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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

“What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?” – a pretty good summary for those who don't want to read Gary Marcus’s rather… elaborate… treatizes.
> I think it’s safe, at least for now, to turn your attention away from the tech titans’ increasingly hyperbolic claims
🧘‍♂️
https://ca…

What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This? - Cal Newport
In the years since ChatGPT’s launch in late 2022, it’s been hard not to get swept up in feelings of euphoria or dread about the ... Read more

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.

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

SkyNET-scape Room: An Escape Room to Explore Astroparticle Physics
Elisa Prandini, Sabine Hemmer, Michele Branca, Luca Campagnoni, Gabriella Cataldi, Marco Circella, Jean-Pierre Jonckheere, Emanuele Leonora, Ilaria Viale, Giuseppe Silvestri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14190

SkyNET-scape Room: An Escape Room to Explore Astroparticle Physics
Innovative science communication is key to engaging the public with complex topics such as astroparticle physics. As part of the Italian PRIN 2022 funding initiative, we are developing SkyNET-scape Room, an interactive escape room designed to introduce participants to the main messengers of the high-energy universe, namely cosmic rays, gamma rays, and neutrinos. The experience is structured into three interactive stations, each focusing on a specific messenger and its detection method. Small …

In US court, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon says he will plead guilty to charges of conspiracy and wire fraud under an agreement with prosecutors (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-1…

Do Kwon Will Plead Guilty to Charges Tied to Terra Collapse
Terraform Labs Pte. co-founder Do Kwon said he will plead guilty to charges in a US fraud prosecution tied to the $40 billion collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin in 2022.

People I Care About #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2022/people-i-care-about

People I Care About
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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 …

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

Rhoda Dakar - "The Man Who Sold The World" (2022)
So many good versions of this song. This one has been in heavy rotation on my iTunes lately.
Such a jaunty, classy version by one of the great voices of the 2nd wave ska era. Still going strong.
#music #covers

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.

Uvalde schools deploy AI gun detection technology after 2022 tragedy https://youtu.be/Cy-gTMG-qx4?si=pKtUhW9-Ug5ygU-P

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,069,050 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #HuwStephens
New Order:
🎵 Bizarre Love Triangle
#NewOrder
https://waldodj.bandcamp.com/track/new-order-bizarre-love-triangle-waldo-edit-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/6wVViUl2xSRoDK2T7dMZbR

from my link log —
Luhn credit card checksum using SWAR and SIMD.
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2022/04/30/
saved 2022-04-30 https://

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Starting watching Barbarian, from 2022 (again) as it's leaving Netflix August 31. I just couldn't get it started before, thanks to my late night movie sessions where I often just pass out 😂 How many days will it take to get through this one, breaking it up into pieces - we shall see
https://boxd.it/aHmXKj…

A diary entry for Barbarian (2022)

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

UN-Mission: Zahl der zivilen Opfer in Ukraine erreicht Dreijahreshoch
Die Zahl der zivilen Opfer des russischen Angriffskriegs gegen die Ukraine hat im Juli laut den UN einen neuen Dreijahreshöchststand erreicht. Mit 286 getöteten und 1.388 verletzten Zivilisten sei die Zahl der Opfer im Juli die höchste seit Mai 2022 gewesen, teilte die UN-Beobachtungsmission in der Ukraine am Mittwoch in Kiew mit.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Merz: "Es gibt Hoffnung auf Bewegung" ++
Bundeskanzler Merz hat sich nach dem Gespräch mit US-Präsident Trump verhalten optimistisch geäußert und Trump viel Erfolg für dessen Unterredung mit Kremlchef Putin gewünscht. Die südukrainische Region Cherson meldet drei Tote.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Überwachung: Strafverfolger setzen erneut mehr Staatstrojaner ein

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 16.10.1964 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombomben "Barbel" und "Turnstone". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Fractal Analytics, which became India's first AI unicorn in 2022, files for an IPO in Mumbai to raise about $560M, and could value the company at over $3.5B (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

John Willis interviewed me for his Profound podcast series
#Deming

Weniger #Kriminalität rund um den #GoParc
Kaum dass irgendwo nichts mehr los ist, sinkt die Kriminalitätsrate. Das ist ja wirklich überraschend!

Beim Kühlschrankgrundreinigen kommt man ins Grübeln über Beharrlichkeit (oh 2019? 🧐), Vergänglichkeit und Überkonsum (alles mit maximal 2022 wegwerfen und dann ist der Tiefkühlteil leer 😯), Änderung von Gewohnheiten (Kochen statt Tiefkühler 🧛‍♂️) und den Fluss der Zeit (echt, so viel Zeit 🗓️ und u.a. ne Pandemie 🧻 schon wieder?).
Und dann ist der Kühlschrank auch sch tippi-toppi-sauber (oder gar rein)

Eagles' A.J. Brown feels a 'little sad' for Treylon Burks after Titans' 2022 draft-day trade https://www.nfl.com/news/eagles-aj-brown-feels-a-little-sad-treylon-burks-titans-2022-draft-day-trade

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…

My wife's Corsa replacement is finally here - a 2022 EQA. Good first impressions, though bemused that it doesn't appear to support deferred charge-start time in-car. Hoping it'll cope with the charger deciding when to start charging instead...

On the Maximum Spread of Directed Graphs
Susie Lu, John Urschel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05760 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05760

On the Maximum Spread of Directed Graphs
Given a directed graph $G$, the spread of $G$ is the largest distance between any two eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. In 2022, Breen, Riasanovsky, Tait, and Urschel asked what $n$-vertex directed graph maximizes spread, and whether this graph is undirected. We prove the more general result that the spread of any $n \times n$ non-negative matrix $A$ with $\|A\|_{\max} \le 1$ is at most $2n/\sqrt{3}$, which is tight up to an additive factor and exact when $n$ is a multiple of three…

APCs and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars before and during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine (2020-2023)
Myroslava Hladchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08850

APCs and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars before and during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine (2020-2023)
This study examines how Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine affected APCs, publishing patterns, and citation impact of Gold OA articles authored by Ukrainian scholars between 2020 and 2023. Data from Scopus covers articles published before (2020-2021) and after (2022-2023) the war's onset. Statistical analysis revealed a small but significant correlation between APC amounts and citation impact, though the effect size was minimal, suggesting higher APCs did not substantially boost citations.…

These Women Are My Musical Influencers #musician https://muz4now.com/2022/these-women-are-my-musical-influencers

These Women Are My Musical Influencers
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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

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

The impact of the European Union's enlargement with the Western Balkans and the Association Trio on the power of member states in the Council
T\'imea Kov\'acs, D\'ora Gr\'eta Petr\'oczy, G\'abor P\'asztor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08914

The impact of the European Union's enlargement with the Western Balkans and the Association Trio on the power of member states in the Council
As of 2022, the European Union has taken several steps regarding enlargement. We focus on the accession of countries with which the Union is actively negotiating membership. This is examined under two enlargement scenarios: first, the enlargement along the lines of the Western Balkan countries, and second, the accession of a trio (Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia) to the already enlarged Union. We determine the a priori power of the member states based on the Banzhaf and Shapley--Shubik indices. V…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
ZAZ:
🎵 Je Veux
#NowPlaying #ZAZ
https://axelvicious.bandcamp.com/track/zaz-je-veux-axel-vicious-edition-2022
https://open.spotify.com/track/734dz1YaFITwawPpM25fSt

Z archiwum: jak Jasiu próbował się z kołem przewieźć cugiem z Katowic w okolice Bełsznicy.
http://tek.org.pl/psota-ic.txt
Jak ktoś potrzebuje po warszawsku, to np. tu niżej jest relacja:

I hold deep contempt for the adult, powerful, wealthy politicians who saw the opportunity to single out four children in the entire state of #Utah and keep them from enjoying their sport.
This is a story that radicalized me, and whenever I'm reminded by the bullies gloating over the pain of literal children, I'm going to share it again.

Improved Approximation Guarantees and Hardness Results for MNL-Driven Product Ranking
Danny Segev, Gidi Steinberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09180 https://…

Improved Approximation Guarantees and Hardness Results for MNL-Driven Product Ranking
In this paper, we address open computational questions regarding the market share ranking problem, recently introduced by Derakhshan et al. (2022). Their modelling framework incorporates the extremely popular Multinomial Logit (MNL) choice model, along with a novel search-based consider-then-choose paradigm. In a nutshell, the authors devised a Pandora's-Box-type search model, where different customer segments sequentially screen through a ranked list of products, one position after the other, …

On the estimation of solar wind velocity under varying solar activity conditions using Akatsuki measurements
Keshav Aggarwal, R. K. Choudhary, Abhirup Datta, Takeshi Imamura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06381

On the estimation of solar wind velocity under varying solar activity conditions using Akatsuki measurements
We present an analysis of solar wind dynamics based on Doppler spectral width measurements of X-band radio signals from the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft. The dataset includes two solar conjunction occultation experiments conducted in 2016 and 2022, capturing the transition from the descending phase of Solar Cycle 24, a period of low solar activity, to the ascending phase of Solar Cycle 25, which exhibited moderate to intense activity. Our study demonstrates the utility of this technique for est…

1Password founders sold a $75M stake as part of a $100M secondary sale, valuing the company at $6.8B, the same valuation as its $620M Series C in January 2022 (Jeff Stone/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Nova Launcher is shutting down, and Android fans are heartbroken
Nova’s founder and original developer, Kevin Barry, made the announcement over the weekend. On September 6, Barry posted a message confirming that he had left Branch, the analytics firm that acquired Nova Launcher in 2022, and would no longer be involved with the project.

Very interesting looking paper: In tech we trust: A history of technophilia in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) climate mitigation expertise
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629625003615
Hopefully someone wil…

Sammy Stein – Whatever You Wonder About Jazz #jazz https://muz4now.com/2022/sammy-stein-whatever-you-wonder-about-jazz

Sammy Stein - Whatever You Wonder About Jazz
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A look at SiriusXM's podcasting business; 2024's "off-platform earnings" were $606M, with podcast advertising making up most of that sum, up from $475M in 2022 (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/busines

Podcasting Is a Talent Business. SiriusXM Is Intent on Winning.
The company famous for car radio and Howard Stern has recently climbed the podcast charts by betting hundreds of millions of dollars on shows like “Call Her Daddy” and “SmartLess.”

Arctic Oscillation Modulation of Winter Air-Sea Coupling in the East/Japan Sea: Persistence, Timescales, and Extremes
Gyuchang Lim, JongJin Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09628

Arctic Oscillation Modulation of Winter Air-Sea Coupling in the East/Japan Sea: Persistence, Timescales, and Extremes
The winter climate of the East/Japan Sea (EJS) is strongly affected by the Arctic Oscillation (AO), yet how AO polarity reshapes the memory, coupling patterns, and predictability of sea-surface temperature anomalies (SSTA) remains poorly quantified. Using 30 winters (1993--2022) of daily OISST and ERA5 fields, we combine multivariate Maximum Covariance Analysis (MCA) with an Ornstein--Uhlenbeck (OU)-like integration of atmospheric principal components (PCs). The leading coupled mode explains 87…

Expressive Power of Graph Transformers via Logic
Veeti Ahvonen, Maurice Funk, Damian Heiman, Antti Kuusisto, Carsten Lutz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01067 https://

Expressive Power of Graph Transformers via Logic
Transformers are the basis of modern large language models, but relatively little is known about their precise expressive power on graphs. We study the expressive power of graph transformers (GTs) by Dwivedi and Bresson (2020) and GPS-networks by Rampásek et al. (2022), both under soft-attention and average hard-attention. Our study covers two scenarios: the theoretical setting with real numbers and the more practical case with floats. With reals, we show that in restriction to vertex properti…

Feebly Interacting Particles: FIPs at LHCb
J. Alimena, J. Boyd, G. Cacciapaglia, A. Casais Vidal, X. Cid Vidal, S. Collaviti, A. De Oyanguren Campos, G. Dalla Valle Garcia, G. Elor, G. Ferretti, D. Gorbunov, E. Goudzovski, J. Hajer, J. Jerhot, B. Kishor Jashal, V. Kholoimov, J. Klaric, F. Kling, E. Kriukova, Y. Kyselov, G. Lanfranchi, C. Langenbruch, A. Merli, M. Ovchinnykov, J. Pfaller, G. Perez, P. Reimitz, I. Sanderswood, L. Shchutska, E. Torro Pastor, Y. Tsai, A. Usachov, L. Vale S…

Feebly Interacting Particles: FIPs at LHCb
With the establishment and maturation of the experimental programs searching for new physics with sizeable couplings at the LHC, there is an increasing interest in the broader particle and astrophysics community for exploring the physics of light and feebly-interacting particles as a paradigm complementary to a New Physics sector at the TeV scale and beyond. FIPs@LHCb continues the successful series of the FIPs workshops, FIPs 2020 and FIPs 2022. The main focus of the workshop was to explore th…

Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility
Marcel Ausloos, Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Polina Khrennikova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09415

Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility
Pre-taxation analysis plays a crucial role in ensuring the fairness of public revenue collection. It can also serve as a tool to reduce the risk of tax avoidance, one of the UK government's concerns. Our report utilises pre-tax income ($PI$) and total assets ($TA$) data from 567 companies listed on the FTSE All-Share index, gathered from the Refinitiv EIKON database, covering 14 years, i.e., the period from 2009 to 2022. We also derive the $PI/TA$ ratio, and distinguish between positive and neg…

Cyber security is an ever-evolving battle that we can never win.
The reason is simple -- and scary:
Virtually no one actually knows what is running on their computer at this very moment.
Gary Ruddell created a series of videos that are both entertaining and professionally made.
His website provides insight in cyber security and includes articles, a newsletter and also workshops for those who are interested in a career in cyber.
Here's one of his videos.
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Mission: Impossible - Cyber Security
Signals Intelligence, intelligence services, espionage, cryptology, cipher machines and its history from WW2, over the Cold World era, to date.

Berlin setzt bei der #Gewässerüberwachung übrigens seit 2022 auf ein vollelektrisches Dienstschiff.
Der E-Katamaran „James Hobrecht“ ersetzt das alte Dieselmodell und fährt emissionsfrei durch die Stadt.
Ausgestattet mit neuester #Messtechnik, leistet er täglic…

Berlins neues Dienstschiff fährt ab sofort elektrisch - Berlin.de
Staatssekretärin Silke Karcher taufte den E-Katamaran heute auf den Namen „James Hobrecht“ – das Spezialschiff wird für Messfahrten und Wasserprobeentnahmen eingesetzt

The Functional Machine Calculus III: Control
Willem Heijltjes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07851

The Functional Machine Calculus III: Control
The Functional Machine Calculus (Heijltjes 2022) is a new approach to unifying the imperative and functional programming paradigms. It extends the lambda-calculus, preserving the key features of confluent reduction and typed termination, to embed computational effects, evaluation strategies, and control flow operations. The first instalment modelled sequential higher-order computation with global store, input/output, probabilities, and non-determinism, and embedded both the call-by-name and cal…

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,122,810 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/12/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Devastating: 1,000 Endangered Monkeys Sent Back to Cruel Testing https://www.speciesunite.com/petition-updates/devastating-1000-endangered-monkeys-sent-back-to-cruel-testing?utm_source=Mastodon

Devastating: 1,000 Endangered Monkeys Sent Back to Cruel Testing — Species Unite
In a heartbreaking update on the ongoing case of 1,000 long-tailed macaques stolen from the wild in Cambodia in 2022 and illegally imported into the United States by Charles River Laboratories, the notorious animal testing supplier revealed in their second-quarter earnings report that the U.S. D

DreamState Suite Two – Liminal Space #indiemusic https://muz4now.com/2022/dreamstate-suite-two-liminal-space

DreamState Suite Two - Liminal Space
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Court records: from 2017 to 2022, 400,181 US Uber trips had sexual assault and sexual misconduct reports, far exceeding its public disclosure of 12,522 reports (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html

Uber’s Festering Sexual Assault Problem
The company has tested tools that make rides safer, court records show. Measures to stem the violence have been set aside in favor of protecting the company’s business.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,121,570 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/11/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Projected branes as platforms for crystalline, superconducting, and higher-order topological phases
Archisman Panigrahi, Bitan Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23783 https://

Projected branes as platforms for crystalline, superconducting, and higher-order topological phases
Projected branes are constituted by only a small subset of sites of a higher-dimensional crystal, otherwise placed on a hyperplane oriented at an irrational or a rational slope therein, for which the effective Hamiltonian is constructed by systematically integrating out the sites of the parent lattice that fall outside such branes [Commun. Phys. 5, 230 (2022)]. Specifically, when such a brane is constructed from a square lattice, it gives rise to an aperiodic Fibonacci quasi-crystal or its rati…

Investigating Energy-Dependent Anisotropy in Cosmic Rays with IceTop Surface Array
Rasha Abbasi (for the IceCube Collaboration), Paolo Desiati (for the IceCube Collaboration), Juan Carlos D\'iaz V\'elez (for the IceCube Collaboration), Frank McNally (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23044

Investigating Energy-Dependent Anisotropy in Cosmic Rays with IceTop Surface Array
This study presents preliminary results from the analysis of cosmic-ray anisotropy using air showers detected by the IceTop surface array between 2011 and 2022. With improved statistical precision and updated Monte Carlo simulation events compared to previous IceTop reports, we investigate anisotropy patterns across four energy ranges spanning from 300 TeV to 6.9 PeV. This work extends the measurement of cosmic-ray anisotropy in the southern hemisphere to higher energies than previously achieve…

Die Orks haben anscheinend wieder einen Helden erwischt: https://www.tagesschau.de/eilmeldung/eilmeldung-8808.html

CONCERTO: forward modeling of interferograms for calibration
A. Lundgren, A. Beelen, G. Lagache, F. -X. Desert, A. Fasano, J. Macias-Perez, A. Monfardini, P. Ade, M. Aravena, E. Barria, A. Benoit, M. Bethermin, J. Bounmy, O. Bourrion, G. Bres, C. De Breuck, M. Calvo, A. Catalano, C. Dubois, C. A Duran, T. Fenouillet, J. Garcia, G. Garde, J. Goupy, C. Hoarau, W. Hu, J. -C. Lambert, F. Levy-Bertrand, J. Marpaud, R. Parra, G. Pisano, N. Ponthieu, L. Prieur, D. Quinatoa, S. Roni, S. Roudie…

CONCERTO: forward modeling of interferograms for calibration
The CarbON [CII] line in post-rEionisation and ReionisaTiOn epoch (CONCERTO) instrument is a low-resolution mapping Fourier-transform spectrometer, based on lumped-element kinetic inductance detector (LEKID) technology, operating at 130- 310 GHz. It was installed on the 12-meter APEX telescope in Chile in April 2021 and operated until December 2022. CONCERTO's main science goal is to constrain the [CII] line fluctuations at high redshift. To reach that goal CONCERTO observed 1.4 deg2 in the COS…

Digital Transformation and Corporate Financial Asset Allocation: Evidence from China
Yundan Guo, Han Liang, Li Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09095 https://

Digital Transformation and Corporate Financial Asset Allocation: Evidence from China
Against the backdrop of rapid technological advancement and the deepening digital economy, this study examines the causal impact of digital transformation on corporate financial asset allocation in China. Using data from A-share listed companies from 2010 to 2022, we construct a firm-level digitalization index based on text analysis of annual reports and differentiate financial asset allocation into long-term and short-term dimensions. Employing fixed-effects models and a staggered difference-i…

📢 Bundesanwaltschaft meldet Festnahme von mutmaßlichem "Nord-Stream"-Angreifer
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat nach eigenen Angaben einen ukrainischen Staatsangehörigen in Italien festnehmen lassen. Er soll einer Gruppe von Personen angehört haben, die im September 2022 nahe der Insel Bornholm Sprengsätze an den Gaspipelines "Nord Stream 1" und "Nord Stream 2" platzierte.
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Bundesanwaltschaft meldet Festnahme von mutmaßlichem "Nord-Stream"-Angreifer
Die Bundesanwaltschaft hat nach eigenen Angaben einen ukrainischen Staatsangehörigen in Italien festnehmen lassen. Er soll einer Gruppe von Personen angehört haben, die im September 2022 nahe der Insel Bornholm Sprengsätze an den Gaspipelines "Nord Stream 1" und "Nord Stream 2" platzierte.

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.

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings
Shigenobu Hirose, Patrick Stengel, Natsue Abe, Daniel Ang, Lorenzo Apollonio, Gabriela R. Araujo, Yoshihiro Asahara, Laura Baudis, Pranshu Bhaumik, Nathaniel Bowden, Joseph Bramante, Lorenzo Caccianiga, Mason Camp, Qing Chang, Jordan Chapman, Reza Ebadi, Alexey Elykov, Anna Erickson, Valentin Fondement, Katherine Freese, Shota Futamura, Claudio Galelli, Andrew Gilpin, Takeshi Hanyu, Noriko Hasebe, Adam A. Hecht, Samuel C. …

Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter 2025 Proceedings
The third ``Mineral Detection of Neutrinos and Dark Matter'' (MD$ν$DM'25) meeting was held May 20-23, 2025 in Yokohama, Japan, hosted by the Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC). These proceedings compile contributions from the workshop and update the progress of mineral detector research. MD$ν$DM'25 was the third such meeting, following the first in October of 2022 held at the IFPU in Trieste, Italy and the second in January of…

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…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1060581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Wow, een jaar lang geen verkeersdoden in Helsinki. Laat dat een voorbeeld zijn voor @… (15 doden in 2022, de laatste cijfers) @… (9 doden in 2024) en andere steden. https://yle.fi/a/74-20174831

6 years is way too fucking long. Chuck Schumer was (re-)elected in 2022, and his term isn't up until 2029. That's extremely broken.

How To Tune Your Piano #musicianresources https://muz4now.com/2022/how-to-tune-your-piano

How To Tune Your Piano
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Modeling Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Obesity in Italian Regions Via Bayesian Beta Regression
Luciano Rota, Raffaele Argiento, Michela Cameletti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05719 …

Modeling Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Obesity in Italian Regions Via Bayesian Beta Regression
In this paper we investigate the spatio-temporal dynamics of obesity rates across Italian regions from 2010 to 2022, aiming to identify spatial and temporal trends and assess potential heterogeneities. We implement a Bayesian hierarchical Beta regression model to analyze regional obesity rates, integrating spatial and temporal random effects, alongside gender and various exogenous predictors. The model leverages the Stochastic Search Variable Selection technique to identify significant predicto…

Merz: Bedrohung durch Russland ist real
Bei einem Besuch der Marine hat Kanzler Friedrich Merz (CDU) die Arbeit der Bundeswehr in Nord- und Ostsee gelobt. Die Bundeswehr erfülle im nordatlantischen Raum einen wichtigen Auftrag, sagte Merz. Die Landes- und Bündnisverteidigung sei seit Beginn des Angriffskrieges von Russland auf die Ukraine im Februar 2022 notwendiger geworden.
"Wir sehen tägliche Ak…
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Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Eduardo Koffmann Jopia, Patricia Galilea Aranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04532 https://

Ideology, institutions, and economic growth: panel evidence 1995 2022
Does it matter whether a government is "left wing" or "right wing" for economic growth? Using a panel of 113 countries (1995 2022), we combine: (i) the economic ideology of the executive branch (V Dem), (ii) the disaggregated institutional quality of the economic freedom index (Heritage), separating a core institutional block (HN: property rights, government integrity, judicial effectiveness) from a block of liberalization policies (HL: trade/financial openness, regulatory efficiency, size of g…

OSINT or BULLSHINT? Exploring Open-Source Intelligence tweets about the Russo-Ukrainian War
Johannes Niu, Mila Stillman, Anna Kruspe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03599 https://

OSINT or BULLSHINT? Exploring Open-Source Intelligence tweets about the Russo-Ukrainian War
This paper examines the role of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) on Twitter regarding the Russo-Ukrainian war, distinguishing between genuine OSINT and deceptive misinformation efforts, termed "BULLSHINT." Utilizing a dataset spanning from January 2022 to July 2023, we analyze nearly 2 million tweets from approximately 1,040 users involved in discussing real-time military engagements, strategic analyses, and misinformation related to the conflict. Using sentiment analysis, partisanship detectio…

from my link log —
Extremely offline: what happened when Tonga was cut off from the internet by a volcanic eruption.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/30/tonga-pacific-island-internet-underwater-cables-volcanic-erup…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

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

Create connection to end the tragedies #relationship https://muz4now.com/2022/create-connection-to-end-the-tragedies

Create connection to end the tragedies
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,076,940 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/25/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…

TikTok Booms In Europe Despite Threat Of U.S. Ban
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Robert Glasper:
🎵 Let It Ride (6 Music Session, 13 Apr 2022)
#RobertGlasper
https://thefruitionexperience.bandcamp.com/track/let-it-ride-robert-glasper-fruition-trio-12-13-15
https://open.spotify.com/track/6PFFOfhu61KGhOEjhdePIS

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

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

Grassroots – summertime is music festival time #festival #music https://muz4now.com/2022/grassroots-su

Grassroots - summertime is music festival time
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,072,700 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/20/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Q&A with Stanford researchers on their recent study finding that, since 2022, US employment in the most AI-exposed fields has fallen 13% for entry-level workers (Derek Thompson)
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/the-evidence-that-ai-is-destroying

The Evidence That AI Is Destroying Jobs For Young People Just Got Stronger
A big nerd debate with bigger implications for the future of work, technology, and the economy

18,500 soldiers convicted in Russia of desertion or unauthorized absence since 2022, analysis finds: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/19/soldiers-convicted-in-russia-of.html

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 23 nodes and 1065 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?

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company hit its first $1B revenue month in July and that "the biggest thing we face is being constantly under compute" (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/openai-compute-ai.html

OpenAI logged its first $1 billion month but is still 'constantly under compute,' CFO says
OpenAI has ballooned in size since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 and is expected to triple in revenue to $12.7 billion this year.

DreamState: Dreams where you listen, stream, & dream #music https://muz4now.com/2022/dreamstate-dreams-where-you-listen-stream-dream

DreamState: Dreams where you listen, stream, & dream
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Databricks plans to acquire Tecton, which helps companies build and deploy ML applications, for an undisclosed sum; Tecton was valued at $900M in 2022 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/databricks-buy-sequoia-…

Shade – an improvised poem #improv #poem https://muz4now.com/2022/shade-an-improvised-poem

Shade - an improvised poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Bandura and Sopilka
#PeaceInUkraine #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2022/bandura-and-s

Bandura and Sopilka #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

CBP data: between April and June 2025, CBP searched 14,899 devices carried by international travelers, up from a high of 12,766 between January and March 2022 (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/phone-searches-at-the-us-border-hit-a-record-high/…

Phone Searches at the US Border Hit a Record High
Customs and Border Protection agents searched nearly 15,000 devices from April through June of this year, a nearly 17 percent spike over the previous three-month high in 2022.

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,108,510 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/28/general-staff-russia-has-lost.html

Love’s Shifting Nature – in memory and in honor #grief #love #relationship

Love's Shifting Nature - in memory and in honor
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Another light brigade becomes heavy mechanized: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/25/another-light-brigade-becomes-heavy.html

The Importance of In-Person Inspiration https://muz4now.com/2022/the-importance-of-in-person-inspiration/

The Importance of In-Person Inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

DreamState – Liminal Space – #DreamState #NowPlaying #dreamstate #musicvideos

DreamState - Liminal Space - #DreamState #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now