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How the hell did I miss this?!?!?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/09/marjorie-taylor-greene-gazpacho-police

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…

Performance rights organization BMI and a group representing radio broadcasters settle a dispute over royalty rates paid to artists and songwriters on US radio (Daniel Tencer/Music Business Worldwide)
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/bmi

BMI secures ‘largest rate increase ever’ for radio royalties in US
BMI has reached a settlement for the 2022-2026 radio licensing period, calling it a ‘historic’ deal.

"Musk — who amplified conspiracy theories surrounding the 2022 hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Nancy Pelosi — again waded into the fray.
“**The far left is murderously violent,” he wrote on X the same day he said he was working to reprogram X’s AI program Grok because it was spreading “leftist indoctrination.**”
How the ‘politically motivated’ shooting of Minnesota lawmakers unleashed right-wing conspiracy theories | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/conspiracy-theories-minnesota-shooting-suspect-b2770561.html

Guerre en Ukraine : le grand désarroi des russophones de Daugavpils, en Lettonie
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2022/03/03/guerre-en-ukraine-le-grand-desarroi-des-r…

Guerre en Ukraine : le grand désarroi des russophones de Daugavpils, en Lettonie
Dans cette ville située près des frontières russe et biélorusse, la guerre en Ukraine déchire les familles, la population se divisant entre Russes ou russophones et Lettons. Vers qui doivent-ils se tourner ?

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,023,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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‘Not many events like this left’ — A Ukrainian literary festival in a city falsely claimed by Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/not-many-events-like-this.html

Extremely hot day in the Netherlands again, especially in the South. In over a century of records until 2019, no station in the country had ever reached a temperature of 39°C.
Today was the third time the city of Maastricht saw it happen, and this was by far the earliest in summer for any station.
#heatwave

Propaganda and Information Dissemination in the Russo-Ukrainian War: Natural Language Processing of Russian and Western Twitter Narratives
Zaur Gouliev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01807

Propaganda and Information Dissemination in the Russo-Ukrainian War: Natural Language Processing of Russian and Western Twitter Narratives
The conflict in Ukraine has been not only characterised by military engagement but also by a significant information war, with social media platforms like X, formerly known as Twitter playing an important role in shaping public perception. This article provides an analysis of tweets from propaganda accounts and trusted accounts collected from the onset of the war, February 2022 until the middle of May 2022 with n=40,000 total tweets. We utilise natural language processing and machine learning a…

On the Earth's tidal perturbations. II. LARES 2 satellite
V. G. Gurzadyan, I. Ciufolini, H. G. Khachatryan, S. Mirzoyan, A. Paolozzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10310

On the Earth's tidal perturbations. II. LARES 2 satellite
Laser-ranging satellites have proved their efficiency in high precision testing of General Relativity and constraining modified gravity theories proposed to explain the dark sector and the cosmological tensions. The LARES 2 satellite launched in 2022, is currently providing improved information regarding the frame-dragging effect predicted by General Relativity, as well as the geodesy, thus essentially complementing the data of already existing laser-ranging satellites. The proper knowledge of …

from my link log —
The Epic Verse calculus: a core calculus for functional logic programming.
https://simon.peytonjones.org/verse-calculus/
saved 2025-06-12

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

👾 These police officers in Denmark are tackling crime by playing online games with kids
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/07/03/these-police-officers-in-denmark-are-tackling-crime-by-playing-online-games-with-kid…

Can playing video games help police combat online crimes?
The team was set up in 2022 to tackle the rise in online crime in Denmark. The Politiets Online Patrulje now boasts over 787,000 followers across platforms.

BWT for string collections
Davide Cenzato, Zsuzsanna Lipt\'ak, Nadia Pisanti, Giovanna Rosone, Marinella Sciortino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01092 htt…

BWT for string collections
We survey the different methods used for extending the BWT to collections of strings, following largely [Cenzato and Lipták, CPM 2022, Bioinformatics 2024]. We analyze the specific aspects and combinatorial properties of the resulting BWT variants and give a categorization of publicly available tools for computing the BWT of string collections. We show how the specific method used impacts on the resulting transform, including the number of runs, and on the dynamicity of the transform with resp…

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,052,190 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/30/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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Evac-Cast: An Interpretable Machine-Learning Framework for Evacuation Forecasts Across Hurricanes and Wildfires
Bo Li, Chenyue Liu, Ali Mostafavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00650

Evac-Cast: An Interpretable Machine-Learning Framework for Evacuation Forecasts Across Hurricanes and Wildfires
Evacuation is critical for disaster safety, yet agencies lack timely, accurate, and transparent tools for evacuation prediction. This study introduces Evac-Cast, an interpretable machine learning framework that predicts tract-level evacuation rates using over 20 features derived from four dimensions: hazard intensity, community vulnerability, evacuation readiness, and built environment. Using an XGBoost model trained on multi-source, large-scale datasets for two hurricanes (Ian 2022, Milton 202…