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Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -

Paxton’s former top law enforcement official endorses Talarico
David Maxwell, a former Texas Ranger decorated for his decades of service,
reported Paxton to the FBI in 2020 for alleged abuse of office to criminally help one of his donors
— an investigation that formed the basis of Paxton’s 2023 House impeachment.
Paxton was acquitted by the state Senate, and the Justice Department declined to pursue federal charges.

Paxton fired Maxwell and other OAG staffers …

August 2026 was the hottest on record globally, followed by 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The temperature was well over 1.5°C above pre-industrial.
From Copernicus ECMWF
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

Der August 2026 war mit einer globalen Durchschnitts-Temperatur von 16,96 Grad Celsius der wärmste August seit Beginn des ERA5-Datensatzes. Auch die Meeresoberflächen-Temperaturen außerhalb der Polarregionen erreichten einen August-Rekord. West-Europa verzeichnete seinen bislang wärmsten Sommer. Besonders hohe Meeres-Temperaturen traten an Europas Atlantik-Küste und im westlichen Mittelmeer auf.

Publishers in Similarweb's Top 100 Media index spent $113M on paid search in July, up 41% YoY and 274% since 2023, due to the shift to zero-click search (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/publishers-buying-search-traffic/

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I got a booster from RokotePalvelu earlier this year. Fully paid out of pocket.
I can afford it. A lot of people can't. Most people have been led to believe they don't need…

Je moet dan wel goed met verveling om kunnen gaan
A nematode survived 46,000 years in permafrost
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/30/1190950660/nematode-worm-permafrost-discovery-frozen

from my link log —
Behind the scenes of Rust string formatting and format_args!().
https://blog.m-ou.se/format-args/
saved 2023-12-05 https://dotat.at…

Here’s why wages are falling behind inflation, an economic warning sign
It wasn’t so long ago that Americans’ earnings lost ground to inflation.
From 2021 to 2023, prices for gas, food and housing soared due to a combination of increased demand and supply chain shocks.
That pain weighed heavily on households across the country,
even helping Donald Trump retake the White House.

“This is one of the reasons consumers hate the economy.
They’ve never recov…

Paris Gard du Nord Train Station Afternoon Piano (2023-09) - Ambient busy big city train station with a talented chap tickling the public piano. #fieldRecording #travel #Paris -

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

ICYMI: HHS extended a deadline to make healthcare apps / sites / kiosks accessible, kicking it to 2027 / 2028.
More:
https://www.lflegal.com/2023/07/healthtech-accessibility/
And:

@…

Well put.
Rutte doesn't have any room left for self-respect.

📢 US-Notenbank erhöht Leitzins erstmals seit 2023
Im Kampf gegen die hartnäckig hohe Inflation hebt die US-Notenbank Fed den Leitzins an. Er wurde um einen Viertelpunkt erhöht - auf die neue Spanne von 3,75 bis 4,00 Prozent. Experten hatten mit diesem Schritt gerechnet.
➡️ #tagesschau #Eilmeldung #Eil #BreakingNews

Der https://unfallatlas.statistikportal.de/ enthält jetzt auch die Daten von 2025. Wie immer belegen die Zahlen den Erfolg der "Vision Zero Fortschritt" der Petrolköpfe und Auto-Ideologen. Schwerverletzte leicht Rückläufig, Tote und Leichtverletzte gehen weiter rauf. Der Straßenterror bleibt …

Price Responses of Rwandan Tungsten Exports under Conflict Minerals Regulation
Haruka Nagamori, Kazuhiko Nishimura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08690 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08690 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08690
arXiv:2608.08690v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Section 1502 of the Dodd--Frank Act, enacted in 2010, requires U.S.-listed companies using tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold (3TG) from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and adjoining countries to disclose information on the minerals' origins. Concerns have been raised that the regulation may have induced a de facto embargo through avoidance of sourcing from the covered region. However, how the price responsiveness of mineral exports evolved under changing institutional and market conditions remains insufficiently understood. Since tungsten production in the covered region is concentrated almost entirely in Rwanda, this study examines the price responsiveness of Rwandan tungsten exports from January 2009 to December 2023.
Because missing export quantity data prevent continuous observation of export unit values, we apply the identification approach of Nakano and Nishimura (2025), combining monthly mirror trade data from UN Comtrade with exchange rates and a world average price. An importer fixed-effects model is estimated using export value as the dependent variable, with the sample divided into four periods according to changes in the institutional and market environment.
The results reveal substantial temporal variation in price responsiveness. A statistically significant negative price response is observed in Period 1 ($\eta=-20.814$, $p<0.01$), disappears in Period 2 ($\eta=1.814$, $p>0.10$), reappears in Period 3 ($\eta=-5.277$, $p<0.01$), and disappears again in Period 4 ($\eta=0.440$, $p>0.10$). Coefficient-difference tests confirm significant changes between Periods 1 and 2 ($p=0.0021$) and between Periods 3 and 4 ($p=0.0006$). These findings suggest that the price responsiveness of Rwandan tungsten exports varied substantially over time rather than following a uniform trajectory after the regulation.
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from my link log —
The case against self-closing tags in HTML.
https://jakearchibald.com/2023/against-self-closing-tags-in-html/
saved 2024-04-05

fly_larva: Drosophila larva brain (2023)
A complete synaptic map of the brain connectome of the larva of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using three-dimensional electron microscopy–based reconstruction. Node metadata include the neuron hempisphere, hemispherical homologue, cell type, annotations, and inferred cluster. Edge metadata include the type of interaction (`'aa'`,…

Informal initiatives have been launched in recent years to address broader military uses of AI and autonomy,
such as for target generation and decision support.
One such effort is the Netherlands and South Korea-led REAIM
(Responsible AI in the Military Domain).
REAIM has held three international summits since 2023 to promote awareness and international engagement,
each generating important outcome documents.
The U.N. General Assembly has also entered thi…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cheeaun/109704010841850370
2023.

Organizational Technology Ladders: Remote Work and Generative AI Adoption
Gregor Schubert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11626 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11626
arXiv:2608.11626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study proposes that firms move along an "organizational technology ladder": adopting one technology transforms hiring and work processes and builds skills and organizational capital that change the cost of adopting subsequent technologies. I study how firms' adoption of remote work technology during the COVID-19 period shaped later uptake of generative AI. Using U.S. job-posting data and an instrumental-variables strategy based on predicted differences in labor-market pressure to offer remote work, I estimate that a 10 percentage point increase in remote hiring in 2021-2022 increases the share of job postings mentioning generative AI in 2023-2024 by 0.4 percentage points across firms and 0.7 percentage points across occupations within firms. I provide evidence on mechanisms consistent with a technology-ladder channel: remote work adoption shifts hiring toward technical and managerial capabilities that predict faster conversion of generative AI exposure into adoption. Firms with return-to-office mandates---interpreted as revealing low remote productivity---exhibit a substantially larger response of generative AI adoption to remote work, consistent with an organizational frictions channel.
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spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 145 nodes and 2403 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Gretel:
🎵 Apple Juice (6 Music Session, 11 Jan 2023)
#Gretel
https://grrretel.bandcamp.com/track/apple-juice
https://open.spotify.com/track/3A5aS28dQBFswox9AefLSX

A Note on the Identification Step in "A Semistructural Methodology for Policy Counterfactuals"
Henri Ker\"anen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10596 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10596 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10596
arXiv:2608.10596v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The New Keynesian example of Beraja (2023) is not identified at its printed calibration: more than one structure satisfies every condition of its identification step. Two of the paper's six identifying restrictions coincide on equilibrium equations consistent with the printed reduced form, leaving eleven conditions to determine an equation's twelve coefficients. The note derives the rank condition the identification step requires, computable from the reduced form and the restrictions alone. The note also documents and corrects a misprint in the paper's counterfactual display. A one-clause amendment to the paper's Theorem 1 restores its conclusion.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@ryanjess77/116967826500999130
'Afgelopen vijf jaar [aug 2025] is de Nederlandse aanschaf van Israëlische wapens geëxplodeerd.
Met een pakket orders ter waarde van 1,9 miljard euro is Nederland een van de belangrijkste klanten van de Israëlische wapenindustrie geworden. De helft daarvan is besteld na de start van het Israëlische offensief in Gaza in oktober 2023. De genocide heeft daar kortom geen enkele rem op gezet.'
https://paxvoorvrede.nl/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Policy-Paper-Hoe-Nederland-de-Israelische-wapenindustrie-spekt.pdf (PDF)
Een verbod op goederen uit illegale nederzettingen als afleidingsmanoeuvre voor de miljarden die we aan Israëlische wapens afnemen.

Estimated Demand for Mega-Constellation Internet Service
Akhil Rao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.08851 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.08851
arXiv:2608.08851v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The near-term growth of the commercial space economy and sustainability of the low-Earth orbit (LEO) environment depends on the commercial prospects of large LEO satellite telecommunications constellations (``mega-constellations''). If successful, mega-constellations can spur competition between launch providers, which may lead to lower launch prices. They may also demand orbital sustainability services and/or generate additional collision risk, which may in turn affect space sustainability interests. Consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services is critical to their commercial success. This analysis presents a method to estimate consumer demand for mega-constellations' internet services, using SpaceX's Starlink over December 2021--November 2023 as an example. This analysis finds that Starlink users are highly concentrated in the wealthiest countries. It also finds that consumer demand for Starlink is growing more slowly than orbital capacity is being added and more slowly than demand for non-Starlink internet overall. Continuation of these trends may indicate that the market for mega-constellation internet is less lucrative than previous forecasts have indicated.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Eliades Ochoa:
🎵 Chan Chan (6 Music Session, 29 Oct 2023)
#EliadesOchoa

On Sep 10, 2023 I watched
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