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"'…war is hitting…global economy in cumulative waves: 1st through higher energy prices, then higher food prices, & finally, higher inflation, which will push up interest rates & make debt even more expensive,' said Indermit Gill…World Bank Group's Chief Economist '…poorest people, who spend…highest share of their income on food & fuels, will be hit…hardest…All of this is a reminder of…stark truth: war is development in reverse.'"

Middle East War to Spark Biggest Energy Price Surge in Four Years
Energy prices are projected to surge by 24% this year to their highest level since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, as the war in the Middle East sends a severe shock through global commodity markets, according to the World Bank Group's latest Commodity Markets Outlook.

2026 NFL Draft aftermath: Will any rookie quarterback start in Week 1? https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-aftermath-will-any-rookie-quarterback-start-in-week-1

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 15 nodes and 89 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Brb renaming our docs to agent-accessible curated semantic planes

Over the past couple of nights I've been setting up my Mastodon server on a new Ubuntu 26.04 VM (The original server was set up using Digital Ocean's "One click install" on 20.04 back in 2022).
I feel like a teenager again, in a good way. I haven't had this much fun messing with computers in a long time.

First, let’s talk about “grokking”.
In 2022, OpenAI published a paper showing that if you train a model on a simple dataset
(for instance, a simple mathematical operation like division),
and keep training it long after the training looks like it’s stalled out,
the model will suddenly make a massive jump in capability.
Why does this work?
The first stage of training is like rote memorization:
the model has to compress as much of the training data as…

Overtraining as the path to human-like AI

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.05.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

Après un an de présence du Rassemblement national, « les esprits RNisés » de l’Eure
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2023/06/17/apres-un-an-de-presence-du-rassemblement-national-les-…

Après un an de présence du Rassemblement national, « les esprits RNisés » de l’Eure
Les quatre députés du RN élus en juin 2022 sur cette terre de droite courent les kermesses et les cérémonies, séduisent les maires ruraux et jouent une partition populiste, malgré une influence minime.

New publication: Annette von Stockhausen, “Patristisches Textarchiv. Ein Open Access-Archiv Antiker Christlicher Texte” (Zenodo, 14 October 2022), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7199196.

OOTD

Elon Musk agrees to pay $1.5M to settle SEC allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders in 2022 by failing to disclose the 5% stake he had in the company (Nicola M White/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nakakahinayang na hindi nahalal na senador si Chel Diokno noong 2019 o 2022. Pero buti na lang nasa lupon siya ng mga taga-usig kasi nilampaso niya ang magkapatid.
#phpol #impeachment #DuterteImpeachment

from my link log —
Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations.
https://blog.apnic.net/2022/03/08/authenticated-bootstrapping-of-dnssec-delegations/
saved 2022-04-10

Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations | APNIC Blog
By transferring pre-existing trust from the zone’s DNS operator, a new in-band solution would simplify and secure automation of DNSSEC deployment.

Brian Flores subpoenas 25 NFL teams to delay discrimination lawsuit, league alleges https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7293681/2026/05/20/brian-flores-nfl-discrimination-lawsuit-team-subpoenas/

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 …

In California, survivors of solitary confinement
who have spent years trying to seriously limit the practice are facing yet another setback
as state prison officials unwind the minor reforms made in recent years. 
Those reforms, which had reduced the number of rule violations that could make someone eligible for isolation and increased out-of-cell time for people in solitary,
were part of a compromise Governor Gavin Newsom proposed after his 2022 veto of the Mandela A…

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back for Solitary Reforms in California - Bolts
California officials dial back the minor reforms they've made to isolation in prison, three years after Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed legislation to rein in solitary confinement.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116547833070885370
Since February 2022.
To put this into perspective, that’s roughly equivalent to the number of US servicemen killed AND wounded during the entirety of the Vietnam War.

"Sing along if you've ever worked on a building site or actually just worked a day in your life."
The Mary Wallopers, "Building Up and Tearing England Down" (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXHyLMWDFoY

Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 2022 order restricting Twitter's data use, claiming Twitter no longer exists as X merged with xAI and then SpaceX (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling
Musk can't be trusted to protect X user privacy, public commenters warn FTC.

Pleased to share that my paper, "Practitioners at the Limit: Bereavement, Mockery and Ideology in Response to Crisis" is now available as a preprint on arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30667

Practitioners At The Limit: Bereavement, Mockery and Ideology in Response to Crisis
After decades in which the software industry heroized its technical employees, our current moment finds those employees in crisis. Economically, they are squeezed by a job market that has turned on them since Elon Musk gutted Twitter in 2022. Politically, their craft is continually pressed into the service of an ever tighter alliance between Big Tech and authoritarianism. Professionally, they find themselves less and less able to contribute anything good to anyone within business models that ar…

Elon Musk agrees to pay $1.5M to settle US SEC allegations that he cheated Twitter shareholders in 2022 by not disclosing the 5% stake he had in the company (Nicola M White/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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 20 nodes and 74 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

In the Summer of 2022, Greek politician Stelios Kouloglou was investigating how intrusive spyware had been used to hack business leaders, law enforcement officials, and politicians.
As part of the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee,
set up to investigate the use of the notorious Pegasus spyware and other variants,
Kouloglou travelled to interview spyware victims and probe high-profile cases.
That fall, according to a new forensic analysis,
💥Kouloglou’s iPhone …

EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.

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 17 nodes and 77 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted