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The UK says Chinese state-affiliated actors were responsible for a "malicious cyber campaign" on the country's Electoral Commission between 2021 and 2022 (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/25/britain-bl

2021 retro-link! https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2021/01/11/stuff-your-logs/ - Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs.

Filing: FTX strikes deals worth $884M with buyers, including $500M from a Mubadala affiliate, to sell most of its Anthropic stake; FTX invested $500M in 2021 (Becky Yerak/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj…

Oh god
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/92041231

Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS / ろぐうぅぅかいしいぃぃぃ / August 16th, 2021 - pixiv
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History has shown us that, when left unchecked, hateful activity will grow and escalate.
That is clear when looking at the pattern of #Patriot #Front’s behavior.
The group has moved from flyering and stickering on college campuses,
to outright property destruction,
to in-person marches that have r…

Lawyers’ Committee Files Lawsuit Against Patriot Front Members for Vandalism & Intimidation | Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Credit: Unicorn Riot RICHMOND  – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and partners filed suit against members of the Patriot Front, an alleged white supremacist group, to hold them accountable for vandalizing and destroying a mural honoring Black hometown tennis legend Arthur Ashe in Richmond, Virginia in October 2021. Plaintiffs are residents of […]

“We find disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn—the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored—is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline … AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don’t repeat yourself] of the repos visited.”

New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' -- Visual Studio Magazine
We find disconcerting trends for maintainability.

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.

History has shown us that, when left unchecked, hateful activity will grow and escalate.
That is clear when looking at the pattern of #Patriot #Front’s behavior.
The group has moved from flyering and stickering on college campuses,
to outright property destruction,
to in-person marches that have r…

Lawyers’ Committee Files Lawsuit Against Patriot Front Members for Vandalism & Intimidation | Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Credit: Unicorn Riot RICHMOND  – Today, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and partners filed suit against members of the Patriot Front, an alleged white supremacist group, to hold them accountable for vandalizing and destroying a mural honoring Black hometown tennis legend Arthur Ashe in Richmond, Virginia in October 2021. Plaintiffs are residents of […]

As relevant as ever...
Space-sized egos, tiny tax bills… Billionaires should be jettisoned
:mastodon:
https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/25/space-sized-egos-tiny-tax-bills-billionaire…

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:

TIL: Wenn in Deutschland an einer Baustelle Steine runterfliegen und potentiell jemand verletzen könnten oder schlimmeres, aber gerade niemand in der Nähe war, hat das keine Konsequenzen für die Verantwortlichen. Dafür müsste schon jemand dagestanden und nur knapp verfehlt worden sein („Beinahe-Unfall“).

Hauptbahnhof Stuttgart - Fassadenabsturz: Staatsanwaltschaft stellt Verfahren ein
Ein Fehler beim Bahnhofsumbau für Stuttgart 21 im Sommer 2021, bei dem Steinquader aus der Fassade brachen, hat nun keine rechtlichen Folgen. Dabei spielt die Uhrzeit eine Rolle.

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…

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

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?

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.…

Study finds that Github Copilot lowers code quality and maintainability:
"We find disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn -- the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored -- is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline. We further find that the percentage of 'added code' and 'copy/pasted code' is increasing in proportion to 'updated,' 'deleted,' and 'moved '…

New GitHub Copilot Research Finds 'Downward Pressure on Code Quality' -- Visual Studio Magazine
We find disconcerting trends for maintainability.

Taps the sign.
2022/2015(INI) para 39: Considers that the current way of finding MEPs’ voting histories – via PDF files covering hundreds of votes on Parliament’s website – [..] does not contribute to transparency; calls for Parliament’s Bureau to develop a [..] system in which, [..] roll-call vote results [..] be made available in machine-readable formats;

Sources: Reddit is targeting a valuation in the mid-single-digit billions for its planned IPO in March; Reddit raised funds at a $10B valuation in 2021 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-28/re…

Reddit Advised to Target at Least $5 Billion Valuation in IPO
Reddit Inc. is weighing feedback from early meetings with potential investors in its initial public offering that it should consider a valuation of at least $5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter, even as it is estimated below that figure in the volatile market for shares of private companies.

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

Superexchange Mechanism in Coupled Triangulenes Forming Spin-1 Chains
Yasser Saleem, Torben Steenbock, Emha Riyadhul Jinan Alhadi, Weronika Pasek, Gabriel Bester, Pawel Potasz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07774

Superexchange Mechanism in Coupled Triangulenes Forming Spin-1 Chains
We show that the origin of the antiferromagnetic coupling in spin-1 triangulene chains, which were recently synthesized and measured by Mishra et al. Nature 598, 287-292 (2021) originates from a superexchange mechanism. This process, mediated by inter-triangulene states, opens the possibility to control parameters in the effective bilinear-biquadratic spin model. We start from the derivation of an effective tight-binding model for triangulene chains using a combination of tight-binding and Hart…

Superexchange Mechanism in Coupled Triangulenes Forming Spin-1 Chains
Yasser Saleem, Torben Steenbock, Emha Riyadhul Jinan Alhadi, Weronika Pasek, Gabriel Bester, Pawel Potasz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07774

Superexchange Mechanism in Coupled Triangulenes Forming Spin-1 Chains
We show that the origin of the antiferromagnetic coupling in spin-1 triangulene chains, which were recently synthesized and measured by Mishra et al. Nature 598, 287-292 (2021) originates from a superexchange mechanism. This process, mediated by inter-triangulene states, opens the possibility to control parameters in the effective bilinear-biquadratic spin model. We start from the derivation of an effective tight-binding model for triangulene chains using a combination of tight-binding and Hart…