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📸 Mémoire du 14 juin 2018
Sept ans ont passé depuis ce post.
Et pourtant, la justice n’a toujours pas terminé son travail.
En Belgique, le jugement définitif est tombé en 2022. Mais en 2025, certaines indemnisations sont encore bloquées. Des victimes attendent toujours que leur souffrance soit reconnue dans les faits, pas seulement dans les mots.
En France, l’affaire OKC/Spatz a été relancée en 2017, réouverte officiellement en 2021. Et aujourd’hui ? Toujours aucune mis…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

Hello Sunshine CEO Sarah Harden is stepping down, and Maureen Polo will succeed her; CFO Corey Shepardson has been named COO and will run business operations (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Maureen Polo Named CEO of Hello Sunshine, Sarah Harden Moves Into Advisory Role
Polo joined the Reese Witherspoon-founded company in 2022 as head of direct-to-consumer.

CBP data: between April and June 2025, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, up from a high of 12,766 between January and March 2022 (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-a-record-high/…

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022.

Generalizations of Ferber-Krivelevich and Gallai Theorems on parity of degrees in induced subgraphs
Jiangdong Ai, Qiwen Guo, Gregory Gutin, Yimin Hao, Anders Yeo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01428

Generalizations of Ferber-Krivelevich and Gallai Theorems on parity of degrees in induced subgraphs
A long-standing and well-known conjecture (see e.g. Caro, Discrete Math, 1994) states that every $n$-vertex graph $G$ without isolated vertices contains an induced subgraph where all vertices have an odd degree and whose order is linear in $n$. Ferber and Krivelevich (Adv. Math., 2022) confirmed the conjecture. In this short paper, we generalize this result by considering $G$ with vertices labeled 0 or 1 and requiring that in an induced subgraph of $G$, the 0-labeled vertices are of even degree…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,076,940 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Die Orks haben anscheinend wieder einen Helden erwischt: https://www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/eilmeldung-8808.html

2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

6 years is way too fucking long. Chuck Schumer was (re-)elected in 2022, and his term isn't up until 2029. That's extremely broken.

📢 Bundesanwaltschaft meldet Festnahme von mutmaßlichem "Nord-Stream"-Angreifer
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat nach eigenen Angaben einen ukrainischen Staatsangehörigen in Italien festnehmen lassen. Er soll einer Gruppe von Personen angehört haben, die im September 2022 nahe der Insel Bornholm Sprengsätze an den Gaspipelines "Nord Stream 1" und "Nord Stream 2" platzierte.
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Bundesanwaltschaft meldet Festnahme von mutmaßlichem "Nord-Stream"-Angreifer
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat nach eigenen Angaben einen ukrainischen Staatsangehörigen in Italien festnehmen lassen. Er soll einer Gruppe von Personen angehört haben, die im September 2022 nahe der Insel Bornholm Sprengsätze an den Gaspipelines "Nord Stream 1" und "Nord Stream 2" platzierte.

Devastating: 1,000 Endangered Monkeys Sent Back to Cruel Testing https://www.speciesunite.com/petition-updates/devastating-1000-endangered-monkeys-sent-back-to-cruel-testing?utm_source=Mastodon

Devastating: 1,000 Endangered Monkeys Sent Back to Cruel Testing — Species Unite
In a heartbreaking update on the ongoing case of 1,000 long-tailed macaques stolen from the wild in Cambodia in 2022 and illegally imported into the United States by Charles River Laboratories, the notorious animal testing supplier revealed in their second-quarter earnings report that the U.S. D

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

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

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @… Let's play!
#MountainSongsOrPoems

An analysis of the effects of open science indicators on citations in the French Open Science Monitor
Giovanni Colavizza, Lauren Cadwallader, Iain Hrynaszkiewicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20747

An analysis of the effects of open science indicators on citations in the French Open Science Monitor
This study investigates the correlation of citation impact with various open science indicators (OSI) within the French Open Science Monitor (FOSM), a dataset comprising approximately 900,000 publications authored by French authors from 2020 to 2022. By integrating data from OpenAlex and Crossref, we analyze open science indicators such as the presence of a pre-print, data sharing, and software sharing in 576,537 publications in the FOSM dataset. Our analysis reveals a positive correlation betw…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

SkyNET-scape Room: An Escape Room to Explore Astroparticle Physics
Elisa Prandini, Sabine Hemmer, Michele Branca, Luca Campagnoni, Gabriella Cataldi, Marco Circella, Jean-Pierre Jonckheere, Emanuele Leonora, Ilaria Viale, Giuseppe Silvestri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14190

SkyNET-scape Room: An Escape Room to Explore Astroparticle Physics
Innovative science communication is key to engaging the public with complex topics such as astroparticle physics. As part of the Italian PRIN 2022 funding initiative, we are developing SkyNET-scape Room, an interactive escape room designed to introduce participants to the main messengers of the high-energy universe, namely cosmic rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos. The experience is structured into three interactive stations, each focusing on a specific messenger and its detection method. Small …

Perspectives and potential issues in using artificial intelligence for computer science education
Juho Veps\"al\"ainen, Petri Juntunen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13730

Perspectives and potential issues in using artificial intelligence for computer science education
Since its launch in late 2022, ChatGPT has ignited widespread interest in Large Language Models (LLMs) and broader Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions. As this new wave of AI permeates various sectors of society, we are continually uncovering both the potential and the limitations of existing AI tools. The need for adjustment is particularly significant in Computer Science Education (CSEd), as LLMs have evolved into core coding tools themselves, blurring the line between programming aids a…

Physical Thickness Characterization of the FRIB Production Targets
D. J. Lee, M. Reaume, W. Franklin, J. Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00273 https://arxi…

Physical Thickness Characterization of the FRIB Production Targets
The FRIB heavy-ion accelerator, commissioned in 2022, is a leading facility for producing rare isotope beams (RIBs) and exploring nuclei beyond the limits of stability. These RIBs are produced via reactions between stable primary beams and a graphite target. Approximately 20-40 \% of the primary beam power is deposited in the target, requiring efficient thermal dissipation. Currently, FRIB operates with a primary beam power of up to 20 kW. To enhance thermal dissipation efficiency, …

The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter's Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election
Kayla Duskin, Joseph S. Schafer, Alexandros Efstratiou, Jevin D. West, Emma S. Spiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09826

The Role of Follow Networks and Twitter's Content Recommender on Partisan Skew and Rumor Exposure during the 2022 U.S. Midterm Election
Social media platforms shape users' experiences through the algorithmic systems they deploy. In this study, we examine to what extent Twitter's content recommender, in conjunction with a user's social network, impacts the topic, political skew, and reliability of information served on the platform during a high-stakes election. We utilize automated accounts to document Twitter's algorithmically curated and reverse chronological timelines throughout the U.S. 2022 midterm election. We find that t…

The hot-electron closure of the moment-based gyrokinetic plasma model
A. C. D. Hoffmann, P. Giroud-Garampon, P. Ricci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15329 https://

The hot-electron closure of the moment-based gyrokinetic plasma model
We derive the hot-electron limit (HEL) closure of the moment hierarchy used to solve the gyrokinetic equations, denoted as gyromoment (GM). By expanding gyroaveraging kernels in the small temperature ratio Ti/Te limit and retaining only essential O(Ti/Te) terms, we obtain a closed system for density, parallel velocity, and parallel and perpendicular temperatures. In the Z-pinch geometry, the GM system with HEL closure is analytically equivalent to the one developed by Ivanov et al. (2022). Nume…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephensRoundtable
The Cribs:
🎵 Men's Needs
#TheCribs
https://thecribs.bandcamp.com/album/men-s-needs-women-s-needs-whatever-2022-definitive-edition

Enumeration kernels for Vertex Cover and Feedback Vertex Set
Marin Bougeret, Guilherme C. M. Gomes, Vinicius F. dos Santos, Ignasi Sau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08475 https://

Enumeration kernels for Vertex Cover and Feedback Vertex Set
Enumerative kernelization is a recent and promising area sitting at the intersection of parameterized complexity and enumeration algorithms. Its study began with the paper of Creignou et al. [Theory Comput. Syst., 2017], and development in the area has started to accelerate with the work of Golovach et al. [J. Comput. Syst. Sci., 2022]. The latter introduced polynomial-delay enumeration kernels and applied them in the study of structural parameterizations of the \textsc{Matching Cut} problem an…

Feedback That Clicks: Introductory Physics Students' Valued Features in AI Feedback Generated From Self-Crafted and Engineered Prompts
Amogh Sirnoorkar, N. Sanjay Rebello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08516

Feedback That Clicks: Introductory Physics Students' Valued Features in AI Feedback Generated From Self-Crafted and Engineered Prompts
Since the advent of GPT-3.5 in 2022, Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown tremendous potential in STEM education, particularly in providing real-time, customized feedback to students in large-enrollment courses. A crucial skill that mediates effective use of AI is the systematic structuring of natural language instructions to AI models, commonly referred to as prompt engineering. This study has three objectives: (i) to investigate the sophistication of student-generated prompts whe…

Got my water/utility bill for the spring/summer yesterday. (we get billed 3 times a year as part of our general city utilities bill including water, sewer and garbage/recycling fees).
Figured it would be a big water year this year so I've been wanting to see this. And of course, I have data going back to 2019ish.
Today's bill only goes to August 1st, so it doesn't include when we started to fill the #pondpool!
This was already a dry year in the spring and we were doing lots of watering in the front yard for the new ground cover in the modified driveway and the 3 new fruit trees.
Verdict:
2024: Apr 12 - Aug 7: 122, 200L
2025 Apr 14 - Aug 1 (7 less days!): 136,600L
It will be interesting to see if the August pond filling will add a big chunk onto our summer/fall consumption or if that is offset by both the brief August water restrictions, and the departure of both kids this fall to consume other people's water. ;=)
If you want an indication of how much water people use vs. yards: look at our August 2022 bill, which captures when we were on our cross-Canada roadtrip for 30 days in July/August of the 100 day period.
#water #consumption #gardening #utility #PortAlberni

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
The Big Moon:
🎵 Trouble (6 Music Session, 12 Oct 2022)
#TheBigMoon
https://willieandthegiant.bandcamp.com/track/to-the-moon
https://open.spotify.com/track/6dpLDFMhaU20Lsq47o3Djs