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Seattle-based tax compliance software maker Avalara, acquired by Vista Equity Partners in a 2022 deal valuing it at $8.4B, confidentially files for a US IPO (Prakhar Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/tax-software-compan…

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

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,102,570 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/22/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Why do local clubs have such ugly websites? 😭
Last edits and news from 2022...

Beck-Chevalley Conditions in Simplicial Sets
Gaga Chakhvashvili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15341 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.15341

Beck-Chevalley Conditions in Simplicial Sets
We describe certain class of simplicial sets introduced around 2022 by Valentin Shehtman; we call such simplicial sets Shehtman complexes. An example of a Shehtman complex that is not a Kan complexes is given.

Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/

‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’
In a brief video in English, the French filmmakers Élodie Emery and Wandrille Lanos introduce their documentary ‘Abuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence’ (Arte, 2022). It can be watched here.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Ukrainian detained in Italy for alleged Nord Stream sabotage, media report: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/ukrainian-detained-in-italy-for.html

How US dealt with the cases of nine Americans killed by Israel since 2022 | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/18/how-us-dealt-with-the-cases-of-nine-americans-killed-by-israel-since-2022?traffic_source=rss

“Sassy Outwater-Wright: Accessibility Champion and More, Dies at 42” by @…:
https://www.lflegal.com/2025/07/sassy-outwater/
The “and m…

Sassy Outwater-Wright: Accessibility Champion and More, Dies at 42
Sassy Outwater-Wright died on July 12, 2025 of cancer. She was the self-described Tumor Killer Girl in her fierce, honest, and often heart wrenching writing about the disease that ultimately took her life. As she said during a 2022 public radio interview “My superhero name is Tumor Killer Girl.

Nach drei Jahren Suche - Lebenszeichen von Tirolerin, die mit 15 verschwand #News #Nachrichten

Put the Q In Jazz
Real instruments. Real players.
#NoAI #jazz #NowPlaying

Put the Q In Jazz #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

« Des soldats nous ont dit de nous déshabiller » : en Ethiopie, le silence sur les viols de masse commis pendant la guerre au Tigré
https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/202…

« Des soldats nous ont dit de nous déshabiller » : en Ethiopie, le silence sur les viols de masse commis pendant la guerre au Tigré
Entre 2020 et 2022, 120 000 femmes ont été victimes de viols dans cette région en proie à une rébellion. La réticence des autorités, aussi bien fédérales que régionales, à ouvrir les yeux sur ce fléau, entrave le processus de reconstruction des victimes.

Me: "I'd like to know what resolution this video file is"
ffprobe:

ffprobe version 5.1.2-3ubuntu1 Copyright (c) 2007-2022 the FFmpeg developers
  built with gcc 12 (Ubuntu 12.2.0-14ubuntu2)
  configuration: --prefix=/usr --extra-version=3ubuntu1 --toolchain=hardened --libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu --incdir=/usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu --arch=amd64 --enable-gpl --disable-stripping --enable-gnutls --enable-ladspa --enable-libaom --enable-libass --enable-libbluray --enable-libbs2b --enable-libcaca --enable-libcdio --enable-libcodec2 --enable-libdav1d --enable-libflite --enable-libfontconfig --enable-libfreetype --enable-libfribidi --enable-libglslang --enable-libgme --enable-libgsm --enable-libjack --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libmysofa --enable-libopenjpeg --enable-libopenmpt --enable-libopus --enable-libpulse --enable-librabbitmq --enable-librist --enable-librubberband --enable-libshine --enable-libsnappy --enable-libsoxr --enable-libspeex --enable-libsrt --enable-libssh --enable-libsvtav1 --ena

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 …

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022) - A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Domestic Heat Pumps: Barriers to Installation (2022)
A case study in the friction in specifying and installing a heat-pump in the UK, even for a savvy early adopter. #heatpump #netZero #futureReady

Jets extend Garrett Wilson: Predicting who else from New York's transformative 2022 NFL Draft will get the bag

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/je…

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

Infrared Spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in 2015 and 2022
T. R. Geballe (Gemini Observatory/NSF's NOIRLab), B. M. Kaminskiy (Main Astronomical Observatory, Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine), D. P. K. Banerjee (Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India), A. Evans (Astrophysics Research Centre, Keele University, UK), Y. Pavlenko (Main Astronomical Observatory, Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine), M. T. Rushton (Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romani…

Infrared Spectroscopy of V838 Monocerotis in 2015 and 2022
We report medium-resolution $0.85-2.45\,μ$m spectroscopy obtained in 2015 and 2022 and high resolution $2.27-2.39\,μ$m and $4.59-4.77\,μ$m spectroscopy obtained in 2015 of V838 Monocerotis, along with modeling of the $0.85-2.45\,μ$ spectrum. V838 Mon underwent a series of eruptions and extreme brightenings in 2002, which are thought to have occured as a result of a stellar merger. The new spectra and modelling of them reveal a disturbed red giant photosphere that is probably continuing to c…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,039,830 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Are you using #GNOME desktop manager and do you know a method on how to switch to windows according to their names (sub-string search) like https://karl-voit.at/2022/10/28/window-teleporting/…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that "after two incredible years, I've decided to step down"; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/09/x-ceo-linda-yaccarino-resigns…

X CEO Linda Yaccarino to step down
Yaccarino was the first permanent CEO after Elon Musk bought the social media platform in 2022.

Europol and Eurojust disrupt pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16), which claimed responsibility for 1,000 DDoS attacks since 2022, and arrest two people (Jordan Robertson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

2/2 I continued blogging Alberniweather and on FB and Twitter but I gradually removed my personal self from Facebook and eventually during the Pandemic, I decided the Facebook environment was just too toxic even for weather stuff and I shut down my page and left Facebook completely.
The impact on traffic to Alberniweather.ca and its prominence in the community was, and still is, significant.
I have diehard followers, many who have become friends over the years, I still get the odd call from media, or even the public about random weather things.
I have good connections with a few folks at Environment Canada (though their staff have become thinner and more transient :(
and major events still get spikes of local traffic but I since about 2022, and after I removed myself from Twitter that year, I don’t blog nearly as much. I would do a few posts in a week, and then go months without posting. I just got out of the habit I guess.
But I am still interested in the weather. I still feel like Alberniweather is a useful service for people in my community. I still feel a willing obligation to inform people about the weather and I believe I am trusted to do so by the public and local leaders. I’ve never made any money at it, I sold ad space on the website for a few years but it wasn’t worth the hassle and I didn’t feel comfortable taking the money when I was councillor. I have had some generous spontaneous donations at times.
But mainly I do it because it’s interesting, and I hope it is useful for people especially when people are looking for information during a major event.
The highest traffic I have ever had on Alberniweather pre-FB exit was the local Dog Mountain forest fire in 2015.
post-FB exit: the #underwoodfire
People want easy access to reliable local, trusted, information.
Large media orgs have mostly given up on this.
I am grateful we still have an active local newspaper and radio and that both trust me and I trust them.
@… @…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,036,290 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

I need to dispel some table accessibility myths.
1. `<thead>` and `<tbody>` are not exposed to users. Using `<thead>` to wrap multiple header rows has no effect (and you shouldn’t have multiple header rows). Partial ref: https://adrianroselli.com/2022/02/colu

Column Headers and Browser Support
Data tables need column headers. Monolitten, a granite column of humans (each with a head) at Vigelandsanlegget, a sculpture park in Frognerparken in Oslo, Norway. What they probably do not need is a new set of column headers every few rows, particularly not when they change the meaning of the…

Overview of the TREC 2022 deep learning track
Nick Craswell, Bhaskar Mitra, Emine Yilmaz, Daniel Campos, Jimmy Lin, Ellen M. Voorhees, Ian Soboroff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10865

Overview of the TREC 2022 deep learning track
This is the fourth year of the TREC Deep Learning track. As in previous years, we leverage the MS MARCO datasets that made hundreds of thousands of human annotated training labels available for both passage and document ranking tasks. In addition, this year we also leverage both the refreshed passage and document collections that were released last year leading to a nearly $16$ times increase in the size of the passage collection and nearly four times increase in the document collection size. U…

This week's #GrindayFriday is this excellent corporate bullshit themed 2022 record 'Wage, Work' from Leipzig, Germany's HAEXLER. Big powerviolence vibes here, too. You know I love short songs- only three of these thirteen tracks are over a minute long. This is a SERIOUS ripper of a record.

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…

Outward and Inward – Sharing and Introspection #music https://muz4now.com/2022/outward-and-inward-sharing-and-introspection

Outward and Inward - Sharing and Introspection
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Parking Dispute — Seagull vs Crow. Moonstone Beach, Cambria, California, USA. June, 2022. #cambria #moonstonebeach #seagull

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

Wintertime Cross-correlational Structures between Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and Atmospheric-and-Oceanic Fields in the East/Japan Sea Under Arctic Oscillation
Gyuchang Lim, JongJin Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10233

Wintertime Cross-correlational Structures between Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly and Atmospheric-and-Oceanic Fields in the East/Japan Sea Under Arctic Oscillation
The winter Arctic Oscillation (AO) modulates East Asian climate and the East/Japan Sea (EJS), yet local, scale-dependent air-sea couplings linking atmosphere, ocean and sea-surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) remain unclear. Using 30 years of daily fields (1993--2022), we compute detrended fluctuation/cross-correlation metrics over 5--50-day scales at every grid: the Hurst exponent ($H$), the cross-Hurst exponent ($λ$), and the DCCA coefficient ($ρ_{DCCA}$). Significance is assessed with ite…

@…
This cartoon is from Tom Gauld's book: Revenge of the Librarians
copyright 2022
Get ALL his books. Read them. ALL of them are the best one.
#Reading

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
Kate Genevieve, Andjelka B. Kovacevic, John Elliott, Martin Dominik, Emily Finer, Kathryn Denning, Chelsea Haramia, George Profitiliotis, Carol A. Oliver, Anamaria Berea, Arik Kershenbaum, Daliah Bibas, Hannah Little, William H. Edmondson, Pauli Laine
https://

SETI Post-Detection Futures: Directions for Technosignature Research and Readiness
This white paper highlights the work that is needed to anticipate the challenges and societal impacts of a possible technosignature detection. We recommend practical steps to strengthen NASA's astrobiology agenda, guided by the existing interdisciplinary framework of the SETI PostDetection Hub (est. 2022) at the University of St Andrews (Elliot et al. 2023), which emphasizes comprehensive preparedness across science, society, governance, and communication. NASA can significantly enhance readine…

NuSTAR discovers a long type-I X-ray burst from the clocked burster GS 1826-24
Aditya S. Mondal, Mayukh Pahari, Gulab C. Dewangan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11231

NuSTAR discovers a long type-I X-ray burst from the clocked burster GS 1826-24
The source GS~1826-24 is a neutron star low mass X-ray binary known as the 'clocked burster' because of its extremely regular bursting behavior. We report on the detection of a long type-I X-ray burst from this source. We perform a detailed spectroscopic analysis of the long X-ray burst, lasting for $\sim 600$ s, seen in the NuSTAR observation carried out on 2022 September. The persistent emission is well described by an absorbed thermal Comptonization model (nthcomp), and the source exhibits a…

When Your Reviewer is an LLM: Biases, Divergence, and Prompt Injection Risks in Peer Review
Changjia Zhu, Junjie Xiong, Renkai Ma, Zhicong Lu, Yao Liu, Lingyao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09912

When Your Reviewer is an LLM: Biases, Divergence, and Prompt Injection Risks in Peer Review
Peer review is the cornerstone of academic publishing, yet the process is increasingly strained by rising submission volumes, reviewer overload, and expertise mismatches. Large language models (LLMs) are now being used as "reviewer aids," raising concerns about their fairness, consistency, and robustness against indirect prompt injection attacks. This paper presents a systematic evaluation of LLMs as academic reviewers. Using a curated dataset of 1,441 papers from ICLR 2023 and NeurIPS 2022, we…

"on predatory academic journals and conferences" #predatorypublishing

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,037,460 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Analysis of 10 crypto exchanges: on average they took four days to list $TRUMP, whereas the other top four meme coins since 2022 took 129 days to be listed (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Content-Oblivious Leader Election in 2-Edge-Connected Networks
Yi-Jun Chang, Lyuting Chen, Haoran Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08348 https://

Content-Oblivious Leader Election in 2-Edge-Connected Networks
Censor-Hillel, Cohen, Gelles, and Sela (PODC 2022 \& Distributed Computing 2023) studied fully-defective asynchronous networks, where communication channels may suffer an extreme form of alteration errors, rendering messages completely corrupted. The model is equivalent to content-oblivious computation, where nodes communicate solely via pulses. They showed that if the network is 2-edge-connected, then any algorithm for a noiseless setting can be simulated in the fully-defective setting; otherw…

(2022) Tarinoita metsästä #luonto #ympäristö

Tarinoita metsästä
Tarinoita metsästä kertoo suomalaisen metsäluonnon kauneudesta ja esittelee monimuotoisen vanhan metsän luontoa sekä asukkaita lyhyiden, tietopitoisten kertomusten muodossa. Ohjaus: Kim Saarniluoto. Tuotanto: Matila Röhr Nordisk Oy.

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

A November 2024 report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) reflects staggering numbers:
There are an estimated 96 million #birders in the United States
—more than a third of U.S. adults
—who together spent more than $107 billion in 2022.
In total, that’s more money than the 2022 gross domestic product of New Hampshire (and 10 other U.S. states).

Deutschland wirbt für restriktivere Visavergabe
Die Bundesregierung wirbt im Zuge der laufenden EU-Planungen für ein neues Paket mit Russland-Sanktionen auch für eine restriktivere Vergabe von Einreiseerlaubnissen in den Schengenraum. Nach Informationen der Nachrichtenagentur dpa wird in einem Positionspapier die vollständige Umsetzung von 2022 veröffentlichten Leitlinien der EU-Kommission gefordert…
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Sorge bei EU-Kommission über Ungarns Visaregel
Russen und Belarusen können künftig leichter ungarische Visa beantragen, um dort zu arbeiten. EU-Innenkommissarin Johansson kritisiert den Beschluss Ungarns. Sie warnt vor Sicherheitsrisiken für die EU und möglicher Spionage.

Pastor comitted crypto fraud, blames god for telling him to do it!! #hipocracy #religion

Ndamukong Suh announces NFL retirement, honors late father in emotional farewell https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6489892/2025/07/12/ndamukong-suh-retirement-nfl-lions/

$2 million wild-card hopes to have opportunity to start with Cowboys in 2025 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/05/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-no-67-ol-brock-hoffman/8…

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

"This Home Siding Made from Rice Husks Saves Thousands of Trees and Diverts Crop Waste from Landfills"
#Houses
https://www.goodnewsne…

This Home Siding Made from Rice Husks Saves Thousands of Trees, Diverts Ag Waste from Landfills
One pallet of ACRE material saves a whole acre of tropical rainforest hardwoods, and in 2022 alone, 44,000 of those pallets were sold.

Treedepth and 2-treedepth in graphs with no long induced paths
J\k{e}drzej Hodor, Freddie Illingworth, Tomasz Mazur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04445 https://

Treedepth and 2-treedepth in graphs with no long induced paths
Huynh, Joret, Micek, Seweryn, and Wollan (Combinatorica, 2022) introduced a graph parameter, later referred to as 2-treedepth and denoted $\mathrm{td}_2(\cdot)$. The parameter is the natural 2-connected version of treedepth. For every graph, 2-treedepth is at most the treedepth but can be much smaller: long paths have arbitrary treedepth but 2-treedepth equal to 2. We prove a converse, showing that every graph $G$ with no induced path on $t$ vertices has treedepth less than $2 \cdot t^{\mathrm{…

"What about a Discord bot that's exactly like Filmlinkd, but for #Goodreads instead of Letterboxd?" Nope, they locked down their #API in 2022.
Oh, but it's not #enshittification, it…

Nvidia's rise after ChatGPT's release is reminiscent of dot-com era titans like Cisco and Juniper; Cisco's share price grew over 1000x between 1990 and 2000 (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.ny…

Nvidia Becomes First Public Company Worth $4 Trillion
The A.I. chip maker reached the landmark before Apple and Microsoft, as its value rose more than tenfold after ChatGPT’s release in late 2022.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,035,060 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
P. Pietrukowicz, M. Latour, F. Di Mille, M. Dorsch, U. Heber, J. Borowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08372

Spectroscopic Observations of Four Candidates for Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators. No BLAPs at High Galactic Latitudes
We have obtained spectroscopic observations for four short-period variable objects detected in ZTF, Gaia, and Pan-STARRS (ZGP) data and classified as Blue Large-Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) in McWhirter and Lam (2022): ZGP-BLAP-03, ZGP-BLAP-04, ZGP-BLAP-10, and ZGP-BLAP-15. The variables have periods between 46 and 56 min, full amplitudes of 0.13-0.22 mag in the $r$ band, and light curve shapes typical for radially pulsating stars. Three of them were found at high galactic latitudes (|$b$&#…

Bears, GM Ryan Poles agree to contract extension through 2029: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6488952/2025/07/11/bears-ryan-poles-contract-extension/

John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series...
This post provides links to more information on what we discussed in the podcast.
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Bill Hunter (my father): Quality In The Community One City’s Experience (Madison) – Quality Comes to City Hall (Madison) – Managing Our Way to Economic Success
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Design of Experiments
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PDSA improvement cycle: Keys to the Effective Use of the PDSA Improvement Cycle...

Lazy B-Trees
Casper Moldrup Rysgaard, Sebastian Wild
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00277 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.00277

Lazy B-Trees
Lazy search trees (Sandlund & Wild FOCS 2020, Sandlund & Zhang SODA 2022) are sorted dictionaries whose update and query performance smoothly interpolates between that of efficient priority queues and binary search trees - automatically, depending on actual use; no adjustments are necessary to the data structure to realize the cost savings. In this paper, we design lazy B-trees, a variant of lazy search trees suitable for external memory that generalizes the speedup of B-trees over binary searc…

A website developed for the UK Home Office's 2022 "flop" anti-encryption campaign has seemingly been hijacked to push a payday loan scheme.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/home_office_antiencryption_campaign_website/?m…

UK govt dept website that campaigns against encryption hijacked to advertise ... payday loans
: Company at center of findings blamed SEO on outsourcer

I’m running CalyxOS on my old Fairphone4, not because it’s a bad choice, but precisely to observe how incredibly behind this OS is on security updates.
My primary device today is a Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, not this outdated, insecure, and privacy-compromised Fairphone 4.
This Fairphone never became my daily driver once I realized just how far behind it is on security and privacy. I used it from October 2022 until I switched to my Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS in early May 2023,…

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 19 nodes and 172 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

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

Trump’s team has a Doug Mastriano problem
Trump’s advisers privately fear the far-right firebrand will cost Republicans the elusive Pennsylvania governor’s seat and,
were he to win the nomination, drag down the GOP ticket in the midterms next year,
Republicans blame Mastriano for costing the party a Senate contest,
multiple House seats and a state legislative chamber in 2022
when he lost by 15 points in Pennsylvania’s gubernatorial race.
Now he’s teasing…

Its clear that Trump is effectively if not literally a Russian agent hell bent on destroying the USA...
"As president of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO Chrissy Lynch said in July after the Republicans passed the budget reconciliation bill cutting clean energy tax credits: “Working families shouldn’t have to purchase energy from billionaire oil tycoons and foreign governments or let them set the price of our energy bills.”
Her observation hit home earlier this week, when Joe Wallace, Costas Paris, Alex Leary, and Collin Eaton of the Wall Street Journal reported that the comments of Russian president Vladimir Putin and Trump at their meeting in Alaska on August 15 in which they talked about doing more business together were not vague goodwill. ExxonMobil and Russia’s biggest energy company, Rosneft, have been in secret talks to resume a partnership to extract Russian oil, including in the Arctic, that had been severed by Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022."
#USPolitics #RenewableEnergy
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-30-2025?r=103mi&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Yelena Mejova, Ronald E. Robertson, Catherine A. Gimbrone, Sarah McKetta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06640 …

Google Search Advertising after Dobbs v. Jackson
Search engines have become the gateway to information, products, and services, including those concerning healthcare. Access to reproductive health has been especially complicated in the wake of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, splintering abortion regulations among the states. In this study, we performed an audit of the advertisements shown to Google Search users seeking information about abortion across the United States during the year following t…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Extendability of $1$-decomposable complexes
Rhea Ghosal, Melody Han, Benjamin Keller, Scarlett Kerr, Justin Liu, SuHo Oh, Ryan Tang, Chloe Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04555 …

Extendability of $1$-decomposable complexes
A well-known conjecture of Simon (1994) states that any pure $d$-dimensional shellable complex on $n$ vertices can be extended to $Δ_{n-1}^{(d)}$, the $d$-skeleton of the $(n-1)$-dimensional simplex, by attaching one facet at a time while maintaining shellability. The notion of $k$-decomposability for simplicial complexes, which generalizes shellability, was introduced by Provan and Billera (1980). Coleman, Dochtermann, Geist, and Oh (2022) showed that any pure $d$-dimensional $0$-decomposab…

Love's Shifting Nature
- #inspired by #grief -
#NowPlaying

Love's Shifting Nature #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

How Ukrainian teens are training for war: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/11/how-ukrainian-teens-are-training.html

Bears extend Ryan Poles: Three things Chicago must do in 2025 to validate new deal

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bears-extend-ryan-poles-three-…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,030,580 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

The HST Ultraviolet Spectrum of V723 Mon: Additional Evidence of a Stellar Companion
C. S. Kochanek (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University), K. Z. Stanek (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University), T. A. Thompson (Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University), T. Jayasinghe (Independent Researcher)
https://arxi…

The HST Ultraviolet Spectrum of V723 Mon: Additional Evidence of a Stellar Companion
V723 Mon is a high mass function (f=1.7Msun) single lined spectroscopic binary with a red giant primary that Jayasinghe et al. (2021) suggested had a black hole as its massive companion. Unfortunately, el-Badry et al. (2022) demonstrated that it had a hotter stellar companion whose detectability in optical spectra was difficult due to its rapid rotation. Here we confirm the presence of the stellar companion with a Hubble Space Telescope STIS ultraviolet spectrum.

Cowboys sign TE Jake Ferguson to 4-year, $52 million extension https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6518347/2025/07/27/cowboys-jake-ferguson-contract-extension/

Localisation and host galaxy identification of new Fast Radio Bursts with MeerKA
In\'es Pastor-Marazuela, Alexa C. Gordon, Ben Stappers, Ilya S. Khrykin, Nicolas Tejos, Kaustubh Rajwade, Manisha Caleb, Mayuresh P. Surnis, Laura N. Driessen, Sunil Simha, Jun Tian, J. Xavier Prochaska, Ewan Barr, Wen-Fai Fong, Fabian Jankowski, Lordrick Kahinga, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Michael Kramer, Lluis Mas-Ribas

Localisation and host galaxy identification of new Fast Radio Bursts with MeerKA
Accurately localising fast radio bursts (FRBs) is essential for understanding their birth environments and for their use as cosmological probes. Recent advances in radio interferometry, particularly with MeerKAT, have enabled the localisation of individual bursts with arcsecond precision. In this work, we present the localisation of 15 apparently non-repeating FRBs detected with MeerKAT. Two of the FRBs, discovered in 2022, were localised in 8 second images from the projects which MeerTRAP was …

Millions of inequivalent quadratic APN functions in eight variables
Christof Beierle, Philippe Langevin, Gregor Leander, Alexandr Polujan, Shahram Rasoolzadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04644

Millions of inequivalent quadratic APN functions in eight variables
The only known example of an almost perfect nonlinear (APN) permutation in even dimension was obtained by applying CCZ-equivalence to a specific quadratic APN function. Motivated by this result, there have been numerous recent attempts to construct new quadratic APN functions. Currently, 32,892 quadratic APN functions in dimension 8 are known and two recent conjectures address their possible total number. The first, proposed by Y. Yu and L. Perrin (Cryptogr. Commun. 14(6): 1359-1369, 2022), sug…

Let Life Continue – “Requiem for a Stranger” Revisited #inspiration #music https://muz4now.com/2022/let-l…

Let Life Continue - "Requiem for a Stranger" Revisited
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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

Ukraine und Russland setzen Gefangenenaustausch fort
Die Ukraine und Russland haben ihren Anfang Juni in Istanbul vereinbarten Gefangenenaustausch fortgesetzt. "Heute kehrten Kämpfer der Armee, der Nationalgarde, der Grenztruppen zurück", schrieb der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj bei Telegram. Der Großteil sei seit 2022 in russischer Gefangenschaft gewesen. Eine Angabe zur Anzahl der Rückkehrer machte er nicht. Pa…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland bestellt deutschen Botschafter ein ++
Russland will den deutschen Botschafter wegen des Umgangs mit russischen Journalisten einbestellen. Bei einem russischen Angriff auf die Region Cherson wurden nach Behördenangaben ein Mensch getötet und weitere verletzt.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

'Some are forged into poets during hostilities' — Medic, former POW, and poet on how war is shaping Ukraine's writers: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/some-are-forged-into-poets.html

Sources: Coinbase is in advanced talks to acquire CoinDCX, potentially valuing the Indian crypto exchange at less than $1B, below its 2022 $2.15B valuation (Pankaj Mishra/Livemint)
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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

Titans waive/injure 2022 first-round pick Treylon Burks https://www.nfl.com/news/titans-waive-injure-2022-first-round-pick-treylon-burks

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,020,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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Titans waive injured 2022 first-round pick Treylon Burks https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6521109/2025/07/28/titans-waive-treylon-burks/

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,094,610 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/14/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
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Texans' Nick Chubb relishing return to football after broken foot: 'It's been great getting back'

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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,087,180 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/06/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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