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Isto é interessante. Relatório sobre educação nos países da OCDE.
https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/education-at-a-glance-2024_c00cad36-en.html

TAGB: Ritualisierte Praktiken: Formeln ­– Zeichen – Rezeptarien, Basel (07.11. – 08.11.2024) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20070652/tagb-ritualisierte-praktiken-formeln-zeichen-rezeptarien-basel-0711

"Applications of the Critical Incident Technique in Library and Information Science Research: A Literature Review" https://doi.org/10.1515/libri-2024-0065

CB Insights: VCs and private equity firms poured $3.1B to fund 144 deals in the LA area in Q1 2025, up from $2.7B in Q1 2024 and $1.4B in Q1 2023 (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-06-06/venture-capital-…

Venture capital investment rises in L.A., and not just for AI startups
Venture capital investors and private equity firms poured $3.1 billion to fund 144 deals in the L.A. area in the first quarter of this year, up 15% from a year ago.

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

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
Alice P. Curtin, Shion Andrew, Sunil Simha, Alice Cai, Kenzie Nimmo, Shami Chatterjee, Amanda M. Cook, Fengqiu Adam Dong, Yuxin Dong, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Wen-fai Fong, Emmanuel Fonseca, Jason W. T. Hessels, Ronniy C. Joseph, Victoria Kaspi, Calvin Leung, Robert Main, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Ryan Mckinven, Daniele Michilli, Mason Ng, Ayush Pandhi, Aaron B. Pearlman, Ziggy Pleunis, Mawson W. Sammons, K…

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
On 2024 December 28, CHIME/FRB detected the thus-far non-repeating FRB 20241228A with a real-time signal-to-noise ratio of $>50$. Approximately 112~s later, the X-ray Telescope onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was on source, the fastest follow-up to-date of a non-repeating FRB (Tohuvavohu et al. in prep.). Using CHIME/FRB and two of the three CHIME/FRB Outriggers, we obtained a Very Long Baseline Interferometry localization for FRB 20241228A with a 1$σ$ confidence ellipse of 11$^{\pr…

The increasing precipitation deficit in (central) the Netherlands, 1961-2024. While precipitation in the growing season (April-September) hardly changed, evaporation rapidly grew. This explains the increase in the deficit (moving average) from around zero in 1961 to on average over 100 mm by 2024.
#ClimateChangeIsWaterChange

Falcons did Kirk Cousins wrong: How 2024 NFL offseason could've been turned upside down if QB rejected Atlanta

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

It may not come as a surprise that the fracking billionaire who helped launch The Daily Wire has also denied that the climate emergency is real. 
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/09/inside-the-anti-climate-culture-war-led…

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

In #Zypern zeigt sich die anhaltende #Dürre deutlich am Asprokremmos-Stausee.
#Satellitenbilder belegen den starken Rückgang der Wasserfläche zwischen Juni 2024 und Juni 2025. Felder in…

Here is a poll about #GenAI since that's all we're talking about at the moment:
Do you believe that you can detect AI-generated text?
If so, what are your tips to detect it? I found this article which has a few suggestions :

5 Easy Ways To Tell If Written Content Came From Generative AI
Spread of generative AI content online since ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022 is up 8,362%. Here's how to tell if content was written by an AI bot or not.

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

I rode my bike 600 miles in 2024 and it's June 1st, 2025 and I'm over 500 miles for this year!
My goal for 2025 is 1,000 miles which I think is still doable as long as I don't have any injuries (sigh) and nothing else goes wrong.
#bikeTooter

Multiple AI Companies Bypassing Web Standard to Scrape Publisher Sites Without Licensing (Reuters, 21 June 2024)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/multiple-ai-companies-by…

Thanks to @… for finding this needle to getting the Charlie Rudder Pedals working! I've updated the blog as well to hopefully make it a bit easier to track down.
https://

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.

REfugEEs From Beyond – Odd Spede Noisecore
#byncsa

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 […]

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

Immer wenn ich lese "Kein Backup, kein Mitleid." muss ich mit dem Kopf schütteln. Hier ist nicht nur das "ob" (also warum man Backups machen muss) etwas das IMMER WIEDER erklärt werden muss, Auch das "wie", gerade das "wie", omg ist das "wie" wichtig!
aber abgesehen davon, nur weil man Jahrzehnte in einem Bereich tätig ist, geht ein Thema nicht weg, denn es haben mit der Zeit eben nicht alle verstanden. Muss mich da auch an eigene Nase…

Electroweak Phase Transition, Gravitational Waves and Collider Probes in Multi-Scalar Dark Matter Scenarios
Tripurari Srivastava, Jaydeb Das, Anupam Ghosh, Arnab Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05917

Electroweak Phase Transition, Gravitational Waves and Collider Probes in Multi-Scalar Dark Matter Scenarios
We study scalar singlet extensions of the Standard Model (SM), focusing on scenarios where dark matter (DM) is stabilized by a \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) symmetry. In the minimal single-scalar extension of the SM, only a narrow region near the Higgs resonance remains viable, requiring small portal couplings in order to simultaneously satisfy the observed relic abundance and comply with the most recent direct detection limits from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ-2024) and XENON1T experiments. To address this limitatio…

Personalized Large Language Models Can Increase the Belief Accuracy of Social Networks
Adiba Mahbub Proma, Neeley Pate, Sean Kelty, Gourab Ghoshal, James N. Druckman, Ehsan Hoque
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06153

Personalized Large Language Models Can Increase the Belief Accuracy of Social Networks
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved in shaping public understanding on contested issues. This has led to substantial discussion about the potential of LLMs to reinforce or correct misperceptions. While existing literature documents the impact of LLMs on individuals' beliefs, limited work explores how LLMs affect social networks. We address this gap with a pre-registered experiment (N = 1265) around the 2024 US presidential election, where we empirically explore the impact of …

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

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…

Control How Your Content Is Used for AI Training With Cloudflare (Cloudflare Blog, 1 July 2024)
#MediaLit

Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare’s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content
Cloudflare is making it easier for publishers and content creators of all sizes to prevent their content from being scraped for AI training by managing robots.txt on their behalf, and allowing targeted blocking of AI crawling on sites that serve ads.

Went ahead and wrote up a quick post about Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Linux, HOTAS, and `udev` which explains how to get everything working and running under Linux.
https://blog.jamesthebard.net/posts/microsoft-flight-simulator/

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…

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…

Won't it be a surprise when it turns out that the party of bad losers, who've been trying to convince everyone that they could only have been beaten with election fraud for years, turns out to be the primary source of election fraud?
https…

from my link log —
The ATS programming language: unleashing the potential of types and templates!
https://www.cs.bu.edu/~hwxi/atslangweb/
saved 2024-11-02

Die #Versicherungen haben es bereits seit Jahrzehnten verstanden. Die Politik ignoriert wirksamen #Klimaschutz weiterhin.
Naturgewalten haben 2024 in Deutschland erneut #Milliardenschäden

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

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.

Filing: WBD says it plans to "significantly reduce" CEO David Zaslav's annual pay, including his cash bonus, after shareholders rejected his 2024 pay package (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay to Drop After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a haircut after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026. The company granted him $225 million in stock option awards.

London's water works https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2024/09/hampton-water-works.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06483 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Sunrise III: Overview of Observatory and Instruments
In July 2024, Sunrise completed its third successful science flight. The Sunrise III observatory had been upgraded significantly after the two previous successful flights in 2009 and 2013. Three completely new instruments focus on the small-scale physical processes and their complex interaction from the deepest observable layers in the photosphere up to chromospheric heights. Previously poorly explored spectral regions and lines are exploited to paint a three-dimensional picture of the solar at…

Estonia issues arrest warrant for Moroccan wanted for major pharmacy data breach https://therecord.media/estonia-arrest-warrant-pharmacy-data-breach

Admissible solutions of the 2D Onsager's conjecture
Lili Du, Xinliang Li, Weikui Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15396 https://arxi…

Admissible solutions of the 2D Onsager's conjecture
We show that for any $γ< \frac{1}{3}$ there exist Hölder continuous weak solutions $v \in C^γ([0,T] \times \mathbb{T}^2)$ of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations that strictly dissipate the total kinetic energy, improving upon the elegant work of Giri and Radu [Invent. Math., 238 (2), 2024]. Furthermore, we prove that the initial data of these \textit{admissible} solutions are dense in $B^γ_{\infty,r<\infty}$. Our approach introduces a new class of traveling waves, refining …

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