2022 retro-link! https://raphlinus.github.io/curves/2022/09/09/parallel-beziers.html - Parallel curves of cubic Béziers.

The Wayback Machine never forgets...
"The BadgerPundit account went private sometime in late 2022, but CNN was able to access the since-removed public tweets by using the Wayback Machine, an internet archive."
Exclusive: Key figure in fake electors plot concealed damning posts on secret Twitter account from investigators
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/26/politics/kenneth-chesebro-secret-twitter-account-kfile/index.html

Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor #EDPS , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on #bigtech , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

I didn't realize so many Quick Build projects were failing this badly to reduce injury crashes. On some of these streets I *feel* safer since the changes, but the numbers don't lie. These are failures and SF must reevaluate its whole approach. Concrete > flex posts
https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/sf-vi

Vision Zero lacks a vision, experts say
As San Francisco hit the 10-year anniversary of its 2014 “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities, the effort has failed: Nearly as many

Harvey Weinstein's accusers slam the 4-3 court decision overturning his 2020 conviction; he remains jailed due to his 2022 Los Angeles trial conviction (Jordan Moreau/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/harvey-weinst…

Harvey Weinstein Accusers React to Overturned Conviction: 'Unjust'
Harvey Weinstein's accusers react to his rape conviction being overturned, calling it "profoundly unjust."

Ukrainischer Landwirtschaftsminister soll in U-Haft
Der ukrainische Landwirtschaftsminister Mykola Solskyj muss wegen Korruptionsvorwürfen in Untersuchungshaft. Laut Gerichtsbeschluss müsste der Politiker rund 1,9 Millionen Dollar an Kaution zahlen, um einer Inhaftierung zu entgehen.
Solskyj soll in der Zeit vor seinem Amtsantritt 2022 an illegalem Erwerb von staatlichem Grund im Wert von insgesamt rund sieben Millionen Doll…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Neue US-Militärhilfe für die Ukraine ++
Die USA haben ein neues milliardenschweres Militärhilfepaket für die Ukraine zugesagt. Wegen befürchteter russischer Angriffe lässt Kiew zwei Krankenhäuser evakuieren. Alle Entwicklungen vom Freitag zum Nachlesen.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
"EU Voice and EU Video will be officially closed on 18 May 2024"
https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publicati

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

The monkey’s paw curls. https://mstdn.social/@Skepticat/112329277502617703

The Direct Selling Accelerator Podcast
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Direct Selling Accelerator | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Direct Selling Accelerator Podcast Host: Samantha Hind Category: Business Sub-Category: Marketing & Social Media First Episode: 2022 The Direct Selling Accelerator podcast…

#Gaming

A reminder that back in 2022, the FCC could have tried to block Musk’s purchase of Twitter.
And Republican FCC commissioner Brandon Carr rejected calls for the FCC to act.
Twitter is now a rightwing cesspool, and Republicans want it that way. /1

I didn't realize so many Quick Build projects were failing this badly to reduce injury crashes. On some of these streets I *feel* safer since the changes, but the numbers don't lie. These are failures and SF must reevaluate its whole approach. Concrete > flex posts
https://missionlocal.org/2024/03/sf-vi

Vision Zero lacks a vision, experts say
As San Francisco hit the 10-year anniversary of its 2014 “Vision Zero” plan to eliminate all traffic fatalities, the effort has failed: Nearly as many

Japan's FTC says Google blocked Yahoo Japan from accessing targeted ad revenue from mobile searches between 2015 and 2022; Alphabet changed its practices (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Japan Watchdog Says Google Hurt Local Rival’s Ability to Compete
Japanese antitrust regulator said Alphabet Inc.’s Google used tactics that limited Yahoo Japan’s ability to compete in targeted search ads, and it promised to keep monitoring the US firm.

Apparently even the European Data Protection Supervisor #EDPS , can't find the funds for it's mastodon servers. Which is bizar if you think about all the "talk" about not relying on #bigtech , a more independent EU, open standards, security, importance of reliable information etc.

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

Sticky scroll looks like a brilliant idea (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/editor-sticky-scroll?view=vs-2022)

About the Editor Sticky Scroll feature - Visual Studio (Windows)
Use the Sticky Scroll feature in Visual Studio to quickly view code scopes at the top of the editor, which helps you stay in the right context while you code.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
If they could, what would your pet toot? Let's play!
#TootsFromPets

General Staff: Russia has lost 459,530 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/21/general-staff-russia.html

Harvey Weinstein's accusers slam the 4-3 court decision overturning his 2020 conviction; he remains jailed due to his 2022 Los Angeles trial conviction (Jordan Moreau/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/harvey-weinst…

Harvey Weinstein Accusers React to Overturned Conviction: 'Unjust'
Harvey Weinstein's accusers react to his rape conviction being overturned, calling it "profoundly unjust."

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

Posit

No one buys books -- In 2022, Penguin Random House wanted to buy Simon & Schuster. (Elle Griffin/The Elysian)
https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
http://www.memeorandum.com/240423/p46#a240423p46

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
"EU Voice and EU Video will be officially closed on 18 May 2024"
https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publicati

EDPS decentralised social media pilot: the end of a successful story
Two years ago, the EDPS embarked on a pioneering journey to launch two social media platforms, EU Voice and EU Video. The pilot project has proved successful in delivering alternative, privacy-friendly and user-focused social media platforms. It is time to review the results.On 28 April 2022, ...

Leonard Leo, the wealthy neo-conservative Catholic puppet master.
Leo has funded 60 of over 80 #Project2025 initial advisory groups,
including over half the Advisory Board in 2022,
using hard-to-track dark money.
Leo's world is a tight knit, overlapping network of friends, Christian Right activists,
and GOP lawyers at The

Project 2025: Leonard Leo Funded Scheme
Project 2025: Leonard Leo's Scheme To Impose A Christian Dictatorship

NFC Contender May Trade For 1,100-Yard Starter https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfc_contender_may_trade_for_1100_yard_starter/s1_17198_40276293

"After union membership peaked in the 1950s at 1/3 of the US workforce.. overall income inequality was close to its lowest level since its peak before the Great Depression, and was continuing to fall. Over the subsequent decades, union membership steadily declined, while income #inequality began to steadily rise after a trough in the 1970s. In 2022, union membership plateaued at 10%, while…

Labor Unions and the U.S. Economy
By Laura Feiveson, Deputy Assistant Secretary for MicroeconomicsToday, the Treasury Department released a first-of-its-kind report on labor unions, highlighting the evidence that unions serve to strengthen the middle class and grow the economy at large. Over the last half century, middle-class households have experienced stagnating wages, rising income volatility, and reduced intergenerational mobility, even as the economy as a whole has prospered. Unions can improve the well-being of middle-c…

Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Predicting the Next Targets of Activist Funds
Minwu Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16169 https://

Interpretable Machine Learning Models for Predicting the Next Targets of Activist Funds
This work develops a predictive model to identify potential targets of activist investment funds, which strategically acquire significant corporate stakes to drive operational and strategic improvements and enhance shareholder value. Predicting these targets is crucial for companies to mitigate intervention risks, for activists to select optimal targets, and for investors to capitalize on associated stock price gains. Our analysis utilizes data from the Russell 3000 index from 2016 to 2022. We …

Then there was SB239 from 2022, which came through my committee: https://cooljeanius.github.io/my_tweetback_archive/1512069339599409170/

DemLabs explains how to Create your own Rapid Response GIF. He aims this at Dem candidates with low budgets, but we can all use these steps.
#BlueWaveRising #MTPol

How to create your own rapid response campaign GIF
GIFs work well for campaigns because condense your message and call to action into seconds. 

The definitive study of age-gap relationships was done by these UMass researchers
It is a thorough and comprehensive meta study.
They found nothing alarming about teens sometimes having sex partners 10 years older than themselves.
full text:

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/witness-the-glory-of-the-2024-european-tree-of-the-year-from-poland/

Witness the Glory of the 2024 European Tree of the Year – Growing in Poland for 2,000 Years
Thought to be 2,000 years old, The Heart of the Garden is the third Polish tree in a row to win, following up a pair oaks in 2023 and 2022.

2022 retro-link! https://probablydance.com/2022/09/17/finding-the-second-bug-in-glibcs-condition-variable/ - Finding a second bug in glibc’s condition variable with TLA .

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.05137 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

On the Existence of Balancing Allocations and Factor Point Processes
In this article, we show that every stationary random measure on $\mathbb R^d$ that is essentially free (i.e., has no symmetries a.s.) admits a point process as a factor (i.e., as a measurable and translation-equivariant function of the measure). As a result, we improve the results of Last and Thorisson (2022) on the existence of a factor balancing allocation between ergodic pairs of stationary random measures $Φ$ and $Ψ$ with equal intensities. In particular, we prove that such an allocation…

Wordle 1,035 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🎉FINALLY! 🎉 After almost 2 years (since July 2022) of using the same starter word, it finally was the word of the day! My first and only first-guess win.
(The side effect is that now I need a new starter word! 😃)
#Wordle

Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024 (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/4aE21dk

As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters
Meta’s shift away from politics is forcing campaigns to change their outreach tactics, transforming the 2024 election.

Ex-RB Lynch reaches plea deal in 2022 DUI case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39570850/ex-rb-marshawn-lynch-reaches-plea-deal-2022-dui-case

Ex-RB Marshawn Lynch reaches plea deal in 2022 DUI case - ESPN
Marshawn Lynch submitted to a DUI charge on Wednesday, but the case will be closed as a reckless driving offense pending his completion of certain conditions of a plea agreement, according to his attorneys.

Stellvertretender russischer Verteidigungsminister verhaftet
Ein stellvertretender russischer Verteidigungsminister ist unter dem Verdacht der Bestechlichkeit verhaftet worden. Das teilten die russischen Behörden mit. Der 48-jährige Timur Iwanow ist einer von zwölf Stellvertretern des russischen Verteidigungsministers Sergej Schoigu. Er wurde nach der russischen Invasion in die Ukraine im Jahr 2022 …
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Korruptionsvorwürfe: Russlands Vize-Verteidigungsminister festgenommen
In Russland steht einer von zwölf Stellvertretern des Verteidigungsministers Schoigu unter Korruptionsverdacht: Timur Iwanow, der auf Sanktionslisten der EU und der USA steht, soll Bestechungsgelder im großen Stil angenommen haben.

A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case (Michael Sisak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed2…

Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial overturned
New York’s highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction and ordered a new trial. The Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the judge at the disgraced movie mogul’s landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him with improper rulings, including by letting women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. The 72-year-old Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence in New York. He’ll remain imprisoned because a 2022 conviction in a Los Angeles rape case resulted in …

The spate of recent interviews on NPR of Rushdie are just brilliant. He may be the sanest man on the planet. https://press.coop/@NPR/112286764729718179

NPR :press: (@NPR@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Watch: Salman Rushdie on the moment he was attacked on stage, and why he felt lonely Salman Rushdie is a storyteller. So when you ask him to describe the day, in 2022, when he was attacked and nearly killed by a young man with a knife, Rushdie paints a vivid picture. #press https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1243745884/salman-rushdie-knife-attack-memoir?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

Einerseits: Ich kenne kaum ein Wissensgebiet, das mich weniger stark interessiert als Volkswirtschaftslehre. Andererseits: Ich wüsste wirklich gern, was hinter der enormen Dönerpreisinflation seit dem Jahr 2022 steckt, während nämlich gleichzeitig der Preis für Lahmacun STABIL bleibt.

Today is the second anniversary of Eric Boehlert's tragic and untimely death.
Soledad O’Brien celebrated Eric as "“an awesome human being" with a "Crazy devotion to facts, context and good reporting. Enemy of BS, fake news.”
https://

Post .news recently announced they are shutting down.
Back in 2022, when they launched, I predicted this.
Specifically, Post’s business plan was news micropayments. And I said that if they didn’t achieve monopoly power they couldn’t be profitable.
That proved true.

Thomas Rinsma got Doom working on a credit card swiper - attached here is a video of it. His blog post breaking down the process of porting it is wild: https://th0mas.nl/2022/07/18/porting-doom-to-a-payment-terminal

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
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#ComplimentAVillain

"Prison labor is big business in the United States. According to a 2022 ACLU report, Captive Labor: Exploitation of Incarcerated Workers, incarcerated workers save prisons more than $9 billion a year in operational costs and earn them more than $2 billion in sales of goods and services, while the prisoners make pennies per hour."
#Prison

Lawsuit: Alabama Is Denying Prisoners Parole to Lease Their Labor to Meatpackers, McDonalds
No parole if you’re still profitable.

Last night I updated my post “ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/03/ada-web-site-compliance-still-not-a-thing.html#Update09
Links to the DoJ release about making ADA apply to state &a…

ADA Web Site Compliance Still Not a Thing
Photo courtesy Steve Faulkner, taken outside the CSUNATC 2022 venue after we had chicken and rice, free from the food desert of the venue. Who has two thumbs and is not a lawyer? For years I have worked with clients who refer to digital/web accessibility as ADA work. They have…

A US appeals court overturns Harvey Weinstein's 2020 conviction, finding the trial judge let women testify about allegations that were not part of the case (Michael Sisak/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/weinstein-metoo-appeal-ed2…

Harvey Weinstein’s rape conviction from landmark #MeToo trial overturned
New York’s highest court has overturned Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction and ordered a new trial. The Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the judge at the disgraced movie mogul’s landmark #MeToo trial prejudiced him with improper rulings, including by letting women testify about allegations that weren’t part of the case. The 72-year-old Weinstein is serving a 23-year sentence in New York. He’ll remain imprisoned because a 2022 conviction in a Los Angeles rape case resulted in …

🎈 Sensor network shows EVs are reducing CO2 emissions in the Bay Area. Is it enough?
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-04-04/sensor-network-shows-evs-are-reducing-co2-emissions-in-th…

EVs are reducing CO2 emissions in the Bay Area. Is it enough?
Between 2018 and 2022, the Bay Area's carbon emissions fell by 1.8% each year, which Berkeley researchers attribute to drivers switching to electric vehicles.

On the Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves at Eisenstein primes
Francesc Castella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12644 https://arxiv.org/pd…

On the Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves at Eisenstein primes
These are expanded notes for the mini-course given by the author at the 2022 ICTS workshop `Elliptic curves and the special values of $L$-functions'.

Ni ne povas toleri la riĉulojn.
Egaleco necesas por daŭripovo. La popolo en pli egalaj societoj estas pli fidemaj kaj pli protektemaj de la medio, ol tiuj en neegalaj.
De 2020 al 2022, la plej riĉa 1% kaptis preskaŭ duoble el la nova monda riĉeco ol la alia 99 faris kune, kaj en 2019 ili elmetis tiom da karbona dioksido, kiom la plej malriĉaj du trionoj. En la jardeko ĝis 2022, la miliarduloj de la mondo pli ol duobligis iliajn riĉecon al US$ 12 mil miliardoj (12×10¹²)

Heute vor einem Jahr: Am 25. März 2023 kündigte Putin an, dass #Russland taktische #Kernwaffen in #Belarus stationieren werde. Bereits am 21.02.2023 suspendierte Putin die Teilnahme Russlands am New…

On 5th May 2022 I made a complaint to the DPC that the entire An Post/ GeoDirectory advertising database was in breach of GDPR.
On 17th July 2023, the DPC wrote to confirm it had opened a wideranging ‘own volition’ inquiry into the GeoDirectory database.
No further update has issued.

2022 retro-link! https://blog.apnic.net/2022/07/22/why-the-nro-is-defending-afrinic/ - Why the NRO is defending AFRINIC.

Interesting research: Long #COVID in a highly vaccinated but largely unexposed Australian population following the 2022 SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron wave: a cross‐sectional survey
ht…

"#Kohlekraftwerk #Mehrum geht endgültig vom Netz
Mehrum war das erste #Steinkohlekraftwerk, das im Zuge der

Kohlekraftwerk Mehrum geht nach Reservebetrieb endgültig vom Netz
Mehrum war das erste Steinkohlekraftwerk, das im Zuge der Energiekrise im August 2022 aus der Reserve zurückgeholt wurde, um Erdgas aus dem Markt zu verdrängen. Jetzt wird es endgültig stillgelegt.

Mystery solved!

#P4x #CyberSecurity #InfoSec @…

Wordle 1,035 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🎉FINALLY! 🎉 After almost 2 years (since July 2022) of using the same starter word, it finally was the word of the day! My first and only first-guess win.
(The side effect is that now I need a new starter word! 😃)
#Wordle

Reconstructed Electronic Structure in 2D vdW 1T-Ta$S_2$ for Quantum Sensing and Information Science
S. K. Behera, P. C. Ramamurthy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14932

Reconstructed Electronic Structure in 2D vdW 1T-Ta$S_2$ for Quantum Sensing and Information Science
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials that exhibit a diverse range of electronic structures, including charge density waves (CDWs) that can lead to insulating, semiconducting, metallic, and even superconducting phases. While the formation of CDWs in these systems has been recognized in early research [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 156401 (2022); Nat. Phys. 11, 328 (2015)], the underlying mechanisms driving the commensurate CDW (CCDW) phase remain …

Benediction
Last night we used Kanopy to watch this movie. The synopsis Kanopy provides is very brief. The link below takes you to a much more thorough review.
It deals with difficult subject matter
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/benediction-movi…

Benediction movie review & film summary (2022) | Roger Ebert
This is one of Davies’ best films, as equally detached as his earlier work yet brimming with emotions that are a little closer to the surface than we expect from him.

Police have also systematically failed domestic violence and sexual assault survivors while perpetrating those offenses themselves or enabling the violence in prisons. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/29/police-defund-abo…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10881 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Dirac walks on regular trees
The study of matter fields on an ensemble of random geometries is a difficult problem still in need of new methods and ideas. We will follow a point of view inspired by probability theory techniques that relies on an expansion of the two point function as a sum over random walks. An analogous expansion for Fermions on non-Euclidean geometries is still lacking. Casiday et al. [\textit{Laplace and Dirac operators on graphs}, Linear and Multilinear Algebra (2022) 1] proposed a classical "Dirac wal…

yes, a half-abandoned Mastodon branch with the revenue of a hot dog stand but the debt of a small country is definitely worth $6 billion

The billionaire energy executive who reigns over Koch Industries is known for playing the long game.
He bought up pipelines in advance of the fracking boom
— and waited calmly until they delivered billions in profits.
He invested in obscure, failing companies even though he knew that it would take years before they could add to his bottom line.
And he has been cautious as he’s ventured into new markets
— his empire now includes glass, pulp and paper, chemicals,…

How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
Decades of contributions aimed at influencing the judiciary bought fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch the EPA ruling he’s always wanted.

Media: Russian soldier charged for voluntary surrender for first time since mobilization introduced: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/11/media-russian-soldier.html

Has anyone managed to successfully titrate whelming?
Everyone talks about being over- or underwhelmed but nobody ever gets the whelm level just right so everyone's happy.

I’m very optimistic about November.
I agree with Simon R: in 2022, many races nationalized and put GOP extremism and democracy on the ballot. When that happened voters shifted to Dems.
That’s what I predict for Biden in Nov too.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/ms…

Biden’s 2024 chances are much stronger than people realize
Joe Biden has a strong record, Democrats keep winning elections and Trump has major new hurdles for 2024.

TikTok signs a deal with ticketing provider AXS to let users buy tickets to live events in the US, UK, and more; TikTok has had a Ticketmaster deal since 2022 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/tiktok-axs-concer…

TikTok Teams With AXS to Let Certified Artists Sell Concert Tickets
TikTok inked a partnership with ticketing provider AXS to let users of the popular video app discover and buy tickets to live events.

Einerseits: Ich kenne kaum ein Wissensgebiet, das mich weniger stark interessiert als Volkswirtschaftslehre. Andererseits: Ich wüsste wirklich gern, was hinter der enormen Dönerpreisinflation seit dem Jahr 2022 steckt, während nämlich gleichzeitig der Preis für Lahmacun STABIL bleibt.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Today is 'Refresh your goals' day. Let's play!
#FictionalCharacterGoals

Analysis: the 25 most-cited US news organizations lost 75% of their Facebook engagement and 58% of their Instagram interactions between Q1 2022 and Q1 2024 (Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/4aE21dk

As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters
Meta’s shift away from politics is forcing campaigns to change their outreach tactics, transforming the 2024 election.

“Today, the Court strips the EPA of the power Congress gave it to respond to ‘the most pressing environmental challenge of our time,’”
Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissenting opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer.
“Whatever else this Court may know about, ⭐️it does not have a clue about how to address climate change. ⭐️Yet the Court today prevents congressionally authorized agency action to curb power plants’ carbon dioxide emissions.
The Court app…

How Charles Koch Purchased the Supreme Court’s EPA Decision
Decades of contributions aimed at influencing the judiciary bought fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch the EPA ruling he’s always wanted.

Heute vor einem Jahr: Am 25. März 2023 kündigte Putin an, dass #Russland taktische #Kernwaffen in #Belarus stationieren werde. Bereits am 21.02.2023 suspendierte Putin die Teilnahme Russlands am New…

Let’s remember #AudioEye is a bully:
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/04/my-cease-desist-from-audioeye.html
Its

My Cease & Desist from AudioEye
On Tuesday April 5, 2022, a FedEx driver dropped off an overnight envelope from Manhattan. It contained a three page Cease & Desist letter from Cozen O’Connor, the law firm representing AudioEye, Inc. On Thursday April 14, 2022, I received a follow-up letter by the same delivery method. I scanned…

How OpenAI is preparing to fight lawsuits, investigations, and legislation: expanding its staff to 1,000 from 200 in 2022, hiring in-house lawyers, and more (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/09/openai-lawsui…

OpenAI prepares to fight for its life as legal troubles mount
OpenAI is playing defense amid a rush of lawsuits, investigations and potential legislation that threaten its goal of building the world’s most powerful AI.

Daddy daughter weekend fun in the lab.
Samples were an epoxy embedded rough-polished cross section of a rock we found in the backyard and an old Pentium 4 Willamette die that's seen better days.
She's still learning but I think is starting to get the basics of using the joystick. I don't trust her to focus quite yet, but with 5-20x LWD optics there's plenty of margin between properly focused and an objective crash so I'm not worried about her accidentally bump…

Georgia lawmaker runs secret election-conspiracy Telegram channel

A Fulton county commissioner in Georgia has been
operating a private Telegram channel for years,
propagating debunked claims about the 2020 election,
and spreading accusations of crimes by county employees,
including #Ruby #Freeman

2022 retro-link! https://www.pathsensitive.com/2022/09/bet-you-cant-solve-these-9-dependency.html - 9 puzzles to convince you you don't understand dependence.

IAB and PwC report on US digital ad sales in 2023: total revenue grew 7.3% YoY to $225B, digital video grew 10.6% to $52.1B, and digital audio grew 18.9% to $7B (Hana Yoo/AdExchanger)
https://www.adexchanger.com/online-adverti<…

Digital Ad Revenue Growth Decelerates Again in 2023, Per IAB Ad Revenue Report
US digital ad revenue grew at a slower rate in 2023 compared to 2022, according to the IAB/PwC Internet Advertising Revenue Report.

Daddy daughter weekend fun in the lab.
Samples were an epoxy embedded rough-polished cross section of a rock we found in the backyard and an old Pentium 4 Willamette die that's seen better days.
She's still learning but I think is starting to get the basics of using the joystick. I don't trust her to focus quite yet, but with 5-20x LWD optics there's plenty of margin between properly focused and an objective crash so I'm not worried about her accidentally bump…

In Photos: Balakliia in Kharkiv Oblast, 1.5 Years After Liberation From Russian Occupation : https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/01/in-photos-balakliia.html

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
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#OddCelebrityHabits

2022 retro-link! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo - From culinary dud to stud: …

Oceana: Amazon created 208M lbs of US plastic packaging waste in 2022, up 9.6% YoY: Amazon says it reduced plastic packaging use by 11.6% YoY globally in 2022 (Justine Calma/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/4/24118295/amazon-plasti…

Amazon still has a serious plastic waste problem in the US
Amazon’s plastic waste grew in the US even as the e-commerce giant made strides to reduce waste in other countries, a new report says.

A small New Mexico county on the Texas border may stand alone as the only place where the 14th amendment has been used in recent times to remove a government official from the ballot.
Couy Griffin, a county commissioner until 2022 in #Otero county, which has a population of around 69,000 people, became the first official in more than a century to be removed from office under the provision in the 14th a…

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#BackstabAFictionalCharacter

2022 retro-link! https://blog.janestreet.com/magic-trace/ - Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace.

Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote American isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukra…

Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
In a campaign stoking anti-Ukraine sentiment in the U.S., Russia-directed trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles and social media posts.

A profile of hacker P4x, aka Alejandro Caceres, who took down North Korea's internet in 2022 and says the US needs to wield its hacking powers more aggressively (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/p4x-north-korea-internet-hacker-iden…

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Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote American isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukra…

Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
In a campaign stoking anti-Ukraine sentiment in the U.S., Russia-directed trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles and social media posts.

2022 retro-link! https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2022/01/29/an-update-on-rust-coreutils - An update on rust/coreutils.

Cybertech Global and IVC: in 2023, Israeli cybersecurity exit deals grew by 65% YoY to $7.1B; total tech sector exits were ~$11B, down from $13.5B in 2022 (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cyberse

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2022 retro-link! https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/10/30/773457637/from-culinary-dud-to-stud-how-dutch-plant-breeders-built-our-brussels-sprouts-bo - From culinary dud to stud: …

Neil Young is bringing back his music to Spotify, after the removal in January 2022, saying "Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation" (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/business/streamin…

Neil Young Says His Music Is Returning to Spotify
Neil Young's music is returning to Spotify, says the singer-songwriter, who noted the end of the streamer's exclusive deal with Joe Rogan's podcast.

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The Tudor period occurred between 1485 and 1603. The Reformation happened. Henry the 8th got married a few times. Let's play!

Q&A with Evan Smith, Texas Tribune CEO from 2009 to 2022, on earned income in nonprofit journalism, sponsorship to fund news for marginalized people, and more (Richard J. Tofel/Second Rough Draft)
https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-texas-tribune-examp…

The Texas Tribune, Example or Exception?: A Candid Talk with Evan Smith About Earned Income
Events, sponsorship-- and why one size doesn't fit all

2022 retro-link! https://blog.janestreet.com/magic-trace/ - Magic-trace: Diagnosing tricky performance issues easily with Intel Processor Trace.

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Hostess has mashed up Zingers and Ding Dongs. I think we can do better. Let's play!
#MashUpFoodItemsAndNameIt