DemLabs explains how to Create your own Rapid Response GIF. He aims this at Dem candidates with low budgets, but we can all use these steps.
#BlueWaveRising #MTPol

How to create your own rapid response campaign GIF
GIFs work well for campaigns because condense your message and call to action into seconds. 

IAB and PwC report on US digital ad sales in 2023: total revenue grew 7.3% YoY to $225B, digital video grew 10.6% to $52.1B, and digital audio grew 18.9% to $7B (Hana Yoo/AdExchanger)
https://www.adexchanger.com/online-adverti<…

Digital Ad Revenue Growth Decelerates Again in 2023, Per IAB Ad Revenue Report
US digital ad revenue grew at a slower rate in 2023 compared to 2022, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
#OddCelebrityHabits

Thomas Rinsma got Doom working on a credit card swiper - attached here is a video of it. His blog post breaking down the process of porting it is wild: https://th0mas.nl/2022/07/18/porting-doom-to-a-payment-terminal

TikTok signs a deal with ticketing provider AXS to let users buy tickets to live events in the US, UK, and more; TikTok has had a Ticketmaster deal since 2022 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/tiktok-axs-concer…

TikTok Teams With AXS to Let Certified Artists Sell Concert Tickets
TikTok inked a partnership with ticketing provider AXS to let users of the popular video app discover and buy tickets to live events.

Reports: Raiders re-sign DT Adam Butler https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/reports_raiders_re_sign_dt_adam_butler/s1_17049_40119582

Reports: Raiders re-sign DT Adam Butler
The Las Vegas Raiders re-signed defensive tackle Adam Butler to a one-year deal, according to multiple reports Saturday. Signed by the Patriots as an undrafted rookie in 2017, Butler played four seasons in New England. He then signed a two-year deal with the Miami Dolphins but was released after one year and sat out the 2022 season with an undisclosed injury. Butler then signed a reserve/futures contract with the Raiders and proceeded to have a strong comeback season, playing in all 17 games an…

2022 retro-link! https://www.pathsensitive.com/2022/09/bet-you-cant-solve-these-9-dependency.html - 9 puzzles to convince you you don't understand dependence.

Media: Russian soldier charged for voluntary surrender for first time since mobilization introduced: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/11/media-russian-soldier.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02496 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

On the association of GW190425 with its potential electromagnetic counterpart FRB 20190425A
Recent work by Moroianu et al. (2022) has suggested that the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW190425 might have a potential fast radio burst (FRB) counterpart association, FRB 20190425A, at the 2.8$σ$ level of confidence with a likely host galaxy association, namely UGC10667. The authors argue that the observations are consistent with a long-lived hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) that formed promptly after the BNS merger and was stable for approximately 2.5 hours before promptly collapsing i…

Einerseits: Ich kenne kaum ein Wissensgebiet, das mich weniger stark interessiert als Volkswirtschaftslehre. Andererseits: Ich wüsste wirklich gern, was hinter der enormen Dönerpreisinflation seit dem Jahr 2022 steckt, während nämlich gleichzeitig der Preis für Lahmacun STABIL bleibt.

🎈 Sensor network shows EVs are reducing CO2 emissions in the Bay Area. Is it enough?
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-04-04/sensor-network-shows-evs-are-reducing-co2-emissions-in-th…

EVs are reducing CO2 emissions in the Bay Area. Is it enough?
Between 2018 and 2022, the Bay Area's carbon emissions fell by 1.8% each year, which Berkeley researchers attribute to drivers switching to electric vehicles.

On 5th May 2022 I made a complaint to the DPC that the entire An Post/ GeoDirectory advertising database was in breach of GDPR.
On 17th July 2023, the DPC wrote to confirm it had opened a wideranging ‘own volition’ inquiry into the GeoDirectory database.
No further update has issued.

Looking through Academics of Mastodon https://nathanlesage.github.io/academics-on-mastodon/, but frustrating, as many accounts were set up in 2022 and haven't posted for a year or more. Has anyone thought about or attempted a "live" directory with e.g. number of posts / week, last posted dates?
cc @…

One Last Show Before the End of the World 🎸😂😭
Dramatized scifi comedy | A local band fighting to play their first, and possibly last, show in their hometown as the world faces impending doom the night of the concert.
1 seasons, 4 episodes as of May 03, 2022.
https://www.theen…

One Last Show Before the End of the World 🎸😂😭
Dramatized scifi comedy | A local band fighting to play their first, and possibly last, show in their hometown as the world faces impending doom the night of the concert. 1 seasons, 4 episodes as of May 04, 2022.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02100 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hepe…

Analysis Facilities White Paper
This white paper presents the current status of the R&D for Analysis Facilities (AFs) and attempts to summarize the views on the future direction of these facilities. These views have been collected through the High Energy Physics (HEP) Software Foundation's (HSF) Analysis Facilities forum, established in March 2022, the Analysis Ecosystems II workshop, that took place in May 2022, and the WLCG/HSF pre-CHEP workshop, that took place in May 2023. The paper attempts to cover all the aspects of an…

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Craft Messages That Matter Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Craft Messages That Matter | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Craft Messages That Matter Podcast Host: Theo Kapodistrias Category: Education Sub-Category: Self-Improvement & Advice First Episode: 2022 Craft Messages That Matter Podcast by Theo…

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…

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

Q&A with Evan Smith, Texas Tribune CEO from 2009 to 2022, on earned income in nonprofit journalism, sponsorship to fund news for marginalized people, and more (Richard J. Tofel/Second Rough Draft)
https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-texas-tribune-examp…

The Texas Tribune, Example or Exception?: A Candid Talk with Evan Smith About Earned Income
Events, sponsorship-- and why one size doesn't fit all

IBM QRadar - When The Attacker Controls Your Security Stack (CVE-2022-26377) - watchTowr Labs https://labs.watchtowr.com/ibm-qradar-when-the-attacker-controls-your-security-stack/

Today is the second anniversary of Eric Boehlert's tragic and untimely death.
Soledad O’Brien celebrated Eric as "“an awesome human being" with a "Crazy devotion to facts, context and good reporting. Enemy of BS, fake news.”
https://

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Think about what you know about a character. Their story, relationships, etc.
Let's play!
#BackstabAFictionalCharacter

Wenn jetzt wieder die üblichen Jahresunfallstatistiken der Vision-Zero-Gescheiterten erscheinen, ist nicht zu vergessen, dass wir jedes Jahr wieder an der großen Unfalllotterie unserer schlecht gemachten Verkehrsinfrastruktur teilnehmen.
Hier die Karte von Lüneburg mit allen Unfallorten von 2017 bis 2022 zur Veranschaulichung.
#verkehr

Bin (über die gerade durch alle Medien geisternde Bertelsmann-Sinus-Studie zu Wahlabsichten der "Mitte") auf Borgstedt (2022) gestoßen. Und in dieser Veröffentlichung finden sich zwei Diagramme, die ziemlich viel erklären. 1/3
https://www.transcript-verlag.de/media/pdf

"#Kohlekraftwerk #Mehrum geht endgültig vom Netz
Mehrum war das erste #Steinkohlekraftwerk, das im Zuge der

Kohlekraftwerk Mehrum geht nach Reservebetrieb endgültig vom Netz
Mehrum war das erste Steinkohlekraftwerk, das im Zuge der Energiekrise im August 2022 aus der Reserve zurückgeholt wurde, um Erdgas aus dem Markt zu verdrängen. Jetzt wird es endgültig stillgelegt.

Mystery solved!

#P4x #CyberSecurity #InfoSec @…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.15643 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

A posteriori error bounds for the block-Lanczos method for matrix function approximation
We extend the error bounds from [SIMAX, Vol. 43, Iss. 2, pp. 787-811 (2022)] for the Lanczos method for matrix function approximation to the block algorithm. Numerical experiments suggest that our bounds are fairly robust to changing block size and have the potential for use as a practical stopping criteria. Further experiments work towards a better understanding of how certain hyperparameters should be chosen in order to maximize the quality of the error bounds, even in the previously studied …

Esta merda é completamente absurda. Meter milhões de euros numa cagada de blockchain como parte do PRR seria só estúpido se não fosse um crime económico porque é dinheiro que se vai acabar por evaporar sem deixar rasto nem produzir rigorosamente NADA. E pior ainda é chamarem "verde" a uma merda que consome carradas de energia para coisa nenhuma.

Mais Transparência
O portal Mais Transparência é uma plataforma digital de informação sobre vários temas de gestão e recursos públicos da responsabilidade da AMA - Agência para a Modernização Administrativa.

More reflections on the curse of the traveler, and why it might be bad for everyone to have an AI concierge:
https://gringer.gitlab.io/presentation-notes/2022/06/27/two-lines-on-everything/#2024-may-11
Choice can be a d…

Police have also systematically failed domestic violence and sexual assault survivors while perpetrating those offenses themselves or enabling the violence in prisons. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/29/police-defund-abo…

Interesting research: Long #COVID in a highly vaccinated but largely unexposed Australian population following the 2022 SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron wave: a cross‐sectional survey
ht…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Fauré and Debussy in Switzerland
Mezzo soprano Isabel Pfefferkorn sings Fauré's La Bonne Chanson at the 2022 Meiringen Music Festival in Switzerland. Jonathan Swain presents.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xw7p

Benediction
Last night we used Kanopy to watch this movie. The synopsis Kanopy provides is very brief. The link below takes you to a much more thorough review.
It deals with difficult subject matter
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/benediction-movi…

Benediction movie review & film summary (2022) | Roger Ebert
This is one of Davies’ best films, as equally detached as his earlier work yet brimming with emotions that are a little closer to the surface than we expect from him.

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

yes, a half-abandoned Mastodon branch with the revenue of a hot dog stand but the debt of a small country is definitely worth $6 billion

Deal faces calls for inquiry over alleged ‘influence peddling’
Democratic groups escalated calls on Thursday for Congress to investigate Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media after a report that it relied partly on emergency loans in 2022 traced back to a Russian-American under federal criminal investigation to make it to its stock market debut.
The move increased political scrutiny into the merger between Trump Media Technology Group and the blank-check company Digita…

Einerseits: Ich kenne kaum ein Wissensgebiet, das mich weniger stark interessiert als Volkswirtschaftslehre. Andererseits: Ich wüsste wirklich gern, was hinter der enormen Dönerpreisinflation seit dem Jahr 2022 steckt, während nämlich gleichzeitig der Preis für Lahmacun STABIL bleibt.

How OpenAI is preparing to fight lawsuits, investigations, and legislation: expanding its staff to 1,000 from 200 in 2022, hiring in-house lawyers, and more (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/09/openai-lawsui…

OpenAI prepares to fight for its life as legal troubles mount
OpenAI is playing defense amid a rush of lawsuits, investigations and potential legislation that threaten its goal of building the world’s most powerful AI.

Falcons sign former second-round CB who has not played since 2021

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons-sign-former-second-round-cb-who-has-not-play…

Falcons sign former second-round CB who has not played since 2021
Kevin King missed the 2022 and 2023 seasons due to personal reasons and an injury

I wonder, with Russian influence being so great in Austria, what about this scenario: Russia offers Austria to keep troops in bases in Austria, to protect its “neutrality”. And a right-wing led government, in power thanks to Russia-induced refugee crisis, agrees. Slovakia provides airspace and land transport corridors. Could that happen within, say, five years? (And sure, until 2022 one might well have asked the same about Finland. But I am relatively sure it wouldn’t have been possible ther…

"In a regulatory filing on Monday, Trump Media said it lost $58.2 million in 2023, compared with a profit of $50.5 million in 2022.
The Truth Social owner generated just $4.1 million in revenue, although that was up from $1.5 million in 2022.”
Honest question: how do you have $50M profit on $1.5M revenue? I seem to misunderstand the terms.

Trump’s net worth plunges $1 billion as his media stock tumbles
Truth Social owner Trump Media & Technology Group disclosed Monday that it lost more than $58 million and generated very little revenue in 2023.

Daddy daughter weekend fun in the lab.
Samples were an epoxy embedded rough-polished cross section of a rock we found in the backyard and an old Pentium 4 Willamette die that's seen better days.
She's still learning but I think is starting to get the basics of using the joystick. I don't trust her to focus quite yet, but with 5-20x LWD optics there's plenty of margin between properly focused and an objective crash so I'm not worried about her accidentally bump…

2022 retro-link! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo - From culinary dud to stud: …

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.

Aural Stories Shorts 👩‍📚📻
Dramatized drama anthology | Women focused fiction anthology series from Aural Stories.
1 seasons, 2 episodes as of Dec 22, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/aural-stories-shorts

Aural Stories Shorts 👩‍📚📻
Dramatized drama anthology | Women focused fiction anthology series from Aural Stories. 1 seasons, 2 episodes as of Dec 23, 2022.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
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#AppreciatePlantsWithASongOrPoem

This unreleased live track by Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi is just out of this world! The pads!!! Would love to experience that on a big system, but for now my AKG's will do... 😍🫠
The Memoir - Page 90: Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi (Live, 2022)
https://youtu.be/lNa6MwyVJPw?si=uaupu…

Raiders to re-sign veteran defensive lineman https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_to_re_sign_veteran_defensive_lineman/s1_14819_40118974

Raiders to re-sign veteran defensive lineman
Adam Butler is returning to Las Vegas. The defensive lineman is re-signing with the Raiders, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. It’ll be a one-year deal for the veteran. After sitting out the 2022 campaign and settling for a reserve/futures contract with the Raiders last January, Butler proceeded to have one of the most productive seasons of his career in 2023. He finished the campaign having compiled 28 tackles and five sacks, and despite not starting any of his 17 appearances, he got int…

Ukraine war latest: US reportedly prepared for potential Russian nuclear strike in Ukraine in 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/10/ukraine-war-latest.html

Umerziehung von ukrainischen Kindern in besetzten Gebieten
In den seit 2022 von Russland besetzten ukrainischen Gebieten sollen Tausende Kinder in Ferienlager verschleppt worden sein, um sie dort militärisch zu indoktrinieren. Korrespondentin Rebecca Barth hat recherchiert, wie das System funktioniert.
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Wie Russland in den besetzten Gebieten ukrainische Kinder umerzieht
Russlands Krieg in der Ukraine betrifft auch die Kleinsten: In Ferienlagern in den besetzten Gebieten werden ukrainische Kinder und Jugendliche gezielt indoktriniert und umerzogen. Von Rebecca Barth.

"E-waste is overflowing landfills. At one sprawling Vietnam market, workers recycle some of it"
#Vietnam #Technology #EWaste

How E-waste is recycled at this Vietnam market
The world is producing more electronic waste than ever — 62 million metric tons in 2022. And it's growing faster than formal efforts to recycle it. Some gets picked up by a web of low-paid workers who pull apart old laptops, scarred mobile phones, television remotes and other items to get valuable materials inside. In Vietnam, an army of mostly women waste collectors collect discarded electronic devices from homes and bins on street corners. But informal waste workers face health risks and in…

Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor #EDPS , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on #bigtech , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

#fredagsbog
Noa Tishby: Israel (FreePress, Nov 2022)

The presence of an aggressor in the one statement and the total absence of an aggressor in the other is indeed notable.
https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/112397954667657673

Zecharias Zelalem (@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social)
Attached: 2 images Utterly ridiculous from the Pulitzer Prize committee today. This Pulitzer citation supposedly honoring 🇵🇸 journos doesn't actually do so. "Journalists & media workers covering the war in Gaza" includes everyone, Palestinian or otherwise. The citation fails to mention the nationality of the journalists who "died" (euphemism which downplays the worst recorded journo slaughter), or the identity of their killers, the Israeli army. Please compare with the 2022 citation…

Automated Attack Synthesis for Constant Product Market Makers
Sujin Han, Jinseo Kim, Sung-Ju Lee, Insu Yun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05297 https://…

Automated Attack Synthesis for Constant Product Market Makers
Decentralized Finance enables many novel applications that were impossible in traditional finances. However, it also introduces new types of vulnerabilities, such as composability bugs. The composability bugs refer to issues that lead to erroneous behaviors when multiple smart contracts operate together. One typical example of composability bugs is those between token contracts and Constant Product Market Makers (CPMM), the most widely used model for Decentralized Exchanges. Since 2022, 23 expl…

Serum samples from the fall of 2023 indicate a rise in protective antibodies in the youngest...This suggests that the children have regained some of protection lost after the pandemic. It also reflects the high prevalence of infection in the 2022/2023 season.

"Trump Media auditor warns losses raise doubt about the company."
- https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-media-auditor-warns-losses-raise-doubt-company-rcna145831
All you &quot…

Trump Media auditor warns losses raise doubt about company
An auditor has raised doubts about the ability of former President Donald Trump's publicly traded company to stay in business, according to a new regulatory filing.

Das wäre n Forschungsjob für mich: den ganzen Tag den Strand langlaufen und nach Seepferdchen Ausschau halten.
Kuckmal, @… https://ard.social/@NDR/11220224202263

Clinical trial registration report 2022: data about clinical trial registration every year since 2015
https://www.hra.nhs.uk/planning-a…

Zoals jullie wel hebben gemerkt houdt het klimaat, de klimaatverandering, de klimaatcrisis me nogal bezig. En dat gaat niet alleen per website of per nieuwsbrief, maar er is ook een groot aantal echte boeken over, die ik gelezen, recht of diagonaal, of in doorgebladerde toestand in de kast heb staan. Die wil ik graag in deze maand van #Lees aan jullie opdringen 😂 Wees gerust, niet meer dan één per d…

Pacific Change Makers
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Pacific Change Makers | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Pacific Change Makers By: Lowy Institute Category: Arts Sub-Category: Local News & Stories, Management & Leadership, Performing Arts & Music First Episode: 2022 Listen to episodes of the Aus…

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 8 nodes and 31 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

2022 retro-link! https://blog.janestreet.com/magic-trace/ - Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace.

Neil Young is bringing back his music to Spotify, after the removal in January 2022, saying "Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation" (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streamin…

Neil Young Says His Music Is Returning to Spotify
Neil Young's music is returning to Spotify, says the singer-songwriter, who noted the end of the streamer's exclusive deal with Joe Rogan's podcast.

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.

Jupiter Saloon 🚀🍻🤣
Dramatized scifi comedy | This sci-fi comedy podcast takes place at a dive bar in space. Get ready for a weird cosmic adventure.
1 seasons, 4 episodes as of Sep 30, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/jupiter-saloon

Jupiter Saloon 🚀🍻🤣
Dramatized scifi comedy | This sci-fi comedy podcast takes place at a dive bar in space. Get ready for a weird cosmic adventure. 1 seasons, 4 episodes as of Oct 01, 2022.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
The Tudor period occurred between 1485 and 1603. The Reformation happened. Henry the 8th got married a few times. Let's play!

Daddy daughter weekend fun in the lab.
Samples were an epoxy embedded rough-polished cross section of a rock we found in the backyard and an old Pentium 4 Willamette die that's seen better days.
She's still learning but I think is starting to get the basics of using the joystick. I don't trust her to focus quite yet, but with 5-20x LWD optics there's plenty of margin between properly focused and an objective crash so I'm not worried about her accidentally bump…

How will the Merck settlement affect the insurance industry?

March 28, 2024 — By @… #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #Insurance

The Creepy Quadrant 🔦👀📻
Dramatized/narrated horror anthology | This fall, let’s get spooky, let’s get weird. Let’s get creepy with… THE CREEPY QUADRANT.
1 seasons, 5 episodes as of Dec 19, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/the-creepy-quadrant

The Creepy Quadrant 🔦👀📻
Dramatized/narrated horror anthology | This fall, let’s get spooky, let’s get weird. Let’s get creepy with… THE CREEPY QUADRANT. 1 seasons, 5 episodes as of Dec 20, 2022.

@…
https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke/112208959593782148#.

Phil Stooke (@PhilStooke@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander will go to a site in Mare Crisium north of the Luna 24 site. The landing site was originally one of two in Crisium considered for a geophysical network mission. My map shows both network candidate sites. The Picard site (A, B) was dropped and a site near a volcanic cone called Mons Latreille (C, D) was chosen. A hazard-free site nearby was selected via several studies in 2021-2022 (E-G). Tomorrow: the VIPER site.

🌴 DRC’s 1 billion trees program makes progress, but hurdles remain
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/drcs-1-billion-trees-program-makes-progress-but-hurdles-remain/

DRC’s 1 billion trees program makes progress, but hurdles remain
KINSHASA, Democratic Republic of Congo — Every weekend between January 2022 and December 2023, members of the nongovernmental organization Ferme Don de Dieu (FDD) planted trees on farmland in Yolo and Kinzono, on the outskirts of Mbankana, more than 140 km (87 miles) from Kinshasa. With the help of technicians from the Congolese environment ministry’s […]

2022 retro-link! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo - From culinary dud to stud: …

In Photos: Balakliia in Kharkiv Oblast, 1.5 Years After Liberation From Russian Occupation : https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/01/in-photos-balakliia.html

Neil Young is bringing back his music to Spotify, after the removal in January 2022, saying "Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation" (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streamin…

Neil Young Says His Music Is Returning to Spotify
Neil Young's music is returning to Spotify, says the singer-songwriter, who noted the end of the streamer's exclusive deal with Joe Rogan's podcast.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Hostess has mashed up Zingers and Ding Dongs. I think we can do better. Let's play!
#MashUpFoodItemsAndNameIt

2022 retro-link! https://blog.janestreet.com/magic-trace/ - Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace.

How will the Merck settlement affect the insurance industry?

March 28, 2024 — By @… #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #Insurance

Oceana: Amazon created 208M lbs of US plastic packaging waste in 2022, up 9.6% YoY: Amazon says it reduced plastic packaging use by 11.6% YoY globally in 2022 (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/4/24118295/amazon-plasti…

Amazon still has a serious plastic waste problem in the US
Amazon’s plastic waste grew in the US even as the e-commerce giant made strides to reduce waste in other countries, a new report says.

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 58 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Red Meat Village 😏🕵️😱
Dramatized mystery thriller | Destiny is missing. The only men who can find her are P.I. Tony and his partner, Reggie. Destiny’s sister, Lisa, clearly knows more than she lets on. Tony might not be the most impartial since he’s in love with Lisa. And it all seems to be connected to an underworld ...
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Red Meat Village 😏🕵️😱
Dramatized mystery thriller | Destiny is missing. The only men who can find her are P.I. Tony and his partner, Reggie. Destiny’s sister, Lisa, clearly knows more than she lets on. Tony might not be the most impartial since he’s in love with Lisa. And it all seems to be connected to an underworld drug heist. starring Catherine Bell (JAG, The Good Witch) and Malik Yoba (Cool Runnings, New York Undercover) 1 seasons, 4 episodes as of Oct 24, 2022.

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#ExplainVintageTechnology

2022 retro-link! https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2022/01/29/an-update-on-rust-coreutils - An update on rust/coreutils.

Cybertech Global and IVC: in 2023, Israeli cybersecurity exit deals grew by 65% YoY to $7.1B; total tech sector exits were ~$11B, down from $13.5B in 2022 (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cyberse

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Siblings are our best friends, worst critics and sometime enemies. Today, we celebrate them. Let's play!
#SiblingAShowOrBook

General Staff: Russia has lost 459,530 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/21/general-staff-russia.html

A profile of hacker P4x, aka Alejandro Caceres, who took down North Korea's internet in 2022 and says the US needs to wield its hacking powers more aggressively (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/p4x-north-korea-internet-hacker-iden…

Narcissa 🧠🔪🏃‍♀️
Dramatized scifi thriller series | In the future, mind readers are outlawed in Los Angeles. Sid’s true identity risks exposure when she becomes entangled in a romance with a mysterious woman named Andie. But after spending her whole life in the shadows, Sid is willing to do anything to love and b...
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Narcissa 🧠🔪🏃‍♀️
Dramatized scifi thriller series | In the future, mind readers are outlawed in Los Angeles. Sid’s true identity risks exposure when she becomes entangled in a romance with a mysterious woman named Andie. But after spending her whole life in the shadows, Sid is willing to do anything to love and be loved. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Aug 31, 2022.

2022 retro-link! https://sillycross.github.io/2022/11/22/2022-11-22/index.html - Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically!

2022 retro-link! https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2022/09/09/parallel-beziers.html - Parallel curves of cubic Béziers.

2022 retro-link! https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590b/13au/ - Slides from a lecture series on algebraic geometry for computer graphics.

Japan's FTC says Google blocked Yahoo Japan from accessing targeted ad revenue from mobile searches between 2015 and 2022; Alphabet changed its practices (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Japan Watchdog Says Google Hurt Local Rival’s Ability to Compete
Japanese antitrust regulator said Alphabet Inc.’s Google used tactics that limited Yahoo Japan’s ability to compete in targeted search ads, and it promised to keep monitoring the US firm.

Lithuanian second hand marketplace Vinted reports 2023 revenue up 61% YoY to €596.3M and a €17.8M net profit, up from a €20.4M loss in 2022 (Zosia Wanat/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/vinted-startup-lithuania-profit-news/

Vinted reaches profitability and reports 61% revenue growth last year
The Vilnius-based company is backed by some of the world’s leading VC firms, including Accel, Lightspeed, EQT and Insight Partners.

2022 retro-link! https://probablydance.com/2022/09/17/finding-the-second-bug-in-glibcs-condition-variable/ - Finding a second bug in glibc’s condition variable with TLA .

2022 retro-link! https://blog.apnic.net/2022/07/22/why-the-nro-is-defending-afrinic/ - Why the NRO is defending AFRINIC.