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Web Summit co-founder Paddy Cosgrave confirms returning as Web Summit CEO; Cosgrave resigned in October 2023 over controversial comments on the Israel-Hamas war (TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/08/padd

Paddy Cosgrave returns as Web Summit CEO, after resigning over Israel/Gaza controversy | TechCrunch
Paddy Cosgrave, the co-founder of the Web Summit tech conference, is returning to his role as CEO after resigning in October over controversial statements

I wrote up a small article on how to structure providers in #react. By splitting data in to different providers you can save a lot of render time around the app.
https://stefanhayden.c…

React Context Provider Optimization
React createContext is a powerful way to to use react to communicate between components but there are a lot of easy mistakes to be made that will slow down your app. From memoizing everything to separating component with hooks and components with UI. Yet even if you follow all of...

Hmm… Just last week I was complaining about #Spring in #Oslo not really being Spring.
Anyway I just clicked on the #PennyFarthing hastag a moment ago and it seems this is something I…

"The officer proceeded to break the seal, dump the liquor out on the street, and then plant the empty bottle back into the car, per body camera footage. Video shows Oliver suggesting to other officers that the bottle was already open and that the man had the alcohol in a cup in his vehicle."
Cop Uses Non-Existent Policy To Defend Opening Bottle In Black Man's Arrest | Atlanta Daily World

Cop Uses Non-Existent Policy To Defend Opening Bottle In Black Man's Arrest | Atlanta Daily World
A Tallahassee, Florida police officer cited a non-existent department policy in defense of opening a sealed bottle of alcohol and planting it as evidence during a Black man’s DUI arrest, according to Our Tallahassee. Calvin Riley Sr., 56, was pulled over for a routine traffic stop in May 2023 when police discovered he was driving … Continued

Summary of Working Group 4: Mixing and mixing-related $CP$ violation in the B system: $\Delta m$, $\Delta \Gamma$, $\phi_s$, $\phi_1/\alpha$, $\phi_2/\beta$, $\phi_3/\gamma$
Agnieszka Dziurda, Felix Erben, Marc Quentin F\"uhring, Thibaud Humair, Thomas Latham, Eleftheria Malami, Pascal Reeck, Vladyslav Shtabovenko, Melissa Cruz Torres, Yuma Uematsu, K. Keri Vos

Summary of Working Group 4: Mixing and mixing-related $CP$ violation in the B system: $Δm$, $ΔΓ$, $ϕ_s$, $ϕ_1/α$, $ϕ_2/β$, $ϕ_3/γ$
This summary reviews contributions to the CKM 2023 workshop in Working Group 4: mixing and mixing-related $CP$ violation in B system. The theoretical and experimental progress is discussed.

“APOD from 2023-12-25 … a triple alignment of the Basilica of Superga, Monviso mountain, and the crescent Moon” Via https://mastodon.bot/ @… /111639868287438718

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Here's the writeup of the new #http2 continuation flood vulnerability from the researcher who discovered it: https://nowotarski.info/http2-continuation-flood-technical-details/…

#Phaenologie #Behrendorf #Wische Blühbeginn Flieder 08.04.2024 (03.05.2023) 25 Tage früher als Gebietsmittel

TikTok brings its dedicated STEM content feed to Europe, starting in the UK and Ireland, and says 33% of users have enabled the feed since its US launch in 2023 (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/01/tiktok-is-bringing-it…

TikTok is bringing its dedicated STEM feed to Europe | TechCrunch
As TikTok continues to face increased scrutiny, the company is signaling its commitment to fostering educational content on its app.

Irre! Das ist einfach nur noch die reine Horrorshow!
Die Welt ist 2023 in rasendem Tempo bereits massiv aus den Fugen geraten, und wir zucken allerorts nur mit den Achseln?

Buffalo Bills sign former Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys OT La'el Collins https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/buffalo_bills_sign_former_cincinnati_bengals_and_dallas_cowboys_ot_lael_…

Buffalo Bills sign former Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys OT La'el Collins
The Buffalo Bills made several subtractions to their roster this offseason, including to the offensive line when they released veteran center Mitch Morse. They have since added center Will Clapp, and are now adding another veteran offensive lineman.  The Bills are signing former Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys offensive tackle La'el Collins to a one-year deal, per Jordan Schultz. The deal is worth up to $6.25 million. Collins missed all of 2023 after getting injured in 2022 with the Beng…

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 2, 2024 Riley Bailey, Christina Harward, Nicole Wolkov, and George Barros April 2, 2024, 7:15pm ET Click here to see ISW’s interactive map of the Russian i Source : https://www.understandingwar.org/backgroun

Die ePetition 160866 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Steuerrecht mit dem Titel
Abschaffung der Vorabpauschale bezüglich der Investmentbesteuerung von Fonds und ETFs
kann nur noch weniger als 2 Tage mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 101 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 Pet…

Filing: Donald Trump's Truth Social lost $58M on $4.1M in revenue during 2023; Trump Media & Technology Group is valued at $7B after going public on March 26 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/01/trump-truth-social-revenue-2023<…

Trump's Truth Social lost $58 million in 2023
There is a huge disconnect between the company's financial fundamentals and its stock price.

How Amazon makes everything you buy more expensive, no matter where you buy it
Amazon is very proud of its "flywheel":
at first, the company offered subsidies to customers,
which lured in sellers.
Then, it demanded that those sellers lower their prices,
which lured in more customers.
With more customers, more sellers piled in.
Faster and faster, the flywheel spins, creating the "everything store":
The flywheel is everywhe…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08685 has been replaced.
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Apple Vision Pro: Comments in Healthcare
This paper objectively analyzes the emerging discourse surrounding Apple Vision Pro's application in healthcare and medical education. Released in June 2023, Apple Vision Pro represents a significant advancement in spatial computing, combining augmented and virtual reality to create new possibilities in digital interaction. We aim to compile and present recent articles. We used PubMed, IEEE Xplore, Google Scholar, and JSTOR. Non-academic publications were excluded. The results were six commenta…

Darum schweigen BILD & Union plötzlich über den „Kohlewinter“
https://www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/bild-union-fake-kohlewinter/

Darum schweigen BILD & Union plötzlich über den "Kohlewinter"
2023 war ein Rekordjahr für erneuerbare Energien. Kohle ist weiter auf einem historischen Tief. Was wurde aus dem "Kohlewinter", den BILD und Union befürchteten? Und warum scheint es niemanden zu interessieren, dass schon wieder nichts der BILD-Panikmache eintraf? Und warum wird der "Windkraft-Winter" verschwiegen?

Christian Wilkins landing spots: Dolphins not expected to tag DT, allowing him to test free agency, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

Christian Wilkins landing spots: Dolphins not expected to tag DT, allowing him to test free agency, per report
The 13th overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft registered the best season of his five-year career in 2023

Voor Nederland zijn de cijfers vrijwel gelijk. https://fediscience.org/@wolfgangcramer/112333645349647227

Wolfgang Cramer (@wolfgangcramer@fediscience.org)
Attached: 1 image Occasionally, I find it is still worth looking at observed climate change even before the dramatic 2023 numbers. Do you notice the comparison between the steepening red curve of the observations and the various policy scenario projections? How come we just keep building highways, extend airports, make ever larger cruise liners - as if there were no shred of a need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? https://berkeleyearth.org/policy-insights/

A look at Runway's second International AI Film Festival, which it says grew from 300 short-video submissions in 2023 to 3,000 in 2024 with 10 finalists chosen (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Runway, Sora, and Hollywood: AI Films Actually Get Good
Artificial intelligence has changed filmmaking a lot over the past year, even though the technology is just getting started. But first…

"We estimated that year over year sales of #DnD were down substantially in 2023, due in part to the #OGL issue" - Chris Cocks, CEO Hasbro

Watch Taylor Swift destroy the planet with her 2023 flights:
#ClimateChange

Unterstützenswert: die #Vodafone-#Sammelklage wegen eventuell rechtswidriger Preiserhöhungen im Jahr 2023.
Geht ganz einfach mit ein paar Klicks online, die @…

Der neue "European State of the #Climate 2023" vom #Copernicus Climate Change Service (#C3S) und der World Meteorological Organization (

Lukaschenko: Russland hat Atomwaffen in Belarus stationiert
Der belarusische Staatschef Lukaschenko hat nach Angaben der russischen Nachrichtenagentur Tass gesagt, es seien mehrere Dutzend taktische Atomwaffen aus Russland in Belarus stationiert worden. Das sei im Rahmen des Abkommens geschehen, das er und der russische Präsident Putin 2023 angekündigt hätten. Belarus hatte im Juni erklärt, mit der Lieferung der Waffen sei be…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Freilassung verschleppter Kinder vermittelt ++
Präsident Selenskyj hat sich bei Katar für Hilfe bei der Freilassung von verschleppten ukrainischen Kindern bedankt. Nach einem Angriff auf die ukrainische Region Tscherkassy wurden mehrere Verletzte gemeldet. Alle Entwicklungen im Liveblog.

2023 retro-link! https://www.propublica.org/article/muscular-dystrophy-patient-olympic-medalist-same-genetic-mutation - The DIY scientist, the olympian, and the mutated gene.

16WW Coronalog - Timeline - A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown - https://www.earth.org.uk/cor…

16WW Coronalog - Timeline
A corona diary from EOU HQ, London UK, 2020 to 2023 #coronavirus #lockdown

#Berlin
Übrigens:
gestern war 6-Monatstag des Markierungsbeginns für die Fahrradstraße #Handjerystraße (23.10.2023), die aus verschiedenen Gründen noch immer nicht offiziell eröffnet werden konnte. (BVV Beschluss vom 21.01.2015[sic])

Hesari: “Elokuusta 2023 lähtien se oli suorittanut ainakin yksitoista kuljetusta Pohjois-Korean ja Venäjän satamien välillä, kertoo Rusi, joka on seurannut aluksen liikkeitä avoimen lähdekoodin kautta.”
Voi kiesus. Open sources ei tässä kontekstissa liity lähdekoodiin vaan sitä voi kääntää ihan sananmukaisesti avoimiksi lähteiksi.
(Tästä onkin näköjään muut jo huomautelleet kommenteissa.)

The Browser Company debuts Arc on Windows, after testing began in December 2023, and says the Windows app has 150K users; the macOS app shipped in July 2023 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/30/the-browser-company-releases-arc-…

The Browser Company releases Arc for Windows | TechCrunch
The Browser Company, makers of the Arc web browser, released its Windows version today. The company started testing the Windows client in December, and it

A very interesting concept which explains a lot for me [and about some more distant family members]. And I [finally!] got the hang of #Monotropism!
Creating Autistic Suffering: The #AuDHD Burnout to Psychosis Cycle - A deeper look

Creating Autistic Suffering: The AuDHD Burnout to Psychosis Cycle- A deeper look - Emergent Divergence
This article was co-authored by Tanya Adkin and David Gray-Hammond Monotropism is a theory of autism. It is used interchangeably as a theory and also a trait that describes a style of attention. It suggests that Autistic people tend to have singular but highly detailed tunnels of attention, as opposed to spreading their attentional resources

Surprise , pas de surprise: « les problématiques RH reviennent très régulièrement ». Et si chaque cas est spécifique, les problèmes se situent « le plus souvent au niveau des directions ».
https://www.rts.ch/info…

Some interesting bits in this report from the German government's hydrogen agency (which includes the centre for charging infrastructure...). They have regular 'clean room' discussions with manufacturers about their roadmap, projections etc.
The element highlighted by the German Ministry of Transport is that carmakers expect to reach the target of 15 million EVs by 2030 (although it's only 13.4 BEVs and 3.2 PHEVs).
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16,6 Millionen Elektro-Pkw bis zum Jahr 2030 - NOW GmbH
NOW veröffentlicht Factsheet zu Marktentwicklung aus Herstellerperspektive

Supercon 2023: Alex Lynd Explores MCUs in Infosec
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-2bde26fc-7cd918004e5ff712
Supercon 2023: Alex Lynd Explores MCUs in Infosec The average Hackaday reader hardly needs to be reminded of the incredible potential …

CHC-COMP 2023: Competition Report
Emanuele De Angelis (IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy), Hari Govind V K (University of Waterloo, Canada)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14923

CHC-COMP 2023: Competition Report
CHC-COMP 2023 is the sixth edition of the Competition of Solvers for Constrained Horn Clauses. The competition was run in April 2023 and the results were presented at the 10th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis held in Paris, France, on April 23, 2023. This edition featured seven solvers (six competing and one hors concours) and six tracks, each of which dealing with a class of clauses. This report describes the organization of CHC-COMP 2023 and presents its results.

Interesting video about how Naomi Wu got her wings clipped. https://skepchick.org/2023/08/maker-naomi-wu-is-silenced-by-chinese-authorities-and-why-i-blame-elon-musk/

Christian Wilkins landing spots: Dolphins not expected to tag DT, allowing him to test free agency, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/n…

Christian Wilkins landing spots: Dolphins not expected to tag DT, allowing him to test free agency, per report
The 13th overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft registered the best season of his five-year career in 2023

"Seit 2019 führt das Deutsche Zentrum für Suchtfragen des Kindes- und Jugendalters (#DZSKJ) am #Universitätsklinikum #Hamburg

Here's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

Amazing, beautiful, deep & varied 4 hour(!) mix by Barcelona's ABSIS (aka DJ MouseDown/MouseUp) from early 2023, featuring the likes of Donato Dozzy (in various guises), Luigi Tozzi, Toki Fuko, Simone Bauer, Aspetuck, Forest on Stasys...
https://soundcloud.com/crescent-london…

Giancarlo Stanton Tries to Change Things Up After a Dreadful 2023
#MLB #Baseball #Fangraphs

Discovered this because the author wrote a factual piece for Labour List - "Best Labour leaders we never had: Anthony Greenwood"
https://labourlist.org/2023/08/best-labour-leaders-we-never-had-anthony-greenwood/

I am reviewing a just published book on 'planetary life-centred design.' The repeated case studies are Amazon, IKEA, HP, with nods of approval also to Timberland, Mars, Danone. I feel like the owner of an HP that has just had their printer bricked: https://w…

Ahead of CZ's sentencing on April 30, a look at the contrast between CZ/Binance and SBF/FTX, as Binance claims more than 40M new users in 2023, up 30% YoY (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-04-…

Ex-Binance CEO CZ May Be Richest Person Ever in Jail in US
The ex-CEO is about to learn if he’ll be the richest US inmate ever. But, with friends on the company’s board, his ownership of the exchange intact and the mother of his children helping to run the show, his case is nothing like FTX’s.

John Taylor & Co., Bellfounders, Loughborough, November 2023.
#photography #photographyonmastodon #photooftheday

A new study finds that popular weight loss drug #Ozempic "could be profitably produced for less than $5 a month, even as maker Novo Nordisk A/S charges almost $1,000 in the US..."
The company's combined 2023 sales of Ozempic and related product Wegovy topped $18 billion.
#bigpharma

"Tune in to tomorrow: AI-driven podcasting and its possibilities" https://doi.org/10.1080/15228959.2023.2290288 [closed access 🫤]

Decided to try out DuckDuckGo as a search engine and...what...
Where is this hallucination coming from?

👍 Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs strips Saudi Arabia's Almarai subsidiary Fondomonte of water leases | Fortune
https://fortune.com/2023/10/04/saudi-arabia-stripped-leases-arizona-drought-pumping-groundwater-fondomon…

Saudi Arabia was pumping water on 10,000 acres of drought-stricken Arizona. The governor just stripped its leases
Fondomonte raised eyebrows when it purchased nearly 10,000 acres of land for $47.5 million in 2014. Then the drought set in.

"Im neuen Haus hören Miki und Mini ständig jemanden kauen. Es stellt sich heraus, es ist das Haus selbst."
- Schöne Horrormöglichkeit Nr.82 von 105 bei Marković, Barbi: Minihorror. Salzburg/Wien: Residenz, 2023.

My Dog Shits Cash - complete series 🐕💰💰
Narrated comedy series | Total listening time: 4h 31m
Nathan Alabaster’s life has gone to hell but luckily his childhood dog has just moved in. She’s amazing. She shits cash. Sweet like a Pixar movie but riotous and absurd. For fans of The Mighty Boosh, Wes Anderson movies, Adventure Time, and a...

My Dog Shits Cash - complete series 🐕💰💰
Narrated comedy series | Total listening time: 4h 31m Nathan Alabaster’s life has gone to hell but luckily his childhood dog has just moved in. She’s amazing. She shits cash. Sweet like a Pixar movie but riotous and absurd. For fans of The Mighty Boosh, Wes Anderson movies, Adventure Time, and a little bit of Bojack Horseman. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Dec 01, 2023.

Nearly one in four Americans believe political violence justified to ‘save’ US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/us-political-violence-justified-survey

Ist #Putin so schlau? https://mastodon.social/@derpostillon/111993598836606172

i had to look up the company that did the colourization on the tubi version. their website is confusing but i found this brochure (PDF). the brochure is also a mess but at least it's all in one file: #monsterdon

Jeg sad lige og gennemgik regnskab her til morgen (som nystartet startup skal man jo gŸre ting selv) og havde en success oplevelse: Vi sender fakturaer ud hvor der står “Klimaregnskab” på faktura linjerne!
Det er vildt fedt.
Det validerer at det er det rigtige jeg gŸr. Der er folk der gerne vil betale for at få hjælp til at gŸre verden lidt grŸnnere.
#ClimateAction…

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

While we are talking about Iran, let's not forget how we (the US) planted some of the seeds of today's wars:
The CIA has for the first time acknowledged that the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was undemocratic.

Proxy filing for TKO Group Holdings: Endeavor's Ari Emanuel received a pay package of nearly $65M in 2023, the year that Endeavor merged UFC and WWE (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Ari Emanuel Scored $65M Pay Package In Connection With TKO Deal
TKO, the owner of the WWE and UFC, disclosed its executive pay packages in its proxy filing.

Coup in Wien-Favoriten - Überfall auf Casino: Täter boxte für Rot-Weiß-Rot #News #Nachrichten

"Europa wird immer heißer
#Europa ist der Kontinent, der sich weltweit am schnellsten erwärmt. 2023 gab es eine Rekordzahl von Tagen mit extremer #Hitzebelastung. Dabei ist die #Hitze nur…

Detta öl må heta Westmalle Trappist Extra men det är inte en söt alkoholbomb. Istället är det lätt pilsnerlikt och ganska alkoholsvagt. Så trevligt att jag högg en hel låda när det begav sig, därav att flaskorna har bäst före juni 2023. #öltut

Putin plant Staatsbesuch in China im Mai
Der russische Machthaber will erneut nach China reisen. "Ein Besuch im Mai ist geplant", sagte Putin bei einem Wirtschaftsforum in Moskau. Die Reise wird damit wohl der erste Auslandsbesuch in Putins neuer sechsjähriger Amtszeit nach den Wahlen im März. Zuletzt besuchte er China im Oktober 2023. Weniger als drei Wochen vor dem Einmarsch seiner Truppen in die Ukraine unterzeichnete Puti…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Putin will China im Mai besuchen ++
Russlands Machthaber Putin plant für Mai einen Staatsbesuch in China - es wäre die erste Auslandsreise seiner neuen Amtszeit. Nach einem Angriff auf die ukrainische Region Tscherkassy wurden mehrere Verletzte gemeldet. Alle Entwicklungen vom Donnerstag zum Nachlesen.

Analysis: between 2019 and the end of 2023, women's share of tech jobs rose from 31% to 35% in the US, 23% to 25.2% across the EU, and 29% to 32% in the UK (Financial Times)
https://t.co/SNkc8ZjMJ3

Gender gap in tech jobs narrows across advanced economies
Strong demand for IT jobs and flexible arrangements help more women join workforce in US, EU and UK

Manifest V3 Unveiled: Navigating the New Era of Browser Extensions
Nikolaos Pantelaios, Alexandros Kapravelos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08310 https://

Manifest V3 Unveiled: Navigating the New Era of Browser Extensions
Introduced over a decade ago, Chrome extensions now exceed 200,000 in number. In 2020, Google announced a shift in extension development with Manifest Version 3 (V3), aiming to replace the previous Version 2 (V2) by January 2023. This deadline was later extended to January 2025. The company's decision is grounded in enhancing three main pillars: privacy, security, and performance. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the Manifest V3 ecosystem. We start by investigating the adoption r…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11995 has been replaced.
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Nonequilibrium Third Law of Thermodynamics
The extended Third Law of thermodynamics for nonequilibrium jump processes is studied in previous collaborative papers (Kh et al.,2023) \cite{nernst, SM}, where the nonequilibrium heat capacity and the excess heat with the corresponding quasipotential are introduced. The extended Third Law states that the nonequilibrium heat capacity vanishes under two conditions as the temperature approaches zero. The current paper presents a concise overview of key papers addressing the nonequilibrium calorim…

With the new Cloudflare Warp release this month, they finally support ARM on Linux! Haven't seen this announced yet, but tested in parallels on the mac and it seems to work great. 🎉 I've also opened a PR to support this in #nixos https://

cloudflare-warp: 2023.3.470 -> 2024.4.133 by marcusramberg · Pull Request #304091 · NixOS/nixpkgs
Description of changes Update cloudflare-warp to 2024.4.113 Things done Added some new dependencies. warp-dex depends on an older version of libpcap, so patching it manually with patchelf. Seemed ...

Ich schwör‘ meine Klasse war immer da!

**Is the murder rate still higher in states that voted for Trump than in those that voted for Biden?** (see 2023 report below) If so, what convincing arguments have been presented to explain why the rate of murder and other violent crime are typically higher in Trump vs Biden states?
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The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem – Third Way
In March of 2022, we found that murder rates in 2020 were 40% higher in Trump-voting states than Biden-voting states. In this follow-up, we studied homicide data going back to 2000 to see if this one-year Red State murder epidemic was an anomaly. It was not. Despite a media narrative to the contrary, a wide and widening Red State murder gap has spanned the past two decades. The murder rate in Trump-voting states has exceeded the murder rate in Biden-voting states every year this century, with a…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.15295 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Gravitational wave fluxes on generic orbits in near-extreme Kerr spacetime: higher spin and large eccentricity
To obtain the waveform template of gravitational waves (GWs), substantial computational resources and exceedingly high precision are often required. In the previous study [JCAP 11 (2023) 070], we efficiently and accurately calculate GW fluxes of a particle in circular orbits around a Schwarzschild black hole using the confluent Heun function. We extend the previous method to calculate the asymptotic GW fluxes from a particle in generic orbits around a near-extreme Kerr black hole. Especially wh…

Deep Hard X-ray Survey of the M81 Field Based on INTEGRAL Data
R. Krivonos, I. Mereminskiy, S. Sazonov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16691 https://

Deep Hard X-ray Survey of the M81 Field Based on INTEGRAL Data
We have carried out a deep survey of the M81 field in the 25-60 keV energy band based on long-term (2003-2023) INTEGRAL observations. A record sensitivity of 0.16 mCrab at a detection significance of 4 sigma has been achieved in the central part of the field owing to the long accumulated exposure (19.2 Ms). The total area of the survey is 1004 deg^2 at a sensitivity level better than 0.72 mCrab. We have produced a catalog of sources detected at a significance level higher than 4 sigma. It conta…

A new study finds that popular weight loss drug #Ozempic "could be profitably produced for less than $5 a month, even as maker Novo Nordisk A/S charges almost $1,000 in the US..."
The company's combined 2023 sales of Ozempic and related product Wegovy topped $18 billion.
#bigpharma

"Serving scholars and fans: Marquette University’s J. R. R. Tolkien collection" https://doi.org/10.1080/15228959.2023.2292682 [closed access 🫤]

Cowboys fans shouldn't be fooled by latest Ezekiel Elliott news ahead of 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_fans_shouldnt_be_fooled_by_latest_ezekiel_elliott_…

Cowboys fans shouldn't be fooled by latest Ezekiel Elliott news ahead of 2024 NFL Draft
Earlier this offseason, it was reported the Dallas Cowboys were interested in reuniting with former fourth overall pick of the franchise, Ezekiel Elliott.  On Wednesday, that interest was evident as NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported the Cowboys had met with Elliott and his agent to talk, although no deal is done as of yet.  Such a move would raise some eyebrows as Zeke was cut by the Cowboys in 2023 but circumstances would strongly suggest a reunion would come at a much cheaper price. Ironi…

Chargers' J.K. Dobbins says he's '100 percent,' excited to reunite with Gus Edwards, Greg Roman https://www.nfl.com/news/jk-dobbins-no-setbacks-gus-edwards-greg-roman-chargers

Chargers' J.K. Dobbins says he's '100 percent,' excited to reunite with Gus Edwards, Greg Roman
After recovering from another season-ending injury suffered in 2023, new Chargers running back J.K. Dobbins said Monday that he feels good and is ready to shake off any negative associations.

Proceedings 18th International Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications and 10th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis
Temur Kutsia (RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz), Daniel Ventura (INF, Universidade Federal de Goi\'as), David Monniaux (CNRS - Verimag), Jos\'e F. Morales (IMDEA)
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Proceedings 18th International Workshop on Logical and Semantic Frameworks, with Applications and 10th Workshop on Horn Clauses for Verification and Synthesis
This volume contains * The post-proceedings of the Eighteenth Logical and Semantic Frameworks with Applications (LSFA 2023). The meeting was held on July 1-2, 2023, organised by the Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy. LSFA aims to bring researchers and students interested in theoretical and practical aspects of logical and semantic frameworks and their applications. The covered topics include proof theory, type theory and rewriting theory, specification and deduction languages, and formal se…

RIAA: Latin music revenue in the US grew 16% YoY to $1.4B in 2023, with total streaming revenue up 17% to $1.3B and paid subscription revenue up 21% to $915M (Isabela Raygoza/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/lati

Latin Music Revenue Surpasses $1 Billion for Second Consecutive Year
Latin music revenues in the United States continue to hit an all-time high, exceeding the $1 billion mark for a second year in a row.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12005 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Visualization for Trust in Machine Learning Revisited: The State of the Field in 2023
Visualization for explainable and trustworthy machine learning remains one of the most important and heavily researched fields within information visualization and visual analytics with various application domains, such as medicine, finance, and bioinformatics. After our 2020 state-of-the-art report comprising 200 techniques, we have persistently collected peer-reviewed articles describing visualization techniques, categorized them based on the previously established categorization schema consi…

What happened to microfinance company Kiva? | MIT Technology Review #kiva

What happened to the microfinance organization Kiva?
A group of strikers argue that the organization seems more focused on making money than creating change. Are they right?

"Die neue #Amazonas-Politik zeigt Wirkung – und doch ist der #Regenwald in Gefahr
Im brasilianischen #Amazonasgebiet wurden 2023 deutlich weniger Bäume abgeholzt als in den Jahren z…

Brasiliens Präsident Lula ein Jahr im Amt: Die neue Amazonas-Politik zeigt Wirkung – und doch ist der Regenwald in Gefahr
Im brasilianischen Amazonasgebiet wurden 2023 deutlich weniger Bäume abgeholzt als in den Jahren zuvor. Doch eine Dürre setzt dem größten Regenwald der Erde zu. Fachleute rätseln: Wie nah ist das System dem Kipppunkt?

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/streaming/news/roku-q1-2024-earnings-re…

Roku Q1 2024 Earnings: Reaches 81.6 Million Active Accounts
Roku reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing the company reached 81.6 million active accounts

KQED, a Bay Area NPR and PBS affiliate, is initiating buyouts, and may have layoffs or a hiring freeze; in 2023, revenue hit $90.4M and expenses $100.9M (Amy Graff/SFGATE)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/kqed-offers-buyout-packa…

Rail Company To Pay $600M In Suit Over Derailment - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2024/04/rail-company-to-pay-600m-in-suit-over-derailment/

Rail Company To Pay $600M In Suit Over Derailment
The Associated Press reports: Norfolk Southern has agreed to pay $600 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement related to a fiery train derailment in February 2023 in eastern Ohio. The company sai

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/streaming/news/roku-q1-2024-earnings-re…

Roku Q1 2024 Earnings: Reaches 81.6 Million Active Accounts
Roku reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing the company reached 81.6 million active accounts

Dallas Cowboys pick up Micah Parsons’ fifth-year option https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_pick_up_micah_parsons_fifth_year_option/s1_17236_40277579

Dallas Cowboys pick up Micah Parsons’ fifth-year option
The Dallas Cowboys are picking up the fifth-year option on the rookie contract of Micah Parsons, according to Jon Machota of The Athletic. He will earn $21.3 million in 2025. Parsons is coming off a 2023 season where he arguably had the best season of his career. The 24-year-old linebacker registered 64 tackles, 18 tackles for loss and 14 sacks. His production in 2023 led to him being selected to the Pro Bowl and the All-Pro Second Team. The Cowboys selected Parsons at No. 12 overall in the 202…

AA/WARC report: UK ad spend grew 6.1% YoY to £36.6B in 2023, with search advertising up 11.9% to £14.7B and national newsbrands spending down 6.3% to £774M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/g

Google takes lion's share of growing UK ad market as publishers lose out
New data reveals the UK ad market had a bumper year in 2023, but news publishers had a poor one with declining ad spend.

Demis Hassabis says the AI hype caused by a surge of money is clouding research; CB Insights: VCs invested $42.5B in 2,500 AI startup equity rounds in 2023 (John Thornhill/Financial Times)
https://t.co/YhXIJxm4Ae

AA/WARC report: UK ad spend grew 6.1% YoY to £36.6B in 2023, with search advertising up 11.9% to £14.7B and national newsbrands spending down 6.3% to £774M (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/marketing/g

Google takes lion's share of growing UK ad market as publishers lose out
New data reveals the UK ad market had a bumper year in 2023, but news publishers had a poor one with declining ad spend.

Cowboys place surprise designation on Micah Parsons' fifth-year option to save $3 million

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys

Cowboys place surprise designation on Micah Parsons' fifth-year option to save $3 million
Parsons played predominantly along the defensive line in 2023 despite Dallas officially listing him as a linebacker

Cowboys exercise fifth-year option on DE Micah Parsons https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/cowboys_exercise_fifth_year_option_on_de_micah_parsons/s1_17049_40277815

Cowboys exercise fifth-year option on DE Micah Parsons
The Dallas Cowboys picked up the fifth-year option on defensive end Micah Parsons on Wednesday. The move will keep Parsons under contract through the 2025 season. It will pay him $21.32 million in 2025, barring a long-term deal with the Cowboys, a number determined by where he played the most snaps in 2023, which was DE. Parsons will earn $2.99 million this season. Parsons has 40.5 sacks in three seasons, including a career-best 14 in 2023. He's a three-time Pro Bowl player and two-time All-Pro…

"New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that Wohl and Burkman had conceded to a $1 million judgment to the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation (NCBCP) and individual plaintiffs."
Conservative operatives who targeted Black voters with robocalls could pay up to $1.25 million  | The Hill

Conservative operatives who targeted Black voters with robocalls could pay up to $1.25 million 
Two conservative operatives who attempted to stop Black voters in New York from voting by mail in the 2020 election have been ordered to pay up to $1.25 million in restitution. Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman were found liable in 2023 for targeting Black voters with false and threatening messages intended to discourage voting. U.S. District Judge…

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/streaming/news/roku-q1-2024-earnings-re…

Roku Q1 2024 Earnings: Reaches 81.6 Million Active Accounts
Roku reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing the company reached 81.6 million active accounts

How GitHub Copilot became responsible for a significant percentage of coding, despite its limitations; Stack Overflow: 54.8% of developers used Copilot in 2023 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Microsoft’s AI Copilot Is Starting to Automate the Coding Industry
The assistant is saving engineers hundreds of hours a month and is helping GitHub retain its edge over rivals including Amazon and Google.

Roku reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $882M, vs. $848.62M est., a net loss of $50.9M, compared to $193.6M YoY, and 81.6M active accounts, up 1.6M from Q4 2023 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/streaming/news/roku-q1-2024-earnings-re…

Roku Q1 2024 Earnings: Reaches 81.6 Million Active Accounts
Roku reported its first-quarter 2024 earnings Thursday, revealing the company reached 81.6 million active accounts

Document: Microsoft added 500 megawatts of data center capacity since July 2023 and topped five gigawatts of total capacity in the H1 of its latest fiscal year (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-plan-do…

Microsoft's astounding plan to triple data-center capacity for AI boom
The company wants to quickly double, and then triple, its data-center capacity, according to the confidential presentation.

Comcast reports Q1 Peacock revenue rose 54% YoY to $1.1B, a $639M loss, down from $704M in Q1 2023, and paying subscribers up 55% YoY to 34M (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Peacock Quarterly Loss Narrows to $639M as Streamer Hits 34M Subscribers
NBCUniversal parent Comcast, led by chairman and CEO Brian Roberts, reported its first-quarter earnings.

Comcast reports Q1 Peacock revenue rose 54% YoY to $1.1B, a $639M loss, down from $704M in Q1 2023, and paying subscribers up 55% YoY to 34M (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Peacock Quarterly Loss Narrows to $639M as Streamer Hits 34M Subscribers
NBCUniversal parent Comcast, led by chairman and CEO Brian Roberts, reported its first-quarter earnings.

Sources: ByteDance's EBITDA rose 60% YoY in 2023 to $40B and its sales rose from $80B to $120B, the first time ByteDance surpassed Tencent in revenue and profit (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

ByteDance Profit Jumps 60%, Taking It Past Archrival Tencent
ByteDance Ltd.’s profit surged roughly 60% in 2023, outpacing the growth of online peers Tencent Holdings Ltd. and Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in a sign of the TikTok owner’s resilience in the face of an economic downturn.