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The economy created only 33,000 jobs in May and June combined
— anemic growth the likes of which we haven’t seen the final months of President Trump’s first term.
In contrast, under President Biden, the economy gained some 420,000 jobs in May and June 2024.
Trump’s response was as unhinged and authoritarian as you’d expect.
In an unprecedented move, he abruptly firedErika McEntarfer,
the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
-- and as an excuse lied th…

The looming Trump-cession
Orange man bad (for the economy).

#PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
https://jpcamara.com/2023/04/12/pgbouncer-is-useful.html

#Bergschadenssituation im Rheinischen #Braunkohlenrevier. Jährliche Berichterstattung der #RWE Power AG
Berichtsjahr 2024.

“The colonial monopoly on violence is backed by the liberal demand of nonviolent resistance.”
— tsengputterman, 2024 on Twitter

Streudiagramm der Entwicklung der #Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durc…

Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/chat

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines | TechCrunch
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.

Over the last 6 months, potus has made decisions economists on both sides of the aisle said would lower the number of new jobs created in the U.S. (random inconsistent import taxes, tariffs, are bad).
That’s the only “rigging” going on.
https://trumpstruth.org/statuses/32338

Donald J. Trump: "In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republi...
In my opinion, today’s Jobs Numbers were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad — Just like when they had three great days around the 2024 Presidential Election, and then, those numbers were “taken away” on November 15, 2024, right after the Election, when the Jobs Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM. Jerome “Too Late” Powell is no better! But, the good news is, our Country is doing GREAT!

Sustain Creativity – Pushing Too Far – part 2 #brokenankle #composer #musician

Sustain Creativity - Pushing Too Far - part 2
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/south-africa-to-ban-highly-toxic-pesticide-terbufos/

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

Trump Media reports Q2 net sales up 5.5% YoY to $883.3K, a net loss of $20M, vs. a $16.4M net loss in Q2 2024, and $3.1B in cash and investments, up ~800% YoY (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/trump-truth-social-tmtg-q2-2…

Trump's TMTG Truth Social Q2 Earnings: $20M Loss on $883K in Net Sales
Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company of Truth Social that is majority-owned by President Donald Trump, posted earnings for Q2 2025.

from my link log —
Making a compiler to prove tmux Is Turing complete.
https://willhbr.net/2024/03/15/making-a-compiler-to-prove-tmux-is-turing-complete/
saved 2025-08-01

Cataloguing Editions and Other Resources in One Unified System: The Case of the Text Registry
By Leon Fruth, Nils Geißler, Tobias Gradl, and Daniela Schulz
https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/dhc2024/fruth-et-al/
🎉

God, I loved this movie. I ugly cried so hard in the theater... especially the twist.

▶️ IF | Final Trailer (2024 Movie) - Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Steve Carrell
https://youtube.com/watch?v=mb2187ZQtBE&si=uMC_d5B248gGSVyg

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- BBC Proms 2024: Mahler's Fifth Symphony
The entire Hallé family of orchestra and choirs celebrate Sir Mark Elder’s last season as Music Director after 25 years in the role.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002ggcj

Chiefs' Rashee Rice says he is 'completely changed' after felony hit-and-run conviction, jail sentencing

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/chiefs-

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in Deutschland. Stand: 02.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wü…

De vernedering van Von der Leyen is de vernedering van alle Europeanen.
https://www.demorgen.be/meningen/de-vernedering-van-von-der-leyen-is-de-vernedering-van-alle-europeanen~bb4305b0/?re…

De vernedering van Von der Leyen is de vernedering van alle Europeanen
Het akkoord met de VS over handelstarieven is een signaal van verregaande zwakte en inertie van de EU. Dat is geen toeval, schrijft Sophie in ’t Veld, lid van het Europees Parlement tussen 2004 en 2024. ‘Al twintig jaar staan we stil.’

Confirmation of an investigation into Jack Smith comes after Arkansas senator Tom Cotton, a Republican,
requested last week that Smith be investigated for
“unprecedented interference in the 2024 election”.
The Hatch Act,
a federal law passed in 1939, limits certain political activities of federal employees.
Trump, along with other prominent Republican lawmakers, have argued that Smith’s investigations into Trump amounted to illegal political activity.
Smi…

@… @… je viens de découvrir que linuxjobs.fr est down depuis août 2024 😟

All-Pro Guard Tyler Smith could be the next Cowboys' hold-out https://insidethestar.com/all-pro-guard-tyler-smith-could-be-the-next-cowboys-hold-out

Slovenia becomes first EU country to impose arms embargo on Israel | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/1/slovenia-becomes-first-eu-country-to-impose-arms-embargo-on-is…

Slovenia becomes first EU country to impose arms embargo on Israel
The Central European country has also recognised Palestinian statehood in 2024.

#idw #Stromversorgung 2024: Rekordanteil #erneuerbarer Energien
Eine Bestandsaufnahme der deutschen Stromversorgung zeigt: Die Produktion von Elektrizität hat sich seit 2019 grundlegend verändert. Der A…

Stromversorgung 2024: Rekordanteil erneuerbarer Energien

But nice lawns and golf courses and unblemished flower gardens are so important. We can't possibly give up routine use of #pesticides.
Yet it's clear that even "benign" pesticides, like #pyrethroids, have adverse impacts. Even if they are harmless to people and pets, they …

But nice lawns and golf courses and unblemished flower gardens are so important. We can't possibly give up routine use of #pesticides.
Yet it's clear that even "benign" pesticides, like #pyrethroids, have adverse impacts. Even if they are harmless to people and pets, they …

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 02.08.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse

An analysis of 15M biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 finds researchers using AI to write abstracts use certain words far more often than those who don't (Gina Kolata/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/…

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper
Scientists show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

In 2024-09, @… held a brilliant speech about #LLM #AI and all the dangers if we do not regulate them as soon as possible:

LLM-Based Identification of Infostealer Infection Vectors from Screenshots: The Case of Aurora
Estelle Ruellan, Eric Clay, Nicholas Ascoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23611 https…

LLM-Based Identification of Infostealer Infection Vectors from Screenshots: The Case of Aurora
Infostealers exfiltrate credentials, session cookies, and sensitive data from infected systems. With over 29 million stealer logs reported in 2024, manual analysis and mitigation at scale are virtually unfeasible/unpractical. While most research focuses on proactive malware detection, a significant gap remains in leveraging reactive analysis of stealer logs and their associated artifacts. Specifically, infection artifacts such as screenshots, image captured at the point of compromise, are large…

Native American teens kayak river to celebrate dam removals, symbolizing restoration and honoring ancestors. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Native American teens kayak US river to celebrate dam removals
Four dams were dynamited and removed between 2023 to 2024, freeing hundreds of miles of the Klamath.

Scale-Dependent Multifractality in Bitcoin Realised Volatility: Implications for Rough Volatility Modelling
Milan Pontiggia (MAGEFI - University of Bordeaux, France)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00575

Scale-Dependent Multifractality in Bitcoin Realised Volatility: Implications for Rough Volatility Modelling
We assess the applicability of rough volatility models to Bitcoin realised volatility using the normalised p-variation framework of Cont and Das (2024). Applying this model free estimator to high-frequency Bitcoin data from 2017 to 2024 across multiple sampling resolutions, we find that the normalised statistic remains strictly negative throughout, precluding the estimation of a valid roughness index. Stationarity tests and robustness checks reveal no significant evidence of non-stationarity or…

XL-Calibur Polarimetry of Cyg X-1 Further Constrains the Origin of its Hard-state X-ray Emission
Hisamitsu Awaki, Matthew G. Baring, Richard Bose, Jacob Casey, Sohee Chun, Adrika Dasgupta, Pavel Galchenko, Ephraim Gau, Kazuho Goya, Tomohiro Hakamata, Takayuki Hayashi, Scott Heatwole, Kun Hu, Daiki Ishi, Manabu Ishida, Fabian Kislat, M\'ozsi Kiss, Kassi Klepper, Henric Krawczynski, Haruki Kuramoto, Lindsey Lisalda, Yoshitomo Maeda, Hironori Matsumoto, Shravan Vengalil Menon, Aiko Mi…

XL-Calibur Polarimetry of Cyg X-1 Further Constrains the Origin of its Hard-state X-ray Emission
The balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission XL-Calibur observed the Black Hole X-ray Binary (BHXRB) Cygnus X-1 (Cyg X-1) during its nearly six-day Long Duration Balloon (LDB) flight from Sweden to Canada in July 2024. The XL-Calibur observations allowed us to derive the most precise constraints to date of the Polarization Degree (PD) and Polarization Angle (PA) of the hard X-ray emission from a BHXRB. XL-Calibur observed Cyg X-1 in the hard state and measured a $\sim$19-64 keV PD of ($5.0^…

Liveblog vom Mittwoch zum Nachlesen
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.
🔗 https://www.

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
Mehr zu

SMA and NOEMA reveal asymmetric sub-structure in the protoplanetary disk of IRAS23077 6707
Joshua B. Lovell, Leon Trapman, Kristina Monsch, Sean M. Andrews, Alice S. Booth, Garrett K. Keating, Takahiro Ueda, David J. Wilner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00122

SMA and NOEMA reveal asymmetric sub-structure in the protoplanetary disk of IRAS23077+6707
We present high-resolution data of IRAS 23077+6707 (`Dracula's Chivito') with the Submillimeter Array (SMA at 1.33 mm/225.5 GHz) and the Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA at 2.7 mm/111.7 GHz and 3.1 mm/96.2 GHz). IRAS 23077+6707 is a highly-inclined and newly discovered protoplanetary disk, first reported in 2024. We combine SMA baselines from the Compact, Extended and Very Extended arrays, and NOEMA baselines from its A and C configurations, and present continuum images with resolution…

Comment on "Quantum tunneling from Schwarzschild black hole in non-commutative gauge theory of gravity"
A. A. Ara\'ujo Filho, Iarley P. Lobo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22965

Comment on "Quantum tunneling from Schwarzschild black hole in non-commutative gauge theory of gravity"
The particle creation via quantum tunneling was recently calculated for the Schwarzschild non-commutative black hole solution in Ref. [Phys. Lett. B 848 (2024) 138335, e-Print: 2310.02445 [gr-qc]]. Nevertheless, it contains inconsistencies in the calculations that need to be properly corrected. In particular, the event horizon was incorrectly determined in that work, which affected all the subsequent calculations. Moreover, the same issue have been repeated elsewhere by the same authors in Refs…

Wow, een jaar lang geen verkeersdoden in Helsinki. Laat dat een voorbeeld zijn voor @… (15 doden in 2022, de laatste cijfers) @… (9 doden in 2024) en andere steden.

from my link log —
UK Online Safety Act Notes for small sites.
https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
saved 2024-12-17

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
Subham Bhakta, Igor E. Shparlinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00325 https://

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
A discrete model of quantum ergodicity of linear maps generated by symplectic matrices $A \in \mathrm{Sp}(2d,\mathbb{Z})$ modulo an integer $N\ge 1$, has been studied for $d=1$ and almost all $N$ by P. Kurlberg and Z. Rudnick (2001). Their result has been strengthened by J. Bourgain (2005) and subsequently by A. Ostafe, I. E. Shparlinski, and J. F. Voloch (2023). For arbitrary $d$ this has been studied by P. Kurlberg, A. Ostafe, Z. Rudnick and I. E. Shparlinski (2024). The corresponding equidis…

I just found this UK report on #covid epidemiology from 2020 to Dec 2024; the graph I most noticed is below - they looked at blood donors for spike (S) and Nucleo (N) protein antibodies over time; The spike proteins are in both infection and vaccine, while N is infection only - so you can see when people got vaccinated and how now pretty much everyone (95.5% as end of January) has been infected as…

Epidemiology of COVID-19 in England: January 2020 to December 2024

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
Leon Bridges:
🎵 River
#LeonBridges
https://catzndogz.bandcamp.com/track/leon-bridges-river-catz-n-dogz-2024-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3hhbDnFUb2bicI2df6VurK

#Regenwald.org Jahresbericht 2024. https://www.regenwald.org/nl/4929/1/636186989

„Leben in Harmonie mit der Natur“
Seit kurzem ist unser Jahresbericht 2024 online. Auf 37 Seiten legen wir Ihnen dar, was wir und unsere Partnerorganisationen im vergangenen Jahr geleistet haben, um die Regenwälder zu bewahren und Indigene zu unterstützen.

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1060581 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Interface crossing behavior of prolate microswimmers: thermo and hydrodynamics
Rishish Mishra, Harish Pothukuchi, Harinadha Gidituri, Juho Lintuvuori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23708

Interface crossing behavior of prolate microswimmers: thermo and hydrodynamics
Motivated by recent experiments of motile bacteria crossing liquid-liquid interfaces of isotropic- nematic coexistence (Cheon et al., Soft Matter 20: 7313-7320, 2024), we study the dynamics of prolate microswimmers traversing clean liquid-liquid interfaces. Using large-scale lattice Boltzmann simulations, we observe that neutrally wetting swimmers can be either trapped or cross the in- terface, depending on their initial angle, swimming speed and the interfacial tension between the two fluids. …

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

even more famous!
https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-10/that-ferrari-isnt-going-to-pay-for-itself-the-controversial-rise-of-jeremy-fragrance-the-perfume-influencer.html

Bis zu 96 Prozent - Preisschock bei Billig-Lebensmitteln hält an #News #Nachrichten …

I woke up at 3am, and while trying to get back to sleep thought about how there will be literally thousands of men loose in society who have done unspeakable things during the brutal and disgraceful conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
Some will be caught and tried for war crimes, but most won't. They'll walk past you on the street, have jobs.
It feels like a ticking time bomb.

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

El Paso heat deaths hit record highs in 2023 and 2024. Advocates say the most vulnerable people are left unprotected
https://us2.campaign-archive.com/?e=fa4ac89bc1&u=7c733794100bcc7e083a163f0&id=72ef7d1ce0
> Get all…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.IR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IR/new
[1/1]:
- Overview of BioASQ 2024: The twelfth BioASQ challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing...
Anastasios Nentidis, et al.

WBD Chair Emeritus John Malone says he discussed WBD-Fox merger with Rupert Murdoch in July 2024; sources say a possible deal was raised but not pursued (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3a32fdcb-1248-4721-8269-2867dc5e4d78

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 01.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Sherrod Brown's Race Will Test Trump Voters' Buyer's Remorse (Alex Roarty/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/2024-election/sherrod-brown-ohio-test-trump-voters-buyers-remorse
http://www.memeorandum.com/250818/p146#a250818p146

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Le\"ila Moueddene, Nikolaos G Fytas, Bertrand Berche
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20084

Phase transition properties via partition function zeros: The Blume-Capel ferromagnet revisited
Since the landmark work of Lee and Yang, locating the zeros of the partition function in the complex magnetic-field plane has become a powerful method for studying phase transitions. Fisher later extended this approach to complex temperatures, and subsequent generalizations introduced other control parameters, such as the crystal field. In previous works [Moueddene et al, J. Stat. Mech. (2024) 023206; Phys. Rev. E 110, 064144 (2024)] we applied this framework to the two- and three-dimensional B…

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632 057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction
Jaegeun Park (Chungbuk National University), Hongjun An (Chungbuk National University), Chanho Kim (Chungbuk National University), Natalie Matchett (University of the Free State), Kaya Mori (Columbia University), Brian van Soelen (University of the Free State), VERITAS Collaboration, :, A. Archer, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske, W. Benbow, J. H. Buckley, Y. Chen, A. J. Chromey, A. Duerr, M. Errando, M. Es…

Multi-wavelength Study of HESS J0632+057: New Insights into Pulsar-Disk Interaction
We present an analysis of new multi-wavelength observations of the TeV gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057, conducted using SALT, Swift, NuSTAR, and VERITAS in 2023--2024. By combining these new data with archival observations, we confirm previous suggestions of orbital variability in the source's X-ray spectrum, including increased X-ray absorption at the orbital phase interval of $ϕ\approx0.3\textrm{--}0.4$. The source's X-ray flux within this phase interval seems to have exhibited a significant…

Simultaneous observations of multiple ELVES and SPRITES at the Pierre #Auger Observatory: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11641 -> "the Pierre Auger Observatory has exploited a dedicated trigger and its very high time resolution to study ELVES and harvest record samples of multiple ELVES using the Fluorescence Detector (FD). In 2017, after extending the readout of trace lengths to 0.9 ms, we started observing other types of light transients from the base of the ionosphere, such as HALOS, which deserved further investigation. In December 2023 and April 2024, we installed two additional cameras (TLECAMs), which allow us to perform simultaneous detection of these transients with higher space resolution and longer integration times. Here, we present our first simultaneous observations of SPRITES and ELVES by both TLECAMs and FD."

Greener Grass #NowPlaying #nowplaying #originalmusic #streaming

Greener Grass #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

EconAgentic in DePIN Markets: A Large Language Model Approach to the Sharing Economy of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure
Yulin Liu, Mocca Schweitzer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21368

EconAgentic in DePIN Markets: A Large Language Model Approach to the Sharing Economy of Decentralized Physical Infrastructure
The Decentralized Physical Infrastructure (DePIN) market is revolutionizing the sharing economy through token-based economics and smart contracts that govern decentralized operations. By 2024, DePIN projects have exceeded \$10 billion in market capitalization, underscoring their rapid growth. However, the unregulated nature of these markets, coupled with the autonomous deployment of AI agents in smart contracts, introduces risks such as inefficiencies and potential misalignment with human value…

Violent crimes dropped 4.5 percent in 2024, FBI says – despite Trump’s claims of out-of-control crime | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/trump-fbi-crime-statistics-2024-b2802577.html

🍮 Wissen zum Nachtisch: 🍨
Retröt: Mit #Steckersolaranlagen kannst Du selbst auf Deinem #Balkon Teil der #Energiewende werden, Deine

Steckersolaranlagen für Deinen Balkon: Sparen mit der Energiewende
Spare Stromkosten mit einem Balkonkraftwerk! Finde heraus, was die neuen Regelungen 2024 für Dich bedeuten. Einfach installieren und profitieren.

The 2024 US State Department report on UK human rights has been published. Note that this is a 2024 report so doesn't have anything to say about the recent policing of support for proscribed groups.
https://www.state.gov/reports/2024-country-…

ResPlan: A Large-Scale Vector-Graph Dataset of 17,000 Residential Floor Plans
Mohamed Abouagour, Eleftherios Garyfallidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14006 https://

ResPlan: A Large-Scale Vector-Graph Dataset of 17,000 Residential Floor Plans
We introduce ResPlan, a large-scale dataset of 17,000 detailed, structurally rich, and realistic residential floor plans, created to advance spatial AI research. Each plan includes precise annotations of architectural elements (walls, doors, windows, balconies) and functional spaces (such as kitchens, bedrooms, and bathrooms). ResPlan addresses key limitations of existing datasets such as RPLAN (Wu et al., 2019) and MSD (van Engelenburg et al., 2024) by offering enhanced visual fidelity and gre…

Isto é interessante. Relatório sobre educação nos países da OCDE.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/education-at-a-glance-2024_c00cad36-en.html

Permutations satisfying $(P_1)$ and $(P_2)$ properties and $\ell$-optimal bent functions
Sadmir Kudin, Enes Pasalic, Alexandr Polujan, Fengrong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14277

Permutations satisfying $(P_1)$ and $(P_2)$ properties and $\ell$-optimal bent functions
An important classification of permutations over $\mathbb{F}_2^m$, suitable for constructing Maiorana-McFarland bent functions on $\mathbb{F}_2^m \times \mathbb{F}_2^m$ with the unique $M$-subspace of maximal dimension, was recently considered in Pasalic et al. (IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory 70(6): 4464-4477, 2024). More precisely, two properties called $(P_1)$ and $(P_2)$ were introduced and a generic method of constructing permutations having the property $(P_1)$ was presented, whereas no such resu…

"In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin American nation at the very heart of a global crisis."
Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau

Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau
In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin

Bullet fired into Chiefs building while Andy Reid was inside in 2024: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6566316/2025/08/20/chiefs-andy-reid-bullet/

"Applications of the Critical Incident Technique in Library and Information Science Research: A Literature Review" https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2024-0065

The increasing precipitation deficit in (central) the Netherlands, 1961-2024. While precipitation in the growing season (April-September) hardly changed, evaporation rapidly grew. This explains the increase in the deficit (moving average) from around zero in 1961 to on average over 100 mm by 2024.
#ClimateChangeIsWaterChange

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?
Ori Press, Brandon Amos, Haoyu Zhao, Yikai Wu, Samuel K. Ainsworth, Dominik Krupke, Patrick Kidger, Touqir Sajed, Bartolomeo Stellato, Jisun Park, Nathanael Bosch, Eli Meril, Albert Steppi, Arman Zharmagambetov, Fangzhao Zhang, David Perez-Pineiro, Alberto Mercurio, Ni Zhan, Talor Abramovich, Kilian Lieret, Hanlin Zhang, Shirley Huang, Matthias Bethge, Ofir Press

AlgoTune: Can Language Models Speed Up General-Purpose Numerical Programs?
Despite progress in language model (LM) capabilities, evaluations have thus far focused on models' performance on tasks that humans have previously solved, including in programming (Jimenez et al., 2024) and mathematics (Glazer et al., 2024). We therefore propose testing models' ability to design and implement algorithms in an open-ended benchmark: We task LMs with writing code that efficiently solves computationally challenging problems in computer science, physics, and mathematics. Our AlgoTu…

Speech Emotion Recognition Using Fine-Tuned DWFormer:A Study on Track 1 of the IERPChallenge 2024
Honghong Wang, Xupeng Jia, Jing Deng, Rong Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11371

Speech Emotion Recognition Using Fine-Tuned DWFormer:A Study on Track 1 of the IERPChallenge 2024
The field of artificial intelligence has a strong interest in the topic of emotion recognition. The majority of extant emotion recognition models are oriented towards enhancing the precision of discrete emotion label prediction. Given the direct relationship between human personality and emotion, as well as the significant inter-individual differences in subjective emotional expression, the IERP Challenge 2024 incorporates personality traits into emotion recognition research. This paper present…

What's occurring?
Joy Behar says
Gavin Newsom and Stacey Abrams
Presidential ticket is 'Lush' for 2024
https://youtu.be/SrBhrcwRnnY

Der Markt für #Elektroautos in Deutschland zieht nach dem Rückgang 2024 wieder an.
Im ersten Halbjahr 2025 waren 17,8 Prozent der #Neuzulassungen vollelektrisch.
Gründe sind neue Modelle, stärkere

E-Auto-Markt: Die E-Autos sind zurück
Nach einem schwierigen Jahr 2024 verkaufen sich E-Autos jetzt wieder überraschend gut – ganz ohne Prämie. Ein Grund dafür: Tricks der Hersteller.

from my link log —
Updating a large codebase to Rust 2024.
https://codeandbitters.com/rust-2024-upgrade/
saved 2025-02-07 https://…

Here is a poll about #GenAI since that's all we're talking about at the moment:
Do you believe that you can detect AI-generated text?
If so, what are your tips to detect it? I found this article which has a few suggestions :

5 Easy Ways To Tell If Written Content Came From Generative AI
Spread of generative AI content online since ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022 is up 8,362%. Here's how to tell if content was written by an AI bot or not.

BRIDGES Lectures: Flows of geometric structures, especially $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures
Spiro Karigiannis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11604 https://arxiv.org/…

BRIDGES Lectures: Flows of geometric structures, especially $\mathrm{G}_2$-structures
The BRIDGES meeting in gauge theory, extremal structures, and stability was held June 2024 at l'Institut d'Études Scientifiques de Cargèse in Corsica, organized by Daniele Faenzi, Eveline Legendre, Eric Loubeau, and Henrique Sá Earp. The first week was a summer school consisting of four independent but related lecture series by Oscar García Prada, Spiro Karigiannis, Laurent Manivel, and Ruxandra Moraru. The present document consists of notes for the lecture series by Spiro Karigiannis on "F…

Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
Kevin Zheng, Linda Huber, Aaron Stark, Nathan Kim, Francesca Lameiro, Wells Lucas Santo, Shreya Chowdhary, Eugene Kim, Justine Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08313

Resisting AI Solutionism through Workplace Collective Action
In the face of increasing austerity and threats of AI-enabled labor replacement at the University of Michigan, a group of workers and students have coalesced around the project of "AI resistance" since Fall 2024. Forming a cross-departmental coalition including librarians, faculty, staff, graduate workers, and undergraduate students, we have hosted a public workshop questioning the techno-deterministic inevitability of AI use at the University and are working with other campus organizations to …

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Deutschland.
2024 war das heißeste Jahr seit Beginn der Messungen, mit 2,7 °C über dem langjährigen Mittel.
Die Zahl der #Hitzetage hat sich seit 1950 verdre…

Juli 2025: Viel Regen, wenig Sonne und trotzdem zu warm
Auf den trockenen, sonnigen Juni folgte ein feuchter, trüber Juli, meldet der Deutsche Wetterdienst. Wie waren die Temperaturen in Ihrer Region?

Die #Klimakrise trifft #Kanada und #Europa.
Im Juli 2025 wurden auf beiden Seiten des Atlantiks außergewöhnlich starke

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out #instrumental #music https://muz4now.com/2024/what-makes-a-

What Makes A Happy New Year? Digging My Way Out
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Post-mortem of network outage affecting OpenStreetMap.org in December 2024.
https://operations.osmfoundation.org/2025/02/15/post-mortem.html
saved 2025-02-15

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

2025 Bengals look a lot like the 2024 Bengals: Here's the good, bad and ugly from preseason loss to Eagles

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-be

Making REST APIs Agent-Ready: From OpenAPI to Model Context Protocol Servers for Tool-Augmented LLMs
Meriem Mastouri, Emna Ksontini, Wael Kessentini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16044

Making REST APIs Agent-Ready: From OpenAPI to Model Context Protocol Servers for Tool-Augmented LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are evolving from passive text generators into active agents that invoke external tools. To support this shift, scalable protocols for tool integration are essential. The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic in 2024, offers a schema-driven standard for dynamic tool discovery and invocation. Yet, building MCP servers remains manual and repetitive, requiring developers to write glue code, handle authentication, and configure schemas by hand-replicatin…

There’s a specific kind of cognitive dissonance that comes from watching a woman of color who seemed to have been intellectually reared in progressive circles endear herself to this iteration of the Republican Party
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/20

The One Thing You Need to Know to Understand Usha Vance
Usha Vance isn’t a mystery.

Prediction of Spotify Chart Success Using Audio and Streaming Features
Ian Jacob Cabansag, Paul Ntegeka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11632 https://arxiv.org/…

Prediction of Spotify Chart Success Using Audio and Streaming Features
Spotify's streaming charts offer a real-time lens into music popularity, driving discovery, playlists, and even revenue potential. Understanding what influences a song's rise in ranks on these charts-especially early on-can guide marketing efforts, investment decisions, and even artistic direction. In this project, we developed a classification pipeline to predict a song's chart success based on its musical characteristics and early engagement data. Using all 2024 U.S. Top 200 Spotify Daily Cha…

3 NFL players returning from injury who will bounce back immediately https://fansided.com/nfl/3-nfl-players-returning-from-injury-who-will-bounce-back-immediately

Derek Stingley Jr. is comparable to Deion Sanders in one key area, Texans coach Demeco Ryans explains

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/derek-s

Filing: WBD says it plans to "significantly reduce" CEO David Zaslav's annual pay, including his cash bonus, after shareholders rejected his 2024 pay package (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay to Drop After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a haircut after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026. The company granted him $225 million in stock option awards.

CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-06/venture-capital-…

Venture capital investment rises in L.A., and not just for AI startups
Venture capital investors and private equity firms poured $3.1 billion to fund 144 deals in the L.A. area in the first quarter of this year, up 15% from a year ago.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 23.08.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Falcons did Kirk Cousins wrong: How 2024 NFL offseason could've been turned upside down if QB rejected Atlanta

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/fa…

#China hat als erstes Land weltweit die Marke von 1.000 GW installierter #Solarleistung überschritten.
Allein im ersten Halbjahr 2025 wurden 210 GW neu zugebaut. Das Land setzt gezielt auf Erneuerbare Energien, um fossile Abhängigkeiten zu verringern und seine industrielle Position zu stär…

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
Münster – China entwickelt sich immer schneller zum Motor für den globalen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien. Allein in den ersten sechs Monaten des Jahres 2025 wurden in China neue Solaranlagen mit einer Leistung von 210 GW (210.000 MW) neu errichtet. Das ist deutlich mehr als die gesamte installierte Solarleistung in den USA mit rund 178 GW (IRENA, 2024); Deutschland liegt Ende letzten Jahres bei 100 GW (MaStR, BNetzA).

It may not come as a surprise that the fracking billionaire who helped launch The Daily Wire has also denied that the climate emergency is real. 
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/09/inside-the-anti-climate-culture-war-led…

KORRIGIERTE GRAFIK FÜR ZU/RÜCKBAU
Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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Can Chargers, Broncos continue to ascend after breakthrough 2024 seasons?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/can-chargers-broncos-continue-to-ascend-after-bre…

from my link log —
aa-56: an astronomical ephemeris calculator program.
http://www.moshier.net/aadoc.html
saved 2024-05-28 https://

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

In #Zypern zeigt sich die anhaltende #Dürre deutlich am Asprokremmos-Stausee.
#Satellitenbilder belegen den starken Rückgang der Wasserfläche zwischen Juni 2024 und Juni 2025. Felder in…