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“Costco has made it easier for members to shell out thousands of dollars on gold bars—and get a $1.50 hot dog while they are at it.”
https://press.coop/@WSJ/112215912230520704

The Wall Street Journal :_p: (@WSJ@press.coop)
The Costco Shoppers Putting $2,000 Gold Bars in Their Carts Young investors say the old-school store of value is a hedge against inflation and catastrophe. #press https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-costco-shoppers-putting-2-000-gold-bars-in-their-carts-d4e8aeb5?utm_source=press.coop

The New York Times' The Daily ran a greenwashing BP ad on its January 31 podcast, despite a 2021 pledge by the NYT to ban sponsorships by oil and gas companies (HEATED)
https://heated.world/p/the-daily-runs-a-greenwashing-bp

“The Daily” runs a greenwashing BP ad
The Daily promised to end fossil fuel sponsorships in 2021. BP promised to stop “corporate reputation advertising” in 2020.

CO₂ monitoring, useful explainer
Here's my own explainer about CO₂ monitoring.
It covers some of the same topics as the one above, but filling in more background knowledge. When I wrote it, I was thinking of e.g. a teacher with lots of knowledge about children and not much knowledge about science, who just wanted to make their classroom safer from covid.
#CovidIsAirborne #monitoring

👍 Montana Court Strikes Down Laws that Disenfranchise Indigenous Voters - Native American Rights Fund
https://narf.org/2021-montana-voter-laws/

Montana Court Strikes Down Laws that Disenfranchise Indigenous Voters - Native American Rights Fund
A Montana court struck down as unconstitutional two state laws that hinder Native American participation in the state’s electoral process. 

Ransomware payments in 2023 reached a record $1.1B, up from $567M in 2022 and $983M in 2021, as the frequency, scope, and volume of attacks escalated (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/ransomware-2024/

Ransomware Hit $1 Billion in 2023
Ransomware attackers broke records in 2023, pulling in over $1 billion from victims. Learn how and get the trends you need to know for 2024.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.00251 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

The Reactive Synthesis Competition (SYNTCOMP): 2018-2021
We report on the last four editions of the reactive synthesis competition (SYNTCOMP 2018-2021). We briefly describe the evaluation scheme and the experimental setup of SYNTCOMP. Then, we introduce new benchmark classes that have been added to the SYNTCOMP library and give an overview of the participants of SYNTCOMP. Finally, we present and analyze the results of our experimental evaluations, including a ranking of tools with respect to quantity and quality - that is, the total size in terms of …

2021 retro-link! https://github.com/rui314/mold - mold: a modern linker, faster than cat.

"From 2021 to 2024, the number of #apartments scheduled for conversion from old office spaces increased from 12,100 to 55,300.
Behind this shift lies a crucial factor: the $150 billion in office #mortgages due by 2024. As residential space demand surges,

2021 retro-link! http://www.cmyr.net/blog/keypaths.html - Type-checked keypaths in Rust.

Cis people get gender-affirming healthcare over the counter. Why can’t #trans folk have the same?
https://www.thepinknews.com/2021/11/19/gender-affirm…

Cis people get gender-affirming healthcare over the counter. Why can’t trans folk have the same?
Access to gender-affirming healthcare for trans and non-binary people is being attacked in the UK. Yet cis people access it all the time.