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For those who forgot or never knew,
Mickey Flacks was among Santa Barbara’s most dogged advocates for affordable housing, among other struggles for social justice, environmental sanity, and other progressive causes.
The Independent launched the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund back in 2020 to honor her memory and keep Mickey’s work alive.
The $100,000 we’ve raised since have empowered numerous editorial projects, and the Mickey Flacks Fellowship marks the epitome of those ef…

Why Donate to the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund?
Support reporters like Christina McDermott, who’s starting her second year of the Mickey Flacks Fellowship.

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Powerwolf:
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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…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 23.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Hinweise gerne. Wünsche gegen Spende. 😁

People handing in comments for my blog don't want to have their name/nick added because they fear negative consequences by #reddit administrators. 😲 🤦‍♂️
This is also why I wrote:
https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-…

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 just found this UK report on #covid epidemiology from 2020 to Dec 2024; the graph I most noticed is below - they looked at blood donors for spike (S) and Nucleo (N) protein antibodies over time; The spike proteins are in both infection and vaccine, while N is infection only - so you can see when people got vaccinated and how now pretty much everyone (95.5% as end of January) has been infected as…

Epidemiology of COVID-19 in England: January 2020 to December 2024

Newsmax pays $67 million to settle defamation case linked to 2020 election coverage (Maddy Lauria/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/18/nx-s1-5506062/newsmax-pays-67-million-to-settle-defamation-case-linked-to-2020-election-coverage
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p60#a250818p60

The Declarative configuration journey: Why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing
#OpenTelemetry

Happy March 2000th of 2020 to all who celebrate.
https://mastodon.mallegolhansen.com/@marchbot/115069472068312012

David McWilliams - Days Of Pearly Spencer - YouTube
#nowplaying

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!?

Corrigendum to "Stability in the high-dimensional cohomology of congruence subgroups" [Compos. Math. 156 (2020), no. 4, 822-861]
Jeremy Miller, Rohit Nagpal, Peter Patzt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14945

Corrigendum to "Stability in the high-dimensional cohomology of congruence subgroups" [Compos. Math. 156 (2020), no. 4, 822-861]
After the publication of [Compos. Math. 156 (2020), no. 4, 822-861], Andrew Putman pointed out a mistake in our paper and helped us fix it. In this note, we will explain what this mistake is and how to fix it.

Localised Arrowheads: The building blocks of elastic turbulence in rectilinear, sheared polymer flows
Theo A. Lewy, Rich R. Kerswell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26168 https://

Localised Arrowheads: The building blocks of elastic turbulence in rectilinear, sheared polymer flows
Pressure-driven flow of a dilute polymer solution has been numerically observed to possess a form of elastic turbulence which is organised around the interactions of localised versions of 2-dimensional `arrowhead' travelling waves (Page et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 154501, 2020). As a step to confirming this theoretically, we identify spanwise-localised arrowhead travelling waves by tracking a symmetry-breaking bifurcation of the known spanwise-invariant (2D) arrowhead to a spanwise-periodic st…

Michel Devoret, a Google Quantum AI chief scientist, John Martinis, who left Google in 2020, and John Clarke win the Nobel in Physics for quantum computing work (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-…

Permutation closure for multiple context-free languages
Andrew Duncan, Murray Elder, Lisa Frenkel, Mengfan Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22239 https://arx…

Permutation closure for multiple context-free languages
We prove that the \emph{permutation closure} of a multiple context-free language is multiple context-free, which extends work of Okhotin and Sorokin [LATA 2020] who showed closure under \emph{cyclic shift}, and complements work of Brandstädt [1981, RAIRO Inform. Théor.] (resp. Brough \emph{et al.} [2016, Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci.]) who showed the same result for regular, context-sensitive, recursively enumerable (resp. EDT0L and ET0L) languages. In contrast to Okhotin and Sorokin who…

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

The propaganda is so wild. When I was younger, they'd lie about things 20-30 years prior, with the assumption that people will have forgotten. Now they are constantly attempting to rewrite history that happened a mere 5 years ago, thinking that they're slick.
To quote Orwell: "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

Trump tried to pull this crap with the 2020 Census and was stopped by people who insisted on obeying the law.

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…

The ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$-character variety of $8_{18}$
Haimiao Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12203 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12203

The ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$-character variety of $8_{18}$
The knot $8_{18}$ is the first non-arborescent hyperbolic knot. In 2020, Paoluzzi and Porti found its ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$-character variety with the aid of a computer, but many details were omitted. In this paper, we determine the character variety by a software-free procedure, which is easy to follow and enlightening. Along the way, we develop an efficient method for working with simultaneous conjugacy classes of four elements of ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$.

Conservative network Newsmax agrees to pay $67M in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims (Nicholas Riccardi/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/dominion-voting-newsmax-defamation-trump-2020-3b2366dfdae3a8432afe822bf14fe1ef
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p70#a250818p70

Israel's Smotrich: Not All IDF Deployed to Gaza Border on October 7 Over 'Deception' Fears - #Haaretz
#Gaza

Aggregate-Combine-Readout GNNs Are More Expressive Than Logic C2
Stan P Hauke, Przemys{\l}aw Andrzej Wa{\l}\k{e}ga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06091 https://

Aggregate-Combine-Readout GNNs Are More Expressive Than Logic C2
In recent years, there has been growing interest in understanding the expressive power of graph neural networks (GNNs) by relating them to logical languages. This research has been been initialised by an influential result of Barceló et al. (2020), who showed that the graded modal logic (or a guarded fragment of the logic C2), characterises the logical expressiveness of aggregate-combine GNNs. As a ``challenging open problem'' they left the question whether full C2 characterises the logical ex…

Bis zu 68 Prozent mehr - Seit 2020: Diese Lebensmittel wurden am teuersten! #News #Nachrichten

Perturbed Public Voices (P$^{2}$V): A Dataset for Robust Audio Deepfake Detection
Chongyang Gao, Marco Postiglione, Isabel Gortner, Sarit Kraus, V. S. Subrahmanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10949

Perturbed Public Voices (P$^{2}$V): A Dataset for Robust Audio Deepfake Detection
Current audio deepfake detectors cannot be trusted. While they excel on controlled benchmarks, they fail when tested in the real world. We introduce Perturbed Public Voices (P$^{2}$V), an IRB-approved dataset capturing three critical aspects of malicious deepfakes: (1) identity-consistent transcripts via LLMs, (2) environmental and adversarial noise, and (3) state-of-the-art voice cloning (2020-2025). Experiments reveal alarming vulnerabilities of 22 recent audio deepfake detectors: models trai…

I'm a little shocked that I still have access to my university's MATLAB license

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
Qianqian Han, Yijian Zeng, Bob Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20195 https:…

Global Drought Escalation Since 2014: Multivariate Insights for Ecosystem Resilience and Water Security
How is climate change altering the global patterns, frequency, and intensity of drought? To investigate this, we analyzed global drought events from 2000-2020 using a composite of hydrological indices (Σ(ET-P), SSMI, and GRACE-DSI). Our results reveal that near-normal to severe droughts became increasingly widespread after 2014. Unexpectedly, extreme, 100-year return period droughts occurred not only in semi-arid zones but also in high latitude and typically wet regions. The frequency of these…

Because there are so many lunar eclipses that aren't full moons...
(think about it) https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115164183095682187

LiDO: Discovery of a 10:1 Resonator with a Novel Libration State
Rosemary E. Pike, Ruth Murray-Clay, Kathryn Volk, Mike Alexandersen, Mark Comte, Samantha M. Lawler, Ying-Tung Chen, Arcelia Hermosillo Ruiz, Cameron Semenchuck, Cameron Collyer, J. J. Kavelaars, Lowell Peltier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05627…

LiDO: Discovery of a 10:1 Resonator with a Novel Libration State
The Large inclination Distant Objects LiDO survey has discovered the first securely classified object in the 10:1 mean motion resonance of Neptune. This object, 2020 VN40, is short-term stable in the 10:1 resonance, but not stable on Gyr timescales. 2020 VN40 is likely part of the scattering sticking population, and temporarily resides in the 10:1 resonance at ~139.5 au. This discovery confirms that this distant resonance is populated, as a single detection is likely to be indicative of a large…

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

In 2020, Twitter had become utterly intolerable because of the Woke Left. Now it is utterly intolerable because of the Woke Right. It's a ruin.

Tractability Frontiers of the Shapley Value for Aggregate Conjunctive Queries
Christoph Standke, Benny Kimelfeld
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13565 https://a…

Tractability Frontiers of the Shapley Value for Aggregate Conjunctive Queries
In recent years, the Shapley value has emerged as a general game-theoretic measure for assessing the contribution of a tuple to the result of a database query. We study the complexity of calculating the Shapley value of a tuple for an aggregate conjunctive query, which applies an aggregation function to the result of a conjunctive query (CQ) based on a value function that assigns a number to each query answer. Prior work by Livshits, Bertossi, Kimelfeld, and Sebag (2020) established that this t…

Didn't realize this at the time but some time in 2020 my radio show surpassed the length of time it took for the confederacy to be established and die, now it's been more than double the amount lol

Effects of hadronic molecule $N(2080)3/2^-$ on $K^{* }\Lambda$ photoproduction
Wen-Ya Tian, Neng-Chang Wei, Yu-Fei Wang, Fei Huang, Bing-Song Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03673

Effects of hadronic molecule $N(2080)3/2^-$ on $K^{*+}Λ$ photoproduction
In our previous work [Phys. Rev. C {\bf 101}, 014003 (2020)], we have analyzed all available data on differential cross sections and spin density matrix elements for the $γp \to K^{\ast +} Λ$ reaction using an effective Lagrangian approach. There, the $t$-channel $K$, $K^*$, and $κ$ exchanges, the $u$-channel $Λ$, $Σ$, and $Σ^*$ exchanges, the $s$-channel $N$, $N(2060)5/2^-$, and $N(2000)5/2^+$ exchanges, and the interaction current were taken into account in constructing the reaction amp…

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/

Analyzing the Performance of a 2.72kWp Rooftop Grid tied Photovoltaic System in Tarlac City, Philippines
Aldrin Joar Rodrigo Taduran, Leo P. Piao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03487

Analyzing the Performance of a 2.72kWp Rooftop Grid tied Photovoltaic System in Tarlac City, Philippines
Residential and industrial areas are using rooftop grid-tied Photovoltaic (PV) systems, which are becoming increasingly popular. This is because solar energy reduces electrical consumption and provides free energy, while also lowering carbon emissions to create a more sustainable environment. This paper aims to analyze the 2.72kW p rooftop grid-tied PV system performance between 2020 and 2023 in Tarlac City, Philippines. The PV generated yearly is measured by Array Yield (YA), Reference Yield (…

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Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
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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.

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

2020 dwf felt very clever importing a Hong Kong model S20 so he could get the Snapdragon variant instead of the Exynos. Little did he realize 2025 dwf would be trying to install aftermarket firmware and that not being able to read Chinese characters might pose a _slight_ issue

Contact binary asteroid (153201) 2000 WO107: rotation, shape model, and density
Yurij Krugly, Oleksiy Golubov, Ihor Kyrylenko, Veronika Lipatova, Irina Belskaya, Vasilij Shevchenko, Ivan Slyusarev, Raguli Inasaridze, Shuhrat Ehgamberdiev, Oleksandra Ivanova, Marek Husarik, Sergey Karpov, Daniel Hestroffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04535…

Contact binary asteroid (153201) 2000 WO107: rotation, shape model, and density
We combine different methods to investigate the rotation, determine the shape and estimate the density of near-Earth asteroid (153201) 2000 WO$_{107}$. We carried out photometric observations of the asteroid during the 2020 apparition. Then we created a program able to simulate the lightcurves, and used it within a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm to reconstruct the asteroid shape model from the observational data. The Goldstone radar observations of the asteroid were used as an additi…

The parabolic Dirichlet problem with continuous and H\"older boundary data, and rough coefficients
Pablo Hidalgo-Palencia, Cody Hutcheson, Joseph Kasel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04833

The parabolic Dirichlet problem with continuous and Hölder boundary data, and rough coefficients
We provide very mild sufficient conditions for space-time domains (non-necessarily cylindrical) which ensure that the continuous Dirichlet problem and the Hölder Dirichlet problem are well-posed, for any parabolic operator in divergence form with merely bounded coefficients. Concretely, we show that the parabolic measure exists, even for unbounded domains, hence solving an open problem posed by Genschaw and Hofmann (2020). This problem has inherent difficulties because of its parabolic natur…

Spectral gap for the signed interchange process with arbitrary sets
Gil Alon, Subhajit Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04244 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04…

Spectral gap for the signed interchange process with arbitrary sets
In 2020, F.Cesi introduced a random walk on the hyperoctahedral group $B_n$ and analysed its spectral gap when the allowed generators are transpositions and diagonal elements corresponding to singletons. In this paper we extend the allowed generators to transpositions and any diagonal elements, and characterise completely the set of representations from which the spectral gap arises. This settles a conjecture posed in Cesi's paper.

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

Atmospheric rivers and winter sea ice drive recent reversal in Antarctic ice mass loss
Marlen Kolbe, Jose Abraham Torres Alavez, Ruth Mottram, Marwan Katurji, Richard Bintanja, Eveline C. van der Linden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03590

Atmospheric rivers and winter sea ice drive recent reversal in Antarctic ice mass loss
Since about 2000, the total mass of the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) has declined at a near-linear rate, increasing global sea levels. Since 2016, however, satellite gravimetry data reveal a slowdown in net AIS mass loss and a net mass gain since 2020, despite increases in dynamically-driven ice loss by discharge from outlet glaciers. Here we use a suite of reanalyses and regional climate models to show that this reversal is caused by increased precipitation and positive surface mass balance anoma…

A MATLAB toolbox for Computation of Speech Transmission Index (STI)
Pavel Rajmic, Ji\v{r}\'i Schimmel, \v{S}imon Cieslar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03825 https://

A MATLAB toolbox for Computation of Speech Transmission Index (STI)
The speech transmission index (STI) is a popular simple metric for the prediction of speech intelligibility when speech is passed through a transmission channel. Computation of STI from acoustic measurements is described in the IEC 60268-16:2020 standard. Though, reliable implementations of STI are not publicly accessible and are frequently limited to the use with a proprietary measurement hardware. We present a Matlab STI implementation of both the direct and indirect approaches according to t…

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Baby D:
🎵 Let Me Be Your Fantasy
#BabyD
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Deep Learning Reconstruction of Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific from Climate Reanalysis Dataset
Duc-Trong Le, Tran-Binh Dang, Anh-Duc Hoang Gia, Duc-Hai Nguyen, Minh-Hoa Tien, Xuan-Truong Ngo, Quang-Trung Luu, Quang-Lap Luu, Tai-Hung Nguyen, Thanh T. N. Nguyen, Chanh Kieu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06118

Deep Learning Reconstruction of Tropical Cyclogenesis in the Western North Pacific from Climate Reanalysis Dataset
This study presents a deep learning (DL) architecture based on residual convolutional neural networks (ResNet) to reconstruct the climatology of tropical cyclogenesis (TCG) in the Western North Pacific (WNP) basin from climate reanalysis datasets. Using different TCG data labeling strategies and data enrichment windows for the NASA Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications Version 2 (MERRA2) dataset during the 1980-2020 period, we demonstrate that ResNet can reasonably rep…