50 years ago today, the final old & in the way gig, at the golden state #country #bluegrass festival in san rafael, where #JerryGarcia also joins a few other acts. poster by rick shubb, inventor of shu…

Old & In the Way – San Rafael, CA (04/27/74)
Old And In The WaySAT 04/27/74Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival – San Rafael, CA Download FLAC: Google Drive I posted the entire bluegrass festival here. This is flac encoded & tagg…

2022 retro-link! https://nolanlawson.com/2022/04/08/the-struggle-of-using-native-emoji-on-the-web/ - The struggle of using native emoji on the web.

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

#Nashville PSA: There were no trolleys (streetcars) in the 'trolley barns' at Rolling Mill Hill. Nashville's Streetcars (which is what we called them) were phased out in early 1941, the same year those buildings were opened, for use by public works. The "trolley barns" are completely made up history. The actual streetcar barns were where the Municipal Auditorium sits today. …

The Trolley Barns That Never Were
Nashville History is a blog about the people, places and events of Nashville's and Davidson County's past.

US envoy to OSCE: Russian 'double-tap' attacks have killed at least 90 first responders since April 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/us-envoy-to.html

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

A new approach to analyse single-site video observations: A Tau Her 2022 case study
Norton Oliv\'er Szab\'o (Konkoly Observatory, CSFK Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, ELTE E\"otv\"os Lor\'and University, Institute of Physics), Antal Igaz (Konkoly Observatory, CSFK Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences), M\'arton R\'ozsahegyi (Konkoly Observatory, CSFK Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences), Kriszti\'an S\'arn…

A new approach to analyse single-site video observations: A Tau Her 2022 case study
Here we present a continuation of the work that was based on video observations of the Tau Her 2022 outburst from the McDonald Observatory, Texas, US. On the night of the maximum in 2022 we detected 626 individual Tau Her meteors, for which we estimated photovisual magnitudes and analysed their distribution on the sky to determine the radiant position in an innovative way. The derived population index is $5.56 \pm 1.83$, while the radiant position for the mid-time of the observations is: $\math…

Michigan leads all schools in 2024 NFL Draft with 13 players selected https://theathletic.com/5452993/2024/04/27/michigan-most-players-selected-nfl-draft/

Michigan leads all schools in 2024 NFL Draft with 13 players selected
Georgia's run of 15 players selected in 2022 remains the most a program has ever seen selected in a single draft.

Observation of a Fully-formed Forward--Reverse Shock Pair Due to the Interaction Between Two Coronal Mass Ejections at 0.5 au
D. Trotta, A. Dimmock, X. Blanco-Cano, R. Forsyth, H. Hietala, N. Fargette, A. Larosa, N. Lugaz, E. Palmerio, S. W. Good, E. K. J. Kilpua, E. Yordanova, O. Pezzi, G. Nicolaou, T. S. Horbury, R. Vainio, N. Dresing, C. J. Owen, R. Wimmer-Schweingruber
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Observation of a Fully-formed Forward--Reverse Shock Pair Due to the Interaction Between Two Coronal Mass Ejections at 0.5 au
We report direct observations of a fast magnetosonic forward--reverse shock pair observed by Solar Orbiter on March 8, 2022 at the short heliocentric distance of 0.5 au. The structure, sharing some features with fully-formed stream interaction regions (SIRs), is due to the interaction between two successive coronal mass ejections (CMEs), never previously observed to give rise to a forward--reverse shock pair. The scenario is supported by remote observations from the STEREO-A coronographs, where…

The rise of Indo-German collaborative research: 1990-2022
Aasif Ahmad Mir, Nina Smirnova, Jeyshankar Ramalingam, Philipp Mayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17171

The rise of Indo-German collaborative research: 1990-2022
The study aims to highlight the growth and development of Indo-German collaborative research over the past three decades. Moreover, this study encompasses an in-depth examination of funding acknowledgements to gain valuable insights into the financial support that underpins these collaborative endeavors. Together with this paper, we provide an openly accessible dataset of Indo-German research articles for further and reproducible research activities (the "Indo-German Literature Dataset"). The d…

Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor #EDPS , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on #bigtech , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

CLASS Angular Power Spectra and Map-Component Analysis for 40 GHz Observations through 2022: #galaxy and beyond: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1035656 - results demonstrate novel strategy to probe the physics and history of the universe.

A mesh-constrained discrete point method for incompressible flows with moving boundaries
Takeharu Matsuda, Satoshi Ii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17542 http…

A mesh-constrained discrete point method for incompressible flows with moving boundaries
Particle-based methods are a practical tool in computational fluid dynamics, and novel types of methods have been proposed. However, widely developed Lagrangian-type formulations suffer from the nonuniform distribution of particles, which is enhanced over time and result in problems in computational efficiency and parallel computations. To mitigate these problems, a mesh-constrained discrete point (MCD) method was developed for stationary boundary problems (Matsuda et al., 2022). Although the M…

That's the way to do it!
Spain's public prosecutor demands 3 years for ex police officer who attributed most crime to immigration, at a far right meeting, calling on Spanish people to "stop being peaceful" about it.
https://www.els…

La fiscalía pide tres años de cárcel para el excomisario que vinculó migración y delincuencia
Ricardo Ferris, en un acto organizado por Vox en el Ateneo de València en 2022, incitó a los “españoles a dejar de ser pacíficos" después de haber equiparado la inmigración con la delincuencia.

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.

Statistical theory of the broadband two plasmon decay instability
Rusko T. Ruskov, Robert Bingham, Luis O. Silva, Max Harper, Ramy Aboushelbaya, Jason F. Myatt, Peter A. Norreys
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17384

Statistical theory of the broadband two plasmon decay instability
There is renewed interest in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion, following the milestone December 2022 3.15 MJ ignition result on the National Ignition Facility. A key obstacle is the control of the two plasmon decay instability. Here, recent advances in inhomogeneous turbulence theory are applied to the broadband parametric instability problem for the first time. A novel dispersion relation is derived for the two plasmon decay in a uniform plasma valid under broad-bandwidth laser fields …

#AntiTeenBigotry is insane.
and it is so deeply ingrained in our society that nobody even sees how evil it is.
https://news.wttw.com/2022/05/20/li…

Lightfoot’s Proposal to Expand, Extend Teen Curfew Advances; City Officials Can’t Provide Evidence It Will Stop Violence
The 14-3 vote by the Chicago City Council’s Public Safety Committee tees up a showdown over the controversial measure by the full City Council, which is set to meet twice next week on Monday and Wednesday. 

The monkey’s paw curls. https://mstdn.social/@Skepticat/112329277502617703

2022 retro-link! https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2022/09/09/parallel-beziers.html - Parallel curves of cubic Béziers.

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 463,930 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/general-staff-russia.html

[Le Monde] - #ProcéduresBâillons : de nouvelles règles européennes pour protéger les lanceurs d’alerte.
La #CommissionEuropéenne avait proposé ce projet de directive en avril 2022 pour lutter contre ces procédures abusives, généralement intentées par des …

Procédures-bâillons : de nouvelles règles européennes pour protéger les lanceurs d’alerte
La Commission européenne avait proposé ce projet de directive en avril 2022 pour lutter contre ces procédures abusives, généralement intentées par des personnalités en position de pouvoir dans le but d’empêcher des révélations.

Corrigendum to "A New Uniqueness Theorem for the Tight C*-algebra of an Inverse Semigroup" [C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Soc. R. Can. 44 (2022), no. 4, 88--112]
Chris Bruce, Charles Starling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18858

Corrigendum to "A New Uniqueness Theorem for the Tight C*-algebra of an Inverse Semigroup" [C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Soc. R. Can. 44 (2022), no. 4, 88--112]
We correct the proof of Theorem 4.1 from [C. R. Math. Acad. Sci. Soc. R. Can. \textbf{44} (2022), no. 4, 88--112].

cloudalists: https://www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2022/04/12/cloudalists-our-new-cloud-based-ruling-class-project-syndicate-op-ed/

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
"EU Voice and EU Video will be officially closed on 18 May 2024"
https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publicati

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

Cette decision de la cour européenne de justice est très importante pour la discussion autour de Leggeri, No3 du RN dans les elections.
From: @…
https://chaos.soc…

#Gaming

Precise Mass, Orbital motion and Stellar properties of the M-dwarf binary LP 349-25AB
Salvador Curiel (IAUNAM), Gisela N. Ortiz-Leon (NRAO), Amy J. Mioduszewski (INAOE), Anthony B. Arenas-Martinez (INAOE, Facultad de Ciencias)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16964

Precise Mass, Orbital motion and Stellar properties of the M-dwarf binary LP 349-25AB
LP~349$-$25 is a well studied close stellar binary system comprised of two late M dwarf stars, both stars close to the limit between star and brown dwarf. This system was previously identified as a source of GHz radio emission. We observed LP~349$-$25AB in 11 epochs in 2020$-$2022, detecting both components in this nearby binary system using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). We fit simultaneously the VLBA absolute astrometric positions together with existing relative astrometric observations…

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

Boost if you were part of that tiny 1995 bar...
If it counts, in 1993, I was connected via CompuServe, from France...
#Internet

"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…

Do you (sometimes) use print() or message() for debugging your code? Next time you can use {icecream} instead: https://turtletopia.github.io/2022/07/28/ice-cream-for-r-programmers/

Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024 (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/4aE21dk

As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters
Meta’s shift away from politics is forcing campaigns to change their outreach tactics, transforming the 2024 election.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05297 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Automated Attack Synthesis for Constant Product Market Makers
Decentralized Finance enables many novel applications that were impossible in traditional finances. However, it also introduces new types of vulnerabilities, such as composability bugs. The composability bugs refer to issues that lead to erroneous behaviors when multiple smart contracts operate together. One typical example of composability bugs is those between token contracts and Constant Product Market Makers (CPMM), the most widely used model for Decentralized Exchanges. Since 2022, 23 expl…

Prediction of Performance and Turbulence in ITER Burning Plasmas via Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Profile Prediction
N. T. Howard, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, C. Holland, J. Candy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17040

Prediction of Performance and Turbulence in ITER Burning Plasmas via Nonlinear Gyrokinetic Profile Prediction
Burning plasma performance, transport, and the effect of hydrogen isotope on confinement has been predicted for ITER baseline scenario (IBS) conditions using nonlinear gyrokinetic profile predictions. Accelerated by surrogate modeling [P. Rodriguez-Fernandez NF 2022], high fidelity, nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations performed with the CGYRO code [J. Candy JCP 2016], were used to predict profiles of Ti, Te, and ne while including the effects of alpha heating, auxiliary power, collisional energy …

General Staff: Russia has lost 462,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/25/general-staff-russia.html

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/witness-the-glory-of-the-2024-european-tree-of-the-year-from-poland/

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years
Thought to be 2,000 years old, The Heart of the Garden is the third Polish tree in a row to win, following up a pair oaks in 2023 and 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 select versatile pass-catcher with No. 13 pick in draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_select_versatile_pass_catcher_with_no_13_pick_in_draft/s1_14819_40283256

Raiders select versatile pass-catcher with No. 13 pick in draft
The run on offensive players continues. The Raiders are out of options with respect to quarterbacks, so they have selected Georgia tight end Brock Bowers with the 13th pick. Bowers racked up 2,538 yards and 26 touchdowns during his three-year tenure with the Bulldogs. He played a key role in the team winning the national title in 2021 and 2022, and in the latter campaign he earned first-team All-American honors. Bowers took home the John Mackey award as the nation’s top tight end in each of t…

I've been away since 2022 on Mastadon, didn't realize till now. Time goes by fast! Been in an out of the hospital with complications from congestive heart failure and even more importantly woke up and accepted my lord and savior Jesus Christ. All glory goes to god, without, we would not exist. God bless ya'll. Open to any questions. Still on Linux (Debian) in 2024.

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 …

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

Quantum asymptotic amplitude for quantum oscillatory systems from the Koopman operator viewpoint
Yuzuru Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19297 https://

Quantum asymptotic amplitude for quantum oscillatory systems from the Koopman operator viewpoint
We have recently proposed a fully quantum-mechanical definition of the asymptotic phase for quantum nonlinear oscillators, which is also applicable in the strong quantum regime [Kato and Nakao 2022 Chaos 32 063133]. In this study, we propose a definition of the quantum asymptotic amplitude for quantum oscillatory systems, which extends naturally the definition of the asymptotic amplitude for classical nonlinear oscillators on the basis of the Koopman operator theory. We introduce the asymptotic…

"After deciding last Nov to stop posting news to #Twitter… I sought a new #socialmedia home base.
#Mastodon… has shown the most promise. When I encamped in November of 2022 it was mostly a haven for…

Unraveling Threads
A deja vu experience from Twitter looms

Finding Flow State
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Finding Flow State | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Finding Flow State Host: Steph Ellen Category: Education Sub-Category: Self-Improvement & Advice First Episode: 2022 Finding Flow State is your guide to unlocking mindful high performance.

Connect the Dots: Russian Money, Trump Media, and MAGA blocking Ukraine Aid https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/07/russian-investment-trump-media-maga-gop-block-ukraine-aid/

Follow the Russian money and election interfernce
Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation

Stellvertretender russischer Verteidigungsminister verhaftet
Ein stellvertretender russischer Verteidigungsminister ist unter dem Verdacht der Bestechlichkeit verhaftet worden. Das teilten die russischen Behörden mit. Der 48-jährige Timur Iwanow ist einer von zwölf Stellvertretern des russischen Verteidigungsministers Sergej Schoigu. Er wurde nach der russischen Invasion in die Ukraine im Jahr 2022 …
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Korruptionsvorwürfe: Russlands Vize-Verteidigungsminister festgenommen
In Russland steht einer von zwölf Stellvertretern des Verteidigungsministers Schoigu unter Korruptionsverdacht: Timur Iwanow, der auf Sanktionslisten der EU und der USA steht, soll Bestechungsgelder im großen Stil angenommen haben.

Boost if you were part of that tiny 1995 bar...
If it counts, in 1993, I was connected via CompuServe, from France...
#Internet

Pretty confident this was made by an AI https://notes.abhinavsarkar.net/2022/ghost-on-nixos.
The builder tries to use ghost-cli, which requires network access.
Builders do not have network access in nix.

Ich hätte ja vermutet, dass Krankheiten und Unfälle Gesundheitskosten verursachen, aber was weiss ich schon.
From: @…
https://social.pmj.rocks/@srfnewsrss/1

Thomas Rinsma got Doom working on a credit card swiper - attached here is a video of it. His blog post breaking down the process of porting it is wild: https://th0mas.nl/2022/07/18/porting-doom-to-a-payment-terminal

Recently, I’ve been listening to jazz music, and came across this… https://music.apple.com/gb/album/brontolo/1617320939?i=1617321180
If someone has asked me what category I would put this in, I would not have said Jazz. Pretty incredible and well worth…

Brontolo by Enrico Intra on Apple Music
Song · 2022 · Duration 3:07

Today is the second anniversary of Eric Boehlert's tragic and untimely death.
Soledad O’Brien celebrated Eric as "“an awesome human being" with a "Crazy devotion to facts, context and good reporting. Enemy of BS, fake news.”
https://

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

We did solar thermal water heating (2012), #solarPV (2013), #EV car charger (2017), Air Source heat pump (2022), house battery (2023).
And now we have to move house and begin again -aaarrgh 😒

Schöner Titel der @… heute, ich suche mal die Nachbarkatze und heize den Toaster vor … 😈 #zeitung #samstag

Looks like I'm going to conduct three sessions on the #bcg24 #graz today:
Avoid the #news(?) as a discussion
How to use #tags

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.04058 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Measuring the Evolution of the NuSTAR Detector Gains
The memo describes the methods used to track the long-term gain variations in the NuSTAR detectors. It builds on the analysis presented in Madsen et al. (2015) using the deployable calibration source to measure the gain drift in the NuSTAR CdZnTe detectors. This is intended to be a live document that is periodically updated as new entries are required in the NuSTAR gain CALDB files. This document covers analysis up through early-2022 and the gain v011 CALDB file released in version 20240226.

It’s 4/11 for North Americans, which is excuse enough to share this post:
“The 411 on 4.1.1”
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/12/the-411-on-4-1-1.html
WCAG 2.1/2.2 obsoleting SC 4.1.1 Parsing has made a lot of people frowny, but the more I dig the more …

The 411 on 4.1.1
There is a non-zero chance that WCAG Success Criterion 4.1.1 Parsing will go away in WCAG 2.2. This isn’t a problem for users, regardless of the problems it may pose for the WCAG process, ACT rules, automated testing tools, or ossified testing processes. The joke here is using an antique…

2022 retro-link! https://blog.apnic.net/2022/07/22/why-the-nro-is-defending-afrinic/ - Why the NRO is defending AFRINIC.

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.

‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
On 18 March, 2022, scientists at the Concordia research station on the #east #Antarctic #plateau documented a remarkable event.
…

Bundesnetzagentur: Beschwerden über Post-Dienste bleiben auf hohem Niveau
Die Zahl der Beschwerden über Brief- und Postdienste hat 2023 gegenüber 2022 zwar leicht abgenommen, bleibt aber auf hohem Niveau.
https:…

"Sewage dumped into Scottish rivers 50 times a day, ‘disturbing’ figures reveal"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland #Sewage

Sewage dumped into Scottish rivers 50 times a day, ‘disturbing’ figures reveal
Scottish Water released sewage into rivers, lochs and waterways more than 14,000 times in 2022 - but the real figure is more than 19,000

incredible to see the USA willingly give up the lead in what is inevitably the future of vehicles.
https://mastodon.world/@statisticsworld/112231159466440907

About 7% of all homo sapiens to have ever lived are alive right now. So if you're thinking "what are the odds of seeing the end of the world" the odds aren't actually that small.
Exponential growth can have surprising implications
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/…

Georgia is 'booming' economically under Biden like it 'never did' under Trump - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-biden-georgia-economy/?utm_medium=email

Georgia is 'booming' economically under Biden like it 'never did' under Trump
Georgia showed how much of a swing state it has become when, in the 2022 midterms, both conservative Republican Gov. Brian Kemp and liberal Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock were reelected. And it's a state that Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump will be paying close attention to in the mo...

Heute vor 2 Jahren: Am 24. März 2022 gab #Nordkorea bekannt die Hwasong-17, eine zweistufige #Interkontinentalrakete die möglicherweise mehrere Sprengköpfe tragen kann und über eine Reichweite von 15.000 km verfügt, erfolgreich gestartet zu haben.

Wenn jetzt wieder die üblichen Jahresunfallstatistiken der Vision-Zero-Gescheiterten erscheinen, ist nicht zu vergessen, dass wir jedes Jahr wieder an der großen Unfalllotterie unserer schlecht gemachten Verkehrsinfrastruktur teilnehmen.
Hier die Karte von Lüneburg mit allen Unfallorten von 2017 bis 2022 zur Veranschaulichung.
#verkehr

Mystery solved!

#P4x #CyberSecurity #InfoSec @…

Lessons Learned in Performing a Trustworthy AI and Fundamental Rights Assessment
Marjolein Boonstra, Fr\'ed\'erick Bruneault, Subrata Chakraborty, Tjitske Faber, Alessio Gallucci, Eleanore Hickman, Gerard Kema, Heejin Kim, Jaap Kooiker, Elisabeth Hildt, Annegret Lamad\'e, Emilie Wiinblad Mathez, Florian M\"oslein, Genien Pathuis, Giovanni Sartor, Marijke Steege, Alice Stocco, Willy Tadema, Jarno Tuimala, Isabel van Vledder, Dennis Vetter, Jana Vetter, Magnus Westerlund…

Lessons Learned in Performing a Trustworthy AI and Fundamental Rights Assessment
This report shares the experiences, results and lessons learned in conducting a pilot project ``Responsible use of AI'' in cooperation with the Province of Friesland, Rijks ICT Gilde-part of the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (BZK) (both in The Netherlands) and a group of members of the Z-Inspection$^{\small{\circledR}}$ Initiative. The pilot project took place from May 2022 through January 2023. During the pilot, the practical application of a deep learning algorithm from the p…

General Staff: Russia has lost 459,530 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/21/general-staff-russia.html

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/witness-the-glory-of-the-2024-european-tree-of-the-year-from-poland/

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years
Thought to be 2,000 years old, The Heart of the Garden is the third Polish tree in a row to win, following up a pair oaks in 2023 and 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

Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow "fast enough" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-altern…

Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down
Post News, a Twitter alternative run by the former Waze CEO Noam Bardin, is shutting down. Bardin says the platform “is not growing fast enough.”

Ex-RB Lynch reaches plea deal in 2022 DUI case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39570850/ex-rb-marshawn-lynch-reaches-plea-deal-2022-dui-case

Ex-RB Marshawn Lynch reaches plea deal in 2022 DUI case - ESPN
Marshawn Lynch submitted to a DUI charge on Wednesday, but the case will be closed as a reckless driving offense pending his completion of certain conditions of a plea agreement, according to his attorneys.

Dune Analytics: decentralized exchange Uniswap tops $2T in all-time trading volume after breaching $1T in May 2022 and remains the largest DEX by trading volume (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/uniswap-tops-two-trillion-trading…

Uniswap tops $2T in trading volume, larger than Australia’s GDP
Uniswap has now processed more than $2 trillion in trading volume across several blockchains since it launched on Ethereum back in November 2018.

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

Schöner Titel der @… heute, ich suche mal die Nachbarkatze und heize den Toaster vor … 😈 #zeitung #samstag

I’m very optimistic about November.
I agree with Simon R: in 2022, many races nationalized and put GOP extremism and democracy on the ballot. When that happened voters shifted to Dems.
That’s what I predict for Biden in Nov too.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/ms…

Biden’s 2024 chances are much stronger than people realize
Joe Biden has a strong record, Democrats keep winning elections and Trump has major new hurdles for 2024.

"Italy adds 2,022 MW/3,836 MWh of distributed storage capacity in 2023"
#Italy #Batteries #Energy

Italy adds 2,022 MW/3,836 MWh of distributed storage capacity in 2023
Italy hit 3,367 MW/6,645 MWh of cumulative distributed storage capacity at the end of December. The new figures indicate that lithium-ion technology powers most storage systems, at 516,475 units in total.

Trump Media was saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation
Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation.
Defendant Trump stands to gain billions of dollars
– his stake is currently valued at about $4bn
– from the merger betwee…

General Staff: Russia has lost 456,960 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/18/general-staff-russia.html

An analysis of the gender pay gap in UK media: 76% of the biggest media organizations increased the proportion of women in their top pay tier from 2022 to 2023 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-busin…

More women in top roles as media industry gender pay gap slowly narrows
UK media gender pay gap down from 12% to 11% between 2022 and 2023. But most companies increase % of women in highest-paid roles.

Daddy daughter weekend fun in the lab.
Samples were an epoxy embedded rough-polished cross section of a rock we found in the backyard and an old Pentium 4 Willamette die that's seen better days.
She's still learning but I think is starting to get the basics of using the joystick. I don't trust her to focus quite yet, but with 5-20x LWD optics there's plenty of margin between properly focused and an objective crash so I'm not worried about her accidentally bump…

Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

General Staff: Russia has lost 454,420 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/15/general-staff-russia.html

2022 retro-link! https://www.pathsensitive.com/2022/09/bet-you-cant-solve-these-9-dependency.html - 9 puzzles to convince you you don't understand dependence.

Daddy daughter weekend fun in the lab.
Samples were an epoxy embedded rough-polished cross section of a rock we found in the backyard and an old Pentium 4 Willamette die that's seen better days.
She's still learning but I think is starting to get the basics of using the joystick. I don't trust her to focus quite yet, but with 5-20x LWD optics there's plenty of margin between properly focused and an objective crash so I'm not worried about her accidentally bump…

A small New Mexico county on the Texas border may stand alone as the only place where the 14th amendment has been used in recent times to remove a government official from the ballot.
Couy Griffin, a county commissioner until 2022 in #Otero county, which has a population of around 69,000 people, became the first official in more than a century to be removed from office under the provision in the 14th a…

TikTok signs a deal with ticketing provider AXS to let users buy tickets to live events in the US, UK, and more; TikTok has had a Ticketmaster deal since 2022 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/tiktok-axs-concer…

TikTok Teams With AXS to Let Certified Artists Sell Concert Tickets
TikTok inked a partnership with ticketing provider AXS to let users of the popular video app discover and buy tickets to live events.

General Staff: Russia has lost 450,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/11/general-staff-russia.html

2022 retro-link! https://chelseatroy.com/2022/08/03/how-i-do-and-dont-prepare-a-talk-for-a-technical-conference/ - How I do (and don’t) prepare a talk for a tech conference.

IAB and PwC report on US digital ad sales in 2023: total revenue grew 7.3% YoY to $225B, digital video grew 10.6% to $52.1B, and digital audio grew 18.9% to $7B (Hana Yoo/AdExchanger)
https://www.adexchanger.com/online-adverti<…

Digital Ad Revenue Growth Decelerates Again in 2023, Per IAB Ad Revenue Report
US digital ad revenue grew at a slower rate in 2023 compared to 2022, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report.

Cybertech Global and IVC: in 2023, Israeli cybersecurity exit deals grew by 65% YoY to $7.1B; total tech sector exits were ~$11B, down from $13.5B in 2022 (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cyberse

2022 retro-link! https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2022/01/29/an-update-on-rust-coreutils - An update on rust/coreutils.

General Staff: Russia has lost 421,430 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/07/general-staff-russia.html