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“Excursion (same-day) travel to the United States by automobile dropped abruptly at the start of 2025, after holding consistently positive throughout 2024. Same-day returns fell by 40.3% year over year in May 2025”
That is an extremely high amount of change. After September 11, it was in the 30% range.
I miss my cross-border trips, but it’s just a bad risk reward calculation right now. #canada

Filing: Nvidia reveals its top two customers accounted for 39% of its Q2 revenue, up from 25% in Q2, 2024 (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/28/nvidias-top-two-mystery-customers-made-up-39percent-of-its-q2-revenue-.html…

Nvidia's top two mystery customers made up 39% of the chipmaker's Q2 revenue
Nvidia's top two customers making up 39% of its total revenue is renewing concern about the risk of the chipmakers clientele concentration.

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 583 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29417 Unterschriften bis zum 09.07.2025.

"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…

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…

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

Sennheiser generated €492.3 million in sales in 2024, despite “volatile market conditions”
#MusicTech #MusicBiz

Sennheiser generated €492.3 million in sales in 2024, despite “volatile market conditions”
The Sennheiser Group generated sales of €492.3 million across the 2024 financial year, despite facing “turbulent times” across the economic landscape. 

The average surface temperature of the Mediterranean Sea is at record level for this early in summer, at 3°C above the 1982-2011 average. Could end up well above the 2023-2024 record summer peaks (Jul-Aug) of 28°C.
https://www.ceam.es/ceamet/SST/SST-trend.html

Wetterextreme richten 2024 Milliardenschäden an
https://stohl.de/wordpress/?p=191403

Wetterextreme richten 2024 Milliardenschäden an
Vor allem Hochwasser sorgte im vergangenen Jahr für Versicherungsschäden in Höhe von 5,7 Milliarden Euro: Wetterextreme richten 2024 Milliardenschäden in Deutschland an. Wie wird man zukünftig zu d…

It's always a good day when you have "always comb foo = bar" and using foo instead of bar changes the run time of your simulation by almost 100K clock cycles.
I have to assume this is a Vivado simulator bug present in both 2024.1 and 2025.1, but don't yet have a fully reduced test case other than an always_ff block somehow having input and output changing on the same clock edge.

Heather Honey,
a high-profile denier of Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election,
has been appointed to a senior position in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
in which she’ll help oversee the nation’s election infrastructure.
Honey is a protege of Cleta Mitchell,
a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results.
In 2024, ProPublica reported that Honey had played a key role in Mitchell’s behind-the-scenes effort to change Georgia’…

She Pushed to Overturn Trump’s Loss in the 2020 Election. Now She’ll Help Oversee U.S. Election Security.
Heather Honey has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security. State election officials and voting experts are concerned.

The story of Rogue #rogue #roguelikes

This is really wild: Microsoft is pushing more and more #spyware features into everyday products to steal all of your data:
"#Copilot #Vision is an extension of Microsoft's divisive Recall [...] is de…

„Schau Katja, für den 80 cm breiten roten Radweg bekommt Bochum demnächst den Titel „Aufholer“ vom @…“
06/2024

Where is AIED Headed? Key Topics and Emerging Frontiers (2020-2024)
Shihui Feng, Huilin Zhang, Dragan Ga\v{s}evi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20971 ht…

Where is AIED Headed? Key Topics and Emerging Frontiers (2020-2024)
In this study, we analyze 2,398 research articles published between 2020 and 2024 across eight core venues related to the field of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED). Using a three-step knowledge co-occurrence network analysis, we analyze the knowledge structure of the field, the evolving knowledge clusters, and the emerging frontiers. Our findings reveal that AIED research remains strongly technically focused, with sustained themes such as intelligent tutoring systems, learning analyt…

#OTD 2024. Rotterdam.

Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-03-28/alfalfa-hay-beef-water-colorado-river

Hay consumes a vast share of the Colorado River's water
Much of the Colorado River's water is used for agriculture. A new study shows 46% of the water that is diverted is used to grow hay to feed cattle.

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsIndieForever
Bombay Bicycle Club:
🎵 Always Like This (Glastonbury 2024)
#BombayBicycleClub
https://micsmith.bandcamp.com/track/always-like-this-ft-bombay-bicycle-club
https://open.spotify.com/track/4tzmUppkUmYCAhl4Q8ubtY

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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Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Bilal Saleh Husain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12685 https://…

Alphabet Index Mapping: Jailbreaking LLMs through Semantic Dissimilarity
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their susceptibility to adversarial attacks, particularly jailbreaking, poses significant safety and ethical concerns. While numerous jailbreak methods exist, many suffer from computational expense, high token usage, or complex decoding schemes. Liu et al. (2024) introduced FlipAttack, a black-box method that achieves high attack success rates (ASR) through simple prompt manipulation. This paper investigates the underly…

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

Movies watched in July, ranked (being on the bottom doesn’t mean it’s bad)
(1/2)
- The Graduate (1967) 🌞
- Kneecap (2024) 🔁
- The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
- The Substance (2024) 🔁
- 28 Days Later (2002) 🔁
- A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 🩸🔁
- 28 Years Later (2025)
- F1 (2025)
- Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) 🌏🔁
- 28 Weeks Later (2007)
- An Unfinished Film (2024)
- …
🔁 — rewatch
🩸 — Creepy Crypt
…

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12282

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken between 24 May 2023 and 16 January 2024. The GW signals targeted by this search are the so-called "long-duration" (> 1 s) transients expected from a variety of astrophysical processes, including non-axisymmetric deformations in magnetars or eccentric binary coalescences. We make minimal assumptions on the emitted GW …

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – October 9, 2024
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest - October 9, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 28 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, 5 call for papers, and 3 conferences/speakers. Everyone at RSP says thank you to all who have generously supported the RSP through our Patreon and PayPal donation options! Our goal is to have 100 patrons (currently at 39!) […]

One Year of ASPEX-STEPS Operation: Characteristic Features, Observations and Science Potential
Jacob Sebastian, Bijoy Dalal, Aakash Gupta, Shiv Kumar Goyal, Dibyendu Chakrabarty, Santosh V. Vadawale, M. Shanmugam, Neeraj Kumar Tiwari, Arpit R. Patel, Aveek Sarkar, Aaditya Sarda, Tinkal Ladiya, Prashant Kumar, Manan S. Shah, Abhishek Kumar, Shivam Parashar, Pranav R. Adhyaru, Hiteshkumar L. Adalja, Piyush Sharma, Abhishek J. Verma, Nishant Singh, Sushil Kumar, Deepak Kumar Painkra, Swar…

One Year of ASPEX-STEPS Operation: Characteristic Features, Observations and Science Potential
The SupraThermal and Energetic Particle Spectrometer (STEPS), a subsystem of the Aditya Solar wind Particle EXperiment (ASPEX) onboard India's Aditya-L1 satellite, is designed to study different aspects of energetic particles in the interplanetary medium from the Sun-Earth L1 point using six detector units oriented in different directions. This article presents details of the one-year operation (08 January 2024 - 28 February 2025) of the AL1-ASPEX-STEPS after the insertion of the satellite into…

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

A Relativistic Jet in the Radio Quiet AGN Mrk 110
Ailing Wang, Tao An, Kenneth I. Kellermann, Hua Feng, Emmanuel K. Bempong-Manful, Roland Timmerman, Shaoguang Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03970

A Relativistic Jet in the Radio Quiet AGN Mrk 110
We report the discovery of a relativistic jet in Mrk~110, a narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy historically classified as a radio-quiet active galactic nucleus (AGN). Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations reveal intermittent jet activity during 2015--2016 and 2022--2024, with proper motion measurements yielding superluminal velocities of $\sim3.6\pm0.6\,c$ and $\sim2.1\pm0.2\,c$, respectively. The recent jet component decelerates to $\sim 1.5\pm0.2\,c$ at a projected distance of 1.1 p…

Two elected #Democrat political officials in #NorthernCalifornia town booked and held on $1 million bail for #arson & #insurance sch…

from my link log —
Statistical shortcomings in standard math libraries, and how to fix them.
https://www.evanmiller.org/statistical-shortcomings-in-standard-math-libraries.html
saved 2024-05-28