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The Atlantic settled a defamation lawsuit by Ruth Shalit Barrett for $1M , resolving a dispute over the magazine's 2020 retraction of her story on youth sports (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12…

Atlantic Settles Writer’s Suit Over Article It Retracted
The writer, Ruth Shalit Barrett, had accused the magazine of defaming her in a lengthy editor’s note.

Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
After nearly a decade in limbo and years of negotiations,
a treaty announced in June and set to come into effect over coming months,
will scrap most barriers to travel and trade that went up after Britain’s divorce from the E.U. became official at the end of 2020.

Some 40,000 Gibraltarians will regain what millions of traveling Brits miss most:
the ability to wander unfettered, without passports or time limits, througho…

The Brits who beat Brexit: Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
Nearly a decade after Britain quit the E.U., British residents of Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain, will regain travel and commercial access under a treaty.

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

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

August 2025 was the third-warmest August globally, behind only 2023 and 2024, with an average surface air temperature of 16.60°C, 1.29°C above the estimated 1850-1900 average used to define the pre-industrial level.
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temper…

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

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

Synergy, not size: How collaboration architecture shapes scientific disruption
Bili Zheng, Jianhua Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06212 https://arxiv.org/p…

Synergy, not size: How collaboration architecture shapes scientific disruption
The mechanisms driving different types of scientific innovation through collaboration remain poorly understood. Here we develop a comprehensive framework analyzing over 14 million papers across 19 disciplines from 1960 to 2020 to unpack how collaborative synergy shapes research disruption. We introduce the synergy factor to quantify collaboration cost-benefit dynamics, revealing discipline-specific architectures where Physics peaks at medium team sizes while humanities achieve maximal synergy t…

What makes a sound musical?
#sound and #psychology
https://muz4now.com/2020/what-makes-a-

What makes a sound musical?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Free Elections in the Free State: Ensemble Analysis of Redistricting in New Hampshire
Atticus McWhorter, Daryl DeFord
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07328 https://

Free Elections in the Free State: Ensemble Analysis of Redistricting in New Hampshire
The process of legislative redistricting in New Hampshire, along with many other states across the country, was particularly contentious during the 2020 census cycle. In this paper we present an ensemble analysis of the enacted districts to provide mathematical context for claims made about these maps in litigation. Operationalizing the New Hampshire redistricting rules and algorithmically generating a large collection of districting plans allows us to construct a baseline for expected behavior…

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

What began as a silent infiltration into one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining pools has now been confirmed as
the biggest crypto theft in history.
The LuBian mining pool, once a dominant force in the Bitcoin network, quietly lost over 127,000 Bitcoins in 2020.
The breach was only uncovered in 2025 by Arkham Intelligence, revealing a staggering $14.5 billion worth of stolen assets that had remained untouched and undetected for half a decade

The biggest heist of all time involved over $14 billion of crypto being stolen - and it went undetected for five years
Five years of silence before exposure

Oh great, the 3 warmest months of July on record globally are now 2023, 2024, and 2025.
https://mstdn.social/@Powerfromspace1/114994787705123922

PKPs Powerfromspace1 (@Powerfromspace1@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image @extretemps@toot.community #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming July 2025 Worldwide,according to NASA, had a temperature anomaly of +0.45C vs 1991/2020 (+1.03C vs 1951/1980) and was the 3rd hottest July on record, +0.16C behind both those of 2023 and 2024. https://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3lvvxirf7mc2i

Chinese national arrested in Milan after US issues arrest warrant for Hafnium attacks https://therecord.media/chinese-national-arrested-italy-hafnium-covid

❓ Was macht man eigentlich mit den anno 2020 geschneiderten #Alltagsmasken gegen böse #Viren in der Luft?
Ich habe davon noch viele, aber die stauben ein.
Habt Ihr gute Verwendungsvorschläge?
#Corona

Man kann sich nun das Wien-Modern-Programm anschauen, ahem.
https://www.wienmodern.at

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Und, wie ist die Stimmung? Gut, es ist natürlich Zufall, dass unser Festivalthema ausgerechnet in dieses seltsame Pandemie-Jahr 2020 fällt, in dem sich auf einmal vieles genau so ungreifbar, wechselhaft und unerklärlich anfühlt wie der Begriff „Stim

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

Kommenden Dienstag 8.7.25, 19:30 Uhr, ist es so weit:
Michael Blume in der Manufaktur
Sturmflut der Lügen - Wie wir unsere Gesellschaft gegen Desinformation Wappnen
@…
#schorndorf

Finally some information about this strange guy who ride like a train in front of the whole pack. Source: dotwatcher.cc
Nicolas Chatelet #tcrno11cap46: The Quiet Master of Suffering
Nicolas Chatelet isn’t new to long, brutal efforts. In 2020, the Parisian maths teacher rode 11 reps of Plateau de Beille, climbing 21,165 metres in 24 hours – the highest known vertical gain. He fue…

Statscast - Load Profile (2020-12) - Stats from 16WW for the end of 2020. #podcast #stats #loadProfile -

Statscast - Load Profile (2020-12)
Stats from 16WW for the end of 2020. #podcast #stats #loadProfile

Deep Active Learning for Lung Disease Severity Classification from Chest X-rays: Learning with Less Data in the Presence of Class Imbalance
Roy M. Gabriel, Mohammadreza Zandehshahvar, Marly van Assen, Nattakorn Kittisut, Kyle Peters, Carlo N. De Cecco, Ali Adibi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21263

Deep Active Learning for Lung Disease Severity Classification from Chest X-rays: Learning with Less Data in the Presence of Class Imbalance
To reduce the amount of required labeled data for lung disease severity classification from chest X-rays (CXRs) under class imbalance, this study applied deep active learning with a Bayesian Neural Network (BNN) approximation and weighted loss function. This retrospective study collected 2,319 CXRs from 963 patients (mean age, 59.2 $\pm$ 16.6 years; 481 female) at Emory Healthcare affiliated hospitals between January and November 2020. All patients had clinically confirmed COVID-19. Each CXR wa…

Energy Efficiency in Robotics Software: A Systematic Literature Review (2020-2024)
Aryan Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12170 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

Energy Efficiency in Robotics Software: A Systematic Literature Review (2020-2024)
This study presents a systematic literature review of software-level approaches to energy efficiency in robotics published from 2020 through 2024, updating and extending pre-2020 evidence. An automated-but-audited pipeline combined Google Scholar seeding, backward/forward snowballing, and large-language-model (LLM) assistance for screening and data extraction, with ~10% human audits at each automated step and consensus-with-tie-breaks for full-text decisions. The final corpus comprises 79 peer-…

Reconstruction in the Calder\'on problem on a fixed partition from finite and partial boundary data
Henrik Garde
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19410 https://

Reconstruction in the Calderón problem on a fixed partition from finite and partial boundary data
This short note modifies a reconstruction method by the author (Comm. PDE, 45(9):1118--1133, 2020), for reconstructing piecewise constant conductivities in the Calderón problem (electrical impedance tomography). In the former paper, a layering assumption and the local Neumann-to-Dirichlet map was needed since the piecewise constant partitioning also was assumed unknown. Here I show how to modify the method in case the partitioning is known, for general piecewise constant conductivities and onl…

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

Sturmflut der Lügen – Wie wir unsere Gesellschaft gegen Desinformation wappnen
Vortrag mit
Michael Blume @…
8.7.2025, 19:30 Uhr
Manufaktur Schorndorf
#Schorndorf

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

Towards Skeletal and Signer Noise Reduction in Sign Language Production via Quaternion-Based Pose Encoding and Contrastive Learning
Guilhem Faur\'e (MULTISPEECH), Mostafa Sadeghi (MULTISPEECH), Sam Bigeard (MULTISPEECH), Slim Ouni (LORIA, MULTISPEECH)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14574

Towards Skeletal and Signer Noise Reduction in Sign Language Production via Quaternion-Based Pose Encoding and Contrastive Learning
One of the main challenges in neural sign language production (SLP) lies in the high intra-class variability of signs, arising from signer morphology and stylistic variety in the training data. To improve robustness to such variations, we propose two enhancements to the standard Progressive Transformers (PT) architecture (Saunders et al., 2020). First, we encode poses using bone rotations in quaternion space and train with a geodesic loss to improve the accuracy and clarity of angular joint mov…

Superluminal Quantum Reference Frames
Amrapali Sen, Matthias Salzger, {\L}ukasz Rudnicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11787 https://arx…

Superluminal Quantum Reference Frames
While particles cannot travel faster than the speed of light, nor can information, this assumption has over the years been frequently questioned. Most recently, it has been argued [New J. Phys. 22, 033038 (2020)] that in a world with superluminal observers local determinism is impossible, linking the two pillars of physics-quantum theory and relativity-suggesting that the latter serves as the foundation for the former. Motivated by this approach, in this work, we extend the framework of quantum…

Newly unredacted documents in the Smartmatic-Fox News defamation case show former host Jeanine Pirro, now a US attorney, bragging about aiding Trump and the GOP (Jeremy Barr/Washington Post)

Jeanine Pirro bragged about helping Trump and GOP while a Fox News host
The former Fox host complained of “CENSORSHIP” by Fox over her coverage of the 2020 election, according to newly unredacted documents in the Smartmatic defamation case.

Sharp Hardy and spectral gap inequalities on special irreversible Finsler manifolds
S\'andor Kaj\'ant\'o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13793 https://

Sharp Hardy and spectral gap inequalities on special irreversible Finsler manifolds
The sharpness of various Hardy-type inequalities is well-understood in the reversible Finsler setting; while infinite reversibility implies the failure of these functional inequalities, cf. Kristály, Huang, and Zhao [Trans. Am. Math. Soc., 2020]. However, in the remaining case of irreversible manifolds with finite reversibility, there is no evidence on the sharpness of Hardy-type inequalities. In fact, we are not aware of any particular examples where the sharpness persists. In this paper we p…

Optimal Portfolio Construction -- A Reinforcement Learning Embedded Bayesian Hierarchical Risk Parity (RL-BHRP) Approach
Shaofeng Kang, Zeying Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11856

Optimal Portfolio Construction -- A Reinforcement Learning Embedded Bayesian Hierarchical Risk Parity (RL-BHRP) Approach
We propose a two-level, learning-based portfolio method (RL-BHRP) that spreads risk across sectors and stocks, and adjusts exposures as market conditions change. Using U.S. Equities from 2012 to mid-2025, we design the model using 2012 to 2019 data, and evaluate it out-of-sample from 2020 to 2025 against a sector index built from exchange-traded funds and a static risk-balanced portfolio. Over the test window, the adaptive portfolio compounds wealth by approximately 120 percent, compared with 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 ${\rm SL}(2,\mathbb{C})$.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Unredacted court docs in Smartmatic's Fox News lawsuit show how Maria Bartiromo and other Fox hosts privately aided Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 US election (Isabella Simonetti/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/smartma

Disaster Informatics after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric and Topic Analysis based on Large-scale Academic Literature
Ngan Tran, Haihua Chen, Ana Cleveland, Yuhan Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16820

Disaster Informatics after the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bibliometric and Topic Analysis based on Large-scale Academic Literature
This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric and topic analysis of the disaster informatics literature published between January 2020 to September 2022. Leveraging a large-scale corpus and advanced techniques such as pre-trained language models and generative AI, we identify the most active countries, institutions, authors, collaboration networks, emergent topics, patterns among the most significant topics, and shifts in research priorities spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings hig…

Cowboys season outlook: Dak Prescott is healthy, but is that enough for Dallas to rebound from forgetful 2024?

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

Remember that weird time #MultiMillionaire #PedoPerv and #MutualFriend of both #Clinton &

Jeffrey Epstein’s Mystery Bank Came Alive After His Death
Southern Country International received millions of dollars from Mr. Epstein’s estate in December.

Forecasting Extreme Day and Night Heat in Paris
Richard Berk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12886 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12886

Forecasting Extreme Day and Night Heat in Paris
As a demonstration of concept, quantile gradient boosting is used to forecast diurnal and nocturnal Q(.90) air temperatures for Paris, France during late the spring and summer months of 2020. The data are provided by the Paris-Montsouris weather station. Q(.90) values are estimated because the 90th percentile requires that the temperatures be relatively rare and extreme. Predictors include seven routinely collected indicators of weather conditions, lagged by 14 days; the temperature forecasts a…

Rural #Colorado town with less than 10,000 population has hyped up #cowboy #cops whose excessive force incidents are on dramatic rise, far outpacing #Denver