @andrewdessler.com Read more: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-f...

What we already know is horrific. Imagine how bad discovery would be if the government is willing to pay our fees (something the government doesn’t readily do) just to avoid it.

Jon Seidel@jonseidel.bsky.social · 4w ago

The feds just made it official: They won't fight a bid by members of the "Broadview 6" for attorneys' fees. They do "not concede that the United States has acted or done anything to warrant those fees." They also say there should be no discovery. Full filing: cst.brightspotcdn.com/dc/d1/e34a37...

Vulkan is deprecating host-side ray tracing acceleration structure build commands in favor of a single, device-address-based path. This aligns #Vulkan Ray Tracing with the direction of DirectX Raytracing, modern engine architecture, and hardware trends. www.khronos.org/blog/vulkan-... #RayTracing

New video with some commentary and thoughts on the new @OctopusEnergy "Smart Heating" product. Are heat pumps the right thing to flex?? "Octopus Smart Heating Is Here... But Who Should Control Your Heat Pump?" youtu.be/hg_4ufmHaZk

Octopus Smart Heating Is Here... But Who Should Control Your Heat Pump?

YouTube video by Mick Wall (Energy Stats UK)

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