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The politics of blessings
Over the past decade, support from Western Christian groups have become an increasingly dominant force in Israel’s relationships with Africa.
02/2021
https://africasacountry.com/2021/02/the-politics-of-blessings
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The politics of blessings
Over the past decade, support from Western Christian groups have become an increasingly dominant force in Israel’s relationships with Africa.

I didn't realize so many Quick Build projects were failing this badly to reduce injury crashes. On some of these streets I *feel* safer since the changes, but the numbers don't lie. These are failures and SF must reevaluate its whole approach. Concrete > flex posts
https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/sf-vi

Vision Zero lacks a vision, experts say
As San Francisco hit the 10-year anniversary of its 2014 “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities, the effort has failed: Nearly as many

OMG, I’d forgotten all about this. OMG. #FuzzyWuzzy https://shelleyjonesclark.com/2021/11/fuzzy-wuzzy-soap-mystery-solved/

Fuzzy Wuzzy Soap Mystery Solved! - Shelley Jones Clark
When I was a kid, I had a bar of Fuzzy Wuzzy soap, a soap that grows hair (yeah, no kidding). There is a good blogpost by Randy Blazenhoff. Randy’s blog includes a video of the Fuzzy Wuzzy commercial which hooked my mom into buying the soap. After the soap is all used up with... Read more »

Thanks to a prod from @…, I finally fixed the issue with full-screen videos looking inverted on my personal site in dark mode.
Also, just updated my blog post on how to implement quick and dirty dark mode support in a few lines of code using CSS filters with the additional code:

The politics of blessings
Over the past decade, support from Western Christian groups have become an increasingly dominant force in Israel’s relationships with Africa.
02/2021
https://africasacountry.com/2021/02/the-politics-of-blessings
<…

The politics of blessings
Over the past decade, support from Western Christian groups have become an increasingly dominant force in Israel’s relationships with Africa.

Der Preis für #Weizen ist nach dem Höchstwert 2022 wieder auf das Niveau von 2021 gesunken (Stand Februar 2024). Trotzdem verkauft #Harry Brot sein Toastbrot immer noch für 1,89 Euro während andere Hersteller den Preis für #Toastbrot

My current laptop, a T470 (32G SSD, 4core i7) I love, but its almost 8 yrs old (?) and it runs VMs kinda badly. Everything else about it is great, so Im looking at replacement (referb) Thinkpads from 2021/2022. Any suggestions on things to look out for since I really can't say WHY vm's run kinda slow? I assume its CPU related, or thats what top tells me. I have a x230 that is awesomely portable, but even worse with VMs.Fedora SwayWM on both.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10010 has been replaced.
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Measurements of All-Particle Energy Spectrum and Mean Logarithmic Mass of Cosmic Rays from 0.3 to 30 PeV with LHAASO-KM2A
We present the measurements of all-particle energy spectrum and mean logarithmic mass of cosmic rays in the energy range of 0.3-30 PeV using data collected from LHAASO-KM2A between September 2021 and December 2022, which is based on a nearly composition-independent energy reconstruction method, achieving unprecedented accuracy. Our analysis reveals the position of the knee at $3.67 \pm 0.05 \pm 0.15$ PeV. Below the knee, the spectral index is found to be -$2.7413 \pm 0.0004 \pm 0.0050$, while a…

2021 retro-link! https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2021/01/11/stuff-your-logs/ - Consistent overhead byte stuffing for binary logs.

får man skriva att man är en "icke vinstdrivande" skola när man i regel gör 6-7 siffror plus och tar ut utdelningar mellan 300-750 kkr varje år?
Utdelningar senaste åren är 742 kkr (2022-12-19), 726 kkr (2021-10-29), 705 kkr (2020-10-28), 300 kkr (2019-11-08), 300 kkr (2018-12-10), 390 kkr (2017-11-30).
Vinster senaste åren:
19-20 1,5 mkr.
20-21 1,2 mkr.
21-22 700 kkr.
22-23 800 kkr.
Uppgifter från årsredovisningarna som ligger på

Sweet little brindle Phoebe… she's only 2½ and loves everyone and everything. Should be no problems finding her her first pet home.
https://www.hershamhounds.org.uk/homeless-hounds/phoebe-born-sept-2021/

Fossil fuel companies are not good faith participants in democratic debates about climate change policies, they are purveyors of predatory delay. https://www.npr.org/2021/07/01/1012138741/exxon-lobbyist-caught-on-video…

Donald Trump's Truth Social is set to become part of a publicly traded company after a long-delayed merger was approved.
On Friday, a shell company created solely to buy Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, approved the merger, The New York Times reported.
👉Trump's net worth is set to jump more than $3 billion from the deal, based on his large stake in the social-media platform he helped create in the wake of his post-January 6, 2021, Cap…

Truth Social is going public, boosting Trump's wealth by $3 billion
A long-delayed merger between Truth Social's parent company and a shell company was approved on Friday, increasing Trump's worth by billions.

Wonderful combination of touching mellowness, floating atop layers of skillful beat programming carpentry
Serge Geyzel — Quick Time Traveller (2021)
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=Bwdi7Nrj4sY

Spain.
Wolf population stable despite hunting ban.
"The wolf invasion that never happened".
#rewilding
La invasión del lobo que nunca ocurrió: la población se mantiene estable desde que se prohibió su caza

La invasión del lobo que nunca ocurrió: la población se mantiene estable desde que se prohibió su caza
Allí donde antes estaba permitido matarlos, la población de lobos en España se mantiene sin grandes cambios tras la prohibición de su caza en 2021. Lejos de una explosión, el número de manadas en Galicia, Asturias o Cantabria son similares a los de 2020, antes de que el lobo recibiera protección en todo el territorio, según los últimos datos oficiales de recuento de las propias comunidades autónomas. Cuando en septiembre de 2021 quedó prohibida la caza general de lobos, cuatro comuni…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05442 has been replaced.
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Testing Spreading Behavior in Networks with Arbitrary Topologies
Inspired by the works of Goldreich and Ron (J. ACM, 2017) and Nakar and Ron (ICALP, 2021), we initiate the study of property testing in dynamic environments with arbitrary topologies. Our focus is on the simplest non-trivial rule that can be tested, which corresponds to the 1-BP rule of bootstrap percolation and models a simple spreading behavior: Every "infected" node stays infected forever, and each "healthy" node becomes infected if and only if it has at least one infected neighbor. We show …

Daily reminder that Portland, Oregon, police admitted they wrote fewer traffic citations and blamed it on exaggerated staffing issues as a political ploy to increase funding. And it worked!
https://bikeportland.org/2023/08/08/po

Portland Police Bureau officer admits traffic enforcement messaging was politically motivated
Something the Portland Police Bureau did in 2021 has bothered me ever since.

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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Flux Upper Limits from a Targeted Search for Extragalactic Transients
We have performed targeted searches of known extragalactic transient events at millimetre wavelengths using nine seasons (2013--2021) of 98, 150, and 229\,GHz Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) observations that mapped ${\sim}40$ per cent of the sky for most of the data volume. Our data cover 88 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), 12 tidal disruption events (TDEs) and 203 other transients, including supernovae (SNe). We stack our ACT observations to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the maps. In all ca…

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Sampling Proper Colorings on Line Graphs Using $(1+o(1))Δ$ Colors
We prove that the single-site Glauber dynamics for sampling proper $q$-colorings mixes in $O_Δ(n\log n)$ time on line graphs with $n$ vertices and maximum degree $Δ$ when $q>(1+o(1))Δ$. The main tool in our proof is the matrix trickle-down theorem developed by Abdolazimi, Liu and Oveis Gharan (FOCS, 2021).

Coinbase stock crosses the exchange's 2021 direct listing price of $250 after growing over 300% in the last 12 months, as bitcoin hovers around record highs (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Coinbase (COIN) Tops Direct Listing Price as Bitcoin Surges to Record
Coinbase Global Inc. has finally climbed back above its direct listing price Friday morning for the first time in more than two years.

Wem sind die Harkonnen in Dune 2021 auch nicht pervertiert genug?

What happened to the 2021 NFL Draft QBs? Why Justin Fields and others are with new teams https://theathletic.com/5349014/2024/03/18/justin-fields-mac-jones-nfl-draft-2021-quarterback-problems/

What happened to the 2021 NFL Draft QBs? Why Justin Fields and others are with new teams
Organizations drafting QBs this year should take note of the mistakes made with Fields, Mac Jones, Trey Lance and Zach Wilson.

I feel a little better that I stopped backing projects in Kickstarter when it announced this move at the end of 2021. Eff that guy.
https://indieweb.social/@web3isgreat/112079888590848036

web3 is going just great (@web3isgreat@indieweb.social)
Attached: 2 images Kickstarter's bizarre "pivot to blockchain" spurred by secret $100 million Andreessen Horowitz investment March 11, 2024 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=kickstarters-a16z-induced-pivot-to-blockchain

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New bounds for normal approximation on product spaces with applications to monochromatic edges, random sums and an infinite de Jong CLT
We extend the Malliavin theory for $L^2$-functionals on product probability spaces that has recently been developed by Decreusefond and Halconruy (2019) and by Duerinckx (2021), by characterizing the domains and investigating the actions of the three Malliavin operators in terms of the infinite Hoeffding decomposition in $L^2$, which we identify as the natural analogue of the famous Wiener-Itô chaos decomposition on Gaussian and Poisson spaces. We further combine this theory with Stein's metho…

"On November 10, 2021, bitcoin peaked at $68,990. The price tipped over that for two minutes, from 15:04 to 15:05 UTC yesterday, March 5, 2024.
The price promptly dropped $2,000 straight away, and then another $8,000 by 20:00 UTC, as the bagholders tried desperately to cash out — while they could, as Coinbase had yet another inexplicable outage, coincidentally with all the other exchanges."
Come one kids, we know this by know. Bitcoin price is pumped with stable coins …

Bitcoin hits a new all-time high! World reacts: “Wow, that thing’s still around?”
And Tether cracks 100 billion USDT. Probably just a coincidence.

Earlier today, members of the community came out and installed a one-block road diet on Franklin Street between Green and Union in front of Sherman Elementary School. This is where Andrew Zieman was killed in 2021 and where the city has reneged on its promise to narrow the road.

»Man kann die GSV und ihr Wirken als pure Lust am Spielen sehen. Ich erkenne darin aber auch eine augenzwinkernde Replik auf die Sprachverhunzungsphobien und Untergangsphantasien eines Vereins Deutsche Sprache (VDS) und anderer, selbst ernannter Sprachhüter.«
Gesellschaft zur Stärkung der Verben (Hg.). 2021. NEUTSCH: Grammatik, Wortschatz, Literatur. Klingnau: edition b. 200 S., 24 €, ISBN: 978-3-033-08529-9

Gesellschaft zur Stärkung der Verben (Hg.). 2021. NEUTSCH: Grammatik, Wortschatz, Literatur. Klingnau: edition b. 200 S., 24 €, ISBN: 978-3-033-08529-9
Article Gesellschaft zur Stärkung der Verben (Hg.). 2021. NEUTSCH: Grammatik, Wortschatz, Literatur. Klingnau: edition b. 200 S., 24 €, ISBN: 978-3-033-08529-9 was published on March 7, 2024 in the journal Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik (volume 0, issue 0).

Bill – January 2021 on the sofa <https://photos.app.goo.gl/K2prrkre49L6d2PP6>, 17th March 2022 in a cot.
This weekend seems to be the second anniversary of his homecoming from New Priory Vets. He was an in-patient for around eleven days, with hypocalcaemia – an extrao…

Oh Canada! Read this. Let's make history winning, not repeat its mistakes.
:mstdneh:
https://www.strategicvoting.ca/

Strategic Voting 2021 Canadian Federal Election | don’t make a statement, make a difference
Find out how to vote strategically in the Canadian federal election to support progressive candidate in your district. Vote strategically and prevent vote splitting. Make a real change by electing a strong progressive government in Canada.

Becoming #Nawalny - Putins Staatsfeind Nr. 1 (Deutsch)
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/arte/becoming-na…

ARTE: Becoming Nawalny - Putins Staatsfeind Nr. 1 | ARD Mediathek
Becoming Nawalny - Putins Staatsfeind Nr. 1 | Video | Er war der bekannteste russische Oppositionelle: Alexej Nawalny, 2020 vergiftet, 2021 verhaftet, in berüchtigten Straflagern weggesperrt und am 16. Februar 2024 im Alter von nur 47 Jahren unter bislang ungeklärten Umständen im sibirischen Straflager Nr. 3 verstorben. Wie wurde Nawalny zum schärfsten Gegner Putins? Weggefährten erzählen Nawalnys Werdegang.

For food originalists, this rerun is gospel: Opinion | America forgot how to make proper pie. Can we remember before it’s too late?
https://wapo.st/4912u7D
> Americans invented the dessert we call pie. Why are they letting it die?

Auch beachtlich: In den beiden Ostbezirken, in denen Die Linke die Direktmandate hat (Köpenick und Lichtenberg) hat Die Linke jeweils 2% bzw 4% mehr Zweitstimmen in den Wahlbezirken, die neu gewählt haben (im Vergleich zu 2021).
Die AfD hat da jeweils sehr viel mehr Stimmen als vor zwei Jahren. Aber offenbar nicht von der Linken.

Meten is weten. https://social.overheid.nl/@knmi/112059855943161238

KNMI (@knmi@social.overheid.nl)
Bijlagen: 1 afbeelding Het Europese hitterecord van 48,8℃, gemeten in Italië op 11 augustus 2021, is nu officieel vastgesteld door de Wereld Meteorologische Organisatie (WMO). Dit verbreekt het vorige record van 48,0℃ in 1977. https://www.knmi.nl/over-het-knmi/nieuws/hoogst-gemeten-temperatuur-op-het-europese-vasteland-is-nu-officieel-48-8-graden

49ers sign veteran OT as depth for offensive line https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/49ers_sign_veteran_ot_as_depth_for_offensive_line/s1_14819_40129711

49ers sign veteran OT as depth for offensive line
The 49ers are adding some depth to their offensive line. The team announced that they’ve signed offensive tackle Brandon Parker. The former third-round pick had spent his entire career with the Raiders. He had an inconsistent role through his six years with the organization, alternating between starter and backup.  Parker started a career-high 13 games for the Raiders in 2021, but his follow-up campaign was erased thanks to a triceps injury. During his comeback season in 2023, Parker bounced…

2021 retro-link! https://wjwh.eu/posts/2021-10-01-no-syscall-server-iouring.html - Stupid tricks with io_uring: a server that does zero syscalls per request.

Kevin Speed to launch three new high-speed lines in France
In a massive leap forward for market opening in French rail, the SNCF will no longer be the only option for those wishing to travel at high speed between the French capital, and three major cities: Lille, Lyon, and Strasbourg. Yesterday, the new railway operator Kevin Speed, founded in 2021, signed a framework agreement with SNCF Réseau for the launch of its ilisto service.

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ACM MMSys 2024 Bandwidth Estimation in Real Time Communications Challenge
The quality of experience (QoE) delivered by video conferencing systems to end users depends in part on correctly estimating the capacity of the bottleneck link between the sender and the receiver over time. Bandwidth estimation for real-time communications (RTC) remains a significant challenge, primarily due to the continuously evolving heterogeneous network architectures and technologies. From the first bandwidth estimation challenge which was hosted at ACM MMSys 2021, we learnt that bandwidt…

GB News reports year to May 2023 revenue up 80% YoY to £6.7M, losses up 38% YoY to £42.4M, for £76M in losses since 2021, and 295 staff, up from 175 in May 2022 (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/gb-news-results-…

GB News losses up 38% to £42.4m giving channel total deficit of £76m since launch
GB News' operating losses grew 38% to £42.4m in the year to May 2023, the business has reported in its latest Companies House accounts.

Nourished Gut Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Nourished Gut | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Nourished Gut Podcast Host: Karly Raven Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Alternative Health & Complementary Health, Nutrition First Episode: 2021 Karly Raven is a naturopath…

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Portishead:
🎵 Sour times
#Portishead
https://open.spotify.com/track/6vTtCOimcPs5H1Jr9d0Aep
https://thehalotrees.bandcamp.com/track/sour-times-portishead-cover-single-2021

"That means at least three lawsuits brought against him in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol can advance to the next phase — a period of limited evidence-gathering related to Trump’s activities on Jan. 6, 2021 and whether they were official or political in nature."
Trump permits Jan. 6-related lawsuits against him to advance — for now - POLITICO

[Marianne] - "La priorité des #FrèresMusulmans a été d'islamiser les Tunisiens et les Égyptiens, ces 'faux musulmans'".
Dans un brillant essai, « Les Frères musulmans Š l’épreuve du pouvoir. #Égypte,

"La priorité des Frères musulmans a été d'islamiser les Tunisiens et les Égyptiens, ces 'faux musulmans'"
Dans un brillant essai, « Les Frères musulmans à l’épreuve du pouvoir. Égypte, Tunisie (2011-2021) », paru chez Odile Jacob, la sociologue Sarah Ben Néfissa et l’historien Pierre Vermeren analysent la trajectoire des Frères musulmans en Tunisie et en Égypte après leurs victoires politiques post-printemps arabes. Jusqu’à leur renversement. Rencontre avec ces deux spécialistes du monde arabe.

Over the next 15 years we will spend $3 Trillion on highway expansions and maintenance in the United States
With 2.5% of that funding Amtrak will deliver their vision of adding 39 new routes and enhancing 25 routes!
Imagine what Amtrak could do with 5% of the highway budget?

My evening's entertainment: re-doing an analysis I did over 35 years ago, but with more recent data (and taking an hour, not a week, using #Stata, not #fortran ): birth rates in Ireland by parity and year of age, 2008-2021, using the most recent data from

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On Trojan Signatures in Large Language Models of Code
Trojan signatures, as described by Fields et al. (2021), are noticeable differences in the distribution of the trojaned class parameters (weights) and the non-trojaned class parameters of the trojaned model, that can be used to detect the trojaned model. Fields et al. (2021) found trojan signatures in computer vision classification tasks with image models, such as, Resnet, WideResnet, Densenet, and VGG. In this paper, we investigate such signatures in the classifier layer parameters of large la…

Huh, Funmation is removing folks digital copies of a show about PIRATES and PIRATING. It's a shame that these aren't on yOUtUBE-dOUBTLESSlESSpLAYS there. (Huh, must have had my caps lock on.)
Still, I'm sure fans are crying TORRENTS of tears.
https://…

Weder die #Bundesrepublik noch die #Bundesländer scheinen fähig, schnell und wirksam mit den Auswirkungen von #Extremwetter umgehen zu können. Selbst Jahre nach der

Deutscher Bundestag - Abgeordnete debattieren Antrag zum Wiederaufbau im Ahrtal
Die Unionsfraktion will den „Wiederaufbau im Ahrtal durch Anpassungen bei der Aufbauhilfe 2021 beschleunigen“ und hat einen entsprechenden Antrag (20/10382) eingebracht. Nach einer...

Your daily reminder that all of crypto is a scam, and the blockchain as it exists is pointless. If you need more evidence, here you go: a16z was astroturfing the movement.
https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/112077908393624448

Molly White (@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image Kickstarter's bizarre blockchain announcement in December 2021 makes so much more sense now that we know Andreessen Horowitz secretly promised them $100 million to pivot to a blockchain-based product built on the also-a16z-backed Celo blockchain. At the time, I wondered why COO Sean Leow was so insistent on the move despite being apparently very confused about the whole concept. https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/11/kickstarter-blockchain-a16z-crypto-secret-investment-chris…

Source: Trubisky back to Bills as Allen's backup https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39670120/sources-mitch-trubisky-released-steelers-join-bills

Source - Mitch Trubisky, released by Steelers, to join Bills - ESPN
QB Mitch Trubisky, who was released by the Steelers, has agreed to return to the Bills, where he served as a backup for the 2021 season, a source told ESPN.

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Quantiles, Ranks and Signs in Metric Spaces
Non-Euclidean data become more prevalent in practice, necessitating the development of a framework for statistical inference analogous to that for Euclidean data. Quantile is one of the most important concepts in traditional statistical inference; we introduce the counterpart, both locally and globally, for data objects in metric spaces. This is realized by expanding upon the metric distribution function proposed by Wang et al. (2021). Rank and sign are defined at local and global levels as a n…

"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,

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Principles for Optimizing Quantum Transduction in Piezo-Optomechanical Systems
Two-way microwave-optical quantum transduction is an essential capability to connect distant superconducting qubits via optical fiber, and to enable quantum networking at a large scale. In Blésin, Tian, Bhave, and Kippenberg's article, ``Quantum coherent microwave-optical transduction using high overtone bulk acoustic resonances" (Phys. Rev. A, 104, 052601 (2021)), they lay out a quantum transduction system that accomplishes this by combining a piezoelectric interaction to convert microwave ph…

"Noch schlimmer finde ich, dass der Abstandshalter schafft, was die Behörden in Pforzheim nicht schaffen (wollen). Autofahrende dazu bringen, andere Verkehrsteilnehmende nicht absichtlich/fahrlässig zu gefährden."
https://natenom.de/2021/02/erste-fahrr

Erste Fahrradtour – entspannt dank Abstandshalter
Ich habe gestern eine kleine Fahrradtour gemacht, die erste in diesem Jahr. 64,29 km (mit Spikes, daher zählt das mehr) 929 Höhenmeter (nur hoch) 214 Überholvorgänge hat der OpenBikeSensor gezählt und nach Erinnerung war keiner davon unter 1,20 m (später in den Daten habe ich einen mit 0,95 m und einen mit 1,15 m gesehen). 3 h 53 m reine Fahrzeit

Everton lose £124M to 2021-22, breaching the £105M limit, punished with a 10 point deduction (reduced to 6 on appeal.)
Wolves lose £113M to 2022-23, breaching the £105M limit, get no punishment.
Make it make sense, Premier League.
#Football #SportsBall

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A spectral extremal problem on non-bipartite triangle-free graphs
A theorem of Nosal and Nikiforov states that if $G$ is a triangle-free graph with $m$ edges, then $λ(G)\le \sqrt{m}$, where the equality holds if and only if $G$ is a complete bipartite graph. A well-known spectral conjecture of Bollobás and Nikiforov [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 97 (2007)] asserts that if $G$ is a $K_{r+1}$-free graph with $m$ edges, then $λ_1^2(G) + λ_2^2(G) \le (1-\frac{1}{r})2m$. Recently, Lin, Ning and Wu [Combin. Probab. Comput. 30 (2021)] confirmed the conjecture in the…

As relevant as ever...
Space-sized egos, tiny tax bills… Billionaires should be jettisoned
:mastodon:
https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/25/space-sized-egos-tiny-tax-bills-billionaire…

2/ Aufgeschlüsselt nach Regierungsperioden. Aus dieser grandiosen Kassler Untersuchung. 2021.

People who monitor the far right and MAGA online are warning about a possibly violent border crisis event in Texas in next 2 days.
People who monitor the far right and MAGA online also warned about Jan 6.
This is very serious.
free to read:

Texas border showdown is far-right magnet, hate trackers warn
As a convoy gathers in Eagle Pass, extremism monitors see vestiges of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s defiance of federal orders.

Don’t make it hard for customers to be heard.
Provide training and tools to employees to document customers voices. Train employees to learn as much as possible from customers. Value the time employees spend listening to customers and learning from them...
https://management.curi…

Low-amplitude solar-like oscillations in the K5 V star $\varepsilon$ Indi A
Mia S. Lundkvist, Hans Kjeldsen, Timothy R. Bedding, Mark J. McCaughrean, R. Paul Butler, Ditte Slumstrup, Tiago L. Campante, Conny Aerts, Torben Arentoft, Hans Bruntt, C\'atia V. Cardoso, Fabien Carrier, Laird M. Close, Jo\~ao Gomes da Silva, Thomas Kallinger, Robert R. King, Yaguang Li, Simon J. Murphy, Jakob L. R{\o}rsted, Dennis Stello

Low-amplitude solar-like oscillations in the K5 V star $\varepsilon$ Indi A
We have detected solar-like oscillations in the mid K-dwarf $\varepsilon$ Indi A, making it the coolest dwarf to have measured oscillations. The star is noteworthy for harboring a pair of brown dwarf companions and a Jupiter-type planet. We observed $\varepsilon$ Indi A during two radial velocity campaigns, using the high-resolution spectrographs HARPS (2011) and UVES (2021). Weighting the time series, we computed the power spectra and established the detection of solar-like oscillations with a…

2021 retro-link! https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2021-09-03-golang-time-bugs/ - A nasty bit of implicit timezone behavior in Golang.

"Shell appeals Dutch court's landmark climate ruling forcing it to slash emissions"
#Dutch #Netherlands #Climate

Shell appeals Dutch court’s landmark climate ruling
The oil and gas giant claims the historic climate ruling ‘obstructs’ climate action but environmental groups say the scientific basis of the case has only got stronger since 2021.

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Inside the black box: Neural network-based real-time prediction of US recessions
A standard feedforward neural network (FFN) and two specific types of recurrent neural networks, long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent unit (GRU), are used for modeling US recessions in the period from 1967 to 2021. The estimated models are then employed to conduct real-time predictions of the Great Recession and the Covid-19 recession in the US. Their predictive performances are compared to those of the traditional linear models, the standard logit model and the ridge logit model. …

Viktigt avslöjande hämtat från Thord Eriksson nya bok, "Det är något genant att vi från svensk sida förefaller ligga i bakkant här". https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/nQkgyx/ud-morkade-de-pinsamma-mejlen-nar-kabul-fol…

UD mörkade pinsamma mejlen
När Kabul föll för talibanerna 2021 var Sverige sämst förberett av alla. Men exakt hur illa läget var mörkades av UD. Alla varningar om att Sverige låg efter i

Accused Jan. 6 rioter charged with firing gun during U.S. Capitol attack: report
John Emanuel #Banuelos was the subject of the NBC News investigation that began two years ago when photos and video surfaced of a
👉 man with a gun tucked in waistband during the riots, according to reporter Ryan Reilly.
"Last month, Jan. 6 rioter

Accused Jan. 6 rioter charged with firing gun during U.S. Capitol attack: report
An accused Jan. 6 rioter who appears to have twice fired a gun during the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol was charged Friday, according to reports and court records.John Emanuel Banuelos was the subject of the NBC News investigation that began two years ago when photos and video surfaced of a man wi...

Before I redesign this interface I’m working on, is there still no performant way to keep `bottom: 0` elements above the virtual keyboard in iOS Safari?
Chrome supports the VirtualKeyboard API and the `interactive-widget` meta viewport value, but the only solution I’ve found for Safari feels, as @… put it a couple years ago, “impractical and lacking.”

Prevent content from being hidden underneath the Virtual Keyboard by means of the VirtualKeyboard API
One of the problems on mobile devices is that the keyboard can hide some of your content. The VirtualKeyboard API aims to solve this. The Problem The current behavior on mobile devices in Safari on iOS is that as the keyboard gets shown, the Layout Viewport remains the same size but the Visual Viewport shrinks. … Continue reading "Prevent content from being hidden underneath the Virtual Keyboard by means of the VirtualKeyboard API"

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15419 has been replaced.
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Updated global fit of the aligned two-Higgs-doublet model with heavy scalars
An updated global fit on the parameter-space of the Aligned Two-Higgs-Doublet model has been performed with the help of the open-source package HEPfit, assuming the Standard-Model Higgs to be the lightest scalar. No new sources of CP violation, other than the phase in the CKM matrix of the Standard Model, have been considered. A similar global fit was previously performed in Ref. [JHEP 05 (2021) 005] with a slightly different set of parameters. Our updated fit incorporates improved analyses of …

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#TheMatrix is coming back for a fifth movie https://www.theverge.com/24120122/the-matrix-sequel-drew-goddard

The Matrix is coming back for a fifth movie
Following the release of The Matrix Resurrections in 2021, Warner Bros. Discovery is making a new film in the franchise with writer / director Drew Goddard.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02192 has been replaced.
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Domain adaptation, Explainability & Fairness in AI for Medical Image Analysis: Diagnosis of COVID-19 based on 3-D Chest CT-scans
The paper presents the DEF-AI-MIA COV19D Competition, which is organized in the framework of the 'Domain adaptation, Explainability, Fairness in AI for Medical Image Analysis (DEF-AI-MIA)' Workshop of the 2024 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference. The Competition is the 4th in the series, following the first three Competitions held in the framework of ICCV 2021, ECCV 2022 and ICASSP 2023 International Conferences respectively. It includes two Challenges on: i) Covid-19 Dete…

Weder die #Bundesrepublik noch die #Bundesländer scheinen fähig, schnell und wirksam mit den Auswirkungen von #Extremwetter umgehen zu können. Selbst Jahre nach der

Deutscher Bundestag - Abgeordnete debattieren Antrag zum Wiederaufbau im Ahrtal
Die Unionsfraktion will den „Wiederaufbau im Ahrtal durch Anpassungen bei der Aufbauhilfe 2021 beschleunigen“ und hat einen entsprechenden Antrag (20/10382) eingebracht. Nach einer...

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

Livestock Leaders Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Livestock Leaders | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Livestock Leaders Podcast By: The Livestock Collective Category: Education Sub-Category: Agriculture & Primary Producers, Pets & Animals First Episode: 2021 Powered by The Livestock…

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

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ACM MMSys 2024 Bandwidth Estimation in Real Time Communications Challenge
The quality of experience (QoE) delivered by video conferencing systems to end users depends in part on correctly estimating the capacity of the bottleneck link between the sender and the receiver over time. Bandwidth estimation for real-time communications (RTC) remains a significant challenge, primarily due to the continuously evolving heterogeneous network architectures and technologies. From the first bandwidth estimation challenge which was hosted at ACM MMSys 2021, we learnt that bandwidt…

Day 1 of NFL free agency spells trouble for yet unknown Cowboys starter https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/day_1_of_nfl_free_agency_spells_trouble_for_yet_unknown_cowboys_starter/s1_17313_40096911

Day 1 of NFL free agency spells trouble for yet unknown Cowboys starter
Day one of NFL free agency was in full swing... if you're a fan of one of the 31 other NFL teams not in Dallas, Texas. If you're a Cowboys fan, you will have to wait a couple of weeks for anything "big" to happen.  For a fan, it is infuriating to see your favorite team take this approach year after year. We have seen teams get to the Super Bowl after spending big, like the Rams in 2021. The Rams were most definitely "All-In" and by many people's standards, they traded away their future for a s…

He also attacked Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who suffered a concussion
Pennsylvania man seen as Jan. 6 instigator convicted on multiple counts | The Hill
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Pennsylvania man seen as Jan. 6 instigator convicted on multiple counts
Ryan Samsel, one of the individuals who prosecutors accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted Friday on multiple felony counts, along with four co-defendants. Samsel was one of the first people to confront the police on Jan. 6 outside the Capitol, with prosecutors saying…

2021 retro-link! https://furbo.org/2021/08/25/jsc-my-new-best-friend/ - jsc: JavaScript on the macOS command line.

2/ Aufgeschlüsselt nach Regierungsperioden. Aus dieser grandiosen Kassler Untersuchung. 2021.

Don’t make it hard for customers to be heard.
Provide training and tools to employees to document customers voices. Train employees to learn as much as possible from customers. Value the time employees spend listening to customers and learning from them...
https://management.curi…

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Full L- and M-band high resolution spectroscopy of the S CrA binary disks with VLT-CRIRES+
The Cryogenic IR echelle Spectrometer (CRIRES) instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) was in operation from 2006 to 2014. Great strides in characterizing the inner regions of protoplanetary disks were made using CRIRES observations in the L- and M-band at this time. The upgraded instrument, CRIRES+, became available in 2021 and covers a larger wavelength range simultaneously. Here we present new CRIRES+ Science Verification data of the binary system S Coronae Australis (S CrA). We aim to …

Court filings from FTC lawsuit against Meta show Instagram made $32.4B in ad revenue in 2021, which is more than YouTube's $28.8B in ad revenue that year (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-ads-revenue-y…

Instagram makes more ad money than YouTube, court filings show
Meta bought Instagram for $1 billion in 2012. Now it's a giant part of Mark Zuckerberg's empire.

Raiders Re-Sign RB Ameer Abdullah https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_re_sign_rb_ameer_abdullah/s1_17039_40078377

😎 Yes, give me more!!!
#TheMatrix is coming back for a fifth movie https://www.theverge.com/24120122/the-matrix-sequel-drew-goddard

The Matrix is coming back for a fifth movie
Following the release of The Matrix Resurrections in 2021, Warner Bros. Discovery is making a new film in the franchise with writer / director Drew Goddard.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #fip
Ghetto Priest:
🎵 Hercules (North Street West 'Late night tales' dub)
#GhettoPriest

Hercules
Ghetto Priest · Song · 2021

2021 retro-link! https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210827/11343147446/most-information-about-disinformation-is-misinformation.shtml - Most information about disinformation is misinformation.

Trump supporter sentenced for blindsiding Capitol officer and tossing him over a ledge
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/cowardly-a…

Judge has harsh words for Trump supporter sentenced for blindsiding U.S. Capitol officer
A Donald Trump supporter who "blind-sided" a U.S. Capitol police officer in a "football-type tackle" on Jan. 6, 2021, knocking him off a ledge learned his fate this week.

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All-Sky Search for Transient Astrophysical Neutrino Emission with 10 Years of IceCube Cascade Events
We present the results of a time-dependent search for neutrino flares in data collected by IceCube between May 2011 and 2021. This data set contains cascade-like events originating from charged-current electron neutrino and tau neutrino interactions and all-flavor neutral-current interactions. IceCube's previous all-sky searches for neutrino flares used data sets consisting of track-like events originating from charged-current muon neutrino interactions. The cascade data sets are statistically …

Three big names the Philadelphia Eagles should avoid in free agency https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/three_big_names_the_philadelphia_eagles_should_avoid_in_free_agency/s1_13132_40076009

Three big names the Philadelphia Eagles should avoid in free agency
With more than $40M available under the NFL's new salary cap, the Eagles can afford to add some big-name talent to their 2024 roster. Just not these guys. RB Austin Ekeler Ekeler’s Chargers career got off to a slow start after he went undrafted out of Western Colorado in 2017. Ekeler tallied just 1,901 yards and nine touchdowns in his first four seasons. But things changed in 2021 when he ran for 911 yards and 12 touchdowns, followed by 915 yards and 13 scores in 2022. Unfortunately, Ekeler�…

2021 retro-link! https://theconversation.com/a-giant-space-rock-demolished-an-ancient-middle-eastern-city-and-everyone-in-it-possibly-inspiring-the-biblical-story-of-sodom-1…

The United States as a whole has 81 percent of African American children attending non-white majority schools, as compared to 77 percent in 1968.
Moreover, the concentration of African American children into non-white majority schools has increased in every region except the Midwest, which has been broadly stable.
We note that the data for the Border region reflects the broader Hispanic immigration, which complicates the comparison to some extent.
Nevertheless, it is dif…

Racial Integration of Schools in the United States
February is African American History Month, a time when the United States pays tribute to generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.

2021 retro-link! https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix - Firefox Proton UI userChrome.css fixes.

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Likely detection of magnetic field related LFQPO in the soft X-ray re-brightening of GRS~1915 105
Ling-Da Kong, Long Ji, Andrea Santangelo, Meng-Lei Zhou, Qing-Cang Shui, Shu Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09341

Likely detection of magnetic field related LFQPO in the soft X-ray re-brightening of GRS~1915+105
Utilizing NICER observations, we present an analysis of the soft X-ray re-brightening event of GRS 1915+105 observed in 2021. During this event, we observed the emergence of a stable, long-lasting low-frequency quasi-periodic oscillation (LFQPO) with frequencies ranging from 0.17 to 0.21 Hz. Through a careful spectral analysis, we demonstrate that a low-temperature Compton-thick gas model well characterizes the emitted radiation. By examining the spectrum and identifying numerous absorption lin…

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

2021 retro-link! https://baturin.org/blog/life-before-unicode/ - Life before Unicode in Russia.

2021 retro-link! https://quickwit.io/blog/search-a-sorted-block/ - A cool Rust optimization story.

2021 retro-link! https://blog.matthieud.me/2020/exploring-clang-llvm-optimization-on-programming-horror/ - Exploring Clang/LLVM optimization on a programming horror.