Tootfinder

Obsolete satellite antennas in Swiss Alps are being repurposed with solar panels https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/swiss-satellite-antennas-make-comeback-solar-powerhouses-2023-10-19/…

US Orthodox symposium on women deacons proposes a way forward
https://religionnews.com/2023/11/14/us-orthodox-symposium-on-women-deacons-proposes-a-way-forward/

US Orthodox symposium on women deacons proposes a way forward
BROOKLINE, Mass. (RNS)— A consortium of Orthodox Christian scholars, clergy and lay supporters meeting this week outside Boston proposed guidelines for the church to revive the ancient practice of allowing women to be deacons. 

@… the data suggests not much. I was surprised to see that the 70K twitter account sitting dormant since June 2023 too

Decisioning Workshop 2023
Mario Lezoche (CRAN), Sanabria Freddy Mu\~noz (LIFIA, UNQ), Collazos Cesar (LIFIA, UNQ), Torres Diego (LIFIA, UNQ), Agredo Vanessa (LILPA), Ruiz Pablo (LILPA), Hurtado Julio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05495

Decisioning Workshop 2023
In a knowledge society, the term knowledge must be considered a core resource for organizations. So, beyond being a medium to progress and to innovate, knowledge is one of our most important resources: something necessary to decide.Organizations that are embracing knowledge retention activities are gaining a competitive advantage. Organizational rearrangements from companies, notably outsourcing, increase a possible loss of knowledge, making knowledge retention an essential need for them. When …

Colts' Julian Blackmon: Safety position this offseason is 'how it was for the running backs a year ago' https://www.nfl.com/news/colts-julian-blackmon-safety-position-this-offseason-is-how-it-was-fo…

Colts' Julian Blackmon: Safety position this offseason is 'how it was for the running backs a year ago' 
Having to settle for a one-year deal to return to Indy, Julian Blackmon believes this offseason has been a difficult one for safeties, much as 2023 was for running backs. 

Always an informative take from someone who studies disaster response:
https://open.substack.com/pub/disasterology/p/disasterology-august-2023?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Disasterology: August 2023
This newsletter is a compilation of recent disaster ~things~ that I think are cool, important, or otherwise of interest to people who are intrigued with disaster (broadly defined). There’s a little something for everyone! The State of Emergency Management is… Rapidly Checking Off Bingo Squares.

Fußball-Unterhaus - „Derbysieger“ war auch am Pokertisch die Nummer 1 #News #Nachrichten

"I would rather not be sorry about something when I am not going to do anything about it." A meditation on homelessness and the guilt of us indoor people.
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/11/four-men/

Four Men, by William T. Vollmann
Keeping company with outdoor people

"Die Zahl der registrierten Straftaten gegen queere Menschen hat sich in Bayern im Jahr 2023 verdoppelt, von 96 im Jahr 2022 auf 190 im vergangenen Jahr." - Bei der #CSU / FW Politik und den Politikern in Bayern (Söder, Aiwanger etc.) wundert es mich nicht. #Gewaltverbrechen

Anstieg der Straftaten gegen queere Menschen in Bayern
Die Zahl der registrierten Straftaten gegen queere Menschen hat sich in Bayern im Jahr 2023 verdoppelt, von 96 im Jahr 2022 auf 190 im vergangenen Jahr.

Canalys Q4 2023 smartphone chip shipments: MediaTek rose 21% YoY to 117M, Apple rose 7% YoY to 78M, Qualcomm rose 1% YoY to 69M; Samsung dropped 48% YoY to 13M (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2024/03/05/google-pixel-tensor-shipments-q4-2023/…

Google shipped slightly fewer Tensor-powered Pixels in Q4 as MediaTek dominated
In Q4 2023, Google Tensor, and in turn Google Pixel, shipments shrunk slightly as MediaTek and Apple continue to beat Qualcomm.

ITV reports 2023 external revenue down 3% YoY to £3.6B, ITV Studios revenue up 4%, digital revenue up 19% to £490M, linear ads down 15%, and ITVX MAUs up 19% (Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/itv-financial-results-2023-1235932848/

ITV Unveils Its Latest Financial Results
U.K. broadcaster ITV’s latest revenues were revealed Thursday.

march 19, 2023 Via https://orthis.social/@orthat/112122773254160934
https://migurski.tu…

or that... (@orthat@orthis.social)
Attached: 1 image march 19, 2023 / or that... https://aaronland.info/orthis/186/339/571/1/

Always an informative take from someone who studies disaster response:
https://open.substack.com/pub/disasterology/p/disasterology-august-2023?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Disasterology: August 2023
This newsletter is a compilation of recent disaster ~things~ that I think are cool, important, or otherwise of interest to people who are intrigued with disaster (broadly defined). There’s a little something for everyone! The State of Emergency Management is… Rapidly Checking Off Bingo Squares.

Confirmed: The April average of atmospheric CO₂ at Mauna Loa was 426.6 ppm, another big jump ( 3.2 ppm!) from one year before.
Overall, we're still speeding in the wrong direction.
#ClimateChange #climate

Listening to the #DNSSEC and Security Workshop at #ICANN79 - Kim Davies is currently giving an update about plans to rollover the #KSK (Key Signing Key) for DNSSEC.
Interesting to read about the dilem…

Hardware security module - Wikipedia

General Mneimneh-type Binomial Sum involving Harmonic Numbers
Ende Pan, Ce Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04107 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

General Mneimneh-type Binomial Sum involving Harmonic Numbers
Recently, Mneimneh proved the remarkable identity \begin{align*} \sum_{k=0}^n H_k\binom{n}{k} p^k(1-p)^{n-k}=\sum_{i=1}^n \frac{1-(1-p)^i}{i}\quad (p\in [0,1]) \end{align*} as the main result of a 2023 \emph{Discrete Mathematics} paper, where $H_k:=\sum\nolimits_{i=1}^k 1/i$ is the classical $k$-th harmonic number. Thereafter, Campbell provided several other proofs of Mneimneh's formula as above in a note published in \emph{Discrete Mathematics} in 2023. Moreover, Campbell also considered how M…

Patriots sign S Kyle Dugger to 4-year deal worth $58 million: Source https://theathletic.com/5397352/2024/04/07/patriots-kyle-dugger-extension/

Patriots sign S Kyle Dugger to 4-year deal worth $58 million: Source
Dugger nabbed two pick sixes in a standout 2022 season and tallied a career-high 109 sacks in 2023.

Former Dallas Cowboys Player Takes Shot At Old Team https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/former_dallas_cowboys_player_takes_shot_at_old_team/s1_17150_40071558

Former Dallas Cowboys Player Takes Shot At Old Team
After being franchise-tagged by the Dallas Cowboys in 2022, tight end Dalton Schultz hit the open market in 2023 and landed with the Houston Texans. While his market wasn’t as strong as he was hoping it would be, he eventually landed the multi-year deal he was seeking this offseason. Schultz agreed to a three-year, $36 million deal with the Texans after a very successful first season with the franchise. In 2023, he caught 59 passes for 635 yards and five touchdowns, becoming one of C.J. Strou…

King Ayisoba – Work Hard
https://amf.didiermary.fr/king-ayisoba-work-hard/
“Work Hard” solidifies King Ayisoba‘s reputation as both a shamanic performer and a restless sonic experimenter.
The album is a wild mashup of Ayisoba’s frenetic kologo sound and mu…

King Ayisoba - Work Hard - African Music Forum
King Ayisoba - Work Hard - 2 tracks ("Bossi Labome" & "People Talk Too Much") taken from new album released on Feb, 17 2023.

The Champagne Lounge
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

The Champagne Lounge | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Champagne Lounge Host: Rebecca Saunders Category: Business Sub-Category: Entrepreneurship First Episode: 2023 Join me inside The Champagne Lounge podcast as we dive deep into the power of…

Wow 😲 Efficacy of a single low dose of esketamine after childbirth for mothers with symptoms of prenatal depression: randomised clinical trial
https://www.bmj.com/content/385/bmj-2023-078218

On the mod $k$ chromatic index of graphs
Oothan Nweit, Daqing Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03614 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03614<…

On the mod $k$ chromatic index of graphs
For a graph $G$ and an integer $k\geq 2$, a $χ'_{k}$-coloring of $G$ is an edge coloring of $G$ such that the subgraph induced by the edges of each color has all degrees congruent to $1 ~ (\moddd k)$, and $χ'_{k}(G)$ is the minimum number of colors in a $χ'_{k}$-coloring of $G$. In ["The mod $k$ chromatic index of graphs is $O(k)$", J. Graph Theory. 2023; 102: 197-200], Botler, Colucci and Kohayakawa proved that $χ'_{k}(G)\leq 198k-101$ for every graph $G$. In this paper, we show that $χ'_…

People are absolutely polarized on whether they loved or hated this 2023 Booker Prize winner. I loved it, but I listened to the excellently performed audiobook, so I was spared the criticisms of excessively lengthy paragraphs and non-obvious dialogue demarcations.
As for the story, the slide into a totalitarian state and the heart-wrenching repercussions for an ordinary family ensnared in the fallout is really well done. It is brutal.

Prophet Song
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a moth…

"Zahl der in Deutschland zugelassenen #Elektroautos steigt deutlich
Ende 2023 waren in Deutschland insgesamt mehr als 49 Millionen Autos zugelassen. Besonders rasant stieg die Zahl der Elektro- und Hybridautos."
#EAuto

Autoverkehr: Zahl der in Deutschland zugelassenen Autos erreicht 49 Millionen
Im vergangenen Jahr hat die Zahl der Autos erneut zugenommen. 44 Millionen davon tanken mit Benzin und Diesel, doch die Zahl von Elektro- und Hybridautos steigt.

1956: Eurovisió (ESC) es crea com un concurs per tal de compartir música i cultura, inclús en temps de guerra i rivalitats entre països
2022: Rússia, amb Bielorússia, envaeix Ucraïna
ESC: Expulsa a Rússia i Bielorússia del concurs (mig-)causant una victòria d’Ucraïna
2023: Israel destrueix i causa un genocidi indiscriminat a Gaza (Palestina)
ESC: No toca a Israel del concurs i rebutja incloure-hi Palestina
Per si algú encara no tenia tot clar que a Eurovisió hi ha…

King Ayisoba – Work Hard
https://amf.didiermary.fr/king-ayisoba-work-hard/
“Work Hard” solidifies King Ayisoba‘s reputation as both a shamanic performer and a restless sonic experimenter.
The album is a wild mashup of Ayisoba’s frenetic kologo sound and mu…

King Ayisoba - Work Hard - African Music Forum
King Ayisoba - Work Hard - 2 tracks ("Bossi Labome" & "People Talk Too Much") taken from new album released on Feb, 17 2023.

DL draft prospect Sweat booked on DWI charge https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/39895470/ex-texas-longhorns-dl-tvondre-sweat-arrested-dwi

Ex-Texas Longhorns DL T'Vondre Sweat arrested for DWI - ESPN
Former Texas DL T'Vondre Sweat, the 2023 Big 12 defensive player of the year and the Outland Trophy winner, was booked in jail Sunday after an arrest for driving while intoxicated.

Alle Jahre wieder ... Die Ergebnisse des #Gallup Engagement Index Deutschland 2024 im Detail:
- Über 7,3 Millionen Beschäftigte haben innerlich gekündigt.
- 19 Prozent der Arbeitnehmer sind emotional nicht an ihren Arbeitgeber gebunden und machen Dienst nach Vorschrift (2023: 18 Prozent), das ist laut Gallup der höchste Stand seit dem Jahr 2012.
- Mehr Beschäftigte denn je (45 Proz…

Gallup-Studie 2024: Vorgesetzte verbrennen das Geld ihrer Unternehmen, wenn sie schlecht führen
Gallup-Studie 2024: Schlechte Führung wird zum Risikofaktor für den Erfolg von  Unternehmen. Wenn die Führungskräfte das Geld ihrer Unternehmen verbrennen Die Langzeitstudie des Beratungsunternehmens Gallup misst die emotionale Bindung von Beschäftigten an ihren Arbeitgeber und ist einer der wichtigsten Indikatoren für die Führungskultur und das Arbeitsumfeld in Deutschland.     Die drei persönlichen Kernergebnisse von...

«El estado español, según el #censo de 2023, cuenta con 2.792 #librerías, 185 menos que en 2022. La contracara de estas cifras muestra una mejora en cuanto a estabilidad y crecimiento en las plantillas. En parte, la conclusión que han sacado de estas cifras es que hay menos librerías pero que l…

Global sea level rise is now happening at double the speed of 20 years ago.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange #ClimateChange #sealevelrise
Via @…

Serum samples from the fall of 2023 indicate a rise in protective antibodies in the youngest...This suggests that the children have regained some of protection lost after the pandemic. It also reflects the high prevalence of infection in the 2022/2023 season.

On the mod $k$ chromatic index of graphs
Oothan Nweit, Daqing Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03614 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03614<…

On the mod $k$ chromatic index of graphs
For a graph $G$ and an integer $k\geq 2$, a $χ'_{k}$-coloring of $G$ is an edge coloring of $G$ such that the subgraph induced by the edges of each color has all degrees congruent to $1 ~ (\moddd k)$, and $χ'_{k}(G)$ is the minimum number of colors in a $χ'_{k}$-coloring of $G$. In ["The mod $k$ chromatic index of graphs is $O(k)$", J. Graph Theory. 2023; 102: 197-200], Botler, Colucci and Kohayakawa proved that $χ'_{k}(G)\leq 198k-101$ for every graph $G$. In this paper, we show that $χ'_…

"Zahl der in Deutschland zugelassenen #Elektroautos steigt deutlich
Ende 2023 waren in Deutschland insgesamt mehr als 49 Millionen Autos zugelassen. Besonders rasant stieg die Zahl der Elektro- und Hybridautos."
#EAuto

Autoverkehr: Zahl der in Deutschland zugelassenen Autos erreicht 49 Millionen
Im vergangenen Jahr hat die Zahl der Autos erneut zugenommen. 44 Millionen davon tanken mit Benzin und Diesel, doch die Zahl von Elektro- und Hybridautos steigt.

Mews, which offers cloud-based hotel management tools, raised $110M led by Kinnevik at a $1.2B post-money valuation; the company says it's not yet profitable (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/mews-the-hot…

Mews, the hotel SaaS startup, books $110M at a $1.2B valuation | TechCrunch
Tourism continues to bounce back in the wake of Covid-19, with 2023 raking in $2.23 trillion globally, surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time

1956: Eurovisió (ESC) es crea com un concurs per tal de compartir música i cultura, inclús en temps de guerra i rivalitats entre països
2022: Rússia, amb Bielorússia, envaeix Ucraïna
ESC: Expulsa a Rússia i Bielorússia del concurs (mig-)causant una victòria d’Ucraïna
2023: Israel destrueix i causa un genocidi indiscriminat a Gaza (Palestina)
ESC: No toca a Israel del concurs i rebutja incloure-hi Palestina
Per si algú encara no tenia tot clar que a Eurovisió hi ha…

Weil die #UDV gerade Horrorszenarien um 0 schwer verletzte und 0 getötete Kinder, die in Lastenrädern transportiert wurden, aufbaut, hier: https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemi…

Polynomial extension of stronger central set theorem near zero
Sujan Pal, Anik Pramanick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03892 https://arx…

Polynomial extension of stronger central set theorem near zero
Furstenberg introduced the notion of Central sets in 1981. Later in 1990 V. Bergelson and N. Hindman proved a different but an equivalent version of the central set theorem. In 2008 D. De, N. Hindman and D. Strauss proved a stronger version of central sets theorem. Hindman and Leader first introduced the concept of near zero. Recently S. Goswami, L. Baglini and S. Patra did a polynomial extension of Stronger Central sets theorem in 2023. In this article, we proved the Polynomial stronger Centra…

Dallas Cowboys’ Highest-Graded Free Agent Signing May Surprise https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_highest_graded_free_agent_signing_may_surprise/s1_17068_40064972

Dallas Cowboys’ Highest-Graded Free Agent Signing May Surprise
The Dallas Cowboys might not have the spending flexibility to be big spenders in free agency this offseason. Still, the franchise’s highest-graded free-agent addition from last offseason is a bit of a surprise. Ahead of the 2023 campaign, the Cowboys brought back defensive playmakers Dante Fowler and Jonathan Hankins, backup quarterback Cooper Rush, and added running back Ronald Jones, offensive lineman Chuma Edoga, and cornerback C.J. Goodwin, among others. However, at least according to Pro…

Higher wages are coming for California’s fast-food workers Monday.
With California’s mandatory minimum wage for fast-food workers set to jump to $20 an hour on Monday, major restaurant chains are scrutinizing every aspect of their businesses to find ways to offset the extra money they will soon be spending on labor.

Higher wages are coming for California's fast-food workers
The law, hammered out with the help of Gov. Gavin Newsom, increases wages for workers and allows business and unions to avoid a costly ballot fight over wages.

Broad and Bi-directional narrow quasi-periodic fast-propagating wave trains associated with a filament-driven halo CME on 2023 April 21
Xinping Zhou, Yuandeng Shen, Yihua Yan, Ke Yu, Zhining Qu, Ahmed Ahmed Ibrahim, Zehao Tang, Chengrui Zhou, Song Tan, Ye Qiu, Hongfei Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18391

Broad and Bi-directional narrow quasi-periodic fast-propagating wave trains associated with a filament-driven halo CME on 2023 April 21
This paper presents three distinct wave trains that occurred on 2023 April 21: a broad quasi-periodic fast-propagating (QFP) wave train and a bi-directional narrow QFP wave train. The broad QFP wave train expands outward in a circular wavefront, while bi-directional narrow QFP wave trains propagate in the northward and southward directions, respectively. The concurrent presence of the wave trains offers a remarkable opportunity to investigate their respective triggering mechanisms. Measurement …

Blog Writing for Developers
https://rmoff.net/2023/07/19/blog-writing-for-developers/

Free-agent RB Dalvin Cook remains confident ahead of next opportunity: 'I'm still that guy' https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-rb-dalvin-cook-remains-confident-ahead-of-next-opportunity-i-m-still-that-guy

Free-agent RB Dalvin Cook remains confident ahead of next opportunity: 'I'm still that guy'
Dalvin Cook went from a four-time Pro Bowler with four straight 1,000-yard rushing seasons to an afterthought in 2023. That trend has continued after nearly a month of free agency, but Cook is still as confident as ever in his game-breaking abilities.

Die ePetition 161684 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Lebens- und Genussmittel mit dem Titel
Kennzeichnung von Fleisch/Fleischprodukten von betäubungslos geschlachteten (geschächteten) Tieren
kann nur noch weniger als 5 Tage mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 127 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 …

I even see one photo featuring Cast Members in the awful cheerleader-inspired uniform that I wore when I worked at a Disney Store. https://www.businessinsider.com/what-shoppi…

Old photos show what shopping at the Disney Store was like
The Disney Store was a mall staple between 1987 and the 2010s, with countless toys, princess costumes, and Mickey Mouse candy.

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.

Tomorrow (20 Feb) is the GÉANT #Innovation Programme 2023 showcase! From 13:00 – 16:00 (CET), the winning projects from 2023 will present and demonstrate their achievements so far. There will also be the chance for questions and discussions.
Register now 👉

Innovation Programme 2023 Showcase
During this event the 10 successful projects from 2023 will share information about their projects, provide a short demonstration and be available for questions and discussions. The list of all funded project: https://community.geant.org/community-programme-portfolio/innovation-programme/funded-projects/ Agenda: https://wiki.geant.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=695338319

Mews, which offers cloud-based hotel management tools, raised $110M led by Kinnevik at a $1.2B post-money valuation; the company says it's not yet profitable (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/04/mews-the-hot…

Mews, the hotel SaaS startup, books $110M at a $1.2B valuation | TechCrunch
Tourism continues to bounce back in the wake of Covid-19, with 2023 raking in $2.23 trillion globally, surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time

Spotify: in 2023, 66K artists received $10K , up from 57K in 2022, with 50% from non-English speaking countries, while 11,600 got $100K , and 1,250 got $1M (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally)
https://musically.com/2024/03/19/spotify-updates-lou…

Polynomial extension of stronger central set theorem near zero
Sujan Pal, Anik Pramanick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03892 https://arx…

Polynomial extension of stronger central set theorem near zero
Furstenberg introduced the notion of Central sets in 1981. Later in 1990 V. Bergelson and N. Hindman proved a different but an equivalent version of the central set theorem. In 2008 D. De, N. Hindman and D. Strauss proved a stronger version of central sets theorem. Hindman and Leader first introduced the concept of near zero. Recently S. Goswami, L. Baglini and S. Patra did a polynomial extension of Stronger Central sets theorem in 2023. In this article, we proved the Polynomial stronger Centra…

Last April I compared `aria-describedby`, `aria-invalid`, `aria-errormessage`, and `aria-live` for exposing errors in forms to users:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/04/exposing-field-errors.html
Sometimes I forget what I wrote until I stumble across it…

Exposing Field Errors
This post is about exposing field errors programmatically. I have already shared some opinions (such as a caution about displaying messages below fields or avoiding default browser field validation), but this post dives into using ARIA to convey them to screen reader users. With fields that produce error messages on…

Impact of The Newly Revised Gravitational Redshift of X-ray Burster GS 1826-24 on The Equation of State of Supradense Neutron-Rich Matter
Wen-Jie Xie, Bao-An Li, Nai-Bo Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01989

Impact of The Newly Revised Gravitational Redshift of X-ray Burster GS 1826-24 on The Equation of State of Supradense Neutron-Rich Matter
Thanks to the recent advancement in producing rare isotopes and measuring their masses with unprecedented precision, the updated nuclear masses around the waiting-point nucleus $^{64}$Ge in the rapid-proton capture process have led to a significant revision of the surface gravitational redshift of the neutron star (NS) in GS 1826-24 by re-fitting its X-ray burst light curve ({\it X. Zhou et al., Nature Physics {\bf 19}, 1091 (2023)}) using Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA).…

Jetzt auch offiziell: an der TU Berlin gibt es erstmal keine #Hauptstadtzulage . Es geht hier also mitnichten nur um die "freien Träger".
Ich finde es erstaunlich, dass innerhalb eines Tarifvertrages überhaupt so eine Ungleichbehandlung möglich ist.
#tvl

"The argument... is that someday—not now, but someday—Google promises to turn off third-party tracking cookies in Chrome, and the new ad platform... is better than the free-for-all that is third-party cookies. The thing is, third-party cookies mostly only affect Chrome users. Apple and Firefox have both been blocking third-party cookies for years and won't be implementing Google's new advertising system—it's only the Chromium browsers that still allow them."

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome
Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.

In July it was first reported that ChatGPT growth was declining.
At work, they told me "you know, it's school break", "kids are playing Minecraft now", and the like.
Today I just saw this by @…

Let's not do this again, please
OpenAI's text-to-video generator Sora is being hyped as a game-changer by an industry at a crossroads. This time we should know better

#Klimaschutz in #Radevormwald läuft.
"#Fördermittel wurden größtenteils abgerufen
Die Stadt zieht eine positive Bilanz zur

Fördermittel wurden größtenteils abgerufen​
Die Stadt zieht eine positive Bilanz zur Förderung von Steckersolaranlagen und Dachbegrünung. Wer sich 2023 auf Fördermittel bei der Stadt beworben hatte, konnte sich in der Regel über eine Zuwendung freuen.

🏔️ "Premières Secousses" récit collectif de l'occupation du Glacier de la Girose dans les Hautes-Alpes en octobre 2023 vient de sortir ! 😙
#SLT #Girose #LutteDesGlaces

Daily reminder that Portland, Oregon, police admitted they wrote fewer traffic citations and blamed it on exaggerated staffing issues as a political ploy to increase funding. And it worked!
https://bikeportland.org/2023/08/08/po

Portland Police Bureau officer admits traffic enforcement messaging was politically motivated
Something the Portland Police Bureau did in 2021 has bothered me ever since.

Heute vor 81 Jahren am 19. April 1943 befreiten Youra Livchitz, Jean Franklemon und Robert Maistriau mehr als 200 jüdische Gefangene aus dem 20. Deportationszug von Mechelen/Belgien nach Auschwitz. Siehe diesen Bericht aus dem Jahr 2023: https://www.vrt.be/vrtn…

«Bottoms» a great crazy comedy!
If someone tells me it's just another teen comedy I'll kick them in the ground.
★★★★ 👉🏻 #Bottoms

D981, 736 - issued in 2023 for a design for "a fabric with pattern." #DesignPatents

500.000 Menschen halten sich hier jeden Tag auf. 500.000 Bilder für die Datenbank.
https://www.mopo.de/hamburg/polizei/beruchtigter-platz-am-hauptbahnhof-27-kameras-fur-mehr-sicherheit/

Redrafting the 2023 NFL Draft: C.J. Stroud over Bryce Young? Is Puka Nacua a top-10 pick? https://theathletic.com/5417926/2024/04/18/nfl-draft-2023-redraft-cj-stroud-bryce-young/

Redrafting the 2023 NFL Draft: C.J. Stroud over Bryce Young? Is Puka Nacua a top-10 pick?
A year removed from the 2023 NFL Draft, how would Round 1 change if teams were given a redo?

The Artlas Lectures are a series of conversations that Artlas will organize throughout the 2023-2024 academic year on the theme of "Narrowing the Divide: A Dialogue between #ArtHistory and #DigitalArt History".
The aim is to foster collaborations and a heightened mutual understanding o…

Just a tiiiiiny bit of Jackson, the state capital and Mississippi’s most populous city, is in Rankin County.
That’s worth keeping in mind with this Times story.
And that story is worth keeping in mind when you follow it up with this story, about “a separate court system and an expanded police force within the city of Jackson — the Blackest city in America — that would be appointed completely by white state officials.”

‘Only in Mississippi’: White representatives vote to create white-appointed court system for Blackest city in America
House votes to create a separate court system within the city of Jackson — the Blackest city in America — appointed by white state officials.

Visualization for Trust in Machine Learning Revisited: The State of the Field in 2023
Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12005

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…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheZoeBallBreakfastShow
Kylie Minogue:
🎵 Spinning Around (Radio 2 In The Park 2023)
#KylieMinogue
https://open.spotify.com/track/3eXI3pYpiY1nRwhvW0c8Qi
https://georgedey.bandcamp.com/track/kylie-minogue-spinning-around-george-dey-edit

Cool matter distribution in inner solar corona from 2023 total solar eclipse observation
Z. Q. Qu, H. Su, Y. Liang, Z. Xu, R. Y. Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18563

Cool matter distribution in inner solar corona from 2023 total solar eclipse observation
Solar corona has been judged to consist of free electrons and highly ionized ions with extremely high temperature as a widely accepted knowledge. This view is changed by our eclipse observations. Distributions of cool matter represented by neutral iron atoms in hot inner solar corona are presented via derived global maps of solar Fraunhofer(F-) and Emission(E-) coronae, compared with those of continuum(Kontinuierlich, K-) corona formed by free electrons. The maps are obtained from simultaneous …

How I Grow
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How I Grow | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: How I Grow By: The Seed Collection Category: Leisure Sub-Category: Home & Garden, How To First Episode: 2023 Gardening chats. Connect: Mastodon and Facebook and Instagram and YouTube and…

Es findet im Grunde seit Jahren ein schleichender Rückbau des ÖPNV in Berlin statt, und dass das kaum ein Thema ist, ist schon erstaunlich. Es werden halt nicht offiziell Linien gestrichen oder eingeschränkt, aber dann gibt es jahrelang "Baustellenfahrpläne". https://umweltzoneberlin…

BVG im diskreten Kürzungsmodus
Seit Jahren ist der Fahrplan auf mehreren U-Bahnlinien wegen fehlender Wagen gekürzt, erst zum letzten Fahrplanwechsel im Dezember 2023 haben die Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe (BVG) das zuvor bereits um 2,5 Prozent reduzierte Angebot noch einmal deutlich zusammengestrichen. Seitdem werden 6 Prozent der

Jš passamos da metade de fevereiro e eu ainda estou frequentemente colocando o ano 2023 em datas. Acho que, na minha cabeça, o ano realmente só começa após o carnaval rs.

Lagos-based Moove, which offers car financing to ride-hailing drivers, raised a $100M Series B led by Uber at a $750M valuation, up from $550M in August 2023 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/19/uber

Uber leads $100M investment in African mobility fintech Moove as valuation hits $750M | TechCrunch
Uber and sovereign wealth fund Mubadala have invested $100 million in Moove, an African startup that offers vehicle financing to drivers.

Filing: Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav's 2023 compensation package was worth $49.7M, up 26.5% from the year prior, with $23.1M in stock awards (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/warner-bros-…

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav 2023 Pay Package Rises to $50M
David Zaslav, president and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, had a 2023 pay package worth $49.7 million, up 26.5% from the year prior.

NFL performance-based pay system: Here's what Aaron Rodgers was awarded for four plays in 2023, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

NFL performance-based pay system: Here's what Aaron Rodgers was awarded for four plays in 2023, per report
Rodgers earned a shockingly low amount due to his high base salary and very few snaps

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 weniger als 5 Tage mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 81 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 öffe…

National Research and Education Networks (#NRENs) agree that the ‘human factor’ is a key element of #CyberSecurity, according to a survey conducted within the GÉANT GN5-1 project.
Read about the survey's main findings and next steps:

NRENs agree that the ‘human factor’ is a key element of cybersecurity | GÉANT CONNECT Online
In 2023, the Awareness subtask team, within the GN5-1 Security Work Package 8, Task 2 Human Factor (WP8 T2), conducted a survey on the status of cybersecurity awareness within the National Research and Education Networks participating in the project; 25 organisations took part in the survey: 24 NRENs plus GÉANT. Security awareness relates to the

D981, 736 - issued in 2023 for a design for "a fabric with pattern." #DesignPatents

Interested in trying out a new modular, all-in-one Rust framework?
We're proud to present our first part of Getting Started with Loco, the "Rust on Rails" framework!
Check it out: https://www.shuttle.rs/blog/2023/12/28/using-loco-rust-rails<…

Getting Started with Loco in Rust: Part 1
This article goes into a deep dive on getting started with Loco in Rust and how you can utilise its capabilities to speed up your productivity.

Deneb is a Large Amplitude Polarimetric Variable
Daniel V. Cotton, Jeremy Bailey, Jean Perkins, Derek L. Buzasi, Ievgeniia Boiko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17707

Deneb is a Large Amplitude Polarimetric Variable
We write to report the discovery that Deneb is a large amplitude polarization variable. Over a ~400 d time span from August 2022 Deneb's polarization was typically around 3900 parts-per-million (ppm) in the SDSS g'-band. Yet, it varied by several hundred ppm in an irregular way on a timescale of weeks. The largest polarization change, amounting to 2500 ppm, occurred shortly after the last pulsation ``resumption'' event identified by Abt et al. (2023) in TESS photometry. The relationship between…

Rights groups back Observer writer Carole Cadwalladr over court costs
A coalition of organisations championing press freedom have rallied behind the award-winning Observer and Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr, stating they are “deeply disappointed” she has been refused permission to appeal against a ruling that ordered her to pay significant legal costs to the prominent Brexit backer Arron Banks.
The supreme court refused to let Cadwalladr contest a cost order six months ago …

Free school meals for all may reduce childhood obesity, while easing financial and logistical burden | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/03/18/free-school-meals-for-all-may-reduce-chil…

Free school meals are more than helpful, they're necessary
"As of 2023, several states have implemented their own universal free school meals policies"

Visualization for Trust in Machine Learning Revisited: The State of the Field in 2023
Angelos Chatzimparmpas, Kostiantyn Kucher, Andreas Kerren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12005

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…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #TheZoeBallBreakfastShow
Kylie Minogue:
🎵 Spinning Around (Radio 2 In The Park 2023)
#KylieMinogue
https://open.spotify.com/track/3eXI3pYpiY1nRwhvW0c8Qi
https://georgedey.bandcamp.com/track/kylie-minogue-spinning-around-george-dey-edit

An interview with NYT's head of audio Paula Szuchman about its subscription-only NYT Audio app, which had 1M downloads between its May launch and December 2023 (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/podcasts/nyt-audio-new-york-times-po…

'Not a podcast app': New York Times Audio exceeds one million downloads
The New York Times' NYT Audio app received more than a million downloads in the seven months between its launch in May and the end of 2023.

"Could a meat tax help fight climate change?
With rising concern about a sector that worldwide accounts for 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions and shows no sign of slowing, some scientists, activists, and a few world leaders are talking up a contentious option: taxes on meat."
#Veganer

Taxing meat to fight climate change? It could be a hard sell.
With rising concern about a sector that worldwide shows no sign of slowing and that now accounts for 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, some are talking about a nuclear option: taxes on meat.

Die ePetition 160807 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Unterhaltsrecht (Kinder) mit dem Titel
Unterhaltszahlungen an im Ausland lebende Unterhaltsempfänger
kann nur noch weniger als 5 Tage mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 65 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 Petitionsaussch…

Brandin Cooks teases Cowboys fans with strong message about Dak Prescott's future https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/brandin_cooks_teases_cowboys_fans_with_strong_message_about_dak_presco…

Brandin Cooks teases Cowboys fans with strong message about Dak Prescott's future
In a season in which Dak Prescott is trending toward playing under the shiniest spotlight, a contract year for the Dallas Cowboys, expectations about his 2024 season are all over the place.  Some claim Prescott's 2023, in which he finished second place in MVP voting, was a rarity and not his real self. Some counter that Prescott has always had that caliber, and that Mike McCarthy's play-calling finally allowed him to cook.  Cowboys wide receiver Brandin Cooks isn't holding back on his own pre…

The Third Space
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The Third Space | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Third Space Host: Avi Brown Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Philosophy, Religion First Episode: 2023 Reclaiming the vital realm beyond home and workplace…

At a town hall, GB News CEO announced job cuts affecting 40 roles, its first major round of cuts after its 2021 launch; GB News had 295 staffers in May 2023 (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/gb-news-redundancies/

GB News begins redundancy round, seeking to cut 40 roles
GB News chief executive Angelos Frangopoulos has announced a redundancy round at the opinion-led broadcaster, seeking to cut 40 roles at the company.

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.

Tencent Music reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $971M and a $198M profit; in 2023, paying subscribers rose 21% YoY to 107M and net profit rose 36% YoY to $735M (Patrick Frater/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/music/news/tencent-music-…

Tencent Music Profits Climb, Despite Revenue Decline
Profits at China's Tencent Music climbed to $735 million in the full year, despite a decline in overall revenue and retreat in social music spending.

Die ePetition 161684 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Lebens- und Genussmittel mit dem Titel
Kennzeichnung von Fleisch/Fleischprodukten von betäubungslos geschlachteten (geschächteten) Tieren
kann nur noch weniger als 5 Tage mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 118 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 …

Report: Dallas Cowboys Showing Interest In Adding Star Texas Wide Receiver For Dak Prescott https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/report_dallas_cowboys_showing_interest_in_adding_star_…

Report: Dallas Cowboys Showing Interest In Adding Star Texas Wide Receiver For Dak Prescott
Dallas Cowboys executive vice president Stephen Jones recently said he wants to continue the team’s long tradition of building through the draft rather than relying on free agency. They recently met with a star Texas wide receiver who could be a major addition to the offense next season. The Cowboys have been quiet in free agency so far this offseason. The team lost several key players from the 2023 season, including left tackle Tyron Smith, who left for a payday with the New York Jets last w…

The Buzz With Bernadette
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The Buzz | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Buzz With Bernadette Host: Bernadette Maree Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Entertainment News, Pop Culture First Episode: 2023 Welcome to my podcast where we explore…

Why the NFL Draft is so unpredictable: 2023 first-round pick sums things up with this one story

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/why-the

Why the NFL Draft is so unpredictable: 2023 first-round pick sums things up with this one story
The Bucs' Calijah Kancey, taken 19th overall, shares his emotional tale

Die ePetition 161471 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Alternative Heizsysteme mit dem Titel
100%iger Umstieg bei neu eingebauten Heizungen auf erneuerbare Energien
kann nur noch weniger als 5 Tage mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 61 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 Petiti…

An analysis of the gender pay gap in UK media: 76% of the biggest media organizations increased the proportion of women in their top pay tier from 2022 to 2023 (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-busin…

More women in top roles as media industry gender pay gap slowly narrows
UK media gender pay gap down from 12% to 11% between 2022 and 2023. But most companies increase % of women in highest-paid roles.

Huw Edwards, the BBC news anchor who has been off air since July 2023 after reports that he paid a young person for explicit images, resigns on "medical advice" (Ian Youngs/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68873266

Huw Edwards leaves BBC on medical advice
The presenter has been off air for months after reports he paid a young person for explicit photos.

Die ePetition 161109 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Zulassung zum Straßenverkehr mit dem Titel
Fristverlängerung von einem Monat auf drei Monate (Änderung von § 29 Absatz 7 StVZO)
kann nur noch weniger als 5 Tage mitgezeichnet werden und hat bislang 63 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, wir…