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General Staff: Russia has lost 481,030 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/11/general-staff-russia.html

„Der BfDI nannte den Vorgang in einem Schreiben aus dem Jahr 2022 "problematisch" und bezweifelte, dass es bei den Tests um Wissenschaft ging: "Es mangelt an einer Rechtsgrundlage." Von einer Beanstandung sah Kelber jedoch "angesichts der Komplexität der Rechtslage" ab.
Kelbers Mitarbeiter machten sich daraufhin offenbar selbst auf die Suche nach einer geeigneten Rechtsgrundlage, die den Vorgang im Nachhinein juristisch absichern könnte ...“

https://kolektiva.social/@occupy_ugent/112416733327876074

Occupy UGent (@occupy_ugent@kolektiva.social)
Attached: 1 image CONCERT OP DE #STUDENTENBEZETTING - zaterdagavond, 19u30! Waarom mag #Isreal meedoen met het #Eurovisie-songfestival, ondanks tientallen jaren van #oorlogsmisdaden, #kolonialisme en de #genocide in #gaza Het excuus van de organisatie is dat Eurovisie een "apolitiek muziekgebeuren" is en "geen wedstrijd tussen overheden". Maar deze "niet-politieke"-natuur hinderde om Rusland te verbannen in 2022 bij de inval van Oekraine. Op deze hypocrisie aan te vechten, sluiten we aan b…

Jackie the Ripper 🔪😂🎙
Dramatized comedy thriller | The infamous Whitechapel murders, retold.
3 seasons, 15 episodes as of Nov 03, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/jackie-the-ripper

Jackie the Ripper 🔪😂🎙
Dramatized comedy thriller | The infamous Whitechapel murders, retold. 3 seasons, 15 episodes as of Nov 04, 2022.

Go to jail. Go directly to Jail. Do NOT pass Go. Do Not collect $200
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68992372

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…

"Der schon verblassende Hype der Digital Humanities"? 🤨
– Rezension zu "Information. A reader" & "Information. Keywords": https://doi.org/10.1515/iwp-2023-2031

General Staff: Russia has lost 479,710 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/10/general-staff-russia.html

Google says it is discontinuing its Google One VPN due to a lack of use; Google's free Pixel VPN that debuted in 2022 with the Pixel 7 will remain unchanged (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/04/11/google-one-vpn-discontinued/

Google One VPN will be discontinued, Pixel VPN remains with upgrade coming
Google announced today that VPN by Google One is shutting down in the coming months. Back in October of 2020...

On Sept. 22, 2022, Venezuelan authorities spotted a hard-to-miss figure at Simón Bolívar International Airport, about to board a flight to Russia.
Leonard Glenn Francis,
known widely as “Fat Leonard,”
was 6-foot-3 and 350 pounds
—and was among Washington’s most wanted after escaping custody in California two weeks earlier.
The 57-year-old Malaysian felon was enormous, rich, and charming.
He was also at the center of one of the worst corruption and espion…

“Fat Leonard,” the Navy bribery scandal involving more than 60 admirals, explained
It involves fancy dinners, prostitutes, and lots of alcohol.

#Lees Rachel Carson: De Zee, AP&VG 2022. Rachel Carson kent u wel, maar dan van het boek Silent Spring uit 1962, het ‘eerste’ boek over de gevolgen van ongebreideld pesticidegebruik. Dat was toen schokkend en het heeft nog steeds niet echt geholpen, maar ja. Ze was marien bioloog en schreef dit al in 1950 om te tonen hoe belangrijk de zee voor ons en de planeet is en dat geldt nu, tijdens de kli…

Eurovision
2022: invading Russia banned. Ukraine wins - voted as a political statement.
2024: invading, genocidal Israel not banned, reaches final as a result of vote we are told isn't at all political.

Mit 300 Leuten zweimal von Europa nach Australien und zurück fliegen ist gemeinschaftlicher Mord an einem Menschen.
#AmBodenBleiben #StayGrounded

Remember last month when I chickened out the morning of my #ThyroidBiopsy & rescheduled it?
It was rescheduled for tomorrow, May 10.
Will I go?
I guess we all shall see. 😣

Going pro.
“The league is partnering with Delta Air Lines to carry out the expanded program. It said it raised $75 million in 2022 for ‘marketing, digital transformation, globalization, and fan engagement.’”
#WNBA #Delta

Romanian police: 11,000 Ukrainian men have illegally crossed border into Romania since February 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/10/romanian-police-ukrainian.html

".. according to the stat-tracking website FanGraphs, the average fastball in Major League Baseball was about 89 mph in 2002. A decade later, it had jumped to 91.6 mph. In 2022, it was 93.6 mph. Last year, the Minnesota Twins reliever Jhoan Duran led the MLB with an average fastball velocity of 101.8 mph." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/04/are-pitchers-pitching-too-hard/678010/

Seeds 🙈🙉🙊
Dramatized scifi mystery | When the first murderer in Silitra’s fifteen-year history is sentenced to hang, Alicia August, the town’s only journalist uncovers incongruencies in the case. In her search for answers, Alicia falls under the ire of authorities and must find the truth before they silenc...
https://www.the…

Seeds 🙈🙉🙊
Dramatized scifi mystery | When the first murderer in Silitra’s fifteen-year history is sentenced to hang, Alicia August, the town’s only journalist uncovers incongruencies in the case. In her search for answers, Alicia falls under the ire of authorities and must find the truth before they silence her for good. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Sep 15, 2022.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19310 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Does Whisper understand Swiss German? An automatic, qualitative, and human evaluation
Whisper is a state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) model (Radford et al., 2022). Although Swiss German dialects are allegedly not part of Whisper's training data, preliminary experiments showed that Whisper can transcribe Swiss German quite well, with the output being a speech translation into Standard German. To gain a better understanding of Whisper's performance on Swiss German, we systematically evaluate it using automatic, qualitative, and human evaluation. We test its perfor…

Das ist der schlauste FOCUS Artikel den Ich je gelesen habe.

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.

Teen pregnancy correlates with poverty. Having a significantly older boyfriend does too. It's actually logical and reasonable. We need to eliminate poverty.
This is from the excellent Hines & Finkelhor meta study.
full text: …

Handy Oscar™ guide:
Awards are not for recognizing excellence. They are for upholding the status quo & consolidating power.
The Academy has greatly improved diversity in the last ten years, but it is still (as of 2022) 81% white, 67% men.
People vote for the thing which reflects their interests.
#Oscars2024

I know this week’s #MusicWomenWednesday has passed, but I can’t get this Patti Smith song out of my head tonight, so I’ll share it! I love her, & I love this song. #AllThatGlittersIsNot

TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 16.5% YoY to $18.5B and expects revenue to grow at least 20% in 2024, reversing 2023's slight decline, and budgets capex of $28B-$32B (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

TSMC’s Sales Surge Most Since 2022 After Riding AI Chip Boom
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s quarterly revenue grew at its fastest pace in more than a year, shoring up expectations that a global boom in AI development is fueling demand for high-end chips and servers.

7 Suspects 🗡️😵🤖
Dramatized mystery/whodunnit | An entrepreneur was murdered in his mountain home. Seven suspects were present, but the police were unable to solve the case. Desperate for closure, the widow reaches out to a pragmatic reporter with a simple request: interview each suspect, compare their stories, a...
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7 Suspects 🗡️😵🤖
Dramatized mystery/whodunnit | An entrepreneur was murdered in his mountain home. Seven suspects were present, but the police were unable to solve the case. Desperate for closure, the widow reaches out to a pragmatic reporter with a simple request: interview each suspect, compare their stories, and find out who’s lying. 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Sep 01, 2022.

US Asked China and India to Help Prevent Russian Nuclear Strike: CNN
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-asked-non-allies-prevent-russia-using-nuclear-weapons-report-2024-3

US asked China and India to help prevent Russian nuclear strike: CNN
An official told CNN that input from the likes of India, China, and others in 2022 "may have had some effect" on Russia's thinking.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
What happens when romantic comedies meet horror? Let's play!
#MashUpRomComsAndHorrorFilms

"In 2022, a study showed that the proportion of working-class artists had shrunk from 16.4% for those born between 1953 and 1962 to just 7.9% for those born four decades later. The research found that people who grew up in professional families were now four times more likely than those with working-class parents to be in creative work."

Determining the population of Large Meteoroids in Major Meteor Showers
Kasia Wisniewski, Peter Brown, Danielle Moser, Randy Longenbaugh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05788

Determining the population of Large Meteoroids in Major Meteor Showers
We have estimated the largest meteoroids present in major meteor showers from observations conducted between 2019-2022 by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument on the GOES-R satellites. Our integrated time area products for the Leonids, Perseids and eta Aquariids are of order 5 x 10^10 km2 hours. We compute photometric masses for shower fireballs using the approach of Vojacek et al. 2022 to correct from narrow-band GLM luminosity to bolometric luminosity and apply the luminous eff…

"Someone could do a study of this and present facts, but nobody has. I certainly won't. There's no reason to bother. The requirement that you demonstrate a factual basis for your claim vanished long ago."
#medialiteracy #michaelcrichton
https://blog.teledyn.com/2022/07/why-speculate-talk-by-michael-crichton.html?m=1

✍️ 2023: By The Numbers
After being stalled for several months whilst life happened, I've finally hit publish on my 2023 data review/collation.
Less of a narrative-driven approach this year, and more of a raw data feel. It made it easier to write (2022's post remains a Draft 😅) but also created a format closer to the dashboard I ultimately want. Plus, I could capture more data, from more varied sources, more easily.
#IndieWeb #YearInReview

Marketing Mentors Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Marketing Mentors | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Marketing Mentors Podcast Hosts: Tash Dal Bianco and Linda D’Amico Category: Business Sub-Category: Careers, Marketing & Social Media First Episode: 2022 Imposter Syndrome. It’s something we’…

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…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09438 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

Recurrence analysis of meteorological data from climate zones in India
We present a study on the spatio-temporal pattern underlying the climate dynamics in various locations spread over India, including the Himalayan region, coastal region, central and northeastern parts of India. We try to capture the variations in the complexity of their dynamics derived from temperature and relative humidity data from 1948-2022. By estimating the recurrence-based measures from the reconstructed phase space dynamics using a sliding window analysis on the data sets, we study the …

Moriarty: The Devil's Game 🕵️‍♂️😈🎲
Dramatized thriller | What if Sherlock Holmes’ most villainous nemesis was actually an innocent man? One of literature’s most famous rivalries gets turned on its head, recasting Professor James Moriarty as a desperate fugitive framed for murder. Listen closely - and assume nothing. The game is af...

Moriarty: The Devil's Game 🕵️‍♂️😈🎲
Dramatized thriller | What if Sherlock Holmes’ most villainous nemesis was actually an innocent man? One of literature’s most famous rivalries gets turned on its head, recasting Professor James Moriarty as a desperate fugitive framed for murder. Listen closely - and assume nothing. The game is afoot. 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Jun 07, 2022.

Shmyhal: Russian attacks have damaged over 800 heating facilities in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/09/shmyhal-russian-attacks.html

2024 Super Bowl: Postseason overtime rules means it is better to give than receive

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-super-bowl-pos…

2024 Super Bowl: Postseason overtime rules means it is better to give than receive
The epic and controversial Bills-Chiefs playoff overtime game in 2022 was a driving force in the change

I know this week’s #MusicWomenWednesday has passed, but I can’t get this Patti Smith song out of my head tonight, so I’ll share it! I love her, & I love this song. #AllThatGlittersIsNot

Ein Ladegrät zieht auch Strom, wenn es gerade kein Handy lädt.
Das sind pro Jahr ca. 1 € oder 2,5 kW/h Strom
Bei 5 Ladegeräten in der Familie eine recht kleine Summe, bei 11.600.000 Mio Familien in Deutschland gehts ins Geld und CO2, denn 434 Gramm CO2 pro erzeugter kW/h ensteht im deutschen Strommix 2022.
Einsparpotential: 12586000 kg CO2 oder 12586 Tonnen CO2
#Fedi rechnet n…

Raiders Sign Six Draft Picks Including TE Brock Bowers https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_sign_six_draft_picks_including_te_brock_bowers/s1_17039_40345459

Raiders Sign Six Draft Picks Including TE Brock Bowers
The Las Vegas Raiders announced they’ve signed six of their 2024 draft picks, including TE Brock Bowers. Bowers, 21, was a three-year starter at Georgia and won the John Mackey Award for being the best tight end in college football in 2022 and 2023. He was a Unanimous All-American in 2023, first-team All-American honors in 2022, and second-team All-American in 2021. He also earned first-team All-SEC for all three years of his college career. The Raiders used the No. 13 pick in the 2024 draft …

Duolingo drops 10% after reporting DAUs up 55% YoY to 31.4M, above 31.1M est., gaining users at the slowest rate since Q3 2022, and revenue up 45% YoY to $168M (Gabriel Sanchez/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Lipstick on a Pig: learning the most important lesson in design
https://ar.al/2022/08/17/lipstick-on-a-pig/
I wrote this a couple of years ago and I highly recommend that designers/developers read it. There’s also a talk I gave over a decade ago embedded in there that…

Lipstick on a Pig: learning the most important lesson in design
I just released a little tool called Lipstick on a Pig that helps keep the visual appearance of supported command-line applications in sync with the current light/dark mode setting (colour scheme) of your system in GNOME. But why is this tool even necessary to begin with? Let’s start at the beginning… Getting to GNOME you The GNOME display environment1, since version 42, implements support for light and dark appearance styles (aka colour schemes).

Time for a #Covid stats update! Aussie actuarials just dropped their annual update last week — big thanks to @… — your approach is a gold standard.
Link here:

Excess Mortality 5% Higher Than Pre-Pandemic Expectations for 2023 - Actuaries Digital
Total excess mortality for 2023 is 5% (95% confidence interval: 3% to 7%) or +8,400 deaths – i.e., there were 8,400 more deaths than expected if the pandemic had not happened.

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.

A Vietnamese court sentenced real estate tycoon Truong My Lan to death for her role in a $12 billion fraud case, underscoring the Communist Party’s determination to crack down on corruption.
Lan, 67, the chairwoman of Van Thinh Phat Group, was arrested in 2022 and eventually faced charges including bribery of government officials and violation of bank lending rules.

The main case against her was that she embezzled funds from Saigon Commercial Bank between February 2018 and …

General Staff: Russia has lost 478,730 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/09/general-staff-russia.html

The Nightstar Specters 🧠🫀🔎
Dramatized horror thriller | In October of 1929, a witless vampire and a pompous detective set out to prove their intelligence by solving a bloodsucking murder in the hamlet of Nightstar, NY. It’s a mysterious mystery that’s not really about the mystery.
1 seasons, 5 episodes as of Oct 26, 2022.
h…

The Nightstar Specters 🧠🫀🔎
Dramatized horror thriller | In October of 1929, a witless vampire and a pompous detective set out to prove their intelligence by solving a bloodsucking murder in the hamlet of Nightstar, NY. It’s a mysterious mystery that’s not really about the mystery. 1 seasons, 5 episodes as of Oct 27, 2022.

If you don’t vote, you won’t get to vote.
I don’t know what the law looks like in each state, but in Wyoming, if you don’t show up to vote, they’ll immediately disenfranchise you.
“Wyoming law has long required county clerks to purge voter rolls each February, a process that involves removing voters who did not cast a ballot in the most recent election.”

Wyoming voids 28% of its voter registrations in mandatory purge
While it’s not unusual for voter rolls to fluctuate, local election officials want residents to know that anyone who didn’t vote in the 2022 general election must register again to vote in 2024.

Chrissie Hynde #MusicWomenWednesday #Pretenders https://youtu.be/3YA3hZEDPNI?si=UBpH1N

Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions of rape and incest to abortion ban | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/louisiana-lawmakers-reject-adding-exceptions-of-rape-and-incest-to-abortion-ban/…

Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions of rape and incest to abortion ban
A study found that between July 2022 and January 2024, there were more than 64,000 pregnancies resulting from rape in states where abortion has been banned in all or most cases.

Russland will Untersuchungen zu Nord-Stream-Pipeline vorantreiben
Das russische Außenministerium hat betont, Moskau werde seine Bemühungen fortsetzen, um eine "faire und ordnungsgemäße Untersuchung" der Explosionen in der Nord Stream-Gaspipeline im September 2022 sicherzustellen. Das Ministerium kritisierte, dass sowohl Schweden als auch Dänemark, die ihre Ermittlungen zu den Explosionen Anfang des Jahres beendet haben, es ab…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine lässt Häftlinge in Armee zu ++
Ein neues Gesetz in der Ukraine ermöglicht den Einsatz von Häftlingen an der Front. Russland hat nach eigenen Angaben zwei weitere ukrainische Dörfer eingenommen. Die Entwicklungen vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen.

Looking back at "Deep Learning is Hitting a Wall", a 2022 post ridiculed by Sam Altman and others, it still seems that a paradigm shift is needed to attain AGI (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/two-years-later-deep-learning-i…

Two years later, deep learning is still faced with the same fundamental challenges
Report card on an infamous paper.

✍️ 2023: By The Numbers
After being stalled for several months whilst life happened, I've finally hit publish on my 2023 data review/collation.
Less of a narrative-driven approach this year, and more of a raw data feel. It made it easier to write (2022's post remains a Draft 😅) but also created a format closer to the dashboard I ultimately want. Plus, I could capture more data, from more varied sources, more easily.
#IndieWeb #YearInReview

In Connecticut immunization rates have risen for two straight years,
exceeding pre-pandemic levels.
During the 2022-2023 school year, more than 97 percent of Connecticut kindergartners were vaccinated against measles,
up from 95.7 percent the year before and 95.3 percent the year before that.
Why?
The answer can be found in a 2021 law that ⭐️eliminated the state’s religious exemption to vaccination.⭐️
Immunization rates of 95 percent or higher are requi…

Good News! Connecticut Eliminates Religious Exemptions for Vaccines
In recent years, religious freedom has been used to undermine public schools and public health. This trend damages communities and endangers children. In the following post, an authority praises Co…

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.

General Staff: Russia has lost 450,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/11/general-staff-russia.html

Platform Science, which provides connected vehicle tools for enterprise fleets, raised $125M from 8VC, Prologis, and others, taking its total funding to $309M (Grace Sharkey/FreightWaves)
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/platform-science-s…

Platform Science secures $125M to grow OEM partnerships
The company last announced its Series C raise in 2022, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 for $115 million, valuing the company at $575 million. Platform Science has raised $309 million since 2017.

L7 #MusicWomenWednesday #FastAndFrightening https://youtu.be/e3PJkciaQAU?si=4fFRrQ

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

Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks and was valued at $5B in April 2022, has laid off 382 employees, or 32% of its workforce (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/checkr-layoffs/

Exclusive: Checkr, the background-screening platform last valued at $5 billion, cuts 32% of workforce
Checkr, a 10-year-old startup that offers employee background checks, has laid off 382 employees — 32% of its workforce.

General Staff: Russia has lost 477,430 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/08/general-staff-russia.html

Bears repeating (from 2022)
The Religious Right and the Abortion Myth - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/10/abortion-history-right-white-evangelical-1970s-00031480

How Ukraine found US startups' drones glitchy and pricey, turning instead to cheaper Chinese drones; PitchBook: ~300 US drone startups raised $2.5B since 2022 (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/ho…

The Coach 🧔🏽‍♂️💖🤣
Dramatized LGBTQ Comedy | A former life coach navigates a host of zany clients, all while “life-coaching” his own journey.
POC, Queer, Life-Coach
1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Sep 28, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/the-coach

The Coach 🧔🏽‍♂️💖🤣
Dramatized LGBTQ+ Comedy | A former life coach navigates a host of zany clients, all while “life-coaching” his own journey. POC, Queer, Life-Coach 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Sep 29, 2022.

General Staff: Russia has lost 476,460 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/general-staff-russia.html

Guesty, a platform for accommodation managers to manage Airbnbs and more, raised $130M, sources say at a $900M valuation, after raising a $170M Series E in 2022 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/10/gues<…

Guesty snaps up $130M at $900M valuation to help property managers list on Airbnb and beyond | TechCrunch
Travel and tourism are very much back on the map for consumers and the business world. Now, to underscore that surge, one of the startups building

Modem Prometheus 🌕👻📡
Narrated urban fantasy | A podcast of modern folktales. These are the stories of the kerbside, the transmitter mast, the shadows between buildings
LGBT, POC, Mental health-focused
1 seasons, 12 episodes as of Sep 09, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/modem-prometh

Modem Prometheus 🌕👻📡
Narrated urban fantasy | A podcast of modern folktales. These are the stories of the kerbside, the transmitter mast, the shadows between buildings LGBT, POC, Mental health-focused 1 seasons, 12 episodes as of Sep 10, 2022.

General Staff: Russia has lost 474,260 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/05/general-staff-russia.html

Nazi Billionaires:
The Dark History of Germany’s Wealthiest Dynasties.
By David de Jong. Mariner Books
https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/04/30/the-german-industrialists-who-aided-and-abetted-the-nazi-re…

The German industrialists who aided and abetted the Nazi regime
“The ghosts of the Third Reich still haunt” many German businesses, David de Jong argues

Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to acquire Graphcore, a struggling UK-based chip startup once valued at $2.8B that reported just $2.7M in 2022 revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

The Silt Verses 🦀😱🌊
Dramatized horror | Two worshippers of an outlawed god travel up their deity’s great black river, searching for holy revelations. As their pilgrimage lengthens and mysteries deepen, the two face threat from a police manhunt and the weirder gods that have flourished in these forgotten rural territ...
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The Silt Verses 🦀😱🌊
Dramatized horror | Two worshippers of an outlawed god travel up their deity’s great black river, searching for holy revelations. As their pilgrimage lengthens and mysteries deepen, the two face threat from a police manhunt and the weirder gods that have flourished in these forgotten rural territories. 2 seasons, 29 episodes as of Oct 17, 2022.

Lyft reports Q1 revenue up 28% YoY to $1.3B, a $31.5M net loss, gross bookings up 21%, active riders growing at the fastest pace since 2022, up 12% YoY to 21.9M (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05…

Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga 🧛‍♀️🩸🎼
Dramatized thriller | Shocked by his sire’s murder, young vampire Titus Reed returns to the city. He reopens the case and vows to hunt down the real killer while confronting his violent past, the Second Inquisition, and the politics of Port Saga.
LGBTQIA representation and story. Award-winning....

Vampire: The Masquerade Port Saga 🧛‍♀️🩸🎼
Dramatized thriller | Shocked by his sire’s murder, young vampire Titus Reed returns to the city. He reopens the case and vows to hunt down the real killer while confronting his violent past, the Second Inquisition, and the politics of Port Saga. LGBTQIA+ representation and story. Award-winning. 2 seasons, 20 episodes as of Nov 10, 2022.

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

Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama 🔍🌃☕
Dramatized ubran fantasy thriller | Sebastian Fen finds himself entangled in a series of unexplainable events in Echor City, from the conspiracies surrounding the biotechnology giant Augur Corp to the secrets of the magical anomalies that transform those who encounter them into the stuff of night...

Night Shift: An Urban Fantasy Audio Drama 🔍🌃☕
Dramatized ubran fantasy thriller | Sebastian Fen finds himself entangled in a series of unexplainable events in Echor City, from the conspiracies surrounding the biotechnology giant Augur Corp to the secrets of the magical anomalies that transform those who encounter them into the stuff of nightmares… 1 seasons, 16 episodes as of Nov 11, 2022.

Media: Russian Su-30 producer buys back over $400 million of own equipment in past 2 years: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/media-russian-su.html

The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program 🙀😈💖
Role-playing horror comedy | What dark deeds unfold on the streets of Arkham? Which unwitting souls will succumb to the maddening call… OF CTHULHU?Unlikely heroes from all walks of life risk their sanity to keep the world spinning as they face down eldritch nightmares, unholy rituals, kindly crea...
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The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program 🙀😈💖
Role-playing horror comedy | What dark deeds unfold on the streets of Arkham? Which unwitting souls will succumb to the maddening call… OF CTHULHU?Unlikely heroes from all walks of life risk their sanity to keep the world spinning as they face down eldritch nightmares, unholy rituals, kindly creatures, and monstrous humans. 4 seasons, 31 episodes as of Nov 09, 2022.

General Staff: Russia has lost 473,400 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/04/general-staff-russia.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 475,300 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/general-staff-russia.html

The Night's End - Season 3 finale 🎙️🌌🔥
Narrated horror anthology | Total listening time: 33h 49m
A short story podcast with a focus on dark fiction that will leave you screaming for the night‘s end before each story is through.
#AudioFiction #FictionPodcast

The Night's End - Season 3 finale 🎙️🌌🔥
Narrated horror anthology | Total listening time: 33h 49m A short story podcast with a focus on dark fiction that will leave you screaming for the night‘s end before each story is through. 3 seasons, 85 episodes as of Dec 16, 2022.

Creepy Twisted Asians ✈️🧹👿
Dramatized horror anthology | The following anthology series contains diabolical characters, goosebump-inducing soundscapes, and chilling performances from Malaysia’s creative community.
Malaysian stories
1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Oct 09, 2022.
https://www.thee…

Creepy Twisted Asians ✈️🧹👿
Dramatized horror anthology | The following anthology series contains diabolical characters, goosebump-inducing soundscapes, and chilling performances from Malaysia’s creative community. Malaysian stories 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Oct 10, 2022.

CSET: global AI research more than doubled between 2017 and 2022; Chinese Academy of Sciences was the top producer of highly cited AI papers, followed by Google (Alison Snyder/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/03/ai-race-china-us-research

Exclusive: Inside the AI research boom
The findings reveal important nuances about the global AI race between the U.S. and China.

Ukraine charges 2 Russian soldiers with murdering civilian in Bucha in 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/05/ukraine-charges-russian.html

Two teenagers were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating deepfake nudes of classmates, in what appears to be the first such criminal case (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/florida-teens-arrested-deepfake-nudes-clas…

Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates
In what appears to be the first criminal case of its kind, two teenage boys were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating AI-generated images depicting middle school classmates.

International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Russian military commanders: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/05/international-criminal-court.html

US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google’s Payments to Apple Reached $20 Billion in 2022, Cue Says
Alphabet Inc. paid Apple Inc. $20 billion in 2022 for Google to be the default search engine in the Safari browser, according to newly unsealed court documents in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google.

Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself.
1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 12, 2022.
https://www.

Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself. 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 13, 2022.

General Staff: Russia has lost 470,870 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/general-staff-russia.html

Cybersecurity asset management service Axonius raised a $200M extension led by Lightspeed and Accel to its $200M Series E from 2022 at a flat $2.6B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/axon

Axonius, a specialist in cyber asset managment, secures $200M at a flat $2.6B valuation | TechCrunch
Axonius, one of the bigger players in the world of enterprise asset management -- understanding and monitoring the digital assets and infrastructure that

Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself.
1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 12, 2022.
https://www.

Fulmar's Folly 😱😢💀
Dramatized scifi series | Two years after civilisation has collapsed from a zombie-like pandemic, the Cooper family aboard the Fulmar's Folly fights extreme pressures to survive against hostile survivors, the infected, and the sea itself. 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Mar 13, 2022.

Cybersecurity asset management service Axonius raised a $200M extension led by Lightspeed and Accel to its $200M Series E from 2022 at a flat $2.6B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/axon

Axonius, a specialist in cyber asset managment, secures $200M at a flat $2.6B valuation | TechCrunch
Axonius, one of the bigger players in the world of enterprise asset management -- understanding and monitoring the digital assets and infrastructure that

How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters.
3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 11, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/sh…

How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters. 3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 12, 2022.

What to expect from Apple's May 7 event: new iPad Pros, possibly with M4 chips, updated iPad Air and Pencil, but AI features may not get a "formal unveiling" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles…

Apple iPad Event 2024: New iPad Pro, Air, Magic Keyboard, Pencil Coming May 7
Company gears up to update its tablets for the first time since 2022

How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters.
3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 11, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/sh…

How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters. 3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 12, 2022.

German company to deliver 6 more TRML-4D radars to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/03/german-company-to.html

Wooden Overcoats 😂😜⚰️
Dramatized comedy series | Total listening time: 21h 36m
Rudyard Funn and his equally miserable sister Antigone run a failing funeral parlour, where they get the body in the coffin in the ground on time. But one day they find a new competitor. With their dogsbody Georgie and a mouse called Madel...
https://w…

Wooden Overcoats 😂😜⚰️
Dramatized comedy series | Total listening time: 21h 36m Rudyard Funn and his equally miserable sister Antigone run a failing funeral parlour, where they get the body in the coffin in the ground on time. But one day they find a new competitor. With their dogsbody Georgie and a mouse called Madeleine, they are taking drastic steps to stay in business... 4 seasons, 34 episodes as of Mar 31, 2022.