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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

Watched Ex Machina yesterday, today I'm watching 'Men' (2022) since several of you recommended it.
#movies #film

Men (2022)
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,096,430 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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.
@… @…

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.

"on predatory academic journals and conferences" #predatorypublishing

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/u-s-government-seized-1-million-from-russian-ransomware-gang/

US government seized $1M from Russian ransomware gang | TechCrunch
A global law enforcement coalition targeted the infrastructure of the group behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware strains, allegedly responsible for extorting victims out of $370 million since 2022.

Just fixed an issue where our calendaring server was having issues, which I tracked down to a bunch of old events in the timezone "Europe/Kiev" which now doesn't exist.
Ugh.
(Timezone was renamed Europe/Kyiv in Aug 2022, so now I have to add "tzdata-legacy" to my build scripts.)

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Musk ordered Starlink shutdown during Ukraine's 2022 Kherson counteroffensive, Reuters reports
https://kyivindependent.com/musk-ordered-starlink-shutdown-over-kherson-during-ukraines-2022-counteroffensive-reuters-reports/

"Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Food

Mapped: 16 times extreme weather drove higher food prices since 2022 - Carbon Brief
UK potatoes, South Korean cabbage and west African cocoa became markedly more expensive after extreme weather events in recent years.

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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/

For several years
– since conservatives, gained a six-three majority on the bench thanks to Donald Trump’s nominations during his first presidency
– the court has been delivering transformative rulings that have reverberated across the social and political landscape.
In 2022, it overturned Roe v Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion that had existed for nearly half-a-century.
In July 2024, in a far-reaching decision, it granted Trump
– and, by exten…

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

Moving beyond harm. A critical review of how NLP research approaches discrimination
Katrin Schulz, Marjolein Lanzing, Giulia Martinez Brenner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04504 ht…

Moving beyond harm. A critical review of how NLP research approaches discrimination
How to avoid discrimination in the context of NLP technology is one of the major challenges in the field. We propose that a different and more substantiated framing of the problem could help to find more productive approaches. In the first part of the paper we report on a case study: a qualitative review on papers published in the ACL anthologies 2022 on discriminatory behavior of NLP systems. We find that the field (i) still has a strong focus on a technological fix of algorithmic discriminati…

Improved Clifford operations in constant commutative depth
Richard Cleve, Zhiqian Ding, Luke Schaeffer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04921 https://arxiv.org/p…

Improved Clifford operations in constant commutative depth
The commutative depth model allows gates that commute with each other to be performed in parallel. We show how to compute Clifford operations in constant commutative depth more efficiently than was previously known. Bravyi, Maslov, and Nam [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129:230501, 2022] showed that every element of the Clifford group (on $n$ qubits) can be computed in commutative depth 23 and size $O(n^2)$. We show that the Prefix Sum problem can be computed in commutative depth 16 and size $O(n \log n)$, …

Drive Inward - pressing towards hope
#inspiration #CreativeProcess
https://muz4now.com/2022/drive-i…

Drive Inward - pressing towards hope
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

CISA to release telecom security report as its director nominee nears confirmation
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025/07/cisa-release-telecom-security-report-its-director-nominee-…

CISA to release telecom security report as its director nominee nears confirmation
The 2022 report, which has not been made publicly available, has been used as leverage by Senator Ron Wyden to hold Sean Plankey from being confirmed as director of CISA.

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 12 nodes and 52 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

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/

Meanwhile in Alaska...
Too much moose meat was factor in plane crash that killed Alaska lawmaker’s husband | Alaska | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/25/2023-plane-crash-killed-alaska-congresswomans-husband…

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Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 9. Oktober 1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Par". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,047,250 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Raiders Urged to Move on From Disgruntled Star as Nightmare Season Continues https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-urged-to-move-on-from-disgruntled-star/?adt_ei=[email]

In 2022, Oregonians narrowly passed Measure 111,
⭐️amending their constitution and guaranteeing affordable health care as a fundamental right to every resident of the state.
Through years of organizing, coalition building and planning,
💥Oregon may enact its Universal Health Plan as early as fall 2027. 
In the face of extreme Medicaid cuts from the Trump administration
-- which will leave roughly 16 million people without health coverage by 2034
-- a state-l…

Could Oregon chart the course for universal health care in the US?
Oregon is on the verge of enacting a single-payer health care plan, but continued organizing is needed to secure this historic victory.

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Minimization of an Energy Functional for an Electron in the quantized Radiation Field over quasifree States
Matthias Herdzik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17767 https://

Minimization of an Energy Functional for an Electron in the quantized Radiation Field over quasifree States
Building upon the works of Bach, Breteaux, and Tzaneteas (2013) and of Bach and Hach (2022), the Bogolubov-Hartree-Fock (BHF) energy of the Pauli-Fierz Hamiltonian is investigated. Upper and lower bounds on the BHF energy are derived, which suggest positivity of the minimizer, see Theorem IV.6. Under the assumption that the minimizer is indeed positive, a necessary condition on the minimizer is determined by introducing a parameterization, which simplifies the functions of operators appearing i…

Dihedral groups of square-free order are DCI-groups
Istv\'an Kov\'acs, G\'abor Somlai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02778 https://arxiv.org/pdf/25…

Dihedral groups of square-free order are DCI-groups
A finite group $G$ is a called a DCI-group if any two isomorphic Cayley digraphs of $G$ are also isomorphic via an automorphism of $G$. If $G$ is a non-abelian generalised dihedral DCI-group, then Dobson, Muzychuk, and Spiga proved that $G$ must be a dihedral group of square-free order (Ars Math. Contemp., 2022). In this paper, we prove that the converse statement also holds, i.\,e., all dihedral groups of square-free order are DCI-groups.

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Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1051084 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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Low complexity convergence rate bounds for push-sum algorithms with homogeneous correlation structure
Bal\'azs Gerencs\'er, Mikl\'os Kornyik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16601

Low complexity convergence rate bounds for push-sum algorithms with homogeneous correlation structure
The objective of this work is to establish an upper bound for the almost sure convergence rate for a class of push-sum algorithms. The current work extends the methods and results of the authors on a similar low-complexity bound on push-sum algorithms with some particular synchronous message passing schemes and complements the general approach of Gerencsér and Gerencsér from 2022 providing an exact, but often less accessible description. Furthermore, a parametric analysis is presented on the …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
Maxwell Bernstein, Joanna Krajewski, Rachel Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13600 …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
The climate crisis demands innovative solutions and quantum technologies are considered by some a potential solution (Berger et al., 2021; Calvin et al., 2023). The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations, 2024), focusing on applications for quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, leveraging quantum mechanics, offer unprecedented computational power (Ajagekar & You, 2022) and sensitivity (Schleich et al., 2016) that could revolut…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,111,480 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RadcliffeAndMaconie
Bonobo:
🎵 Shadows (6 Music Session, 23 May 2022)
#Bonobo
https://bonobomusic.bandcamp.com/track/shadows-feat-jordan-rakei
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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…

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 24. Juli 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Trogon". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

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Leveraging Minute-by-Minute Soccer Match Event Data to Adjust Team's Offensive Production for Game Context
Andrey Skripnikov, Ahmet Cemek, David Gillman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04008

Leveraging Minute-by-Minute Soccer Match Event Data to Adjust Team's Offensive Production for Game Context
In soccer, game context can result in skewing offensive statistics in ways that might misrepresent how well a team has played. For instance, in England's 1-2 loss to France in the 2022 FIFA World Cup quarterfinal, England attempted considerably more shots (16 to France's 8) and more corners (5 to 2), potentially suggesting they played better despite the loss. However, these statistics were largely accumulated when France was ahead and more willing to concede offensive initiative to England. To …

Heute vor 60 Jahren: Am 23. Juli 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Links". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

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The Cribs:
🎵 Men's Needs
#TheCribs
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