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

forgot I had this on my phone, now you can have it on your phone too

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

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

Related to LLMs and deception. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/meta-researchers-create-ai-that-masters-diplomacy-tricking-human-players/

Meta researchers create AI that masters Diplomacy, tricking human players
Meta's Cicero can negotiate or persuade with natural language—just like a human.

Hackerangriffe auf Bahnunternehmen vermutet
Moskau stehe im Verdacht, seit dem Angriff auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 "Tausende Versuche, unsere Systeme zu schwächen", unternommen zu haben, sagte der tschechische Verkehrsminister der "Financial Times". Dabei gehe es etwa um Angriffe auf Signalsysteme und die Netzwerke der tschechischen Eisenbahngesellschaft České dršhy.
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Russische Hacker sollen Europas Schienennetz angegriffen haben
Der tschechische Verkehrsminister wirft Russland groß angelegte Hackerangriffe auf Bahnunternehmen vor. Der Kreml weist dies zurück. Schon vor einem Jahr hatte eine EU-Behörde vor solchen Attacken gewarnt.

Austria-based Storyblok, which offers a headless CMS, raised an $80M Series C led by Brighton Park, after a $47M Series B in May 2022, and reports 200K users (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/04/stor

Storyblok raises $80M to add more AI to its ‘headless’ CMS aimed at non-technical people | TechCrunch
The startup targets the middle ground between platforms that offer rigid templates, and those that facilitate a full-control approach.

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 07.05.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 41. Atombombe "Tee". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

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

"US job openings fell in April to the lowest level since 2021. But they remained at historically strong levels despite high interest rates and signs the economy is slowing.
"The Labor Department reported Tuesday that employers posted 8.1 million vacancies in April..
"Layoffs fell, and the number of Americans quitting their jobs rose in April.
"Monthly job openings have come down steadily a peak of 12.2 million in March 2022"

US job openings fall to 8.1 million, lowest since 2021, but remain at historically high levels
U.S. job openings fell in April to the lowest level since 2021. But they remained at historically strong levels despite high interest rates and signs the economy is slowing. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that employers posted 8.1 million vacancies in April, down from a revised 8.4 million in March. Still, layoffs fell, and the number of Americans quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence in their prospects — rose in April. Monthly job openings have come down steadily from a peak of…

🤦 https://noc.social/@todayilearned/112560915340124785

Leute ich habe heute Englisch Zentralabitur in Schleswig Holstein geschrieben und suche den Artikel aus der Klausur.
Ich weiß, dass es um Dunbar's Number und Social Media ging und ich glaube, dass der Artikel in der Onlinezeitung The Atlantic im Jahr 2020 - 2022 erschienen ist.
Ich finde den Artikel aber nun im Internet nicht wieder und würde mich über Hilfe sehr freuen :)

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

Matching-star size Ramsey numbers under connectivity constraint
Fanghua Guo, Yanbo Zhang, Yunqing Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03175 https://

Matching-star size Ramsey numbers under connectivity constraint
Recently, Caro, Patkós, and Tuza (2022) introduced the concept of connected Turán number. We study a similar parameter in Ramsey theory. Given two graphs $G_1$ and $G_2$, the size Ramsey number $\hat{r}(G_1,G_2)$ refers to the smallest number of edges in a graph $G$ such that for any red-blue edge-coloring of $G$, either a red subgraph $G_1$ or a blue subgraph $G_2$ is present in $G$. If we further restrict the host graph $G$ to be connected, we obtain the connected size Ramsey number, denote…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07779 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Finding product sets in some classes of amenable groups
In 2022, using methods from ergodic theory, Kra, Moreira, Richter, and Robertson resolved a longstanding conjecture of Erdős about sumsets in large subsets of the natural numbers. In this paper, we extend this result to several important classes of amenable groups, including all finitely generated virtually nilpotent groups, and all abelian groups $(G,+)$ with the property that the subgroup $2G := \{g+g : g\in G\}$ has finite index. We prove that in any group $G$ from the above classes, any $A…

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.

This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity
It started with a precipitous rise in the number of people clamoring to get in.
The so-called Ivy-Plus schools
— the eight members of the Ivy League plus M.I.T., Duke, Chicago and Stanford
— collectively received about 175,000 applications in 2002.
In 2022, the most recent year for which totals are available, they got more than 590,000, with only a few thousand more available spots.
The quality of the applicants ha…

Opinion | 2024 Was the Year That Broke College Admissions
This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity

_"The CDC found 45% of high school students were so persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 they were unable to engage in regular activities. Almost 1 in 5 seriously considered suicide and 9% surveyed tried to take their lives during previous 12 months."
https://www.

The crisis of student mental health is much vaster than we realize
There is too much need and too little help for kids. Even as federal covid relief money has let schools step up their efforts, they also have come up short.

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Alice in Chains:
🎵 Them Bones
#AliceinChains
https://open.spotify.com/track/64ZqHmBufTSmDRd0it0oEf
https://sixdust.bandcamp.com/track/alice-in-chains-them-bones-2022-remaster

#Verpasstodon
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
"Systematischer" Verstoß gegen Geldwäschevorschriften: Millionenbußgeld für N26

🤦 https://noc.social/@todayilearned/112560915340124785

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

Unilever still earning millions in royalties from Russian subsidiary: report
https://nltimes.nl/2024/05/02/unilever-still-earning-millio…

Unilever still earning millions in royalties from Russian subsidiary: report
Unilever has received at least 200 million euros from Unilever Russia since early 2022, despite its solemn promise to not profit from the Russian branch after the invasion of Ukraine. A significant part of that money went through the Netherlands, RTL Z reports based on Unilever Russia’s annual accounts.

Ukraine gedenkt der getöteten Kinder
Menschen in der Ukraine haben heute der seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskriegs getöteten Kinder gedacht. Mehr als 600 Kinder seien seit Kriegsbeginn im Februar 2022 getötet und mehr als 1.400 verletzt worden, erklärte UN-Vertreterin Denise Brown. Das sei aber nur die Zahl der von den Vereinten Nationen verifizierten Fälle. Die wirkliche Zahl der getöteten Kinder liege vermutlich deutlic…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine will Hilfe bei der Flugabwehr ++
Botschafter Makeiev hat westliche Hilfe gefordert, um den Luftraum der Ukraine zu schützen. Vize-Kanzler Habeck hätte sich den Kurswechsel der Regierung zum Waffeneinsatz auf Ziele in Russland früher gewünscht. Die Entwicklungen vom Dienstag zum Nachlesen.

Prompt engineering paradigms for medical applications: scoping review and recommendations for better practices
Jamil Zaghir, Marco Naguib, Mina Bjelogrlic, Aur\'elie N\'ev\'eol, Xavier Tannier, Christian Lovis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01249

Prompt engineering paradigms for medical applications: scoping review and recommendations for better practices
Prompt engineering is crucial for harnessing the potential of large language models (LLMs), especially in the medical domain where specialized terminology and phrasing is used. However, the efficacy of prompt engineering in the medical domain remains to be explored. In this work, 114 recent studies (2022-2024) applying prompt engineering in medicine, covering prompt learning (PL), prompt tuning (PT), and prompt design (PD) are reviewed. PD is the most prevalent (78 articles). In 12 papers, PD, …

Provocative data and great charts from Kingsmill Bond & colleagues in their new report out today: "X-Change: The Race to the Top
Cleantech competition between China, Europe, and the United States" https://rmi.org/insight/x-change-the-race-to-the-top/<…

X-Change: The Race to the Top
The cleantech competition between China, Europe, and the United States

https://maciej.codes/2022-06-09-local-async.html - Local async executors should be the default in Rust.

Hm... hatte nicht #VW die preiswerte Plattformentwicklung in Spanien für das Jahr 2022 angekündigt? Und das soll jetzt bis 2026 dauern? Für alle Marken, die auf der Plattform aufsetzen?
#EAuto #Elektroauto

"Elektromobilität für alle": VW baut ab 2027 E-Auto für 20.000 Euro
Für 2026 plant Volkswagen bereits ein Elektroauto für rund 25.000 Euro. Ein Jahr später soll noch ein neues und in Europa produziertes Modell auf den Markt kommen - mit einem noch niedrigeren Preisschild.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
Dina Carroll:
🎵 Ain't No Man
#DinaCarroll
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Gtm0yeWWv2DebMWSwPHGc
https://insoulpro.bandcamp.com/track/dina-carroll-aint-no-man-in-soul-2022-garagehouse-mix

Labour treatment of Abbott having impact on voters, senior lawyer says https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/31/labour-underestimating-impact-treatment-diane-abbott-lawyer-says?CMP=Share_iO…

Fortschrittsbericht Beschleunigungskommission Schiene: Im Dezember 2022 hatte die vom Bund eingerichtete Beschleunigungskommission Schiene ein ganze Bündel von Handlungsempfehlungen gegeben (Pressemitteilung, Abschlussbericht). Jetzt hat das Bundesverkehrsministerium den zweiten Fortschrittsbericht über den Stand der Umsetzung der Empfehlungen abgeliefert. Das Urteil des Ministeriums über die erzielten Fortschritte fällt positiv aus. Auch der erste Fortschrittsbericht…

Fortschrittsbericht Beschleunigungskommission Schiene
Fortschrittsbericht Beschleunigungskommission Schiene

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07779 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Finding product sets in some classes of amenable groups
In 2022, using methods from ergodic theory, Kra, Moreira, Richter, and Robertson resolved a longstanding conjecture of Erdős about sumsets in large subsets of the natural numbers. In this paper, we extend this result to several important classes of amenable groups, including all finitely generated virtually nilpotent groups, and all abelian groups $(G,+)$ with the property that the subgroup $2G := \{g+g : g\in G\}$ has finite index. We prove that in any group $G$ from the above classes, any $A…

An NLRB judge finds Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated US labor law with his comments in 2022 suggesting workers would be "less empowered" if they voted in a union (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/amazon-ceo

National Geographic pulled the documentary Retrograde from all its platforms after the Taliban killed an Afghan mine-clearer the 2022 film prominently featured (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024…

A Taliban revenge killing prompts questions, removal of an acclaimed documentary
National Geographic has removed the Emmy-winning film “Retrograde” from its streaming platforms, after criticism from veterans and inquiries from The Washington Post.

Taralino is a JS library designed for educational purposes, e.g. as an introduction in OOP, graphic objects and. vector graphics, data visualiisation and analysis.
I used it to design a cookie-machine inspired by the the movie "2022 - Die überleben wollen...":
http://t…

As I'm currently in the midst of preparing for #Greenland #fieldwork, I stumbled again across this fantastic piece in the danish newspaper @… that ver…

28/ So und jetzt noch mal einen letzten oder vorletzten Post zum Thema #Tesla. Ich war auch einer von denen, die sich erst über Tesla gefreut haben. Arbeitsplätze für eine strukturschwache Region (Osten, Nazis, Arbeit = gute Sache). Außerdem Ökoautos. Das mit dem Lithium ist mittelfristig wohl kein großes Problem, weil es natriumbasierte Batterien gibt, die jetzt auch schon Produktionsreife erreicht haben. Natrium gibt es wie Salz im Meer. (kleiner Scherz, Natrium ist im Salz enthalten)
Man kann sich auch denken, dass die Autos ja irgendwo hergestellt werden müssen. Also auch wenn wir hier gar nicht so viele haben wollen, wäre es gut, die für einen globalen Markt zu haben.
Aber der Punkt ist: Was in Grünheide hergestellt wird, wird nirgends gebraucht. Es sind SUVs, die für alle Einsatzzwecke auf der Welt zu groß sind. Und für Deutschland galt schon vor einigen Jahren #CarIsOver, denn die Herstellung eines SUVs verbrauchte damals das Restbudget, das jeder Person noch individuell zur Verfügung stand.
Inzwischen sind wir schon weiter: CO2-Budget ist Null, wie man der Pressemitteilung des @… von heute entnehmen konnte.
Also: Keine Monsterautos mehr. Ob aus Grünheide oder Stuttgart oder Wolfsburg. Die ungedämmte Krankenschwester, die pendeln muss, kann das mit einem kleinen E-Auto tun. Bis zum Stadtrand. Bis es auch dafür bessere Mobilitätslösungen gibt.
Car is over.
Tesla soll was Kleines bauen. Dafür reicht dann auch die bisher schon bestehende Fabrik.
#SUV

Here's how media personalities talk about young adults. They openly describe them as emotional cripples.
"Teenagers don't understand how to actually interact with their feelings,... yeah, people basically under 25"
Michael Eisen, January 12, 2022

Supervised Autoencoder MLP for Financial Time Series Forecasting
Bartosz Bieganowski, Robert Slepaczuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01866 https://

Supervised Autoencoder MLP for Financial Time Series Forecasting
This paper investigates the enhancement of financial time series forecasting with the use of neural networks through supervised autoencoders, aiming to improve investment strategy performance. It specifically examines the impact of noise augmentation and triple barrier labeling on risk-adjusted returns, using the Sharpe and Information Ratios. The study focuses on the S&P 500 index, EUR/USD, and BTC/USD as the traded assets from January 1, 2010, to April 30, 2022. Findings indicate that supervi…

Sollten Projekte, für die ja naturgemäß keine langfristige Förderung sichergestellt ist, vielleicht keine Infrastruktur aufbauen und bereitstellen? https://baudigital.social/@admin/112325590082481454
Aber bei den FIDs ist das ja Normalzustand, wenn ich das richtig se…

"Systematischer" Verstoß gegen Geldwäschevorschriften: Millionenbußgeld für N26
Auch im Jahr 2022 hat die Neobank N26 gegen Vorgaben zum Kampf gegen Geldwäsche verstoßen, es ist nicht das erste Mal. Diesmal werden 9,2 Millionen Euro fällig.

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

"the environmental and health benefits of wind in 2022 are estimated as being $143 for each Mw-hr, w/solar providing $100... that works out to a total of $62 billion and $12 billion, respectively. For the entire 2019–2022 period, they total up to $250 billion.
...
the unsubsidized costs of the electricity produced by wind and #solar range from $20 to $60 per Mw-hr...receiving a very s…

Climate and health benefits of wind and solar dwarf all subsidies
By displacing fossil fuels, wind and solar saved the US $250 billion over 4 years.

It's infuriating: Stage Manager on iPadOS https://www.macstories.net/linked/the-one-where-quinn-nelson-tries-to-create-a-window-with-ipados-stage-manager/.
The only thing I could add is... it's as …

Street homelessness (tents, rough on sidewalk) is at its lowest level in a decade, but overall homelessness including sleeping in RVs and cars, shelters and couchsurfing, is up.
https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/sf-homelessness-rises-bu…

Mobility Access Australia
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Mobility Access Australia | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Mobility Access Australia Host: Clint Deverson Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Health & Wellness, Places & Travel First Episode: 2022 A podcast talking about how accessible…

A reminder that back in 2022, the FCC could have tried to block Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
And Republican FCC commissioner Brandon Carr rejected calls for the FCC to act.
Twitter is now a rightwing cesspool, and Republicans want it that way. /1

RB Josh Jacobs texted ex-Packers star about potential reunion https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/rb_josh_jacobs_texted_ex_packers_star_about_potential_reunion/s1_13132_40422133

RB Josh Jacobs texted ex-Packers star about potential reunion
Would Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver Davante Adams consider a reunion with the Green Bay Packers? Ex-Raiders running back Josh Jacobs — who signed a four-year, $48M deal with Green Bay in free agency — floated the idea. "When I came out here, I sent him the little eyes emoji," Jacobs said Wednesday, per The Athletic's Matt Schneidman. "I said, 'You thinking about coming back?' But man, he loved it." In 2022, the Packers dealt Adams, a six-time Pro Bowler, to the Raiders for a first- and se…

Third human case of bird flu from cows
— this one with respiratory symptoms
To date, four people have tested positive for H5N1 in the US, the three dairy farm workers connected to the dairy cow outbreak, as well as a 2022 case in a Colorado farm worker exposed to infected poultry.
For now, the CDC emphasizes that the risk for the general public remains low.
However, the cases in farm workers highlight the risk to those who have exposure to animals, particularly dairy …

Third human case of bird flu from cows—this one with respiratory symptoms
The first case in Texas and two in Michigan are not connected to each other.

Timothy Garton Ash: We're at the beginning of a new era. What we do now is particularly important: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/29/timothy-garton-ash.html

#Lees Klaus Wiegandt, samensteller: 3 Grad mehr, Oekom Verlag 2022. Mooi, somber realistisch, maar met natuurinclusieve oplossingsideeën en ook met plaatjes!

LastPass separates from GoTo, which announced the spinoff in December 2021, six years after buying LastPass; the service suffered high profile hacks in 2022 (Wes Davis/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/1/24146205/lastpass-independ…

LastPass goes independent over a year after serious breaches
Over a year and a half after two major breaches that included customer password vaults and encryption keys, GoTo no longer operates LastPass.

Covariant formulation of electrodynamics in isotropic media revisited
D V Red\v{z}i\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01346 https://a…

Covariant formulation of electrodynamics in isotropic media revisited
We point out some problematic arguments in a recent paper by Pal (2022 Eur. J. Phys. 43 015204), Franklin's Comment on it (2024 Eur. J. Phys. 45 028002), and Pal's Reply (2024 Eur. J. Phys. 45 028001)

This is very problematic. Alarming data from 1979 to 2024 shows sea surface temperatures reaching historic highs. Recent years have shattered all previous records, indicating a dire escalation in our climate crisis. This threatens vital marine ecosystems and our global climate stability. We need leadership in action now.
#ClimateCrisis

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

"In November 2022, the FTC published an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asking for your input about unfair or deceptive practices relating to fees. We received 12,000 comments from consumers, businesses, law enforcers, and others.”
https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/10/ftc-proposes-junk-fee-rule-put-stop-bogus-hidden-charges

Who Followed the Blueprint? Analyzing the Responses of U.S. Federal Agencies to the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
Darren Lage, Riley Pruitt, Jason Ross Arnold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19076 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19076
arXiv:2404.19076v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study examines the extent to which U.S. federal agencies responded to and implemented the principles outlined in the White House's October 2022 "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights." The Blueprint provided a framework for the ethical governance of artificial intelligence systems, organized around five core principles: safety and effectiveness, protection against algorithmic discrimination, data privacy, notice and explanation about AI systems, and human alternatives and fallback.
Through an analysis of publicly available records across 15 federal departments, the authors found limited evidence that the Blueprint directly influenced agency actions after its release. Only five departments explicitly mentioned the Blueprint, while 12 took steps aligned with one or more of its principles. However, much of this work appeared to have precedents predating the Blueprint or motivations disconnected from it, such as compliance with prior executive orders on trustworthy AI. Departments' activities often emphasized priorities like safety, accountability and transparency that overlapped with Blueprint principles, but did not necessarily stem from it.
The authors conclude that the non-binding Blueprint seems to have had minimal impact on shaping the U.S. government's approach to ethical AI governance in its first year. Factors like public concerns after high-profile AI releases and obligations to follow direct executive orders likely carried more influence over federal agencies. More rigorous study would be needed to definitively assess the Blueprint's effects within the federal bureaucracy and broader society.

“The plan was to build a $100 billion coastal city designed to house up to a million people.
However, it has now turned into a ghost town full of stray dogs, overgrown vegetation, day drinkers, and crocodile-infested waters.”
No, it’s not Florida. It’s…Singapore!? https://supe…

$100 billion eco-friendly 'Forest City' is now a ghost town
A $100 billion eco-friendly city known as "Forest City" that was supposed to be home to a million people is nothing but a ghost town now.

Grand ecology experiment phase III ... in 2022 we planted flowers on this balcony in Bochum, Germany, based on them looking nice to *us* - and lots of wild #bees (at least 3 species) came. In 2023 we planted only flowers appearing on at least two 'bee-friendly' web lists and hardly any bee was seen. Now it's nice-to-us-humans-looking flowers again - let's see what happens now ...

Three-stage Acceleration of Solar Energetic Particles Detected by Parker Solar Probe
Xiaomin Chen, Chuan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19680 https://

Three-stage Acceleration of Solar Energetic Particles Detected by Parker Solar Probe
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) drive powerful shocks and thereby accelerate solar energetic particles (SEPs) as they propagate from the corona into interplanetary space. Here we present the processes of three-stage particle acceleration by a CME-driven shock detected by the in situ spacecraft--Parker Solar Probe (PSP) on 2022 August 27. The onset of SEPs is produced by a fast CME with a speed of 1284 km/s when it propagates to $\sim$2.85 Rs. The second stage of particle acceleration occurs when …

A mural I like, 30th & Market in West Oakland, Pemex/Zaps/Seper/Rella 2022

Pinot is a skilled pixel artist and animator who does his work on #vintageComputing hardware, mostly early #Macintosh computers.
He suffered a devastating stroke in 2022 and lost much of his motor control. I’m glad to see him back doing

Pinot on Instagram: "DONE! it started april 2019, then it stopped long before I got the stroke in june 2022. continued in february 2024 after I got stroke."
693 likes, 12 comments - pinot on May 15, 2024: "DONE! it started april 2019, then it stopped long before I got the stroke in june 2022. continued in february 2024 after I got stroke.".

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 10 nodes and 71 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Why some far-right Republicans are hell bent on ending further aid to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/02/why-some-farright.html

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the board didn't know about the company's 2022 launch of ChatGPT until learning about it on Twitter (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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

Here's how media personalities talk about young adults. They openly describe them as emotional cripples.
"Teenagers don't understand how to actually interact with their feelings,... yeah, people basically under 25"
Michael Eisen, January 12, 2022

The man who attacked Paul Pelosi with a hammer and attempted to kidnap Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday in a federal case. This Wednesday the state trial will begin against him for assault with a deadly weapon, elder abuse, residential burglary, and other felonies under state law.

🚀 Mobile Suit Gundam Franchise Reaches Sales Record of 145.7 Billion Yen in 2024 Fiscal Year
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-05-12/mobile-suit-gundam-franchise-reaches-sa…

Mobile Suit Gundam Franchise Reaches Sales Record of 145.7 Billion Yen in 2024 Fiscal Year
Franchise hit 100-billion yen mark in 2022 // Bandai Namco Holdings released on Thursday its financial report for the fiscal year of 2024 (which ended on March...

A US federal court awards Activision $14.4M in a judgment for its 2022 lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of DMCA violation by selling Call of Duty cheat software (Wesley Yin-Poole/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/call-of-duty-

Call of Duty Cheat Maker Ordered to Pay Activision Over $14 Million in Damages and Hand Over Domain Name - IGN
A high-profile video game cheat maker has been ordered to pay Activision over $14 million in damages and hand over its domain name.

2022 retro-link! https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.09029 - If multicast is the answer, what was the question?

A US federal court awards Activision $14.4M in a judgment for its 2022 lawsuit accusing EngineOwning of DMCA violation by selling Call of Duty cheat software (Wesley Yin-Poole/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/call-of-duty-

Call of Duty Cheat Maker Ordered to Pay Activision Over $14 Million in Damages and Hand Over Domain Name - IGN
A high-profile video game cheat maker has been ordered to pay Activision over $14 million in damages and hand over its domain name.

General Staff: Russia has lost 482,290 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/12/general-staff-russia.html

Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner says the board didn't know about the company's 2022 launch of ChatGPT until learning about it on Twitter (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

US support for abortion rights is
up four points -- to 60% --
since fall of Roe v Wade
New polling data from Pew shows a shift in Americans’ opinion since loss of constitutional right to abortion in June 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/…

2022 retro-link! https://xania.org/202206/happy-birthday-ce - Happy 10th birthday to Godbolt’s Compiler Explorer!

Welt: Ukraine withdrew from the negotiation process with Russia in 2022 due to Russia's new demands: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/27/welt-ukraine-withdrew.html

Crypto exchange Gemini says Gemini Earn users will get $2.18B in crypto back in kind, after the lending program folded in November 2022 (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/297229/gemini

It's really bad
Let's stop treating teens like shit
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/10/health/pediatricians-mental-health-crisis-teens.html

Teens in Distress Are Swamping Pediatricians
Around the country, the setting for adolescent mental health care looks ever more like this doctor’s office in Kentucky, the next patient arriving every 15 minutes.

Crypto exchange Gemini says Gemini Earn users will get $2.18B in crypto back in kind, after the lending program folded in November 2022 (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/297229/gemini

US support for abortion rights is
up four points -- to 60% --
since fall of Roe v Wade
New polling data from Pew shows a shift in Americans’ opinion since loss of constitutional right to abortion in June 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/…

2022 retro-link! https://xania.org/202206/happy-birthday-ce - Happy 10th birthday to Godbolt’s Compiler Explorer!

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

Former justice Stephen Breyer signals support for supreme court term limits
Former US supreme court justice Stephen #Breyer signaled his support for #term #limits in the country’s highest court following his retirement in 2022.
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A Delaware federal court overturns a jury's 2022 decision that Shopify owes $40M to Express Mobile for infringing patents related to website-building tools (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/us-court-overturns-40-million…

US court overturns $40-million USD patent infringement verdict against Shopify
Shopify has convinced a US court to reverse the 2022 ruling that it infringed upon patents held by Express Mobile and owed $40 million in damages, citing insufficient evidence.

Media: Armenian exports to Russia rise despite political tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/media-armenian-exports.html

A Delaware federal court overturns a jury's 2022 decision that Shopify owes $40M to Express Mobile for infringing patents related to website-building tools (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/us-court-overturns-40-million…

US court overturns $40-million USD patent infringement verdict against Shopify
Shopify has convinced a US court to reverse the 2022 ruling that it infringed upon patents held by Express Mobile and owed $40 million in damages, citing insufficient evidence.

There was a large, global surge in prices in 2021 and 2022 as the economy restarted following the COVID-19 pandemic.
That inflation surge left Joe Biden, like leaders in almost every major democracy, deeply unpopular. Biden, like his global peers, has yet to recover.
Is it possible that Biden’s standing can recover as the economy returns to health and the inflation surge recedes further into the past?
Sure.
But as every month goes by, that prospect gets a bit less …

General Staff: Russia has lost 461,060 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/23/general-staff-russia.html

2022 retro-link! http://skarnet.org/software/execline/ - execline: a small scripting language.

2022 retro-link! https://www.leemeichin.com/posts/yes-i-can-connect-to-a-db-in-css.html - Yes, I can query a SQLite database in CSS.

2022 retro-link! https://geodienst.github.io/lighthousemap/ - Lights at sea: a map of lighthouses.

2022 retro-link! https://www.mersenneforum.org/showthread.php?p=614191 - Zen4's AVX512 teardown.

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...

2022 retro-link! https://dracos.co.uk/wrote/inky-dashboard/ - Matthew Somerville’s Inky dashboard.

2022 retro-link! https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://icube-forge.unistra.fr/icps/c23-library/-/raw/main/README.html - C23 implications for C libraries.

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…