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All the talks from rstudio::conf 2022: https://www.rstudio.com/conference/2022/2022-conf-talks/ 👩‍🏫 Keynotes: https://www.

Luminate: Apple TV has all but abandoned animated shows, ordering just six animated series in 2024, a 60% drop compared to 15 orders each in 2022 and 2023 (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Where Did All the Apple TV+ Animation Go?
Even with its 'Peanuts' rights, the Apple SVOD service has seemingly all but abandoned cartoons.

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Samuel D. Upton, Barry Wardell, Adam Pound, Niels Warburton, Leor Barack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00087

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Recent years have seen the first production of "post-adiabatic" gravitational-waveform models based on second-order gravitational self-force theory. These models rely on calculations of an effective source in the perturbative second-order Einstein equation. Here, for the first time, we detail the calculation of the effective source in a Schwarzschild background, which underlies the second-order self-force results in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151102 (2021); ibid. 128, 231101 (2022); ibid. 130, 2414…

Probit Monotone BART
Jared D. Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00263 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00263

Probit Monotone BART
Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) of Chipman et al. (2010) has proven to be a powerful tool for nonparametric modeling and prediction. Monotone BART (Chipman et al., 2022) is a recent development that allows BART to be more precise in estimating monotonic functions. We further these developments by proposing probit monotone BART, which allows the monotone BART framework to estimate conditional mean functions when the outcome variable is binary.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,083,790 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/02/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

A look at newsletter-first publisher The European Correspondent, which launched in 2022, got a €2.1M grant from the EU in June, and has almost 70K subscribers (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters

Newsletter-based publisher gets huge boost from European Commission grant
The European Correspondent is aiming become self-sustaining through reader donations with a grant from the European Commission in June.

#idw Klimaschützende #Kohlenstoffsenken der EU-Wälder werden schwächer
#Wälder bedecken etwa 40 Prozent der EU-Landoberfläche. Zwischen 1990 und 2022 haben sie etwa 10 Prozent der von Menschen verursac…

Klimaschützende Kohlenstoffsenken der EU-Wälder werden schwächer

Jupiter's UV auroral response to a magnetospheric compression event: #Juno spacecraft data suggest an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere in December 2022, caused by the solar wind, briefly brightened the ultraviolet light displays.

One of the TV or cable networks should totally have the Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake at the ready to play when the time comes.
Context: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-03-04/swan-lake-broadcast-signals-turmoil-in-russia/100881424

Swan Lake TV broadcast signals turmoil in Russia as independent media outlets forced to close
Staff at a leading independent Russian TV station resign before airing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, in a Soviet-era signal of political turmoil in the country.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1104581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Gender Differences in International Research Collaboration in European Union
Elsa Fontainha, Tanya Ara\'ujo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00619 https://…

Gender Differences in International Research Collaboration in European Union
This paper investigates International Research Collaboration (IRC) among European Union (EU) countries from 2011 to 2022, with emphasis on gender-based authorship patterns. Drawing from the Web of Science Social Science Citation Index (WoS-SSCI) database, a large dataset of IRC articles was constructed, annotated with categories of authorship based on gender, author affiliation, and COVID-19 subject as topic. Using network science, the study maps collaboration structures and reveals gendered di…

Source: Veteran OL Collins signing with Cowboys https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45882353/cowboys-signing-lael-collins-help-injury-plagued-ol

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,082,140 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/31/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

The Nightingale
#NowPlaying #PeaceNow
https://muz4now.com/2022/the-nightinga

The Nightingale #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

writer identity and voice https://patthomson.net/2025/07/30/writer-identity-and-voice/

Wow, een jaar lang geen verkeersdoden in Helsinki. Laat dat een voorbeeld zijn voor @… (15 doden in 2022, de laatste cijfers) @… (9 doden in 2024) en andere steden.

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

📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,082,990 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

‘Competition brings down charging prices in Nordics’
Clear BloombergNEF graph shows that #EV fast-charging prices in markets with a higher share of EVs are also more competitive.
This and other insights in this short video:

Projected branes as platforms for crystalline, superconducting, and higher-order topological phases
Archisman Panigrahi, Bitan Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23783 https://

Projected branes as platforms for crystalline, superconducting, and higher-order topological phases
Projected branes are constituted by only a small subset of sites of a higher-dimensional crystal, otherwise placed on a hyperplane oriented at an irrational or a rational slope therein, for which the effective Hamiltonian is constructed by systematically integrating out the sites of the parent lattice that fall outside such branes [Commun. Phys. 5, 230 (2022)]. Specifically, when such a brane is constructed from a square lattice, it gives rise to an aperiodic Fibonacci quasi-crystal or its rati…

Cyber security is an ever-evolving battle that we can never win.
The reason is simple -- and scary:
Virtually no one actually knows what is running on their computer at this very moment.
Gary Ruddell created a series of videos that are both entertaining and professionally made.
His website provides insight in cyber security and includes articles, a newsletter and also workshops for those who are interested in a career in cyber.
Here's one of his videos.
…

Mission: Impossible - Cyber Security
Signals Intelligence, intelligence services, espionage, cryptology, cipher machines and its history from WW2, over the Cold World era, to date.

The orbital period and inclination of the neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807 132
E. A. Saavedra, T. Mu\~noz-Darias, M. A. P. Torres, I. V. Yanes-Rizo, M. Armas Padilla, A. \'Alvarez-Hern\'andez, J. Casares, D. Mata S\'anchez, S. K. Rout, S. Navarro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20178 …

The orbital period and inclination of the neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132
The neutron star X-ray transient MAXI J1807+132 has undergone outbursts in 2017, 2019, and 2023. We conducted an $R$-band time series photometry campaign using the Isaac Newton Telescope during the 2022 quiescent state. We detected a periodic variation in the light curve, consistent with ellipsoidal modulation, which allowed us to determine an orbital period of $P_{\rm orb} = 4.258 \pm 0.008$ hr. By modelling the light curve, we obtained a binary inclination of $ i = 72\pm5 \, °$ and a mass ra…

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Pushing Blocks without Fixed Blocks via Checkable Gizmos: Push-1 is PSPACE-Complete
MIT Hardness Group, Josh Brunner, Lily Chung, Erik D. Demaine, Jenny Diomidova, Della Hendrickson, Jayson Lynch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19759

Pushing Blocks without Fixed Blocks via Checkable Gizmos: Push-1 is PSPACE-Complete
We prove PSPACE-completeness of Push-1: given a rectangular grid of 1 x 1 cells, each possibly occupied by a movable block, can a robot move from a specified location to another, given the ability to push up to one block at a time? In particular, we remove the need for fixed (unmovable) blocks in a previous result (FUN 2022), which seems to require a completely different reduction. This fundamental model of block pushing, introduced in 1999, abstracts the mechanics of many video games. It was s…

Initiator of the #NixOS documentation team is stepping down:
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/the-next-chapter-in-nix-documentation/68425

Den ukrainske man som gripits i Italien är misstänkt för att ha samordnat sabotagen mot gasledningarna Nord Stream 1 och 2 i september 2022. https://www.dn.se/varlden/gripen-ukrainsk-man-misstanks-ha-samordnat-nord-stream-sabotage/

Gripen ukrainare misstänks ha samordnat Nord Stream-sabotage
Gripandet är det första som gjorts sedan sprängningarna på Östersjöns botten – och tyska myndigheter beskriver operationen som ”exceptionell”.

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 27. August 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Player". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Digital Transformation and the Restructuring of Employment: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
Yubo Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23230 https://

Digital Transformation and the Restructuring of Employment: Evidence from Chinese Listed Firms
This paper examines how digital transformation reshapes employment structures within Chinese listed firms, focusing on occupational functions and task intensity. Drawing on recruitment data classified under ISCO-08 and the Chinese Standard Occupational Classification 2022, we categorize jobs into five functional groups: management, professional, technical, auxiliary, and manual. Using a task-based framework, we construct routine, abstract, and manual task intensity indices through keyword analy…

Magneto-Thermal Coupling and Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions Inferred from Microwave Observations
Alexey A. Kuznetsov, Gregory D. Fleishman, Gelu M. Nita, Sergey A. Anfinogentov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18647

Magneto-Thermal Coupling and Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions Inferred from Microwave Observations
The solar corona is much hotter than the photosphere and chromosphere, but the physical mechanism responsible for heating the coronal plasma remains unidentified yet. The thermal microwave emission, which is produced in strong magnetic field above sunspots, is a promising but barely exploited tool for studying the coronal magnetic field and plasma. We analyzed the microwave observations of eight solar active regions obtained with the Siberian Radioheliograph in years 2022-2024 in the frequency …

Before Sunrise (1995)
Before Sunset (2004)
Before Midnight (2013)
I must say I was disappointed there wasn't a sequel to Céline and Jesse's story in 2022.
But maybe… everything that had to be said has been said. That's probably it.
"You have no idea where I came from
We have no idea where we’re going
Lodged in life
Like two branches in a river
Flowing downstream
Caught in the current
I’ll carry you, you’ll carry me

Ducks Ltd. ft. Illuminati Hotties - "Head On" (2022)
This is a really nice, jangly cover 🤩
#music #IndieRock #Pixies

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,079,630 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Fractal Analytics, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, files for an IPO in Mumbai to raise about $560M, and could value the company at over $3.5B (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

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

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz

UNCHARTED DATA: Interactive Tooltip Tables
How to include tables in your {ggiraph} tooltips.

Noted while reading: 'a data structure or a block of code are things that make implicit and subjective arguments about how to see the world. This is possibly the single most important basic insight that Digital Humanities as a field needs to impart, because it affects so much of the world around us' - excellent post by @…

Meet a Historian: James Baillie on Digital Humanities and the Medieval Caucasus
Note from the Editor: I’m excited to feature another guest post with you all! This week we have James Baillie discussing how digital humanities and prosopographic methods can be used to bette…

Symbolic dynamics, shadowing and representation of real numbers with some countably piecewise linear Markov maps
Zolt\'an Kalocsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17159 https://

Symbolic dynamics, shadowing and representation of real numbers with some countably piecewise linear Markov maps
We study piecewise linear Markov maps, with countable Markov partitions, inspired by a problem of the Miklós Schweitzer competition of the János Bolyai Mathematical Society in 2022. We introduce $\ell$-Markov partitions and apply ideas of symbolic dynamics to our systems, relating them to Markov shifts. We prove the shadowing property for the system from the competition. We also investigate the possible orbits of rational numbers, for a class of piecewise linear Markov maps which generalize o…

En Lettonie, le conflit en Ukraine ravive la guerre des mémoires entre russophones et lettophones
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/05/09/en-le…

En Lettonie, le conflit en Ukraine ravive la guerre des mémoires entre russophones et lettophones
Pour les uns, le 9 mai 1945 représente la défaite de l’Allemagne nazie face à l’Armée rouge, pour les autres, le début de « l’occupation » par l’URSS. En avril, le Parlement a interdit les rassemblements célébrant la victoire soviétique.

Intet er så skidt, at det ikke er godt for noget. #KU #KI #AI

Kunstig intelligens skaber nye vindere og tabere på arbejdsmarkedet
Efterspørgslen på en række faglige kompetencer ændrede sig markant, da ChatGPT blev lanceret i slutningen af 2022, viser et nyt internationalt studie. 

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Überwachung: Strafverfolger setzen erneut mehr Staatstrojaner ein

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
Philippe Mongeon, Madelaine Hare, Poppy Riddle, Summer Wilson, Geoff Krause, Rebecca Marjoram, R\'emi Toupin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18620

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
Bibliometrics, whether used for research or research evaluation, relies on large multidisciplinary databases of research outputs and citation indices. The Web of Science (WoS) was the main supporting infrastructure of the field for more than 30 years until several new competitors emerged. OpenAlex, a bibliographic database launched in 2022, has distinguished itself for its openness and extensive coverage. While OpenAlex may reduce or eliminate barriers to accessing bibliometric data, one of the…

Predicting and Explaining Traffic Crash Severity Through Crash Feature Selection
Andrea Castellani, Zacharias Papadovasilakis, Giorgos Papoutsoglou, Mary Cole, Brian Bautsch, Tobias Rodemann, Ioannis Tsamardinos, Angela Harden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11504

Predicting and Explaining Traffic Crash Severity Through Crash Feature Selection
Motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of injury and death worldwide, necessitating data-driven approaches to understand and mitigate crash severity. This study introduces a curated dataset of more than 3 million people involved in accidents in Ohio over six years (2017-2022), aggregated to more than 2.3 million vehicle-level records for predictive analysis. The primary contribution is a transparent and reproducible methodology that combines Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) and explain…

Starting watching Barbarian, from 2022 (again) as it's leaving Netflix August 31. I just couldn't get it started before, thanks to my late night movie sessions where I often just pass out 😂 How many days will it take to get through this one, breaking it up into pieces - we shall see
https://boxd.it/aHmXKj…

A diary entry for Barbarian (2022)

On recurrence coefficients of classical orthogonal polynomials
K. Castillo, G. Gordillo-N\'u\~nez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20646 https://arxiv.org/pd…

On recurrence coefficients of classical orthogonal polynomials
In Lett. Math. Phys. 114, 54 (2024) and 115, 70 (2025), the author introduces what is presented as a novel method for determining whether a sequence of orthogonal polynomials is "classical", based solely on its initial recurrence coefficients. This note demonstrates that all the results contained in those works are already encompassed by two general theorems previously established in J. Math. Anal. Appl. 515 (2022), Article 126390. A symbolic algorithm, implemented in Mathematica, is also provi…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,080,480 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/29/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

#OTD in 2007 op de Domtoren, richting station #Utrecht CS. Ter vergelijking een latere foto (2 juni 2022 ter gelegenheid van 900 jaar stadsrechten)

How the hell did I miss this?!?!?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/09/marjorie-taylor-greene-gazpacho-police

"This Home Siding Made from Rice Husks Saves Thousands of Trees and Diverts Crop Waste from Landfills"
#Houses
https://www.goodnewsne…

This Home Siding Made from Rice Husks Saves Thousands of Trees, Diverts Ag Waste from Landfills
One pallet of ACRE material saves a whole acre of tropical rainforest hardwoods, and in 2022 alone, 44,000 of those pallets were sold.

Hm?!
A poll dated november 2022 ended now?!
How?! The most the polls I've got access to can last is one week.
(yeah, I know, different software, maybe even some own fork tweaked by the guy who put it out there)
Or more importantly, why? I mean... what's the point of having a poll up for almost 3 years?

The “sticker range” advertised on the lot for our new 2019 Hyundai Kona EV was 420km.
The battery was replaced under recall at around 40,000km in 2022 a couple months before we went on an epic 12,000km Pacific-Atlantic-Pacifc cross Canada adventure.
Fast forward to today. The car is at 226,000km and I am headed 225km down to Victoria to bring my wife home from the Airport.
Car is ready. 100% charge. 468km on the rangeOmeter. That is city driving so I don’t expect to get that range at highway speeds. I’ll top it up in Sydney before heading home. This was always our main criteria. Can we drive to Victoria comfortably.
Yep. No problem. Even 200,000km later!
Range anxiety is a myth foisted on you by the oil industry. They are gas lighting the world into believing we are the problem, evs are the problem, electric systems are the problem.
They are the problem. Them. Not us. Them. They need to end.
#ev #hyundai #endfossilfuels #rangeanxiety

The spectral Tur\'{a}n problem: Characterizing spectral-consistent graphs
Longfei Fang, Huiqiu Lin, Mingqing Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12070 https://

The spectral Turán problem: Characterizing spectral-consistent graphs
Let ${\rm EX}(n,H)$ and ${\rm SPEX}(n,H)$ denote the families of $n$-vertex $H$-free graphs with the maximum size and the maximum spectral radius, respectively. A graph $H$ is said to be spectral-consistent if ${\rm SPEX}(n,H)\subseteq {\rm EX}(n,H)$ for sufficiently large $n$. A fundamental problem in spectral extremal graph theory is to determine which graphs are spectral-consistent. Cioabă, Desai and Tait [European J. Combin. 99 (2022) 103420] proposed the following conjecture: Let $H$ be…

A Logic of Stability: Formalizing Similarity in Counterfactual Reasoning
Marta Esteves
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12502 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12502

A Logic of Stability: Formalizing Similarity in Counterfactual Reasoning
Counterfactual reasoning is a foundational topic in both philosophical and logical studies \cite{Stalnaker1968-STAATO-5, Lewis1973-LEWC-2}. A pivotal component of counterfactual analysis is the concept of similarity between possible worlds \cite{CORR_A_2022, ESTEVA1997235, Lewis1979-LEWCDA, Makinson94, Pollock1976-POLTPW}. In this paper, we propose the introdutcion of a metric to quantify the degree of similarity between possible worlds, where two worlds are the more similar the longer they sha…

YouTube strikes a deal to carry Herring Networks' One America News on YouTube TV's base package in Q4 2025; in 2022, DirecTV and Verizon Fios dropped OANN (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world

MAGA channel One America News, once under threat of extinction, reaches ‘long-term carriage deal’ with YouTube TV
The launch of OAN and AWE on YouTube TV is scheduled to take place in the fourth quarter of 2025

29.08.2022
https://www.heise.de/news/Kommentar-Das-Videoident-Verfahren-ist-unsicher-und-ueberfluessig-7238140.html
Die Gematik heute so:
08.08.2025

Kommentar: Das Videoident-Verfahren ist unsicher – und überflüssig
Die Sicherheit des Videoident-Dienstes wird immer mehr angezweifelt, gleichzeitig stellt sich die Frage, ob der E-Perso eine gute Alternative bietet.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1071459 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Weak Nearly $\mathcal S$- and Weak Nearly $\mathcal C$- Manifolds
Vladimir Rovenski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17755

Weak Nearly $\mathcal S$- and Weak Nearly $\mathcal C$- Manifolds
The recent interest of geometers in the $f$-structures of K. Yano (1961) is motivated by the study of the dynamics of contact foliations, as well as their applications in theoretical physics. Weak metric $f$-structures on a smooth manifold, introduced by of the author and R. Wolak (2022), open a new perspective on the theory of classical structures. In the paper, we define structures of this kind, called weak nearly ${\cal S}$- and weak nearly ${\cal C}$- structures, study their geometry, e.g. …

An adaptive procedure for detecting replicated signals with $k$-family-wise error rate control
Ninh Tran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15363 https://arxiv.org…

An adaptive procedure for detecting replicated signals with $k$-family-wise error rate control
Partial conjunction (PC) hypothesis testing is widely used to assess the replicability of scientific findings across multiple comparable studies. In high-throughput meta-analyses, testing a large number of PC hypotheses with k-family-wise error rate (k-FWER) control often suffers from low statistical power due to the multiplicity burden. The state-of-the-art AdaFilter-Bon procedure by Wang et al. (2022, Ann. Stat., 50(4), 1890-1909) alleviates this problem by filtering out hypotheses unlikely t…

Swarm-in-Blocks: Simplifying Drone Swarm Programming with Block-Based Language
Agnes Bressan de Almeida, Joao Aires Correa Fernandes Marsicano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11498 h…

Swarm-in-Blocks: Simplifying Drone Swarm Programming with Block-Based Language
Swarm in Blocks, originally developed for CopterHack 2022, is a high-level interface that simplifies drone swarm programming using a block-based language. Building on the Clover platform, this tool enables users to create functionalities like loops and conditional structures by assembling code blocks. In 2023, we introduced Swarm in Blocks 2.0, further refining the platform to address the complexities of swarm management in a user-friendly way. As drone swarm applications grow in areas like del…

Fault-tolerant mixed boundary punctures on the toric code
Yao Shen, Fu-Lin Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11230 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11230

Fault-tolerant mixed boundary punctures on the toric code
Defects on the toric code, a well-known exactly solvable Abelian anyon model, can exhibit non-Abelian statistical properties, which can be classified into punctures and twists. Benhemou et al.[Phys. Rev. A. 105, 042417 (2022)] introduced a mixed boundary puncture model that integrates the advantages of both punctures and twists. They proposed that non-Abelian properties could be realized in the symmetric subspace {$|++\rangle$, $|--\rangle$}. This work demonstrates that the nontrivial…

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Analysis-Aware Defeaturing of Dirichlet Features
Philipp Weder, Annalisa Buffa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13886 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13886

Analysis-Aware Defeaturing of Dirichlet Features
Feature removal from computational geometries, or defeaturing, is an integral part of industrial simulation pipelines. Defeaturing simplifies the otherwise costly or even impossible meshing process, speeds up the simulation, and lowers its memory footprint. Current defeaturing operators are often based on heuristic criteria and ignore the impact of the simplifications on the PDE solution. This work extends the mathematically rigorous framework developed by Buffa, Chanon, and Vázquez (2022) to …

Mutually Assured Deregulation
Gilad Abiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12300 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.12300

Mutually Assured Deregulation
We have convinced ourselves that the way to make AI safe is to make it unsafe. Since 2022, policymakers worldwide have embraced the Regulation Sacrifice - the belief that dismantling safety oversight will deliver security through AI dominance. Fearing China or USA will gain advantage, nations rush to eliminate safeguards that might slow progress. This Essay reveals the fatal flaw: though AI poses national security challenges, the solution demands stronger regulatory frameworks, not weaker ones.…

I think I've seen this photo before (it's from 2022) but I don't know that I've read the article or seen the photo right before the owl landed.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/great-grey-owl-lands-on-camera-1.6397792

Great grey owl flips the script on Quebec City wildlife photographer | CBC News
An amateur photographer got more than she bargained for when the owl she set out to photograph landed on her camera lens.

📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

On the extremal functions of second order uncertainty principles: symmetry and symmetry breaking
Xiao-Ping Chen, Chun-Lei Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15221 https://

On the extremal functions of second order uncertainty principles: symmetry and symmetry breaking
This paper focus on the symmetry and symmetry breaking about the second order Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle. \emph{Firstly}, by choosing a suitable test function, we give a negative answer to the conjecture presented by Cazacu, Flynn and Lam in [\emph{J. Funct. Anal.} \textbf{283} (2022), Paper No. 109659, 37 pp] for $N\in\{2,3\}$, and emphasizing the symmetry breaking phenomenon. \emph{Secondly}, we obtain a family of sharp weighted second order Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle, and prove the e…

Love's Shifting Nature
- instrumental music inspired by grief -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2022/loves-shifting-nature-nowplaying/

Love's Shifting Nature #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

Evidence of Time-Dependent Diffusive Shock Acceleration in the 2022 September 5 Solar Energetic Particle Event
Xiaohang Chen, Lulu Zhao, Joe Giacalone, Nishtha Sachdeva, Igor Sokolov, Gabor Toth, Christina Cohen, David Lario, Fan Guo, Athanasios Kouloumvakos, Tamas Gombosi, Zhenguang Huang, Ward Manchester, Bart van der Holst, Weihao Liu, David McComas, Matthew Hill, George Ho

Evidence of Time-Dependent Diffusive Shock Acceleration in the 2022 September 5 Solar Energetic Particle Event
On 2022 September 5, a large solar energetic particle (SEP) event was detected by Parker Solar Probe (PSP) and Solar Orbiter (SolO), at heliocentric distances of 0.07 and 0.71 au, respectively. PSP observed an unusual velocity-dispersion signature: particles below $\sim$1 MeV exhibited a normal velocity dispersion, while higher-energy particles displayed an inverse velocity arrival feature, with the most energetic particles arriving later than those at lower energies. The maximum energy increas…

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Straddling Two Platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an Analysis of the Evolution of an Unfinished Social Media Migration
Sim\'on Pe\~na-Fern\'andez, Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Jordi Morales-i-Gras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17563

Straddling Two Platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an Analysis of the Evolution of an Unfinished Social Media Migration
Social media have been fundamental in the daily lives of millions of people, but they have raised concerns about content moderation policies, the management of personal data, and their commercial exploitation. The acquisition of Twitter (now X) by Elon Musk in 2022 generated concerns among Twitter users regarding changes in the platform's direction, prompting a migration campaign by some user groups to the federated network Mastodon. This study reviews the onboarding of users to this decentrali…

Dubai-based Huspy, which offers proptech tools to home buyers, agents, and brokers, raised a $59M Series B led by Balderton, after a $40M Series A in June 2022 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/uae-proptech-huspy-r…

UAE proptech Huspy raises $59M to scale in Europe | TechCrunch
Huspy closes $59 million Series B to double down on operations across the Middle East and Europe, backed by Balderton Capital and Peak XV.

Geometry Matters in Planar Storyplans
Alexander Dobler, Maximilian Holzm\"uller, Martin N\"ollenburg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12747 https://arx…

Geometry Matters in Planar Storyplans
A storyplan visualizes a graph $G=(V,E)$ as a sequence of $\ell$ frames $Γ_1, \dots, Γ_\ell$, each of which is a drawing of the induced subgraph $G[V_i]$ of a vertex subset $V_i \subseteq V$. Moreover, each vertex $v \in V$ is contained in a single consecutive sequence of frames $Γ_i, \dots, Γ_j$, all vertices and edges contained in consecutive frames are drawn identically, and the union of all frames is a drawing of $G$. In GD 2022, the concept of planar storyplans was introduced, in which…

Guerre en Ukraine : le grand désarroi des russophones de Daugavpils, en Lettonie
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/03/03/guerre-en-ukraine-le-grand-desarroi-des-r…

Guerre en Ukraine : le grand désarroi des russophones de Daugavpils, en Lettonie
Dans cette ville située près des frontières russe et biélorusse, la guerre en Ukraine déchire les familles, la population se divisant entre Russes ou russophones et Lettons. Vers qui doivent-ils se tourner ?

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An elementary construction of the ring of dual $K$-$Q$-cancellation property
Shinsuke Iwao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1448…

An elementary construction of the ring of dual $K$-$Q$-cancellation property
This paper presents an elementary introduction on $K$-theoretic $Q$-functions, which were introduced by Ikeda and Naruse in 2013. These functions, which serve as $K$-theoretic analogs of Schur $Q$-functions, are known to possess combinatorial and algebraic constructions. In a 2022 paper, the author introduced ``$β$-deformed power-sums" to provide a simpler, more algebraic construction of these functions. Since the original approach relies on fermionic operators and vacuum expectation values, t…

Russia occupied less than 1% of Ukraine's territory since November 2022, monitoring group says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/russia-occupied-less-than-of.html

Packers releasing Pro Bowl cornerback Jaire Alexander: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6413409/2025/06/09/jaire-alexander-green-bay-packers-release/

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Performance rights organization BMI and a group representing radio broadcasters settle a dispute over royalty rates paid to artists and songwriters on US radio (Daniel Tencer/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/bmi

BMI secures ‘largest rate increase ever’ for radio royalties in US
BMI has reached a settlement for the 2022-2026 radio licensing period, calling it a ‘historic’ deal.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,070,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

A deep X-ray/UV look into the reflaring stage of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658
Caterina Ballocco, Alessandro Papitto, Arianna Miraval Zanon, Giulia Illiano, Tiziana Di Salvo, Filippo Ambrosino, Luciano Burderi, Sergio Campana, Francesco Coti Zelati, Alessandro Di Marco, Christian Malacaria, Maura Pilia, Juri Poutanen, Tuomo Salmi, Andrea Sanna

A deep X-ray/UV look into the reflaring stage of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658
We present a detailed X-ray/UV high-time resolution monitoring of the final reflaring phase of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX~J1808.4$-$3658. During its 2022 outburst, we obtained simultaneous XMM-Newton and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations. We detected coherent X-ray pulsations down to a 0.5-10~keV luminosity of $L_{X(low)\,0.5-10} \simeq 6.21^{+0.20}_{-0.15} \times 10^{34} \, d^2_{3.5}\,\mathrm{erg \, s^{-1}}$, among the lowest ever observed in this source. The uninterrupted co…

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Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
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📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

Top Russian commander seriously wounded in Ukrainian strike, Dagestan head says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/top-russian-commander-seriously-wounded.html

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
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Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
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Another light brigade becomes heavy mechanized: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/another-light-brigade-becomes-heavy.html

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'Some are forged into poets during hostilities' — Medic, former POW, and poet on how war is shaping Ukraine's writers: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/some-are-forged-into-poets.html

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