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FSJ oder BFD im Hafen! Plätze frei!
Maritim
Spannend
Vielfältig
Einblicke in Schiffe und Häfen
Bitte weitersagen: an vielen Orten sind noch Plätze frei für Bundesfreiwilligendienst oder FSJ!
https://seemannsmission.org/freie-stellen-fsj-2025/…

Freie Stellen FSJ 2025 | Deutsche Seemannsmission
Freie Stellen FSJ 2024 und Bufdi - bei der Seemannsmission sind noch Plätze frei Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr im Hafen / Bundesfreiwilligendienst BFD ab Sommer

Demand for LNG in Europe dropped by 18 per cent between 2022 and 2024, and Canadian exports would have a hard time competing in Asian markets, says advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance. “Investing in infrastructure that will be very expensive and likely won’t be profitable will weaken our economy rather than strengthen it,” Renaud Gignac, an economist and senior adviser for the group, said in an interview.

New report casts doubt on potential revival of Quebec LNG project
Reviving a liquefied natural gas export project in Quebec's Saguenay region would be costly and likely unprofitable, a shareholder advocacy group says.

2024 waren wir mit der Schachtour auf dem Schulfest des Wilhelmsgymnasiums in Stuttgart-Degerloch. Dort haben wir neben den Feierlichkeiten auch etwas Schach angeboten und unser Maskottchen Chessy war natürlich auch mit am Start.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:

Der Voodoo Zauber #Waffenverbotszone funktioniert nicht 🤡
Warum wundert mich das nicht 🤔
⚠️ Debatte um Verbotszonen: Stadträtin Pape mahnt differenzierte Lösungen an
https://osna.social/@maze/11426097…

Die Anmeldung zum RSR-Ausbildung während der #DEM25 ist noch bis übermorgen möglich - sichere dir hier deinen Platz und lerne alles, was du über die Schachregeln wissen musst: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/termi…

Absolute masterpiece (if you're into deep, dubby techno...)
Joachim Spieth — Recall (Luigi Tozzi Blue Dub, 2024)
#Music4Coding

@… This posted last year explains it
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/1448844-eurovision-vo…

Top U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets — Q1 2025
"As was the case during 2024, the top rent growth markets to start 2025 represented several regions, all with varying strengths and characteristics."

Top U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets Q1 2025 - Arbor Realty
The U.S. multifamily sector finished 2024 with the wind at its sails, as the market settled into a more normalized cycle with emerging opportunities. The sector’s resilience stood out during the year, amid a shifting economic landscape and volatile interest rate environment.

Absolute masterpiece (if you're into deep, dubby techno...)
Joachim Spieth — Recall (Luigi Tozzi Blue Dub, 2024)
#Music4Coding

#Transit growth outpaces driving growth in Metro #Vancouver
More people in Metro Vancouver are choosing transit over driving as their primary option to get around, according to new data from TransLink. In 2024, there were 7.7 million more trips on transit, an increase of more than three per cent over 2023, o…

#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.

@… read this from last year and it explains what happened again this year
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/14

The evolution of CME sheath turbulence from L1 to Earth: Wind and MMS observations of the 2023-04-23 CME
Matthew R. Argall, Li-Jen Chen, No\'e Lugaz, Norberto Romanelli, Jaye L. Verniero, Charles W. Smith, Brandon Burkholder, Victoria Wilder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13645

The evolution of CME sheath turbulence from L1 to Earth: Wind and MMS observations of the 2023-04-23 CME
An interplanetary shock driven by a coronal mass ejection (CME) containing an interval of sub-Alfvénic flow impacted Earth on April 23, 2024. In this article, we analyze the turbulence in the sheath region between the shock and CME to determine how it evolves from L1 (as observed by Wind) to Earth (as observed by MMS, upstream of the bow shock). Wind and MMS were separated by $55\,\mathrm{R_{E}}$ in the dawn-dusk direction, but the shock normals differ by only $2.8^{\circ}$ and the Pearson cor…

Jämför din förväntade sluttid med löparna från Göteborgsvarvet 21 km från 2024.
Hur snabb är du jämfört med andra löpare? https://peterdahlgren.com/snabb/

🔥 Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/armed-groups-cattle-ranchers-drove-35-rise-in-colombias-deforestation-in-2024/

Armed groups, cattle ranchers drove 35% rise in Colombia’s deforestation in 2024
The prediction came true: deforestation in Colombia increased in 2024 after two years of decline, just as the environment ministry had warned since April last year. The ministry announced that Colombia lost 1,070 square kilometers (413 square miles) of forest in 2024, a 35% increase from 2023, when deforestation hit 793 km2 (306 mi2). Former […]

Small update to my log store build - had a bit of a disaster!
https://www.simoncox.com/post/2024-05-28-log-store-build/#step-12

»Programmiersprache – Rust 2024 ist die bisher umfangreichste Edition:
Die jüngste Rust-Edition bringt große Neuerungen unter anderem für das Ownership-Modell, Unsafe Rust und Slices.«
Nun gut, dann gibt es mehr zu lernen und dies positiev.
🦀 https://www.…

Programmiersprache: Rust 2024 ist die bisher umfangreichste Edition
Die jüngste Rust-Edition bringt große Neuerungen unter anderem für das Ownership-Modell, Unsafe Rust und Slices.

@… Then read or listen to this post from last year and it will all make sense
https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2024/0513/14

Es ging doch nur darum, das Rezept für den übelst lekkeren Hefezopf, der immer bei den F-Runden serviert wird, vor den Grühünen geheim zu halten! 🥹
#FDP #Lindner
Quelle:

Einige der Absurditäten hatte ich gar nicht mitbekommen oder sie sind wieder untergegangen. #Steuerbetrug ist kein Kavaliersdelikt, auch wenn das laut Wikipedia oft so gesehen wird:
> wobei Steuerhinterziehung am häufigsten in Verbindung damit [#Kavaliersdelikt] gebracht wurde

Sources: Elon Musk engaged in intense drug use during the 2024 presidential campaign, as he juggled the messy consequences of efforts to produce more babies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon

Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump’s Campaign Trail
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.

Zur Erinnerung:
2024 war ein Rekordjahr für die #Windenergie: Über 2.400 Anlagen mit 14.056 MW wurden genehmigt, fast 1.900 mit 10.996 MW bezuschlagt.
Der tatsächliche Ausbau blieb mit 3.251 MW leicht unter den Erwartungen, doch die Dynamik ist da.

Pressemitteilung: 2024: Windenergie-Rekordjahr bei Zuschlägen u...
Pressemitteilung:Berlin, Frankfurt – 15. Januar 2025 - Das Jahr 2024 war ein Rekordjahr für die Windenergie an Land: Insgesamt wurden in Deutschland 2.405...

CVE-2024-4367 (PDF.js) is gaining traction in some exploitation-focused Telegram channels...
https://vulnerability.circl.lu/cve/CVE-2024-4367
seen via @…

Biden on 2024 reelection bid: 'I don't have any regrets' (Filip Timotija/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5327026-joe-biden-2024-reelection-bid-no-regrets/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p22#a250531p22

"The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
vs.
"The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."
By 12pts all voters and by 42pts Dem voters prefer the second statement. They're right!

Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance"
Democrats are asking themselves some hard questions as they ponder how they lost the 2024 election.

When You Want To Get High, Go To The Highlands
#travel #inspiration
https://muz4now.c…

When You Want To Get High, Go To The Highlands
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

🚨 Encryption isn’t optional anymore. In EdTechSR Episode 342: Jason & I discuss why the FBI wants you on Signal, Google’s antitrust headaches, and AI tools that’ll blow your mind.
🎙️ https://edtechsr.com/2025/05/30/edtechsr-ep-342-encrypted-by-default/

EdTechSR Ep 342 Encrypted by Default
where technology news meets educational analysis Welcome to episode 342 (“Encrypted by Default”) of the EdTech Situation Room from December 18, 2024, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) unpacked the FBI’s unprecedented advice urging Americans to use encrypted messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, discussing the implications for personal privacy, national security, and school digital literacy…

Publishing's class problem
The 2024 data shows a similar picture of middle-class origin dominance of publishing. Although there are year-on-year variations, since 2019 there has consistently been more than 60% proportions of middle-class origin people in publishing occupations. In the same period, working-class origin proportions have never been above 20%.
#FederatedMemory

from my link log —
“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas: the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending.
https://davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twelfth-night-till-candlemas-the-story…

“Twelfth Night Till Candlemas” – the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
The day before the Winter Solstice, 2024 This post is about finally finding a book from one’s youth forty years later – and after nearly thirty years of searching. It is also a tale about gob…

Last week I asked Google to stop releasing broken things. Apologists said maybe I needed to contribute more, write code or demos.
Last year I outlined some of what I *have* done and how, for the most part, Google / Web•dev doesn’t give a shit:
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/07…

Don’t Use Web•dev for Accessibility Info
Web.dev is a site from Google Chrome developer relations that provides content both to evangelize Chrome and to more broadly support the web platform. Rachel Andrew’s monthly “new to the platform” posts are effectively required reading to try to stay abreast of the browser support landscape. However, the accessibility content…

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

Falcons' Darnell Mooney fine with missing 1,000-yard receiving mark in 2024: 'I came here to win games' https://www.nfl.com/news/falcons-darnell-mooney-fine-with-missing-1-000-yard-receiving-mark-in…

Equality is Far Weaker than Constant-Cost Communication
Mika G\"o\"os, Nathaniel Harms, Artur Riazanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11162 https://

Equality is Far Weaker than Constant-Cost Communication
We exhibit an $n$-bit communication problem with a constant-cost randomized protocol but which requires $n^{Ω(1)}$ deterministic (or even non-deterministic) queries to an Equality oracle. Therefore, even constant-cost randomized protocols cannot be efficiently "derandomized" using Equality oracles. This improves on several recent results and answers a question from the survey of Hatami and Hatami (SIGACT News 2024). It also gives a significantly simpler and quantitatively superior proof of the…

Dont Make Me Call Her
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Don’t Make Me Call Her | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Dont Make Me Call Her Host: Grace Lam Category: Comedy Sub-Category: Comedy Chats & Interviews First Episode: 2024 What can a former Vogue fashion editor talk about? Fashion? Nah—way more!

It's not just the English Channel / La Manche.
28 deaths a day as people try to reach Spanish Canary Islands by raft or open boat.
8 drowned in the harbour on arrival yesterday when theit boat capsized.
Again. Migration by boats will continue until a) source countries get just trade, reparations and an end to neocolonialism, and meanwhile,
b) #SafeRoutes
9.757 perso…

9.757 personas fallecieron en pateras o cayucos que trataban de llegar a Canarias en 2024: 28 muertes al día
Son los datos del balance anual que realiza la ONG Caminando Fronteras con su informe 'Monitoreo Derecho a la Vida' y que suponen un aumento del 62,4% frente a las cifras del año pasado

Wie gestalten wir Schach inklusiv? Hier bekommst du konkrete Ideen für mehr Teilhabe in Verein und Verband.
➡️ #DSJAkademie

If you watched #Eurovision and wondered what the hell just happened after Israel received nearly five times more points from the public than from the juries you should read this:
https:…

Warum ich bei der Klimakrise keine Hoffnung mehr habe? Weil das Wort Kapitalismus nicht mal mehr erwähnt wird.
Was soll das?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKR8nWlRtZi/

Quarks on Instagram: "🌍🌱 Warum tun wir uns gerade mit dem Klimaschutz so schwer? Wird Klimaschutz immer mehr zum Luxus? . 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Erinnert ihr euch noch an 2019? Das Jahr war ein Wendepunkt der globalen Klimabewegung. Millionen Menschen gingen weltweit auf die Straße. Schüler:innen, Studierende, aber auch Wissenschaftler:innen (“Scientists for Future”) demonstrierten dabei für Klimaschutz, die Einhaltung des 1,5-Grad-Ziels des Pariser Abkommens und ein schnelles Ende der Nutzung fossiler Energien. Die Proteste rückten das Klimathema ins Zentrum der weltweiten Aufmerksamkeit. Doch das ist sechs Jahre her. . 🇩🇪🌱 Aktuell scheint den Menschen (in Deutschland) Klimaschutz und Nachhaltigkeit nicht mehr so wichtig, Konsument:innen haben immer seltener Schuldgefühle, wenn sie sich nicht umweltfreundlich verhalten. 2019 gaben das in einer Umfrage eines Marktforschungsunternehmens (NIQ) 30 Prozent an. Im Jahr 2024 waren es nur noch 22 Prozent. 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ Immerhin: Der Nachhaltigkeitsindex zeigt seit April 2025 wieder einen leichten Aufwärtstrend, liegt aber weit unter den Werten von 2019. Die Menschen seien pragmatischer geworden, so die Umfrage: Klimaschutz dürfe nicht zu viel kosten und dürfe nicht allzu unbequem sein, finden die Konsument:innen. . Unsere Quellen, u.a.: NielsenIQ: „NIQ Consumer Life“-Langzeitstudie: So shoppen (und leben) wir anders als 2019 Osberghaus et al. (2025): The intention-behavior gap in climate change adaptation: Evidence from longitudinal survey data Ajzen I. (1985) From Intentions to Actions: A Theory of Planned Behavior"
2,385 likes, 168 comments - quarks.de on May 30, 2025: "🌍🌱 Warum tun wir uns gerade mit dem Klimaschutz so schwer? Wird Klimaschutz immer mehr zum Luxus? . 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Erinnert ihr euch noch an 2019? Das Jahr war ein Wendepunkt der globalen Klimabewegung. Millionen Menschen gingen weltweit auf die Straße. Schüler:innen, Studierende, aber auch Wissenschaftler:innen (“Scientists for Future”) demonstrierten dabei für Klimaschutz, die Einhaltung des 1,5-Grad-Ziels des …

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025 - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2024/10/25/project-2025-trump-mapped-how-6-billionaire-family-fortunes-fund-climate-denial/
> Unraveli…

Mapped: How 6 Billionaire Family Fortunes Fund Project 2025
Unraveling a $130 million web of climate denial, political extremism, and Trump campaign ties.

Und wo wir gerade bei underrated Mucke sind: wie konnte Snow Patrol so lange an mir vorbeigehen!?
https://open.spotify.com/album/7cbi6YeBaCjEdyzMdtwG45?si=cCWF1I7gSG-K1LMnEMJd0Q

The Forest Is The Path
Snow Patrol · Album · 2024 · 12 songs

Electric fields and waves in the Venus nightside magnetosphere
Forrest Mozer, Oleksiy Agapitov, Stuart Bale, John Bonnell, Marc Pulupa, Tim Quinn, Andrii Voschchepynets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12618

Electric fields and waves in the Venus nightside magnetosphere
On November 6, 2024, the Parker Solar Probe flew past Venus to make the first accurate electric field measurement in the nightside Venusian magnetosphere. To achieve this result, the electric field antennas were current biased in a way never before experienced by an electric field detector. This biasing requirement, that the positive bias current in the Venus shadow be about equal to the electron thermal current, is discussed and illustrated. About one minute of useful electric f ield data in t…

Docs and sources: Builder.ai faked business with Bengaluru-based VerSe, which runs the Dailyhunt news app, by "round-tripping" sales worth ~$60M from 2021-2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

University of Chicago Becker-Friedman Institute of Economics just published research this April 2025 of how Generative AI has had "almost no significant wage or labor impact so far".
✅ Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

The chemical yields of stars in the range 9-15 Msun
Marco Limongi, Lorenzo Roberti, Agnese Falla, Alessandro Chieffi, Ken'ichi Nomoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22030

The chemical yields of stars in the range 9-15 Msun
In Limongi et al. (2024) we presented and discussed the main evolutionary properties and final fate of stars in the mass range 7-15 Msun. The evolutions of those models were computed by means of a medium size nuclear network that guaranteed a proper calculation of the nuclear energy generation and hence a good modeling of the physical evolution of these stars. In the present paper, we extend this study by computing the detailed chemical yields of stars in the mass range 9-15 Msun, i.e., those s…

Prof Anthony Costello on the UK's flawed covid policies
"UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions about medical and scientific advice"
"Early in the covid pandemic, evidence emerged from several East Asian countries that suppression could lead to successful control. Yet the UK did not adopt the approach. ... Why was suppression not recommended, and what can be done to improve advice in future?"
Currently looks like it'd go the same way in the next pandemic too:
"Five years on, many of the people who developed the UK’s flawed response are still in post; they have not changed their views on suppression, and little has been done to improve government pandemic advice committees or to introduce detailed governance rules for the UK’s future pandemic response and resilience."
#covid #history #UKPol #pandemics

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.07077 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Submonoid Membership in n-dimensional lamplighter groups and S-unit equations
We show that Submonoid Membership is decidable in n-dimensional lamplighter groups $(\mathbb{Z}/p\mathbb{Z}) \wr \mathbb{Z}^n$ for any prime $p$ and integer $n$. More generally, we show decidability of Submonoid Membership in semidirect products of the form $\mathcal{Y} \rtimes \mathbb{Z}^n$, where $\mathcal{Y}$ is any finitely presented module over the Laurent polynomial ring $\mathbb{F}_p[X_1^{\pm}, \ldots, X_n^{\pm}]$. Combined with a result of Shafrir (2024), this gives the first example of…

Cowboys Get Good News on Potential Return of ‘Breakout Star’ on Defense https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/linebacker-demarvion-overshown-thanksgiving-injury-return/?adt_ei=[email]

Two rival Amazon influencers seek to dismiss their 2024 copyright case, where one accused the other of posting similar promotional content for the same products (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/676357/amazon-inf…

The ‘beige Amazon influencer’ lawsuit is headed for dismissal
A lawsuit between two Amazon influencers raised questions about copyright, identity, and ownership of online content and vibes. Now the case is coming to a close.

So, tracked down the issue with Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS) 2024. The default permissions for the HOTAS `/dev/hidraw` devices is too restrictive. This is why neither MSFS 2024 or Elite: Dangerous saw the devices. I added new entries into the `udev` rules to relax the permissions and both games immediately saw the HOTAS.
```
KERNEL=="hidraw*", ATTRS{idVendor}=="231d", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0126", MODE="0666"
KERNEL=="hidraw*&q…

Stimme noch bis 25. Mai ab, wer die Auszeichnung "Spieler:in des Jahres" für 2024 erhält - hier geht es zu den Kandidat:innen in vier Kategorien: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/spielerdesjahres/2024/

Musk says Trump would have lost the 2024 election without his help (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/05/trump-presidency-news/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p111#a250605p111

Deutschland erlebt deutlich mehr #Hitzetage als früher. Zwischen Mai 2024 und Mai 2025 traten 50 extrem heiße Tage auf.
Fast die Hälfte davon lässt sich laut Analyse auf den #Klimawandel zurückführen. Weltweit waren rund vier Milliarden Menschen von zusätzlichen heißen Tagen betroffen. I…

Studie - Klimakrise verdoppelt Zahl der Hitzetage in Deutschland
Deutschland verzeichnet vermehrt extreme Hitzetage. Das geht aus einer Auswertung der gemeinnützigen US-Organisation Climate Central, der Organisation World Weather Attribution und anderer Partner auf Basis internationaler Daten hervor. Forscher hatten berechnet, wie viele Tage mit Extremtemperaturen auf den Klimawandel zurückzuführen sind.

Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW$_1$
Carl Ingebretsen, Bryce T. Bolin, Robert Jedicke, Peter Vere\v{s}, Christine H. Chen, Carey M. Lisse, Russet McMillan, Torrie Sutherland, Amanda J. Townsend
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23736

Apache Point rapid response characterization of primitive pre-impact detection asteroid 2024 RW$_1$
Pre-impact detection asteroids (PIDAs) may be detected only a few hours before their impact with Earth, providing a brief opportunity to characterize them before impact. We describe the characterization of PIDA 2024 RW$_1$, which was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on 2024 September 4 at 05:43 UTC, before it entered the atmosphere near the northern Philippines at 16:39 UTC. We observed 2024 RW$_1$ with the Astrophysical Research Consortium Telescope Imaging Camera on the Apache Point Astr…

From Knowledge to Noise: CTIM-Rover and the Pitfalls of Episodic Memory in Software Engineering Agents
Tobias Lindenbauer, Georg Groh, Hinrich Sch\"utze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23422

From Knowledge to Noise: CTIM-Rover and the Pitfalls of Episodic Memory in Software Engineering Agents
We introduce CTIM-Rover, an AI agent for Software Engineering (SE) built on top of AutoCodeRover (Zhang et al., 2024) that extends agentic reasoning frameworks with an episodic memory, more specifically, a general and repository-level Cross-Task-Instance Memory (CTIM). While existing open-source SE agents mostly rely on ReAct (Yao et al., 2023b), Reflexion (Shinn et al., 2023), or Code-Act (Wang et al., 2024), all of these reasoning and planning frameworks inefficiently discard their long-term …

P.S. Hat tip to @… for the radium reference. He was talking about other things (https://pluralistic.net/2024/09/19/just-stop-putting-that-up-your-ass/#harm-reduction), but the whole vibe of that “Radium will magically restore you to health!” era is by far the best historical comparison I’ve found for the current froth-mouthed AI hype.

Share of news influencers on Bluesky has doubled after the 2024 US election to 43%, but X remains popular, with 82% of news influencers maintaining an account (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/20

Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular
The share of news influencers in our sample with a Bluesky account roughly doubled in the four months after Election Day 2024, from 21% beforehand to 43% by March.

Nouvelle publication: Montées & descentes dans les gares en 2024
👉Sur le portail statistique: https://reporting.sbb.ch/fr/transports?highlighted=3a58b28b54dfca1498a080fae…

Transports - SBB Zahlen & Fakten

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – October 9, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 28 new job…
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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!) […]

A very simple code to describe emotions or how does this work in real life?!?? ;)
```rust
#[allow(warnings)]
fn main() {
let mut emo: &str;
match 1 1 == 0b10 {
true => emo = "🤓",
_ => emo = "😵‍💫",
};
println!("Perception: {}", emo);
}
```
Play 🦀:

FPF and OneTrust launch updated Conformity Assessment under the EU AI Act: guide and infographic
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-and-onetrust-launch-updated-conformity-assessment-under-the-eu-ai-act-guide-and-infographi…

Warum ich bei der Klimakrise keine Hoffnung mehr habe? Weil das Wort Kapitalismus nicht mal mehr erwähnt wird.
Was soll das?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DKR8nWlRtZi/

Quarks on Instagram: "🌍🌱 Warum tun wir uns gerade mit dem Klimaschutz so schwer? Wird Klimaschutz immer mehr zum Luxus? . 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Erinnert ihr euch noch an 2019? Das Jahr war ein Wendepunkt der globalen Klimabewegung. Millionen Menschen gingen weltweit auf die Straße. Schüler:innen, Studierende, aber auch Wissenschaftler:innen (“Scientists for Future”) demonstrierten dabei für Klimaschutz, die Einhaltung des 1,5-Grad-Ziels des Pariser Abkommens und ein schnelles Ende der Nutzung fossiler Energien. Die Proteste rückten das Klimathema ins Zentrum der weltweiten Aufmerksamkeit. Doch das ist sechs Jahre her. . 🇩🇪🌱 Aktuell scheint den Menschen (in Deutschland) Klimaschutz und Nachhaltigkeit nicht mehr so wichtig, Konsument:innen haben immer seltener Schuldgefühle, wenn sie sich nicht umweltfreundlich verhalten. 2019 gaben das in einer Umfrage eines Marktforschungsunternehmens (NIQ) 30 Prozent an. Im Jahr 2024 waren es nur noch 22 Prozent. 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣ Immerhin: Der Nachhaltigkeitsindex zeigt seit April 2025 wieder einen leichten Aufwärtstrend, liegt aber weit unter den Werten von 2019. Die Menschen seien pragmatischer geworden, so die Umfrage: Klimaschutz dürfe nicht zu viel kosten und dürfe nicht allzu unbequem sein, finden die Konsument:innen. . Unsere Quellen, u.a.: NielsenIQ: „NIQ Consumer Life“-Langzeitstudie: So shoppen (und leben) wir anders als 2019 Osberghaus et al. (2025): The intention-behavior gap in climate change adaptation: Evidence from longitudinal survey data Ajzen I. (1985) From Intentions to Actions: A Theory of Planned Behavior"
2,385 likes, 168 comments - quarks.de on May 30, 2025: "🌍🌱 Warum tun wir uns gerade mit dem Klimaschutz so schwer? Wird Klimaschutz immer mehr zum Luxus? . 2️⃣0️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ Erinnert ihr euch noch an 2019? Das Jahr war ein Wendepunkt der globalen Klimabewegung. Millionen Menschen gingen weltweit auf die Straße. Schüler:innen, Studierende, aber auch Wissenschaftler:innen (“Scientists for Future”) demonstrierten dabei für Klimaschutz, die Einhaltung des 1,5-Grad-Ziels des …

No Words - #NoWords https://muz4now.com/2024/no-words-nowords/

No Words - #NoWords
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Jujutsu (jj), a git compatible version control system.
https://tonyfinn.com/blog/jj/
saved 2024-10-20 https://dot…

Are there stars in Bluesky after the return of Donald Trump to the White House?
Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Daniel Torres-Salinas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22702

Are there stars in Bluesky after the return of Donald Trump to the White House?
This study examines the shift in the scientific community from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky, its impact on scientific communication, and consequently on social metrics (altmetrics). We analysed 14,497 publications from multidisciplinary and Library and Information Science (LIS) journals between January 2024 and March 2025. The results reveal a notable increase in Bluesky activity for multidisciplinary journals in November 2024, likely influenced by political and platform changes, with mentio…

Unveiling the Complex Jet Dynamics in the Blazar 2021 317 through Multi-Epoch VLBI Observations
Haitian Shang, Wei Zhao, Xiaoyu Hong, Leonid I. Gurvits, Ailing Zeng, Tao An, Xiaopeng Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23082

Unveiling the Complex Jet Dynamics in the Blazar 2021+317 through Multi-Epoch VLBI Observations
We present an investigation of the compact structure of the AGN 2021+317 based on multi-epoch Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations at 15, 22, and 43 GHz in the period from 2013 through 2024. The VLBI images show a core-jet structure extended to the south, with two stationary components in the northern region, one of which likely to be the core of the source. We also detected two new moving jet components (S4 and S5) in the observations of 2021. Based on these observational find…

Titans CB eager to 'remind everybody who L'Jarius Sneed is' after injury-shortened 2024 season https://www.nfl.com/news/l-jarius-sneed-eager-to-remind-everybody-after-injury-shortened-2024-season

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 56 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29944 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Sources: Anthropic's annualized revenue hit ~$3B at the end of May, driven by business demand, up from $2B around the end of March and ~$1B in December 2024 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/anthropic-hits-3-…

Flowing Loops
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Flowing Loops | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Flowing Loops Host: Dan Koop Category: Arts Sub-Category: Crafts & Creativity, Local News & Stories, Places & Travel First Episode: 2024 Dan Koop and six artists have been walking and talking…

Stalled on getting MSFS 2024 to run, but did clean off the desk a bit. Not the best case scenario, but figured a nice lazy Saturday just relaxing would work out well.
#desktop

from my link log —
A non-uniform quasirandom number generator for games.
https://taylorpetrick.com/blog/post/quasi-random-dist
saved 2024-08-15

A Quasi-Random Number Generator
I decided to implement a non-uniform random number generator for use in video games. The purpose of the technique is produce random events that are more consistent than a uniform distribution, similar to stratified sampling.

Investigating the 2024 swarm like activity offshore Kefalonia Island aided by Machine Learning algorithms
V. Anagnostou, E. Papadimitriou, V. Karakostas, T. Back
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17221

Investigating the 2024 swarm like activity offshore Kefalonia Island aided by Machine Learning algorithms
In March 2024, a swarm like seismic activity occurred north of Kefalonia Island, in the central Ionian Islands area. Following a machine-learning aided workflow, we compiled an enhanced seismic catalog of 2495 low to moderate magnitude earthquakes throughout a 2 month period. Spatiotemporal analysis reveals a narrow epicentral distribution of nearly E-W alignment, approximately 5km long, much longer than the length anticipated by common scaling laws for the aftershock area extension of the stro…

Healing Melodies
- we've known for a long time that music has healing power -
#HealingMusic #NowPlaying
https://

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Borrowing on Belief? Consumer Confidence and U.S. Credit -- A VECM Study
Samiha Tariq, Weikang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21832 https://

Borrowing on Belief? Consumer Confidence and U.S. Credit -- A VECM Study
This study explores the interdependent relationship between consumer credit and consumer confidence in the United States using monthly data from January 1978 to August 2024. Utilizing a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), the analysis focuses on the interplay between household borrowing behaviour and consumer sentiment while controlling for macroeconomic factors such as interest rates, inflation, unemployment, and money supply. The results reveal a stable long-run equilibrium: heightened cons…

George Pickens Joins Cowboys, Raising Expectations and Sending a Message to Eagles https://insidethestar.com/george-pickens-joins-cowboys-raising-expectations-and-sending-a-message-to-eagles

Falcons' Darnell Mooney says he 'came here to win' after falling just short of 1,000-yard season in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

MOA-2022-BLG-091Lb and KMT-2024-BLG-1209Lb: Microlensing planets detected through weak caustic-crossing signals
Cheongho Han, Chung-Uk Lee, Andrzej Udalski, Ian A. Bond, Hongjing Yang, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Youn Kil Jung, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Yossi Shvartzvald, In-Gu Shin, Jennifer C. Yee, Weicheng Zang, Tanagodchaporn Inyanya, Sang-Mok Cha, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Seung-Lee Kim, Dong-Joo Lee, Yongseok Lee, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Przemek Mr…

MOA-2022-BLG-091Lb and KMT-2024-BLG-1209Lb: Microlensing planets detected through weak caustic-crossing signals
The light curves of the microlensing events MOA-2022-BLG-091 and KMT-2024-BLG-1209 exhibit anomalies with very similar features. These anomalies appear near the peaks of the light curves, where the magnifications are moderately high, and are distinguished by weak caustic-crossing features with minimal distortion while the source remains inside the caustic. To achieve a deeper understanding of these anomalies, we conducted a comprehensive analysis of the lensing events. We carried out binary-len…

Bei der #NABU-Aktion "Stunde der Gartenvögel" wurden dieses Jahr weniger Vögel pro Garten gezählt als 2024.
Ursachen sind laut NABU #Krankheiten wie das Usutu Virus, #Futtermangel …

NABU-Aktion: Weniger Vögel in Gärten und Parks gezählt
Bei der "Stunde der Gartenvögel" haben Beobachterinnen und Beobachter weniger Vögel als sonst gezählt. Das ist das Ergebnis der Mitmach-Aktion des Naturschutzbunds Deutschland e.V. (NABU).

Counting Small Induced Subgraphs: Scorpions Are Easy but Not Trivial
Radu Curticapean, Simon D\"oring, Daniel Neuen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22300 h…

Counting Small Induced Subgraphs: Scorpions Are Easy but Not Trivial
We consider the parameterized problem $\#$IndSub$(Φ)$ for fixed graph properties $Φ$: Given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, this problem asks to count the number of induced $k$-vertex subgraphs satisfying $Φ$. Dörfler et al. [Algorithmica 2022] and Roth et al. [SICOMP 2024] conjectured that $\#$IndSub$(Φ)$ is $\#$W[1]-hard for all non-meager properties $Φ$, i.e., properties that are nontrivial for infinitely many $k$. This conjecture has been confirmed for several restricted types of prop…

Response to comment on Mutualism weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
Camille Delavaux, Thomas Crowther, James Bever, Evan Gora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21006

Response to comment on Mutualism weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
In our original paper (Delavaux et al. 2024; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07110-y), we find that the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) in plant species richness is reduced on oceanic islands worldwide. Moreover, we find that plants that associate with mutualists, including pollinators, AM fungi, and N-fixing bacteria, disproportionately contribute to this reduction. To make this assertion, we fit models of continental diversity to absolute latitude and compared mainland diversi…

Neu publiziert: Ein- & Aussteigenden an den Bahnhöfen 2024
👉Auf den Statistikportal: https://reporting.sbb.ch/verkehr?highlighted=3a58b28b54dfca1498a080fae762483d
👉Als Karte:

Verkehr - SBB Zahlen & Fakten

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20892 has been replaced.
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X-ray polarization observations of NGC 2110 with IXPE
X-ray polarimetric observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) is an excellent tool for probing the geometry and dynamics of X-ray emitting corona in active galactic nuclei (AGN). This work aims to investigate the geometry of the X-ray corona in the Seyfert 2 AGN, NGC 2110, using its first polarimetric observation with IXPE, conducted over a net exposure of 554 ks beginning on October 16, 2024. We performed a model-independent analysis of the 2-8 keV IXPE polarimetric observ…

Hrmm, seems like my HOTAS setup doesn't work with MSFS 2024 under Linux which is very annoying. Not quite sure _why_ it's not working other than as far as MSFS is concerned it does not exist. `usbreset` shows it and I can see outputs from the device, but for this specific game it's a no-go at the moment. Very annoying.
#linux

Comment on "Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowledge"
John M. Herbert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18196

Comment on "Politicizing science funding undermines public trust in science, academic freedom, and the unbiased generation of knowledge"
In a commentary published in mid-2024 (to which the present work is a direct response), a number of scientists argue that U.S. funding agencies have "politicized" the process by which grants are awarded, in service of diversifying the scientific workforce. The commentary in question, however, makes numerous unfounded assertions while recycling citations to a fusillade of opinion essays written by the same cabal of authors, in an effort to resemble a work of serious scholarship. Basic fact-check…

TOC Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies (HIJBS) 7.1, 7.2 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069347/toc-hualin-international-journal-buddhist-studies-hijbs-71-72

Ah, current plans for today: find some way to get Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 running on my computer. So far I've managed to select my starting airport/airfield and then the game hangs. It's progress, but I have a feeling this fight is going to go on for awhile considering the game hangs immediately afterwards.
#linux

2024 waren wir mit der Schachtour in Aalen und haben dort für einen Tag einen Schachstand im Freibad aufgemacht. Dort wurde viel Schach gespielt und es wurde sogar Unter-Wasser-Schach angeboten. Und Chessy war natürlich auch mit dabei.
Falls ihr aus dem Osten kommt und Lust habt, dass wir diesen Sommer zu euch kommen, meldet euch gerne hier an:

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04352 has been replaced.
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Thermonuclear superburst of MAXI J1752$-$457 observed with NinjaSat and MAXI
An uncatalogued bright X-ray transient was detected with MAXI on November 9, 2024, named MAXI J1752$-$457. The NinjaSat X-ray observatory promptly observed the source from November 10 to 18 while the small angular separation from the Sun hampered follow-up campaigns by other X-ray observatories. The MAXI and NinjaSat light curves in the 2-10 keV band showed first and second decaying components at the early and late phases, approximated by exponential functions with e-folding constants of 1.2 $\…

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.

Wooo, my ProtonDB post was posted. I'm hoping this helps out other folks with getting MSFS 2024 working.
#linux #gaming

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06448 has been replaced.
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Gaming the Metrics? Bibliometric Anomalies and the Integrity Crisis in Global University Rankings
Global university rankings have transformed how certain institutions define success, often elevating metrics over meaning. This study examines universities with rapid research growth suggestive of metric-driven behaviors. Among the 1,000 most publishing institutions, 98 showed extreme output increases between 2018-2019 and 2023-2024. Of these, eighteen were selected for exhibiting sharp declines in first and corresponding authorship. Compared to national, regional, and international norms, thes…