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Dotdash Meredith unionized workers ratify contracts with management after negotiating since 2021; the deal covers ~160 staffers at People and other magazines (Natalie Korach/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/dotdash-meredith-union-reaches-contract-agree…

Dotdash Meredith Union Reaches Contract Agreements
The three-year deals cover approximately 160 staffers at People, Entertainment Weekly and Martha Stewart Living

“In 2021 we produced zero ammunition" - Strategic Industries Minister: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/in-we-produced.html

From the vault: 2021
The legacy of French colonial psychiatry
"French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as 'alien' to white ones. It hasn't changed much."
https://africasacountry.com/2021/06/the-legacy-of-fren…

The legacy of French colonial psychiatry
French psychiatry in West Africa saw Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. It hasn't changed much.

Walmart discontinues its telehealth service Health Virtual Care citing "escalating operating costs"; Walmart acquired telehealth provider MeMD in 2021 (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/30/24145259/walmart-health-centers-cl…

Even Walmart thinks American healthcare is too expensive
After expanding into healthcare, Walmart suddenly decided to shut down its health centers.

Re-sharing a post from @jwbaker.bsky.social:
The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is now open for dominations of works published since January 2023.
Nominate your work or a work that you 💜.
Deadline 31 May.
Full details here: https://ihrdighist.blogs.sa…

The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar
Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, an advocate for the value and importance of digital history,...

Plötsligt hjärtstopp hos fotbollsspelare före, under och efter pandemin
https://traningslara.se/plotsligt-hjartstopp-hos-fotbollsspelare-fore-under-och-efter-pandemin/

#climatechange
I’m reviewing the 2023 State of the #Climate report
I am just struck again (yes - intellectually I knew this) that my teen kids’ whole lives have only been hottest years.
It’s scary.
ERA5 (European reanalysis dataset version 5) top-ten Temperature anomaly years
Rank Year Global_Temperature_anomaly (℃) vs 1991-2020 baseline
1 2023 0.60
2 2016 0.44
3 2020 0.43
4 2019 0.40
5 2017 0.34
6 2022 0.30
7 2021 0.27
8 2018 0.26
9 2015 0.26
10 2010 0.13

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Neurodiversity, scotpol
The Scottish Government has spent about two years consulting on how to consult about the Learning Disabilities, Autism and Neurodivergence Bill the SNP said they'd introduce in their 2021 manifesto.
So HOW have they managed to come back with a consultation featuring a 190-page full consultation document, with a 35-page "short guide" - that's 35 pages of A4, mind?
Where the education section alone is roughly a half-hour read?
Where they felt the need to include a request to "Please USE THIS GUIDE - _here_ - on How to complete your online response"... and then forgot to actually link to the guide?
Where the page on completing a written out recorded response instructs people to "please complete the Respondent Information Form and send with your completed questionnaire" but links to neither of those documents?
...anyway, so I'll be live on the SEMA YouTube tomorrow at 12:30 trying to be as constructive and helpful as possible about all this.
https://www.youtube.com/@SEMA_Scot?si=ct_IwgEMAJGoSzNB

I wish I hadn't been so right about Tumlin's "make everyone equally unhappy" philosophy being a disaster.
Me in 2021: "A watered-down plan [like the Valencia center bikeway] can achieve the worst of both worlds. It makes driving harder, but fails to improve... safety enough to get drivers onto alternatives. The agency has indeed made everyone unhappy, but that’s not a sign it did its job. Quite the opposite."

Recommitting to Transit First in San Francisco
Time to get serious about this 48-year-old policy

Yea, these are definitely the people we should have running the most powerful country in the world https://flipboard.com/@lgbtqnation/lgbtq-nation-c65vn37sz/-/a-c30DsW2vQQ--nU3ZNjo5Bg:a:3220327925-/0

Rightwingers say the bridge collapsed because Pete Buttigieg is gay
Even George Santos joined in the frenzy of conservatives saying the bridge collapsed because Buttigieg talked about racism in 2021. A bridge in …

Opinion: Ukraine may have no choice but to lower its fighting age: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/opinion-ukraine-may.html

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

From the vault: 2021
The Nigerian dream is to leave #Nigeria
"In Nigeria, to be an emigrant is to possess illustrious social capital and a badge of honor that is not only reserved for you, but also for your family."

The Nigerian dream is to leave Nigeria
In Nigeria, to be an emigrant is to possess illustrious social capital and a badge of honor that is not only reserved for you, but also for your family.

New book:
Evaluating the Role of Media in the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol
https://www.techpolicy.press/evaluating-the-role-of-media-in-the-january-6-attack-on-the-us-capitol/
Editors: Khadijah Costle…

Evaluating the Role of Media in the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol | TechPolicy.Press
A new book from Oxford University Press examines the role of media and information in the bloody 2021 coup in Washington, DC.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05442 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Testing Spreading Behavior in Networks with Arbitrary Topologies
Inspired by the works of Goldreich and Ron (J. ACM, 2017) and Nakar and Ron (ICALP, 2021), we initiate the study of property testing in dynamic environments with arbitrary topologies. Our focus is on the simplest non-trivial rule that can be tested, which corresponds to the 1-BP rule of bootstrap percolation and models a simple spreading behavior: Every "infected" node stays infected forever, and each "healthy" node becomes infected if and only if it has at least one infected neighbor. We show …

Die FDP hat so schlecht abgeschnitten, dass sie als einzige Partei real ein Mandat verloren hat.
Wahrscheinlich waren die anderen schuld.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2024-02/wahlwiederholung-bundestag-v…

Can We Help You?
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Can We Help You? | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Can We Help You? Hosts: Sacha Barbour Gatt and Jaxson McLennan Category: Comedy Sub-Category: Comedy Interviews & Chats, Self-Improvement & Advice First Episode: 2021 Sach and Jax answer life’…

Down - complete series 🚢❄️🕳️
Dramatized sci-fi horror series | Total listening time: 6h 44m
An expedition is launched into a newly-discovered Antarctic trench, dubbed The Bottomless Pit. The company-backed research submarine Virgil is elegant, state-of-the-art, and capable of withstanding enormous pressures. The same cannot...

Down - complete series 🚢❄️🕳️
Dramatized sci-fi horror series | Total listening time: 6h 44m An expedition is launched into a newly-discovered Antarctic trench, dubbed The Bottomless Pit. The company-backed research submarine Virgil is elegant, state-of-the-art, and capable of withstanding enormous pressures. The same cannot be said for her crew. 1 seasons, 24 episodes as of May 19, 2021.

Building walls to keep out the consequences of our actions.
(John Washington, The Case for Open Borders)

Experimental roadmap for optimal state transfer and entanglement generation in power-law systems
Andrew Y. Guo, Jeremy T. Young, Ron Belyansky, Przemyslaw Bienias, Alexey V. Gorshkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07974

Experimental roadmap for optimal state transfer and entanglement generation in power-law systems
Experimental systems with power-law interactions have recently garnered interest as promising platforms for quantum information processing. Such systems are capable of spreading entanglement superballistically and achieving an asymptotic speed-up over locally interacting systems. Recently, protocols developed by Eldredge et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 170503 (2017)] and Tran et al. [Phys. Rev. X 11, 031016 (2021)] for the task of transferring a quantum state between distant particles quickly wer…

The Relativistic Spin Precession in the Compact Double Neutron Star System PSR~J1946 2052
Lingqi Meng, Weiwei Zhu, Michael Kramer, Xueli Miao, Gregory Desvignes, Lijing Shao, Huanchen Hu, Paulo C. C. Freire, Yongkun Zhang, Mengyao Xue, Ziyao Fang, David J. Champion, Mao Yuan, Chenchen Miao, Jiarui Niu, Qiuyang Fu, Jumei Yao, Yanjun Guo, Chengmin Zhang

The Relativistic Spin Precession in the Compact Double Neutron Star System PSR~J1946+2052
We observe systematic profile changes in the visible pulsar of the compact double neutron star system PSR~J1946+2052 using observations with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The interpulse of PSR~J1946+2052 changed from single-peak to double-peak shape from 2018 to 2021. We attribute this evolution as the result of the relativistic spin precession of the pulsar. With the high sensitivity of FAST, we also measure significant polarization for the first time, allow…

XAVIER CORBERA
"FISSURES"
#alternative

France fines Google €250M for failing to broker deals with media outlets over content linking and using press content to train AI, after a €500M fine in 2021 (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google (GOOGL) Fined €250 Million in French Clash With News Publishers
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has been fined €250 million ($271 million) by France’s competition watchdog for failing to broker agreements with media outlets for publishing links to their content and for plundering press content to train its AI technology.

Improved Space Bounds for Subset Sum
Tatiana Belova, Nikolai Chukhin, Alexander S. Kulikov, Ivan Mihajlin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13170 https://<…

Improved Space Bounds for Subset Sum
More than 40 years ago, Schroeppel and Shamir presented an algorithm that solves the Subset Sum problem for $n$ integers in time $O^*(2^{0.5n})$ and space $O^*(2^{0.25n})$. The time upper bound remains unbeaten, but the space upper bound has been improved to $O^*(2^{0.249999n})$ in a recent breakthrough paper by Nederlof and Węgrzycki (STOC 2021). Their algorithm is a clever combination of a number of previously known techniques with a new reduction and a new algorithm for the Orthogonal Vecto…

XAVIER CORBERA
"FISSURES"
#alternative

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 ...

Nodal precession of a hot Jupiter transiting the edge of a late A-type star TOI-1518
Noriharu Watanabe, Norio Narita, Yasunori Hori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17325

Nodal precession of a hot Jupiter transiting the edge of a late A-type star TOI-1518
TOI-1518b, a hot Jupiter around a late A-type star, is one of the few planetary systems that transit the edge of the stellar surface (the impact parameter $b\sim0.9 $) among hot Jupiters around hot stars (Cabot et al. 2021). The high rotation speed of the host star ($\sim85$ km s$^{-1}$) and the nearly polar orbit of the planet ($\sim 120$ deg) may cause a nodal precession. In this study, we report the nodal precession undergone by TOI-1518\,b. This system is the fourth planetary system in whic…

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Joel Culpepper:
🎵 Inner City Blues (6 Music Session, 22 May 2021)
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Improved Space Bounds for Subset Sum
Tatiana Belova, Nikolai Chukhin, Alexander S. Kulikov, Ivan Mihajlin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13170 https://<…

Improved Space Bounds for Subset Sum
More than 40 years ago, Schroeppel and Shamir presented an algorithm that solves the Subset Sum problem for $n$ integers in time $O^*(2^{0.5n})$ and space $O^*(2^{0.25n})$. The time upper bound remains unbeaten, but the space upper bound has been improved to $O^*(2^{0.249999n})$ in a recent breakthrough paper by Nederlof and Węgrzycki (STOC 2021). Their algorithm is a clever combination of a number of previously known techniques with a new reduction and a new algorithm for the Orthogonal Vecto…