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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Oh? 😏😏
https://macaw.social/@mergesort/115028469127154952

Joe Fabisevich :verified: (@mergesort@macaw.social)
Attached: 2 images Threads continues to ship one feature after another from the idealized roadmap I left for my coworkers at Twitter when I left the company back in 2022. https://fabisevi.ch/2022/04/01/goodbye-fellow-tweeps

💔 Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining
#forests

Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining
Forests cover about 40% of the EU's land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10% of the continent's man-made carbon emissions. However, the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of forests, also known as carbon sinks, is becoming increasingly weaker.

Guru Puppy – I’m Learning From My Dog #puppy https://muz4now.com/2022/guru-puppy-im-learning-from-my-dog

Guru Puppy - I'm Learning From My Dog
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/u-s-government-seized-1-million-from-russian-ransomware-gang/

US government seized $1M from Russian ransomware gang | TechCrunch
A global law enforcement coalition targeted the infrastructure of the group behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware strains, allegedly responsible for extorting victims out of $370 million since 2022.

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 …

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

On the intervals for the non-existence of covering systems with distinct moduli
Jack Dalton, Nic Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11359 https://

On the intervals for the non-existence of covering systems with distinct moduli
In a research seminar in $2006$, M. Filaseta, O. Trifonov, and G. Yu showed for each integer $n\geq3$ there is no distinct covering with all moduli in the interval $[n, 6n]$. In $2022$, this interval was subsequently improved to $[n, 8n]$ by the first author and O. Trifonov. The first author then improved this bound to $[n, 9n]$ in $2023$. Building off their method, we show that for each integer $n\geq 3$, there does not exist a distinct covering system with all moduli in the interval $[n, 10n]…

Artificial Intelligence, Domain AI Readiness, and Firm Productivity
Sipeng Zeng, Xiaoning Wang, Tianshu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09634 https://arxiv.…

Artificial Intelligence, Domain AI Readiness, and Firm Productivity
Although Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for enhancing innovation and productivity, many firms struggle to realize its benefits. We investigate why some firms and industries succeed with AI while others do not, focusing on the degree to which an industrial domain is technologically integrated with AI, which we term "domain AI readiness". Using panel data on Chinese listed firms from 2016 to 2022, we examine how the interaction between firm-level AI capabilities and domain AI re…

When Your Reviewer is an LLM: Biases, Divergence, and Prompt Injection Risks in Peer Review
Changjia Zhu, Junjie Xiong, Renkai Ma, Zhicong Lu, Yao Liu, Lingyao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09912

When Your Reviewer is an LLM: Biases, Divergence, and Prompt Injection Risks in Peer Review
Peer review is the cornerstone of academic publishing, yet the process is increasingly strained by rising submission volumes, reviewer overload, and expertise mismatches. Large language models (LLMs) are now being used as "reviewer aids," raising concerns about their fairness, consistency, and robustness against indirect prompt injection attacks. This paper presents a systematic evaluation of LLMs as academic reviewers. Using a curated dataset of 1,441 papers from ICLR 2023 and NeurIPS 2022, we…

Bemerkenswerte schlechte Umfrageergebnisse für die Regierung.
Auch für Merz: 30% sind mit seiner Arbeit zufrieden, 59% sehen Merz kritisch (laut Insa). Mit dem damaligen Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz waren nach 100 Tagen im Amt im März 2022 43% der Befragten zufrieden, nur 41% unzufrieden.

from my link log —
Luhn credit card checksum using SWAR and SIMD.
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/04/30/
saved 2022-04-30 https://

"What about a Discord bot that's exactly like Filmlinkd, but for #Goodreads instead of Letterboxd?" Nope, they locked down their #API in 2022.
Oh, but it's not #enshittification, it…

📸 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…

Phase Transitions for Elephant Random Walks with Two memory Channels
Krishanu Maulik, Parthanil Roy, Tamojit Sadhukhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10225 https://

Phase Transitions for Elephant Random Walks with Two memory Channels
Elephant random walk, introduced to study the effect of memory on random walks, is a novel type of walk that incorporates the information of one randomly chosen past step to determine the future step. However, memory of a process can be multifaceted and can arise due to interactions of more than one underlying phenomena. To model this, random walks with multiple memory channels were introduced in the statistical physics literature by Saha (2022) - here the information on a bunch of independentl…

Beim Kühlschrankgrundreinigen kommt man ins Grübeln über Beharrlichkeit (oh 2019? 🧐), Vergänglichkeit und Überkonsum (alles mit maximal 2022 wegwerfen und dann ist der Tiefkühlteil leer 😯), Änderung von Gewohnheiten (Kochen statt Tiefkühler 🧛‍♂️) und den Fluss der Zeit (echt, so viel Zeit 🗓️ und u.a. ne Pandemie 🧻 schon wieder?).
Und dann ist der Kühlschrank auch sch tippi-toppi-sauber (oder gar rein)

These Women Are My Musical Influencers #musician https://muz4now.com/2022/these-women-are-my-musical-influencers

These Women Are My Musical Influencers
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports, far exceeding its public disclosure of 12,522 reports (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem
The company has tested tools that make rides safer, court records show. Measures to stem the violence have been set aside in favor of protecting the company’s business.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bauhaus:
🎵 Bela Lugosi's dead
#NowPlaying #Bauhaus
https://nickynutz.bandcamp.com/track/bauhaus-bela-lugosis-dead-2022-revamp

'This is where my heart is': La'el Collins is healthy, excited to be back with Cowboys https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45932565/nfl-dallas-cowboys-lael-collins-healthy-kaiir-elam-brian-schottenheimer

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

"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.

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

On the Maximum Spread of Directed Graphs
Susie Lu, John Urschel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05760 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05760

On the Maximum Spread of Directed Graphs
Given a directed graph $G$, the spread of $G$ is the largest distance between any two eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. In 2022, Breen, Riasanovsky, Tait, and Urschel asked what $n$-vertex directed graph maximizes spread, and whether this graph is undirected. We prove the more general result that the spread of any $n \times n$ non-negative matrix $A$ with $\|A\|_{\max} \le 1$ is at most $2n/\sqrt{3}$, which is tight up to an additive factor and exact when $n$ is a multiple of three…

"We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year. "
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33849

Spillovers from Public Health Policies in Schools: Evidence from COVID Mask Mandates
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

DreamState Suite Two – Liminal Space #indiemusic https://muz4now.com/2022/dreamstate-suite-two-liminal-space

DreamState Suite Two - Liminal Space
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

The impact of the European Union's enlargement with the Western Balkans and the Association Trio on the power of member states in the Council
T\'imea Kov\'acs, D\'ora Gr\'eta Petr\'oczy, G\'abor P\'asztor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08914

The impact of the European Union's enlargement with the Western Balkans and the Association Trio on the power of member states in the Council
As of 2022, the European Union has taken several steps regarding enlargement. We focus on the accession of countries with which the Union is actively negotiating membership. This is examined under two enlargement scenarios: first, the enlargement along the lines of the Western Balkan countries, and second, the accession of a trio (Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia) to the already enlarged Union. We determine the a priori power of the member states based on the Banzhaf and Shapley--Shubik indices. V…

Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining #EU

Climate-protecting carbon sinks of EU forests are declining
Forests cover about 40% of the EU's land area. Between 1990 and 2022, they absorbed around 10% of the continent's man-made carbon emissions. However, the carbon dioxide absorption capacity of forests, also known as carbon sinks, is becoming increasingly weaker.

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.

#Manchester's filthy air.
A long way to go.
"All in all, the measures will get Greater Manchester’s air to 40.3 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide in one cubic metre of air.
"The UK legal limit is officially 40, but results under 40.4 are rounded down, making TfGM’s plan compliant.
"But the World Health Organisation’s recommended limit is just 10."
…

Clean air zone signs are down, but our pollution 'is like smoking 150 cigarettes a year'. Now what?
The charging clean air zone was cancelled after a spectacular U-turn in 2022 - and led to more arguments and thousands of stickers being slapped on signs. Now there's a new plan, Ethan Davies examines what it involves - and why it's only a start

Allerdings müsse das VBS nun prüfen, ob es weiterhin davon ausgehe, dass es mindestens 36 Jets brauche, um den Schweizer Luftraum zu sichern. Sagt Pfister.
Wenn das VBS zum Schluss kommt, dass es nach 2022 statt 36 nur noch 24 braucht, dann wäre das ein Salto Mortale.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/f-35-kampfjets-verhandlungen-beendet-festpreis-gilt-nicht-688861460887

A November 2024 report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reflects staggering numbers:
There are an estimated 96 million #birders in the United States
—more than a third of U.S. adults
—who together spent more than $107 billion in 2022.
In total, that’s more money than the 2022 gross domestic product of New Hampshire (and 10 other U.S. states).

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:

In Q2 2025, global VC funding reached $91B, up from $82B in Q2 2024, driven largely by AI investments, but down from $114B in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2022 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/global-funding-climbs-q2-…

Q2 Global Venture Funding Climbs In A Blockbuster Quarter For AI And As Capital Concentrates In Larger...
Global venture funding ticked up year over year in Q2 2025, reaching $91 billion, with a greater concentration of capital into the largest funding rounds compared to a year ago, Crunchbase data shows.

Olha, Portugal ali em primeiro.
Curioso que quando nos ensinam na escola os descobrimentos nem sempre nos digam também que "descobrimentos" sempre implicaram imperialismo e colonialismo e o que deles vem.
Em grande medida, Portugal criou o mundo moderno. Com o que isso tem de bom E com o (muito) que tem de mau. Mas por cš raramente se fala do mau.

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 (@bibliolater@qoto.org)
Attached: 1 image **European Overseas Colonies By Colonizer** _Bastian Becker (2023); Gapminder - Population v7 (2022) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Number of colonies” [dataset]. Bastian Becker, “Colonial Dates Dataset (COLDAT) 3.0”; Gapminder, “Population v7” [original data]._ 🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/european-overseas-colonies-by-colonizer. #Data #DataViz #History #Histodons #Europe #Colonialism #Imperialism @histodons@a.gup.pe

Totally obsessed with this Horace Andy/Daddy Freddy track
https://open.spotify.com/track/4jrd0KaZnmv4zYMiNaRD0S?si=cVtwQI32TRiSF-3J8ZRzaA

which I first heard a version of 7 (!) years ago, via the amazing and still going, On The Wire (tra…

More Bassy
Daddy Freddy, Horace Andy · Midnight Scorchers · Song · 2022

Greedy Dynamic Matching
Nick Arnosti, Felipe Simon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04551 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04551

Greedy Dynamic Matching
We study a foundational model of dynamic matching market with abandonment. This model has been studied by Collina et al (2020) and Aouad and Saritac (2022), and many other papers have considered special cases. We compare the performance of greedy policies -- which identify a set of "acceptable" matches up front, and perform these matches as soon as possible -- to that of an omniscient benchmark which knows the full arrival and departure sequence. We use a novel family of linear programs ($LP^…

(2022) Tarinoita metsästä #luonto #ympäristö

Tarinoita metsästä
Tarinoita metsästä kertoo suomalaisen metsäluonnon kauneudesta ja esittelee monimuotoisen vanhan metsän luontoa sekä asukkaita lyhyiden, tietopitoisten kertomusten muodossa. Ohjaus: Kim Saarniluoto. Tuotanto: Matila Röhr Nordisk Oy.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Love’s Shifting Nature album preview – 3 #piano #improv tracks #music

Love's Shifting Nature album preview - 3 #piano #improv tracks
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Very interesting looking paper: In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625003615
Hopefully someone wil…

Remember back in 2022, when people all across the Fediverse lost their absolute minds at the idea of someone building a search index of public posts, and took down several reasonable attempts at it?
I wonder how many of those people are storming the offices of MS, OpenAI, Grok, etc. about all the copyright infringing hoovering they're doing.
Oh, none? Thought so. So much easier to beat up on the solo developer trying to be useful.

Keynote from rstudio::conf 2022: The past and future of shiny. #rstats

Posit

Letter: activist investment firm Fivespan takes a stake in the NYT; Fivespan was started by the financiers who led ValueAct's investment in the NYT in 2022 (Crystal Tse/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-…

Unconditional energy dissipation of Strang splitting for the matrix-valued Allen-Cahn equation
Chaoyu Quan, Tao Tang, Dong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03992 https://

Unconditional energy dissipation of Strang splitting for the matrix-valued Allen-Cahn equation
The energy dissipation property of the Strang splitting method was first demonstrated for the matrix-valued Allen-Cahn (MAC) equation under restrictive time-step constraints [J. Comput. Phys. 454, 110985, 2022]. In this work, we eliminate this limitation through a refined stability analysis framework, rigorously proving that the Strang splitting method preserves the energy dissipation law unconditionally for arbitrary time steps. The refined proof hinges on a precise estimation of the double-we…

#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

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

A Close Encounter with an Interstellar Visitor from Gemini South - the "Shadow the Scientists" webinar series goes after #InterstellarComet ATLAS in 1/2 hour: https://shadow.ucsc.edu/2022/03/04/upcoming-sessions/ (scroll down) -> https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/HOA3YS2iTwyKZl2gmn92dQ#/registration (Zoom registration link).

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,078,750 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/27/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
Aadityan Ganesh, Qianfan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04592 https…

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
We consider a revenue-optimizing auctioneer in single-dimensional environments with matroid feasibility constraints. Akbarpour and Li (2020) argue that any revenue-optimal, truthful, and credible mechanism requires unbounded communication. Recent works (Ferreira and Weinberg, 2020; Essaidi et al., 2022; Chitra et al., 2024) circumvent their impossibility for the single-item setting through the use of cryptographic commitments and blockchains. We extend their results to matroid feasibility const…

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.

Energy Transfer Dynamics Generated by Non-Axisymmetric Tornado-Type Flows
Afifah Maya Iknaningrum, Pen-Yuan Hsu, Tsuyoshi Yoneda, Hirofumi Notsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05546

Energy Transfer Dynamics Generated by Non-Axisymmetric Tornado-Type Flows
The energy cascade in turbulence, first statistically described by Richardson (1922) and Kolmogorov (1941), lacked connection to the underlying fluid dynamics. Recent numerical studies of Goto et al. (2017) and Yoneda et al. (2022) revealed scale-local energy transfer via vortex stretching but remained within spatial statistics. This study aims to uncover the time-dependent elementary process behind the energy cascade by constructing a tornado-type flow in a non-axisymmetric curved cylindrical …

From Radar to Risk: Building a High-Resolution Hail Database for Austria And Estimating Risk Through the Integration of Distributional Neural Networks into the Metastatistical Framework
Gregor Ehrensperger, Vera Katharina Meyer, Marc-Andr\'e Falkensteiner, Tobias Hell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06429

From Radar to Risk: Building a High-Resolution Hail Database for Austria And Estimating Risk Through the Integration of Distributional Neural Networks into the Metastatistical Framework
This study makes significant contributions to the understanding of hail climatology in Austria. First, it introduces a comprehensive database of hailstone sizes, constructed from three-dimensional radar data spanning 2009 to 2022 and calibrated by approximately 5000 verified hail reports. The database serves as foundation for describing the short-term climatology of hail and provides the data necessary for estimating hail risk maps with enhanced spatial resolution and quality. Second, the…

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

Ukrainische Armee: Schwerste nächtliche Angriffe Russlands seit Kriegsbeginn
Russlands nächtliche Angriffe auf die Ukraine waren nach Angaben der ukrainischen Armee die schwerste derartige Attacke seit Kriegsbeginn im Februar 2022. In der Nacht zum Freitag sei die "größte Zahl" an Drohnen eingesetzt worden, "die der Feind jemals in einem einzelnen Angriff verwendet" habe, sagte Armeesprecher Juri Ignat am Freitag im ukrainisc…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Trump: Keine Fortschritte bei Telefonat mit Putin ++
US-Präsident Trump hat in einem Telefonat mit Kreml-Chef Putin nach eigenen Angaben keine Fortschritte mit Blick auf den Ukraine-Krieg erzielt. Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj fordert die EU zur Stärkung der eigenen Rüstungsindustrie auf.

Feds seek to claim $5 million in bitcoin taken in SIM swaps https://therecord.media/us-seeks-5-million-bitcoin-taken-in-sim-swaps

The Nightingale
#PeaceNow #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2022/the-nightingale-nowp…

The Nightingale #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Auch die Stadtbibliothek #Buckow (in der Märkischen Schweiz) scheint es nicht mehr zu geben. Sie wurde bis 2022 von einem Antiquariat nebenher betreut, bis auch hierfür der Zuschuss ausblieb (

Kyren Williams extension: When will James Cook, Kenneth Walker, Breece Hall, other class of 2022 RBs get paid?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kyren-w…

16WW Electricity Usage Manual Snapshot (2022-08) - A data sample for a research project into how to make best use of shared PV generation. - https://www.earth.org.uk/electricity-usage-snapshot-202208.html

16WW Electricity Usage Manual Snapshot (2022-08)
A data sample for a research project into how to make best use of shared PV generation.

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
Mehr zu

📢 Bundesanwaltschaft meldet Festnahme von mutmaßlichem "Nord-Stream"-Angreifer
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat nach eigenen Angaben einen ukrainischen Staatsangehörigen in Italien festnehmen lassen. Er soll einer Gruppe von Personen angehört haben, die im September 2022 nahe der Insel Bornholm Sprengsätze an den Gaspipelines "Nord Stream 1" und "Nord Stream 2" platzierte.
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Bundesanwaltschaft meldet Festnahme von mutmaßlichem "Nord-Stream"-Angreifer
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat nach eigenen Angaben einen ukrainischen Staatsangehörigen in Italien festnehmen lassen. Er soll einer Gruppe von Personen angehört haben, die im September 2022 nahe der Insel Bornholm Sprengsätze an den Gaspipelines "Nord Stream 1" und "Nord Stream 2" platzierte.

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
alt‐J:
🎵 U&ME (6 Music Session, 16th Feb 2022)
#altJ

even more famous!
https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-10/that-ferrari-isnt-going-to-pay-for-itself-the-controversial-rise-of-jeremy-fragrance-the-perfume-influencer.html

Figma's stock dropped 27.4% to $88.60 on Monday after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation now sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/figmas-stock-sinks-after-la…

Figma's stock sinks 27% after last week's IPO pop
After more than tripling in its debut last week, Figma gave up some of its gains on Monday.

Their Lives for Your Likes: The Exploitation of Wild Animals on Social Media #AnimalRights

Their Lives for Your Likes: The Exploitation of Wild Animals on Social Media (2022) | Born Free USA

"Graphic Design with #ggplot2": All material from this 2 day workshop can be found at https://rstudio-conf-2022.github.io/ggplot2-graphic-design/

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is proposing to reinstate
🆘 a full exclusion on abortions and abortion counseling from its medical benefits package,
according to a notice posted in the Federal Register.
The exclusion, which
restricted coverage of abortion services for veterans,
had been in place since the agency's medical benefits package was first established in 1999
until it was removed by 2022
during the administration of former Presid…

Improved Approximation Guarantees and Hardness Results for MNL-Driven Product Ranking
Danny Segev, Gidi Steinberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09180 https://…

Improved Approximation Guarantees and Hardness Results for MNL-Driven Product Ranking
In this paper, we address open computational questions regarding the market share ranking problem, recently introduced by Derakhshan et al. (2022). Their modelling framework incorporates the extremely popular Multinomial Logit (MNL) choice model, along with a novel search-based consider-then-choose paradigm. In a nutshell, the authors devised a Pandora's-Box-type search model, where different customer segments sequentially screen through a ranked list of products, one position after the other, …

$q$-Congruences for Z.-W. Sun's generalized polynomials $w^{(\alpha)}_k(x)$
Lin-Yue Li, Rong-Hua Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04653 https://

$q$-Congruences for Z.-W. Sun's generalized polynomials $w^{(α)}_k(x)$
In 2022, Z.-W. Sun defined \begin{equation*} w_k^{(α)}{(x)}=\sum_{j=1}^{k}w(k,j)^αx^{j-1}, \end{equation*} where $k,α$ are positive integers and $w(k,j)=\frac{1}{j}\binom{k-1}{j-1}\binom{k+j}{j-1}$. Let $(x)_{0}=1$ and $(x)_{n}=x(x+1)\cdots(x+n-1)$ for all $n\geq 1$. In this paper, it is proved by $q$-congruences that for any positive integers ${α,β, m,n,r}$, we have \begin{equation*} \frac{(2,n)}{n(n+1)(n+2)}\sum_{k=1}^{n}k^r(k+1)^r(2k+1)w_{k}^{(α)}(x)^{m}\in\mathbb{Z}[x], \end{equation*…

Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/

Improved bounds on the $H$-rank of a mixed graph in terms of the matching number and fractional matching number
Qi Wu, Yong Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04728

Improved bounds on the $H$-rank of a mixed graph in terms of the matching number and fractional matching number
A mixed graph $\widetilde{G}$ is obtained by orienting some edges of a graph $G$, where $G$ is the underlying graph of $\widetilde{G}$. Let $r(\widetilde{G})$ be the $H$-rank of $\widetilde{G}$. Denote by $r(G)$, $κ(G)$, $m(G)$ and $m^{\ast}(G)$ the rank, the number of even cycles, the matching number and the fractional matching number of $G$, respectively. Zhou et al. [Discrete Appl. Math. 313 (2022)] proved that $2m(G)-2κ(G)\leq r(G)\leq 2m(G)+ρ(G)$, where $ρ(G)$ is the largest number of …

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

From Revolution to Ruin: An Empirical Analysis Yemen's State Collapse
Riste Ichev, Rok Spruk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08512 https://

From Revolution to Ruin: An Empirical Analysis Yemen's State Collapse
We assess the broad repercussions of Yemen's 2011 revolution and subsequent civil war on its macroeconomic trajectories, human development, and quality of governance by constructing counterfactual benchmarks using a balanced panel of 37 developing countries over 1990-2022. Drawing on matrix-completion estimators with alternative shrinkage regimes and a LASSO-augmented synthetic-control method, we generate Yemen's hypothetical no-conflict paths for key macroeconomic aggregates, demographic and h…

PitchBook: European defense tech startups have raised €2.4B since 2022, including €1.4B in the first 7 months of 2025, up from €30M in 2020 and €150M in 2021 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a194942b-93ff-49a0-8aa9-02460055748e

Europe’s defence tech start-ups attract investment surge
Russia’s war in Ukraine and fears over US security relationship drive wave of VC funding

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

Do you (sometimes) use print() or message() for debugging your code? Next time you can use {icecream} instead: #rstats

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.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,077,830 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Robert Glasper:
🎵 Let It Ride (6 Music Session, 13 Apr 2022)
#RobertGlasper
https://thefruitionexperience.bandcamp.com/track/let-it-ride-robert-glasper-fruition-trio-12-13-15
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PFFOfhu61KGhOEjhdePIS

Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Eduardo Koffmann Jopia, Patricia Galilea Aranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04532 https://

Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Does it matter whether a government is "left wing" or "right wing" for economic growth? Using a panel of 113 countries (1995 2022), we combine: (i) the economic ideology of the executive branch (V Dem), (ii) the disaggregated institutional quality of the economic freedom index (Heritage), separating a core institutional block (HN: property rights, government integrity, judicial effectiveness) from a block of liberalization policies (HL: trade/financial openness, regulatory efficiency, size of g…

Recent Advances in Maximum-Entropy Sampling
Marcia Fampa, Jon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05066 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05066…

Recent Advances in Maximum-Entropy Sampling
In 2022, we published a book, \emph{Maximum-Entropy Sampling: Algorithms and Application (Springer)}. Since then, there have been several notable advancements on this topic. In this manuscript, we survey some recent highlights.

Berlin setzt bei der #Gewässerüberwachung übrigens seit 2022 auf ein vollelektrisches Dienstschiff.
Der E-Katamaran „James Hobrecht“ ersetzt das alte Dieselmodell und fährt emissionsfrei durch die Stadt.
Ausgestattet mit neuester #Messtechnik, leistet er täglic…

Berlins neues Dienstschiff fährt ab sofort elektrisch - Berlin.de
Staatssekretärin Silke Karcher taufte den E-Katamaran heute auf den Namen „James Hobrecht“ – das Spezialschiff wird für Messfahrten und Wasserprobeentnahmen eingesetzt

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,074,320 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/22/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…

TikTok Booms In Europe Despite Threat Of U.S. Ban
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.

Weighted $K$-$k$-Schur functions and their application to the $K$-$k$-Schur alternating conjecture
Yaozhou Fan, Xing Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23222 https://

Weighted $K$-$k$-Schur functions and their application to the $K$-$k$-Schur alternating conjecture
We introduce the new concept of weighted $K$-$k$-Schur functions -- a novel family within the broader class of Katalan functions -- that unifies and extends both $K$-$k$-Schur functions and closed $k$-Schur Katalan functions. This new notion exhibits a fundamental alternating property under certain conditions on the indexed $k$-bounded partitions. As a central application, we resolve the $K$-$k$-Schur alternating conjecture -- posed by Blasiak, Morse, and Seelinger in 2022 -- for a wide class o…

📸 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…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Anna Calvi:
🎵 Ain't No Grave (6 Music Session, 19 May 2022)
#AnnaCalvi
https://annacalvi.bandcamp.com/track/aint-no-grave
https://open.spotify.com/track/5EioJrDfnqs6OiCTRxSGn1

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company hit its first $1B revenue month in July and that "the biggest thing we face is being constantly under compute" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/openai-compute-ai.html

OpenAI logged its first $1 billion month but is still 'constantly under compute,' CFO says
OpenAI has ballooned in size since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and is expected to triple in revenue to $12.7 billion this year.

Love's Shifting Nature #NowPlaying https://muz4now.com/2022/loves-shifting-nature-nowplaying/

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

Databricks plans to acquire Tecton, which helps companies build and deploy ML applications, for an undisclosed sum; Tecton was valued at $900M in 2022 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/databricks-buy-sequoia-…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1093815 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on developing AI-powered features like Wingman and A-List, Grindr's new telehealth service Woodwork, his RTO mandate, and more (J. Edward Moreno/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/business/grindr-dating-app-push-into-ai-stock/

Grindr built a wildly successful dating app. Will its push into AI finally get Wall Street's attention?
George Arison, who joined Grindr in 2022, says the company is leaning hard into AI and building “a half dozen or so” other businesses that are tangential to Grindr.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

#Streudiagramm der Entwicklung der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Deutschland:
Die invasive #Tigermücke breitet sich seit 2022 massiv am #Oberrhein

„Nichts zu tun, wäre fatal“: Kommunen wehren sich gegen aggressive Stechmücken-Art
Die Asiatische Tigermücke hat sich am Oberrhein massiv ausgebreitet. Die Bekämpfung soll weitergehen – auch wenn die Hoffnung auf eine Ausrottung des invasiven Insekts mittlerweile zerschlagen hat.