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In this video I look at Putin's proposal about a so-called peace plan, and what it tells us about how he looks at the war. I think the most interesting thing was not the outrageous demands that he made as a precondition to even start negotiations, but that he also reiterated the same war aims as when the invasion began in 2022. In short, Russia's goals with the war haven't changed.
The link is to a blog post with both the video and a transcript.

Putin still wants total control over Ukraine
In this video I look at Putin's so-called peace plan. Most commentators have reacted to the tangible and frankly outrageous demands that Putin has come up with just to begin negotiations with Ukraine, but I think the most important story is that he also reiterated the original war aims from

The California Labor Commissioner's Office fines Amazon $5.9M for violating a 2022 state law by failing to properly inform workers of quotas at two warehouses (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)
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Amazon fined $5.9 million for breaking labor law in California
The company is among the first to run afoul of a union-backed law aimed at protecting warehouse workers from aggressive productivity quotas.

“Listening sessions” have become the scourge of Minnesota politics.
Re this from @…: https://c.im/@NewNordicNormal/112633294249579821…

Hier heeft hij vast geen actieve herinnering aan … https://www.ewmagazine.nl/nederland/achtergrond/2022/07/rutte-weigert-internationale-carriere-dat-gaat-niet-gebeuren-892732/

Rutte weigert internationale carrière: 'Dat gaat niet gebeuren'
Rutte zegt in een interview met EW dat hij onder geen beding een topfunctie bij de NAVO of de Europese Unie zal accepteren✓Lees meer.

2022 retro-link! https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/ - Building a virtual machine inside ChatGPT.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04684 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Algorithmic Misjudgement in Google Search Results: Evidence from Auditing the US Online Electoral Information Environment
Google Search is an important way that people seek information about politics, and Google states that it is ``committed to providing timely and authoritative information on Google Search to help voters understand, navigate, and participate in democratic processes.'' This paper studies the extent to which government-maintained web domains are represented in the online electoral information environment, as captured through 3.45 Google Search result pages collected during the 2022 US midterm elect…

Raiders coach has big compliments towards position group that means a little more when you look at his history https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_coach_h…

Four microlensing giant planets detected through signals produced by minor-image perturbations
Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrew Gould, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Youn Kil Jung, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Fumio Abe, Ken Bando, Richard Barry, David P. Bennett, Aparna Bhatta…

Four microlensing giant planets detected through signals produced by minor-image perturbations
We investigated the nature of the anomalies appearing in four microlensing events KMT-2020-BLG-0757, KMT-2022-BLG-0732, KMT-2022-BLG-1787, and KMT-2022-BLG-1852. The light curves of these events commonly exhibit initial bumps followed by subsequent troughs that extend across a substantial portion of the light curves. We performed thorough modeling of the anomalies to elucidate their characteristics. Despite their prolonged durations, which differ from the usual brief anomalies observed in typic…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04684 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Algorithmic Misjudgement in Google Search Results: Evidence from Auditing the US Online Electoral Information Environment
Google Search is an important way that people seek information about politics, and Google states that it is ``committed to providing timely and authoritative information on Google Search to help voters understand, navigate, and participate in democratic processes.'' This paper studies the extent to which government-maintained web domains are represented in the online electoral information environment, as captured through 3.45 Google Search result pages collected during the 2022 US midterm elect…

Four microlensing giant planets detected through signals produced by minor-image perturbations
Cheongho Han, Ian A. Bond, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrew Gould, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Youn Kil Jung, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Fumio Abe, Ken Bando, Richard Barry, David P. Bennett, Aparna Bhatta…

Four microlensing giant planets detected through signals produced by minor-image perturbations
We investigated the nature of the anomalies appearing in four microlensing events KMT-2020-BLG-0757, KMT-2022-BLG-0732, KMT-2022-BLG-1787, and KMT-2022-BLG-1852. The light curves of these events commonly exhibit initial bumps followed by subsequent troughs that extend across a substantial portion of the light curves. We performed thorough modeling of the anomalies to elucidate their characteristics. Despite their prolonged durations, which differ from the usual brief anomalies observed in typic…

Temperature and composition disturbances in the southern auroral region of Jupiter revealed by JWST/MIRI
Pablo Rodr\'iguez-Ovalle, Thierry Fouchet, Sandrine Guerlet, Thibault Cavali\'e, Vincent Hue, Manuel L\'opez-Puertas, Emmanuel Lellouch, James A. Sinclair, Imke de Pater, Leigh N. Fletcher, Michael H. Wong, Jake Harkett, Glenn S. Orton, Ricardo Hueso, Agust\'in S\'anchez-Lavega, Tom S. Stallard, Dominique Bockelee-Morvan, Oliver King, Michael T. Roman, Henrik Mel…

Temperature and composition disturbances in the southern auroral region of Jupiter revealed by JWST/MIRI
Jupiters south polar region was observed by JWST Mid Infrared Instrument in December 2022. We used the Medium Resolution Spectrometer mode to provide new information about Jupiters South Polar stratosphere. The southern auroral region was visible and influenced the atmosphere in several ways. 1: In the interior of the southern auroral oval, we retrieved peak temperatures at two distinct pressure levels near 0.01 and 1 mbar, with warmer temperatures with respect to non auroral regions of 12 pm 2…