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Bundesnetzagentur: Beschwerden über Post-Dienste bleiben auf hohem Niveau
Die Zahl der Beschwerden über Brief- und Postdienste hat 2023 gegenüber 2022 zwar leicht abgenommen, bleibt aber auf hohem Niveau.
https:…

FTC lawsuit filings: Instagram had ad revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Meta (META) Brought In Almost 30% of Its Revenue From Instagram in Early 2022
Meta Platforms Inc. brought in almost 30% of its revenue from Instagram in the first half of 2022, according to court filings that reveal for the first time how much money the popular photo and video service has generated.

Sources: ByteDance reports Q3 revenue up 43% YoY to $30.9B, $84.4B in January to September 2023 revenue, above 2022's $85.2B, and starts staff share buybacks (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.…

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 07.05.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die 41. Atombombe "Tee". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Surveillance has a body count https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/20/24106098/cbp-migrant-deaths-border-surveillance

Surveillance has a body count: CBP reports 895 migrant deaths in 2022
A vast surveillance apparatus at the border is not deterring migration but is instead pushing migrants into more dangerous terrain. 2022 was the deadliest year on record at the US-Mexico border.

Media: Russian Su-30 producer buys back over $400 million of own equipment in past 2 years: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/media-russian-su.html

Fascinating article: Shirley Tillotson, "Importing the Plantation: The Greater Caribbean Trade and Loyalist Nova Scotia’s Public Revenue, 1789–1835." It argues Nova Scotia's public expenditure was sustained by tariffs on goods produced by enslaved labour in the Caribbean. It undercuts trad narratives of small-scale fishing and farming as central to the colony's development while highlighting dependence on white supremacist modes of production.

Importing the Plantation: The Greater Caribbean Trade and Loyalist Nova Scotia’s Public Revenue, 1789–1835 – Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society
An article from Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, on Érudit.

Pistorius an der Grenze Norwegens zu Russland
Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius informiert sich im Norden Norwegens über die Lage an der Grenze zu Russland. Der SPD-Politiker traf am zweiten Tag seiner Skandinavienreise in der Stadt Kirkenes ein, von wo aus er einen mit Wehrdienstleistenden besetzten Grenzposten in dem NATO-Land besuchen wollte.
In dem Gebiet gab es bis zum Jahr 2022 - als Russland die Ukraine mit einer g…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ex-Schachweltmeister Kasparow auf "Terrorliste" ++
Die Behörden in Russland führen den Oppositionellen und Ex-Schachweltmeister Kasparow auf einer "Terrorliste". Deutschland wird sich an der Beschaffung Hunderttausender Artilleriegranaten für die Ukraine beteiligen. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen.

"E-waste is overflowing landfills. At one sprawling Vietnam market, workers recycle some of it"
#Vietnam #Technology #EWaste

How E-waste is recycled at this Vietnam market
The world is producing more electronic waste than ever — 62 million metric tons in 2022. And it's growing faster than formal efforts to recycle it. Some gets picked up by a web of low-paid workers who pull apart old laptops, scarred mobile phones, television remotes and other items to get valuable materials inside. In Vietnam, an army of mostly women waste collectors collect discarded electronic devices from homes and bins on street corners. But informal waste workers face health risks and in…

Da ich oft gefragt werde: Ich denke der einfachste Weg jetzt an #SCM Tickets zu kommen ist so:
- Zeitmaschine erfinden
- In den April 2010 reisen
- Platz 11 in der Liga “bewundern”
- Dauerkarte für “SCM Gladiators” Saison 2010/11 buchen
- 14 Jahre regelmäßig verlängern
- Dabei regelmäßig “Ich bin Fan vom SCM”-Hymne hören [1]
- Voila
💚❤️ :scm:
[1]

There were 40 consecutive rollovers in 2021 and 2022; tomorrow is the first ever 41st #Powerball draw. As per the law of very large numbers the odds of a #Powerball rollover continuing gradually decrease. The more trials, the more black swan.
10 draws, ~67%.
20 draws, ~45%. <…

🎰 Is Japan’s Pachinko Industry in Decline?
#pachinko

Is Japan's Pachinko Industry in Decline?
We take a look at pachinko, Japan's favorite game, that despite bringing in around ¥55 trillion in 2022, seems to fall from favor.

It finally works! 🤞🏼
Here is a table of more than 1000 journalists on #Mastodon, that updates itself – showing the ones most active, most followed etc. I took the wonderful table by @… as foundation, but deleted some media organizations, so that it only c…

Dune Analytics: decentralized exchange Uniswap tops $2T in all-time trading volume after breaching $1T in May 2022 and remains the largest DEX by trading volume (Brayden Lindrea/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/uniswap-tops-two-trillion-trading…

Uniswap tops $2T in trading volume, larger than Australia’s GDP
Uniswap has now processed more than $2 trillion in trading volume across several blockchains since it launched on Ethereum back in November 2018.

Former Dallas Cowboys Player Takes Shot At Old Team https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_dallas_cowboys_player_takes_shot_at_old_team/s1_17150_40071558

Former Dallas Cowboys Player Takes Shot At Old Team
After being franchise-tagged by the Dallas Cowboys in 2022, tight end Dalton Schultz hit the open market in 2023 and landed with the Houston Texans. While his market wasn’t as strong as he was hoping it would be, he eventually landed the multi-year deal he was seeking this offseason. Schultz agreed to a three-year, $36 million deal with the Texans after a very successful first season with the franchise. In 2023, he caught 59 passes for 635 yards and five touchdowns, becoming one of C.J. Strou…

2022 retro-link! https://sillycross.github.io/2022/11/22/2022-11-22/index.html - Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically!

Emma McIntosh, "Special project G*: Ontario government staff used code name for Greenbelt carveouts"
#onpoli <…

Special project G*: Ontario government staff used code name for Greenbelt carveouts
Ontario government staffers working on contentious changes to the Greenbelt in 2022 edited email chains to rem

Raiders Sign WR Jalen Guyton https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_sign_wr_jalen_guyton/s1_17039_40331009

Deal faces calls for inquiry over alleged ‘influence peddling’
Democratic groups escalated calls on Thursday for Congress to investigate Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media after a report that it relied partly on emergency loans in 2022 traced back to a Russian-American under federal criminal investigation to make it to its stock market debut.
The move increased political scrutiny into the merger between Trump Media Technology Group and the blank-check company Digita…

Vergessenwerden: 24.000 Löschanträge bei Google stammten 2022 aus Deutschland​ | heise online
https://heise.de/-9675711

Vergessenwerden: 24.000 Löschanträge bei Google stammten 2022 aus Deutschland​
Franzosen und Deutsche fordern ihr Recht auf Vergessenwerden bei Suchmaschinen am häufigsten ein. Die Zahlen sind nach der Corona-Pandemie etwas rückläufig.​

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2024. Proceedings
Sebastian Baum, Patrick Huber, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe, Daniel G. Ang, Lorenzo Apollonio, Gabriela R. Araujo, Levente Balogh, Pranshu Bhaumik Yilda Boukhtouchen, Joseph Bramante, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Andrew Calabrese-Day, Qing Chang, Juan I. Collar, Reza Ebadi, Alexey Elykov, Katherine Freese, Audrey Fung, Claudio Galelli, Arianna E. Gleason, Mariano Guerrero Perez, Janina Hakenm\"uller, Takeshi Hanyu, Noriko Hase…

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2024. Proceedings
The second "Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter" (MDvDM'24) meeting was held January 8-11, 2024 in Arlington, VA, USA, hosted by Virginia Tech's Center for Neutrino Physics. This document collects contributions from this workshop, providing an overview of activities in the field. MDvDM'24 was the second topical workshop dedicated to the emerging field of mineral detection of neutrinos and dark matter, following a meeting hosted by IFPU in Trieste, Italy in October 2022. Mineral detec…

Interesting research: Long #COVID in a highly vaccinated but largely unexposed Australian population following the 2022 SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron wave: a cross‐sectional survey
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Hab ich gerade mal wieder für jemanden rausgesucht. Ist schon zwei Jahre alt. Blog-Post zur Frage: Sind Fluggäste Mörder?
#AmBodenBleiben #StayGrounded

MM: # of CS papers has grown from 7 in 2010, to 336 in 2022. Was significant growth, in line with EU funding for CS. Currently seems to plateau though. #ecsa2024

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Time to get your spook on. Let's play!
#MakeASitcomParanormal

D968,431 - issued to Netflix in 2022 for a design for a "display panel of a programmed computer system with a graphical user interface." #DesignPatents

Zoals jullie wel hebben gemerkt houdt het klimaat, de klimaatverandering, de klimaatcrisis me nogal bezig. En dat gaat niet alleen per website of per nieuwsbrief, maar er is ook een groot aantal echte boeken over, die ik gelezen, recht of diagonaal, of in doorgebladerde toestand in de kast heb staan. Die wil ik graag in deze maand van #Lees aan jullie opdringen 😂 Wees gerust, niet meer dan één per d…

How will the Merck settlement affect the insurance industry?

March 28, 2024 — By @… #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #Insurance

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16527 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On asymptotic stability on a center hypersurface at the soliton for even solutions of the NLKG when $2\ge p> \frac{5}{3}$
We extend the result M. Kowalczyk, Y. Martel, C. Muñoz, JEMS 2022, on the existence, in the context of spatially even solutions, of asymptotic stability on a center hypersurface at the soliton of the defocusing power Nonlinear Klein Gordon Equation with $p>3$, to the case $2\ge p> \frac{5}{3}$.

Quick tip: be careful when using the newer #CSS viewport-percentage length units like `svh`, `dvh`, and the like. They are well-supported since late 2022 and quite a few users might still be using older (Android) devices and browsers. So always make sure to test on a few real devices (thanks to my parents in law for their Galaxy Tab 4 😁) and provide fallbacks, e.g. with `vh`.

GB News reports year to May 2023 revenue up 80% YoY to £6.7M, losses up 38% YoY to £42.4M, for £76M in losses since 2021, and 295 staff, up from 175 in May 2022 (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/gb-news-results-…

GB News losses up 38% to £42.4m giving channel total deficit of £76m since launch
GB News' operating losses grew 38% to £42.4m in the year to May 2023, the business has reported in its latest Companies House accounts.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19518 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

On the splitting of weak nearly cosymplectic manifolds
Weak almost contact manifolds, i.e., the linear complex structure on the contact distribution is approximated by a nonsingular skew-symmetric tensor, defined by the author and R. Wolak (2022), allowed a new look at the theory of contact manifolds. This article studies the curvature and topology of new structures of this type, called the weak nearly cosymplectic structure and weak nearly Kähler structure. We find conditions under which weak nearly cosymplectic manifolds become Riemannian produc…

Filings in FTC lawsuit: Instagram had revenues of $22B in 2020, or 26% of Meta's total revenue, $32.4B in 2021, or 27% of Meta's revenue, and $16.5B in H1 2022 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ein Ladegrät zieht auch Strom, wenn es gerade kein Handy lädt.
Das sind pro Jahr ca. 1 € oder 2,5 kW/h Strom
Bei 5 Ladegeräten in der Familie eine recht kleine Summe, bei 11.600.000 Mio Familien in Deutschland gehts ins Geld und CO2, denn 434 Gramm CO2 pro erzeugter kW/h ensteht im deutschen Strommix 2022.
Einsparpotential: 12586000 kg CO2 oder 12586 Tonnen CO2
#Fedi rechnet n…

Fighting Game Adaptive Background Music for Improved Gameplay
Ibrahim Khan, Thai Van Nguyen, Chollakorn Nimpattanavong, Ruck Thawonmas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02701

Fighting Game Adaptive Background Music for Improved Gameplay
This paper presents our work to enhance the background music (BGM) in DareFightingICE by adding adaptive features. The adaptive BGM consists of three different categories of instruments playing the BGM of the winner sound design from the 2022 DareFightingICE Competition. The BGM adapts by changing the volume of each category of instruments. Each category is connected to a different element of the game. We then run experiments to evaluate the adaptive BGM by using a deep reinforcement learning A…

Daily Inspiration: "Erratic leadership will always bring erratic results, but distracted leadership is guaranteed to bring even worse" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Jim Balsillie wanted to buy himself an NHL hockey team and wasted away precious time with his company RIM - the home of the Blackberry - while Apple was busy redefining the future with the iPhone. Elon Musk went and bought a once-popular social network so that he could feed his ego and pursue some grandiose ideas about f…

I'm still proud of this "Three Button Tradeshow Video Player Controller" I got done in a week without knowing everything...
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2022/11/28/three-button-tradeshow-video-player-controller/<…

Three Button Tradeshow Video Player Controller
Another custom controller for a trade show company...

Trump Media was saved in 2022 by Russian-American under criminal investigation
Donald Trump’s social media company Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation.
Defendant Trump stands to gain billions of dollars
– his stake is currently valued at about $4bn
– from the merger betwee…

He will be missed. I love the hairy bikers shows 😢
"Hairy Bikers chef Dave Myers dies at 66"
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/feb/29/hairy-bikers-chef-dave-myers-dies-at-66?utm_source=pocket_mylist<…

Does *this* Java SE runtime license (emphasis mine) mean *I* am prohibited from installing it on a *personal-use VM* in a commercial cloud? 🤔
"This version of the Java Runtime is licensed only for your personal (non-commercial) *desktop and laptop use*"
(IIUC running on local VM is OK because that'd be on my own desktop, laptop.)
PS: This part of Oracle license is not new; I just had not needed to question it.

Provocative data and great charts from Kingsmill Bond & colleagues in their new report out today: "X-Change: The Race to the Top
Cleantech competition between China, Europe, and the United States" https://rmi.org/insight/x-change-the-race-to-the-top/<…

X-Change: The Race to the Top
The cleantech competition between China, Europe, and the United States

Let's wait for more reliable and empirical data before we believe this although no doubt AI will help customer service.
"The app-based AI chatbot already handles two-thirds of all customer service chats, the company said Tuesday—some 2.3 million conversations so far—with the virtual assistant earning customer satisfaction ratings at the same level as human agents."

Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people after it laid off 700 people
Klarna, the Swedish BNPL company, released new data from its OpenAI-powered virtual assistant, saying its AI chatbots do the work of 700 full-time human agents. In 2022, the company was criticized for its handling of layoffs.

As bitcoin rallies past $67K and nears its all-time high, Coinbase's stock, which hit $46.43 last year, soars to $229.15, nearly doubling in the past month (Niamh Rowe/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/04/coinbase-shares-double-crypto…

Coinbase shrugs off site crash as shares of the top U.S. crypto exchange surge
Shares in Coinbase were up 14% on Monday, the biggest daily jump since January 2022, thanks to crypto's latest bull run.

This is why #regulation matters. Capital incentives, unchecked, do*not* produce suitable outcomes - no matter how clear the need
#environment #plastics
"The amount of plastic packagi…

The "spread" of Thompson's group $F$
Gili Golan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19444 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.19444

The "spread" of Thompson's group $F$
Recall that a group $G$ is said to be $\frac{3}{2}$-generated if every non-trivial element $g\in G$ has a co-generator in $G$ (i.e., an element which together with $g$ generates $G$). Thompson's group $V$ was proved to be $\frac{3}{2}$-generated by Donoven and Harper in 2019. It was the first example of an infinite finitely presented non-cyclic $\frac{3}{2}$-generated group. In 2022, Bleak, Harper and Skipper proved that Thompson's group $T$ is also $\frac{3}{2}$-generated. Since the abelianiza…

General Staff: Russia has lost 470,870 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/general-staff-russia.html

What is the U.S. oil agreement with Canada?

https://canadians.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/factsheet-nafta-energy.pdf

Fortschrittsbericht Beschleunigungskommission Schiene: Im Dezember 2022 hatte die vom Bund eingerichtete Beschleunigungskommission Schiene ein ganze Bündel von Handlungsempfehlungen gegeben (Pressemitteilung, Abschlussbericht). Jetzt hat das Bundesverkehrsministerium den zweiten Fortschrittsbericht über den Stand der Umsetzung der Empfehlungen abgeliefert. Das Urteil des Ministeriums über die erzielten Fortschritte fällt positiv aus. Auch der erste Fortschrittsbericht…

Fortschrittsbericht Beschleunigungskommission Schiene
Fortschrittsbericht Beschleunigungskommission Schiene

A Parameter-Masked Mock Data Challenge for Beyond-Two-Point Galaxy Clustering Statistics
2pt Collaboration, Elisabeth Krause, Yosuke Kobayashi, Andr\'es N. Salcedo, Mikhail M. Ivanov, Tom Abel, Kazuyuki Akitsu, Raul E. Angulo, Giovanni Cabass, Sofia Contarini, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, ChangHoon Hahn, Nico Hamaus, Donghui Jeong, Chirag Modi, Nhat-Minh Nguyen, Takahiro Nishimichi, Enrique Paillas, Marcos Pellejero Iba\~nez, Oliver H. E. Philcox, Alice Pisani, Fabian Schmidt, Satoshi T…

A Parameter-Masked Mock Data Challenge for Beyond-Two-Point Galaxy Clustering Statistics
The last few years have seen the emergence of a wide array of novel techniques for analyzing high-precision data from upcoming galaxy surveys, which aim to extend the statistical analysis of galaxy clustering data beyond the linear regime and the canonical two-point (2pt) statistics. We test and benchmark some of these new techniques in a community data challenge "Beyond-2pt", initiated during the Aspen 2022 Summer Program "Large-Scale Structure Cosmology beyond 2-Point Statistics," whose first…

OTD in 2022, #PutinWarCriminal invaded Ukraine for the second time. Despite the imbalance of respective forces, Ukrainian soldiers fought like lions and kept ruZZia from taking Kyiv.
If you care about your children, or even about yourself, don't let this happen, help Ukraine. Write to your representatives, send money, protest in the streets, side with Ukraine!
Ukraine paid …

Oregon: 'Actions have consequences': 3-judge appeals panel shoots down GOP’s First Amendment walkout defense - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/federal-appeals-court-shoots-down-gop-lawmakers-arguments-in-or…

'Actions have consequences': 3-judge appeals panel shoots down GOP’s First Amendment walkout defense
In 2022, Oregon voters approved Ballot Measure 113, agreeing that state lawmakers with ten or more unexcused absences should be barred from seeking reelection. The measure was designed to deter members of the Oregon State Legislature from walking off the job as a way of protesting policies they didn...

Taralino is a JS library designed for educational purposes, e.g. as an introduction in OOP, graphic objects and. vector graphics, data visualiisation and analysis.
I used it to design a cookie-machine inspired by the the movie "2022 - Die überleben wollen...":
http://t…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheCountryShowWithBobHarris
Luke Combs:
🎵 When It Rains It Pours (C2C 2022)
#LukeCombs
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mMLMZYXkMueg65jRRWG1l

Everton lose £124M to 2021-22, breaching the £105M limit, punished with a 10 point deduction (reduced to 6 on appeal.)
Wolves lose £113M to 2022-23, breaching the £105M limit, get no punishment.
Make it make sense, Premier League.
#Football #SportsBall

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

Q&A with the CEO of Grindr, whose stock fell 75% since its SPAC merger in November 2022, on future plans, including an "Š la carte" travel payments service (Financial Times)
https://t.co/IM3W8eeNEk

It’s 4/11 for North Americans, which is excuse enough to share this post:
“The 411 on 4.1.1”
https://adrianroselli.com/2022/12/the-411-on-4-1-1.html
WCAG 2.1/2.2 obsoleting SC 4.1.1 Parsing has made a lot of people frowny, but the more I dig the more …

The 411 on 4.1.1
There is a non-zero chance that WCAG Success Criterion 4.1.1 Parsing will go away in WCAG 2.2. This isn’t a problem for users, regardless of the problems it may pose for the WCAG process, ACT rules, automated testing tools, or ossified testing processes. The joke here is using an antique…

Hands up if you think public EU money being awarded by @… / @… should be subject to a transparent process where we can see all internal discussions/comments/reasoning concerning funding decisions including who made them.

On the association of GW190425 with its potential electromagnetic counterpart FRB 20190425A
Ignacio Maga\~na Hernandez, Virginia D'Emilio, Soichiro Morisaki, Mohit Bhardwaj, Antonella Palmese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02496

On the association of GW190425 with its potential electromagnetic counterpart FRB 20190425A
Recent work by Moroianu et al. (2022) has suggested that the binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW190425 might have a potential fast radio burst (FRB) counterpart association, FRB 20190425A, at the 2.8$σ$ level of confidence with a likely host galaxy association, namely UGC10667. The authors argue that the observations are consistent with a long-lived hypermassive neutron star (HMNS) that formed promptly after the BNS merger and was stable for approximately 2.5 hours before promptly collapsing i…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio1's #DanceAnthems
Guru Josh Project:
🎵 Infinity 2008 (Klaas Vocal Mix)
#BBCR1 #GuruJoshProject
https://open.spotify.com/track/6hTcRuSaaTNwlyIYkkMpWX
https://djmanumaelso.bandcamp.com/track/guru-josh-project-infinity-2008-manu-maelso-short-edit-2022

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
"As pet ownership soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, private equity followed close behind. The pandemic years of 2020-2022 were 'the peak years for private equity acquisitions of veterinary services and practices' [...]

Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — About a year ago, veterinarian Melissa Ezell started noticing subtle changes at the midsized animal clinic in Huntsville, Alabama, where she works. Hollowed Out This story is one in a series examining private equity’s impact on health care and the ways that states are responding.

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

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

"Der Berliner Ex-CDU-Finanzsenator Peter Kurth soll nach Recherchen von "Spiegel" und MDR Investigativ die IB mit deutlich mehr Geld unterstützt haben als bekannt. Demnach soll er zwischen 2019 und 2022 rund 240.000 Euro in Firmengeflechte der IB gesteckt haben."
Was sagt die Berliner CDU dazu? Der Berliner Reg. Bürgermeister? Die Bundes-CDU?

Weil die #UDV gerade Horrorszenarien um 0 schwer verletzte und 0 getötete Kinder, die in Lastenrädern transportiert wurden, aufbaut, hier: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemi…

20/ Video-Journalistin Saskia Meyer im Gespräch mit Daniele Artico, Physiker, und Dr. Nana-Maria Grüning, Biologin, von Scientist Rebellion. In der Mitte mein Notebook mit einem Bild vom April 2022 von der Blockade der Kronprinzenbrücke durch Scientist Rebellion, auf dem Saskia Meyer Daniele Artico interviewt. NMG und DA fasten aus Solidarität mit dem Hungerstreik von „Hungern bis ihr ehrlich seid!“.
#WirHungernBisIhrEhrlichSeid
#Hungerstreik
#Hungerstreik2024
#HungernBisIhrEhrlichSeid

@…
https://mastodon.social/@PhilStooke/112208959593782148#.

Phil Stooke (@PhilStooke@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost lander will go to a site in Mare Crisium north of the Luna 24 site. The landing site was originally one of two in Crisium considered for a geophysical network mission. My map shows both network candidate sites. The Picard site (A, B) was dropped and a site near a volcanic cone called Mons Latreille (C, D) was chosen. A hazard-free site nearby was selected via several studies in 2021-2022 (E-G). Tomorrow: the VIPER site.

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes is a collection of over 100 fairytales, rhymes & poems. Let's play!
#FairyTaleASongOrMovie

“The plan was to build a $100 billion coastal city designed to house up to a million people.
However, it has now turned into a ghost town full of stray dogs, overgrown vegetation, day drinkers, and crocodile-infested waters.”
No, it’s not Florida. It’s…Singapore!? https://supe…

$100 billion eco-friendly 'Forest City' is now a ghost town
A $100 billion eco-friendly city known as "Forest City" that was supposed to be home to a million people is nothing but a ghost town now.

Buffalo Bills sign former Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys OT La'el Collins https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/buffalo_bills_sign_former_cincinnati_bengals_and_dallas_cowboys_ot_lael_…

Buffalo Bills sign former Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys OT La'el Collins
The Buffalo Bills made several subtractions to their roster this offseason, including to the offensive line when they released veteran center Mitch Morse. They have since added center Will Clapp, and are now adding another veteran offensive lineman.  The Bills are signing former Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle La'el Collins to a one-year deal, per Jordan Schultz. The deal is worth up to $6.25 million. Collins missed all of 2023 after getting injured in 2022 with the Beng…

2022 retro-link! http://allsoftwaresucks.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-cve-2022-3602-was-not-detected-by.html - Why the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability was not detected by fuzz testing.

General Staff: Russia has lost 468,720 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/30/general-staff-russia.html

"Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Liz Truss Book Calls for Climate Laws to be Abolished and Boasts of Effort to Cancel UK COP Summit
The new book by former Prime Minister Liz Truss urges the UK, U.S. and EU to drop their landmark climate change laws, spreads falsehoods about green policies, and fondly recalls an attempt to cancel a major climate conference. Truss, who is the Conservative MP for South West Norfolk, resigned as prime minister in October 2022 […]

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

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

Beginning in early 2022, and intensifying in 2023, a range of so-called “#election #integrity” groups, from 💥Leonard Leo’s Honest Elections Project 💥to 🔥Cleta Mitchell’s Election Integrity Network🔥, have made #stopping

Ranked-Choice Voting is MAGA’s Latest Target
Documented is an investigative watchdog and journalism project committed to holding the powerful interests that undermine our democracy accountable.

2022 retro-link! http://allsoftwaresucks.blogspot.com/2022/11/why-cve-2022-3602-was-not-detected-by.html - Why the OpenSSL punycode vulnerability was not detected by fuzz testing.

General Staff: Russia has lost 450,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/11/general-staff-russia.html

An #Indigenous #language #revitalization movement is taking shape.
In 2022, Indigenous representatives across the globe convened on the Cherokee Nation reservation to kick off the United Nations’ International Decade …

These Latines Are Learning The Indigenous Languages Colonialism Stole From Them
Across the United States and the world, an Indigenous language revitalization movement is taking shape. To attune themselves to parts that feel undiscovered or untouched, U.S.-born Latines are reclaiming the languages that colonization stole from them.

Sources: crypto VC firm Paradigm is in talks to raise $750M to $850M for a new fund, which would be the largest since the crash; a16z raised $4.5B in May 2022 (Hannah Miller/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Crypto VC Paradigm in Talks to Raise Over $750 Million for Fund
More venture capitalists are racing to raise new funds following a crypto comeback.

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https://www.fast.ai/2022/08/25/jupyter-git/ - The Jupyter git problem is now solved.

General Staff: Russia has lost 424,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/11/general-staff-russia.html

Meta, Alphabet, and Snap beat analysts' estimates in their Q1 results, showing acceleration in advertising growth after struggling to rebound from a dismal 2022 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/27/digital-ad

IBM wins a court decision overturning $1.6B in damages it was ordered to pay BMC in 2022 for swapping in its own software while servicing a mutual client, AT&T (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

IBM Gets $1.6 Billion Poaching Award to BMC Thrown Out on Appeal
International Business Machines Corp. won a court decision overturning a $1.6 billion penalty it was ordered to pay BMC Software Inc. in 2022 for swapping in its own software while servicing their mutual client.

In an election year partially defined by Gen Z’s exhaustion with politics, #Joe #Vogel is energized by it.
At 27 years old, the Democrat became the youngest Maryland state delegate in history.
He won his legislative seat in 2022, replacing a 16-year incumbent who retired.
Now, Vogel has his eyes set on Capitol…

Inside a Gen Z campaign to shake up Congress
Joe Vogel is running in the Democratic primary for a competitive district in Maryland. At 27 years old, he's aiming to be the second Gen Z member of Congress.

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

2022 retro-link! https://grack.com/blog/2022/12/20/deriving-a-bit-twiddling-hack/ - Deriving a bit-twiddling hack: signed integer overflow.

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

2022 retro-link! https://blog.apnic.net/2022/03/08/authenticated-bootstrapping-of-dnssec-delegations/ - Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations.

Lithuanian second hand marketplace Vinted reports 2023 revenue up 61% YoY to €596.3M and a €17.8M net profit, up from a €20.4M loss in 2022 (Zosia Wanat/Sifted)
https://sifted.eu/articles/vinted-startup-lithuania-profit-news/

Vinted reaches profitability and reports 61% revenue growth last year
The Vilnius-based company is backed by some of the world’s leading VC firms, including Accel, Lightspeed, EQT and Insight Partners.

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

Venture funding to Black-founded US startups in 2023 totaled $705M across 191 deals, or less than 0.5% of all venture funding, down from $2.4B in 2022 (Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/diversity/venture-funding-black-founded-star…

Drop In Venture Funding To Black-Founded Startups Greatly Outpaces Market Decline
Venture funding to Black-founded U.S. startups last year totaled only $705 million — marking the first time since 2016 that the figure failed to even reach $1 billion, Crunchbase data shows.

Deputy Minister: Russian attacks on Ukraine's energy grid have led to $11.5 billion in losses: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/24/deputy-minister-russian.html

Media: Armenian exports to Russia rise despite political tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/media-armenian-exports.html

Russia intensifies attacks on Kharkiv, draining Ukraine's air defense and civilian morale: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/russia-intensifies-attacks.html

A profile of Bolt founder Ryan Breslow, who raised a $355M Series E in 2022, setting off 18 months of acrimonious lawsuits and a showdown with an early backer (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/03/11/the-bill…

The Billion-Dollar Unraveling Of The 'King' Of Silicon Valley
The Silicon Valley wunderkind rode his fintech unicorn Bolt to the bank. Then came the lawsuits and money squabbles — and a brutal valuation crash that wiped out much of his fortune.