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A profile of Ivan Urgant, a popular Russian late-night TV host who became a pariah after his suspension in February 2022 for opposing the invasion of Ukraine (Paul Sonne/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/wo…

Ivan Urgant Was Russia’s Late-Night King Until Putin’s War in Ukraine
Ivan Urgant was an unstoppable Russian megastar. Then he expressed opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

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

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

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,188,490 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/14/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

"Bluesky is a for-profit group still in the venture-capital honeymoon phase where it doesn’t need major revenue."
A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
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A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 16.10.1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombomben "Barbel" und "Turnstone". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

apologists gotta apolgist :-) Mr. Mearsheimer you are wrong!
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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,187,780 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/13/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

1Password founders sold a $75M stake as part of a $100M secondary sale, valuing the company at $6.8B, the same valuation as its $620M Series C in January 2022 (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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A fantastic folk duo from Nova Scotia with one of their more powerful tunes for #MusicWomenWednesday this week.
Mama's Broke, "The Ones That I Love" (2022)
https://mamasbroke.bandcamp.com/tra…

"An increasing number of homes in the Netherlands are heated without the use of natural gas. In 2024, 11.2 percent of homes were fully gas-free, up from 8.7 percent in 2022. These homes are usually heated using a heat pump or are connected to a collective district heating system."
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Ever more gas-free homes
An increasing number of homes in the Netherlands are heated without the use of natural gas. In 2024, 11.2 percent of homes were fully gas-free, up from 8.7 percent in 2022. These homes are usually heated using a heat pump or are connected to a collective district heating system. This means they do not require a gas-fired boiler. Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reports this on the basis of newly released figures.

Only one way to go here, always forward... just as in life!
(This is the equally stunning & adventurous ridge between Feigenkopf and Große Klammspitze, the summit ahead, almost touching the clouds — if you zoom in, you can just about make out the summit cross... One of my fave hikes ever. Picture is from early May 2022)
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Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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McVay rejoins Rams in time to see 45-17 victory https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47242736/los-angeles-rams-post-45-points-most-2022-victory

“…TSMC announced they have a spintronic memory chip with an access time of 1ns and a storage time of a decade. This means faster mistakes with longer regrets, basically the epitome of progress.”-Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist, author of science books, and host of a science YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@SabineHossenfelder

Sabine Hossenfelder
As simple as possible, but not any simpler! Science and technology updates and summaries. No hype, no spin, no tip-toeing around inconvenient truths. Currently 5 videos a week (Tue-Wed-Thu and Sat-Sun). Early access for channel members. Sabine Hossenfelder has a PhD in physics. She is author of the books "Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray" (Basic Books, 2018) and "Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions" (Viking, 2022). Views are my own and do not repr…

"die neue außenpolitische Positionierung der #USA sei eine "zweite Zeitenwende". Die erste Zeitenwende hatte der damalige Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz 2022 nach dem Überfall #Russland|s auf die Ukraine ausgerufen und eine massive Aufrüstung der Bundeswehr angekündigt. " sagt

Deutsche Politiker besorgt wegen US-Sicherheitsstrategie
Mehrere deutsche Politiker haben besorgt auf die neue US-Sicherheitsstrategie reagiert. Sie werten sie als deutliches Zeichen einer Abkehr von Europa. Der CDU-Politiker Röttgen spricht von einer "zweiten Zeitenwende".

📉 Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
#food

Eating more but growing less: Stagnant Philippine farms linked to widening rice gap
As of 2022 alone, Filipinos were eating 2.3 million metric tons more rice than the country produced—an 18% shortfall that has locked the Philippines into deeper dependence on imported rice despite years of government programs to boost local harvests.

Etwas für schlaflose Nächte. Hier die Studie der Uni Passau:
Sexueller Missbrauch und körperliche Gewalt. Übergriffe auf Minderjährige durch katholische Geistliche im Bistum Passau 1945 bis 2022
https://www.uni-passau.de/missbrauchsstudie

Sexueller Missbrauch und körperliche Gewalt. Übergriffe auf Minderjährige durch katholische Geistliche im Bistum Passau 1945 bis 2022 - Universität Passau

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,122,810 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/12/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach $13B between 2025 and 2027, almost 2x the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, driven by AI buildout (Magdalena Petrova/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/08/big-tech-ai-underwater-cables.html

Underwater cables are a vital piece of the AI buildout and internet — investment is booming
Over 95% of international data and voice traffic travels through subsea telecom cables. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft are investing for AI.

"Der neue #Satellit soll wie schon die Anlage auf der ISS auf die winzigen Sender reagieren, die etwa auf Zugvögeln, Fledermäusen oder Meeresschildkröten sitzen. Die Daten zeigen, wo sich die #Tiere aufhalten und wohin sie sich bewegen. Erstmals solle das System weltweit nahezu in Echtzeit funktionieren…

I hold deep contempt for the adult, powerful, wealthy politicians who saw the opportunity to single out four children in the entire state of #Utah and keep them from enjoying their sport.
This is a story that radicalized me, and whenever I'm reminded by the bullies gloating over the pain of literal children, I'm going to share it again.

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1192237 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

The Functional Machine Calculus III: Control
Willem Heijltjes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07851

The Functional Machine Calculus III: Control
The Functional Machine Calculus (Heijltjes 2022) is a new approach to unifying the imperative and functional programming paradigms. It extends the lambda-calculus, preserving the key features of confluent reduction and typed termination, to embed computational effects, evaluation strategies, and control flow operations. The first instalment modelled sequential higher-order computation with global store, input/output, probabilities, and non-determinism, and embedded both the call-by-name and cal…

Feebly Interacting Particles: FIPs at LHCb
J. Alimena, J. Boyd, G. Cacciapaglia, A. Casais Vidal, X. Cid Vidal, S. Collaviti, A. De Oyanguren Campos, G. Dalla Valle Garcia, G. Elor, G. Ferretti, D. Gorbunov, E. Goudzovski, J. Hajer, J. Jerhot, B. Kishor Jashal, V. Kholoimov, J. Klaric, F. Kling, E. Kriukova, Y. Kyselov, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, A. Merli, M. Ovchinnykov, J. Pfaller, G. Perez, P. Reimitz, I. Sanderswood, L. Shchutska, E. Torro Pastor, Y. Tsai, A. Usachov, L. Vale S…

Feebly Interacting Particles: FIPs at LHCb
With the establishment and maturation of the experimental programs searching for new physics with sizeable couplings at the LHC, there is an increasing interest in the broader particle and astrophysics community for exploring the physics of light and feebly-interacting particles as a paradigm complementary to a New Physics sector at the TeV scale and beyond. FIPs@LHCb continues the successful series of the FIPs workshops, FIPs 2020 and FIPs 2022. The main focus of the workshop was to explore th…

Robust forecast aggregation via additional queries
Rafael Frongillo, Mary Monroe, Eric Neyman, Bo Waggoner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05271
arXiv:2512.05271v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g. that even under natural assumptions, no aggregation of the experts' individual forecasts can outperform simply following a random expert (Neyman and Roughgarden, 2022).
In this paper, we introduce a more general framework that allows the principal to elicit richer information from experts through structured queries. Our framework ensures that experts will truthfully report their underlying beliefs, and also enables us to define notions of complexity over the difficulty of asking these queries. Under a general model of independent but overlapping expert signals, we show that optimal aggregation is achievable in the worst case with each complexity measure bounded above by the number of agents $n$. We further establish tight tradeoffs between accuracy and query complexity: aggregation error decreases linearly with the number of queries, and vanishes when the "order of reasoning" and number of agents relevant to a query is $\omega(\sqrt{n})$. These results demonstrate that modest extensions to the space of expert queries dramatically strengthen the power of robust forecast aggregation. We therefore expect that our new query framework will open up a fruitful line of research in this area.
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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,121,570 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/11/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

from my link log —
Extremely offline: what happened when Tonga was cut off from the internet by a volcanic eruption.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/30/tonga-pacific-island-internet-underwater-cables-volcanic-erup…

Steelers, Giants among teams who attempted to trade for Matthew Stafford with 'value deals' in 2022

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/matthew-stafford-trade-rams-st…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,179,790 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/06/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

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 23 nodes and 1065 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

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6 years is way too fucking long. Chuck Schumer was (re-)elected in 2022, and his term isn't up until 2029. That's extremely broken.

No Fishing on this morning walk...
(From a beautiful and positively frozen Sunday AM in late 2022... I shared those images already back then, but hey...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

12th Low-Level RF Workshop (LLRF2025)
Dmitry Teytelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07603 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07603

12th Low-Level RF Workshop (LLRF2025)
This volume contains contributions submitted to the 12th Low-Level RF Workshop which will be held in Newport News, Virginia, USA on October 12-16, 2025. This workshop continues the series of successful international workshops held in Newport News, USA (2001), Geneva, Switzerland (2005), Knoxville, USA (2007), Tsukuba, Japan (2009), Hamburg, Germany (2011), Tahoe City, USA (2013), Shanghai, China (2015), Barcelona, Spain (2017), Chicago, USA (2019), Brugg-Windisch, Switzerland (2022), and Gyeong…

Ukraine verlängert Kriegsrecht
Die Ukraine hat das geltende Kriegsrecht und die Mobilmachung um 90 Tage bis Anfang Februar 2026 verlängert. Für die von Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj eingereichten Gesetzesvorlagen stimmte jeweils eine deutliche Zweidrittelmehrheit des Parlaments, meldete der Pressedienst der Obersten Rada. Beide Maßnahmen wären am 5. November ausgelaufen.
Nach dem russischen Überfall im Februar 2022 wurde in …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine verlängert Kriegsrecht bis Februar ++
Die Ukraine hat das Kriegsrecht und die Mobilmachung erneut bis Anfang Februar 2026 verlängert. Laut Moskau ist unklar, wann es ein Treffen zwischen Staatschef Putin und US-Präsident Trump geben wird.

Planar ternary graphs, flag spheres, and Delannoy polynomials
Margaret Bayer, Richard Danner, Thiago Holleben, Marie Kramer, Yirong Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21705 https:/…

Planar ternary graphs, flag spheres, and Delannoy polynomials
In 2022 Kim showed when a graph $G$ is ternary (without induced cycles of length divisible by three), its independence complex $\text{Ind}(G)$ is either contractible or homotopy equivalent to a sphere. In this paper, we show that when $\text{Ind}(G)$ is homotopy equivalent to a sphere of dimension $\dim \text{Ind}(G)$, the complex is Gorenstein. Equivalently, $G$ is a $1$-well-covered graph. This answers a question by Faridi and Holleben. We then focus on the independence complexes of Gorenst…

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On Sharp Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the stability
Xia Huang, Dong Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00453 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00453

On Sharp Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the stability
In this work, we summarize the linearization method to study the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles, and explain that the same approach can be used to handle the stability problem. As examples of application, combining with spherical harmonic decomposition and the Hardy inequalities, we revise two families of inequalities. We give firstly an affirmative answer in dimension four to Cazacu-Flynn-Lam's conjecture [JFA, 2022] for the sharp Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle, and improve the recent estim…

Was bei der #Elektromobilität die #Ladekabel sind,...
... ist bei den alternativen #Kraftstoffen anscheinend das

Entsorgungswirtschaft alarmiert: Frittenfett als Diebesgut
Der Bundesverband der deutschen Entsorgungswirtschaft beobachtet seit 2022 einen deutlichen Anstieg beim Diebstahl von Altspeisefett.

Ausgerechnet Ronnie Mocker, der Chef von Swissmint, versteigerte 2022 auf Ricardo unter dem Pseudonym «Ronnie_75» selbst eine Münze, die er für 800 Franken kaufte und wenige Tage später für 2500 Franken weiterverkaufte.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/goldvreneli-skandal-bund-verbietet-kauf-von-sondermuenzen-fuer-angestellte-427757241966

SkyNET-scape Room: An Escape Room to Explore Astroparticle Physics
Elisa Prandini, Sabine Hemmer, Michele Branca, Luca Campagnoni, Gabriella Cataldi, Marco Circella, Jean-Pierre Jonckheere, Emanuele Leonora, Ilaria Viale, Giuseppe Silvestri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14190

SkyNET-scape Room: An Escape Room to Explore Astroparticle Physics
Innovative science communication is key to engaging the public with complex topics such as astroparticle physics. As part of the Italian PRIN 2022 funding initiative, we are developing SkyNET-scape Room, an interactive escape room designed to introduce participants to the main messengers of the high-energy universe, namely cosmic rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos. The experience is structured into three interactive stations, each focusing on a specific messenger and its detection method. Small …

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Ukraine says it has now deployed 30K free physical security keys, called YubiKeys, including 22K to access battle system Delta, up from ~10K in April 2022 (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Simulation of the thermoelectric effect in a multi-metallic superconducting cavity
N. K. Raut, N. Stilin, J. Vennekate, S. Wang, G. Ciovati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08285 http…

Simulation of the thermoelectric effect in a multi-metallic superconducting cavity
Superconducting radio frequency accelerating cavities made with different material layers, such as copper, Nb or Nb3Sn, are susceptible to thermoelectric effects due to differences in Seebeck coefficients between the metals. A temperature gradient across the surfaces can drive thermoelectric currents, which may impact the cavity performance. A layered Cu/Nb/Nb3Sn single cell cavity was tested with cryocoolers in 2022. Three heaters were mounted on the cavity surface at different locations and t…

The hot-electron closure of the moment-based gyrokinetic plasma model
A. C. D. Hoffmann, P. Giroud-Garampon, P. Ricci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15329 https://

The hot-electron closure of the moment-based gyrokinetic plasma model
We derive the hot-electron limit (HEL) closure of the moment hierarchy used to solve the gyrokinetic equations, denoted as gyromoment (GM). By expanding gyroaveraging kernels in the small temperature ratio Ti/Te limit and retaining only essential O(Ti/Te) terms, we obtain a closed system for density, parallel velocity, and parallel and perpendicular temperatures. In the Z-pinch geometry, the GM system with HEL closure is analytically equivalent to the one developed by Ivanov et al. (2022). Nume…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,108,510 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/28/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Debriefing: certains enseignants grêvistes doivent regretter de ne pas avoir voté pour Cesla Amarelle en 2022. #erreurstrategique

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Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1131260 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
The Big Moon:
🎵 Trouble (6 Music Session, 12 Oct 2022)
#TheBigMoon
https://willieandthegiant.bandcamp.com/track/to-the-moon
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