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QB Philip Rivers officially retires with Chargers https://www.nfl.com/news/qb-philip-rivers-officially-retires-with-chargers

Every major US city has a private foundation supporting police,
with more than 250 nationwide, according to a 2021 report by research and activist groups Little Sis and Color of Change.
The foundations have been used to pay for surveillance technologies in cities like Baltimore and Los Angeles -- without being subject to public scrutiny, according to the report.
More than a year after a digital news outlet and a research group sued the Atlanta Police Foundation for alleged…

Great piece by Nik Suresh from last year, 'I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again'
"I started working as a data scientist in 2019, and by 2021 I had realized that while the field was large, it was also largely fraudulent. Most of the leaders that I was working with clearly had not gotten as far as reading about it for thirty minutes despite insisting that things like, I dunno, the next five years of a ten thousand person non-tech organization should be entir…

Quantum-Safe Identity Verification using Relativistic Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems
Yao Ma, Wen Yu Kon, Jefferson Chu, Kevin Han Yong Loh, Kaushik Chakraborty, Charles Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14324

Quantum-Safe Identity Verification using Relativistic Zero-Knowledge Proof Systems
Identity verification is the process of confirming an individual's claimed identity, which is essential in sectors like finance, healthcare, and online services to ensure security and prevent fraud. However, current password/PIN-based identity solutions are susceptible to phishing or skimming attacks, where malicious intermediaries attempt to steal credentials using fake identification portals. Alikhani et al. [Nature, 2021] began exploring identity verification through graph coloring-based rel…

Heute vor 4 Jahren: Am 22. Juli 2021 kam es im englischen #KKW #Heysham 1 zu einem Ausfall der 400-kV-Stromversorgung durch einen außerhalb des Kraftwerks gelegenen Transformators. Beide Reaktoren schalteten sich automatisch ab und die Notkühlung wurde musste aktiviert werden.

WhatsApp Tiplines and Multilingual Claims in the 2021 Indian Assembly Elections
Gautam Kishore Shahi, Scot A. Hale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16298 https:/…

WhatsApp Tiplines and Multilingual Claims in the 2021 Indian Assembly Elections
WhatsApp tiplines, first launched in 2019 to combat misinformation, enable users to interact with fact-checkers to verify misleading content. This study analyzes 580 unique claims (tips) from 451 users, covering both high-resource languages (English, Hindi) and a low-resource language (Telugu) during the 2021 Indian assembly elections using a mixed-method approach. We categorize the claims into three categories, election, COVID-19, and others, and observe variations across languages. We compare…

Longitudinal Sampling of URLs From the Wayback Machine
Kritika Garg, Sawood Alam, Dietrich Ayala, Mark Graham, Michele C. Weigle, Michael L. Nelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14752

Longitudinal Sampling of URLs From the Wayback Machine
We document strategies and lessons learned from sampling the web by collecting 27.3 million URLs with 3.8 billion archived pages spanning 26 years (1996-2021) from the Internet Archive's (IA) Wayback Machine. Our goal is to revisit fundamental questions regarding the size, nature, and prevalence of the publicly archivable web, in particular, to reconsider the question: "How long does a web page last?" Addressing this question requires obtaining a sample of the web. We proposed several dimension…

Finally stepped through and upgraded my home assistant from 2021.12 to 2025.7
Some things broke of course.... But most were already broken.
All of my tasmota devices that I upgraded to 9.5 a while back don't work in the native Tasmota integration mode.. they register and but show no data, works fine in mqtt discovery mode. Aka stuck using Setoption19 1 rather than Setoption19 0
#selfhosted

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

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

Google researchers say Android's early-warning system detected and issued alerts for 1,200 earthquakes since 2021, sometimes giving up to 15-60 seconds' notice (Kasha Patel/Washington Post)

Your Android phone is getting better at warning you about earthquakes
An early-warning system on Android phones has detected more than 1,000 earthquakes worldwide since 2021, sometimes giving people 15 to 60 seconds’ notice

I saw that I have just passed a million total #OpenStreetMap map changes according to HDYC! 🎉🗺️
While this might seem a lot, this is still less than some of my OSM friends that have over 2 or 3 million changes.

#Regenwald.org #Brasilien: Präsident Lula, legen Sie Ihr Veto ein! Stoppen Sie das Gesetz zur Umweltzerstörung
https://

#petition Brasilien: Präsident Lula, legen Sie Ihr Veto ein! Stoppen Sie das Gesetz zur Umweltzerstörung
Das brasilianische Parlament will mit dem Gesetz PL 2.159/2021 den Umwelt- und Regenwaldschutz massiv schwächen. Unternehmen sollen sich künftig selbst Umweltlizenzen für Projekte erteilen. Bitte fordern Sie Präsident Lula auf, dieses zerstörerische Gesetz mit seinem Veto zu stoppen!

from my link log —
The design of forms in government departments.
https://design-of-forms.online/
saved 2021-03-20 https://dotat.a…

📢 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.

Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/363026/ephemera-xmtp-fu…

Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Dans cet épisode, Ricardo et Sophie racontent leurs vécus et échangent des souvenirs sur la réalité d'une enfance endoctrinée au sein d'une "communauté bouddhiste" cachant de véritables monstres.
https://chardonsbleus.org/podcast-une-

2021 Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Ricardo et Sophie ont aujourd’hui, en 2021, une quarantaine d’années. Ils ont grandi en Belgique, dans le Sud de la France puis au Portugal. Ils ne sont pas ...

AFL Sydney Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

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…

World of Good Brands, formerly Leaf Group, shuts down after owner Graham Holdings sold off its last three titles; Graham Holdings acquired it in 2021 for $323M (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/world-of-good-brands-sale-well-good-ziff-davis/

World of Good Brands Sells Off Portfolio, Lays Off Staff, and Shutters 
The closure represents the end of the digital media company once known as Intent Media.

Streit um Blutsauerstoffmessung: Apple Watch in den USA wieder vor Gericht
Apple zofft sich seit 2021 mit Masimo um eine mögliche Patentverletzung bei der Apple Watch. Nun wurde Berufung eingelegt.

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…

I just emailed JS Dewes to complain huffily that her books are too addictive and for her to hurry up and write more.
C'mon, authors, we need at least A BOOK A WEEK! Stop swinging the lead!
#TheDivideSeries

J.S. Dewes, Science Fiction Author
Welcome to the official website for science fiction author J.S. Dewes! Her debut novel THE LAST WATCH will be out April 20, 2021 from Tor Books.

A multi-frequency global view of Callisto's thermal properties from ALMA
Maria Camarca, Katherine de Kleer, Bryan Butler, Alexander Thelen, Cole Meyer, Alex Akins, Imke de Pater, Mark Gurwell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12671

A multi-frequency global view of Callisto's thermal properties from ALMA
We present thermal observations of Callisto's leading and trailing hemispheres obtained using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at 0.87 mm (343 GHz), 1.3 mm (233 GHz), and 3 mm (97 GHz). The angular resolution achieved for these observations ranged from 0.09-0.24 arcseconds, corresponding to ~420-1100 km at Callisto. Global surface properties were derived from the observations using a thermophysical model (de Kleer et al. 2021) constrained by spacecraft data. We find that …

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/

Mood Swings Suite
- my spouse says this is my best album - believe me when I say that's high praise...
#OrchestralMusic #OriginalMusic #NowPlaying

Mood Swings Suite #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

PitchBook: US startup funding surged 75.6% YoY in H1 2025 to $162.8B, strongest since H1 2021, driven by the AI boom and on track for the second-best year ever (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-ai-startup…

To buy or not to buy: deterministic rent-or-buy problems on node-weighted graphs
Sander Borst, Moritz Venzin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08698 https://

To buy or not to buy: deterministic rent-or-buy problems on node-weighted graphs
We study the rent-or-buy variant of the online Steiner forest problem on node- and edge-weighted graphs. For $n$-node graphs with at most $\bar{n}$ non-zero node-weights, and at most $\tilde{k}$ different arriving terminal pairs, we obtain a deterministic, $O(\log n \log \bar{n})$-competitive algorithm. This improves on the previous best, $O(\log^4 n)$-competitive algorithm obtained by the black-box reduction from (Bartal et al. 2021) combined with the previously best deterministic algorithms f…

Zohran Mamdani received 545,334 votes in RCV tally. That's 135% of Eric Adams' 2021 primary vote.
Mamdani's proven primary voters would make a 48% share of those who turned out in the 2021 general election.
https://enr.boenyc.gov/rcv/026916_1.html

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/…

Enjoying Non-linearity in Multinomial Logistic Bandits
Pierre Boudart (PSL, DI-ENS, Inria), Pierre Gaillard (PSL, DI-ENS, Inria), Alessandro Rudi (PSL, DI-ENS, Inria)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05306

Enjoying Non-linearity in Multinomial Logistic Bandits
We consider the multinomial logistic bandit problem, a variant of generalized linear bandits where a learner interacts with an environment by selecting actions to maximize expected rewards based on probabilistic feedback from multiple possible outcomes. In the binary setting, recent work has focused on understanding the impact of the non-linearity of the logistic model (Faury et al., 2020; Abeille et al., 2021). They introduced a problem-dependent constant $κ_*$, that may be exponentially larg…

Ethics panel orders AOC to pay additional $3,000 for 2021 Met Gala (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/25/ethics-panel-orders-aoc-to-pay-additional-3000-for-2021-met-gala
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p128#a250725p128

Good Morning #Canada
Conservationists who focus on restoration of wetlands are increasingly "Leaving It To Beaver." Beavers are considered the ultimate Keystone Species because they area they re-engineer offer benefits to many other species, and an entire ecosystem can collapse if a Beaver is removed. A Beaver dam doesn't just hold and conserve water. Beavers increase the population of frogs, fish, insects, birds, and small mammals and extend the range of larger mammals like moose, deer, and bears. The quantity and variety of vegetation are increased. Water is filtered and saturates the land, refilling artesian wells. It's unbelievable that we almost lost this amazing creature because of a hat fashion trend.
#CanadaIsAwesome #BeaverWeek
https://news.maryland.gov/dnr/2021/01/01/leave-it-to-beavers-keystone-species-provides-nature-based-restoration/

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…

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…

Ammonia, Methane, Hydrogen and Methanol Produced in Remote Renewable Energy Hubs: a Comparative Quantitative Analysis
Antoine Larbanois, Victor Dachet, Antoine Dubois, Rapha\"el Fonteneau, Damien Ernst
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07681

Ammonia, Methane, Hydrogen and Methanol Produced in Remote Renewable Energy Hubs: a Comparative Quantitative Analysis
Remote renewable energy hubs (RREHs) for synthetic fuel production are engineering systems harvesting renewable energy where it is particularly abundant. They produce transportable synthetic fuels for export to distant load centers. This article aims to evaluate the production costs of different energy carriers, and includes a discussion on advantages and disadvantages in terms of technical performance. To do so, we extend the study of Berger et al., (2021) which focuses on methane (CH4) as ene…

Pretty great to see this (via @…)
Seems like #Linux has seen some significant (300%) growth since 2021. In that time, I've gone from using just #Windows

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#PrivatePassions
- Kathleen Marshall
Michael Berkeley's guest is the director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall, winner of three Tony Awards. Her 2021 London production of Anything Goes won ecstatic reviews.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g3nm

Exacerbation of viscoelastic instability due to viscous heating
Ankush Kamboj, Ramkarn Patne, P. A. L. Narayana, Kirti Chandra Sahu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04617

Exacerbation of viscoelastic instability due to viscous heating
The linear stability analysis of the pressure-driven flow of an Oldroyd-B fluid through a plane channel is performed to examine the effects of viscous heating-induced buoyancy on the ``purely elastic instability" predicted by \citet{khalid2021continuous} (Phys. Rev. Lett., 2021, 127, 134502). We do not impose any external heating; rather, the temperature increase in the system is solely due to the viscous heating generated by the flow of a highly viscous fluid, which induces buoyancy. This buoy…

from my link log —
Cranelift compiler efficiency, CFGs, and a branch peephole optimizer.
https://cfallin.org/blog/2021/01/22/cranelift-isel-2/
saved 2021-02-19

Replaced article(s) found for math.DS. https://arxiv.org/list/math.DS/new
[1/1]:
- Contribution of the 2021 COVID-19 Vaccination Regime to COVID-19 Transmission and Control in Sout...
Tesfalem Abate Tegegn, Yibeltal Adane Terefe

Optimizing Federated Learning Configurations for MRI Prostate Segmentation and Cancer Detection: A Simulation Study
Ashkan Moradi, Fadila Zerka, Joeran S. Bosma, Mohammed R. S. Sunoqrot, Bendik S. Abrahamsen, Derya Yakar, Jeroen Geerdink, Henkjan Huisman, Tone Frost Bathen, Mattijs Elschot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22790

Optimizing Federated Learning Configurations for MRI Prostate Segmentation and Cancer Detection: A Simulation Study
Purpose: To develop and optimize a federated learning (FL) framework across multiple clients for biparametric MRI prostate segmentation and clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) detection. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was conducted using Flower FL to train a nnU-Net-based architecture for MRI prostate segmentation and csPCa detection, using data collected from January 2010 to August 2021. Model development included training and optimizing local epochs, federated rounds,…

Italy arrests Chinese citizen Xu Zewei; a source says Xu is linked to hacking group Hafnium that breached Microsoft in 2021 to steal COVID-19 vaccine secrets (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f7299b6f-2b58-46c0-bbe5-e650357e8f48

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Joel Culpepper:
🎵 Inner City Blues (6 Music Session, 22 May 2021)
#JoelCulpepper

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…

from my link log —
Three cases against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in PostgreSQL DDL.
https://postgres.ai/blog/20211103-three-cases-against-if-not-exists-and-if-exists-in-postgresql-ddl
saved 2021-11-12

Three Cases Against IF NOT EXISTS / IF EXISTS in Postgres DDL | Postgres AI

What is this about?

Many DDL statements in PostgreSQL support modified IF EXISTS / IF NOT EXISTS. For example:

 test=# create table if not exists mytable(); CREATE TABLE test=# drop table if exists mytable; DROP TABLE 

I recommend using `IF EXISTS` / `IF NOT EXISTS`…

Ambrook, a startup providing specialized accounting software for US farmers and ranchers, raised a $26.1M Series A led by Thrive Capital and Figma's Dylan Field (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/0…

Exclusive: Ambrook raises $26.1 million Series A to provide farmers and ranchers with better accounting software
Founded in 2021, Ambrook has raised a $26.1 million Series A, led by Thrive Capital and Dylan Field, Fortune has exclusively learned.

Ex-All-Pro defensive back Adam 'Pacman' Jones arrested for fourth time in four years, facing multiple charges

https://www.cbssports.com…

Counting distinct (non-)crossing substrings
Haruki Umezaki, Hiroki Shibata, Dominik K\"oppl, Yuto Nakashima, Shunsuke Inenaga, Hideo Bannai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22728

Counting distinct (non-)crossing substrings
Let $w$ be a string of length $n$. The problem of counting factors crossing a position - Problem 64 from the textbook ``125 Problems in Text Algorithms'' [Crochemore, Leqroc, and Rytter, 2021], asks to count the number $\mathcal{C}(w,k)$ (resp. $\mathcal{N}(w,k)$) of distinct substrings in $w$ that have occurrences containing (resp. not containing) a position $k$ in $w$. The solutions provided in their textbook compute $\mathcal{C}(w,k)$ and $\mathcal{N}(w,k)$ in $O(n)$ time for a single positi…

Transfer using Fourier transform and minimal representation of $E_7$
Nhat Hoang Le, Bryan Peng Jun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18329 https://arxiv.org/…

Transfer using Fourier transform and minimal representation of $E_7$
In this paper, we study the Sakellaridis-Venkatesh conjecture for the rank-1 spherical variety $X=\text{Spin}_9\backslash F_4$ using an exceptional theta correspondence. We establish the correct transfer map satisfying relative character identities in this case and show that our transfer map agrees with the formula in (Sakellaridis, 2021). Moreover, we show how our techniques lead to a characterization of $X$-relatively cuspidal representations.

Predicting Parkinson's Disease Progression Using Statistical and Neural Mixed Effects Models: A Comparative Study on Longitudinal Biomarkers
Ran Tong, Lanruo Wang, Tong Wang, Wei Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20058

Predicting Parkinson's Disease Progression Using Statistical and Neural Mixed Effects Models: A Comparative Study on Longitudinal Biomarkers
Predicting Parkinson's Disease (PD) progression is crucial, and voice biomarkers offer a non-invasive method for tracking symptom severity (UPDRS scores) through telemonitoring. Analyzing this longitudinal data is challenging due to within-subject correlations and complex, nonlinear patient-specific progression patterns. This study benchmarks LMMs against two advanced hybrid approaches: the Generalized Neural Network Mixed Model (GNMM) (Mandel 2021), which embeds a neural network within a GLMM …

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…

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

Quantum Hamming Metrics
Marc A. Rieffel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23046 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23046

Quantum Hamming Metrics
Given the set of words of a given length for a given alphabet, the Hamming metric between two such words is the number of positions where the two words differ. A quantum version of the corresponding Kantorovich-Wasserstein metric on states was introduced in 2021 by De Palma, Marvian, Trevisan and Lloyd. For the quantum version the alphabet is replaced by a full matrix algebra, and the set of words is replaced by the tensor product of a corresponding number of copies of that full matrix algebra.…

Note on the interpretation of magnetic diffraction in NdAlSi: helical or fan?
Takashi Kurumaji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04000 https://

Note on the interpretation of magnetic diffraction in NdAlSi: helical or fan?
We revisit the magnetic structure analysis reported in Nat. Mater. 20, 1650 (2021), which concluded that a Weyl semimetal candidate NdAlSi hosts a helical magnetic order. This conclusion was based on magnetic neutron diffraction peaks corresponding to modulation vectors $\vec{k}_{in} = (1/3, 1/3, 0)$ and $\vec{k}_{out} = (2/3, 2/3, 0)$, attributed to in-plane and out-of-plane components of the magnetic moments, respectively. Upon careful reanalysis, we suggest that a fan-type magnetic structure…

Bills' Hairston: Truth will come out in wake of suit https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45806993/bills-maxwell-hairston-hide-wake-lawsuit

Sparrow, which uses AI to consolidate fragmented leave management processes, raised a $35M Series B led by Silver Lake Waterman, for $64M in total funding (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/sparrow-raises-35m-ser…

Sparrow raises $35M Series B to automate the employee leave management nightmare
Sparrow raises $35M Series B to scale AI-powered employee leave management platform that has grown 14x since 2021, serving 1,000+ companies and saving $200M in payroll costs.

Rural #Colorado town with less than 10,000 population has hyped up #cowboy #cops whose excessive force incidents are on dramatic rise, far outpacing #Denver