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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,076,070 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Just noticed that there hasn't been a #DarwinAward since 2022.
Anyone know what happened?
With all the #ChatGPT-prompted accidents (and deaths!), I'd assume there would be LOTS of good candidates for 2025...

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

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

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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 …

Low complexity convergence rate bounds for push-sum algorithms with homogeneous correlation structure
Bal\'azs Gerencs\'er, Mikl\'os Kornyik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16601

Low complexity convergence rate bounds for push-sum algorithms with homogeneous correlation structure
The objective of this work is to establish an upper bound for the almost sure convergence rate for a class of push-sum algorithms. The current work extends the methods and results of the authors on a similar low-complexity bound on push-sum algorithms with some particular synchronous message passing schemes and complements the general approach of Gerencsér and Gerencsér from 2022 providing an exact, but often less accessible description. Furthermore, a parametric analysis is presented on the …

I’m running CalyxOS on my old Fairphone4, not because it’s a bad choice, but precisely to observe how incredibly behind this OS is on security updates.
My primary device today is a Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, not this outdated, insecure, and privacy-compromised Fairphone 4.
This Fairphone never became my daily driver once I realized just how far behind it is on security and privacy. I used it from October 2022 until I switched to my Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS in early May 2023,…

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

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

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.

Ukrainian detained in Italy for alleged Nord Stream sabotage, media report: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/ukrainian-detained-in-italy-for.html

»Kernenergie erzeugt kein CO2 und ist deshalb die Lösung für unser Energieproblem.« Es ist natürlich nicht ganz so simpel, wie diese Sorte populistischer Parolen. Der Beitrag "Milliardengrab Atomkraft" von 2022 (50min) beleuchtet da ein paar problematische Ecken. Leider werden diejenigen, die da aufmerksam zuhören sollten, auch hier konsequent weghören. Podcast-Empfehlung trotzdem:

Milliardengrab Atomkraft - Doku über unkalkulierbare Kosten der Atomenergie
Ende 2022 sollen die letzten deutschen Atomkraftwerke vom Netz gehen. Doch weltweit tüfteln Startups an neuen Formen von AKWs. Wie teuer ist Atomkraft wirklich und welche Kosten müssen die nachfolgenden Generationen tragen?

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

Bundesanwaltschaft meldet Festnahme von mutmaßlichem Nord-Stream-Angreifer
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat in Italien einen Ukrainer festnehmen lassen, der im September 2022 an der Sabotage der Nord-Stream-Pipelines beteiligt gewesen sein soll. Der Beschuldigte sei mutmaßlich einer der Koordinatoren der Aktion, erklärte die Behörde in Karlsruhe. Er soll nach einer Überstellung aus Italien dem Ermittlungs…
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Bundesanwaltschaft: Festnahme nach Anschlag auf Nord-Stream-Pipelines
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat in Italien einen Ukrainer festnehmen lassen, der an der Sprengung der Nord-Stream-Pipelines beteiligt gewesen sein soll. Der Beschuldigte sei einer der Koordinatoren der Operation, hieß es.

New Bounds for the Ideal Proof System in Positive Characteristic
Amik Raj Behera, Nutan Limaye, Varun Ramanathan, Srikanth Srinivasan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16397

New Bounds for the Ideal Proof System in Positive Characteristic
In this work, we prove upper and lower bounds over fields of positive characteristics for several fragments of the Ideal Proof System (IPS), an algebraic proof system introduced by Grochow and Pitassi (J. ACM 2018). Our results extend the works of Forbes, Shpilka, Tzameret, and Wigderson (Theory of Computing 2021) and also of Govindasamy, Hakoniemi, and Tzameret (FOCS 2022). These works primarily focused on proof systems over fields of characteristic $0$, and we are able to extend these results…

On the theory of supermodulation of the superconducting order parameter by supermodulation of the apex distance in optimally doped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8 x}$
Albert M. Varonov, Todor M. Mishonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15726

On the theory of supermodulation of the superconducting order parameter by supermodulation of the apex distance in optimally doped Bi$_2$Sr$_2$CaCu$_2$O$_{8+x}$
Recently using Scanning Josephson Tunneling Microscopy (SJTM) in the group of Séamus Davis a super-modulation of the superconducting order parameter induced by super-modulation of the distance $δ$ between planar Cu and apical O was observed in [O'Mahony et al, On the electron pairing mechanism of copper-oxide high temperature superconductivity, PNAS Vol. 119(37), e2207449119 (2022)]. The authors conclude: "concurrence of prediction from strong correlation theory... with these observations ind…

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

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.

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

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

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Beck-Chevalley Conditions in Simplicial Sets
Gaga Chakhvashvili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15341 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.15341

Beck-Chevalley Conditions in Simplicial Sets
We describe certain class of simplicial sets introduced around 2022 by Valentin Shehtman; we call such simplicial sets Shehtman complexes. An example of a Shehtman complex that is not a Kan complexes is given.

Nach drei Jahren Suche - Lebenszeichen von Tirolerin, die mit 15 verschwand #News #Nachrichten

2/2 I continued blogging Alberniweather and on FB and Twitter but I gradually removed my personal self from Facebook and eventually during the Pandemic, I decided the Facebook environment was just too toxic even for weather stuff and I shut down my page and left Facebook completely.
The impact on traffic to Alberniweather.ca and its prominence in the community was, and still is, significant.
I have diehard followers, many who have become friends over the years, I still get the odd call from media, or even the public about random weather things.
I have good connections with a few folks at Environment Canada (though their staff have become thinner and more transient :(
and major events still get spikes of local traffic but I since about 2022, and after I removed myself from Twitter that year, I don’t blog nearly as much. I would do a few posts in a week, and then go months without posting. I just got out of the habit I guess.
But I am still interested in the weather. I still feel like Alberniweather is a useful service for people in my community. I still feel a willing obligation to inform people about the weather and I believe I am trusted to do so by the public and local leaders. I’ve never made any money at it, I sold ad space on the website for a few years but it wasn’t worth the hassle and I didn’t feel comfortable taking the money when I was councillor. I have had some generous spontaneous donations at times.
But mainly I do it because it’s interesting, and I hope it is useful for people especially when people are looking for information during a major event.
The highest traffic I have ever had on Alberniweather pre-FB exit was the local Dog Mountain forest fire in 2015.
post-FB exit: the #underwoodfire
People want easy access to reliable local, trusted, information.
Large media orgs have mostly given up on this.
I am grateful we still have an active local newspaper and radio and that both trust me and I trust them.
@… @…

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.

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

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…

A look at the problems at Uber Freight, which has posted operating losses every year since it was founded in 2017, except for 2022, and just appointed a new CEO (Thomas Black/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-15/ub…

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

I need to dispel some table accessibility myths.
1. `<thead>` and `<tbody>` are not exposed to users. Using `<thead>` to wrap multiple header rows has no effect (and you shouldn’t have multiple header rows). Partial ref: https://adrianroselli.com/2022/02/colu

Column Headers and Browser Support
Data tables need column headers. Monolitten, a granite column of humans (each with a head) at Vigelandsanlegget, a sculpture park in Frognerparken in Oslo, Norway. What they probably do not need is a new set of column headers every few rows, particularly not when they change the meaning of the…

from my link log —
How to take the inverse of a type.
https://2022.ecoop.org/details/ecoop-2022-papers/6/How-to-Take-the-Inverse-of-a-Type
saved 2025-06-03

How to Take the Inverse of a Type (ECOOP 2022 - Research Papers) - ECOOP 2022
ECOOP is Europe’s longest-standing annual Programming Languages (PL) conference, and welcomes high quality research papers relating to the PL field in a broad sense. This year the conference will feature dedicated paper categories for reproduction studies, experience reports, reflective “pearls”, and forward-thinking “new idea” papers. We are also pleased to have two Journal First routes for submission to ECOOP, with the ACM TOPLAS and Science of Computer Programming journals.

http://www.libertine.at/sites/default/files/styles/fullframe/public/2022-05/csd2019a_0.jpg?itok=46-YErg9

Uvalde schools deploy AI gun detection technology after 2022 tragedy https://youtu.be/Cy-gTMG-qx4?si=pKtUhW9-Ug5ygU-P

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
New Order:
🎵 Bizarre Love Triangle
#NewOrder
https://waldodj.bandcamp.com/track/new-order-bizarre-love-triangle-waldo-edit-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/6wVViUl2xSRoDK2T7dMZbR

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

Re-weighting estimator for ab initio path integral Monte Carlo simulations of fictitious identical particles
Tobias Dornheim, Pontus Svensson, Paul Hamann, Sebastian Schwalbe, Zhandos Moldabekov, Panagiotis Tolias, Jan Vorberger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12323

Re-weighting estimator for ab initio path integral Monte Carlo simulations of fictitious identical particles
The fermion sign problem constitutes one of the most fundamental obstacles in quantum many-body theory. Recently, it has been suggested to circumvent the sign problem by carrying out path integral simulations with a fictitious quantum statistics variable $ξ$, which allows for a smooth interpolation between the bosonic and fermionic limits [\textit{J.~Chem.~Phys.}~\textbf{157}, 094112 (2022)]. This $ξ$-extrapolation method has subsequently been applied to a variety of systems and has facilitat…

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 …

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"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.

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

Posit

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.

Decoding the Hot-Mitochondrion Paradox
Peyman Fahimi, Michael Lynch, Cherif F. Matta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16824 https://arxiv.o…

Decoding the Hot-Mitochondrion Paradox
In a 2018 paper and a subsequent article published in 2023, researchers reported that mitochondria maintain temperatures 10-15 degrees higher than the surrounding cytoplasm - a finding that deviates by 5 to 6 orders of magnitude from theoretical predictions based on Fourier s law of heat conduction. In 2022, we proposed a solution to this apparent paradox. In the present perspective, we build upon that framework and introduce new ideas to further unravel how a biological membrane - whether of a…

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.

People I Care About #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2022/people-i-care-about

People I Care About
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

In US court, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon says he will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud under an agreement with prosecutors (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-1…

Do Kwon Will Plead Guilty to Charges Tied to Terra Collapse
Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder Do Kwon said he will plead guilty to charges in a US fraud prosecution tied to the $40 billion collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin in 2022.

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

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

"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.

Signed by Cowboys, La'el Collins last played in NFL regular season for Bengals in 2022 https://www.cincinnati.com/story/sports/nfl/bengals/2025/08/02/lael-collins-signs-with-cowboys-last-…

Pastor comitted crypto fraud, blames god for telling him to do it!! #hipocracy #religion

Z archiwum: jak Jasiu próbował się z kołem przewieźć cugiem z Katowic w okolice Bełsznicy.
http://tek.org.pl/psota-ic.txt
Jak ktoś potrzebuje po warszawsku, to np. tu niżej jest relacja:

Overview of the TREC 2022 deep learning track
Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz, Daniel Campos, Jimmy Lin, Ellen M. Voorhees, Ian Soboroff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10865

Overview of the TREC 2022 deep learning track
This is the fourth year of the TREC Deep Learning track. As in previous years, we leverage the MS MARCO datasets that made hundreds of thousands of human annotated training labels available for both passage and document ranking tasks. In addition, this year we also leverage both the refreshed passage and document collections that were released last year leading to a nearly $16$ times increase in the size of the passage collection and nearly four times increase in the document collection size. U…

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…

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This still nauseates me.
☑️ Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss
The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant.

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…

Las Vegas Raiders Star Geno Smith Named Best Quarterback in One Key Category https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-best-quarterback-one-category/?adt_ei=[email]

Outward and Inward – Sharing and Introspection #music https://muz4now.com/2022/outward-and-inward-sharing-and-introspection

Outward and Inward - Sharing and Introspection
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…

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

#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

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 …

„Are ”Friends” Electric?“ by Mikael
Platform: C64
Released: 4 May 2022
#GFX_Mikael #YR_2022 #PF_C64

(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.

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

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

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

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
Kate Genevieve, Andjelka B. Kovacevic, John Elliott, Martin Dominik, Emily Finer, Kathryn Denning, Chelsea Haramia, George Profitiliotis, Carol A. Oliver, Anamaria Berea, Arik Kershenbaum, Daliah Bibas, Hannah Little, William H. Edmondson, Pauli Laine
https://

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection. We recommend practical steps to strengthen NASA's astrobiology agenda, guided by the existing interdisciplinary framework of the SETI PostDetection Hub (est. 2022) at the University of St Andrews (Elliot et al. 2023), which emphasizes comprehensive preparedness across science, society, governance, and communication. NASA can significantly enhance readine…

Extremely hot day in the Netherlands again, especially in the South. In over a century of records until 2019, no station in the country had ever reached a temperature of 39°C.
Today was the third time the city of Maastricht saw it happen, and this was by far the earliest in summer for any station.
#heatwave

Content-Oblivious Leader Election in 2-Edge-Connected Networks
Yi-Jun Chang, Lyuting Chen, Haoran Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08348 https://

Content-Oblivious Leader Election in 2-Edge-Connected Networks
Censor-Hillel, Cohen, Gelles, and Sela (PODC 2022 \& Distributed Computing 2023) studied fully-defective asynchronous networks, where communication channels may suffer an extreme form of alteration errors, rendering messages completely corrupted. The model is equivalent to content-oblivious computation, where nodes communicate solely via pulses. They showed that if the network is 2-edge-connected, then any algorithm for a noiseless setting can be simulated in the fully-defective setting; otherw…

"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…

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.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

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
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"Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters"
#Otters #Animals #Conservation

Researchers identify 22 key areas for protecting struggling giant otters
“They’re big, like an overweight Peruvian dog,” is how photographer Santiago Romaní describes giant otters (Pteronura brasiliensis). In 2022, on his trip to the Imiría Regional Conservation Area, a protected area in the Ucayali region of Peru’s east-central Amazon, he observed the aquatic river giants. That same year, the area’s administration confirmed the presence of […]

Flapping dynamics of a compliant membrane in a uniform incoming flow
Chengyao Zhang, Ankang Gao, Xiaojue Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00112 https://arxiv…

Flapping dynamics of a compliant membrane in a uniform incoming flow
Recent theoretical and experimental investigations have revealed that flapping compliant membrane wings can significantly enhance propulsive performance (e.g. Tzezana and Breuer, 2019, J. Fluid Mech., 862, 871-888) and energy harvesting efficiency (e.g. Mathai et al., 2022, J. Fluid Mech., 942, R4) compared to rigid foils. Here, we numerically investigate the effects of the stretching coefficient (or aeroelastic number), $K_S$, the flapping frequency, $St_c$, and the pitching amplitude, $θ_0$,…

John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series...
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Bill Hunter (my father): Quality In The Community One City’s Experience (Madison) – Quality Comes to City Hall (Madison) – Managing Our Way to Economic Success
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Design of Experiments
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Saturday Breakfast With Julie Reynolds - The "Best Bits"
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/saturday-breakfast-with-julie-reynolds-the-best-bits/

Saturday Breakfast | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Saturday Breakfast With Julie Reynolds – The “Best Bits” Host: Julie Reynolds Category: Arts Sub-Category: Commentary & Conversations, Entertainment News First Episode: 2022 A podcast made…

Dust production rates in Jupiter-family comets II: Trends and population insights from ATLAS photometry of 116 JFCs
A. Fraser Gillan, Alan Fitzsimmons, Larry Denneau, Robert J. Siverd, Ken W. Smith, John L. Tonry, David R. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09192

Dust production rates in Jupiter-family comets II: Trends and population insights from ATLAS photometry of 116 JFCs
Jupiter-family comets (JFCs) have orbital periods of less than 20 years and therefore undergo more frequent sublimation compared to other comet populations. The JFCs therefore represent the ideal dynamical population for investigating the dust production rates at high-cadence. We analyzed observations by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) of 74 JFCs that reached perihelion in 2022 and 2023. The work contained in this study builds upon our previous work (Gillan et al. 2024…

An in-depth look at the rise of relationships between humans and AI companion chatbots on apps like Nomi, coinciding with a loneliness epidemic in the US (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/human-ai-relationships-love-nomi.html

'What am I falling in love with?' Human-AI relationships are no longer just science fiction
Since ChatGPT’s late 2022 launch, everyday people have formed emotional connections to chatbots, describing them as deep friendships and even life partnerships.

Treedepth and 2-treedepth in graphs with no long induced paths
J\k{e}drzej Hodor, Freddie Illingworth, Tomasz Mazur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04445 https://

Treedepth and 2-treedepth in graphs with no long induced paths
Huynh, Joret, Micek, Seweryn, and Wollan (Combinatorica, 2022) introduced a graph parameter, later referred to as 2-treedepth and denoted $\mathrm{td}_2(\cdot)$. The parameter is the natural 2-connected version of treedepth. For every graph, 2-treedepth is at most the treedepth but can be much smaller: long paths have arbitrary treedepth but 2-treedepth equal to 2. We prove a converse, showing that every graph $G$ with no induced path on $t$ vertices has treedepth less than $2 \cdot t^{\mathrm{…

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

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

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…

2022 waren wir mit der Schachtour in Schweinfurt im Wildpark an den Eichen und haben dort geholfen, ein Blitzturnier zu veranstalten. Neben Flyern, Luftballons etc. war auch hier natürlich zur Freude aller Kinder wieder Chessy am Start. Und auch unsere "Morphs" waren mit dabei, sodass man gegen anonyme Gegner Schach spielen konnte.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:

🇺🇦 #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

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 19 nodes and 172 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Critical points of random polynomials and finite free cumulants
Octavio Arizmendi, Andrew Campbell, Katsunori Fujie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08910 https:…

Critical points of random polynomials and finite free cumulants
A result of Hoskins and Steinerberger [Int. Math. Res. Not., (13):9784-9809, 2022] states that repeatedly differentiating a random polynomials with independent and identically distributed mean zero and variance one roots will result, after an appropriate rescaling, in a Hermite polynomial. We use the theory of finite free probability to extend this result in two natural directions: (1) We prove central limit theorems for the fluctuations around these deterministic limits for the polynomials and…

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

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

Extendability of $1$-decomposable complexes
Rhea Ghosal, Melody Han, Benjamin Keller, Scarlett Kerr, Justin Liu, SuHo Oh, Ryan Tang, Chloe Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04555 …

Extendability of $1$-decomposable complexes
A well-known conjecture of Simon (1994) states that any pure $d$-dimensional shellable complex on $n$ vertices can be extended to $Δ_{n-1}^{(d)}$, the $d$-skeleton of the $(n-1)$-dimensional simplex, by attaching one facet at a time while maintaining shellability. The notion of $k$-decomposability for simplicial complexes, which generalizes shellability, was introduced by Provan and Billera (1980). Coleman, Dochtermann, Geist, and Oh (2022) showed that any pure $d$-dimensional $0$-decomposab…

Improving Student-AI Interaction Through Pedagogical Prompting: An Example in Computer Science Education
Ruiwei Xiao, Xinying Hou, Runlong Ye, Majeed Kazemitabaar, Nicholas Diana, Michael Liut, John Stamper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19107

Improving Student-AI Interaction Through Pedagogical Prompting: An Example in Computer Science Education
With the proliferation of large language model (LLM) applications since 2022, their use in education has sparked both excitement and concern. Recent studies consistently highlight students' (mis)use of LLMs can hinder learning outcomes. This work aims to teach students how to effectively prompt LLMs to improve their learning. We first proposed pedagogical prompting, a theoretically-grounded new concept to elicit learning-oriented responses from LLMs. To move from concept design to a proof-of-co…

Ritual Cultures of Medieval Religious Women (Hybrid Conference), 14-15 July 2025
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Anomalous Bulk Current in Quantum Hall Systems with an Expanding Edge
Yuuki Sugiyama, Tokiro Numasawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20338 https://

Anomalous Bulk Current in Quantum Hall Systems with an Expanding Edge
Understanding topological phases of matter is essential for advancing both the fundamental theory and practical applications of condensed matter physics. Recently, a theoretical framework for a quantum Hall system with an expanding edge state was proposed [Phys. Rev. D {\bf 105}, 105009 (2022)], revealing the existence of an energy flux analogous to Hawking radiation on the edge. Motivated by this work, we extend the analysis to a model of a $(2+1)$-dimensional spacetime that includes both the …

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…

Let Life Continue – “Requiem for a Stranger” Revisited #inspiration #music https://muz4now.com/2022/let-l…

Let Life Continue - "Requiem for a Stranger" Revisited
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Flashback zur Designierung von Gerhard Karner zum Innenminister im Dezember 2021, durch die das Dollfußmuseum im Texingtal in den Fokus & Kritik der Öffentlichkeit geriet.
Was seitdem geschah: Das Museum wurde 2022 geschlossen, Dollfuß' Nachfahren haben jedoch kritische Auseinandersetzung mit den Exponaten in der Region verhindert.
#FlashbackFriday #Karner #GerhardKarner #Dollfuß #EngelbertDollfuss #Texingtal #Österreich

How Ukrainian teens are training for war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/how-ukrainian-teens-are-training.html

And just to emphasize the point, we don’t use our car lightly.
We have gone on numerous road trips including from the Pacific to the Atlantic cross Canada in 2022. We have a hitch on the Kona that I use to pull a trailer for everthing from camping, to road trips, to hauling a yard of soil or rock.
We have certainly had some maintenance costs for the Kona. Some regular (brakes, after 150,000), checkups, 12V battery twice, etc. and some self inflicted (alignment and back shocks due to trailering). Visits to the dealer are your standard $500 to $2000 affair once a year. We have a second set of rims for the winter tires. We have bought 2 new sets of tires, one winter, one all season. The all seasons will be replaced after this summer.
The main battery was replaced under recall in February 2022 (before our road trip) at about 50,000km so we have a slightly newer battery than the car but not significantly, and we have not noticed any degradation in charge life.
On this day in 2022 we were visiting Wanuskewin, Saskatchewan just outside Saskatoon on our way back. We stopped to charge in Saskatoon, North Battleford, Lloydminster and Vegreville on the way to the West Edmonton Mall that day :)
#EV #ElectricCar #cost #electricity #bchydro #bcpoli #endfossilfuels

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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…

Research Symposium: Ritual Cultures of Medieval Religious Women (HYBRID)
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Put the Q In Jazz #NowPlaying #improv #jazz #nowplaying

Put the Q In Jazz #NowPlaying
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