Tootfinder

"World’s largest banks pledged $869bn to fossil fuel firms in 2024, new report finds"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

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.

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/

FKK-Strand goes Live-Stream...😱
Genau das ist in Niedersachsen passiert, wie der neue Tätigkeitsbericht des Landesdatenschützers Denis Lehmkemper für 2024 enthüllt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10445504?wt_mc=sm.re

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.

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 303 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29697 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

Healing Melodies
#HealingMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/healing-melod

Healing Melodies #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

from my link log —
Histogramming bytes with positional popcount, GF2P8AFFINEQB edition.
http://bitmath.blogspot.com/2024/11/histogramming-bytes-with-positional.html
saved 2024-11-10

Histogramming bytes with positional popcount (GF2P8AFFINEQB edition)
A while ago, after some back and forth on twitter/X with @corsix , I dropped some implementation of byte histogramming without explaini...

(2018, free PDF download) Retinal prosthesis: A clinical guide to successful implementation (Essentials in ophthalmology) by Mark S. Humayun https://unitedvrg.com/2024/11/09/retinal-prosthesis-a-clini…

#TuneTuesday (June 17)
Continuing with the #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈 theme, I’m selecting #DavidArchuleta’s “Hell Together” for this week.
Released in 2024, this song was inspired by David’s mom’s …

Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project
#mozilla

Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project

Jag vidhåller att det mest anmärkningsvärda med Säpos hantering är att Le Monde har en världsomspännande publicering om hur Bidens och Macrons livvakter läcker position via Strava i oktober 2024. I juni 2025 fortsätter svenska livvakter läcka *på exakt samma sätt*.

1) Det är anmärkningsvärt att inte upptäcka den här läckan på 7-9 år, trots att risken är känd, men…

2) Att inte agera när Le Monde publicerar en världsomspännande nyhet som exakt avslöjar metoden som läckan sker på…

Installing Whoogle on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in 2025
I had to update the instructions for my 2024 article. Here it is:
https://theprivacydad.com/installing-whoogle-on-a-raspberry-pi-zero-2-w-in-2025/

Thank you for the nice #qgisuc2025 summary and for the #Trajctools shout out, @… !

QGIS User Conference 2025
The QGIS International User Conference 2025 happened in Norrköping, Sweden from 2-3 June 2025. I have been to the previous conferences in 2024, 2023 and 2019 and always look forward to the annual e…

Texans' Tytus Howard: Offensive line is going to be 'more nasty' in 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-tytus-howard-offensive-line-is-going-to-be-more-nasty-in-2025

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…

"ChatGPT ranking of business and management journals with article quality scores" https://doi.org/10.1108/AJIM-11-2024-0927 [closed access / paywall]

Amazon expands its Now service in India to New Delhi, offering deliveries in as little as 10 minutes, after launching the service in Bengaluru in December 2024 (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election,
has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature
https://www.scmp.com/wee…

Trump’s Hooters-loving Malaysia ambassador pick worries Asean diplomats
Nick Adams, who rallied actively for Trump at the 2024 US election, has drawn controversy over his misogynistic remarks and brash nature.

Die Meng Xiang: Fertig, um den Meeresboden zu stalken. 🕵️‍♂️
Das Forschungsschiff, das im November 2024 in Dienst gestellt wurde, soll bis zu 11 Kilometer tief in den Meeresboden bohren und Proben aus bisher unerforschten Regionen sammeln.
Zum Artikel: https://

‼️Die #Petition
"Keine Weiterleitung von Gesundheitsdaten an das FDZ ohne aktive Zustimmung des Patienten vom 04.10.2024"
hat bisher 248 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29752 Unterschriften bis zum 08.07.2025.

from my link log —
EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/10/ebcdic-is-incompatible-with-gdpr/
saved 2024-10-28

EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little surprising that the bank didn't support them. The bank refused to spell their c…

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, half run by national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Heute das Wort "Medienzynismus" gelernt, und es ist schon bezeichnend, dass wir in Zeiten leben, in denen wir unterschiedliche Sorten von Zynismus differenzieren müssen.
Es gibt von allem zu viel, zu viele Eissorten, zu viele Shampoosorten, zu viele Kaffeesorten, zu viel Zynismus.

Spoiled 4 Us All
#RockMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/spoiled-4-us-

Spoiled 4 Us All #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Cowboys star gets honorable mention in rankings for top 10 at his position https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-star-honorable-mention-nfl-rankings-top-10-tight-ends

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…

Seasonal Variability of Snow Cover and Impact on Albedo and Thermal Properties in the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone
Ippolita Tersigni, Filippo Nelli, Emiliano Cimoli, Petra Heil, Luke Bennetts, Giulio Passerotti, Alessandro Toffoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10916

Seasonal Variability of Snow Cover and Impact on Albedo and Thermal Properties in the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone
Snow cover plays a critical yet often underrepresented role in shaping the thermodynamic behavior of Antarctic sea ice. In this study, we investigate the seasonal variability of snow distribution and its impact on surface albedo and energy fluxes across the marginal ice zone (MIZ), using a unique dataset from five shipborne expeditions conducted between 2019 and 2024. High-resolution visible and infrared imagery, combined with field observations and meteorological data, reveal that even modest …

Doublespeak, hypocrisy, and shameless lying are requirements to be a Republican these days.
#uspol #GOP #TrumpFascist

This week is building up to a crescendo of critical cybersecurity developments, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the top infosec news stories you should know, including
--CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing,
--The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools,
--Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023,
--Law enforcement busts up BidenCash,
--China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers,
--Feds are probing CrowdS…

CISA nominee Plankey pulled from Senate confirmation hearing
The Com has been hacking Salesforce tools, Chinese hackers broke into US telecoms in 2023, Law enforcement busts up BidenCash, China issues warrants for 20 alleged Taiwanese hackers, Feds are probing CrowdStrike's 2024 outage, Reddit sues Anthropic for scraping comments, much more

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15575 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_nuc…

NuPECC Long Range Plan 2024 for European Nuclear Physics
The Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee ( NuPECC, http://nupecc.org/ ) hosted by the European Science Foundation represents today a large nuclear physics community from 23 countries, 3 ESFRI (European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructures) nuclear physics infrastructures and ECT* (European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas), as well as from 4 associated members and 10 observers. As stated in the NuPECC Terms of Reference one of the major ob…

Israeli data security startup Cyera raised $540M led by Georgian, Greenoaks, and Lightspeed at a $6B valuation, up from $3B in November 2024 after raising $300M (Steven Scheer/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22315 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Large Language Models Are Democracy Coders with Attitudes
Current political developments worldwide illustrate that research on democratic backsliding is as important as ever. A recent exchange in Political Science & Politics (2/2024) has highlighted again a fundamental challenge in this literature: the measurement of democracy. With many democracy indicators consisting of subjective assessments rather than factual observations, trends in democracy over time could be due to human biases in the coding of these indicators rather than empirical facts. In …

TAGB: Ritualisierte Praktiken: Formeln ­– Zeichen – Rezeptarien, Basel (07.11. – 08.11.2024)
https://ift.tt/pc5AuSv
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Conclusion: Bigfoot hangs out with black bears.
✅ Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/study-finds-bigfoot-sightings-correlate-with-black-be…

Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
The big conclusion: “If bigfoot is there, it could be a bear.”…

IRAS 22272 5435 (V354 Lac): Multicolor Photometry of a Variable Carbon-rich post-AGB Star and a Dust Formation Episode
N. P. Ikonnikova, V. I. Shenavrin, G. V. Komissarova, M. A. Burlak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06777

IRAS 22272+5435 (V354 Lac): Multicolor Photometry of a Variable Carbon-rich post-AGB Star and a Dust Formation Episode
We present new UBV photometric observations (2009-2024) of the carbon-rich post-AGB star IRAS 22272+5435 (V354 Lac), combined with our data spanning over 30 years (1991-2024). The star shows pulsations with two closely spaced periods, 127 and 132 d, which cause brightness variations of variable amplitude. We also detect low-amplitude oscillations with a 661-day period, of uncertain origin. Color analysis reveals both temperature variations during pulsations and spectral anomalies. For the first…

Plonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus

Search for cosmic rays in GRANDProto300
Jolan Lavoisier (for the GRAND Collaboration), Xishui Tian (for the GRAND Collaboration), Kumiko Kotera (for the GRAND Collaboration), Takashi Sako (for the GRAND Collaboration), Hanrui Wang (for the GRAND Collaboration), Mauricio Bustamante (for the GRAND Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/…

Search for cosmic rays in GRANDProto300
GRANDProto300 (GP300) is a prototype array of the GRAND experiment, designed to validate the technique of autonomous radio-detection of astroparticles by detecting cosmic rays with energies between 10$^{17}$-10$^{18.5}$ eV. This observation will further enable the study of the Galactic-to-extragalactic source transition region. Since November 2024, 46 out of 300 antennas have been operational and collecting data stably. We present our cosmic-ray search pipeline, which involves several filtering…

The Trump regime's coordinated repression did not come from nowhere.
In 2024, TheNew York Times reported that the Trump transition team was already planning to use emergency powers, such as the one Trump invoked on June 7,
to confront political opponents who protest the administration.
While the Trump administration planned this move for about a year,
the deployment of troops in Los Angeles is the brutal culmination of a yearslong campaign to systematically erod…

Military Crackdown on LA Protests Portends Further Erosion of Everyone’s Rights
Governments at all levels from both parties have paved the way to an authoritarian response to dissent.

NASA: May 2025 was the 2nd warmest May on record, globally: 1.07°C above the 1951-1980 average. Only May 2024 was warmer.
Highest anomalies in the Siberian Arctic, Central Asia, and the West-Antarctic.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

The State-of-the-Art in Lifelog Retrieval: A Review of Progress at the ACM Lifelog Search Challenge Workshop 2022-24
Allie Tran, Werner Bailer, Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Graham Healy, Steve Hodges, Bj\"orn {\TH}\'or J\'onsson, Luca Rossetto, Klaus Schoeffmann, Minh-Triet Tran, Lucia Vadicamo, Cathal Gurrin
https://arxiv…

The State-of-the-Art in Lifelog Retrieval: A Review of Progress at the ACM Lifelog Search Challenge Workshop 2022-24
The ACM Lifelog Search Challenge (LSC) is a venue that welcomes and compares systems that support the exploration of lifelog data, and in particular the retrieval of specific information, through an interactive competition format. This paper reviews the recent advances in interactive lifelog retrieval as demonstrated at the ACM LSC from 2022 to 2024. Through a detailed comparative analysis, we highlight key improvements across three main retrieval tasks: known-item search, question answering, a…

#Deutschland kommt beim Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien nur teilweise voran.
Das #Solarziel für 2024 wurde übertroffen, bei der #Windenergie hingegen deutlich verfehlt.
Vorreiter bei …

Wie läuft der Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien in Deutschland?
Das Ausbauziel für Solarenergie wurde 2024 erreicht - bei der Windenergie hängt Deutschland seinen Zielen aber hinterher. Am Norden liegt es nicht: In Bundesländern wie Schleswig-Holstein und Niedersachsen stehen besonders viele Windkraftanlagen.

Bilt Rewards, which offers rewards points for rent payments, raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation, up from $3.1B in January 2024 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

from my link log —
Ki: wireless power for kitchen appliances. (video)
https://youtu.be/90Q7OM3W8T0
saved 2024-10-12 https://dotat.at/…

GIC--Related Observations During the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm in the United States
L. A. Wilkerson, R. S. Weigel, D. Thomas, D. Bor, E. J. Oughton, C. T. Gaunt, C. C. Balch, M. J. Wiltberger, A. Pulkkinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07009

GIC--Related Observations During the May 2024 Geomagnetic Storm in the United States
The May 2024 geomagnetic storm was one of the most severe in the past twenty years. Understanding how large geomagnetic disturbances (GMDs) impact geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) within power grid networks is key to ensuring their resilience. We have assembled and synthesized a large and diverse set of GMD-related data, compared model predictions with measurements, and identified empirical relationships for GICs in the contiguous United States for this storm. Measurement data include …

'He definitely has an arm': Five things we know about J.J. McCarthy as he preps to be Vikings' starting QB https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45523859/nfl-minnesota-vikings-jj-mccarthy-quarterback

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
Aadityan Ganesh, Qianfan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04592 https…

Truthful, Credible, and Optimal Auctions for Matroids via Blockchains and Commitments
We consider a revenue-optimizing auctioneer in single-dimensional environments with matroid feasibility constraints. Akbarpour and Li (2020) argue that any revenue-optimal, truthful, and credible mechanism requires unbounded communication. Recent works (Ferreira and Weinberg, 2020; Essaidi et al., 2022; Chitra et al., 2024) circumvent their impossibility for the single-item setting through the use of cryptographic commitments and blockchains. We extend their results to matroid feasibility const…

Consumer price for mobility in 🇨🇭, 2000-2024
The report "Environment Switzerland 2018" (https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/en/home/state/publications-on-the-state-of-the-environment/environment-switz…

Galactic Science -- Rapporteur Talk of the 8th Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy
Sandro Mereghetti (INAF, IASF-Milano)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04729

Galactic Science -- Rapporteur Talk of the 8th Heidelberg International Symposium on High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy
The most recent observational and theoretical results in the rapidly expanding field of high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics were discussed at the international conference ``Gamma-2024'' that took place in Milano in September 2024. This contribution summarises the 'rapporteur talk' relative to the Galactic science given at the end of the conference.

👇 👇 👇
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…

Medium CEO says the company has been profitable since August 2024 and details its financial turnaround after losing $2.6M per month in 2022 (Tony Stubblebine/The Coach Life)
https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Lowering the bar does not make Dak Prescott elite https://insidethestar.com/lowering-the-bar-does-not-make-dak-prescott-elite

Drifting
(be sure to check out the #musicvideo with RB romping through the snow)
#NowPlaying
https://mu…

Drifting #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00561 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge
The measurement tasks involved in evaluating generative AI (GenAI) systems lack sufficient scientific rigor, leading to what has been described as "a tangle of sloppy tests [and] apples-to-oranges comparisons" (Roose, 2024). In this position paper, we argue that the ML community would benefit from learning from and drawing on the social sciences when developing and using measurement instruments for evaluating GenAI systems. Specifically, our position is that evaluating GenAI systems is a social…

from my link log —
Critical analysis of the Meshtastic protocol.
https://www.disk91.com/2024/technology/lora/critical-analysis-of-the-meshtastic-protocol/
saved 2025-06-16

Critical Analysis of the Meshtastic Protocol - disk91.com - the IoT blog
Analysis of the Mestastic LoRa mesh solution in details, what's good and wrong with that communication solution.

“Excursion (same-day) travel to the United States by automobile dropped abruptly at the start of 2025, after holding consistently positive throughout 2024. Same-day returns fell by 40.3% year over year in May 2025”
That is an extremely high amount of change. After September 11, it was in the 30% range.
I miss my cross-border trips, but it’s just a bad risk reward calculation right now. #canada

‼️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.

TollBit: from Q4 2024 to Q1 2025, traffic from AI retrieval bots to 266 websites, including national and local news organizations, grew 49%, as AI usage jumps (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

‘This is coming for everyone’: A new kind of AI bot takes over the web
As consumers switch from Google search to ChatGPT, a new kind of bot is scraping data for AI chatbots.

Dynamics of Subsurface Flows in Solar Active Regions During the May 2024 Storm
B Lekshmi, Sushanta Tripathy, Kiran Jain, Alexei Pevtsov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08141

Dynamics of Subsurface Flows in Solar Active Regions During the May 2024 Storm
In May 2024, the Sun exhibited intense magnetic activity, marked by numerous high-intensity flares resulting from the interaction and merging of NOAA ARs 13664 and 13668 in the southern hemisphere and AR 13663 in the northern hemisphere. Notably, AR 13664 displayed an extended lifetime, remaining visible after a full solar rotation and continuing to produce significant flaring activity. In this study, we investigate the evolution of sub-photospheric plasma flows associated with these ARs during…

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.

Investigating Algorithmic Bias in YouTube Shorts
Mert Can Cakmak, Nitin Agarwal, Diwash Poudel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04605 https://

Investigating Algorithmic Bias in YouTube Shorts
The rapid growth of YouTube Shorts, now serving over 2 billion monthly users, reflects a global shift toward short-form video as a dominant mode of online content consumption. This study investigates algorithmic bias in YouTube Shorts' recommendation system by analyzing how watch-time duration, topic sensitivity, and engagement metrics influence content visibility and drift. We focus on three content domains: the South China Sea dispute, the 2024 Taiwan presidential election, and general YouTub…

Sources: xAI prepares a new fundraising round, its third in two months, targeting a valuation of $170B to $200B, up 10x from its May 2024 valuation of $18B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/25aab987-c2a1-4fca-8883-38a617269b68

Can Eagles DC Vic Fangio strike lightning twice? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45479932/philadelphia-eagles-defense-vic-fangio-strike-lightning-twice-2025

World Rainforest Day and the state of Earth’s most vital rainforests https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/world-rainforest-day-and-the-state-of-earths-most-vital-rainforests/

World Rainforest Day and the state of Earth’s most vital rainforests
June 22 marks World Rainforest Day, launched in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership to highlight the critical role of tropical forests. These ecosystems stabilize the climate, regulate rainfall, store vast amounts of carbon, and support most of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity. Yet despite their importance, 2024 proved to be a devastating year. Fires ravaged millions of […]

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…

„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:…

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…

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.

"New environmental licensing will build a power plant in the Cerrado and demolish a school|
#Brazil #Cerrado #Energy #Education

New environmental licensing will build a power plant in the Cerrado and demolish a school
The most deforested biome in Brazil, the Cerrado lost 700,000 hectares (1.7 million acres) of native vegetation in 2024. Now, it is about to receive a thermoelectric plant 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the National Congress, in Brasília, the country’s capital. The Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), responsible for federal environmental […]

Who was the Greater Lansing boys high school coach of year in 2024-25? https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/07/07/vote-greater-lansing-boys-coach-year-2024-25/84448877007/

Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the "V1 Siri architecture" and work on a V2 model (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techra…

This is what really happened with Siri and Apple Intelligence, according to Apple
Is it a delay, a strategy... or something else?

from my link log —
Booleans are a trap.
https://katafrakt.me/2024/11/09/booleans-are-a-trap/
saved 2025-06-30 https://

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. 

Seven questions on sophomore NFL QBs: What's next for Penix, Williams, Daniels, Maye https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45465496/2025-nfl-season-sophomore-quarterbacks-williams-daniels-maye-nix-mccarthy-pe…

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1026385 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Surgeons Awareness, Expectations, and Involvement with Artificial Intelligence: a Survey Pre and Post the GPT Era
Lorenzo Arboit, Dennis N. Schneider, Toby Collins, Daniel A. Hashimoto, Silvana Perretta, Bernard Dallemagne, Jacques Marescaux, EAES Working Group, Nicolas Padoy, Pietro Mascagni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08258

Surgeons Awareness, Expectations, and Involvement with Artificial Intelligence: a Survey Pre and Post the GPT Era
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming medicine, with generative AI models like ChatGPT reshaping perceptions of its potential. This study examines surgeons' awareness, expectations, and involvement with AI in surgery through comparative surveys conducted in 2021 and 2024. Two cross-sectional surveys were distributed globally in 2021 and 2024, the first before an IRCAD webinar and the second during the annual EAES meeting. The surveys assessed demographics, AI awareness, expectations, inv…

Anzahl der errichteten #Balkonkraftwerke pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage

Pretty extreme @… forecast for this coming Tuesday 1 July, here in central the Netherlands (De Bilt).
A temperature of 35°C was only reached 7 times before (1901-2024) in July, all of those on 19 July or later.

Sources: in May 2024, Business Insider sent some staff a recommended reading list that included seemingly AI-generated books that did not appear to exist (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/01/2025

Business Insider recommended nonexistent books to staff as it leans into AI
Some titles on the list included books with extremely garbled titles and fake authors.

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b69f304c-798e-4dc3-9f17-6f7a7c8d3ac0

How stablecoins are entering the financial mainstream
Usage of the digital assets is growing rapidly, but concerns remain about supervision and their impact on other parts of the financial system

Timing and spectral studies of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 with NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, NuSTAR, Insight-HXMT and INTEGRAL during its 2024 outburst
Zhaosheng Li, Lucien Kuiper, Yuanyue Pan, Renxin Xu, Yong Chen, Mingyu Ge, Yue Huang, Shumei Jia, Xiaobo Li, Liming Song, Jinlu Qu, Shu Zhang, Lian Tao, Hua Feng, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Maurizio Falanga
https:…

Timing and spectral studies of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 with NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, NuSTAR, Insight-HXMT and INTEGRAL during its 2024 outburst
SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 is a newly confirmed accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar and type I X-ray burster. We present the broadband X-ray timing and spectral behaviors of SRGA J144459.2$-$604207 during its 2024 outburst. The data were collected from NICER, Einstein Probe, IXPE, Insight-HXMT, NuSTAR and INTEGRAL observations. X-ray pulsations have been detected for the 1.5$-$90 keV energy range throughout the `ON' phase of the outburst from MJD $\sim 60355-60385$. We refined the orbital and spi…

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/…

Bounded variation separates weak and strong average Lipschitz
Ariel Elperin, Aryeh Kontorovich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16930 https://

Bounded variation separates weak and strong average Lipschitz
We closely examine a notion of average smoothness recently introduced by Ashlagi et al. (JMLR, 2024). The latter defined a {\em weak} and {\em strong} average-Lipschitz seminorm for real-valued functions on general metric spaces. Specializing to the standard metric on the real line, we compare these notions to bounded variation (BV) and discover that the weak notion is strictly weaker than BV while the strong notion strictly stronger. Along the way, we discover that the weak average smooth clas…

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 10.07.2025.
Rein numerische Zählung nach Inbetriebnahmejahr ohne Berücksichtigung des Betriebsstatus.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer #Datenanalyse

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – December 4, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 11 new job…
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Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest - December 4, 2024 | The Religious Studies Project
Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 11 new job opportunities, 3 fellowships, 3 calls for papers, and 1 conference/speaker.

Germaine Pratt signs with Raiders: Former Bengals captain, leading tackler finds team after surprise release

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

from my link log —
Use test data that looks like data.
https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/use-data-that-looks-like-data
saved 2024-10-22

Use data that looks like data
Maybe the #1 best programming tip of all time?

A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.

"Brazil may add 36.5 GW of solar by 2029, says grid operator"
#Brazil #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Brazil may add 36.5 GW of solar by 2029, says grid operator
Brazil’s installed solar capacity is expected to rise from 51.7 GW in December 2024 to 88.2 GW by the end of 2029, according to the national grid operator’s 2025–29 Energy Operation Plan.

Antenna: US SVOD subscriptions grew 11% from March 2024 to March 2025; the average churn rate for premium SVOD services has hovered around 5% since January 2023 (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/antenna-s…

Streaming Enters New Phase Of “More Stable Growth” As Ad Tiers Gain Traction & Subscriber Churn Reduces, Study Says
A new report from data firm Antenna explains why streaming is entering a more stable period of growth after years of volatility

The best NFL draft pick at every slot ... ever: Who lands in our 1-262? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45597769/picking-best-nfl-draft-picks-ever-every-slot-common-era-1967-2024

from my link log —
The SLAX scripting language: an alternative syntax for XSLT.
http://juniper.github.io/libslax/slax-manual.html
saved 2024-11-25

Anzahl der #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.07.2025.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1014651 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2015 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

The EU Commission fines European takeaway groups Delivery Hero and Glovo €329M for taking part in an "online food delivery cartel", closing a July 2024 probe (Barbara Moens/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b0f37773-e68b-4c31-a7d5-b6ce8b9542d8…

EU fines Delivery Hero and Glovo €329mn for takeaway ‘cartel’
European Commission says European food delivery groups shared trade secrets

Jason Pierre-Paul reflects on the Fourth of July accident that took his fingers and changed his life. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45582506/jason-pierre-paul-fourth-july-fingers-accident-ten-years-later-n…

'He's having a terrific offseason': Cowboys counting on second-year jump from LT Tyler Guyton https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45433728/nfl-dallas-cowboys-tyler-guyton-tyler-booker-dak-prescott

Ravens RB Keaton Mitchell: I feel like I'm better than before 2023 knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/ravens-rb-keaton-mitchell-i-feel-like-i-m-better-than-before-2023-knee-injury