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A look at the problems at Uber Freight, which has posted operating losses every year since it was founded in 2017, except for 2022, and just appointed a new CEO (Thomas Black/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-15/ub…

I’m so proud of my little brother.
I just spoke to him in his dorm room at a top 30 college here in the US, he just arrived for freshman orientation.
He got in on a full ride - tuition, housing, food, books, travel, stipend for daily expenses. Won a competitive scholarship to do so.
More than that, he’s had a tougher road than most to get there:
- he had to suddenly move away from Manila, Philippines (where he grew up) in middle school because of COVID restrictions that didn’t let kids go outside (2020)
- then, just as he adjusted to school and a different language in our home country, Ukraine, Russia invaded (2022)
- he stayed in Greece for a month while I was calling our congressional representative here in NY and negotiating with the US embassy to get them a visa ASAP to enter the US and be with me and my husband. There were no paths for Ukrainian refugees yet, we just wanted them with us temporarily for a few months to figure out what options they even had next.
- he had to wait, not going to school, with no clue where they’d move next, until TPS became available to Ukrainians and they got to stay here in the US
- then he had to continue high school in yet another system, yet another country, amidst news of bombings and destruction back home
- my mother wasn’t allowed to work for months while their documents were pending, so we had to raise money with a public GoFundMe campaign and my husband and I maxed out our credit cards to help them get by
- they shared a one-room cottage for the first year, graciously hosted for free by an elderly local couple
- he saw a therapist who also graciously took him in for free while they didn’t have insurance
- he had to graduate high school amidst news of other immigrant students getting arrested, detained, and deported at their own graduations around the country
- he wasn’t sure if he would even make it to college as this administration publicly considered canceling TPS for Ukrainians and cutting off their pathway to maintaining legal status.
We don’t know what tomorrow holds. But he’s there. He’s on campus. He got to go to college.
I love him so much.

UN analysis finds Russia responsible for 2022 Olenivka prison explosion killing Ukrainian POWs, ombudsman says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/un-analysis-finds-russia-responsible.html

Heute vor 2 Jahren: Am 14. Juni 2023 erklärte der belarussische Präsident Aleksander Lukaschenko in einem Fernsehinterview mit dem russischen Staatssender Russia-1, dass #Belarus, wie am 25.03.23 durch Putin angekündigt, #Kernwaffen von Russland erhalten habe.

Jazz Quintet Release – Put The Q In Jazz #jazz #music https://muz4now.com/2022/jazz-quintet-r…

Jazz Quintet Release - Put The Q In Jazz
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Keynote from rstudio::conf 2022: The past and future of shiny. #rstats

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Loser: U.S. factories
When Democrats in 2022 created and expanded a slew of federal tax breaks for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, batteries,
they designed them to encourage companies to use components made in the United States.
That spurred a manufacturing boom, including solar-panel glass recyclers in Georgia and electric-vehicle assembly lines in Kentucky.
The new law could derail many of those factories.
The old tax credit for solar power, for…

How the G.O.P. Bill Will Reshape America’s Energy Landscape
Here’s a rundown on the winners and losers in the legislation muscled through Congress.

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Six Minutes of Med-ness (2022-08) - Ambient Mediterranean beach at dusk at Marseillan Plage. #fieldRecording #beach #Mediterranean -

Six Minutes of Med-ness (2022-08)
Ambient Mediterranean beach at dusk at Marseillan Plage. #fieldRecording #beach #Mediterranean

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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The Influence of Earth, Wind, and Fire #music https://muz4now.com/2022/the-influence-of-earth-wind-and-fire

The Influence of Earth, Wind, and Fire
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

An in-depth look at the rise of relationships between humans and AI companion chatbots on apps like Nomi, coinciding with a loneliness epidemic in the US (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/human-ai-relationships-love-nomi.html

'What am I falling in love with?' Human-AI relationships are no longer just science fiction
Since ChatGPT’s late 2022 launch, everyday people have formed emotional connections to chatbots, describing them as deep friendships and even life partnerships.

from my link log —
Remote reboots with encrypted disks on Arch Linux.
https://tavianator.com/2022/remote_reboots.html
saved 2025-01-03

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#MicroBusinessASongOrPoem

Semantic Network Analysis of Achievement Standards in Physics of 2022 Revised Curriculum
Jibeom Seo, Jun Cho, Sukyung Han, Meesoon Ha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02864 https://…

Semantic Network Analysis of Achievement Standards in Physics of 2022 Revised Curriculum
We investigate semantic networks of achievement standards for physics subjects in the 2022 revised curriculum to derive information embedded in the curriculum. We extract each subject's keywords with node strength and random-walk betweenness, detect communities of physics terms by the optimized greedy algorithm, and find the connectivity of physics subjects using bipartite networks. The network analysis reveals three remarkable results: First, keywords are about scientific thinking and practice…

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky
Arvind F. Gupta, Evan Fitzmaurice, Suvrath Mahadevan, Paul Robertson, Jacob K. Luhn, Jason T. Wright, Sarah E. Logsdon, Daniel M. Krolikowski, Leonardo A. Paredes, Chad F. Bender, Mark R. Giovinazzi, Andrea S. Lin, Cullen H. Blake, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, Eric B. Ford, Samuel P. Halverson, Shubham Kanodia, Michael W. McElwain, Joe P. Ninan, Jayadev Rajagopal, Arpita Roy, Christian Schwab, Gu{\dh}mundur Stef\'ans…

The NEID Earth Twin Survey. III. Survey Performance After Three Years on Sky
The NEID Earth Twin Survey (NETS) has been delivering a rich set of precise radial velocity (RV) measurements for 41 bright, nearby main sequence stars. Here, we describe the status of the survey after three years on sky and we present the full set of RV measurements and accompanying stellar activity indicators. We discuss intermediate survey diagnostics, including calibration of the known RV zero point offset introduced following the Contreras fire in 2022 and the identification of an undiagno…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Russia jails man for 16 years over pro-Ukraine cyberattacks on critical infrastructure https://therecord.media/russia-jails-man-over-pro-ukraine-cyberattacks

Large maximal subgroups of almost simple classical groups
Fu-Gang Yin, Ting Lan, Weijun Liu, Oujie Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23048 https://

Large maximal subgroups of almost simple classical groups
A proper subgroup $H$ in a finite group $G$ is said to be large if $|H|^3\geq |G|$. In this paper, we determined all large maximal subgroups of almost simple classical groups. Combined with the work of Alavi and Burness (J. Algebra 421 (2015) 187--233) and Alavi, Bayat, and Daneshkhah (J. Algebraic Combin. 55 (2022) 729--779), this completes the classification of all large maximal subgroups of almost simple groups.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10188 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Installation and performance of the 3rd Veto plane at the SND@LHC detector
During 2022/2023 the optimal inefficiency of the Veto system of the SND@LHC detector was measured to be $(7.8\pm2.8)\times10^{-8}$. To reduce this inefficiency, a third Veto plane was installed during the 2023-2024 Year End Technical Stop. In addition, the Veto system was lowered to cover the target fully, thereby increasing acceptance. This paper describes how the inefficiency of the Veto system was reduced from $7.8\times10^{-8}$ with an acceptance of about $64\%$ of the target area in 2022-2…

dom: Animal dominance archive (2022)
Animal dominance interaction data published over a century of research. The archive contains 434 agonistic interaction datasets, totaling over 241,000 interactions. A directed edge (i,j) corresponds to an antagonist interaction between i (winner) and j (loser). If a 'weight' edge property map exists, it counts the number of such interactions.
This network has 6 nodes and 16 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Notes First or Music First? Which Leads to Better Performance? https://bulletproofmusician.com/notes-first-or-music-first-which-leads-to-better-performance/

Notes First or Music First? Which Leads to Better Performance?
A 2022 study provides an answer to the chicken and egg problem – should students work on the basics first before adding expression? Or should they aim to play with expression from the start?

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#HowToMessWithNeighbors

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
We lost George Wendt, the actor who played NORM! on Cheers, this week. In remembrance, Let's play!
#FictionalCharactersLastWords

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#LesserKnownFanConventions