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Bloomberg: At least $488 million in sanctioned goods entered Russia from EU in 2023: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/26/bloomberg-at-least.html

Sources: The Center for Public Integrity is considering merging with a competitor or shutting down, after falling ~$2.5M short of its $6M budget goal for 2023 (Benjamin Mullin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/busines

Center for Public Integrity Weighs Merger or Shutdown Amid Dire Financial Straits
The nonprofit had a budget shortfall of roughly $2.5 million last year amid a difficult market for fund-raising.

Mailbox.org: Rechtswidrige behördliche Auskunftsanfragen stark angestiegen
Nicht nur die Gesamtmenge der Ersuchen von Ermittlern ist bei mailbox.org 2023 von 55 auf 133 nach oben geschnellt, sondern auch der Anteil der unzulässigen.
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Venture funding to Black-founded US startups in 2023 totaled $705M across 191 deals, or less than 0.5% of all venture funding, down from $2.4B in 2022 (Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/diversity/venture-funding-black-founded-star…

Drop In Venture Funding To Black-Founded Startups Greatly Outpaces Market Decline
Venture funding to Black-founded U.S. startups last year totaled only $705 million — marking the first time since 2016 that the figure failed to even reach $1 billion, Crunchbase data shows.

Curb Your Enthusiasm takes on voter suppression
In 2023, Black Voters Matter faced a complaint it was running afoul of electioneering rules after it handed out food and water to people standing in polling lines in Albany, Georgia.
The state board of elections dismissed the complaint.
Albright said he was happy David had chosen to focus on the issue.
“I loved it. He was clearly trying to point out how ridiculous the law is, especially when you have folks waiting on u…

Moore v. Harper ARGUED: 12/7/2022
The Supreme Court Considers the **Independent State Legislature Theory**, shoots it down! #law
**DECISION**: 6/27/2023: In a 6-3 opinion from Chief Justice John Roberts, the Court's majority found that the Constitution's Elections Clause does not vest exclusive and independent authority in state legislatures to set the rules regarding federal elec…

The Love - “Want Some” (2023)
Guitar driven, modern day garage rock from Hamburg!
#AlternativeRock #GarageRock #IndieRock

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

Marsfall - Season 3 finale 🤯🫨🫠
Dramatized sci-fi action/adventure series | Total listening time: 16h 33m
Jacki and her crew left Earth and its problems behind for a chance at giving humanity a fresh start on Mars. But mysterious aliens, malicious AI, and the expected difficulties of colonizing this inhospitable planet leave t...

Marsfall - Season 3 finale 🤯🫨🫠
Dramatized sci-fi action/adventure series | Total listening time: 16h 33m Jacki and her crew left Earth and its problems behind for a chance at giving humanity a fresh start on Mars. But mysterious aliens, malicious AI, and the expected difficulties of colonizing this inhospitable planet leave them all questioning if they’ve made the right choice to abandon their home. 3 seasons, 31 episodes as of Oct 10, 2023.

Die ePetition 160803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Abfallwirtschaft mit dem Titel
Erhöhung des Pfandes auf Autobatterien von 7,50 € auf 15 €
kann nur noch heute mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 89 Mitzeichnende. Nach Ende der Mitzeichnungsfrist wird die Petition von einem MdB im Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags bearbeitet und entschieden werden. Sollte bis zum Ende der Mitzeichnunungsfrist das Quorum erreicht werden, wird der ganze Petitionsausschuss in öffentlicher Sitz…

how should #CreativeCommons respond to the use of CC-licensed work in #AItraining?
"In 2023, the theme of the CC Global Summit was AI and the Commons, focused on supporting better sharing in a world with artificial intelligence."
There were 3 opinion groups that resulted from…

What does the CC Community Think about Regulating Generative AI? - Creative Commons
In the past year, Creative Commons, alongside other members of the Movement for a Better Internet, hosted workshops and sessions at community conferences like MozFest, RightsCon, and Wikimania, to hear from attendees regarding their views on artificial intelligence (AI). In these sessions, community members raised concerns about how AI is utilizing CC-licensed content, and discussions…

Vermutlich erwecke ich ab und an den Eindruck, hier Wahlkampf für Die Linke zu machen. Es wird auch oft angenommen, ich sei Parteimitglied oder -Aktive.
Mache ich nicht und bin ich nicht, aber ich glaube, dass linke Politik einen parlamentarischen Arm braucht. Jetzt mehr denn je.
Ich sehe parlamentarische und außerparlamentarische Arbeit nicht als Gegensatz oder Konkurrenz. Beides ist nötig und muss sich konstruktiv ergänzen.
Hatte ich hier auch mal was zu geschrieben.

US Housing Supply Gap Grows in 2023; Growth Outpaces Permits in Fast-Growing Sunbelt Metros
Realtor.com - February 27, 2024
“US housing markets continue to struggle with a growing shortage of new homes, the result of more than a decade of under-building relative to population growth.”
https://www.

US Housing Supply Gap Grows in 2023; Growth Outpaces Permits in Fast-Growing Sunbelt Metros
US housing markets continue to struggle with a growing shortage of new homes, the result of more than a decade of under-building relative to population growth. In 2023, the U.S. saw 1.67 million household formations, resulting in 17.2 million household formations between 2012 and 2023. In this time period, 14.7 million housing units were started, and 13.4 million were completed. The total housing starts count includes 9.98 million single-family and 4.71 million multi-family homes. Housing comp…

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

Cowboys’ backup TE group fell short in 2023 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_backup_te_group_fell_short_in_2023/s1_17100_40030463

Cowboys’ backup TE group fell short in 2023
2024 Roster Review: Backup Tight Ends – Part 8 of 17. Click here to view all articles in this series. Tight end Jake Ferguson was targeted 102 times in the 2023 season. The other three tight ends on the Cowboys' roster were thrown at just 24 times all year. Among Dallas' tight ends, Ferguson drew 81 percent of the targets last season. By comparison, in 2022, Dalton Schultz had 89 targets (68.5% of total tight end targets) while the other three tight ends had a combined 41 targets (31.5%). Tha…

Ed Talks WA
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Ed Talks WA | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Ed Talks WA By: Department of Education WA Category: Education Sub-Category: Careers, Commentary & Conversations, Education for Kids First Episode: 2023 Ed Talks WA is a Department of…

Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 authorize a strike; the union says the vote is partly due to planned layoffs after record profits in 2023 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/law360-staffers-vote-to-strik…

Law360 staffers vote to strike - Talking Biz News
Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 voted to authorize a strike Monday. The union says the strike is due to lack of progress at the bargaining table, unlawful tactics that violate union members’ rights and planned layoffs following record profits in 2023. Law360 Union is part of the NewsGuild of New York, which represents nearly […]

Selon l’Enquête canadienne sur la situation des entreprises, au quatrième trimestre de 2023, la proportion d’entreprises du secteur privé détenues majoritairement par des femmes est de 17,8 % au Québec. Beaucoup de chemin encore Š faire!

Égalité et diversité – Entrepreneuriat
Suivi des objectifs de la stratégie gouvernementale et de l'évolution de la société québécoise.

Interesting #DNS issue. I had a domain name with #AWS/Route53 that I registered in 2019 and used until 2021. I shut down the service behind it but kept the DNS configuration intact.
I tried using it again end of 2023, and no matter what I did, DNS resolution was failing.
Now what? I wasn't going t…

Chiefs plan on franchise tagging L’Jarius Sneed unless long-term deal is reached: Sources https://theathletic.com/5300334/2024/02/27/ljarius-sneed-franchise-tag-chiefs/

Chiefs plan on franchise tagging L’Jarius Sneed unless long-term deal is reached: Sources
Sneed tallied two interceptions and 14 pass breakups in 16 regular-season games with the Chiefs in 2023.

Klarna reports 2023 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$2.28B, a $241M net loss, down from $1.01B in 2022, with credit losses falling by 32% in 2023 to $369M (Financial Times)
https://t.co/NTUKa51q8c

The Deep Sky (2023) by Yume Kitasei is a fascinating and clever mystery-thriller on a slower-than-light interstellar colony ship.
In a near-future Earth of simmering global conflict and climate change, tech trillionaire Linda Trembling creates this unique mission and convinces the world to help. Countries send their best young candidates to a special school for the mission. 800 candidates get whittled down to 80. 1/

"[M]arketing strategies and techniques offer powerful insights into how libraries perceive themselves and the communities they serve."
– "Academic library marketing in the post-COVID world" by Melissa Fraser-Arnott: https://doi.org/10.1080/15323269.2023.2291282

"Iran said Sunday it successfully launched three satellites into space with a rocket that had multiple failures in the past, the latest for a program that the West says improves Tehran's ballistic missiles.
"The U.S. intelligence community's 2023 worldwide threat assessment said the development of satellite launch vehicles 'shortens the timeline' for Iran to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile because it uses similar technology."

Iran launches three satellites into space as tensions rise
Iran says it successfully launched three satellites into space with a rocket that had multiple failures in the past, the latest for a program that the West says improves Tehran's ballistic missiles.

181,000 units of farm machinery and equipment damaged About 181,000 units of agricultural machinery and equipment were partially or completely damaged. This was reported by the Centre for Food and Lan Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/znyshheno-181-

The Camberville E-Bike Lending Library just crossed two years of bike loan-days since October 1st, with 4200 tracked miles on the odometers of the library bikes.
The first loan from the library was a year ago this month, but I didn't get serious about tracking loans until October. Since then, more than 144 different loans have happened... and more than 45 people bought e-bikes after borrowing one!

On Website Technicals (2023-02) - Tech updates: Apache scripts, FOSDEM energy and Java, GraalVM AOT. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-69.html

On Website Technicals (2023-02)
Tech updates: Apache scripts, FOSDEM energy and Java, GraalVM AOT.

Mesela, günaydın için...
https://open.spotify.com/track/4j9QLrasHGEWNq7biWFd93?si=bf91cd57024c4822

Ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob man Solidarität mit den PalästinenserInnen im #Gaza immer mit der Ächtung des Terrorangriffs vom 7. Oktober 2023 verbinden muss.
Durch die weit überschießende Notwehr, die Tötung von mittlerweile fas 30.000 Babies, Kindern, Frauen und Männern und alten Menschen, von den zahllosen Verletzten ganz zu schweigen, hat

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BMDV (@bmdv@social.bund.de)
Attached: 1 image Ersatzteil gebraucht, aber #Stau verzögert alles? #Lüdenscheid bringt die Lösung: Linienflugbetrieb mit #Drohnen!🛩️ Meilenstein für #Logistik im #Sauerland von einem Familienbetrieb & #StartUp. Ihre Drohnen liefern bis zu 80 Pakete/Tag im Radius 25km aus!👏 🗺️ Warum #Lüdenscheid? Die marode Talbrücke #Rahmede der A45, die 2023 gesprengt wurde, verursacht seit Jahrzehnten Stau. Die Drohnen-Airline hilft Unternehmen, die an Lieferverzögerungen & prekärer Ve…

Die Säule am Theodor-Heuss-Platz, ebenfalls Charlottenburg, ist die mit Abstand ineffektivste in Berlin: Vor etwa zehn Jahren aufgestellt, hat sie in den letzten fünf Jahren genau zwei Fotos gemacht. Und nur eines davon führte zu einer „Ahndung“ in Form eines Knöllchens. Ein Grund ist in der Excel-Tabelle der Polizei nicht vermerkt.
Obwohl es mehr Blitzersäulen gibt: Berlin verschickt 76 Prozent weniger Bußgeldbescheide an Raser

Zero-days exploited in the wild jumped 50% in 2023, fueled by spyware vendors https://therecord.media/zero-day-exploits-jumped-in-2023-spyware

Las Vegas Raiders Make Massive Decision On Davante Adams’ Future https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_make_massive_decision_on_davante_adams_future/s1_17068_40027453

Las Vegas Raiders Make Massive Decision On Davante Adams’ Future
The Las Vegas Raiders have gone through many changes as a team since the 2023 season. The team has hired Antonio Pierce as their permanent head coach after firing Josh McDaniels while also hiring Tom Telesco as their general manager. While things are looking up overall, there have been several questions surrounding the future of star receiver Davante Adams after rumors have speculated that he could seek a trade this offseason. However, the team has made it clear as of Tuesday what they are plan…

Pedestrian deaths declined modestly in first half of 2023: GHSA
#RealEstate #UrbanDevelopment #SmartCitiesDive

👚 Investigating the ambitions of young women to run for national parliament: the case of Australia
#women

A #WaterfallWednesday photo I haven't posted, yet!
It's the very popular #Skogafoss on the Icelandic south coast. Picture was taken in march 2023.
🌊 ❄️ 🌈
#Iceland

Charles Rice Goff III
"Calumet"
#byncnd

Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 authorize a strike; the union says the vote is partly due to planned layoffs after record profits in 2023 (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/law360-staffers-vote-to-strik…

Law360 staffers vote to strike - Talking Biz News
Unionized editorial workers at LexisNexis-owned Law360 voted to authorize a strike Monday. The union says the strike is due to lack of progress at the bargaining table, unlawful tactics that violate union members’ rights and planned layoffs following record profits in 2023. Law360 Union is part of the NewsGuild of New York, which represents nearly […]

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Mixing, heating and ion-neutral decoupling induced by Rayleigh-Taylor instability in prominence-corona transition regions
This study explores non-linear development of the magnetized Rayleigh-Taylor instability (RTI) in a prominence-corona transition region. Using a two-fluid model of a partially ionized plasma, we compare RTI simulations for several different magnetic field configurations. We follow prior descriptions of the numerical prominence model [Popescu Braileanu et al., 2021a,b, 2023] and explore the charged-neutral fluid coupling and plasma heating in a two-dimensional mixing layer for different magnetic…

Zariya Hollow - Season 1 finale 📖👻🌩️
Dramatized Gothic Mystery | Total listening time: 21h 37m
As the owner of the gothic mansion, Zariya Hollow, Reinhardt invites you to explore its haunted halls and uncover the secrets that lurk within. Each episode, you’ll be taken on a journey into the macabre as you hear stories of terror and ...

Zariya Hollow - Season 1 finale 📖👻🌩️
Dramatized Gothic Mystery | Total listening time: 21h 37m As the owner of the gothic mansion, Zariya Hollow, Reinhardt invites you to explore its haunted halls and uncover the secrets that lurk within. Each episode, you’ll be taken on a journey into the macabre as you hear stories of terror and tragedy. Our podcast is crafted by a dynamic team of LGBTQIA, disabled, and POC creators. 1 seasons, 14 episodes as of Dec 25, 2023.

Blieb beim ersten Durchgang liegen - lohnt sich aber jederzeit nochmal von vorn zu beginnen.

How we won BraTS 2023 Adult Glioma challenge? Just faking it! Enhanced Synthetic Data Augmentation and Model Ensemble for brain tumour segmentation
Andr\'e Ferreira, Naida Solak, Jianning Li, Philipp Dammann, Jens Kleesiek, Victor Alves, Jan Egger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17317

How we won BraTS 2023 Adult Glioma challenge? Just faking it! Enhanced Synthetic Data Augmentation and Model Ensemble for brain tumour segmentation
Deep Learning is the state-of-the-art technology for segmenting brain tumours. However, this requires a lot of high-quality data, which is difficult to obtain, especially in the medical field. Therefore, our solutions address this problem by using unconventional mechanisms for data augmentation. Generative adversarial networks and registration are used to massively increase the amount of available samples for training three different deep learning models for brain tumour segmentation, the first…

The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years, i.e., books published in 2021, 2022, and 2023 are eligible for the 2024 prize.
https://www.sigcis.org/chmprize

Reinforcement Learning Based Oscillation Dampening: Scaling up Single-Agent RL algorithms to a 100 AV highway field operational test
Kathy Jang, Nathan Lichtl\'e, Eugene Vinitsky, Adit Shah, Matthew Bunting, Matthew Nice, Benedetto Piccoli, Benjamin Seibold, Daniel B. Work, Maria Laura Delle Monache, Jonathan Sprinkle, Jonathan W. Lee, Alexandre M. Bayen

Reinforcement Learning Based Oscillation Dampening: Scaling up Single-Agent RL algorithms to a 100 AV highway field operational test
In this article, we explore the technical details of the reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms that were deployed in the largest field test of automated vehicles designed to smooth traffic flow in history as of 2023, uncovering the challenges and breakthroughs that come with developing RL controllers for automated vehicles. We delve into the fundamental concepts behind RL algorithms and their application in the context of self-driving cars, discussing the developmental process from simulation …

Detection of a cyclotron line in the Be X-ray pulsar IGR J06074$ $2205
Kinjal Roy, Rahul Sharma, Hemanth Manikantan, Biswajit Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17382

Detection of a cyclotron line in the Be X-ray pulsar IGR J06074$+$2205
IGR J0607.4+2205 is a transient Be X-ray binary discovered two decades ago. IGR J0607.4+2205 underwent an outburst in 2023 during which it was observed twice with \textit{NuSTAR}. The main goal of this work is to model the broadband X-ray spectrum of IGR J0607.4+2205 during the outburst and to study the variations of the spectral and timing features at different intensities. We extracted the light curve and spectrum of the source from the two \textit{NuSTAR} observations carried out during the …

NFT1000: A Visual Text Dataset For Non-Fungible Token Retrieval
Shuxun Wang, Yunfei Lei, Ziqi Zhang, Wei Liu, Haowei Liu, Li Yang, Wenjuan Li, Bing Li, Weiming Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16872

NFT1000: A Visual Text Dataset For Non-Fungible Token Retrieval
With the rise of 'Metaverse' and 'Web3.0', NFT ( Non-Fungible Token ) has emerged as a kind of pivotal digital asset, garnering significant attention. By the end of November 2023, more than 1.4 billion NFT tokens have been minted across various blockchain platforms. To effectively locate a satisfactory NFT token, conducting searches within the extensive array of NFT data is essential. The challenge in NFT retrieval is heightened due to the high degree of similarity among different NFT tokens, i…

Sources: Stripe and some investors agreed to buy $1B of current and ex-employees' shares, valuing it at $65B, up from $50B in 2023, but down from $95B in 2021 (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/stripe-valuati

Interessante Doku über #Varanasi, eine der heiligsten Stätten des #Hinduismus
Unser Vorstand Reiner Schmid war zwei Mal dort, zuletzt im Oktober 2023, und ihn hat das Leben am Ganges mehr als alles andere von seinen vielen Reisen durch

Cowboys' backup TE group fell short in 2023 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-backup-te-group-fell-short-in-2023/

Cowboys' backup TE group fell short in 2023 ⋆ Inside The Star
Discover the impact of backup tight ends on the Cowboys' roster. Find out why someone needs to step up in the 2024 season.

Summary of the CKM 2023 Working Group on $V_{ub}$, $V_{cb}$ and semileptonic/leptonic B decays including $\tau$
William I. Jay, Raynette van Tonder, Ryoutaro Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18175

Summary of the CKM 2023 Working Group on $V_{ub}$, $V_{cb}$ and semileptonic/leptonic B decays including $τ$
This work summarizes recent results, both theoretical and experimental, in $B$-meson leptonic and semileptonic decays and metrology of $V_{ub}$ and $V_{cb}$, which were presented at the CKM 2023 workshop. We place these results in context and discuss future prospects in the field.

Deterministic Cache-Oblivious Funnelselect
Gerth St{\o}lting Brodal, Sebastian Wild
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17631 https://arxiv.or…

Deterministic Cache-Oblivious Funnelselect
In the multiple-selection problem one is given an unsorted array $S$ of $N$ elements and an array of $q$ query ranks $r_1<\cdots

Die ePetition 161575 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Alternative Heizsysteme mit dem Titel
Verpflichtende Angabe der Arbeitszahl der Systemleistung für gesamte Heizung in den Gerätedaten
kann nur noch heute mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 56 Mitzeichnende. Nach Ende der Mitzeichnungsfrist wird die Petition von einem MdB im Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags bearbeitet und entschieden werden. Sollte bis zum Ende der Mitzeichnunungsfrist das Quorum erreicht werden, wird der g…

Disziplinarvergehen - Geheimnisverrat: Geldstrafe für Kurz-Richter #News #Nachrichten

The Deep Sky (2023) by Yume Kitasei is a fascinating and clever mystery-thriller on a slower-than-light interstellar colony ship.
In a near-future Earth of simmering global conflict and climate change, tech trillionaire Linda Trembling creates this unique mission and convinces the world to help. Countries send their best young candidates to a special school for the mission. 800 candidates get whittled down to 80. 1/

Eagles tie NFL draft record with eight trades https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40041201/philadelphia-eagles-tie-nfl-draft-record-eight-trades

Philadelphia Eagles tie NFL draft record with eight trades - ESPN
The Philadelphia Eagles tied an NFL record for most trades in a seven-round draft with eight, joining the 2023 Texans and 2018 Patriots.

Will Trump provoke a crisis of legitimacy for the US supreme court?
Trump’s appeal to the supreme court creates a crisis for the entire conservative methodology.
If the court denies certiorari, declining to rule on the case, or upholds the Colorado decision, Trump would face disqualification cases in states across the country, throwing the election into chaos.
The Republican sponsors of the conservative court are panicked and enraged.
The Wall Street Journal, the ve…

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Small values and forbidden values for the Fourier antidiagonal constant of a finite group
For a finite group $G$, let ${\rm AD}(G)$ denote the Fourier norm of the antidiagonal in $G\times G$. It was shown recently by the author (IMRN, 2023) that ${\rm AD}(G)$ coincides with the amenability constant of the Fourier algebra of $G$, and is equal to the normalized sum of the cubes of character degrees of $G$. Motivated by a gap result for amenability constants due to Johnson (JLMS, 1994), we determine exactly which numbers in the interval $[1,2]$ arise as values of ${\rm AD}(G)$. As a …

Interested in trying out Rocket and #Rust? We've got you 👀 check out our article that does a deep dive into using the Rocket web framework as well as deployment!
https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/12/13/usi…

Getting Started with Rocket in Rust
This article talks about how you can use Rocket to write a web application, covering routing, middleware, static files and databases.

Study: 77 of the top 100 top-grossing domestic films in the US in 2023 featured more male characters than female characters in speaking roles (Angelique Jackson/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/study-shows-decrease-sp…

Study Shows Decrease in Speaking Roles for Female Characters
Despite 'Barbie's' cultural moment, the latest 'It’s a Man’s (Celluloid) World' report shows that the percentage of female characters decreased.

Rocking Chair; or, Settlement - complete series 👻🌲🫎
Dramatized folk horror musical | Total listening time: 4h 53m
Rooted in New England folklore, ROCKING CHAIR is a horror musical podcast that tells the tale of characters lured into a haunted forest over the course of three centuries, the ghosts that haunted them there, and the mysterious rocking...

Rocking Chair; or, Settlement - complete series 👻🌲🫎
Dramatized folk horror musical | Total listening time: 4h 53m Rooted in New England folklore, ROCKING CHAIR is a horror musical podcast that tells the tale of characters lured into a haunted forest over the course of three centuries, the ghosts that haunted them there, and the mysterious rocking chair at the heart of it all. 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Dec 30, 2023.

Blieb beim ersten Durchgang liegen - lohnt sich aber jederzeit nochmal von vorn zu beginnen.

Raiders GM Tom Telesco says team has ‘no plans’ to trade Davante Adams https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_gm_tom_telesco_says_team_has_no_plans_to_trade_davante_adams/s1_17236_40026410…

Raiders GM Tom Telesco says team has ‘no plans’ to trade Davante Adams
The Las Vegas Raiders’ 2023 season didn’t go as they hoped but the team isn’t looking to sell the farm after their 8-9 finish. On Tuesday at the NFL Scouting Combine, Raiders general manager Tom Telesco opened up about other teams’ interest in star wide receiver Davante Adams and the potential for a possible trade. According to Telesco, “He’s a Raider.” Adams has three more seasons left on his contract with Las Vegas and they are not interested in letting their top receiver go, ev…

Die ePetition 161322 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Zivilprozessordnung mit dem Titel
Abschaffen von § 128 Abs. 2 Satz 3 Zivilprozessordnung (Grundsatz der Mündlichkeit; schriftliches Verfahren)
kann nur noch heute mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 28 Mitzeichnende. Nach Ende der Mitzeichnungsfrist wird die Petition von einem MdB im Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags bearbeitet und entschieden werden. Sollte bis zum Ende der Mitzeichnunungsfrist das Quorum erreicht werden, w…

Denoising Diffusion Models for Inpainting of Healthy Brain Tissue
Alicia Durrer, Philippe C. Cattin, Julia Wolleb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17307 https://…

Denoising Diffusion Models for Inpainting of Healthy Brain Tissue
This paper is a contribution to the "BraTS 2023 Local Synthesis of Healthy Brain Tissue via Inpainting Challenge". The task of this challenge is to transform tumor tissue into healthy tissue in brain magnetic resonance (MR) images. This idea originates from the problem that MR images can be evaluated using automatic processing tools, however, many of these tools are optimized for the analysis of healthy tissue. By solving the given inpainting task, we enable the automatic analysis of images fea…

Among premium SVODs, US subscriber growth fell from 21.6% YoY in 2022 to 10.1% YoY in 2023; 140.5M cancelled their subscriptions in 2023 vs. 104.3M in 2022 (Antenna)
https://www.antenna.live/post/antenna-q124-state-of-subscriptions-report-prem…

Antenna Q1’24 State of Subscriptions Report: Premium SVOD - Antenna Blog

Interesting to see that this InternetNZ-funded survey report about NZers' internet use & impressions contains (fleeting/dismissive) mention of Mastodon but fails to mention any form of the words 'corporate' or 'colonialism' once... https://internetnz.nz/assets/Uplo…

#Phaenologie #Behrendorf #Wische Blattentfaltung Rosskastanie 28.03.2024 (02.04.2023) 17 Tage vor dem Gebietsmittel

Hurray!

https://www.hs.fi/kaupunki/art-2000010388780.html

"Fortum will close its last coal-fired power plant in Finland this weekend"

One more #coal power station down, many still to go...

Falcons coach Raheem Morris explains how the team will find its best fit at quarterback

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons-…

Falcons coach Raheem Morris explains how the team will find its best fit at quarterback
The Falcons are looking for a new answer under center after 2023's struggles

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Signatures From Pseudorandom States via $\bot$-PRFs
Different flavors of quantum pseudorandomness have proven useful for various cryptographic applications, with the compelling feature that these primitives are potentially weaker than post-quantum one-way functions. Ananth, Lin, and Yuen (2023) have shown that logarithmic pseudorandom states can be used to construct a pseudo-deterministic PRG: informally, for a fixed seed, the output is the same with $1-1/poly$ probability. In this work, we introduce new definitions for $\bot$-PRG and $\bot$-P…

Among premium SVODs, US subscriber growth fell from 21.6% YoY in 2022 to 10.1% YoY in 2023; 140.5M cancelled their subscriptions in 2023 vs. 104.3M in 2022 (Antenna)
https://www.antenna.live/post/antenna-q124-state-of-subscriptions-report-prem…

Antenna Q1’24 State of Subscriptions Report: Premium SVOD - Antenna Blog

Adrian Tchaikovsky Will No Longer Cite His 2023 Hugo
https://file770.com/adrian-tchaikovsky-will-no-longer-cite-his-2023-hugo/
<< kudos, I didn't expect that.

Cowboys' Stephen Jones addresses offseason strategy to retain star players https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_stephen_jones_addresses_offseason_strategy_to_retain_star_players/s1_13132_4…

Cowboys' Stephen Jones addresses offseason strategy to retain star players
Despite what’s been said about Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, the reality is he’s coming off arguably the best season of his career after finishing runner-up to Lamar Jackson for the NFL MVP award. Because of his remarkable 2023 season, Dallas is working toward signing the 30-year-old QB to a contract extension, which could also help create some breathing room with its 2024 salary cap — something the team is cognizant of as it also tries to lock in star receiver CeeDee Lamb and …

Imaging Spectropolarimetry -- A New Observing Mode on the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys
Nimish P. Hathi, Dean C. Hines, Yotam Cohen, Norman A. Grogin, Marco Chiaberge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16967

Imaging Spectropolarimetry -- A New Observing Mode on the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys
Imaging spectropolarimetry is a new observing mode on the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that was commissioned in Cycle 30 and is available to HST observers starting in Cycle 31 (i.e., from 2023). It is a technique that is accessible from ground-based observatories, but the superb spatial resolution afforded by HST/ACS combined with the slitless nature of HST/ACS grism spectroscopy opens up the possibility of studying polarized extended emission in a w…

@… habt ihr (Buchpodcast) eigentlich https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/02/15/the-2023-hugo-fraud-and-where-we-go-from-here/…

The 2023 Hugo Fraud and Where We Go From Here
There’s an investigative report out on the administration of the 2023 Hugo Awards, by Chris Barkley and Jason Sanford, and make no mistake about it, it is grim. The short version is that elig…

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Is the universe older than commonly accepted?
The ages of globular clusters (GC) are conventionally constrained by models that adhere to the accepted age of the Universe, preventing their ages from exceeding approximately 13.8 Gyr. However, a recent study by llorente de Andrés (2023) challenges this paradigm. Drawing on the relationship between the number of blue straggler stars (BSs) and the relaxation time, the study proposes that the age of the cluster NGC104 falls between 19.04 and 20.30 Gyr. Extending this approach, the present work …

Magazine and newspaper subscription app Readly had 464K full-paying subscribers at the end of 2023, up 2.7% YoY, and a £9.10 ARPU, up from £7.80 in 2022 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/rea…

As subscriber growth flattens 'all you can read' magazine app Readly moves into profit
The chief executive of "all you can read" magazine and newspaper app Readly has set out a two-year plan for reaching long-term profitability.

Wegen hoher Kosten - Schuldnerberater: Den Bürgern geht das Geld aus! #News #Nachrichten

These six NFL teams are lining up meetings with LSU QB Jayden Daniels https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/these_six_nfl_teams_are_lining_up_meetings_with_lsu_qb_jayden_daniels/s1_14819_40162997

These six NFL teams are lining up meetings with LSU QB Jayden Daniels
Jayden Daniels is going through an abbreviated pro day Wednesday. The 2023 Heisman winner is expected to throw, but NFL.com’s Cameron Wolfe notes the LSU product is not planning to perform other drills. He will then prepare for a cross-country tour of “30” visits. The fast-rising prospect already has six meetings scheduled, per NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport. The Commanders, Patriots, Giants, Vikings, Broncos and Raiders are planning to meet with Daniels. This sextet of teams makes sense due to…

Die ePetition 161647 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Straftaten gegen die sexuelle Selbstbestimmung mit dem Titel
Einfügen von § 180 Absatz 2 des Strafgesetzbuches in § 182 des Strafgesetzbuches
kann nur noch heute mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 47 Mitzeichnende. Nach Ende der Mitzeichnungsfrist wird die Petition von einem MdB im Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags bearbeitet und entschieden werden. Sollte bis zum Ende der Mitzeichnunungsfrist das Quorum erreicht werden, wi…

While Netflix is profitable in South Korea, local rivals Tving and Wavve lost a combined ~$165M in 2023 and are reportedly in talks to merge (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2024-02-25/…

Hollywood’s Streaming Malaise Infects South Korea, Asia’s TV Capital
After years of pumping out hit shows, South Korea’s biggest media companies are cutting back and consolidating to survive a global pullback in entertainment.

Die ePetition 161322 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Zivilprozessordnung mit dem Titel
Abschaffen von § 128 Abs. 2 Satz 3 Zivilprozessordnung (Grundsatz der Mündlichkeit; schriftliches Verfahren)
kann nur noch weniger als 2 Tage mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 28 Mitzeichnende. Nach Ende der Mitzeichnungsfrist wird die Petition von einem MdB im Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags bearbeitet und entschieden werden. Sollte bis zum Ende der Mitzeichnunungsfrist das Quorum errei…

Die ePetition 161647 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Straftaten gegen die sexuelle Selbstbestimmung mit dem Titel
Einfügen von § 180 Absatz 2 des Strafgesetzbuches in § 182 des Strafgesetzbuches
kann nur noch weniger als 2 Tage mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 44 Mitzeichnende. Nach Ende der Mitzeichnungsfrist wird die Petition von einem MdB im Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags bearbeitet und entschieden werden. Sollte bis zum Ende der Mitzeichnunungsfrist das Quorum erreic…

The Foxes of Hydesville - complete series 👻🔮👭
Dramatized paranormal series | Total listening time: 3h 55m
Inspired by the true story of the Fox Sisters. This 9-episode swirling family epic (starring Carey Mulligan) follows the infamous mediums as they rise to fame in the 19th century when they begin conjuring up the dead… and inadvertently ...

The Foxes of Hydesville - complete series 👻🔮👭
Dramatized paranormal series | Total listening time: 3h 55m Inspired by the true story of the Fox Sisters. This 9-episode swirling family epic (starring Carey Mulligan) follows the infamous mediums as they rise to fame in the 19th century when they begin conjuring up the dead… and inadvertently spawn a new religion: Spiritualism. Nominated for a 2024 Ambies Award for Best Fiction Podcast. 1 seasons, 9 episodes as of Jun 28, 2023.

Die ePetition 161647 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Straftaten gegen die sexuelle Selbstbestimmung mit dem Titel
Einfügen von § 180 Absatz 2 des Strafgesetzbuches in § 182 des Strafgesetzbuches
kann nur noch weniger als 5 Tage mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 39 Mitzeichnende. Nach Ende der Mitzeichnungsfrist wird die Petition von einem MdB im Petitionsausschuss des Bundestags bearbeitet und entschieden werden. Sollte bis zum Ende der Mitzeichnunungsfrist das Quorum erreic…