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General Staff: Russia has lost 439,970 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/general-staff-russia.html

https://www.fast.ai/2022/08/25/jupyter-git/ - The Jupyter git problem is now solved.

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

Google researchers observed 97 zero-day exploits in the wild in 2023, up 50% from 62 in 2022; 48 were used by espionage actors and 10 were financially-motivated (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/zero-day-exploits-jumped-in-2023-spyware…

Zero-days exploited in the wild jumped 50% in 2023, fueled by spyware vendors
Cybersecurity experts are warning that zero-day exploits, which can be used to compromise devices before anyone is aware they’re vulnerable, have become more common as nation-state hackers and cybercriminals find sophisticated ways to carry out their attacks.

Reuters: Losses of foreign firms who exited Russia surpass $107 billion: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/reuters-losses-of.html

Wozu eigentlich Regeln, wenn diese am Ende eh nichts gelten?
#Hilbert

Das Dilemma mit TikTok lässt sich ganz gut an Joe Biden aufzeigen: Der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten darf die App nicht auf seinem Smartphone installieren. Er hat das entsprechende Gesetz 2022 selbst unterschrieben, ...
Derselbe Joe Biden hat nun seit Anfang Februar einen offiziellen TikTok-Account. Von welchem Endgerät er den betreiben lässt? Gute Frage!
Johanna Jürgens, #ZeitOnline

TikTok in den USA: TikTok weiß seine Nutzer zu mobilisieren
In Washington wächst das Unbehagen über TikTok. 180 Tage will die US-Regierung dem chinesischen Konzern ByteDance geben, um seine Plattform zu verkaufen – eigentlich.

Ein Toter und Verletzte nach Angriffen auf Charkiw
Die Stadt Charkiw im Nordosten der Ukraine ist nach Angaben der örtlichen Polizei erstmals seit 2022 von den russischen Streitkräften gezielt mit Fliegerbomben angegriffen worden. Es seien eine Schule und ein Wohngebiet getroffen worden, teilt der Ermittlungsleiter der Regionalpolizei, Serhij Bolwinow, auf Facebook mit.
Den örtlichen Behörden zufolge wurden bei insgesamt zwei…
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Liveblog: ++ Nobelpreisträger fordern mehr Ukraine-Hilfe ++
Per offenem Brief warnen 39 Nobelpreisträger Staats- und Regierungschefs: Putins Regime stelle "eine Bedrohung für die Menschheit" dar. Ukrainische Behörden melden Angriffe auf Charkiw. Die Entwicklungen vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen.

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 9 nodes and 52 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Plus du cinquième de la nourriture destinée aux humains aurait été gaspillée en 2022, nous apprend l'ONU dans un rapport publié en ce 27 mars. Imaginez si 1,6 milliard de personnes (1/5 de la population mondiale en 2022) n'avaient rien eu Š manger pendant un an. Ça devrait inciter celles et ceux qui ont plus de nourriture que nécessaire pour combler leur besoin alimentaire Š éviter de la gaspiller, non ?

Qu'est-ce qu'on gaspille ce soir?
Plus du cinquième de la nourriture destinée aux humains aurait été gaspillée en 2022,  nous apprend l'ONU dans un rapport publié en ce 27...

Evolving Love Podcast
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Evolving Love | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Evolving Love Podcast Hosts: Abbey and Liam Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Sexuality & Relationships First Episode: 2022 Conversations exploring Non-Monogamy…

Among premium SVODs, US subscriber growth fell from 21.6% YoY in 2022 to 10.1% YoY in 2023; 140.5M cancelled their subscriptions in 2023 vs. 104.3M in 2022 (Antenna)
https://www.antenna.live/post/antenna-q124-state-of-subscriptions-report-prem…

Antenna Q1’24 State of Subscriptions Report: Premium SVOD - Antenna Blog

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

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.

Wozu eigentlich Regeln, wenn diese am Ende eh nichts gelten?
#Hilbert

Firmen spenden Geld an Parteien, weil sie sich etwas davon versprechen – sonst würden sie es nicht tun und dürften es z.B. als AGs auch gar nicht.
Ein Beispiel dafür, wie sehr wir einfach akzeptiert haben, wie sehr normal ist, wirtschaftliche Interessen politisch durchzusetzen. Bei Lobbyismus wird zumindest gelegentlich kritisch berichtet, bei Parteispenden von Firmen hingegen wird allenfalls drauf geschaut, _wer_ da _wem_ spendet.
Siehe

Listen veröffentlicht: Diese Unternehmen und Lobbyverbände zahlten Geld an die Parteien | abgeordnetenwatch.de
Wer waren die Geldgeber der Parteien im Jahr 2022? Die Bundestagsverwaltung hat jetzt die Spendenlisten veröffentlicht. Darauf finden sich Rüstungskonzerne, Banken, Versicherungen – und viele wohlhabende Privatpersonen. Von Martin Reyher

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
A dissertation is a substantial research project. Graduate students write a dissertation to earn their doctorate. Let's play!

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

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Partial Mobilization: Tracking Multilingual Information Flows Amongst Russian Media Outlets and Telegram
In response to disinformation and propaganda from Russian online media following the invasion of Ukraine, Russian media outlets such as Russia Today and Sputnik News were banned throughout Europe. To maintain viewership, many of these Russian outlets began to heavily promote their content on messaging services like Telegram. In this work, we study how 16 Russian media outlets interacted with and utilized 732 Telegram channels throughout 2022. Leveraging the foundational model MPNet, DP-means cl…

Lithuania to require 18,000 Belarusians to indicate view on Russian invasion of Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/28/lithuania-to-require.html

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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…

#Parteispenden — "Listen veröffentlicht: Diese Unternehmen und Lobbyverbände zahlten Geld an die Parteien"
Erstaunlich
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Listen veröffentlicht: Diese Unternehmen und Lobbyverbände zahlten Geld an die Parteien | abgeordnetenwatch.de
Wer waren die Geldgeber der Parteien im Jahr 2022? Die Bundestagsverwaltung hat jetzt die Spendenlisten veröffentlicht. Darauf finden sich Rüstungskonzerne, Banken, Versicherungen – und viele wohlhabende Privatpersonen. Von Martin Reyher

Meta, Alphabet, and Snap beat analysts' estimates in their Q1 results, showing acceleration in advertising growth after struggling to rebound from a dismal 2022 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/27/digital-ad

Among premium SVODs, US subscriber growth fell from 21.6% YoY in 2022 to 10.1% YoY in 2023; 140.5M cancelled their subscriptions in 2023 vs. 104.3M in 2022 (Antenna)
https://www.antenna.live/post/antenna-q124-state-of-subscriptions-report-prem…

Antenna Q1’24 State of Subscriptions Report: Premium SVOD - Antenna Blog

får man skriva att man är en "icke vinstdrivande" skola när man i regel gör 6-7 siffror plus och tar ut utdelningar mellan 300-750 kkr varje år?
Utdelningar senaste åren är 742 kkr (2022-12-19), 726 kkr (2021-10-29), 705 kkr (2020-10-28), 300 kkr (2019-11-08), 300 kkr (2018-12-10), 390 kkr (2017-11-30).
Vinster senaste åren:
19-20 1,5 mkr.
20-21 1,2 mkr.
21-22 700 kkr.
22-23 800 kkr.
Uppgifter från årsredovisningarna som ligger på

Firmen spenden Geld an Parteien, weil sie sich etwas davon versprechen – sonst würden sie es nicht tun und dürften es z.B. als AGs auch gar nicht.
Ein Beispiel dafür, wie sehr wir einfach akzeptiert haben, wie sehr normal ist, wirtschaftliche Interessen politisch durchzusetzen. Bei Lobbyismus wird zumindest gelegentlich kritisch berichtet, bei Parteispenden von Firmen hingegen wird allenfalls drauf geschaut, _wer_ da _wem_ spendet.
Siehe

Listen veröffentlicht: Diese Unternehmen und Lobbyverbände zahlten Geld an die Parteien | abgeordnetenwatch.de
Wer waren die Geldgeber der Parteien im Jahr 2022? Die Bundestagsverwaltung hat jetzt die Spendenlisten veröffentlicht. Darauf finden sich Rüstungskonzerne, Banken, Versicherungen – und viele wohlhabende Privatpersonen. Von Martin Reyher

You Motherfunner
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You Motherfunner | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: You Motherfunner By: Funlab Category: Business Sub-Category: Careers First Episode: 2022 At Funlab, your story is told. It’s heard. It’s shared. It’s respected. The You Motherfunner podcast…

Sister Zombie, A Memoir by Anna Appleby - Limited series 🏆📝👩‍🎤
Narrated horror series | Total listening time: 12h 39m
Teenage twin sisters struggle with identity issues after moving to a small town. Also, zombies. Nominated for Best Writing and Best Actress, 2022 Indie Series Awards. A radio-play in 47 chapters. Starring Angie Morency.
Nominated for Best W...

Sister Zombie, A Memoir by Anna Appleby - Limited series 🏆📝👩‍🎤
Narrated horror series | Total listening time: 12h 39m Teenage twin sisters struggle with identity issues after moving to a small town. Also, zombies. Nominated for Best Writing and Best Actress, 2022 Indie Series Awards. A radio-play in 47 chapters. Starring Angie Morency. Nominated for Best Writing and Best Actress, 2022 Indie Series Awards. Winner, Special Mentions, International Podcasts: Best Writing and Best Show, 2022 New Zealand WebFest. 1 seasons, 47 episodes as of Apr 19, 2021.

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Radio spectra of pulsars fitted with the spectral distribution function of the emission from their current sheet
In their catalogue of pulsars' radio spectra, Swainston et al. (2022, PASA, 39, e056) distinguish between five different forms of these spectra: those that can be fitted with (i) a simple power law, (ii) a broken power law, (iii) a low-frequency turn-over, (iv) a high-frequency turn-over or (v) a double turn-over spectrum. Here, we choose two examples from each of these categories and fit them with the spectral distribution function of the caustics that are generated by the superluminally movin…

Imax reports Q4 revenue of $86M, vs. $89.59M est., down 12% from Q4 2022, when Imax experienced a rapid reopening of cinemas in China, and net income of $2.5M (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Box Office Slowdown Hits Imax As Quarterly Revenue Falls
Overall quarterly revenue came to $86 million, down 12 percent from a year-earlier $98 million, as 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,' 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour' and 'Wonka' played on its screens.

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Forecasting Volatility with Machine Learning and Rough Volatility: Example from the Crypto-Winter
We extend the application and test the performance of a recently introduced volatility prediction framework encompassing LSTM and rough volatility. Our asset class of interest is cryptocurrencies, at the beginning of the "crypto-winter" in 2022. We first show that to forecast volatility, a universal LSTM approach trained on a pool of assets outperforms traditional models. We then consider a parsimonious parametric model based on rough volatility and Zumbach effect. We obtain similar prediction …

Kamikatsu, Japan’s zero-waste town, has lessons for a sustainable future - Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2022/japan-zero-carbon-village-climate/?itid=m…

Kamikatsu, Japan’s zero-waste town, has lessons for a sustainable future
The town estimates it is about 80 percent of the way toward achieving its goal of becoming totally carbon neutral.

#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

The ICASSP 2024 Audio Deep Packet Loss Concealment Challenge
Lorenz Diener, Solomiya Branets, Ando Saabas, Ross Cutler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16927 htt…

The ICASSP 2024 Audio Deep Packet Loss Concealment Challenge
Audio packet loss concealment is the hiding of gaps in VoIP audio streams caused by network packet loss. With the ICASSP 2024 Audio Deep Packet Loss Concealment Grand Challenge, we build on the success of the previous Audio PLC Challenge held at INTERSPEECH 2022. We evaluate models on an overall harder dataset, and use the new ITU-T P.804 evaluation procedure to more closely evaluate the performance of systems specifically on the PLC task. We evaluate a total of 9 systems, 8 of which satisfy th…

Imax reports Q4 revenue of $86M, vs. $89.59M est., down 12% from Q4 2022, when Imax experienced a rapid reopening of cinemas in China, and net income of $2.5M (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Box Office Slowdown Hits Imax As Quarterly Revenue Falls
Overall quarterly revenue came to $86 million, down 12 percent from a year-earlier $98 million, as 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,' 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour' and 'Wonka' played on its screens.

”America suffers a 'startlingly high' number of lab leak incidents at its top virus labs every year, data shows — amid calls for centers to slash the number of experiments carried out on diseases that could spark pandemics.
Official data reveals more than 600 releases of 'controlled' pathogens - which may include anthrax, tuberculosis and Ebola - were recorded in the US over the eight years to 2022, equivalent to 70 to 100 releases every year.”

Kamikatsu, Japan’s zero-waste town, has lessons for a sustainable future - Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2022/japan-zero-carbon-village-climate/?itid=m…

Kamikatsu, Japan’s zero-waste town, has lessons for a sustainable future
The town estimates it is about 80 percent of the way toward achieving its goal of becoming totally carbon neutral.

Sorry Charlie Miller - complete series 😂🕵🏽‍♀️🕵🏻
Dramatized comedy | Total listening time: trailer
A D-list reality TV star with a rabid fan base has just gone missing off the Florida coast and a deskbound police department employee with an encyclopedic knowledge of celebrity gossip and his no-nonsense colleague are on the case. It takes place...

Sorry Charlie Miller - complete series 😂🕵🏽‍♀️🕵🏻
Dramatized comedy | Total listening time: trailer A D-list reality TV star with a rabid fan base has just gone missing off the Florida coast and a deskbound police department employee with an encyclopedic knowledge of celebrity gossip and his no-nonsense colleague are on the case. It takes place in Florida, hello. 1 seasons, 10 episodes as of Sep 29, 2022.

49ers penalized draft position, will forfeit 2025 fifth-round pick after NFL discovers accounting error https://theathletic.com/5351869/2024/03/18/49ers-draft-position-accounting-error/

49ers penalized draft position, will forfeit 2025 fifth-round pick after NFL discovers accounting error
The accounting errors in question were from the close of the 2022 league year.

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/03/11/2342228/automakers-are-sharing-consumers-driving-behavior-with-insurance-compan…

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Kenn Dahl says he has always been a careful driver. The owner of a software company near Seattle, he drives a leased Chevrolet Bolt. He's never been responsible for an accident. So Mr. Dahl, 65, was surprised in 2022 when the cost of his c...

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🎉FINALLY! 🎉 After almost 2 years (since July 2022) of using the same starter word, it finally was the word of the day! My first and only first-guess win.
(The side effect is that now I need a new starter word! 😃)
#Wordle

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
#CelebrityASong

This unreleased live track by Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi is just out of this world! The pads!!! Would love to experience that on a big system, but for now my AKG's will do... 😍🫠
The Memoir - Page 90: Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi (Live, 2022)
https://youtu.be/lNa6MwyVJPw?si=uaupu…

I'm still proud of this "Three Button Tradeshow Video Player Controller" I got done in a week without knowing everything...
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2022/11/28/three-button-tradeshow-video-player-controller/<…

Three Button Tradeshow Video Player Controller
Another custom controller for a trade show company...

#GiftLink🎁
Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine - The New York Times
https://www.

Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine
For a few weeks in October 2022, the White House was consumed in a crisis whose depths were not publicly acknowledged at the time. It was a glimpse of what seemed like a terrifying new era.

Bill – January 2021 on the sofa <https://photos.app.goo.gl/K2prrkre49L6d2PP6>, 17th March 2022 in a cot.
This weekend seems to be the second anniversary of his homecoming from New Priory Vets. He was an in-patient for around eleven days, with hypocalcaemia – an extrao…

Mehdi Hasan:
"Chris Sununu is the self-styled ‘moderate’ #Republican governor of New Hampshire. He has spent the past few years lambasting former president Donald J. Trump. Sununu has called Trump “f**king crazy” (April 2022), a “loser” (April 2023), a “coward” (January 2024), and an “asshole” (February 2024).
On Saturday,

"Today he is a baby, tomorrow he is a fighter"
Mehdi’s Monday Memo on the latest call for genocide, plus new GOP cowardice

Elon Musk’s charity may bear his name, but it can’t seem to match his penchant for high-dollar spending.
According to a New York Times analysis of his charity’s giving in 2022, the #Musk #Foundation gave out just $160 million in grants
—a whopping $234 million

Elon Musk’s Charity Often Benefits Elon Musk and Associates: Report
A New York Times report found that much of Musk’s charitable funds stay “close to home.”

Daylight Saving Cats!
Never ask your Cat to "Spring Forward" your clocks at 2am.
They tend to fall asleep on the job!
Who came up with this idea of messing with time and history just to gain an hour in the fields?!
/
A bill to end the twice-yearly time changes passed the Senate in 2022 but did not get a vote in the House.
Losing an hour of sleep in March has been linked to increased health and safety risks.
/

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

How will the Merck settlement affect the insurance industry?

March 28, 2024 — By @… #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #Insurance

Peritas Brands v. Leaphigh Animals - Judge dismisses patent owner's motion to dismiss the patent claims, based on a covenant not to sue:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575.86.…

A New You Tomorrow - Limited series ⭐☄️❤️
Dramatized musical sci-fi comedy | Total listening time: 1h 29m
A college drop-out, troubled by bad dreams, seeks answers at his aunt’s space-rock store in the Mojave desert. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something?
#AudioFiction #FictionPodcast

A New You Tomorrow - Limited series ⭐☄️❤️
Dramatized musical sci-fi comedy | Total listening time: 1h 29m A college drop-out, troubled by bad dreams, seeks answers at his aunt’s space-rock store in the Mojave desert. Maybe the universe is trying to tell us something? 1 seasons, 7 episodes as of Jan 01, 2022.

Wordle 1,035 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🎉FINALLY! 🎉 After almost 2 years (since July 2022) of using the same starter word, it finally was the word of the day! My first and only first-guess win.
(The side effect is that now I need a new starter word! 😃)
#Wordle

Raiders to re-sign veteran defensive lineman https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_to_re_sign_veteran_defensive_lineman/s1_14819_40118974

Raiders to re-sign veteran defensive lineman
Adam Butler is returning to Las Vegas. The defensive lineman is re-signing with the Raiders, according to ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler. It’ll be a one-year deal for the veteran. After sitting out the 2022 campaign and settling for a reserve/futures contract with the Raiders last January, Butler proceeded to have one of the most productive seasons of his career in 2023. He finished the campaign having compiled 28 tackles and five sacks, and despite not starting any of his 17 appearances, he got int…

"On the Air: How a Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Show Made Me a Better Librarian" by Charlie Bennett: #library

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Caroline Shaw, Mendelssohn and Mahler at the 2022 BBC Proms
Soprano Miah Persson, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Ryan Bancroft perform Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. Presented by Danielle Jalowiecka.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xflp

Serum samples from the fall of 2023 indicate a rise in protective antibodies in the youngest...This suggests that the children have regained some of protection lost after the pandemic. It also reflects the high prevalence of infection in the 2022/2023 season.

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How open are hybrid journals included in transformative agreements?
The ongoing controversy surrounding transformative agreements, which aim to transition journal publishing to full open access, highlight the need for large-scale studies assessing the impact of these agreements on hybrid open access. By combining publicly available data from various sources, including cOAlition S Journal Checker, Crossref, and OpenAlex, this study presents a novel approach that analyses over 700 agreements. Results suggest a strong growth in open access between 2018 and 2022 fr…

I think this is •really• good news:
https://minnesotareformer.com/2024/02/28/environmental-groups-cities-find-compromise-at-the-capitol-to-end-2040-plan-lawsuit/
The Minneapolis 2040 plan…

Environmental groups, cities find compromise at the Capitol to end 2040 Plan lawsuit - Minnesota Reformer
Environmentalists and city governments say they’ve found a legislative compromise that would allow the city of Minneapolis to move forward with the city’s 2040 comprehensive plan, which spurred new housing development and stabilized rents  from 2020 to 2022 before it was blocked by environmental lawsuits last year. Legislation (HF2048/SF4183) led by two Minneapolis DFL lawmakers, […]

Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the world's best recovery (David J. Lynch/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/28/global-economy-gdp-inflation/

Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the world’s best recovery
After posting faster annual growth last year than in 2022, the U.S. economy is quashing fears of a new recession while offering lessons for future crisis-fighting.

https://duckdb.org/2022/09/30/postgres-scanner.html - Querying PostgreSQL tables from DuckDB.

New Invariants for Partitioning a Graph into 2-connected Subgraphs
Michitaka Furuya, Masaki Kashima, Katsuhiro Ota
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08465 https:/…

New Invariants for Partitioning a Graph into 2-connected Subgraphs
A vertex partition in which every part induces a 2-connected subgraph is called a 2-proper partition. This concept was introduced by Ferrara et al. in 2013, and Borozan et al. gave the best possible minimum degree condition for the existence of a 2-proper partition in 2016. Later, in 2022, Chen et al. extended the result by showing a minimum degree sum condition for the existence of 2-proper partition. In this paper, we introduce two new invariants of graph, denoted by $σ^*(G)$ and $α^*(G)$. …

In der BRD sind #Autos wie Religion, Religionsersatz oder Trägermedium von Religion. Lit. dazu: Conrad Kunze. Deutschland als Autobahn: Eine Kulturgeschichte von Männlichkeit, Moderne und Nationalismus, 2022.

The Election Act 2022 provides a list of valid government-accepted photo IDs. This list has forms of ID targeted at the older generation, such as a 60 Oyster Card. However, almost none are for young people, not even the Young Persons Railcard. #GE2024 #ToryCorruption

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"Some members of the state party reacted with anger, expressing worry about other private conversations Ms. Lake might have recorded. Ms. Lake was greeted with boos at a meeting to elect a new chair." According to the report, key Republicans in the state now wonder if she has been secretly recording them also."
Kari Lake scrambling to deal with fallout over secret recording: report - Raw Story

Kari Lake scrambling to deal with fallout over secret recording: report
Kari Lake's second bid for political office is facing multiple hurdles related to her conduct after losing a 2022 run for governor of Arizona including a belief by some key Republicans in the state that she can't be trusted.The former TV personality, who appears slated to be the Republican nominee f...

"And the cloud, as we like to say, is a fancy term for someone else's computer"
Thank you for stating it in such a clear and simple way, @… !
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Investigating the Soft X-ray Spectra of Solar Flare Onsets
Anant Telikicherla, Thomas N. Woods, Bennet D. Schwab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05992 https://<…

Investigating the Soft X-ray Spectra of Solar Flare Onsets
In this study we present the analysis of six solar flare events that occurred in 2022, using new data from the third-generation Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS), also known as the Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (DAXSS). The primary focus of this study is on the flare's "onset phase", which is characterized by elevated soft X-ray emissions even before the flare's impulsive phase. We analyze the temporal evolution of plasma temperature, emission measure, and elemental abun…

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 12 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

How will the Merck settlement affect the insurance industry?

March 28, 2024 — By @… #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #Insurance

Peritas Brands v. Leaphigh Animals - Judge dismisses patent owner's motion to dismiss the patent claims, based on a covenant not to sue:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575.86.…

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

"On the Air: How a Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio Show Made Me a Better Librarian" by Charlie Bennett: #library

“It was the most explosive eruption since Krakatau, and usually the year after is when you see the impacts,” said Sean Birkel, an assistant professor at the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, who created a climate data visualization tool called Climate Reanalyzer.
He suspects the warming effect of the volcanic eruption has been larger than early estimates suggested, noting that the eruption may have affected atmospheric circulation and helped amplify the El Niño that develop…

‘It’s Super Spectacular.’ See How the Tonga Volcano Unleashed a Once-in-a-Century Shockwave.
A new simulation gives a detailed look at a shockwave that circled the planet for days.

Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the world's best recovery (David J. Lynch/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/28/global-economy-gdp-inflation/

Falling inflation, rising growth give U.S. the world’s best recovery
After posting faster annual growth last year than in 2022, the U.S. economy is quashing fears of a new recession while offering lessons for future crisis-fighting.

Raiders Releasing WR Hunter Renfrow https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_releasing_wr_hunter_renfrow/s1_17039_40101835

Russia intensifies attacks on Kharkiv, draining Ukraine's air defense and civilian morale: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/russia-intensifies-attacks.html

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.

Cybersecurity startup Zafran, which develops risk mitigation services, emerges from stealth with a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hjhhpaz10

After fleeing Iran and an illustrious career in Israeli intelligence, Sanaz Yashar raises $30M for cyber start
Zafran, founded in 2022 by Yashar (CEO), Ben Seri (CTO) and Snir Havdala (CPO), develops a risk and mitigation platform to pinpoint the ‘exploitable’ threats in the organization and to mitigate their risk by mobilizing existing security controls

An #Indigenous #language #revitalization movement is taking shape.
In 2022, Indigenous representatives across the globe convened on the Cherokee Nation reservation to kick off the United Nations’ International Decade …

These Latines Are Learning The Indigenous Languages Colonialism Stole From Them
Across the United States and the world, an Indigenous language revitalization movement is taking shape. To attune themselves to parts that feel undiscovered or untouched, U.S.-born Latines are reclaiming the languages that colonization stole from them.

Investigating the Soft X-ray Spectra of Solar Flare Onsets
Anant Telikicherla, Thomas N. Woods, Bennet D. Schwab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05992 https://<…

Investigating the Soft X-ray Spectra of Solar Flare Onsets
In this study we present the analysis of six solar flare events that occurred in 2022, using new data from the third-generation Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer (MinXSS), also known as the Dual-zone Aperture X-ray Solar Spectrometer (DAXSS). The primary focus of this study is on the flare's "onset phase", which is characterized by elevated soft X-ray emissions even before the flare's impulsive phase. We analyze the temporal evolution of plasma temperature, emission measure, and elemental abun…

3 senior bowl players the Cowboys could target in 2024 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/3_senior_bowl_players_the_cowboys_could_target_in_2024/s1_17100_39881929

3 senior bowl players the Cowboys could target in 2024
In the last three drafts, the Cowboys have added at least three players from that year's Senior Bowl roster. Dallas added six Senior Bowl alums to the team in the 2022 draft class alone. The numbers, especially in the Mike McCarthy era, show that Dallas takes Senior Bowl evaluations very seriously come draft day. Dallas has 19 players set to hit free agency, and they will not bring all of them back. There will be position groups that need new talent heading into such a critical 2024 season, and…

European Audiovisual Observatory: Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney took 85% of VOD viewing time in nine EU countries from September 2022 to September 2023 (Advanced Television)
https://advanced-television.com/2024/03/28/report-netfl…

Report: Netflix, Prime, Disney take 85% of European VoD
Concentration is the main characteristic of VoD usage in Europe with 85 per cent of viewing time generated by only three services (Netflix, Prime Video and Disn

Don't Mind: Sealskin Rock - Season 2 coming soon 🦭🇨🇦🕵️‍♂️
Dramatized mystery series | Total listening time: 8h 15m
After his brother, Colin, goes missing on a UK road trip, American Neal leaves his comfort zone in search of Colin at is last known location; Cruxmont, UK. There, Neal meets Dr. Kingston, a neurologist with her own goal in mind; finding th...

Don't Mind: Sealskin Rock - Season 2 coming soon 🦭🇨🇦🕵️‍♂️
Dramatized mystery series | Total listening time: 8h 15m After his brother, Colin, goes missing on a UK road trip, American Neal leaves his comfort zone in search of Colin at is last known location; Cruxmont, UK. There, Neal meets Dr. Kingston, a neurologist with her own goal in mind; finding the source of an unrecognizable miracle. 1 seasons, 14 episodes as of Nov 01, 2022.

Bolt told investors that it had revenue of $19.4M for the nine months ending in October 2023, essentially flat YoY; Bolt's troubles grow with a Fanatics lawsuit (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/bolts-…

Bolt’s Fanatics Partnership Goes South, Adding to Growth Woes
Bolt, the checkout startup that rocketed to an $11 billion valuation during the pandemic e-commerce boom, is embroiled in another legal battle with a high-profile retail partner: sports apparel company Fanatics, which signed a deal in 2022 to offer Bolt’s speedy payment buttons across several of ...

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Unveiling Luminous Ly$α$ Emitters at $z\approx6$ through JWST/NIRCam Imaging in the COSMOS Field
We study a sample of 14 spectroscopically confirmed Ly$α$ Emitters (LAEs) in the late era of reionization (at redshift $z\approx6$) based on the JWST/NIRCam imaging dataset. These LAEs with high Ly$α$ luminosity of $L$(Ly$α$) $\sim10^{42.4-43.4}$ erg s$^{-1}$ have been covered by the (ongoing) COSMOS-Web survey (Kartaltepe et al. 2021; Casey et al. 2022) over $0.28$ deg$^2$ in four NIRCam bands (F115W, F150W, F277W, and F444W). With JWST imaging, we determine the UV continua with $M_{\rm UV}…

Browns Re-Signing DT Maurice Hurst To One-Year, $3.2M Deal https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/browns_re_signing_dt_maurice_hurst_to_one_year_32m_deal/s1_17039_40093180

I'm Sarah Klee Hood, Democrat running to flip toss-up NY-22 blue.
I lost in 2022 by a devastatingly slim margin - around 1,100 votes.
Democrats lost the House, and NY-22 is now represented by Brandon Williams,
an extremist Republican funded by far-right billionaires.
👉But now, Williams is one of the *most vulnerable* Republicans in Congress!
I have an unprecedented opportunity to flip this district and unseat him.
Everyone's waiting to see if …

Support Sarah Klee Hood
Sarah is a working Mom, Air Force Veteran, elected Dewitt Town Councilor, and native Central New Yorker running for Congress to represent NY-22.

Russian authorities targeted members of LGBTQ community in Kherson region: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/29/russian-authorities-targeted.html

A Survey of Coronal Mass Ejections Measured In Situ by Parker Solar Probe During 2018-2022
Tarik M. SalmanDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, Teresa Nieves-ChinchillaHeliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, Lan K. JianHeliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, No\'e Luga…

A Survey of Coronal Mass Ejections Measured In Situ by Parker Solar Probe During 2018-2022
We present a statistical investigation of the radial evolution of 28 interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs), measured in situ by the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft from 2018 October to 2022 August. First, by analyzing the radial distribution of ICME classification based on magnetic hodograms, we find that coherent configurations are more likely to be observed close to the Sun. In contrast, more complex configurations are observed farther out. We also notice that the post-ICME magnet…

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Klaus Lang & Miroslav Beinhauer:
🎵 Not One And Not Two (2022)
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I'm Sarah Klee Hood, Democrat running to flip toss-up NY-22 blue.
I lost in 2022 by a devastatingly slim margin - around 1,100 votes.
Democrats lost the House, and NY-22 is now represented by Brandon Williams,
an extremist Republican funded by far-right billionaires.
👉But now, Williams is one of the *most vulnerable* Republicans in Congress!
I have an unprecedented opportunity to flip this district and unseat him.
Everyone's waiting to see if …

Support Sarah Klee Hood
Sarah is a working Mom, Air Force Veteran, elected Dewitt Town Councilor, and native Central New Yorker running for Congress to represent NY-22.

Report: Raiders to release DT Jerry Tillery https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_raiders_to_release_dt_jerry_tillery/s1_17049_40081489

Report: Raiders to release DT Jerry Tillery
The Las Vegas Raiders will release defensive tackle Jerry Tillery with the start of the new league year on Wednesday, ESPN reported Saturday. Tillery was the No. 28 overall pick of the Los Angeles Chargers in 2019 and waived by the team and then-general manager Tom Telesco on Nov. 10, 2022. The Raiders claimed him off waivers days later and signed him to a two-year, $6.8 million contract in March 2023. Telesco is now in charge with the Raiders, hired as general manager in January. Tillery, 27, …

Jerry Tillery Could Be Defensive Line Option for Steelers in FA https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jerry_tillery_could_be_defensive_line_option_for_steelers_in_fa/s1_17181_40083778

Jerry Tillery Could Be Defensive Line Option for Steelers in FA
The Las Vegas Raiders informed defensive lineman Jerry Tillery that they will release him when the new league year begins Wednesday, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. Tillery is only 27 and with the Steelers needing to bolster the defensive line, he could be a potential free agent target for Pittsburgh. The Chargers selected Tillery with the No. 28 overall pick in 2019 out of Notre Dame. He never really panned out with Los Angeles, however, and was waived on Nov. 10, 2022. The Raiders claimed…

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Report: Kliff Kingsbury withdraws from consideration for Raiders OC job https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_kliff_kingsbury_withdraws_from_consideration_for_raiders_oc_job/s1_17049_39911540

Report: Kliff Kingsbury withdraws from consideration for Raiders OC job
Kliff Kingsbury has taken himself out of the running for the Las Vegas Raiders' vacant offensive coordinator position, ESPN reported on Saturday citing an exchange with his agent. Multiple media outlets had Kingsbury in line to be hired for the position under Raiders now head coach Antonio Pierce. Kingsbury, 44, posted a 28-37-1 record before he was fired at the end of his fourth season in 2022 as the Arizona Cardinals' head coach. He spent the 2023 football season as a senior offensive analyst…