2024-05-09 17:59:31
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. 😣
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. 😣
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/
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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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
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.
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…
Raiders to release former first-round pick https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_to_release_former_first_round_pick/s1_14819_40081613
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…
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…
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…
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.
1956: Eurovisió (ESC) es crea com un concurs per tal de compartir música i cultura, inclús en temps de guerra i rivalitats entre països
2022: Rússia, amb Bielorússia, envaeix Ucraïna
ESC: Expulsa a Rússia i Bielorússia del concurs (mig-)causant una victòria d’Ucraïna
2023: Israel destrueix i causa un genocidi indiscriminat a Gaza (Palestina)
ESC: No toca a Israel del concurs i rebutja incloure-hi Palestina
Per si algú encara no tenia tot clar que a Eurovisió hi ha…
Report: Raiders to release DT Jerry Tillery https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_raiders_to_release_dt_jerry_tillery/s1_17049_40081489
Wake Of Corrosion 😱🔥🪖
Dramatized scifi series | Total listening time: 9h 45m
A UK-based audio drama set in a nightmare-ridden apocalyptic world. An unknown horror grips the country, forcing most of the remaining population into shelter. Tune into the broadcasts from Bunker A:12 and join Professor Ryan as he endeavour...
https://…
Meanwhile on Normal Island, the extremely corrupt and beleaguered regime fails to vote for itself.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english…
Hab in 2024 jetzt schon 36 Bücher komplett gelesen zusätzlich 9 Stück nach verschiedenen Leselängen abgebrochen... echt krass. In 2023 habe ich ca. 50 Bücher komplett gelesen in 2022 etwa 30, insofern bin ich echt hart am Bücherwurmen - und es tut mir wahnsinnig [!] gut.
Die Zeit dafür hab ich, weil ich aktuell ansonsten kein einziges regelmäßiges Hobby hab, keinen Sport mache und auch etwas weniger Netflix und quasi keine Mediatheksinhalte gucke, würde ich sagen. Gibt halt wichtig…
"This work shows that a #decentralized approach to #moderation can lead to higher content reliability on #socialmedia. This approach is also more efficient and scalable than centralized moderation…
UTA Filing Reveals It Paid $55M For UK Agency Curtis Brown, Fueling 12-Fold Surge In Sales
https://deadline.com/2024/03/uta-curtis-brown-deal-value-financial-earnings-1235844641/
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
1956: Eurovisió (ESC) es crea com un concurs per tal de compartir música i cultura, inclús en temps de guerra i rivalitats entre països
2022: Rússia, amb Bielorússia, envaeix Ucraïna
ESC: Expulsa a Rússia i Bielorússia del concurs (mig-)causant una victòria d’Ucraïna
2023: Israel destrueix i causa un genocidi indiscriminat a Gaza (Palestina)
ESC: No toca a Israel del concurs i rebutja incloure-hi Palestina
Per si algú encara no tenia tot clar que a Eurovisió hi ha…
Eben gleich 2 "wie toll ist das denn!?" Momente am #klexenhaus: Erst entdeckt, dass sich eine Wildbiene offenbar entschied, in nem Brett meines Holzschuppens leben zu wollen (hab nur noch den Po erwischt), dann blüht der 2022 von Sarah geschenkte gleichnamige Flieder erstmals!🤩
#bloomscrolling
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.08690 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1's #EarlyBreakfast
Black Legend:
🎵 You See The Trouble With Me
#BBCR1 #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
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19518 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…
16WW Electricity Usage Manual Snapshot (2022-08) - A data sample for a research project into how to make best use of shared PV generation. - https://m.earth.org.uk/electricity-usage-snapshot-202208.html
OTD in 2022, #PutinWarCriminal invaded Ukraine for the second time. Despite the imbalance of respective forces, Ukrainian soldiers fought like lions and kept ruZZia from taking Kyiv.
If you care about your children, or even about yourself, don't let this happen, help Ukraine. Write to your representatives, send money, protest in the streets, side with Ukraine!
Ukraine paid …
#nordstadtblogger Das Bündnis „Genug ist Genug-#Dortmund“, welches aus den sozialen Bewegungen im Zuge der Energiekrise im Herbst 2022 hervorgegangen ist, ruft zur Kundgebung am 26. März 2024 um 17.30 Uhr gegen die geplanten
Covariant formulation of electrodynamics in isotropic media revisited
D V Red\v{z}i\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01346 https://a…
In the words of Max Karson "16 year olds are retards"
Why don't we just give them basic human respect?
Let's stop treating teens like shit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/23/health/mental-health-crisis-teens.html
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01104 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a
TransLink set to receive $300M from B.C. for more buses, extra service
From City News
By Charlie Carey and Pippa Norman and Monika Gul
Posted April 17, 2024 12:08 pm.
Last Updated April 17, 2024 8:31 pm.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/04/
General Staff: Russia has lost 461,060 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/23/general-staff-russia.html
Potential landing spots for Russell Wilson after pending release from Broncos https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/potential_landing_spots_for_russell_wilson_after_pending_release_from_broncos/s1_…
Gestern stellte die Untersuchungskommission der UN ihre Ergebnisse zu den Frau, Leben, Freiheit-Protesten im Iran vor. Sie stellt "ungeheuerliche" Menschenrechtsverletzungen fest, Tötungen, sexualisierte Gewalt in Haft und vieles mehr. Hier ein Bericht: https://
Nur weil gerade alle wieder über Autos reden, möchte ich mal wieder auf einen Blog-Post von mir hinweisen, der inzwischen auch schon fast zwei Jahre alt ist.
Damals habe ich gezeigt, dass allein schon die Herstellung eines großen SUVs das Restbudget an CO2 aufbraucht, das jeder persönlich hat.
Die aktuellen Zahlen habe ich nicht. Müsste man noch mal neu ausrechnen. Es ist aber klar, dass wir in den letzten Jahr weiter CO2 ausgestoßen haben, so dass wir sehr nah an der Grenze sind. Die Produktion neuer Autos ist also keine Option. Also es ist schon eine. Leider. Aber es ist die falsche.
#Tesla #autofrei
faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …
I still very clearly remember all the credulous vote blue people telling me 3 years ago how great Biden's climate plan was. Now, after the obvious bait-and-switch, US is producing more oil than any other country ever.
https://www.washingtonpost.c…
NEOMOD 3: The Debiased Size Distribution of Near Earth Objects
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, Frank Shelly, Rogerio Deienno, William F. Bottke, Carson Fuls, Robert Jedicke, Shantanu Naidu, Steven R. Chesley, Paul W. Chodas, Davide Farnocchia, Marco Delbo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18805…
The value of non-traditional credentials in the labor market
Susan Athey, Emil Palikot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00247 https://arxiv…
Cowboys’ backup TE group fell short in 2023 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_backup_te_group_fell_short_in_2023/s1_17100_40030463
#wkcr is reporting a big protest just outside #columbia campus at 116/Amsterdam protesting the continued #nypd presence on campus
“We want justice
… do you know how…
Get those cops off campus now
…
We want justice
…
do you know how…
…
Unsuspend our students now”
#columbiauniversity president shafik wants cops to maintain their takeover through May 17. #nyc
FYI nypd spend $2.2 billion on overtime in 2022. Mayor Adams took our Sunday library services away to save $60 million.
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
Wake Of Corrosion - Final season coming soon 😱🔥🪖
Dramatized scifi series | Total listening time: 9h 45m
A UK-based audio drama set in a nightmare-ridden apocalyptic world. An unknown horror grips the country, forcing most of the remaining population into shelter. Tune into the broadcasts from Bunker A:12 and join Professor Ryan as he endeavour...
Bird of the Day — Nashville Warbler, Kansas 2022
Finding the sun
#Nature #NaturePhotography #Birds #Wildlife
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.01104 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a
Inflation bleibt hoch - Seit 2022 gingen zehn Mrd. Euro Kaufkraft verloren #News #Nachrichten
A partnership with no limits... like, no limits... how?
#xijinping #putin #nolimits
Im #Iran zahlten sie mit ihrem Augenlicht. Denn das Regime ließ gezielt auf ihre Augen schiessen. Manche sind nun in Deutschland.
„Ich werde ihnen immer helfen“ https://iranjournal.org/politik/iran-p
Davante Adams reflects on trade request and talks about Love's performance with the Packers https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/davante_adams_reflects_on_trade_request_and_talks_…
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!
Wake Of Corrosion - Final season coming soon 😱🔥🪖
Dramatized scifi series | Total listening time: 9h 45m
A UK-based audio drama set in a nightmare-ridden apocalyptic world. An unknown horror grips the country, forcing most of the remaining population into shelter. Tune into the broadcasts from Bunker A:12 and join Professor Ryan as he endeavour...
Strand nördlich von Porto, Portugal 2022
Beach north of Porto, Portugal 2022
Praia de Memoria
#meermittwoch in the late afternoon
RT by @Khani2Mina: Happy freedom anniversary 🕊️
On March 16, 2022 Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori were reunited with their families in UK. Nazanin spent 6 years, Anoosheh 4.5 years as a hostage in Iran. #EndHostageDiplomacy #FreeNahid
Quelle:
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.10899 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…
Measurements of All-Particle Energy Spectrum and Mean Logarithmic Mass of Cosmic Rays from 0.3 to 30 PeV with LHAASO-KM2A
The LHAASO Collaboration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Q. An, A. Axikegu, Y. X. Bai, Y. W. Bao, D. Bastieri, X. J. Bi, Y. J. Bi, J. T. Cai, Q. Cao, W. Y. Cao, Zhe Cao, J. Chang, J. F. Chang, A. M. Chen, E. S. Chen, Liang Chen, Lin Chen, Long Chen, M. J. Chen, M. L. Chen, Q. H. Chen, S. H. Chen, S. Z. Chen, T. L. Chen, Y. Chen, N. Cheng, Y. D. Cheng, M. Y. Cui, S. W. Cui,…
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
KOKOROKO:
🎵 We Give Thanks (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2022)
#KOKOROKO
https://open.spotify.com/track/1whO1RzuS19yG358T4d8G6
https://kokoroko.bandcamp.com/track/we-give-thanks
NFL will not discipline Raiders WR Davante Adams for 2022 incident https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_will_not_discipline_raiders_wr_davante_adams_for_2022_incident/s1_13132_39948513
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1's #Dance
KDA:
🎵 Just Say (feat. Tinashe)
#BBCR1 #KDA
https://techhouselabs.bandcamp.com/track/kda-just-say-thl-groove-mix-2022