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

#Antifa Bericht der #Antisemitismus-Beauftragten des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen #NRW für das Jahr 2024

Quantum Solvers: Predictive Aeroacoustic & Aerodynamic modeling
Nis-Luca van H\"ulst, Theofanis Panagos, Greta Sophie Reese, Shahram Panahiyan, Tomohiro Hashizume
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21683

Quantum Solvers: Predictive Aeroacoustic & Aerodynamic modeling
This technical report presents our winning contribution to the 2024 Airbus and BMW Group Quantum Computing Challenge under the category 'Quantum Solvers'. This submission addresses efficient simulation in industrial CFD using (i) quantum-inspired algorithms and (ii) hybrid quantum-classical algorithms. We reproduce the submitted materials exactly as handed in, providing an archival record, with the sole addition of a note citing the publication that resulted from this challenge.

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

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

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

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – December 9, 2024
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest - December 9, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 21 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, and 4 calls for papers.

from my link log —
Tiling with three polygons is undecidable.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11582
saved 2024-11-21 https://dotat.at/…

Tiling with Three Polygons is Undecidable
We prove that the following problem is co-RE-complete and thus undecidable: given three simple polygons, is there a tiling of the plane where every tile is an isometry of one of the three polygons (either allowing or forbidding reflections)? This result improves on the best previous construction which requires five polygons.

Sources: Crusoe is discussing raising $1B at a $10B valuation; the company, which is helping build OpenAI's first Stargate facility, had $250M revenue in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/crusoe-talks-raise-money-10-bill…

OpenAI’s Data Center Provider in Talks to Raise Money at $10 Billion Valuation
Crusoe, the developer behind OpenAI’s first Stargate data center, is discussing raising funds at a $10 billion valuation—more than three times its valuation less than a year ago, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising talks. The seven-year-old company wants to raise at ...

Ende des Liveblogs
Wir schließen an dieser Stelle den Liveblog für Mittwoch und danken für Ihr Interesse.
📑 https://www.tagesschau.de/newsticker/liveblog-ukraine-mittwoch-524.html?at_medium=mast…

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

Clinical characteristics, complications and outcomes of critically ill patients with Dengue in Brazil, 2012-2024: a nationwide, multicentre cohort study
Igor Tona Peres, Otavio T. Ranzani, Leonardo S. L. Bastos, Silvio Hamacher, Tom Edinburgh, Esteban Garcia-Gallo, Fernando Augusto Bozza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18207

Clinical characteristics, complications and outcomes of critically ill patients with Dengue in Brazil, 2012-2024: a nationwide, multicentre cohort study
Background. Dengue outbreaks are a major public health issue, with Brazil reporting 71% of global cases in 2024. Purpose. This study aims to describe the profile of severe dengue patients admitted to Brazilian Intensive Care units (ICUs) (2012-2024), assess trends over time, describe new onset complications while in ICU and determine the risk factors at admission to develop complications during ICU stay. Methods. We performed a prospective study of dengue patients from 253 ICUs across 56 hospit…

Anatomy of a mass disappearance in Mexico -- EL PAÍS English https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-06-28/anatomy-of-a-mass-disappearance-in-mexico-mom-i-fell-into-the-hands-of-the-mafia.htm…

Anatomy of a mass disappearance in Mexico: ‘Mom, I fell into the hands of the mafia’
EL PAÍS reconstructs the last movements of a group of 40 migrants from Cuba, Honduras and Ecuador who disappeared on December 21, 2024, in San José El Hueyate, on the coast of Chiapas. Six months later, no authorities have begun to search for them.

These: "Mähroboter töten Igel"
Der Verein "Pro Igel e.V." hat dazu dies:
"Im Zeitraum September 2021 bis September 2024 hat das Leibniz-Institut für Zoo- und Wildtierforschung (Leibniz-IZW) anhand von 370 deutschlandweit gemeldeten Einzelfällen verletzter Tiere festgestellt, dass knapp die Hälfte die Verletzung durch Mähroboter oder Freischneider nicht überlebt hat."
Dieser seltsam konstruierte Satz verdeckt nur notdürftig: Die haben eigentlich…

#Microsoft outsourced administration of classified #DoD data to cheap workers in #China. 🇨🇳 🕵️
My latest update on

Selenskyj: Ukrainisches Team trifft am Freitag US-Regierungsvertreter
Im Ringen um ein Ende des Ukraine-Krieges werden ukrainische Regierungsvertreter nach Angaben von Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj am Freitag mit US-Vertretern in New York zusammenkommen. "Am Freitag finden in New York, in den Vereinigten Staaten, Treffen mit dem Team von Präsident (Donald) Trump statt", sagte Selenskyj am Mittwoch in seiner abendlichen Videoa…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ 100.000 Ukrainer ohne Strom ++
Nach russischen Angriffen auf Energieanlagen sind in drei ukrainischen Regionen etwa 100.000 Menschen ohne Strom. Die Bundesregierung hat 2024 Rüstungsexporte im Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro an Kiew genehmigt.

Zwischen 2002 und 2024 haben Kontinente weltweit alarmierende Mengen an #Süßwasser verloren.
Betroffen sind 101 Länder mit 75 Prozent der #Weltbevölkerung. Auch in #Deutschland

Kontinente verlieren "alarmierende" Mengen Süßwasser
Eine neue Studie zeigt: Die Kontinente trocknen aus. Von 2002 bis 2024 haben sie riesige Mengen Süßwasser verloren. Betroffen sind 101 Länder, in denen 75 Prozent der Weltbevölkerung leben – darunter auch Deutschland und Europa.

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
A. Yoshimoto, S. Yamauchi, M. Nobukawa, H. Uchiyama, K. K. Nobukawa, Y. Aoki, M. Ishida, Y. Kanemaru, M. Shidatsu, T. Hayashi, Y. Maeda, H. Matsumoto, Y. Tsuboi, H. Suzuki, H. Nakajima, Q. D. Wang, S. Eguchi, T. Yoneyama, T. Dotani, E. Behar, Y. Terada, N. Suzuki, M. Yoshimoto

The unusual spectrum of the X-ray transient source XRISM J174610.8-290021 near the Galactic center
The Galactic center region was observed with the XRISM X-ray observatory during the performance verification phase in 2024 and a point-like X-ray source was detected with the X-ray imager Xtend at a position of (RA, Dec)=(17h46m10.8s, -29°00'21''), which is thus named XRISM J174610.8-290021. This source was bright in February to March and showed time variations in count rate by more than one order of magnitude in one week. The 2-10 keV X-ray luminosity was ~$10^{35}$ erg/s for the assumed dist…

Richard Sherman charged with DUI stemming from 2024 arrest https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6434019/2025/06/18/richard-sherman-dui-charge-2024-arrest-seahawks/

The Value of Finance Journals
Douglas Cumming
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14301 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14301

The Value of Finance Journals
I present data from SCImago, 1999-2024, on factors that affect the valuation of finance journals. The SCImago data show some interesting facts; for example, in 2024, Finance Research Letters, valued at \$16.5 million, was four times more valuable than the Journal of Financial Economics (\$4.1m), five times more valuable than the Review of Financial Studies (\$3.3m), and over seven times more valuable than the Journal of Finance (\$2.3m). The data show that quality, as proxied by citations, posi…

Digging My Way Out
#AngryAmbient #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/digging-my-wa

Digging My Way Out #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Der MDR verlässt X/Twitter, aber nicht, weil es damit ein Problem gäbe, sondern weil es bei Meta und LinkedIn mehr Reichweite gibt.
Bitter, denn mind. Meta (Insta, FB, Threads) ist ja ähnlich schlimm.

ResPlan: A Large-Scale Vector-Graph Dataset of 17,000 Residential Floor Plans
Mohamed Abouagour, Eleftherios Garyfallidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14006 https://

ResPlan: A Large-Scale Vector-Graph Dataset of 17,000 Residential Floor Plans
We introduce ResPlan, a large-scale dataset of 17,000 detailed, structurally rich, and realistic residential floor plans, created to advance spatial AI research. Each plan includes precise annotations of architectural elements (walls, doors, windows, balconies) and functional spaces (such as kitchens, bedrooms, and bathrooms). ResPlan addresses key limitations of existing datasets such as RPLAN (Wu et al., 2019) and MSD (van Engelenburg et al., 2024) by offering enhanced visual fidelity and gre…

This is about racist Fat Nixon "Making America White Again", not 'immigration' policy.
Asians Americans: If you think this is about illegal immigration... wait 'til they come for us.
☑️ Fact-checking Over 12,000 of Trump’s Quotes About Immigrants
https://www.

Fact-checking Trump's Quotes About Immigrants
Trump repeats false and misleading claims on immigration, an analysis of 12,000 statements shows.

SpaceX is seeking approval to nearly double rocket launches from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base -- to 95 per year,
putting the company on a collision course with the California Coastal Commission
over concerns about wildlife, noise, and state oversight
That represents a sharp climb from early 2024,
when SpaceX, owned by billionaire Elon Musk and working with the U.S. Air Force,
agreed to only six launches a year under a deal with the commission.

U.S. law already makes clear that America cannot and will not recognize Russia’s land grabs.
2024 Omnibus Bill, Section 7047 (extended into 2025 CR): Prohibits funding for any action recognizing Russian claims over Crimea or other occupied territory.
2019 NDAA, Section 1241 (reaffirmed annually, most recently in the 2025 NDAA, Section 1303): Bars any Defense Department funds from supporting recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea. 1/2

Newsmax reports Q2 revenue of $46.4M, up 18.4% YoY, a net loss of $75.2M, compared with a $4.8M loss in Q2 2024, primarily due to settlement costs with Dominion (Matthew Keys/TheDesk.net)
https://thedesk.net/2025/08/newsmax-q2-2025-earnings-report/

Newsmax revenue climbs to $46 million during Q2
August 19, 2025 - The company renewed its carriage deal with Comcast, inked a new talent agreement with Greta van Susteren and expanded its reach on Hulu with Live TV.

Cowboys’ Dak Prescott Turns Heads at Camp After Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/dak-prescott-turns-heads-camp-after-injury/?adt_ei=[email]

Wildfires push tropical forest loss in Latin America to record highs https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/wildfires-push-tropical-forest-loss-in-latin-america-to-record-highs/

Wildfires push tropical forest loss in Latin America to record highs
MEXICO CITY — In 2024, six Latin American countries were in the top 10 nations with the highest loss of tropical primary forest, according to recent data from the University of Maryland, U.S. Topping the list were Brazil and Bolivia, in a year that saw the record-breaking loss of 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres) […]

The final presentation at the SEC 2025 - https://www.vvs.be/subsite/sec-2025/programme - was by Mariusz Krukar about the Impact of solar eclipses on twilight. He called the 1990 observations by Geyer et al. - https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-33-21-4614 (don't know of any OA version) - the best so far while in https://eeq.astro-geo-gis.com/2024-2/ he had predictions for 2024. The next SEC will probably be in 2029 - no location decided yet. 19/19

Keine Hilfe geleistet - Todeslenker beschwerte sich über 600 Euro Strafe #News #Nachrichten

from my link log —
Rewriting the Ruby parser.
https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/
saved 2024-12-26

Rewriting the Ruby parser
At Shopify, we have spent the last year writing a new Ruby parser, which we’ve called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). As of the date of this post, YARP can parse a semantically equivalent syntax tree to Ruby 3.3 on every Ruby file in Shopify’s main codebase, GitHub’s main codebase, CRuby, and the 100 most popular gems downloaded from rubygems.org. We recently got approval to merge this work into CRuby, and are very excited to share our work with the community. This post will take you thro…

The Internet Watch Foundation identified 1,286 AI-generated videos of child sexual abuse so far in 2025 globally, up from just two in the first half of 2024 (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/technology/ai-csam-child-sexu…

A.I.-Generated Images of Child Sexual Abuse Are Flooding the Internet
Organizations that track the material are reporting a surge in A.I. images and videos, which are threatening to overwhelm law enforcement.

The Potential Danger to Satellites due to Ejecta from a 2032 Lunar Impact by Asteroid 2024 YR4
Paul Wiegert, Peter Brown, Jack Lopes, Martin Connors
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11217

The Potential Danger to Satellites due to Ejecta from a 2032 Lunar Impact by Asteroid 2024 YR4
On 2032 December 22 the 60 m diameter asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of impacting the Moon. Such an impact would release 6.5 MT TNT equivalent energy and produce a ~1 km diameter crater. We estimate that up to 10^8 kg of lunar material could be liberated in such an impact by exceeding lunar escape speed. Depending on the actual impact location on the Moon as much as 10% of this material may accrete to the Earth on timescales of a few days. The lunar ejecta-associated particle fluence at 0.1 …

New malware samples exfiltrate WhatsApp data to target Iran regime’s enemies https://therecord.media/malware-exfiltrates-whatsapp-iran-muddywater

Autism and anarchy: The importance of autistic anarchism
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/04/10/autism-and-anarchy-the-importance-of-autistic-anarchism/

To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.

👯‍♂️ Young men in UK more likely than women to live with parents
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jul/23/men-women-society-uk-housing-parents-women

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.

HARLF: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Lightweight LLM-Driven Sentiment Integration for Financial Portfolio Optimization
Benjamin Coriat, Eric Benhamou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18560

HARLF: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning and Lightweight LLM-Driven Sentiment Integration for Financial Portfolio Optimization
This paper presents a novel hierarchical framework for portfolio optimization, integrating lightweight Large Language Models (LLMs) with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to combine sentiment signals from financial news with traditional market indicators. Our three-tier architecture employs base RL agents to process hybrid data, meta-agents to aggregate their decisions, and a super-agent to merge decisions based on market data and sentiment analysis. Evaluated on data from 2018 to 2024, after t…

Proper cocycles, measure equivalence and $L_p$-Fourier multipliers
Simeng Wang, Runlian Xia, Gan Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18320 https://

Proper cocycles, measure equivalence and $L_p$-Fourier multipliers
We develop a new transference method for completely bounded $L_p$-Fourier multipliers via proper cocycles arising from probability measure-preserving group actions. This method extends earlier results by Haagerup and Jolissaint, which were limited to the case $p = \infty$. Based on this approach, we present a new and simple proof of the main result in [Hong-Wang-Wang, Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 2024] regarding the pointwise convergence of noncommutative Fourier series on amenable groups, refining th…

Das Geld parkt falsch auf der Straße. Wir haben nur kein Personal es aufzuheben.
Wie viele Verfahren konnten aufgrund der Privatanzeigen eingeleitet werden?
2023 konnten von 6.865 Anzeigen 4.355 Verfahren eingeleitet werden.
2024 konnten aufgrund erheblicher Personalausfälle in dem betroffenen Arbeitsbereich von insgesamt 11.034 Anzeigen nur 2.775 Verfahren eingeleitet werden

Anfrage zu Privatanzeigen im Bereich ruhender Verkehr
bitte beantworten Sie folgende Fragen, jeweils aufgeschlüsselt für die Jahre 2023 und 2024 für den Bereich des ruhenden Verkehrs mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Privatanzeige/Drittanzeige/Fremdanzeigen - im Folgenden nur noch 'Privatanzeigen' genannt: * Wie viele Privatanzeigen sind bei Ihnen eingegangen? * Wie viele Verfahren konnten aufgrund der Privatanzeigen eingeleitet werden? * Wie viele Verfahren durch Privatanzeigen wurden durch Zahlung eines Verwarnungsgeldes bestandskräfig? * Wie viele V…

I may need to get back to doing illustrations again since it's been about a year that I took a break...
Hand drawn stuff (even if digitally) might be the future of human art with all this AI bullshit going on.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/projects/illustrations/

Illustrations
In March 2024 I started doing sketches on an iPad using Procreate and an Apple Pencil. As of writing this it's May 2024 and I'm still doing it. I'll try to keep this page updated with new illustrations as they are completed. Each illustration links to a page with more info about it, and some [...]

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
Eliot Kapit, Peter Love, Jeffrey Larson, Andrew Sornborger, Eleanor Crane, Alexander Schuckert, Teague Tomesh, Frederic Chong, Sabre Kais
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13973

Roadblocks and Opportunities in Quantum Algorithms -- Insights from the National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop, May 20--22, 2024
The National Quantum Initiative Joint Algorithms Workshop brought together researchers across academia, national laboratories, and industry to assess the current landscape of quantum algorithms and discuss roadblocks to progress. The workshop featured discussions on emerging algorithmic techniques, resource constraints in near-term hardware, and opportunities for co-design across software and systems. Presented here are seven topics from the workshop, each highlighting a critical challenge or p…

Artificial Intelligence in Rural Healthcare Delivery: Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Equity through Innovation
Kiruthika Balakrishnan, Durgadevi Velusamy, Hana E. Hinkle, Zhi Li, Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Hikmat Khan, Srini Ramaswamy, Pir Masoom Shah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11738

Artificial Intelligence in Rural Healthcare Delivery: Bridging Gaps and Enhancing Equity through Innovation
Rural healthcare faces persistent challenges, including inadequate infrastructure, workforce shortages, and socioeconomic disparities that hinder access to essential services. This study investigates the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in addressing these issues in underserved rural areas. We systematically reviewed 109 studies published between 2019 and 2024 from PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, IEEE Xplore, and Scopus. Articles were screened using PRISMA guidelines and…

I'm all for electrification of energy demand, e.g. for cars, home heating, and industrial processes.
But we shouldn't be betting the climate on it alone. The share of electricity in global final energy consumption reached 20% in 2023, up from 18% in 2015 (IEA, 2024):
https://www.iea.o…

Entdeckt in der ARD Mediathek
@… : Was bleibt https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/Y3JpZDovL2Rhc2Vyc3RlLmRlL3RhdG9ydF8yMDI0LTAxLT…

from my link log —
Thoughts on hashing in Rust.
https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/thoughts-on-rust-hashing/
saved 2024-12-13

Thoughts on Rust hashing
In languages like Python, Java, or C++, values are hashed by calling a “hash me” method on them, implemented by the type author. This fixed-hash size is then immediately used by the hash table or what have you. This design suffers from some obvious problems, like: How do you hash an integer? If you use a no-op hasher (booo), DoS attacks on hash tables are inevitable. If you hash it thoroughly, consumers that only cache hashes to optimize equality checks lose out of performance.

Congested Clique Counting for Local Gibbs Distributions
Joshua Z. Sobel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13083 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13083

Congested Clique Counting for Local Gibbs Distributions
There are well established reductions between combinatorial sampling and counting problems (Jerrum, Valiant, Vazirani TCS 1986). Building off of a very recent parallel algorithm utilizing this connection (Liu, Yin, Zhang arxiv 2024), we demonstrate the first approximate counting algorithm in the CongestedClique for a wide range of problems. Most interestingly, we present an algorithm for approximating the number of $q$-colorings of a graph within $ε$-multiplicative error, when $q>αΔ$ for any…

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
Maxwell Bernstein, Joanna Krajewski, Rachel Fisher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13600 …

Can Quantum Physics Help Fight Climate Change? A Thematic Analysis of Press Release Narratives
The climate crisis demands innovative solutions and quantum technologies are considered by some a potential solution (Berger et al., 2021; Calvin et al., 2023). The United Nations declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (United Nations, 2024), focusing on applications for quantum technologies. Quantum technologies, leveraging quantum mechanics, offer unprecedented computational power (Ajagekar & You, 2022) and sensitivity (Schleich et al., 2016) that could revolut…

Amsterdam-based Tebi, which offers a payments platform for hospitality companies, raised €30M led by CapitalG, after a €20M Series A in October 2024 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/tebi

Tebi, the new startup by Adyen's departed cofounder, raises a fresh $30M from Alphabet's CapitalG | TechCrunch
Co-founded by Adyen's former CTO, Tebi helps restaurants, bars and other hospitality businesses manage their operations with an all-in-one subscription-based platform that can handle payments, reservations, inventory, and more.

Chronicle of Higher Education Appearance
In Public, Harvard Is Fighting Trump. Quietly, It’s Dismantling a Program the White House Doesn’t Like. In the spring of 2024, Omer was told her contract with Harvard would not be renewed. In January of 2025, Diane L. Moore, then the associate dean of the Religion and Public Life program, was removed from the deanship, months ahead of her planned retirement in July.

Hussein RashidChronicle of Higher Education Appearance
In Public, Harvard Is Fighting Trump. Quietly, It’s Dismantling a Program the White House Doesn’t Like. In the spring of 2024, [Israeli scholar Atalia] Omer was told her contract with Harvard would…

Millionenschaden - Schiele-Werk aus Haus in der Wachau verschwunden #News #Nachrichten

The Pierre Auger Observatory: Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Rays Conference
Collaboration, Halim, Abreu, Aglietta, Allekotte, Cheminant, Almela, Aloisio, Alvarez-Mu\~niz, Ambrosone, Yebra, Anchordoqui, Andrada, Dourado, Apollonio, Aramo, Arnone, Vel\'azquez, Assis, Avila, Avocone, Bakalova, Baluta, Barbato, Mocellin, Bellido, Berat, Bertaina, Bianciotto, Biermann, Binet, Bismark, Bister, Biteau, Blazek, Bl\"umer, Boh\'a\v{c}ov\'a, Boncioli, Bonifazi, B…

The Pierre Auger Observatory: Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Rays Conference
The Pierre Auger Observatory, located in La Pampa Amarilla, Argentina, has been continuously acquiring data since 2004. It comprises a surface detector array covering 3,000 km$^2$ and 27 fluorescence telescopes, designed to detect extensive air showers initiated by ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. An upgrade to the Observatory was commissioned in 2024, enhancing the existing water-Cherenkov detectors with additional radio antennas, surface scintillator detectors, and a buried scintillator array. …

Zwischen 2018 und 2024 starben in #Berlin jährlich durchschnittlich 205 Menschen infolge von #Hitze.
In diesem Zeitraum wurden im Schnitt 21 sogenannte #Hitzetage pro Jahr gezählt, an denen die Tem…

Hitzeschutz Berlin - Berlin.de

A judge rules Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and X can proceed to trial, after Musk canceled a $1.5M/year exclusive X content deal with Lemon in 2024 (Alex Welch/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/don-lemon-elon-musk-x-lawsuit-moving-to-trial-ruling/…

Don Lemon's Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Can Go to Trial Following Pivotal Court Ruling
Former CNN journalist Don Lemon's lawsuit against Elon Musk and the Tesla CEO's social media platform X will be allowed to go to trial.

A survey on proximity monitoring and warning in construction
Yuexiong Ding, Qiong Liu, Ankang Ji, Xiaowei Luo, Wen Yi, Albert P. C. Chan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00862 https:/…

A survey on proximity monitoring and warning in construction
Various technologies have been applied to monitor the proximity between two construction entities, preventing struck-by accidents and thereby enhancing onsite safety. This study comprehensively reviews related efforts dedicated to proximity monitoring and warning (PMW) based on 97 relevant articles published between 2010 and 2024. The bibliometric analysis reveals the technical roadmap over time, as well as the five most influential leaders and the two largest research networks they have establ…

Note on Selection Bias in Observational Estimates of Algorithmic Progress
Parker Whitfill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11033 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11033…

Note on Selection Bias in Observational Estimates of Algorithmic Progress
Ho et. al (2024) is an interesting paper that attempts to estimate the degree of algorithmic progress from language models. They collect observational data on language models' loss and compute over time, and argue that as time has passed, language models' algorithmic efficiency has been rising. That is, the loss achieved for fixed compute has been dropping over time. In this note, I want to raise one potential methodological problem with the estimation strategy. Intuitively, if part of algorith…

RBs flourish, Milton struggles: Cowboys snap counts, offensive position grades vs Rams https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/08/10/rbs-flourish-milton-struggles-cowboys-snap-…

Offenbar ist #Brandenburg mit Tesla noch nicht genug gestraft. Amazon will auch was vom Wasser.
Und nein, mit 'Souveränität' hat es nichts zu tun, wenn einer von Trumps Buddys hier mehr Geld verdienen will.
Ort ist noch geheim: Internet, kriegen wir das raus?
Amazon will als Cloud-Anbieter 8 Milliarden Euro in Brandenburg investieren | rbb24

👇 👇 👇
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/jun/04/saying-trump-is-dangerous-is-not-enough-bernie-sanders-on-biden-billionaires-and-why-the-de…

KMT-2024-BLG-0404L: A triple microlensing system consisting of a star, a brown dwarf, and a planet
Cheongho Han, Andrzej Udalski, Chung-Uk Lee, Yoon-Hyun Ryu, Michael D. Albrow, Sun-Ju Chung, Andrew Gould, Kyu-Ha Hwang, Youn Kil Jung, In-Gu Shin, Yossi Shvartzvald, Jennifer C. Yee, Hongjing Yang, Weicheng Zang, Doeon Kim, Dong-Jin Kim, Byeong-Gon Park, Richard W. Pogge, Przemek Mr\'oz, Micha{\l} K. Szyma\'nski, Jan Skowron, Rados{\l}aw Poleski, Igor Soszy\'nski, Pawe{\l} Pi…

KMT-2024-BLG-0404L: A triple microlensing system consisting of a star, a brown dwarf, and a planet
We have investigated the lensing event KMT-2024-BLG-0404. The light curve of the event exhibited a complex structure with multiple distinct features, including two prominent caustic spikes, two cusp bumps, and a brief discontinuous feature between the caustic spikes. While a binary-lens model captured the general anomaly pattern, it could not account for a discontinuous anomaly feature between the two caustic spikes. To explore the origin of the unexplained feature, we conducted more advanced m…

from my link log —
Damas-Hindley-Milner inference two ways.
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/type-inference/
saved 2024-10-17 https…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco:
🎵 Cúcala
#CeliaCruz #JohnnyPacheco
https://celiacruz.bandcamp.com/track/c-cala-remastered-2024
https://open.spotify.com/track/5cenbJMA1mtYqtOqbUvoPr

Raiders' Contender for Comeback Player of the Year https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-maxx-crosby-pro-bowl-pete-carroll

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01009 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Detection of "diffuse" coronal He I 1083 during the April 8 2024 Solar Eclipse: evidence for terrestrial atmospheric scattering origin
Strong He I 1083 nm atomic line signals have been previously measured during total solar eclipses at coronal heights above the lunar limb. This rather unexpected measurement has kindled a discussion about the hypothesized presence of significant amounts of neutral helium at coronal conditions. We performed spectroscopic observations of the He I 1083 nm spectroscopic region with the newly built CHEESE instrument during the April 8th 2024 total solar eclipse to test the presence of He I 1083 in t…

Niners WR Brandon Aiyuk (knee) return targeted for Week 6 of regular season https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-wr-brandon-aiyuk-knee-return-targeted-for-week-6-of-regular-season

Crypto PAC Fairshake says it has raised $109M since the US elections in November 2024, and $52M in H1 2025, as it prepares for the 2026 US midterm elections (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/362685/crypto

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 226 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29774 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Stablecoins: Fundamentals, Emerging Issues, and Open Challenges
Ahmed Mahrous, Maurantonio Caprolu, Roberto Di Pietro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13883 http…

Stablecoins: Fundamentals, Emerging Issues, and Open Challenges
Stablecoins, with a capitalization exceeding 200 billion USD as of January 2025, have shown significant growth, with annual transaction volumes exceeding 10 trillion dollars in 2023 and nearly doubling that figure in 2024. This exceptional success has attracted the attention of traditional financial institutions, with an increasing number of governments exploring the potential of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Although academia has recognized the importance of stablecoins, research in…

Sources: Groq has talked with investors about raising $300M to $500M at a $6B post-investment valuation, which would double its $2.8B valuation from August 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-challenger…

Nvidia Challenger Groq Discusses $6 Billion Valuation
Groq, an Nvidia challenger that develops chips to power large language models, has talked to investors about raising between $300 million to $500 million at a $6 billion post-investment valuation, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising effort. The deal discussions come ...

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
Jacopo Nudo, Mario Edoardo Pandolfo, Edoardo Loru, Mattia Samory, Matteo Cinelli, Walter Quattrociocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00657

Generative Exaggeration in LLM Social Agents: Consistency, Bias, and Toxicity
We investigate how Large Language Models (LLMs) behave when simulating political discourse on social media. Leveraging 21 million interactions on X during the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we construct LLM agents based on 1,186 real users, prompting them to reply to politically salient tweets under controlled conditions. Agents are initialized either with minimal ideological cues (Zero Shot) or recent tweet history (Few Shot), allowing one-to-one comparisons with human replies. We evaluate t…

Event: Religion and Democratic Ideals: Reproductive Healthcare Access and White Nationalism
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2024, 6 – 7:30PM This event is free and open to the public. A liberal democracy should produce societies that are inclusive, equitable, dynamic, and responsive to the needs of citizens. This series will focus on where religion intersects with democratic ideals and institutions. We will discuss the outcomes we want from a democratic system and how such an…

Search for heavy neutral leptons in $\pi^ $ decays to positrons
NA62 Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07345 https://arxiv.org…

Search for heavy neutral leptons in $π^+$ decays to positrons
A search for heavy neutral lepton ($N$) production in $π^+\to e^+ N$ in-flight decays using data collected by the NA62 experiment at CERN in 2017-2024 is reported. Upper limits for the extended neutrino mixing matrix element $|U_{e4}|^2$ are established at the level of $10^{-8}$ for heavy neutral leptons with mass in the range 95-126 $MeV/c^2$ and lifetime exceeding 50 ns.

„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:…

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

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

Did Google Maps and Apple Maps search get worse in the past year?
I keep having a ridiculous amount of trouble locating places to eat or stores in #NYC lately unless I know the precise name of a place - even very similar keywords like “burger” for a place that’s called “Blue Collar Burger” - and it doesn’t come up.
Let alone searching for nearby open restaurants or something by category… most places just don’t come up and instead I see completely irrelevant businesses.
I feel like it’s deteriorated a lot since 2024 but I also might be misremembering how easy it used to be.
#tech #Apple #Google #askfedi

New video documents turbulent path to Cowboys star's $39 million payday https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/07/cowboys-ceedee-lamb-2024-holdout-youtube-series/84081968007/…

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 113 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29887 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Discovery of 63 New Young Asteroid Families
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, Miroslav Broz, Fernando V. Roig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00753 https://ar…

Discovery of 63 New Young Asteroid Families
We searched for young asteroid families -- those with ages t_age < 10 Myr and at least three members -- using the proper element catalog from Nesvorny et al. (2024). Our approach employed the Hierarchical Clustering Method (HCM) in a five-dimensional space of proper orbital elements: semimajor axis, eccentricity, inclination, proper nodal longitude, and proper perihelion longitude. The proper longitudes were calculated for various times in the past. Any convergence of these angles at times t < …

Dallas Cowboys predicted to fix RB room with Notre Dame Heisman hopeful https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-football/news/dallas-cowboys-predicted-fix-rb-room-notre-dame-heisman-hopeful/ed44365e…

The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
L. Ferrari, G. Folatelli, K. Ertini, H. Kuncarayakti, T. Regna, M. C. Bersten, C. Ashall, E. Baron, C. R. Burns, L. Galbany, W. B. Hoogendam, K. Maeda, K. Medler, N. I. Morrel, B. Shapee, M. D. Stritzinger, H. Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22794

The nebular phase of SN 2024ggi: a low-mass progenitor with no signs of interaction
Context: SN 2024ggi is a Type II supernova (SN) discovered in the nearby galaxy NGC 3621 (D $\approx6.7\pm0.d$ Mpc) on 2024 April 03.21 UT. Its proximity enabled a detailed investigation of the SN's properties and its progenitor star. This work focuses on the optical evolution of SN 2024ggi at the nebular phase. Aims: We investigate the progenitor properties and possible asymmetries in the ejecta by studying the nebular phase evolution between days 287 and 400 after the explosion. Methods: We p…

Former Steelers standout receiver plots NFL comeback: 'I am the strongest and fastest I've ever been'

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

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Wire:
🎵 So & Slow It Grows (2024)
#Wire
https://open.spotify.com/track/2tF3jxdva0Pidv106mC4B2

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – December 9, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 21 new job…
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest - December 9, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 21 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 2 grants, and 4 calls for papers.

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…

Der Winter 2024/25 brachte in den #Alpen teils Rekord-#Trockenheit und extremen #Schneemangel.
An der #Zugspitze

Alpen-Bilanz 2024/25: Rekord-Trockenheit und Schneemangel
Rekord-Trockenheit in den Alpen: Im Winter 2024/25 fiel mancherorts so wenig Schnee wie seit über 90 Jahren nicht mehr. Auch an der Zugspitze wurden Negativrekorde gemessen.

Spanish police busted a human smuggling network that had migrants in Greece pay €3000 to be handed a boarding pass and fake passport and travel documents so they could then fly to the UK or Canada. The Canada Border Service Agency flagged it to the Spanish police in 2024.
Spanish Police release (en Español): #spain #españa #humansmuggling #uk #canada #immigration #españa #greece

The best-case scenario for the Cowboys quarterback room in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/the-best-case-scenario-for-the-cowboys-quarterback-room-in-2025

Morning Darkness – an #improv #poem #improv #poem

Morning Darkness - an #improv #poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now