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George Floyd Square May 2025 vs June 2020 #Minneapolis #Minnesota #GeorgeFloyd

French Judge Investigating Robert Spatz (81) Requests Spain’s Judicial Assistance https://openbuddhism.org/justice/2025/french-judge-investigating-robert-spatz-81-requests-spains-judicial-assistance/

A Generic Construction of $q$-ary Near-MDS Codes Supporting 2-Designs with Lengths Beyond $q 1$
Hengfeng Liu, Chunming Tang, Zhengchun Zhou, Dongchun Han, Hao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16793

A Generic Construction of $q$-ary Near-MDS Codes Supporting 2-Designs with Lengths Beyond $q+1$
A linear code with parameters $[n, k, n - k + 1]$ is called maximum distance separable (MDS), and one with parameters $[n, k, n - k]$ is called almost MDS (AMDS). A code is near-MDS (NMDS) if both it and its dual are AMDS. NMDS codes supporting combinatorial $t$-designs have attracted growing interest, yet constructing such codes remains highly challenging. In 2020, Ding and Tang initiated the study of NMDS codes supporting 2-designs by constructing the first infinite family, followed by severa…

Hallo Presse: wieso fragt ihr die Regierung nicht danach, wie sie diese¹ Klimaziele erreichen will? Wo sind die Schlagzeilen? Wo ist der Skandal?
Und: redet mit euren Wissenschafts­redaktionen, verweist auf deren Artikel zu den Folgen. Wenn ihr Politik­journalismus wirksam betreiben wollt, müßt ihr darin fit sein, was die Wissenschaft sagt. Laßt euch nicht von Politikys verarschen.
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{testthat} is great for automatic testing. Here are some tricks for the heavy user: #rstats

Filing: Newsmax agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $67M to settle a defamation lawsuit over false claims about the 2020 election, with $27M due this month (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/newsmax-dominion-settle-2020-election-defamatio…

Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle Dominion lawsuit over network’s 2020 election lies
Egregious lies about the 2020 presidential election are going to cost Newsmax millions.

I came across these guys during lockdown in 2020-21. It's been at the top of my list of #writing music ever since.
Totorro, Come To Mexico (Album, 2016)
https://totorro.bandcamp.com/album/com

work music for writing https://open.spotify.com/track/6xuemAoELVBVeREbM1oya2?si=525788e402c1444e

I find it kinda funny that the 2020 MacBook Air—my work machine (albeit with 16 GB of RAM)—is now described as being “still capable at handling basic tasks like a champ, including streaming video, browsing, and dealing with documents.”
I haven’t noticed #Emacs slowing down, so what do people do that needs so much more computing power!?

A new paper projecting Joshua tree habitat under future climate based on incredibly high-resolution distribution data, from Joshua Tree Genome Project collaborators at USGS. They estimate up to 80% loss of suitable habitat by 2100 under the worst-case climate scenario.
#JoshuaTree #science

California court upholds John Eastman's disbarment for role in Trump 2020 plot (Kyle Cheney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/17/california-court-john-eastman-disbarment-00411266
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p158#a250617p158

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

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.s…

Sources: CB Arnette joins Texans in NFL return https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45539482/sources-cb-damon-arnette-3-years-nfl-joins-texans

https://apnews.com/article/mike-lindell-dominion-voting-defamation-2020-election-af473792a6e395d86ea6ca0f97742c3f

I find it kinda funny that the 2020 MacBook Air—my work machine (albeit with 16 GB of RAM)—is now described as being “still capable at handling basic tasks like a champ, including streaming video, browsing, and dealing with documents.”
I haven’t noticed #Emacs slowing down, so what do people do that needs so much more computing power!?

I find it kinda funny that the 2020 MacBook Air—my work machine (albeit with 16 GB of RAM)—is now described as being “still capable at handling basic tasks like a champ, including streaming video, browsing, and dealing with documents.”
I haven’t noticed #Emacs slowing down, so what do people do that needs so much more computing power!?

London-based Definely, whose AI tools help law firms draft and review legal contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Revaia, with Clio and others participating (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/09/uk-legaltech-de…

UK legaltech Definely secures $30M to boost global reach and AI development
UK legaltech company Definely has raised $30 million in Series B funding to accelerate its global expansion and AI product roadmap. This additional funding brings the total amount raised by Definely since its inception to $40 million. Launched in 2020 by Nnamdi Emelifeonwu and Feargus MacDaei, Definely was born from lived experience, including that of co-founder MacDaeid, who is registered blind after being diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition at age 11. Throughout his life, he consiste…

📢 Ex-Verkehrsminister Scheuer wegen Falschaussage angeklagt
Die Berliner Staatsanwaltschaft hat Anklage gegen den ehemaligen Bundesverkehrsminister Andreas Scheuer wegen des Vorwurfs einer falschen uneidlichen Aussage vor dem Maut-Untersuchungsausschuss des Bundestags erhoben. Das bestätigte die Staatsanwaltschaft dem ARD-Hauptstadtstudio.
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Ex-Verkehrsminister Scheuer wegen Falschaussage angeklagt
Die Berliner Staatsanwaltschaft hat Anklage gegen den ehemaligen Bundesverkehrsminister Scheuer erhoben. Sie wirft ihm vor, bei einer Befragung im Bundestag 2020 zu den Plänen der letztlich gescheiterten Pkw-Maut falsch ausgesagt zu haben.

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"Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find"
#US #USA #America #Vermont

Vermont plastic bag use dropped 91% following ban, researchers find
In the midst of 2020 COVID measures, another change took place in Vermont: A law went into effect banning businesses from offering plastic bags to customers, with paper bags only available for a fee.

5 Tools to Amp Up Your Keyboard Rig
#DigitalPiano #MusicianTips
https://muz4now.com/2020…

5 Tools to Amp Up Your Keyboard Rig
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

FBI Director Kash Patel feeds 2020 election conspiracy theories with documents about unverified tip (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-director-kash-patel-feeds-2020-election-conspiracy-theories-docume-rcna213521
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p154#a250617p154

Agile and Student-Centred Teaching of Agile/Scrum Concepts
Maria Spichkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14369 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Agile and Student-Centred Teaching of Agile/Scrum Concepts
In this paper, we discuss our experience in designing and teaching a course on Software Engineering Project Management, where the focus is on Agile/Scrum development and Requirement Engineering activities. The course has undergone fundamental changes since 2020 to make the teaching approach more student-centred and flexible. As many universities abandoned having face-to-face exams at the end of the semester, authentic assessments now play an even more important role than before. This makes asse…

“Niemand zag aankomen dat het aantal arbeidsongeschikten zo snel zou toenemen”.
Niemand? Wie in de zomer van 2020 zichzelf informeerde over #LongCovid weet dit dus al vijf jaar.
“Vooral jongeren met psychische problemen” … die zullen er heus bijzitten maar je wilt de mensen niet de kost geven bij wie de #LongCovid

Schrik over wachtlijsten WIA-keuring, 'het is ook veel te ingewikkeld'
De Landelijke Cliëntenraad, verzekeringsartsen en de Tweede Kamer maken zich zorgen over de fors oplopende WIA-wachtlijsten. "Het hele systeem is het probleem".

If we had defunded the police and abolished ICE in 2020 after the cops rioted against us, then Trump would not have the troops for his Christian white nationalist project

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing
Eric J. Korpela (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), David P. Anderson (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Jeff Cobb (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Matt Lebofsky (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Wei Liu (Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley), Dan Werthimer (Space Sciences Laboratory, Univ…

SETI@home: Data Acquisition and Front-End Processing
SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project, looking for technosignatures in data recorded at multiple observatories from 1998 to 2020. Most radio SETI projects analyze data using dedicated processing hardware. SETI@home uses a different approach: time-domain data is distributed over the Internet to $\gt 10^{5}$ volunteered home computers, which analyze it. The large amount of computing power this affords ($\sim 10^{15}$ floating-point operations per second (FPO…

Just now: we're celebrating 5 years of CLARIN-CH 🇨🇭and the fact that Switzerland is a full member of #CLARIN since beginning of 2025
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Newsmax says its 2020 election coverage was "fair" but it settled with Dominion as the Delaware court where the trial was to happen wouldn't allow a fair trial (Newsmax)
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/newsmax-settlement-dominion/2025/08/1…

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.s…

Quantum Radar and Research Assessment
Gaspare Galati, Gabriele Pavan, Frederick Daum
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13797 https://arxiv.o…

Quantum Radar and Research Assessment
Quantum Radar was studied in many Nations for about fifteen years with the production of some hundred publications. In the post 2020 literature, it is shown that, due to the exceedingly low transmitted power, Quantum Radar cannot produce neither significant results nor real world applications. Regrettably, most of the scientific community ignored this negative outcome: a fact worth of exam. A detailed study of such an assessment failure depicts the main shortcomings of the present situation, ca…

Another useful article:
"What to know about Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to LA protests"
https://apnews.com/article/insurrection-act-trump-troops-newsom-military-national-guard-…

What to know about Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to LA protests
President Donald Trump says he’s deploying 2,000 California National Guard troops to Los Angeles to respond to immigration protests, over the objections of California Gov. Gavin Newsom. It’s not the first time Trump has activated the National Guard to quell protests. In 2020, he asked governors of several states to send troops to Washington, D.C. to respond to demonstrations that arose after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police officers. Here are some things to know about when and …

Mark your calendars for our upcoming events this Fall from the Love of Children program. You can read and register for these events at https://yaleyouthministryinstitute.org/upcoming-events/

A new Lagrange multiplier approach for constructing structure preserving schemes, III. Bound preserving and energy dissipating
Qing Cheng, Tingfeng Wang, Xiaofei Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12402

A new Lagrange multiplier approach for constructing structure preserving schemes, III. Bound preserving and energy dissipating
In the third part of this series, we continue to explore the idea of the Lagrange multiplier introduced in the first part [2020, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engr., 391, 114585] and refined in the second part [2022, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 60, 970-998] to further develop efficient and accurate numerical schemes that preserve the maximum bound principle (MBP) and energy dissipation for solving gradient flows. The proposed framework allows us to begin with any conventional scheme as a predictor step…

(2020) Want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local #environment

You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local
“Eat local” is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet. How does the impact of what you eat compare to where it's come from?

When DJ Cummerbund made this mashup in 2020 I did take notice that one of the acts was "BTS Skytrain" but I just assumed this was just some strange relative of Korea's BTS.
Shame on me for not knowing or at least spotting that it was an actual promotional video for Bangkok's mass transit system - which also means I was not able to tell the difference between Thai and Korean people.
My only defence is that they are wearing masks but still…

"Finding Flow"
8 instrumental compositions that helped me find my way back to F-L-O-W
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/finding-flow-nowplaying/…

Finding Flow #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

This week's #ThursDeath is a twofer. Death-doom two piece GRAVE EATER from Wales, UK put out two filthy demos in 2020, one in January and one in September. Not sure which I like more, but they're both chock full of raw, cavernous, growly, sludgy, often slow, plodding riffs and grooves. Even some actual power tools in the last track of the first demo here, 'Powertool Lobotomy'. Hope we se…

Detection, attribution, and modeling of climate change: key open issues
Nicola Scafetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13994 https://arxi…

Detection, attribution, and modeling of climate change: key open issues
The CMIP global climate models (GCMs) assess that nearly 100% of global surface warming observed between 1850-1900 and 2011-2020 is attributable to anthropogenic drivers like greenhouse gas emissions. These models also generate future climate projections based on shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs), aiding in risk assessment and the development of costly Net-Zero climate mitigation strategies. Yet, the CMIP GCMs face significant scientific challenges in attributing and modeling climate change,…

Former Raiders Star Darren Waller Gets Huge Dolphins Injury Update from Agent https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/darren-waller-gets-injury-update/?adt_ei=[email]

Tatort: Du allein | #ADR #WDR
https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/685457515c9803c85567314a

STRRINGS: STReams in Residual Images of Nearby GalaxieS
E. Sola, D. Chemaly, V. Belokurov, O. M\"uller, A. Ardern-Arentsen, E. Y. Davies, J. Laguna-Miralles, G. Myeong, K. Panagiotakis, H. Zhang, D. Erkal, S. E. Koposov, D. Lang, J. Nibauer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02154

STRRINGS: STReams in Residual Images of Nearby GalaxieS
Tidal features from galaxy mergers, particularly stellar streams, offer valuable insights into galaxy assembly and dark matter halo properties. This paper aims to identify a large sample of nearby stellar streams suitable for detailed modelling and comparison with simulations to enable population-level constraints on halo properties. We visually inspect and compile a tidal feature catalogue for $19,387$ galaxies with redshift $z \leq 0.02$ from the Siena Galaxy Atlas 2020 using original, model,…

James Brown in Roses, a true story https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2020/06/08/james-brown-in-roses-a-true-story/

When is String Reconstruction using de Bruijn Graphs Hard?
Ben Bals, Sebastiaan van Krieken, Solon P. Pissis, Leen Stougie, Hilde Verbeek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03433 https:…

When is String Reconstruction using de Bruijn Graphs Hard?
The reduction of the fragment assembly problem to (variations of) the classical Eulerian trail problem [Pevzner et al., PNAS 2001] has led to remarkable progress in genome assembly. This reduction employs the notion of de Bruijn graph $G=(V,E)$ of order $k$ over an alphabet $Σ$. A single Eulerian trail in $G$ represents a candidate genome reconstruction. Bernardini et al. have also introduced the complementary idea in data privacy [ALENEX 2020] based on $z$-anonymity. The pressing question i…

Monitoring firm MUSO says piracy hit a low in 2020 with 130B website visits and grew by 2024 to 216B; in Sweden, 25% of those surveyed reported pirating in 2024 (Gabriel V Rindborg/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/

Spectral evolution of GX 17 2 using AstroSat and NICER observations
Sree Bhattacherjee, Ranjeev Misra, Biplob Sarkar, V. Jithesh, Jayashree Roy, Yashpal Bhulla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21679

Spectral evolution of GX 17+2 using AstroSat and NICER observations
We study the spectral evolution of the Z-track source GX 17+2 using AstroSat and NICER observations taken between 2016 and 2020. The AstroSat observations cover the period when the source is in the normal branch (NB) and the flaring branch (FB), while for the NICER ones the variability can be associated with the FB branch. The source spectra at different regions of the branches are well described by accretion disk emission, blackbody surface emission and a thermal Comptonization component. In t…

The LA Times Guild plans to hold its first-ever strike authorization vote as contract talks near their third year; the union lost about 200 members since 2022 (Raquel 'Rocky' Harris/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-union-strike-authorization-vote/…

LA Times Union to Hold First-Ever Strike Authorization Vote as Contract Talks Near 3rd Year
Since negotiations began in September 2020, the guild has seen layoffs impact approximately 200 Times staffers.

Hopf-Galois structures on separable field extensions of degree related to Cunningham chains
Andrew Darlington
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03384 https://arxi…

Hopf-Galois structures on separable field extensions of degree related to Cunningham chains
The past few years have seen Hopf--Galois structures on extensions of squarefree degree studied in various contexts. The Galois case was fully explored by Alabdali and Byott in 2020, followed by a first attempt at generalising these results to include non-normal extensions by Byott and Martin-Lyons; their work looks at separable extensions of degree $pq$ with $p,q$ distinct odd primes, and $p=2q+1$. This paper extends the latter work further by considering separable extensions of squarefree deg…

Climate impacts and monetary costs of healthy diets worldwide
Yan Bai, Elena M. Martinez, Mizuki Yamanaka, Marko Rissanen, Anna Herforth, William A. Masters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24457

Climate impacts and monetary costs of healthy diets worldwide
About 2.8 billion people worldwide cannot afford the least expensive foods required for a healthy diet. Since 2020, the Cost and Affordability of a Healthy Diet (CoAHD) has been published for all countries by FAO and the World Bank and is widely used to guide social protection, agricultural, and public health and nutrition policies. Here, we measure how healthy diets could be obtained with the lowest possible greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in ways that could further inform food choice and poli…

Tether says it has ~250K Tether Gold tokens in circulation as of Q2 2025, backed 1:1 by a troy ounce of physical gold; the stablecoin was launched in Jan. 2020 (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/364232/250000

Adjacency spectral radius and H-factors in 1-binding graphs
Sizhong Zhou, Tao Zhang, Zhiren Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20273 https://

Adjacency spectral radius and H-factors in 1-binding graphs
Let $G$ be a graph, and let $H:V(G)\longrightarrow\{\{1\},\{0,2\}\}$ be a set-valued function. Hence, $H(v)$ equals $\{1\}$ or $\{0,2\}$ for any $v\in V(G)$. We let $$ H^{-1}(1)=\{v: v\in V(G) \ \mbox{and} \ H(v)=1\}. $$ An $H$-factor of $G$ is a spanning subgraph $F$ of $G$ such that $d_F(v)\in H(v)$ for each $v\in V(G)$. Lu and Kano showed a characterization for the existence of an $H$-factor in a graph [Characterization of 1-tough graphs using factors, Discrete Math. 343 (2020) 111901]. Let …

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
Jiashi Chen, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19285

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
The Galactic black hole (BH) X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 went into a new outburst in 2021 after $\sim$ 600 days from its 2020 outburst. We perform a detailed analysis of quasi-periodic oscillations and spectral evolutions during its 2021 outburst based on \textit{Insight}-HXMT observations. The main science aims to study the reflection features evolution of this accreting black hole using the observations of detecting quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and quasi-regular modulations (QRMs). The QPOs…