Tootfinder

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.

The Nightingale
#NowPlaying #PeaceNow
https://muz4now.com/2022/the-nightinga

The Nightingale #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

Put the Q In Jazz
- this 3-year-old album still holds up well - thanks for listening! -
#jazz #NowPlaying
https://

Put the Q In Jazz #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Texans' Nick Chubb relishing return to football after broken foot: 'It's been great getting back'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

The “sticker range” advertised on the lot for our new 2019 Hyundai Kona EV was 420km.
The battery was replaced under recall at around 40,000km in 2022 a couple months before we went on an epic 12,000km Pacific-Atlantic-Pacifc cross Canada adventure.
Fast forward to today. The car is at 226,000km and I am headed 225km down to Victoria to bring my wife home from the Airport.
Car is ready. 100% charge. 468km on the rangeOmeter. That is city driving so I don’t expect to get that range at highway speeds. I’ll top it up in Sydney before heading home. This was always our main criteria. Can we drive to Victoria comfortably.
Yep. No problem. Even 200,000km later!
Range anxiety is a myth foisted on you by the oil industry. They are gas lighting the world into believing we are the problem, evs are the problem, electric systems are the problem.
They are the problem. Them. Not us. Them. They need to end.
#ev #hyundai #endfossilfuels #rangeanxiety

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that "after two incredible years, I've decided to step down"; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/09/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-resigns…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino to step down
Yaccarino was the first permanent CEO after Elon Musk bought the social media platform in 2022.

Russia occupied less than 1% of Ukraine's territory since November 2022, monitoring group says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/russia-occupied-less-than-of.html

En Lettonie, le conflit en Ukraine ravive la guerre des mémoires entre russophones et lettophones
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/05/09/en-le…

En Lettonie, le conflit en Ukraine ravive la guerre des mémoires entre russophones et lettophones
Pour les uns, le 9 mai 1945 représente la défaite de l’Allemagne nazie face à l’Armée rouge, pour les autres, le début de « l’occupation » par l’URSS. En avril, le Parlement a interdit les rassemblements célébrant la victoire soviétique.

Yay, the German math and astronomy wizard Erhard Weigel - see #SolarEclipse map by Michael Zeiler during the final SEC talk, and it's already a pretty modern and clever one! 8/n - more tomorrow.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that "after two incredible years, I've decided to step down"; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/09/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-resigns…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino to step down
Yaccarino was the first permanent CEO after Elon Musk bought the social media platform in 2022.

The Rise of Particle Physics
S. Ting, H. Georgi, J. Iliopoulos, L. Maiani, A. De Rujula, L. Di Lella, S. Myers, F. Marion, M. Pierini, G. Martinelli, R. Barbieri, G. Battimelli, L. Bonolis, M. Greco, G. Parisi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14275

The Rise of Particle Physics
Discovery of the J Particle at Brookhaven National Laboratory and the Physics of Electrons and Positrons; The Standard Model Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; The Rise of Gauge Theories: From Many Models to One Theory; From Charm to CP Violation; When the Standard Model Was Ignored; The Discovery of the W and Z Bosons at the CERN Proton-Antiproton Collider; A Personal History of CERN Particle Colliders (1972-2022); The Age of Gravitational Wave Astronomy; Precision Physics in the Era of (HL)LHC; R…

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

📸 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…

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…

Assessing the Influence of Pavement Performance on Road Safety Through Crash Frequency and Severity Analysis
Prathyush Kumar Reddy Lebaku, Lu Gao, Jingran Sun, Xingju Wang, Xuejian Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16485

Assessing the Influence of Pavement Performance on Road Safety Through Crash Frequency and Severity Analysis
Road safety is impacted by a range of factors that can be categorized into human, vehicle, and roadway/environmental elements. This research explores the connection between pavement performance and road safety, particularly in relation to crash frequency and severity, using data from the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) for 2022. By merging crash data with pavement inventory data, we conduct a spatial analysis that incorporates the geographical coordinates of crash sites with the conditi…

An Optimized Franz-Parisi Criterion and its Equivalence with SQ Lower Bounds
Siyu Chen, Theodor Misiakiewicz, Ilias Zadik, Peiyuan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06259

An Optimized Franz-Parisi Criterion and its Equivalence with SQ Lower Bounds
Bandeira et al. (2022) introduced the Franz-Parisi (FP) criterion for characterizing the computational hard phases in statistical detection problems. The FP criterion, based on an annealed version of the celebrated Franz-Parisi potential from statistical physics, was shown to be equivalent to low-degree polynomial (LDP) lower bounds for Gaussian additive models, thereby connecting two distinct approaches to understanding the computational hardness in statistical inference. In this paper, we pro…

Canada : "Le coût estimé pour l’achat de 88 nouveaux F-35A auprès des États‑Unis a explosé de près de 50 % depuis 2022"
#F35 #défense

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…

Lawrow wirft Merz antirussische "Nazi-Parolen" vor
Moskaus Außenminister Sergej Lawrow hat Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz vorgeworfen, antirussische Losungen wie zu Nazi-Zeiten für eine Militarisierung Deutschlands zu nutzen. Es sei "völliger Unsinn", Russland als Gefahr zu bezeichnen, sagte Lawrow, dessen Land 2022 die Ukraine überfallen hatte, in der malaysischen Hauptstadt Kuala Lumpur. "Ich hoffe, dass jeder Politiker mit e…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj: USA nehmen Militärhilfe wieder auf ++
Die USA haben nach Angaben von Präsident Selenskyj ihre Hilfslieferungen für die Ukraine wieder aufgenommen. Der US-Sondergesandte Kellogg beginnt am Montag einen einwöchigen Besuch in der Ukraine.

Localisation and host galaxy identification of new Fast Radio Bursts with MeerKA
In\'es Pastor-Marazuela, Alexa C. Gordon, Ben Stappers, Ilya S. Khrykin, Nicolas Tejos, Kaustubh Rajwade, Manisha Caleb, Mayuresh P. Surnis, Laura N. Driessen, Sunil Simha, Jun Tian, J. Xavier Prochaska, Ewan Barr, Wen-Fai Fong, Fabian Jankowski, Lordrick Kahinga, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Michael Kramer, Lluis Mas-Ribas

Localisation and host galaxy identification of new Fast Radio Bursts with MeerKA
Accurately localising fast radio bursts (FRBs) is essential for understanding their birth environments and for their use as cosmological probes. Recent advances in radio interferometry, particularly with MeerKAT, have enabled the localisation of individual bursts with arcsecond precision. In this work, we present the localisation of 15 apparently non-repeating FRBs detected with MeerKAT. Two of the FRBs, discovered in 2022, were localised in 8 second images from the projects which MeerTRAP was …

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

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…

Jets extend Garrett Wilson: Predicting who else from New York's transformative 2022 NFL Draft will get the bag

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/je…

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

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

Soderle, und hier haben wir nun auch noch die kumulative Grafik mit der Anzahl der Balkonkraftwerke.
Hab noch den Endpunkt rangebastelt, damit man die Summe sieht.
Von der diese Woche vermeldeten Million sind wir zumindest offiziell noch etwas entfernt, wobei Sebastian ja von einer hohen Dunkelziffer ausgeht.
Wieso haben wir eigentlich eine Dunkelziffer? Faulheit? Ungenehmigt?
#Balkonkraftwerke

I didn't know that the value of IPv4 addresses peaked in 2022 and now appears to be declining.
Everyone sitting on a big chunk of IPv4 space is now holding a depreciating asset. If I were them I'd be minded to accelerate their own IPv6 transition in order to sell it off.
But I'd suggest that regardless.
https://ipv4a-5539a…

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

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
P. Pietrukowicz, M. Latour, F. Di Mille, M. Dorsch, U. Heber, J. Borowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08372

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
We have obtained spectroscopic observations for four short-period variable objects detected in ZTF, Gaia, and Pan-STARRS (ZGP) data and classified as Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) in McWhirter and Lam (2022): ZGP-BLAP-03, ZGP-BLAP-04, ZGP-BLAP-10, and ZGP-BLAP-15. The variables have periods between 46 and 56 min, full amplitudes of 0.13-0.22 mag in the $r$ band, and light curve shapes typical for radially pulsating stars. Three of them were found at high galactic latitudes (|$b$&#…

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
F. Marin, D. Hutsem\'ekers, S. Jorstad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08589 https://…

A new type-1 transition in NGC 1346 revealed by (spectro)polarimetry
We present the first photo- and spectropolarimetric observations of the changing-look active galactic nucleus NGC~1346 taken with the Perkins telescope (November 2022, March 2025) and VLT/FORS2 (August and September 2024), which have revealed a new spectral transition. We find that NGC~1346 has reverted to its former (2001) type-1 spectral state after having been a type-2 active galactic nucleus from 2004 to 2022. More and more intense broad H$β$ (3720 $\pm$ 310 km.s$^{-1}$ full width at half …

On the Earth's tidal perturbations. II. LARES 2 satellite
V. G. Gurzadyan, I. Ciufolini, H. G. Khachatryan, S. Mirzoyan, A. Paolozzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10310

On the Earth's tidal perturbations. II. LARES 2 satellite
Laser-ranging satellites have proved their efficiency in high precision testing of General Relativity and constraining modified gravity theories proposed to explain the dark sector and the cosmological tensions. The LARES 2 satellite launched in 2022, is currently providing improved information regarding the frame-dragging effect predicted by General Relativity, as well as the geodesy, thus essentially complementing the data of already existing laser-ranging satellites. The proper knowledge of …

Stat Counter: Windows 11 had a 50.9% share of the Windows market on July 4, ahead of Windows 10's 46.2%; the OS, released in 2021, only had a <10% share in 2022 (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Windows 11 is now the most popular desktop OS in the world — finally surpasses Windows 10 after 4 years
After four years on the market, Windows 11 has finally surpassed Windows 10 to become the most dominant desktop OS platform in the world.

"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…

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.…

🇺🇦 #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

IXPE Observations of the Blazar Mrk 501 in 2022: A Multiwavelength View
L. Lisalda, E. Gau, H. Krawczynski, F. Tavecchio, I. Liodakis, A. Gokus, N. Rodriguez Cavero, M. Nowak, M. Negro, R. Middei, M. Perri, S. Puccetti, S. G. Jorstad, I. Agudo, A. P. Marscher, B. Ag\'is-Gonz\'alez, A. V. Berdyugin, M. I. Bernardos, D. Blinov, G. Bonnoli, G. A. Borman, I. G. Bourbah, C. Casadio, V. Casanova, A. J. Castro-Tirado, E. Fern\'andez-Garc\'ia, M. Garc\'ia-Comas, T. S. Grish…

IXPE Observations of the Blazar Mrk 501 in 2022: A Multiwavelength View
The blazar Markarian 501 (Mrk 501) was observed on three occasions over a 4-month period between 2022 March and 2022 July with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). In this paper, we report for the first time on the third IXPE observation, performed between 2022 July 9 and 12, during which IXPE detected a linear polarization degree of $Π_X=6\pm2$ per cent at a polarization angle, measured east of north, of $Ψ_X=143^\circ\pm11^\circ$ within the 2-8 keV X-ray band. The X-ray polarizati…

📸 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…

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…

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…

49ers QB Brock Purdy on losing Deebo Samuel: 'It sucks' https://www.nfl.com/news/49ers-qb-brock-purdy-on-losing-deebo-samuel-it-sucks

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Update on the intermediate arrival-direction analyses of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Lorenzo Apollonio (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08544

Update on the intermediate arrival-direction analyses of the Pierre Auger Observatory
We present an update on the arrival-direction analyses conducted on intermediate angular scales using the complete Phase I data of the Pierre Auger Observatory up to the end of $2022$ with a total exposure of $135{,}000\,\text{km}^2\,\text{sr}\,\text{yr}$. We show the arrival-direction distribution of the ultra-high-energy cosmic rays along the supergalactic plane above $20\,\text{EeV}$, and an update in the search for magnetically-induced signatures in the arrival directions. Furthermore, we p…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20944 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDL_…

International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study explores the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the international collaboration of Ukrainian scholars. First and foremost, Ukrainian scholars deserve respect for continuing to publish despite life-threatening conditions, mental strain, shelling and blackouts. In 2022-2023, universities gained more from international collaboration than the NASU. The percentage of internationally co-authored articles remained unchanged for the NASU, while it increased for universitie…

Very interesting talks at the #SolarEclipse Conference - https://www.vvs.be/subsite/sec-2025/programme - in Belgium I am attending online: here is the key result by Luca Quaglia who had reported his work in great detail in the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ac1279 (2021), https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2022_2.pdf#page=3 (2022) and https://www.iota-es.de/JOA/JOA2024_4.pdf#page=3 (2024) already. There seems to be NO way by now to escape the conclusion the the solar - i.e. photospheric - diameter used by many in the past (and various eclipse map calculations sites still today) is too small. So everyone should use Quaglia's free precision tools at https://www.besselianelements.com instead to get the real length of totality at one's observing spot. And when you are observing at the edges of the totality zone the tools will tell you where the actual border is: traditional maps can the off by some margin! 1/n

Multi-wavelength analysis of FSRQ B2 1348 30B: Constraints on the jet power
Sajad Ahanger, Sunder Sahayanathan, Sitha K. Jagan, Shah Zahir, Naseer Iqbal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02821

Multi-wavelength analysis of FSRQ B2 1348+30B: Constraints on the jet power
We present 14.5-year multi-wavelength analysis of flat-spectrum radio quasar B2 1348+30B using Swift-UVOT, Swift-XRT, and Fermi-LAT observations. In the gamma-ray band, the 3 day bin lightcurve reveals two major flaring events on 2010-09-19 (55458 MJD) and 2022-05-26 (59725 MJD) detected at flux levels $(2.5\pm 0.5) \times 10^{-7}\,\rm{ph\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$ and $(5.2\pm 0.6) \times 10^{-7}\,\rm{ph\,cm^{-2}\,s^{-1}}$. The Bayesian block analysis of the flares suggested the variability timescale …