2022 retro-link! https://chelseatroy.com/2022/08/03/how-i-do-and-dont-prepare-a-talk-for-a-technical-conference/ - How I do (and don’t) prepare a talk for a tech conference.

General Staff: Russia has lost 452,760 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/13/general-staff-russia.html

Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 3 is available! What's new you ask?
- GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio
- Copilot Generated Breakpoint Conditions
- Updates to our Copilot generated PR descriptions
- More SSDT support for Arm64 VS
#visualstudio

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

Sources: e-commerce roll-up firm Kite, which was cofounded by Blackstone in 2022 and closed a $200M equity commitment, shut down earlier in 2024 (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/blackstone-f…

Blackstone-Founded E-Commerce ‘Roll-Up’ Firm Shuts Down
How bad is the slowdown in e-commerce growth? Ask Blackstone, one of the world’s largest investment firms. Two years ago, a division of Blackstone that invests in consumer brands such as Supergoop and Spanx joined a second investor to commit $200 million to an e-commerce startup they had founded ...

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.

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.

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

Unesco: Wiederaufbau der Wissenschaft in der Ukraine kostet Milliarden
Der Wiederaufbau der vom russischen Angriffskrieg zerstörten wissenschaftlichen Infrastruktur in der Ukraine wird nach Ansicht der UN-Kulturorganisation Unesco eine Milliardensumme kosten. In einer in Paris veröffentlichte Studie schätzt die Organisation die Kosten auf mehr als 1,26 Milliarden US-Dollar. Den Angaben zufolge wurden…
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Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Das Ausmaß der Zerstörung
Am 24. Februar 2022 begann die Invasion russischer Truppen in die Ukraine. Seitdem bringt der Krieg Tod, Leid und viel Zerstörung. Die Schäden genau zu beziffern ist kaum möglich - Zehntausende Gebäude liegen in Trümmern. Von A. Beer.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
It's Charles Darwin's birthday. Let's play!
#DarwinAMovie

In case you missed it.
How serious is Greater #Manchester about traffic reduction? | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2024

How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction?
How serious is Greater Manchester about traffic reduction? The streets of Greater Manchester are groaning under the weight of traffic. Between 2012 and 2022, the number of cars on the road increase…

#Upcoming “On Leaving” by #RichardChartier is his most quietly intense composition to date. This five part work created between 2020 and 2022 is dedicated to the late #SteveRoden. Available via

Persistent Upflows and Downflows at Active Region boundaries Observed by SUTRI and AIA
Yuchuan Wu, Zhenyong Hou, Wenxian Li, Xianyong Bai, Yongliang Song, Xiao Yang, Ziyao Hu, Yuanyong Deng, Kaifan Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07422

Persistent Upflows and Downflows at Active Region boundaries Observed by SUTRI and AIA
Upflows and downflows at active region (AR) boundaries have been frequently observed with spectroscopic observations at extreme ultraviolet (EUV) passbands. In this paper, we report the coexistence of upflows and downflows at the AR boundaries with imaging observations from the Solar Upper Transition Region Imager (SUTRI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA). With their observations from 2022 September 21 to 2022 September 30, we find 17 persistent opposite flows occurring along the AR co…

General Staff: Russia has lost 424,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/11/general-staff-russia.html

Sources: e-commerce roll-up firm Kite, which was cofounded by Blackstone in 2022 and closed a $200M equity commitment, shut down earlier in 2024 (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/blackstone-f…

Blackstone-Founded E-Commerce ‘Roll-Up’ Firm Shuts Down
How bad is the slowdown in e-commerce growth? Ask Blackstone, one of the world’s largest investment firms. Two years ago, a division of Blackstone that invests in consumer brands such as Supergoop and Spanx joined a second investor to commit $200 million to an e-commerce startup they had founded ...

Oldy but a goody tip for #visualstudio :visualstudio:
"PerfTips" which displays elapsed time between breakpoints in the editor, offering a streamlined view of performance data during code interaction.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04814 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Evaluation of LLMs on Syntax-Aware Code Fill-in-the-Middle Tasks
We introduce Syntax-Aware Fill-In-the-Middle (SAFIM), a new benchmark for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) on the code Fill-in-the-Middle (FIM) task. This benchmark focuses on syntax-aware completions of program structures such as code blocks and conditional expressions, and includes 17,720 examples from multiple programming languages, sourced from recent code submissions after April 2022 to minimize data contamination. SAFIM provides a robust framework with various prompt designs and no…

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.

Sam Williams has golden opportunity in 2024 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/sam_williams_has_golden_opportunity_in_2024/s1_17100_40228074

Sam Williams has golden opportunity in 2024
The Dallas Cowboys offseason has been one to forget, this roster is filled with players still on their rookie contracts, and one of them, Inpitucluar, has a golden opportunity to break out in 2024. Sam Williams, the second-round pick out of Ole Miss in 2022, will have every chance in 2024 to make a name for himself. Williams has had to fight for playing time in the last few years, but with Dante Fowler and Dorance Armstrong leaving via free agency, Williams will be needed this season. Last seas…

#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…

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.

Raiders to release one-time Pro Bowl WR https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_to_release_one_time_pro_bowl_wr/s1_14819_40101758

Raiders to release one-time Pro Bowl WR
The Silver and Black are moving on from an offensive cog who has not lived up to his contract. They are set to release Hunter Renfrow, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport reports. Given a two-year, $32M deal during the 2022 offseason, Renfrow strangely fell out of favor while on that contract and the team explored trade possibilities last season. Renfrow was set to earn an $11.2M base salary next season. The Raiders did not get much out of the Clemson alum following his 1,000-yard season — which played …

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.

Equivalence of cost concentration and gradient vanishing for quantum circuits: an elementary proof in the Riemannian formulation
Qiang Miao, Thomas Barthel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07883

Equivalence of cost concentration and gradient vanishing for quantum circuits: an elementary proof in the Riemannian formulation
The optimization of quantum circuits can be hampered by a decay of average gradient amplitudes with the system size. When the decay is exponential, this is called the barren plateau problem. Considering explicit circuit parametrizations (in terms of rotation angles), it has been shown in Arrasmith et al., Quantum Sci. Technol. 7, 045015 (2022) that barren plateaus are equivalent to an exponential decay of the cost-function variance. We show that the issue becomes particularly simple in the (par…

Arrow Relations in Lattices of Integer Partitions
Asma'a Almazaydeh, Mike Behrisch, Edith Vargas-Garc\'ia, Andreas Wachtel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07217

Arrow Relations in Lattices of Integer Partitions
We give a complete characterisation of the single and double arrow relations of the standard context $K(L_n)$ of the lattice $L_n$ of partitions of any positive integer $n$ under the dominance order, thereby addressing an open question of Ganter, 2022.

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).

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

1922: The year the #modern begin.
“On the 18th of May, 1922, the British translator and novelist Sidney Schiff hosted a dinner party at the Majestic Hotel in Paris. 40 guests were invited in all, but there were four guests in particular that Schiff wanted to bring together to generate dinner party chat. They were Igor

‎The Rest Is History: 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1 on Apple Podcasts
‎Show The Rest Is History, Ep 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1 - 12 Jan 2022

The growing reality of climate refugees - a resonating article by Wambui Mbuthia.
Climate change is not a sudden eviction notice for millions of displaced people. It is a slow and relentless erosion, chipping away livelihoods and forcing difficult choices.
In 2022 alone, more than 7.4 million people across #Africa were displaced due to climate shocks, adding to existing conflicts and instabil…

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Dog Dancing World Championship 2022, Anastasiia Beaumont and border collie Yuki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtjY_YgZEzo

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14908 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

More Excitement Across the Horizon
An Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector falling radially into a four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field that has been prepared in the Hartle-Hawking or Unruh state, has recently been shown to exhibit a local extremum in its transition probability near the black hole horizon [K.K. Ng et al., New J. Phys. 24 (2022) 103018]. We show that a similar phenomenon is present in the transition rate of a UDW detector falling radially into a spinless Bañados-Teitelboi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04456 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

Characterization for a generic construction of bent functions and its consequences
Recently, Li et al. presented a generic construction of bent functions in [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory, vol. 68, no. 4, pp. 2735-2751, 2022]. In this paper, we give a characterization for their construction from another perspective. This characterization enables us to obtain another efficient construction of bent functions. Based on that, we derive several infinite families of concrete bent functions and give their duals. Our results show that many known bent functions are particular cases of our b…

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

Seasonality Patterns in 311-Reported Foodborne Illness Cases and Machine Learning-Identified Indications of Foodborne Illnesses from Yelp Reviews, New York City, 2022-2023
Eden Shaveet, Crystal Su, Daniel Hsu, Luis Gravano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.06138

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…

Estimating the Jet Power from Broadband SED modeling of Mkn 501 for different particle distributions
Hritwik Bora, Rukaiya Khatoon, Ranjeev Misra, Rupjyoti Gogoi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06111

Estimating the Jet Power from Broadband SED modeling of Mkn 501 for different particle distributions
We consider the broadband spectral energy distribution of the high energy peaked (HBL) blazar Mkn 501 using $\textit{Swift}$-XRT/UVOT, NuSTAR and $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT observations taken between 2013 and 2022. The spectra were fitted with a one-zone leptonic model using synchrotron and synchrotron self-Compton emission from different particle energy distributions such as a broken power-law, log-parabola, as well as distributions expected when the diffusion or the acceleration time scale are ener…

Tipps und Tricks - So schützen Sie sich richtig vor Telefonbetrug #News #Nachrichten…

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.

Uvalde City Council to release investigation of the police response to 2022 school massacre (Acacia Coronado/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-police-response-b5c9f8204f33f62f720a7c1644b47ffc
http://www.memeorandum.com/240307/p85#a240307p85

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.

„Firmen brauchen nur ordentliches Gehalt zu bezahlen, dann haben sie auch keinen Fachkräftemangel.“ – Nein, so einfach ist es leider nicht. Es fehlen Menschen, und es werden in Zukunft noch mehr Menschen fehlen. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitt…

Bevölkerung im Erwerbsalter wird in Ostdeutschland in den nächsten 20 Jahren um 0,6 bis 1,2 Millionen Menschen abnehmen
Die Zahl der Menschen im Erwerbsalter wird in den nächsten Jahren und Jahrzehnten vor allem im Osten Deutschlands abnehmen – trotz Zuwanderung. Zum Jahresende 2022 lebten 51,4 Millionen Menschen im Alter von 18 bis 64 Jahren in Deutschland, davon 7,2 Millionen in den ostdeutschen Ländern. In den nächsten 20 Jahren wird deren Zahl in Ostdeutschland um mindestens 560 000 (-8 %) bis 1,2 Millionen Menschen (-16 %) zurückgehen. Bis zum Jahr 2070 ist hier mit einem Rückgang um mindestens…

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.

Over 3100 houses retrofitted in #Galway last year, up a third on 2022. Comhgairdeas to all involved, we are exceeding targets by 30% - crucial in cutting energy costs.

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.

Nearest Neighbor Complexity and Boolean Circuits
Mason DiCicco, Vladimir Podolskii, Daniel Reichman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06740 https://

Nearest Neighbor Complexity and Boolean Circuits
A nearest neighbor representation of a Boolean function $f$ is a set of vectors (anchors) labeled by $0$ or $1$ such that $f(\vec{x}) = 1$ if and only if the closest anchor to $x$ is labeled by $1$. This model was introduced by Hajnal, Liu, and Turán (2022), who studied bounds on the number of anchors required to represent Boolean functions under different choices of anchors (real vs. Boolean vectors) as well as the more expressive model of $k$-nearest neighbors. We initiate the study of the…

#Covid
Milde Verdoppelung der krankheitsbedingten Absenzen im Jahr 2022 in den USA, gemäss McKinsey.
Studie von vor einem Jahr.

Kosten der Pandemie: Auch „mild“ wird auf Dauer teuer
Es sind vor allem die harmlos wirkenden Verläufe einer Covid-Erkrankung, die Unternehmen zu schaffen machen. Eine McKinsey-Studie hat die ausgefallenen Arbeitstage berechnet.

Apropos of nothing:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2024/apr/11/evs-are-booming-but-electric-bikes-are-really-cutting-emissions

"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

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…

Weizenbaum Report 2024: Politische Partizipation verlagert sich ins Netz
@…
Insgesamt zeigt sich die politische Partizipation in Deutschland zwischen den Jahren 2022 und 2023 leicht rückläufig. [Frage: Trotz der GegenRechts-Demos?]
Counterspeech ist nach wie vor eine verbreitete Taktik, um Hass und Falschnachrichten entgegenzuwirken…

Weizenbaum Report 2024: Politische Partizipation verlagert sich ins Netz
Eine aktuelle Studie des Weizenbaum-Instituts beleuchtet, wie sich die politische Teilhabe hierzulande entwickelt. Im Fokus steht auch das Thema Künstliche Intelligenz – und wie die Menschen diese nutzen und bewerten.

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

Allow me to re-stack two of the AP’s graphs. #Uvalde
“… an investigator hired by Uvalde officials found that the city’s officers did not deserve punishment, and in some cases, praised their actions …”
“… prompting shouts of “cowards” from the audience and causing several family members of the victims to angrily walk out of the meeting.”

Uvalde parents lash out after new report clears city police of missteps during Texas school attack
An investigation Uvalde city leaders ordered into the Robb Elementary School shooting has put no blame on local police officers and defended their actions, but still acknowledged a series of failures during the response. The 2022 classroom attack left 19 children and two teachers dead. The probe by Austin-based investigator and former detective Jesse Prado for the Uvalde City Council is just one of several into the massacre. State lawmakers found in 2022 that nearly 400 local, state and federal…

Some wine discounter delivered six bottles of Spanish red, some kind of a sampler intro pack, to us. Except: we never ordered it. The putative addressee at our house was one Egon Mayer, who seems to have been a famous German Luftwaffe pilot in WWII.
We emailed the distributor, who had the package picked up today. We got to keep a bottle for our diligence.

Dodging the electricity price hike: Can demand-side flexibility compensate for spot price increases for households in Germany?
Judith Stute, Sabine Pelka, Matthias K\"uhnbach, Marian Klobasa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06711

Dodging the electricity price hike: Can demand-side flexibility compensate for spot price increases for households in Germany?
In 2022, energy prices skyrocketed across Europe, with average day-ahead spot market prices in Germany 2.43 times higher than the previous year, hinting at future trends. At the same time, electricity infrastructure is expected to be overutilized in some regions in the future due to the uptake of electric vehicles, heat pumps, PV systems, and other appliances in the residential sector. Dynamic electricity pricing for households is proposed as a solution to alleviate infrastructure strain and re…

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

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.

Mystery solved!

#P4x #CyberSecurity #InfoSec @…

Überwachung: Strafverfolger griffen 2022 deutlich häufiger zu Staatstrojanern
Die Zahl der Genehmigungen hat sich fast verdoppelt: 2022 erlaubten Gerichte 109 Mal das Hacken von IT-Geräten, während es im Vorjahr 55 Anordnungen gab.

These goddamn stupid olive shaped eyeballs! 🫒 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/kids-glasses-vision-increased-nearsightedness-myopia/671244/

Connect the Dots: Russian Money, Trump Media, and MAGA blocking Ukraine Aid https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/07/russian-investment-trump-media-maga-gop-block-ukraine-aid/

Follow the Russian money and election interfernce
Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheZoeBallBreakfastShow
Corona:
🎵 The Rhythm Of The Night
#Corona
https://open.spotify.com/track/0ofMkI3jzmGCElAOgOLeo3
https://djmanumaelso.bandcamp.com/track/corona-the-rhythm-of-the-night-manu-maelso-edit-v-1-2022

Tyler Smith says he’s ‘really comfortable’ at guard as Cowboys consider move to tackle https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/tyler_smith_says_hes_really_comfortable_at_guard_as_cowboys_consid…

Tyler Smith says he’s ‘really comfortable’ at guard as Cowboys consider move to tackle
The Dallas Cowboys have some big choices to make before the 2024 NFL Draft later this month. One of the biggest questions they have to answer is how they’ll replace long-time starting left tackle Tyron Smith. In 2022, when Smith suffered a severe leg injury, the team opted to try rookie first-rounder Tyler Smith there. It worked well, but once the veteran returned to full health, he returned to left tackle. Tyler Smith had a standout year at left guard this season, which has him quite content…

Persistent Upflows and Downflows at Active Region boundaries Observed by SUTRI and AIA
Yuchuan Wu, Zhenyong Hou, Wenxian Li, Xianyong Bai, Yongliang Song, Xiao Yang, Ziyao Hu, Yuanyong Deng, Kaifan Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07422

Persistent Upflows and Downflows at Active Region boundaries Observed by SUTRI and AIA
Upflows and downflows at active region (AR) boundaries have been frequently observed with spectroscopic observations at extreme ultraviolet (EUV) passbands. In this paper, we report the coexistence of upflows and downflows at the AR boundaries with imaging observations from the Solar Upper Transition Region Imager (SUTRI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA). With their observations from 2022 September 21 to 2022 September 30, we find 17 persistent opposite flows occurring along the AR co…

❝I felt an anger that I hadn’t felt in his past films. Anger that felt directed towards the way humans work, the unfairness of this whole world.❞ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/08/eiko-ishibashi-film-co…

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Every culture, region and even family has different food cuisines – different spices, styles, customs and methods. This game has lots of possibilites.
Let's play!

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 107 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

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.

Performance of SK-Gd's Upgraded Real-time Supernova Monitoring System
Kamiokande collaboration, Y. Kashiwagi, K. Abe, C. Bronner, Y. Hayato, K. Hiraide, K. Hosokawa, K. Ieki, M. Ikeda, J. Kameda, Y. Kanemura, R. Kaneshima, Y. Kataoka, S. Miki, S. Mine, M. Miura, S. Moriyama, Y. Nakano, M. Nakahata, S. Nakayama, Y. Noguchi, K. Sato, H. Sekiya, H. Shiba, K. Shimizu, M. Shiozawa, Y. Sonoda, Y. Suzuki, A. Takeda, Y. Takemoto, H. Tanaka, T. Yano, S. Han, T. Kajita, K. Okumura, T. Tashir…

Performance of SK-Gd's Upgraded Real-time Supernova Monitoring System
Among multi-messenger observations of the next galactic core-collapse supernova, Super-Kamiokande (SK) plays a critical role in detecting the emitted supernova neutrinos, determining the direction to the supernova (SN), and notifying the astronomical community of these observations in advance of the optical signal. On 2022, SK has increased the gadolinium dissolved in its water target (SK-Gd) and has achieved a Gd concentration of 0.033%, resulting in enhanced neutron detection capability, whic…

👍 Judge to issue bench warrant for Michigan lawyer pushing Trump’s voter-fraud scam: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-michigan-voter-fraud-scam/

Judge to issue bench warrant for Michigan lawyer pushing Trump’s voter-fraud scam: report
A lawyer for Donald Trump in Michigan is about to face a bench warrant, reported Detroit News reporter Craig Mauger on Thursday. A 2022 Reuters report described Stefanie Lambert as "a defense attorney with financial woes before seizing on the election-denial movement for new business. Now she faces ...

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: …

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.

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…

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

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.

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Every culture, region and even family has different food cuisines – different spices, styles, customs and methods. This game has lots of possibilites.
Let's play!

AstroSat View of Transient Low-mass X-ray Binary XTE J1701-462: Spectral and Temporal Evolution along the Z-track
Vivek K. Agrawal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07634

AstroSat View of Transient Low-mass X-ray Binary XTE J1701-462: Spectral and Temporal Evolution along the Z-track
AstroSat observed transient neutron star low-mass X-ray binary XTE J1701-462 for a total duration of 135 ks during its 2022 outburst. The source traced a complete 'Z' shaped structure in the hardness intensity diagram (HID) during the observation. The source exhibited an extended horizontal branch and a short-dipping flaring branch in the HID. We find that most suitable spectral model comprises emission from a standard multi-color accretion disk and Comptonized radiation from a hot central coro…

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

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Sources: Techstars has caused frustrations over missteps in deploying its JPMorgan-backed $80M fund, which aims to help underrepresented founders, since 2022 (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/08/tech

Exclusive: Techstars' $80 million partnership with J.P. Morgan is on the rocks, employees say
The fate of the Advancing Cities programs—and some of the around 20 people who work at Techstars in this program—is up in the air.

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.

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

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 6 nodes and 24 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

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

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.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Time to get your Frogger out. Let's play!
#RetroVideoGameASong

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.

Sweden officially joins NATO: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/07/sweden-officially-joins.html

Burning Gotham 🗽👷‍♂️🧐
Dramatized historical fiction | It’s ten years since the completion of the Erie Canal. New York City’s population is now over 270,000. The gap between rich and poor rapidly expandsg as more pour onto New York’s dangerously overcrowded streets. Historical lives converge in this series about the fa...
https://www.

Burning Gotham 🗽👷‍♂️🧐
Dramatized historical fiction | It’s ten years since the completion of the Erie Canal. New York City’s population is now over 270,000. The gap between rich and poor rapidly expandsg as more pour onto New York’s dangerously overcrowded streets. Historical lives converge in this series about the fastest growing city in the world. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Dec 20, 2022.

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.

The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program - Season 4 finale 🙀😈💖
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...

The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program - Season 4 finale 🙀😈💖
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.

American Hostage 📻📞😰
Dramatized thriller | A local radio reporter is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker, Tony Kiritsis, demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program. Through the radio show he gradually becomes a media sensation and unexpected anti-hero during a nail bit...
https://www.

American Hostage 📻📞😰
Dramatized thriller | A local radio reporter is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker, Tony Kiritsis, demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program. Through the radio show he gradually becomes a media sensation and unexpected anti-hero during a nail biting 63-hour standoff. Stars Emmy Award-winner Jon Hamm and directed by Academy Award® winner Shawn Christensen. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Apr 19, 2022.

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...
https://www.

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.

Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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.

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.

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.

Dune Analytics: decentralized exchange Uniswap tops $2T in all-time trading volume after breaching $1T in May 2022 and remains the largest DEX by trading volume (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/uniswap-tops-two-trillion-trading…

Uniswap tops $2T in trading volume, larger than Australia’s GDP
Uniswap has now processed more than $2 trillion in trading volume across several blockchains since it launched on Ethereum back in November 2018.

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.

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.