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Study: between August 2024 and June 2025, the number of women working as creators on US streaming originals hit 36%, a record and up from 27% the year prior (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Shows Created by Women Rise Sharply, but Only on Streaming TV
Far more shows on streaming services are being created by women, a new study found. That number on broadcast networks, though, remained stagnant.

Sources: Mistral AI is finalizing a €2B investment that values the company at €12B, in its first fundraise since June 2024, when it was valued at €5.8B (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/mis…

from my link log —
CandyFab: a DIY 3D sugar printer.
https://candyfab.org/
saved 2024-12-20 https://dotat.at/:/3D5SH.html

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 04.10.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
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Bucks County PA went just barely for Trump in 2024,
It's not exactly the kind of place where you'd expect this sort of very-online-leftist messaging to work as an attack.
But it does now! The normies are being radicalized against ICE.🙏
https://bsky.app/profile/kombiz.bsky.s

Kombiz Lavasany (@kombiz.bsky.social)
ICE-loving sheriff loses his election in Bucks County, PA, to a young progressive candidate. Apparently, people really don't like it when their neighbors get kidnapped and disappear. https://buckscountybeacon.com/2025/11/bucks-countys-ice-loving-maga-sheriff-fred-harran-got-what-he-deserved-a-pink-slip-from-voters-on-election-night/

BTW - that CBC article used a lot of numbers from this report, which because it's all numbers is awesome. Some tidbits:
- The number of farms over 3,500 acres has nearly doubled in 20 years.
- 41.3% of Canadian farmland is rented.
- From 1971 to 2021, the farm population declined by 62.2%, from 1 in 14 Canadians to 1 in 61.
- Farm debt has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from $43B in 2002 to $138.8B in 2022. That is currently 10x the size of net farm income.
- In 2021, 96,043 tonnes of pesticides were sold for agricultural use – more than three times the amount sold in 1991.
#Statistics #Farming
https://www.nfu.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Canadian-Ag-by-the-Numbers-2024.pdf

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Progress.

Source: Sierra, which builds AI customer service agents, nears a $350M raise at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2024, and is set to top $100M in ARR (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/03/sierra-ai-agents-funding-350-million

Scoop: Agent startup Sierra closes in on $350 million deal
The company's specialty, AI agents for customer support, is in growing demand.

Ladies & Gentleman... the amazing Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge
#mucke

Won No Teg
Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge · Wine On Venus · Song · 2024

Spectral characterization and performance of SPT-SLIM on-chip filterbank spectrometers
C. S. Benson, K. Fichman, M. Adamic, A. J. Anderson, P. Barry, B. A. Benson, E. Brooks, J. E. Carlstrom, T. Cecil, C. L. Chang, K. R. Dibert, M. Dobbs, K. S. Karkare, G. K. Keating, A. M. Lapuente, M. Lisovenko, D. P. Marronexi, J. Montgomery, T. Natoli, Z. Pan, A. Rahlin, G. Robson, M. Rouble, G. Smecherxii, V. Yefremenko, M. R. Young, C. Yu, J. A. Zebrowski, C. Zhang

Spectral characterization and performance of SPT-SLIM on-chip filterbank spectrometers
The South Pole Telescope Shirokoff Line Intensity Mapper (SPT-SLIM) experiment is a pathfinder for demonstrating the use of on-chip spectrometers for millimeter Line Intensity Mapping. We present spectral bandpass measurements of the SLIM spectrometer channels made on site using a Fourier Transform Spectrometer during SPT-SLIMs first deployment the 2024-2025 austral summer observing season. Through this we demonstrate a technique for measuring the narrow band passes of the SPT-SLIM filterbanks …

So, ich muss einfach mal schlechtes Wetter posten. Stellplatz. Peter Ording [2024]

Seahawks-Commanders takeaways: Sam Darnold throws 4 touchdown passes, Jayden Daniels hurt https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6772442/2025/11/02/seahawks-commanders-score-result-takeaways-week-9-snf-nfl/

BPO giant Conduent confirms data breach impacts 10.5 million people
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/bpo-giant-conduent-confirms-data-breach-impacts-105-million-people/

BPO giant Conduent confirms data breach impacts 10.5 million people
American business services giant Conduent has confirmed that a 2024 data breach has impacted over 10.5 million people, according to notifications filed with the US Attorney General's offices.

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Monat in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmejahre von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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The hat polykite as an Iterated Function System
Corey de Wit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00409 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00409

The hat polykite as an Iterated Function System
This paper describes the celebrated aperiodic hat tiling by Smith et al. [Comb. Theory 8 (2024), 6] as generated by an overlapping iterated function system. We briefly introduce and study infinite sequences of iterated function systems that converge uniformly in each component, and use this theory to model the hat tiling's associated imperfect substitution system.

AI search engine startup Exa Labs raised an $85M Series B led by Benchmark at a $700M valuation, up 10x on its 2024 Series A, and plans to grow its GPU cluster (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-03/…

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
https://www.iwr.de/news/china-ueberschreitet-als-erstes-land-der-welt-die-marke-von-1-000-gw-solarleistung-news39292

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).

Amazon shuts down watering hole attack attributed to Russia’s APT29 hacking group https://therecord.media/amazon-shuts-down-apt29-watering-hole-attack

Petit rappel utile (je savais que ça existait, mais il y a 48 heures, je me suis demandé comment il fallait faire)
Bookmarklet Š installer.
Lier un fragment de texte dans une page web – Le carnet de Joachim https://fourbi.eu/billet/2024-12-03-lier-un-fr…

Cowboys 'trade secrets' may have potentially revealed WR move at NFL deadline https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/news/dallas-cowboys-trade-secrets-potential-revealed-wr-move-nfl-deadline

Nonlinear Fisher information, corresponding functional inequalities and applications
Tomasz Cie\'slak, Kentaro Fujie, Tatsuya Hosono
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01475 https:/…

Nonlinear Fisher information, corresponding functional inequalities and applications
We study the evolution of the nonlinear version of the Fisher information along the quasilinear heat equation. We also provide a nonlinear version of a recent functional inequality (Cieślak--Fuest--Hajduk--Sierżęga, 2024), corresponding to the nonlinear heat equation. Next, applications of our version of nonlinear Fisher information to the 1D critical quasilinear fully parabolic Keller--Segel system are given. In particular, the global existence of solutions to the critical nonlinear diffusi…

Multiband Optical Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of the 2024 Flare Event in Transition Blazar OP313
TianFang Zhang, Mitsuru Kokubo, Mamoru Doi, Haruna Hagio, Hibiki Seki, Ichiro Takahashi, Katsuhiro L. Murata, Kazuya Matsubayashi, Keisuke Isogai, Koji Kawabata, Mahito Sasada, Masafumi Niwano, Masaki Hashizume, Megumi Shidatsu, Narikazu Higuchi, Ryo Imazawa, Shigeaki Joshima, Shigeyuki Sako, Shunsuke Hayatsu, Yoichi Yatsu, Wataru Iwakiri, Yoshiyuki Kubo

Multiband Optical Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of the 2024 Flare Event in Transition Blazar OP313
Blazars are active galactic nuclei known for their extreme variability, offering unique opportunities to study jet physics and high-energy emission mechanisms. In 2024, the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) OP313 underwent a remarkable flare event, during which the gamma-ray flux observed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi/LAT) increased by a factor of 60 over its average value. The flare peak lasted less than two days. Using optical telescopes, we conducted 100-day time-scale observation…

Measurement of dome turbulence intensity from scintillation pattern in the pupil of the telescope
Victor G. Kornilov, Matwey V. Kornilov, Boris S. Safonov, Anton S. Mironov, Dmitry V. Cheryasov, Igor A. Gorbunov, Ivan A. Strakhov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02298

Measurement of dome turbulence intensity from scintillation pattern in the pupil of the telescope
We present measurements of optical turbulence (OT) power inside the telescope dome using an instrument registering fluctuations of intensity of a bright star at a plane conjugated to -2 km below the pupil of the telescope - Domecam. The measurements were conducted at the 2.5-m telescope of Caucasian Mountain Observatory of Sternberg Astronomical Institute Lomonosov Moscow State University in period 2022-2024 in different ambient conditions. The instrument was validated against Multi Aperture Sc…

TechInsights: Huawei used components from TSMC, Samsung, and SK Hynix in some of its Ascend 910C chips; TSMC says the analyzed dies were made before Oct. 2024 (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I currently read “It can’t happen here” by Sinclair Lewis from 1935. It's about fictive events in the US in 1936: an election won by a senator turned dictator. It reads like a description of the US 2024/2025, except dear leader is Democrat, not Republican. I'm on page 90 (just finished chapter 11), almost 300 more to read, it really is hard!
As the Trump playbook follows Project 2025, are we completely sure that this is NOT just a rewrite of Lewis' novel?

Suomessa kuoli yli 150 000 eläintä eläinkokeiden takia vuonna 2024 https://animaliamedia.fi/suomessa-kuoli-yli-150-000-elainta-elainkokeiden-takia-vuonna-2024/

Suomessa kuoli yli 150 000 eläintä eläinkokeiden takia vuonna 2024 | Animalia-media
Suomen yleisin koe-eläin on hiiri, joita on lähes puolet koe-eläimistä. Toiseksi eniten koe-eläiminä käytetään erilaisia kaloja.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
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You.com, which pivoted from AI search to enterprise AI tools, raised $100M led by Cox Enterprises at a $1.5B valuation, after a $50M Series B in September 2024 (Paayal Zaveri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

(2024) Visual neuroprostheses for impaired human nervous system: State-of-the-art and future outlook #BCI

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

from my link log —
Unification-free ("keyword") type checking.
https://www.haskellforall.com/2024/02/unification-free-keyword-type-checking.html
saved 2025-09-01

Unification-free ("keyword") type checking
Unification-free ("keyword") type checking From my perspective, one of the biggest open problems in imple...

Overview of the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
Dawn Lawrie, Sean MacAvaney, James Mayfield, Paul McNamee, Douglas W. Oard, Luca Soldaini, Eugene Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14355 h…

Overview of the TREC 2024 NeuCLIR Track
The principal goal of the TREC Neural Cross-Language Information Retrieval (NeuCLIR) track is to study the effect of neural approaches on cross-language information access. The track has created test collections containing Chinese, Persian, and Russian news stories and Chinese academic abstracts. NeuCLIR includes four task types: Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR) from news, Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR) from news, Report Generation from news, and CLIR from technical docume…

The FBI reportedly recorded Donald Trump’s border czar -- Tom Homan -- accepting $50,000 in cash from undercover agents who were posing as business contractors last year.
A new report from MSNBC on Saturday reveals that the agents recorded Homan, six weeks before the 2024 election,
allegedly promising to assist in securing government contracts across the border security industry during Trump’s second term.
Six sources familiar with the matter told MSNBC that the FBIand just…

A class number problem for imaginary cyclic number fields of 2-power degrees
St\'ephane R. Louboutin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10563 https://arxiv.org…

A class number problem for imaginary cyclic number fields of 2-power degrees
In 2024, M. K. Ram proved that the class number of an imaginary cyclic quartic number field is never equal to a prime $p\equiv 3\pmod 4$. Here we greatly generalize this result to the case of the non-quadratic imaginary cyclic number fields of $2$-power degrees and not necessarily prime class numbers.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 19.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

from my link log —
Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler concurrency bugs.
https://johnwickerson.wordpress.com/2024/06/28/mix-testing-revealing-a-new-class-of-compiler-bugs/
saved 2024-06-29

Mix-testing: revealing a new class of compiler bugs
I’m delighted that Luke Geeson’s work on “mix testing” (a collaboration with James Brotherston, Wilco Dijkstra, Alastair Donaldson, Lee Smith, Tyler Sorensen, and myself) will app…

Newsmax reports Q2 revenue of $46.4M, up 18.4% YoY, a net loss of $75.2M, compared with a $4.8M loss in Q2 2024, primarily due to settlement costs with Dominion (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/newsmax-q2-2025-earnings-report/

Newsmax revenue climbs to $46 million during Q2
August 19, 2025 - The company renewed its carriage deal with Comcast, inked a new talent agreement with Greta van Susteren and expanded its reach on Hulu with Live TV.

Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4
Brent W. Barbee, Matthew A. Vavrina, Rylie Bull, Adrienne Rudolph, Davide Farnocchia, Russell TerBeek, Justin Atchison, Joshua Lyzhoft, Jessie Dotson, Patrick King, Paul W. Chodas, Dawn Graninger, Ronald G. Mink, Kathryn M. Kumamoto, Jason M. Pearl, Mary Burkey, Isaiah Santistevan, Catherine S. Plesko, Wendy K. Caldwell, Megan Harwell

Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4
Near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on 2024-12-27 and its probability of Earth impact in December 2032 peaked at about 3% on 2025-02-18. Additional observations ruled out Earth impact by 2025-02-23. However, the probability of lunar impact in December 2032 then rose, reaching about 4% by the end of the apparition in May 2025. James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations on 2025-03-26 estimated the asteroid's diameter at 60 +/- 7 m. Studies of 2024 YR4's potential lunar impact effects …

Good Morning #Canada
This morning, our old Mazda goes in for new brakes, front and back, and install the snow tires. While sipping my coffee, I was wondering about auto stats in Canada....
- Canada ranks 23rd worldwide in vehicles per 1,000 people. USA ranks 10th.
- COVID put and end to rising car ownership. In 2020 there were 473 vehicles for every 1,000 people. Today, it's estimated to be 408.
- 11% of Canadians own 3 or more vehicles, 2% own 5 or more.
- 9% own an electric vehicle or hybrid.
- 78% of Canadians say it would be impossible for them not to have a car.
- 41% wish they had better transportation options to avoid needing a car altogether.
- Compared to 2024, car ownership costs have increased 9 per cent, rising from $5,025 to $5,497 annually.
Data from Wikipedia, #StatsCan, and Car Ownership Index.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Automobile

We also wrote a "Snapshot of Modern Mathematics", a short article about the so-called "4-sample-theorem" for Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Gaussian Graphical Models.
We submitted it to MFO in Spring 2024 but sadly they have not yet dealt with it. We never put out a preprint, thinking this would have been a very short process. But it is not.
So here is the preprint now, exclusively posted on the Fediverse:
https://thomas-kahle.de/assets/pdf/mfo-mlt-preprint.pdf
@…: snapshots are in bad shape... 😞
2/2

Nika Soon-Shiong, LAT owner Patrick Soon-Shiong's daughter, becomes Drop Site News' publisher, as the left-leaning outlet hits ~400K subs since its 2024 launch (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/09/14/2025

‘The verdict of history will be merciless’: A new left media rises in the age of Trump
Drop Site News is bringing on a new publisher as it and other leftist news sites get scoops and momentum.

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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Apple's Vision Pro with the M5 chip is assembled in Vietnam, according to labels on its packaging; the M2-based model, launched in 2024, was built in China (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/app…

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Amortisation automatisch

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag