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Fascism (n): @… https://kind.social/@pomegranate_stew/116812459249173548

Bans of and challenges to reading material in K-12 schools have been on the rise since 2021,
when the American Library Association and PEN America noticed a sharp uptick in the number of books on the no-no list.
The classics of the banned-book genre remained
— “Brave New World,” “Animal Farm,”“Beloved”
— but those were joined by an escalating list of picture books of two-dad families, young-adult novels tackling race or suicide, graphic novels in which teens make inf…

Why not just ban all the books?
Keyword searches for "justice" and "pride" drive what ideas are being kept from kids.

from my link log —
Correct register allocation in Cranelift by fuzzing with a symbolic checker.
https://cfallin.org/blog/2021/03/15/cranelift-isel-3/
saved 2021-03-16

My new tires held up for exactly 10 km 🙄

A Ukrainian extradited from Ireland to the US pleads guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022 (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Investigation of the dynamics and origin of the NEA pair 2021 PH27 and 2025 GN1: #Venus due to 2021 PH27 and 2025 GN1 will occur on July 5, 2026, when the planet will be at its closest approach to the pair’s orbit and, at the same time, will reveal part of its shadowed hemisphere to Earth."

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…

"Illegal e-waste trade turns Bangladesh into net importer"
#Bangladesh #Technology #EWaste

Illegal e-waste trade turns Bangladesh into net importer
In Bangladesh, poor oversight of unlawful cross-border trade in hazardous electronic waste continues, turning the country into a net importer of electronic waste. The country has rules to control e-waste. It is also a party to the Basel Convention and has introduced its own laws, like the Hazardous Waste (E-waste) Management Rules (2021). However, enforcement […]

Days before Trump left office in 2021, the State Department broke ground on an $850 million construction project at its aging embassy in New Delhi.
By last fall, alongside work on smaller buildings, crews had dug a 200-foot-long pit for the project’s centerpiece:
a sleek edifice of glass and stone that was supposed to make the biggest U.S. mission in South Asia more “secure and resilient.”
In recent months, without public announcement, the U.S. government canceled that buil…

How Sergio Gor Is Transforming the Role of U.S. Ambassador in the Trump Era
From his post in New Delhi, Mr. Gor has become a force in U.S. foreign policy, chasing business deals and stunning diplomats by reversing a long-planned embassy building project.

Oh, so Svelte is basically also under the Vercel umbrella? 🙄 (Since 2021? I somehow missed that…)
This is why we can’t have nice things.

#Microsoft is intentionally bricking all #OfficeforMac 2019/2021 installations
https://www.

How Erin Andrews, Charissa Thompson built an NFL podcast that goes beyond football https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7435205/2026/07/15/erin-andrews-charissa-thompson-nfl-podcast-calm-down/

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.06.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

from my link log —
Inko: Friendship ended with the garbage collector.
https://yorickpeterse.com/articles/friendship-ended-with-the-garbage-collector/
saved 2021-08-26

Génocide au Rwanda : la commission Duclert conclut Š une faillite militaire et politique de la France de 1990 Š 1994
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2021/03/26/rw…

Génocide au Rwanda : la commission Duclert conclut à une faillite militaire et politique de la France de 1990 à 1994
Le groupe de chercheurs sur le Rwanda, réuni par Emmanuel Macron pour étudier le rôle de la France, a remis son rapport au président le 26 mars. Il conclut à « un ensemble de responsabilités, lourdes et accablantes », au sein de l’Etat français. Mais il écarte l’idée d’une complicité de génocide.

Quake rewritten in 18kb: #Quake

Q1K3
A game in the js13kGames 2021 competition. Play it now, for free!

Queria que o IBGE atualizasse logo a coisinha dos nomes do censo de 2010 pro de 2021...
2010 foi hš muito tempo, os resultados com certeza jš são totalmente diferentes

Raiders Sign Former Michigan Standout in Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/cameron-mcgrone-free-agent-signing/

Cowboys have 2 rookies who could win DYOTY https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-have-2-rookies-who-could-win-dyoty

Improved Approximation Guarantees for Groupwise Maximin Share Fairness
Georgios Amanatidis, Anna Korfiati, Evangelos Markakis, Christodoulos Santorinaios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.04731 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.04731 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.04731
arXiv:2606.04731v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of fairly allocating a set of indivisible goods to a set of $n$ agents with additive valuation functions. We focus on the very demanding notion of \textit{groupwise maximin share fairness} (GMMS), which requires that each agent $i$ receives value comparable to their maximin share, where the latter is computed \textit{with respect to any subset of agents that contains $i$}. We show that it is possible to compute $(\phi-1)$-approximate GMMS allocations in polynomial time, where $\phi \approx 1.618$ is the golden ratio). This improves on the previously known guarantee of $4/7$ of Chaudhury et al. [SICOMP; 2021] and Amanatidis et al. [TCS; 2020]. We propose a simple algorithm that maintains the same main properties as the Draft-and-Eliminate algorithm of Amanatidis et al. [TCS, 2020] and we improve on the approximation guarantee analysis by carefully bounding the relevant value within any subinstance induced by the restriction of our allocation to a subset of agents. Our analysis is asymptotically tight for algorithms that share these properties and has the additional benefit of giving improved guarantees for restricted settings; in particular, when the agents agree on the top $n$ goods or when the number of agents is small. To illustrate the challenges of going beyond the guarantees of our algorithm, we also present a variant with an improved approximation of $(\sqrt{10}-1)/3 \approx 0.72$ for the case of three agents. To achieve this improvement we partially characterize the maximin share guarantees of short picking sequences for a small number of goods.
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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…

from my link log —
Async Rust: futures, tasks, wakers; oh my!
https://msarmi9.github.io/posts/async-rust/
saved 2021-06-22 https://d…