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After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

Finally #eleternauta

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Another data point - flights to/from #Japan and the #UnitedStates #US are the cheapest I've seen since, basically, the border reopened to tourism back in 2022.

Moving from #SpringBoot to #Quarkus by @…

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A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…

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Outward and Inward #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2022/outward-and-inward-nowplaying/

Outward and Inward #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Heute vor 2 Jahren: Am 14. Juni 2023 erklärte der belarussische Präsident Aleksander Lukaschenko in einem Fernsehinterview mit dem russischen Staatssender Russia-1, dass #Belarus, wie am 25.03.23 durch Putin angekündigt, #Kernwaffen von Russland erhalten habe.

IMO, #tagging is not that intuitive as it seems.
If you do follow my guide with 10 rules, you should get much more out of #tags as you do get otherwise:

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cyndi Lauper:
🎵 Time After Time
#CyndiLauper
https://funkastik.bandcamp.com/track/cyndi-lauper-time-after-time-2022-funkastik-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7o9uu2GDtVDr9nsR7ZRN73

Confessions Radio
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Confessions Radio | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Confessions Radio Hosts: Amma and Chrystal Category: Comedy Sub-Category: Comedy Interviews & Chats, Personal Stories First Episode: 2022 Confessions is the go-to discussion space for all…

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,022,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

2022 Cowboys draft class must earn contract extensions https://insidethestar.com/2022-cowboys-draft-class-must-earn-contract-extensions

Cloudflare, CrowdStrike, and Ping Identity end a 2022 project offering free cybersecurity tools to critical infrastructure sectors at risk from Russian attacks (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/…

Cyber firms sunset free services meant to counter Russia-linked hacking threats
The 2022 initiative by Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and Ping Identity provided cybersecurity support to critical infrastructure sectors seen as potential targets of Russia-linked attacks.

Preetz holt im #Fahrradklimatest #FKT24 nach einem Rückschritt in 2022 wieder auf und gehört nun zu den Aufholerstädten in Schleswig-Holstein.
Esther Wenderhold ist die Mobilitätsmanagerin in Preetz und stellt die Leistungen der Stadt vor.

NDR Info: Preetz macht Radfahrenden das Leben leichter - hier anschauen
Mit ihrem Mobilitätskonzept ist die Stadt im Fahrradklimatest auf Platz drei in Schleswig-Holstein gelandet.

Bills $21 million free agent starter predicted to sign with Raiders https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/bills-21-million-free-agent-starter-predicted-sign-raiders/c321a5…

Mildly interesting: Der #Gasspeicher #Rehden ist wieder leer. Zuletzt passierte das 2021/2022 unter Gazprom und quasi-Russischer Kontrolle. Aktuell gäbe es Angebot, Preise sind etwa auf Vorjahresniveau. Wäre interessant zu wissen, warum der aktuelle Betreiber den Sommer nicht fürs Nachf…

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 11.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Organdy". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

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 6 nodes and 16 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Playing Piano Improv at WaterMusic https://muz4now.com/2022/playing-piano-improv-at-watermusic/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=muz4now/magazine/Improv and Play&am…

Playing Piano Improv at WaterMusic
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Yelena Mejova, Ronald E. Robertson, Catherine A. Gimbrone, Sarah McKetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06640 …

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Search engines have become the gateway to information, products, and services, including those concerning healthcare. Access to reproductive health has been especially complicated in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, splintering abortion regulations among the states. In this study, we performed an audit of the advertisements shown to Google Search users seeking information about abortion across the United States during the year following t…

It is just INSANE that the GOP is going to 🆘 tax new solar and wind capacity,
as well as a whole bunch of other terrible energy policies in the BBB,
when electricity prices have risen 20% since start of 2022,
and the grid is ever more fragile.
Prepare for a lot of rolling blackouts.
https://…

Ukraine und Russland setzen Gefangenenaustausch fort
Die Ukraine und Russland haben ihren Anfang Juni in Istanbul vereinbarten Gefangenenaustausch fortgesetzt. "Heute kehrten Kämpfer der Armee, der Nationalgarde, der Grenztruppen zurück", schrieb der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj bei Telegram. Der Großteil sei seit 2022 in russischer Gefangenschaft gewesen. Eine Angabe zur Anzahl der Rückkehrer machte er nicht. Pa…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland bestellt deutschen Botschafter ein ++
Russland will den deutschen Botschafter wegen des Umgangs mit russischen Journalisten einbestellen. Bei einem russischen Angriff auf die Region Cherson wurden nach Behördenangaben ein Mensch getötet und weitere verletzt.

PitchBook: US VC investment in AI startups rose 33% QoQ to $65B in Q1, up 550% from the quarter prior to ChatGPT's 2022 release (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/technology/ai-spending-openai-amazon-meta.html…

A.I. Frenzy Escalates as OpenAI, Amazon and Meta Supersize Spending
Companies like OpenAI, Amazon and Meta have supersized their spending on artificial intelligence, with no signs of slowing down.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10188 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Installation and performance of the 3rd Veto plane at the SND@LHC detector
During 2022/2023 the optimal inefficiency of the Veto system of the SND@LHC detector was measured to be $(7.8\pm2.8)\times10^{-8}$. To reduce this inefficiency, a third Veto plane was installed during the 2023-2024 Year End Technical Stop. In addition, the Veto system was lowered to cover the target fully, thereby increasing acceptance. This paper describes how the inefficiency of the Veto system was reduced from $7.8\times10^{-8}$ with an acceptance of about $64\%$ of the target area in 2022-2…

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 11.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Petrel". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

A Decade of News Forum Interactions: Threaded Conversations, Signed Votes, and Topical Tags
Emma Fraxanet, Vicen\c{c} G\'omez, Andreas Kaltenbrunner, Max Pellert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22224

A Decade of News Forum Interactions: Threaded Conversations, Signed Votes, and Topical Tags
We present a large-scale, longitudinal dataset capturing user activity on the online platform of DerStandard, a major Austrian newspaper. The dataset spans ten years (2013-2022) and includes over 75 million user comments, more than 400 million votes, and detailed metadata on articles and user interactions. It provides structured conversation threads, explicit up- and downvotes of user comments and editorial topic labels, enabling rich analyses of online discourse while preserving user privacy. …

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky
Arvind F. Gupta, Evan Fitzmaurice, Suvrath Mahadevan, Paul Robertson, Jacob K. Luhn, Jason T. Wright, Sarah E. Logsdon, Daniel M. Krolikowski, Leonardo A. Paredes, Chad F. Bender, Mark R. Giovinazzi, Andrea S. Lin, Cullen H. Blake, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, Eric B. Ford, Samuel P. Halverson, Shubham Kanodia, Michael W. McElwain, Joe P. Ninan, Jayadev Rajagopal, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Gu{\dh}mundur Stef\'ans…

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky
The NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) has been delivering a rich set of precise radial velocity (RV) measurements for 41 bright, nearby main sequence stars. Here, we describe the status of the survey after three years on sky and we present the full set of RV measurements and accompanying stellar activity indicators. We discuss intermediate survey diagnostics, including calibration of the known RV zero point offset introduced following the Contreras fire in 2022 and the identification of an undiagno…

What's up with the Production of #EFuels in #Chile?
In 2022, #Siemens #Energy,

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

Pius XII and Decolonization: Catholicism in North Africa and the Levant, 1939-1958
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TOC: Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 46, no. 3 (March 2022) Dutch…
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Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab reportedly raising $2B would be the largest seed round ever, far surpassing Yuga Labs' $450M seed round in 2022 (Joanna Glasner/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/biggest-seed-ro…

Thinking Machines Lab’s $2B Seed Round Is Biggest By A Long Shot
The $2 billion Andreessen Horowitz-led financing that Thinking Machines reportedly just closed at a $10 billion valuation is by far the largest seed round in the Crunchbase dataset. We take a look at that, as well as the runner's up in seed funding.

Wealthfront, which uses AI to build investment portfolios, confidentially files for a US IPO; it was valued at $1.4B in 2022 during a failed acquisition by UBS (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/wealthf

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The Advantages of #Text-Based #Information Versus #Videos, #Audio or

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