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Ukrainian colonel confirms alleged Nord Stream coordinator served in special operations during 2022 blast: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/22/ukrainian-colonel-confirms-alleged-nord.html

Frohe Weihnachten ;-)
https://sh.itjust.works/post/52138124

TIL in 2006 a Putin loyalist wrote a "fictional" novel accurately predicting Russia's future assault on Ukraine. In the novel, this escalates to WWIII followed by the surrender of the U.S. and Europe - sh.itjust.works
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52137801 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/52137801] > Originally Published in the Atlantic (March 2022) Article without paywall: > https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2022%2F03%2Fputin-kremlin-foreign-policy-strategy%2F629388%2F [https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fideas%2Farchive%2F2022%2F03%2Fputin-kremlin-foreign-policy-strategy%2F629388%2F] > > Put…

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#CoolFallDayAShowOrFilm

Old article, but I just came across it. Wonderful surrealist photographs.
A House Is Not a Home: the self-portraits of Brooke DiDonato – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/g

Added a zoom level to the Category page on the Exocortex-Log app. Can make the graphs look a lot cleaner now.
Looking back over the last 100 months here, we can see in general my social life is quite seasonal -- Festivals are a lot of social all weekend long and a couple of them in a month really bumps up the hours from my usual habit of sitting alone in a dark room pressing buttons.
The peak in 2019 is a summer filled with Glasto and Noisily and another festival or camping trip I don’t seem to have recorded the name of.
Then clearly visible is the drop-off in social activity as the COVID pandemic hit. Virtual-Social (IE zoom meetings and the like) picked up quite a bit around there but had died back to almost nothing way before the hours spent with actual people started to tick up.
Annoyingly, I have my biggest gap in data right on top of the pandemic there, where I failed to back up for months and then data became corrupted.
When the data-hole is over we see social life still not really returning until the middle of 2021 and not really getting back into stride until summer 2022.
It remains much lower now on average with lower peaks than before the pandemic too. Multiple reasons.
Work is pretty constant all the way though other than the data-hole. Dipping when I take time off for social mostly.
That data-hole is annoying. Back up your data kids.
#lifeLog #app #exocortexLog

It's finally Friday but don't head out for the weekend until you check out today's Metacurity for the top infosec developments you should know, including
--UK ICO fines LastPass $1.6 million over 2022 data breach,
--Cybercrims impersonate cops to get sensitive data on users,
--Throwaway phone numbers undercut SMS 2FA,
--Chinese inverters threaten the power grid,
--Second Irish HSE attack revealed,
--Irish Justice Minister apologizes for gaffe ov…

UK ICO fines LastPass $1.6 million over 2022 data breach
Cybercrims impersonate cops to get sensitive data on users, Throwaway phone numbers undercut SMS 2FA, Chinese inverters threaten the power grid, Second Irish HSE attack revealed, Irish Justice Minister apologizes for gaffe over PSNI data breach, Korea seeks punitive fines over breaches, much more

Study provides new forecasts of remote islands' vulnerability to sea level rise #environment

Study provides new forecasts of remote islands' vulnerability to sea level rise
In the summer of 2022, 20 islands in the Maldives were flooded when a distant swell event in the Indian Ocean coincided with an extremely high tide level.

In 2022 Larry Ellison gave Elon Musk $1 billion to help fund his purchase of Twitter (now X).
And last year Skydance Media merged with Paramount creating a conglomerate with almost unmatched reach.
While Larry’s son David runs Paramount on paper, it’s the father who actually owns the company.
This means that Larry Ellison owns a controlling stake in a broadcast network (CBS),
a major streaming platform (Paramount ),
multiple movie studios,
CBS News,

Larry Ellison’s quest to run the world
TikTok is the latest prize in the Silicon Valley billionaire’s second act as a media mogul.

Which major NFL trades look better -- worse -- in hindsight? Barnwell's fresh takes on 23 recent swaps https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46356119/nfl-trades-2022-2023-barnwell-russell-wilson-deshaun-watson-tyr…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Liam Gallagher:
🎵 Once (Live At Knebworth 2022)
#NowPlaying #LiamGallagher
https://open.spotify.com/track/34fv3psKQOOwWZBRxoIF4I

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 9. Oktober 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Par". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
Fidan Badalova, Julian Sienkiewicz, Philipp Mayr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01783 https://…

PreprintToPaper dataset: connecting bioRxiv preprints with journal publications
The PreprintToPaper dataset connects bioRxiv preprints with their corresponding journal publications, enabling large-scale analysis of the preprint-to-publication process. It comprises metadata for 145,517 preprints from two periods, 2016-2018 (pre-pandemic) and 2020-2022 (pandemic), retrieved via the bioRxiv and Crossref APIs. Each record includes bibliographic information such as titles, abstracts, authors, institutions, submission dates, licenses, and subject categories, alongside enriched p…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,105,490 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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'…

(2022) Percepts evoked by multi-electrode stimulation of human visual cortex https://www.brainstimjrnl.com/article/S1935-861X(22)00185-1/fulltext
"Discussions with our subjects revealed that they did not perceive coherent shapes or easily identifiable for…

Been doing a deep dive on hosting offline LLMs with ollama. I think it's funny that all the tutorials I find are like "This is linux only but if you're using Windows, don't worry, there's WSL."
Saw a comment on one of those video tutorials that said "How do you get this running with Windows Server 2022."
Idk, you could just use linux? 🤷‍♂️

Raiders Urged to Move on From Disgruntled Star as Nightmare Season Continues https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-urged-to-move-on-from-disgruntled-star/?adt_ei=[email]

Updated Running Quark and Lepton Parameters at Various Scales
Stefan Antusch, Kevin Hinze, Shaikh Saad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01312 https://arxiv.org/p…

Updated Running Quark and Lepton Parameters at Various Scales
In the light of the recent Particle Data Group (PDG) release, we revisit the running quark and lepton Yukawa couplings, together with the quark mixing parameters, across a range of energy scales. The 2024 PDG determinations of low-energy fermion masses feature significantly smaller uncertainties, resulting from a reduced estimate of systematic errors compared to the more conservative treatment in the 2022 analysis. To assess the impact of these changes, we present running parameters obtained us…

Beyond the Oracle Property: Adaptive LASSO in Cointegrating Regressions
Karsten Reichold, Ulrike Schneider
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07204 https://arxiv.o…

Beyond the Oracle Property: Adaptive LASSO in Cointegrating Regressions
This paper establishes new asymptotic results for the adaptive LASSO estimator in cointegrating regression models. We study model selection probabilities, estimator consistency, and limiting distributions under both standard and moving-parameter asymptotics. We also derive uniform convergence rates and the fastest local-to-zero rates that can still be detected by the estimator, complementing and extending the results of Lee, Shi, and Gao (2022, Journal of Econometrics, 229, 322--349). Our main …

Quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors revealed by optical conductivity measurement
Hwiwoo Park, Sung-Sik Lee, G. D. Gu, Jungseek Hwang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19675 …

Quantum criticality in cuprate superconductors revealed by optical conductivity measurement
The ubiquitous temperature ($T$)-linear behaviour of the transport scattering rate in the normal state of strongly correlated electron systems is called strange metallicity \cite{zaanen:2004,phillips:2022,hartnoll:2022,chowdhury:2022,yuan:2022}. Although strange metallicity is crucial to understanding superconductivity in correlated electron systems, its origin remains elusive to date \cite{hussey:2023}. Here, we present the doping-, temperature-, and frequency ($ω$)-dependent transport proper…

We have no idea how this #AI cycle is affecting jobs. The numbers are all over the place.
Relatedly, I've found myself regularly explaining the concept of an "AI winter" and that most academics expect that we're coming up on the next one. Nobody is connecting these two concepts because they're both so…