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Rhoda Dakar - "The Man Who Sold The World" (2022)
So many good versions of this song. This one has been in heavy rotation on my iTunes lately.
Such a jaunty, classy version by one of the great voices of the 2nd wave ska era. Still going strong.
#music #covers

Across the US, lawmakers and interest groups are stepping up efforts to shield Israel from accountability for war crimes, occupation, and apartheid.
They are doing so by restricting Palestine solidarity advocates’ First Amendment rights to free speech and political boycotts.
In June 2022, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to uphold an Arkansas law punishing state contractors who boycott Israel.
Since 2014, dozens of states have adopted similar laws designed to puni…

On the intervals for the non-existence of covering systems with distinct moduli
Jack Dalton, Nic Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11359 https://

On the intervals for the non-existence of covering systems with distinct moduli
In a research seminar in $2006$, M. Filaseta, O. Trifonov, and G. Yu showed for each integer $n\geq3$ there is no distinct covering with all moduli in the interval $[n, 6n]$. In $2022$, this interval was subsequently improved to $[n, 8n]$ by the first author and O. Trifonov. The first author then improved this bound to $[n, 9n]$ in $2023$. Building off their method, we show that for each integer $n\geq 3$, there does not exist a distinct covering system with all moduli in the interval $[n, 10n]…

from my link log —
Performance of memory reclamation for lockless synchronization.
http://csng.cs.toronto.edu/publication_files/0000/0159/jpdc07.pdf
saved 2022-12-26

Uspol, genocide
In case you're wondering whether "political violence" is escalating in the U.S.A. right now, of *course* it is as we move into an era of concentration campus and domestic military deployments. But both domestic genocides and purges as well as political violence targeted at individual prominent figures has been a *constant* throughout American history, from gun duels fought between political rivals to massacres of Native Americans in order to steal their land, to pogroms against Catholics, to literal wars on local Black success and political participation, all dating back before the American Revolution to the beginning of colonization. Thanks to Wikipedia, here's a *small sampling* where I attempted to whittle things down to about one event per decade before recent times.
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_the_United_States
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres_in_North_America
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_political_violence_in_Washington,_D.C.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States
Killings, woundings, and plots against political figures:
Aaron Burr killing Alexander Hamilton in 1804
Sam Houston beats Rep. William Stanbery in 1832
Attempted Assassination of Andrew Jackson in 1835
Fight between Representatives Churchwell & Cullom in 1854
Caning of Sen. Charles Summer in 1856
Brawl on the House floor in 1858
Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865
Assassination of President James A. Garfield in 1881
Assassination of President William McKinley in 1901
Attempted Assassination of William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz in 1909
Wounding of former President Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
Bombing of the U.S. Senate reception room in 1915
Attempted Assassination of President Herbert Hover in 1928 (in Argentina)
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1947
Attempted Assassination of President Harry S. Truman in 1950
The United States Capitol Shooting in 1954
Planned Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1960
Attempted Assassination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1963
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
Weather Underground bombings in 1970, 1971, and 1975
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1972 (Alabama Governor George Wallace was targeted & injured instead)
Planned Assassination of President Richard Nixon in 1974
Planned Assassination of President Gerald Ford in 1974
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Gerald Ford in 1975
Wounding of President Ronald Reagan in 1981
Attempted Kidnapping of Federal Reserve Board members in 1981
Planned Assassination of President George Bush in 1993 (in Kuwait)
Attempted Assassinations (x3) of President Bill Clinton in 1994
Attempted Assassination of President Bill Clinton in 1996
Anthrax attacks on US senators in 2001
Attempted Assassination of President George W. Bush in 2005 (in the foreign country of Georgia)
Planned Assassination of President-Elect Barrack Obama in 2008
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2009 (in Turkey)
Attempted Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2011
Shooting of Rep. Gabby Gliffords in 2011
Planned Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2012
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Barrack Obama in 2013
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2015
Attempted Assassinations (x2) of President Donald Trump in 2017
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2018
Pipe bombs mailed to Democratic leaders in 2018, including former President Barack Obama
Planned Assassination of President Barrack Obama in 2019
Attempted Assassination of President Donald Trump in 2020
Kidnapping plot against Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020
Planned Assassination of Former President George W. Bush in 2022
Planned Assassination of Former President Barrack Obama in 2023
Attempted Assassination of President Joe Biden in 2023
Planned Assassinations (x2) of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Wounding of Presidential Candidate Donald Trump in 2024
Massacres and other mass killings, mostly with genocidal motivations:
The Acoma Massacre in 1599
The Paspaheg Massacre in 1610
The Wessagusset affair in 1623
The Mystic Massacre in 1637
The Pound Ridge Massacre in 1644
The Susquehannock chiefs massacre in 1675
The Apalachee Massacre in 1704
The Massacre at Fort Narhantes in 1712
The Norridgewock Massacre in 1724
The 1745 Massacre at Walden (in 1745)
The 1756 Massacre at Walden (in 1756)
The Killings by the Paxton Boys in 1763
The Yellow Creek Massacre in 1774
The Gnadenhütten Massacre in 1782
The Canyon del Muerto Massacre in 1805
The Battle of Tallushatchee in 1813
The Philadelphia Nativist Riots in 1844
The Bloody Island Massacre in 1850
The Mountain Meadows Massacre in 1857
The Sand Creek Massacre in 1864
The Opelousas Massacre in 1868
The Chinese Massacre in 1871
The Election Riot of 1874
The Haymarket Affair in 1886
The Buffalo Gap Massacre in 1890
The Wilmington Massacre in 1898
The 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre (in 1906)
The Ludlow Massacre in 1914
The Elaine massacre in 1919
The Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921
The Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921
The Bonus Army Conflict in 1932
The 1937 Memorial Day massacre (in 1937)
The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963
The Kent State shootings in 1970
The Greensboro massacre in 1979
The MOVE Bombing in 1985
The 4 O'Clock murders in 1988
The Oklahoma City bombing in 1995
The September 11 Attacks in 2001
The Fort Hood Shooting in 2009
The Holocaust Memorial Shooting in 2009
The Isla Vista killings in 2014
The Charleston Church shooting in 2015
The San Bernardino attack in 2015
The Orlando Nightclub Shooting in 2016
The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting in 2018
The El Paso Walmart shooting in 2019
The January 6th Capitol Attack in 2021
The 2022 Buffalo Shooting (in 2022)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/u-s-government-seized-1-million-from-russian-ransomware-gang/

US government seized $1M from Russian ransomware gang | TechCrunch
A global law enforcement coalition targeted the infrastructure of the group behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware strains, allegedly responsible for extorting victims out of $370 million since 2022.

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, …

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Spin Constraints on 4U 1630-47 via combined Continuum Fitting and Reflection methods: a comparative study using Frequentist and Bayesian statistics
Debtroy Das, Honghui Liu, Zuobin Zhang, Cosimo Bambi, Jiachen Jiang, Johannes Buchner, Andrea Santangelo, Menglei Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09481…

Spin Constraints on 4U 1630-47 via combined Continuum Fitting and Reflection methods: a comparative study using Frequentist and Bayesian statistics
We present a comprehensive Bayesian spectral analysis of the black hole X-ray binary 4U 1630-47 during its 2022 outburst, using simultaneous \textit{NICER} and \textit{NuSTAR} observations. Using the traditional frequentist approach, we build our model combining reflection spectroscopy with continuum fitting techniques and analyse the data. In the Bayesian framework, we jointly constrain the black hole's spin, mass, inclination, and distance within a unified framework. Employing nested sampling…

Grassroots – summertime is music festival time #festival #music https://muz4now.com/2022/grassroots-su

Grassroots - summertime is music festival time
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

18,500 soldiers convicted in Russia of desertion or unauthorized absence since 2022, analysis finds: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/soldiers-convicted-in-russia-of.html

On the estimation of solar wind velocity under varying solar activity conditions using Akatsuki measurements
Keshav Aggarwal, R. K. Choudhary, Abhirup Datta, Takeshi Imamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06381

On the estimation of solar wind velocity under varying solar activity conditions using Akatsuki measurements
We present an analysis of solar wind dynamics based on Doppler spectral width measurements of X-band radio signals from the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft. The dataset includes two solar conjunction occultation experiments conducted in 2016 and 2022, capturing the transition from the descending phase of Solar Cycle 24, a period of low solar activity, to the ascending phase of Solar Cycle 25, which exhibited moderate to intense activity. Our study demonstrates the utility of this technique for est…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
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Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/

‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’
In a brief video in English, the French filmmakers Élodie Emery and Wandrille Lanos introduce their documentary ‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’ (Arte, 2022). It can be watched here.

Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Eduardo Koffmann Jopia, Patricia Galilea Aranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04532 https://

Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Does it matter whether a government is "left wing" or "right wing" for economic growth? Using a panel of 113 countries (1995 2022), we combine: (i) the economic ideology of the executive branch (V Dem), (ii) the disaggregated institutional quality of the economic freedom index (Heritage), separating a core institutional block (HN: property rights, government integrity, judicial effectiveness) from a block of liberalization policies (HL: trade/financial openness, regulatory efficiency, size of g…

“What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?” – a pretty good summary for those who don't want to read Gary Marcus’s rather… elaborate… treatizes.
> I think it’s safe, at least for now, to turn your attention away from the tech titans’ increasingly hyperbolic claims
🧘‍♂️
https://ca…

What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? - Cal Newport
In the years since ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022, it’s been hard not to get swept up in feelings of euphoria or dread about the ... Read more

Has anyone used Windhawk?
https://windhawk.net/
It's a tweak/mod installer for Windows. Like Cydia or SIMBL or Application Enhancer. Released in 2022.
I'm impressed by the number of mods they have listed. Each mod has visible source code, a single file with metadata in comments, l…

On the extremal functions of second order uncertainty principles: symmetry and symmetry breaking
Xiao-Ping Chen, Chun-Lei Tang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15221 https://

On the extremal functions of second order uncertainty principles: symmetry and symmetry breaking
This paper focus on the symmetry and symmetry breaking about the second order Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle. \emph{Firstly}, by choosing a suitable test function, we give a negative answer to the conjecture presented by Cazacu, Flynn and Lam in [\emph{J. Funct. Anal.} \textbf{283} (2022), Paper No. 109659, 37 pp] for $N\in\{2,3\}$, and emphasizing the symmetry breaking phenomenon. \emph{Secondly}, we obtain a family of sharp weighted second order Hydrogen Uncertainty Principle, and prove the e…

CONCERTO: forward modeling of interferograms for calibration
A. Lundgren, A. Beelen, G. Lagache, F. -X. Desert, A. Fasano, J. Macias-Perez, A. Monfardini, P. Ade, M. Aravena, E. Barria, A. Benoit, M. Bethermin, J. Bounmy, O. Bourrion, G. Bres, C. De Breuck, M. Calvo, A. Catalano, C. Dubois, C. A Duran, T. Fenouillet, J. Garcia, G. Garde, J. Goupy, C. Hoarau, W. Hu, J. -C. Lambert, F. Levy-Bertrand, J. Marpaud, R. Parra, G. Pisano, N. Ponthieu, L. Prieur, D. Quinatoa, S. Roni, S. Roudie…

CONCERTO: forward modeling of interferograms for calibration
The CarbON [CII] line in post-rEionisation and ReionisaTiOn epoch (CONCERTO) instrument is a low-resolution mapping Fourier-transform spectrometer, based on lumped-element kinetic inductance detector (LEKID) technology, operating at 130- 310 GHz. It was installed on the 12-meter APEX telescope in Chile in April 2021 and operated until December 2022. CONCERTO's main science goal is to constrain the [CII] line fluctuations at high redshift. To reach that goal CONCERTO observed 1.4 deg2 in the COS…

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company hit its first $1B revenue month in July and that "the biggest thing we face is being constantly under compute" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/openai-compute-ai.html

OpenAI logged its first $1 billion month but is still 'constantly under compute,' CFO says
OpenAI has ballooned in size since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and is expected to triple in revenue to $12.7 billion this year.

On Generators of Bloch groups of CM fields
Wenhuan Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05792 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05792

On Generators of Bloch groups of CM fields
This article generalizes the result of Burns et al (2022), to find an algorithm to find some elements generating a full-rank subgroup of the torsion-free part of Bloch group of a certain CM number field, and compute the rank of it.

Oxygen-driven altermagnetic symmetry inducing d-wave superconductivity in the cuprates and nickelates
Tom G. Saunderson, James F. Annett, Samir Lounis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06814

Oxygen-driven altermagnetic symmetry inducing d-wave superconductivity in the cuprates and nickelates
Since the discovery of cuprate high-Tc superconductivity, numerous theoretical frameworks have been proposed; Anderson's RVB picture (Science 235, 1196-1198, 1987) and U(1) gauge theory (Phys. Rev. Lett. 76, 503-506, 1996) motivate a minimal one-band view that largely integrates out oxygen. By contrast, altermagnetism (Phys. Rev. X 12, 040501, 2022) yields a d-wave-like k-space magnetic texture from alternatingly rotated nonmagnetic cages; La2CuO4 (the parent of a high-Tc cuprate) is a prototyp…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1039061 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

My fair city of Roanoke attained “Bee City USA” status in 2022, which aims to “promote healthy, sustainable habitats for bees and other pollinators, responsible for the reproduction of nearly 90% of the world’s flowering plant species and one in every three bites of food we eat.”
Last night, a couple of garden clubs teamed up with the city to screen a new PBS Nature documentary, “My Garden of a Thousand Bees”.

My Garden of a Thousand Bees
New PBS documentary following wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn as he films more than 60 species of bees in his urban garden in Bristol, England, during the COVID-19 2020 lockdown.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,044,250 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

CONFERENCE> California Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference, UCLA, Oct. 10-12
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Charged-particle production in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at 5.36 TeV with ALICE
Tulika Tripathy (for the ALICE collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14989

Charged-particle production in pp collisions at 13.6 TeV and Pb-Pb collisions at 5.36 TeV with ALICE
The first measurements of the charged-particle pseudorapidity density, ${\rm d}N_{\rm{ch}}/{\rm d}η$, in proton-proton (pp) collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13.6 TeV and in lead-lead (Pb-Pb) collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm{NN}}} = $ 5.36 TeV are presented. The analysis is based on Run 3 data recorded in 2022 and 2023, using the upgraded ALICE detector at the LHC. The average charged-particle pseudorapidity density $\langle{\rm d}N_{\rm{ch}}/{\rm d}η\rangle$ in pp collisions was measured at midrapidity …

Weak Nearly $\mathcal S$- and Weak Nearly $\mathcal C$- Manifolds
Vladimir Rovenski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17755 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.17755

Weak Nearly $\mathcal S$- and Weak Nearly $\mathcal C$- Manifolds
The recent interest of geometers in the $f$-structures of K. Yano (1961) is motivated by the study of the dynamics of contact foliations, as well as their applications in theoretical physics. Weak metric $f$-structures on a smooth manifold, introduced by of the author and R. Wolak (2022), open a new perspective on the theory of classical structures. In the paper, we define structures of this kind, called weak nearly ${\cal S}$- and weak nearly ${\cal C}$- structures, study their geometry, e.g. …

Gender Imbalance in Physics Education and Employment in Germany: Trends and Challenges
Ruzin Aganoglu, Andrea Bossmann, Ulrike B\"ohm, Anja Metzelthin, Agnes Sandner, Iris Traulsen, Angelica Zacarias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19021

Gender Imbalance in Physics Education and Employment in Germany: Trends and Challenges
Gender imbalance among German physicists persists, with fewer women in advanced degrees and research leadership roles. Although female enrollment in Physics programs increased slightly until 2022, potentially influenced by COVID-19 the long-term trend remains uncertain. Despite the rise in female Ph.D. students and foreign representation, female professors in Physics and Astronomy stagnated below 14 %, indicating significant underrepresentation. Anticipated revisions to the WissZeitVG law may i…

Cyber security is an ever-evolving battle that we can never win.
The reason is simple -- and scary:
Virtually no one actually knows what is running on their computer at this very moment.
Gary Ruddell created a series of videos that are both entertaining and professionally made.
His website provides insight in cyber security and includes articles, a newsletter and also workshops for those who are interested in a career in cyber.
Here's one of his videos.
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Mission: Impossible - Cyber Security
Signals Intelligence, intelligence services, espionage, cryptology, cipher machines and its history from WW2, over the Cold World era, to date.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
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Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
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Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
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Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
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Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.06.2025.
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