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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

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,070,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Predicting and Explaining Traffic Crash Severity Through Crash Feature Selection
Andrea Castellani, Zacharias Papadovasilakis, Giorgos Papoutsoglou, Mary Cole, Brian Bautsch, Tobias Rodemann, Ioannis Tsamardinos, Angela Harden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11504

Predicting and Explaining Traffic Crash Severity Through Crash Feature Selection
Motor vehicle crashes remain a leading cause of injury and death worldwide, necessitating data-driven approaches to understand and mitigate crash severity. This study introduces a curated dataset of more than 3 million people involved in accidents in Ohio over six years (2017-2022), aggregated to more than 2.3 million vehicle-level records for predictive analysis. The primary contribution is a transparent and reproducible methodology that combines Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) and explain…

tror inte så många utanför redovisningsvärlden fattar hur stort sie-formatet är https://sie.se/sie-fyller-30-ar-2022/

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…

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…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,098,380 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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

The impact of Alfvenic shear flow on magnetic reconnection and turbulence
Tamar Ervin, Alfred Mallet, Stefan Eriksson, Marc Swisdak, James Juno, Orlando M. Romeo, Tai Phan, Trevor A. Bowen, Roberto Livi, Phyllis L. Whittlesey, Davin E. Larson, Stuart D. Bake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12608

The impact of Alfvenic shear flow on magnetic reconnection and turbulence
Magnetic reconnection is a fundamental and omnipresent energy conversion process in plasma physics. Novel observations of fields and particles from Parker Solar Probe (PSP) have shown the absence of reconnection in a large number of current sheets in the near-Sun solar wind. Using near-Sun observations from PSP Encounters 4 to 11 (Jan 2020 to March 2022), we investigate whether reconnection onset might be suppressed by velocity shear. We compare estimates of the tearing mode growth rate in the …

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

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

Fractal Analytics, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, files for an IPO in Mumbai to raise about $560M, and could value the company at over $3.5B (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Closed-form parameter estimation for the bivariate gamma distribution: New approaches
Roberto Vila, Helton Saulo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10794 https://a…

Closed-form parameter estimation for the bivariate gamma distribution: New approaches
We propose new closed-form estimators for the parameters of McKay's bivariate gamma distribution by exploiting monotone transformations of the likelihood equations. As a special case, our framework recovers the estimators recently introduced by Zhao et al. (2022) [Zhao, J., Jang, Y.-H., and Kim, H. (2022). Closed-form and bias-corrected estimators for the bivariate gamma distribution. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 191:105009]. Theoretical properties, including strong consistency and asympto…

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.

The HST Ultraviolet Spectrum of V723 Mon: Additional Evidence of a Stellar Companion
C. S. Kochanek (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University), K. Z. Stanek (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University), T. A. Thompson (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University), T. Jayasinghe (Independent Researcher)
https://arxi…

The HST Ultraviolet Spectrum of V723 Mon: Additional Evidence of a Stellar Companion
V723 Mon is a high mass function (f=1.7Msun) single lined spectroscopic binary with a red giant primary that Jayasinghe et al. (2021) suggested had a black hole as its massive companion. Unfortunately, el-Badry et al. (2022) demonstrated that it had a hotter stellar companion whose detectability in optical spectra was difficult due to its rapid rotation. Here we confirm the presence of the stellar companion with a Hubble Space Telescope STIS ultraviolet spectrum.

Search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and $13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12598

Search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13$ TeV and $13.6$ TeV with the ATLAS detector
A search for the Higgs boson decay to a $Z$ boson and a photon in the $\ell\ellγ$ ($\ell = e, μ$) final state is performed using $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13.6$ TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider during 2022-2024, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 165 fb$^{-1}$. The signal yield, normalised to the Standard Model prediction, is measured to be $μ=0.9^{+0.7}_{-0.6}$, compared to an expected value of $μ=1.0\pm0.7$. This corresponds to an observed (ex…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1071459 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
The Cribs:
🎵 Men's Needs
#TheCribs
https://thecribs.bandcamp.com/album/men-s-needs-women-s-needs-whatever-2022-definitive-edition
https://open.spotify.com/track/3qel23hQWhHT3qGewBQ0pE

Lettland fordert mehr als 800 Russen zur Ausreise auf
Die Migrationsbehörde in Lettland hat 841 russische Staatsbürger aufgefordert, das baltische EU- und NATO-Land bis zum 13. Oktober zu verlassen. Dies sagte Behördenleiterin Maira Roze in einem Bericht des lettischen Fernsehens. Hintergrund sind Änderungen im Ausländerrecht, die im Herbst 2022 als Reaktion auf Russlands Angriffskrieg gegen die Ukraine beschlossen wurden. Si…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland greift ukrainische Energieanlage an ++
Das russische Militär hat ukrainischen Angaben zufolge bei neuen Luftangriffen ein Wärmekraftwerk in der Region Kiew attackiert. Außenminister Wadephul betonte, Deutschland werde sich an Sicherheitsgarantien für die Ukraine beteiligen.

How To Tune Your Piano #musicianresources https://muz4now.com/2022/how-to-tune-your-piano

How To Tune Your Piano
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter's Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election
Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Alexandros Efstratiou, Jevin D. West, Emma S. Spiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09826

The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter's Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election
Social media platforms shape users' experiences through the algorithmic systems they deploy. In this study, we examine to what extent Twitter's content recommender, in conjunction with a user's social network, impacts the topic, political skew, and reliability of information served on the platform during a high-stakes election. We utilize automated accounts to document Twitter's algorithmically curated and reverse chronological timelines throughout the U.S. 2022 midterm election. We find that t…

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

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

Starting watching Barbarian, from 2022 (again) as it's leaving Netflix August 31. I just couldn't get it started before, thanks to my late night movie sessions where I often just pass out 😂 How many days will it take to get through this one, breaking it up into pieces - we shall see
https://boxd.it/aHmXKj…

A diary entry for Barbarian (2022)

First article of mine published in TanahAir.net, and the first one in Indonesian in several months!
Pengaruh pertumbuhan LNG Cina pada rencana energi Asia Tenggara
https://tanahair.net/id/pengaruh-pertumbuhan-lng-cina-pada-rencana-energi-asia-te…

Last week, the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that
people who enter the country without authorization must be detained throughout their removal proceedings
-- a process that can take years.
The decision stems from the case of Jonathan Javier Yajure Hurtado,
a Venezuelan citizen who entered the United States in 2022.
In 2024, he was granted Temporary Protected Status, which expired in April;
He was subsequently arrested.
At…

DOJ Board Says Millions of Immigrants Can Be Jailed During Removal Proceedings
The ruling would force immigrants to litigate their cases — a process that could take years — while being detained.

PDE-Based Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Event Spread, with Application to COVID-19 Infection
Mengqi Cen, Xuejing Meng, X. Joan Hu, Juxin Liu, Jianhong Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13174

PDE-Based Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Event Spread, with Application to COVID-19 Infection
We extended the Wikle's Bayesian hierarchical model based on a diffusion-reaction equation [Wikle, 2003] to investigate the COVID-19 spatio-temporal spread events across the USA from Mar 2020 to Feb 2022. Our model incorporated an advection term to account for the intra-state spread trend. We applied a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method to obtain samples from the posterior distribution of the parameters. We implemented the approach via the collection of the COVID-19 infections across the st…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Überwachung: Strafverfolger setzen erneut mehr Staatstrojaner ein

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

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

Wintertime Cross-correlational Structures between Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and Atmospheric-and-Oceanic Fields in the East/Japan Sea Under Arctic Oscillation
Gyuchang Lim, JongJin Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10233

Wintertime Cross-correlational Structures between Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and Atmospheric-and-Oceanic Fields in the East/Japan Sea Under Arctic Oscillation
The winter Arctic Oscillation (AO) modulates East Asian climate and the East/Japan Sea (EJS), yet local, scale-dependent air-sea couplings linking atmosphere, ocean and sea-surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) remain unclear. Using 30 years of daily fields (1993--2022), we compute detrended fluctuation/cross-correlation metrics over 5--50-day scales at every grid: the Hurst exponent ($H$), the cross-Hurst exponent ($λ$), and the DCCA coefficient ($ρ_{DCCA}$). Significance is assessed with ite…

📸 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…

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

Hm?!
A poll dated november 2022 ended now?!
How?! The most the polls I've got access to can last is one week.
(yeah, I know, different software, maybe even some own fork tweaked by the guy who put it out there)
Or more importantly, why? I mean... what's the point of having a poll up for almost 3 years?

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 …

Characterizations of weak almost ${\mathcal S}$-manifolds with curvature properties
Sourav Nayak, Dhriti Sundar Patra, Vladimir Rovenski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08871 https:/…

Characterizations of weak almost ${\mathcal S}$-manifolds with curvature properties
The interest of geometers in $f$-structures is motivated by the study of the dynamics of contact foliations, as well as their applications in physics. A weak $f$-structure on a smooth manifold, introduced by V. Rovenski and R. Wolak (2022), generalizes K. Yano's (1961) $f$-structure. This generalization allows us to revisit classical theory and discover new applications related to Killing vector fields, totally geodesic foliations, Ricci-type solitons, and Einstein-type metrics. In this paper, …

29.08.2022
https://www.heise.de/news/Kommentar-Das-Videoident-Verfahren-ist-unsicher-und-ueberfluessig-7238140.html
Die Gematik heute so:
08.08.2025

Kommentar: Das Videoident-Verfahren ist unsicher – und überflüssig
Die Sicherheit des Videoident-Dienstes wird immer mehr angezweifelt, gleichzeitig stellt sich die Frage, ob der E-Perso eine gute Alternative bietet.

"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.

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

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.…

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

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

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…

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

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.

Love's Shifting Nature
- instrumental music inspired by grief -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2022/loves-shifting-nature-nowplaying/

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

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

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

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…

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.

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

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

Six Minutes of Med-ness (2022-08) - Ambient Mediterranean beach at dusk at Marseillan Plage. #fieldRecording #beach #Mediterranean -

Six Minutes of Med-ness (2022-08)
Ambient Mediterranean beach at dusk at Marseillan Plage. #fieldRecording #beach #Mediterranean

Jupiter's UV auroral response to a magnetospheric compression event: #Juno spacecraft data suggest an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere in December 2022, caused by the solar wind, briefly brightened the ultraviolet light displays.

Luminate: Apple TV has all but abandoned animated shows, ordering just six animated series in 2024, a 60% drop compared to 15 orders each in 2022 and 2023 (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Where Did All the Apple TV+ Animation Go?
Even with its 'Peanuts' rights, the Apple SVOD service has seemingly all but abandoned cartoons.

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.

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

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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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…

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

Cyberattacks against schools driven by a rise in student hackers, ICO warns https://therecord.media/cyberattacks-against-schools-driven-by-student-hackers

Digital Transformation and Corporate Financial Asset Allocation: Evidence from China
Yundan Guo, Han Liang, Li Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09095 https://

Digital Transformation and Corporate Financial Asset Allocation: Evidence from China
Against the backdrop of rapid technological advancement and the deepening digital economy, this study examines the causal impact of digital transformation on corporate financial asset allocation in China. Using data from A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2022, we construct a firm-level digitalization index based on text analysis of annual reports and differentiate financial asset allocation into long-term and short-term dimensions. Employing fixed-effects models and a staggered difference-i…

I somehow stumbled upon the most arthouse film I can think of:
☑️filmed on analog film stock
☑️very slow pacing but still has jarring editing decisions
☑️scenes with inharmonious violin music
☑️scenes without any sound at all
☑️topless woman
☑️bondage scenes
☑️dream-like scenes
☑️woman growing an actual horse tail 😳
htt…

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…

A proof of Witten's asymptotic expansion conjecture for WRT invariants of Seifert fibered homology spheres
J{\o}rgen Ellegaard Andersen, Li Han, Yong Li, William Elb{\ae}k Misteg{\aa}rd, David Sauzin, Shanzhong Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10678

A proof of Witten's asymptotic expansion conjecture for WRT invariants of Seifert fibered homology spheres
Let $X$ be a general Seifert fibered integral homology $3$-sphere with $r\ge3$ exceptional fibers. For every root of unity $ζ\not=1$, we show that the SU(2) WRT invariant of $X$ evaluated at $ζ$ is (up to an elementary factor) the non-tangential limit at $ζ$ of the GPPV invariant of $X$, thereby generalizing a result from [Andersen-Mistegard 2022]. Based on this result, we apply the quantum modularity results developed in [Han-Li-Sauzin-Sun 2023] to the GPPV invariant of $X$ to prove Witten'…

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

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

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

‘Competition brings down charging prices in Nordics’
Clear BloombergNEF graph shows that #EV fast-charging prices in markets with a higher share of EVs are also more competitive.
This and other insights in this short video:

#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

La pression et les boycotts peuvent fonctionner
Premier Tech s’attend Š un nouveau nom sans « Israel »
https://www.lapresse.ca/sports/cyclisme/2025-09-23/equipe-israel-premier-tech/premier-t…

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

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

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

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
Mykola Makhortykh, Aytalina Kulichkina, Kateryna Maikovska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11746

Evolution of wartime discourse on Telegram: A comparative study of Ukrainian and Russian policymakers' communication before and after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study examines elite-driven political communication on Telegram during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war, the first large-scale European war in the social media era. Using a unique dataset of Telegram public posts from Ukrainian and Russian policymakers (2019-2024), we analyze changes in communication volume, thematic content, and actor engagement following Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. Our findings show a sharp increase in Telegram activity after the invasion, particularly among ruling…

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

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

A look at newsletter-first publisher The European Correspondent, which launched in 2022, got a €2.1M grant from the EU in June, and has almost 70K subscribers (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/newsletters

Newsletter-based publisher gets huge boost from European Commission grant
The European Correspondent is aiming become self-sustaining through reader donations with a grant from the European Commission in June.

16WW Eddi PV DHW Diverter Export Margin Analysis (2022-08) - Chosing a more grid-friendly value for the Export Margin based on 3 years' export data. #simulation #gridFriendly #diversion - …

16WW Eddi PV DHW Diverter Export Margin Analysis (2022-08)
Chosing a more grid-friendly value for the Export Margin based on 3 years export data. #simulation #gridFriendly #diversion

On the estimation of solar wind velocity under varying solar activity conditions using Akatsuki measurements
Keshav Aggarwal, R. K. Choudhary, Abhirup Datta, Takeshi Imamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06381

On the estimation of solar wind velocity under varying solar activity conditions using Akatsuki measurements
We present an analysis of solar wind dynamics based on Doppler spectral width measurements of X-band radio signals from the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft. The dataset includes two solar conjunction occultation experiments conducted in 2016 and 2022, capturing the transition from the descending phase of Solar Cycle 24, a period of low solar activity, to the ascending phase of Solar Cycle 25, which exhibited moderate to intense activity. Our study demonstrates the utility of this technique for est…

In 2022, Oregonians narrowly passed Measure 111,
⭐️amending their constitution and guaranteeing affordable health care as a fundamental right to every resident of the state.
Through years of organizing, coalition building and planning,
💥Oregon may enact its Universal Health Plan as early as fall 2027. 
In the face of extreme Medicaid cuts from the Trump administration
-- which will leave roughly 16 million people without health coverage by 2034
-- a state-l…

Could Oregon chart the course for universal health care in the US?
Oregon is on the verge of enacting a single-payer health care plan, but continued organizing is needed to secure this historic victory.

Arctic Oscillation Modulation of Winter Air-Sea Coupling in the East/Japan Sea: Persistence, Timescales, and Extremes
Gyuchang Lim, JongJin Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09628

Arctic Oscillation Modulation of Winter Air-Sea Coupling in the East/Japan Sea: Persistence, Timescales, and Extremes
The winter climate of the East/Japan Sea (EJS) is strongly affected by the Arctic Oscillation (AO), yet how AO polarity reshapes the memory, coupling patterns, and predictability of sea-surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) remains poorly quantified. Using 30 winters (1993--2022) of daily OISST and ERA5 fields, we combine multivariate Maximum Covariance Analysis (MCA) with an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck (OU)-like integration of atmospheric principal components (PCs). The leading coupled mode explains 87…

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…

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

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

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
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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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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,079,630 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/28/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,082,990 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

The Importance of In-Person Inspiration https://muz4now.com/2022/the-importance-of-in-person-inspiration/

The Importance of In-Person Inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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 1,110,560 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/30/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,082,140 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/31/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Nachtrag: Änderung der Berechnung bezüglich https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/115237785779609825.
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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,080,480 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/29/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1104581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,104,550 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/24/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Nachtrag: Änderung der Berechnung bezüglich https://mastodon.online/@tinoeberl/115236719296242946.
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