
2025-08-27 06:51:46
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,078,750 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,078,750 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
DreamState: Dreams where you listen, stream, & dream #music https://muz4now.com/2022/dreamstate-dreams-where-you-listen-stream-dream
Six Minutes of Med-ness (2022-08) - Ambient Mediterranean beach at dusk at Marseillan Plage. #fieldRecording #beach #Mediterranean -
Patriots cut 2022 first-round pick Cole Strange after three seasons https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-cut-2022-first-round-pick-cole-strange-after-three-seasons
Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/
Sources: HongShan, formerly Sequoia China, has invested only a quarter of the ~$9B it raised in 2022 and has been increasingly looking beyond China for deals (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/neil-she…
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#MashupClassicSongsAndDogs
#ParkerSolarProbe was in the right place at the right time in September 2022: It passed through a magnetic reconnection region in the Sun's corona. #SolarOrbiter observed the event from a distance. Study led by
Remember back in 2022, when people all across the Fediverse lost their absolute minds at the idea of someone building a search index of public posts, and took down several reasonable attempts at it?
I wonder how many of those people are storming the offices of MS, OpenAI, Grok, etc. about all the copyright infringing hoovering they're doing.
Oh, none? Thought so. So much easier to beat up on the solo developer trying to be useful.
Over 250,000 desertion, AWOL cases opened since 2022, prosecutors say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/over-desertion-awol-cases-opened.html
YouTube strikes a deal to carry Herring Networks' One America News on YouTube TV's base package in Q4 2025; in 2022, DirecTV and Verizon Fios dropped OANN (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world
Meine Arbeitskollegin wurde letzte Woche auf der Heimfahrt von einem LKW touchiert, der trotz Gegenverkehr überholt hat. Obwohl der Spiegel abgebrochen ist, ist ihr dabei bis auf einen blauen Fleck zum Glück nicht wirklich was passiert. Der LKW-Fahrer hat das dann entweder nicht mal mitbekommen oder hat bewusst Fahrerflucht begangen. Sie hat klarerweise Anzeige erstattet (und den Spiegel als Beweismaterial direkt bei der Polizei gelassen) aber ich glaube nicht, dass der Fahrer noch gefunden …
Merz: Bedrohung durch Russland ist real
Bei einem Besuch der Marine hat Kanzler Friedrich Merz (CDU) die Arbeit der Bundeswehr in Nord- und Ostsee gelobt. Die Bundeswehr erfülle im nordatlantischen Raum einen wichtigen Auftrag, sagte Merz. Die Landes- und Bündnisverteidigung sei seit Beginn des Angriffskrieges von Russland auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 notwendiger geworden.
"Wir sehen tägliche Ak…
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Everly Brothers:
🎵 Walk Right Back (2022 remaster)
#TheEverlyBrothers
https://onlyeverlybrothers.bandcamp.com/track/walk-right-back
Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 27. August 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Player". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in
'22 1st-rounder Strange among Pats' roster cuts https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46082348/cole-strange-2022-1st-round-pick-patriots-roster-cuts
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,079,630 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Magneto-Thermal Coupling and Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions Inferred from Microwave Observations
Alexey A. Kuznetsov, Gregory D. Fleishman, Gelu M. Nita, Sergey A. Anfinogentov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18647
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 …
Iran nearly succeeded in orchestrating assassination of Mike Pompeo in Europe in 2022, book reveals (Emily Davies/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/27/trump-iran-pompeo-assassination/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250628/p1#a250628p1
Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
Philippe Mongeon, Madelaine Hare, Poppy Riddle, Summer Wilson, Geoff Krause, Rebecca Marjoram, R\'emi Toupin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18620
‘Competition brings down charging prices in Nordics’
Clear BloombergNEF graph shows that #EV fast-charging prices in markets with a higher share of EVs are also more competitive.
This and other insights in this short video:
2022 waren wir mit der Schachtour in Schweinfurt im Wildpark an den Eichen und haben dort geholfen, ein Blitzturnier zu veranstalten. Neben Flyern, Luftballons etc. war auch hier natürlich zur Freude aller Kinder wieder Chessy am Start. Und auch unsere "Morphs" waren mit dabei, sodass man gegen anonyme Gegner Schach spielen konnte.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:
Weak Nearly $\mathcal S$- and Weak Nearly $\mathcal C$- Manifolds
Vladimir Rovenski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17755
Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage
Shade – an improvised poem #improv #poem https://muz4now.com/2022/shade-an-improvised-poem
Letter: activist investment firm Fivespan takes a stake in the NYT; Fivespan was started by the financiers who led ValueAct's investment in the NYT in 2022 (Crystal Tse/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-…
Bellingcat’s "Auto Archiver" is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.
Publicly launched in 2022,
it has preserved over 150,000 web pages and social media posts to date.
The Auto Archiver has been used by Bellingcat’s journalists to preserve information on dozens of fast moving events such as the Jan. 6 riots
– when we first used the tool internally
– as well as gather digital evidence for o…
Befürchtungen, bei digitalcourage.social könnte es sich um eine Free-Speech-Instanz handeln, haben sich als unbegründet erwiesen.
#Antizionismus
Auch die Stadtbibliothek #Buckow (in der Märkischen Schweiz) scheint es nicht mehr zu geben. Sie wurde bis 2022 von einem Antiquariat nebenher betreut, bis auch hierfür der Zuschuss ausblieb (
UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…
Insight-HXMT Spectral and Timing Studies of a Giant Outburst in RX J0440.9 4431
Prahlad R. Epili, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18676 https://arxiv.o…
Devastating: 1,000 Endangered Monkeys Sent Back to Cruel Testing https://www.speciesunite.com/petition-updates/devastating-1000-endangered-monkeys-sent-back-to-cruel-testing?utm_source=Mastodon
A Feminist Account of Intersectional Algorithmic Fairness
Marie Mirsch (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Laila Wegner (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands), Jonas Strube (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Carmen Leicht-Scholten (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17944
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 52 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
The 2025 Roadmaps for the US Magnet Development Program
Lance Cooley (Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL), Paolo Ferracin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA), Steve Gourlay (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL), David Larbalestier (Applied Superconductivity Center, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL), Mark Palmer (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY), Soren Prestemon (La…
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,077,830 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#WhyCharactersGotMad
Initiator of the #NixOS documentation team is stepping down:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-next-chapter-in-nix-documentation/68425
Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz
Straddling Two Platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an Analysis of the Evolution of an Unfinished Social Media Migration
Sim\'on Pe\~na-Fern\'andez, Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Jordi Morales-i-Gras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17563
Just noticed that there hasn't been a #DarwinAward since 2022.
Anyone know what happened?
With all the #ChatGPT-prompted accidents (and deaths!), I'd assume there would be LOTS of good candidates for 2025...
Convergence of pushforward measures for certain countably piecewise linear Markov maps
Zolt\'an Kalocsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18172 https://arxiv…
Gestern demonstrierten rund 60 Fahrradfahrer:nnen in #Osnabrück für bessere Radwege. Eine schöne Spazierfahrt die bei 18 Grad etwas kälter als erwartet fand. Da wir als Gruppe als ein Fahrzeug gelten, können wir Kreuzungen und Überwege passieren, sobald die ersten Räder drüber sind. Auch wenn dass dann z.B. wieder Rot wird. Das fühlt sich seltsam an, und macht Laune. Endlich mal Vorfahrt für …
Empirical Analysis of the Model-Free Valuation Approach: Hedging Gaps, Conservatism, and Trading Opportunities
Zixing Chen, Yihan Qi, Shanlan Que, Julian Sester, Xiao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16595
Ducks Ltd. ft. Illuminati Hotties - "Head On" (2022)
This is a really nice, jangly cover 🤩
#music #IndieRock #Pixies
Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
Kim-Vy H. Tran, Stuart Wyithe, Michelle Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20676
Before Sunrise (1995)
Before Sunset (2004)
Before Midnight (2013)
I must say I was disappointed there wasn't a sequel to Céline and Jesse's story in 2022.
But maybe… everything that had to be said has been said. That's probably it.
"You have no idea where I came from
We have no idea where we’re going
Lodged in life
Like two branches in a river
Flowing downstream
Caught in the current
I’ll carry you, you’ll carry me
Eigentum unleistbar - Wer eine Wohnung will, zahlt zwölf Jahresgehälter #News #Nachrichten
Den ukrainske man som gripits i Italien är misstänkt för att ha samordnat sabotagen mot gasledningarna Nord Stream 1 och 2 i september 2022. https://www.dn.se/varlden/gripen-ukrainsk-man-misstanks-ha-samordnat-nord-stream-sabotage/
KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
Mehr zu
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,076,940 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Carbon Disclosure Effect, Corporate Fundamentals, and Net-zero Emission Target: Evidence from China
Xiyuan Zhou, Xinlei Wang, Xiang Fei, Wenxuan Liu, Bai-Chen Xie, Junhua Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17423
📢 Bundesanwaltschaft meldet Festnahme von mutmaßlichem "Nord-Stream"-Angreifer
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat nach eigenen Angaben einen ukrainischen Staatsangehörigen in Italien festnehmen lassen. Er soll einer Gruppe von Personen angehört haben, die im September 2022 nahe der Insel Bornholm Sprengsätze an den Gaspipelines "Nord Stream 1" und "Nord Stream 2" platzierte.
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»Kernenergie erzeugt kein CO2 und ist deshalb die Lösung für unser Energieproblem.« Es ist natürlich nicht ganz so simpel, wie diese Sorte populistischer Parolen. Der Beitrag "Milliardengrab Atomkraft" von 2022 (50min) beleuchtet da ein paar problematische Ecken. Leider werden diejenigen, die da aufmerksam zuhören sollten, auch hier konsequent weghören. Podcast-Empfehlung trotzdem:
Cyber security is an ever-evolving battle that we can never win.
The reason is simple -- and scary:
Virtually no one actually knows what is running on their computer at this very moment.
Gary Ruddell created a series of videos that are both entertaining and professionally made.
His website provides insight in cyber security and includes articles, a newsletter and also workshops for those who are interested in a career in cyber.
Here's one of his videos.
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Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on developing AI-powered features like Wingman and A-List, Grindr's new telehealth service Woodwork, his RTO mandate, and more (J. Edward Moreno/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/business/grindr-dating-app-push-into-ai-stock/
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#WaffleAMovieShowOrPlay
First coordinated observations between Solar Orbiter and the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope
Krzysztof Barczynski, Miho Janvier, Chris J. Nelson, T. Schad, A. Tritschler, Louise Harra, Daniel M\"uller, Susanna Parenti, Gherardo Valori, Gianna Cauzzi, Yingjie Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19198…
Lions waive former third-round pick Hendon Hooker after QB struggles throughout preseason, per report
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lions-w
Liminal and Lucid – dreamstate interplay #dreams https://muz4now.com/2022/liminal-and-lucid-dreamstate-interplay
Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1093815 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der
Symbolic dynamics, shadowing and representation of real numbers with some countably piecewise linear Markov maps
Zolt\'an Kalocsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17159 https://
Trump and his henchmen have a new strategy to target political opponents: allegations of mortgage fraud.
First it was Letitia James, the New York attorney general,
then it was Adam Schiff, a California senator.
Now, Trump is targeting Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, demandingshe resign and threatening to fire her.
Cook, the first Black woman to be appointed a Fed governor, was appointed in 2022 by Joe Biden.
Her 14-year term is not due to expire until 2038.…
A look at SiriusXM's podcasting business; 2024's "off-platform earnings" were $606M, with podcast advertising making up most of that sum, up from $475M in 2022 (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/busines
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://www.earth.org.uk/electricity-usage-snapshot-202208.html
Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,075,160 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/23/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Ukraine warnt Belarus und Russland vor Provokationen
Aus dem ukrainischen Außenministerium sind Warnungen vor Provokationen laut geworden. Solche dürfe es während der gemeinsamen belarusisch-russischen Militärübungen "Zapad" im September nicht geben. Das Ministerium rief die europäischen Partner zur Wachsamkeit auf.
Der Aufmarsch russischer Truppen an den Grenzen der Ukraine in den Jahren 2021 und 2022 habe unter dem Deckman…
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Databricks plans to acquire Tecton, which helps companies build and deploy ML applications, for an undisclosed sum; Tecton was valued at $900M in 2022 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/databricks-buy-sequoia-…
Evidence of Time-Dependent Diffusive Shock Acceleration in the 2022 September 5 Solar Energetic Particle Event
Xiaohang Chen, Lulu Zhao, Joe Giacalone, Nishtha Sachdeva, Igor Sokolov, Gabor Toth, Christina Cohen, David Lario, Fan Guo, Athanasios Kouloumvakos, Tamas Gombosi, Zhenguang Huang, Ward Manchester, Bart van der Holst, Weihao Liu, David McComas, Matthew Hill, George Ho
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#RhetoricalSongsOrPoems
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 …
Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerken in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,074,320 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company hit its first $1B revenue month in July and that "the biggest thing we face is being constantly under compute" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/openai-compute-ai.html
What’s on your musical reading table? #musicianresources https://muz4now.com/2022/whats-on-your-musical-reading-table
Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#AllOrNothingAnything
Coco Gauff has reportedly split with coach Matthew Daly just days before the start of the US Open,
making another shakeup to her support team on the eve of the year’s final major.
The world No 3 and two-time major champion will continue to work with her longtime coach Jean-Christophe Faurel
but has added biomechanics specialist Gavin MacMillan to her corner.
MacMillan previously worked with Aryna Sabalenka, helping the world No 1 overcome her serving yips in 2022 and…
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,072,700 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Love’s Shifting Nature – in memory and in honor #grief #love #relationship
CBP data: between April and June 2025, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, up from a high of 12,766 between January and March 2022 (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-a-record-high/…
Ukrainian detained in Italy for alleged Nord Stream sabotage, media report: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/ukrainian-detained-in-italy-for.html
Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#ShowsOrMoviesAboutPie
18,500 soldiers convicted in Russia of desertion or unauthorized absence since 2022, analysis finds: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/soldiers-convicted-in-russia-of.html
A look at the problems at Uber Freight, which has posted operating losses every year since it was founded in 2017, except for 2022, and just appointed a new CEO (Thomas Black/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-15/ub…
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,071,780 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Russia occupied less than 1% of Ukraine's territory since November 2022, monitoring group says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/russia-occupied-less-than-of.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,070,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Another light brigade becomes heavy mechanized: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/another-light-brigade-becomes-heavy.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html
Top Russian commander seriously wounded in Ukrainian strike, Dagestan head says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/top-russian-commander-seriously-wounded.html