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General Staff: Russia has lost 411,550 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/general-staff-russia.html

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.

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.

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

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…

Kagan: in 2023, radio industry revenue totaled $15.15B, down 1.5% from $15.39B in 2022, and there were $212.5M worth of radio deals, down 35.6% YoY from $329.9M (Inside Radio)
https://www.insideradio.com/free/kagan-rad

My first book review came out today! *Metadata for Digital Collections* by Steven Miller (2nd ed.). I really do like this book, and we use it to teach Digital Libraries here at IU and I think about its approach in my own stuff. Available here (https://utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jelis-…

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

First daffs of the year; last year it was 16th Feb, and 2022 11th Feb (when I first spotted them); in about the same place

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

Nur falls irgendwie der Eindruck entstehen sollte, die #FDP würde sich erst seit Kurzem gegen alles stellen: Das gehört zu ihrem Markenkern und ist seit 50 Jahren unverändert. Hier ein Beispiel aus der jüngeren Vergangenheit (Anfang 2022, FDP also schon in der Regierung)

🎒 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…

An alle Autoköpfe:
Hier die häufigsten #Unfallverursacher:
https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Verkehrs…

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

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.

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

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.

Guarantee that the #Earlyworm #podcast will be a thoughtful & engaging show to listen to. Rec subscribing! @…

Ukrainischer Landwirtschaftsminister soll in U-Haft
Der ukrainische Landwirtschaftsminister Mykola Solskyj muss wegen Korruptionsvorwürfen in Untersuchungshaft. Laut Gerichtsbeschluss müsste der Politiker rund 1,9 Millionen Dollar an Kaution zahlen, um einer Inhaftierung zu entgehen.
Solskyj soll in der Zeit vor seinem Amtsantritt 2022 an illegalem Erwerb von staatlichem Grund im Wert von insgesamt rund sieben Millionen Doll…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Neue US-Militärhilfe für die Ukraine ++
Die USA haben ein neues milliardenschweres Militärhilfepaket für die Ukraine zugesagt. Wegen befürchteter russischer Angriffe lässt Kiew zwei Krankenhäuser evakuieren. Alle Entwicklungen vom Freitag zum Nachlesen.

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

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.

More Excitement Across the Horizon
Mar\'ia R. Preciado-Rivas, Manar Naeem, Robert B. Mann, Jorma Louko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14908 https://…

More Excitement Across the Horizon
An Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector falling radially into a four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field that has been prepared in the Hartle-Hawking or Unruh state, has recently been shown to exhibit a local extremum in its transition probability near the black hole horizon [K.K. Ng et al., New J. Phys. 24 (2022) 103018]. We show that a similar phenomenon is present in the transition rate of a UDW detector falling radially into a spinless Bañados-Teitelboi…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Katy J Pearson:
🎵 Talk Over Town (6 Music Session, 8 Aug 2022)
#KatyJPearson
https://open.spotify.com/track/3aoB09FhpvYOQ1MDj3P0kF
https://katyjpearson.bandcamp.com/track/talk-over-town

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…

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

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.

No one buys books -- In 2022, Penguin Random House wanted to buy Simon & Schuster. (Elle Griffin/The Elysian)
https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
http://www.memeorandum.com/240423/p46#a240423p46

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

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/

Ice Cream for R Programmers - Turtletopia: a blog about programming in R
Icecream is a tool which may serve as a more sophisticated replacement of using print while debugging.

I have always been suspicious that the "EVs are too expensive" notion is a plant by Fossil Fuel companies and some car manufacturers to shift the blame to consumers for not transitioning to EVs.
So here's a comparison of the most popular vehicles in Canada in 2022 vs. most popular EVs in Canada in 2024.

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, …

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another. On this day when we celebrate, praise, bless, extol, salute, extoll, & laud words, Let's play!

Ermittlungen beendet - Mordanklage gegen Vater im Fall um Leon (6) #News #Nachrichten

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would weigh a challenge to a
Biden administration rule on
“ghost guns,” weapons made from homemade kits that can be assembled into firearms.

The administration in 2022 imposed a federal rule requiring that these kits
must include serial numbers
and mandating background checks for people who buy them from dealers,
saying the change was needed to contend with people getting and using weapons that could not be traced by la…

Supreme Court will hear challenge to Biden administration rule on ghost guns
The Biden administration and challengers to its rule agreed that they wanted the justices to take up the case.

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.

Generalised Epstein Semantics Characterization, Interpolation, Undefinability, and (In)Completeness
Krzysztof A. Krawczyk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.12931 …

Generalised Epstein Semantics Characterization, Interpolation, Undefinability, and (In)Completeness
This paper is a continuation of investigations concerning Epstein semantics from (Krawczyk 2022). The main tool of the present paper is the model-theoretic S-set construction introduced in (Krawczyk 2022). We use it to prove several results: 1) that each Epstein model has uncountably many equivalent Epstein models, 2) that the logic of generalised Epstein models is the S-set invariant fragment of CPL (analogon of the celebrated van Benthem characterization theorem for modal logic), 3) that seve…

@… @… 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…

Double Trouble
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Double Trouble | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Double Trouble Host: Hannah and Emily Category: TV & Movies Sub-Category: Entertainment News, Pop Culture First Episode: 2022 Introducing the Double Trouble Podcast with your hosts Hannah and…

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…

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.

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…

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.

@… 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...

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.

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.

On the Curses of Future and History in Future-dependent Value Functions for Off-policy Evaluation
Yuheng Zhang, Nan Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14703 …

On the Curses of Future and History in Future-dependent Value Functions for Off-policy Evaluation
We study off-policy evaluation (OPE) in partially observable environments with complex observations, with the goal of developing estimators whose guarantee avoids exponential dependence on the horizon. While such estimators exist for MDPs and POMDPs can be converted to history-based MDPs, their estimation errors depend on the state-density ratio for MDPs which becomes history ratios after conversion, an exponential object. Recently, Uehara et al. (2022) proposed future-dependent value functions…

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/

General Staff: Russia has lost 408,240 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/23/general-staff-russia.html

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine/Premature_death

😥
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.

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…

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.

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

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.

The Supreme Court on Monday said it would weigh a challenge to a
Biden administration rule on
“ghost guns,” weapons made from homemade kits that can be assembled into firearms.

The administration in 2022 imposed a federal rule requiring that these kits
must include serial numbers
and mandating background checks for people who buy them from dealers,
saying the change was needed to contend with people getting and using weapons that could not be traced by la…

Supreme Court will hear challenge to Biden administration rule on ghost guns
The Biden administration and challengers to its rule agreed that they wanted the justices to take up the case.

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.

2022 retro-link! https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2022/04/17/coherence-and-crate-level-where-clauses/#coherence-and-crate-level-where-clauses - Coherence and crate-level whe…

3 days till the MARCH…: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/23/days-till-the.html

What is now clearly a pro-Russia Republican caucus has consolidated inside Congress.
The lesson is clear:
Anyone who seeks to manipulate the foreign policy of the United States,
whether the tin-pot autocrat in Hungary or the Communist Party of China,
now knows that a carefully designed propaganda campaign, when targeted at the right people,
can succeed well beyond what anyone once thought possible.
From the first days of the 2022 Russian invasion, Presid…

The GOP’s Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win.
Once U.S. money starts flowing again, the dynamics of the war will change.

Amazon ends drone deliveries in Lockeford, California, which began in 2022, and plans to expand them to Tolleson, Arizona, in 2024 and other US regions in 2025 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/22/amazon-ends-dr…

What is now clearly a pro-Russia Republican caucus has consolidated inside Congress.
The lesson is clear:
Anyone who seeks to manipulate the foreign policy of the United States,
whether the tin-pot autocrat in Hungary or the Communist Party of China,
now knows that a carefully designed propaganda campaign, when targeted at the right people,
can succeed well beyond what anyone once thought possible.
From the first days of the 2022 Russian invasion, Presid…

The GOP’s Pro-Russia Caucus Lost. Now Ukraine Has to Win.
Once U.S. money starts flowing again, the dynamics of the war will change.

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

SPEKTAKULÄRER PROZESS - Der gequälte Bub aus NÖ: Zwei Mütter vor Gericht #News #Nachrichten

Repairable laptop maker Framework Computer raised a $17M Series A-1, after an $18M Series A in early 2022, to expand into new product categories (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/23/frameworks-repaira…

Framework's repairability philosophy is set to expand beyond the laptop | TechCrunch
Framework Computer was ahead of the curve. The company was founded in 2019, as 20 U.S. states began exploring potential right to repair bills. It

🛰️ 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…

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.

Sources: Kenya's media giants are weighing a legal fight with the government for awarding a contract to The Star, a newspaper with only 3% market share in 2022 (Martin K.N Siele/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2024

Kenya’s media giants are plotting for a fight with the government over ad spending | Semafor
Kenya's government advertising accounts for around 30% of the revenues of major newspapers, but President Ruto's administration is keen to halve its spending.

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

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…

General Staff: Russia has lost 404,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/20/general-staff-russia.html

🛰️ 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…

Immer mehr russische Deserteure und Asylsuchende
Seit September 2022 hat das unabhängige russische Medienprojekt Mediazona mehr als 7.300 Fälle vor Gericht dokumentiert, bei denen es um unerlaubtes Entfernen von Soldaten von der Truppe geht. Das meldet die Nachrichtenagentur AP. Beim härtesten Vorwurf, der Fahnenflucht, habe sich die Zahl der Fälle im vergangenen Jahr versechsfacht. Eine Rekordzahl …
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Selenskyj: "Protestiert. Kämpft. Lauft weg."
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj hat die Russen nach der Teilmobilisierung zum Widerstand aufgerufen. Deutsche Politiker machen sich für die erleichterte Aufnahme russischer Kriegsdienstverweigerer und Deserteure stark.

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

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 […]

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.

2022 retro-link! https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2022/04/17/coherence-and-crate-level-where-clauses/#coherence-and-crate-level-where-clauses - Coherence and crate-level whe…

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U.S. Pressure Helped Save Brazil’s Democracy
Biden’s stated commitment to defending democracy worldwide is often brushed off as mere rhetoric.
Yet, two weeks ago, Brazil’s federal police launched a high-profile raid against former President Jair Bolsonaro and more than 10 of his allies, including Brazil’s former navy chief, national security advisor, and ministers of defense and justice. Authorities accused the group of plotting a potential coup after Bolsonaro’s failed 2022 ree…

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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.

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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.

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Russia using freshly-produced shells as supply 'running smoothly,' Ukrainian officer says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/russia-using-freshlyproduced.html

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.

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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.

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Noida, India-based B2B e-commerce marketplace ProcMart raised a $30M Series B led by Fundamentum and Edelweiss Discovery Fund, after a $10M Series A in 2022 (Times of India)
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ci

Procmart Raises $30 Mn Led By Fundamentum | Bengaluru News - Times of India
Bengaluru: ProcMart, an online B2B marketplace focused on supply chain solutions, has secured $30 million in funding.

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