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Since 2020, companies have learned how to leverage existing digital tools in new ways as employees shifted toward remote work. Will that cause lasting efficiency improvements in some sectors?
So far, whether remote work is good or bad for productivity remains hotly debated, as a recent paper by Nicholas Bloom at Stanford and other researchers explained. Early research has suggested that employees may be less efficient when they are totally remote, and that hybrid work leads to small, if…

U.S. Economy: Has an Era of Increased Productivity Returned?
Thirty years ago, the U.S. entered an era of productivity gains that enabled healthy growth. Experts are asking if it could happen again.

February 2024 on track to become by far the warmest on record, here in the Netherlands:
- average temperature 8.2-8.3⁰C
- that's over 4⁰C above the already warmed 1991-2020 average
- almost 6⁰C above the 20th century average
- about as warm as the average 20th century April!
#globalwarming

Report – Former Las Vegas Raiders First-Round Pick Arrested for Meth Possession and Unlawful Carrying of a Firearm – 2023-24 Offseason https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/re…

Report – Former Las Vegas Raiders First-Round Pick Arrested for Meth Possession and Unlawful Carrying of a Firearm – 2023-24 Offseason
On Monday, a former highly touted Las Vegas Raiders cornerback made the news for a recent run-in with the law. Per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, 2020 first-round pick Damon Arnette was arrested and charged last month for “possession of less than a gram of meth and unlawful carrying of a firearm.” The arrest occurred at 3:30 am in Richardson, Texas. Monday’s report of Arnette’s arrest is not the first time the former Ohio State Buckeyes product has had legal issues. Arnette’s legal pro…

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.

‘Democracy or capitalism? Pick one.’
Wrote this four year ago. If anything, it’s even more timely today.
https://ar.al/2020/01/01/in-2020-and-beyond-the-battle-to-save-personhood-an…

In 2020 and beyond, the battle to save personhood and democracy requires a radical overhaul of mainstream technology
We stand at the precipice of reverting from being people to being property again, hacked via a digital and networked backdoor, the existence of which we continue to deny at our peril.

Detailed Report on the Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.20 ppm
D. P. Aguillard, T. Albahri, D. Allspach, A. Anisenkov, K. Badgley, S. Bae{\ss}ler, I. Bailey, L. Bailey, V. A. Baranov, E. Barlas-Yucel, T. Barrett, E. Barzi, F. Bedeschi, M. Berz, M. Bhattacharya, H. P. Binney, P. Bloom, J. Bono, E. Bottalico, T. Bowcock, S. Braun, M. Bressler, G. Cantatore, R. M. Carey, B. C. K. Casey, D. Cauz, R. Chakraborty, A. Chapelain, S. Chappa, S. Charity, C. Chen, M…

Detailed Report on the Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.20 ppm
We present details on a new measurement of the muon magnetic anomaly, $a_μ= (g_μ-2)/2$. The result is based on positive muon data taken at Fermilab's Muon Campus during the 2019 and 2020 accelerator runs. The measurement uses $3.1$ GeV$/c$ polarized muons stored in a $7.1$-m-radius storage ring with a $1.45$ T uniform magnetic field. The value of $ a_μ$ is determined from the measured difference between the muon spin precession frequency and its cyclotron frequency. This difference is normal…

Da stoße ich doch auf einen alten Blogpost vom Januar 2020: www.hessengegenhetze.de ging damals live.
#NoHate
https://stefan…

Hessen führt Meldestelle für Hasskommentare ein #HessengegenHetze
Wichtig zu wissen und natürlich nutzen! Als erstes Bundesland hat Hessen eine staatliche Meldestelle für Hasskommentare im Internet eingerichtet. Auf der Seite www.hessengegenhetze.de können Bürger…

Ultra-High precision Compton polarimetry at 2 GeV
A. Zec, S. Premathilake, J. C. Cornejo, M. M. Dalton, C. Gal, D. Gaskell, M. Gericke, I. Halilovic, H. Liu, J. Mammei, R. Michaels, C. Palatchi, J. Pan, K. D. Paschke, B. Quinn, J. Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16135

Ultra-High precision Compton polarimetry at 2 GeV
We report a high precision measurement of electron beam polarization using Compton polarimetry. The measurement was made in experimental Hall A at Jefferson Lab during the CREX experiment in 2020. A total uncertainty of dP/P=0.36% was achieved detecting the back-scattered photons from the Compton scattering process. This is the highest accuracy in a measurement of electron beam polarization using Compton scattering ever reported, surpassing the ground-breaking measurement from the SLAC Large De…

ContextLogic agrees to sell the discount online retailer Wish for $173M to Singaporean company Qoo10; Wish had a $14B valuation when it when public in 2020 (Michelle F Davis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

ContextLogic Said to Near $173 Million Sale of Wish to Qoo10
The parent of discount online retailer Wish has agreed to sell its assets and liabilities for $173 million to Singaporean e-commerce company Qoo10.

On my bike home from Mars 2020 operations today

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

The first 3 weeks of February were as warm as a normal April, here in the Netherlands: average 8.9⁰C, that's about 5⁰C warmer than the already warmed 1991-2020 average for February.
Given the forecast, the whole month will definitely be the warmest February on record too.
#ClimateChange #globalwarming

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to undo sanctions against several #lawyers allied with Donald Trump for filing a #meritless lawsuit challenging Michigan’s 2020 presidential election results. 
Lawyers Sidney #Powell, Lin

Supreme Court declines to undo sanctions on pro-Trump 2020 campaign lawyers
The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to undo sanctions against several lawyers allied with former President Trump for filing a meritless lawsuit challenging Michigan’s 2020 presidential election results.  Lawyers Sidney Powell, Lin Wood and others brought the lawsuit against Michigan state officials and Detroit in November 2020, one of dozens of suits filed in an…

Da stoße ich doch auf einen alten Blogpost vom Januar 2020: www.hessengegenhetze.de ging damals live.
#NoHate
https://stefan…

Hessen führt Meldestelle für Hasskommentare ein #HessengegenHetze
Wichtig zu wissen und natürlich nutzen! Als erstes Bundesland hat Hessen eine staatliche Meldestelle für Hasskommentare im Internet eingerichtet. Auf der Seite www.hessengegenhetze.de können Bürger…

#Michigan Coup-Doers: These jubilant #Republicans posed for a group photo after forging fake electoral documents in an attempt to steal the 2020 presidential race for #Trump. They sure look happy fo…

Group photo shows Michigan GOP electors on day they signed false certificate
The picture had been discussed during preliminary examinations in Ingham County District Court on Tuesday and Wednesday.

[Libération] - #OlivioGomes tué par un policier renvoyé aux assises : «La panique n’exclut pas l’intention homicide».
Dans la nuit du 16 au 17 octobre 2020, Gilles G. a tué de trois balles un automobiliste de 28 ans Š #Poissy. Mis en accusation pour meurtre aux assises, le gardien de la pai…

Olivio Gomes tué par un policier renvoyé aux assises : «La panique n’exclut pas l’intention homicide»
Le 17 octobre 2020, Gilles G. a tué de trois balles un automobiliste de 28 ans à Poissy. Mis en accusation pour meurtre aux assises, le gardien de la paix nie l’«intention homicide» et a fait appel de cette rare décision.

Automatic treatment planning for radiotherapy: a cross-modality and protocol study
Gregory Szalkowski, Xuanang Xu, Shiva Das, Pew-Thian Yap, Jun Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15466

Automatic treatment planning for radiotherapy: a cross-modality and protocol study
This study investigates the applicability of 3D dose predictions from a model trained on one modality to a cross-modality automated planning workflow. Additionally, we explore the impact of integrating a multi-criteria optimizer on adapting predictions to different clinical preferences. Using a previously created three-stage UNet in-house model trained on the 2020 AAPM OpenKBP challenge dataset (340 head and neck plans, planned using 9-field static IMRT), we retrospectively generated dose predi…

Leap Day approaching! Last time: #time #linux

👍 Man who posted TikTok video on Jan. 6 is going to prison
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/petekrilldontgiveaf-man-in-trump-2020-sweatshirt-who-posted-tiktok-video-…

Man in 'Trump 2020' sweatshirt who posted TikTok video on Jan. 6 is going to prison
A man wearing a "Trump 2020" sweatshirt, a helmet, and goggles, who posted a video of himself on a scaffold at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on TikTok is going to prison.

Laut dem Klimawandeldienst Copernicus der EU lag die Lufttemperatur an der Erdoberfläche mit durchschnittlich 13,14 °C um 0,7 °C höher als im Schnitt des Referenzzeitraums von 1991 bis 2020. 😮
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-9622273?wt_mc=sm.red

2020
"16"
#ambient

Special counsel asks Supreme Court to let Trump's 2020 election case proceed to trial without delay (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-special-counsel-election-interference-january-6-c2dcc83e56a541804d4785f6bb6cd45c
http://www.memeorandum.com/240214/p85#a240214p85

The WHO spreading droplet dogma on March 28, 2020. Complete house cleaning needed there.

More than 46,000 Homeless Veterans Placed in Housing in 2023, Setting a Record for VA https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/31/va-sets-annual-record-placing-homeless-veterans-housing-shelterin…

More than 46,000 Homeless Veterans Placed in Housing in 2023, Setting a Record for VA
The number of veterans who are considered homeless saw an uptick in 2023 but has fallen by 4% overall since 2020.

Nielsen: the 66th annual Grammys hit an average 16.9M viewers, up 34% YoY, across CBS, Paramount , CBS.com, and the CBS app; Paramount streams were up 173% YoY (Selome Hailu/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/grammys-ratings-viewers-2024-123589663…

Grammys Ratings: 16.9 Million Viewers
The 66 Grammy Awards reached 16.9 million viewers — marking a 34% improvement from last year and the most-watched ceremony since 2020.

First academic conference post - 2020 & no mention of Twitter anywhere. It used to be "join the conversation", with hashtags everywhere. Worth noting!

I think this is •really• good news:
https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/28/environmental-groups-cities-find-compromise-at-the-capitol-to-end-2040-plan-lawsuit/
The Minneapolis 2040 plan…

Environmental groups, cities find compromise at the Capitol to end 2040 Plan lawsuit - Minnesota Reformer
Environmentalists and city governments say they’ve found a legislative compromise that would allow the city of Minneapolis to move forward with the city’s 2040 comprehensive plan, which spurred new housing development and stabilized rents  from 2020 to 2022 before it was blocked by environmental lawsuits last year. Legislation (HF2048/SF4183) led by two Minneapolis DFL lawmakers, […]

Honestly, how is the NYT here informing the public of what is really going on with the 14th Amendment S3?!!
There is no clear information here.
It's all "justices skepticism this," "some random prof in Ireland that," "Lawmakers disagree."
This isn't journalism! It's garbage.

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.

Trump’s trial calendar becomes clearer – as do his delay tactics
A federal case in Washington over Trump’s efforts to #overturn the 2020 #election had once been expected to go first.
But when Trump filed appeals on grounds of presidential immunity last year, the presiding US district judge, Tanya

🏈 @… #NFL
VIa John Ewing 🤖 @…
Super Bowl coin toss results
2023 Tails
2022 Heads
2021 Heads
2020 Tails

🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip
THE WHO:
🎵 Eminence front
#THEWHO
https://open.spotify.com/track/6HhVHZTzhjvS5erfCm4roh
https://sportellomusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-who-eminence-front-sportello-2020-edit

High-pressure minerals and new lunar mineral changesite-(Y) in Chang’e-5 regolith: #lunar sample returned by China’s 2020 lunar mission contained minerals that provide clues to their origin.

Apple reports Q1 sales in Greater China fell 13% YoY to $20.82B, vs $23.5B est., its weakest December quarter in the region since Q1 2020 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-01/a…

Apple (AAPL) Reports First Sales Gain in a Year Despite Slump in China
Apple Inc. reported better sales than projected in the holiday quarter, snapping a yearlong slump, after strong iPhone sales around the world helped make up for weakness in China.

Sure is expensive to maintain a Violence Department in every town
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68211285

Police to pay $1.9m to black family held at gunpoint in Colorado
The 2020 stop in Colorado was recorded by bystanders, which showed children handcuffed and crying.

✊ Why a Decade of Protests Didn’t Lead to Revolution
https://jacobin.com/2024/01/vincent-bevins-interview-mass-protests-2010s-arab-spring-euromaidan/

Why a Decade of Protests Didn’t Lead to Revolution
Between 2010 and 2020, a wave of protests erupted around the world. In some cases, these movements strengthened socialist forces. In others, they opened the door to the Right. Vincent Bevins spoke to Jacobin to explain the causes of this divergence.

Habt ihr 2020 #Sløborn geschaut? Ich war damals baff, wie eine Serie die Pandemie vorweg nehmen konnte. Zudem ist sie auch noch sehr gut gemacht. Heute startet die 3. Staffel im ZDF (Mediathek).
Wie gefällt sie Euch? Habt ihr die alten Folgen geschaut?

[Libération] - #OlivioGomes tué par un policier renvoyé aux assises : «La panique n’exclut pas l’intention homicide».
Dans la nuit du 16 au 17 octobre 2020, Gilles G. a tué de trois balles un automobiliste de 28 ans Š #Poissy. Mis en accusation pour meurtre aux assises, le gardien de la pai…

Olivio Gomes tué par un policier renvoyé aux assises : «La panique n’exclut pas l’intention homicide»
Le 17 octobre 2020, Gilles G. a tué de trois balles un automobiliste de 28 ans à Poissy. Mis en accusation pour meurtre aux assises, le gardien de la paix nie l’«intention homicide» et a fait appel de cette rare décision.

/The Taped Together Hearts Gallery/ (2020)
#ScotchTapeAMoviePlotOrPoem
#HashtagGames

Interesting read about religions in #ttrpg
https://swordofmassdestruction.blogspot.com/2020/01/rethinking-clerics-and-religion-part-1.html

Rethinking clerics and religion, part 1
This was to be a post about clerics and religion, but it turned out I had much to say on religion in the first place. Clerics will come late...

2024 NFL Free Agency: 5 Best Fits For Titans RB Derrick Henry https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/2024_nfl_free_agency_5_best_fits_for_titans_rb_derrick_henry/s1_17304_39969121

2024 NFL Free Agency: 5 Best Fits For Titans RB Derrick Henry
Derrick Henry's time with the Tennessee Titans has come to an end. The NFL's leading rusher during the 2019 and 2020 seasons will become a free agent in March, and he’s not expected to return to the Titans.  But what teams could be in the market for Henry's services? Here are the top five landing spots for Henry this offseason.  It’s very likely the Las Vegas Raiders will lose their All-Pro running back this offseason because Josh Jacobs is scheduled to hit the market again. Jacobs led th…

application amount for subsidy (retrofit) for insulation & heat pumps for households in the Netherlands almost doubled by 2023. Heat pumps in particular increasingly popular: 222 million for heat pumps (~110,000 - 150,000 units)
https://www.

Stormloop op subsidie voor duurzame investeringen als warmtepomp en isolatie
Particulieren hebben vorig jaar voor een bedrag aan 440 miljoen euro aan subsidie ontvangen voor het nemen van duurzame maatregelen.

"Limiting average global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit, above preindustrial levels has been the gold standard for climate action since at least the 2015 Paris Agreement. A new scientific study published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change, however, suggests that the world unknowingly passed this benchmark back in 2020. This would mean that the pace of warming is a full two decades ahead of projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate C…

@… That’s why I created @…. Sometimes it really just doesn’t make sense how long ago March of 2020 is.

Leap Day approaching! Last time: #time #linux

Over EU-subsidies en wat daarvan bij boeren terecht komt. " .... naar de inkomenssteun aan boeren (Europese Landbouw Garantie Fonds). Uit dit fonds ontving Nederland in de periode 2014-2020 circa € 5 miljard. Het was daarmee goed voor ongeveer twee derde van de totale EU-ontvangsten in Nederland."

Wat leveren EU-subsidies op voor Nederland?
Het is belangrijk dat Europese subsidies volgens de regels worden uitgegeven. Maar ook als dat in orde is, betekent dat nog niet dat er echt iets met het geld is bereikt. Uit ons onderzoek blijkt dat je wel kunt zien dat EU-subsidies een belangrijke stimulans zijn voor projecten en ook welke prestaties er worden geleverd met EU-subsidies, maar het blijft vaak onduidelijk wat de effecten zijn van de inzet van de subsidies. 

#Senior-Fitness Update
My first (wall-assisted) handstand push-up! I did two (and a half) in the set. More to come! I'm 68. Been mad about calisthenics for going on four years now.

The Last Movie - Season 2 finale 📽️🩸🔍
Narrated urban legend thriller series | Total listening time: 6h 11m
THE LAST MOVIE is an infamous underground feature film reputed to drive you insane. Legend has it that every screening of this film was surrounded by bloodshed and controversy: one reviewer actually described slipping on blood ...

The Last Movie - Season 2 finale 📽️🩸🔍
Narrated urban legend thriller series | Total listening time: 6h 11m THE LAST MOVIE is an infamous underground feature film reputed to drive you insane. Legend has it that every screening of this film was surrounded by bloodshed and controversy: one reviewer actually described slipping on blood in the aisle as he ran through dozens of people trying to tear him apart. From the minds that brought you TANIS, narrated by the same lead characters 2 seasons, 12 episodes as of Dec 01, 2020.

Weymouth Ambient (2020-08) - Ambient soundscape from a week in Weymouth late in August: boats, beach, amusements, eating... #Weymouth #soundscape #fieldRecording -

Weymouth Ambient (2020-08)
Ambient soundscape from a week in Weymouth late in August: boats, beach, amusements, eating... #Weymouth #soundscape #fieldRecording

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

I hope someone will see this and decide to be a poll worker in their county.
I started as a poll worker in Cobb county in June 2020 (a call went out b/c too many poll workers unable/unwilling due to COVID) I’ve worked 11 elections, the last 5 as an assistant poll manager. I just got asked to be the poll manager at a nearby precinct. I said yes. I’m a bit nervous, but also honored to be asked and, I think, up to the challenge.
It's an important job in our democracy and I’m pr…

time capsule from 2020: crypto billionaire Chris Larsen justified funding surveillance cameras around SF as a way of going around the then-distrusted police, as only CBDs (property owners) saw the footage. also: "We’re strongly opposed to facial recognition technology. Facial recognition is too powerful given the lack of laws and protections to make it acceptable."
he's now backing Prop E which allows SFPD to use facial recognition

Die geforderte Aussetzung, der Stop der #Schuldenbremse, geforderte staatliche Investitionen kämen in der Krise zuerst Kapitalien zugute. Dazu aus 2020:
"Opfer der #Inflation werden Lohnabhängige, Selbständige, kleine Gewerbetreibende sein, die jetzt noch mit staatlichen Zuschüssen und hoffnun…

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

Eine einflussreiche Lobbyorganisation für das Thema #MitDemRadZurGrundschule ist die #Verkehrswacht. @… hat die Entwicklung ihrer Position ge…

Sorry, Chase, but crime is still higher than it was in 2019, so it's a little bit off to say we're not in a crime wave. We're on the declining side of the wave, but there is/was a wave. The other stuff you were saying was either right or fine.
Prior to 2020 there was a surprisingly consistent long-term trend of declining violent crime for decades. Hopefully we can get back to that soon.
#FreeAndEqual

[Le Parisien] - #GiletsJaunes : six mois de prison avec sursis pour un policier qui avait frappé un manifestant non-violent.
Le tribunal correctionnel de #Rouen a condamné jeudi un policier pour avoir porté un coup de matraque et un coup de pied Š un manifestant non-violent lors d’une manif…

Gilets jaunes : six mois de prison avec sursis pour un policier qui avait frappé un manifestant non-violent
Le tribunal correctionnel de Rouen a condamné jeudi un policier pour avoir porté un coup de matraque et un coup de pied à un manifestant non-violent lors d’une manifestation en 2020.

Only the best people.
https://apnews.com/article/anton-tony-lazzaro-gop-operative-sex-trafficking-e4fc3e85fe5597b645e74d921246b963

The Legal Coup -- In late 2020, a group of conservative movement attorneys set out to build ... (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/intro-chesebro-docs
http://www.memeorandum.com/240212/p68#a240212p68

Four Democrats voted for Aileen Cannon on Senate Judiciary, including Leahy, Durbin, and Coons.
TWELVE Democrats voted to confirm Aileen Cannon, including Murphy, Warner, Leahy, Coons, and Kaine.
Twelve! And this was after Trump lost the 2020 election!
Senate bipartisanship is a failure.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.02965 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Classical Shadows for Quantum Process Tomography on Near-term Quantum Computers
Quantum process tomography is a powerful tool for understanding quantum channels and characterizing properties of quantum devices. Inspired by recent advances using classical shadows in quantum state tomography [H.-Y. Huang, R. Kueng, and J. Preskill, Nat. Phys. 16, 1050 (2020).], we have developed ShadowQPT, a classical shadow method for quantum process tomography. We introduce two related formulations with and without ancilla qubits. ShadowQPT stochastically reconstructs the Choi matrix of th…

Indicators for characterising online hate speech and its automatic detection
Erica Forzinetti, Marco L. Della Vedova, Stefano Pasta, Milena Santerini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08462

Indicators for characterising online hate speech and its automatic detection
We examined four case studies in the context of hate speech on Twitter in Italian from 2019 to 2020, aiming at comparing the classification of the 3,600 tweets made by expert pedagogists with the automatic classification made by machine learning algorithms. Pedagogists used a novel classification scheme based on seven indicators that characterize hate. These indicators are: the content is public, it affects a target group, it contains hate speech in explicit verbal form, it will not redeem, it …

Meta's Reality Labs unit had revenue of $1B in Q4 but had a record operating loss of $4.65B; the metaverse division has now lost over $42B since the end of 2020 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/01/metas-real

Packers expected to hire Boston College coach Jeff Hafley as defensive coordinator: Source https://theathletic.com/5242467/2024/01/31/packers-defensive-coordinator-jeff-hafley-boston-college/

Packers expected to hire Boston College coach Jeff Hafley as defensive coordinator: Source
Since taking over Boston College in 2020, Hafley went 22-26, qualifying for three bowl games in his tenure.

Crenshaw on #Stefanik’s claim she could decertify election if VP: ‘Totally wrong’ | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/446

Crenshaw on Stefanik’s claim she could decertify election if VP: ‘Totally wrong’
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas.) disputed House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik’s (R-N.Y.) claim that she would have decertified the 2020 election if she had been vice president, calling it “totally wrong.”  Reacting to her comment in an interview on CNN, Crenshaw denounced Stefanik’s snub of former Vice President Mike Pence, arguing the position does not…

The New York Times' The Daily ran a greenwashing BP ad on its January 31 podcast, despite a 2021 pledge by the NYT to ban sponsorships by oil and gas companies (HEATED)
https://heated.world/p/the-daily-runs-a-greenwashing-bp

“The Daily” runs a greenwashing BP ad
The Daily promised to end fossil fuel sponsorships in 2021. BP promised to stop “corporate reputation advertising” in 2020.

After pleading guilty to making thousands of racist voter-suppression robocalls trying to convince urban #Ohio voters that “the Man” would go after them if they voted, Jack #Burkman — also known for getting shot in the ass by one of his fellow whacked out

Right-wing operative and robocall fraudster attorney will lose law license following conviction
After pleading guilty to telecommunications fraud in 2020 when he was caught using robocalls to intimidate voters in 2020, attorney Jack Burkman is now poised to lose his law license.

/The Taped Together Hearts Gallery/ (2020)
#ScotchTapeAMoviePlotOrPoem
#HashtagGames

Interesting read about religions in #ttrpg
https://swordofmassdestruction.blogspot.com/2020/01/rethinking-clerics-and-religion-part-1.html

Rethinking clerics and religion, part 1
This was to be a post about clerics and religion, but it turned out I had much to say on religion in the first place. Clerics will come late...

The Legal Coup -- In late 2020, a group of conservative movement attorneys set out to build ... (Josh Kovensky/Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/intro-chesebro-docs
http://www.memeorandum.com/240212/p68#a240212p68

Over EU-subsidies en wat daarvan bij boeren terecht komt. " .... naar de inkomenssteun aan boeren (Europese Landbouw Garantie Fonds). Uit dit fonds ontving Nederland in de periode 2014-2020 circa € 5 miljard. Het was daarmee goed voor ongeveer twee derde van de totale EU-ontvangsten in Nederland."

Wat leveren EU-subsidies op voor Nederland?
Het is belangrijk dat Europese subsidies volgens de regels worden uitgegeven. Maar ook als dat in orde is, betekent dat nog niet dat er echt iets met het geld is bereikt. Uit ons onderzoek blijkt dat je wel kunt zien dat EU-subsidies een belangrijke stimulans zijn voor projecten en ook welke prestaties er worden geleverd met EU-subsidies, maar het blijft vaak onduidelijk wat de effecten zijn van de inzet van de subsidies. 

#Senior-Fitness Update
My first (wall-assisted) handstand push-up! I did two (and a half) in the set. More to come! I'm 68. Been mad about calisthenics for going on four years now.

The Last Movie - Season 2 finale 📽️🩸🔍
Narrated urban legend thriller series | Total listening time: 6h 11m
THE LAST MOVIE is an infamous underground feature film reputed to drive you insane. Legend has it that every screening of this film was surrounded by bloodshed and controversy: one reviewer actually described slipping on blood ...

The Last Movie - Season 2 finale 📽️🩸🔍
Narrated urban legend thriller series | Total listening time: 6h 11m THE LAST MOVIE is an infamous underground feature film reputed to drive you insane. Legend has it that every screening of this film was surrounded by bloodshed and controversy: one reviewer actually described slipping on blood in the aisle as he ran through dozens of people trying to tear him apart. From the minds that brought you TANIS, narrated by the same lead characters 2 seasons, 12 episodes as of Dec 01, 2020.

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

Cowboys Officially Hire Mike Zimmer As Defensive Coordinator https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_officially_hire_mike_zimmer_as_defensive_coordinator/s1_17039_39961892

The FTC settles with Blackbaud, ordering the cloud software company to delete consumers' data and boost security after a May 2020 data breach affected millions (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu<…

#FireDeJoy House Dems Urge #Biden to 'Swiftly' Appoint Postal Board Governors
https://www.commondre…

House Dems Urge Biden to 'Swiftly' Appoint Postal Board Governors
"Five price hikes since 2020, continual service delivery problems, and constant declines in mail volume are all indicators that the business model of the Postal Service needs careful attention."

Indicators for characterising online hate speech and its automatic detection
Erica Forzinetti, Marco L. Della Vedova, Stefano Pasta, Milena Santerini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08462

Indicators for characterising online hate speech and its automatic detection
We examined four case studies in the context of hate speech on Twitter in Italian from 2019 to 2020, aiming at comparing the classification of the 3,600 tweets made by expert pedagogists with the automatic classification made by machine learning algorithms. Pedagogists used a novel classification scheme based on seven indicators that characterize hate. These indicators are: the content is public, it affects a target group, it contains hate speech in explicit verbal form, it will not redeem, it …

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

Supreme Court to weigh Trump's immunity claim in D.C. 2020 election trial (Ann E. Marimow/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/28/trump-supreme-court-immunity-claim-dc-trial/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240228/p94#a240228p94

#FireDeJoy House Dems Urge #Biden to 'Swiftly' Appoint Postal Board Governors
https://www.commondre…

House Dems Urge Biden to 'Swiftly' Appoint Postal Board Governors
"Five price hikes since 2020, continual service delivery problems, and constant declines in mail volume are all indicators that the business model of the Postal Service needs careful attention."

#SeniorFitness Update
215 Decline push-ups today — feet are 12½ cm elevated — in three sets. A bit under last week's performance, but oh, well. I'm still looking for two sets of 100 or more reps of these in a day. I'm 68. Got into calisthenics in 2020, fell in love with it, and regained my health and ideal weight. See

This Cowboys star is not actively pursuing an extension with team https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/this_cowboys_star_is_not_actively_pursuing_an_extension_with_team/s1_14819_39947793

This Cowboys star is not actively pursuing an extension with team
The 2024 offseason will require a number of key financial decisions involving the Cowboys’ nucleus. Top of the list in that respect is a new deal for quarterback Dak Prescott, but wideout CeeDee Lamb and edge rusher Micah Parsons are also eligible for monster extensions of their own. Lamb was drafted in 2020, one year before Parsons. The former is on the books for $17.99M in 2024 on his fifth-year option, but Parsons will no doubt have his option picked up this spring.  That move will keep …

RNC plan for 2020 #denialist to head ‘#election #integrity’ unit raises alarms
As Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has cemented its hold on the Republican National Committee (RNC), alarms are being raised about the orga…

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

House Dems Urge Biden to 'Swiftly' Appoint Postal Board Governors (Brett Wilkins/Common Dreams)
https://www.commondreams.org/news/postal-board-of-governors

House Dems Urge Biden to 'Swiftly' Appoint Postal Board Governors
"Five price hikes since 2020, continual service delivery problems, and constant declines in mail volume are all indicators that the business model of the Postal Service needs careful attention."

This Cowboys star is not actively pursuing an extension with team https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/this_cowboys_star_is_not_actively_pursuing_an_extension_with_team/s1_14819_39947793

This Cowboys star is not actively pursuing an extension with team
The 2024 offseason will require a number of key financial decisions involving the Cowboys’ nucleus. Top of the list in that respect is a new deal for quarterback Dak Prescott, but wideout CeeDee Lamb and edge rusher Micah Parsons are also eligible for monster extensions of their own. Lamb was drafted in 2020, one year before Parsons. The former is on the books for $17.99M in 2024 on his fifth-year option, but Parsons will no doubt have his option picked up this spring.  That move will keep …

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.

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

The main driver of wealth gains last year was from the stock market hitting record highs.
While wages are increasing for average Americans, the top 1% is gaining wealth at a much faster pace.
The wealth of U.S. #billionaires is currently at $5.5 trillion, 🔸which is up 88% since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.🔸
The nation's rich accruing so much wealth in recent years has renew…

Wealth of the top 1% in U.S. hits all-time high of $45 trillion
Data released by the Federal Reserve on Thursday shows the top 1% of Americans are the richest they've ever been.The new data reveals that at the end of the fourth quarter last year they had a record $44.6 trillion in wealth. That's up from $30 trillion in 2020.The main driver of wealth gains last y...

Liz Cheney rips Vance after Jan. 6 remarks. Not 'fit to serve' (Nick Robertson/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4448977-liz-cheney-vance-jan-6-trump-2024/

Liz Cheney rips Vance after Jan. 6 remarks. Not ‘fit to serve’
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) went after Sen. J.D. Vance on Monday, saying the Ohio Republican is not “fit to serve” after Vance said he would not have chosen to certify the 2020 election results without pro-Trump electors. Vance said Sunday in an ABC “This Week” interview that he would have allowed states to send…

Ghada Elnajjar, a Palestinian-American organizer, described the Biden campaign outreach to Muslim and Arab American voters in 2020 as robust compared to now.
She recalled regular Zoom meetings between campaign advisors, leaders and activists to discuss issues that affected their communities.
“The current outreach strategy to Arab American and American Muslim voters has been inept and awkward,” said Elnajjar.
For Elnajjar, the administration’s refusal to call for a ceasefi…

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

How Republicans texted and emailed their way into a money problem
In the years after Donald Trump lost the presidency to Joe Biden, Trump sent 🔸so many emails 🔸and text messages asking for money that Republican consultants warned his mailing lists could become #useless.
The former president’s friends told him that they were being asked for too much, too often, and Trump himself ordered aides a…

How Republicans texted and emailed their way into a money problem
Small-dollar donations to Donald Trump and the GOP are way down since 2019 and 2020. But the former president’s team says they see a turnaround.

Can Trump be on the ballot? It's the Supreme Court's biggest election test since Bush v. Gore (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-insurrection-2024-election-45728c8a2f1e86…

Can Trump be on the ballot? It's the Supreme Court's biggest election test since Bush v. Gore
A case with the potential to disrupt Donald Trump’s drive to return to the White House is putting the Supreme Court uncomfortably at the center of the 2024 presidential campaign. The justices will hear arguments Thursday in a Colorado case about whether the former president can be kicked off the state's Republican primary ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. At issue is a constitutional provision adopted after the Civil War to prevent former officeholders who “e…

Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the world’s best recovery
The European economy, hobbled by unfamiliar weakness in Germany, is barely growing. China is struggling to recapture its sizzle. And Japan continues to disappoint.

But in the United States, it’s a different story.
Here, despite lingering consumer angst over inflation, the surprisingly strong economy is outperforming all of its major trading partners.

Since 2020, the United States has powered throu…

Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the world’s best recovery
After posting faster annual growth last year than in 2022, the U.S. economy is quashing fears of a new recession while offering lessons for future crisis-fighting.

Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election 
“In view of the circumstances surrounding Eastman’s misconduct and balancing the aggravation and mitigation, the court recommends that Eastman be disbarred,” Roland wrote in a 128-page decision.
The judge also recommended that Eastman be ordered to pay $10,000 in monetary sanctions to the State Bar of California Client Security Fund.
Eastman’s legal team said he would appeal Wednesday’s r…

Judge rules John Eastman should be disbarred over efforts to overturn 2020 election 
A California judge recommended disbarring a lawyer at the center of former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election on Wednesday.  State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland found John Eastman culpable on 10 of the 11 counts filed by the California State Bar last year. The state bar sought to strip…