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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.

Global Net: three Chinese firms ranked among the world's top 20 chipmaking equipment manufacturers in 2025, up from one in 2022, with Naura Tech rising to fifth (Fumie Yaku/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/

China edges up with 3 of world's top 20 chipmaking gear suppliers
Local production shift fueled by US curbs puts AMEC, SMEE on list alongside Naura

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Peter Chernin sells North Road to France's Mediawan; sources: the agreement, paid mostly in stock, values the independent film and TV studio at ~$900M (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/business/north-road-mediawan-deal.html

Hollywood’s North Road Studio Acquired by a European Production Giant
Peter Chernin, an industry veteran who founded North Road in 2022, said his deal with Mediawan met a need to get bigger in an era of consolidation.

Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos, on the rupture of the old world order:
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/speeches/2026/01/20/principled-and-pragmatic-canadas-path-prime-minister-carney-addresses
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“Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
Thank you, Larry.It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and the beginning of a brutal reality where geopolitics among the great powers is not subject to any constraints.

Forever grateful and thinking of you.
Hester Wagenvoort, July 20 1962 - July 21 2022.
Thank you, for everything! Dankjewel, voor alles!

Didn't know Botch recorded one new song they put out in 2022, their first in 20 years at the time, and now here I am, in 2026, listening to it. And it's ridiculous, and it's ripping my face off
https://botch.bandcamp.com/track/one-twenty-two

Meituan reports Q3 revenue up 2% to $13.4B and a $2.3B adjusted net loss, worse than $1.9B est., its first loss since 2022, amid a price war with JD and Alibaba (Luz Ding/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Every single day, the whole debacle with Blake Lemoine feels so much more quaint than the mass delusions we’re uncovering now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/06/11/google-ai-lamda-blake-lemoine/

The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
The chorus of technologists who believe AI models may not be far off from achieving consciousness is getting bolder.

from my link log —
ROCkN: Providing GPS-quality timing accuracy with portable optical atomic clocks.
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2022-01-20
saved 2023-10-05

🐺 Wolves have returned to Denmark, and not everyone is happy about it
#denmark

Wolves have returned to Denmark, and not everyone is happy about it
After centuries of near-extinction, Europe's wolves have made a remarkable comeback. Over the past decade, wolf populations have surged, increasing by nearly 60%. In 2022, more than 21,500 wolves were recorded across the continent.

https://genxcollectibles.ca/2025/11/10/winnipeg-mega-train-show-2022/

Cowboys’ offensive line needs lots of attention https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-offensive-line-needs-lots-of-attention

General Staff: Russia has lost 1,158,260 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/16/general-staff-russia-has-lost.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 12 nodes and 61 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted

Last time in Sweden was midsommmar 2022, in Umeå. And it actually did not get dark. But also I wasn’t really sleepy during those days
This time, it's almost winter solstice and I'm way more north in Luleå. Sunrise at 9:37, sundown at 13:11 😲 We will see how that goes
#AnnerOstseeIssesImmerSchön

Robust forecast aggregation via additional queries
Rafael Frongillo, Mary Monroe, Eric Neyman, Bo Waggoner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05271 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.05271
arXiv:2512.05271v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study the problem of robust forecast aggregation: combining expert forecasts with provable accuracy guarantees compared to the best possible aggregation of the underlying information. Prior work shows strong impossibility results, e.g. that even under natural assumptions, no aggregation of the experts' individual forecasts can outperform simply following a random expert (Neyman and Roughgarden, 2022).
In this paper, we introduce a more general framework that allows the principal to elicit richer information from experts through structured queries. Our framework ensures that experts will truthfully report their underlying beliefs, and also enables us to define notions of complexity over the difficulty of asking these queries. Under a general model of independent but overlapping expert signals, we show that optimal aggregation is achievable in the worst case with each complexity measure bounded above by the number of agents $n$. We further establish tight tradeoffs between accuracy and query complexity: aggregation error decreases linearly with the number of queries, and vanishes when the "order of reasoning" and number of agents relevant to a query is $\omega(\sqrt{n})$. These results demonstrate that modest extensions to the space of expert queries dramatically strengthen the power of robust forecast aggregation. We therefore expect that our new query framework will open up a fruitful line of research in this area.
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Cowboys OG Tyler Booker named to PFWA All-Rookie Team https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/20/cowboys-tyler-booker-pfwa-2025-all-rookie-team/88271155007/

An interview with Ukrainian cyber-crime kingpin Vyacheslav Penchukov, aka Tank, who was arrested in 2022 after spending ~10 years on the FBI's Most Wanted list (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2w0pvg4wko

Tank interview: A hacking kingpin reveals all to the BBC
One of the world's most prominent cyber-criminals speaks to the BBC in an exclusive interview.

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

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Hardening snmalloc.
https://github.com/microsoft/snmalloc/tree/release_docs/docs/security
saved 2022-05-10 ht…

Wikimedia Foundation names Bernadette Meehan, who was the US Ambassador to Chile from 2022 to 2025, as its new CEO (Deborah Mary Sophia/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regula…

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My fediversary is also November 2022, not sure what day. But these three years have been excellent- here's to many more. And it's all you cool folks who make it so great to be here, so thank you all for that. 💥
#fediverse #fediversary

Watzmann ermittelt: Folge 33: Bienenstich (S03/E11) - #ARD #BR
#crimi #krimi

Ausgerechnet Ronnie Mocker, der Chef von Swissmint, versteigerte 2022 auf Ricardo unter dem Pseudonym «Ronnie_75» selbst eine Münze, die er für 800 Franken kaufte und wenige Tage später für 2500 Franken weiterverkaufte.
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/goldvreneli-skandal-bund-verbietet-kauf-von-sondermuenzen-fuer-angestellte-427757241966