Russia can only afford its war in Ukraine because Britain helped raise the cash
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/08/britain-war-in-ukraine-britain-putin-regime?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other…

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 455,340 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/16/general-staff-russia.html

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

People, always: Mozilla, please just make a web browser
Mozilla, 2014: here’s a phone!
Mozilla, 2018: all in on VR!
Mozilla, 2022: let’s do crypto!
Mozilla, 2024: hurrah AI!

i had to look up the company that did the colourization on the tubi version. their website is confusing but i found this brochure (PDF). the brochure is also a mess but at least it's all in one file: #monsterdon

Long Covid and me
Apparently it's Long Covid Awareness Day!
I have Long Covid. Not as extreme as some people. I can do normal things again, except I run out of steam way quicker than the energetic me of summer 2022. It's kind of like I got physically 20 years older all of a sudden. I miss being able to cycle for 4 or 5 miles, or immerse myself in writing for a whole day.
Also still sometimes little bits of dysautonomia and irregular heartbeat.
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
(Edit: oops, 2022.)

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…

American Library Association report says book challenges reached a record high on 4,240 in 2023, up from 2,571 in 2022 (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/books/book-bans.html

Attempts to Ban Books Accelerated in 2023
Book challenges around the country reached the highest levels ever recorded by a library organization.

General Staff: Russia has lost 429,580 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/16/general-staff-russia.html

Children of a British woman suspected of illegal abortion removed from her care - Tortoise https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/03/08/children-of-british-woman-suspected-of-illegal-abortion-removed-from-her-care/

Children of a British woman suspected of illegal abortion removed from her care - Tortoise
A British mother being investigated for a suspected illegal abortion under a Victorian-era law had her existing children removed from her care, Tortoise can reveal.  The mother is one of six women who have appeared in an English court since December 2022 for illegally ending their pregnancies under the Offence Against the Person Act (OAPA) …

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Let's play!
#ClassicCountryMusicTaughtMe

Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 3 is available! What's new you ask?
- GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio
- Copilot Generated Breakpoint Conditions
- Updates to our Copilot generated PR descriptions
- More SSDT support for Arm64 VS
#visualstudio

US support for abortion rights is
up four points -- to 60% --
since fall of Roe v Wade
New polling data from Pew shows a shift in Americans’ opinion since loss of constitutional right to abortion in June 2022
https://www.theguardian.com/…

General Staff: Russia has lost 488,460 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/16/general-staff-russia.html

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Analysis Facilities White Paper
This white paper presents the current status of the R&D for Analysis Facilities (AFs) and attempts to summarize the views on the future direction of these facilities. These views have been collected through the High Energy Physics (HEP) Software Foundation's (HSF) Analysis Facilities forum, established in March 2022, the Analysis Ecosystems II workshop, that took place in May 2022, and the WLCG/HSF pre-CHEP workshop, that took place in May 2023. The paper attempts to cover all the aspects of an…

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Ranked Choice Voting And Condorcet Failure in the Alaska 2022 Special Election: How Might Other Voting Systems Compare?
The August 2022 special election for the U.S. House of Representatives in Alaska featured three main candidates and was conducted by the single-winner ranked choice voting system known as "Instant Runoff Voting." The results of this election displayed a well-known but relatively rare phenomenon known as "Condorcet failure:" Nick Begich was eliminated in the first round despite being more broadly acceptable to the electorate than either of the other two candidates. More specifically, Begich was …

I know this week’s #MusicWomenWednesday has passed, but I can’t get this Patti Smith song out of my head tonight, so I’ll share it! I love her, & I love this song. #AllThatGlittersIsNot

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Simple synthetic data reduces sycophancy in large language models
Sycophancy is an undesirable behavior where models tailor their responses to follow a human user's view even when that view is not objectively correct (e.g., adapting liberal views once a user reveals that they are liberal). In this paper, we study the prevalence of sycophancy in language models and propose a simple synthetic-data intervention to reduce this behavior. First, on a set of three sycophancy tasks (Perez et al., 2022) where models are asked for an opinion on statements with no cor…

Sources: SoftBank is in advanced talks to acquire Graphcore, a struggling UK-based chip startup once valued at $2.8B that reported just $2.7M in 2022 revenue (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

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Towards Standardized Grid Emission Factors: Methodological Insights and Best Practices
Inconsistent calculation of grid emission factors (EF) can result in widely divergent corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reports. We dissect this issue through a comprehensive literature review, identifying nine key aspects - each with two to six methodological choices - that substantially influence the reported EF. These choices lead to relative effect variations ranging from 1.2% to 69%. Using Germany's 2019-2022 data as a case study, our method yields results that largely align with pr…

From Adams to assets: A closer look at the impact of Davante's trade for the Packers https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/from_adams_to_assets_a_closer_look_at_the_impact_of_davantes_trad…

From Adams to assets: A closer look at the impact of Davante's trade for the Packers
We've been doing a Green Bay Packers mailbag every. But this question from Joe is so intriguing that this week we will explore this topic further. The Packers didn't offer what Davante Adams wanted in 2021, entering the last year of his deal. So he played out his contract, and Green Bay still had the option to apply the franchise tag while negotiating a new deal. Reportedly, the Packers made a strong offer to Adams in 2022, but the wide receiver requested a trade to the Las Vegas Raiders for se…

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Advancing Differential Privacy: Where We Are Now and Future Directions for Real-World Deployment
In this article, we present a detailed review of current practices and state-of-the-art methodologies in the field of differential privacy (DP), with a focus of advancing DP's deployment in real-world applications. Key points and high-level contents of the article were originated from the discussions from "Differential Privacy (DP): Challenges Towards the Next Frontier," a workshop held in July 2022 with experts from industry, academia, and the public sector seeking answers to broad questions p…

❝I felt an anger that I hadn’t felt in his past films. Anger that felt directed towards the way humans work, the unfairness of this whole world.❞ https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/08/eiko-ishibashi-film-co…

Children of a British woman suspected of illegal abortion removed from her care - Tortoise https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/03/08/children-of-british-woman-suspected-of-illegal-abortion-removed-from-her-care/

Children of a British woman suspected of illegal abortion removed from her care - Tortoise
A British mother being investigated for a suspected illegal abortion under a Victorian-era law had her existing children removed from her care, Tortoise can reveal.  The mother is one of six women who have appeared in an English court since December 2022 for illegally ending their pregnancies under the Offence Against the Person Act (OAPA) …

Eine neue Studie offenbart schockierende Fakten: Die Methangas-Leckagen in der US-Energieindustrie sind dreimal so hoch wie offiziell angegeben. Dies führt zu Klimaschäden, die jährlich mit 9,3 Milliarden US-Dollar zu Buche schlagen. Interessanterweise stammen mehr als die Hälfte dieser Emissionen von einer verschwindend geringen Anzahl von Öl- und Gasstandorten - weniger als 1%. Das bedeutet, das Problem ist nicht nur gravierender als von der Regierung erkannt, sondern auch relativ leicht lösbar.
Weltweit ist ein ähnliches Phänomen zu beobachten: Satelliten haben im Jahr 2023 eine 50%ige Zunahme von großen Methanemissionsereignissen im Vergleich zu 2022 festgestellt, wobei mehr als 5 Millionen Tonnen in großen fossilen Brennstoffleckagen erkannt wurden. Die weltweiten Methanemissionen stiegen leicht auf 120 Millionen Tonnen.
Diese Erkenntnisse unterstreichen die Dringlichkeit, gezielte Anstrengungen auf die am stärksten emittierenden Standorte zu konzentrieren. Indem wir diese kontrollieren, könnten wir einen bedeutenden Schritt zur Halbierung der Emissionen machen. Die Studie zeigt auch, dass die US-Regierung bereits Maßnahmen ergriffen hat, um die Methanemissionen in der Öl- und Gasindustrie zu reduzieren. Es ist an der Zeit, dass wir alle verstehen: Die Lösung dieses Problems ist nicht nur machbar, sondern auch entscheidend für die Bekämpfung der Klimakrise. #Klimakrise #Methanemissionen #Energieindustrie
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/13/us-gas-leaks-report-climate-change?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Lipstick on a Pig: learning the most important lesson in design
https://ar.al/2022/08/17/lipstick-on-a-pig/
I wrote this a couple of years ago and I highly recommend that designers/developers read it. There’s also a talk I gave over a decade ago embedded in there that…

Lipstick on a Pig: learning the most important lesson in design
I just released a little tool called Lipstick on a Pig that helps keep the visual appearance of supported command-line applications in sync with the current light/dark mode setting (colour scheme) of your system in GNOME. But why is this tool even necessary to begin with? Let’s start at the beginning… Getting to GNOME you The GNOME display environment1, since version 42, implements support for light and dark appearance styles (aka colour schemes).

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On the splitting of weak nearly cosymplectic manifolds
Weak contact metric manifolds, i.e., the linear complex structure on the contact distribution is replaced by a nonsingular skew-symmetric tensor, defined by the author and R. Wolak (2022), allowed a new look at the theory of contact manifolds. This article studies the curvature and topology of new structures of this type, called the weak nearly cosymplectic structure and weak nearly Kähler structure. We find conditions under which weak nearly cosymplectic manifolds become Riemannian products a…

1922: The year the #modern begin.
“On the 18th of May, 1922, the British translator and novelist Sidney Schiff hosted a dinner party at the Majestic Hotel in Paris. 40 guests were invited in all, but there were four guests in particular that Schiff wanted to bring together to generate dinner party chat. They were Igor

‎The Rest Is History: 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1 on Apple Podcasts
‎Show The Rest Is History, Ep 1922: The Birth of the Modern World Part 1 - 12 Jan 2022

On Website Technicals (2022-12) - Tech updates: citationID, Mastostorm, server down, mail system move, dataset archive, database cross-check, static Gallery, Xmas slump. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-67.html

On Website Technicals (2022-12)
Tech updates: citationID, Mastostorm, server down, mail system move, dataset archive, database cross-check, static Gallery, Xmas slump.

On 5th May 2022 I made a complaint to the DPC that the entire An Post/ GeoDirectory advertising database was in breach of GDPR.
On 17th July 2023, the DPC wrote to confirm it had opened a wideranging ‘own volition’ inquiry into the GeoDirectory database.
No further update has issued.

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Dog Dancing World Championship 2022, Anastasiia Beaumont and border collie Yuki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtjY_YgZEzo

General Staff: Russia has lost 485,430 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/14/general-staff-russia.html

Creepy Twisted Asians ✈️🧹👿
Dramatized horror anthology | The following anthology series contains diabolical characters, goosebump-inducing soundscapes, and chilling performances from Malaysia’s creative community.
Malaysian stories
1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Oct 09, 2022.
https://www.thee…

Creepy Twisted Asians ✈️🧹👿
Dramatized horror anthology | The following anthology series contains diabolical characters, goosebump-inducing soundscapes, and chilling performances from Malaysia’s creative community. Malaysian stories 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Oct 10, 2022.

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ChatGPT Can Predict the Future when it Tells Stories Set in the Future About the Past
This study investigates whether OpenAI's ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4 can accurately forecast future events using two distinct prompting strategies. To evaluate the accuracy of the predictions, we take advantage of the fact that the training data at the time of experiment stopped at September 2021, and ask about events that happened in 2022 using ChatGPT-3.5 and ChatGPT-4. We employed two prompting strategies: direct prediction and what we call future narratives which ask ChatGPT to tell fictional…

The growing reality of climate refugees - a resonating article by Wambui Mbuthia.
Climate change is not a sudden eviction notice for millions of displaced people. It is a slow and relentless erosion, chipping away livelihoods and forcing difficult choices.
In 2022 alone, more than 7.4 million people across #Africa were displaced due to climate shocks, adding to existing conflicts and instabil…

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

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

Persistent Upflows and Downflows at Active Region boundaries Observed by SUTRI and AIA
Yuchuan Wu, Zhenyong Hou, Wenxian Li, Xianyong Bai, Yongliang Song, Xiao Yang, Ziyao Hu, Yuanyong Deng, Kaifan Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07422

Persistent Upflows and Downflows at Active Region boundaries Observed by SUTRI and AIA
Upflows and downflows at active region (AR) boundaries have been frequently observed with spectroscopic observations at extreme ultraviolet (EUV) passbands. In this paper, we report the coexistence of upflows and downflows at the AR boundaries with imaging observations from the Solar Upper Transition Region Imager (SUTRI) and the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA). With their observations from 2022 September 21 to 2022 September 30, we find 17 persistent opposite flows occurring along the AR co…

Chrissie Hynde #MusicWomenWednesday #Pretenders https://youtu.be/3YA3hZEDPNI?si=UBpH1N

Sources: e-commerce roll-up firm Kite, which was cofounded by Blackstone in 2022 and closed a $200M equity commitment, shut down earlier in 2024 (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/blackstone-f…

Blackstone-Founded E-Commerce ‘Roll-Up’ Firm Shuts Down
How bad is the slowdown in e-commerce growth? Ask Blackstone, one of the world’s largest investment firms. Two years ago, a division of Blackstone that invests in consumer brands such as Supergoop and Spanx joined a second investor to commit $200 million to an e-commerce startup they had founded ...

Unesco: Wiederaufbau der Wissenschaft in der Ukraine kostet Milliarden
Der Wiederaufbau der vom russischen Angriffskrieg zerstörten wissenschaftlichen Infrastruktur in der Ukraine wird nach Ansicht der UN-Kulturorganisation Unesco eine Milliardensumme kosten. In einer in Paris veröffentlichte Studie schätzt die Organisation die Kosten auf mehr als 1,26 Milliarden US-Dollar. Den Angaben zufolge wurden…
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Krieg gegen die Ukraine: Das Ausmaß der Zerstörung
Am 24. Februar 2022 begann die Invasion russischer Truppen in die Ukraine. Seitdem bringt der Krieg Tod, Leid und viel Zerstörung. Die Schäden genau zu beziffern ist kaum möglich - Zehntausende Gebäude liegen in Trümmern. Von A. Beer.

Überwachung: Strafverfolger griffen 2022 deutlich häufiger zu Staatstrojanern
Die Zahl der Genehmigungen hat sich fast verdoppelt: 2022 erlaubten Gerichte 109 Mal das Hacken von IT-Geräten, während es im Vorjahr 55 Anordnungen gab.

Uvalde City Council to release investigation of the police response to 2022 school massacre (Acacia Coronado/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-police-response-b5c9f8204f33f62f720a7c1644b47ffc
http://www.memeorandum.com/240307/p85#a240307p85

Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions of rape and incest to abortion ban | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/louisiana-lawmakers-reject-adding-exceptions-of-rape-and-incest-to-abortion-ban/…

Louisiana lawmakers reject adding exceptions of rape and incest to abortion ban
A study found that between July 2022 and January 2024, there were more than 64,000 pregnancies resulting from rape in states where abortion has been banned in all or most cases.

General Staff: Russia has lost 453,650 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/14/general-staff-russia.html

„Firmen brauchen nur ordentliches Gehalt zu bezahlen, dann haben sie auch keinen Fachkräftemangel.“ – Nein, so einfach ist es leider nicht. Es fehlen Menschen, und es werden in Zukunft noch mehr Menschen fehlen. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitt…

Bevölkerung im Erwerbsalter wird in Ostdeutschland in den nächsten 20 Jahren um 0,6 bis 1,2 Millionen Menschen abnehmen
Die Zahl der Menschen im Erwerbsalter wird in den nächsten Jahren und Jahrzehnten vor allem im Osten Deutschlands abnehmen – trotz Zuwanderung. Zum Jahresende 2022 lebten 51,4 Millionen Menschen im Alter von 18 bis 64 Jahren in Deutschland, davon 7,2 Millionen in den ostdeutschen Ländern. In den nächsten 20 Jahren wird deren Zahl in Ostdeutschland um mindestens 560 000 (-8 %) bis 1,2 Millionen Menschen (-16 %) zurückgehen. Bis zum Jahr 2070 ist hier mit einem Rückgang um mindestens…

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The genealogy of nearly critical branching processes in varying environment
Building on the spinal decomposition technique in Foutel-Rodier and Schertzer (2022) we prove a Yaglom limit law for the rescaled size of a nearly critical branching process in varying environment conditional on survival. In addition, our spinal approach allows us to prove convergence of the genealogical structure of the population at a fixed time horizon - where the sequence of trees are envisioned as a sequence of metric spaces - in the Gromov-Hausdorff-Prokorov (GHP) topology. We characteriz…

These goddamn stupid olive shaped eyeballs! 🫒 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/10/kids-glasses-vision-increased-nearsightedness-myopia/671244/

Over 3100 houses retrofitted in #Galway last year, up a third on 2022. Comhgairdeas to all involved, we are exceeding targets by 30% - crucial in cutting energy costs.

A simple copy paste from 2022 to 2023.
Can’t wait to anal ize the 2024 one.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1765956299081105625?s=61

MAZE (@mazemoore) on X
Biden's 2022 and 2023 SOTU speeches were almost identical. Tonight's speech was the exact same lines combined with saying "my predecessor is bad" 25 times.

#Covid
Milde Verdoppelung der krankheitsbedingten Absenzen im Jahr 2022 in den USA, gemäss McKinsey.
Studie von vor einem Jahr.

Kosten der Pandemie: Auch „mild“ wird auf Dauer teuer
Es sind vor allem die harmlos wirkenden Verläufe einer Covid-Erkrankung, die Unternehmen zu schaffen machen. Eine McKinsey-Studie hat die ausgefallenen Arbeitstage berechnet.

Mystery solved!

#P4x #CyberSecurity #InfoSec @…

Mit 300 Leuten zweimal von Europa nach Australien und zurück fliegen ist gemeinschaftlicher Mord an einem Menschen.
#AmBodenBleiben #StayGrounded

#Lees Rachel Carson: De Zee, AP&VG 2022. Rachel Carson kent u wel, maar dan van het boek Silent Spring uit 1962, het ‘eerste’ boek over de gevolgen van ongebreideld pesticidegebruik. Dat was toen schokkend en het heeft nog steeds niet echt geholpen, maar ja. Ze was marien bioloog en schreef dit al in 1950 om te tonen hoe belangrijk de zee voor ons en de planeet is en dat geldt nu, tijdens de kli…

Allow me to re-stack two of the AP’s graphs. #Uvalde
“… an investigator hired by Uvalde officials found that the city’s officers did not deserve punishment, and in some cases, praised their actions …”
“… prompting shouts of “cowards” from the audience and causing several family members of the victims to angrily walk out of the meeting.”

Uvalde parents lash out after new report clears city police of missteps during Texas school attack
An investigation Uvalde city leaders ordered into the Robb Elementary School shooting has put no blame on local police officers and defended their actions, but still acknowledged a series of failures during the response. The 2022 classroom attack left 19 children and two teachers dead. The probe by Austin-based investigator and former detective Jesse Prado for the Uvalde City Council is just one of several into the massacre. State lawmakers found in 2022 that nearly 400 local, state and federal…

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Performance of SK-Gd's Upgraded Real-time Supernova Monitoring System
Among multi-messenger observations of the next galactic core-collapse supernova, Super-Kamiokande (SK) plays a critical role in detecting the emitted supernova neutrinos, determining the direction to the supernova (SN), and notifying the astronomical community of these observations in advance of the optical signal. On 2022, SK has increased the gadolinium dissolved in its water target (SK-Gd) and has achieved a Gd concentration of 0.033%, resulting in enhanced neutron detection capability, whic…

Some wine discounter delivered six bottles of Spanish red, some kind of a sampler intro pack, to us. Except: we never ordered it. The putative addressee at our house was one Egon Mayer, who seems to have been a famous German Luftwaffe pilot in WWII.
We emailed the distributor, who had the package picked up today. We got to keep a bottle for our diligence.

"Someone could do a study of this and present facts, but nobody has. I certainly won't. There's no reason to bother. The requirement that you demonstrate a factual basis for your claim vanished long ago."
#medialiteracy #michaelcrichton
https://blog.teledyn.com/2022/07/why-speculate-talk-by-michael-crichton.html?m=1

This unreleased live track by Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi is just out of this world! The pads!!! Would love to experience that on a big system, but for now my AKG's will do... 😍🫠
The Memoir - Page 90: Antonio Ruscito & Luigi Tozzi (Live, 2022)
https://youtu.be/lNa6MwyVJPw?si=uaupu…

The world can no longer afford two things:
🔸the costs of economic inequality;
🔸and the rich.
Between 2020 and 2022, the world’s most affluent 1% of people captured nearly twice as much of the new global wealth created as did the other 99% of individuals put together
And in 2019 they emitted as much #carbon #dioxide

Why the world cannot afford the rich
Equality is essential for sustainability. The science is clear — people in more-equal societies are more trusting and more likely to protect the environment than are those in unequal, consumer-driven ones.

L7 #MusicWomenWednesday #FastAndFrightening https://youtu.be/e3PJkciaQAU?si=4fFRrQ

Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote American isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukra…

Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
In a campaign stoking anti-Ukraine sentiment in the U.S., Russia-directed trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles and social media posts.

Sources: e-commerce roll-up firm Kite, which was cofounded by Blackstone in 2022 and closed a $200M equity commitment, shut down earlier in 2024 (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/blackstone-f…

Blackstone-Founded E-Commerce ‘Roll-Up’ Firm Shuts Down
How bad is the slowdown in e-commerce growth? Ask Blackstone, one of the world’s largest investment firms. Two years ago, a division of Blackstone that invests in consumer brands such as Supergoop and Spanx joined a second investor to commit $200 million to an e-commerce startup they had founded ...

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Every culture, region and even family has different food cuisines – different spices, styles, customs and methods. This game has lots of possibilites.
Let's play!

General Staff: Russia has lost 452,760 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/13/general-staff-russia.html

Neil Young is bringing back his music to Spotify, after the removal in January 2022, saying "Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation" (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streamin…

Neil Young Says His Music Is Returning to Spotify
Neil Young's music is returning to Spotify, says the singer-songwriter, who noted the end of the streamer's exclusive deal with Joe Rogan's podcast.

Raiders to release one-time Pro Bowl WR https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_to_release_one_time_pro_bowl_wr/s1_14819_40101758

Raiders to release one-time Pro Bowl WR
The Silver and Black are moving on from an offensive cog who has not lived up to his contract. They are set to release Hunter Renfrow, NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport reports. Given a two-year, $32M deal during the 2022 offseason, Renfrow strangely fell out of favor while on that contract and the team explored trade possibilities last season. Renfrow was set to earn an $11.2M base salary next season. The Raiders did not get much out of the Clemson alum following his 1,000-yard season — which played …

How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters.
3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 11, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/sh…

How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters. 3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 12, 2022.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.06929 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Advancing Differential Privacy: Where We Are Now and Future Directions for Real-World Deployment
In this article, we present a detailed review of current practices and state-of-the-art methodologies in the field of differential privacy (DP), with a focus of advancing DP's deployment in real-world applications. Key points and high-level contents of the article were originated from the discussions from "Differential Privacy (DP): Challenges Towards the Next Frontier," a workshop held in July 2022 with experts from industry, academia, and the public sector seeking answers to broad questions p…

👍 Judge to issue bench warrant for Michigan lawyer pushing Trump’s voter-fraud scam: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-michigan-voter-fraud-scam/

Judge to issue bench warrant for Michigan lawyer pushing Trump’s voter-fraud scam: report
A lawyer for Donald Trump in Michigan is about to face a bench warrant, reported Detroit News reporter Craig Mauger on Thursday. A 2022 Reuters report described Stefanie Lambert as "a defense attorney with financial woes before seizing on the election-denial movement for new business. Now she faces ...

Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote American isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukra…

Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
In a campaign stoking anti-Ukraine sentiment in the U.S., Russia-directed trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles and social media posts.

A simple copy paste from 2022 to 2023.
Can’t wait to anal ize the 2024 one.
https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1765956299081105625?s=61

MAZE (@mazemoore) on X
Biden's 2022 and 2023 SOTU speeches were almost identical. Tonight's speech was the exact same lines combined with saying "my predecessor is bad" 25 times.

#Upcoming “On Leaving” by #RichardChartier is his most quietly intense composition to date. This five part work created between 2020 and 2022 is dedicated to the late #SteveRoden. Available via

Neil Young is bringing back his music to Spotify, after the removal in January 2022, saying "Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation" (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streamin…

Neil Young Says His Music Is Returning to Spotify
Neil Young's music is returning to Spotify, says the singer-songwriter, who noted the end of the streamer's exclusive deal with Joe Rogan's podcast.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06760 has been replaced.
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Performance of SK-Gd's Upgraded Real-time Supernova Monitoring System
Among multi-messenger observations of the next galactic core-collapse supernova, Super-Kamiokande (SK) plays a critical role in detecting the emitted supernova neutrinos, determining the direction to the supernova (SN), and notifying the astronomical community of these observations in advance of the optical signal. On 2022, SK has increased the gadolinium dissolved in its water target (SK-Gd) and has achieved a Gd concentration of 0.033%, resulting in enhanced neutron detection capability, whic…

"Someone could do a study of this and present facts, but nobody has. I certainly won't. There's no reason to bother. The requirement that you demonstrate a factual basis for your claim vanished long ago."
#medialiteracy #michaelcrichton
https://blog.teledyn.com/2022/07/why-speculate-talk-by-michael-crichton.html?m=1

2022 retro-link! https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/mergers-ruin-everything - Mergers ruin everything.

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

General Staff: Russia has lost 424,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/11/general-staff-russia.html

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Every culture, region and even family has different food cuisines – different spices, styles, customs and methods. This game has lots of possibilites.
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How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters.
3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 11, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/sh…

How I Died 🕵️‍♂️👻🧩
Dramatized horror series | Bodies are piling up in the strange town of Springfield, and forensic pathologist Jonathan Spacer intends to find out why. But, Jon isn’t without his own secrets…He can talk to the dead, for starters. 3 seasons, 39 episodes as of Oct 12, 2022.

General Staff: Russia has lost 477,430 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/08/general-staff-russia.html

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

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.

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 24 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

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.

Burning Gotham 🗽👷‍♂️🧐
Dramatized historical fiction | It’s ten years since the completion of the Erie Canal. New York City’s population is now over 270,000. The gap between rich and poor rapidly expandsg as more pour onto New York’s dangerously overcrowded streets. Historical lives converge in this series about the fa...
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Burning Gotham 🗽👷‍♂️🧐
Dramatized historical fiction | It’s ten years since the completion of the Erie Canal. New York City’s population is now over 270,000. The gap between rich and poor rapidly expandsg as more pour onto New York’s dangerously overcrowded streets. Historical lives converge in this series about the fastest growing city in the world. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Dec 20, 2022.

Sources: Techstars has caused frustrations over missteps in deploying its JPMorgan-backed $80M fund, which aims to help underrepresented founders, since 2022 (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/08/tech

Exclusive: Techstars' $80 million partnership with J.P. Morgan is on the rocks, employees say
The fate of the Advancing Cities programs—and some of the around 20 people who work at Techstars in this program—is up in the air.

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 12 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program - Season 4 finale 🙀😈💖
Role-playing horror comedy | What dark deeds unfold on the streets of Arkham? Which unwitting souls will succumb to the maddening call… OF CTHULHU?Unlikely heroes from all walks of life risk their sanity to keep the world spinning as they face down eldritch nightmares, unholy rituals, kindly crea...

The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program - Season 4 finale 🙀😈💖
Role-playing horror comedy | What dark deeds unfold on the streets of Arkham? Which unwitting souls will succumb to the maddening call… OF CTHULHU?Unlikely heroes from all walks of life risk their sanity to keep the world spinning as they face down eldritch nightmares, unholy rituals, kindly creatures, and monstrous humans. 4 seasons, 31 episodes as of Nov 09, 2022.

Two teenagers were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating deepfake nudes of classmates, in what appears to be the first such criminal case (Caroline Haskins/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/florida-teens-arrested-deepfake-nudes-clas…

Florida Middle Schoolers Arrested for Allegedly Creating Deepfake Nudes of Classmates
In what appears to be the first criminal case of its kind, two teenage boys were charged under a 2022 Florida law for allegedly creating AI-generated images depicting middle school classmates.

2022 retro-link! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo - From culinary dud to stud: …

American Hostage 📻📞😰
Dramatized thriller | A local radio reporter is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker, Tony Kiritsis, demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program. Through the radio show he gradually becomes a media sensation and unexpected anti-hero during a nail bit...
https://www.

American Hostage 📻📞😰
Dramatized thriller | A local radio reporter is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker, Tony Kiritsis, demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program. Through the radio show he gradually becomes a media sensation and unexpected anti-hero during a nail biting 63-hour standoff. Stars Emmy Award-winner Jon Hamm and directed by Academy Award® winner Shawn Christensen. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Apr 19, 2022.

General Staff: Russia has lost 474,260 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/05/general-staff-russia.html

2022 retro-link! https://blog.janestreet.com/magic-trace/ - Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace.

The Coach 🧔🏽‍♂️💖🤣
Dramatized LGBTQ Comedy | A former life coach navigates a host of zany clients, all while “life-coaching” his own journey.
POC, Queer, Life-Coach
1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Sep 28, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/the-coach

The Coach 🧔🏽‍♂️💖🤣
Dramatized LGBTQ+ Comedy | A former life coach navigates a host of zany clients, all while “life-coaching” his own journey. POC, Queer, Life-Coach 1 seasons, 6 episodes as of Sep 29, 2022.

Platform Science, which provides connected vehicle tools for enterprise fleets, raised $125M from 8VC, Prologis, and others, taking its total funding to $309M (Grace Sharkey/FreightWaves)
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/platform-science-s…

Platform Science secures $125M to grow OEM partnerships
The company last announced its Series C raise in 2022, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 for $115 million, valuing the company at $575 million. Platform Science has raised $309 million since 2017.

Modem Prometheus 🌕👻📡
Narrated urban fantasy | A podcast of modern folktales. These are the stories of the kerbside, the transmitter mast, the shadows between buildings
LGBT, POC, Mental health-focused
1 seasons, 12 episodes as of Sep 09, 2022.
https://www.theend.fyi/shows/modem-prometh

Modem Prometheus 🌕👻📡
Narrated urban fantasy | A podcast of modern folktales. These are the stories of the kerbside, the transmitter mast, the shadows between buildings LGBT, POC, Mental health-focused 1 seasons, 12 episodes as of Sep 10, 2022.

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