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Gestern demonstrierten rund 60 Fahrradfahrer:nnen in #Osnabrück für bessere Radwege. Eine schöne Spazierfahrt die bei 18 Grad etwas kälter als erwartet fand. Da wir als Gruppe als ein Fahrzeug gelten, können wir Kreuzungen und Überwege passieren, sobald die ersten Räder drüber sind. Auch wenn dass dann z.B. wieder Rot wird. Das fühlt sich seltsam an, und macht Laune. Endlich mal Vorfahrt für …

All the talks from rstudio::conf 2022: https://www.rstudio.com/conference/2022/2022-conf-talks/ 👩‍🏫 Keynotes: https://www.

Figma's stock dropped 27.4% to $88.60 on Monday after last week's IPO pop; its fully diluted valuation now sits at ~$56B, still almost triple Adobe's 2022 offer (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/04/figmas-stock-sinks-after-la…

Figma's stock sinks 27% after last week's IPO pop
After more than tripling in its debut last week, Figma gave up some of its gains on Monday.

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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.

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.

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Joe Fabisevich :verified: (@mergesort@macaw.social)
Attached: 2 images Threads continues to ship one feature after another from the idealized roadmap I left for my coworkers at Twitter when I left the company back in 2022. https://fabisevi.ch/2022/04/01/goodbye-fellow-tweeps

Starting Out In Music? 5 People To Add To Your Team #musician #musicianresources https://muz4now…

Starting Out In Music? 5 People To Add To Your Team
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Mildly interesting: Der #Gasspeicher #Rehden ist wieder leer. Zuletzt passierte das 2021/2022 unter Gazprom und quasi-Russischer Kontrolle. Aktuell gäbe es Angebot, Preise sind etwa auf Vorjahresniveau. Wäre interessant zu wissen, warum der aktuelle Betreiber den Sommer nicht fürs Nachf…

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

The fate of Trump’s megabill could come down to a fight over clean energy tax credits,
as a handful of Senate Republicans stage a last-minute rally to preserve wind and solar incentives from Democrats’ 2022 climate law.
Conservatives thought they secured a major win ahead of floor action on their megabill when Trump convinced Senate Majority Leader John Thune to crack down on tax credits for wind and solar energy from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.),…

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Samuel D. Upton, Barry Wardell, Adam Pound, Niels Warburton, Leor Barack
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00087

Effective source for second-order self-force calculations: quasicircular orbits in Schwarzschild spacetime
Recent years have seen the first production of "post-adiabatic" gravitational-waveform models based on second-order gravitational self-force theory. These models rely on calculations of an effective source in the perturbative second-order Einstein equation. Here, for the first time, we detail the calculation of the effective source in a Schwarzschild background, which underlies the second-order self-force results in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 151102 (2021); ibid. 128, 231101 (2022); ibid. 130, 2414…

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Sources: e-commerce startup OpenStore, co-founded by Keith Rabois, is raising a $15M Series C at a valuation of just $50M, down from $970M in September 2022 (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

E-Commerce Startup OpenStore Cuts Valuation By 95%, Taps New CEO
E-commerce startup OpenStore is slashing its valuation from nearly $1 billion to just $50 million in a new round of funding as it prepares to narrow its focus to building up menswear brand Jack Archer.

Flapping dynamics of a compliant membrane in a uniform incoming flow
Chengyao Zhang, Ankang Gao, Xiaojue Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00112 https://arxiv…

Flapping dynamics of a compliant membrane in a uniform incoming flow
Recent theoretical and experimental investigations have revealed that flapping compliant membrane wings can significantly enhance propulsive performance (e.g. Tzezana and Breuer, 2019, J. Fluid Mech., 862, 871-888) and energy harvesting efficiency (e.g. Mathai et al., 2022, J. Fluid Mech., 942, R4) compared to rigid foils. Here, we numerically investigate the effects of the stretching coefficient (or aeroelastic number), $K_S$, the flapping frequency, $St_c$, and the pitching amplitude, $θ_0$,…

Russia jails man for 16 years over pro-Ukraine cyberattacks on critical infrastructure https://therecord.media/russia-jails-man-over-pro-ukraine-cyberattacks

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…

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is proposing to reinstate
🆘 a full exclusion on abortions and abortion counseling from its medical benefits package,
according to a notice posted in the Federal Register.
The exclusion, which
restricted coverage of abortion services for veterans,
had been in place since the agency's medical benefits package was first established in 1999
until it was removed by 2022
during the administration of former Presid…

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