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In US court, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon says he will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud under an agreement with prosecutors (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-1…

Do Kwon Will Plead Guilty to Charges Tied to Terra Collapse
Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder Do Kwon said he will plead guilty to charges in a US fraud prosecution tied to the $40 billion collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin in 2022.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,032,690 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

AskDoc -- Identifying Hidden Healthcare Disparities
Shashank Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09622 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.09622

AskDoc -- Identifying Hidden Healthcare Disparities
The objective of this study is to understand the online Ask the Doctor services medical advice on internet platforms via AskDoc, a Reddit community that serves as a public AtD platform and study if platforms mirror existing hurdles and partiality in healthcare across various demographic groups. We downloaded data from January 2020 to May 2022 from AskDoc -- a subreddit, and created regular expressions to identify self-reported demographics (Gender, Race, and Age) from the posts, and performed s…

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My wife's Corsa replacement is finally here - a 2022 EQA. Good first impressions, though bemused that it doesn't appear to support deferred charge-start time in-car. Hoping it'll cope with the charger deciding when to start charging instead...

Can Kenny Pickett win Browns' starting QB job and become the NFL's next Sam Darnold? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45697092/cleveland-browns-quarterback-competition-kenny-pickett

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…

#Drumpf's #Dumbass #TradeWar Has Already Lost American #Farmers Billion$
And The Longer It Stretches On, The Less Likely The Recovery, A…

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@… is this you? https://acoup.blog/2022/12/09/meet-a-historian-james-baillie-on-digital-h…

Meet a Historian: James Baillie on Digital Humanities and the Medieval Caucasus
Note from the Editor: I’m excited to feature another guest post with you all! This week we have James Baillie discussing how digital humanities and prosopographic methods can be used to bette…

You can always tell a set's got authentically good chemistry by its blooper/gag reel. 🤣

▶️ PEACEMAKER Season 1 Bloopers & Gag Reel (2022)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=KVsylnNwyD0&si=vU1wzKL9bUFF9yVm

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

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Straddling Two Platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an Analysis of the Evolution of an Unfinished Social Media Migration
Sim\'on Pe\~na-Fern\'andez, Ainara Larrondo-Ureta, Jordi Morales-i-Gras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17563

Straddling Two Platforms: From Twitter to Mastodon, an Analysis of the Evolution of an Unfinished Social Media Migration
Social media have been fundamental in the daily lives of millions of people, but they have raised concerns about content moderation policies, the management of personal data, and their commercial exploitation. The acquisition of Twitter (now X) by Elon Musk in 2022 generated concerns among Twitter users regarding changes in the platform's direction, prompting a migration campaign by some user groups to the federated network Mastodon. This study reviews the onboarding of users to this decentrali…

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…

TikTok Booms In Europe Despite Threat Of U.S. Ban
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings
Shigenobu Hirose, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe, Daniel Ang, Lorenzo Apollonio, Gabriela R. Araujo, Yoshihiro Asahara, Laura Baudis, Pranshu Bhaumik, Nathaniel Bowden, Joseph Bramante, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Mason Camp, Qing Chang, Jordan Chapman, Reza Ebadi, Alexey Elykov, Anna Erickson, Valentin Fondement, Katherine Freese, Shota Futamura, Claudio Galelli, Andrew Gilpin, Takeshi Hanyu, Noriko Hasebe, Adam A. Hecht, Samuel C. …

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings
The third ``Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter'' (MD$ν$DM'25) meeting was held May 20-23, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan, hosted by the Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). These proceedings compile contributions from the workshop and update the progress of mineral detector research. MD$ν$DM'25 was the third such meeting, following the first in October of 2022 held at the IFPU in Trieste, Italy and the second in January of…

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Activities of Women in Physics Group in Spain 2022 to 2023
Pascuala Garcia-Martinez, Carmen Ocal, Ana Xesus Lopez, Mariam Tortola, Milagros F. Morcillo-Arencibia, Alberto Martin-Molina, Sonia Estrade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18816

Activities of Women in Physics Group in Spain 2022 to 2023
In this paper, we present the main actions of the Women in Physics Group of the Spanish Royal Physics Society over the period of 2022 to 2023, in which we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the group. We also outline relevant equality initiatives implemented during this period by the Spanish Government as well as analyse their impact on the status of women in Physics in our country. In 2023, our scientific society approved the Gender Equality Plan, thus becoming a pioneer scientific society in …

Local feature filtering for scalable and well-conditioned Random Feature Methods
Jan Willem van Beek, Victorita Dolean, Ben Moseley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17626

Local feature filtering for scalable and well-conditioned Random Feature Methods
In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool for solving partial differential equations (PDEs), with randomized neural networks showing remarkable potential. These networks, typically shallow, differ from conventional approaches by randomizing all parameters except those in the final layer. Notably, by integrating techniques inspired by domain decomposition, they achieve improved local accuracy and computational efficiency. Following \cite{chen:2022:BTM}, we refer to these a…

A metrization theorem for edge-end spaces of infinite graphs
Max Pitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.166…

A metrization theorem for edge-end spaces of infinite graphs
We prove that the edge-end space of an infinite graph is metrizable if and only if it is first-countable. This strengthens a recent result by Aurichi, Magalhaes Jr.\ and Real (2024). Our central graph-theoretic tool is the use of tree-cut decompositions, introduced by Wollan (2015) as a variation of tree decompositions that is based on edge cuts instead of vertex separations. In particular, we give a new, elementary proof for Kurkofka's result (2022) that every infinite graph has a tree-cut d…

Influence of Three-Body Effects on Halogen Bonding
Sharon A. Ochieng, Konrad Patkowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17619 https://arxiv…

Influence of Three-Body Effects on Halogen Bonding
We construct a new noncovalent benchmark dataset 3BXB that combines halogen-bonded bimolecular complexes from the SH250 dataset [Kriz and Rezac, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022, 24, 14794] with a third interacting partner, either H$_2$O or CH$_4$. The reference total and three-body interaction energies are computed at the CCSD(T) level. To shed light on the physical origins of binding and cooperativity in complexes of this kind, several symmetry-adapted perturbation theory (SAPT)-based energy deco…

Noted while reading: 'a data structure or a block of code are things that make implicit and subjective arguments about how to see the world. This is possibly the single most important basic insight that Digital Humanities as a field needs to impart, because it affects so much of the world around us' - excellent post by @…

Meet a Historian: James Baillie on Digital Humanities and the Medieval Caucasus
Note from the Editor: I’m excited to feature another guest post with you all! This week we have James Baillie discussing how digital humanities and prosopographic methods can be used to bette…

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…

Observation of VER J2019 368 with the SST-1M stereoscopic system
Jakub Jury\v{s}ek (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Thomas Tavernier (for the SST-1M Collaboration), Ana Laura M\"uller (for the SST-1M Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16408

Observation of VER J2019+368 with the SST-1M stereoscopic system
The Single-Mirror Small Size Telescope (SST-1M) is a small Cherenkov telescope designed to detect gamma rays with energies more than about 1 TeV. The optical design of the SST-1M follows the Davies-Cotton concept to ensure good off-axis performance. In 2022, two SST-1M telescope prototypes were installed in Ondrejov, Czech Republic, and stereoscopic observations of astrophysical gamma-ray sources have been performed since then. VER J2019+368 is an unidentified very-high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray s…

Databricks plans to acquire Tecton, which helps companies build and deploy ML applications, for an undisclosed sum; Tecton was valued at $900M in 2022 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/databricks-buy-sequoia-…

Characterizing Online Activities Contributing to Suicide Mortality among Youth
Aparna Ananthasubramaniam, Elyse J. Thulin, Viktoryia Kalesnikava, Silas Falde, Jonathan Kertawidjaja, Lily Johns, Alejandro Rodr\'iguez-Putnam, Emma Spring, Kara Zivin, Briana Mezuk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16185 …

Characterizing Online Activities Contributing to Suicide Mortality among Youth
The recent rise in youth suicide highlights the urgent need to understand how online experiences contribute to this public health issue. Our mixed-methods approach responds to this challenge by developing a set of themes focused on risk factors for suicide mortality in online spaces among youth ages 10-24, and a framework to model these themes at scale. Using 29,124 open text summaries of death investigations between 2013-2022, we conducted a thematic analysis to identify 12 types of online act…

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,048,330 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/26/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,072,700 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,041,990 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/20/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

A Short Drop or a Sudden Stop? Sanctions, Trade Shocks, and Firms’ Adjustment Margins: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/a-short-drop-or-a.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,070,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,950 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/17/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Zelensky's big blunder, explained: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/zelenskys-big-blunder-explained.html