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Byron Allen settles with McDonald's over his $10B 2021 lawsuit accusing the fast food chain of racial stereotyping in its ads budget; terms were not disclosed (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sus…

Mood Swings Suite
- moody music for moody times -
#OrchestralMusic #NowPlaying
https://mu…

Mood Swings Suite #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Ambrook, a startup providing specialized accounting software for US farmers and ranchers, raised a $26.1M Series A led by Thrive Capital and Figma's Dylan Field (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/0…

Exclusive: Ambrook raises $26.1 million Series A to provide farmers and ranchers with better accounting software
Founded in 2021, Ambrook has raised a $26.1 million Series A, led by Thrive Capital and Dylan Field, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

For more than a century, putrid fumes emanated from
the “sewer of the Ruhr”,
creating a pungent whiff that assaulted towns throughout Germany’s industrial heartland.
But today, the Emscher bears little resemblance to Europe’s dirtiest river.
Water that used to be fouled by factory waste and human excrement have been free from effluent since 2021.
The river system, the main part of which was once considered biologically dead, is witnessing the return of an abun…

If you’re asking yourself … How to Favicon in 2025?!?, this post by @… has you covered:
https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/ho

How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.

Multi-GPU Acceleration of PALABOS Fluid Solver using C Standard Parallelism
Jonas Latt, Christophe Coreixas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09242 https://

Multi-GPU Acceleration of PALABOS Fluid Solver using C++ Standard Parallelism
This article presents the principles, software architecture, and performance analysis of the GPU port of the lattice Boltzmann software library Palabos (J. Latt et al., "Palabos: Parallel lattice Boltzmann solver", Comput. Math. Appl. 81, 334-350, (2021)). A hybrid CPU-GPU execution model is adopted, in which numerical components are selectively assigned to either the CPU or the GPU, depending on considerations of performance or convenience. This design enables a progressive porting strategy, a…

Zohran Mamdani received 545,334 votes in RCV tally. That's 135% of Eric Adams' 2021 primary vote.
Mamdani's proven primary voters would make a 48% share of those who turned out in the 2021 general election.
https://enr.boenyc.gov/rcv/026916_1.html

Data-Driven Modeling of IRCU Patient Flow in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ana Carmen Navas-Ortega, Jos\'e Antonio S\'anchez-Mart\'inez, Paula Garc\'ia-Flores, Concepci\'on Morales-Garc\'ia, Rene Fabregas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09751

Data-Driven Modeling of IRCU Patient Flow in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Intermediate Respiratory Care Units (IRCUs) are vital during crises like COVID-19. This study evaluated clinical outcomes and operational dynamics of a new Spanish IRCU with specialized staffing. A prospective cohort study (April-August 2021) included 249 adult patients with COVID-19 respiratory failure (UHVN IRCU, Granada). Data on demographics, Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV), length of stay (LOS), and outcomes (ICU transfer, exitus, recovery) were analyzed. Patient flow was simulated using a …

from my link log —
Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.
https://postgres.ai/blog/20211103-three-cases-against-if-not-exists-and-if-exists-in-postgresql-ddl
saved 2021-11-12

Three Cases Against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in Postgres DDL | Postgres AI

What is this about?

Many DDL statements in PostgreSQL support modified IF EXISTS / IF NOT EXISTS. For example:

 test=# create table if not exists mytable(); CREATE TABLE test=# drop table if exists mytable; DROP TABLE 

I recommend using `IF EXISTS` / `IF NOT EXISTS`…

fab interview with @… guitarist dm hotep about building the wildly cool/expansive ghost horizons project around marshall allen & collaborators. https://pos…

Resonances: A Conversation with DM Hotep on Marshall Allen’s Ghost Horizons - PostGenre
In a 2021 interview, Henry Threadgill noted his belief that “[Marshall Allen] should have the highest award that can be bestowed on any artist for performing one-nighters at age 97. They should make up an award for such a person… he’s going unrecognized. It is a travesty. Can you imagine doing one-nighters at 97 years

Le Dalai-Lama et son manque de discernement : En 1998, il était au courant des procédures juridiques contre la OKC. Découvrez plus d'informations ici :
https://okcinfo.chardonsbleus.org/2021/individus/…

Be (5) Yourself
#HammondB3 #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2021/be-5-yourself

Be (5) Yourself #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Browns' Myles Garrett wants to add Steelers' Aaron Rodgers to his Halloween graveyard https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6416668/2025/06/10/myles-garrett-aaron-rodgers-browns-steelers/

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Something To Talk About
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Something To Talk About | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Something To Talk About Host: Sarrah Le Marquand Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Commentary & Conversations, Entertainment News First Episode: 2021 When Australia’s celebrities are…

Grammarly acquires email startup Superhuman as part of a push to build an AI-powered productivity suite; Superhuman was last valued at $825M in 2021 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/grammarly-acquires-e…

Refuting Perfect Matchings in Spectral Expanders is Hard
Ari Biswas, Rajko Nenadov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07700 https://arxiv.org…

Refuting Perfect Matchings in Spectral Expanders is Hard
This work studies the complexity of refuting the existence of a perfect matching in spectral expanders with an odd number of vertices, in the Polynomial Calculus (PC) and Sum of Squares (SoS) proof system. Austrin and Risse [SODA, 2021] showed that refuting perfect matchings in sparse $d$-regular \emph{random} graphs, in the above proof systems, with high probability requires proofs with degree $Ω(n/\log n)$. We extend their result by showing the same lower bound holds for \emph{all} $d$-regul…

2021: There is no #AI, I'm doing my own laundry.
2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.
2025: There is AI. I'm still doing my own laundry.
2027?: I'm doing the AI's laundry.

The small Island Class vessels (2019-2021) were built in Romania by Dutch firm Damen Shipbuilding: #BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding

A three-step approach to reliably estimate magnetic field strengths in star-forming regions
Aristeidis Polychronakis, Aris Tritsis, Raphael Skalidis, Konstantinos Tassis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06297

A three-step approach to reliably estimate magnetic field strengths in star-forming regions
The magnetic field is known to play a crucial role in star formation. Dust polarization is an effective tool for probing the morphology of the field, yet it does not directly trace its strength. Several methods have been developed, combining polarization and spectroscopic data, to estimate the strength of the magnetic field, including the DCF method, which relates these quantities to the magnetic-field strength under the assumption of Alfvénic turbulence. Skalidis & Tassis (2021) (ST), relaxed…

Mildly interesting: Der #Gasspeicher #Rehden ist wieder leer. Zuletzt passierte das 2021/2022 unter Gazprom und quasi-Russischer Kontrolle. Aktuell gäbe es Angebot, Preise sind etwa auf Vorjahresniveau. Wäre interessant zu wissen, warum der aktuelle Betreiber den Sommer nicht fürs Nachf…

Pond Slider on a rock. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. March, 2021. #descansogardens #turtle #slider

Counting distinct (non-)crossing substrings
Haruki Umezaki, Hiroki Shibata, Dominik K\"oppl, Yuto Nakashima, Shunsuke Inenaga, Hideo Bannai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22728

Counting distinct (non-)crossing substrings
Let $w$ be a string of length $n$. The problem of counting factors crossing a position - Problem 64 from the textbook ``125 Problems in Text Algorithms'' [Crochemore, Leqroc, and Rytter, 2021], asks to count the number $\mathcal{C}(w,k)$ (resp. $\mathcal{N}(w,k)$) of distinct substrings in $w$ that have occurrences containing (resp. not containing) a position $k$ in $w$. The solutions provided in their textbook compute $\mathcal{C}(w,k)$ and $\mathcal{N}(w,k)$ in $O(n)$ time for a single positi…

Just for the record: In Berufen mit hoher Belastung lebt man drei Jahre kürzer, mit prekären Einkommen sinkt die Lebenserwartung deutlich. Konkret leben Ärmere fünf Jahre (!) kürzer. Das bedeutet, dass viele lange in die Rentenkasse einzahlen und unter Strich nichts davon haben. Nicht nur, weil es eine Rente ist, von der sie nicht leben können, sondern weil sie früher sterben - und damit für besserverdienende Menschen zahlen, die weniger Belastungen ausgesetzt waren.

CoinMarketCap: bitcoin's share of crypto market value grew to 64% this year, highest since January 2021, and altcoins lost $300B , as big investors flock to BTC (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Milk: Make Your Own Mind Up - (2021) Full Documentary #AnimalRights #milk

Unveiling the Complex Jet Dynamics in the Blazar 2021 317 through Multi-Epoch VLBI Observations
Haitian Shang, Wei Zhao, Xiaoyu Hong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Ailing Zeng, Tao An, Xiaopeng Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23082

Unveiling the Complex Jet Dynamics in the Blazar 2021+317 through Multi-Epoch VLBI Observations
We present an investigation of the compact structure of the AGN 2021+317 based on multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations at 15, 22, and 43 GHz in the period from 2013 through 2024. The VLBI images show a core-jet structure extended to the south, with two stationary components in the northern region, one of which likely to be the core of the source. We also detected two new moving jet components (S4 and S5) in the observations of 2021. Based on these observational find…

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Pranav Darshan, Rohan J S, Raghuveer Rajesh, Ruchitha M, Sanika Kamath, Manas M N
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00172

Intellectual Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in the NFT Ecosystem: Legal Frameworks, Business Models, and Innovation Opportunities
Non Fungible Tokens have changed digital ownership and how creators earn money. Between 2021 and 2024, the market value exceeded 40 billion. However, the fast growth of the NFT ecosystem has revealed serious issues in managing intellectual property rights. There is a lot of confusion about the difference between owning an NFT and owning the copyright for the underlying content. This research looks at the gap between traditional copyright laws and blockchain-based transactions. We use a mixed me…

Tracking the affordability of least-cost healthy diets helps guide intervention for food security and improved nutrition
William A. Masters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22965

Tracking the affordability of least-cost healthy diets helps guide intervention for food security and improved nutrition
This Policy Comment describes how the Food Policy article entitled 'Cost and affordability of nutritious diets at retail prices: Evidence from 177 countries' (first published October 2020) and 'Retail consumer price data reveal gaps and opportunities to monitor food systems for nutrition' (first published September 2021) advanced the use of least-cost benchmark diets to monitor and improve food security. Those papers contributed to the worldwide use of least-cost diets as a new diagnostic indic…

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

Milk: Make Your Own Mind Up - (2021) Full Documentary #AnimalRights #milk

The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80 people to get remote jobs at 100 US firms, using "laptop farms" in the US (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-g…

US government takes down major North Korean 'remote IT workers' operation  | TechCrunch
US prosecutors indicated a total of 13 people involved in the fraudulent scheme to steal and launder money for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

I understand why sensible people say not to trust "answers" from AI/LLM but I don't understand why they then act like that invalidates the usefulness of LLMs.
abbv dividends 2021 through 2025?
Answer for some reason lists a chart for Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Then lists a chart showing dividends for ABBV by year (including quarterly payment amounts).
I can see those amounts are close (probably exactly right...) and for my quick estimate good enough.

The role of preprints in open science: Accelerating knowledge transfer from science to technology
Zhiqi Wang, Yue Chen, Chun Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20225

The role of preprints in open science: Accelerating knowledge transfer from science to technology
Preprints have become increasingly essential in the landscape of open science, facilitating not only the exchange of knowledge within the scientific community but also bridging the gap between science and technology. However, the impact of preprints on technological innovation, given their unreviewed nature, remains unclear. This study fills this gap by conducting a comprehensive scientometric analysis of patent citations to bioRxiv preprints submitted between 2013 and 2021, measuring and acces…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe
#Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13881 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The machine learning platform for developers of large systems
The machine learning system in the form of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) has developed steadily since about 2021. RAG could be observed as a version of the knowledge transfer. In the studied case, the large computing systems are observed as the application point of RAG, which includes large language model (LLM), as a partner for the developing team. Such an approach has advantages during the development process and further in exploitation time.

#Gletscher in der #Schweiz, den #USA und #Kanada haben zwischen 2021 und 2024 rund 12 % ihrer

Gone with the glaciers: Researchers track unprecedented ice loss
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that glaciers in western Canada, the United States, and Switzerland lost around 12% of their ice between 2001 and 2024.