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“It can’t happen here”
—that’s the stock phrase used by Sinclair Lewis to warn about European-style fascism creeping into U.S. politics in the 1930s,
—by Frank Zappa to mock Eisenhower-era squares panicking about counterculture freaks in the 1960s,
—and by many Americans to reassure themselves of their country’s stability ever since the assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Animosity between political camps in the United States feels more vicious than at any ti…

'Civil War' Movie Review: A Nightmare Scenario of American Mayhem
The nightmare scenario is extra terrifying because of its dreamy lack of logic.

In 2023, crypto investors achieved total gains of $37.6B, up from a $127.1B loss in 2022 but down from the $159.7B in gains during the 2021 bull run (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/cryptocurrency-gains-by-country-2023/

2023 Cryptocurrency Gains by Country - Chainalysis
Read this blog to get our estimates for cryptocurrency investment gains for the year 2023, broken down by country.

Armutsrate in #Uruguay.
Zur Erinnerung: In #Deutschland leben im Jahr 2021 15,8 % der Bevölkerung unterhalb der Armutsgrenze. Das entspricht rund 15,5 Millionen Menschen. Die Armutsquote der Haushalte in Schland lag hingegen bei 14,3 %.

Weiterhin hohe Armutsrate in Uruguay

Dallas Cowboys cornerback C.J. Goodwin inks new contract ahead of free agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_cornerback_cj_goodwin_inks_new_contract_ahead_of_free_agency/s1_1723…

Dallas Cowboys cornerback C.J. Goodwin inks new contract ahead of free agency
Dallas Cowboys cornerback and special teams ace C.J. Goodwin inked a new contract this week ahead of free agency. It will be a one-year deal, according to Cowboys reporter Michael Gehlken. He is coming off of a one-year deal worth $1.317 million. During the 2023 season, Goodwin played in five games, tallying four tackles, before tearing his pectoral muscle in the Oct. 8 game against the San Francisco 49ers. Goodwin played the 2021 and 2022 seasons on a two-year, $3.5 million deal. He was the te…

Sources: StubHub aims to go public by late summer but may call off the listing if it can't get close to the $16.5B valuation from a funding round in 2021 (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stubhub-plan…

StubHub Plans Summer IPO in New Test of Market
Online ticketing marketplace StubHub is aiming to go public by late summer, people close to the company said, setting up another sizable internet initial public offering after Reddit’s IPO last month. And as StubHub has more than $2 billion in debt, many times its estimated profits, the company ...

Naturally I drink more #coffee in the winter months. #Underground #data

Sources: StubHub aims to go public by late summer but may call off the listing if it can't get close to the $16.5B valuation from a funding round in 2021 (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stubhub-plan…

StubHub Plans Summer IPO in New Test of Market
Online ticketing marketplace StubHub is aiming to go public by late summer, people close to the company said, setting up another sizable internet initial public offering after Reddit’s IPO last month. And as StubHub has more than $2 billion in debt, many times its estimated profits, the company ...

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XMM-Newton --NuSTAR monitoring campaign of the Seyfert 1 galaxy IC 4329A
We present the results of a joint {\it XMM-Newton} and {\it NuSTAR} campaign on the active galactic nucleus (AGN) IC 4329A, consisting of 9 $\times$ 20 ks {\it XMM-Newton} observations, and 5 $\times$ 20 ks {\it NuSTAR} observations within nine days, performed in August 2021. Within each observation, the AGN is not very variable, with the fractional variability never exceeding 5%. Flux variations are observed between the different observations, on timescales of days, with a 30% ratio between th…

"It is plainly obvious to everyone that if you’re going to save the world, one of the first things you have to do is buy a 550-year-old British castle near the University of Oxford for about $15 million. This was the logic in 2021 when members of the so-called Effective Altruism movement’s signature institution bought a posh, 25-bedroom residence called Wytham Abbey as a place to have conferences and stage other various intellectual frolics."

Invincible 2x08 "I THOUGHT YOU WERE STRONGER" ★★★★★★★★★★ #Invincible

Invincible 2x08 "I THOUGHT YOU WERE STRONGER"
Season 2, Episode 8

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

Propensity-score matching analysis in COVID-19-related studies: a method and quality systematic review
Chunhui Gu, Ruosha Li, Guoqiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07023

Propensity-score matching analysis in COVID-19-related studies: a method and quality systematic review
Objectives: To provide an overall quality assessment of the methods used for COVID-19-related studies using propensity score matching (PSM). Study Design and Setting: A systematic search was conducted in June 2021 on PubMed to identify COVID-19-related studies that use the PSM analysis between 2020 and 2021. Key information about study design and PSM analysis were extracted, such as covariates, matching algorithm, and reporting of estimated treatment effect type. Results: One-hundred-and-fi…

#NowPlaying #TheSundayStarter A group of eight musicians and writers came together on the island of Vlieland in December, 2021. Filled with music, poetry, and field recordings, “Public Relations” is a languid soundtrack for daydreamers.

Over the next 15 years we will spend $3 Trillion on highway expansions and maintenance in the United States
With 2.5% of that funding Amtrak will deliver their vision of adding 39 new routes and enhancing 25 routes!
Imagine what Amtrak could do with 5% of the highway budget?

"On November 10, 2021, bitcoin peaked at $68,990. The price tipped over that for two minutes, from 15:04 to 15:05 UTC yesterday, March 5, 2024.
The price promptly dropped $2,000 straight away, and then another $8,000 by 20:00 UTC, as the bagholders tried desperately to cash out — while they could, as Coinbase had yet another inexplicable outage, coincidentally with all the other exchanges."
Come one kids, we know this by know. Bitcoin price is pumped with stable coins …

Bitcoin hits a new all-time high! World reacts: “Wow, that thing’s still around?”
And Tether cracks 100 billion USDT. Probably just a coincidence.

Plus von 6,2 Jahren - Globale Lebenserwartung trotz Pandemie gestiegen #News #Nachrichten

Cis people get gender-affirming healthcare over the counter. Why can’t #trans folk have the same?
https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/11/19/gender-affirm…

Cis people get gender-affirming healthcare over the counter. Why can’t trans folk have the same?
Access to gender-affirming healthcare for trans and non-binary people is being attacked in the UK. Yet cis people access it all the time.

Quarterback class from 2021 NFL Draft hasn't given teams much of a return https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/quarterback_class_from_2021_nfl_draft_hasnt_given_teams_much_of_a_return/s1_13132_4008…

Quarterback class from 2021 NFL Draft hasn't given teams much of a return
The New England Patriots agreeing to trade quarterback Mac Jones to the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday for a sixth-round pick was another harsh reminder as to how difficult it can be to evaluate young quarterbacks entering the NFL.  Several teams are finding that out this offseason, including several of which that attempted to pick a quarterback in the 2021 class. The 2021 class saw five quarterbacks get picked within the top-15 picks, and it is possible — if not likely — that only one of …

Reminders
Trump = Netanyahu
‘Netanyahu is essentially an Israeli Republican’
By Marc Caputo, August 15, 2019
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/15/israel-trump-netanyahu-1465917
Netanyahu’s woes mirror those of his ally Trump
By Joseph Krauss, Associated Press, Nov 22, 2019
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/netanyahus-woes-mirror-those-of-his-ally-trump
Netanyahu... paints his Jewish opponents as weak ... “leftists,” and ... presents himself ... as the only person capable of leading the country.
By Asharq Al Awsat June 10, 2021
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3020331/israel’s-netanyahu-lashes-out-end-his-era-draws-near
Vote for Democracy!

Invincible 2x08 "I THOUGHT YOU WERE STRONGER" ★★★★★★★★★★ #Invincible

Invincible 2x08 "I THOUGHT YOU WERE STRONGER"
Season 2, Episode 8

I sometimes remember this email where Torvalds could not silently have covid/vaccine misinformation passing under his nose.
https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2106.1/04596.html

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge
The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously sided with Donald Trump, allowing the former president to remain on the election ballot and reversing a Colorado ruling that disqualified him from returning to office because of his conduct around the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Supreme Court keeps Trump on ballot, rejects Colorado voter challenge
The unanimous decision to keep Donald Trump on the ballot leaves him as the leading candidate for the GOP nomination, even as the court weighs other Trump cases.

Does *this* Java SE runtime license (emphasis mine) mean *I* am prohibited from installing it on a *personal-use VM* in a commercial cloud? 🤔
"This version of the Java Runtime is licensed only for your personal (non-commercial) *desktop and laptop use*"
(IIUC running on local VM is OK because that'd be on my own desktop, laptop.)
PS: This part of Oracle license is not new; I just had not needed to question it.

2021's SB26 summary (it passed): https://legiscan.com/NH/bill/SB26/2021

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12757 has been replaced.
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Local momentum balance in electromagnetic gyrokinetic systems
The Eulerian variational formulation is presented to obtain governing equations of the electromagnetic turbulent gyrokinetic system. A local momentum balance in the system is derived from the invariance of the Lagrangian of the system under an arbitrary spatial coordinate transformation by extending the previous work [H. Sugama et al., Phys. Plasmas 28, 022312 (2021)]. Polarization and magnetization due to finite gyroradii and electromagnetic microturbulence are correctly described by the gyrok…

Just had an intro call with some of the team behind Besonda, a non profit society working on cohousing and co-op models in BC #DWebYVR…

Home | Besonda

Fotograaf werd opgepakt en moest spullen inleveren bij A12-demonstratie: onrechtmatig, oordeelt hof - #ADnl
https://www.ad.nl/den-haag/…

The helpers, the doers, and the ones left behind: Reflections on the gendered dimension of academic citizenship in Dutch #academia #Gender #Inclusion

2022 retro-link! https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Weird%20monitor bugs - Weird monitor bugs people sent me in the last 5 years.

Celebrity Stalker - “Your Mom” (2021)
A magically strange journey into a world of self discovery thru the eyes of a young man looking for something only an experienced woman can provide 🍪
#metal #HardRock #music

All-Pro Superstar Threatens Holdout Amist Contract Dispute https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/all_pro_superstar_threatens_holdout_amist_contract_dispute/s1_17198_40215435

All-Pro Superstar Threatens Holdout Amist Contract Dispute
Dallas Cowboys wide receiver CeeDee Lamb is entering the final year of his rookie contract and could holdout for a better deal. A first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, the Oklahoma product quickly established himself as one of the most dangerous secondary options in the game. While playing behind Amari Cooper, the wide receiver recorded a combined 153 receptions for 2,037 yards and 11 touchdowns through his first two seasons. The Cowboys traded Amari Cooper following the 2021 season, leaving …

Rioter Who Filmed Babbitt Shooting Gets Six Years - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/rioter-who-filmed-babbitt-shooting-gets-six-years/

Rioter Who Filmed Babbitt Shooting Gets Six Years
Washington DC's CBS affiliate reports: A federal judge sentenced the Utah man who filmed the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, 2021, to six years in prison Friday for instigating the mob agai

Newzoo: PC and console game revenues grew 2.6% YoY to $93.5B in 2023, but average quarterly playtime hours fell 26% from Q1 2021 through Q4 2023 (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/games/pc-and-console-market-gr…

PC and console market grew 2.6% in 2023, but playtime hours fell | Newzoo
The PC and console market grew 2.6% in 2023, but playtime hours fell during the year, according to a report by market researcher Newzoo.

Inside the demise of the 2021 NFL Draft QB class: How four of five first-rounders failed with original teams

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/new…

Inside the demise of the 2021 NFL Draft QB class: How four of five first-rounders failed with original teams
Five quarterbacks were selected among the top 15 picks

@…
https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke/112208959593782148#.

Phil Stooke (@PhilStooke@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander will go to a site in Mare Crisium north of the Luna 24 site. The landing site was originally one of two in Crisium considered for a geophysical network mission. My map shows both network candidate sites. The Picard site (A, B) was dropped and a site near a volcanic cone called Mons Latreille (C, D) was chosen. A hazard-free site nearby was selected via several studies in 2021-2022 (E-G). Tomorrow: the VIPER site.

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A systematic analysis of the X-ray emission in optically selected tidal disruption events: observational evidence for the unification of the optically and X-ray selected populations
We present a systematic analysis of the X-ray emission of a sample of 17 optically selected, X-ray-detected tidal disruption events (TDEs) discovered between 2014 and 2021. The X-ray light curves show a diverse range of temporal behaviors, with most sources not following the expected power-law decline. The X-ray spectra are mostly extremely soft and consistent with thermal emission from the innermost region of an accretion disk, which cools as the accretion rate decreases. Three sources show fo…

task failed successfully. Bruce Lehrmann is now a rapist, after suing to try to prevent people from calling him an "alleged rapist"
https://chaser.com.au/general-news/bruce-lehrmann-achieves-goal-of-losing-title-of-alleged-rapist/
they also get their own separate wiki article, instead of being /one/ of the Australian Parliament House sexual misconduct allegations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Australian_Parliament_House_sexual_misconduct_allegations#2019_rape_in_Parliament_house
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lehrmann

Warum ich Kiel für so viel fortschrittlicher halte als die Stadt, aus der ich 2021 herzog: https://verkehrswende.social/@x_tof/111941698459639272
Nicht weil sie Probleme ich Kiel gelöst wären. Kiel hat die gleichen Probleme mit dem Autoverkehr wie jede andere deu…

From The Maple
‘Exclusion Zone’ Blocked Journalists Covering Vancouver Tent City Teardown
"Canadian courts have twice ruled that police cannot set up media exclusion zones. In 2019, Justin Brake was acquitted of charges against him for embedding with land defenders in Muskrat Falls, NF
"in 2021, a B.C. court ruled that police had not justified blocking journalists from entering the injunction zone against protesters at Fairy Creek, ..."

‘Exclusion Zone’ Blocked Journalists Covering Vancouver Tent City Teardown
‘Police made it very clear that something unpleasant would happen if I didn’t leave.’

"An investigation led by The Associated Press found at least 94 people died after they were given sedatives and restrained by police from 2012 through 2021. About half of the 94 who died were Black."
https://apnews.com/a…

Dozens of deaths reveal risks of sedating people restrained by police
An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that the practice of giving sedatives to people detained by police has spread quietly across the nation over the last 15 years, built on questionable science and backed by police-aligned experts. The injections are given by medical personnel during police encounters. The investigation shows how a strategy intended to reduce violence and save lives has resulted in some avoidable deaths. While sedatives were mentioned as a cause or contributi…

Beyond the Dark - complete anthology 🌌🏙️👽
Dramatized and narrated scifi horror anthology | Total listening time: 6h 41m
Atmospheric sci-fi stories. You might find yourself in the heart of a cyberpunk metropolis, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an alien world. Each story features its own original music score for a truly immersive experi...

Beyond the Dark - complete anthology 🌌🏙️👽
Dramatized and narrated scifi horror anthology | Total listening time: 6h 41m Atmospheric sci-fi stories. You might find yourself in the heart of a cyberpunk metropolis, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, or an alien world. Each story features its own original music score for a truly immersive experience. 3 seasons, 14 episodes as of Jul 13, 2021.

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On the Length of Strongly Monotone Descending Chains over $\mathbb{N}^d$
A recent breakthrough by Künnemann, Mazowiecki, Schütze, Sinclair-Banks, and Wegrzycki (ICALP, 2023) bounds the running time for the coverability problem in $d$-dimensional vector addition systems under unary encoding to $n^{2^{O(d)}}$, improving on Rackoff's $n^{2^{O(d\lg d)}}$ upper bound (Theor. Comput. Sci., 1978), and provides conditional matching lower bounds. In this paper, we revisit Lazić and Schmitz' "ideal view" of the backward coverability algorithm (Inform. Comput., 2021) in t…

Does *this* Java SE runtime license (emphasis mine) mean *I* am prohibited from installing it on a *personal-use VM* in a commercial cloud? 🤔
"This version of the Java Runtime is licensed only for your personal (non-commercial) *desktop and laptop use*"
(IIUC running on local VM is OK because that'd be on my own desktop, laptop.)
PS: This part of Oracle license is not new; I just had not needed to question it.

Pet peeve: #NASA has a Parker Solar Probe Portal (https://science.nasa.gov/mission/parker-solar-probe/), which has as its first listed source ... the Parker Solar Probe Portal. I h…

Parker Solar Probe - NASA Science
On a mission to “touch the Sun,” NASA's Parker Solar Probe became the first spacecraft to fly through the corona – the Sun’s upper atmosphere – in 2021. With every orbit, the probe faces brutal heat and radiation to provide humanity with unprecedented observations of the only star we can study up close.

Q&A with Intuit Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar on the core business of email, acquiring Mailchimp in 2021, generative AI, shutting down TinyLetter, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24115515/intuit-m

Why email still runs the world, with Intuit Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar
Mailchimp, now part of Intuit, is investing in AI and moving on from its rough patch with new CEO Rania Succar.

Wieder Züge nach Lüdenscheid: Seit 2021 war die Bahnstrecke nach Lüdenscheid wegen Flutschäden gesperrt. Ursprünglich mal für Ende letzten Jahres geplant, begann heute wieder der reguläre Personenverkehr in die Kreisstadt. Die Verbindung Richtung Gummersbach und Köln hat die DB auf Dezember vertagt. Eine aktuelle DB-Meldung zur Volmetalbahn gibt es nicht. Die Webseiten der DB zum Wiederaufbau enthalten auch an andere Stelle Falschinformationen. Auf der Erfttalbahn fahren…

Wieder Züge nach Lüdenscheid
Wieder Züge nach Lüdenscheid

Spain.
Wolf population stable despite hunting ban.
"The wolf invasion that never happened".
#rewilding
La invasión del lobo que nunca ocurrió: la población se mantiene estable desde que se prohibió su caza

La invasión del lobo que nunca ocurrió: la población se mantiene estable desde que se prohibió su caza
Allí donde antes estaba permitido matarlos, la población de lobos en España se mantiene sin grandes cambios tras la prohibición de su caza en 2021. Lejos de una explosión, el número de manadas en Galicia, Asturias o Cantabria son similares a los de 2020, antes de que el lobo recibiera protección en todo el territorio, según los últimos datos oficiales de recuento de las propias comunidades autónomas. Cuando en septiembre de 2021 quedó prohibida la caza general de lobos, cuatro comuni…

Spatio-temporal modeling for record-breaking temperature events in Spain
Jorge Castillo-MateoUniversity of Zaragoza, Alan E. GelfandDuke University, Zeus Gracia-TabuencaUniversity of Zaragoza, Jes\'us As\'inUniversity of Zaragoza, Ana C. Cebri\'anUniversity of Zaragoza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00080

Spatio-temporal modeling for record-breaking temperature events in Spain
Record-breaking temperature events are now very frequently in the news, viewed as evidence of climate change. With this as motivation, we undertake the first substantial spatial modeling investigation of temperature record-breaking across years for any given day within the year. We work with a dataset consisting of over sixty years (1960-2021) of daily maximum temperatures across peninsular Spain. Formal statistical analysis of record-breaking events is an area that has received attention prima…

😎 Yes, give me more!!!
#TheMatrix is coming back for a fifth movie https://www.theverge.com/24120122/the-matrix-sequel-drew-goddard

The Matrix is coming back for a fifth movie
Following the release of The Matrix Resurrections in 2021, Warner Bros. Discovery is making a new film in the franchise with writer / director Drew Goddard.

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Fred Buscaglione:
🎵 Guarda che luna
#FredBuscaglione
https://open.spotify.com/track/79g5dcc87vtTw5RkwkDs4L
https://aleeffe.bandcamp.com/track/fred-buscaglione-guarda-che-luna-ale-effe-remix-2021

Yep.
“This is the state of the modern internet — ultra-profitable platforms outright abdicating any responsibility toward the customer, offering not a "service" or a "portal," but cramming as many ways to interrupt the user and push them into doing things that make the company money …”
“On some level, it's hard to even suggest we use these apps. The term "use" suggests a level of user control that Meta has spent over a decade destroying ...”

They're Looting The Internet
Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period. Bloomberg reports that the

Julia Breitwieser (27) - Dieses Politik-Talent geht bestimmt nicht baden #News #Nachrichten

Ach interessant, das 2021 verschwundene RPG Paranoia, Happiness is Mandatory gibt es seit Dezember wieder bei Steam. Gerade im Sale für 15 Euro. Erwarte davon nicht so viel, leider. Aber da ich es früher als PnP gespielt habe, schaue ich es mir man an. #Gaming #CRPG

Save 50% on Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory on Steam
Lead a team of four Troubleshooters of dubious loyalty, who (mostly) obey orders from Friend Computer, a paranoid and irrational artificial intelligence. Inspired by the classic games of the CRPG genre, experience the first official adaptation of the cult role-playing game!

The helpers, the doers, and the ones left behind: Reflections on the gendered dimension of academic citizenship in Dutch #academia #Gender #Inclusion

Celebrity Stalker - “Your Mom” (2021)
A magically strange journey into a world of self discovery thru the eyes of a young man looking for something only an experienced woman can provide 🍪
#metal #HardRock #music

2 previous bills, actually! First while I was here was SB26 (from 2021) from Public Works: https://cooljeanius.github.io/my_tweetback_archive/1400847765031292930/

A look at XZ Utils attacker "Jia Tan", a persona experts say was used by a nation state group and that left little trace after working on the project since 2021 (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jia-tan-xz-backdoor/

The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code.

😎 Yes, give me more!!!
#TheMatrix is coming back for a fifth movie https://www.theverge.com/24120122/the-matrix-sequel-drew-goddard

The Matrix is coming back for a fifth movie
Following the release of The Matrix Resurrections in 2021, Warner Bros. Discovery is making a new film in the franchise with writer / director Drew Goddard.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09938 has been replaced.
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On the Constants of the Lang-Trotter Conjecture for CM Elliptic Curves
In 2021, Daqing Wan and Ping Xi studied the equivalence of the Lang-Trotter conjecture for CM elliptic curves and the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture for primes represented by a quadratic polynomial. Wan and Xi provided an alternative description of the Lang-Trotter conjecture under the Hardy-Littlewood conjecture. They obtained an explicit constant $\overlineω_{E,r}$ in the asymptotics of the Lang-Trotter conjecture. They further conjectured that this particular constant would be equal to the con…

4/6
Here, manganese emerges as a formidable ally, boasting potent antioxidant properties. Enzymes that contain manganese, such as manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD), stand at the front lines, protecting our cells from damage. This specific enzyme, as detailed in a 2021 research piece in the *Antioxidants & Redox Signaling*, is crucial for dismantling superoxide free radicals, thereby shielding every cell and ensuring the proper functioning of organs.

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Large Deviations in the Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process with Slow Boundaries: A Hydrodynamic Perspective
We revisit the one-dimensional model of the symmetric simple exclusion process slowly coupled with two unequal reservoirs at the boundaries. In its non-equilibrium stationary state, the large deviations functions of density and current have been recently derived using exact microscopic analysis by Derrida, Hirschberg and Sadhu in J. Stat. Phys. 182, 15 (2021). We present an independent derivation using the hydrodynamic approach of the macroscopic fluctuation theory (MFT). The slow coupling intr…

On the Power of Interactive Proofs for Learning
Tom Gur, Mohammad Mahdi Jahanara, Mohammad Mahdi Khodabandeh, Ninad Rajgopal, Bahar Salamatian, Igor Shinkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08158

On the Power of Interactive Proofs for Learning
We continue the study of doubly-efficient proof systems for verifying agnostic PAC learning, for which we obtain the following results. - We construct an interactive protocol for learning the $t$ largest Fourier characters of a given function $f \colon \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}$ up to an arbitrarily small error, wherein the verifier uses $\mathsf{poly}(t)$ random examples. This improves upon the Interactive Goldreich-Levin protocol of Goldwasser, Rothblum, Shafer, and Yehudayoff (ITCS 2021) whose…

A US appeals court reverses a 2021 ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs to offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income consumers (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Court upholds New York law that says ISPs must offer $15 broadband
New York obtains significant win for states' ability to regulate broadband.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01973 has been replaced.
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Kleinian sphere packings, reflection groups, and arithmeticity
In this paper we study crystallographic sphere packings and Kleinian sphere packings, introduced first by Kontorovich and Nakamura in 2017 and then studied further by Kapovich and Kontorovich in 2021. In particular, we solve the problem of existence of crystallographic sphere packings in certain higher dimensions posed by Kontorovich and Nakamura. In addition, we present a geometric doubling procedure allowing to obtain sphere packings from some Coxeter polyhedra without isolated roots, and stu…

Wieder Züge nach Lüdenscheid: Seit 2021 war die Bahnstrecke nach Lüdenscheid wegen Flutschäden gesperrt. Ursprünglich mal für Ende letzten Jahres geplant, begann heute wieder der reguläre Personenverkehr in die Kreisstadt. Die Verbindung Richtung Gummersbach und Köln hat die DB auf Dezember vertagt. Eine aktuelle DB-Meldung zur Volmetalbahn gibt es nicht. Die Webseiten der DB zum Wiederaufbau enthalten auch an andere Stelle Falschinformationen. Auf der Erfttalbahn fahren…

Wieder Züge nach Lüdenscheid
Wieder Züge nach Lüdenscheid

Inverse optically-induced ring currents in ring-shaped molecules
Krishna Reddy Nandipati, Sudip Sasmal, Oriol Vendrell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00328 htt…

Inverse optically-induced ring currents in ring-shaped molecules
Permanent electronic ring currents can be supported within a manifold of $Γ_E$ degenerate excited electronic states as $E_{\pm} = E_x \pm i E_y$ excitations. This requires at least a 3-fold-symmetry rotational axis or higher, and includes the subclass of ring-shaped molecules. In [Phys. Rev. Res. {\bf 3}, L042003 (2021)] we showed the existence of inverse-current manifolds, where the direction of the electronic ring-current in each degenerate state $E_\pm$ is opposite to the circular polarizat…

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Comment on "Mode Structure and Orbital Angular Momentum of Spatiotemporal Optical Vortex (STOV) Pulses"
We report a mathematical error and a misinterpretation in arXiv:2103.03263v4 [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 127}, 193901 (2021)] that has led to a debate about the nature of the transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM) of spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs). The transverse OAM of STOVs evaluated theoretically in that Letter is actually only the intrinsic contribution, while the operators used to evaluate the intrinsic and extrinsic contributions are not Hermitian operators as they may lead to comp…

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 …

Rust movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez is sentenced to 18 months in prison in the 2021 accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (Winston Cho/Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

‘Rust’ Armorer Sentenced to 18 Month Prison Term For Involuntary Manslaughter
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted last month for her role in the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Still Pretending To Be President, Trump Even Has An 'Envoy' - National Memo
https://www.nationalmemo.com/ric-grenell

Still Pretending To Be President, Trump Even Has An 'Envoy'
Ever since he sullenly departed from the White House in January 2021, a portion of Donald Trump’s supporters have maintained that he is actually still in charge of the “real” government and running the military while President Joe Biden is left with a fake government and a ”bad military.” That view may be deep into the land of deplorable delusions, but in a way, Trump really has been running his own government.

Once a community becomes a hot spot for these pollutants, it’s nearly impossible to clean it up for good.
In fact, ProPublica found, such a success story is virtually unheard of.
In 2021, we published a cutting-edge national map of more than 1,000 communities that had become what are known as “#sacrifice #zones

The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.
Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, Kentucky, remains polluted. The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.

Rust movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez is sentenced to 18 months in prison in the 2021 accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (Winston Cho/Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

‘Rust’ Armorer Sentenced to 18 Month Prison Term For Involuntary Manslaughter
Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was convicted last month for her role in the accidental shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

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Second-order gravitational self-force in a highly regular gauge: Covariant and coordinate punctures
Gravitational self-force theory is the primary way of modelling extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). One difficulty that appears in second-order self-force calculations is the strong divergence at the worldline of the small object, which causes both numerical and analytical issues. Previous work [Phys. Rev. D 95, 104056 (2017); ibid. 103, 124016 (2021)] demonstrated that this could be alleviated within a class of highly regular gauges and presented the metric perturbations in these gauges in a…

Sources: cloud security startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire competitor Lacework for $150M-$200M; Lacework raised $1.8B and was valued at $8.3B in 2021 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/10

Security Startup Wiz in Talks to Acquire Lacework for $200 Million
Cybersecurity startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire Lacework, one of its largest private competitors, according to two people with direct knowledge of the talks. The deal values Lacework at between $150 million and $200 million, according to one of the people, a sharp decline from the ...

"That means at least three lawsuits brought against him in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol can advance to the next phase — a period of limited evidence-gathering related to Trump’s activities on Jan. 6, 2021 and whether they were official or political in nature."
Trump permits Jan. 6-related lawsuits against him to advance — for now - POLITICO

Once a community becomes a hot spot for these pollutants, it’s nearly impossible to clean it up for good.
In fact, ProPublica found, such a success story is virtually unheard of.
In 2021, we published a cutting-edge national map of more than 1,000 communities that had become what are known as “#sacrifice #zones

The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.
Despite years of air monitoring, inspections and millions in penalties for petrochemical plants, the air in Calvert City, Kentucky, remains polluted. The EPA’s inability to fix it is an indictment of the laws governing clean air, experts say.

Teichtmeister geklagt - „Burgtheater hätte die Reißleine ziehen müssen“ #News #Nachrichten

Wade ... repeatedly referenced his wife’s affair as the cause of his filing for divorce in 2021 even though no one asked him why he split with his wife but rather when he started his relationship with Willis.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024

When Fani Willis took the stand, her fury was precise and laser-focused
Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) sat in the witness seat like it was her throne and she was ready to slice off some heads.

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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% …

Investigating the Properties of the Relativistic Jet and Hot Corona in AGN with X-ray Polarimetry
Dawoon E. Kim, Laura Di Gesu, Fr\'ed\'eric Marin, Alan P. Marscher, Giorgio Matt, Paolo Soffitta, Francesco Tombesi, Enrico Costa, Immacolata Donnarumma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14200<…

Investigating the Properties of the Relativistic Jet and Hot Corona in AGN with X-ray Polarimetry
X-ray polarimetry has been suggested as a prominent tool for investigating the geometrical and physical properties of the emissions from active galactic nuclei (AGN). The successful launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) on 9 December 2021 has expanded the previously restricted scope of polarimetry into the X-ray domain, enabling X-ray polarimetric studies of AGN. Over a span of two years, IXPE has observed various AGN populations, including blazars and radio-quiet AGN. In this…

Trump calls for critic to be jailed for investigating him over Capitol attack
Trump has renewed calls for #Liz #Cheney
– his most prominent Republican critic
– to be ♦️jailed ♦️for her role in investigating his actions during the January 6 Capitol attack launched by his supporters in 2021,
a move that…

12/ Das ist hier aus einer Arbeit der Themenklasse #Nachhaltigkeit der #HumboldtUni. Sie haben interessante Überlegungen zum Thema #CO2Kompensation angestellt. Und ja, selbst die Kompensationen sind kolonialistisch, weil wir dem globalen Süden seine billigen Kompensationsmöglichkeiten wegnehmen. Deswegen die Schwarze Putzfrau in 10/.
#FliegenTötet #Flugscham #tazscham
#hunniesForFuture
#tazReisen #fliegenTötet #stayGrounded #amBodenBleiben
#Heuchelei
#Presse #Medien #taz #Klimakatastrophe

Peter Navarro is due to report to a federal prison on Tuesday after an appeals court ruled that his appeal wasn’t likely to overturn his conviction for refusing to cooperate with a congressional investigation into the #January6 attack that Trump supporters aimed at the US Capitol in 2021.
#Navarro has maintained th…