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Re-sharing a post from @jwbaker.bsky.social:
The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History is now open for dominations of works published since January 2023.
Nominate your work or a work that you 💜.
Deadline 31 May.
Full details here: https://ihrdighist.blogs.sa…

The 2024 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History - Digital History Seminar
Richard Deswarte (1965-2021) was one of the founding convenors of the Digital History seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, an advocate for the value and importance of digital history,...

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.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07651 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

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…

Hopin, the struggling virtual events startup valued at $7.75B in 2021, enters liquidation for its UK parent company as it moves its HQ to Delaware in the US (Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/hopin-liquidation-news/

Hopin's UK business enters liquidation as it transfers HQ to the US
Last year, it sold off some of its assets — including its original product, the Hopin events platform — to California-based RingCentral.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15434 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_…

Decoding the Pulse of Community during Disasters: Resilience Analysis Based on Fluctuations in Latent Lifestyle Signatures within Human Visitation Networks
Examining the impact of disasters on life activities of populations is critical for understanding community resilience dynamics, yet it remains insufficiently studied in the existing literature. In this study, we leveraged data from more than 1.2 million anonymized human mobility communications across 30 parishes in Louisiana to construct a temporal network that tracks visitation to places from which we characterized human lifestyle signatures before, during, and after Hurricane Ida in 2021. Ut…

Worth 34 minutes of your time: Courtney Montour, "Mary Two-Axe Earley: I Am Indian Again" (2021) @…
https://www.nfb.ca/film/mary-two-axe-earley/<…

Rioter Who Filmed Babbitt Shooting Gets Six Years - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/rioter-who-filmed-babbitt-shooting-gets-six-years/

Rioter Who Filmed Babbitt Shooting Gets Six Years
Washington DC's CBS affiliate reports: A federal judge sentenced the Utah man who filmed the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, 2021, to six years in prison Friday for instigating the mob agai

Report: Cowboys interested in two former Pro Bowl RBs https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_cowboys_interested_in_two_former_pro_bowl_rbs/s1_127_40160118

Report: Cowboys interested in two former Pro Bowl RBs
The Dallas Cowboys are reportedly eyeing two veteran options to fill their running back void. One of them is quite the familiar face. The Cowboys are considering former Pro Bowlers Ezekiel Elliott and Dalvin Cook in free agency, according to Dallas Morning News’ Michael Gehlken. Elliott is no stranger among Cowboys fans after having led the team in rushing yards from 2016 to 2021. He was usurped by Tony Pollard as the Cowboys’ top rusher in 2022. Pollard has since signed a long-term deal wi…

Very useful read from @…
https://veronikach.com/progress-reports/hello-tenure/

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.

Ach interessant, das 2021 verschwundene RPG Paranoia, Happiness is Mandatory gibt es seit Dezember wieder bei Steam. Gerade im Sale für 15 Euro. Erwarte davon nicht so viel, leider. Aber da ich es früher als PnP gespielt habe, schaue ich es mir man an. #Gaming #CRPG

Save 50% on Paranoia: Happiness is Mandatory on Steam
Lead a team of four Troubleshooters of dubious loyalty, who (mostly) obey orders from Friend Computer, a paranoid and irrational artificial intelligence. Inspired by the classic games of the CRPG genre, experience the first official adaptation of the cult role-playing game!

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08543 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Comparing Diagonals on the Associahedra
We prove that the formula for the diagonal approximation $Δ_{K}$ on J. Stasheff's $n$-dimensional associahedron $K_{n+2}$ derived by the current authors in 2004 agrees with the "magical formula" for the diagonal approximation $Δ_{K}^{\prime}$ derived by Markl and Shnider in 2006, by Loday in 2011, and by Masuda, Thomas, Tonks, and Vallette in 2021.

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

Very useful read from @…
https://veronikach.com/progress-reports/hello-tenure/

Viewership for Round 1 of 2024 NFL Draft surpasses 2023 https://www.nfl.com/news/viewership-for-round-1-of-2024-nfl-draft-surpasses-2023

Viewership for Round 1 of 2024 NFL Draft surpasses 2023
Round 1 coverage of the 2024 NFL Draft in Detroit was seen by an average audience of 12.1 million viewers last night -- up plus-6% versus Round 1 of the 2023 NFL Draft (11.4 million) and the highest Round 1 viewership since 2021.

2021 retro-link! https://blog.kellybrazil.com/2021/12/03/tips-on-adding-json-output-to-your-cli-app/ - Tips on adding JSON output to your command line utility.

On the same day he got his $483 million #bond reduced by a NY Court, #Trump announces he'd be selling shares with his initials #DJT as the trading symbol in his nascent

Decoding the Pulse of Community during Disasters: Resilience Analysis Based on Fluctuations in Latent Lifestyle Signatures within Human Visitation Networks
Junwei Ma, Ali Mostafavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15434

Decoding the Pulse of Community during Disasters: Resilience Analysis Based on Fluctuations in Latent Lifestyle Signatures within Human Visitation Networks
Examining the impact of disasters on life activities of populations is critical for understanding community resilience dynamics, yet it remains insufficiently studied in the existing literature. In this study, we leveraged data from more than 1.2 million anonymized human mobility communications across 30 parishes in Louisiana to construct a temporal network that tracks visitation to places from which we characterized human lifestyle signatures before, during, and after Hurricane Ida in 2021. Ut…

Convicted Ponzi schemer whose sentence was commuted by Trump indicted again https://www.nj.com/ocean/2024/02/convicted-ponzi-schemer-whose-sentence-was-commuted-by-trump-indicted-again.html

Convicted Ponzi schemer whose sentence was commuted by Trump indicted again
Weinstein was one of 140 people who were granted clemency by Trump on Jan. 19, 2021, the last day of his presidency.

Die FDP hat so schlecht abgeschnitten, dass sie als einzige Partei real ein Mandat verloren hat.
Wahrscheinlich waren die anderen schuld.
https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2024-02/wahlwiederholung-bundestag-v…

Was für ein Stiefellecker
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/michael-kretschmer-umgarnt-wladimir-putin-in-briefen-als-exzellenz-a-95741620-5d3b-4c8e-b4fe-3c28e6aed053

Ich habe für mich versucht die europäische und deutsche Gesetzgebung zur digitalen #barrierefreiheit visuell in Verbindung zu bringen. Keine Gewähr inwieweit das so stimmt; gerne Korrekturen und Verbesserungsvorschläge.

tldraw
A free and instant collaborative diagramming tool.

Report: Panthers reach out to two-time All-Pro CB https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_panthers_reach_out_to_two_time_all_pro_cb/s1_14819_40159066

Report: Panthers reach out to two-time All-Pro CB
Stephon Gilmore is back in play for the Panthers. Carolina’s new regime reached out to Gilmore about a potential return, The Athletic’s Joe Person tweets. Matt Rhule and GM Scott Fitterer authorized a 2021 trade that brought Gilmore to the Panthers for a 2023 sixth-round pick. Gilmore, however, ended up playing only a half-season with Carolina.  The Panthers did not re-sign the Rock Hill, S.C., native in 2022, with the former Defensive Player of the Year instead signing with the Colts. Ind…

This story should be leading the New York Times right now, and every other US newspaper. It’s not, because they think, well, Trump’s crazy, that’s not news.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/12/trump-january-6-pardons

Prestige or Perish: Publishing Decisions in Academic #Archaeology #ResearchAssessment #ScholComm

Fotograaf werd opgepakt en moest spullen inleveren bij A12-demonstratie: onrechtmatig, oordeelt hof - #ADnl
https://www.ad.nl/den-haag/…

Time for your daily dose of #RustLang complaints. Yep, the ecosystem is doing great.
#UV depends on tokio-tar library. Tokio-tar is broken on #PowerPC, doesn't have a bug tracker (!) and seems to be quite dead, with a bunch of PRs ignored since 2022 (last activity mid-2023). Nevertheless, I've filed a PR to fix PowerPC, with little hope that it'll be merged, released and that we could get UV working on PowerPC.
On top of that, it seems that tokio-tar was forked in early 2021 from async-tar. It doesn't seem to have synced the few commits from 2021, and async-tar is dead since late 2021. But at least it has a bug tracker to keep track of how dead it is.
Rewriting stuff in Rust is great. Maintaining it afterwards for the sake of reverse dependencies isn't.
#Gentoo #Python

Just heard that hometown boys GATECREEPER from right in my backyard here in Arizona are going to announce their highly awaited new record soon, potentially this week. Gatecreeper rip. Even Corpsegrinder says so. Here's their last one from 2021.
https://gatecreeper.bandcamp.com/album

Ich hab absolut nichts für #Kretschmer übrig, aber wie sehr unterscheiden sich diese Floskeln von den typischen Wendungen in diplomatischer Korrespondenz? Ich mein, als vor Jahren die Briefe an diplomatische Vertretungen geleakt wurden, waren 50% der Inhalte Floskeln wie "die Bundesrepublik Deutschland möchte Sie unserer Hochachtung versichern"

Mit »vorzüglicher Hochachtung«: Kretschmer umgarnte Putin offenbar in zwei Briefen
Sachsens Ministerpräsident Kretschmer stand schon häufiger wegen fehlender Distanz zu Wladimir Putin in der Kritik. Er bestreitet das. Nun sind zwei brisante Briefe aus den Jahren 2019 und 2021 von ihm öffentlich geworden.

The company I work for is part of an Innovation Network. In the year 2024 they start out with an event titled "New economy - will #Blockchain and cryptography make intermediaries redundant?" and for job reasons I can't just answer "No. And 2021 wants its false narratives back."

SenseTime's stock rises 30% after the company unveiled the latest version of its SenseNova AI model; SenseTime's stock is down 80% since its 2021 HK IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

China’s SenseTime Soars 36% After Unveiling Latest Generative AI Model
SenseTime Group Inc.’s stock soared its most in more than two years after releasing the latest version of its SenseNova generative AI model, highlighting the intense interest surrounding China’s efforts to develop artificial intelligence.

@… that article is a little bit outdated (2021) but INP is mentioned there:
“We have already delivered a new metric named Interaction to Next Paint (INP) that measures interaction latency throughout the entire page lifecycle”
(but your point about initial load CWV metrics in SPA is well received)

Weiss jemand wie die software heisst, die bei rc3 2021 genutzt wurde ?
#rc3

Panthers interested in reunion with former Defensive Player of the Year https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/panthers_interested_in_reunion_with_former_defensive_player_of_the_year/s1_127_40159320<…

Panthers interested in reunion with former Defensive Player of the Year
The Carolina Panthers are reportedly interested in bringing back a player who made a Pro Bowl with them a few seasons ago. The Panthers have reached out to free-agent cornerback Stephon Gilmore to discuss a potential return to Carolina, according to Joe Person of The Athletic. Gilmore was with the Panthers for a brief period in 2021, but he made a big impact. Carolina acquired the former No. 10 overall pick in a trade with the New England Patriots midway through that season. Gilmore appeared in…

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Fred Buscaglione:
🎵 Guarda che luna
#FredBuscaglione
https://open.spotify.com/track/79g5dcc87vtTw5RkwkDs4L
https://aleeffe.bandcamp.com/track/fred-buscaglione-guarda-che-luna-ale-effe-remix-2021

Improved Space Bounds for Subset Sum
Tatiana Belova, Nikolai Chukhin, Alexander S. Kulikov, Ivan Mihajlin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13170 https://<…

Improved Space Bounds for Subset Sum
More than 40 years ago, Schroeppel and Shamir presented an algorithm that solves the Subset Sum problem for $n$ integers in time $O^*(2^{0.5n})$ and space $O^*(2^{0.25n})$. The time upper bound remains unbeaten, but the space upper bound has been improved to $O^*(2^{0.249999n})$ in a recent breakthrough paper by Nederlof and Węgrzycki (STOC 2021). Their algorithm is a clever combination of a number of previously known techniques with a new reduction and a new algorithm for the Orthogonal Vecto…

Was für ein Stiefellecker
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/michael-kretschmer-umgarnt-wladimir-putin-in-briefen-als-exzellenz-a-95741620-5d3b-4c8e-b4fe-3c28e6aed053

In which I brush up and release (0.5.0) the “topfew” program I built back in 2021/22 and have been neglecting, but noticed that I was using it all the time so maybe others will too: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/12/Topfew-release

Topfew Release 0.5

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

Sex And The Sex In The Sex
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods…

Sex And The Sex In The Sex | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Sex And The Sex In The Sex Hosts: Honor Wolff, Jordan Barr, and Urvi Majumdar Category: TV & Movies Sub-Category: After Shows First Episode: 2021 Three comedians contemplate each episode of…

"Norway and the UK were furthest from the Paris climate agreement because the countries were “aggressively” exploring and licensing new oil and gas fields. In 2021, the International Energy Agency found there was no room for new oil exploration in its pathway to net zero emissions."

NFL Insider Drops Major Report On Cowboys, Dak Prescott https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_insider_drops_major_report_on_cowboys_dak_prescott/s1_17150_40159215

NFL Insider Drops Major Report On Cowboys, Dak Prescott
The Dallas Cowboys have firmly stood by quarterback Dak Prescott and head coach Mike McCarthy for another season following last year’s playoff disappointment against the Green Bay Packers. However, if their fortunes don’t improve, both Prescott and McCarthy could see their time in Dallas come to an end. Prescott is coming off a stellar season, arguably the best of his career, and he’s entering the final year of his 4-year, $160 million extension signed in 2021. Despite speculation about h…

Isabella DeLuca, former intern to GOP representatives #LeeZeldin and #PaulGosar, has been arrested for her participation in the #January6th

Social media influencer is charged with joining the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol
A conservative social media influencer has been charged with storming the U.S. Capitol and passing a stolen table out of a broken window, allowing other rioters to use it as a weapon against police. Court records unsealed on Monday show that Isabella Maria DeLuca is charged with misdemeanors, including theft of government property, disorderly conduct and entering a restricted area. She was arrested last Friday in Irvine, California. DeLuca has more than 333,000 followers on the platform formerl…

Wir brauchen Lokalzeitungen! Lokalzeitungen bilden ein Band, das die demokratische Gesellschaft zusammenhält. Sie haben einen Einfluss darauf, wie stark die AfD bei Wahlen abschneidet. Eine Erkenntnis, die gerade 2024 von allergrößter Wichtigkeit ist. Gerade im Osten gibt es nur noch wenige Lokalzeitungen, die die AfD kritisch beleuchten können. Für eine offene und liberale Demokratie sind freie Medien und insbesondere lokale Medien wie entscheidend - Maxim Flößer

Medienstudie: Keine Lokalzeitung – mehr AfD
Neue Studie zu lokalen Medien und Rechtspopulismus: Wähler:innen in Gemeinden ohne Lokalzeitung stimmten bei der Landtagswahl 2021 häufiger für die AfD.

Very soon, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., is expected to issue a ruling that could expose key pieces of discovery that some lawyers say prove Donald Trump acted in his “private” capacity on Jan. 6, 2021
— not in his official role
— when whipping up a mob of his supporters at the Ellipse and urging them to descend on the Capitol where lawmakers were meeting to certify the 2020 election.

The Trump Docket: A window into Trump's 'private' acts on Jan. 6 may soon be opened by judge
It was a rocky week featuring significant losses for Donald Trump's many bids to dismiss his indictments or waylay longrunning civil litigation around Jan. 6.

Von 2021: #Covid, #Göttingen https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1413823527111864320.htm…

Thread by @zineworkshop on Thread Reader App
Thread by @zineworkshop: Covid? Letzes Jahr im Juni: Zwangsquarantäne in #Göttingen in der Groner Landstr. 9. Solidarische bringen Verpflegung. @threadreaderapp unroll

PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field II
Xiurui Zhao, Francesca Civano, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Silvia Bonoli, Chien-Ting Chen, Samantha Creech, Renato Dupke, Francesca M. Fornasini, Rolf A. Jansen, Satoshi Kikuta, Anton M. Koekemoer, Sibasish Laha, Stefano Marchesi, Rosalia O'Brien, Ross Silver, S. P. Willner, Rogier A. Windhorst, Haojing Yan, Jailson Alcaniz, Narciso Benitez, Saulo Carneiro, Javier Cenarro, David C…

PEARLS: NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Extragalactic Survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time-Domain Field II
We present the second NuSTAR and XMM-Newton extragalactic survey of the JWST North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) Time-Domain Field (TDF). The first NuSTAR NEP-TDF survey (Zhao et al. 2021) had 681 ks total exposure time executed in NuSTAR cycle 5, in 2019 and 2020. This second survey, acquired from 2020 to 2022 in cycle 6, adds 880 ks of NuSTAR exposure time. The overall NuSTAR NEP-TDF survey is the most sensitive NuSTAR extragalactic survey to date, and a total of 60 sources were detected above the 95% …

Ganz überraschend für mich, da ich mich eigentlich kaum für die Partei dieser Frau interessiere und es daher ziemlich spät mitbekommen habe: #FabioDeMasi, der sich 2021 aus der Politik zurückzog und für seine Arbeit im Wirecard-Untersuchungsausschuss Anerkennung fand, tritt nun als Spitzenkandidat für das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht bei der Europawahl 2024 an. Eine Entwicklung, die w…

Aus einer persönlichen Erfahrung heraus, die seit dem 26. September 2021 anhält und mir nahezu täglich Würgereiz beschert, hoffe ich, dass der Name #Volker aussterben wird.

@… @… nehmen wir mal die Zahlen aus dem Artikel:
1/2020 7,4%, 1/2021 9,3% und 1/2022 11,6% ergeben 31% vom ersten Quartal 2019 bis zum ersten Quartal 2022.
Das sind allerdings alle Wohnimmobilien, nicht nur gebrauchte. Bei gebrauchten…

Dallas Cowboys, QB Dak Prescott not expecting deal anytime soon https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_qb_dak_prescott_not_expecting_deal_anytime_soon/s1_17236_40158765

Dallas Cowboys, QB Dak Prescott not expecting deal anytime soon
The Dallas Cowboys and quarterback Dak Prescott are not expected to strike a new deal in the near future, Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported Tuesday. Both the Cowboys and Prescott have a “mutual understanding of his contract situation,” Rapoport noted. Dallas has not made an offer to Prescott, even as he enters a contract year. “We are where we are, locked and loaded for this year,” team owner Jerry Jones said. Prescott, who signed a four-year, $160 million deal with the Cowboys in 20…

The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoft’s global water consumption grew 34% from 2021 to 2022. And estimates say that around 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity for no purpose at all.

Generative video: Hold my beer.

An Iranian court clears Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi of accusations of plagiarism from a former student for his 2021 film A Hero (Nick Vivarelli/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/global/asghar-farhadi-cleared-ir…

Asghar Farhadi Cleared by Iranian Court of Plagiarism Allegations
Asghar Farhadi has been fully cleared by an Iranian court of plagiarism allegations pertaining to his 2021 drama 'A Hero

Give Me Away - Season 2 coming soon 🛸🔊🤯
Dramatized scifi | Total listening time: 5h 02m
They call the crashed spaceship “The Ghosthouse” because it screams—the screams of thousands of extraterrestrial political prisoners trapped inside. The only way to free them is a transfer into humans willing to share their minds with a second cons...

Give Me Away - Season 2 coming soon 🛸🔊🤯
Dramatized scifi | Total listening time: 5h 02m They call the crashed spaceship “The Ghosthouse” because it screams—the screams of thousands of extraterrestrial political prisoners trapped inside. The only way to free them is a transfer into humans willing to share their minds with a second consciousness forever. Who would volunteer for that? 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Oct 15, 2021.

Naturally I drink more #coffee in the winter months. #Underground #data

Le "journaliste" #GuillaumeRoquette, pendant la crise épidémique, ne voyait pas de surmortalité....
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[La Libre] - La crise du #Covid19 a plombé l'espérance de vie moyenne Š travers le monde.
Cela s'est traduit par une surmortalité de 15,9 mi…

La crise du Covid-19 a plombé l'espérance de vie moyenne à travers le monde
L'espérance de vie moyenne, qui ne cessait de progresser depuis des décennies à travers le monde, a subitement décliné en 2020 et 2021 pendant le plus gros de la pandémie de Covid-19, selon une étude parue mardi dans le Lancet.

A family has won compensation over the death of a hospital patient who was not fed for nine days.
The 56-year-old man, who had Down's syndrome and dementia, died from pneumonia at Poole Hospital in 2021. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-68251142

Poole Hospital patient dies after no food for nine days
Poole Hospital admits failings over the man's death and pays £15,000 in compensation.

Filing: Jeff Bezos sold 12M Amazon shares last week, netting just over $2B, his first Amazon stock sale since 2021; Amazon said Bezos plans to sell up to 50M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Jeff Bezos Sells $2 Billion of Amazon Shares in First Sale Since 2021
Jeff Bezos unloaded 12 million shares of Amazon.com Inc. this week, the first time the billionaire has sold the company’s stock since 2021.

Auszählungsstand Berlinwahlwiederholung übrigens hier: https://www.wahlen-berlin.de/wahlen/BU2024/AFSPRAES/btw/index.html (unten auf der Seite auch Vergleich aktuelle Ergebnisse zu 2021).

Improved Space Bounds for Subset Sum
Tatiana Belova, Nikolai Chukhin, Alexander S. Kulikov, Ivan Mihajlin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.13170 https://<…

Improved Space Bounds for Subset Sum
More than 40 years ago, Schroeppel and Shamir presented an algorithm that solves the Subset Sum problem for $n$ integers in time $O^*(2^{0.5n})$ and space $O^*(2^{0.25n})$. The time upper bound remains unbeaten, but the space upper bound has been improved to $O^*(2^{0.249999n})$ in a recent breakthrough paper by Nederlof and Węgrzycki (STOC 2021). Their algorithm is a clever combination of a number of previously known techniques with a new reduction and a new algorithm for the Orthogonal Vecto…

\o/Ich habe meine erste 5⭐ Bewertung eingelocht!! Hanna Bervoets, Dieser Beitrag wurde gelöscht [2021].
Nur 100 Seiten [schnell in der Bib gelesen heute] und wahnsinnig gut, jede*r sollte es lesen; es geht um eine Social Media-Content-Moderatorin, um ihre Beziehung und die mit den Kolleg*innen.
Auch eine Autorin, die ich mir merke und von der ich definitiv mehr lesen möchte. [Im weitesten Sinne Parallelen im Stil zu Angela Lehner.]

Das Interessante am Wahlergebnis ist dies, nämlich der Unterschied zur eigentlichen Wahl 2021.
Das ist ein Zwischenergebnis, für die Zweitstimmen. Die Erststimmen sind so ähnlich und das Endergebnis wird sich nicht sehr unterscheiden.
Aus progressiver Perspektive ist das nicht gut.
Quelle: https://www.…

🏈 @… #NFL
Via Bill Barnwell 🤖 @…
Here are my thoughts about the decision to take the ball first in OT.

Inflation bleibt hoch - Seit 2022 gingen zehn Mrd. Euro Kaufkraft verloren #News #Nachrichten

Nyon Unchained: Forensic Analysis of Bosch's eBike Board Computers
Marcel Stachak, Julian Geus, Gaston Pugliese, Felix Freiling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12864

Nyon Unchained: Forensic Analysis of Bosch's eBike Board Computers
Modern eBike on-board computers are basically small PCs that not only offer motor control, navigation, and performance monitoring, but also store lots of sensitive user data. The Bosch Nyon series of board computers are cutting-edge devices from one of the market leaders in the eBike business, which is why they are especially interesting for forensics. Therefore, we conducted an in-depth forensic analysis of the two available Nyon models released in 2014 and 2021. On a first-generation Nyon dev…

In which I brush up and release (0.5.0) the “topfew” program I built back in 2021/22 and have been neglecting, but noticed that I was using it all the time so maybe others will too: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/12/Topfew-release

Topfew Release 0.5

Bitcoin pushes through $50K for the first time since December 2021, ahead of April's Bitcoin halving event, which will reduce mining rewards by half (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2024/02/12/b…

Africans and the creation of the modern world
"Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without Africa's natural resources and centuries of cheap African labor."
Interview in 2021 with Howard French for his book "Born in Blackness"
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Africans and the creation of the modern world
Europe would have been a marginal player in world history without Africa's natural resources and centuries of cheap African labor.

Musk avoided capital gains tax on the value of his shares. Plus (due to this loophole) he deducted the FULL value against other income. Plus (due to being a cheat) he then used the tax-free money for his personal benefit.
So once again taxpayers subsidize him to the tune of billions. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112…

I still remember all the experts who told me I was just to dumb to understand the visionary direction of Kickstarter in going for blockchain. What a 16-dimensional chess it was: "Here's a lot of money if you do this technologically dumb thing."
https://hachyderm.io/users/molly0xfff/

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…

Match and Bumble have lost $40B in market value since 2021, as they struggle to grow their $4.2B in 2023 subscription revenue and young users balk at paying (J. Edward Moreno/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/dating-apps-tinder…

Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around?
The apps have changed our love lives, but they haven’t been able to convince enough young users to pay.

Clockwork Bird - Limited series 💀🐦🩻
Dramatized philosophical sci-fi hororr | Total listening time: 9h 49m
Piece together the mystery of the disappearance of Robin Jaeger, a man with four metal limbs. Shelly Croft organises recordings taken from the computer of Dr Sophie Bennett, one of the lead scientists on the synthetic limbs pr...

Clockwork Bird - Limited series 💀🐦🩻
Dramatized philosophical sci-fi hororr | Total listening time: 9h 49m Piece together the mystery of the disappearance of Robin Jaeger, a man with four metal limbs. Shelly Croft organises recordings taken from the computer of Dr Sophie Bennett, one of the lead scientists on the synthetic limbs project, and uncovers more than just scientific breakthroughs. 1 seasons, 30 episodes as of Jan 12, 2021.

Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels among 13 players attending 2024 NFL Draft; J.J. McCarthy not listed https://theathletic.com/5409581/2024/04/11/nfl-draft-attendees-2024/

Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels among 13 players attending 2024 NFL Draft; J.J. McCarthy not listed
The 13 in-person attendees mark the lowest since the 2021 draft, after the pandemic.

Pegasus - Der Feind liest mit, von Anne Poiret.
"Die Autorin des Dokumentarfilms hat die Journalistinnen und Journalisten des Pegasus-Projekts exklusiv über Monate während ihrer Recherchen begleitet. Sie prangern autoritäre Entwicklungen in vielen Staaten sowie Eingriffe in die Privatsphäre der gehackten Personen an."
Ein Jahr in der #Arte Mediathek.

2021 quarterback class sets worrisome precedent ahead of 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/2021_quarterback_class_sets_worrisome_precedent_ahead_of_2024_nfl_draft/s1_13132_40269141

2021 quarterback class sets worrisome precedent ahead of 2024 NFL Draft
NFL front offices and fans might want to wait on pumping their fists if their team drafts a quarterback on Thursday night. With as many as six quarterbacks in the running to be drafted in the first round this year, the miserable showing from 2021's first-round quarterbacks could be a cause for concern. Zach Wilson's trade from the Jets to the Broncos reinforced something we've known for a while: the 2021 quarterback class, which featured five first-round picks, wasn't that good. As ESPN's Adam …

In 2021, the Boston Globe editorial board asked: “♦️Who owns the president?♦️”
It’s a reasonable question. We didn’t know the answer then. We still don’t.
Three years later, we have more than a half-billion reasons to ask that question.
Were he to be re-elected, his legal #debts would be a #national

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.04279 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSI_…

MSEVA : A System for Multimodal Short Videos Emotion Visual Analysis
YouTube Shorts, a new section launched by YouTube in 2021, is a direct competitor to short video platforms like TikTok. It reflects the rising demand for short video content among online users. Social media platforms are often flooded with short videos that capture different perspectives and emotions on hot events. These videos can go viral and have a significant impact on the public's mood and views. However, short videos' affective computing was a neglected area of research in the past. Monit…

Match and Bumble have lost $40B in market value since 2021, as they struggle to grow their $4.2B in 2023 subscription revenue and young users balk at paying (J. Edward Moreno/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/dating-apps-tinder…

Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around?
The apps have changed our love lives, but they haven’t been able to convince enough young users to pay.

Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels among 13 players attending 2024 NFL Draft; J.J. McCarthy not listed https://theathletic.com/5409581/2024/04/11/nfl-draft-attendees-2024/

Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels among 13 players attending 2024 NFL Draft; J.J. McCarthy not listed
The 13 in-person attendees mark the lowest since the 2021 draft, after the pandemic.

Virtual physical therapy service Hinge Health lays off ~10% of its workforce; Hinge had an estimated 1,700 employees, and was valued at $6.2B in October 2021 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/11/virtu…

Exclusive: Hinge Health, a virtual physical therapist, lays off 10% of its workforce
The 9-year-old Hinge Health offers a digital solution to treat chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions and was last valued at $6.2 billion in October 2021.

Falls Ihr euch fragt, wo es die Wahlergebnisse aus Berlin gibt: Hier https://www.wahlen-berlin.de/wahlen/BU2024/AFSPRAES/btw/index.html

Sources: StubHub aims to go public by late summer but may call off the listing if it can't get close to the $16.5B valuation from a funding round in 2021 (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stubhub-plan…

StubHub Plans Summer IPO in New Test of Market
Online ticketing marketplace StubHub is aiming to go public by late summer, people close to the company said, setting up another sizable internet initial public offering after Reddit’s IPO last month. And as StubHub has more than $2 billion in debt, many times its estimated profits, the company ...

The Impact of School and Family Networks on COVID-19 Infections Among Dutch Students: A Study Using Population-Level Registry Data
Javier Garcia-Bernardo, Christine Hedde-von Westernhagen, Tom Emery, Albert Jan van Hoek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08098

The Impact of School and Family Networks on COVID-19 Infections Among Dutch Students: A Study Using Population-Level Registry Data
Understanding the impact of different social interactions is key to improving epidemic models. Here, we use extensive registry data -- including PCR test results and population-level networks -- to investigate the impact of school, family, and other social contacts on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in the Netherlands (June 2020--October 2021). We isolate and compare different contexts of potential SARS-CoV-2 transmission by matching pairs of students based on their attendance at the same or different …

Es sieht nicht gut aus für Pascal Meiser. Die Linke bräuchte 199.619 Zweitstimmen, damit es für ihn reicht. Bisher fehlen noch 7.000.
https://www.wahlen-berlin.de/wahlen/BU2024/AFSPRAES/btw/ergebnisse_gemeinde_11.html

After Winning Only Four Playoff Games in the 21st Century, Are the Dallas Cowboys In Position to Give Their Fans Something to Cheer About in the 2024 Postseason? https://www.

After Winning Only Four Playoff Games in the 21st Century, Are the Dallas Cowboys In Position to Give Their Fans Something to Cheer About in the 2024 Postseason?
The Dallas Cowboys have not performed well in the postseason for a very long time. Throughout the past quarter-century, “America’s Team” has won a total of four playoff games. At no point during that period have they strung together two postseason wins. Will the Cowboys turn things around in 2024? The Cowboys have had impressive 12-5 records in each of the past three regular seasons, winning the NFC East in 2021 and 2023. Dallas has won the NFC East five other times in the 21st century �…

Sources: StubHub aims to go public by late summer but may call off the listing if it can't get close to the $16.5B valuation from a funding round in 2021 (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/stubhub-plan…

StubHub Plans Summer IPO in New Test of Market
Online ticketing marketplace StubHub is aiming to go public by late summer, people close to the company said, setting up another sizable internet initial public offering after Reddit’s IPO last month. And as StubHub has more than $2 billion in debt, many times its estimated profits, the company ...

Sources: UK digital bank Monzo is nearing a deal to raise £350M led by Alphabet's CapitalG at a £4B post-money valuation, up from £3.5B in December 2021 (Financial Times)
https://t.co/dQvaGOWrc6

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.

Cowboys Officially Pick Up LB Micah Parsons’ Fifth-Year Option https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_officially_pick_up_lb_micah_parsons_fifth_year_option/s1_17039_40277716

Grammarly lays off 230 staffers as part of a restructuring, after growing its team from 200 to 1,000 over the past five years; it was valued at $13B in 2021 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/09/grammarly…

Grammarly lays off 230 employees as part of a 'business restructuring' | TechCrunch
Grammarly is laying off 230 employees as part of a "business restructuring," the company announced this week.

🎶Bolle reiste jüngst zu Pfingsten,
Nach Pankow war sein Ziel 🎶
"In einem anderen Wahllokal in Berlin-Pankow wurde ein Wahlvorstand gegen seine Stellvertreterin ausgewechselt, weil er möglicherweise angetrunken war."
Berlin: "Dit is uns völli' ejal, wat die von uns halten. Wir sind Eure Hauptstadt, Ihr Bauern."

Source: Akamai is in advanced talks to buy Noname Security, which finds and fixes API vulnerabilities, for $500M; the startup was valued at $1B in December 2021 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/akamai-acquisition-talks-noname…

API startup Noname Security nears $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai | TechCrunch
Akamai Technologies is in advanced acquisition talks with Noname Security, an API cybersecurity startup, according to a people person familiar with the deal.

Source: Akamai is in advanced talks to buy Noname Security, which finds and fixes API vulnerabilities, for $500M; the startup was valued at $1B in December 2021 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/akamai-acquisition-talks-noname…

API startup Noname Security nears $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai | TechCrunch
Akamai Technologies is in advanced acquisition talks with Noname Security, an API cybersecurity startup, according to a people person familiar with the deal.

Cowboys star admits to dodging Eagles during 2021 pre-draft process https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_star_admits_to_dodging_eagles_during_2021_pre_draft_process/s1_17313_39962541

Cowboys star admits to dodging Eagles during 2021 pre-draft process
The 2024 NFL Draft is right around the corner which has Dallas Cowboys star Micah Parsons reminiscing on his draft process three years ago.  Parsons was selected 12th overall out of Penn State by the Cowboys in 2021, but had he not snubbed the Philadelphia Eagles during the pre-draft process -- things could have turned out differently for the three-time Pro Bowl edge.  Heading into the 2021 NFL Draft, the Eagles expressed a lot of interest in Parsons but the feeling wasn't mutual.  Parsons, …

In 2023, crypto investors achieved total gains of $37.6B, up from a $127.1B loss in 2022 but down from the $159.7B in gains during the 2021 bull run (Chainalysis)
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/cryptocurrency-gains-by-country-2023/

2023 Cryptocurrency Gains by Country - Chainalysis
Read this blog to get our estimates for cryptocurrency investment gains for the year 2023, broken down by country.

CoinShares: as bitcoin topped $72K, a record $2.7B flowed into crypto assets last week; in 2024 so far, $10.3B flowed to crypto assets, close to 2021's $10.6B (Elijah Nicholson-Messmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

Crypto Product Inflows Soar to Record High, CoinShares Says
A wave of investor interest is driving billions of dollars into cryptocurrency assets this year, pushing inflows to record-breaking levels, according to CoinShares International Ltd.

CoinShares: as bitcoin topped $72K, a record $2.7B flowed into crypto assets last week; in 2024 so far, $10.3B flowed to crypto assets, close to 2021's $10.6B (Elijah Nicholson-Messmer/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…

Crypto Product Inflows Soar to Record High, CoinShares Says
A wave of investor interest is driving billions of dollars into cryptocurrency assets this year, pushing inflows to record-breaking levels, according to CoinShares International Ltd.

Sources detail a secret $100M investment in Kickstarter by a16z Crypto, letting staff and investors cash out, that led to its abandoned blockchain pivot in 2021 (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/11/kickstarter-bloc…

The untold story of Kickstarter’s crypto Hail Mary—and the secret $100 million a16z-led investment to save its fading brand
Inside the once-hot startup's struggle to regain its relevance despite a massive check from the crypto arm of the venture giant Andreessen Horowitz.

Carlyle Group agrees to sell UK game publisher Jagex, which develops RuneScape, to CVC Capital, sources say for £900M, after acquiring it in 2021 for $530M (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times)
https://t.co/5oIj2ceEy9