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A look at LA's shrinking entertainment economy; ProdPro: 30% fewer $40M films and shows began shooting in the US in 2024 vs 2022, down 13% more in 2025 so far (Ben Fritz/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/los-a…

Du Maroc Š Madagascar, la génération Z fait sonner la révolte au-delŠ des frontières https://www.france24.com/fr/afrique/20251001-du-népal-à-madagascar…

from my link log —
Extremely offline: what happened when Tonga was cut off from the internet by a volcanic eruption.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/30/tonga-pacific-island-internet-underwater-cables-volcanic-erup…

Dihedral groups of square-free order are DCI-groups
Istv\'an Kov\'acs, G\'abor Somlai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02778 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Dihedral groups of square-free order are DCI-groups
A finite group $G$ is a called a DCI-group if any two isomorphic Cayley digraphs of $G$ are also isomorphic via an automorphism of $G$. If $G$ is a non-abelian generalised dihedral DCI-group, then Dobson, Muzychuk, and Spiga proved that $G$ must be a dihedral group of square-free order (Ars Math. Contemp., 2022). In this paper, we prove that the converse statement also holds, i.\,e., all dihedral groups of square-free order are DCI-groups.

Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $33B, vs. $32.42B est., and AWS operating income up 9.5% YoY to $11.4B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/amazon-amzn-q3-earnings-report-2025.html

Amazon stock soars 10% as earnings beat estimates, company posts strong cloud growth
AWS revenue accelerated 20.2% to $33 billion, which CEO Andy Jassy said was a pace it hadn't seen since 2022.

After IECharge, which has set up fast #EV charging stations at their solar battery locations (with the lowest price in the French market: €0.25/kWh), there's now another French network offering green electricity directly from the source (also very competitive at €0.30/kWh).

Kallista Energy inaugure la première station de recharge raccordée à des éoliennes
Producteur indépendant d’énergies renouvelables, Kallista Energy a diversifié ses activités en 2022 en lançant le réseau de recharge rapide Yaway...

The Speaker of the House, mike johnson, felt compelled to have his underage son monitor mike’s porn intake on mike’s devices.
The Speaker declined to swear in a new rep from AZ who would have been the final signature needed to release epstein files.
The Speaker failed to keep the government open, further delaying file release.
What the f is going on in the Speaker’s personal life that would compel him to want these delays?

Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other’s Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022.

Unzulässige Preiserhöhung: Amazons Berufung abgewiesen
Die Preiserhöhung bei Amazon Prime vom Herbst 2022 bleibt ungültig.  Der Konzern hat auch beim OLG Düsseldorf verloren.
https://www.

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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Observations of a Faint Nonthermal Onset before a GOES C-class Flare
Nat\'alia Bajnokov\'a, Iain G. Hannah, Hannah Collier, Stephen M. White, Lindsay Glesener, Reed B. Masek, Marianne S. Peterson, S\"am Krucker, Hugh S. Hudson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02052

Observations of a Faint Nonthermal Onset before a GOES C-class Flare
We present analysis of a GOES C1-class flare from 2022 September 6, which was jointly observed as occulted by Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope ARray (NuSTAR) and on-disk by Spectrometer/Telescope for Imaging X-rays (STIX). NuSTAR observed faint coronal nonthermal emission as well as plasma heating > 10 MK, starting 7 minutes prior to the flare. This onset emission implies that during this time, there is a continuous electron acceleration in the corona which could also be responsible for the obse…

A book excerpt details Tonga's 2022 internet outage after a colossal underwater volcanic eruption ripped apart the cables connecting the country to the world (Samanth Subramanian/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/

this pixelfed bug is open since 30.DEC.2022 - so nearly 3 years.
https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/issues/4045
I added some more content to it.
(I don't think it's the most important bug to fix tbh. there are more important bugs and missing features... but …

Repost counts are not reliable, and reposting itself seems non-functional · Issue #4045 · pixelfed/pixelfed
I have several posts with a repost count of i.e. 5, but clicking to see who shared my content often only reveals one or two accounts. Also, reposts don't show up in my notification area. This seems...

Bill Esterson, Chair of HoC Energy Security and Net Zero Committee, calls Ofgem’s proposal to reduce record levels of consumer energy debt that have more than doubled since 2022 “completely inadequate”, saying the cost crisis demands “out of the box thinking” from Government and Ofgem to ensure that “parts of the sector that are making healthy profits become part of the solution to dealing with the high cost of energy”.

https://cyberscoop.com/ianis-antropenko-zeppelin-ransomware-russian-cybercrime/
“Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko exemplifies the profile of a modern cybercriminal, yet, unlike many others who have faced strict prosecution for similar offenses, the …

"“I’m going back to the #Fediverse. Back to #Mastodon. To the nerds, the hobbyists, the idealists. The people who don’t talk about reach, but about relevance. To those who understand that decentralization isn’t nostalgic, it’s the future. That digital sovereignty isn’t a gimmick, it’s a survival…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Amazon raises its forecast for capital expenditures to $125B in 2025, up from its earlier estimate of $118B, and says that number will likely increase in 2026 (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/30/amazon-amzn-q3-earnings-report-2025.html

Amazon stock soars 10% as earnings beat estimates, company posts strong cloud growth
AWS revenue accelerated 20.2% to $33 billion, which CEO Andy Jassy said was a pace it hadn't seen since 2022.

Its clear that Trump is effectively if not literally a Russian agent hell bent on destroying the USA...
"As president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO Chrissy Lynch said in July after the Republicans passed the budget reconciliation bill cutting clean energy tax credits: “Working families shouldn’t have to purchase energy from billionaire oil tycoons and foreign governments or let them set the price of our energy bills.”
Her observation hit home earlier this week, when Joe Wallace, Costas Paris, Alex Leary, and Collin Eaton of the Wall Street Journal reported that the comments of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Trump at their meeting in Alaska on August 15 in which they talked about doing more business together were not vague goodwill. ExxonMobil and Russia’s biggest energy company, Rosneft, have been in secret talks to resume a partnership to extract Russian oil, including in the Arctic, that had been severed by Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022."
#USPolitics #RenewableEnergy
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-30-2025?r=103mi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

✅ Wrote to two of our ministers to vote against chat control.
More to come the next days.
Imagine a world where some non-democratic party gets more and more votes. Parties who want to "clean" the country. Which tool would be more worthy than having access to private conversations.
please vote for our freedom
please vote agains chatcontrol
Just drop them an email! It's just an email! Not even 5 minutes of your time.

Die Chatkontrolle ist wieder da und wir haben nur noch ein paar Wochen, um die EU-Pläne für CSAM-Scans zu stoppen. | Tuta
Die EU-Verordnung zur Verhütung und Bekämpfung von sexuellem Kindesmissbrauch, die erstmals im Mai 2022 veröffentlicht wurde, ist zum "meistkritisierten Gesetz aller Zeiten" geworden. Hier erfahren Sie, wie Sie es jetzt stoppen können!

On Sharp Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the stability
Xia Huang, Dong Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00453 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00453

On Sharp Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the stability
In this work, we summarize the linearization method to study the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles, and explain that the same approach can be used to handle the stability problem. As examples of application, combining with spherical harmonic decomposition and the Hardy inequalities, we revise two families of inequalities. We give firstly an affirmative answer in dimension four to Cazacu-Flynn-Lam's conjecture [JFA, 2022] for the sharp Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle, and improve the recent estim…

Determinants of Latin American students academic resilience-Insights based on PISA 2022 using an explainable machine learning approach
Marcos Delprato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24830

Determinants of Latin American students academic resilience-Insights based on PISA 2022 using an explainable machine learning approach
The learning crisis in the Latin American region (i.e., higher rates of students not reaching basic competencies at secondary level) is worrying, particularly post-pandemic given the stronger role of inequality behind achievement. Within this scenario, the concept of student academic resilience (SAR), students who despite coming from disadvantaged backgrounds reach good performance levels, and an analysis of its determinants, are policy relevant. In this paper, using advancements on explainable…

Wake up sheeple.
#ShamelesslyStolenFromTheFacebook

From #HannahFry @fryrsquared@instagram.com
🥰Your feel good research of the day:
Gentle as a mother's touch: C-tactile touch promotes autonomic regulation in preterm infants by I Püschel, J Reichert, Y Friedrich, J Bergander, K Weidner, I Croy (2022).
#Ctactile

"There’s been a new feature in my #Mastodon feed lately: People who have abandoned #Bluesky in protest at various controversial decisions there that don’t bode well. There have been flurries of departures related to trans rights, the treatment of Black users and Blacksky including banning accounts…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

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#CityWildLifeTips

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.

📸 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…

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? 🤷‍♂️

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1167083 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

The inner working of parquette/arrow data in R: #rstats

Unpacking Arrow Datasets – Notes from a data witch
A comment on how Datasets work in Apache Arrow. I’m not really sure who the audience for this one. Am I just talking to myself? Probably.

Ab September 2026: Irland führt bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen für Künstler ein
https://t3n.de/news/irland-grundeinkommen-kuenstler-1713683/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=newsFeed&utm_campaign=newsFeed

Ab September 2026: Irland führt bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen für Künstler ein | t3n
Seit drei Jahren läuft in Irland ein Pilotprojekt zum bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen für Künstler:innen. Offenbar so erfolgreich, dass das zuständige Ministerium dieses Programm jetzt dauerhaft etablieren will. Profitieren könnten Hunderte Menschen. Als Reaktion auf die Auswirkungen der Corona-Beschränkungen auf die Kunst- und Kulturszene hatte Irland im Jahr 2022 ein Pilotprojekt zum bedingungslosen Grundeinkommen gestartet. Dieses kommt […]

Again I'm confused at the human urge to pretend something is way more automated than it really is. Examples:
- Robot 'chef' that only automates the very least time-consuming part of cooking, serving no purpose but to slow things down: https://post.lurk.org/@jonty@chaos.soc

"I ... think the odds of #Bluesky following #Twitter’s path is (sic) very high, given the structural similarities. Bluesky is a for-profit group still in the venture-capital honeymoon phase where it doesn’t need major revenue" — @…

A Mastodon Migration From Bluesky Would Be Different - Absolutely Maybe
The Mastodon migration from Twitter in 2022 was massive for the non-commercial community network: The number of accounts swelled with more than…

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 30 nodes and 421 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,077,830 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/26/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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

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#BookCharactersGoneWild

Exploring hamstrings with Jurdan Mendiguchia, the world's most in-demand physio https://www.marca.com/en/football/spanish-football/2022/02/05/61fee15ae2704eb79e8b457d.html

Exploring hamstrings with Jurdan Mendiguchia, the world's most in-demand physio
Seeing a player reach down to hold a muscle has become almost as common a sight in football as goal celebrations. The culprit here is the hamstring, the nightmare of all footballer

LST-1 observations of GRB 221009A: Insights into its late-time VHE afterglow
Arnau Aguasca-Cabot (for the CTAO-LST Project), Susumu Inoue (for the CTAO-LST Project), Monica Seglar-Arroyo (for the CTAO-LST Project), Kenta Terauchi (for the CTAO-LST Project), Pol Bordas (for the CTAO-LST Project), Marc Rib\'o (for the CTAO-LST Project)
https://

LST-1 observations of GRB 221009A: Insights into its late-time VHE afterglow
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate from explosions at cosmological distances, generating collimated jets. GRB 221009A, exploded on 9 October 2022, has been established as the brightest GRB to date. Its bright and long emission was extensively followed up from radio to gamma rays. LHAASO firmly detected the onset of the afterglow emission at energies up to $\sim$13 TeV within about an hour after the burst, starting just a few minutes after the trigger. While this VHE emission component can be acc…

Identifying the post-pandemic determinants of low performing students in Latin America through interpretable Machine Learning SHAP Values-Insights from PISA 2022
Marcos Delprato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24508

Identifying the post-pandemic determinants of low performing students in Latin America through interpretable Machine Learning SHAP Values-Insights from PISA 2022
The high prevalence of students not achieving the basic competencies in Latin America is concerning. Even more so given the region's deep structural inequalities and the larger post-pandemic regional learning losses. Within this scenario, this paper contributes to the identification of the determinants of bottom and low performers (below level 2) using recent advancements on explainable machine learning methods. In particular, relying on PISA 2022 data for 10 countries and using the Shapley Add…

📢 Italienisches Gericht ordnet Auslieferung von mutmaßlichem Nord-Stream-Attentäter an
Ein Gericht in Italien hat die Auslieferung eines mutmaßlichen Drahtziehers der Anschläge auf die Nord-Stream-Gaspipelines nach Deutschland verfügt. Die Bundesanwaltschaft wirft dem Mann vor, die Anschläge auf die Ostsee-Pipelines im September 2022 koordiniert zu haben.
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Italienisches Gericht ordnet Auslieferung von mutmaßlichem Nord-Stream-Attentäter an
Ein Gericht in Italien hat die Auslieferung eines mutmaßlichen Drahtziehers der Anschläge auf die Nord-Stream-Gaspipelines nach Deutschland verfügt. Die Bundesanwaltschaft wirft dem Mann vor, die Anschläge auf die Ostsee-Pipelines im September 2022 koordiniert zu haben.

UK filings: Paramount and Comcast invested $1B into European streamer SkyShowtime since 2022; SkyShowtime had a €543.7M operating loss in 2024, down 3% YoY (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/paramount-comcast-invest-1b-into-skyshowtime-…

Paramount & Comcast Sink $1B Into Loss-Making Euro Streamer SkyShowtime
Paramount and Comcast have invested at least $1B into SkyShowtime, but their joint-venture European streamer remains firmly in the red.

I migrated to #Bandcamp in early 2022 before #Spotify started serving #ICE as “free content.”
Collection 246
Wishlist 155

Sources: Amazon plans to lay off ~10% of corporate staff, or ~30,000 people, its largest layoffs since 2022, to reduce costs and address pandemic overhiring (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Poppy Ajudha:
🎵 Holiday From Reality (6 Music Session, 20 Apr 2022)
#PoppyAjudha
https://open.spotify.com/track/37sOPR3sWcMhVlcRVC79N2

Bemerkenswerte schlechte Umfrageergebnisse für die Regierung.
Auch für Merz: 30% sind mit seiner Arbeit zufrieden, 59% sehen Merz kritisch (laut Insa). Mit dem damaligen Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz waren nach 100 Tagen im Amt im März 2022 43% der Befragten zufrieden, nur 41% unzufrieden.

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,109,590 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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…

#Tatort: Mord unter Misteln - #ARD #BR https://ww…

For several years
– since conservatives, gained a six-three majority on the bench thanks to Donald Trump’s nominations during his first presidency
– the court has been delivering transformative rulings that have reverberated across the social and political landscape.
In 2022, it overturned Roe v Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly half-a-century.
In July 2024, in a far-reaching decision, it granted Trump
– and, by exten…

Add richer tooltips to ggiraph with kableExtra and friends: #dataviz

UNCHARTED DATA: Interactive Tooltip Tables
How to include tables in your {ggiraph} tooltips.

Compiling Any $\mathsf{MIP}^{*}$ into a (Succinct) Classical Interactive Argument
Andrew Huang, Yael Tauman Kalai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08495 https://…

Compiling Any $\mathsf{MIP}^{*}$ into a (Succinct) Classical Interactive Argument
We present a generic compiler that converts any $\mathsf{MIP}^{*}$ protocol into a succinct interactive argument where the communication and the verifier are classical, and where post-quantum soundness relies on the post-quantum sub-exponential hardness of the Learning with Errors ($\mathsf{LWE}$) problem. Prior to this work, such a compiler for $\mathsf{MIP}^{*}$ was given by Kalai, Lombardi, Vaikuntanathan and Yang (STOC 2022), but the post-quantum soundness of this compiler is still under in…

Oh boy, we have Ig Noble Prize 2025!
#igNobel #funny

Past Ig Winners
Ig® Nobel Prize Winners For achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK Winners by year: 2025 : 2024 : 2023 : 2022 : 2021 2020 : 2019 : 2018 : 2017 : 2016 2015 : 2014 : 2013 : 20…

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The Impact of Sanctions on decentralised Privacy Tools: A Case Study of Tornado Cash
Raffaele Cristodaro, Benjamin Kramer, Claudio J. Tessone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09443 ht…

The Impact of Sanctions on decentralised Privacy Tools: A Case Study of Tornado Cash
This paper investigates the impact of sanctions on Tornado Cash, a smart contract protocol designed to enhance transaction privacy. Following the U.S. Department of the Treasury's sanctions against Tornado Cash in August 2022, platform activity declined sharply. We document a significant and sustained reduction in transaction volume, user diversity, and overall protocol utilization after the sanctions were imposed. Our analysis draws on transaction data from three major blockchains: Ethereum, B…

Lightweight and Data-Efficient MultivariateTime Series Forecasting using Residual-Stacked Gaussian (RS-GLinear) Architecture
Abukar Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03788 https://…

Lightweight and Data-Efficient MultivariateTime Series Forecasting using Residual-Stacked Gaussian (RS-GLinear) Architecture
Following the success of Transformer architectures in language modeling, particularly their ability to capture long-range dependencies, researchers have explored how these architectures can be adapted for time-series forecasting. Transformer-based models have been proposed to handle both short- and long-term dependencies when predicting future values from historical data. However, studies such as those by Zeng et al. (2022) and Rizvi et al. (2025) have reported mixed results in long-term foreca…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.DC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DC/new
[1/1]:
- A Semantic Model for Audit of Cloud Engines based on ISO/IEC TR 3445:2022
Morteza Sargolzaei Javan

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, …

YouTube strikes a deal to carry Herring Networks' One America News on YouTube TV's base package in Q4 2025; in 2022, DirecTV and Verizon Fios dropped OANN (Justin Baragona/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world

MAGA channel One America News, once under threat of extinction, reaches ‘long-term carriage deal’ with YouTube TV
The launch of OAN and AWE on YouTube TV is scheduled to take place in the fourth quarter of 2025

Spectroscopic Reverberation Mapping for SARM: The Case of Mrk 1048 and Mrk 618
Shivangi Pandey, Suvendu Rakshit, S. Muneer, Jincen Jose, Ashutosh Tomar, Yan-Rong Li, Jian-Min Wang, C. S. Stalin, Jong-Hak Woo, Romain G. Petrov, James Leftley, Sebastian F. H\"onig, Amit Kumar Mandal, Tushar Ubarhande, Shu Wang, Michael Brotherton, Archana Gupta
https://

Spectroscopic Reverberation Mapping for SARM: The Case of Mrk 1048 and Mrk 618
Robust extragalactic distance measurements are crucial for resolving the persistent discrepancy in the value of the Hubble constant (H$_0$)). Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), through their compact and variable broad-line regions (BLRs), enable the determination of geometric distances when reverberation mapping (RM) is combined with spectroastrometry(SA). We report results from a spectroscopic RM campaign (October 2022 to March 2023) targeting two narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies, Mrk 1048 and Mrk 6…

from my link log —
Luhn credit card checksum using SWAR and SIMD.
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/04/30/
saved 2022-04-30 https://

Stack Overflow Is Not Dead Yet: Crowd Answers Still Matter
Denis Helic, Tiago Santos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05879 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05879

Stack Overflow Is Not Dead Yet: Crowd Answers Still Matter
Millions of users visit Stack Overflow regularly to ask community for answers to their programming questions. However, like many other platforms, Stack Overflow consistently struggles with low user retention and declining levels of user contributions to the platform. With the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022, these ongoing difficulties on Stack Overflow were further magnified, as many users moved toward ChatGPT for programming help. In this paper, we build upon recent research on this p…

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Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
Philippe Mongeon, Madelaine Hare, Poppy Riddle, Summer Wilson, Geoff Krause, Rebecca Marjoram, R\'emi Toupin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18620

Investigating Document Type, Language, Publication Year, and Author Count Discrepancies Between OpenAlex and Web of Science
Bibliometrics, whether used for research or research evaluation, relies on large multidisciplinary databases of research outputs and citation indices. The Web of Science (WoS) was the main supporting infrastructure of the field for more than 30 years until several new competitors emerged. OpenAlex, a bibliographic database launched in 2022, has distinguished itself for its openness and extensive coverage. While OpenAlex may reduce or eliminate barriers to accessing bibliometric data, one of the…

Checkout.com announces an employee share buyback at a $12B valuation, up 30% from $9.35B two years ago yet below $40B in 2022, and says an IPO isn't a priority (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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]

Closing paths to cycles in symmetric graphs
Martin Milani\v{c}, {\DJ}or{\dj}e Mitrovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05404 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.05…

Closing paths to cycles in symmetric graphs
It was shown by Beisegel, Chudnovsky, Gurvich, Milanič, and Servatius in 2022 that every induced $2$-edge path in a vertex-transitive graph closes to an induced cycle. Similar results were obtained for 3-edge paths closing to cycles in edge-transitive graphs, where the cycle can be assumed to be induced if the path is induced. Motivated by these results, we consider the following problem: For a given class of graphs, determine all integers $\ell\geq 0$ such that for every graph in the class, e…

Apparently #Spotify is #Fascist. Wow, big surprise from the app that’s allergic to paying artists. Always has been, comrade, and I migrated to #Bandcamp in early 2022 before they started servi…

📸 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…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,122,810 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/12/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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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…

OECD lists 1,300 AI regulations, guidelines, and other policies worldwide as of September 2025, up ~30% since 2022, but international cooperation has stalled (Naoki Watanabe/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Global web of AI rules grows 30% in 3 years as cooperation stalls
US, Europe and China pursue their own aims, leaving rest of world behind

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The Role of Informal Care in Cognitive Outcome and Healthcare Utilization Among Older Adults with Dementia
Mohammad Abdullah Al Faisal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18468 https://

The Role of Informal Care in Cognitive Outcome and Healthcare Utilization Among Older Adults with Dementia
This paper examines the relationship between informal caregiving and both cognitive functioning and healthcare utilization among older adults with dementia. Using data from the RAND version of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative longitudinal panel of U.S. adults over age 50, covering the years 2010 to 2022, I estimate Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and Instrumental Variables (IV) models to address potential endogeneity in caregiving decisions. The number of children…

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,117,360 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/07/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

How precisely can we measure the ages of subgiant and giant stars?
Cheyanne Shariat, Kareem El-Badry, Soumyadeep Bhattacharjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08675 https://

How precisely can we measure the ages of subgiant and giant stars?
Precise stellar ages are fundamental to Galactic archaeology. However, obtaining reliable age estimates and uncertainties for field stars has been a long-standing challenge. We test the fidelity of ages from recent catalogs of giants and subgiants using wide binaries, whose components formed at the same time and thus should have consistent inferred ages. We find that subgiant ages based on spectroscopic metallicities from Xiang & Rix (2022) are generally consistent within their reported uncerta…

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Performance rights organization BMI and a group representing radio broadcasters settle a dispute over royalty rates paid to artists and songwriters on US radio (Daniel Tencer/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/bmi

BMI secures ‘largest rate increase ever’ for radio royalties in US
BMI has reached a settlement for the 2022-2026 radio licensing period, calling it a ‘historic’ deal.

Tether agrees to a $299.5M settlement with the Celsius Network bankruptcy estate, resolving claims related to Celsius's 2022 collapse (Sam Bourgi/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-celsius-299m-settlement-stablecoin-liability

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Replaced article(s) found for econ.GN. https://arxiv.org/list/econ.GN/new
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- Unveiling Plant-Product Productivity via First-Order Conditions: Robust Replication of Orr (2022)
Joonkyo Hong, Davide Luparello

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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…

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