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OpenAI says it has expanded its global affairs team from three at the start of 2023 to 35, stationed strategically in locations where AI legislation is advanced (Financial Times)
https://t.co/fdR2M4EtVW

2023 retro-link! https://byorgey.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/competitive-programming-in-haskell-better-binary-search/ - Better binary search in Haskell.

The Netherlands has an obligation for companies to take energy saving measures with a payback time of less than 7 years. Large energy users had to report on their measures by 1 December 2023, but 4.5 months later, less than half had done so.
My comments in
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Grote bedrijven moeten verplicht energie besparen, maar meeste doen niet mee
De meest energie-intensieve bedrijven van Nederland kunnen samen vele honderden miljoenen kubieke meters aardgas besparen met maatregelen die ze binnen korte tijd hebben terugverdiend. Ze zijn daar ook toe verplicht, maar de meerderheid van de bedrijven werkt niet mee.

Nahverkehr in NRW: Mehr Zugausfälle und mehr Fahrgäste – Verspätungen weiter hoch
Baustellen und Personalengpässe führten 2023 zu rekordhohen Zugausfällen in NRW, die Fahrgastzahlen stiegen dennoch, so der Qualitätsbericht von „go.Rheinland“.
https://www.<…

Nahverkehr in NRW: Mehr Zugausfälle und mehr Fahrgäste – Verspätungen auf hohem Niveau
Baustellen und Personalengpässe führten 2023 zu rekordhohen Zugausfällen in NRW, die Fahrgastzahlen stiegen dennoch, so der Qualitätsbericht von „go.Rheinland“.

Guess this is what it sounds like when you test your equipment https://open.spotify.com/track/1fnhNMhynPM4zEV8VLE8jB?si=QoiB7RHATAWWTn6wyTLJjQ&context=spotify:album:3TOqth4BResSHzsrnREbbh…

The Swamp Song - Remastered
Oasis · Song · 2023

Current and former staff at Boston public media outlet GBH criticize top salaries after 31 people were laid off; nine execs earned $300K in base pay in 2023 (Aidan Ryan/The Boston Globe)
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/10/bus…

After GBH layoffs, employees question executives' pay
The untouched, high salaries have prompted criticism among current and former employees about the organization’s choices in confronting a budget shortfall of $7 million for its core business.

Sources: Indian rapid grocery delivery startup Zepto plans to raise ~$650M co-led by Nexus and StepStone at a valuation of $3.5B, up from $1.4B in August 2023 (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/ze

Sources: Indian rapid grocery delivery startup Zepto plans to raise ~$650M co-led by Nexus and StepStone at a valuation of $3.5B, up from $1.4B in August 2023 (Moneycontrol)
https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/ze

The ugliness of MAGA makes it too hard for many people to go there.
In 2021 Republicans could have chosen a different path than MAGA.
But they chose to double down and run towards MAGA, not away from it.
This decision was a huge electoral mistake --
There was no red wave, and Dems picked up a US Senate seat, 2 governorships, 4 state legislative chambers.
Our unexpected party in power success then carried over to a very blue 2023 across the US. We kept raising lot…

European Right Underperforms Public Polling, Trump's "Strong Leader" Problem, Making June Count
I'm heading to Seattle tomorrow - hope to see folks there!

Heute vor 1 Jahren: Am 14. Juni 2023 erklärte der belarussische Präsident Aleksander Lukaschenko in einem Fernsehinterview mit dem russischen Staatssender Russia-1, dass #Belarus, wie am 25.03.23 durch Putin angekündigt, #Kernwaffen von Russland erhalten habe.

Licht und Schatten am Augsburger Hauptbahnhof
Der Fahrgastverband PRO BAHN hat sich, wie viele Fahrgäste, am 8. Dezember 2023 sehr über die längst überfällige Eröffnung des barrierefreien Augsburger Hauptbahnhofs gefreut.Bei aller Freude bleiben jedoch noch ein paar Wermutstropfen, Baustellen und Schwachstellen, auf die PRO BAHN Schwaben in einer Pressemitteilung hinweist. PRO BAHN stellt fest, dass Fahrgastinformationen und ...

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

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

Las Vegas Raiders' underrated defender is the key to unlocking an elite defense in 2024 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_underrated_defender_is_the_key_to_unlock…

Las Vegas Raiders' underrated defender is the key to unlocking an elite defense in 2024
The Las Vegas Raiders can have an amazing defense in 2024, just like they did in 2023. Of course, last season started slow, but once that switch was flipped, Patrick Graham was given full reign of the defense, and Antonio Pierce was getting the locker room fired up, they were a top-five defense in the league. That wasn't a fluke, as I think the defense will start off much hotter than they did last season. But, the key to unlocking the unit as a top-five defense in the league is one underrated d…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Jalen Ngonda:
🎵 Come Around and Love Me (6 Music Session, 25 Jul 2023)
#JalenNgonda
https://jalenngonda.bandcamp.com/album/come-around-and-love-me

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #ChrisHawkins
Jalen Ngonda:
🎵 Come Around and Love Me (6 Music Session, 25 Jul 2023)
#JalenNgonda
https://jalenngonda.bandcamp.com/album/come-around-and-love-me

"Chart: US sets new record with $71B in clean energy investment"
#US #USA #America #Energy

Chart: US sets new record with $71B in clean energy investment
In the first quarter of this year, private investors poured 40% more money into clean energy and electric vehicles than they did in Q1 2023.

Analysis of non-equilibrium fluctuations in a number of COVID-19 cases and deaths based on time-convolutionless projection-operator method
Michio Tokuyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05611

Analysis of non-equilibrium fluctuations in a number of COVID-19 cases and deaths based on time-convolutionless projection-operator method
The non-equilibrium fluctuations observed in a number of COVID-19 cases and deaths are analyzed from a statistical-dynamical point view. By investigating the data observed around the world which were collected from January 15, 2020 to April 28, 2023 at https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/, we first show that the dynamics of the fluctuations is described by a stochastic equation whose stochastic force is a multiplicative type. By employing the time-convolutionless projection-operator method in open syst…

My weekly photo-essay contribution to the blog Balloon Juice.
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/06/17/on-the-road-albatrossity-costa-rica-week-3-flowers-and-butterflies/

Balloon Juice - On The Road - Albatrossity - Costa Rica — Week 3, Flowers and Butterflies
It’s Albatrossity Monday!  No birbs, but we do get flowers!  Then we have the last of frosty’s 2022 national park trips from 2022 – pssst, frost, is it time to move into 2023?  Anyway, it’s the end of the frosty series for 2022, and the beginning of a series from PaulB.  Endings and beginnings this …

I am very excited by this article on Local Govt funding models because I have been working on the wonkiest Gist ever about this topic for weeks and now I know the public is just thirsting to know more.
https://dublininquirer.com/2023/05/10/dublin-city-councillors-call-for-radical-changes-to-the-local-property-tax/

The Bug Club - “Quality Pints” (2023)
One of my favorite new bands. They’re out of Wales, UK and have an extremely catchy, vibrant, energetic sound.
This single is their first on Sub Pop. Fun song about the importance of beer to a touring band.
#AlternativeRock #IndieRock

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'`,…

Yet more journallistic malpractice in NYT coverage of Biden.
Quotes Jodie Evans, a demonstrator against Biden, describing her simply as a "political activist and documentary producer." No mention of the Times's own reporting last August that her husband "works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide" & Evans herself "stridently supports China" and works closely with her husband.

How a U.S. Tech Mogul Used Nonprofits to Sow Chinese Propaganda
The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.

This online map provides information about bathing water locations and their quality for both the latest 2023 season and previous seasons.
The map symbols are colored to reflect the quality status achieved in the most recent season.
The data is presented at two levels:
country (less detailed scales) and bathing water (more detailed scales).
In addition to the 27 EU Member States, the bathing water viewer includes also the data for Albania and Switzerland

State of bathing waters in 2023
We all want to know the quality of 'our' local bathing area, beach or lake, and whether it conforms to EU standards. Below you will find a map viewer that will allow you to view on-line the quality of the bathing water in the around 22 000 coastal beaches and freshwater bathing waters across Europe.

For those who are interested and understand Chinese https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/不明白播客/id1625856906?i=1000638058239

‎不明白播客: “雪饼案”：当局为何如此忌惮黄雪琴、王建兵？ on Apple Podcasts
‎Show 不明白播客, Ep “雪饼案”：当局为何如此忌惮黄雪琴、王建兵？ - Dec 9, 2023

Yet more journallistic malpractice in NYT coverage of Biden.
Quotes Jodie Evans, a demonstrator against Biden, describing her simply as a "political activist and documentary producer." No mention of the Times's own reporting last August that her husband "works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide" & Evans herself "stridently supports China" and works closely with her husband.

How a U.S. Tech Mogul Used Nonprofits to Sow Chinese Propaganda
The Times unraveled a financial network that stretches from Chicago to Shanghai and uses American nonprofits to push Chinese talking points worldwide.

Filings: X is still working on Venmo-like payments features, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-1…

HVV: Wie der Erfolg des 49-Euro-Tickets die Hamburger Hochbahn belastet
Eine Million Deutschlandtickets – doch das hat seinen Preis. Was die Bilanz belastet und was sich für Fahrgäste ändert.
https://www.abendblatt.de/hamburg/polit…

Trotz Fahrgastrekord: Hochbahn macht 295 Millionen Verlust
Fahrgastrekord und Millionen-Verluste: Die Hamburger Hochbahn stellte am Donnerstag die Jahreszahlen für 2023 vor.

Stephen Wolfe, an evangelical Presbyterian, advocates an ethnically uniform nation
ruled by a "Christian prince"
with the power to punish blasphemy and false religion.
Wolfe veers chapter by chapter between close readings of often obscure Reformation theologians
and mostly unsourced screeds against the dangers of feminist "gynocracy" and immigrant invasion.
For Wolfe, the nationalism part of Christian nationalism is synonymous with ethnicity…

Stephen Wolfe Makes a Segregationist Case for 'Christian Nationalism'
The Case for Christian Nationalism' advocates for an ethnically uniform nation ruled by a "Christian prince."

Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the Google DeepMind "super-unit" in April 2023, shifting the AI lab from research to products (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Democrats held their own in the last three cycles in navigating tough Senate races.
They will be defending a slim Senate majority in 2024.
Here's a look at the states where both parties are fighting for control of the chamber.
https://www.bus…

Democrats face a tough 2024 Senate map as they aim to protect majority
In 2024, 34 seats will be up for grabs, including 20 currently held by Democrats, 11 held by Republicans, and three currently held by Independents.

Raiders' Divine Deablo Hoping to Build on Career-Best Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/news/raiders-divine-deablo-hoping-to-build-on-career-best-season-01j0eqg3483b

Las Vegas Raiders' Divine Deablo hoping to build on a career-best season
Las Vegas Raiders linebacker Divine Deablo had the best season of his career in 2023, and now, he will look to improve on it.

Q&A with Tubi CEO Anjali Sud, who joined from Vimeo in September 2023, on the streaming industry, working within Fox, subscription fatigue, copyright, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24178580/tubi-ceo-free-tv…

How Tubi CEO Anjali Sud plans to compete with Netflix and TikTok
Tubi is a fast-growing free ad-supported streaming platform with big ambitions to take on TikTok. Here’s how Anjali Sud plans to do it.

Phantom chain simulations for fracture of star polymer networks with various strand densities
Yuichi Masubuchi, Takato Ishida, Yusuke Koide, Takashi Uneyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09741

Phantom chain simulations for fracture of star polymer networks with various strand densities
Despite many attempts, the relation between fracture and structure of polymer networks is yet to be clarified. For this problem, a recent study for phantom chain simulations [Macromolecules, 56, 9359 (2023)] has demonstrated that the fracture characteristics obtained for polymer networks with various node functionalities and conversion ratios lie on master curves if they are plotted against cycle rank. In this study, we extended the simulation to the effect of prepolymer concentration on the re…

Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length, after releasing Gen-2 in June 2023 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/runway-unve

Runway unveils new hyper realistic AI video model Gen-3 Alpha, capable of 10-second-long clips
Gen-3 Alpha allows users to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length.

Stephen Wolfe, an evangelical Presbyterian, advocates an ethnically uniform nation
ruled by a "Christian prince"
with the power to punish blasphemy and false religion.
Wolfe veers chapter by chapter between close readings of often obscure Reformation theologians
and mostly unsourced screeds against the dangers of feminist "gynocracy" and immigrant invasion.
For Wolfe, the nationalism part of Christian nationalism is synonymous with ethnicity…

Stephen Wolfe Makes a Segregationist Case for 'Christian Nationalism'
The Case for Christian Nationalism' advocates for an ethnically uniform nation ruled by a "Christian prince."

Las Vegas Raiders' Rob Ryan gets deep when asked about head coach Antonio Pierce https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_rob_ryan_gets_deep_when_asked_about_head_coach_antonio…

Phantom chain simulations for fracture of star polymer networks with various strand densities
Yuichi Masubuchi, Takato Ishida, Yusuke Koide, Takashi Uneyama
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09741

Phantom chain simulations for fracture of star polymer networks with various strand densities
Despite many attempts, the relation between fracture and structure of polymer networks is yet to be clarified. For this problem, a recent study for phantom chain simulations [Macromolecules, 56, 9359 (2023)] has demonstrated that the fracture characteristics obtained for polymer networks with various node functionalities and conversion ratios lie on master curves if they are plotted against cycle rank. In this study, we extended the simulation to the effect of prepolymer concentration on the re…