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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.

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 1,111,480 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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

DreamState: Dreams where you listen, stream, & dream #music https://muz4now.com/2022/dreamstate-dreams-where-you-listen-stream-dream

DreamState: Dreams where you listen, stream, & dream
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

📸 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…

@… @… great find!
His obituary to Nixon often reminds me Trump:

Hunter S. Thompson eulogizes Richard M. Nixon (1994): “He Was a Crook.”
Arguably, the finest political obituary in American history. A Twitter friend linked to it recently, remarking that he rereads the piece every few months. It's a sign that I should, [...]

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.

A note on the relation between one--step, outcome regression and IPW--type estimators of parameters with the mixed bias property
Andrea Rotnitzky, Ezequiel Smucler, James M. Robins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22452

A note on the relation between one--step, outcome regression and IPW--type estimators of parameters with the mixed bias property
Bruns-Smith et al. (2025) established an algebraic identity between the one-step estimator and a specific outcome regression-type estimator for a class of parameters that forms a strict subset of the class introduced in Chernozhukov et al. (2022), assuming both nuisance functions are estimated as linear combinations of given features. They conjectured that this identity extends to the broader mixed bias class introduced in Rotnitzky et al. (2021). In this note, we prove their conjecture and fur…

#ParkerSolarProbe was in the right place at the right time in September 2022: It passed through a magnetic reconnection region in the Sun's corona. #SolarOrbiter observed the event from a distance. Study led by

diveXplore 6.0: ITEC's Interactive Video Exploration System at VBS 2022
Andreas Leibetseder, Klaus Schoeffmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20687 https://

diveXplore 6.0: ITEC's Interactive Video Exploration System at VBS 2022
Continuously participating since the sixth Video Browser Showdown (VBS2017), diveXplore is a veteran interactive search system that throughout its lifetime has offered and evaluated numerous features. After undergoing major refactoring for the most recent VBS2021, however, the system since version 5.0 is less feature rich, yet, more modern, leaner and faster than the original system. This proved to be a sensible decision as the new system showed increasing performance in VBS2021 when compared t…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Over 250,000 desertion, AWOL cases opened since 2022, prosecutors say: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/over-desertion-awol-cases-opened.html

Bellingcat’s "Auto Archiver" is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.
Publicly launched in 2022,
it has preserved over 150,000 web pages and social media posts to date.
The Auto Archiver has been used by Bellingcat’s journalists to preserve information on dozens of fast moving events such as the Jan. 6 riots
– when we first used the tool internally
– as well as gather digital evidence for o…

The Open Source Tool That Has Preserved 150,000 Pieces of Online Evidence - bellingcat
Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down

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

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 (

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#FashionAccessoryASongOrPoem

Lions waive former third-round pick Hendon Hooker after QB struggles throughout preseason, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/lions-w

Enhancements to XAML Live Preview in Visual Studio for .NET MAUI. This feature is available in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14 and the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders release.
#visualstudio #visualstudio2026

Giant Sunflower in neighbor’s yard. Monrovia, California, USA. July, 2022. #monroviacalifornia #sunflower #flower

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

💔 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.

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-…

Eigentum unleistbar - Wer eine Wohnung will, zahlt zwölf Jahresgehälter #News #Nachrichten

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

Convergence of pushforward measures for certain countably piecewise linear Markov maps
Zolt\'an Kalocsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18172 https://arxiv…

Convergence of pushforward measures for certain countably piecewise linear Markov maps
We study piecewise linear Markov maps, with countable Markov partitions, inspired by a problem of the Miklós Schweitzer competition in 2022. We introduce $\ell$-Markov partitions and apply ideas of symbolic dynamics to our systems, relating them to Markov shifts. We survey how the Frobenius--Perron operators of these systems can be represented by matrices, and adapt results to countable alphabets. We apply these statements to prove a convergence theorem on the pushforwards of absolutely contin…

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.

What’s on your musical reading table? #musicianresources https://muz4now.com/2022/whats-on-your-musical-reading-table

What's on your musical reading table?
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

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 …

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

The LA Times Guild plans to hold its first-ever strike authorization vote as contract talks near their third year; the union lost about 200 members since 2022 (Raquel 'Rocky' Harris/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/la-times-union-strike-authorization-vote/…

LA Times Union to Hold First-Ever Strike Authorization Vote as Contract Talks Near 3rd Year
Since negotiations began in September 2020, the guild has seen layoffs impact approximately 200 Times staffers.

Rhoda Dakar - "The Man Who Sold The World" (2022)
So many good versions of this song. This one has been in heavy rotation on my iTunes lately.
Such a jaunty, classy version by one of the great voices of the 2nd wave ska era. Still going strong.
#music #covers

Trump and his henchmen have a new strategy to target political opponents: allegations of mortgage fraud.
First it was Letitia James, the New York attorney general,
then it was Adam Schiff, a California senator.
Now, Trump is targeting Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, demandingshe resign and threatening to fire her.
Cook, the first Black woman to be appointed a Fed governor, was appointed in 2022 by Joe Biden.
Her 14-year term is not due to expire until 2038.…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,072,700 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

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…

Weniger #Kriminalität rund um den #GoParc
Kaum dass irgendwo nichts mehr los ist, sinkt die Kriminalitätsrate. Das ist ja wirklich überraschend!

UN-Mission: Zahl der zivilen Opfer in Ukraine erreicht Dreijahreshoch
Die Zahl der zivilen Opfer des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine hat im Juli laut den UN einen neuen Dreijahreshöchststand erreicht. Mit 286 getöteten und 1.388 verletzten Zivilisten sei die Zahl der Opfer im Juli die höchste seit Mai 2022 gewesen, teilte die UN-Beobachtungsmission in der Ukraine am Mittwoch in Kiew mit.
📑

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Merz: "Es gibt Hoffnung auf Bewegung" ++
Bundeskanzler Merz hat sich nach dem Gespräch mit US-Präsident Trump verhalten optimistisch geäußert und Trump viel Erfolg für dessen Unterredung mit Kremlchef Putin gewünscht. Die südukrainische Region Cherson meldet drei Tote.

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…

It's very amusing to read this piece by @… , "Harvard considered as a long-lived biological organism", examine the section "Harvard's defenses", and see how they seem so strong in normal times and are failing right now—as a bellwether of our times.

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

‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’
In a brief video in English, the French filmmakers Élodie Emery and Wandrille Lanos introduce their documentary ‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’ (Arte, 2022). It can be watched here.

Lots of "health officials" being quoted on the news assuring the UK that paracetamol is safe for pregnant women, but no webpage I can see yet in which the UK government directly disputes the advice of the US government.
NHS has this page, marked as last reviewed in 2022.

Pregnancy, breastfeeding and fertility while taking paracetamol for adults
NHS medicines information on paracetamol and whether you can take it while pregnant or breastfeeding.

The Incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier Limits from Boltzmann-Fermi-Dirac Equation for Low Regularity Data
Ning Jiang, Chenchen Wang, Kai Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21030 …

The Incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier Limits from Boltzmann-Fermi-Dirac Equation for Low Regularity Data
We consider the hydrodynamic limits of the quantum Boltzmann equation with Fermi-Dirac statistics for hard sphere and hard potentials in the whole space. By analyzing the spectrum of the linearized collision operator combined with the transport operator and its associated semigroup, the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier limits from the BFD equation is verified rigorously. Compared to the results in [Jiang-Xiong-Zhou,J. Differ. Equ.,2022], this paper works with a lower regularity for the init…

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.

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…

Hermeto Pascoal e Grupo - "Planetarium da Gšvea" (recorded 1981, released 2022)
#NowPlaying #HermetoPascoal #BrazilianMusic

Dez Bryant’s Cryptic Post in 2022 is Coming True in Las Vegas https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brock-bowers-dez-bryant-best-te/?adt_ei=[email]

Love’s Shifting Nature – in memory and in honor #grief #love #relationship

Love's Shifting Nature - in memory and in honor
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Pogačar's (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) return to racing at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec on Friday was the scene of a rare miss, as the World Champion finished in 29th place – his worst one-day result in three years.
Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling Team) claimed a brilliant solo victory, while Pogačar finished 26 seconds back in the chase group, his lowest placing in a one-day race since 2022.

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

CBP data: between April and June 2025, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, up from a high of 12,766 between January and March 2022 (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-a-record-high/…

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,071,780 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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)

I just used Regedit to clean Microsoft's mess and delete 2 unwanted out of 4 input methods from the language applet menu o.O (This is a clean Win11 install from July. The problem seems to be reported as far back as 2022.)
A week ago, I had to uninstall and re-install OneDrive with the \allusers command line argument to make it stop duplicating itself in the sidebar and get back the share option in the context menu per file or folder. (Also a longstanding bug.)
Copilot is neat…

Left Tail of the Subcritical Derivative Martingale in a Branching Wiener Process
Xinxin Chen, Yichao Huang, Heng Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11983 https://

Left Tail of the Subcritical Derivative Martingale in a Branching Wiener Process
We establish a rather sharp two-side estimate for the tail probability of the derivative martingale limit in a branching random walk throughout the entire subcritical regime, confirming a conjecture by Lacoin, Rhodes, and Vargas (\emph{Duke Math. J.} 171(3):483--545, 2022.) for the special case of log-correlated Gaussian fields on trees.

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#WhyCharactersGotMad

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…

"Microsoft und die Wahrheit – eine Revolution": @… einige Ereignisse rund um Microsoft und deren Vertrauenswürdigkeit seit 2022 aufgeschrieben. Die Tage wollte ich mal nur die Ereignisse 2025 auflisten (Outlook-Ausfälle, schwerer SharePoint-Security-Leak, Microsoft muss EU-Daten an USA übermitteln, Exchange und Exchange online und so weiter…

On the Structural Parameterizations of 2-Club with Triangle Constraints
Ashwin Jacob, Diptapriyo Majumdar, Raghav Sakhuja
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16143 https://

On the Structural Parameterizations of 2-Club with Triangle Constraints
Given an undirected graph G = (V, E) and an integer k, the s-Club asks if Gcontains a vertex subset S of at least k vertices such that G[S] has diameter at most s. Recently, Vertex r-Triangle s-Club, and Edge r-Triangle s-Club that generalize the notion of s-Club have been studied by Garvardt et al. [TOCS-2023, IWOCA-2022] from the perspective of parameterized complexity. Given a graph G and an integer k, the Vertex r-Triangle s-Club asks if there is an s-Club S with at least k vertices such th…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
ZAZ:
🎵 Je Veux
#NowPlaying #ZAZ
https://axelvicious.bandcamp.com/track/zaz-je-veux-axel-vicious-edition-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/734dz1YaFITwawPpM25fSt

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

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

Research on Quality Measurement and Dynamic Transmission of Higher Education in China from the Perspective of Dual Circulation: An Empirical Analysis Based on Entropy Weight-TOPSIS and PVAR Models
Zhangming Yang, Xiaoting Yin, Dahai Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09216

Research on Quality Measurement and Dynamic Transmission of Higher Education in China from the Perspective of Dual Circulation: An Empirical Analysis Based on Entropy Weight-TOPSIS and PVAR Models
Drawing on the new pattern of 'dual circulation', an evaluation system for the development level of China's higher education has been constructed, utilizing data from Chinese provinces over the period 2020 to 2022. Initially, the evaluation model is established, followed by the screening of initial indicators through correlation analysis. Subsequently, an entropy weight-TOPSIS model are employed for static quantification, and the PVAR model is introduced for the first time to describe the dynam…

APCs and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars before and during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine (2020-2023)
Myroslava Hladchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08850

APCs and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars before and during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine (2020-2023)
This study examines how Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine affected APCs, publishing patterns, and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars between 2020 and 2023. Data from Scopus covers articles published before (2020-2021) and after (2022-2023) the war's onset. Statistical analysis revealed a small but significant correlation between APC amounts and citation impact, though the effect size was minimal, suggesting higher APCs did not substantially boost citations.…

Moving beyond harm. A critical review of how NLP research approaches discrimination
Katrin Schulz, Marjolein Lanzing, Giulia Martinez Brenner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04504 ht…

Moving beyond harm. A critical review of how NLP research approaches discrimination
How to avoid discrimination in the context of NLP technology is one of the major challenges in the field. We propose that a different and more substantiated framing of the problem could help to find more productive approaches. In the first part of the paper we report on a case study: a qualitative review on papers published in the ACL anthologies 2022 on discriminatory behavior of NLP systems. We find that the field (i) still has a strong focus on a technological fix of algorithmic discriminati…

Detection of New Auroral Emissions at Io and Implications for Its Interaction with the Plasma Torus
Zachariah Milby, Katherine de Kleer, Carl Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04807

Detection of New Auroral Emissions at Io and Implications for Its Interaction with the Plasma Torus
We observed Io's optical aurora in eclipse on six nights between 2022 and 2024 using Keck I/HIRES. Spectra revealed 13 new auroral emissions not identified previously, tripling the total number of optical emissions lines detected at Io. These included the O I lines at 777.4 and 844.6 nm, the Na I lines at 818.3 and 819.5 nm, the [S I] lines at 458.9 and 772.5 nm, the S I triplet at 922.3 nm, the [O II] lines at 732.0 and 733.0 nm and the [S II] lines at 406.9, 407.6, 671.6 and 673.1 nm. We leve…

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…

Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility
Marcel Ausloos, Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Polina Khrennikova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09415

Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility
Pre-taxation analysis plays a crucial role in ensuring the fairness of public revenue collection. It can also serve as a tool to reduce the risk of tax avoidance, one of the UK government's concerns. Our report utilises pre-tax income ($PI$) and total assets ($TA$) data from 567 companies listed on the FTSE All-Share index, gathered from the Refinitiv EIKON database, covering 14 years, i.e., the period from 2009 to 2022. We also derive the $PI/TA$ ratio, and distinguish between positive and neg…

📸 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…

Arkham Intelligence: SpaceX now holds 8,285 bitcoin, valued at ~$1.02B, down from 28,000 bitcoin worth $1.8B in April 2021 after cutting its holdings in 2022 (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/366874/spacex-bitcoin-holdings-exceed-1-billion

Detecting $k$-nonstretchability via a class of informationally complete symmetric measurements
Yan Hong, Mengjia Zhang, Limin Gao, Huaqi Zhou, Limei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12817

Detecting $k$-nonstretchability via a class of informationally complete symmetric measurements
Multipartite entanglement characterization is a core problem in quantum information theory, with several classification schemes available. Among these, the $k$-stretchability, recently introduced [Szalay, Quantum 3, 204 (2019)], can be used to describe multipartite entanglement structure. Recently, a class of symmetric measurements (informationally complete $(s,t)$-POVMs) has been proposed [Siudzi$\textrm{ń}$ska, Phys. Rev. A \textbf{105}, 042209 (2022)] , which includes GSIC-POVMs and MUMs. I…

How precisely can we measure the ages of subgiant and giant stars?
Cheyanne Shariat, Kareem El-Badry, Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08675 https://

How precisely can we measure the ages of subgiant and giant stars?
Precise stellar ages are fundamental to Galactic archaeology. However, obtaining reliable age estimates and uncertainties for field stars has been a long-standing challenge. We test the fidelity of ages from recent catalogs of giants and subgiants using wide binaries, whose components formed at the same time and thus should have consistent inferred ages. We find that subgiant ages based on spectroscopic metallicities from Xiang & Rix (2022) are generally consistent within their reported uncerta…

After IECharge, which has set up fast #EV charging stations at their solar battery locations (with the lowest price in the French market: €0.25/kWh), there's now another French network offering green electricity directly from the source (also very competitive at €0.30/kWh).

Kallista Energy inaugure la première station de recharge raccordée à des éoliennes
Producteur indépendant d’énergies renouvelables, Kallista Energy a diversifié ses activités en 2022 en lançant le réseau de recharge rapide Yaway...

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 …

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

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Nova Launcher is shutting down, and Android fans are heartbroken
Nova’s founder and original developer, Kevin Barry, made the announcement over the weekend. On September 6, Barry posted a message confirming that he had left Branch, the analytics firm that acquired Nova Launcher in 2022, and would no longer be involved with the project.

Millions of inequivalent quadratic APN functions in eight variables
Christof Beierle, Philippe Langevin, Gregor Leander, Alexandr Polujan, Shahram Rasoolzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04644

Millions of inequivalent quadratic APN functions in eight variables
The only known example of an almost perfect nonlinear (APN) permutation in even dimension was obtained by applying CCZ-equivalence to a specific quadratic APN function. Motivated by this result, there have been numerous recent attempts to construct new quadratic APN functions. Currently, 32,892 quadratic APN functions in dimension 8 are known and two recent conjectures address their possible total number. The first, proposed by Y. Yu and L. Perrin (Cryptogr. Commun. 14(6): 1359-1369, 2022), sug…

Can't help but feel that all of the editorials criticising the Online Safety Act might have been better published at any point between March 2022 and September 2023.

Axios shutters its Pro: Policy product, which launched in September 2022 and offered legislative tracking tools, breaking news alerts, and more for $4,500 /year (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/axios-newsletters-subscriptions-policy-pro

Axios’ Quiet Retreat
Axios quietly winded down its premium policy subscription, Status has learned, marking a stumble in its quest to monetize insider information in Washington.

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The Cribs:
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Love's Shifting Nature
- instrumental music inspired by grief -
#NowPlaying
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Love's Shifting Nature #NowPlaying
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'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

Provability Models
Mojtaba Mojtahedi, Borja Sierra Miranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06696 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06696…

Provability Models
In this paper, we study a new Kripke-style semantics for classical modal logic, named as provability models. We study provability models for the propositional modal logics K, K4, S4 GL, GLP and the interpretability logic ILM. Provability models combine features of Kripke models with the assignment of logics to individual worlds. Originally introduced in [Mojtahedi, 2022], these models allowed the first author to establish arithmetical completeness for intuitionistic provability logic. Interesti…

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.

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

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How To Tune Your Piano
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The NHTSA certifies Amazon's Zoox self-driving vehicles for demonstration use and closes a probe from 2022 into whether they complied with federal requirements (David Shepardson/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-tra

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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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…

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Correlation function metrology for warm dense matter: Recent developments and practical guidelines
Maximilian Peter B\"ohme, Willow Martin, Hannah Bellenbaum, Magaret Berrens, Jan Vorberger, Sebastian Schwalbe, Zhandos Moldabekov, Thomas Gawne, Sebastien Hamel, Brianna Aguilar-Solis, Abhiraj Sharma, Frank Graziani, Tilo D\"oppner, Siegfried Glenzer, Tobias Dornheim, David Bishel

Correlation function metrology for warm dense matter: Recent developments and practical guidelines
X-ray Thomson scattering (XRTS) has emerged as a valuable diagnostic for matter under extreme conditions, as it captures the intricate many-body physics of the probed sample. Recent advances, such as the model-free temperature diagnostic of Dornheim et al. [Nat.Commun. 13, 7911 (2022)], have demonstrated how much information can be extracted directly within the imaginary-time formalism. However, since the imaginary-time formalism is a concept often difficult to grasp, we provide here a systemat…

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,114,380 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/04/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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.
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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

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