Tootfinder

i had to look up the company that did the colourization on the tubi version. their website is confusing but i found this brochure (PDF). the brochure is also a mess but at least it's all in one file: #monsterdon

Visual Studio 17.10 Preview 3 is available! What's new you ask?
- GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio
- Copilot Generated Breakpoint Conditions
- Updates to our Copilot generated PR descriptions
- More SSDT support for Arm64 VS
#visualstudio

Es läuft nicht rund - Nächste Demütigung! Benzema fliegt aus dem Kader #News #Nachrichten

I hate all this shit.
$ ls -1 | head
2022_Tucson_Plug_in_Hybrid_CAN.ver
extra_package_HMC.USA.0000.V909.010.230616.181159.tar
extra_package_HMC.USA.1000.V011.005.231215.005508.tar
extra_pkg_HMC.USA.1000.V011.005.231215.005508.tar
system_package_HMC.USA.0000.V909.010.230616.181159__DOT__tar.z01
system_package_HMC.USA.0000.V909.010.230616.181159__DOT__tar.z02
system_package_HMC.USA.0000.V909.010.230616.181159__DOT__tar.z03
...
26GB of this nonsense.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12951 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Public Attitudes Toward ChatGPT on Twitter: Sentiments, Topics, and Occupations
ChatGPT sets a new record with the fastest-growing user base, as a chatbot powered by a large language model (LLM). While it demonstrates state-of-the-art capabilities in a variety of language-generation tasks, it also raises widespread public concerns regarding its societal impact. In this paper, we investigated public attitudes towards ChatGPT by applying natural language processing techniques such as sentiment analysis and topic modeling to Twitter data from December 5, 2022 to June 10, 2023…

Me: Oh cool, this person that I know has a #podcast.
The Podcast: Abandoned in 2017 after four eleven minute episodes and 1 post in 2022 titled "Where I've been."

Hey friends!
Last one of the mini series from the #rofangebirge
Yes, there was rain incoming and I wasn't amused about it 😉
https://www.franzgraf.d…

Close Call on the Trails: An Adventure Teetering on Trouble
Embarking on a hiking trip to Austria's Rofan Mountain range in September 2022, we underestimated the altitude's impact on weather. Cloudy forecasts turned to rain and plummeting temperatures. Ill-equipped, we trekked to the summit, captured stunning scenes, and learned the value of respecting natur

Q&A with Evan Smith, Texas Tribune CEO from 2009 to 2022, on earned income in nonprofit journalism, sponsorship to fund news for marginalized people, and more (Richard J. Tofel/Second Rough Draft)
https://dicktofel.substack.com/p/the-texas-tribune-examp…

The Texas Tribune, Example or Exception?: A Candid Talk with Evan Smith About Earned Income
Events, sponsorship-- and why one size doesn't fit all

#Subsidiarity: Grounding the digital network within local institutions.
"…scholars @… & @… (2022) argue that

JFC… Didn’t Walmart read the history of Sears??? https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/112076826831006666

On Website Technicals (2022-12) - Tech updates: citationID, Mastostorm, server down, mail system move, dataset archive, database cross-check, static Gallery, Xmas slump. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-67.html

On Website Technicals (2022-12)
Tech updates: citationID, Mastostorm, server down, mail system move, dataset archive, database cross-check, static Gallery, Xmas slump.

Sam Williams has golden opportunity in 2024 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/sam_williams_has_golden_opportunity_in_2024/s1_17100_40228074

Sam Williams has golden opportunity in 2024
The Dallas Cowboys offseason has been one to forget, this roster is filled with players still on their rookie contracts, and one of them, Inpitucluar, has a golden opportunity to break out in 2024. Sam Williams, the second-round pick out of Ole Miss in 2022, will have every chance in 2024 to make a name for himself. Williams has had to fight for playing time in the last few years, but with Dante Fowler and Dorance Armstrong leaving via free agency, Williams will be needed this season. Last seas…

US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Google’s Payments to Apple Reached $20 Billion in 2022, Cue Says
Alphabet Inc. paid Apple Inc. $20 billion in 2022 for Google to be the default search engine in the Safari browser, according to newly unsealed court documents in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google.

Hey friends!
Just a quick snap of memory of a hike in the Austrian alps. A tale of starting wrongly equipped... 🤦🏻‍♂️
Everything went fine in the end. But I really didn't start very smart.
But at least I got some nice photos!
https://www.fran…

Close Call on the Trails: An Adventure Teetering on Trouble
Embarking on a hiking trip to Austria's Rofan Mountain range in September 2022, we underestimated the altitude's impact on weather. Cloudy forecasts turned to rain and plummeting temperatures. Ill-equipped, we trekked to the summit, captured stunning scenes, and learned the value of respecting natur

Why some far-right Republicans are hell bent on ending further aid to Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/02/why-some-farright.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14908 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

More Excitement Across the Horizon
An Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector falling radially into a four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field that has been prepared in the Hartle-Hawking or Unruh state, has recently been shown to exhibit a local extremum in its transition probability near the black hole horizon [K.K. Ng et al., New J. Phys. 24 (2022) 103018]. We show that a similar phenomenon is present in the transition rate of a UDW detector falling radially into a spinless Bañados-Teitelboi…

2023 retro-link! https://thebrokenrail.com/2022/12/31/xfinity-stream-on-linux.html - How to get Xfinity Stream to work on Linux: a tale of Widevine, Chrome OS, and a patched glibc.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02192 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Domain adaptation, Explainability & Fairness in AI for Medical Image Analysis: Diagnosis of COVID-19 based on 3-D Chest CT-scans
The paper presents the DEF-AI-MIA COV19D Competition, which is organized in the framework of the 'Domain adaptation, Explainability, Fairness in AI for Medical Image Analysis (DEF-AI-MIA)' Workshop of the 2024 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference. The Competition is the 4th in the series, following the first three Competitions held in the framework of ICCV 2021, ECCV 2022 and ICASSP 2023 International Conferences respectively. It includes two Challenges on: i) Covid-19 Dete…

The super-rich ‘preppers’ planning to save themselves from the apocalypse
They were preparing for a digital future that had less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether.
Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic and resource depletion.

Tyler Smith says he’s ‘really comfortable’ at guard as Cowboys consider move to tackle https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/tyler_smith_says_hes_really_comfortable_at_guard_as_cowboys_consid…

Tyler Smith says he’s ‘really comfortable’ at guard as Cowboys consider move to tackle
The Dallas Cowboys have some big choices to make before the 2024 NFL Draft later this month. One of the biggest questions they have to answer is how they’ll replace long-time starting left tackle Tyron Smith. In 2022, when Smith suffered a severe leg injury, the team opted to try rookie first-rounder Tyler Smith there. It worked well, but once the veteran returned to full health, he returned to left tackle. Tyler Smith had a standout year at left guard this season, which has him quite content…

👍 Judge to issue bench warrant for Michigan lawyer pushing Trump’s voter-fraud scam: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-michigan-voter-fraud-scam/

Judge to issue bench warrant for Michigan lawyer pushing Trump’s voter-fraud scam: report
A lawyer for Donald Trump in Michigan is about to face a bench warrant, reported Detroit News reporter Craig Mauger on Thursday. A 2022 Reuters report described Stefanie Lambert as "a defense attorney with financial woes before seizing on the election-denial movement for new business. Now she faces ...

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

Peritas Brands v. Leaphigh Animals - Judge dismisses patent owner's motion to dismiss the patent claims, based on a covenant not to sue:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575.86.…

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.

Putin’s media is very much like a modern Goebbels, influencing Russians.
When we think about the effects of modern media on public discourse, let’s not overlook what’s happening in Russia. This seems like it won’t end well.

Aktuelles Lesevergnügen [Ohja!]: Unterm Teppich [2022] von Eva Christina Zeller. #bookstodon

An NLRB judge finds Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated US labor law with his comments in 2022 suggesting workers would be "less empowered" if they voted in a union (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/01/amazon-ceo

"And the cloud, as we like to say, is a fancy term for someone else's computer"
Thank you for stating it in such a clear and simple way, @… !
htt…

UTA Filing Reveals It Paid $55M For UK Agency Curtis Brown, Fueling 12-Fold Surge In Sales
https://deadline.com/2024/03/uta-curtis-brown-deal-value-financial-earnings-1235844641/

UTA Filing Reveals It Paid $55M For UK Agency Curtis Brown, Fueling 12-Fold Surge In Sales
United Talent Agency (UTA) financial filing reveals it paid £43.3M ($55M) for Curtis Brown in 2022. The deal helped supercharge its sales.

Jerry Tillery Could Be Defensive Line Option for Steelers in FA https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/jerry_tillery_could_be_defensive_line_option_for_steelers_in_fa/s1_17181_40083778

Jerry Tillery Could Be Defensive Line Option for Steelers in FA
The Las Vegas Raiders informed defensive lineman Jerry Tillery that they will release him when the new league year begins Wednesday, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. Tillery is only 27 and with the Steelers needing to bolster the defensive line, he could be a potential free agent target for Pittsburgh. The Chargers selected Tillery with the No. 28 overall pick in 2019 out of Notre Dame. He never really panned out with Los Angeles, however, and was waived on Nov. 10, 2022. The Raiders claimed…

German Foreign Minister Baerbock: Ukraine was ready for concessions in 2022 Istanbul talks with Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/25/german-foreign-minister.html

Actually, what does Big Pub do with APCs?
Springer Nature (today!): Hold my beer, aaaah, poster, no, ahem, *your* poster!
Bien entendu, this paper is out since January first, 2022!
!B

Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote American isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukra…

Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
In a campaign stoking anti-Ukraine sentiment in the U.S., Russia-directed trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles and social media posts.

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

[Le Monde] - Ces cybercriminels sont Š l’origine de milliers d’attaques, dont celle ayant touché l’hôpital de #CorbeilEssonnes en 2022. L’« #OpérationCronos », qui implique notamment Europol et la gendarmerie, a mis Š mal la majeure partie de son infrastructure technique.

LockBit, l’un des plus gros groupes de rançongiciel du monde, visé par une opération de police internationale
Ces cybercriminels sont à l’origine de milliers d’attaques, dont celle ayant touché l’hôpital de Corbeil-Essonnes en 2022. L’« opération Cronos », qui implique notamment Europol et la gendarmerie, a mis à mal la majeure partie de son infrastructure technique.

Dear Earth, I'm Really Sorry - Season 2 coming soon 🤖 🔬💥
Dramatized scifi comedy | Total listening time: 7h 19m
When the greatest inventor on Earth disappears, it’s up to his disaster-prone son and his Frankenstein daughter to save the world… then accidentally destroy it… then save it again.
This show highlights queer and women's voices in the often ...

Dear Earth, I'm Really Sorry - Season 2 coming soon 🤖 🔬💥
Dramatized scifi comedy | Total listening time: 7h 19m When the greatest inventor on Earth disappears, it’s up to his disaster-prone son and his Frankenstein daughter to save the world… then accidentally destroy it… then save it again. This show highlights queer and women's voices in the often male-dominated realm of sci-fi. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Mar 10, 2022.

2022 retro-link! https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/04/04/the-british-empire-was-much-worse-than-you-realize-caroline-elkinss-legacy-of-violence - The British Empire was much worse than …

_"The CDC found 45% of high school students were so persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 they were unable to engage in regular activities. Almost 1 in 5 seriously considered suicide and 9% surveyed tried to take their lives during previous 12 months."
https://www.

The crisis of student mental health is much vaster than we realize
There is too much need and too little help for kids. Even as federal covid relief money has let schools step up their efforts, they also have come up short.

Menschenrechtler: Mindestens 212 Festnahmen in Russland
Bei Versammlungen zum Gedenken an Alexej Nawalny sind nach Angaben von Menschenrechtlern in Russland mittlerweile mehr als 212 Menschen festgenommen worden. Das wäre die größte Festnahmewelle in Russland seit der Arrestierung von mehr als 1.300 Personen bei Demonstrationen gegen die Teilmobilisierung für den Ukraine-Krieg im September 2022. Allein in St. Petersburg hätten…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Scholz ruft Europäer zu mehr Ukraine-Hilfe auf ++
Bundeskanzler Scholz hat in München die EU-Partner zu mehr Hilfen für die Ukraine aufgerufen. Europa muss nach Einschätzung Litauens seine Fähigkeit zur Selbstverteidigung steigern. Die Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #OJBorg
Dina Carroll:
🎵 Ain't No Man
#DinaCarroll
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Gtm0yeWWv2DebMWSwPHGc
https://insoulpro.bandcamp.com/track/dina-carroll-aint-no-man-in-soul-2022-garagehouse-mix

On Thursday, the January 6 committee released two more transcripts of #Cassidy #Hutchinson’s testimony, which was given September 14, 2022 and September 15, 2022.
Former Trump staffer and important Jan. 6 witness #Cassidy

Cassidy Hutchinson Says Trump-Paid Lawyer Talked To Haberman After 3rd Deposition — Told Her ‘Don’t Worry, Maggie’s Friendly To Us’
Cassidy Hutchinson testified her lawyer Stefan Passantino took a call from Maggie Haberman above her objections, reassuring her "Maggie's friendly to us."

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.03466 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Yet Another Sunshine Mystery: Unexpected Asymmetry in GeV Emission from the Solar Disk
The Sun is one of the most luminous $γ$-ray sources in the sky and continues to challenge our understanding of its high-energy emission mechanisms. This study provides an in-depth investigation of the solar disk $γ$-ray emission, using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope spanning 2008 August to 2022 January. We focus on $γ$-ray events with energies exceeding 5 GeV, originating from 0.5$^\circ$ angular aperture centered on the Sun, and implement stringent time cuts to minimize potential …

Ex-RB Lynch reaches plea deal in 2022 DUI case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39570850/ex-rb-marshawn-lynch-reaches-plea-deal-2022-dui-case

Ex-RB Marshawn Lynch reaches plea deal in 2022 DUI case - ESPN
Marshawn Lynch submitted to a DUI charge on Wednesday, but the case will be closed as a reckless driving offense pending his completion of certain conditions of a plea agreement, according to his attorneys.

#Trump
Via
Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
·
12m
WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOOOOOOOSE
The Trump Sneakers that claim to be "not political and not affiliated with any political campaign" are being sold by CIC Ventures LLC, a company that according to Florida business records is owned by Trump's Palm Beach lawyer John Marion IV
Oh, I see we've…

phpc.social has defederated from fusionpros.social as the last nearly 6000 of their posts have been spam, and the last non-spam post on that instance was in 2022.
#fediblock

The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoft’s global water consumption grew 34% from 2021 to 2022. And estimates say that around 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity for no purpose at all.

Generative video: Hold my beer.

Leute ich habe heute Englisch Zentralabitur in Schleswig Holstein geschrieben und suche den Artikel aus der Klausur.
Ich weiß, dass es um Dunbar's Number und Social Media ging und ich glaube, dass der Artikel in der Onlinezeitung The Atlantic im Jahr 2020 - 2022 erschienen ist.
Ich finde den Artikel aber nun im Internet nicht wieder und würde mich über Hilfe sehr freuen :)

Wozu eigentlich Regeln, wenn diese am Ende eh nichts gelten?
#Hilbert

Peritas Brands v. Leaphigh Animals - Judge dismisses patent owner's motion to dismiss the patent claims, based on a covenant not to sue:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575/gov.uscourts.nvd.161575.86.…

Moore v. Harper ARGUED: 12/7/2022
The Supreme Court Considers the **Independent State Legislature Theory**, shoots it down! #law
**DECISION**: 6/27/2023: In a 6-3 opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court's majority found that the Constitution's Elections Clause does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elec…

About 7% of all homo sapiens to have ever lived are alive right now. So if you're thinking "what are the odds of seeing the end of the world" the odds aren't actually that small.
Exponential growth can have surprising implications
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/…

Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote American isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/08/russia-propaganda-us-ukra…

Russian trolls target U.S. support for Ukraine, Kremlin documents show
In a campaign stoking anti-Ukraine sentiment in the U.S., Russia-directed trolls have written thousands of fabricated news articles and social media posts.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07576 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Analyzing Trendy Twitter Hashtags in the 2022 French Election
Regressions trained to predict the future activity of social media users need rich features for accurate predictions. Many advanced models exist to generate such features; however, the time complexities of their computations are often prohibitive when they run on enormous data-sets. Some studies have shown that simple semantic network features can be rich enough to use for regressions without requiring complex computations. We propose a method for using semantic networks as user-level features …

Putin’s media is very much like a modern Goebbels, influencing Russians.
When we think about the effects of modern media on public discourse, let’s not overlook what’s happening in Russia. This seems like it won’t end well.

Mamdani: "[...] you've also described yourself as a 'Law & Order' Mayor."
Adams: "I like to believe that *chuckles*"
[describes how Adams was legally required to build 20 miles of bus lanes in 2022 but did not, and 30 miles of bus lanes in 2023, but also did not.]
Mamdani: "How can you call yourself a law & order mayor when new yorkers can't trust you to follow the law?"

"This work shows that a #decentralized approach to #moderation can lead to higher content reliability on #socialmedia. This approach is also more efficient and scalable than centralized moderation…

Empowering social media users to assess content helps fight misinformation
MIT researchers built a prototype social media platform to study the effects of giving users more agency to assess content for accuracy and control the posts they see based on accuracy assessments from others. Users were able to make accurate assessments, despite having no prior training, and they valued and utilized the assessment and filtering tools they designed.

Exploring orbital angular momentum and spin-orbit correlation for gluons at the Electron-Ion Collider
Shohini Bhattacharya, Renaud Boussarie, Yoshitaka Hatta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04209

Exploring orbital angular momentum and spin-orbit correlation for gluons at the Electron-Ion Collider
In our previous work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 128, 182002 (2022)], we introduced a pioneering observable aimed at experimentally detecting the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of gluons. Our focus was on the longitudinal double spin asymmetry observed in exclusive dijet production during electron-proton scattering. We demonstrated the sensitivity of the $\cos ϕ$ angular correlation between the scattered electron and proton as a probe for gluon OAM at small-$x$ and its intricate interplay with gluon hel…

Gens de Québec, est-ce que. votre chien ou votre chat est micropucé?
https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/apropos/espace-presse/actualites/fiche_autres_actualites.aspx?id=30884

Micropucer et enregistrer son animal à prix réduit
Québec, le 1er mars 2024 – La Ville de Québec annonce deux prochaines cliniques de micropuçage pour les chats et les chiens résidant sur son territoire, en partenariat avec Micropuce Québec. Ces événements visent à promouvoir la sécurité des animaux de compagnie en facilitant leur identification en cas de perte ou de fugue. Depuis janvier 2022, le micropuçage est obligatoire pour les chats et recommandé pour les chiens, selon la réglementation provinciale en vigueur. Cette proc�…

Quite enjoy the Pickup Coffee chain in #Philippines. Much cheaper than the western brands (50 php for an americano) but also great quality. They source coffee beans locally. They only launched in 2022 and you can already find them everywhere
Also good since we boycott Starbucks 🍉

Russia using freshly-produced shells as supply 'running smoothly,' Ukrainian officer says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/russia-using-freshlyproduced.html

LastPass separates from GoTo, which announced the spinoff in December 2021, six years after buying LastPass; the service suffered high profile hacks in 2022 (Wes Davis/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/1/24146205/lastpass-independ…

LastPass goes independent over a year after serious breaches
Over a year and a half after two major breaches that included customer password vaults and encryption keys, GoTo no longer operates LastPass.

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.

Actually, what does Big Pub do with APCs?
Springer Nature (today!): Hold my beer, aaaah, poster, no, ahem, *your* poster!
Bien entendu, this paper is out since January first, 2022!
!B

2022 retro-link! http://blog.ffwll.ch/2022/07/locking-engineering.html - Linux kernel lock engineering principles.

This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity
It started with a precipitous rise in the number of people clamoring to get in.
The so-called Ivy-Plus schools
— the eight members of the Ivy League plus M.I.T., Duke, Chicago and Stanford
— collectively received about 175,000 applications in 2002.
In 2022, the most recent year for which totals are available, they got more than 590,000, with only a few thousand more available spots.
The quality of the applicants ha…

Opinion | 2024 Was the Year That Broke College Admissions
This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity

Ex-RB Lynch reaches plea deal in 2022 DUI case https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39570850/ex-rb-marshawn-lynch-reaches-plea-deal-2022-dui-case

Ex-RB Marshawn Lynch reaches plea deal in 2022 DUI case - ESPN
Marshawn Lynch submitted to a DUI charge on Wednesday, but the case will be closed as a reckless driving offense pending his completion of certain conditions of a plea agreement, according to his attorneys.

Following Judge Durkin's grant of summary judgment against their design patent infringement claims (https://mastodon.social/@design_law/111771619167432208), the "hoverboard"

Guest Post: We need to talk about the NDIL's Schedule-A cases
By Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School ABC Corp. I v. Partnership & Unincorporated Associations Identified …

General Staff: Russia has lost 404,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/20/general-staff-russia.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09913 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Radio spectra of pulsars fitted with the spectral distribution function of the emission from their current sheet
In their catalogue of pulsars' radio spectra, Swainston et al. (2022, PASA, 39, e056) distinguish between five different forms of these spectra: those that can be fitted with (i) a simple power law, (ii) a broken power law, (iii) a low-frequency turn-over, (iv) a high-frequency turn-over or (v) a double turn-over spectrum. Here, we choose two examples from each of these categories and fit them with the spectral distribution function of the caustics that are generated by the superluminally movin…

Filing: the company behind MariaDB, which raised ~$230M before its 2022 IPO, may be taken private by K1 in a $37M deal, far below its $672M Series D valuation (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/19/stru

Struggling database company MariaDB could be taken private in $37M deal | TechCrunch
MariaDB is the subject of a potential takeover bid, as the company confirmed it has received an offer from K1 Investment Management.

2022 retro-link! https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/arxiv-org-reaches-a-milestone-and-a-reckoning/ - arXiv.org reaches a milestone and a reckoning.

About 7% of all homo sapiens to have ever lived are alive right now. So if you're thinking "what are the odds of seeing the end of the world" the odds aren't actually that small.
Exponential growth can have surprising implications
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/…

200.000 ukrainische Flüchtlinge in Großbritannien untergekommen
Seit Beginn des russischen Angriffskrieges sind mehr als 200.000 ukrainische Flüchtlinge mit einem Visum in Großbritannien angekommen. Insgesamt wurden bisher mehr als 250.000 Visa ausgegeben, wie die britische Regierung mitteilte.
Großbritannien hatte nach Kriegsbeginn am 24. Februar 2022 zwei Einreiseprogramme aufgelegt. Über das "Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme" bi…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland meldet Tote nach Angriff auf Belgorod ++
Ukrainische Raketen sollen ein Einkaufszentrum in Belgorod getroffen haben - mindestens fünf Menschen wurden nach russischen Angaben getötet. Großbritannien kündigt die Lieferung Tausender Drohnen an. Die Entwicklungen vom Donnerstag zum Nachlesen.

Imax reports Q4 revenue of $86M, vs. $89.59M est., down 12% from Q4 2022, when Imax experienced a rapid reopening of cinemas in China, and net income of $2.5M (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Box Office Slowdown Hits Imax As Quarterly Revenue Falls
Overall quarterly revenue came to $86 million, down 12 percent from a year-earlier $98 million, as 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,' 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour' and 'Wonka' played on its screens.

Borrell, Kuleba: Europe and the world need Ukraine to prevail: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/borrell-kuleba-europe.html

Here's how media personalities talk about young adults. They openly describe them as emotional cripples.
"Teenagers don't understand how to actually interact with their feelings,... yeah, people basically under 25"
Michael Eisen, January 12, 2022

Quite enjoy the Pickup Coffee chain in #Philippines. Much cheaper than the western brands (50 php for an americano) but also great quality. They source coffee beans locally. They only launched in 2022 and you can already find them everywhere
Also good since we boycott Starbucks 🍉

Analysis: Vietnam's share in global smartphone exports grew from less than 1% in 2010 to 12% in 2022, while India's grew from <1% to 2.5% over the same period (The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/data/who-is-winni

Following Judge Durkin's grant of summary judgment against their design patent infringement claims (https://mastodon.social/@design_law/111771619167432208), the "hoverboard"

Guest Post: We need to talk about the NDIL's Schedule-A cases
By Sarah Burstein, Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School ABC Corp. I v. Partnership & Unincorporated Associations Identified …

Russia using freshly-produced shells as supply 'running smoothly,' Ukrainian officer says: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/russia-using-freshlyproduced.html

Imax reports Q4 revenue of $86M, vs. $89.59M est., down 12% from Q4 2022, when Imax experienced a rapid reopening of cinemas in China, and net income of $2.5M (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Box Office Slowdown Hits Imax As Quarterly Revenue Falls
Overall quarterly revenue came to $86 million, down 12 percent from a year-earlier $98 million, as 'Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom,' 'Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour' and 'Wonka' played on its screens.

The Biden administration will give $1.5 billion to help build a vast new computer-chip factory in New York state as part of an effort to strengthen the country’s ability to mass-produce the brains of modern consumer and military electronics.
The grant, formally unveiled Monday, is the third announced as part of the 🔹Chips and Science Act,🔹 a $52 billion program President Biden signed in 2022 in hopes of supercharging U.S. manufacturing of semiconductors, which are largely made overseas…

U.S. to give $1.5 billion for computer-chip plant, heating up global race
The massive grant, part of the Chips Act, will help the U.S. establish a homegrown supply for some of the most critical components of modern life.

2022 retro-link! https://www.wired.com/story/moores-law-really-dead/ - Is Moore’s Law really dead?

Kagan: in 2023, radio industry revenue totaled $15.15B, down 1.5% from $15.39B in 2022, and there were $212.5M worth of radio deals, down 35.6% YoY from $329.9M (Inside Radio)
https://www.insideradio.com/free/kagan-rad

Did the Black Sea Grain Initiative Lower Prices of Agricultural Futures?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/did-the-black.html

'I want to be back': Can Baker Mayfield make Tampa his home? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39569196/baker-mayfield-return-tampa-bay-buccaneers

Baker Mayfield wants to be back in Tampa, but will he? - ESPN
The 2018 No. 1 pick enjoyed success last season with the Bucs after spending time on four teams since 2022 trying to find his footing.

U.S. Pressure Helped Save Brazil’s Democracy
Biden’s stated commitment to defending democracy worldwide is often brushed off as mere rhetoric.
Yet, two weeks ago, Brazil’s federal police launched a high-profile raid against former President Jair Bolsonaro and more than 10 of his allies, including Brazil’s former navy chief, national security advisor, and ministers of defense and justice. Authorities accused the group of plotting a potential coup after Bolsonaro’s failed 2022 ree…

Meizu, which was acquired by Chinese automaker Geely in 2022, will no longer make smartphones, to pursue an "all in AI" strategy over the next three years (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.co…

Chinese smartphone vendors from Meizu to Oppo step up AI integration in devices
Increased artificial intelligence integration in Chinese handsets shows how a new tech arms race in the smartphone industry is heating up, as the global market is poised for a recovery in 2024.

Did the Black Sea Grain Initiative Lower Prices of Agricultural Futures?: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/did-the-black.html

Reddit files for a US IPO, says it had $804M in annual sales in 2023, up 20% YoY, and a net loss of $90.8M, compared to a net loss of $158.6M in 2022 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/22/reddit-files-to-list-ipo-on-nyse…

A look at the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine's tech center Kharkiv; of the 511 tech companies in the city before February 2022, 500 are still operating (Alec Russell/Financial Times)
https://t.co/boyuZ5i62i

General Staff: Russia has lost 403,720 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/19/general-staff-russia.html

LLMs have what robots lack: access to knowledge about practically everything humans have ever written, from quantum physics to K-pop to defrosting a salmon fillet.
In turn, robots have what LLMs lack: physical bodies that can interact with their surroundings, connecting words to reality.
It seems only logical to connect mindless robots and bodiless LLMs so that, as one 2022 paper puts it, “the robot can act as the language model's ‘hands and eyes,’ while the language model …

Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The effort to give robots AI brains is revealing big practical challenges—and bigger ethical concerns

“Who wants to live forever?”
The immortal words of Freddie Mercury blast from the speakers as blue lights swivel around the room and a smoky mist floats up from the stage in front of me.
If the audience is anything to go by, the answer to his question is:
the mega rich.
I’d come to Gstaad, a swanky ski-resort town in the Swiss Alps, to attend the first in-person 🔸Longevity Investors Conference🔸.
Over the two-day event, scientists and biotech founders made the…

Inside the billion-dollar meeting for the mega-rich who want to live forever
Hope, hype, and self-experimentation collided at an exclusive conference for ultra-rich investors who want to extend their lives past 100. I went along for the ride.

Microsoft says its Xbox Game Pass service now has 34M subscribers, up 36% from the 25M subscribers Microsoft reported more than two years ago (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/23570040/microsoft-xbox-game-p…

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers
Microsoft is finally providing new Xbox Game Pass subscriber numbers. The service has hit 34 million subscribers, after slowing down in 2022.

Microsoft says its Xbox Game Pass service now has 34M subscribers, up 36% from the 25M subscribers Microsoft reported more than two years ago (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/15/23570040/microsoft-xbox-game-p…

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers
Microsoft is finally providing new Xbox Game Pass subscriber numbers. The service has hit 34 million subscribers, after slowing down in 2022.

Former justice Stephen Breyer signals support for supreme court term limits
Former US supreme court justice Stephen #Breyer signaled his support for #term #limits in the country’s highest court following his retirement in 2022.
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Media: Armenian exports to Russia rise despite political tensions: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/media-armenian-exports.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 430,740 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/17/general-staff-russia.html