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Source: HR software company Gusto paid ~$600M to acquire Guideline, which offers 401(k) plans to SMBs; Guideline raised $340M and had a $1.15B valuation in 2021 (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/sources-g…

Sources: Gusto paid $600M to acquire Guideline, plans to divest customers linked to rivals | TechCrunch
While the HR tech Guideline was last valued at $1.15 billion, the sale will likely yield a profit for most investors.

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.

Jon Gruden vs. NFL lawsuit: Nevada Supreme Court rejects league's petition in latest legal win for ex-coach

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

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

Hybrid Physics-ML Framework for Pan-Arctic Permafrost Infrastructure Risk at Record 2.9-Million Observation Scale
Boris Kriuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02189 https://

Hybrid Physics-ML Framework for Pan-Arctic Permafrost Infrastructure Risk at Record 2.9-Million Observation Scale
Arctic warming threatens over 100 billion in permafrost-dependent infrastructure across Northern territories, yet existing risk assessment frameworks lack spatiotemporal validation, uncertainty quantification, and operational decision-support capabilities. We present a hybrid physics-machine learning framework integrating 2.9 million observations from 171,605 locations (2005-2021) combining permafrost fraction data with climate reanalysis. Our stacked ensemble model (Random Forest + Histogram G…

Emergent Hierarchy in Localized States of Organic Quantum Chains
L. L. Lage, A. B. F\'elix, D. S. Gomes, M. L. Pereira Jr., A. Latg\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02231 h…

Emergent Hierarchy in Localized States of Organic Quantum Chains
Organic Quantum Chains (OQCs) represent a newly synthesized class of carbon-based nanostructures whose quasi-one-dimensional nature gives rise to unconventional electronic and transport phenomena. Here we investigate the electronic and transport properties of recently synthesized OQCs [Nature Communications, 12, 5895 (2021)]. Structural stability was first assessed through molecular dynamics relaxation combined with density functional theory (DFT). The optimized coordinates are then used in a t…

NFLPA interim boss David White tells AP an 18-game regular season is 'not inevitable' https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/nflpa-interim-boss-david-white-tells-ap-an-18game-regular-season-is-not-inevitable…

Stockholm-based driverless truck startup Einride raised about $100M, a source says at a $1B valuation, up from a valuation of €400M in a 2021 funding round (Rafaela Lindeberg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Einride Valuation Tops $1 Billion as Truck Startup Raises Funds
Einride AB raised about $100 million in funds in a round that values the Swedish driverless truck startup at more than $1 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity discussing private information.

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.

One thing that's great about living in #Japan is that it's one of the few countries where the main hard-left party both has some power, and is critical of the pseudo-#fascist, ethno-#nationalist party tha…

📸 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…

Search for UHE neutrinos from GRBs with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Yago Lema-Capeans (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25962 https://

Search for UHE neutrinos from GRBs with the Pierre Auger Observatory
We report on the search for ultra-high-energy neutrinos from the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) using Surface Detector (SD) data from Phase I of the Pierre Auger Observatory (2004-2021). A total of 570 GRBs occur within the most neutrino-sensitive field of view of the SD, considering both Earth-skimming and downward-going detection channels. For this purpose, GRB neutrino emission has been modeled using the numerical software NeuCosmA, incorporating gamma-ray measurements and inferr…

‘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 transmission hologram for slitless spectrophotometry on a convergent telescope beam. Optimisation and characterization
Sylvie Dagoret-Campagne, Marc Moniez, Jeremy Neveu, Aurelien Blot, Pierre Antilogus, Claire Juramy, Leurent Le Guillou, Philippe Repain, Eduardo Sepulveda, Christophe Michel, Francois Colas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.255…

A transmission hologram for slitless spectrophotometry on a convergent telescope beam. Optimisation and characterization
This article details the optimisation and the characterisation of the hologram described in a companion paper published in 2021, which showed the superiority of a holographic optical element over a periodic grating as a disperser installed in the path of a converging beam on an on-axis detector (unbent spectrograph) for slitless spectroscopy. In this article, we describe in detail the development and optimisation of the final optical holographic element installed on the spectrograph of the auxi…

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.…

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,…

This article does not in fact mention anything Reality Winner says she shares with Donald Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/books/review/i-am-not-your-enemy-reality-winner.html

Imagine buying hardware, which runs faster after 4 years than it did when you bought it. Meanwhile, in Windows land, Benchmarks often show that Windows 10 runs faster than Windows 11.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-515-617-performance

Surely the US government's statements indicating the FBI was corrupt - and likely fabricating evidence - between January 2021 and January 2025, will result in *many* appeals from anyone convicted on evidence produced during that period?

FPF Submits Comments to Inform Colorado Minor Privacy Protections Rulemaking Process
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-submits-comments-to-inform-colorado-minor-privacy-protections-rulemaking-process/
@…

Kraftwerke stoßen in der Tat weniger als Holzöfen aus. Die gesamte Energiewirtschaft stieß ca. 5.000 t Feinstaub (2021) aus. Dazu gehören alle Arten von Kraftwerken und einiges anderes.
Holzöfen stießen 15.700 t Feinstaub aus. Das heißt, das Dreifache dessen, was die gesamte Energiewirtschaft an Feinstaub ausstößt.
Den Fakt fand ich überraschend.

Leaked a16z decks: $25B in net returns since its 2009 founding, including $11.2B in 2021, and 56 unicorn investments in the past 10 years, the most of any firm (Eric Newcomer/Newcomer)
https://www.newcomer.co/p/andreessen-horowitz-has-returned

Andreessen Horowitz Has Returned at Least $25 Billion Net to Its Backers Since the Firm's Founding in 2009
The firm has held its $900 million 2012 Fund III at 9.4x net TVPI.

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/qnXrP9u
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…

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

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.

On Website Technicals (2021-11) - Tech updates: more meters, reutils tweets upgrade, DB-based Event and Product schema.org. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-54.html

On Website Technicals (2021-11)
Tech updates: more meters, reutils tweets upgrade, DB-based Event and Product schema.org.

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

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.

Female Student Population at Kabul University Before the 2021 Ban: Trends, Gender Parity, and Faculty-Level Dynamics
Jawid Ahmad Baktash, Mursal Dawodi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20406

Female Student Population at Kabul University Before the 2021 Ban: Trends, Gender Parity, and Faculty-Level Dynamics
For nearly two decades after 2001, Afghanistan's higher education sector expanded rapidly, with Kabul University serving as a central site of women's academic participation. Drawing on administrative records of student populations from 2016-2019 (Islamic calendar 1395-1398), this study examines gender distributions across shifts, faculties, and departments, with particular attention to STEM versus non-STEM fields. At Kabul University, the morning shift refers to the main daytime cohort (includi…

Oh boy, we have Ig Noble Prize 2025!
#igNobel #funny

Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

Das #Rezept des Tages:
🍝🌿 Bandnudeln mit Mangold-Tomaten-Sahne-Soße bringen Abwechslung in das Leben der #PastaLover. Frischer #Mangold und

Bandnudeln mit Mangold-Tomaten-Sahne-Soße
Mangold habe ich 2021 zum ersten Mal angepflanz und hatte im Juni so viel Ernte aus nur zwei Pflanzkästen, dass ich eingekocht habe. Ich verzichte nach Möglichkeit auf einfrieren, weil das Strom kostet. Eine Konserve...

🤯 Been working for hours and missed the newest eruption 🌋🇮🇸
#Iceland

Gossprungan hætt að lengjast - RÚV.is
Eldgos hófst á Sundhnúksgígaröðinni á Reykjanesskaga klukkan 03:54.Þetta er níunda gosið á þessum slóðum og það tólfta á Reykjanesskaga frá því að hrinan hófst með gosi við Fagradalsfjall í mars 2021.Kvikuhlaup hófst rétt fyrir miðnætti með ákafri jarðskjálftahrinu.Búið er að rýma Bláa lónið og tjaldsvæðið í Grindavík.Hættustig almannavarna hefur verið virkjað og hættumat fyrir svæðið hefur verið uppfært.Gossprungan er tæplega tveggja kíl…

Strategic Customer Behavior in an M/M/1 Feedback Queue with General Payoffs
Peter Taylor, Jiesen Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11263 https://

Strategic Customer Behavior in an M/M/1 Feedback Queue with General Payoffs
We consider an M/M/1 feedback queue in which service attempts may fail, requiring the customer to rejoin the queue. Arriving customers act strategically, deciding whether to join the queue based on a threshold strategy that depends on the number of customers present. Their decisions balance the expected service reward against the costs associated with waiting, while accounting for the behavior of others. This model was first analyzed by Fackrell, Taylor and Wang (2021), who assumed that waiti…

Who Would the Raiders Take in a 2021 Redraft? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-alex-leatherwood-spencer-brown-divine-deablo-pete-carroll

Multi-spacecraft Measurements of the Evolving Geometry of the Solar Alfv\'en Surface Over Half a Solar Cycle
Samuel T. Badman, Michael L. Stevens, Stuart D. Bale, Yeimy J. Rivera, Kristopher G. Klein, Tatiana Niembro, Rohit Chhiber, Ali Rahmati, Phyllis L. Whittlesey, Roberto Livi, Davin E. Larson, Christopher J. Owen, Kristoff W. Paulson, Timothy S. Horbury, Jean Morris, Helen O'Brien, Jean-Baptiste Dakeyo, Jaye L. Verniero, Mihailo Martinovic, Marc Pulupa, Federico Fraschetti…

Multi-spacecraft Measurements of the Evolving Geometry of the Solar Alfvén Surface Over Half a Solar Cycle
The geometry of a star's Alfvén surface determines stellar angular momentum loss, separates a causally distinct 'corona' and stellar wind, and potentially affects exoplanetary habitability. The solar Alfvén surface is the only such structure that is directly measurable and since 2021, has been routinely measured in situ by NASA's Parker Solar Probe (Parker). We use these unique measurements in concert with Solar Orbiter and L1 in situ data spanning the first half of the Solar Cycle 25 in time…

A comprehensive study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the 2021/2022 apparition. I. Photometry, spectroscopy, morphology
V. Rosenbush, V. Kleshchonok, O. Ivanova, I. Luk'yanyk, C. Snodgrass, D. Gardener, L. Kolokolova, J. Markkanen, E. Shablovinskaya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12719

A comprehensive study of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the 2021/2022 apparition. I. Photometry, spectroscopy, morphology
We present observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during its 2021/22 apparition, aiming to investigate its dust and gas environment and compare the results with those obtained in 2015/16 using the same telescope. Quasi-simultaneous photometric, spectroscopic, and polarimetric observations were carried out at the 6-m BTA SAO telescope. The comet was observed on 6 October 2021, 31 days before perihelion, with \textit{g}-SDSS and \textit{r}-SDSS filters, and on 6 February 2022, 96 days af…

RLZ-r and LZ-End-r: Enhancing Move-r
Patrick Dinklage, Johannes Fischer, Lukas Nalbach, Jan Zumbrink
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17300 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

RLZ-r and LZ-End-r: Enhancing Move-r
In pattern matching on strings, a locate query asks for an enumeration of all the occurrences of a given pattern in a given text. The r-index [Gagie et al., 2018] is a recently presented compressed self index that stores the text and auxiliary information in compressed space. With some modifications, locate queries can be answered in optimal time [Nishimoto & Tabei, 2021], which has recently been proven relevant in practice in the form of Move-r [Bertram et al., 2024]. However, there remains th…

📸 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…

A Framework of Distributed Source Encryption using Mutual Information Security Criterion and the Strong Converse Theorem
Yasutada Oohama, Bagus Santoso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13294

A Framework of Distributed Source Encryption using Mutual Information Security Criterion and the Strong Converse Theorem
We reinvestigate the general distributed secure source coding based on the common key cryptosystem proposed by Oohama and Santoso (ITW 2021). They proposed a framework of distributed source encryption and derived the necessary and sufficient conditions to have reliable and secure transmission. However, the bounds of the rate region, which specifies both necessary and sufficient conditions to have reliable and secure transmission under the proposed cryptosystem, were derived based on a self-tail…

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.

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

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…

📸 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…

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…

Pressure dependent structure of neat liquid methanol, CH3OH: molecular dynamics simulations with various united atom type potentials
Imre Bak\'o, L\'aszl\'o Pusztai, Orest Pizio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12834

Pressure dependent structure of neat liquid methanol, CH3OH: molecular dynamics simulations with various united atom type potentials
Molecular dynamics computer simulations have been conducted on neat liquid methanol, using three different united atom (three site) interatomic potentials: TraPPE [J. Phys. Chem. B 105, 3093 (2001)], UAM-I [J. Mol. Liq. 323, 114576 (2021)] and OPLS/2016 [J. Chem. Phys. 145, 034508 (2016)]. The effects of pressure, between 1 bar and 6 kbar, have been evaluated on total scattering structure factors, partial radial distribution functions, as well as on collective characteristics such as ring size …

Multiwavelength study of Galactic PeVatron LHAASO J0341 5258
P. Bangale (for the VERITAS Collaboration), X. Wang (for the HAWC Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20515 ht…

Multiwavelength study of Galactic PeVatron LHAASO J0341+5258
Galactic PeVatrons are astrophysical sources accelerating particles up to a few PeV (~10$^{15}$ eV). The primary method to identify both electron and proton PeVatrons is the observation of $γ$-ray radiation at ultra-high energies (UHE; E$>$100 TeV). In 2021, LHAASO detected 14 steady $γ$-ray sources with photon energies above 100 TeV and up to 1.4 PeV. Most of these sources can be plausibly associated with objects such as supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and stellar clusters. However,…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

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/…

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…

Blue Lights, Insurmountable Debt, and the Affordances of its Erasure
https://ift.tt/k07zAtj
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…

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

The Hang Seng Tech Index, which tracks the top 30 Hong Kong-listed tech stocks, rose ~3.9% to its highest level since November 2021, amid renewed AI enthusiasm (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Wet Leg:
🎵 Chaise Longue (6 Music Session, 4 Oct 2021)
#WetLeg
https://longdissonance.bandcamp.com/track/wet-leg-chaise-longue
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iqAuZe5yS0suLQcFfVK39

Modeling pandemics
John F. Dawson, Fred Cooper, Efstathios G. Charalampidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15125 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15125

Modeling pandemics
We review several models for pandemics that plagued the USA and the world in the past decade. Methods of data fitting are reviewed and several types of microscopic and rate equation models are discussed and numerically solved. This paper was written in March of 2021 and newer data is now available; however some of the models and techniques we used to numerically study these models are still of interest. Several appendices discuss in detail these models.

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

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…

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

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…

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

Good Morning #Canada
There is a little known reporting tool on the ##StatsCan website called Canada’s Quality of Life Hub. First proposed in 2021, and launched in 2023, it is a framework that gathers data and evidence to inform priority setting and guide decision-making in various policy areas, including the budgetary process. The Framework comprises five domains –prosperity, health, environment, society, and good governance – and two cross-cutting lenses: fairness and inclusion, and sustainability and resilience. Not enough Canadians have heard of it, and I suspect very few government policies are implemented before analyzing the impact on quality of life measurement by this tool. On a positive note, #StatsCan is looking for feedback on how to improve the hub.
#CanadaIsAwesome #QualityOfLife
https://www160.statcan.gc.ca/index-eng.htm