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This aged like milk #Ubuntu!
https://mg.co.za/thought-leader/opinion/2024-05-17-ubuntu-is-for-all-people-including-the-lgbtq-communit…

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It’s a political timebomb
"While housing lies at the heart of political disillusionment today, it is for the same reason becoming a primary trigger for mobilisation across Europe. In October 2024, 150,000 protesters marched through the streets of Madrid demanding action. Some governments, including Denmark and the Netherlands, are introducing policies to deter speculators. But real estate capital continues to hold the…

tfw you finally get an MVP into prod that you thought would be done by Xmas… 2024

Last week, the Department of Justice’s Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that
people who enter the country without authorization must be detained throughout their removal proceedings
-- a process that can take years.
The decision stems from the case of Jonathan Javier Yajure Hurtado,
a Venezuelan citizen who entered the United States in 2022.
In 2024, he was granted Temporary Protected Status, which expired in April;
He was subsequently arrested.
At…

DOJ Board Says Millions of Immigrants Can Be Jailed During Removal Proceedings
The ruling would force immigrants to litigate their cases — a process that could take years — while being detained.

I didn't want to let the day go without posting a photo ;-) So I just grabbed one from last year when we visited #vienna in autumn.
A bit of context can be found on the blog: https://www.

Juno Observations of Io's Alfvén Wing From 23 Io Radii: #Alfvén wing at a distance of ∼23 #Io radii south of the moon during perijove 62. Evidence for this passage was clearly seen in the #Juno plasma wave, magnetometer, and plasma data. The plasma wave signature was an intensification of quasi-electrostatic waves below about 1 kHz with a weaker magnetic component, all lasting for about two minutes. A strong perturbation of the magnetic field consistent with strong field-aligned currents was observed at the edges of the Alfvén wing. Ions in the range below about 1 keV/q were slowed within the Alfvén wing. As with other measurements in Io's Alfvén wing, we observe evidence of filamentation. The power in the Alfvén wing based on the measured Poynting flux is estimated to be ∼500–1,500 × 109 W."

"Immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans, studies find"
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1237103158/immigrants-are-less-likely-to-commit-crimes-than-us-born-americans-studies-find…

Confirmed: July average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa was ~2.3 ppm higher than last year, at 427.9 ppm.
Overall, we're still speeding in the wrong direction!
#co2 #emissions #climatechange

Microsoft says it paid $17M to 344 security researchers across 59 countries between June 2024 to June 2025 via its bug bounty program; the top reward was $200K (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr

Are nominations by those accused of war crimes even considered?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/08/trump-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-netanyahu?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

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

from my link log —
Booleans are a trap.
https://katafrakt.me/2024/11/09/booleans-are-a-trap/
saved 2025-06-30 https://

Offensive centerpiece named Cowboys 'most promising building block' in 2025 https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/offensive-centerpiece-dallas-cowboys-most-promising-building-block

#Steady-CommunityContent
Seit Oktober 2024 haben #Mieter in Deutschland Anspruch auf die Zustimmung ihres #Vermieters zur Installation eines

Steckersolargeräte: Rechte und Förderung zu Balkonkraftwerken (1/n)
Du bist Mieter*in und willst Solarstrom? Erfahre, wie Du ein Balkonkraftwerk installierst – mit Tipps zu Genehmigung & Förderung.

The multi-physics analysis, design and testing of CUSP, a CubeSat mission for space weather and solar flares x-ray polarimetry
Giovanni Lombardi, Sergio Fabiani, Ettore Del Monte, Andrea Alimenti, Riccardo Campana, Mauro Centrone, Enrico Costa, Nicolas De Angelis, Giovanni De Cesare, Sergio Di Cosimo, Giuseppe Di Persio, Abhay Kumar, Alessandro Lacerenza, Pasqualino Loffredo, Gabriele Minervini, Fabio Muleri, Paolo Romano, Alda Rubini, Emanuele Scalise, Enrico Silva, Paolo Soffitta, Da…

The multi-physics analysis, design and testing of CUSP, a CubeSat mission for space weather and solar flares x-ray polarimetry
The space-based CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission aims to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP is a project in the framework of the Alcor Program of the Italian Space Agency aimed at developing new CubeSat missions. As part of CUSP's Phase B study, which began in December 2024 and will last one year, we present the current development status of the design solutions adopted for the mission's most critical…

Za'Darius Smith signs with Eagles: Veteran DL bolsters position group in Philadelphia after win

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/zadariu

Bret Taylor's Sierra raised $350M at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in 2024, and says its AI customer service agents are being used by "hundreds of millions" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/bret-taylor-sierra-ai-startup…

Ex-Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor's Sierra is the latest $10 billion AI startup
Bret Taylor's artificial intelligence startup Sierra has closed a $350 million funding round

A survey on proximity monitoring and warning in construction
Yuexiong Ding, Qiong Liu, Ankang Ji, Xiaowei Luo, Wen Yi, Albert P. C. Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00862 https:/…

A survey on proximity monitoring and warning in construction
Various technologies have been applied to monitor the proximity between two construction entities, preventing struck-by accidents and thereby enhancing onsite safety. This study comprehensively reviews related efforts dedicated to proximity monitoring and warning (PMW) based on 97 relevant articles published between 2010 and 2024. The bibliometric analysis reveals the technical roadmap over time, as well as the five most influential leaders and the two largest research networks they have establ…

Verification of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center solar flare forecast (1998-2024)
Enrico Camporeale, Thomas E. Berger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01114 https://

Verification of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center solar flare forecast (1998-2024)
The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) issues the official U.S. government forecast for M-class and X-class solar flares, yet the skill of these forecasts has never been comprehensively verified. In this study, we evaluate the SWPC probabilistic flare forecasts over a 26-year period (1998-2024), comparing them to several zero-cost and statistical baselines including persistence, climatology, Naive Bayes, and logistic regression. We find that the SWPC model does not outperform these bas…

Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1114359 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Deploying U.S. marines to Chicago isn’t just stupid and illegal.
20 years later, the Marine Corps can still learn from Fallujah https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2024/11/07/20-years-later…

20 years later, the Marine Corps can still learn from Fallujah
History provides lessons for the next urban fight, but it may be much worse.

A Nitrogen-rich AGN Powering a Large Ionizing Bubble at z=8.63
Takahiro Morishita, Massimo Stiavelli, Charlotte A. Mason, Roberta Tripodi, Marco Chiaberge, Stefan Schuldt, Chris J. Willott, Yechi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01372

A Nitrogen-rich AGN Powering a Large Ionizing Bubble at z=8.63
We report the detection of Ly$α$ in CANUCS-LRD-z8.6, a recently discovered AGN at z = 8.63 by Tripodi et al. (2024), in new NIRSpec/MSA G140H/F070LP observations. We detect broad Ly$α$ emission (FWHM $= 1540 \pm 260$ km/s) near the systemic velocity, which suggests a large ionizing bubble considering that the universe is almost fully neutral at the redshift. Through Ly$α$ line-shape modeling assuming a Stromgren sphere, we find a large bubble radius, $R_b = 1.5^{+0.3}_{-0.2}$ pMpc, and a mod…

Honeywell's Quantinuum raised $600M from Quanta, Nvidia's NVentures, and others at a $10B pre-money valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in January 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-04/nvid…

52 responses.
Numbers of participants:
— 13 in the 2024 FreeBSD Community Survey
— 12 in the 2025 Laptop and Desktop Workgroup survey
— 20 in the 2025 FreeBSD Community Survey.
36 of 52 found the poll in Reddit.(I inadvertently created a fourth choice by changing "The" to "the".)

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Giants TE Theo Johnson was in his 'groove' before season-ending injury, feels 'huge difference' in Year 2 https://www.nfl.com/news/giants-te-theo-johnson-was-in-his-groove-before-season-ending-…

#MileHigh #Roundup is title of #DenverPost feature header on State of #Colorado seeing nearly 300% increase in

Immigration arrests in Colorado have surged under the Trump administration. Now we know how much.
ICE arrests in Colorado this year amount to more than 9 per day, on average, since Jan. 20, according to new data that shows a nearly 300% increase compared to the same period in 2024.

Healing Melodies – recovery and inspiration #healing #inspiration #music

Healing Melodies - recovery and inspiration
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 05.09.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

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

Our trip down Müller's play started over a decade ago, with rehearsals finally starting a year before the pandemic. The script has so many facets, it's imperative to give a production a unique focus. It took us until 2024 to find ours: Amidst all the brutality and perversion, it's a love story.
https://chao…

El Pais is doing an amazing work in showing how citation metrics is a call for abuse (gaming to be more precise).
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-sci…

Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings

"96% of bosses expect that AI will make their workers more productive;
85% of companies are either requiring or strongly encouraging workers to use AI;
49% of workers have no idea how AI is supposed to increase their productivity;
77% of workers say using AI decreases their productivity."
ht…

Localized evaluation and fast summation in the extrapolated regularization method for integrals in Stokes flow
Joseph Siebor, Svetlana Tlupova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00156

Localized evaluation and fast summation in the extrapolated regularization method for integrals in Stokes flow
Boundary integral equation methods are widely used in the solution of many partial differential equations. The kernels that appear in these surface integrals are nearly singular when evaluated near the boundary, and straightforward numerical integration produces inaccurate results. In Beale and Tlupova (Adv. Comput. Math, 2024), an extrapolated regularization method was proposed to accurately evaluate the nearly singular single and double-layer surface integrals for harmonic potentials or Stoke…

How will the 2024 Cowboys draft class perform in Year 2? https://insidethestar.com/how-will-the-2024-cowboys-draft-class-perform-in-year-2

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.

Read That Before You Trust Anything by Microsoft Once Again
#Microsoft

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…

Another day of job interviews here at @… research group. Tea of the day: Watanabe Yutaka Midori Shincha 2024
#teaoftheday #greentea

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
Eliot Kapit, Peter Love, Jeffrey Larson, Andrew Sornborger, Eleanor Crane, Alexander Schuckert, Teague Tomesh, Frederic Chong, Sabre Kais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13973

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
The National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop brought together researchers across academia, national laboratories, and industry to assess the current landscape of quantum algorithms and discuss roadblocks to progress. The workshop featured discussions on emerging algorithmic techniques, resource constraints in near-term hardware, and opportunities for co-design across software and systems. Presented here are seven topics from the workshop, each highlighting a critical challenge or p…

Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding? https://weddingweiser.de/was-wurde-aus-dem-loch-vom-wedding/

Ende der Bauarbeiten absehbar: Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding?
Reparaturarbeiten an der Seestraße fast abgeschlossen In der Silvesternacht 2024 kam es im Wedding …

Symmetry oscillations sensitivity to SU(2)-symmetry breaking in quantum mixtures
S. Musolino, M. Albert, P. Vignolo, A. Minguzzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22266

Symmetry oscillations sensitivity to SU(2)-symmetry breaking in quantum mixtures
In one-dimensional bosonic quantum mixtures with SU(2)-symmetry breaking Hamiltonian, the dynamical evolution explores different particle exchange symmetry sectors. For the case of infinitely strong intra-species repulsion, the hallmark of such symmetry oscillations are time modulations of the momentum distribution [Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 183402 (2024)], an observable routinely accessed in experiments with ultracold atoms. In this work we show that this phenomenon is robust in strongly interacti…

How to Retrieve Examples in In-context Learning to Improve Conversational Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models?
Mengqi Wang, Tiantian Feng, Shrikanth Narayanan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20199

How to Retrieve Examples in In-context Learning to Improve Conversational Emotion Recognition using Large Language Models?
Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a wide variety of real-world applications in various domains. However, creating a high-performing application with high accuracy remains challenging, particularly for subjective tasks like emotion recognition. Inspired by the SLT 2024 GenSER Challenge, this study investigates approaches to improving conversational emotion recognition (CER) by LLMs. Specifically, we explore how to retrieve high-quality examples in in-context learning (ICL) to enhance CER…

🌟 New SIGs Spotlight: SIG-AI 🌟
A new space for collaboration on Artificial Intelligence within the NREN community is here.
SIG-AI brings the Research & Education community together to share expertise, best practices, and explore practical use cases of AI in NREN context—from cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing (HPC) to network automation and next-generation networks.
📖 For more insights, read the full interview with Leonie Schäfer (@…

What’s in the works? How to keep moving even when it hurts #brokenankle #creativeprocess #inspiration #muse

What's in the works? How to keep moving even when it hurts
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Guarding Against Malicious Biased Threats (GAMBiT) Experiments: Revealing Cognitive Bias in Human-Subjects Red-Team Cyber Range Operations
Brandon Beltz, Jim Doty, Yvonne Fonken, Nikolos Gurney, Brett Israelsen, Nathan Lau, Stacy Marsella, Rachelle Thomas, Stoney Trent, Peggy Wu, Ya-Ting Yang, Quanyan Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20963…

Guarding Against Malicious Biased Threats (GAMBiT) Experiments: Revealing Cognitive Bias in Human-Subjects Red-Team Cyber Range Operations
We present three large-scale human-subjects red-team cyber range datasets from the Guarding Against Malicious Biased Threats (GAMBiT) project. Across Experiments 1-3 (July 2024-March 2025), 19-20 skilled attackers per experiment conducted two 8-hour days of self-paced operations in a simulated enterprise network (SimSpace Cyber Force Platform) while we captured multi-modal data: self-reports (background, demographics, psychometrics), operational notes, terminal histories, keylogs, network packe…

To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.

Die #Erdbeerernte 2025 fällt so schlecht aus wie seit 30 Jahren nicht mehr.
Bundesweit werden nur rund 75.500 Tonnen #Freilanderdbeeren erwartet. Das ist ein Minus von 4 % im Vergleich zum Vorjahr.
In

Erdbeerernte: Schlechtester Wert seit 30 Jahren erwartet
Die Erdbeerernte soll in diesem Jahr so schlecht ausfallen wie seit 30 Jahren nicht mehr. Laut Statistischem Bundesamt werden vier Prozent weniger Freilanderdbeeren als 2024 erwartet. Niedersachsen liegt im Norden dennoch vorn.

@… Remember we were talking about this a few days ago? "[The report] notes that 170 candidates received in total almost £2m more than they were legally allowed to spend locally during the [2024] election, raising questions about where the surplus funds went after the campaign. The donors who funded them are also tricky to identify, especially if the candid…

Ex-Raiders QB Signs With Playoff Contender After Prolonged Free Agency https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/desmond-ridder-bengals-contract-signing/?adt_ei=[email]

Sources: data labeling company Surge AI aims to raise up to $1B, targeting a valuation of $15B; Surge AI had $1B in 2024 revenue, vs. Scale AI's reported $870M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/scale-ais

Statista expects the global influencer marketing industry to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/influen…

Variations of the Ca II K Line Profile Parameters with Solar Latitude and Time Observed from Kodaikanal Solar Observatory
Apoorva Srinivasa (Department of Physics, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri, India), Anu Sreedevi (Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology), K P Raju (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India), K Nagaraju (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India), Jagdev Singh (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India), Narayanankutt…

Variations of the Ca II K Line Profile Parameters with Solar Latitude and Time Observed from Kodaikanal Solar Observatory
The Calcium-K line profiles as functions of solar latitude and time were obtained through our observations from the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory using the solar tunnel telescope and spectrograph with a CCD detector. Observations were conducted on all days with favourable sky conditions. We analysed the data collected over a period of about ten years to study the variations in the Ca II K line profiles recorded between 2015 and 2024, of which 709 days of data were found useful. The temporal and …

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
Kim-Vy H. Tran, Stuart Wyithe, Michelle Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20676

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
We examine the publication rates of 400 research-focused members in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence by gender, project, and year from January 2018 to January 2024 (six years). Of the 443 refereed publications led by ASTRO3D members, women were first-author on 38% which is nearly double that of the astronomy field in the same period (~20%). We record a high-water mark in 2022: 46% of ASTRO3D publications were led by females and 45% of research members identified as female. Using the nine resear…

Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding? https://weddingweiser.de/was-wurde-aus-dem-loch-vom-wedding/

Ende der Bauarbeiten absehbar: Was wurde aus dem Loch vom Wedding?
Reparaturarbeiten an der Seestraße fast abgeschlossen In der Silvesternacht 2024 kam es im Wedding …

Contribution of expert aggregation to temperature prediction part I
L\'eo Pfitzner (GMAP), Olivier Wintenberger (SU), Olivier Mestre (GMAP), Marion Riverain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15217

Contribution of expert aggregation to temperature prediction part I
Many Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models and their associated Model Output Statistics (MOS) are available. Combining all of these predictions in an optimal way is however not straightforward. This can be achieved thanks to Expert Aggregation (EA) [Cesa-Bianchi and Lugosi, 2006, Gaillard et al., 2014, Wintenberger, 2024] which has many advantages, such as being online, being adaptive to model changes and having theoretical guarantees. Hence, in this paper, we propose a method for making de…

Paper Of Record delves into how unchecked global warming #climate chaos created catastrophic conditions for deadly #floods in #TX. The #GuadalupeRiver

As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
Even in places, like Central Texas, with a long history of floods, human-caused warming is creating the conditions for more frequent and severe deluges.

Internal memo: Revolut begins a secondary share sale for staffers at $1,381.06 per share, valuing Revolut at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

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.

Role of electron-electron interactions in $M$-valley twisted transition metal dichalcogenides
Christophe De Beule, Liangtao Peng, E. J. Mele, Shaffique Adam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14283

Role of electron-electron interactions in $M$-valley twisted transition metal dichalcogenides
We investigate the role of long-range Coulomb interactions in $M$-valley moiré systems using the self-consistent Hartree-Fock approximation. This platform was recently proposed [Nature 643, 376 (2025) and arXiv:2411.18828 (2024)] as a new class of experimentally realizable moiré materials using twisted transition metal dichalcogenides homobilayers with the 1T structure. While these seminal studies considered the noninteracting theory without an interlayer bias due to an electric displacement …

Canva launches employee stock sale to new and existing investors at a $42B valuation, up 30% from $32B in 2024, reports $3.3B annualized sales and 240M MAUs (Olivia Poh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Digging My Way Out
#BeBetter #NowPlaying
https://

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Der Wedding liebt Erika! https://weddingweiser.de/der-wedding-liebt-erika/

Longitudinal review of portfolios with minimum variance approach before during and after the pandemic
Genjis A. Ossa, Luis H. Restrepo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15111 https://

Longitudinal review of portfolios with minimum variance approach before during and after the pandemic
This study investigates the impact of the pandemic on the most traded stocks in the Colombian stock market for the date of January 17, 2024. Based on the daily data of the most traded companies in Colombia for said date and covering a period general from 2015 to 2023, in a summarized way our analysis reveals that in the period 2015-2019, the return reached 5.70%, with a relatively low risk of 18.45%. However, in the following period 2016 -2020, although the yield decreased to 5.40%, the risk ex…

Combating Homelessness Stigma with LLMs: A New Multi-Modal Dataset for Bias Detection
Jonathan A. Karr Jr., Benjamin F. Herbst, Ting Hua, Matthew Hauenstein, Georgina Curto, Nitesh V. Chawla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13187

Combating Homelessness Stigma with LLMs: A New Multi-Modal Dataset for Bias Detection
Homelessness is a persistent social challenge, impacting millions worldwide. Over 770,000 people experienced homelessness in the U.S. in 2024. Social stigmatization is a significant barrier to alleviation, shifting public perception, and influencing policymaking. Given that online and city council discourse reflect and influence part of public opinion, it provides valuable insights to identify and track social biases. This research contributes to alleviating homelessness by acting on public opi…

#Demenz #Dementia #Alzheimer
Der 52-jährige Journalist Jo Failer erhielt 2024 Jahr die Diagnose Frühdemenz
#Alzheimer

Mit nur 51 Jahren dement: "Alzheimer-Erkrankte sind nicht einfach dumm"
Die Zahl der Menschen mit Demenz nimmt weiter zu – und das nicht erst im hohen Alter. Ein neuer Wirkstoff soll hier helfen. t-online spricht mit einem Betroffenen.

Mailbag: How important is a good start to season? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-how-important-is-a-good-start-to-season

Real-time prediction of geomagnetic storms using Solar Orbiter as a far upstream solar wind monitor
Emma E. Davies (Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria, Graz, Austria), Eva Weiler (Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria, Graz, Austria, Institute of Physics, University of Graz, Graz, Austria), Christian M\"ostl (Austrian Space Weather Office, GeoSphere Austria, Graz, Austria), Timothy S. Horbury (Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, South Kensington …

Real-time prediction of geomagnetic storms using Solar Orbiter as a far upstream solar wind monitor
We present the first real-time predictions of coronal mass ejection (CME) magnetic structure and resulting geomagnetic impact at Earth for two events using far-upstream observations from Solar Orbiter during March 2024. Despite the large heliocentric distance between measurement at Solar Orbiter and L1 (0.53 and 0.60 AU), our predicted magnetic structures closely matched subsequent observations. Geomagnetic index predictions were made in real-time with 7 and 15 hour lead-times, presenting a lar…

Alleged #Whistleblower Harassment #Lawsuit involving #SanLeandro #PublicOfficials sheds new light on mutual

Bumble plans to cut 30% of its workforce, or about 240 roles, and invest the ~$40M saved annually into new product and tech development; BMBL rises 20% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/25/bumble-layoffs.html

Bumble jumps 26% as dating company plans to axe 30% of workforce
Founder Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, returned to the role earlier this year.

Digital-GenAI-Enhanced HCI in DevOps as a Driver of Sustainable Innovation: An Empirical Framework
Jun Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13185 https://arxiv.o…

Digital-GenAI-Enhanced HCI in DevOps as a Driver of Sustainable Innovation: An Empirical Framework
This study examines the impact of Digital-GenAI-Enhanced Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in DevOps on sustainable innovation performance among Chinese A-share internet technology firms. Using panel data from 2018-2024, we analyze 5,560 firm-year observations from CNRDS and CSMAR databases. Our empirical framework reveals significant positive associations between AI-enhanced HCI implementation and sustainable innovation outcomes. Results demonstrate that firms adopting advanced HCI technologies…

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
Xiaoyu Hong, Weiren Wu, Qinghui Liu, Dengyun Yu, Chi Wang, Tao Shuai, Weiye Zhong, Renjie Zhu, Yonghui Xie, Lihua Zhang, Liang Xiong, Yuhua Tang, Yongliao Zou, Haitao Li, Guangli Wang, Jianfeng Xie, Changbin Xue, Hao Geng, Juan Zhang, Xiaojing Wu, Yong Huang, Weimin Zheng, Lei Liu, Fang Wu, Xiuzhong Zhang, Tao An, Xiaolong Yang, Fengxian Tong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Yong Zheng, Minfeng Gu, Xiaofei Ma, Liang Li, Peiji…

Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment: motivation, scientific purposes and status
The Lunar Orbital VLBI Experiment (LOVEX) is a scientific component of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Project (CLEP) Chang'E-7. The spaceborne component of LOVEX is implemented onboard the relay satellite QueQiao-2, which was launched on 2024 March 20, and later placed into an elliptical selenocentric orbit. The LOVEX-specific payload consists of an X-band cryogenic receiver, a hydrogen maser frequency standard, and VLBI data formatting and acquisition electronics. Several components of the QueQ…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #EasternEchoes
DJ Marky, XRS & Makoto:
🎵 Soul Samba (DJ Marky & Makoto Remix 2024)
#DJMarky #XRS #Makoto
https://innerground.bandcamp.com/album/dj-marky-xrs-soul-samba-dj-marky-makoto-remix-2024-inn125
https://open.spotify.com/track/1u7JI6HZcJw6P32BrGKWoO

And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding

The European Commission accepts Corning's offer to end exclusivity terms in its supply contracts, ending an antitrust investigation opened in November 2024 (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Niners' Kyle Juszczyk expects RB Christian McCaffrey to return to form in 2025: 'He looks incredible' https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-kyle-juszczyk-expects-rb-christian-mccaffrey-to-return-to-form-in-2025-he-loo…

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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UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…

TikTok Booms In Europe Despite Threat Of U.S. Ban
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.

Booth after first career pick-six: 'It's me versus me' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/booth-after-first-career-pick-six-it-s-me-versus-me

Statista: the global influencer marketing industry is projected to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/i…

How Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most (Nicole Friedman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/tech-compa…

Cowboys minicamp: Jake Ferguson, George Pickens shine on Day 2; ping pong duels intensify https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6419759/2025/06/12/cowboys-minicamp-george-pickens-jake-ferguson-parsons/

Bitcoin reached a new all-time high of over $121K, up about 30% since December 2024, after more than doubling in value in 2024 (Kirk Ogunrinde/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-14/bitcoin-hits-record-h…

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Cowboys star among NFLPA's leaders in retail sales, 2 others in year-end top 50 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/11/cowboys-parsons-lamb-prescott-among-league…

Sources: Chinese officials have urged the Trump administration to relax HBM chip export controls during trade talks, after the Biden administration ban in 2024 (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/19442dba-c724-4825-9388-26219a12cb8a

Milan-based Bending Spoons raised €500M in debt led by JPMorgan Chase to buy more software businesses; the company raised $155M at a $2.6B valuation in 2024 (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…