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The disclosure of a SEAL Team 6 mission into North Korea in 2019 has heightened interest in
when the executive branch must tell congressional oversight committees about important military and intelligence operations.
The Trump administration did not inform Congress of what happened.
But in 2021, the Biden administration decided to brief top congressional officials.
The difference in approach raises the question of whether the Trump team improperly or illegally withheld…

Trump Didn’t Notify Congress About a High-Stakes SEALs Mission. That Could Be an Issue.
The Trump administration failed to tell lawmakers about a 2019 SEAL Team 6 incursion into North Korean territory that went awry.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

PitchBook: VC exits through public listings, acquisitions, and buyouts reached $67.7B in Q2 2025, up from $38.5B a year ago and the strongest showing since 2021 (Richard Waters/Financial Times)

cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

Modal toccata #PipeOrgan #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2021/modal-toccata-pipeorgan-…

Modal toccata #PipeOrgan #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1114359 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment offers valuing it as high as $10B, just six months after raising $100M at a $2B valuation (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mercor-field…

Mercor Fields $10 Billion-Valuation Offers in ‘Pre-emptive’ Onslaught
The frothiness of the artificial intelligence boom is starting to look like 1999…or 2021. Startups are again receiving unsolicited investment interest months or even weeks after announcing a fundraising, sometimes at prices that would more than double their valuation. The latest is Mercor, a ...

BTW - that CBC article used a lot of numbers from this report, which because it's all numbers is awesome. Some tidbits:
- The number of farms over 3,500 acres has nearly doubled in 20 years.
- 41.3% of Canadian farmland is rented.
- From 1971 to 2021, the farm population declined by 62.2%, from 1 in 14 Canadians to 1 in 61.
- Farm debt has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from $43B in 2002 to $138.8B in 2022. That is currently 10x the size of net farm income.
- In 2021, 96,043 tonnes of pesticides were sold for agricultural use – more than three times the amount sold in 1991.
#Statistics #Farming
https://www.nfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Canadian-Ag-by-the-Numbers-2024.pdf

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

🌞 Solar power capacity additions in China doubled year-on-year to 212 gigawatts, with total capacity at the end of H1 increasing a whopping 54% year on year
[Post by @laurimyllyvirta on Bluesky]
That's more than the whole world installed in the full year 2021.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/ai-p

AI-powered fintech Alaan raises $48M, one of the largest Series A rounds in MENA | TechCrunch
When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey’s Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied on for corporate

lifeXplore at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2021
Andreas Leibetseder, Klaus Schoeffmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03692 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03692

lifeXplore at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2021
Since its first iteration in 2018, the Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) continues to rise in popularity as an interactive lifelog data retrieval competition, co-located at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR). The goal of this annual live event is to search a large corpus of lifelogging data for specifically announced memories using a purposefully developed tool within a limited amount of time. As long-standing participants, we present our improved lifeXplore - a retrie…

from my link log —
Ironies of automation. (1983)
http://www.complexcognition.co.uk/2021/06/ironies-of-automation.html
saved 2025-05-26

Ironies of Automation
This paper discusses ways in which automation of industrial processes may expand rather than eliminate problems with the human operator.   ...

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Metronomy:
🎵 She Wants
#Metronomy
https://cor100.bandcamp.com/track/metronomy-she-wants-cor100-2021-reshape
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rrYTqRuvyQYxroWdtNzSX

A note on Wang's conjecture for harmonic functions with nonlinear boundary condition
Xiaohan Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02978 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

A note on Wang's conjecture for harmonic functions with nonlinear boundary condition
We obtain some Liouville type theorems for positive harmonic functions on compact Riemannian manifolds with nonnegative Ricci curvature and strictly convex boundary and partially verifies Wang's conjecture (J. Geom. Anal. 31 (2021)). For the specific manifold $\mathbb{B}^n$, we present a new proof of this conjecture, which has been resolved by Gu-Li (Math. Ann. 391 (2025)). Our proof is based on a general principle of applying the P-function method to such uniqueness results. As a further app…

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.AP. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.AP/new
[1/1]:
- Multilayer networks characterize human-mobility patterns by industry sector for the 2021 Texas wi...
Melissa Butler, Alisha Khan, Francis Afrifa, Yingjie Hu, Dane Taylor

"May It Be Time"
- instrumental explorations -
#NowPlaying #MusicVideos
https://muz4n…

May It Be Time #NowPlaying
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cofe: Collaboration in Financial Economics (2021)
Network of authors and commenters of papers in finantial economics, obtained from the acknowledgement sections of over 5,000 published research papers.
This network has 13967 nodes and 102039 edges.
Tags: Social, Directed, Weighted, Online, Collaboration
https://networks.ske…

BMW's iX3 electric SUV, debuting September 5, will be the first in a series of "software-defined vehicle" on its €10B Neue Klasse platform unveiled in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/42250738-f246-4a31-94b4-fd6a894f99ae

The Soul (緝魂) (2021) is a bleak near-future sci-fi-ish mystery.
In the year 2031, the CEO of a Taiwanese biomedical corporation is found bludgeoned to death in his bedroom, with an occult symbol carved into the door. The obvious culprit is the estranged son, upset that dad had something to do with mom's death.
The prosecutor Wen-chao is not so sure. Wen-chao suspects the CEO's second wife, who seems harmless but might be possessed by the vengeful spirit of the first wife.…

Good Morning #Canada
There is a little known reporting tool on the ##StatsCan website called Canada’s Quality of Life Hub. First proposed in 2021, and launched in 2023, it is a framework that gathers data and evidence to inform priority setting and guide decision-making in various policy areas, including the budgetary process. The Framework comprises five domains –prosperity, health, environment, society, and good governance – and two cross-cutting lenses: fairness and inclusion, and sustainability and resilience. Not enough Canadians have heard of it, and I suspect very few government policies are implemented before analyzing the impact on quality of life measurement by this tool. On a positive note, #StatsCan is looking for feedback on how to improve the hub.
#CanadaIsAwesome #QualityOfLife
https://www160.statcan.gc.ca/index-eng.htm

Tutorial: $\varphi$-Transductions in OpenFst via the Gallic Semiring
Marco Cognetta, Cyril Allauzen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17942 https://

Tutorial: $φ$-Transductions in OpenFst via the Gallic Semiring
OpenFst, a popular finite-state transducer library, supports $φ$-transitions but, due to an implementation constraint, they cannot be used with transducers in a straightforward way. In this short tutorial, we describe how one can use other functionality provided by OpenFst (namely, the Gallic semiring) to correctly implement $φ$-transductions and demonstrate it by implementing the MaxMatch (WordPiece) tokenization algorithm (Devlin et al., 2019; Song et al., 2021). Accompanying self-contain…

Chiefs WR Hollywood Brown vows to get back to 'best self' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45531855/chiefs-kansas-city-hollywood-brown-injury-history-2025

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1000675 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

📢 Deutschland schickt zum zweiten Mal seit Taliban-Machtübernahme Abschiebeflug nach Afghanistan
Deutschland schiebt zum zweiten Mal seit der Machtübernahme durch die Taliban im August 2021 afghanische Staatsangehörige in ihr Herkunftsland ab. Bundesinnenminister Dobrindt (CSU) bestätigte, dass ein Flugzeug von Leipzig aus mit 81 Menschen an Bord gestartet ist, um diese in ihr Herkunftsland zurückzubringen.
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Deutschland schickt zum zweiten Mal seit Taliban-Machtübernahme Abschiebeflug nach Afghanistan
Nach fast einem Jahr Pause ist wieder ein Abschiebeflug nach Afghanistan gestartet - just an dem Tag, an dem Innenminister Dobrindt zum Migrationsgipfel lädt.

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/pL6dIVC
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
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Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Harrison Katz, Erica Savage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21298 https://ar…

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Using every U.S. Airbnb reservation created from 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2024, weighted by nights booked, we document a lasting shift toward longer stays after the COVID 19 shock. Mean nights per booking rose from 3.7 before the pandemic to a stable 4.1 to 4.4 after 2021; the median increased from two to three nights and the weighted standard deviation nearly doubled to seven nights, indicating a heavier tail. Negative binomial regression shows that, relative to the restriction perio…

May It Be Time
#OriginalMusic #MusicVideos #NowPlaying

May It Be Time #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

THEME FROM LUPIN Ⅲ 2021［Live Music Video］| ルパン三世のテーマ2021 (Special Studio...
https://youtube.com/watch?v=l0nYMRz1IfU&si=EDIYvjUKhQgkJDxr

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07576 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

The BCFW Tiling of the ABJM Amplituhedron
The orthogonal momentum amplituhedron O_k was introduced simultaneously in 2021 by Huang, Kojima, Wen, and Zhang, and by He, Kuo, and Zhang, in the study of scattering amplitudes of ABJM theory. It was conjectured that it admits a decomposition into BCFW cells. We prove this conjecture.

Payroll and HR software provider Gusto agrees to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to small businesses; Guideline was valued at $1.15B in 2021 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/gusto-retirement-guideline-deal.html

Gusto agrees to buy retirement plan provider Guideline
Gusto, which offers payroll and human resources software, has agreed to acquire Guideline, a startup that provides 401(k) plans to small businesses.

Timing and spectral variability in 2S 1417-624 observed with Insight-HXMT
Qi Liu, Lingda Kong, Can G\"ung\"or, Lorenzo Ducci, Long Ji, Wei Wang, Xiaohang Dai, Andrea Santangelo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13557

Timing and spectral variability in 2S 1417-624 observed with Insight-HXMT
We present the results of the spectral and timing analyses of the accreting X-ray pulsar, 2S 1417-624, during the 2018 and 2021 outbursts with Insight-HXMT. We find that the pulse profiles in all energy bands exhibit clear double-peaked structures at low flux states. In the 1-10 keV band, the pulse profiles evolve from double to triple peaks at a flux level of $\sim$4.1$\ \times \ 10^{-9}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$, and from triple to quadruple peaks at $\sim$6.4$\ \times \ 10^{-9}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ …

Down But Not Out: The Case of Long-Period Comet C/2021 O3 (Panstarrs)
David Jewitt. Jing Li, Michael Jaeger, Yoonyoung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09263

Down But Not Out: The Case of Long-Period Comet C/2021 O3 (Panstarrs)
We combine ground- and space-based observations of long-period comet C/2021 O3 (Panstarrs) (perihelion distance 0.287 au) in order to investigate its reported near-perihelion destruction. Pre-perihelion photometric observations show a remarkably small heliocentric dependence of the scattered light, $\propto r_H^{-s}$ with $s = 2.59\pm0.21$, distinct from values reported in other long-period comets, for which $s$ = 4 is the canonical standard. The index is smaller than expected of coma productio…

Good Morning #Canada
And welcome to Day 2 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming. Just made that up. Let's continue the series with some very interesting overall statistics, which I, admittedly a numbers nerd, found insightful.
Depending on the source, it's estimated that less than 10% of Canada’s land is suitable for farming. According to 2021 #StatsCan data, approximately 6.2% of Canada was being actively farmed but a significant amount of farmland was being lost to urban sprawl. The average age of farmers in Canada is 56, and as they retire corporations are buying up the land, resulting in fewer individuals in the industry but the average farm is larger in size. Although today Canada punches above its weight in global comparisons, there are some challenges to maintaining our agricultural land.
#CanadaIsAwesome #FarmLife
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-prime-farmland-1.6877661

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

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

Henry Ruggs breaks silence on fatal car crash, says he would 'love' to play for Raiders again

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/henry-r

Am 25. Oktober um 12 Uhr werden die beiden 161 Meter hohen #Kühltürme des ehemaligen AKW #Gundremmingen gesprengt.
Nach der Abschaltung 2021 markiert dies einen weiteren Schritt im Rückbau.
Rund 11.000 Tonnen Schutt werden erwartet. Die Behörden bereiten sich auf zahlre…

AKW Gundremmingen: Termin für die Sprengung der Kühltürme steht
Auf Nachfrage der Redaktion bestätigt der Betreiber RWE jetzt offiziell: Am Samstag, 25. Oktober, fallen die Kühltürme. Auf Gundremmingen wird einiges zukommen.

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system
Daniele Fasano, Myriam Benisty, Pietro Curone, Stefano Facchini, Francesco Zagaria, Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Kiyoaki Doi, Anibal Sierra, Sean Andrews, Jaehan Bae, Andrea Isella, Nicol\'as T. Kurtovic, Laura M. P\'erez, Paola Pinilla, Luna Rampinelli, Richard Teague
https://

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system
The two giant protoplanets directly imaged in the dust-depleted cavity of PDS 70 offer a unique opportunity to study ongoing planet formation. Both planets have been detected in infrared thermal emission and in H$α$, indicating active accretion. We calibrate and analyse archival ALMA Band 6 and 7 observations of PDS 70 from 2019, 2021, and 2023 to search for circumplanetary material and assess its motion. Using 2D visibility modelling of the high-resolution (~0.11"x0.08" in Band 6; ~0.05"x0.05…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/651c0QD
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

Fossile Energien verursachen hohe gesellschaftliche Kosten, werden aber weiterhin subventioniert.
Allein 2021 beliefen sich offene und versteckte #Subventionen laut #IWF auf 5900 Milliarden US-Dollar. Maßnahmen wie der

Tankrabatt: Wie wir uns zu Tode subventionieren
Die Verbrennung fossiler Brennstoffe richtet massive Schäden an. Dennoch wird sie gefördert – etwa durch den Tankrabatt. Dabei gäbe es sinnvolle Alternativen, von denen auch Geringverdiener profitieren.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/4AvErOg
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/xP4Vckn
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/k07zAtj
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Robert Norman Munsch, born June 11, 1945, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but thankfully, he became a Canadian citizen in 1983. He has published more than 60 books in 30 languages and is a Member of the Order of Canada and Canada’s Walk of Fame. Health issues have ended his writing and public appearances, and in 2021, he was diagnosed with dementia. But his stories continue to speak to children.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thenextchapter/full-episode-oct-2-2021-1.6193424/the-stories-will-be-the-last-thing-to-go-robert-munsch-on-his-legacy-as-one-of-canada-s-great-storytellers-1.6193428