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Report: Panthers reach out to two-time All-Pro CB https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_panthers_reach_out_to_two_time_all_pro_cb/s1_14819_40159066

Report: Panthers reach out to two-time All-Pro CB
Stephon Gilmore is back in play for the Panthers. Carolina’s new regime reached out to Gilmore about a potential return, The Athletic’s Joe Person tweets. Matt Rhule and GM Scott Fitterer authorized a 2021 trade that brought Gilmore to the Panthers for a 2023 sixth-round pick. Gilmore, however, ended up playing only a half-season with Carolina.  The Panthers did not re-sign the Rock Hill, S.C., native in 2022, with the former Defensive Player of the Year instead signing with the Colts. Ind…

Africans and the creation of the modern world
"Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without Africa's natural resources and centuries of cheap African labor."
Interview in 2021 with Howard French for his book "Born in Blackness"
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Africans and the creation of the modern world
Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without Africa's natural resources and centuries of cheap African labor.

Just-in-time: gaze guidance in natural behavior https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.29.428782v4 "natural behavior relies very little on working memory", "just-in-time planning by searching for action-relevant items in the moment"

It's been three years since I sat in mission control at JPL and watched the Perseverance rover land on Mars, then came home for a quick nap before returning to work the first surface operations shift.
As a reminder, here's the animation:
https://mars.…

Perseverance Arrives at Mars: Feb. 18, 2021 (Mission Trailer) – NASA Mars Exploration
​After nearly 300 million miles (470 million km), NASA’s Perseverance rover completes its journey to Mars on Feb. 18, 2021.

Lions DE Romeo Okwara stepping away from NFL after 8 seasons https://theathletic.com/5355167/2024/03/19/romeo-okwara-stepping-away-nfl-lions/

Lions DE Romeo Okwara stepping away from NFL after 8 seasons
Okwara was viewed as Detroit's best pass-rusher and a valuable piece to its defensive puzzle before suffering a ruptured Achilles in 2021.

Match and Bumble have lost $40B in market value since 2021, as they struggle to grow their $4.2B in 2023 subscription revenue and young users balk at paying (J. Edward Moreno/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/dating-apps-tinder…

Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around?
The apps have changed our love lives, but they haven’t been able to convince enough young users to pay.

Le titre du billet d’aujourd’hui pourrait être un slogan pour cette Journée mondiale du recyclage. Un slogan qui viserait les entreprises qui nous vendent des produits non recyclables. Il faut savoir que la quantité de matières non recyclables va en augmentant. Quant Š la matière recyclable, moins de la moitié (47%) arrivait Š l’étape du conditionnement”) et du trie en 2021, pour ensuite être recyclée.

Faut qu'on se recycle
Le titre du billet d’aujourd’hui pourrait être un slogan pour cette Journée mondiale du recyclage. Un slogan qui viserait les entreprises...

2021 retro-link! https://furbo.org/2021/08/25/jsc-my-new-best-friend/ - jsc: JavaScript on the macOS command line.

Satire is officially dead. It has to be noted that both senators and members of congress are allowed to trade stocks — many of them criticize fore…

Senators Own up to $25 Million in Big Tech Stocks
Senators invested in tech stocks like Amazon, Apple, and Google may soon be voting on antitrust bills introduced in the Senate that would impact their portfolios.

Don't dig too deep, #GOP; you might not like what you find...might be one of your own
WATCH: House GOP launches new probe of #Jan6, starting with police response to pipe bombs | PBS NewsHour

WATCH: House GOP launches new probe of Jan. 6, starting with police response to pipe bombs
House Republicans are launching a vast reinvestigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, seeking to push the blame away from Donald Trump, who has been indicted over his actions or his supporters in the mob siege trying to overturn the 2020 election.

I've been thinking a lot about journals & special issues lately, likely because I find myself as an editor of a journal/magazine—whose entire program is thematic issues proposed & organized by guest editors—in the midst of a backlash against special issues.
This article does some nice theorizing about the changes we're seeing in editorship amidst the nexus of other transformations in scholarly publishing:

This week in Design Law: Nonobviousness & designs. Love that the timing worked out.

#silentSunday #birdsOfMastodon #HawksOfMastodon A RedTailed Hawk January 2021

🔗 Listing Most Recent Git Branches
A couple very user-friendly git aliases for listing branches by last commit date. Where has this been all my career?
https://tekin.co.uk/2021/11/listing-most-recent-git-branches

List your Git branches by recent activity
Sometimes you just want to see your most recent branches. Here's a handy Git alias that will help you do just that.

49ers sign veteran OT as depth for offensive line https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/49ers_sign_veteran_ot_as_depth_for_offensive_line/s1_14819_40129711

49ers sign veteran OT as depth for offensive line
The 49ers are adding some depth to their offensive line. The team announced that they’ve signed offensive tackle Brandon Parker. The former third-round pick had spent his entire career with the Raiders. He had an inconsistent role through his six years with the organization, alternating between starter and backup.  Parker started a career-high 13 games for the Raiders in 2021, but his follow-up campaign was erased thanks to a triceps injury. During his comeback season in 2023, Parker bounced…

Trump stays on Illinois' ballot as election board declines to ban him over insurrection amendment (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-14th-amendment-insurrection-ballot-illinois-8709a8dbf12f845ed30fc…

Illinois election board keeps Trump on ballot, rejects challenge
Donald Trump is staying on the primary ballot in Illinois. The state’s election board of four Democrats and four Republicans on Tuesday unanimously declined to remove the Republican 2024 front-runner before the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack makes him ineligible for the presidency. Illinois is among several states where Trump critics have pushed to remove him from the ballot for violating a constitutional ban on office-holders who “engag…

"…we, in the #Arabworld, have known for a while that these #socialmedia platforms are a threat to #democracy. For far too long,

The social media myth about the Arab Spring
Social media networks did not trigger the Arab revolutions, but they did contribute to the counter-revolutions.

Livestock Leaders Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Livestock Leaders | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Livestock Leaders Podcast By: The Livestock Collective Category: Education Sub-Category: Agriculture & Primary Producers, Pets & Animals First Episode: 2021 Powered by The Livestock…

This morning we went along to the Wimbledon Greyhound Welfare kennels for their Easter party.
First order of business though was to take a kennel hound out for a walk!
Here's Ronnie. He's such a character: very young, never raced, heaps of energy and the curliest tail you ever saw on a hound.
https://www.…

Platão - Cšrmides
https://doi.org/10.34024/lelprat.2.2021.12321

"Trump reported having about $294 million in cash or cash equivalents on his most recent annual financial statement, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2021. That’s in addition to the value of his real estate assets
"He is awaiting a verdict in a civil fraud trial, where New York has asked that he forfeit $370 million in what officials say were ill-gotten gains from loans and deals made using financial statements that exaggerated his wealth."

Donald Trump is on the hook for $88.3 million in defamation damages. What happens next?
Will an $83 million-plus defamation judgment be enough to deter Donald Trump from continuing his attacks on E. Jean Carroll? That's one of the key questions after a New York jury on Friday hit Trump with that defamation award. Jurors found that the former president maliciously damaged Carroll's reputation after the advice columnist accused him of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store. A different jury had already found Trump responsible for the attack and ordered him to pay $5…

Le titre du billet d’aujourd’hui pourrait être un slogan pour cette Journée mondiale du recyclage. Un slogan qui viserait les entreprises qui nous vendent des produits non recyclables. Il faut savoir que la quantité de matières non recyclables va en augmentant. Quant Š la matière recyclable, moins de la moitié (47%) arrivait Š l’étape du conditionnement”) et du trie en 2021, pour ensuite être recyclée.

Faut qu'on se recycle
Le titre du billet d’aujourd’hui pourrait être un slogan pour cette Journée mondiale du recyclage. Un slogan qui viserait les entreprises...

As deep, multi-layered, grandiose and overwhelming as always and showing off the Buchla sound like no other. Each of his tracks is an absolute journey:
Alessandro Cortini - Chiaroscuro (2021)
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=mE27ezBt6Nc

DASH - Season 1 finale 🕵️‍♂️🔍🌈
Dramatized queer detective series | Total listening time: 4h 49m
1940, Los Angeles. Openly gay private eye Dash Malone combats society a dishonest lover, and a rash of brutal murders connected with his new mysterious client. As the bodies stack up, Dash discovers the seemingly unrelated parts of...

DASH - Season 1 finale 🕵️‍♂️🔍🌈
Dramatized queer detective series | Total listening time: 4h 49m 1940, Los Angeles. Openly gay private eye Dash Malone combats society a dishonest lover, and a rash of brutal murders connected with his new mysterious client. As the bodies stack up, Dash discovers the seemingly unrelated parts of his life are really pieces of a larger puzzle. 1 seasons, 13 episodes as of Dec 31, 2021.

The pandemic inflicted higher rates of excess deaths on both Republicans and Democrats. But after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, Republican voters in Florida and Ohio died at a higher rate than their counterparts, according to a new study.
Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic's effects on those two states say that from the pandemic's start in March 2020 through December 2021, "excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic v…

2021 retro-link! https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimization-on-programming-horror/ - Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on a programming horror.

The invisible black widow PSR J1720-0534: implications for the electron density towards the North Polar Spur
Karri I. I. Koljonen, Sindre S. Lindseth, Manuel Linares, Alice K. Harding, Marco Turchetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09010

The invisible black widow PSR J1720-0534: implications for the electron density towards the North Polar Spur
Radio emission from pulsars can be used to map out their distances through dispersion measure (DM), which quantifies the amount of radio pulse dispersion. However, this method relies on accurately modeling the free electron density in the line of sight. Here, we present a detailed study of the multi-wavelength emission from PSR J1720-0534, a black widow compact binary millisecond pulsar discovered in 2021, which the latest electron density model of the Galaxy (YMW16; Yao et al. 2017) places at …

On a conjecture of E\v{g}ecio\v{g}lu and Ir\v{s}i\v{c}
Jianxin Wei, Yujun Yang
https://arXiv.org/abs/2401.14610 https://arXiv.org/pdf…

On a conjecture of Eǧecioǧlu and Iršič
In 2021, {Ö}. Eǧecioǧlu, V. Iršič introduced the concept of Fibonacci-run graph $\mathcal{R}_{n}$ as an induced subgraph of Hypercube. They conjectured that the diameter of $\mathcal{R}_{n}$ is given by $n-\lfloor(1+\frac{n}{2})^{\frac{1}{2}}-\frac{3}{4}\rfloor$. In this paper, we introduce the novel concept of distance-barriers between vertices in $\mathcal{R}_{n}$ and provide an elegant method to give lower bound for the diameter of $\mathcal{R}_{n}$ via distance-barriers. By constructin…

Cowboys' Mike Zimmer immediately addresses huge Micah Parsons question https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_mike_zimmer_immediately_addresses_huge_micah_parsons_question/s1_17313_39966301

Cowboys' Mike Zimmer immediately addresses huge Micah Parsons question
The Dallas Cowboys introduced Mike Zimmer as their new defensive coordinator on a press conference Thursday after making his hire official on Monday. A lot was addressed but two things stuck out the most: Firstly, Zimmer revealed he had had opportunities come across him since his last NFL coaching experience with the Minnesota Vikings in 2021 but that family matters led to him wanting some time away from the game as he awaited the right opportunity. Additionally, Zimmer was promptly asked about…

2021 retro-link! https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimization-on-programming-horror/ - Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on a programming horror.

Vikings to sign former first-round pick https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/vikings_to_sign_former_first_round_pick/s1_14819_40109219

Vikings to sign former first-round pick
Continuing to reshape their front seven, the Vikings have a deal in place with Jerry Tillery.  The former first-round defensive tackle is set to join Minnesota on a one-year deal worth up to $3.25M, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network reports. Tillery had an underwhelming start to his career with the Chargers, despite seeing a full-time starting role in 2020 and 2021.  The 27-year-old saw his workload cut the following season, and he was ultimately waived midway through the 2022 campaign. He closed …

The invisible black widow PSR J1720-0534: implications for the electron density towards the North Polar Spur
Karri I. I. Koljonen, Sindre S. Lindseth, Manuel Linares, Alice K. Harding, Marco Turchetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09010

The invisible black widow PSR J1720-0534: implications for the electron density towards the North Polar Spur
Radio emission from pulsars can be used to map out their distances through dispersion measure (DM), which quantifies the amount of radio pulse dispersion. However, this method relies on accurately modeling the free electron density in the line of sight. Here, we present a detailed study of the multi-wavelength emission from PSR J1720-0534, a black widow compact binary millisecond pulsar discovered in 2021, which the latest electron density model of the Galaxy (YMW16; Yao et al. 2017) places at …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09679 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

The impact of Covid-19 vaccination in Aotearoa New Zealand: a modelling study
Aotearoa New Zealand implemented a Covid-19 elimination strategy in 2020 and 2021, which enabled a large majority of the population to be vaccinated before being exposed to the virus. This strategy delivered one of the lowest pandemic mortality rates in the world. However, quantitative estimates of the population-level health benefits of vaccination are lacking. Here, we use a validated mathematical model to investigate counterfactual scenarios with differing levels of vaccine coverage in diffe…