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“The colonial monopoly on violence is backed by the liberal demand of nonviolent resistance.”
— tsengputterman, 2024 on Twitter

Similarweb: since the launch of Google's AI Overviews, the number of news searches that result in no click-throughs grew from 56% in May 2024 to 69% in May 2025 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/02/chat

ChatGPT referrals to news sites are growing, but not enough to offset search declines | TechCrunch
Not surprisingly, organic traffic has also declined, dropping from over 2.3 billion visits at its peak in mid-2024 to now under 1.7 billion.

It's amazing to me that people continue to look back at 2024 and angrily blame muslims,non-voters, & leftists for the overwhelming win by Trump. It must be nice to be able to completely ignore reality and learn nothing.
https://www.

Behind Trump’s 2024 Victory, a More Racially and Ethnically Diverse Voter Coalition
Pew Research Center’s in-depth study of its survey respondents who voted in the 2024 election examines turnout, voting patterns and demographics.

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/south-africa-to-ban-highly-toxic-pesticide-terbufos/

South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos
In a decision welcomed by advocacy groups and researchers, South Africa’s Cabinet has approved a ban on the import of Terbufos, a highly toxic pesticide linked to the deaths of six children in a South African township in October 2024. On June 12, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni, Minister of Presidency, said the ban will be accompanied by […]

Symphony of Creation: Understanding What It Takes To Compose #composer #composing #inspiration

Symphony of Creation: Understanding What It Takes To Compose
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Dentsu: the video game industry attracts less than 5% of global ad spend despite 3.4B gamers worldwide; 60 game-based productions were in development in 2024 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-g…

Video Game Industry Draws Less Than 5% of Ad, Marketing Spend
According to a new report from Dentsu Gaming, less than 5% of global media investment goes toward the the video game industry.

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 197 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29803 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

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.

Extended Abstract: Mutable Objects with Several Implementations
Matt Kaufmann, Yahya Sohail, Warren A. Hunt Jr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00016 https://arx…

Extended Abstract: Mutable Objects with Several Implementations
This extended abstract outlines an ACL2 feature, attach-stobj, that first appeared in ACL2 Version 8.6 (October, 2024). This feature supports different executable operations for a given abstract stobj, without requiring recertification of the book that introduces that stobj or theorems about it. The paper provides background as well as a user-level overview and some implementation notes.

A bibliometric analysis on the current situation and hot trends of the impact of microplastics on soil based on CiteSpace
Yiran Zheng, Yue Quan, Su Yan, Xinting Lv, Yuguanmin Cao, Minjie Fu, Mingji Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01520

A bibliometric analysis on the current situation and hot trends of the impact of microplastics on soil based on CiteSpace
This paper aims to comprehensively grasp the research status and development trends of soil microplastics (MPs). It collects studies from the Web of Science Core Collection covering the period from 2013 to 2024. Employing CiteSpace and VOSviewer, the paper conducts in - depth analyses of literature regarding the environmental impacts of microplastics. These analyses involve keyword co - occurrence, clustering, burst term identification, as well as co - occurrence analysis of authors and institu…

@… @… je viens de découvrir que linuxjobs.fr est down depuis août 2024 😟

Magnetic octupole Hall effect in heavy transition metals
Insu Baek, Seungyun Han, Hyun-Woo Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02516 https://

Magnetic octupole Hall effect in heavy transition metals
d-wave altermagnets have the magnetic octupole as their primary order parameter. A recent study [Han et al. arXiv 2409.14423 (2024)] demonstrated that magnetic octupole current can induce Néel vector dynamics. Therefore, identifying materials that can efficiently generate a magnetic octupole current is essential. In this paper, we investigate the magnetic octupole Hall effect in 4d and 5d transition metals. By employing atomic magnetic octupole operators, we calculate the magnetic octupole Hal…

Improved Bounds on Access-Redundancy Tradeoffs in Quantized Linear Computations
Ching-Fang Li, Mary Wootters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00183 https://arxiv…

Improved Bounds on Access-Redundancy Tradeoffs in Quantized Linear Computations
Consider the problem of computing quantized linear functions with only a few queries. Formally, given $\mathbf{x}\in \mathbb{R}^k$, our goal is to encode $\mathbf{x}$ as $\mathbf{c} \in \mathbb{R}^n$, for $n > k$, so that for any $\mathbf{w} \in A^k$, $\mathbf{w}^T \mathbf{x}$ can be computed using at most $\ell$ queries to $\mathbf{c}$. Here, $A$ is some finite set; in this paper we focus on the case where $|A| = 2$. Prior work \emph{(Ramkumar, Raviv, and Tamo, Trans. IT, 2024)} ha…

Ik had helemaal gemist dat hij was overleden, fantastische, onvergeterlijke man. Ik heb nog les van hem gehad, rond 1977, in de duinen, over mierennesten en de duinen in het algemeen.
Gerrit Jan (1932–2024) gaf zijn ongekende veldkennis door aan academici en tienduizenden schoolkinderen | Van Wieg Tot Graf Den Haag en omstreken | AD.nl

Gerrit Jan (1932–2024) gaf zijn ongekende veldkennis door aan academici en tienduizenden schoolkinderen
Als Haagse jongen leerde hij de duinen kennen. Gerrit Jan de Bruyn werd bioloog, gespecialiseerd in de Rode bosmier, en de beschermheer van Meijendel. Dit is het bijzondere levensverhaal van Gerrit Jan de Bruyn (15 augustus 1932 – 29 oktober 2024).

Sources: In 2024, Apple explored a cloud service renting its own chips to developers; it spends ~$7B per year on renting Nvidia chips from AWS and Google (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-explored…

Apple Explored Launching a Cloud Service for Developers
Apple over the past few years considered launching a business renting out its servers to the millions of developers that create apps for the iPhone and Mac, in what would be a hugely ambitious move that would pit it against Amazon, Microsoft and Google. The idea discussed was for Apple to rent ...

from my link log —
How to avoid out-of-thin-air atomics without really trying.
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p3064r2.pdf
saved 2025-07-15

Scoop: Top Biden aide was promised $8 million for 2024 win (Alex Thompson/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/31/donilon-biden-2024-reelection-testimony-congress
http://www.memeorandum.com/250731/p127#a250731p127

A conjecture on the tensor ideal for an elementary p-group generated by the restriction of a Steinberg module
Kevin Coulembier, Johannes Flake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02722

A conjecture on the tensor ideal for an elementary p-group generated by the restriction of a Steinberg module
In previous work (Coulembier--Flake 2024), the authors conjectured that the tensor product of an arbitrary finite-dimensional modular representation of an elementary abelian $p$-group with the biggest non-projective restricted Steinberg $SL_2$-module is a restricted tilting module. We showed that the validity of the conjecture would have interesting implications in the theory of tensor categories in positive characteristic, in particular, with respect to the classification of incompressible sym…

Climatology of Mars Topside Ionosphere during Solar Cycles 24 and 25 using MAVEN Dataset of 2015-2024
Lot Ram, Chanchal Singh, Diptiranjan Rout, Aadarsh Raj Sharma, Sumanta Sarkhel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02368

Climatology of Mars Topside Ionosphere during Solar Cycles 24 and 25 using MAVEN Dataset of 2015-2024
The Mars ambient space environment evolves with the varying solar activity. Understanding the Martian space environment, particularly the topside ionosphere across different phases of Solar Cycles (SC) 24 \& 25 remains a key research gap in planetary ionospheric science. In this study, we utilized the NASA Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission data (150-500 km) from Martian years 32-38 (2015-2024) during solar quiet-time. This study investigated the behavior of topside ionosphe…

Gr\"obner-Shirshov bases of Rota-Baxter algebra of weight $\lambda$ with spectrum lying in $\{0,-\lambda\}$
H. Alhussein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01614

Gröbner-Shirshov bases of Rota-Baxter algebra of weight $λ$ with spectrum lying in $\{0,-λ\}$
It is known that if $A$ is a finite-dimensional unital algebra equipped with a Rota-Baxter operator $R$ of weight $λ$, then spectrum of $R$ is a subset of $\{0,-λ\}$. We are interested on finding all consequences of the Rota-Baxter relation and the relation of the form $R^k(R+λ{\rm id})^l = 0$. In 2024, H.~Qiu, S. Zheng, Y. Dan solved this problem for $k = l = 1$ and $λ\neq0$. We find a Gröbner-Shirshov basis of the ideal generated by these two relations in general case.

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
Subham Bhakta, Igor E. Shparlinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00325 https://

On quantum ergodicity for higher dimensional cat maps modulo prime powers
A discrete model of quantum ergodicity of linear maps generated by symplectic matrices $A \in \mathrm{Sp}(2d,\mathbb{Z})$ modulo an integer $N\ge 1$, has been studied for $d=1$ and almost all $N$ by P. Kurlberg and Z. Rudnick (2001). Their result has been strengthened by J. Bourgain (2005) and subsequently by A. Ostafe, I. E. Shparlinski, and J. F. Voloch (2023). For arbitrary $d$ this has been studied by P. Kurlberg, A. Ostafe, Z. Rudnick and I. E. Shparlinski (2024). The corresponding equidis…

A whistleblower details Clothoff, an AI-powered nudify app that owns 10 similar services; Clothoff had 27M visitors in H1 2024 and produced 200K images daily (Spiegel Online)
https://www.spiegel.de/internationa…

Using AI to Humiliate Women: The Men Behind Deepfake Pornography
AI-generated naked images of real women is the business model behind Clothoff, a dubious "nudify" app that has millions of visitors. Now, a whistleblower has provided details of just how cynical the site's operators are.

Out & about in the Bernina Range, on our way to the Labyrinth, surrounded by majestic 4000ers (meters)... A dream! 😍
(#ThrowbackThursday, preemptive #FootpathFriday and my personal hiking highlight of 2024)

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…

Mise Š jour de fin d’année 2024 #ChardonsBleus #Justice #Cagnotte #Metoo

Jud Awad is overleden, peuter met leukemie die geen toestemming kreeg van Gaza naar Nederland te komen.
Een huisarts uit Leerdam probeerde het kind tevergeefs naar Nederland te halen.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/2…

Jud Awad is overleden, peuter met leukemie die geen toestemming kreeg van Gaza naar Nederland te komen
Jud Awad (2024 – 2025): Een huisarts uit Leerdam probeerde het kind tevergeefs naar Nederland te halen.

Scale-Dependent Multifractality in Bitcoin Realised Volatility: Implications for Rough Volatility Modelling
Milan Pontiggia (MAGEFI - University of Bordeaux, France)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00575

Scale-Dependent Multifractality in Bitcoin Realised Volatility: Implications for Rough Volatility Modelling
We assess the applicability of rough volatility models to Bitcoin realised volatility using the normalised p-variation framework of Cont and Das (2024). Applying this model free estimator to high-frequency Bitcoin data from 2017 to 2024 across multiple sampling resolutions, we find that the normalised statistic remains strictly negative throughout, precluding the estimation of a valid roughness index. Stationarity tests and robustness checks reveal no significant evidence of non-stationarity or…

Die einen sagen so, die anderen sagen so.

Bis zu 96 Prozent - Preisschock bei Billig-Lebensmitteln hält an #News #Nachrichten …

SMA and NOEMA reveal asymmetric sub-structure in the protoplanetary disk of IRAS23077 6707
Joshua B. Lovell, Leon Trapman, Kristina Monsch, Sean M. Andrews, Alice S. Booth, Garrett K. Keating, Takahiro Ueda, David J. Wilner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00122

SMA and NOEMA reveal asymmetric sub-structure in the protoplanetary disk of IRAS23077+6707
We present high-resolution data of IRAS 23077+6707 (`Dracula's Chivito') with the Submillimeter Array (SMA at 1.33 mm/225.5 GHz) and the Northern Extended Millimeter Array (NOEMA at 2.7 mm/111.7 GHz and 3.1 mm/96.2 GHz). IRAS 23077+6707 is a highly-inclined and newly discovered protoplanetary disk, first reported in 2024. We combine SMA baselines from the Compact, Extended and Very Extended arrays, and NOEMA baselines from its A and C configurations, and present continuum images with resolution…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Nia Archives:
🎵 Crowded Roomz
#NiaArchives
https://futurerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/lalkara-crowded-roomz-diljit-dosanjh-nia-archives-welcome-to-future-2-drum-bass-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/2bnatDQSIhiZBVfVUT0PUe

The transformative capability of quantum-accurate machine learning interatomic potentials
Alfredo A. Correa, Sebastien Hamel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02328

The transformative capability of quantum-accurate machine learning interatomic potentials
Many materials's properties and phase boundaries are generally not well known under extreme pressure and temperature conditions. This is a consequence of the scarcity of experimental information and the difficulty of extrapolating approximations to the atomic interactions in such conditions. Nguyen-Cong and colleagues, in their publication (J.Phys.Chem.Lett. 15, 1152 (2024)), achieved an impressive result using a SNAP (Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential), an interatomic potential for carbon o…

LLM-Based Identification of Infostealer Infection Vectors from Screenshots: The Case of Aurora
Estelle Ruellan, Eric Clay, Nicholas Ascoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23611 https…

LLM-Based Identification of Infostealer Infection Vectors from Screenshots: The Case of Aurora
Infostealers exfiltrate credentials, session cookies, and sensitive data from infected systems. With over 29 million stealer logs reported in 2024, manual analysis and mitigation at scale are virtually unfeasible/unpractical. While most research focuses on proactive malware detection, a significant gap remains in leveraging reactive analysis of stealer logs and their associated artifacts. Specifically, infection artifacts such as screenshots, image captured at the point of compromise, are large…

Hey @… I was just listening to the great literary olfactoloy episode with @allylouks.bsky.social€, but I feel that the existence/role of human pheromones has been a bit misrepresented.
I have worked on mammalian pheromones for my PhD, and I have encountered (at least) two major definitions of the term "pheromone", one based on the function of a substance, and the other, which I personally prefer, on the information flow involved in it (https://doi.org/10.1159/000096511).
Based on the Sbarbati & Osculati definition, a pheromone would be a component that conveys information between individuals of the same species.
There is also quite a bit of research that argues for the existence of human pheromones (e.g. https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, https://doi.org/10.1002/ar.a.20125, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1198331)
However, the discussion on the existence of human pheromones is difficult, as it touches on the topic of free will as many reactions to odor are involuntary. During the International Symposium on Olfaction and Taste held in Iceland in 2024, there have been several session on human olfaction touching on sensitive aspects such as olfaction-mediated effects on mate choice and pregnancy, but none of the researchers dared utter the word pheromone, while colleagues working on other mammals where happily talking about pheromonal effects for very similar topics.
Long story short, I feel that saying there is no hard evidence for human pheromones is misrepresenting the current research.

Am Wochenende ausgelesen: World Press Photo 2024. Ich hab's ja sehr mit dokumentarischer und journalistischer Fotografie. Diese Bücher geben Jahr für Jahr einen guten Überblick zu (einigen) Problemzonen der Erde. Die Ausgabe für 2025 liegt schon parat für die nächsten 2-3 Wochen. #bücherliebe #fotografie

Native American teens kayak river to celebrate dam removals, symbolizing restoration and honoring ancestors. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Native American teens kayak US river to celebrate dam removals
Four dams were dynamited and removed between 2023 to 2024, freeing hundreds of miles of the Klamath.

The Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting and Trading Competition 2024
Jethro Browell, Dennis van der Meer, Henrik K\"alvegren, Sebastian Haglund, Edoardo Simioni, Ricardo J. Bessa, Yi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01579

The Hybrid Renewable Energy Forecasting and Trading Competition 2024
The Hybrid Energy Forecasting and Trading Competition challenged participants to forecast and trade the electricity generation from a 3.6GW portfolio of wind and solar farms in Great Britain for three months in 2024. The competition mimicked operational practice with participants required to submit genuine forecasts and market bids for the day-ahead on a daily basis. Prizes were awarded for forecasting performance measured by Pinball Score, trading performance measured by total revenue, and com…

I would do this daily (or how ever often is necessary) to rarely get sick again!
https://sfba.social/@nwchapman/115124195881987830

Der Markt für #Elektroautos in Deutschland zieht nach dem Rückgang 2024 wieder an.
Im ersten Halbjahr 2025 waren 17,8 Prozent der #Neuzulassungen vollelektrisch.
Gründe sind neue Modelle, stärkere

E-Auto-Markt: Die E-Autos sind zurück
Nach einem schwierigen Jahr 2024 verkaufen sich E-Autos jetzt wieder überraschend gut – ganz ohne Prämie. Ein Grund dafür: Tricks der Hersteller.

LKA schließt offenbar russische Einflussnahme auf Weihnachtsmarkt-Anschlag aus
Das Landeskriminalamt (LKA) in Sachsen-Anhalt hat ausgeschlossen, dass der Magdeburger Weihnachtsmarktattentäter vom russischen Geheimdienst gesteuert wurde. Das berichtet der Spiegel unter Berufung auf einen Abschlussbericht der Behörde zu der Amokfahrt am 20. Dezember 2024 mit sechs Toten und mehr als 300 Verletzten her…
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Rechtsextreme Desinformation über Anschlag in Magdeburg
Nach dem Anschlag auf den Weihnachtsmarkt in Magdeburg haben Rechtsextreme in den sozialen Netzwerken zahlreiche Falschbehauptungen verbreitet. Auch internationale Akteure mischten dabei mit.

even more famous!
https://english.elpais.com/people/2024-02-10/that-ferrari-isnt-going-to-pay-for-itself-the-controversial-rise-of-jeremy-fragrance-the-perfume-influencer.html

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.

Online Combinatorial Allocation with Interdependent Values
Michal Feldman, Simon Mauras, Divyarthi Mohan, Rebecca Reiffenh\"auser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23500 https://

Online Combinatorial Allocation with Interdependent Values
We study online combinatorial allocation problems in the secretary setting, under interdependent values. In the interdependent model, introduced by Milgrom and Weber (1982), each agent possesses a private signal that captures her information about an item for sale, and the value of every agent depends on the signals held by all agents. Mauras, Mohan, and Reiffenhäuser (2024) were the first to study interdependent values in online settings, providing constant-approximation guarantees for secret…

Von #umverkehR @…
Volkswillen respektieren: Mobilitätswende statt Autobahnausbau.
Die Ablehnung des Autobahnausbaus vom 24. November 2024 war der Wendepunkt in der Schweizer

Petition Mobilitätswende statt Autobahnausbau
Wir fordern den Bundesrat auf, den Volkswillen zu respektieren und die Schweizer Klimaziele zu erreichen. Der Autobahnausbau muss endgültig gestoppt und die Gelder aus dem Strassenfonds in die Mobilitätswende investiert werden.

Gute Nachrichten für alle, die in der IT-Branche arbeiten oder einen Einstieg planen! 💻 Laut aktuellen Zahlen der Bundesagentur für Arbeit sind die Gehälter im IT-Bereich 2024 um etwa 3,85% gestiegen und liegen damit über der Inflationsrate von 2,2%.
Zum Artikel: https://

from my link log —
UK Online Safety Act Notes for small sites.
https://russ.garrett.co.uk/2024/12/17/online-safety-act-guide/
saved 2024-12-17

Investigation of resonant layer response in electron viscosity regime
Yeongsun Lee, Jace Waybright, Jong-Kyu Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23530 https://…

Investigation of resonant layer response in electron viscosity regime
We present a supplementary study of previous work in Waybright and Park [Phys. Plasmas 31, 022502 (2024)] which demonstrates a substantial effect of electron viscosity on the resonant layer response to non-axisymmetric magnetic perturbations. A main refinement is to include a curl element of electron viscosity in the generalized Ohm's law. The refinement reveals a resonant layer response in the Electron Viscosity (EV) regime corresponding to slowly rotating and highly viscous plasmas.

Spahn (7/2024): „Wenn ich Präsident Trump zuhöre, dann mag ich seinen Stil zwar nicht […], aber wenn ich auf die Inhalte schaue [...], dann sehe ich gemeinsame Interessen“
Deutschland: „In dem Abschiebeflug in den Irak saßen nicht nur männliche Straftäter, sondern auch Frauen und Kinder - mehr als bislang bekannt.“

Canary Island Daisy (with tiny spider). LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. July, 2024. #laarboretum #daisy #flower

Russian Supreme Court chair dies at 71 after illness: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/russian-supreme-court-chair-dies.html

P-CRE-DML: A Novel Approach for Causal Inference in Non-Linear Panel Data
Amarendra Sharma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23297 https://a…

P-CRE-DML: A Novel Approach for Causal Inference in Non-Linear Panel Data
This paper introduces a novel Proxy-Enhanced Correlated Random Effects Double Machine Learning (P-CRE-DML) framework to estimate causal effects in panel data with non-linearities and unobserved heterogeneity. Combining Double Machine Learning (DML, Chernozhukov et al., 2018), Correlated Random Effects (CRE, Mundlak, 1978), and lagged variables (Arellano & Bond, 1991) and innovating within the CRE-DML framework (Chernozhukov et al., 2022; Clarke & Polselli, 2025; Fuhr & Papies, 2024), we apply P…

Illinois Restores Protections For Press Targeted With Frivolous Lawsuits https://thedissenter.org/illinois-restores-protections-for-press-targeted-with-frivolous-lawsuits/

I just found this UK report on #covid epidemiology from 2020 to Dec 2024; the graph I most noticed is below - they looked at blood donors for spike (S) and Nucleo (N) protein antibodies over time; The spike proteins are in both infection and vaccine, while N is infection only - so you can see when people got vaccinated and how now pretty much everyone (95.5% as end of January) has been infected as…

Epidemiology of COVID-19 in England: January 2020 to December 2024

Source: Jets cut 2024 third-round pick Corley https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46079307/source-jets-cut-2024-third-round-pick-malachi-corley

Pre- and Post-Treatment Glioma Segmentation with the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit
Adrian Celaya, Tucker Netherton, Dawid Schellingerhout, Caroline Chung, Beatrice Riviere, David Fuentes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19626

Pre- and Post-Treatment Glioma Segmentation with the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit
Medical image segmentation continues to advance rapidly, yet rigorous comparison between methods remains challenging due to a lack of standardized and customizable tooling. In this work, we present the current state of the Medical Imaging Segmentation Toolkit (MIST), with a particular focus on its flexible and modular postprocessing framework designed for the BraTS 2025 pre- and post-treatment glioma segmentation challenge. Since its debut in the 2024 BraTS adult glioma post-treatment segmentat…

Scaling and Data Saturation in Protein Language Models
Aviv Spinner, Erika DeBenedictis, Corey M. Hudson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22210 https://arxiv.org…

Scaling and Data Saturation in Protein Language Models
Data in biology is redundant, noisy, and sparse. How does the type and scale of available data impact model performance? In this work, we specifically investigate how protein language models (pLMs) scale with increasing pretraining data. We investigate this relationship by measuring the performance of protein function prediction on a suite of pLMs pretrained on yearly snapshots of UniRef100 from 2011 to 2024. We find no evidence of model saturation on this task: performance improves--but not mo…

Simultaneous observations of multiple ELVES and SPRITES at the Pierre #Auger Observatory: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11641 -> "the Pierre Auger Observatory has exploited a dedicated trigger and its very high time resolution to study ELVES and harvest record samples of multiple ELVES using the Fluorescence Detector (FD). In 2017, after extending the readout of trace lengths to 0.9 ms, we started observing other types of light transients from the base of the ionosphere, such as HALOS, which deserved further investigation. In December 2023 and April 2024, we installed two additional cameras (TLECAMs), which allow us to perform simultaneous detection of these transients with higher space resolution and longer integration times. Here, we present our first simultaneous observations of SPRITES and ELVES by both TLECAMs and FD."

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

Yeah, I knew some lovely people who worked at Twitter too. And did you know they once had unfettered API access and anyone could create their own client? Some of us loved that so much we built things that helped legitimise them as an open platform. And then one day they just switched that off.
Legitimacy is gold to venture-capital-funded startups. They need people with it to convince everyday folks that this latest iteration of the same old rug pull is different. Until they’ve grown s…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image I can't wait to use Bluesky, but I will not be joining Bluesky. As much as I trust and respect the Bluesky executives and board members I am acquainted with, I believe the service itself is insufficiently enshittification-resistant to trust: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: h…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Peter Tosh:
🎵 Legalize It
#NowPlaying #PeterTosh
https://scottremedy.bandcamp.com/track/peter-tosh-legalize-it-2024-re-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/73lYI49LhfsscO33ohrGN0

My favorite blues and snow white sands near Crodon di San Candido (October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Perfect Clustering in Very Sparse Diverse Multiplex Networks
Marianna Pensky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19423 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19423

Perfect Clustering in Very Sparse Diverse Multiplex Networks
The paper studies the DIverse MultiPLEx Signed Generalized Random Dot Product Graph (DIMPLE-SGRDPG) network model (Pensky (2024)), where all layers of the network have the same collection of nodes. In addition, all layers can be partitioned into groups such that the layers in the same group are embedded in the same ambient subspace but otherwise matrices of connection probabilities can be all different. This setting includes majority of multilayer network models as its particular cases. The key…

Does Extending Polling Hours Compensate for Bomb Threats? Evidence from the 2024 Election in Georgia, USA
Sequoia Andrade, Philip Stark
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19442 https://…

Does Extending Polling Hours Compensate for Bomb Threats? Evidence from the 2024 Election in Georgia, USA
At least 227~bomb threats against polling places and tabulation centers were received on the day of the 2024 US presidential election. Threats disrupted voting in the swing states of Georgia, Arizona, and Pennsylvania while law enforcement swept polling places. No bombs were found. Roughly a dozen `credible' threats were received in Georgia in DeKalb and Fulton counties, interrupting voting at eleven polling locations; there were dozens of `non-credible' threats in addition. To remediate the ef…

from my link log —
Development notes from xkcd's "Machine".
https://chromakode.com/post/xkcd-machine/
saved 2024-05-09 h…

Development notes from xkcd's "Machine"
How we designed xkcd's massive rube goldberg machine game in 3 weeks.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.IR. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.IR/new
[1/1]:
- Overview of BioASQ 2024: The twelfth BioASQ challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing...
Anastasios Nentidis, et al.

A Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Parameters in Solar Source Regions of Halo-CMEs with and without SEP events
Xuchun Duan, Ting Li, Yijun Hou, Yang Wang, Yue Li, Yining Zhang, Zheng Sun, Guiping Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21907

A Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Parameters in Solar Source Regions of Halo-CMEs with and without SEP events
Large SEPs can cause adverse space weather hazard to humans technology and such events are especially associated with halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs). But in turn, a significant portion of halo-CMEs are not associated with large SEPs. The objective of this study is to gain an understanding of the source region distinctions between halo-CMEs in SEP and No-SEP events. Among the 176 halo-CMEs observed from 2010-2024, we screen out 45 large SEP events and 131 No-SEP events from this dataset. It …

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

Let’s take a look back at GÉANT’s 2024 — all in one place.
Our 2024 Annual Report captures how GÉANT and its community of NRENs continue to drive innovation, collaboration, and impact for the European #Research & #Education community.
Inside you'll learn more about the GÉANT GN5-1 a…

During lockdown I was contemplating a move to France or maybe Greece.
The part of France I was considering was Angoulême, which hit a windless 40ºC today, and meanwhile large swathes of Greece are covered in wildfires and are almost as hot.
Maybe life isn't so bad in the north of Scotland, currently about 15ºC and clear (it rained a bit early this morning).
Dodged that bullet!

Realität trifft erneut auf #Wasserstoff-Träume:
Die #Zillertalbahn wird künftig mit #Akkuzüge​n statt mit

Strombetriebene Zillertalbahn: Akkus stechen Wasserstoff - electrive.net
Die Zillertalbahn soll künftig mit Akku-Zügen betrieben werden. Damit erteilen die Entscheidungsträger der vor rund zehn Jahren geborenen Idee eine Absage,

Started watching Presence after seeing a few recommendations for it. I'm not usually into straight up ghosty type flicks but this one's done in a fairly unique way. Digging it.
#movies

Presence (2024)
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.

(Original title: How to not build the Torment Nexus)
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-not-build-the-torment-nexus/

How to not build the Torment Nexus
This is No Gods No Masters, 2024, painted by me, in wax. 65x78” Join the $2 Lunch Club! This week’s question comes to us from Will Hopkins: When your job and...

📢 Bundesverwaltungsgericht hebt Verbot des Compact-Magazins auf
Das rechtsextreme Magazin Compact kann weiter erscheinen. Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat das Verbot aufgehoben, das die damalige Bundesinnenministerin Faeser im Sommer 2024 erlassen hatte.
➡️ https://www.

Bundesverwaltungsgericht hebt Verbot des Compact-Magazins auf
Das rechtsextreme Magazin Compact kann weiter erscheinen. Das Bundesverwaltungsgericht hat das Verbot aufgehoben, das die damalige Bundesinnenministerin Faeser im Sommer 2024 erlassen hatte.

"In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin American nation at the very heart of a global crisis."
Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau

Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau
In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin

Yes, There's Evidence Trump Hacked the 2024 Election - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kNAbMuSB0c&ab_channel=ScottCarney

As @pluralistic writes here, “the American right is a brittle coalition:”
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
We imagine the right as monolithic at our peril. Reply guys love, love, love to lecture me about how These People are all the same. Here’s the thing: they are not, and imagining they are is self-defeating. The right has been •incredibly• effective at finding fracture points on the left and jamming a crowbar into them. It’s time we did the same.
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Swinging, Fast and Slow: Interpreting variation in baseball swing tracking metrics
Scott Powers, Ronald Yurko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01238 https://

Swinging, Fast and Slow: Interpreting variation in baseball swing tracking metrics
In 2024, Major League Baseball released new bat tracking data, reporting swing-by-swing bat speed and swing length measured at the point of contact. While exciting, the data present challenges for their interpretation. The timing of the batter's swing relative to the pitch determines the point of measurement relative to the full swing path. The relationship between swing metrics and swing outcomes is confounded by the batter's pitch recognition. We introduce a framework for interpreting bat tra…

Variational hydrodynamics of the classical Yukawa one-component plasma
Daniels Krimans, Hanno K\"ahlert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23006 https://

Variational hydrodynamics of the classical Yukawa one-component plasma
We consider a recently developed variational approach to the hydrodynamics of strongly coupled plasmas [D. Krimans and S. Putterman, Phys. Fluids 36, 037131 (2024)] and extend it to the Yukawa one-component plasma. This approach generalizes the ordinary hydrodynamic equations to finite length scales by explicitly including terms that depend on the pair distribution function. After discussing the form of the Lagrangian, we derive equations of motion and explicit formulas for the momentum and ene…

On Dedekind Skew Braces
A. Caranti, I. Del Corso, M. Di Matteo, M. Ferrara, M. Trombetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23550 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23550

On Dedekind Skew Braces
Skew braces play a central role in the theory of set-theoretic non-degenerate solutions of the Yang--Baxter equation, since their algebraic properties significantly affect the behaviour of the corresponding solutions (see for example [Ballester-Bolinches et al., Adv. Math. 455 (2024), 109880]). Recently, the study of nilpotency-like conditions for the solutions of the Yang--Baxter equation has drawn attention to skew braces of abelian type in which every substructure is an ideal (so-called, Ded…

Titans WR Calvin Ridley says it's 'time to dominate' alongside rookie QB Cam Ward

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-wr-calvin-ridle…

Die deutschen Unternehmen halten sich bei Neueinstellungen im IT-Bereich derzeit stark zurück. Laut einer aktuellen Analyse des Instituts der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln ging die Zahl offener IT-Stellen zwischen 2023 und 2024 um mehr als ein Viertel zurück – ein Minus von rund 16.500 Stellen.
Zum Artikel:

The Radius, Composition, Albedo, and Absolute Magnitude of Planet Nine Based on Exoplanets with Teq less than 600 K and the Planet Nine Reference Population 3.0
David G. Russell, Terry L. White
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22297

The Radius, Composition, Albedo, and Absolute Magnitude of Planet Nine Based on Exoplanets with Teq less than 600 K and the Planet Nine Reference Population 3.0
Evidence suggests the existence of a large planet in the outer Solar System, Planet Nine, with a predicted mass of 6.6 +2.6 / -1.7 Earth masses (Brown et al., 2024). Based on mass radius composition models, planet formation theory, and confirmed exoplanets with low mass and radius uncertainty and equilibrium temperature less than 600 K, we determine the most likely composition for Planet Nine is a mini-Neptune with a radius in the range 2.0 to 2.6 Earth radii and a H-He envelope fraction in the…

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…

On 1-year anniversary, Ukraine names Russian officer linked to deadly strike on Kyiv Okhmatdyt children's hospital: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/on-year-anniversary-ukraine-names.html

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Harrison Katz, Erica Savage
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21298 https://ar…

Slomads Rising: Stay Length Shifts in Digital Nomad Travel, United States 2019-2024
Using every U.S. Airbnb reservation created from 1 January 2019 through 31 December 2024, weighted by nights booked, we document a lasting shift toward longer stays after the COVID 19 shock. Mean nights per booking rose from 3.7 before the pandemic to a stable 4.1 to 4.4 after 2021; the median increased from two to three nights and the weighted standard deviation nearly doubled to seven nights, indicating a heavier tail. Negative binomial regression shows that, relative to the restriction perio…

Sources: Paramount layoffs could affect 2,000 to 3,000 employees and are expected by early November; Paramount had 18,600 employees globally as of December 2024 (Brent Lang/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/paramoun…

Paramount Layoffs: Thousands of Job Cuts Expects by Early November
Paramount will enact steep layoffs by early November after closing its merger with Skydance.

Dolphins OLBs coach Ryan Crow arrested and charged with domestic battery, placed on administrative leave

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

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau der #Windenergieleistung in #Deutschland. Stand: 23.08.2025.
Summen der Inbetriebnahmen und Stilllegungen pro Jahr.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Hinweise gerne. Wünsche gegen Spende. 😁

Perplexity's head of advertising and shopping Taz Patel has left after nine months; its ad business reportedly generated only about $20,000 in Q4 2024 (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/perplexity-advertising-chief-taz-patel-departs/

EXCLUSIVE: Perplexity Ad Chief Taz Patel Departs
Perplexity’s push into advertising has so far brought in modest revenue as the company eyes new growth and faces mounting legal challenges

from my link log —
strlcpy and how CPUs can defy common sense.
https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/cpu-vs-common-sense
saved 2024-07-25

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 23.08.2025.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Zusatzlesestoff: 14 Tipps zum #Energiesparen

Bullet fired into Chiefs building while Andy Reid was inside in 2024: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6566316/2025/08/20/chiefs-andy-reid-bullet/

from my link log —
Updating a large codebase to Rust 2024.
https://codeandbitters.com/rust-2024-upgrade/
saved 2025-02-07 https://…

Analysis: in H1 2025, 500 orgs lobbied the White House and Congress on AI, on par with H1 2024 but up ~2x since 2023; OpenAI spent $1.8M, up from $380K in 2023 (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/df01dcf8-dbc4-4b56-8d8b-67b7e6a83eef

In Rheinland-Pfalz wurden 2024 über 1.100 Megawatt neue Leistung aus Erneuerbaren Energien installiert – ein Plus von 13 Prozent.
Vor allem #Photovoltaik legte stark zu, mit 916 Megawatt Zubau. Spitzenreiter beim PV-Ausbau war die Verbandsgemeinde Zell, beim #Windenergie-Ausbau Ulmen.…

Erneuerbare Energien in Rheinland-Pfalz boomen weiter
Die Entwicklung der erneuerbaren Energien in Rheinland-Pfalz zeigt 2024 ein beeindruckendes Wachstum. Besonders Photovoltaik-Anlagen verzeichnen einen erheblichen Zuwachs.

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…

Der deutsche #Wirtschaftsstabilisierungsfonds (#WSF) erzielte 2024 mit 90,4 Millionen Euro erneut einen Jahresüberschuss.
Ursprünglich zur Unterstützung großer Unternehmen in der #Coronapandemie

EliseAI, which provides AI tools for healthcare and housing industries, raised a $250M Series E led by a16z, doubling its valuation to $2.2B from August 2024 (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar