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

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

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

This will be Chrome’s fourth try since 2018 (third since September) to deploy keyboard support for scrolling regions:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/06/keyboard-only-scrolling-areas.html#Update06
Here’s to hoping they get it right this…

Keyboard-Only Scrolling Areas
I have spent a few years banging on about ensuring scrolling areas on a page are accessible to keyboard-only users. This is partly because the term “keyboard” maps to other input types that we distill to “keyboard” for ease of reference (speech input, sip-and-puff, on-screen keyboards, scanning software, etc.). When…

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

🎒 Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big
#technology

Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big.
Large-scale quantum computers are capable of breaking all of the common forms of asymmetric cryptography used on the Internet today. Luckily, they don’t exist yet. The Internet-wide transition to post-quantum cryptography began in 2022 when NIST announced their final candidates for key exchange and signatures in the NIST PQC competition. There is plenty written about the various algorithms and standardization processes that are underway. The conventional wisdom is that it will take a long tim…

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

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

Reading the story tells you why.
First, syphilis rates are at a 70-year high, nationally. Between 2018 and 2022, syphilis rates rose about 80%.
Second, because it has to be made separately (for allergy purposes), manufacturing penicillin is comparatively resource-intensive.
Erin Fox, associate chief pharmacy officer for the University of Utah health system says
"That means you can't make other drugs on that manufacturing line.”
From:

NPR :press: (@NPR@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Surge in syphilis cases drives some doctors to ration penicillin The drug is the go-to treatment for syphilis and the only one recommended for pregnant people. But a shortage of the injectable drug has prompted some public health agencies to ration it. #press https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/02/26/1233049844/surge-in-syphilis-cases-drives-some-doctors-to-ration-penicillin?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

Manuel Ponce: Prelude Nr. 5 habe ich gestern gespielt. War in der Stimmung. Hier eine wie ich finde schöne aktuelle Einspielung von Anne Haasch. Hier finde ich das Tempo für Andante gut gewählt und auch durchgehalten. Habe auch schon viel langsamere Interpretationen dieses Stücks gehört, die mir zu schmalzig klingen. Auch zu starke Agogik (schneller und langsamer werden) finde ich nicht so angebracht. Ist vermutlich noch der Interpretationsschatten von Segovia.

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.

Plaza de España in Seville (built 1928) for the Ibero-American Exposition. The color of the sky is influenced by Sahara dust - photo taken 2022.

As I'm currently in the midst of preparing for #Greenland #fieldwork, I stumbled again across this fantastic piece in the danish newspaper @… that ver…

How Ukraine recreated the Soledar Salt Mine in Minecraft to let players compete for prizes and donate to restore a school hit by a Russian missile (Justin Ling/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ukraine-soledar-salt-mine-minecraft-rebuilding-…

Europe’s Biggest Salt Mine Is Now in 'Minecraft,' and It’s Helping Ukraine Rebuild
The Soledar Salt Mine in eastern Ukraine shut down in early 2022 amidst the Russian invasion. The Ukrainian government recreated it in “Minecraft” to raise funds to restore a school hit during the war.

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

Giants HC Brian Daboll: We'll leave 'no stone unturned' in efforts to improve after 2023 struggles https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-hc-brian-daboll-we-ll-leave-no-stone-unturned-in-efforts-to-improve-aft…

Giants HC Brian Daboll: We'll leave 'no stone unturned' working to improve after 2023 struggles
With his Giants going from a 9-7-1 record and a playoff win in 2022 to a 6-11 finish this last year, making changes was inevitable for New York HC Brian Daboll. Daboll sat down with NFL Network Insider Tom Pelissero on Saturday to discuss the state of his team at this point in the offseason and the work that has already begun to make tangible improvements.

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

I did not realize that Colin Farrell played the part of Penguin in the 2022 film *The Batman*.
https://www.theverge.com/24108730/the-penguin-trailer-max-batman

KOZ - Limited series 🏍️👮‍♂️⚠️
Dramatized crime thriller based on a true story | Total listening time: 4h 03m
The tale of how ATF agent Darrin “Koz” Kozlowski pulled off one of the largest organized crime busts in a generation. This gritty, LA-after-dark story dives deep into the world of one of the most dangerous motorcycle ...

KOZ - Limited series 🏍️👮‍♂️⚠️
Dramatized crime thriller based on a true story | Total listening time: 4h 03m The tale of how ATF agent Darrin “Koz” Kozlowski pulled off one of the largest organized crime busts in a generation. This gritty, LA-after-dark story dives deep into the world of one of the most dangerous motorcycle clubs in Los Angeles, bringing these unbelievable true events to life. 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Sep 15, 2022.

2022 retro-link! http://allsoftwaresucks.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-cve-2022-3602-was-not-detected-by.html - Why the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability was not detected by fuzz testing.

@… @… nehmen wir mal die Zahlen aus dem Artikel:
1/2020 7,4%, 1/2021 9,3% und 1/2022 11,6% ergeben 31% vom ersten Quartal 2019 bis zum ersten Quartal 2022.
Das sind allerdings alle Wohnimmobilien, nicht nur gebrauchte. Bei gebrauchten…

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

@… advocates for #degrowth?
Great, but please stick to that consistently and don't use growth as a shorthand for economic health.
Also recognise the contradictions of a growth-oriented GND.
Thanks.
I don’t believe in growth

Please don’t try to buy this book
This book, supposedly by me, is being advertised on Amazon: This comes from Amazon. There is only one problem. There is no such book. I cancelled the contract to write it in 2022 when I had long Covid and had no energy to work on it over very many months. Once I...

State of the Industry Report on Mobile Money 2024 via #GSMA
#MoMo

State of the Industry Report

Da wir hier momentan die Diskussion über Dual Use-Forschung haben, über Zivilklauseln und darüber, wie Forschung in der Zeitenwende den wachsenden Verteidigungsetat anzapfen könne, hier ein Blick darauf, was geschah, als das Pentagon zur Bank wurde: "venture capital firms went from spending around $6.7 billion on military tech in 2016 to $34 billion in 2022." Und natürlich sind alle üblichen Verdächtigen dabei, wenn es darum geht, KI-Regulierung auszuhebeln.

US high school papers are ditching digital only strategies for print, which has a retro appeal and offers students a respite from digital content overload (Belle Cushing/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/the-echo-high-school-print-…

How print got cool again
In 2022, on the day they met, Zoe Otto and Orlena Fella decided they wanted to start a newspaper at their school, Manhattan’s High School for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering. They would call it The Echo, and they hoped it would build some community pride at their specialized STEM school—a place otherwise lacking that conventional […]

Sensor Tower: in February 2024, X had 27M US DAUs of its mobile app, down 18% YoY, and the US user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022 (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/fewer…

Fewer people using Elon Musk’s X as it struggles to keep users
The number of people using X daily is falling, more than a year after tech billionaire Elon Musk bought the app formerly known as Twitter.

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

Ford’s F-100 truck inspires enthusiasts to build electric restomods - The Verge
https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/3/23049084/ford-f100-eluminator-restomod-electric-vehicle

Ford’s F-100 truck inspires enthusiasts to build electric restomods
Ford built an electric 1978 F-100 restomod that uses the company's new crate motor instead of donor Tesla motors like other restomods. It encourages enthusiasts and mod shops to build more, which is great for the environment and a model for the right to repair.

“Russia has successfully relaunched its spy operations against the West after hundreds of its operatives were ejected following Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, according to analysts. They warn that the Kremlin is using a network of proxies to infiltrate European nations and carry out a range of intelligence operations.”

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

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
This is a 'wrong anwsers only' type game. Take a movie and tell us the plot, but it is wrong. There should be elements of the movie in the wrong plot. Let's play!

"First report on data collected by record-breaking rowers shows Great Britain's warming seas
Sea surface temperature data collected by an all-female crew of rowers as they raced around Great Britain last summer has found that U.K. coastal seas were on average 0.39°C warmer in 2023, compared to 2022, according to a new report."
#globaleÜberhitzung

First report on data collected by record-breaking rowers shows Great Britain's warming seas
Sea surface temperature data collected by an all-female crew of rowers as they raced around Great Britain last summer has found that U.K. coastal seas were on average 0.39°C warmer in 2023, compared to 2022, according to a new report.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00231 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

The Distributional Impact of Inflation in Pakistan: A Case Study of a New Price Focused Microsimulation Framework, PRICES
This paper develops a microsimulation model to simulate the distributional impact of price changes using Household Budget Survey data, income survey data and an Input Output Model. The primary purpose is to describe the model components. The secondary purpose is to demonstrate one component of the model by assessing the distributional and welfare impact of recent price changes in Pakistan. Over the period of November 2020 to November 2022, headline inflation 41.5 percent, with food and transpor…

50 years ago today, the great american string band (feat. #DavidGrisman on #mandolin #JerryGarcia on #banjo

Great American String Band – San Rafael, CA (04/26/74)
Great American String BandGolden State Country Bluegrass Festival(often incorrectly given as Marin County Bluegrass Festival)Marin County Veterans’ Auditorium Building and GroundsSan Rafael, …

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

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

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

🛰️ The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
#amazon

The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, faces a severe historic drought. The Rio Negro River, one of the major Amazon River tributaries, reached its lowest level in a century in October 2023. Here, we used a U-net deep learning model to map water surfaces in the Rio Negro River basin every 12 days in 2022 and 2023 using 10 m spatial resolution Sentinel-1 satellite radar images. The accuracy of the water surface model was high, with an F1-score of 0.93. A 12-day mosaic time series of the w…

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

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

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

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

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

In February, so far, I watched 10 movies. That is not a lot for many, but they are more than I watched in 2022 and 2023 combined.

Dieser 17-Jährige lebt mit der #Bahncard100 seit eineinhalb Jahren in den Zügen der Deutschen Bahn
https://www.businessinsider…

Justice Breyer, Off the Bench, Sounds an Alarm Over the Supreme Court’s Direction
The #supreme #court has taken a wrong turn, he said, but it is not too late to turn back.
In an interview in his chambers and in a new book, the justice, who retired in 2022, discussed

Justice Breyer, Off the Bench, Sounds an Alarm Over the Supreme Court’s Direction
In an interview in his chambers and in a new book, the justice, who retired in 2022, discussed Dobbs, originalism and the decline of trust in the court.

2D Matryoshka Sentence Embeddings
Xianming Li, Zongxi Li, Jing Li, Haoran Xie, Qing Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14776 https://arxiv…

2D Matryoshka Sentence Embeddings
Common approaches rely on fixed-length embedding vectors from language models as sentence embeddings for downstream tasks such as semantic textual similarity (STS). Such methods are limited in their flexibility due to unknown computational constraints and budgets across various applications. Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) (Kusupati et al., 2022) encodes information at finer granularities, i.e., with lower embedding dimensions, to adaptively accommodate ad hoc tasks. Similar accuracy c…

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

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

Fascinating article: Shirley Tillotson, "Importing the Plantation: The Greater Caribbean Trade and Loyalist Nova Scotia’s Public Revenue, 1789–1835." It argues Nova Scotia's public expenditure was sustained by tariffs on goods produced by enslaved labour in the Caribbean. It undercuts trad narratives of small-scale fishing and farming as central to the colony's development while highlighting dependence on white supremacist modes of production.

Importing the Plantation: The Greater Caribbean Trade and Loyalist Nova Scotia’s Public Revenue, 1789–1835 – Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society
An article from Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, on Érudit.

Too depressing to read.
Exclusive: Trump Media saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…

So, und jetzt Pssssst!, ich werde nun "Fischers Frau" [2022] von Karin #Kalisa in einem Zug durchlesen, weil es von eine*r angefordert wurde und ich es also heute bis um 19 Uhr zurückgeben werde, weil ich zu geizig für die Strafzahlungen und gleichzeitig zu geil auf lesende Druckbetankung bin!
#bookstodon

General Staff: Russia has lost 432,390 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/19/general-staff-russia.html

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

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Hab ich gerade mal wieder für jemanden rausgesucht. Ist schon zwei Jahre alt. Blog-Post zur Frage: Sind Fluggäste Mörder?
#AmBodenBleiben #StayGrounded

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

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

🛰️ The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
#amazon

The Amazon’s 2023 Drought: Sentinel-1 Reveals Extreme Rio Negro River Contraction
The Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, faces a severe historic drought. The Rio Negro River, one of the major Amazon River tributaries, reached its lowest level in a century in October 2023. Here, we used a U-net deep learning model to map water surfaces in the Rio Negro River basin every 12 days in 2022 and 2023 using 10 m spatial resolution Sentinel-1 satellite radar images. The accuracy of the water surface model was high, with an F1-score of 0.93. A 12-day mosaic time series of the w…

Tweede Kamer wil vier grote kerncentrales in plaats van twee
https://nos.nl/l/2511577
Een brede meerderheid (PVV, VVD, BBB, Denk, Volt, CDA, ChristenUnie, SGP, FvD en JA21 ) gelooft dus in een sprookje dat je 2x zoveel kerncentrales over ruim 10 jaar draaiend kunt hebben. Plus het is aan een kom…

The wife and I just purchased our 2024 season passes to Wet N Wild Water Park. We've been every year since we moved here in 2022.
So nice to have something like this close to us as we didn't have anything anywhere close to us when living in Rome, GA.
Park officially opens on May 26th and I'm excited for to be able to go and soak up some sun rays.
#WetAndWild

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

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

UTA Filing Reveals It Paid $55M For UK Agency Curtis Brown, Fueling 12-Fold Surge In Sales
https://deadline.com/2024/03/uta-curtis-brown-deal-value-financial-earnings-1235844641/

UTA Filing Reveals It Paid $55M For UK Agency Curtis Brown, Fueling 12-Fold Surge In Sales
United Talent Agency (UTA) financial filing reveals it paid £43.3M ($55M) for Curtis Brown in 2022. The deal helped supercharge its sales.

Of course we end up where we expected to with this election, even though nobody wanted it. That's what plurality elections do.
All the more reason to get behind #RankedChoiceVoting
https://

Pledge To Support Ranked Choice Voting Across the U.S.
Ranked Choice Voting is taking off. Just last November, it passed in 10 places in 2022. Voters from all political backgrounds love it because it takes power away from politicians and puts it where it belongs: in the hands of voters.

Trump Now Falsely Claims He Didn't Endorse Immigration Bill Co-Author (William Vaillancourt/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-now-falsely-claims-he-didnt-endorse-immigration-bill-co-author-jam…

Trump Now Falsely Claims He Didn’t Endorse Immigration Bill Co-Author James Lankford
Oklahoma Senator James Lankford, who helped draw up the immigration bill that Trump hates, received Trump’s “Complete and Total Endorsement” in 2022.

How will the Merck settlement affect the insurance industry?

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

2022 retro-link! https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/18/dun-dun-duuun-where-did-pop-cultures-most-dramatic-sound-come-from?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other - Dun, Dun Duuun! Where did pop cul…

Colorado Public Radio lays off 15, primarily in audio and podcast production, and spares the newsroom of cuts; staff grew from 48 in FY 2006 to 214 in FY 2022 (Ben Markus/Colorado Public Radio)
https://www.cpr.org/2024/03/06/cpr-institutes-…

CPR institutes layoffs in audio production, podcast units
Colorado Public Radio laid off 15 employees this week, the largest cut to the public broadcaster’s payroll in at least a quarter of a century.

General Staff: Russia has lost 431,550 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/18/general-staff-russia.html

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

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

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

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

Starbucks is shutting Odyssey, which launched in December 2022 in closed beta offering NFT-based rewards minted on the Polygon blockchain, on March 31, 2024 (Andrew Hayward/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/221967/starbucks-shutting-down-odyssey-nft-rewards…

Starbucks Is Shutting Down Its Odyssey NFT Rewards Program—Will It Return?
Starbucks Odyssey is shutting down this month, and it's unclear whether the Polygon-based NFT rewards program will be revived.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Time to celebrate cheese doodles. Let's play!
#MashUpSnacksAndSongsOrPoems

General Staff: Russia has lost 407,240 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/general-staff-russia.html

The First Civil War in Gombe 1974-1978 -
a poem by Katarzyna Zechenter
#humans

The First Civil War in Gombe 1974-1978 - The Bangalore Review
the only observer of this war, a woman, she would recall, for years the haunting images of drinking blood from the enemies’ wounds a bestial attack on the body, long dead, of one of the defenders

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

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

Rien qu’en 2022, il y a eu plus de 9 millions de cas de rougeole et 136 000 décès dans le monde, soit une augmentation de 18 % et 43 % par rapport Š l’année précédente, respectivement. L’Organisation mondiale de la santé a averti que plus de la moitié des pays du monde courent un risque élevé d’épidémies de rougeole cette année.

La rougeole est l’une des maladies infectieuses les plus mortelles et les plus contagieuses. Elle est aussi l’une des plus faciles à prévenir
Un pédiatre explique comment les vaccins contre la rougeole sont devenus les victimes de leur propre succès, et le risque que l’augmentation des épidémies représente pour tous et toutes.

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

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

Emma McIntosh, "Special project G*: Ontario government staff used code name for Greenbelt carveouts"
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Special project G*: Ontario government staff used code name for Greenbelt carveouts
Ontario government staffers working on contentious changes to the Greenbelt in 2022 edited email chains to rem

Wie groß der AfD-Erfolg auf TikTok und weiteren sozialen Medien ist, hat der Politikberater Johannes Hillje untersucht. Seine Zahlen liegen ZDFheute exklusiv vor und zeigen: Auf vielen Plattformen ist die AfD deutlich erfolgreicher als die anderen großen Parteien.
TikTok-Videos des offiziellen Kanals der AfD-Bundestagsfraktion etwa erreichten zwischen Januar 2022 und Dezember 2023 im Schnitt 430.000 Impressionen pro Video

AfD auf TikTok: So abgehängt sind die anderen Parteien
Auf TikTok und YouTube hat die AfD deutlich mehr Reichweite als die restlichen Parteien. Wie groß der Abstand ist, zeigt eine neue Analyse. Dahinter steckt eine klare Strategie.

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 428,420 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/general-staff-russia.html

The billionaire energy executive who reigns over Koch Industries is known for playing the long game.
He bought up pipelines in advance of the fracking boom
— and waited calmly until they delivered billions in profits.
He invested in obscure, failing companies even though he knew that it would take years before they could add to his bottom line.
And he has been cautious as he’s ventured into new markets
— his empire now includes glass, pulp and paper, chemicals,…

How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
Decades of contributions aimed at influencing the judiciary bought fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch the EPA ruling he’s always wanted.

General Staff: Russia has lost 420,270 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/06/general-staff-russia.html

IDC: the global market for AR/VR headsets fell 23.5% YoY in 2023 but grew 130.4% YoY in Q4, when Meta's share surpassed 60%, up from less than 40% in Q4 2022 (Brian Fagioli/BetaNews)
https://betanews.com/2024/03/05/ar-vr-headset-market-surge-q4-2023/…

AR/VR headset market experiences surge in Q4 2023
The augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) headset market experienced a resurgence during the holiday season of 2023, defying previous trends. According to the latest data from the International Data Corporation (IDC), Q4 2023 saw a 130.4% year-over-year growth, signaling a shift in consumer interest and technological advancements.

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad 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

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

IDC: the global market for AR/VR headsets fell 23.5% YoY in 2023 but grew 130.4% YoY in Q4, when Meta's share surpassed 60%, up from less than 40% in Q4 2022 (Brian Fagioli/BetaNews)
https://betanews.com/2024/03/05/ar-vr-headset-market-surge-q4-2023/…

AR/VR headset market experiences surge in Q4 2023
The augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) headset market experienced a resurgence during the holiday season of 2023, defying previous trends. According to the latest data from the International Data Corporation (IDC), Q4 2023 saw a 130.4% year-over-year growth, signaling a shift in consumer interest and technological advancements.

Investigation: Leading Polish fashion retailer fakes exit from Russian market: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/15/investigation-leading-polish.html

2022 retro-link! https://mattferraro.dev/posts/geometric-algebra - Geometric algebra: what is the inverse of a vector?

A profile of Bolt founder Ryan Breslow, who raised a $355M Series E in 2022, setting off 18 months of acrimonious lawsuits and a showdown with an early backer (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/03/11/the-bill…

The Billion-Dollar Unraveling Of The 'King' Of Silicon Valley
The Silicon Valley wunderkind rode his fintech unicorn Bolt to the bank. Then came the lawsuits and money squabbles — and a brutal valuation crash that wiped out much of his fortune.

General Staff: Russia has lost 426,870 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/13/general-staff-russia.html

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad 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

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Remofirst, which helps remote teams manage payroll, taxes, hiring-related compliance, compensation, and more, raised a $25M Series A led by Octopus Ventures (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/06/remofirst-hr-tech-series-a/

Remofirst raises $25M to take on Deel and Rippling in the global HR tech space | TechCrunch
Remofirst says that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) has grown 10x since it raised its $14.1 million seed round in September 2022.

Cybersecurity asset management service Axonius raised a $200M extension led by Lightspeed and Accel to its $200M Series E from 2022 at a flat $2.6B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/axon

Axonius, a specialist in cyber asset managment, secures $200M at a flat $2.6B valuation | TechCrunch
Axonius, one of the bigger players in the world of enterprise asset management -- understanding and monitoring the digital assets and infrastructure that

2022 retro-link! https://the6p4c.github.io/2022/06/13/stxp70-sthorm-p2012.html - STxP70 / STHORM / P2012: ST's secret microcontroller.

Cybersecurity asset management service Axonius raised a $200M extension led by Lightspeed and Accel to its $200M Series E from 2022 at a flat $2.6B valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/05/axon

Axonius, a specialist in cyber asset managment, secures $200M at a flat $2.6B valuation | TechCrunch
Axonius, one of the bigger players in the world of enterprise asset management -- understanding and monitoring the digital assets and infrastructure that

General Staff: Russia has lost 444,370 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/03/general-staff-russia.html

Sources: ByteDance reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $30.9B, $84.4B in January to September 2023 revenue, above 2022's $85.2B, and starts staff share buybacks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.…

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

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

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

Analysis: ByteDance spent $8.74M on US lobbying activities in 2023, up 77% YoY, and Shein spent $2.12M, up 7.6x from 2022, amid rising US-China trade tensions (Ryotaro Yamada/Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/POk1p85v51

ByteDance, Shein sharply boost spending on lobbying in U.S.
Chinese firms seek to minimize effects of alarm over bilateral tensions

Sources: Shein had $2B of profit and ~$45B of GMV in 2023, ahead of a planned NY or London IPO; documents: Shein had $700M of profit in 2022 and $1.1B in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://t.co/lDLpSXujqS