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Scott helpfully reminds us of the differences between technical purity, semantics, and what actually matters to users in the context of — yes, really — paragraphs:
https://www.scottohara.me/blog/2024/08/29/paragraphs.html

YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/2025-youtube-europe-impact-…

New report explores YouTube's growing impact in Europe
YouTube’s creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU’s GDP in 2024, while supporting over 200,000 jobs.

Suomessa kuoli yli 150 000 eläintä eläinkokeiden takia vuonna 2024 https://animaliamedia.fi/suomessa-kuoli-yli-150-000-elainta-elainkokeiden-takia-vuonna-2024/

Suomessa kuoli yli 150 000 eläintä eläinkokeiden takia vuonna 2024 | Animalia-media
Suomen yleisin koe-eläin on hiiri, joita on lähes puolet koe-eläimistä. Toiseksi eniten koe-eläiminä käytetään erilaisia kaloja.

Behold, the 1200 meter tall "Labyrinth" ice wall/fall at Morteratsch, Bernina group, Engadin. September 2024.
(A special place if you ever wanted/needed to feel real small, surrounded by majestic fourthousanders...)
#MountainMonday #MonocrhomeMonday

Bengals releasing receiver Jermaine Burton, a 2024 third-round pick https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6873632/2025/12/08/bengals-release-jermaine-burton/

Filing: PA Media Group reports 2024 revenue up 3% YoY to £116.3M, its eighth consecutive year of revenue growth, but profit before tax declined by 4% to £8.6M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busines…

PA Media Group continues revenue growth for eighth year in a row
PA Media Group has grown its revenue for the eight year in a row, once again marking the highest in its 145-year history.

Cyclo-logistique en Belgique
- plus de 5 millions de colis livrés Š vélo en Belgique, soit 70 % de plus qu’en 2023
- 10 millions de km parcourus par des coursiers Š vélo, soit 30 % de plus
- 4112 tonnes de CO₂ évitées et 12 millions € de coûts externes économisés
https://

Chicago-based stablecoin payments startup Coinflow raised a $25M Series A led by Pantera and says it supports stablecoin-powered payments in 170 countries (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/10/08/…

Coinflow Raises $25M to Scale Stablecoin Payments, Backed by Pantera and Coinbase
The company says it has grown revenue 23-fold since 2024 and now supports stablecoin-powered payments in over 170 countries.

Project Severe Weather Archive of the Philippines (SWAP) Part 2: Baseline Climatology of Close Proximity Soundings in Hailstorm Environments across Luzon, Philippines
Generich H. Capuli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09530

Project Severe Weather Archive of the Philippines (SWAP) Part 2: Baseline Climatology of Close Proximity Soundings in Hailstorm Environments across Luzon, Philippines
The environments of severe thunderstorms that produced hail were examined using 171 proximity soundings (2005-2024) archived in the 3rd Data Release of Project SWAP. These soundings were categorized based on their geographical occurrence into three hail-prone environments across Luzon, Philippines. For each case, key parameters describing instability, vertical wind structure, and moisture were calculated to assess their relationship to hail formation. The probability of hail occurrence, express…

"En moyenne, 15 substances sont quantifiées dans l’eau de mer par site de suivi. Les trois quarts des 66 substances recherchées dans l’eau marine apparaissent au moins une fois."
Et en premier, on retrouve les HERBICIDES évidemment... Visiblement, ça n'a pas d'effet sur les algues vertes donc on va peut-être penser Š lever le pied hein ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Des pesticides et des substances pharmaceutiques relevés sur l’ensemble du littoral français
De 2021 à 2024, les scientifiques de l’Ifremer et du laboratoire EPOC, rattaché entre autres au CNRS, ont recherché dans l’eau de mer et dans des mollusques la présence d’une centaine de contaminants.

Characteristics of temporal and spatial variation of the electron density in the plasmasphere and ionosphere during the May 2024 super #GeomagneticStorm: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40623-025-02317-3 -> How superstorm Gannon squeezed Earth’s plasmasphere to one-fifth its size: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1106633 - new study shows how a major space storm dramatically shrank Earth’s protective plasma layer and slowed its recovery, helping improve solar storm forecasts and protect space infrastructure we rely on.

Low-dimensional topology and symplectic dynamics
Dan Cristofaro-Gardiner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07680 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07680

Low-dimensional topology and symplectic dynamics
These are notes to accompany my lectures at the $2024$ "Current Developments in Mathematics" conference hosted by Harvard/MIT. The lectures were about some recent progress in our understanding of two and three dimensional dynamical systems, using in part some tools from low-dimensional topology. In these notes, I try to give a sense for how this works by discussing a few examples from problems I have worked on and surveying some related developments. Some symplectic variants of Weyl's law play …

Understanding #Docker Internals: Building a Container Runtime in Python
https://muhammadraza.me/2024/building-container-runtime-python/

Das #bpkFotoarchiv der @… erprobt seit 2024 #KI-gestützte Erschließungsmethoden, um seine mehr als 12 Millionen Bildmotive besser zugänglich und nutzbar zu machen.
Ste…

Trotz extremer #Wetterereignisse steigen die weltweiten #CO2-Emissionen weiter.
2024 wurde lt EDGAR der Rekordwert von 53,2 Milliarden Tonnen Treibhausgase ausgestoßen. Hauptverursacher waren #China

CO2-Ausstoß: Wer sind die größten Klimasünder? – Tabellen, Grafiken, Statistiken
Globale CO2-Emissionen befördern den Klimawandel. Wer sind die Verursacher, aktuell und historisch? Tabellen, Grafiken, Statistiken.

[Bei Achillessehnenproblemen übrigens erstaunlich gut empfunden, fancy Kühlungsverband: https://polysportiv.com/2024/08/27/produkttest-medivid-cryo/]

Produkttest: MEDIVID CRYO
Die moderne Art zu kühlen | Langzeittest bei Schmerzen an der Achillessehne. Seit 11 Monaten teste ich das MEDIVID CRYO, um bei bereits minimal aufkommenden Schmerzen an der Achillessehne, langanha…

Jag gör som @… och skriver under https://www.mittskifte.org/petitions/radda

Foto-Story vom Robert-Schuman-Platz Brüssel von Hanna Penzer.
#brussels

Umbau an der Schaltzentrale Europas - Europa Blog
Der Schuman-Platz bildet das Herz des Brüsseler EU-Viertels. In dieser Foto-Story dokumentieren wir den 2024 begonnenen Umbau des Platzes.

Der Autokraten-Code - #ARD Documentar Film
#Trailer
#Documentaire:
#AI

An analysis of 1,100 TikTok users' watch histories across six months in 2024 shows how effective TikTok is at getting even its heaviest users to watch more (Washington Post)

Spending hours on TikTok? Here’s how the app keeps you swiping.
Washington Post reporters analyzed data from over 800 TikTok users to learn how the app turns people into power users, some of whom spend hours per day scrolling.

On Structured State-Space Duality
Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Xiwen Zhang, Weimin Wu, Han Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04944 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04944

On Structured State-Space Duality
Structured State-Space Duality (SSD) [Dao & Gu, ICML 2024] is an equivalence between a simple Structured State-Space Model (SSM) and a masked attention mechanism. In particular, a state-space model with a scalar-times-identity state matrix is equivalent to a masked self-attention with a $1$-semiseparable causal mask. Consequently, the same sequence transformation (model) has two algorithmic realizations: as a linear-time $O(T)$ recurrence or as a quadratic-time $O(T^2)$ attention. In this note,…

Measurement of the $e^ e^-\to\eta\gamma$ cross section near the $\phi(1020)$ resonance with the SND detector
SND Collaboration, M. N. Achasov, A. E. Alizzi, A. Yu. Barnyakov, E. V. Bedarev, K. I. Beloborodov, A. V. Berdyugin, A. G. Bogdanchikov, A. A. Botov, D. E. Chistyakov, T. V. Dimova, V. P. Druzhinin, L. V. Kardapoltsev, A. S. Kasaev, A. A. Kattsin, A. G. Kharlamov, I. A. Koop, A. A. Korol, D. P. Kovrizhin, A. S. Kupich, A. P. Kryukov, N. A. Melnikova, N. Yu. Muchnoi, A. E. Obrazo…

Measurement of the $e^+e^-\toηγ$ cross section near the $ϕ(1020)$ resonance with the SND detector
In the experiment with the SND detector at the VEPP-2000 $e^+e^-$ collider, the $e^+e^-\toηγ$ cross section is measured in the energy range $E = 980 - 1060$ MeV. The measurement is carried out in the $η\to 2γ$ decay mode. Data with an integrated luminosity of 73 pb$^{-1}$ collected in 2018 and 2024 are used in the analysis. The measured cross section is the most accurate to date and is higher compared to other measurements. From the fit to the cross section data with the vector meson domina…

Generative AI and Firm Productivity: Field Experiments in Online Retail
Lu Fang, Zhe Yuan, Kaifu Zhang, Dante Donati, Miklos Sarvary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12049 https://

Generative AI and Firm Productivity: Field Experiments in Online Retail
We quantify the impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) on firm productivity through a series of large-scale randomized field experiments involving millions of users and products at a leading cross-border online retail platform. Over six months in 2023-2024, GenAI-based enhancements were integrated into seven consumer-facing business workflows. We find that GenAI adoption significantly increases sales, with treatment effects ranging from 0\% to 16.3\%, depending on GenAI's marginal…

Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters
Gefei Cai, Haoyu Liu, Baojun Wu, Zijie Zhuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05850 https://…

Three-point connectivity constant for $q$-state Potts spin clusters
Recently, Ang--Cai--Sun--Wu (2024) determined the three-point connectivity constant for two-dimensional critical percolation, confirming a prediction of Delfino and Viti (2010). In this paper, we address the analogous problem for planar critical $q$-state Potts spin clusters. We introduce a continuum three-point connectivity constant and compute it explicitly. Under the scaling-limit conjecture for Potts spin clusters, this quantity coincides with the scaling limit of the properly normalized pr…

Raiders Urged to Move on From Disgruntled Star as Nightmare Season Continues https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/raiders-urged-to-move-on-from-disgruntled-star/?adt_ei=[email]

"Dispensing false information in a confident tone, rather than offering no answer when none is readily available, is a major flaw of generative AI, experts say. An audit of the top 10 generative AI model... by the media literacy non-profit NewsGuard revealed that the non-response rates of chatbots went down from 31% in August 2024 to 0% in August 2025. At the same time, the chatbots’ likelihood of repeating false information almost doubled from 18% to 35%"

The cosmic web's Lyman-$\alpha$ glow at $z \approx 2.5$; varying hydrodynamic models, dust, and wide-field, narrow-band imaging detection
Oleksii Sokoliuk, John K. Webb, Kenneth M. Lanzetta, Michael M. Shara, Stefan Gromoll, James S. Bolton, Robert F. Carswell, Gaspar Galaz, C\'edric Ledoux, Gaspare Lo Curto, Alain Smette, David Valls-Gabaud, Anja von der Linden, Frederick M. Walter, Joris Witstok

The cosmic web's Lyman-$α$ glow at $z \approx 2.5$; varying hydrodynamic models, dust, and wide-field, narrow-band imaging detection
The diffuse glow of the cosmic web in Lyman-$α$ emission has long been predicted, yet remained elusive to direct wide field detection. We present theoretical calculations that, when compared with recent observations made using the Condor Array Telescope in New Mexico reported in Lanzetta et al. 2024, point to its discovery at $z \approx 2.5$. Synthetic Lyman-$α$ surface brightness maps are constructed from five state-of-the-art hydrodynamic simulations (Illustris-TNG, SIMBA, EAGLE, CROCODILE,…

Sources: crypto investor Roger Ver, aka "Bitcoin Jesus", has reached a tentative agreement with the US DOJ to pay ~$48M to end a 2024 criminal tax fraud case (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/technology/roger-ver-bitcoi…

Crypto Investor Known as ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ Reaches Deal With Prosecutors
In the Trump administration’s latest example of dialing back cryptocurrency enforcement, Roger Ver agreed to pay about $48 million to end a tax fraud case.

Your regular reminder that if you use “assistive technology” to mean only screen readers, then you’re using the term incorrectly and maybe sowing confusion.
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/08/at-is-more-than-screen-readers.html

AT Is More Than Screen Readers
A screen reader is a single element of the overall set of assistive technologies. In practice, however, each is often used as a metonym for the other. Well, hello there. It’s nice to see you. If you’re here because I sent you the link, it’s nothing personal. You’re a lovely…

We are DEFINITELY going back to Stratford next summer!

Radio Stars in the Era of New Observatories
Lynn D. Matthews
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21467 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.21467

Radio Stars in the Era of New Observatories
An international conference Radio Stars in the Era of New Observatories was held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Haystack Observatory on 2024 April 17-19. The conference brought together more than 60 researchers from around the world, united by an interest in using radio wavelength observations to explore the physical processes that operate in stars (including the Sun), how stars evolve and interact with their environments, and the role of radio stars as probes of our Galaxy. Topic…

#Microsoft:
> Due to ongoing technical issues, as of October 23, 2024, downloads are temporarily unavailable.
Yeah, I get it. These proprietary systems are like that. You can't do anything without exploiting open source volunteers.
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/

Shifted Symplectic Geometry by Examples
Damien Calaque, Stefano Ronchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04625

Shifted Symplectic Geometry by Examples
These notes are intended to be an introduction to shifted symplectic geometry, targeted to Poisson geometers with a serious background in homological algebra. They are extracted from a mini-course given by the first author at the Poisson 2024 summer school that took place at the Accademia Pontaniana in Napoli.

Pond Slider turtles basking on the rocks in a pond. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. December, 2024. #laarboretum #turtle #pondslider

Häufigkeitsverteilung der Bruttoleistung von #Balkonkraftwerk​en in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 04.10.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten ersetzt, Sonderregelungen nach Solarpaket berücksichtigt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Amortisation automatisch

Momentum transfer coefficient constraints for the 2024 PDC25 Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario
Christoph M. Sch\"afer, Uri Malamud, Tamir Manoach, Hagai B. Perets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19000

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
Patricia H. Reiff, Carolyn T. Sumners, Charles H. Gardner, Amir Caspi, Sarah Kovac
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22348

Engaging and Educating Eclipse Observers Through Workshops, Media, Planetarium shows and Citizen Science
The Heliophysics Big Year was an extended year where major solar events engaged the public. It included two eclipses (annular on October 14, 2023 and total on April 8, 2024), plus solar max and the Parker Solar Probe perihelion December 24, 2024. After the eclipse of 2017, many millions more Americans planned to view the solar corona. We expanded our eclipse website with activities, citizen science projects, resources, training videos, equipment, and external links. We were the Southwest Region…

How Exclusive are Ethereum Transactions? Evidence from non-winning blocks
Vabuk Pahari, Andrea Canidio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16052 https://arxiv.org/p…

How Exclusive are Ethereum Transactions? Evidence from non-winning blocks
We analyze 15,097 blocks proposed for inclusion in Ethereum's blockchain over an 8-minute window on December 3, 2024, during which 38 blocks were added to the chain. We classify transactions as exclusive -- present only in blocks from a single builder -- or private -- absent from the public mempool but included in blocks from multiple builders. We find that exclusive transactions account for 84% of the total fees paid by transactions in winning blocks. Furthermore, we show that exclusivity cann…

Seahawks-Commanders takeaways: Sam Darnold throws 4 touchdown passes, Jayden Daniels hurt https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6772442/2025/11/02/seahawks-commanders-score-result-takeaways-week-9-snf-nfl/

Duo Mimikry gewinnt "Knurrhahn"
Das Duo überzeugte beim Wilhelmshavener Festival der Kleinkunst 2024 mit pantomimischer Comedy.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-21.11.2025-duo-mimikry-knurrhahn.html
Foto Copyright Duo Mimikry

Indian digital payments giant PhonePe confidentially files for an IPO in India, seeking to raise $1.5B, sources say at a valuation of $15B (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/startup…

PhonePe files draft prospectus for $1.5 billion IPO with Sebi through confidential route
PhonePe, supported by Walmart, has confidentially filed its DRHP with SEBI. The digital payments platform reduced its net loss by 13.4% to Rs 1,727.4 crore in 2024-25, driven by a 40.4% surge in operating revenue to Rs 7,114.8 crore. Despite diversification into financial services, payments remain PhonePe's core business.

A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Repression and Mobilization in Bangladesh's July Revolution Using Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling
Md. Saiful Bari Siddiqui, Anupam Debashis Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06264

A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Repression and Mobilization in Bangladesh's July Revolution Using Machine Learning and Statistical Modeling
The 2024 July Revolution in Bangladesh represents a landmark event in the study of civil resistance. This study investigates the central paradox of the success of this student-led civilian uprising: how state violence, intended to quell dissent, ultimately fueled the movement's victory. We employ a mixed-methods approach. First, we develop a qualitative narrative of the conflict's timeline to generate specific, testable hypotheses. Then, using a disaggregated, event-level dataset, we employ a m…

Après la victoire relative de la gauche aux législatives que Macron a souhaité en 2024, Macron a refusé de nommer une première ministre de gauche. Il en a nommé trois de droite qui on échoué tous. C’est l’acharnement thérapeutique.

International Federation of Robotics: Chinese factories installed ~300K new robots in 2024, more than the rest of the world combined; US factories installed 34K (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/business/ch…

There Are More Robots Working in China Than the Rest of the World Combined
China has embarked on a campaign to use more robots in its factories, transforming its manufacturing industries and becoming the dominant maker.

A Combined TESS and Ground-based Study of Transit Timing Variations in HAT-P-16, TOI-1516 and TOI-2046 Systems
E. Sonbas, K. Kaplan, M. Tanriver, A. Keskin, K. S. Dhuga, A. Bulut, E. Gogus, W. Ogloza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21551

A Combined TESS and Ground-based Study of Transit Timing Variations in HAT-P-16, TOI-1516 and TOI-2046 Systems
We present new results for the hot Jupiters HAT-P-16b, TOI-1516b, and TOI-2046b, based on photometric observations collected using both space- and ground-based facilities. Ground-based data were collected in the 2020-2024 time span with the 0.6 m telescope (ADYU60) located at the Adiyaman University Application and Research Center (Adiyaman, Türkiye) and the 1.0 m telescope at the Türkiye National Observatory (TUG, Türkiye). Through a combination of fits to our ground-based data, the mid-tra…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Lava La Rue:
🎵 LOVEBITES (6 Music Session, 15 Jul 2024)
#LavaLaRue
https://lavalarue.bandcamp.com/track/lovebites
https://open.spotify.com/track/1S0pfbAf3gyE4IksFF3mmw

The robo-advisory market, which includes companies that use AI tools to help investors pick stocks, is expected to grow from $61.75B in 2024 to $470.91B by 2029 (Joice Alves/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/c

The UK's Cabinet Office says its Fraud Risk Assessment Accelerator AI tool helped the government recover £480M from fraud in the 12 months from April 2024 (Jack Fenwick/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd92gpld0go

AI tool used to recover £500m lost to fraud, government says
Ministers say software developed by the Cabinet Office has helped to ramp up fraud detection.

Sources: Flipkart is investing $30M in its fintech unit Supermoney, after a $20M 2024 spin-off round; Supermoney disbursed $700M in loans via lending partners (Alex Gabriel Simon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Lava La Rue:
🎵 LOVEBITES (6 Music Session, 15 Jul 2024)
#LavaLaRue
https://lavalarue.bandcamp.com/track/lovebites
https://open.spotify.com/track/1S0pfbAf3gyE4IksFF3mmw

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmyLamé
Nilüfer Yanya:
🎵 Like I Say (I Runaway) (6 Music Session, 18 Sep 2024)
#NilüferYanya
https://niluferyanya.bandcamp.com/track/like-i-say-i-runaway
https://open.spotify.com/track/7f57Tz3uydJkSuVsQ7sj4l