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Me: Oh cool, this person that I know has a #podcast.
The Podcast: Abandoned in 2017 after four eleven minute episodes and 1 post in 2022 titled "Where I've been."

On Website Technicals (2022-12) - Tech updates: citationID, Mastostorm, server down, mail system move, dataset archive, database cross-check, static Gallery, Xmas slump. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-67.html

On Website Technicals (2022-12)
Tech updates: citationID, Mastostorm, server down, mail system move, dataset archive, database cross-check, static Gallery, Xmas slump.

Hey friends!
Just a quick snap of memory of a hike in the Austrian alps. A tale of starting wrongly equipped... 🤦🏻‍♂️
Everything went fine in the end. But I really didn't start very smart.
But at least I got some nice photos!
https://www.fran…

Close Call on the Trails: An Adventure Teetering on Trouble
Embarking on a hiking trip to Austria's Rofan Mountain range in September 2022, we underestimated the altitude's impact on weather. Cloudy forecasts turned to rain and plummeting temperatures. Ill-equipped, we trekked to the summit, captured stunning scenes, and learned the value of respecting natur

Last night I updated my post “ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/03/ada-web-site-compliance-still-not-a-thing.html#Update09
Links to the DoJ release about making ADA apply to state &a…

ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing
Photo courtesy Steve Faulkner, taken outside the CSUNATC 2022 venue after we had chicken and rice, free from the food desert of the venue. Who has two thumbs and is not a lawyer? For years I have worked with clients who refer to digital/web accessibility as ADA work. They have…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02192 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

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

2022 retro-link! https://theoryof.predictable.software/articles/a-closer-look-at-cvss-scores/ - A closer look at CVSS scores.

A simple copy paste from 2022 to 2023.
Can’t wait to anal ize the 2024 one.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1765956299081105625?s=61

MAZE (@mazemoore) on X
Biden's 2022 and 2023 SOTU speeches were almost identical. Tonight's speech was the exact same lines combined with saying "my predecessor is bad" 25 times.

Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote American isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukra…

Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
In a campaign stoking anti-Ukraine sentiment in the U.S., Russia-directed trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles and social media posts.

Filing: the company behind MariaDB, which raised ~$230M before its 2022 IPO, may be taken private by K1 in a $37M deal, far below its $672M Series D valuation (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/19/stru

Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal | TechCrunch
MariaDB is the subject of a potential takeover bid, as the company confirmed it has received an offer from K1 Investment Management.

General Staff: Russia has lost 403,720 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/general-staff-russia.html

Surveillance has a body count https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/20/24106098/cbp-migrant-deaths-border-surveillance

Surveillance has a body count: CBP reports 895 migrant deaths in 2022
A vast surveillance apparatus at the border is not deterring migration but is instead pushing migrants into more dangerous terrain. 2022 was the deadliest year on record at the US-Mexico border.

2022 retro-link! https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155 - Covid-19 will never become endemic.

Of course we end up where we expected to with this election, even though nobody wanted it. That's what plurality elections do.
All the more reason to get behind #RankedChoiceVoting
https://

Pledge To Support Ranked Choice Voting Across the U.S.
Ranked Choice Voting is taking off. Just last November, it passed in 10 places in 2022. Voters from all political backgrounds love it because it takes power away from politicians and puts it where it belongs: in the hands of voters.

Wow 😲 Efficacy of a single low dose of esketamine after childbirth for mothers with symptoms of prenatal depression: randomised clinical trial
https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj-2023-078218

«El estado español, según el #censo de 2023, cuenta con 2.792 #librerías, 185 menos que en 2022. La contracara de estas cifras muestra una mejora en cuanto a estabilidad y crecimiento en las plantillas. En parte, la conclusión que han sacado de estas cifras es que hay menos librerías pero que l…

Oregon: 'Actions have consequences': 3-judge appeals panel shoots down GOP’s First Amendment walkout defense - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/federal-appeals-court-shoots-down-gop-lawmakers-arguments-in-or…

'Actions have consequences': 3-judge appeals panel shoots down GOP’s First Amendment walkout defense
In 2022, Oregon voters approved Ballot Measure 113, agreeing that state lawmakers with ten or more unexcused absences should be barred from seeking reelection. The measure was designed to deter members of the Oregon State Legislature from walking off the job as a way of protesting policies they didn...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06650 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

The Shifting Landscape of Cybersecurity: The Impact of Remote Work and COVID-19 on Data Breach Trends
This study examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cybersecurity and data breaches, with a specific focus on the shift toward remote work. The study identifies trends and offers insights into cybersecurity incidents by analyzing data breaches two years before and two years after the start of remote work. Data was collected from the Montana Department of Justice Data Breach database and consisted of data breaches that occurred between April 2018 and April 2022. The findings inform best p…

Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote American isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukra…

Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
In a campaign stoking anti-Ukraine sentiment in the U.S., Russia-directed trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles and social media posts.

The world’s five largest listed oil companies have made profits of more than a quarter of a trillion dollars since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to dramatic increases in energy prices and household bills.
The “super-majors” – BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies – have made $281bn (£223bn) since the war began in February 2022, according to Global Witness.
The UK-based pair, BP and Shell, have made a combined $94.2bn (£75bn) in profits since the conflict began. Glob…

In July it was first reported that ChatGPT growth was declining.
At work, they told me "you know, it's school break", "kids are playing Minecraft now", and the like.
Today I just saw this by @…

Let's not do this again, please
OpenAI's text-to-video generator Sora is being hyped as a game-changer by an industry at a crossroads. This time we should know better

Dear Earth, I'm Really Sorry - Season 2 coming soon 🤖 🔬💥
Dramatized scifi comedy | Total listening time: 7h 19m
When the greatest inventor on Earth disappears, it’s up to his disaster-prone son and his Frankenstein daughter to save the world… then accidentally destroy it… then save it again.
This show highlights queer and women's voices in the often ...

Dear Earth, I'm Really Sorry - Season 2 coming soon 🤖 🔬💥
Dramatized scifi comedy | Total listening time: 7h 19m When the greatest inventor on Earth disappears, it’s up to his disaster-prone son and his Frankenstein daughter to save the world… then accidentally destroy it… then save it again. This show highlights queer and women's voices in the often male-dominated realm of sci-fi. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Mar 10, 2022.

Flertall av (program)kode er koder? Og «README.me»?
#allheimen

Student ved Høyskolen Kristiania felt for fusk: Dommer reduserer straffen
En mannlig student ved Høyskolen Kristiania ble utestengt for fusk på en hjemmeeksamen i 2022. Oslo tingrett har nå redusert straffen til ett semester.

The Work Of Wellbeing
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

The Work Of Wellbeing | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Work Of Wellbeing Host: Amy Green Category: Education Sub-Category: Health & Wellness, Mental Health & Well Being First Episode: 2022 Wellness and wellbeing is essential for everyone to…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19277 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Corrigendum to "On the monophonic rank of a graph" [Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. 24:2 (2022) #3]
In this corrigendum, we give a counterexample to Theorem 5.2 in "On the monophonic rank of a graph" [Discrete Math. Theor. Comput. Sci. 24:2 (2022) #3]. We also present a polynomial-time algorithm for computing the monophonic rank of a starlike graph.

Did the Black Sea Grain Initiative Lower Prices of Agricultural Futures?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/did-the-black.html

Meizu, which was acquired by Chinese automaker Geely in 2022, will no longer make smartphones, to pursue an "all in AI" strategy over the next three years (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.co…

Chinese smartphone vendors from Meizu to Oppo step up AI integration in devices
Increased artificial intelligence integration in Chinese handsets shows how a new tech arms race in the smartphone industry is heating up, as the global market is poised for a recovery in 2024.

[Le Monde] - Ces cybercriminels sont Š l’origine de milliers d’attaques, dont celle ayant touché l’hôpital de #CorbeilEssonnes en 2022. L’« #OpérationCronos », qui implique notamment Europol et la gendarmerie, a mis Š mal la majeure partie de son infrastructure technique.

LockBit, l’un des plus gros groupes de rançongiciel du monde, visé par une opération de police internationale
Ces cybercriminels sont à l’origine de milliers d’attaques, dont celle ayant touché l’hôpital de Corbeil-Essonnes en 2022. L’« opération Cronos », qui implique notamment Europol et la gendarmerie, a mis à mal la majeure partie de son infrastructure technique.

People who got excited about AI in 2022 or 2023, when a chatbot first nicks their content:
People who got excited about AI in any year up to 2022, when they saw it coming but a chatbot nicks their content anyway:

2022 retro-link! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/the-british-empire-was-much-worse-than-you-realize-caroline-elkinss-legacy-of-violence - The British Empire was much worse than …

🪦 50 Americans have died in Ukraine since the Russian invasion
#war …

50 Americans have died in Ukraine since the Russian invasion
At least 50 U.S. citizens have died in Ukraine since the Russians invaded in February 2022. Many came to fight. Others came to help civilians.

About 7% of all homo sapiens to have ever lived are alive right now. So if you're thinking "what are the odds of seeing the end of the world" the odds aren't actually that small.
Exponential growth can have surprising implications
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/…

«El estado español, según el #censo de 2023, cuenta con 2.792 #librerías, 185 menos que en 2022. La contracara de estas cifras muestra una mejora en cuanto a estabilidad y crecimiento en las plantillas. En parte, la conclusión que han sacado de estas cifras es que hay menos librerías pero que l…

Kommenterar diskussionen om senaste terrorrankningen (för åren 2007-2022) i Komintern och det faktum att nummer 20 på listan bara gjort ett enda terrordåd på de 15 åren.

Josh Jacobs next team odds: Raiders favored; Chargers, Texans in hunt https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/josh-jacobs-next-team-odds

Josh Jacobs next team odds: Raiders favored; Chargers, Texans in hunt
Josh Jacobs, the NFL's 2022 leading rusher, is set to become a free agent. Will he be on the Raiders' roster next season? Here's a look at the odds.

**Is the murder rate still higher in states that voted for Trump than in those that voted for Biden?** (see 2023 report below) If so, what convincing arguments have been presented to explain why the rate of murder and other violent crime are typically higher in Trump vs Biden states?
https://www.

The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem – Third Way
In March of 2022, we found that murder rates in 2020 were 40% higher in Trump-voting states than Biden-voting states. In this follow-up, we studied homicide data going back to 2000 to see if this one-year Red State murder epidemic was an anomaly. It was not. Despite a media narrative to the contrary, a wide and widening Red State murder gap has spanned the past two decades. The murder rate in Trump-voting states has exceeded the murder rate in Biden-voting states every year this century, with a…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #RylanOnSaturday
Black Legend:
🎵 You See The Trouble With Me
#BlackLegend
https://open.spotify.com/track/6ybxuYMCIKJMBfCIEWLTlc
https://blacklegend.bandcamp.com/track/black-legend-you-see-the-trouble-with-me-original-1999-bootleg-2022-remaster

Gens de Québec, est-ce que. votre chien ou votre chat est micropucé?
https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/apropos/espace-presse/actualites/fiche_autres_actualites.aspx?id=30884

Micropucer et enregistrer son animal à prix réduit
Québec, le 1er mars 2024 – La Ville de Québec annonce deux prochaines cliniques de micropuçage pour les chats et les chiens résidant sur son territoire, en partenariat avec Micropuce Québec. Ces événements visent à promouvoir la sécurité des animaux de compagnie en facilitant leur identification en cas de perte ou de fugue. Depuis janvier 2022, le micropuçage est obligatoire pour les chats et recommandé pour les chiens, selon la réglementation provinciale en vigueur. Cette proc�…

State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2024 via #GSMA
#MoMo

State of the Industry Report

Quite enjoy the Pickup Coffee chain in #Philippines. Much cheaper than the western brands (50 php for an americano) but also great quality. They source coffee beans locally. They only launched in 2022 and you can already find them everywhere
Also good since we boycott Starbucks 🍉

Did the Black Sea Grain Initiative Lower Prices of Agricultural Futures?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/did-the-black.html

The world’s five largest listed oil companies have made profits of more than a quarter of a trillion dollars since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine led to dramatic increases in energy prices and household bills.
The “super-majors” – BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies – have made $281bn (£223bn) since the war began in February 2022, according to Global Witness.
The UK-based pair, BP and Shell, have made a combined $94.2bn (£75bn) in profits since the conflict began. Glob…

Crosses For Chaos: How Russian Ultranationalists Used 'Missile Markers' To Sow Panic In #Ukraine As Russia Invaded
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ultranation

Crosses For Chaos: How Russian Ultranationalists Used 'Missile Markers' To Sow Panic In Ukraine As Russia...
A Russian ultranationalist’s digital campaign for “chaos” in Ukraine may explain the photos of mysterious crosses on roads, rooftops, and other locations -- described as missile markers -- that appeared on Ukrainian social media as Russian soldiers stormed toward Kyiv in February 2022.

Je viens de découvrir la fonctionnalité "#CSS container queries" qui a été introduite dans #Chrome en septembre 2022 et pour #Firefox en février 2023.
J'ai souvent eu besoin de cette fonctionnalité, je vais e…

Étudier CSS container queries · Issue #376 · stephane-klein/backlog
Je viens de découvrir la fonctionnalité CSS container queries. D'après Can I use cette fonctionnalité est disponible dans Chrome depuis septembre 2022 et Firefox depuis février 20223. J'ai essayé p...

Kvällens öl är en Westmalle trippel med bäst före 28 januari 2022.
Lite grums i flaskan. Lätt doft av smågodis (inte som Grimbergen). Förvånansvärd humlebeska (för en sån här belgare, alltså). Trevlig. Men vann förmodligen inte på lagringen. #öltut

A profile of NetChoice, whose revenue jumped from $3M in 2020 to $34M in 2022, as it prepares to fight Florida and Texas' social media laws in front of SCOTUS (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

US Supreme Court Social Media Battles Fueled by Brash Tech Lobby
After California passed a law forcing digital platforms to adopt privacy guardrails and safety standards for young users, Carl Szabo had a blunt warning for legislators attending the nation’s biggest conference for state policymakers: “The lawsuits are coming.”

Was ich auch am Lesen von Büchereibüchern schätze? Dass ich manchmal welche nicht verlängern kann, weil vorgemerkt - und dann bisweilen versuche, sie noch am gleichen Tag zu starten und komplett zu lesen. Heute/jetzt: Gallant [2022] von V. E. Schwab; die Bib hat bis 19 offen, die Schrift ist normal bis groß bei knapp 300 Seiten... machbar, würde ich sagen. Wir werden sehen!

Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature - Season 4 finale ❓📜🎓
Dramatized paranormal horror thriller series | Total listening time: 6h 44m
This course discusses the Anterran Civilization and the evidence regarding the recent archeological ruins uncovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The earliest human society, years older than previously known to exi...

Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature - Season 4 finale ❓📜🎓
Dramatized paranormal horror thriller series | Total listening time: 6h 44m This course discusses the Anterran Civilization and the evidence regarding the recent archeological ruins uncovered at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. The earliest human society, years older than previously known to exist, will provide opportunities for analysis of ancient writing and thought. An Official Selection at the Tribeca Festival in 2022. 4 seasons, 23 episodes as of Dec 21, 2023.

Payroll error costs 49ers '25 pick, dip in 4th in '24 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39761321/payroll-error-2022-costs-49ers-25-pick-dip-4th-24

Payroll error in 2022 costs 49ers '25 pick, dip in 4th in '24 - ESPN
The 49ers have forfeited a 2025 draft choice and were penalized four spots for a selection in this year's draft as a result of administrative payroll accounting errors.

i had to look up the company that did the colourization on the tubi version. their website is confusing but i found this brochure (PDF). the brochure is also a mess but at least it's all in one file: #monsterdon

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/14/wood-burning-stoves-cancel-out-fall-particulate-pollution-uk-roads

2022 retro-link! http://blog.ffwll.ch/2022/07/locking-engineering.html - Linux kernel lock engineering principles.

General Staff: Russia has lost 402,430 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/18/general-staff-russia.html

Localising pulsations in the hard X-ray and microwave emission of an X-class flare
Hannah Collier, Laura A. Hayes, Sijie Yu, Andrea F. Battaglia, William Ashfield, Vanessa Polito, Louise K. Harra, S\"am Krucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10546

Localising pulsations in the hard X-ray and microwave emission of an X-class flare
Aims: This work aims to identify the mechanism driving pulsations in hard X-ray (HXR) and microwave emission during solar flares. Here, by using combined HXR and microwave observations from Solar Orbiter/STIX and EOVSA we investigate an X1.3 GOES class flare, 2022-03-30T17:21:00, which displays pulsations on timescales evolving from ~ 7 s in the impulsive phase to ~ 35 s later in the flare. Methods: The temporal, spatial and spectral evolution of the HXR and microwave pulsations during the im…

On the $(1^2,2^4)$-packing edge-coloring of subcubic graphs
Xujun Liu, Gexin Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18353 https://arxiv.org/pd…

On the $(1^2,2^4)$-packing edge-coloring of subcubic graphs
An induced matching in a graph $G$ is a matching such that its end vertices also induce a matching. A $(1^{\ell}, 2^k)$-packing edge-coloring of a graph $G$ is a partition of its edge set into disjoint unions of $\ell$ matchings and $k$ induced matchings. Gastineau and Togni (2019), as well as Hocquard, Lajou, and Lužar (2022), have conjectured that every subcubic graph is $(1^2,2^4)$-packing edge-colorable. In this paper, we confirm that their conjecture is true (for connected subcubic graphs…

Hacktivism Goes Orbital: Investigating NB65's Breach of ROSCOSMOS
Rajiv Thummala, Gregory Falco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10324 https://

Hacktivism Goes Orbital: Investigating NB65's Breach of ROSCOSMOS
In March of 2022, Network battalion 65 (NB65), a hacktivist affiliate of Anonymous, publicly asserted its successful breach of ROSCOSMOS's satellite imaging capabilities in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. NB65 disseminated a series of primary sources as substantiation, proclaiming the incapacitation of ROSCOSMOS's space-based vehicle monitoring system and doxing of related proprietary documentation. Despite the profound implications of hacktivist incursions into the space sector, the …

UK Solar PV Incentives for Rented Commercial Properties (2022) - How do we urgently get more solar panels up on commercial rented property? What incentives are there in the UK? - https://www.earth.org.uk/commercial-rent-UK-solar-incentives-2022.html

UK Solar PV Incentives for Rented Commercial Properties (2022)
How do we urgently get more solar panels up on commercial rented property? What incentives are there in the UK?

About 7% of all homo sapiens to have ever lived are alive right now. So if you're thinking "what are the odds of seeing the end of the world" the odds aren't actually that small.
Exponential growth can have surprising implications
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/…

Cowboys insider names three new options for QB2 in Dallas https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_insider_names_three_new_options_for_qb2_in_dallas/s1_17236_39971154

Cowboys insider names three new options for QB2 in Dallas
Neither Cooper Rush nor Trey Lance are on the last days of their contracts in Dallas, but that doesn’t mean the Cowboys won’t look to upgrade at the spot behind starting quarterback Dak Prescott this offseason. Prescott needed no help in 2023, save for some fourth-quarter relief, but as Rush proved in 2022, a backup quarterback can make or break your season. Almost half of the NFL’s 32 teams needed their backups to play significant snaps this season, including the Jets, Vikings, Colts, Be…

PitchBook: VC investment in crypto-related companies rose 2.5% QoQ in Q4 2023 to $1.9B, the first time that crypto startup funding rose since Q1 2022 (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/15/crypto-vc-funding-cl…

The Biden administration will give $1.5 billion to help build a vast new computer-chip factory in New York state as part of an effort to strengthen the country’s ability to mass-produce the brains of modern consumer and military electronics.
The grant, formally unveiled Monday, is the third announced as part of the 🔹Chips and Science Act,🔹 a $52 billion program President Biden signed in 2022 in hopes of supercharging U.S. manufacturing of semiconductors, which are largely made overseas…

U.S. to give $1.5 billion for computer-chip plant, heating up global race
The massive grant, part of the Chips Act, will help the U.S. establish a homegrown supply for some of the most critical components of modern life.

Arizona Dem looks to apply anti-"porn" law to private schools - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2024/02/18/arizona-dem-looks-to-apply-anti-porn-law-to-private-schools/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07576 has been replaced.
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Analyzing Trendy Twitter Hashtags in the 2022 French Election
Regressions trained to predict the future activity of social media users need rich features for accurate predictions. Many advanced models exist to generate such features; however, the time complexities of their computations are often prohibitive when they run on enormous data-sets. Some studies have shown that simple semantic network features can be rich enough to use for regressions without requiring complex computations. We propose a method for using semantic networks as user-level features …

Getting People Back: What We Can Offer Refugees and IDPs: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/getting-people-back.html

Quite enjoy the Pickup Coffee chain in #Philippines. Much cheaper than the western brands (50 php for an americano) but also great quality. They source coffee beans locally. They only launched in 2022 and you can already find them everywhere
Also good since we boycott Starbucks 🍉

2022 retro-link! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arxiv-org-reaches-a-milestone-and-a-reckoning/ - arXiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning.

PitchBook: VC investment in crypto-related companies rose 2.5% QoQ in Q4 2023 to $1.9B, the first time that crypto startup funding rose since Q1 2022 (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/15/crypto-vc-funding-cl…

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

Preis für Suchtpotenzial
Ende Februar bekommt das Musikcomedy-Duo Suchtpotenzial den Schwerter Kleinkunstpreis 2022 für "betörende Musik, brutale Kalauer und bittersüße Gefühle".
https://bit.ly/4bFKvq5
Foto Copyright Julia Gamez Martin & Ariane T. Müller

Hacktivism Goes Orbital: Investigating NB65's Breach of ROSCOSMOS
Rajiv Thummala, Gregory Falco
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10324 https://

Hacktivism Goes Orbital: Investigating NB65's Breach of ROSCOSMOS
In March of 2022, Network battalion 65 (NB65), a hacktivist affiliate of Anonymous, publicly asserted its successful breach of ROSCOSMOS's satellite imaging capabilities in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. NB65 disseminated a series of primary sources as substantiation, proclaiming the incapacitation of ROSCOSMOS's space-based vehicle monitoring system and doxing of related proprietary documentation. Despite the profound implications of hacktivist incursions into the space sector, the …

Advancements and challenges in plasmon-exciton quantum emitters based on colloidal quantum dots
Adam Olejniczak, Yury Rakovich, Victor Krivenkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10613 <…

Advancements and challenges in plasmon-exciton quantum emitters based on colloidal quantum dots
The Nobel Prizes in Physics (2022) and Chemistry (2023) heralded the recognition of quantum information science and the synthesis of quantum dots, respectively. This acknowledgment has propelled colloidal quantum dots and perovskite nanocrystals to the forefront of quantum technologies. Their distinct emission properties, facilitating the efficient generation of both single photons and photon pairs, render them particularly captivating. Moreover, their adaptability to diverse structures, rangin…

A look at the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine's tech center Kharkiv; of the 511 tech companies in the city before February 2022, 500 are still operating (Alec Russell/Financial Times)
https://t.co/boyuZ5i62i

A small New Mexico county on the Texas border may stand alone as the only place where the 14th amendment has been used in recent times to remove a government official from the ballot.
Couy Griffin, a county commissioner until 2022 in #Otero county, which has a population of around 69,000 people, became the first official in more than a century to be removed from office under the provision in the 14th a…

Determining classes for generalized $\psi$-estimators
Matyas Barczy, Zsolt P\'ales
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10817 https://arxiv…

Determining classes for generalized $ψ$-estimators
We prove that the values of a generalized $ψ$-estimator (introduced by Barczy and Páles in 2022) on samples of arbitrary length but having only two different observations uniquely determine the values of the estimator on any sample of arbitrary length without any restriction on the number of different observations. In other words, samples of arbitrary length but having only two different observations form a determining class for generalized $ψ$-estimators. We also obtain a similar statement …

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Treewidth versus clique number. IV. Tree-independence number of graphs excluding an induced star
Many recent works address the question of characterizing induced obstructions to bounded treewidth. In 2022, Lozin and Razgon completely answered this question for graph classes defined by finitely many forbidden induced subgraphs. Their result also implies a characterization of graph classes defined by finitely many forbidden induced subgraphs that are $(tw,ω)$-bounded, that is, treewidth can only be large due to the presence of a large clique. This condition is known to be satisfied for any …

2022 retro-link! https://www.linusakesson.net/hardware/theremin/ - Commodore 64 Theremin.

Wiener Missbrauchsfall - Prozess vertagt, weil Angeklagter „im Krieg“ #News #Nachrichten

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Topics, Authors, and Institutions in Large Language Model Research: Trends from 17K arXiv Papers
Large language models (LLMs) are dramatically influencing AI research, spurring discussions on what has changed so far and how to shape the field's future. To clarify such questions, we analyze a new dataset of 16,979 LLM-related arXiv papers, focusing on recent trends in 2023 vs. 2018-2022. First, we study disciplinary shifts: LLM research increasingly considers societal impacts, evidenced by 20x growth in LLM submissions to the Computers and Society sub-arXiv. An influx of new authors -- half…

The Shifting Impact of Recurrent Flooding on Transportation Accessibility: A Case Study of Affected Populations in The Hampton Roads Region
Luwei Zeng, T. Donna Chen, John S. Miller, Faria Tuz Zahura, Jonathan L. Goodall
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07959

The Shifting Impact of Recurrent Flooding on Transportation Accessibility: A Case Study of Affected Populations in The Hampton Roads Region
Accelerated sea level rise has resulted in recurrent flooding in coastal regions, increasingly impacting both transportation systems and local populations. Using the Hampton Roads region in Virginia as a case study, this study a. identifies hotspots with frequent, significant accessibility reduction for work and nonwork travel utilizing crowdsourced WAZE flood report data during the month of August over 5 years: 2018 to 2022; and b. examines the shifts in social vulnerability in populations res…

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Poppy Ajudha:
🎵 Holiday From Reality (6 Music Session, 20 Apr 2022)
#PoppyAjudha
https://open.spotify.com/track/37sOPR3sWcMhVlcRVC79N2

"783 million people face chronic hunger. Yet the world wastes 19% of its food, UN says"
#UN #UnitedNations #Food #FoodWaste

783 million people face chronic hunger, UN says
A new United Nations report estimates that 19% of the food produced around the world went to waste in 2022. That's a little more than 1 billion metric tons of food that could have helped feed the hundreds of millions of people who live with hunger every day. The biggest share of that waste, about 60%, came in households. Almost 30% came in food service operations, such as restaurants. The updated Food Waste Index out Wednesday comes three years after the U.N.'s first attempt to quantify the pro…

“Who wants to live forever?”
The immortal words of Freddie Mercury blast from the speakers as blue lights swivel around the room and a smoky mist floats up from the stage in front of me.
If the audience is anything to go by, the answer to his question is:
the mega rich.
I’d come to Gstaad, a swanky ski-resort town in the Swiss Alps, to attend the first in-person 🔸Longevity Investors Conference🔸.
Over the two-day event, scientists and biotech founders made the…

Inside the billion-dollar meeting for the mega-rich who want to live forever
Hope, hype, and self-experimentation collided at an exclusive conference for ultra-rich investors who want to extend their lives past 100. I went along for the ride.

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Online Misogyny Against Female Candidates in the 2022 Brazilian Elections: A Threat to Women's Political Representation?
Technology-facilitated gender-based violence has become a global threat to women's political representation and democracy. Understanding how online hate affects its targets is thus paramount. We analyse 10 million tweets directed at female candidates in the Brazilian election in 2022 and examine their reactions to online misogyny. Using a self-trained machine learning classifier to detect Portuguese misogynistic tweets and a quantitative analysis of the candidates' tweeting behaviour, we invest…

Chiefs' Neil Farrell Jr. can thank the Raiders for his Super Bowl LVIII ring https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/chiefs_neil_farrell_jr_can_thank_the_raiders_for_his_super_bowl_lviii_ring/s1_173…

Chiefs' Neil Farrell Jr. can thank the Raiders for his Super Bowl LVIII ring
The Las Vegas Raiders did something that doesn't really ever happen in the NFL, especially in the AFC West. The Raiders made an in-division trade with their biggest rival. This last season, the Raiders traded with the Kansas City Chiefs, which saw them send away Neil Farrell Jr. The Raiders drafted him with a fourth-round pick in 2022 and got a sixth-round pick in return for him by the Chiefs. The last two weeks were tough on the Raiders. Their city and facilities were the host of Super Bowl LV…

2022 retro-link! https://www.wired.com/story/moores-law-really-dead/ - Is Moore’s Law really dead?

Modelling crypto markets by multi-agent reinforcement learning
Johann Lussange, Stefano Vrizzi, Stefano Palminteri, Boris Gutkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10803

Modelling crypto markets by multi-agent reinforcement learning
Building on a previous foundation work (Lussange et al. 2020), this study introduces a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) model simulating crypto markets, which is calibrated to the Binance's daily closing prices of $153$ cryptocurrencies that were continuously traded between 2018 and 2022. Unlike previous agent-based models (ABM) or multi-agent systems (MAS) which relied on zero-intelligence agents or single autonomous agent methodologies, our approach relies on endowing agents with rei…

49ers penalized draft position, will forfeit 2025 fifth-round pick after NFL discovers accounting error https://theathletic.com/5351869/2024/03/18/49ers-draft-position-accounting-error/

49ers penalized draft position, will forfeit 2025 fifth-round pick after NFL discovers accounting error
The accounting errors in question were from the close of the 2022 league year.

Preis für Suchtpotenzial
Ende Februar bekommt das Musikcomedy-Duo Suchtpotenzial den Schwerter Kleinkunstpreis 2022 für "betörende Musik, brutale Kalauer und bittersüße Gefühle".
https://bit.ly/4bFKvq5
Foto Copyright Julia Gamez Martin & Ariane T. Müller

NFC foe throws painful wrench into Cowboys' free agency plans with defensive signing https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfc_foe_throws_painful_wrench_into_cowboys_free_agency_plans_wit…

NFC foe throws painful wrench into Cowboys' free agency plans with defensive signing
The Dallas Cowboys wanted Johnathan Hankins back and the veteran nose tackle wanted to stick around. But the franchise wasn't up for the bidding war with the Seattle Seahawks, leading to Hankins leaving the Cowboys after spending 2023 and part of 2022 with the franchise.  The news, reported by Mike Garafolo from NFL Network, is an unexpected development due to Hankins' projected low cost as well as the Cowboys' painfully evident need for defensive line depth.  It's a truly tough pill to swall…

Russia intensifies attacks on Kharkiv, draining Ukraine's air defense and civilian morale: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/russia-intensifies-attacks.html

Chiefs' Neil Farrell Jr. can thank the Raiders for his Super Bowl LVIII ring https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/chiefs_neil_farrell_jr_can_thank_the_raiders_for_his_super_bowl_lviii_ring/s1_173…

Chiefs' Neil Farrell Jr. can thank the Raiders for his Super Bowl LVIII ring
The Las Vegas Raiders did something that doesn't really ever happen in the NFL, especially in the AFC West. The Raiders made an in-division trade with their biggest rival. This last season, the Raiders traded with the Kansas City Chiefs, which saw them send away Neil Farrell Jr. The Raiders drafted him with a fourth-round pick in 2022 and got a sixth-round pick in return for him by the Chiefs. The last two weeks were tough on the Raiders. Their city and facilities were the host of Super Bowl LV…

Niners to forfeit 2025 fifth-round pick as result of administrative payroll accounting errors https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-to-forfeit-2025-fifth-round-pick-as-result-of-administrative-payroll-accounting-errors

Niners to forfeit 2025 fifth-round pick as result of administrative payroll accounting errors
A league review has the San Francisco 49ers having administrative payroll accounting errors at the close of the 2022 league year and ensuing action by the NFL will effect the club's next two drafts as a result, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported.

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would weigh a challenge to a
Biden administration rule on
“ghost guns,” weapons made from homemade kits that can be assembled into firearms.

The administration in 2022 imposed a federal rule requiring that these kits
must include serial numbers
and mandating background checks for people who buy them from dealers,
saying the change was needed to contend with people getting and using weapons that could not be traced by la…

Supreme Court will hear challenge to Biden administration rule on ghost guns
The Biden administration and challengers to its rule agreed that they wanted the justices to take up the case.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Poppy Ajudha:
🎵 Holiday From Reality (6 Music Session, 20 Apr 2022)
#PoppyAjudha
https://open.spotify.com/track/37sOPR3sWcMhVlcRVC79N2

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Measuring the performance of investments in information security startups: An empirical analysis by cybersecurity sectors using Crunchbase data
Early-stage firms play a significant role in driving innovation and creating new products and services, especially for cybersecurity. Therefore, evaluating their performance is crucial for investors and policymakers. This work presents a financial evaluation of early-stage firms' performance in 19 cybersecurity sectors using a private-equity dataset from 2010 to 2022 retrieved from Crunchbase. We observe firms, their primary and secondary activities, funding rounds, and pre and post-money valua…

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would weigh a challenge to a
Biden administration rule on
“ghost guns,” weapons made from homemade kits that can be assembled into firearms.

The administration in 2022 imposed a federal rule requiring that these kits
must include serial numbers
and mandating background checks for people who buy them from dealers,
saying the change was needed to contend with people getting and using weapons that could not be traced by la…

Supreme Court will hear challenge to Biden administration rule on ghost guns
The Biden administration and challengers to its rule agreed that they wanted the justices to take up the case.

"Sewage dumped into Scottish rivers 50 times a day, ‘disturbing’ figures reveal"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Sewage

Sewage dumped into Scottish rivers 50 times a day, ‘disturbing’ figures reveal
Scottish Water released sewage into rivers, lochs and waterways more than 14,000 times in 2022 - but the real figure is more than 19,000