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X-Ray Polarimetry of Accreting White Dwarfs: A Case Study of EX Hydrae: #WhiteDwarf star for the first time in history.

Donald Trump said that his party should seize control of elections in ‘at least 15 places’
and brazenly repeated a number of blatant lies about his electoral history in Minnesota and Georgia
during a Monday phone interview with a right-wing podcaster who briefly served in a top FBI role last year.
Trump, who continues to falsely insist that he won the 2020 election despite having lost to successor-turned-predecessor Joe Biden by wide margins in both the popular and electora…

Trump calls in to Dan Bongino’s first show and insists Republicans must ‘take over voting’ in 15 places
Trump has never won Minnesota’s electoral votes and lost Georgia’s electoral votes in 2020

In 10 minutes the #ArtemisII Fueling Test News Conference will stream at https://www.youtube.com/live/ycqk3uN_N6g - as announced in https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/03/nasa-conducts-artemis-ii-fuel-test-eyes-march-for-launch-opportunity/ and https://x.com/NASAAdmin/status/2018578937115271660 the first launch attempt has already been moved to March.

Microsoft shares fell ~10% on Thursday following an earnings report that disappointed some investors, the stock's sharpest daily decline since March 2020 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/microsoft-market-cap-earnings.html

Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020
As investors sold shares of Microsoft on Thursday, the $3.2 trillion company dragged down the software complex and the S&P 500 index.

from my link log —
The case of the missing DNS packets.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-cloud-support-engineer-solves-a-tough-dns-case
saved 2020-05-13

A Google Cloud support engineer solves a tough DNS case | Google Cloud Blog
How a Google Cloud support engineer found one customer’s missing DNS packets

Detection of an NH3 Absorption Band at 2.2 μm on Europa: #Europa, Recent Study Shows: https://science.nasa.gov/blogs/science-news/2026/01/29/nasas-galileo-mission-points-to-ammonia-at-europa-recent-study-shows/

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 35093 nodes and 747063 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Magnetosphere Evolution and Precursor-driven Electromagnetic Signals in Merging Binary Neutron Stars: #NeutronStars: https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/nasa-researchers-probe-tangled-magnetospheres-of-merging-neutron-stars/

I recently got a “new” iPad (meaning, a used model from 2020) and I was amazed at how terrible it was for web browsing. Then I realized I forgot to point it at my Pi-hole install for DNS.
So much of the (commercial) web is nearly unusable on old(er) devices because of the amount of advertising crammed onto a page.
(Indie sites personal blogs, etc are mostly unaffected. Recipe sites though… whew!)
#web

1997-2016 Instruction ⚖️
2016 : premier procès.
2017 : Spatz condamné Š 4 ans avec sursis. Les cadres sont déclarés « sous emprise ».
2020 : deuxième procès, 8 mois d’audiences. Verdict : Spatz coupable d’emprise, violences et abus sur mineurs, mais seulement 5 ans avec sursis.

An X-ray-Emitting Proto-Cluster at z ≈ 5.7 Reveals Rapid Structure Growth: #GalaxyCluster in Early Universe: https://chandra.si.edu/press/26_releases/press_012826.html

"Right now, new scam protections proposed by the government exclude many platforms scammers frequently use, including dating apps, email services and online marketplaces. Since 2020, thousands of Australians have fallen victim to scammers, losing $220 million through romance scams alone."
#Australia #Scams

Tell the Government to block scammers this Valentine’s Day
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As one might expect El Cheato appointed judges rule in favor of trump far more often than do judges appointed by prior presidents.
But the amount of that imbalance is beyond astounding.
From the NY Times:
"Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor"
Which causes me to repeat my suggestions, from year 2020, about how we can remove power from those judges by using a technique well practiced elsewhere - redefining jobs and "rubb…

from my link log —
FAQs on aerosol transmission of COVID-19.
https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols
saved 2020-10-06 https://dotat.at/:/8RYZW.html

FAQs on Protecting Yourself from Aerosol Transmission
FAQs on Protecting Yourself from COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission Shortcut to this page: https://tinyurl.com/FAQ-aerosols Version: 1.88, 13-Aug-2021 Click here to jump over the scientific & historical details and go straight to the recommendations, Click here for automatic translation into many l...

Diarycast - Lockdown Lawnmowing Sadly Allowed (2020-04-13) - Apparently the lockdown does not prevent lawn mowing (or home cooking)! #podcast #coronavirus - h…

Diarycast - Lockdown Lawnmowing Sadly Allowed (2020-04-13)
Apparently the lockdown does not prevent lawn mowing (or home cooking)! #podcast #coronavirus

DOJ sues Georgia county as Trump pushes debunked 2020 election fraud claims
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Fulton County, Georgia,
over records related to the 2020 election,
escalating the Trump administration’s efforts to boost the president’s
false claims that his loss to Joe Biden was rigged.

Citing a need to investigate “compliance with federal election law,”
the lawsuit demands Georgia election officials turn over
“all used a…

DOJ sues Georgia county as Trump pushes debunked 2020 election fraud claims
President Donald Trump has increasingly pressured his administration to find widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, despite those claims having been debunked and dismissed in dozens of cases by the courts.

»Ein Bauernhof ist ein normales industrielles Unternehmen geworden, der Landmann ein Betriebswirt. Nur die Folklore und die für Produktion entfremdeten urbanen Eliten, für die man Werbung und Marketing macht, glauben noch an die Idylle, die es nie gab.«
Aus: @… – Zusammenhänge (2020)

how could she

Seahawks clinch No. 1 seed, first NFC West title since 2020 with win over 49ers https://www.nfl.com/news/seahawks-clinch-no-1-seed-first-nfc-west-title-since-2020-with-win-over-49ers

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…

KPMG citing PitchBook data: UK fintech investment totaled almost $11B in 2025 across 418 deals, down from ~$13.4B in 2024 across 527 deals; Revolut raised $4B (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Cowboys’ tight end room was one of its best in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-tight-end-room-was-one-of-its-best-in-2025

from my link log —
The SOC2 starting seven.
https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/03/12/the-soc-starting.html
saved 2020-03-13 https://…

A search warrant affidavit unsealed on Tuesday reveals that
when the FBI raided the Fulton county election office in Georgia last month,
the decision was based on debunked claims from election deniers
and came after a referral from a White House lawyer who tried to overturn the 2020 election.
The FBI’s investigation “originated” from a referral sent by
Kurt Olsen, an attorney who sought to overturn the 2020 election
and contacted justice department offici…

Diarycast - Lockdown Patently Workable (2020-05-10) - April/May news: more good PV generation, and active travel is getting some UK central-government TLC... #podcast #coronavirus #activeTravel…

Diarycast - Lockdown Patently Workable (2020-05-10)
April/May news: more good PV generation, and active travel is getting some UK central-government TLC... #podcast #coronavirus #activeTravel

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…

Cowboys Called Out for Not Pursuing ‘External’ Free Agents https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/called-out-signing-external-free-agents/

African fintech Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open banking startup Mono, sources say in an all-stock deal valued at $25M to $40M; Mono raised $17.5M since 2020 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/flutterwave-buys-nige…

Flutterwave buys Nigeria's Mono in rare African fintech exit | TechCrunch
Africa’s largest fintech company, Flutterwave, has acquired Nigerian open banking startup Mono in an all-stock deal.

Anyone else remember when we thought 2020 was a rough year? Yeah, I kinda want to rewind to that point now... 2026 is soon upon us, and I don't expect things to improve, unfortunately. And no, I'm not being pessimistic, only realistic...

Carbonaceous Cosmic Dust Analogs Distinguish between Ion Bombardment and Temperature: #CosmicDust in her lab. What she found could help us understand how life started on Earth: https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2026/02/02/cosmic-dust-carbonaceous-analogue-infrared.html - study reverse-engineers stellar chemical cocktail of fundamental molecules using infrared 'fingerprints'.

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 8699 nodes and 317814 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

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

from my link log —
A PostgreSQL developer's .psqlrc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23826037
saved 2020-07-13 https://dot…

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 …