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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

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The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines. A “Miyake Event” would be far worse.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/
saved 2023-09-11

UPLOAD-ANYON: Progress Towards an Optimised Twisted Anyon Cavity with High-Sensitivity AM-Noise Detection for an Ultralight Axion Dark Matter Search
Robert Crew, Emma Paterson, Maxim Goryachev, Eugene Ivanov, Pashupati Dhakal, Tugrul Talha Ersoz, Michael Tobar, Jeremy Bourhill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19225 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.19225 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.19225
arXiv:2608.19225v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a superconducting single-mode microwave haloscope based on helical cavity resonators for the detection of ultralight dark matter axions over the mass range $10^{-18}$ to $10^{-13}\,\mathrm{eV}$. Building on the single-mode helical-cavity concept introduced by Bourhill et al. [Phys. Rev. D 108, 052014 (2023); arXiv:2208.01640], we use an inverse-design framework to develop practical resonator geometries compatible with superconducting niobium fabrication. The optimisation employs a figure of merit derived to minimise the measurement time required to achieve a fixed experimental sensitivity. Relative to the heuristic M\"obius-geometry benchmark, the best subtractively manufacturable bulk-niobium design achieves a figure of merit more than three orders of magnitude larger. An experimentally informed microwave interferometric readout model, incorporating measured electronics noise and active suppression of pump amplitude noise, is used to project the sensitivity of the proposed experiment. For an acquisition time of three months, the haloscope is projected to reach $g_{a\gamma\gamma}<10^{-11}\,\mathrm{GeV}^{-1}$ across more than four orders of magnitude in axion mass. The projected sensitivity extends approximately one order of magnitude below the current exclusion limits set by CAST, providing a practical pathway towards a high-sensitivity direct search for ultralight dark matter axions.
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Worüber die New York Times vor zwei Jahren berichtete erzählt die sonstige Medienlandschaft erst heute: Netanjahu wusste von den Angriffen der Hamas mehrere Wochen im Voraus.
02.12.2023: Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago
https://www.

Deutschland war im ersten Quartal 2026 erstmals seit Ende 2023 wieder Netto-Exporteur von #Strom.
Mehr als die Hälfte der #Stromerzeugung stammte aus erneuerbaren Energien.
Vor allem die #Windkraft

A US NLRB judge rules that Atlassian had illegally fired an employee in 2023 for pushing back against manager layoffs, and orders reinstatement and compensation (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/business/atlassian-te…

Anyone know when the VA pulled its component library?
I was checking a breadcrumb accessibility fix that I linked from a 2023 USWDS bug I filed:
https://github.com/uswds/uswds/issues/5463#issuecomment-2188640853
And the VA appears to have wiped it all…

"Illegal fishing takes a toll on Australia’s sea cucumbers"
#Australia #Animals #Oceans

The Drone flights vs car break-ins chart in this article is fascinating: It shows a sharply declining rate of car break-ins, and then, as drone flights are introduced later in 2024, the rate of decline slows.
And "The SFPD increased patrols in bipping hot spots like Fisherman’s Wharf starting in 2023. Cops also started using bait cars and building cases against major bipping gangs. " And that correlates with the fastest rate of decline - good, old fashioned policing.

In Chicago, the Deaf Will Sing Don Giovanni
Since we opened ASL-Opera.com in September 2023, one question has arrived more often than any other: how rare is it, exactly, for an opera company to present a foreign-language title in American Sign Language?...
https://bolesblogs.com/2026/07…

Non-Blocking, Continuous #CodeReviews - a case study
https://thinkinglabs.io/articles/2023/05/02/non-blocking-continuous-code-reviews-a-case-s…

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

BILD hat 2023 gelogen und die restliche Medienlandschaft hat brav alles unkritisch nachgeplappert. Das stützt eine Studie in einem Fachjournal: Eine neue Studie in Energy Research & Social Science von Forschern des Öko-Instituts und der Universität Oxford hat 333 BILD-Artikel ausgewertet – und zeichnet präzise nach, wie das rechte Boulevardblatt mit einem einzigen erfundenen Wort eines der wichtigsten Klimagesetze Deutschlands zerlegt hat.

Elokuu oli maailmanlaajuisesti lämpimin #ympäristö

A profile of Suno, which has been used by more than 100M people since 2023 and has 2M paid subscribers, as it faces copyright lawsuits from UMG and Sony Music (Bloomberg)

Am #SeefelderPlateau fährt der öffentliche Verkehr des Verkehrsverbund #Tirol (VVT) vollständig elektrisch.
Seit Juli sind dort auch alle Busse als #EBusse unterwegs. Gleichzeitig wurde das …

LwM output! 'We present a dataset of text from English-language newspaper articles that describe some sort of accident involving machinery. The articles were annotated by volunteers on Zooniverse between 2019 and 2023. The articles were selected from over 20 newspaper titles published between 1835 and 1920.' https://doi.org/10.23636/xrk4-45…

Deidre Bosa, an anchor based in CNBC's San Francisco bureau, is leaving at the end of the month to start a show about AI, working with producer Jasmine Wu (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/bosa-departing-cnbc-to-start-ai-show…

Gold Finger (2023)
...actually, that mountain is called Schneck and is one of the most unique peaks in the northern Alps, here seen from the northern approach. For some other views see here:
https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/111515716091637065

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

🌱 Wie werden landwirtschaftliche Betriebe zu Solawis?
Knapp 30 % der Solawis sind aus bestehenden Höfen entstanden. Meist geht das nicht von heute auf morgen. Viele Betriebe verkaufen ihre Produkte zuerst direkt im Hofladen oder arbeiten nach Bio-Standards. Danach entscheiden sie sich für die Umstellung auf #Solawi.
📖 Du fragst dich, ob Solawi auch für deinen Betrieb ein passender We…

Zugebaute #Batteriespeicherkapazität pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 30.06.2026.
430 Datensätze ohne #Batteriespeichertechnologie herausgefil…

“Support for `headers` Attribute”
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/09/support-for-headers-attribute.html
Avoid spanning and/or compound table headers given inconsistent support. The `headers` attribute is largely useless, but can impact the experience for S…

Home Insulation Works: Barriers to Installation (2023) - Doing the right thing is hard, and insurers do not help! #insulation #netZero #futureReady -

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Guardrails enable you to defend against prompt injection or jailbreak attacks by your coding agents. In our tutorial on agentic software engineering, we provide an overview of the options available to you for this purpose: https://agentic-software-engineering.r

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Oops! We Automated Bullshit.
https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/blog/afb21/oops-we-automated-bullshit
saved 2023-11-17 https…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #TheBethDittoShow
boygenius:
🎵 Cool About It (6 Music Session, 7 Nov 2023)
#boygenius
https://xboygeniusx.bandcamp.com/track/cool-about-it-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/5PJH1U5Iie893v48Fl9yaC

Postal Workers Become Largest Union To Demand Ceasefire in Gaza | Portside
https://portside.org/2023-11-10/postal-workers-become-largest-union-demand-ceasefire-gaza

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.

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32 MiB working set on a 64 GiB machine.
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2023/10/01/32-mib-working-sets-on-a-64-gib-machine/
saved 2023-10-02

President Trump asks SCOTUS to overturn an $83.3M award a jury told him to pay E. Jean Carroll in 2024 for defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault (Abbie VanSickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/2…

Stripe says thousands of solo operators on its service generate $1M in annual revenue, and those making $10M nearly tripled between 2023 and 2025, aided by AI (Te-Ping Chen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/th…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 378 nodes and 3267 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

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A simple ray tracer written in the meson.build language.
https://github.com/annacrombie/meson-raytracer
saved 2023-11-19 https://

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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How Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, home to TSMC, became its wealthiest hub; one neighborhood reported 2023 average household incomes of $146K, 5x the average (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/busines

Reading "Singularity Sky" by @… .
Recently learned a bit about the Eschaton. Finally.
I'm now at the revolutionary dialectic exchange between Burya Rubenstein and Sister of Stratagems, the Seventh.
"Only sapient organism could exhibit superlative irrationally".
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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'`,…

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

A compact transient meteor shower was detected during 2026 July 13-19 UT which may be related to asteroid 2023 VN9: http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005700/CBET005732.txt -> New #MeteorShower Identifies #Asteroid as a Cloaked #Comet: https://www.seti.org/news/new-meteor-shower-identifies-asteroid-as-a-cloaked-comet/

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What I really want for sure is "The Jackpot" in print.

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I've read the Sprawl Trilogy several times and watched the Blade Runner movies several times too. And I love them.
Yet, it's hard to be excited about these two projects because they are being produced as series by the usual culprits.

Remember "The Peripheral" in 2022?
Cancelled after the 1st season - and it…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #SundaySoul
MFSB:
🎵 Love Is the Message
#MFSB
https://djkik.bandcamp.com/track/mfsb-love-is-the-message-reboost-dj-kik-re-edit-2023-master
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GbBfA4tgiCpNXHIEogoJP
🎶 show playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1EHZCX2jrX07zjNRcRUv6u
🎶 KEXP playlist 👇
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6VNALrOa3gWbk794YuIrwg