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Es ist ja toll, dass Deutschland schon deutlich mehr als 50% erneuerbare Energien im Strommix hat (Februar 2024: 63,6%). Aber wir sollten definitiv nicht nur auf den Strom schauen.
Die gesamte Primärenergie sieht anders aus. Da ist noch *SEEHR* viel zu tun / einzusparen / sektorzukoppeln. 🤫
Quelle: https://

Good Morning #Canada
I am obviously not celebrating this National Day of Unplugging as demonstrated by this post. I recommend that we all participate. Just boost this first.
In 2022, the number of internet users in Canada surpassed a record 36.9 million, approximately 94% of our population at the time. The good news: we don't rank in the top 25 countries for screen time.
Here's …

Intel Foundry reports 2023 revenue down 31% YoY to $18.9B, operating loss of $7B, up from $5.2B in 2022, and expects 2024 to be the peak of its losses (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Intel (INTC) Financial Update Shows Factories’ Revenue Dropping, Losses Widening
Intel Corp. said that revenue from its factories is declining and losses are widening, showing the challenges of an expensive expansion plan.

General Staff: Russia has lost 442,170 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/31/general-staff-russia.html

#climatechange
I’m reviewing the 2023 State of the #Climate report
I am just struck again (yes - intellectually I knew this) that my teen kids’ whole lives have only been hottest years.
It’s scary.
ERA5 (European reanalysis dataset version 5) top-ten Temperature anomaly years
Rank Year Global_Temperature_anomaly (℃) vs 1991-2020 baseline
1 2023 0.60
2 2016 0.44
3 2020 0.43
4 2019 0.40
5 2017 0.34
6 2022 0.30
7 2021 0.27
8 2018 0.26
9 2015 0.26
10 2010 0.13

Indrukwekkende documentaire "20 days in Mariuopol" , schokkende beelden. Burgerbevolking die lijdt onder de gerichte aanvallen van Rusland op burgerdoelen.
https://www.2doc.nl/documentaires/2024/02/20-days-in-mariupol.html

Bekijk de documentaire '20 Days in Mariupol' nu op 2Doc.nl
Verslag van de Russische inval in de Oekraïense stad Marioepol in 2022. De beelden zijn gemaakt door de Oekraïense Associated Press-journalist Mstyslav Chernov en zijn team. Terwijl zij vastzitten in de stad gaan zij door met hun werk en doen verslag van alle vreselijke gebeurtenissen. Met uiterste moeite weet Chernov de beelden uit de van internet en elektriciteit verstoken stad te versturen. Door de bombardementen zijn de beelden schokkerig, maar kraakhelder en in de voice-over geeft Cherno…

Bearstone County - Season 1 finale 👻🤬🧑‍🌾
Narrated/dramatized mountain gothic series | Total listening time: 1h 39m
In the fictitious Bearstone County, citizens must weather the calamity of existence, and the darkest reaches of humanity in this mountain gothic podcast.
Luke Mott also provides many of the voices, is the producer, and pr...

Bearstone County - Season 1 finale 👻🤬🧑‍🌾
Narrated/dramatized mountain gothic series | Total listening time: 1h 39m In the fictitious Bearstone County, citizens must weather the calamity of existence, and the darkest reaches of humanity in this mountain gothic podcast. Luke Mott also provides many of the voices, is the producer, and provides the musical score for each episode. 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Nov 22, 2022.

Intel Foundry reports 2023 revenue down 31% YoY to $18.9B, operating loss of $7B, up from $5.2B in 2022, and expects 2024 to be the peak of its losses (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Intel (INTC) Financial Update Shows Factories’ Revenue Dropping, Losses Widening
Intel Corp. said that revenue from its factories is declining and losses are widening, showing the challenges of an expensive expansion plan.

Enhancing the Power of Gaussian Graphical Model Inference by Modeling the Graph Structure
Valentin KilianLPSM, Tabea RebafkaLPSM, Fanny VillersLPSM
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19021

Enhancing the Power of Gaussian Graphical Model Inference by Modeling the Graph Structure
For the problem of inferring a Gaussian graphical model (GGM), this work explores the application of a recent approach from the multiple testing literature for graph inference. The main idea of the method by Rebafka et al. (2022) is to model the data by a latent variable model, the so-called noisy stochastic block model (NSBM), and then use the associated ${\ell}$-values to infer the graph. The inferred graph controls the false discovery rate, that means that the proportion of falsely declared …

Indrukwekkende documentaire "20 days in Mariuopol" , schokkende beelden. Burgerbevolking die lijdt onder de gerichte aanvallen van Rusland op burgerdoelen.
https://www.2doc.nl/documentaires/2024/02/20-days-in-mariupol.html

Bekijk de documentaire '20 Days in Mariupol' nu op 2Doc.nl
Verslag van de Russische inval in de Oekraïense stad Marioepol in 2022. De beelden zijn gemaakt door de Oekraïense Associated Press-journalist Mstyslav Chernov en zijn team. Terwijl zij vastzitten in de stad gaan zij door met hun werk en doen verslag van alle vreselijke gebeurtenissen. Met uiterste moeite weet Chernov de beelden uit de van internet en elektriciteit verstoken stad te versturen. Door de bombardementen zijn de beelden schokkerig, maar kraakhelder en in de voice-over geeft Cherno…

I didn't realize so many Quick Build projects were failing this badly to reduce injury crashes. On some of these streets I *feel* safer since the changes, but the numbers don't lie. These are failures and SF must reevaluate its whole approach. Concrete > flex posts
https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/sf-vi

Vision Zero lacks a vision, experts say
As San Francisco hit the 10-year anniversary of its 2014 “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities, the effort has failed: Nearly as many

Versatile mixed methods for compressible flows
Edward A. Miller, David M. Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18660 https://arxiv.org…

Versatile mixed methods for compressible flows
Versatile mixed finite element methods were originally developed by Chen and Williams for isothermal incompressible flows in "Versatile mixed methods for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations," Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Volume 80, 2020. Thereafter, these methods were extended by Miller, Chen, and Williams to non-isothermal incompressible flows in "Versatile mixed methods for non-isothermal incompressible flows," Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Volume 125, 2022. …

Weil die #UDV gerade Horrorszenarien um 0 schwer verletzte und 0 getötete Kinder, die in Lastenrädern transportiert wurden, aufbaut, hier: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemi…

Giants coach Brian Daboll 'looking into' taking over play-calling duties for 2024 season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/giants-

Giants coach Brian Daboll 'looking into' taking over play-calling duties for 2024 season
Offensive coordinator Mike Kafka called the plays in 2022 and 2023

An Invariance Principle of 1D KPZ with Robin Boundary Conditions
Yiming Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19215 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

An Invariance Principle of 1D KPZ with Robin Boundary Conditions
We consider a discrete one-dimensional random interface on the half-space whose height at any positive point is defined as a sum of an independent random noise and a function of the heights at its two closest neighbours. In 2022, Adhikari and Chatterjee proved for the full-space model that assuming the function is equivariant, symmetric, and at least six times differentiable in a neighbourhood of zero, as the variance of the noise variables goes to zero, the height function converges to the Col…

An alle Autoköpfe:
Hier die häufigsten #Unfallverursacher:
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Verkehrs…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #JoWhiley
Cyndi Lauper:
🎵 Time After Time
#CyndiLauper
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Jj6MF0xDOMA3Ut2Z368Bx
https://funkastik.bandcamp.com/track/cyndi-lauper-time-after-time-2022-funkastik-remix

I didn't realize so many Quick Build projects were failing this badly to reduce injury crashes. On some of these streets I *feel* safer since the changes, but the numbers don't lie. These are failures and SF must reevaluate its whole approach. Concrete > flex posts
https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/sf-vi

Vision Zero lacks a vision, experts say
As San Francisco hit the 10-year anniversary of its 2014 “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities, the effort has failed: Nearly as many

Joni Mitchell's music returns to Spotify after she removed it in 2022 in protest of what she called "lies" about vaccines on the platform, following Neil Young (Ben Sisario/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/arts/music/joni-mi…

Joni Mitchell, Following Neil Young, Returns to Spotify After Protest
Her music has quietly reappeared on the streaming service, two years after a departure over what she called “lies” about Covid-19 vaccines in podcasts.

12 states where the fate of abortion rights could be on 2024 ballots
Voters in about a dozen states in 2024 could👉 decide the fate of #abortion #rights with
💥constitutional amendments 💥on the ballot in a pivotal election year
— including in several

12 states where the fate of abortion rights could be on 2024 ballots
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, every ballot measure that has sought to preserve or expand abortion access has been successful, while those that have sought to restrict abortion access have failed.

Putin’s media is very much like a modern Goebbels, influencing Russians.
When we think about the effects of modern media on public discourse, let’s not overlook what’s happening in Russia. This seems like it won’t end well.

General Staff: Russia has lost 437,390 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/25/general-staff-russia.html

Nu kan het nog, mensen, voordat de machines alles overnemen.
*dispereert & wanhoopt*
https://idf.social/@djoerd/112155884327150522

Die Deutschen trinken immer weniger Wein – das gilt besonders für roten. 22,5 Liter Wein konsumierte ein Durchschnittstrinker ab 16 Jahren im vergangenen Jahr. Das ist laut DWI ein Liter weniger als 2022. Der Absatz von Rotwein in Deutschland ist dabei deutlich stärker eingebrochen als der von Weißwein und Rosé.
Rotwein ist teurer und ein Trend zu leichteren Weinen ist zu beobachten, so das #Handelsblatt

UK Solar PV Incentives for Rented Commercial Properties (2022) - How do we urgently get more solar panels up on commercial rented property? What incentives are there in the UK? - https://www.earth.org.uk/commercial-rent-UK-solar-incentives-2022.html

UK Solar PV Incentives for Rented Commercial Properties (2022)
How do we urgently get more solar panels up on commercial rented property? What incentives are there in the UK?

oh my gods i completely forgot that i was involved in this https://tomverbeure.github.io/2022/02/20/GDBWave-Post-Simulation-RISCV-SW-Debugging.html

20/ Also 13/ ist ja genau mein Humor, aber es gab auch dieses Transparent, das für das Radrennen am Scharmützelsee wirbt. Es findet am 4.9. um 10:00–16:00 statt. Und zwar 2022.
#radscharmützel
Beim genaueren Betrachten ist mir jetzt aufgefallen, dass was durchscheint. Ich werd wohl noch mal hinfahren müssen, um herauszufinden, was da steht.

New study
Safeguarding the Peaceful Transfer of Power:
Pro-Democracy Electoral Frames and Journalist Coverage of Election Deniers During the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612241235819
Heesoo Jang a…

My current laptop, a T470 (32G SSD, 4core i7) I love, but its almost 8 yrs old (?) and it runs VMs kinda badly. Everything else about it is great, so Im looking at replacement (referb) Thinkpads from 2021/2022. Any suggestions on things to look out for since I really can't say WHY vm's run kinda slow? I assume its CPU related, or thats what top tells me. I have a x230 that is awesomely portable, but even worse with VMs.Fedora SwayWM on both.

How the US is using wire fraud laws to prosecute crypto crimes, such as with SBF, while the debate over whether crypto tokens are securities plays out in court (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

Sam Bankman-Fried Sentencing: FTX Co-Founder SBF Faces Decades in Jail
In the waning days of 2022, a month after the collapse of FTX, federal prosecutors filed eight charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, the face of the bubble-like crypto industry. Four of them involved wire fraud.

We’ve had a number of big retailers suffer widespread issues in th #uk. This makes me wonder how many went all-in on MS and Azure for critical sustems. 🤔 https://learn.microsoft.co…

#Upcoming Speaking of… Recording and mixing of #Shellac’s sixth album took place at Electrical Audio over a bunch of long weekends in 2017, 2019, 2021, and 2022. Available via #TouchAndGoRecords, May …

SHELLAC To All Trains

[Le Monde] - Ces cybercriminels sont Š l’origine de milliers d’attaques, dont celle ayant touché l’hôpital de #CorbeilEssonnes en 2022. L’« #OpérationCronos », qui implique notamment Europol et la gendarmerie, a mis Š mal la majeure partie de son infrastructure technique.

LockBit, l’un des plus gros groupes de rançongiciel du monde, visé par une opération de police internationale
Ces cybercriminels sont à l’origine de milliers d’attaques, dont celle ayant touché l’hôpital de Corbeil-Essonnes en 2022. L’« opération Cronos », qui implique notamment Europol et la gendarmerie, a mis à mal la majeure partie de son infrastructure technique.

General Staff: Russia has lost 433,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/20/general-staff-russia.html

Service-Toot: Es ist nun möglich, Exemplare des neuen Bands von Richard Schuberth zu beziehen, bei denen Umschlag und Inhalt übereinstimmen - Dank an das Literaturbuffet Lhotzky für's Nachprüfen!
Buch-Info: https://www.drava.at/buch/rueckkehr-des-dschungels/

@… 's write-up on Amy Von Lintel and Bonnie Roos' book "Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West" (from 2022) really makes us want to read the book.

The Largely Unknown Story of Women, Abstract Expressionism, and Texas
Three Women Artists: Expanding Abstract Expressionism in the American West uncovers the little-known stories of professional and creative gains in the region, and especially in the Texas Panhandle.

Drei Jahre Haft für russischen Filmemacher
Ein russischer Filmemacher ist wegen Kritik an Moskaus Militäroffensive in der Ukraine zu drei Jahren Gefängnis verurteilt worden. Ein Gericht in St. Petersburg befand Wsewolod Koroljo für schuldig, im Frühjahr 2022 im Onlinedienst VKontakte "unwahre" Beiträge "über Massaker an Zivilisten in Butcha und Borodjanka sowie über den Beschuss von Donezk" veröffentlicht zu haben. Das Gericht…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Niederlande wollen Munition für F-16-Jets liefern ++
Die Niederlande wollen die Ukraine mit Drohnen und Munition für F-16-Jets unterstützen. In Litauen sollen im April die ersten Bundeswehrsoldaten zum verstärkten Schutz des NATO-Partners eintreffen. Die Entwicklungen vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19146 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_…

Computing Longest Common Subsequence under Cartesian-Tree Matching Model
Two strings of the same length are said to Cartesian-tree match (CT-match) if their Cartesian-trees are isomorphic [Park et al., TCS 2020]. Cartesian-tree matching is a natural model that allows for capturing similarities of numerical sequences. Oizumi et al. [CPM 2022] showed that subsequence pattern matching under CT-matching model can be solved in polynomial time. This current article follows and extends this line of research: We present the first polynomial-time algorithm that finds the lon…

ProTIp: You know that Synology you have sitting in a neglected corner that you haven't logged into the admin interface of since 2022? Go log in and take the updates. Synology people have been doing some work on their stuff.

Tweeluik.

Falcons pick up TE Kyle Pitts’ fifth-year option https://theathletic.com/5459089/2024/04/29/falcons-kyle-pitts-fifth-year-option/

Falcons pick up TE Kyle Pitts’ fifth-year option
He had 356 receiving yards in 10 games in 2022 before his knee injury and 667 yards in 17 games last year. He has six career TD catches.

Ni ne povas toleri la riĉulojn.
Egaleco necesas por daŭripovo. La popolo en pli egalaj societoj estas pli fidemaj kaj pli protektemaj de la medio, ol tiuj en neegalaj.
De 2020 al 2022, la plej riĉa 1% kaptis preskaŭ duoble el la nova monda riĉeco ol la alia 99 faris kune, kaj en 2019 ili elmetis tiom da karbona dioksido, kiom la plej malriĉaj du trionoj. En la jardeko ĝis 2022, la miliarduloj de la mondo pli ol duobligis iliajn riĉecon al US$ 12 mil miliardoj (12×10¹²)

Putin’s media is very much like a modern Goebbels, influencing Russians.
When we think about the effects of modern media on public discourse, let’s not overlook what’s happening in Russia. This seems like it won’t end well.

🏈 @… #NFL
Via Art Vandelay @KingFavre
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GOP minority outreach centers in Nevada quietly shuttered after 2022 election cycle - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-minority-outreach-centers-in-nevada-quietly-shuttered-after-2022-election-cycle/

GOP minority outreach centers in Nevada quietly shuttered after 2022 election cycle
This article originally appeared in The Nevada Independent.This article has been translated to Spanish. You can read it here.In 2020 and 2022, the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Nevada GOP made a well-publicized push to attract voters of color by opening several minority outreach centers in...

TransLink set to receive $300M from B.C. for more buses, extra service
From City News
By Charlie Carey and Pippa Norman and Monika Gul
Posted April 17, 2024 12:08 pm.
Last Updated April 17, 2024 8:31 pm.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2024/04/

BC invests $300M into TransLink SeaBus, bus, SkyTrain services
The B.C. government announced Wednesday it is investing $300 million into transit in the Lower Mainland to increase frequency of services.

Google says it blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B and 6.7M respectively in 2022 (Nicola Agius/Search Engine Land)
https://searchengineland.com/google-ads-safety-report-2023-438796<…

Google suspended 12.7 million ad accounts and blocked 5.5 billion ads in 2023
The number of advertisers who were blocked or removed due to policy violations nearly doubled compared to the previous year.

Die Recherche zu "Gekaufte Politik? Europa in der #Korruptionskrise" und die kaltschnäuzige Art und Weise, wie zB Eva #Kaili versucht, sich herauszureden, ist schon heftig. Es gibt Menschen, die moralisch völlig korrumpiert sind. Lügen sind für sie probate Mittel zum Zweck. Sie sind schamlos.…

Gekaufte Politik? Europa in der Korruptionskrise - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
2022 erschüttert ein Korruptionsskandal Brüssel und das Europäische Parlament. Im Zentrum: Eva Kaili, Vizepräsidentin des Europäischen Parlaments. Es geht um Korruption, um mutmaßlich erkaufte politische Einflussnahme von Drittstaaten und Koffer voller Bargeld.

A super PAC backing Ted Cruz got ~$215K from iHeartMedia, earned from selling ads for Cruz's podcast; Cruz had likened his show to cable news appearances (Molly Bohannon/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.c…

Super PAC Backing Ted Cruz Received $215,000 From iHeartMedia—Fueling Ethics Concerns After Podcast Deal
After iHeartMedia began producing Sen. Ted Cruz’s podcast in 2022, a spokesperson for the senator said he received “no financial benefit” from the podcast.

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 26.03.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 35. Atombombe "Cup". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

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https://mastodon.online/@protecttruth/112303779973239945

Eric Blair (@protecttruth@mastodon.online)
Attached: 2 images Post .news recently announced they are shutting down. Back in 2022, when they launched, I predicted this. Specifically, Post’s business plan was news micropayments. And I said that if they didn’t achieve monopoly power they couldn’t be profitable. That proved true.

Dutch greenhouse gas #emissions down by 6% last year, to 34% below their 1990 level!
Emissions from electricity generation down 22% year-on-year thanks to more renewable, less fossil electricity.
Transport emissions up by 9% due to growth in aviation.

Greenhouse gas emissions 6 percent lower in 2023
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 6 percent lower in 2023 than in 2022. This was mainly due to 22 percent lower emissions in the electricity sector. Less electricity was produced from coal and natural gas. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)/Emissions Register report this on the basis of provisional quarterly figures on GHG emissions, in accordance with the IPCC guidelines.

Long Covid and me
Apparently it's Long Covid Awareness Day!
I have Long Covid. Not as extreme as some people. I can do normal things again, except I run out of steam way quicker than the energetic me of summer 2022. It's kind of like I got physically 20 years older all of a sudden. I miss being able to cycle for 4 or 5 miles, or immerse myself in writing for a whole day.
Also still sometimes little bits of dysautonomia and irregular heartbeat.
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
(Edit: oops, 2022.)

He learned nothing.
Time I rolled this out again:
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2022/07/26/the-renewed-clamour-for-growth-ignorance-stupidity-or-immorality/
Gordon Brown: UK has to get on war fo…

The renewed clamour for growth: ignorance, stupidity or immorality?
We are currently seeing renewed calls from leading politicians for a focus on “growth”, by which they mean economic growth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product, or GDP. The Conservative contender…

Hubble Space Telescope images of SN 1987A: Evolution of the ejecta and the equatorial ring from 2009 to 2022
Sophie Rosu, Josefin Larsson, Claes Fransson, Peter Challis, Tuomas Kangas, Robert P. Kirshner, Stephen S. Lawrence, Peter Lundqvist, Mikako Matsuura, Jesper Sollerman, George Sonneborn, Linda Tenhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/…

Hubble Space Telescope images of SN 1987A: Evolution of the ejecta and the equatorial ring from 2009 to 2022
Supernova (SN) 1987A offers a unique opportunity to study how a spatially resolved SN evolves into a young supernova remnant (SNR). We present and analyze Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging observations of SN 1987A obtained in 2022 and compare them with HST observations from 2009 to 2021. These observations allow us to follow the evolution of the equatorial ring (ER), the rapidly expanding ejecta, and emission from the center over a wide range in wavelength from 2000 to 11 000 AA. The ER has …

sternenspringer
"2022"
@mastodon.social@mreinwarth
#CreativeCommons

"Prison labor is big business in the United States. According to a 2022 ACLU report, Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers, incarcerated workers save prisons more than $9 billion a year in operational costs and earn them more than $2 billion in sales of goods and services, while the prisoners make pennies per hour."
#Prison

Lawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds
No parole if you’re still profitable.

2022 retro-link! http://howardhinnant.github.io/date_algorithms.html - C chrono-compatible low-level date algorithms.

Parallel Gaussian process with kernel approximation in CUDA
Davide Carminati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12797 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Parallel Gaussian process with kernel approximation in CUDA
This paper introduces a parallel implementation in CUDA/C++ of the Gaussian process with a decomposed kernel. This recent formulation, introduced by Joukov and Kulić (2022), is characterized by an approximated -- but much smaller -- matrix to be inverted compared to plain Gaussian process. However, it exhibits a limitation when dealing with higher-dimensional samples which degrades execution times. The solution presented in this paper relies on parallelizing the computation of the predictive p…

Raiders Re-Signed DB Isaiah Pola-Mao https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_re_signed_db_isaiah_pola_mao/s1_17039_40144461

"783 million people face chronic hunger. Yet the world wastes 19% of its food, UN says"
#UN #UnitedNations #Food #FoodWaste

783 million people face chronic hunger, UN says
A new United Nations report estimates that 19% of the food produced around the world went to waste in 2022. That's a little more than 1 billion metric tons of food that could have helped feed the hundreds of millions of people who live with hunger every day. The biggest share of that waste, about 60%, came in households. Almost 30% came in food service operations, such as restaurants. The updated Food Waste Index out Wednesday comes three years after the U.N.'s first attempt to quantify the pro…

Despite a crypto rally, VC funds focused on crypto are struggling to raise money, as limited partners prioritize tangible gains after the 2022 wipeout (Ryan Weeks/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Crypto Venture Capital Funds Under Pressure to Produce Returns
Judging by a record Bitcoin rally that fueled a $1 trillion jump in the digital-asset market this year, crypto fever is back. But look beneath the surface to trends in venture capital and a far more sober picture emerges.

Shifting the Lens: Detecting Malware in npm Ecosystem with Large Language Models
Nusrat Zahan, Philipp Burckhardt, Mikola Lysenko, Feross Aboukhadijeh, Laurie Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12196

Shifting the Lens: Detecting Malware in npm Ecosystem with Large Language Models
The Gartner 2022 report predicts that 45% of organizations worldwide will encounter software supply chain attacks by 2025, highlighting the urgency to improve software supply chain security for community and national interests. Current malware detection techniques aid in the manual review process by filtering benign and malware packages, yet such techniques have high false-positive rates and limited automation support. Therefore, malware detection techniques could benefit from advanced, more au…

I don’t have Twitter/X on my phone and have not used the service since I came over to infosec.exchange in late 2022. But! I have seen some great posts from accounts who seem to still primarily exist over there in my timeline via bird.makeup. So my question is, are there any twitter accounts for #infosec / #cybersecurity people that you think are really good / worth following / high value enough that I should add to my follows here (again, via bird.makeup)? It's not ideal I admit, but given Mastodon my curated RSS feed is my primary source(s) of infosec news/research/etc... i'm not opposed to going the bridge route. Thanks!

Deputy Minister: Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy grid have led to $11.5 billion in losses: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/24/deputy-minister-russian.html

#Subsidiarity: Grounding the digital network within local institutions.
"…scholars @… & @… (2022) argue that

#Korallenriffen brauchen etwa 15 bis 20 Jahre, um sich von einer starken #Korallenbleiche zu erholen.
"For the fifth time in just the past eight summers (2016, 2017, 2020, 2022 and now 2024) huge swathes of the Great Barrier Reef are experiencing extreme heat stress that h…

Der Klimawandel für Einsteiger
"Der Klimawandel für Einsteiger" von Tino Eberl • BoD Buchshop • Besondere Autoren. Besonderes Sortiment.

We’re already looking at this backward, upside down and in a mirror.
“… 52 percent of Americans now use an ad blocker, up from 34 percent according to 2022 Statista data.
[…]
“For the general public, the rationale for doing so tends to be more about protecting privacy (20 percent) than blocking ads (18 percent), with another 9 percent wanting faster web page loading.”

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know

On UK Central Heating Season (2022) - Home heating dates. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-survey-UK-central-heating-on-off-dates.html

On UK Central Heating Season (2022)
Home heating dates.

Former Cowboys DT follows DL coach to Seattle https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_cowboys_dt_follows_dl_coach_to_seattle/s1_14819_40134116

Former Cowboys DT follows DL coach to Seattle
After playing multiple seasons in Dallas, Johnathan Hankins will relocate again. The well-traveled defensive tackle will commit to the Seahawks, NFL.com’s Mike Garafolo notes. On a Seattle visit Tuesday, Hankins will agree to head west after spending a season-and-a-half in Dallas. Acquired at the 2022 trade deadline, Hankins re-signed with the Cowboys in 2023. He played a key role in Dallas’ run-stopping efforts, and the Seahawks will expect the same on a defensive line already housing Dr…

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.

Voor iedereen in Nederland, hier kun je de aangrijpende en oscarwinnende documentaire "20 days in Mariupol" kijken, aangrijpend en beklemmend. Ook speciaal voor mensen die geen wapens meer willen leveren aan Oekraine om zich te verdedigen.
https://www.2doc.nl/documentaires/2024/02/…

Bekijk de documentaire '20 Days in Mariupol' nu op 2Doc.nl
Verslag van de Russische inval in de Oekraïense stad Marioepol in 2022. De beelden zijn gemaakt door de Oekraïense Associated Press-journalist Mstyslav Chernov en zijn team. Terwijl zij vastzitten in de stad gaan zij door met hun werk en doen verslag van alle vreselijke gebeurtenissen. Met uiterste moeite weet Chernov de beelden uit de van internet en elektriciteit verstoken stad te versturen. Door de bombardementen zijn de beelden schokkerig, maar kraakhelder en in de voice-over geeft Cherno…

Nur weil gerade alle wieder über Autos reden, möchte ich mal wieder auf einen Blog-Post von mir hinweisen, der inzwischen auch schon fast zwei Jahre alt ist.
Damals habe ich gezeigt, dass allein schon die Herstellung eines großen SUVs das Restbudget an CO2 aufbraucht, das jeder persönlich hat.
Die aktuellen Zahlen habe ich nicht. Müsste man noch mal neu ausrechnen. Es ist aber klar, dass wir in den letzten Jahr weiter CO2 ausgestoßen haben, so dass wir sehr nah an der Grenze sind. Die Produktion neuer Autos ist also keine Option. Also es ist schon eine. Leider. Aber es ist die falsche.
#Tesla #autofrei

Bolt's board removes Maju Kuruvilla, who took over as CEO after co-founder Ryan Breslow stepped down in 2022; head of sales Justin Grooms will be interim CEO (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/bolt-ceo-kuruvil…

Bolt Board Removes CEO, Replaced by Sales Chief
Maju Kuruvilla, the former Amazon executive who took over as Bolt CEO after co-founder Ryan Breslow stepped down from the position, is leaving the role after the board voted to remove him this weekend, Bolt told its shareholders. Justin Grooms, Bolt’s global head of sales, has become interim CEO. Bolt said the split with Kuruvilla was “amicable” but didn’t give further reasons. Kuruvilla’s

Dokumentarfilm "20 Tage in Mariupol" erhält Oscar
Das Werk "20 Tage in Mariupol" hat den Oscar als bester Dokumentarfilm gewonnen. Der Film von Mstyslav Chernov, Michelle Mizner und Raney Aronson-Rath dokumentiert die Erlebnisse von AP-Journalisten während rund drei Wochen in der ukrainischen Hafenstadt, als diese Anfang 2022 von russischen Streitkräften belagert wurde. Unter großer Gefahr zeigen sie die katastrophalen Folgen …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Dokumentarfilm über Mariupol erhält Oscar ++
Das Werk "20 Tage in Mariupol" hat den Oscar als bester Dokumentarfilm gewonnen. Außenministerin Baerbock reagierte verständnislos auf den Appell von Papst Franziskus zu Friedensverhandlungen mit Russland. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

On s'indigne du fait que les autorités de la prison où était Navalny ne donnent aucun renseignement sur les circonstances de sa mort, mais sait-on qu'au Québec, les services correctionnels ne fournissent aucune information sur les personnes décédées, ni sur les circonstances de leur décès et ce, alors que le nombre de décès dans nos prisons ont augmenté de 87 % Entre 2009 et 2022.

Puts a stop to this:
When anti-abortion activists sued the Food and Drug Administration in 2022 seeking to overturn the approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, they filed their suit in the federal court in Amarillo, Texas, where it was all but assured that the case would be heard by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, an outspoken opponent of abortion.
New Federal Judiciary Rule Will Limit ‘Forum Shopping’ by Plaintiffs - The New York Times

New Federal Judiciary Rule Will Limit ‘Forum Shopping’ by Plaintiffs
For years, litigants have tried to cherry-pick the judges in sweeping cases on abortion and immigration. Random judge selection is about to make that harder.

Alexander Mattison: His Usage With The Las Vegas Raiders https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/alexander_mattison_his_usage_with_the_las_vegas_raiders/s1_16460_40133764

Alexander Mattison: His Usage With The Las Vegas Raiders
2024’s NFL free agency is in full swing, and the Las Vegas Raiders remain active in the open market. On Monday, the team agreed to terms with another free agent, this time landing now-former Vikings running back Alexander Mattison. Mattison, who posted a career-high 180 rushing attempts in 2023, has carried the ball at least 100 times during three separate campaigns. For Luke Getsy, the Raiders’ new offensive coordinator, that mark holds significance. In both 2022 and 2023, three players to…

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 20.03.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 34. Atombombe "Suede". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

A Big Problem:
Not that long ago more of the world’s people had too little to eat than ate too much.
Now the scales have tipped.
A study published on February 29th in the Lancet medical journal, shows that more than a #billion people were classified as #obese in 2022, the latest year for which data are a…

The obesity capitals of the world
A new study shows that waistlines are widening almost everywhere

Ein spannendes Portrait von Irina #Scherbakowa auf #arteTV
#sehenswert

Irina Scherbakowa -Russlands unbequemes Gewissen - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Russland ist ihre Heimat. Irina Scherbakowa hat auch ukrainische Wurzeln und sagt, es ist ein Zufall, dass sie nicht in Kiew geboren sei. Die Historikerin und Menschenrechtlerin hat Moskau zu Beginn des Krieges mit der Ukraine verlassen. Sie ist Mitbegründerin der Menschenrechtsorganisation "Memorial", die Putin verbieten ließ und die 2022 den Friedensnobelpreis bekommen hat.

Spectro-polarimetric study to constrain accretion-ejection properties of MCG-5-23-16 using IXPE and NuSTAR observations
Santanu Mondal, Rwitika Chatterjee, Vivek K. Agrawal, Anuj Nandi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14169

Spectro-polarimetric study to constrain accretion-ejection properties of MCG-5-23-16 using IXPE and NuSTAR observations
We conducted a study on the X-ray polarization properties of MGC-5-23-16 by analyzing long-term monitoring data from {\it NuSTAR} jointly with {\it IXPE} observations in May and November 2022. The re-analysis of {\it IXPE} data gives model-dependent polarization degree, PD (\%) = $1.55\pm0.99$ and $1.31\pm0.95$ in the energy band $2-8$ keV, agrees with previous studies within error bars. The model-independent analysis of PD poses an upper limit of $\leq3.8$ ($1σ$ level) for the same energy ban…

We’re already looking at this backward, upside down and in a mirror.
“… 52 percent of Americans now use an ad blocker, up from 34 percent according to 2022 Statista data.
[…]
“For the general public, the rationale for doing so tends to be more about protecting privacy (20 percent) than blocking ads (18 percent), with another 9 percent wanting faster web page loading.”

Majority of Americans now use ad blockers
We're dreaming of a white list, because we're just like the ones you used to know

Jets and WR Mike Williams agree to 1-year deal worth up to $15 million: Source https://theathletic.com/5337574/2024/03/19/mike-williams-jets-nfl-free-agency/

Jets and WR Mike Williams agree to 1-year deal worth up to $15 million: Source
The Jets wanted a shot at Williams in 2022 but never got their chance when the Chargers extended him. Now he's headed to New York.

Rogue Life - Season 2 coming soon 🤪👹👾
Dramatized comedy scifi mystery | Total listening time: 4h 14m
Benny Bowers is a man stuck in an ever-changing time loop: jumping from Film Noir to Paranormal Investigator Reality Show to Viking Drama and everything in between. Join us as he unravels the mystery of what is really happening and h...

Rogue Life - Season 2 coming soon 🤪👹👾
Dramatized comedy scifi mystery | Total listening time: 4h 14m Benny Bowers is a man stuck in an ever-changing time loop: jumping from Film Noir to Paranormal Investigator Reality Show to Viking Drama and everything in between. Join us as he unravels the mystery of what is really happening and how he can finally escape. 1 seasons, 11 episodes as of Apr 11, 2022.

Former Cowboys DT follows DL coach to Seattle https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_cowboys_dt_follows_dl_coach_to_seattle/s1_14819_40134116

Former Cowboys DT follows DL coach to Seattle
After playing multiple seasons in Dallas, Johnathan Hankins will relocate again. The well-traveled defensive tackle will commit to the Seahawks, NFL.com’s Mike Garafolo notes. On a Seattle visit Tuesday, Hankins will agree to head west after spending a season-and-a-half in Dallas. Acquired at the 2022 trade deadline, Hankins re-signed with the Cowboys in 2023. He played a key role in Dallas’ run-stopping efforts, and the Seahawks will expect the same on a defensive line already housing Dr…

Reddit files for a US IPO, says it had $804M in annual sales in 2023, up 20% YoY, and a net loss of $90.8M, compared to a net loss of $158.6M in 2022 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/reddit-files-to-list-ipo-on-nyse…

Ukraine charges 2 Russian soldiers with murdering civilian in Bucha in 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/05/ukraine-charges-russian.html

Niners to forfeit 2025 fifth-round pick as result of administrative payroll accounting errors https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-to-forfeit-2025-fifth-round-pick-as-result-of-administrative-payroll-accounting-errors

Niners to forfeit 2025 fifth-round pick as result of administrative payroll accounting errors
A league review has the San Francisco 49ers having administrative payroll accounting errors at the close of the 2022 league year and ensuing action by the NFL will effect the club's next two drafts as a result, NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero reported.

Sources: the US plans to award over $6B to Samsung to help the company expand beyond its $17B chip fab in Taylor, Texas, under the 2022 Chips and Science Act (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024…

Samsung Set to Win Over $6 Billion From US to Expand Chipmaking Beyond Texas
The US plans to award more than $6 billion to Samsung Electronics Co., helping the chipmaker expand beyond a project in Texas it has already announced, according to people familiar with the matter.

General Staff: Russia has lost 387,940 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/03/general-staff-russia.html

Bain: Indian startups raised $9.6B in 2023, down from $25.7B in 2022; over 35K Indian startups shut down in 2023 and leading startups laid off 20,000 employees (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Scaled startups could drive venture capital investment activity in 2024: report
During 2023, growth and late-stage startups chose to defer fundraising, and investors took their foot off the gas pedal owing to rising interest rates, leading to the number of mega rounds (those over $100 million) falling to only 15, compared to 48 in 2022.

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.

Microsoft says its Xbox Game Pass service now has 34M subscribers, up 36% from the 25M subscribers Microsoft reported more than two years ago (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/23570040/microsoft-xbox-game-p…

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers
Microsoft is finally providing new Xbox Game Pass subscriber numbers. The service has hit 34 million subscribers, after slowing down in 2022.

Microsoft says its Xbox Game Pass service now has 34M subscribers, up 36% from the 25M subscribers Microsoft reported more than two years ago (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/23570040/microsoft-xbox-game-p…

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers
Microsoft is finally providing new Xbox Game Pass subscriber numbers. The service has hit 34 million subscribers, after slowing down in 2022.