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#NowPlaying an incredible EP I haven't mentioned here surprisingly, I bought this a while back, this was from 2021. I've talked about Gorgeous Jefe here before, one of my favorite rappers from Phoenix here- on this one as Malick McFly before he changed his name to Jefe. I talk to Jefe here and there, he told me this EP is FULLY freestyle, NOTHING written down, just a bunch of talented Arizona ra…

Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90% of submitted notes are never published, with many notes "stuck in limbo" (DDIA)
https://ddia.org/en/a-deep-dive-into-xs-community-notes-report

A Deep Dive into X’s Community Notes: An Analysis of English and Spanish Contributions Between 2021 and 2025
The Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) examined how X’s Community Notes system functions across English and Spanish, drawing from over 1.76 million notes submitted globally between 2021 and 2025. The report explores submission and publication dynamics, contributor behavior, and systemic challenges like transparency gaps and rating backlogs. As community-driven content moderation becomes a global model, this report sheds light on its potential, and limitations, for building a h…

from my link log —
Exploring ways to make async Rust easier.
https://carllerche.com/2021/06/17/six-ways-to-make-async-rust-easier/
saved 2021-06-17

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/…

The picture of James Baldwin with the moon and corona halo are from Maria Popova's The Marginalian website: https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/06/06/james-baldwin-giovannis-room-love-choice/?mc_cid=a97353e0…

James Baldwin on Love, the Illusion of Choice, and the Paradox of Freedom
“Nothing is more unbearable, once one has it, than freedom.”

Kirk vs. Fuentes
Right-wing student group Turning Point USA struggles to bar white nationalists from gathering - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2021/07/17/right-wing-student-group-turning-point-usa-struggles-to-bar-white-nationalists-from-gathering/

Patriots hope they've found their next long-snapper in Julian Ashby https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45672356/patriots-draft-long-snapper-julian-ashby

🌝 Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
http://www.righto.com/2025/07/reverse-engineering-mysterious-up-data.html
#electronics

Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-st...

ThinkBroadband: 78% of UK properties have access to full-fiber broadband, up from 12% in Jan. 2020, which experts credit to Ofcom's 2021 pro-competition push (Financial Times)

Elon Musk’s team of Texas lobbyists during the 2025 legislative session did not rival those of huge energy and telecommunications companies,
which typically employ dozens of people to represent them.
⭐️But Musk and his companies still hired more lobbyists this year than any other since 2021, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.
❌Musk, the billionaire businessman behind carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. …

Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps.
Musk, the billionaire businessman behind Tesla and SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. How his lobbyists came about these wins, however, is more of a mystery.

Als Windows 10 am 29. Juli 2015 auf den Markt kam, stand Microsoft vor einer Herausforderung: Die Nutzer waren mit Windows 8 unzufrieden und hielten an Windows 7 fest. Die Lösung? Zurück zu den Wurzeln!
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10502275?wt_mc=sm.re

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

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

May It Be Time #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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)

I love this album. EPIC POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL METAL AL ->
Ministry - Moral Hygiene (Full Album 2021) - Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnUNgWk4CcyZjc012_89K848JamwqUVVG

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…

'My husband is free' — Belarus opposition leader Sergei Tikhanovsky freed after US envoy visits Minsk
https://kyivindependent.com/in-highest-level-visit-in-years-lukashenko-meets-us-envoy-kellogg-in-minsk/…

"TikTok, Do Your Thing": User Reactions to Social Surveillance in the Public Sphere
Meira Gilbert, Miranda Wei, Lindah Kotut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20884

"TikTok, Do Your Thing": User Reactions to Social Surveillance in the Public Sphere
'TikTok, Do Your Thing'' is a viral trend where users attempt to identify strangers they see in public via information crowd-sourcing. The trend started as early as 2021 and users typically engage with it for romantic purposes (similar to a ''Missed Connections'' personal advertisement). This practice includes acts of surveillance and identification in the public sphere, although by peers rather than governments or corporations. To understand users' reactions to this trend we conducted a quali�…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Ego Ella May:
🎵 What's Happening Brother (6 Music Session, 22 May 2021)
#EgoEllaMay

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/uNYyhKV
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…

Proof of the linkage conjecture for highly connected tournaments
Jia Zhou, Jin Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22651 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22651…

Proof of the linkage conjecture for highly connected tournaments
A digraph $D$ is $k$-linked if for every $2k$ distinct vertices $ x_1,\ldots , x_k, y_1, \ldots , y_k$ in $D$, there exist $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint paths $P_1,\ldots, P_k$ such that $P_i$ starts at $x_i$ and ends at $y_i$ for each $i\in [k]$. In 2021, Girão, Popielarz, and Snyder [Combinatorica 41 (2021) 815--837] conjectured that there exists a constant $C >0$ such that every $(2k+1)$-connected tournament with minimum out-degree at least $Ck$ is $k$-linked. In this paper, we disprove this…

'Mac's capable of being a starter': Mac Jones being coached hard by 49ers in attempt to revive career https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45591949/qb-mac-jones-49ers-attempt-revive-career-2021-nfl-draft

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.

RLZ-r and LZ-End-r: Enhancing Move-r
Patrick Dinklage, Johannes Fischer, Lukas Nalbach, Jan Zumbrink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17300 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

RLZ-r and LZ-End-r: Enhancing Move-r
In pattern matching on strings, a locate query asks for an enumeration of all the occurrences of a given pattern in a given text. The r-index [Gagie et al., 2018] is a recently presented compressed self index that stores the text and auxiliary information in compressed space. With some modifications, locate queries can be answered in optimal time [Nishimoto & Tabei, 2021], which has recently been proven relevant in practice in the form of Move-r [Bertram et al., 2024]. However, there remains th…

Upright Blues
- #PianoImprov #NowPlaying -
https://muz4now.com/2021/upright-blues

Upright Blues - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
Jiashi Chen, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19285

Quasi-periodic oscillations and reflection feature evolution in 4U 1630-47 observed with Insight-HXMT
The Galactic black hole (BH) X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 went into a new outburst in 2021 after $\sim$ 600 days from its 2020 outburst. We perform a detailed analysis of quasi-periodic oscillations and spectral evolutions during its 2021 outburst based on \textit{Insight}-HXMT observations. The main science aims to study the reflection features evolution of this accreting black hole using the observations of detecting quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) and quasi-regular modulations (QRMs). The QPOs…

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.

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…

📢 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.

Embattled ex-Raiders’ 1st-round pick gets another chance in NFL https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/embattled-ex-raiders-1st-round-pick-gets-another-chance-in-nfl-3386687/

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

Juneteenth celebrates the end of most slavery in the United States. It is also known as Emancipation Day, Freedom Day, Jubilee Day, Juneteenth Independence Day, Black Independence Day, and by U.S. statute, Juneteenth National Independence Day.
https://www.cong…

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
Maxwell Bernstein, Joanna Krajewski, Rachel Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13600 …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
The climate crisis demands innovative solutions and quantum technologies are considered by some a potential solution (Berger et al., 2021; Calvin et al., 2023). The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations, 2024), focusing on applications for quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, leveraging quantum mechanics, offer unprecedented computational power (Ajagekar & You, 2022) and sensitivity (Schleich et al., 2016) that could revolut…

Requiem for a Stranger
- inspiration from grief and hope -
#StrangerRequiem #NowPlaying
https://

Requiem for a Stranger #StrangerRequiem #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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…

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 ...

🇺🇦 #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

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/qnXrP9u
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…

Henry Ruggs addresses NFL future, desire for reunion with Raiders https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/henry-ruggs-addresses-nfl-future-desire-reunion-raiders/2cbd342bfaeb02…

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.

Why is the #MAGA #47 undercutting his Secretary of Health's #MAHA goals of eliminating exposure to toxins?
An emergency executive order requiring coal plants to keep running. Plants that everywhere besides #47s…

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…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/BQ3vU6g
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…