Tootfinder

WGA West report: the number of members reporting earnings fell 9.4% YoY in 2024, while total earnings rose 12.7% to $1.5B in the same period, below 2022's $1.9B (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TV and Film Writing Jobs Grew More Scarce, Even If Earnings Were Up Slightly in 2024
The annual tally from the Writers Guild West shows that its members may have made slightly more money overall than during the 148-day strike year of 2023, but there's fewer jobs available.

2021: There is no #AI, I'm doing my own laundry.
2023: CEOs are saying that AI is coming and will do your laundry.
2025: There is AI. I'm still doing my own laundry.
2027?: I'm doing the AI's laundry.

Owning two Pixel phones running GrapheneOS made me both chuckle and tear up a little. It’s such an amazing operating system that I’m planning to start making monthly donations to support the project.
I had my Pixel 6a since early May 2023, but yesterday I upgraded to a Pixel 9a because the speakers and earpiece microphone on my 6a had started to fail badly, and the battery was showing its age.
I’m glad I made the upgrade, and now people can hear me clearly on the phone again.

Ich empfehle gerne noch mal Thomas Hettches „Sinkende Sterne“ von 2023. Neben aller anderen Grossartigkeit zeigt er sehr treffend, was im Wallis passiert, wenn es sich durch Naturgewalt teilt — erst Verkehrswege, dann Gesellschaft. Quasi an den immer noch vorhandenen „natürlichen“ Bruchstellen. In anderen Gegenden sicher ähnlich möglich, aber das ist schon sehr Wallis, meinem Empfinden nach
#ThomasHettche

The average surface temperature of the Mediterranean Sea is at record level for this early in summer, at 3°C above the 1982-2011 average. Could end up well above the 2023-2024 record summer peaks (Jul-Aug) of 28°C.
https://www.ceam.es/ceamet/SST/SST-trend.html

A systematic review of research on large language models for computer programming education
Meina Zhu, Lanyu Xu, Barbara Ericson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21818

A systematic review of research on large language models for computer programming education
Given the increasing demands in computer programming education and the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), LLMs play a critical role in programming education. This study provides a systematic review of selected empirical studies on LLMs in computer programming education, published from 2023 to March 2024. The data for this review were collected from Web of Science (SCI/SSCI), SCOPUS, and EBSCOhost databases, as well as three conference proceedings specialized in computer programm…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1000675 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

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Torsion pairs in categories of modules on ringed finite sites
Let $\mathcal{C}$ be a small category. In this paper, we mainly study the category of modules $\mathfrak{M}\mbox{od-}\mathfrak{R}$ on ringed sites $(\mathbf{C},\mathfrak{R})$. We firstly reprove the Theorem A of the paper (M. Wu and F. Xu. Skew category algebras and modules on ringed finite sites. J. A. 631, 2023), then we characterize $\mathfrak{M}\mbox{od-}\mathfrak{R}$ in terms of the torsion modules on $Gr(\mathfrak{R})$, where $Gr(\mathfrak{R})$ is the linear Grothendieck construction of $…

For #MusicWomenWednesday this week, the raw, ripping hardcore punk EP 'Rest in Piss' put out in 2023 by Wellington, New Zealand's PISS BABY. It's riffy, it's dynamic, it's angry, it's short, it's worth a listen.

Amazon says it plans to invest £40B in the UK economy over the next three years, including opening four new warehouses; Amazon invested £12B in the UK in 2023 (Freya Jones/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Forecasting Geopolitical Events with a Sparse Temporal Fusion Transformer and Gaussian Process Hybrid: A Case Study in Middle Eastern and U.S. Conflict Dynamics
Hsin-Hsiung Huang, Hayden Hampton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20935

Forecasting Geopolitical Events with a Sparse Temporal Fusion Transformer and Gaussian Process Hybrid: A Case Study in Middle Eastern and U.S. Conflict Dynamics
Forecasting geopolitical conflict from data sources like the Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) is a critical challenge for national security. The inherent sparsity, burstiness, and overdispersion of such data cause standard deep learning models, including the Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT), to produce unreliable long-horizon predictions. We introduce STFT-VNNGP, a hybrid architecture that won the 2023 Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD) competition by overcoming these l…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 409 nodes and 8557 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 25.06.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

Blameless Users in a Clean Room: Defining Copyright Protection for Generative Models
Aloni Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19881 https://

Blameless Users in a Clean Room: Defining Copyright Protection for Generative Models
Are there any conditions under which a generative model's outputs are guaranteed not to infringe the copyrights of its training data? This is the question of "provable copyright protection" first posed by Vyas, Kakade, and Barak (ICML 2023). They define near access-freeness (NAF) and propose it as sufficient for protection. This paper revisits the question and establishes new foundations for provable copyright protection -- foundations that are firmer both technically and legally. First, we sho…

Linguist Noam Chomsky is interviewed by Common Dreams writer C.J. Polychroniou on the subject of ChatGPT in this May 2023 piece. Chomsky's stance on LLMs is that as long as we're not able to atomically understand what goes on in the statistical black box that currently is an LLM, linguists won't be able to benefit from being able to see whether it learns language like a human does, or not.
"Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For"

Our Home
- #PianoImprov #NowPlaying -
https://muz4now.com/2023/our-home-pian

Our Home - #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

An Australian court finds ABC unlawfully terminated journalist Antoinette Lattouf in December 2023 for her social media posts opposing Israel's campaign in Gaza (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun

The latest post by @… reminded me of our EV car hire in Wales back in 2023… it’s quite the story!
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2023/06/05/the…

The Electric Vehicle Road Trip
Electric Vehicles are great! Except when you need to charge them...

"World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Berend Botje https://archivo.kamasystems.nl/es/2023/03/29/berend-botje/

from my link log —
Deploying IPv6-mostly access networks.
https://labs.ripe.net/author/ondrej_caletka_1/deploying-ipv6-mostly-access-networks/
saved 2023-05-07

Deploying IPv6-Mostly Access Networks
Dual stack is the most common way of deploying IPv6 in access networks. A recent standard defines IPv6-mostly access networks, providing IPv4 connectivity only for legacy devices while allowing modern devices to run IPv6-only. It is already well supported and allows network operators to gradually p…

“Noor, who made so many friends on Bluesky since she started an account there in the summer of 2023, had her account suddenly suspended on Friday. Bluesky did not send a reason for the suspension, so while she wrote an appeal, she did not know what actions she was appealing, so as of now it's still suspended. She’s been silenced, and effectively disappeared.”

A Future for Noor and Her Children
Hello! I'm Meave, a U.S. citizen sponsoring this fundraiser on behalf of my dear friend Noor Hassan and her children. Noor and her son Abdul Rahman are kind, generous people; though their original fundraiser succeeded last summer, supporting themselves and their extended family cost them everything. This fundraiser will allow them to support themselves and save up to buy passage to Egypt and pursue a better future.

Der gesamte contentindustrielle Journalismus ist eine gigantische Kopiermaschine für industriell erzeugte Dummheit geworden, und über dem breiten Tor, das in die Idiocracy und das nächste finstere Mittelalter führt, stehen als flammendes Menetekel die Worte Breaking News
#Selbstzitat | Quelle:

The rate of descent did not slow as much as expected,
and the spacecraft probably made a hard landing.
The laser instrument that measured how high Resilience was above the surface was slow in making its measurements,
which may have contributed to the problem.
“At this point, we do not know clearly about the cause,”
Takeshi Hakamada, the chief executive of Ispace, said in translated remarks.
The loss of the second mission could lead NASA to rethink its pla…

Ispace of Japan’s Moon Lander Resilience Has Crashed
The loss of the Resilience spacecraft by Ispace repeated a crash into the moon in 2023 of the company’s first robotic lunar landing mission.

@… Got an email this morning telling me I could log in and download my HESTA statement so I could complete my HCC renewal. Estimated completion 16-23 July. Current HCC expires 12 July. I'm hoping ruefully that the notes on my account (from 2023) after might speed it up a little especially as I have been known to contact the minister after it too…

Huh.. .??
Een Heineken flesje in een @… aflevering?
Waar zijn die Duitsers mee bezig? 😅
Tatort: Schutzmaßnahmen (2023) - #ARD

This week is building up to a crescendo of critical cybersecurity developments, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the top infosec news stories you should know, including
--CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing,
--The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools,
--Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023,
--Law enforcement busts up BidenCash,
--China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers,
--Feds are probing CrowdS…

CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing
The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools, Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023, Law enforcement busts up BidenCash, China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers, Feds are probing CrowdStrike's 2024 outage, Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping comments, much more

Energy Spectra of Secondary Particles Induced by Solar Energetic Proton Events and Magnetospheric Effects
A. Chilingarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16269 …

Energy Spectra of Secondary Particles Induced by Solar Energetic Proton Events and Magnetospheric Effects
We investigate the energy spectra of secondary cosmic ray particles associated with two distinct solar events: the magnetospheric effect (ME) of 5 November 2023 and ground-level enhancement (GLE 74) of 11 May 2024. Using data from the SEVAN and Neutron Monitor networks and energy release histograms from particle spectrometers, we reconstruct spectra and identify key differences between ME and GLE. CORSIKA-based simulations reveal that MEs are caused by galactic protons below geomagnetic cutoff …

Are BLS monthly numbers still trustworthy?
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/06/04/ADP-May-jobs-lowest-since-2023/8661749044732/

ADP: Private payrolls grew by 37,000 in May; lowest rate since 2023 - UPI.com
Private payroll company ADP Wednesday reported May private sector jobs growth of just 37,000 - the lowest in over two years.

Cada vez que veo noticias sobre las IAs como esta pienso que aquí nos enteramos de estas miserias, se comparten, se comentan... pero ¿y fuera? Por ejemplo, la gente en general es consciente de lo que supone para su privacidad que una IA grabe y "transcriba" una conversación confidencial con su médico?

#ThursdayFiveList #CaliforniaDreaming
Elisapie, "Californiamut (Going to California)" (2023)
https://youtu.be/XLqvn-ykvmY

She started bike riding in 2023 - and achieved the outright endurance #JOGLEJOG world record in 2025 - wow!
https://road.cc/content/news/sarah-rug

History-maker Sarah Ruggins smashes outright world record for cycling from John o’ Groats to Land’s End and back, after illness left her unable to walk as a teenager
Dr Ruggins, who bought her first bike in 2023, has beaten James MacDonald’s JOGLEJOG record by seven hours, completing the epic 2,700km ride in five days, 11 hours, and 14 minutes

Could Cowboys trade former 2nd-round pick before rookie deal done? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/15/cowboys-trade-luke-schoonmaker-consideration/84204653007/

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
Yu Gu, Li-Cheng Tsai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16484 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16484

Stochastic heat flow is a black noise
We prove that the stochastic heat flow Caravenna Sun Zygouras (2023), Tsai (2024) is a black noise in the sense of Tsirelson (2004). As a corollary, the 2d stochastic heat equation driven by a mollified spacetime white noise becomes asymptotically independent of that noise in the scaling limit.

New tool lets artists ‘poison’ their artwork to deter AI companies from using it to train their models
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/27/new-tool-lets-artists-poison-their-artwork-to-deter-ai-companies.html

This new tool lets artists 'poison' their artwork to deter AI companies from using it to train their models—here’s how it works
If an artist doesn't want their pieces being used to train AI image generators, a new tool called Nightshade would let them "poison" their artwork.

Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics, which makes robots to inspect infrastructure, raised a $125M Series D at a $1.25B valuation, up from $633M in December 2023 (Ian Thomas/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/gecko-robotics-…

Gecko Robotics raises $125 million in deal valuing critical infrastructure startup over $1 billion
Gecko Robotics, which uses robots and AI to inspect and monitor critical infrastructure, has raised a $125 million, bringing its valuation to $1.25 billion.

"The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom
Bitcoin mines—massive computing clusters generating cryptocurrency tokens—consume vast amounts of electricity. .... From mid-2022 to mid-2023, the 34 mines consumed 32.3 terawatt-hours of electricity—33% more than Los Angeles—85% of which came from fossil fuels. We estimated that 1.9 million Americans were exposed to ≥0.1 μg/m3 of additional PM2.5 pollution from Bitcoin mines"

The environmental burden of the United States’ bitcoin mining boom - Nature Communications
The paper maps air pollution from power plants supplying electricity to US Bitcoin mines. It finds that 1.9 million people in 2022-2023 breathed toxic amounts of Bitcoin mine attributable pollution, particularly around New York City and Houston.

From this year on, ESWC will be under the umbrella of SWSA, the Semantic Web Science Association, to secure financial sustainability for the upcoming years after its previous supporting organisation STI was dissolved in 2023. Basics about the transition are given by Elena Simperl, president of SWSA.
https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

Scenes From Deerlick Creek
#northyork

Kantar: the share of Indians consuming media exclusively on mobile phones grew to 23% in Q1 2025, up from 15% in Q1 2023, as TVs stay unaffordable for many (Satviki Sanjay/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Happy & Glorious: Coronation art exhibition goes on show https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/happy-glorious-coronation-art-exhibition-goes-on-show/

Happy & Glorious: Coronation art exhibition goes on show - The National Archives
Stunning new artwork commissioned by the Government Art Collection to mark the Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla has gone on show in our Happy & Glorious exhibition. The free exhibition includes work by artists from across the UK created in response to the Coronation on 6 May 2023. For the […]

According to the TidBITS article “A Roundup of Vertical Tab Support in Mac Web Browsers” <https://tidbits.com/2023/06/05/a-roundup-of-vertical-tab-support-in-mac-web-browsers/>, Safari supports vertical tabs since version 16.
I did not know it!
I don’t seem to be able to get the Safari vertical tabs to work though.
I can see the list of tabs in the Sidebar.
I also have the tabs displays horizontally at the top of the window (in both Separate or Compact mode).
I was expecting no tabs at the top when using vertical tabs. Is that not what you’d expect when thinking about vertical tabs?

Ravens to extend Lamar Jackson? GM says team has had 'introductory' contract talks with two-time NFL MVP

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

Spectral Tur\'{a}n problem of non-bipartite graphs: Forbidden books
Ruifang Liu, Lu Miao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04884 https://

Spectral Turán problem of non-bipartite graphs: Forbidden books
A book graph $B_{r+1}$ is a set of $r+1$ triangles with a common edge, where $r\geq0$ is an integer. Zhai and Lin [J. Graph Theory 102 (2023) 502-520] proved that for $n\geq\frac{13}{2}r$, if $G$ is a $B_{r+1}$-free graph of order $n$, then $ρ(G)\leqρ(T_{n,2})$, with equality if and only if $G\cong T_{n,2}$. Note that the extremal graph $T_{n,2}$ is bipartite. Motivated by the above elegant result, we investigate the spectral Turán problem of non-bipartite $B_{r+1}$-free graphs of order $n$.…

2023 waren wir mit der Schachtour in Bremen und haben dort in der Fußgängerzone Tische mit Schachbrettern sowie Großfeld- und Terrassenschach aufgebaut. Viele neugierige Passanten kamen vorbei und die ein oder andere spannende Partie wurde gespielt.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an: …

Attention nerds: For God's sake, can we PLEASE get Dungeons & Dragons 2 already?
▶️ Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves | Official Trailer (2023 Movie)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IiMinixSXII&si=LlSaWnz1qAKrRmxc

Lite förenklat tror jag att jag kan påstå att matavfall bidrar till Sveriges energimix med 0,2% 2023.
Total energitillförsel 2023: 507 TWh
- Varav biobränslen: 149,6 TWh
Total biogasanvändning: 4,1 TWh
- Varav matavfall 24%, dvs 1 TWh
Har jag missat något här? Eller räknat uppåt väggarna? #energipolitik

Die ePetition 160749 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Datenschutz mit dem Titel
Webbasierte schriftformersetzende kostenlose Signaturlösung für Privatnutzer
kann bis zum Dienstag 15. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird eine gesetzliche Regelung dahingehend gefordert, dass eine webbasierte Signaturlösung für Privatnutzer durch Anmeldung mit dem Online-Personalausweis bereitgestellt werden kann und damit signierte Dokumente für alle Behör…

Density estimation via periodic scaled Korobov kernel method with exponential decay condition
Ziyang Ye, Haoyuan Tan, Xiaoqun Wang, Zhijian He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15419

Density estimation via periodic scaled Korobov kernel method with exponential decay condition
We propose the periodic scaled Korobov kernel (PSKK) method for nonparametric density estimation on $\mathbb{R}^d$. By first wrapping the target density into a periodic version through modulo operation and subsequently applying kernel ridge regression in scaled Korobov spaces, we extend the kernel approach proposed by Kazashi and Nobile (SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 2023) and eliminate its requirement for inherent periodicity of the density function. This key modification enables effective estimation …

Débat de 2023 sur les victimes de sectes, de l’emprise Š la reconstruction. Quels sont les mécanismes Š l'oeuvre, comment identifier le discours sectaire, comment trouver de l'aide pour s'en sortir et se reconstruire ? https://chardonsbleus.org/debat-victim

Diarycast - Year In Review (2023) - The rollercoaster thrills and spills of 2023 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview - https://www.

Diarycast - Year In Review (2023)
The rollercoaster thrills and spills of 2023 at EOU Towers... #podcast #yearInReview

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16488 has been replaced.
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Kinetic approximation for equations of discrete turbulence in the subcritical case
We consider a damped/driven cubic NLS equation on a torus under the limit when first the amplitude of solutions goes to zero and then the period of the torus goes to infinity. We suggest another proof of the kinetic approximation for the energy spectrum under a subcritical scaling, extending to the exact solutions result obtained in [Dymov, Kuksin, Maiocchi, Vladuts '2023] for quasisolutions which were defined as the second order truncations of decompositions for the solutions in amplitude. The…

After having operated without a nature permit for years, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport got one from the Minister in 2023. An NGO challenged it and now the court has decided to cancel it: "not carefully prepared and motivated". The airport is in illegal operation mode once more. https://

Rechtbank vernietigt natuurvergunning Schiphol, gevolgen onduidelijk
Volgens de rechtbank heeft Schiphol onvoldoende onderbouwd waarom de vergunning in stand moest blijven.

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system
Daniele Fasano, Myriam Benisty, Pietro Curone, Stefano Facchini, Francesco Zagaria, Tomohiro C. Yoshida, Kiyoaki Doi, Anibal Sierra, Sean Andrews, Jaehan Bae, Andrea Isella, Nicol\'as T. Kurtovic, Laura M. P\'erez, Paola Pinilla, Luna Rampinelli, Richard Teague
https://

Inner disc and circumplanetary material in the PDS 70 system
The two giant protoplanets directly imaged in the dust-depleted cavity of PDS 70 offer a unique opportunity to study ongoing planet formation. Both planets have been detected in infrared thermal emission and in H$α$, indicating active accretion. We calibrate and analyse archival ALMA Band 6 and 7 observations of PDS 70 from 2019, 2021, and 2023 to search for circumplanetary material and assess its motion. Using 2D visibility modelling of the high-resolution (~0.11"x0.08" in Band 6; ~0.05"x0.05…

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 18.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.

A Tale of Two Shocks
Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber, Domenico Trotta, Rungployphan Kieokaew, Liu Yang, Alexander Kollhoff, Lars Berger, Patrick K\"uhl, Stephan I. B\"ottcher, Bernd Heber, Philippe Louarn, Andrey Fedorov, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco, Ra\'ul G\'omez-Herrero, Francisco Espinosa Lara, Ignacio Cernuda, Yulia Kartavykh, Linghua Wang, George C. Ho, Robert C. Allen, Glenn M. Mason, Zheyi Ding, Andrea Larosa, G. Sindhuja, Sandra Eldrum, Sebastian Fleth, David Lar…

A Tale of Two Shocks
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, . . . - for the thermal/suprathermal particle populations in the vicinity of two traveling interplanetary shocks observed by Solar Orbiter on 2023-11-29 07:51:17 UTC and 2023-11-30 10:47:26 UTC at $\sim 0.83$ astronomical units from the Sun. We investigate these two very dissimilar shocks and elucidate their non-equilibrium features. We do not provide explanations of all observed features, our aim is to report them here for future reference…

from my link log —
Vectorized interpreters: mass rapid transit for programming languages.
http://venge.net/graydon/talks/VectorizedInterpretersTalk-2023-05-12.pdf
saved 2025-06-05

A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.

I’m running CalyxOS on my old Fairphone4, not because it’s a bad choice, but precisely to observe how incredibly behind this OS is on security updates.
My primary device today is a Pixel 9a running GrapheneOS, not this outdated, insecure, and privacy-compromised Fairphone 4.
This Fairphone never became my daily driver once I realized just how far behind it is on security and privacy. I used it from October 2022 until I switched to my Pixel 6a running GrapheneOS in early May 2023,…

Two-dimensional Rademacher walk
Satyaki Bhattacharya, Stanislav Volkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16259 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.16…

Two-dimensional Rademacher walk
We study a generalisation of the one-dimensional Rademacher random walk introduced in Bhattacharya and Volkov (2023) to $\mathbb{Z}^2$ (for $d\ge 3$, the Rademacher random walk is always transient, as follows from Theorem 8.8 in Englander and Volkov (2025)). This walk is defined as the sum of a sequence of independent steps, where each step goes in one of the four possible directions with equal probability, and the size of the $n$th step is $a_n$ where $\{a_n\}$ is a given sequence of positive …

For #MusicWomenWednesday this week, a killer new find-- Melbourne, Australia's PHANTASM. Some really ripping hardcore punk here highlighted by the raw, furious vocals of Bernadette Fitzgibbon. Stumbled across this 4 song 7" EP 'Conflict Reality' that Phantasm put out in 2023 via Hardcore Victim, and I've really been digging it this week.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13191 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Moment-sos and spectral hierarchies for polynomial optimization on the sphere and quantum de Finetti theorems
We revisit the convergence analysis of two approximation hierarchies for polynomial optimization on the unit sphere. The first one is based on the moment-sos approach and gives semidefinite bounds for which Fang and Fawzi (2021) showed an analysis in $O(1/r^2)$ for the r-th level bound, using the polynomial kernel method. The second hierarchy was recently proposed by Lovitz and Johnston (2023) and gives spectral bounds for which they show a convergence rate in $O(1/r)$, using a quantum de Finet…

FBI: Play ransomware gang has attacked 600 organizations since 2023 https://therecord.media/play-ransomware-gang-fbi-update-900-attacks

A Decidable Bundled Fragment of First-Order Modal Logic Without Finite Model Property
Varad Joshi, Anantha Padmanabha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01421 http…

A Decidable Bundled Fragment of First-Order Modal Logic Without Finite Model Property
The satisfiability problem for First-order Modal Logic (\FOML) is undecidable even for simple fragments like having only unary predicates, two variables etc. Recently a new way to identify decidable fragments of \FOML has been introduced called the "bundled fragments", where the quantifiers and modalities are restricted to appear together. Since there are many ways to bundle the quantifiers together, some of them lead to (un)decidable fragments. In (Liu et.al, 2023) the authors prove a `trichot…

Evolution of QPO During Discovery Outburst of MAXI J1834-021: Estimation of Intrinsic Parameters from Spectro-Temporal Study
Dipak Debnath, Hsiang-Kuang Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10267

Evolution of QPO During Discovery Outburst of MAXI J1834-021: Estimation of Intrinsic Parameters from Spectro-Temporal Study
The Galactic transient black hole candidate (BHC) MAXI~J1834-021 was detected for the first time by MAXI/GSC on February 05, 2023 and it was active for next $\sim 10$~months. A monotonic evolution of low-frequency QPOs from higher to lower frequencies is observed in the middle-phase of the outburst. We study this evolution of the QPO with the propagating oscillatory shock (POS) model, and it suggests the presence of a receding shock. The POS model fit also estimates the mass of the source to be…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 534 nodes and 12812 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
Matan Ben-Tov, Mor Geva, Mahmood Sharif
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12880 https://

Universal Jailbreak Suffixes Are Strong Attention Hijackers
We study suffix-based jailbreaks$\unicode{x2013}$a powerful family of attacks against large language models (LLMs) that optimize adversarial suffixes to circumvent safety alignment. Focusing on the widely used foundational GCG attack (Zou et al., 2023), we observe that suffixes vary in efficacy: some markedly more universal$\unicode{x2013}$generalizing to many unseen harmful instructions$\unicode{x2013}$than others. We first show that GCG's effectiveness is driven by a shallow, critical mechani…

Hedging Deposit Run Risk Prior to the 2023 Regional Banking Crisis
Matt Brigida, Kathleen Maceyka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03344 https://

Hedging Deposit Run Risk Prior to the 2023 Regional Banking Crisis
In this analysis we determine factors driving the cross-sectional variation in uninsured deposits during the interest rate raising cycle of 2022 to 2023. The goal of our analysis is to determine whether banks proactively managed deposit run risk prior to the hiking cycle which produced the 2023 Regional Banking Crisis. We find evidence that interest rate forward, futures, and swap use affected the change in a bank uninsured deposits over the period. Interest rate option use, however, has no eff…

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International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine International collaboration of Ukrainian scholars: Effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine
This study explores the effects of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine on the international collaboration of Ukrainian scholars. First and foremost, Ukrainian scholars deserve respect for continuing to publish despite life-threatening conditions, mental strain, shelling and blackouts. In 2022-2023, universities gained more from international collaboration than the NASU. The percentage of internationally co-authored articles remained unchanged for the NASU, while it increased for universitie…

Ihmisen jalanjälki #luonto #ympäristö

Ihmisen jalanjälki
Miten ihmisen toiminta on vaikuttanut maapallon nykytilaan ja evoluutioon? Yhdysvaltalainen biologi Shane Campbell-Staton selvittää ihmisen jättämää jalanjälkeä maapallolla käyttäen esimerkkejä jokapäiväisestä elämästämme. (Human Footprint. Tuotanto: Days Edge Productions/PBS, Yhdysvallat 2023.)

The Outstanding Talk Series Emmy category will have only three nominations in 2025, down from five in 2023, due to getting just 13 submissions (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/late-night-talk-emmy-category-three-nominatio…

Late-Night Talk Emmy Category Reduced To Three Nominations
The likes of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers will be battling it out for one of only three Emmy nominations.

I’ve been enjoying the beginner focused articles on bikes here…
➡️ #MastoBikes #biking

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For Cyclists, By Cyclists. Trusted by Over 1 Million Riders in 2023 Meet the BikeTips Team Rory McAllister Managing Editor UESCA Cycling Coach & Bikepacking Fanatic Ben Gibbons Deputy Editor, Injuries & Sports Science Personal

Two elected #Democrat political officials in #NorthernCalifornia town booked and held on $1 million bail for #arson & #insurance sch…

Search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $\mu^ \mu^-$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV
CMS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06152 …

Search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $μ^+μ^-$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV
A search for the rare decay D$^0$ $\to$ $μ^+μ^-$ is reported using proton-proton collision events at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13.6 TeV collected by the CMS detector in 2022$-$2023, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 64.5 fb$^{-1}$. This is the first analysis to use a newly developed inclusive dimuon trigger, expanding the scope of the CMS flavor physics program. The search uses D$^0$ mesons obtained from D$^{*+}$ $\to$ D$^0π^+$ decays. No significant excess is observed. A limit on the branchin…

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Quantum correlations and spatial localization in trapped one-dimensional ultra-cold Bose-Bose-Bose mixtures
We systematically investigate and illustrate the complete ground-state phase diagram for a one-dimensional, three-species mixture of a few repulsively interacting bosons trapped harmonically. To numerically obtain the solutions to the many-body Schrödinger equation, we employ the improved Exact Diagonalization method [T. D. Anh-Tai {\it et al.}, SciPost Physics 15, 048 (2023)], which is capable of treating strongly-correlated few-body systems from first principles in an efficiently truncated H…

CISA, the ACSC, and the FBI say the Play ransomware gang, active since June 2022, had breached roughly 900 organizations as of May 2025, up 3x on October 2023 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Sources: Tucker Carlson and Neil Patel have bought out investors in their media company, Tucker Carlson Network; the two had raised $15M for TCN in 2023 (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/13/tucker-carlson-investors

Scoop: Tucker Carlson buys out investors in his media company
The deal gives the founders complete independence and total control of the company.

Inverted Classroom in der Einf\"uhrungsveranstaltung Programmierung
Ulrich von Zadow, Natalie Kiesler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10057 https://…

Inverted Classroom in der Einführungsveranstaltung Programmierung
Traditionally, the introductory programming course for computer science students at Nuremberg Tech had been implemented as a combination of lectures and exercise sessions. Due to high failure rates in the winter semester 2023/24, an experimental teaching concept based on the inverted classroom was implemented for one cohort in the winter semester 2024/25. Students had to prepare themselves through literature work and activating teaching and learning methods. The course was accompanied by a seri…

Abraham Alexander - Tears Run Dry
from the album "Sea/Sons" (2023)
Side A Track 3
( 音楽 / 音樂 / 音乐 / 음악 / music )
https://youtu.be/TzALJGwDTc8

2023 waren wir mit der Schachtour beim 75-jährigen Jubiläum des Schachklub Ersingen. Morgens standen gleich 2 Blitzturniere auf dem Programm und Nachmittag half Chessy dann ein lebendes Schachspiel mit Kindern als Figuren zu veranstalten, zu welchen sich fast das ganze Dorf versammelte um zuzusehen.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:

While it is bad #grok is bad again, it is very good how obvious the chains are.
#ai

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 458 nodes and 7613 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00493 has been replaced.
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Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
We present radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and SONG-Australia. We also analysed a sector of TESS photometry that overlapped with the 2022 SONG data. We processed the time series to assign weights and to remove bad data points. The power spectrum clearly shows solar-like oscillations centred at 430 muHz. The TESS data show the oscillations at lower signal-to-noise because photometric measurements are much more affected by the granu…

Astrix @ Boom Festival 2023 (Full Set Movie) | #NowPlaying

With Bryce Huff trade, 49ers continue re-making defense in Robert Saleh's image https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45398149/bryce-huff-trade-shows-49ers-faith-robert-saleh-fix-defense

Sources: Chinese hackers breached a US telecom company in the summer of 2023, a year before US officials and cybersecurity firms detected the Salt Typhoon hacks (Jake Bleiberg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Dust production rates in Jupiter-family comets II: Trends and population insights from ATLAS photometry of 116 JFCs
A. Fraser Gillan, Alan Fitzsimmons, Larry Denneau, Robert J. Siverd, Ken W. Smith, John L. Tonry, David R. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09192

Dust production rates in Jupiter-family comets II: Trends and population insights from ATLAS photometry of 116 JFCs
Jupiter-family comets (JFCs) have orbital periods of less than 20 years and therefore undergo more frequent sublimation compared to other comet populations. The JFCs therefore represent the ideal dynamical population for investigating the dust production rates at high-cadence. We analyzed observations by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) of 74 JFCs that reached perihelion in 2022 and 2023. The work contained in this study builds upon our previous work (Gillan et al. 2024…

from my link log —
Surety: The world’s oldest blockchain has been hiding in the New York Times since 1995.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/j5nzx4/what-was-the-first-blockchain
saved 2023-10-05

The World’s Oldest Blockchain Has Been Hiding in the New York Times Since 1995
This really gives a new meaning to the “paper of record."

Avara luonto: Pohjanmeri ja Itämeri #luonto

Avara luonto: Pohjanmeri ja Itämeri
Sarjassa perehdytään myrskyisän Pohjanmeren ja matalan Itämeren luontoon ja ilmaston lämpenemisen tuomiin uusiin haasteisiin. Miten mm. kalat, linnut, hylkeet ja kasvit pärjäävät muuttuvissa olosuhteissa? (Seas in Motion, Tuotanto: Doclights/NDR/ARD/Arte/Terra Mater, Saksa 2023.)

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08048 has been replaced.
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The origin of the coherent radio flash potentially associated with GRB 201006A
Rowlinson et al. 2023 recently claimed the detection of a coherent radio flash 76.6 minutes after a short gamma-ray burst. They proposed that the radio emission may be associated with a long-lived neutron star engine. We show through theoretical and observational arguments that the coherent radio emission, if real and indeed associated with GRB 201006A and at the estimated redshift, is unlikely to be due to the collapse of the neutron star, ruling out a blitzar-like mechanism. Instead, we show …

A federal appeals court denies Trump's request for a rehearing in the E. Jean Carroll case, where he was found liable in 2023 for sexual abuse and defamation (Graham Kates/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/appeals-court

Spatiotemporal evolution of UV pulsations and their connection to 3D magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration
Stefan Purkhart, Hannah Collier, Laura A. Hayes, Astrid M. Veronig, Miho Janvier, S\"am Krucker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03825

Spatiotemporal evolution of UV pulsations and their connection to 3D magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration
Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) are a common feature of impulsive solar flare emissions, yet their driving mechanism(s) remain unresolved. We study long-period (3.4 min) QPPs in the M3.7 flare on Feb 24, 2023, using SDO/AIA and Solar Orbiter/STIX to pinpoint their source and driver. We analyzed UV and HXR emissions from four subregions covering the flare ribbons and footpoints of the erupting filament. We find the QPP characteristics varied significantly across these regions. The strongest UV …

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://

The Washington Post names Adam O'Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, as its new opinion editor (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/the-economists-oneal-to-become-washington-post…

The Economist's O'Neal to become Washington Post opinion editor - Talking Biz News
Adam O’Neal, Washington correspondent for The Economist, has been hired as opinion editor at The Washington Post. He has been at The Economist since September 2023. Before that, he was at The Dispatch as executive editor. Previously, O’Neal was an editorial page writer at The Wall Street Journal. Before that, he was an assistant op-ed […]

The Measurement Imbalance in Agentic AI Evaluation Undermines Industry Productivity Claims
Kiana Jafari Meimandi, Gabriela Ar\'anguiz-Dias, Grace Ra Kim, Lana Saadeddin, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02064

The Measurement Imbalance in Agentic AI Evaluation Undermines Industry Productivity Claims
As industry reports claim agentic AI systems deliver double-digit productivity gains and multi-trillion dollar economic potential, the validity of these claims has become critical for investment decisions, regulatory policy, and responsible technology adoption. However, this paper demonstrates that current evaluation practices for agentic AI systems exhibit a systemic imbalance that calls into question prevailing industry productivity claims. Our systematic review of 84 papers (2023--2025) reve…

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'`,…

Blackstone acquires Vista Equity Partners' minority stake in event software company Cvent, sources say for $1.3B; Blackstone acquired Cvent for $4.6B in 2023 (Ryan Gould/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I even fixed my Pixel 6a back in December. Unfortunately, I broke the new screen a few weeks ago.
I'm glad I upgraded to my Pixel 9a when I did. I love GrapheneOS and have been using it since early May 2023 with my 6a.
#GrapheneOS #Android

A profile of sports journalist Pablo Torre, who launched his podcast Pablo Torre Finds Out in 2023 under Meadowlark Media, focusing on "adversarial journalism" (Zak Keefer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6329507/2

Jordon Hudson, Kash Patel and MJ’s fax machine: Pablo Torre’s ‘terminal content brain’ battles the algorithm
Torre had to leave ESPN to carve out a spot in the media landscape that fits him, mixing the silly — even the salacious — with the smart.

Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
Hans Kjeldsen, Timothy R. Bedding, Yaguang Li, Frank Grundahl, Mads Fredslund Andersen, Duncan J. Wright, Jack Soutter, Robert Wittenmyer, Claudia Reyes, Dennis Stello, Courtney Crawford, Yixiao Zhou, Mathieu Clerte, Pere L. Palle, Sergio Simon-Diaz, Joergen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Rasmus Handberg, Hasse Hansen, Paul Heeren, Jens Jessen-Hansen, Mikkel Lund, Mia S. Lundkvist, Karsten Brogaard, Re…

Asteroseismology of the G8 subgiant beta Aquilae with SONG-Tenerife, SONG-Australia and TESS
We present radial velocities of the G8 subgiant star beta Aql obtained in 2022 and 2023 using SONG-Tenerife and SONG-Australia. We also analysed a sector of TESS photometry that overlapped with the 2022 SONG data. We processed the time series to assign weights and to remove bad data points. The power spectrum clearly shows solar-like oscillations centred at 430 muHz. The TESS data show the oscillations at lower signal-to-noise because photometric measurements are much more affected by the granu…