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Lee Chatfield, Michigan’s Republican House speaker in 2019 and 2020,
is facing 13 criminal charges
stemming from his use of political dark money on vacations and luxury goods,
the state’s attorney general, Dana Nessel, a Democrat, said on Tuesday
https://ww…

Diarycast - Lockdown Patently Workable (2020-05-10) - More good PV generation, and news that active travel is getting some UK central-government TLC... #podcast #coronavirus #activeTravel -

Diarycast - Lockdown Patently Workable (2020-05-10)
More good PV generation, and news that active travel is getting some UK central-government TLC... #podcast #coronavirus #activeTravel

Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, veteran who killed police brutality protester in 2020 (William Melhado/The Texas Tribune)
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/16/daniel-perry-greg-abbott-pardon/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240516/p48#a240516p48

The New York Times/Siena poll released this past weekend clarifies how this particular trial poses a real danger to Trump:
• 53% of voters and 49% of Independents already think Trump has committed serious crimes;
• 58% believe the charges of hush money payments made to the porn star Stormy Daniels are serious. This includes 54% of Independents and 23% of Trump 2020 voters; and
• 49% of voters think Trump should be found guilty in this case.
A near majority believe Tru…

Why Trump's Trial is a Big Political Problem
Pundits are underestimating the potential impact of a candidate getting

Throwback to #OTD April 13th 2020 where I got bored during the pandemic and discovered that police comms in San Jose aren't encrypted by any means

Tasks People Prompt: A Taxonomy of LLM Downstream Tasks in Software Verification and Falsification Approaches
V\'ictor A. Braberman, Flavia Bonomo-Braberman, Yiannis Charalambous, Juan G. Colonna, Lucas C. Cordeiro, Rosiane de Freitas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09384

Tasks People Prompt: A Taxonomy of LLM Downstream Tasks in Software Verification and Falsification Approaches
Prompting has become one of the main approaches to leverage emergent capabilities of Large Language Models [Brown et al. NeurIPS 2020, Wei et al. TMLR 2022, Wei et al. NeurIPS 2022]. During the last year, researchers and practitioners have been playing with prompts to see how to make the most of LLMs. By homogeneously dissecting 80 papers, we investigate in deep how software testing and verification research communities have been abstractly architecting their LLM-enabled solutions. More precise…

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardons Daniel Perry, who killed Black Lives Matter protester in 2020 (USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/16/texas-gov-pardon-daniel-perry-murder-black-lives-matter-protestor/73720504007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240516/p42#a240516p42

Balancing-based model reduction for switched descriptor systems
Mattia Manucci, Benjamin Unger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.10511 https://

Balancing-based model reduction for switched descriptor systems
We present a novel certified model order reduction (MOR) algorithm for switched descriptor systems applicable to large-scale systems. Our algorithm combines the idea of [Hossain \& Trenn, Technical report, 2023] to reformulate the switched descriptor system as a switched ordinary differential equation with jumps and an extension of the balanced truncation for switched ODE from [Pontes Duff et al., IEEE Trans.~Automat.~Control, 2020]. Besides being the first MOR method for switched descriptor sy…

More and more #reddit previews stop working these days. Current example: my #RSS #Atom feed aggregator.
I want to emphasize that I've warned about that years ago:
Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in <…

In her role as Minister of Finance, to which she was appointed in August, 2020, the Deputy Prime Minister has supported the Canadian economy’s strong recovery from the pandemic recession, led the introduction of Canada’s first national system of affordable early learning and child care, and returned Canada’s finances to a sustainable footing after the winding-down of emergency pandemic spending.

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/cabinet/honourable-chrystia-freeland

How Meta's VR bet has played out a decade after its acquisition of Oculus; the company's metaverse division lost $42B between the end of 2020 and Q1 2024 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/04/facebooks-oculus-acquisition-turns…

Ten years later, Facebook's Oculus acquisition hasn't changed the world as expected | TechCrunch
Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of

An internal "traffic sheet" from a source shows the Washington Post website had ~55M monthly visits in February 2024, down 60% from ~140M visits in April 2020 (Vince Morris/Washington City Paper)
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/articl

Washington Post Web Traffic Numbers Keep Sinking
The Post stopped publishing its web traffic data online after a 60 percent drop since 2020.

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2020/10/what-john-von-neumann-really-did-at-los-alamos.html - What John von Neumann really did at Los Alamos.

"New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that Wohl and Burkman had conceded to a $1 million judgment to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) and individual plaintiffs."
Conservative operatives who targeted Black voters with robocalls could pay up to $1.25 million  | The Hill

Conservative operatives who targeted Black voters with robocalls could pay up to $1.25 million 
Two conservative operatives who attempted to stop Black voters in New York from voting by mail in the 2020 election have been ordered to pay up to $1.25 million in restitution. Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were found liable in 2023 for targeting Black voters with false and threatening messages intended to discourage voting. U.S. District Judge…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.11892 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Constrained Pressure-Temperature Residual (CPTR) Preconditioner Performance for Large-Scale Thermal CO2 Injection Simulation
This work studies the performance of a novel preconditioner, designed for thermal reservoir simulation cases and recently introduced in Roy et al. (2020) and Cremon et al. (2020), on large-scale thermal CO2 injection cases. For Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) projects, injecting CO2 under supercritical conditions is typically tens of degrees colder than the reservoir temperature. Thermal effects can have a significant impact on the simulation results, but they also add many challenges fo…

2/ Leider gibt es ein paar Fehler, die eigentlich bei Klimaberichterstattung nicht passieren dürfen. Im Beitrag steht, dass das klimaverträgliche Budget eines Menschen bei 1,5 Tonnen pro Jahr liegt. Das stimmt im Prinzip, nur dass wir Deutschen nach allen Maßstäben, die man so anlegen könnte, unser Budget bereits aufgebraucht haben. Historisch sind wir ohnehin schon jenseits von gut und böse. Aber selbst wenn man 1992 oder 2015 (Pariser Abkommen) als Startpunkt nimmt, ist unsere Restbudget seit Anfang diesen Jahres aufgebraucht.
Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen. 2024. Wo stehen wir beim CO2-Budget? Eine Aktualisierung. Berlin: Sachverständigenrat für Umweltfragen. (https://www.umweltrat.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/04_Stellungnahmen/2020_2024/2024_03_CO2_Budget.pdf?__blob=publicationFile&v=8)
Wir leben jetzt auf Pump und müssen deshalb SOFORT aus allem aussteigen, was wir nicht unbedingt brauchen. Wobei ICH festlege, was wir nicht unbedingt brauchen. (War ein Scherz, aber ich würde Euch als bessere Lösung Bürgerräte anbieten. Dann können wir das alles besprechen.)

Time for a #Covid stats update! Aussie actuarials just dropped their annual update last week — big thanks to @… — your approach is a gold standard.
Link here:

Excess Mortality 5% Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Expectations for 2023 - Actuaries Digital
Total excess mortality for 2023 is 5% (95% confidence interval: 3% to 7%) or +8,400 deaths – i.e., there were 8,400 more deaths than expected if the pandemic had not happened.

Some wine discounter delivered six bottles of Spanish red, some kind of a sampler intro pack, to us. Except: we never ordered it. The putative addressee at our house was one Egon Mayer, who seems to have been a famous German Luftwaffe pilot in WWII.
We emailed the distributor, who had the package picked up today. We got to keep a bottle for our diligence.

In 1997, 43% of 16 year olds had their driver’s license.
By 2020, it was just 25%.
Why have young adults (aka teens) stopped driving?

I'm looking for some example #DMP s for a workshop: Do you have any favourite publicly shared DMPs that you point people to? Ideally fairly recent? (After 2020)
I already have the BY-COVID project one: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6884815

Harsh but fair: «For this reason, and as reported in other islands worldwide (Campbell & Donlan, 2005; Capizzi, 2020), complete eradication of feral goats represents the only option to preserve the natural plant communities in microinsular ecosystems over the long term.»
https://zenodo.org/records/10924962

Heute vor 81 Jahren wurde das Ehepaar Hampel in Plötzensee hingerichtet. Eine Gedenkstätte, die 2020 nach Vandalismus wiederhergestellt wurde, erinnert an die beiden mutigen Weddinger.
https://weddingweiser.de/stele-fuer-elise-und-otto-hampel-wird…

This discussion of the burden of proof and design patent damages is good so I'll forgive the "patent design" part. Kyjen v. ScheduleA, 2024 WL 1421126, at *7. #ScheduleA #Remedies

2021 retro-link! https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimization-on-programming-horror/ - Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on a programming horror.

All-Pro Superstar Threatens Holdout Amist Contract Dispute https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/all_pro_superstar_threatens_holdout_amist_contract_dispute/s1_17198_40215435

All-Pro Superstar Threatens Holdout Amist Contract Dispute
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is entering the final year of his rookie contract and could holdout for a better deal. A first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Oklahoma product quickly established himself as one of the most dangerous secondary options in the game. While playing behind Amari Cooper, the wide receiver recorded a combined 153 receptions for 2,037 yards and 11 touchdowns through his first two seasons. The Cowboys traded Amari Cooper following the 2021 season, leaving …

Next: Ghosts [2020] by Dolly Alderton. Starts great!
"As we walked down Archway Road, we were side by side and he moved me so he was standing on the outside of the pavement. I was reminded of how annoyingly delicious these patronizing traditions of heteronormativity could be. [...] I resented it."
#bookstodon

Operatives must pay up to $1.25 million for robocall scheme to suppress Black votes
Two right-wing political operatives must pay up to $1.25 million in fines after they were found liable for launching a robocall campaign designed to keep Black New Yorkers from voting in the 2020 election, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday.

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who have a history of concocting conspiracy theories to try to smear Democrats, were found liable last Mar…

Operatives must pay up to $1.25 million for robocall scheme to suppress Black votes
Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are conservative operatives who have a history of concocting conspiracy theories to try to smear Democrats.

In #Xinjiang, #China, zeigt eine Studie bedeutende saisonale Unterschiede der #Niederschlagsmuster. Im warmen Sommer regnet es mindestens doppelt so viel wie im kalten Winter. Diese Ergebniss…

Climate change impacts on precipitation and water resources in Northwestern China
A statistical analysis is conducted on the hourly precipitation at 105 national meteorological stations in the Xinjiang region of China from 2011 to 2020. The purpose of this analysis is to determine the total quantity of precipitation during the warm and cold seasons, as well as the precipitation frequency at each station. The results of the analysis indicate that there is a more pronounced inter-annual variation in precipitation during the warm and cold seasons in Xinjiang, where the total am…

The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months | Society books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-the-flies-what-h…

"A c implementation of tic-tac-toe in a single call to printf. Written for IOCCC 2020." – Nicholas Carlini
https://github.com/carlini/printf-tac-toe

Oh no, look what self-driving truck AI has done to truck drivers
(Self-driving cars/trucks are almost completely a scam and just part of the ongoing AI hype.)

This was the warmest March on record here in the Netherlands:
Average temperature 8.9°C.
That's 2.4°C warmer than the (already warmed) 1991-2020 average, and 3.7⁰C warmer than the (already warmed) 20th century average.
It was 0.7°C warmer than the 20th century *April* average!
#globalwarming

Lara Trump's RNC robocall falsely claims 'massive fraud' in 2020 election (Martin Pengelly/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/11/lara-trump-rnc-election-robocalls
http://www.memeorandum.com/240411/p86#a240411p86

A 25-year veteran editor at NPR says an "open-minded spirit" no longer exists there and blames ex-CEO John Lansing's focus on race and identity starting in 2020 (Uri Berliner/The Free Press)
https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trus…

NPR Editor Uri Berliner: Here’s How We Lost America's Trust
Writing for The Free Press, Uri Berliner says NPR lost its way when it started telling listeners how to think on Trump, Covid-19, race, and identity politics.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10359 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Tempered Perfect Lattices in the Binary Case
A new algorithm for computing Hecke operators for SL(n,Z) was introduced by MacPherson, McConnell in 2020. The algorithm uses tempered perfect lattices, which are certain pairs of lattices together with a quadratic form. These generalize the perfect lattices of Voronoi. The present paper is the first step in characterizing tempered perfect lattices. We obtain a complete classification in the plane, where the Hecke operators are for SL(2,Z) and its arithmetic subgroups. The results depend on the…

2021 retro-link! https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimization-on-programming-horror/ - Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on a programming horror.

Crippled Black Phoenix - "Lost" (Official Music Video) 2020 #pouetradio

PitchBook: investors have poured $330B into ~26,000 AI and ML startups over the past three years, up 66% on funding to 20,350 AI companies from 2018 to 2020 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/29/techn…

A.I. Start-Ups Face a Rough Financial Reality Check
The table stakes for small companies to compete with the likes of Microsoft and Google are in the billions of dollars. And even that may not be enough.

This was me at the end of 2020 after all the police riots of that year: https://stranger.social/@OGjester/112340068942915124

A Multi-wavelength Study on A Gamma-ray Bright AGN 1308 326 Using KVN at 22 and 43 GHz
Shan Li, Sang-sung Lee, Whee Yeon Cheong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06882

A Multi-wavelength Study on A Gamma-ray Bright AGN 1308+326 Using KVN at 22 and 43 GHz
In this paper, we conduct a multi-frequency analysis of the gamma-ray bright blazar 1308+326 from February 2013 to March 2020, using the Korean VLBI Network at 22 and 43 GHz and gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Our findings reveal spectral variations around the 2014 gamma-ray flare, aligning with the shock-in-jet model. A strong correlation is observed between gamma-ray and 43 GHz emissions, with a 27-day lag in the VLBI core light curve, indicating a 50-day delay from …

Well, looks like somebody did 😂
https://ianbetteridge.com/2024/04/19/what-a-difference-four-years-makes/
From: @…

Please stop writing down music.
"In all Indian musical traditions, learning, rationalization and sharing are part of an internal process within and between artists. The magnificence of this non-scribal technique is the acceptance of diversity and the possibility of continuous musical change. The internalization of structure and form in the art, the role of memory and rediscovering without written reference keeps the music moving and varied. Every voice is not identical; the possibi…

Maximally Forward-Looking Core Inflation
Philippe Goulet Coulombe, Karin Klieber, Christophe Barrette, Maximilian Goebel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05209 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05209
arXiv:2404.05209v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Timely monetary policy decision-making requires timely core inflation measures. We create a new core inflation series that is explicitly designed to succeed at that goal. Precisely, we introduce the Assemblage Regression, a generalized nonnegative ridge regression problem that optimizes the price index's subcomponent weights such that the aggregate is maximally predictive of future headline inflation. Ordering subcomponents according to their rank in each period switches the algorithm to be learning supervised trimmed inflation - or, put differently, the maximally forward-looking summary statistic of the realized price changes distribution. In an extensive out-of-sample forecasting experiment for the US and the euro area, we find substantial improvements for signaling medium-term inflation developments in both the pre- and post-Covid years. Those coming from the supervised trimmed version are particularly striking, and are attributable to a highly asymmetric trimming which contrasts with conventional indicators. We also find that this metric was indicating first upward pressures on inflation as early as mid-2020 and quickly captured the turning point in 2022. We also consider extensions, like assembling inflation from geographical regions, trimmed temporal aggregation, and building core measures specialized for either upside or downside inflation risks.

Hey, I remember that talk from 2020! #phptek

From the #RiversOfLondon book False Value, published 2020, before we lost our AI innocence.

"Most countries are struggling to meet climate pledges from 2009, emissions tracking study shows"
#Emissions #Climate #ClimateChange

Most countries are struggling to meet climate pledges from 2009, emissions tracking study shows
Nineteen out of 34 countries surveyed failed to fully meet their 2020 climate commitments set 15 years ago in Copenhagen, according to a new study led by UCL researchers.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.14433 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

A data-driven framework for dimensionality reduction and causal inference in climate fields
We propose a data-driven framework to simplify the description of spatiotemporal climate variability into few entities and their causal linkages. Given a high-dimensional climate field, the methodology first reduces its dimensionality into a set of regionally constrained patterns. Time-dependent causal links are then inferred in the interventional sense through the fluctuation-response formalism, as shown in Baldovin et al. (2020). These two steps allow to explore how regional climate variabili…

NASCAR Top-10 Power Rankings: Las Vegas https://www.yardbarker.com/general_sports/articles/nascar_top_10_power_rankings_las_vegas/s1_17099_40055563

NASCAR Top-10 Power Rankings: Las Vegas
Note: The quotes in this article are fictional. 1. Kyle Larson: Larson dominated throughout the day on Sunday, sweeping the stages and leading 181 laps on his way to the win in the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. “There wasn’t a car on the track that could challenge me,” Larson said. “You could say I was ‘untouchable,’ which is what advertisers were calling me back in the spring of 2020.” 2. Ryan Blaney: Blaney finished third in the Pennzoil 400. “I don’t know what…

GameDiscoverCo has a new Steam game data survey for 2024, with a particular focus on games released from 2020 onwards.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdOJ2DKRM506Kyp7dt02QOQinDI-DGqLFpIPQy9ISDFMseOqQ/viewform…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06724 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

DIAmante TESS AutoRegressive Planet Search (DTARPS): II. Hundreds of New TESS Candidate Exoplanets
The DIAmante TESS AutoRegressive Planet Search (DTARPS) project seeks to identify photometric transiting planets from 976,814 southern hemisphere stars observed in Year 1 of the TESS mission. This paper follows the methodology developed by Melton et al. (Paper I) using light curves extracted and pre-processed by the DIAmante project (Montalto et al. 2020). Paper I emerged with a list of 7,377 light curves with statistical properties characteristic of transiting planets but dominated by False Al…

First-Order Vortex Lattice Melting in Bilayer Ice: A Monte Carlo Method Study
Telun Zhong, Heyang Ma, Peijun Zheng, Jie Zhang, Wanzhou Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05996

First-Order Vortex Lattice Melting in Bilayer Ice: A Monte Carlo Method Study
Inspired by the stable bilayer water ice grown in the laboratory (Nature 577, 60, 2020), we propose a model representing water ice as a two-layer six-vertex model. Using the loop update Monte Carlo method, we unveil meaningful findings. While the square lattice six-vertex model exhibits an antiferromagnetic to disordered phase transition known as the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, we observe a different scenario for the bilayer six-vertex model, where the transition type transforms…

Dead right. https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2024/01/24/negligence-by-experts-in-the-early-response-to-covid-19/

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.

16WW Coronalog - Timeline - A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown - https://www.earth.org.uk/cor…

16WW Coronalog - Timeline
A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown

A physician, a lawyer, a CEO: the 84 fake electors who allegedly tried to steal the 2020 election | Election interference | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/27/fake-electors-2020-presidential-election

Just ordered a refurbished Lenovo Thinkcentre M720q Tiny (2020) for my #proxmox #openbsd #nextcloud project.
My server in the basement isn't suitable for what I have planned. Too b…

Special counsel urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim

Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday urged the Supreme Court to reject Donald Trump’s “novel and sweeping” claim that he is immune from criminal prosecution on charges of conspiring to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

“The President’s constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed does not entail a general right to violate them,” Smith said in his office’s main brie…

Special counsel urges Supreme Court to reject Trump’s immunity claim
A president’s “constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed does not entail a general right to violate them,” Jack Smith writes in his office’s brief.

📢 Gericht hebt Urteil gegen Weinstein auf
Der Oberste Gerichtshof von New York hat das Urteil gegen Ex-Hollywood-Produzent Harvey Weinstein aufgehoben und wegen Verfahrensfehlern einen neuen Prozess angeordnet. Weinstein war 2020 wegen sexuellen Missbrauchs und Vergewaltigung zu 23 Jahren Haft verurteilt worden.
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Gericht hebt Urteil gegen Weinstein auf
Der Oberste Gerichtshof von New York hat das Urteil gegen Ex-Hollywood-Produzent Harvey Weinstein aufgehoben und wegen Verfahrensfehlern einen neuen Prozess angeordnet. Weinstein war 2020 wegen sexuellen Missbrauchs und Vergewaltigung zu 23 Jahren Haft verurteilt worden.

LFG!
https://wapo.st/4aOOO1s

Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe
The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the 2020 pro-Trump elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes.

Meaning Biden should be able to send Donny to a black site forever w/o consequence, right?
The GUARDIAN: Presidents should have immunity for acts taken in office, Donny's lawyers say – including attempts to overturn 2020 election results
https://www.theguardian.…

Der Söder-Zyklus beginnt erneut, macht euch bereit für das nächste Thema: Verbrenner-Autos, Taurus-Raketen, Atomkraftwerke? Ich kann es kaum erwarten!

In a letter, several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials ask Meta to repeal a policy allowing ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen (Christina A. Cassidy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/facebook-el…

Democratic officials criticize Meta ad policy, saying it amplifies lies about 2020 election
Several Democrats serving as their state’s top election officials have sent a letter to the parent company of Facebook, asking it to stop allowing ads that claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen. In the letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the secretaries said allowing such ads will further erode trust in elections and fuel threats of political violence against election workers. On Friday, Meta defended its work around elections and said it would remove election-related cont…

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
J. J. Choi, E. J. Jeon, J. Y. Kim, K. W. Kim, S. H. Kim, S. K. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Y. J. Ko, B. C. Koh, C. Ha, B. J. Park, S. H. Lee, I. S. Lee, H. Lee, H. S. Lee, J. Lee, Y. M. Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03691

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
The Neutrino Elastic-scattering Observation with NaI(Tl) experiment (NEON) aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering~(CE$ν$NS) in a NaI(Tl) crystal using reactor anti-electron neutrinos at the Hanbit nuclear power plant complex. A total of 13.3 kg of NaI(Tl) crystals were initially installed in December 2020 at the tendon gallery, 23.7$\pm$0.3\,m away from the reactor core, which operates at a thermal power of 2.8\,GW. Initial engineering operation was performed from May 2021…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
The Cribs:
🎵 Come On, Be A No-One
#TheCribs
https://open.spotify.com/track/7BhzUUgco167ieqYbmDA44
https://thecribs.bandcamp.com/track/come-on-be-a-no-one-live-at-the-cavern-club-2020

“When you do criming, eventually it catches up to you.” —@TTbuttonguys_2020 https://apple.news/Aqrh8tS_2QDSNvueE_qTiUw

Precise Mass, Orbital motion and Stellar properties of the M-dwarf binary LP 349-25AB
Salvador Curiel (IAUNAM), Gisela N. Ortiz-Leon (NRAO), Amy J. Mioduszewski (INAOE), Anthony B. Arenas-Martinez (INAOE, Facultad de Ciencias)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16964

Precise Mass, Orbital motion and Stellar properties of the M-dwarf binary LP 349-25AB
LP~349$-$25 is a well studied close stellar binary system comprised of two late M dwarf stars, both stars close to the limit between star and brown dwarf. This system was previously identified as a source of GHz radio emission. We observed LP~349$-$25AB in 11 epochs in 2020$-$2022, detecting both components in this nearby binary system using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). We fit simultaneously the VLBA absolute astrometric positions together with existing relative astrometric observations…

Some founders say TikTok ban won't impact creator economy startups much, as they have diversified across multiple platforms after Trump tried banning it in 2020 (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/27/will

Will a TikTok ban impact creator economy startups? Not really, founders say | TechCrunch
President Biden signed a bill on Wednesday that could ban TikTok — for real this time. "Two years ago, this would have been devastating," one founder said.

With ominous Smartmatic and Dominion lawsuits well underway, #MikeLindell's #election-denial obsession has nearly cost him his business and put the livelihood of his employees on the line.
Judge evicting #MyPillow

Judge evicting Mike Lindell's MyPillow from Minnesota warehouse
The pillow maker failed to paid rent, the latest in a series of financial woes amid legal battles stemming from founder's debunked claims of 2020 election fraud.

Maximally Forward-Looking Core Inflation
Philippe Goulet Coulombe, Karin Klieber, Christophe Barrette, Maximilian Goebel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05209 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.05209
arXiv:2404.05209v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Timely monetary policy decision-making requires timely core inflation measures. We create a new core inflation series that is explicitly designed to succeed at that goal. Precisely, we introduce the Assemblage Regression, a generalized nonnegative ridge regression problem that optimizes the price index's subcomponent weights such that the aggregate is maximally predictive of future headline inflation. Ordering subcomponents according to their rank in each period switches the algorithm to be learning supervised trimmed inflation - or, put differently, the maximally forward-looking summary statistic of the realized price changes distribution. In an extensive out-of-sample forecasting experiment for the US and the euro area, we find substantial improvements for signaling medium-term inflation developments in both the pre- and post-Covid years. Those coming from the supervised trimmed version are particularly striking, and are attributable to a highly asymmetric trimming which contrasts with conventional indicators. We also find that this metric was indicating first upward pressures on inflation as early as mid-2020 and quickly captured the turning point in 2022. We also consider extensions, like assembling inflation from geographical regions, trimmed temporal aggregation, and building core measures specialized for either upside or downside inflation risks.

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020) - Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Zanussi-ZWF01483W-freestanding-washing-machine-REVIEW.html

On the Zanussi ZWF01483W washing machine: Review (2020)
Cold washes, 10kg capacity, quick and intensive cycles.

Sources: BigCommerce, provider of software and an e-commerce platform to retailers, is exploring a sale after losing 90% of its market value since its 2020 IPO (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/soft…

April was the 9th warmest on record, here in the Netherlands. Hardly noticed, because the first half was the warmest ever, but the second half was much cooler.
April 2024: average 10.8°C
April average 1991-2020: 9.9°C
April average 20th century: 8.2°C
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

Rightwing activists ramp up drive to hand-count ballots
If more localities decide to try hand-counting in the November election, results could be inaccurate, untrustworthy or delayed, fostering more distrust in elections.
In places that opt not to hand-count, supporters of the practice could use this choice as a reason to question or refuse to sign off on certification.
Either way, it raises the risk of throwing the 2024 election into chaos.
“It just gives additional…

Three potential landing spots for former Seahawks safety Jamal Adams https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/three_potential_landing_spots_for_former_seahawks_safety_jamal_adams/s1_13132_40062986…

Three potential landing spots for former Seahawks safety Jamal Adams
After four injury-plagued seasons, safety Jamal Adams' time with the Seattle Seahawks has come to an unceremonious end.  On Tuesday, Seattle made the rather unsurprising move to release the three-time Pro Bowler as part of several cuts to prepare for the new league year. Not only was Adams — who was acquired from the New York Jets in 2020 — unable to stay on the field for Seattle, but he never came close to replicating his 9.5-sack debut season with the team. In fact, Adams hasn't recorded…

Dead right. https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2024/01/24/negligence-by-experts-in-the-early-response-to-covid-19/

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.

Dreaming Revolutionary Futures: Critical Race’s Centrality to Ending White Supremacy #librarianship does not center the specific, different, and nuanced “material and embodied conditions” of BIPOC in the profession nor those supported by the profession, then we do not consider it progress; we chalk it up as just another projection of the White Supremacy project."
#Library #RDM

Sources: BigCommerce, provider of software and an e-commerce platform to retailers, is exploring a sale after losing 90% of its market value since its 2020 IPO (Milana Vinn/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/soft…

If Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. has a campaign theme
--beyond the appeal of his family name
--it’s his claim that Americans are the victims of massive, intertwining #conspiracies that he is uniquely qualified to unravel.
His paranoia politics is most pronounced, perhaps, on the matter of

RFK Jr. Is Doing a Tired Dance Around January 6
Even as his campaign walks back a downright Trumpian fundraising email, Kennedy is trying to legitimize baseless 2020 election doubts.

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
J. J. Choi, E. J. Jeon, J. Y. Kim, K. W. Kim, S. H. Kim, S. K. Kim, Y. D. Kim, Y. J. Ko, B. C. Koh, C. Ha, B. J. Park, S. H. Lee, I. S. Lee, H. Lee, H. S. Lee, J. Lee, Y. M. Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03691

Upgrade of NaI(Tl) crystal encapsulation for the NEON experiment
The Neutrino Elastic-scattering Observation with NaI(Tl) experiment (NEON) aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering~(CE$ν$NS) in a NaI(Tl) crystal using reactor anti-electron neutrinos at the Hanbit nuclear power plant complex. A total of 13.3 kg of NaI(Tl) crystals were initially installed in December 2020 at the tendon gallery, 23.7$\pm$0.3\,m away from the reactor core, which operates at a thermal power of 2.8\,GW. Initial engineering operation was performed from May 2021…

Der #Klimawandel bedroht Brasiliens #Kaffeeproduktion!
Bis zu 65% der #Anbauflächen für #Canephora

Climate change and its consequences on the climatic zoning of Coffea canephora in Brazil - Environment, Development and Sustainability
Coffee production has a large share in Brazilian agribusiness and a cultural and social importance in the country. Worldwide, Brazil is the largest producer of arabica coffee and the second largest of canephora species. In 2020, national production was 14.3 million bags of canephora coffee. Few studies on canephora coffee adaptation to climate changes can be found in the literature. Thus, our goal was to identify areas suitable for Coffea canephora cultivation in Brazil under CMIP-5 climate cha…

Welp I finally ordered the office chair I’ve been wanting for over 10 years and my wife “gave me” (ie: go ahead and order one) on my birthday a few months ago.
I’m kinda psyched. Says it ships 4/15 so at least SOMETHING good will happen on Tax Day 😂
I’m feeling this article by @…:

Chair Life
My office chair, which was your basic Staples Special, blew its pneumatic cylinder a couple of weeks ago, and in the interim I’ve been using Athena’s desk chair, which I don’t lik…

A 2020 Brennan Center report found that annual earnings for people with a misdemeanor conviction decrease on average by 16 percent. The harm falls disproportionately on communities of color, many of which already struggle with concentrated poverty and other forms of social disadvantage.
Misdemeanor Enforcement Trends in New York City, 2016–2022 | Brennan Center for Justice

Misdemeanor Enforcement Trends in New York City, 2016–2022
Cases have declined, yet low-income Black and Latino New Yorkers continue to disproportionately face charges.

A rightwing Christian lobby group that wants abortion to be banned has forged ties with an adviser to the British prime minister and is drawing up ­policy briefings for politicians.
The UK branch of the US-based Alliance Defending Freedom ( #ADF ) has more than doubled its spending since 2020 and been appointed a stakeholder in a parliamentary group on religious freedoms in a role that grants it direct a…

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

A look at Apple's iPhone recycling, including shredding robots, and contractor GEEP, which Apple sued in 2020 for $22.6M in a case that has since been inactive (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04…

Apple iPhone Recycling Program Has Secrets
Apple touts its network of shredding robots and contractors as a greener way to reuse old gadgets. A lengthy court battle and a Businessweek investigation have cast some light on the recycling industry’s dirty secrets.

Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe
An Arizona grand jury on Wednesday indicted seven attorneys or aides affiliated with Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign
as well as 11 Arizona Republicans on
👉felony charges related to their alleged efforts to subvert Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state

Those indicted include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark

Meadows, Giuliani and other Trump allies charged in Arizona 2020 election probe
The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the 2020 pro-Trump elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes.

Trump loses bid to halt Jan. 6 lawsuits while he faces criminal trial - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-jan-6-lawsuits/

Trump loses bid to halt Jan. 6 lawsuits while he faces criminal trial
Despite the fact that Donald Trump is currently being tried in a criminal case involving the January 6 riot and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election result, lawsuits filed by lawmakers and police officers against Trump over his actions on the day move forward, a federal judge ruled on Thursday....

NFL Draft countdown: Focus on Cowboys' first-round pick at No. 24 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_draft_countdown_focus_on_cowboys_first_round_pick_at_no_24/s1_13132_40182631

NFL Draft countdown: Focus on Cowboys' first-round pick at No. 24
The 2024 NFL Draft is April 25-27 in Detroit. Last year, the Giants selected cornerback Deonte Banks 24th overall. This year, the Cowboys pick 24th.  Here's who the experts think they'll take. Pro Football Focus (Brad Spielberger): Laiatu Latu, Edge-rusher, UCLA Latu would have been a top-10 pick if not for a preseason neck injury with Washington in 2020. A medical retirement kept him off the field for two years until UCLA doctors cleared him to play in 2022. With the loss of defensive ends li…

Very soon, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., is expected to issue a ruling that could expose key pieces of discovery that some lawyers say prove Donald Trump acted in his “private” capacity on Jan. 6, 2021
— not in his official role
— when whipping up a mob of his supporters at the Ellipse and urging them to descend on the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify the 2020 election.

The Trump Docket: A window into Trump's 'private' acts on Jan. 6 may soon be opened by judge
It was a rocky week featuring significant losses for Donald Trump's many bids to dismiss his indictments or waylay longrunning civil litigation around Jan. 6.

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

2020:
Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven boost Biden, take on Trump as Election Day nears
https://www.app.com/story/entertainment/music/2020/10/27/bruce-springsteen-little-steven-boos…

Bruce Springsteen, Little Steven boost Biden, take on Trump as Election Day nears
It's election season on E Street

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

“Joe Biden is like one of the fathers in the neighborhood I grew up with as a kid,” Bruce Springsteen told David Brooks.
“They were firemen and policemen, and there was an innate decency to most of them that he carries naturally with him.
It’s very American.”
https://…

Bruce Springsteen narrates new Biden ad about hometown of Scranton
Joe Biden's presidential campaign will air a new campaign ad featuring Bruce Springsteen during Saturday night's nationally televised game between Ohio State and Penn State on ABC, a Biden aide told CNN.

Supreme court hears arguments in Trump’s presidential immunity case – live
Liberal justice Sonia Sotomayor sounded sharply skeptical of John Sauer’s arguments as she harkened back to the country’s early days in exploring the situations where a president could be prosecuted.
Referring to amicus, or “friend of the court”, briefs filed in the case by outside groups, Sotomayor said:
"There are amica here who tell us that the founders actually talked about whether to grant …

Lawsuits by members of Congress and police officers against Donald Trump for his actions on Jan. 6 may advance
despite the related criminal case against him in Washington, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta rejected Trump’s effort to pause the lawsuits until the criminal charges over his attempt to subvert the 2020 election — brought by special counsel Jack Smith — are resolved.
Instead, Mehta ordered Trump to begin describing the basis for his c…

On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.,
was attacked by a mob of supporters of then-U.S. president Donald Trump,
two months after his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
They sought to keep Trump in power
by occupying the Capitol
and preventing a joint session of Congress counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.
The attack was ultimately unsuccessful in preventin…