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Azerbaijan-Russia tensions escalate as Baku accuses Moscow of intentional killing of its citizens: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/azerbaijanrussia-tensions-escalate-as-baku.html

This is part of the overall assault on knowledge that the administration is undertaking.
Everything that has made this nation a shining beacon in any way whatsoever is being dismantled
-- with the worst aspects of American history being held up as aspirational.
Please call Congress if you are able.
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From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
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RUSSIA LOSES INFLUENCE: AZERBAIJAN ESCALATION Vlog 1090: War in Ukraine
#Azerbaijan-#Russia rift deepens after police a…

Azerbaijan detains alleged Russian spies as relations with Moscow nosedive: https://benborges.xyz/2025/06/30/azerbaijan-detains-alleged-russian-spies.html

Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can make chatbots reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind
OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

Russian officer admits to downing Azerbaijani airliner in reported leak: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/russian-officer-admits-to-downing.html

Oh dear -- within a day of hearing about this from another professor, I got my first LLM-generated email from an aspiring grad student. It mischaracterized my research (apparently I write lots of mathematical formulas, ha!) and ascribed papers to me that I never wrote, which are basically remixes of common words in my paper titles. If you do this, you will insult the people you want to impress.

Im hbz wird eine neue Leitung der Gruppe "Datenbankservices und Verbunddienstleistungen" gesucht, siehe https://metadaten.community/t/hbz-leitung-der-gruppe-datenbankservices-und-verbunddienstleistungen/827

Cluster analysis of earthquake hypocenters in Azerbaijan and surrounding territories
Sergii Skurativskyi, Sergiy Mykulyak, Yuliya Semenova, Kateryna Skurativska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22829

Cluster analysis of earthquake hypocenters in Azerbaijan and surrounding territories
The research focuses on seismic events that occurred in Azerbaijan and adjacent territories, regions known for strong seismic activity. We analyze a catalog of recorded earthquakes between 2010 and 2023, extracting the locations of the earthquake hypocenters for study purposes. Using statistical methods and cluster analysis tools, we developed a procedure for partitioning hypocenter clusters. The procedure begins with estimates of the Morisita Index, which is suitable for preliminary assessment…

Arrests, raids, beaten and bloodied suspects — how Russia-Azerbaijan relations have unravelled: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/arrests-raids-beaten-and-bloodied.html