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I watched E.T. (1982) recently. I remember seeing it as a kid but couldn't remember much except "phone home". I didn't like the child actors to be honest but the rubber puppet worked so well when it was lying on its "death bed" 😭
Surprised by the swear words they used though. Shit, dick....🫢 I wanted to see what the neighbourhood looks like today as it was a newly built suburbia in 1982. Turns out, somebody already did the research!

Funding, authorship patterns and citation impact of articles funded by Ukrainian agencies before and during Russia's full-scale war (2020-2023)
Myroslava Hladchenko, Rodrigo Costas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22013

Funding, authorship patterns and citation impact of articles funded by Ukrainian agencies before and during Russia's full-scale war (2020-2023)
This study examines how Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine affected foreign co-funding, authorship patterns, and the citation impact of articles funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (MESU), the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), and the National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU). The analysis includes articles in Scopus-indexed journals between 2020 and 2023. The share of articles funded by these agencies increased from 8.6% in 2020-2021 to 11.9% in 2…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

"Banking alliance aimed at limiting fossil fuel investments collapses"
#Banks #Finance #FossilFuels

Banking alliance aimed at limiting fossil fuel investments collapses
A coalition formed to align the international banking sector’s investments with global climate goals has disbanded nearly four years after it was launched. Set up in 2021, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) was a U.N.-sponsored initiative to shift bank financing away from fossil fuels — the biggest source of climate changing greenhouse gases — and […]

Seems like a good day to bring back this 2021 post: https://systemsapproach.org/2021/07/19/decentralizing-the-internet-again/

Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

Why the Jets will not fire Aaron Glenn — not now, and not in the offseason https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6722832/2025/10/17/aaron-glenn-job-security-new-york-jets-rebuild/

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1202874 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

from my link log —
It's not always icache: performance of inline functions.
https://matklad.github.io/2021/07/10/its-not-always-icache.html
saved 2025-12-03

Dark-eyed juncos living in urbanized Los Angeles have shorter bills than juncos in nearby natural areas— but while UCLA was closed for COVID-19 safety, campus juncos evolved longer bills again
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520996122

> 7 ans après ce post.
30 ans après les faits.
En France, les victimes engagées en tant que parties civiles attendent toujours que la justice bouge.
Le dossier OKC-Spatz a été rouvert en 2021. Depuis ?
Silence.
La Belgique a jugé.
L’Espagne a protégé Spatz.

An old thread about a 2021 project (incl. animations) for #TilingTuesday...
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111510598139643775

For those interested in learning more about the Galleanisti, it's worth digging in to understand the context, IMHO. Like I said, I think that insurrectionary anarchism is generally a pretty bad strategy. I have quite a few critiques, that I won't go into now. But I also think it's worth understanding that part of history and how it all came together.
https://attackthesystem.com/2021/06/05/and-they-called-them-galleanisti/

A New York appeals court rules that Chris Cuomo can't revive his bid to disqualify the arbitrator overseeing his $125M claim against CNN over his 2021 firing (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Chris Cuomo Loses Appeal Bid to Disqualify Arbitrator in CNN Proceedings
The former CNN anchor initiated the proceedings after he was fired by the network for giving advice to his brother, who was accused of sexual harassment.

I'm surprised that many people just seem to realize that the golden cage by #Apple is actually a golden cage! 🤷
What have you thought when you decided for that (overpriced) #lockin situation?
Of course, an #iOS

#Phantastikprompts 3.10.:
Hast du auch schon mal Sachbücher geschrieben? Wenn ja über was? Hat es etwas mit dem zu tun was du aktuell schreibst?
Bisher nicht. Blogposts, teilweise lang genug, dass ich sie als Broschüre verkaufen könnte, allerdings durchaus.
Den da beispielsweise:

Predicting Module-Lattice Reduction
L\'eo Ducas, Lynn Engelberts, Paola de Perthuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10540 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.10540…

Predicting Module-Lattice Reduction
Is module-lattice reduction better than unstructured lattice reduction? This question was highlighted as 'Q8' in the Kyber NIST standardization submission (Avanzi et al., 2021), as potentially affecting the concrete security of Kyber and other module-lattice-based schemes. Foundational works on module-lattice reduction (Lee, Pellet-Mary, Stehlé, and Wallet, ASIACRYPT 2019; Mukherjee and Stephens-Davidowitz, CRYPTO 2020) confirmed the existence of such module variants of LLL and block-reduction…

Good Morning #Canada
I've been a bachelor since Thursday as my wife is in Toronto helping my daughter with her latest chemo session. She's back late Monday when life, for me, returns to normal. According to #StatsCan, being married at our age (late 60s) is the most prevalent relationship. But Canadians in younger age brackets are more likely these days to be living common-law and getting married later in life, if at all. Canada has one of the highest rates of common-law relationships worldwide and the highest in the G7. Between 1981 and 2021, common-law couples increased 447% while the number of married couples grew by only 26%. Common-law unions are most prevalent in Nunavut (52%), Quebec (43%), and the Northwest Territories (36%). It's no surprise that more than half of Canadians believe that marriage is not necessary, and even less surprising that this opinion is stronger with young men versus young women.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Relationship
https://madeinca.ca/marriage-statistics-canada/

"In 2020, Berlin passed a law that resulted in a five-year rent freeze [...] for 90% of the flats in the city. While the law offered relief to about 1.5 million households who had seen rents rise by an estimated third in the six years prior, it was ruled as unconstitutional in 2021 after Germany’s highest court sided with landlords and property investment lobbyists who had argued it was inappropriate and illegal for the state to meddle with the private market."

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

Ravens trade Odafe Oweh to Chargers in exchange for safety Alohi Gilman: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6698102/2025/10/07/ravens-chargers-trade-odafe-oweh-alohi-gilman/

Gas price shocks, uncertainty and price setting: evidences from Italian firms
Giuseppe Pagano Giorgianni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03792 https://arxiv.org…

Gas price shocks, uncertainty and price setting: evidences from Italian firms
This paper examines how natural gas price shocks affect Italian firms' pricing decisions and inflation expectations using quarterly survey data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Inflation and Growth Expectations (SIGE) spanning 1999Q4-2025Q2. We identify natural gas price shocks through a Bayesian VAR with sign and zero restrictions. Our findings reveal that these shocks are a primary driver of firms' inflation expectations, particularly during the post-COVID period (2021-2023) when supply dis…

Former Raiders WR Henry Ruggs Graduates From Alabama While in Prison https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/henry-ruggs-graduates-alabama-prison/

From Birdwatch to Community Notes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation
Saeedeh Mohammadi, Narges Chinichian, Hannah Doyal, Kristina Skutilova, Hao Cui, Michele d'Errico, Siobhan Grayson, Taha Yasseri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09585

From Birdwatch to Community Notes, from Twitter to X: four years of community-based content moderation
Community Notes (formerly known as Birdwatch) is the first large-scale crowdsourced content moderation initiative that was launched by X (formerly known as Twitter) in January 2021. As the Community Notes model gains momentum across other social media platforms, there is a growing need to assess its underlying dynamics and effectiveness. This Resource paper provides (a) a systematic review of the literature on Community Notes, and (b) a major curated dataset and accompanying source code to supp…

Seems worth posting this again:
#tech #ethics #DataEthics

The moduli spaces of left-invariant statistical structures on Lie groups
Hikozo Kobayashi, Yu Ohno, Takayuki Okuda, Hiroshi Tamaru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04442 https://

The moduli spaces of left-invariant statistical structures on Lie groups
In the context of information geometry, the concept known as left-invariant statistical structure on Lie groups is defined by Furuhata--Inoguchi--Kobayashi [Inf. Geom. (2021)]. In this paper, we introduce the notion of the moduli space of left-invariant statistical structures on a Lie group. We study the moduli spaces for three particular Lie groups, each of which has a moduli space of left-invariant Riemannian metrics that is a singleton. As applications, we classify left-invariant conjugate s…

Brisantes Interview - Merkel gibt Polen eine Mitschuld an Putins Krieg #News #Nachrichten

2021 hatte ich meine persönliche Microsoft-Linux-Gleiche, und 2016 schon die Windows-Linux-Gleiche. 1991 kam der PC mit MS-DOS ins Haus, 5 Jahre später hatte ich dann dem Druck zu Windows 95 nachgegeben, auch wenn ich anfangs meist direkt zu MS-DOS gebootet hatte.
2006 kam dann Ubuntu auf den Rechner, weil ich keinen Bock mehr auf die ständigen Neuinstallationen von Windows XP hatte, teilweise zwei Mal im Jahr. Außerdem hatte ich schon ein paar Jahre vorher sehr positive Erfahrungen mi…

from my link log —
How to handle secrets on the command line.
https://smallstep.com/blog/command-line-secrets/
saved 2021-06-13 https://

How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line
How to keep secret credentials safe on the command line.

from my link log —
Kill It With Fire: dealing with legacy systems. (book review)
https://www.usenix.org/publications/loginonline/kill-it-fire
saved 2021-09-09