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I rode my #bike today for the first time this year. Well, I tried to ride three weeks ago, the last time it was 18 degrees Celsius, but I had to abort then because my electronic shifters had no charge. But today I rode. It felt good. (I had to pump up the tire again. I need to get a new tube.) Also, April 5th is the same day I got back into bicycling in 2020 and was able to combine it with calisthe…

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…

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 27105 nodes and 334495 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted
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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

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06710 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qu…

Certification of two-qubit quantum systems with temporal inequality
Self-testing of quantum devices based on observed measurement statistics is a method to certify quantum systems using minimal resources. In Ref. [Phys. Rev. \textbf{A} 101, 032106 (2020)], a scheme based on observing measurement statistics that demonstrate Kochen-Specker contextuality has been shown to certify two-qubit entangled states and measurements without the requirement of spatial separation between the subsystems. However, this scheme assumes a set of compatibility conditions on the mea…

Bill Hunter discusses the parallels to how a manager applying management improvement principles is very similar to an educator facilitating adult learning. Rather than an authoritarian approach where the boss tells subordinates what to do a manager helps employees achieve better results by supporting their efforts...

Michigan AG executes search warrants on Google and X in ongoing 2020 fake electors probe (Marshall Cohen/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/politics/michigan-search-warrants-google-twitter-2020-fake-electors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240429/p54#a240429p54

Trump’s 2020 'fake electors' charged with state crimes in Arizona
The indictments follow an investigation led by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, into efforts to subvert the results of the 2020 election
Among those indicted is Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona GOP at the time
One month after the 2020 election, 11 Trump supporters convened at the Arizona GOP’s headquarters in Phoenix to sign a certificate claiming to be Arizona’s 11 electors to the Ele…

Trump’s 2020 'fake electors' charged with state crimes in Arizona
A state grand jury in Arizona on Wednesday indicted so-called "fake electors" who backed then-President Donald Trump in 2020.

NYTimes: From Pizzagate to the 2020 Election: Forcing Liars to Pay or Apologize
From Pizzagate to the 2020 Election: Forcing Liars to Pay or Apologize https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/31/us/politics/defamation-lawsu…

The Lawyers Using Defamation Lawsuits to Address Political Disinformation
Michael J. Gottlieb is part of a cadre of lawyers deploying defamation, one of the oldest areas of the law, against a tide of political disinformation.

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…

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.

A modest proposal: indict the Unindicted Co-Conspirator.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/24/arizona-fake-electors-indictments/73184206007/

Grand jury indicts fake electors who falsely certified Donald Trump as 2020 winner in Arizona
The grand jury's decision could levy criminal consequences for a plot intended to subvert the will of Arizona voters.

mist: MIST protein interaction database (2020)
The Molecular Interaction Search Tool (MIST) is a comprehensive resource of molecular interactions, assembled from severla primary sources. MIST currently supports several species, including:.
This network has 3563 nodes and 52013 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

📢 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.

🚨 The MAGA Justices on the Supreme Court want to deliver for the billionaires who bought them by blocking Trump from facing criminal trial for the 2020 election insurrection. #JusticeCantWait rule by May 20th.

Quickly excluding an apex-forest
J\k{e}drzej Hodor, Hoang La, Piotr Micek, Cl\'ement Rambaud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17306 https://

Quickly excluding an apex-forest
We give a short proof that for every apex-forest $X$ on at least two vertices, graphs excluding $X$ as a minor have layered pathwidth at most $2|V(X)|-3$. This improves upon a result by Dujmović, Eppstein, Joret, Morin, and Wood (SIDMA, 2020). Our main tool is a structural result about graphs excluding a forest as a rooted minor, which is of independent interest. We develop similar tools for treedepth and treewidth. We discuss implications for Erdős-Pósa properties of rooted models…

A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case (Michael Sisak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed2…

Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial overturned
New York’s highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction and ordered a new trial. The Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the judge at the disgraced movie mogul’s landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him with improper rulings, including by letting women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. The 72-year-old Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence in New York. He’ll remain imprisoned because a 2022 conviction in a Los Angeles rape case resulted in …

The man who turned his home into a homeless shelter
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/30/stuart-potts-man-who-turned-his-home-into-a-homeless-shelter

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…

#WeirdCarMastodon my daughter just finally passed her UK driving test so now I’m trying to help her figure out a first car for her, living in Glasgow. Maybe a 2020 Honda Jazz (same as Fit in the US)? Fun trying to figure out a bunch of Euro model supermini brands that I’ve been ignoring for 20 years…

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 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Cowboys Re-Sign LB Damien Wilson https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_re_sign_lb_damien_wilson/s1_17039_40300566

13 Dinge, die du tun kannst,
statt die Polizei zu rufen.
https://1weltohnepolizei.blackblogs.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/1178/2020/01/13dinge.pdf

On Website Technicals (2020-11) - Tech updates: work storage, Let's Encrypt auto-renew, lazy wins, slow https switch, AMP https only, soft canonical, Apple touch, Apache stop, ad sub. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-42.html

On Website Technicals (2020-11)
Tech updates: work storage, Lets Encrypt auto-renew, lazy wins, slow https switch, AMP https only, soft canonical, Apple touch, Apache stop, ad sub.

The Odontojam Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Odontojam | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Odontojam Podcast Host: Dr Jesse Liang Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Careers, Medicine First Episode: 2020 Conversations about everyday dentistry for the general dentist.

“I’m profoundly disturbed about the apparent direction of the court,” J. Michael Luttig told me. “I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will ever be tried for the crimes he committed in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.”
I called Luttig, a former federal judge with extensive conservative credentials, to solicit his reaction to this week’s Supreme Court hearing over Donald Trump’s demand for absolute immunity from prosecution for any crimes related to his insurrection attempt. …

Shocker From Top Conservative Judge: Trump Likely To Skate Completely
J. Michael Luttig sees two potential outcomes from Thursday’s Supreme Court arguments. Both are grim for our democracy.

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

"Im Oktober 2020 stellte die Staatsanwaltschaft Frankfurt (Oder) beim Amtsgericht Bernau einen Befangenheitsantrag gegen Müller, weil er sich gegen das Cannabisverbot einsetzt. Dieser wurde abgelehnt. Die Staatsanwaltschaft legte sofortige Beschwerde beim zuständigen Landgericht ein. Auch das Landgericht Frankfurt/Oder entschied, dass Müller nicht befangen sei."

Trump's 2020 'fake electors' charged with state crimes in Arizona (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/trumps-2020-fake-electors-charged-state-crimes-arizona-rcna149214
http://www.memeorandum.com/240424/p88#a240424p88

A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case (Michael Sisak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed2…

Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial overturned
New York’s highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction and ordered a new trial. The Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the judge at the disgraced movie mogul’s landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him with improper rulings, including by letting women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. The 72-year-old Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence in New York. He’ll remain imprisoned because a 2022 conviction in a Los Angeles rape case resulted in …

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

Nachdem im letzten Jahr fast alle #Armenier #Bergkarabach verlassen und #Aserbaidschan die volle Kontrolle übernommen hat, scheint man vor Ort weiter Fakten zu schaffen - oder eher zu beseitige…

Four years ago today my kid's school shut down and I coped by making a list of cities that were closing streets to cars so kids could play in them.
Shortly thereafter, I took to social media for help documenting what would soon be a global phenomenon.
It was a hell of a ride.
#COVID

UK-based users sue Grindr in the UK, alleging the app shared personal data, including HIV status, with ad companies like Localytics between 2018 to 2020 (Katharine Gemmell/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Grindr Sued in London for Sharing Users HIV Status With Ad Firms
Grindr Inc. was sued by users for sharing sensitive personal information, including their HIV status, with advertising companies in a London lawsuit.

Reminder
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
The president has repeatedly disparaged the intelligence of service members.
Vote for Democracy!

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/

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 <…

BlackJack mette in ginocchio Moscollector. 87000 sensori della rete delle condutture di Mosca sono offline
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-9b0c6c04-c88655aace83a7ea
BlackJack mette in ginocchio Moscollector. 87000 sensori della rete delle con…

incredible to see the USA willingly give up the lead in what is inevitably the future of vehicles.
https://mastodon.world/@statisticsworld/112231159466440907

Todays example of why you should always read forms… The US ESTA form added Cuba to the state sponsors of terrorism in 2021. My last ESTA expired in 2020, and I was in Cuba in the mid 2010s, so just clicking “No” to all the scary questions would have caused some issues getting into the US on my next trip because my passport still has my Cuban visa stamp 😬

a deadly #BirdFlu outbreak has skipped species impact and been affecting seal and #SeaLion colonies...
#SouthAmerica has been particularly hard hit with over 20,000

Bird flu is killing thousands of seals
Avian influenza is killing tens of thousands of seals and sea lions in different corners of the world, disrupting ecosystems and flummoxing scientists who don’t see a clear way to slow the devastating virus. The worldwide bird flu outbreak that began in 2020 has led to the deaths of millions of domesticated birds and spread to wildlife all over the globe. This virus isn’t thought to be a major threat to humans, but its spread in farming operations and ecosystems has caused widespread econom…

Escrevi isso em 2022, sobre a pandemia de 2020:
Em 2020, quando começou a pandemia, ouvi o dito de que era preciso não levar o rompante das pessoas tão a sério, pois as coisas não estão normais e, mais ainda, as pessoas sequer se comunicavam por meios corriqueiros.
Comecei a perceber isso pelo Wzap, pelos mails e pelo Google Meet: eram fšbricas de mal entendidos.
Mas parece que, 2 anos depois, as pessoas naturalizaram isso. Elas tomam aquele zapzap ou mail atrav…

Time-domain analysis of multi-waveband flares from AD Leonis
Xuying Zhang, Jixuan Li, Yang Gao, Qian Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16661 https://

Time-domain analysis of multi-waveband flares from AD Leonis
Radio bursts of magnetically active stars reveal the intensity and activity of the stellar magnetic field. They may also be related to the planets around the stars. We monitored a radio-active star, AD Leonis, 3000 seconds per day for 17 days in November 2020, and 5000 seconds per day for 5 days in July 2023 with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Based on the simultaneous flux increases in Stokes I and Stokes V, one left-hand circular polarized radio burst is ide…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SHERELLE
Mijk van Dijk:
🎵 High On Hope (Machinedrum & Microglobe Remix)
#MijkvanDijk
https://briquerouge.fr/album/br065-mijk-van-dijk-presents-microglobe-high-on-hope-2020-remastered-version

Yearly allergy post! Took my first Allegra today. Not feeling any of the usual itchy or sneezing but my sinuses have been clogged for days now.
2024: April 7
2023: April 16
2022: Jan 13
2021: Mar 4
2020: none?
2019: Feb 2

Nodal Volumes as Differentiable Functionals of Gaussian fields
Giovanni Peccati, Michele Stecconi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20243 https://

Nodal Volumes as Differentiable Functionals of Gaussian fields
We characterize the absolute continuity of the law and the Malliavin-Sobolev regularity of random nodal volumes associated with smooth Gaussian fields on generic $\mathcal{C}^2$ manifolds with arbitrary dimension. Our results extend and generalize the seminal contribution by Angst and Poly (2020) about stationary fields on Euclidean spaces and cover, in particular, the case of two-dimensional manifolds, possibly with boundary and corners. The main tools exploited in the proofs include the use o…

Rams will stick with tradition of not attending NFL Combine despite having a first-round pick, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/rams…

Rams will stick with tradition of not attending NFL Combine despite having a first-round pick, per report
L.A. has not attended the combine since 2020

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13508 has been replaced.
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PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field II
We present the second NuSTAR and XMM-Newton extragalactic survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field (TDF). The first NuSTAR NEP-TDF survey (Zhao et al. 2021) had 681 ks total exposure time executed in NuSTAR cycle 5, in 2019 and 2020. This second survey, acquired from 2020 to 2022 in cycle 6, adds 880 ks of NuSTAR exposure time. The overall NuSTAR NEP-TDF survey is the most sensitive NuSTAR extragalactic survey to date, and a total of 60 sources were detected above the 95% …

Fox News Poll: Over half of voters say they are worse off compared to 2020 (Dana Blanton/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-half-voters-worse-off-2020
http://www.memeorandum.com/240328/p90#a240328p90

5/6
Beyond structural and protective roles, manganese is also a keystone in metabolic processes, including the metabolism of amino acids, carbohydrates, and cholesterol. It serves as a cofactor for several enzymes, facilitating efficient energy production and optimal health. Highlighted by research in *Metabolism: Clinical and Experimental* (2020), adequate manganese levels are linked to improved metabolic profiles and reduced risks of metabolic syndrome.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.07203 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Successive Refinement of Shannon Cipher System Under Maximal Leakage
We study the successive refinement setting of Shannon cipher system (SCS) under the maximal leakage secrecy metric for discrete memoryless sources under bounded distortion measures. Specifically, we generalize the threat model for the point-to-point rate-distortion setting of Issa, Wagner and Kamath (T-IT 2020) to the multiterminal successive refinement setting. Under mild conditions that correspond to partial secrecy, we characterize the asymptotically optimal normalized maximal leakage region…

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

"Im Oktober 2020 stellte die Staatsanwaltschaft Frankfurt (Oder) beim Amtsgericht Bernau einen Befangenheitsantrag gegen Müller, weil er sich gegen das Cannabisverbot einsetzt. Dieser wurde abgelehnt. Die Staatsanwaltschaft legte sofortige Beschwerde beim zuständigen Landgericht ein. Auch das Landgericht Frankfurt/Oder entschied, dass Müller nicht befangen sei."

Some reporting.
Finally.
From: @…
https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/112123264180557895

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…

Cowboys Meeting With Ezekiel Elliott’s Representative https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_meeting_with_ezekiel_elliotts_representative/s1_17039_40278182

Cowboys Meeting With Ezekiel Elliott’s Representative
The Dallas Cowboys are meeting with RB Ezekiel Elliott’s representative the day before the draft, according to Josina Anderson. Elliott, 28, was taken with the No. 4 overall pick by the Cowboys back in 2016. He signed a four-year rookie contract worth $24,956,342, which included a signing bonus of $16,350,068. Elliott was set to make a base salary of $3.85 million for the 2019 season and another $9.1 million in 2020 under the fifth-year option when he elected to hold out for a new deal in 201…

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…

Manifest V3 Unveiled: Navigating the New Era of Browser Extensions
Nikolaos Pantelaios, Alexandros Kapravelos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08310 https://

Manifest V3 Unveiled: Navigating the New Era of Browser Extensions
Introduced over a decade ago, Chrome extensions now exceed 200,000 in number. In 2020, Google announced a shift in extension development with Manifest Version 3 (V3), aiming to replace the previous Version 2 (V2) by January 2023. This deadline was later extended to January 2025. The company's decision is grounded in enhancing three main pillars: privacy, security, and performance. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the Manifest V3 ecosystem. We start by investigating the adoption r…

On a conjecture of Gross, Mansour and Tucker for $\Delta$-matroids
Remi Cocou Avohou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13839 https://arxiv.o…

On a conjecture of Gross, Mansour and Tucker for $Δ$-matroids
Gross, Mansour, and Tucker introduced the partial-duality polynomial of a ribbon graph [Distributions, European J. Combin. 86, 1--20, 2020], the generating function enumerating partial duals by the Euler genus. Chmutov and Vignes-Tourneret wondered if this polynomial and its conjectured properties would hold for general delta-matroids, which are combinatorial abstractions of ribbon graphs. Yan and Jin contributed to this inquiry by identifying a subset of delta-matroids-specifically, even norma…

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 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00682 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

An iterative method for the solution of Laplace-like equations in high and very high space dimensions
This paper deals with the equation $-Δu+μu=f$ on high-dimensional spaces $\mathbb{R}^m$, where the right-hand side $f(x)=F(Tx)$ is composed of a separable function $F$ with an integrable Fourier transform on a space of a dimension $n>m$ and a linear mapping given by a matrix $T$ of full rank and $μ\geq 0$ is a constant. For example, the right-hand side can explicitly depend on differences $x_i-x_j$ of components of $x$. Following our publication [Numer. Math. (2020) 146:219--238], we show th…

“It can happen again,” Judge Chutkan, who is expected to preside over Donald Trump’s criminal trial for trying to overturn the 2020 election, said Friday.
“Extremism is alive and well in this country. Threats of violence continue unabated.”
Those threats have become normalized in Republican discourse,
with right-wing figures across the country invoking violence and urging their supporters to arm themselves.
The man behind it all, Donald Trump, has yet to face any conse…

Judge Issues Chilling Warning About a Second January 6 Attack
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan noted that another insurrection is completely possible.

The Impact of School and Family Networks on COVID-19 Infections Among Dutch Students: A Study Using Population-Level Registry Data
Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Christine Hedde-von Westernhagen, Tom Emery, Albert Jan van Hoek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08098

The Impact of School and Family Networks on COVID-19 Infections Among Dutch Students: A Study Using Population-Level Registry Data
Understanding the impact of different social interactions is key to improving epidemic models. Here, we use extensive registry data -- including PCR test results and population-level networks -- to investigate the impact of school, family, and other social contacts on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the Netherlands (June 2020--October 2021). We isolate and compare different contexts of potential SARS-CoV-2 transmission by matching pairs of students based on their attendance at the same or different …

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...

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.

An improvement and generalization of Rotfel'd type inequalities for sectorial matrices
Nan Fanghong, Teng Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12849 https:…

An improvement and generalization of Rotfel'd type inequalities for sectorial matrices
Byusing equivalence conditions for sectorial matrices obtained by Alakhrass and Sababheh in 2020, we improve a Rotfel'd type inequality for sectorial matrices derived by P. Zhang in 2015 and generalize a result derived by Y. Mao et al. in 2024.

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…

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.

Georgia lawmaker runs secret election-conspiracy Telegram channel

A Fulton county commissioner in Georgia has been
operating a private Telegram channel for years,
propagating debunked claims about the 2020 election,
and spreading accusations of crimes by county employees,
including #Ruby #Freeman

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.05995 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

Canonical partition function and distance dependent correlation functions of a quasi-one-dimensional system of hard disks
The canonical $\,NLT\,$ partition function of a quasi-one dimensional (q1D) one-file system of equal hard disks [J. Chem Phys. \textbf{153}, 144111 (2020)] provides an analytical description of the thermodynamics and ordering in this system (a pore) as a function of linear density $\,Nd/L\,$ where $\,d\,$ is the disk diameter. We derive the analytical formulae for the distance dependence of the translational pair distribution function and the distribution function of distances between next neig…

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…

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

The great Oregon indie bookshop Powell's Books is now selling a perfume that smells like old books.
"Powell's By Powell's" is a unisex fragrance with notes of wood, violet, and "biblichor" (old book smell).
It's $24.99 for a one ounce bottle.

Powell's Books is now selling perfume that smells like old books
The great Oregon indie bookshop Powell's Books is now selling a perfume that smells like old books. "Powell's By Powell's" is a unisex fragrance with notes of wood, violet, and…

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…

Cowboys Re-Signing RB Rico Dowdle https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_re_signing_rb_rico_dowdle/s1_17039_40129395

Almost fifty years of Mets\"ahovi solar observations on 37 GHz with recovered digitised historical maps
Sami Kivist\"oAalto University Mets\"ahovi Radio Observatory, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland, Frederick GentDepartment of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, School of Mathematics…

Almost fifty years of Metsähovi solar observations on 37 GHz with recovered digitised historical maps
Context. Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory has collected solar intensity maps for over 45 years. Most data coverage is on the 37 GHz frequency band, tracking emissions primarily at the chromosphere and coronal transition region. The data spans four sunspot cycles or two solar magnetic cycles. Aims. We present solar maps, including recently restored data prior to 1989, spanning 1978 to 2020 after correcting for observational and temporal bias. Methods. The solar maps consist of radio…

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 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

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

“Looking across the ten markets where we have collected data for five years, the percentage of women among the top editors has changed from 23% in 2020 to 25% in 2024. A linear projection suggests that, at this pace of change, there could be gender parity in top editorial positions by the year 2074.”

Almost fifty years of Mets\"ahovi solar observations on 37 GHz with recovered digitised historical maps
Sami Kivist\"oAalto University Mets\"ahovi Radio Observatory, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland, Frederick GentDepartment of Computer Science, Aalto University, Finland, Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, School of Mathematics…

Almost fifty years of Metsähovi solar observations on 37 GHz with recovered digitised historical maps
Context. Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory has collected solar intensity maps for over 45 years. Most data coverage is on the 37 GHz frequency band, tracking emissions primarily at the chromosphere and coronal transition region. The data spans four sunspot cycles or two solar magnetic cycles. Aims. We present solar maps, including recently restored data prior to 1989, spanning 1978 to 2020 after correcting for observational and temporal bias. Methods. The solar maps consist of radio…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicArtistCollection
Kate Bush:
🎵 The Saxophone Song
#KateBush
https://open.spotify.com/track/4j9dvpEjjIGHuUJDqw8tq8
https://iwannabekate.bandcamp.com/track/the-saxophone-song-2020-remaster

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…

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 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Seven states, including Michigan, that were the focal points of Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election have
👉more than 200 legislators labeled in a new report as being “#election #deniers.”
States United Action, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to protect elections,…

Report classifies one-fifth of Michigan Legislature as ‘election deniers’ • Michigan Advance
Seven states, including Michigan, that were the focal points of Republican efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election have more than 200 legislators labeled in a new report as being “election deniers.” States United Action, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to protect elections, issued the report Thursday using data collected  with the assistance […]

🔊 #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