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un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
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Das Mausritter SRD ist jetzt unter #MausRitter #SRD

Friday Links 25-08
Pocket is a big part of how I collect the links for the Friday Links. Sadly, Mozilla has decided to shut Pocket down. My plan is to migrate to Readwise Reader, which seems to be a reasonable replacement. I am now migrating some of my helper scripts to make the change easier. You will see next week if I will be successful. :-)

"Objective-C is a West Coast language. Objective-C is a hippie. You throw stuff at it and it just trusts you. “Peace maaaaaannn… if you say this is an NSArray I believe you…” and it leans back in its armchair, smoking weed, listening to Marley, Floyd, Doors, or Janis, looking at you with deep eyes, telling you stories about Buddhism and how important is ecology, and that tonight they are going to a retreat in the beach to pray for Yemanjš and the salvation of dolphins."

The Developer Guide to Migrate Across Galaxies
This is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.

Mixture of Encoders is a vector-native alternative that models both structured and unstructured data in a unified embedding space. Join Filip Makraduli as he introduces the method, demonstrates how it powers natural language search and real-time recommendations, and shares open-source tools and benchmarks for replacing complex hybrid stacks.
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What Must Raiders' Carroll Do to Win COY? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-usc-trojans-seattle-seahawks-jj-mccarthy

Security verletzt - Arnautovic-Schock! Maskierte Diebe stürmten Villa #News #Nachrichten

The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-fcc-majority-olivia-trusty-senate-1236436125/

Donald Trump And Republicans To Gain A Majority On FCC As Senate Confirms Olivia Trusty
The Republicans will have a 2-1 majority.

The Republican Majority on the Senate Banking Committee released a press release Friday confirming that they were intentionally eliminating
the “duplicative Office of Financial Research (OFR)”.
According to sources I’ve talked to in the Senate, Republican committee members have shown little concern with the elimination of the Office of Financial Research.
They also seem aware of the concerns over SOFR, because both their “one pager” and “section by section” documents clai…

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market
Early last week I started working on a piece on why the Federal Reserve didn’t step in during the Trump Tariff Financial Panic. The basic idea of that piece is simply that “repo rates”- the interest rate at which you can, in essence, borrow funds with treasury securities

un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…