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Nielsen: Netflix's share of most-watched shows has dropped from 80% in 2021 to ~50%; Amazon, Apple, HBO Max, Hulu, and Paramount have shows in 2025's Top 10 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/…

Making Time For Yourself When the Calendar Is Full https://muz4now.com/2021/making-time-for-yourself-when-the-calendar-is-full/

Making Time For Yourself When the Calendar Is Full
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

"Mehr als 100.000 #Exchange-Server sollen in den USA betroffen gewesen sein, in Deutschland mehrere Zehntausend. Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (#BSI) ging davon aus, dass alle Exchange-Systeme, die nicht abgesichert waren, mit einer

Netflix's share of most-watched shows has dropped from 80% in 2021 to ~50%; Amazon, Apple, HBO Max, Hulu, and Paramount have shows in 2025's Top 10 (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-07-1…

Modified Loss of Momentum Gradient Descent: Fine-Grained Analysis
Matias D. Cattaneo, Boris Shigida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08483 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Modified Loss of Momentum Gradient Descent: Fine-Grained Analysis
We analyze gradient descent with Polyak heavy-ball momentum (HB) whose fixed momentum parameter $β\in (0, 1)$ provides exponential decay of memory. Building on Kovachki and Stuart (2021), we prove that on an exponentially attractive invariant manifold the algorithm is exactly plain gradient descent with a modified loss, provided that the step size $h$ is small enough. Although the modified loss does not admit a closed-form expression, we describe it with arbitrary precision and prove global (f…

from my link log —
Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with.
https://blog.yossarian.net/2021/02/28/Weird-architectures-werent-supported-to-begin-with
saved 2025-04-12

Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with

📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

@… Als geborener Lindener muss ich sagen: Das mit der SPD ist vorbei und kommt auch nicht wieder:
https://…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/4AvErOg
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

Chargers RB Najee Harris suffers eye injury in fireworks accident https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6487158/2025/07/10/najee-harris-accident-injury-fireworks-chargers/

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

Probing the energy-dependent temporal nature of MAXI J1803-298 with AstroSat and NICER
Arbind Pradhan, Akash Garg, Ranjeev Misra, Biplob Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07843 …

Probing the energy-dependent temporal nature of MAXI J1803-298 with AstroSat and NICER
We performed the spectral and temporal analysis of MAXI J1803-298 using AstroSat/LAXPC and NICER observations taken in May 2021 during the initial phase of the outburst. We found that the source traverses through the hard, intermediate, and soft spectral states during the outburst. The spectrum in all states can be described using soft emissions from the thermal disk and hard emissions from the coronal regions. The variation in the inner disk temperature and normalization of the disk indicates …

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1071459 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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.

Quantum startup PsiQuantum raised $1B led by BlackRock, Temasek, and Baillie Gifford at a $7B valuation, up from $3.2B in 2021, to build a 1M-qubit computer (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0a16281f-6bb4-4e60-a6f0-3a9d6f8d764a

A former Justice Department official is warning of a
🔥wave of retribution inside the agency.
Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors' offices, told CBS News,
"The rules don't exist anymore."
Hartman, who was fired Monday via a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
is the fourth person connected to the agency's work on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots to be terminated in the past month.

Fired Justice Department official warns "we are falling into an abyss"
Patty Hartman, who worked with the public affairs team on Jan. 6 prosecutions, was fired Monday by Pam Bondi.

How former Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon stole $270,000 from Food52 between 2021 and 2023 by using the company's credit card for luxury clothing and travel (Charlotte Klein/The Cut)
https://www.thecut.com/article/food52-shannon-muldoon-company-…

The Food52 Exec Who Spent $270k on the Company Credit Card
Food52 executive Shannon Muldoon, 38, stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from her employer using the company credit card for clothes and travel.

Expanding the Pierre Auger Observatory Open Data program
V. Scherini (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08504 https://

Expanding the Pierre Auger Observatory Open Data program
Since 2021, the Open Data Portal has provided access to the Pierre Auger Observatory's data for both the scientific community and the general public. The data release process has been in place since the Observatory's foundation. It continues to be strengthened as outlined in the approved policy and the Observatory's Data Management Plan. More than 80 000 cosmic-ray events above $10^{17}$ eV, detected with the surface and fluorescence detectors, have been released at various levels, from calibra…

Invariants of twisted current algebras and related Poisson-commutative subalgebras
Dmitri Panyushev, Oksana Yakimova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07958 https…

Invariants of twisted current algebras and related Poisson-commutative subalgebras
Let q be a finite-dimensional Lie algebra and $θ$ an automorphism of q of order m. We extend $θ$ to an automorphism of the loop algebra of q and consider the fixed-point subalgebra $q[t,t^{-1}]^θ$. Using a splitting of $q[t,t^{-1}]^θ$, we construct $θ$-twisted Poisson-commutative versions of the Feigin--Frenkel centre and the universal Gaudin subalgebra introduced by Ilin and Rybnikov in 2021.

AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers "in the low thousands" in 2021 (Stevie Bonifield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ao

AOL discontinues its dial-up internet, and we're just surprised they even offered it in 2025
Dial-up's days are numbered, after 34 years of service.

Identification of OB associations using the LAMOST-Gaia OB star sample
Zhicun Liu, Xiao-Long Wang, Wenyuan Cui, Jianrong Shi, Chao Liu, Xiang-Xiang Xue, Min Fang, Yang Huang, Guozhen Hu, Gang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07599

Identification of OB associations using the LAMOST-Gaia OB star sample
OB associations, as an intermediate stage between Galactic clusters and field stars, play an important role in understanding the star formation process, early stellar evolution, and Galactic evolution. In this work, we construct a large sample of OB stars with 6D phase space parameters ($l, b, d, V_{\rm los}, pmra ,pmdec$) by combining the distances from Bailer-Jones et al. (2021), radial velocities derived from low-resolution spectra of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Teles…

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…

Jon Gruden vs. NFL lawsuit: Nevada Supreme Court sides with former coach in ongoing battle vs. league

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jon-gru

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
Mehr zu

Als Windows 10 am 29. Juli 2015 auf den Markt kam, stand Microsoft vor einer Herausforderung: Die Nutzer waren mit Windows 8 unzufrieden und hielten an Windows 7 fest. Die Lösung? Zurück zu den Wurzeln!
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10502275?wt_mc=sm.re

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/QBFGeTE
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
By Justin Martin In The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David Wengrow set out to offer a new way of thinking about the human orig…

> 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.

Quantile-based Fractional Generalized Cumulative Past Entropy
Poulami Paul, Chanchal Kundu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09182 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.0918…

Quantile-based Fractional Generalized Cumulative Past Entropy
Uncertainty in past lifetime distributions and the timing of inactivity in systems and their components can be effectively measured using the fractional generalized cumulative past entropy (FGCPE) and its dynamic extension (DFGCPE), introduced by Di Crescenzo et al. (2021). Building on this framework, we propose a quantile-based variant, the quantile fractional generalized cumulative past entropy (QFGCPE), along with its dynamic time-dependent counterpart (DQFGCPE). Closed-form expressions of t…

from my link log —
A Mind Is Born: 256 byte Commodore 64 demo.
https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/
saved 2021-03-19 ht…

The $3$-sparsity of $X^n-1$ over finite fields
Kaimin Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06655 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.06655

The $3$-sparsity of $X^n-1$ over finite fields
Let $q$ be a prime power and $\mathbb{F}_q$ the finite field with $q$ elements. For a positive integer $n$, the binomial $f_n(X):= X^n-1\in\mathbb{F}_q[X]$ is called $3$-sparse over $\mathbb{F}_q$ if each irreducible factor of $f_n(X)$ over $\mathbb{F}_q$ is either a binomial or a trinomial. In 2021, Oliveira and Reis characterized all positive integers $n$ for which $f_n(X)$ is $3$-sparse over $\mathbb{F}_q$ when $q = 2$ and $q = 4$, and posed the open problem of whether, for any given $q$, th…

Before a law enforcement crackdown hobbled it in 2021,
"the Base" established itself as one of the most active neo-Nazi accelerationist groups
— a term for groups that seek to hasten societal collapse by violent means.
Now the Base has rebuilt, to the extent that last year it earned a spot on the European Union list of sanctioned terrorist groups.
A sudden burst of activity in Ukraine has renewed suspicions that the Base and its leader,
Rinaldo Nazzaro,…

Neo-Nazi group with US links may be backed by Russian intelligence
Before a law enforcement crackdown hobbled it in 2021, the Base established itself as one of the most active neo-Nazi accelerationist groups — a term for groups that seek to hasten societal collapse by violent means.Now the Base has rebuilt, to the extent that last year it earned a spot on the Europ...

Yli tuhannen ketun kuolemaan johtaneesta törkeästä eläinsuojelurikoksesta tuomio – eläimet nääntyivät janoon #eläinoikeudet

Yli tuhannen ketun kuolemaan johtaneesta törkeästä eläinsuojelurikoksesta tuomio – eläimet nääntyivät janoon
Käräjäoikeus määräsi kahdelle tarhurille pysyvät eläintenpitokiellot ja ehdollista vankeutta. Turkistarhalla todettiin lukuisia puutteita Etelä-Pohjanmaan Evijärvellä vuosina 2017-2021.

A profile of Lachlan Murdoch, an intensely private person who moved to Sydney in 2021 and is set to control the Murdoch empire, retaining its conservative tilt (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/business/media/lachlan-murdoch-fox-news-cor…

Who Is Lachlan Murdoch, the Media Prince Who Would Be King
A new deal gives him control of his family’s media empire, including Fox News, for probably decades to come.

Stat Counter: Windows 11 had a 50.9% share of the Windows market on July 4, ahead of Windows 10's 46.2%; the OS, released in 2021, only had a <10% share in 2022 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop OS in the world — finally surpasses Windows 10 after 4 years
After four years on the market, Windows 11 has finally surpassed Windows 10 to become the most dominant desktop OS platform in the world.

En 2018, un verdict belge semblait enfin mettre fin Š une affaire vieille de 20 ans.
En 2025, certaines indemnisations sont toujours en suspens.
Pendant ce temps, en France, l’enquête OKC/Spatz — rouverte officiellement en 2021 — n’a toujours pas abouti.
Cela interroge :

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…

BTW - that CBC article used a lot of numbers from this report, which because it's all numbers is awesome. Some tidbits:
- The number of farms over 3,500 acres has nearly doubled in 20 years.
- 41.3% of Canadian farmland is rented.
- From 1971 to 2021, the farm population declined by 62.2%, from 1 in 14 Canadians to 1 in 61.
- Farm debt has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from $43B in 2002 to $138.8B in 2022. That is currently 10x the size of net farm income.
- In 2021, 96,043 tonnes of pesticides were sold for agricultural use – more than three times the amount sold in 1991.
#Statistics #Farming
https://www.nfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Canadian-Ag-by-the-Numbers-2024.pdf

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1026385 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Top player prop expert's five best bets for NFL's Week 2 includes backing Jaxon Smith-Njigba

https://www.cbssports.com/betting/news/top

When Does Tourism Raise Land Prices? Threshold Effects, Superstar Cities, and Policy Lessons from Japan
Mingzhi Xiao, Takara Sakai, Daisuke Murakami, Yuki Takayama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04307

When Does Tourism Raise Land Prices? Threshold Effects, Superstar Cities, and Policy Lessons from Japan
While tourism is widely regarded as a catalyst for economic and urban transformation, its effects on land prices remain contested. This study examines tourism and land prices using a panel of 1,724 Japanese municipalities from 2021 to 2024, with annual tourist arrivals as a proxy for tourism activity. Using mediation analysis and panel threshold regression, we show that sizable land price increases are concentrated in a small group of "superstar" cities, specifically those in the top 5.9 percen…

Here's your annual warning to beware hanging out in person with Defcon attendees, because many of them have returned with asymptomatic COVID infections.
As in every year since 2021, Defcon is a super spreader event. Many COVID infections are NOT symptomatic: not showing symptoms does not guarantee not carrying the highly contagious virus.

Microsoft releases its first preview of Visual Studio 2026, the first major update since November 2021, with a new look and deeper AI integration (Tim Anderson/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/visual_studio_2026_previewed_deeper/

Microsoft's first preview of Visual Studio 2026: Deeper AI and a design refresh
: New look for Visual Studio but the core still runs on the old .Net Framework

A three-step approach to reliably estimate magnetic field strengths in star-forming regions
Aristeidis Polychronakis, Aris Tritsis, Raphael Skalidis, Konstantinos Tassis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06297

A three-step approach to reliably estimate magnetic field strengths in star-forming regions
The magnetic field is known to play a crucial role in star formation. Dust polarization is an effective tool for probing the morphology of the field, yet it does not directly trace its strength. Several methods have been developed, combining polarization and spectroscopic data, to estimate the strength of the magnetic field, including the DCF method, which relates these quantities to the magnetic-field strength under the assumption of Alfvénic turbulence. Skalidis & Tassis (2021) (ST), relaxed…

English River August Ambient (2021-08) - Late summer soundscape from a small river near the English south coast with a mystery chicken or three! #river #summer #fieldRecording -

English River August Ambient (2021-08)
Late summer soundscape from a small river near the English south coast with a mystery chicken or three! #river #summer #fieldRecording

🌝 Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
http://www.righto.com/2025/07/reverse-engineering-mysterious-up-data.html
#electronics

Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-st...

even more famous!
https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-10/that-ferrari-isnt-going-to-pay-for-itself-the-controversial-rise-of-jeremy-fragrance-the-perfume-influencer.html

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

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

"#Duluth as a climate refuge" #Minnesota (from 2021)
Opinion: As people flee climate change on the coasts, this Midwest city is trying to become a safe haven | CNN

As people flee climate change on the coasts, this Midwest city is trying to become a safe haven
After visiting Tracy, a woman in California who is ready to flee her dream house to escape wildfires and other effects of climate catastrophe, John Sutter traveled halfway across the country, to Duluth, Minnesota to try to answer her question: Where can she go? Is anywhere safe? It turns out, Tracy isn’t alone in asking the question.

Gruden eager to find 'truth' in NFL emails case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45960156/jon-gruden-eager-discover-truth-nfl-emails-lawsuit

‘This is not a warning.
Famine has already arrived in Gaza. It is not a metaphor, nor is it a prediction. It is daily.
…
Noor, my eldest sister Tasneem’s daughter, is three; she was born on May 11, 2021. My sister’s son, Ezz Aldin, was born on December 25, 2023 – in the early months of the war.
One morning, Tasneem walked into our space carrying them in her arms. I looked at her and asked the question that wouldn’t leave my mind: “Tasneem, do Noor and Ezz Aldin unders…

‘Did you eat today?’: Voices of Gaza speak of starvation and survival
‘We are starved by the Israeli occupation,’ says Taqwa al-Wawi in Gaza, where all she thinks about is how hungry she is.

"A 2021 report from Chainalysis revealed that in 2019 about 2.1% of all crypto transactions accounted went into criminal activity, or roughly $21.4 billion in transaction volumes. Meanwhile, the UN estimates that between 2% and 5% of global GDP (that is between $1.6 and $4 trillion in fiat currency) goes into illicit financing/money laundering every year. To paint a clearer picture, criminal activity using fiat currencies is 160 times more than its crypto counterpart."

lifeXplore at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2021
Andreas Leibetseder, Klaus Schoeffmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03692 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.03692

lifeXplore at the Lifelog Search Challenge 2021
Since its first iteration in 2018, the Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) continues to rise in popularity as an interactive lifelog data retrieval competition, co-located at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR). The goal of this annual live event is to search a large corpus of lifelogging data for specifically announced memories using a purposefully developed tool within a limited amount of time. As long-standing participants, we present our improved lifeXplore - a retrie…

Artificial Intelligence in Management Studies (2021-2025): A Bibliometric Mapping of Themes, Trends, and Global Contributions
Yassine Sekaki, Abdelhafid Khazzar, Hamza Ziane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21092

Artificial Intelligence in Management Studies (2021-2025): A Bibliometric Mapping of Themes, Trends, and Global Contributions
AI has become one of the most influential research areas over the past decade, with growing applications across multiple disciplines. In management studies, artificial intelligence is increasingly recognized as a driver of innovation, sustainability, and decision-making support. This bibliometric study examines the evolution of AI-related research in management between 2021 and 2025. Data were collected from the Scopus database and analyzed using the Bibliometrix R package, with visualizations …

For more than a century, putrid fumes emanated from
the “sewer of the Ruhr”,
creating a pungent whiff that assaulted towns throughout Germany’s industrial heartland.
But today, the Emscher bears little resemblance to Europe’s dirtiest river.
Water that used to be fouled by factory waste and human excrement have been free from effluent since 2021.
The river system, the main part of which was once considered biologically dead, is witnessing the return of an abun…

👋 Hello! I’m Łukasz. Thirty-something, living in Warsaw, Poland. On fedi since 2021 or so. Right now, I'm merging my two accounts into one and giving this profile a fresh new start.
I live a few parallel lives.
Most of the time I’m a web developer. I work with TypeScript, React and all that jazz. But I still enjoy static site generators and good ol’ HTML/CSS.
In another life, I’m a documentary photographer and photojournalist. I’m interested in activism, art and culture, politics, and pretty much anything interesting happening on city streets. A big part of my photography journey involves documenting protests and demonstrations in Poland, especially those related to human rights and social issues. I’m also drawn to street art, particularly when it carries strong messages.
I occasionally blog and translate. Many years ago I wrote two books about WordPress. However, these days I’m more likely to go outside and touch grass than spend even more time in front of a screen.
Outside of that, expect me to post about mental health and politics. I promise to use CWs when appropriate.
I post in both English and Polish, depending on the topic.
Aaaand that’s it. Nice to meet you! ☺️
#introduction

Release and Procrastination - Life and Artistry
#CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.com/2021/release-and-procrastination-life-and-artistry/

Release and Procrastination - Life and Artistry
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

South Korea fines SK Telecom US$97M over data breach
https://www.telecomstechnews.com/news/south-korea-fines-sk-telecom-us-97m-over-data-breach/

South Korea fines SK Telecom US$97M over data breach
South Korea’s regulator fined SK Telecom US$97M over a data breach affecting 23.2M users, citing weak safeguards dating back to 2021.

Mildly interesting: Der #Gasspeicher #Rehden ist wieder leer. Zuletzt passierte das 2021/2022 unter Gazprom und quasi-Russischer Kontrolle. Aktuell gäbe es Angebot, Preise sind etwa auf Vorjahresniveau. Wäre interessant zu wissen, warum der aktuelle Betreiber den Sommer nicht fürs Nachf…

From 600 Tools to 1 Console: A UX-Driven Transformation
Mariann Kornelia Smith, Jacqueline Meijer-Irons, Andrew Millar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16107 htt…

From 600 Tools to 1 Console: A UX-Driven Transformation
In 2021 the Technical Infrastructure (TI) User Experience (UX) team sent a survey to 10,000 Google Developers (Googlers) and uncovered that Google's internal infrastructure tools were fragmented and inefficient, hindering developers' productivity. Using user centered research and design methodologies the team first created a story map and service blueprint to visualize the relationship between internal applications, then formulated a strategic vision to consolidate tools, streamline workflows, …

Multilayer networks characterize human-mobility patterns by industry sector for the 2021 Texas winter storm
Melissa Butler, Alisha Khan, Francis Afrifa, Yingjie Hu, Dane Taylor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03642

Multilayer networks characterize human-mobility patterns by industry sector for the 2021 Texas winter storm
Understanding human mobility during disastrous events is crucial for emergency planning and disaster management. Here, we develop a methodology involving the construction of time-varying, multilayer networks in which edges encode observed movements between spatial regions (census tracts) and network layers encode different movement categories according to industry sectors (e.g., visitations to schools, hospitals, and grocery stores). This approach provides a rich characterization of human mobil…

HebID: Detecting Social Identities in Hebrew-language Political Text
Guy Mor-Lan, Naama Rivlin-Angert, Yael R. Kaplan, Tamir Sheafer, Shaul R. Shenhav
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15483

HebID: Detecting Social Identities in Hebrew-language Political Text
Political language is deeply intertwined with social identities. While social identities are often shaped by specific cultural contexts and expressed through particular uses of language, existing datasets for group and identity detection are predominantly English-centric, single-label and focus on coarse identity categories. We introduce HebID, the first multilabel Hebrew corpus for social identity detection: 5,536 sentences from Israeli politicians' Facebook posts (Dec 2018-Apr 2021), manually…

#catcontent meets #RDM: "A collection of AI generated images visualising various RDM aspects" https://zenodo.org/records/16925229

Gruden wins key Nevada ruling in NFL emails suit https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45949298/nevada-high-court-sides-ex-raiders-coach-jon-gruden-nfl-emails-lawsuit

Good Morning #Canada
For Day #7 of The Dirt on Canadian Farming, we head west young man to a province we don't want to leave, but we wish their government would just go away.
Alberta's oil industry overshadows the importance and size of their agricultural sector. It's one of only two provinces where the number of farms increased in the most recent StatsCan reports (2021), and their farms generate the highest revenues per operator in the country. Due to the dry climate in they have invested heavily in irrigation, and over 72% of all irrigated farmland in Canada is in Alberta. Oil seed and grains, and beef cattle, dominate with almost 70% of their 40K farms involved in those products. Alberta ranks worldwide as a top exporter of beef, wheat, canola, and pulse crops. Which is interesting because if they separated, they would be surrounded by border checkpoints and tangled up in customs negotiations as a tiny country.
#CanadaIsAwesome #AllHatAndNoCattle
https://www.canadaaction.ca/alberta-farming-facts

Antiquantum $q$-series and mock theta functions
Amanda Folsom, David Metacarpa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03824 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Antiquantum $q$-series and mock theta functions
Ramanujan's original definition of mock theta functions from 1920 involves their asymptotic behaviors at roots of unity on the boundary of the disk of convergence $|q|<1$. More recently this topic has been related by several authors, including the first author with Ono and Rhoades in 2013, to quantum modular forms, first defined in 2010 by Zagier. In 2021, Lovejoy defined and studied related quantum $q$-series identities, which do not hold as equalities between power series inside the…

Texas Democrats had been out of state for less than 48 hours when Gov. Greg Abbott moved to have their seats declared vacant.
The emergency legal filing represents an unprecedented escalation of Abbott’s effort to pass a new congressional map that adds additional GOP seats -- as demanded by Donald Trump.
It flies in the face of Texas’ own founding documents,
centuries of legal precedent
and a recent Supreme Court of Texas ruling, legal experts say.
Even Attorney G…

Abbott’s bid to expel the House Democratic leader goes to a court filled with his appointees
The Texas Supreme Court said in 2021 the Constitution allows members to thwart legislation by leaving the state. Abbott wants them to reconsider.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

review: Walk Like a Cow debut cover album
#UnsignedMusician #CoolCovers
https://muz4now.com/2…

review: Walk Like a Cow debut cover album
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The UK Electoral Commission says it took three years and over £250K to recover from an August 2021 hack that exposed private data of 40M voters to Chinese spies (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80gl8yvj9go

Elections watchdog admits 'painful lessons learned' after Chinese hack
In the first interview about the hack, the commission's new boss admits that huge mistakes were made, but says the organisation is now secure.

Cookie-Einwilligung: Deutsche Datenschützer wegen "Untätigkeit" verklagt
2021 reichte Noyb Datenschutzbeschwerden gegen redaktionelle Angebote mit "Pur-Abo-Modellen" ein. Die Datenschützer in Hessen und NRW lassen sich Zeit.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

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

The University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law school has
💥paused a full-tuition scholarship program named for its first Black graduate
❌ and plans to close its office of “equal opportunity and engagement” this month.
The changes come as m Donald Trump’s administration pushes for an end to diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at universities nationwide.
⭐️The White House has threatened to pull federal funding from those that do not comply.
Penn Carey Law in 2021 …

Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office
Penn’s law school pauses scholarship honoring its first Black female graduate, plans to close equal opportunity office. Alumni expressed concern.

Diarycast - End of Year Roundup (2021-12-28) - Omicron, a rant about bad people, and more shy Eurasian footwear... #podcast #lockdown - https://www.…

Diarycast - End of Year Roundup (2021-12-28)
Omicron, a rant about bad people, and more shy Eurasian footwear... #podcast #lockdown

How To Become (though I'm still in process)
#MusicalSuite #OrchestralMusic
https://muz4n…

How To Become (though I'm still in process)
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Implementing a functional language with graph reduction.
https://thma.github.io/posts/2021-12-27-Implementing-a-functional-language-with-Graph-Reduction.html
saved 2025-07-27

Source: AI contractor marketplace Mercor has received investment offers valuing it as high as $10B, just six months after raising $100M at a $2B valuation (Katie Roof/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mercor-field…

Mercor Fields $10 Billion-Valuation Offers in ‘Pre-emptive’ Onslaught
The frothiness of the artificial intelligence boom is starting to look like 1999…or 2021. Startups are again receiving unsolicited investment interest months or even weeks after announcing a fundraising, sometimes at prices that would more than double their valuation. The latest is Mercor, a ...

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in the first 7 months of 2025, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a194942b-93ff-49a0-8aa9-02460055748e

Europe’s defence tech start-ups attract investment surge
Russia’s war in Ukraine and fears over US security relationship drive wave of VC funding

"May It Be Time"
- instrumental explorations -
#NowPlaying #MusicVideos
https://muz4n…

May It Be Time #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

ITV names Daniel Robinson the editor of Good Morning Britain, ahead of the program's transition to being produced by ITN; he was GMB's deputy editor since 2021 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/me

Good Morning Britain names new editor ahead of ITV News takeover
Daniel Robinson has been named the next editor of ITV's Good Morning Britain ahead of the programme's transition to being produced by ITN.

📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

Woman accuses Bills' Hairston of sexual assault https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45644674/woman-accuses-bills-maxwell-hairston-sexual-assault

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Elon Musk’s team of Texas lobbyists during the 2025 legislative session did not rival those of huge energy and telecommunications companies,
which typically employ dozens of people to represent them.
⭐️But Musk and his companies still hired more lobbyists this year than any other since 2021, according to data from the Texas Ethics Commission.
❌Musk, the billionaire businessman behind carmaker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. …

Elon Musk Hired a Dozen Texas Lobbyists This Year. State Law Keeps the Extent of Their Influence Under Wraps.
Musk, the billionaire businessman behind Tesla and SpaceX, influenced several new Texas laws this year. How his lobbyists came about these wins, however, is more of a mystery.

May It Be Time
#OriginalMusic #MusicVideos #NowPlaying

May It Be Time #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

Orange U Glad - jazz Americana fusion
#flute #mandolin
https://muz4now.com/2021/orange-u-glad…

Orange U Glad - jazz Americana fusion #flute #mandolin
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

CB Insights: Figma's IPO was the largest venture-backed IPO by market capitalization for a US tech company since Rivian's debut in November 2021 (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/fig…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1014651 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Upright (Puppy Love) Lullaby - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2021/upright-puppy

Upright (Puppy Love) Lullaby - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

FriendliAI, which aims to help companies run AI model inference faster and cheaper, raised a $20M extension to its $6M seed fund from late 2021 (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/inference-platform-friendliai-raises-seed…

Exclusive: FriendliAI Raises $20M Seed Extension To Grow AI Inference Platform
FriendliAI, an AI inference platform startup that provides “last mile” artificial intelligence engagement, has raised $20 million in a seed extension round, the company told Crunchbase News in this exclusive.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

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

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage