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"Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024"
#Brazil #Energy #Renewables

Brazil generates 88% of power from renewables in 2024
Brazil’s electricity mix was 88% renewable in 2024, with wind and solar supplying about 24% of total demand, according to new data from state-owned energy agency Empresa de Pesquisa Energetica (EPE).

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03074 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

GL-LowPopArt: A Nearly Instance-Wise Minimax Estimator for Generalized Low-Rank Trace Regression
We present `GL-LowPopArt`, a novel Catoni-style estimator for generalized low-rank trace regression. Building on `LowPopArt` (Jang et al., 2024), it employs a two-stage approach: nuclear norm regularization followed by matrix Catoni estimation. We establish state-of-the-art estimation error bounds, surpassing existing guarantees (Fan et al., 2019; Kang et al., 2022), and reveal a novel experimental design objective, $\mathrm{GL}(π)$. The key technical challenge is controlling bias from the non…

„This year, over 11.7 million people applied for Schengen short-stay visas. Globally, demand rose by more than 13%.
But for African applicants, that just meant more money lost.
Analysts estimate Africans lost €60 million (around US$67.5 million) in visa fees in 2024 alone — just for rejections.“
Via Sham Jaff's excellent newsletter https:…

Green Bay Packers DL Kenny Clark says he played through 2024 foot injury: 'It was a tough year for me'

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

Trevon Diggs progressing well in recovery from 2024 injury: 'All signs are positive' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/trevon-diggs-progressing-well-in-recovery-from-2024-injury-all-signs-are-positive…

from my link log —
Why does Windows use backslash as its path separator?
https://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-backslash-as-path-separator/
saved 2024-04-25

Prediction of the SVOM MXT camera end of life spectral performance based onproton irradiation results
Clara Plasse, Diego G\"otz, Aline Meuris, Miguel Fernandez Moita, Philippe Ferrando, Leo Favier, Francesco Ceraudo
#toXiv_bot_toot

The 2024 #Labour Budget allocated just £11.3 billion to climate change mitigation and adaptation—covering everything from carbon capture* and
nuclear energy* to tree planting and EV charging*—compared to
at least £58 billion for military spending.
NB, those with a * are fake climate mitigation.
#warmongering

Ein in Biberach entwickeltes Medikament macht Boehringer Ingelheim reich
https://www.schwaebische.de/wirtschaft/ein-in-biberach-entwickeltes-medikament-macht-boehringer-reich-3463026
> Der Pharmakonz…

Chatbots in Check: Utah’s Latest AI Legislation
https://fpf.org/blog/chatbots-in-check-utahs-latest-ai-legislation/
@…

A year ago today, I was in SuperCam operations, and about to head to the airport to start my cross-country flying adventure to see the total solar eclipse.
Today I’m in SuperCam ops, but I have other evening plans.
You can read about last year’s trip here: https://cosmicray.ca/writing/TripRepor

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06586 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_…

Decay of correlation for edge colorings when $q>3Δ$
We examine various perspectives on the decay of correlation for the uniform distribution over proper $q$-edge colorings of graphs with maximum degree $Δ$. First, we establish the coupling independence property when $q\ge 3Δ$ for general graphs. Together with the work of Chen et al. (2024), this result implies a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme (FPTAS) for counting the number of proper $q$-edge colorings. Next, we prove the strong spatial mixing property on trees, provided that $…

Worst to first for 49ers? Ranking 8 last-place teams’ chances to win division in 2025 https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/worst-first-49ers-ranking-8-last-place-teams-chances-win-division-2025

Der Kontinent des Krieges https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/9952

How it's started /
How it's going
Sosu.
by ズヴィーン/zveen(#art

#ファプタ 攻撃と防御モード - ズヴィーン/zveenのイラスト - pixiv
2024

Today in “silly billboards in my community”. The first is by the very “truthful” (/s) people at LNGfacts.ca. Of course, the word "LNGfacts" does not appear anywhere in the dictionary because it's made up nonsense. Just like the "fact" that LNG “makes Canada stronger”... like we're going to win the war in Ukraine with our LNG or fend off #TheAmericanFascist. (Note: LNG is a tool of fascists not the other way around)
This billboard used to say “BC LNG WILL REDUCE GLOBAL EMISSIONS”... with a link to ‘bclnghelps.ca' but that was so clearly a lie that they were forced by the courts to remove it and delete their website, but I made a website instead in their honour called: bclngburns.ca
Back to today's billbboard though... Here's a fact from February 2025: “European LNG imports fell by 19% in 2024 as gas consumption reached an 11-year low, thanks, in part, to renewable energy additions.” (#BCPoli #BCLNG #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #ExtinctionRebellion #LNG #NaturalGas #Europe #EU #Ukraine #Russia

Festivals Camps in der Nacht aus 2024. Aufgenommen beim Musikschutzgebiet und Open-Flair Festival.
#openflair #of #msg #musikschutzgebiet