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The BBC's annual report for 2025 shows that the corporation took an average of 119 days to resolve bullying and harassment complaints, up from 101 days in 2024 (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/bbc-bullying-complaints-samir-shah-1236459090/…

BBC Taking Longer Than Ever To Resolve Bullying Complaints Amid Misconduct Crackdown
The BBC is taking longer than ever to resolve bullying and harassment complaints amid a crackdown on abuses of power at the corporation.

'We are doubling the Ukraine Facility' — EU proposes 100 billion euros for Ukraine aid fund in 2028–2034 budget: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/we-are-doubling-the-ukraine.html

‼️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.

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

The BBC reports 23.8M licenses at the end of 2024-25, down from 24.1M in 2023-24, and license fee income of £3.8B after an inflationary fee rise, up from £3.7B (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul

Read That Before You Trust Anything by Microsoft Once Again
#Microsoft

Analysis: YC picked just four Indian startups in 2024 vs. 66 in 2021, amid a growing trend of startups shifting their parent entities to India for domestic IPOs (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.…

From 66 to 4: Why Y Combinator backed fewer Indian startups in 2024
Y Combinator's selection of Indian startups has decreased significantly. This decline is attributed to factors like YC's US incorporation requirement and the rise of domestic IPOs. Indian startups are shifting focus to local funding options. They find domestic markets favorable for listing. YC is also prioritizing AI-focused startups. This shift impacts Indian participation. Domestic capital is growing with regulatory support.

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

Spoiled 4 Us All #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

After stabilizing around 2000-2005, atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gas methane started to rise again, accelerating until a few years ago.
At least the increase seems to be slowing down since 2021.
From the @NOAA ESRL site, now threatened by the Trump regime.
#emissions #methane

from my link log —
SIMD in Rust: you do not need multithreading to do more than one thing at a time.
https://sander.saares.eu/2024/12/31/you-do-not-need-multithreading-to-do-more-than-one-thing-at-a-time/

You do not need multithreading to do more than one thing at a time
As hardware gets faster and more capable, software keeps getting slower. It is remarkable how inefficiently typical apps use the capabilities of modern processors! Often this means an app is doing …

„In ganz Berlin müssen wegen der Kürzungen etwa 25.000 Studienplätze abgebaut werden sowie dutzende Professuren.
Per Vertrag war den Hochschulen Anfang 2024 eigentlich ein jährlicher Mittelaufwuchs von fünf Prozent bis 2028 vom Land garantiert worden.“
(Das betrifft die Kids, die mit Pandemie Schule hatten und jetzt zur Bundeswehr sollen. Und unsere Renten bezahlen.)

Dolphins' Jaylen Waddle looks to move past 2024 struggles: 'Definitely the year that I didn't want as an individual' https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-jaylen-waddle-looks-to-move-past-2024-str…

I think that I'm close to what I am after for @…
https://photos.jws.app/2025/shibuya-scramble-in-tokyo-2024/

Subjective Experience in AI Systems: What Do AI Researchers and the Public Believe?
Noemi Dreksler, Lucius Caviola, David Chalmers, Carter Allen, Alex Rand, Joshua Lewis, Philip Waggoner, Kate Mays, Jeff Sebo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11945

Subjective Experience in AI Systems: What Do AI Researchers and the Public Believe?
We surveyed 582 AI researchers who have published in leading AI venues and 838 nationally representative US participants about their views on the potential development of AI systems with subjective experience and how such systems should be treated and governed. When asked to estimate the chances that such systems will exist on specific dates, the median responses were 1% (AI researchers) and 5% (public) by 2024, 25% and 30% by 2034, and 70% and 60% by 2100, respectively. The median member of th…

#Deutschlandangebot2040
Heute hat der ÖPNV 12 mrd. Fahrgäste und das obwohl der allergrößte Teil Deutschlands kein gutes ÖPNV-Angebot hat und quasi abgehängt ist. 16-21 mrd. Fahrgäste sind machbar, wenn wir den Menschen ein flächendeckend ausreichend gutes Angebt bieten - statt weite Teile des Landes abzuhängen.

#idw #ClimateChange on the #Rhine: water temperature expected to rise by up to 4.2 °C by the end of the century
The water temperatures of the Rhine are rising. This is shown by an analysis carried out in 2024 by…

Climate change on the Rhine: water temperature expected to rise by up to 4.2 °C by the end of the century

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#25For25:SoundsOfTheCentury
- Part three: The world keeps turning
Naga Munchetty explores the landmark events of the 21st century via the lens of music. Part three: 2017 to 2024.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fk0m

Havumetsän lapset #luonto #ympäristö

Havumetsän lapset
Ovatko nuoret sankareita vai kriminaaleja puolustaessaan metsien koskemattomuutta? Vastustajinaan he kohtaavat Suomen metsäteollisuuden ja kansallisen ideologian metsistä taloudellisen hyvinvoinnin perustana. Humaani tarina kuljettaa katsojan lumoavalle matkalle metsän kauneuteen, mutta myös ravistelee kohtaamaan sen hädän. O: Virpi Suutari T: Euphoria Film Oy (Suomi 2024) Kuvailutulkattu

The State of Computational Science in Fission and Fusion Energy
Andrea Morales Coto, Aditi Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08061 https://

The State of Computational Science in Fission and Fusion Energy
The tools used to engineer something are just as important as the thing that is actually being engineered. In fact, in many cases, the tools can indeed determine what is engineerable. In fusion and fission1 energy engineering, software has become the dominant tool for design. For that reason, in 2024, for the first time ever, we asked 103 computational scientists developing the codes used in fusion and fission energy about the problems they are attempting to solve with their codes, the tools av…

People are still not paying nearly enough attention to what @… wrote here:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/
“The American right is a brittle coalition.”
The topic above is a prime example. There are two MAGA constituencies here — employers and workers — who think they’re about to get exactly opposite things. Both are going along with the ICE program because they think they’re the ones who will really get what they want in the end. At least one of them is going to get screwed over.
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BBC Commercial reports 2024-25 revenue of £2.2B, up from £1.9B in 2023-24, with BBC Studios EBITDA up 11% YoY to £225M and media and streaming revenues up 43% (Advanced Television)
https://www.advanced-television.com/2025/07/15/bbc-commercial-delivers-…

BBC Commercial delivers record revenues
BBC Commercial, the media company which is part of the BBC Group, has released its annual results as part of the BBC’s Annual Report and Accounts, marking a y

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

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

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

Build it and they will come.
In spring 2024, 11% of trips in Paris were made by bicycle and 4.2% by car. In 2010, the cycling share was just 3%.
This year, records have been broken on a monthly basis at many cycle counters. Existing cycle paths are becoming congested and need to be widened.
From: @…

Fractional Thouless pumping of solitons: a unique manifestation of bulk-edge correspondence of nonlinear eigenvalue problems
Chenxi Bai, Zhaoxin Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08016

Fractional Thouless pumping of solitons: a unique manifestation of bulk-edge correspondence of nonlinear eigenvalue problems
Recent foundational studies have established the bulk-edge correspondence for nonlinear eigenvalue problems using auxiliary eigenvalues $\hat{H}Ψ=ωS(ω)Ψ$, spanning both linear [T. Isobe et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 126601 (2024)] and nonlinear [Chenxi Bai and Zhaoxin Liang, Phys. Rev. A. 111, 042201 (2025)] Hamiltionians. This raises a fundamental question: Can eigenvalue nonlinearity generate observable physical phenomena absent in conventional approaches ($\hat{H}Ψ=EΨ$)? In this work, …

News outlet Iran International says that Banished Kitten, a threat group linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, likely installed malware on its journalists' Telegram accounts in two coordinated attacks in 2024 and 2025.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202507084950

Leaked materials came from previously reported cyberattacks, Iran International confirms
Iran International confirmed on Tuesday that recently published materials from the hacked Telegram accounts of its journalists are linked to two separate cyberattacks carried out in the summer of 2024 and January 2025.

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

Why Substack Shouldn’t Be the Future of Online Publishing (Torment Nexus, 8 July 2024)
https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/why-substack-shouldnt-be-the-future-of-online-publishing/

A Look Back On Raiders’ Meyer’s 2024 Finale https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-jakobi-meyers-los-angeles-chargers

🧠 General Intelligence:
• MMLU: 89.5 (near frontier performance) • MATH-500: 97.4 (exceptional mathematical reasoning) • AIME 2024: 69.6 (top-tier competition math) • Tool Use Benchmarks: Leading performance across multiple domains 🛠️

Changement de registrar
#dns

40 deutsche Firmen bei Aufbaukonferenz
An der Wiederaufbaukonferenz für die Ukraine nehmen auch rund 40 deutsche Firmen teil, wie der Ost-Ausschuss der deutschen Wirtschaft erklärte. "Angesichts der gewaltigen Herausforderungen beim Wiederaufbau ist die Mobilisierung privater Investitionen unverzichtbar", sagte der Ausschuss-Vorsitzende Michael Harms.
Seit der vorigen Aufbaukonferenz 2024 in Berlin…
🔗

Ukraine-Wiederaufbaukonferenz in Rom kündigt Wiederaufbaufonds an
Der Fonds soll das Land dabei unterstützen, die Schäden an Straßen, Brücken, Krankenhäusern, Schulen und Elektrizitätswerken zu reparieren.

Eftersom DN avslöjade Säpos mångåriga slarv efter att Le Monde redan avslöjat *exakt* samma problematik i Frankrike (och hos fler världsledare) i oktober 2024 finns en rad filmer som förklarar hur det går till.

I en serie artiklar under beteckningen #StravaLeaks har Le Monde publicerat pedagogiska filmer som visar hur information finns att hämta publikt, och vilka riskerna är.

A…

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.

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

EU suspends Ukrainian language interpreter for suspected espionage on Zelensky for Russia, Le Monde reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/eu-suspends-ukrainian-language-interpreter.html

"South Africa to ban highly toxic pesticide Terbufos"
#SouthAfrica #Pesticides

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

The Supreme Court issued a wave of opinions last week, wrapping a 2024-25 term filled with major victories for Donald Trump’s agenda.
Amid high-profile decisions on nationwide injunctions, LGBTQ books, trans health care, and more,
the court made the unusual choice to delay a ruling on
"Louisiana v. Callais":
-- a redistricting case that could alter the future of voting rights across the country.
The court order did not explain the justices’ rationale…

The Supreme Court Delayed a Ruling That Could Shape Voting Rights Across the US
The court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act.

Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It’s a political timebomb
"While housing lies at the heart of political disillusionment today, it is for the same reason becoming a primary trigger for mobilisation across Europe. In October 2024, 150,000 protesters marched through the streets of Madrid demanding action. Some governments, including Denmark and the Netherlands, are introducing policies to deter speculators. But real estate capital continues to hold the…

Heh, I missed this because I don't care about the A Song of Ice and Fire books anymore, but I guess it's official:
> In December 2024, he stated that he might never finish [The Winds of Winter] or book series, but did reaffirm that it was still a priority for him[…].
Reminds me of how my privacy is apparently the priority to everyone on the web.

How Dolphins WR Jaylen Waddle plans to bounce back after QB carousel, injuries resulted in career lows in 2024

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-d…

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

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

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

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

Happy Fourth of July. A fine new recording that's worth a listen today.
Ben Folds with the National Symphony Orchestra, "But Wait, There's More" (live, 2024)
Wait, there's more.
Don't think we can take too much more.
Pray that there's a bottom somewhere in sight.
Brothers and sisters hold tight.
https://

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

Check out my latest CSO piece that examines how Trump's civilian agency cyber budget cuts for FY2026 could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.
Thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Mark Montgomery of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Munish Walther-Puri of NYU's Center for Global Affairs, and former US cyber official Amélie Koran for their insights.
Trump see…

Trump seeks unprecedented $1.23 billion cut to federal cyber budget
Trump’s 2026 budget would slash cyber spending by over $1 billion from 2024 levels, a move that could weaken federal defenses, shrink the cyber talent pipeline, and strip state and local governments of vital grant funding.

On Minimal Excludant over Overpartitions
Judy Ann Donato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04402 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04402

On Minimal Excludant over Overpartitions
A partition of a positive integer $n$ is a non-increasing sequence of positive integers which sum to $n$. A recently studied aspect of partitions is the minimal excludant of a partition, which is defined to be the smallest positive integer that is not a part of the partition. In 2024, Aricheta and Donato studied the minimal excludant of the non-overlined parts of an overpartition, where an overpartition of $n$ is a partition of $n$ in which the first occurrence of a number may be overlined. In …

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…

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 2: First-shot Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring
Tomoya Nishida, Noboru Harada, Daisuke Niizumi, Davide Albertini, Roberto Sannino, Simone Pradolini, Filippo Augusti, Keisuke Imoto, Kota Dohi, Harsh Purohit, Takashi Endo, Yohei Kawaguchi
https://

Description and Discussion on DCASE 2025 Challenge Task 2: First-shot Unsupervised Anomalous Sound Detection for Machine Condition Monitoring
This paper introduces the task description for the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2025 Challenge Task 2, titled "First-shot unsupervised anomalous sound detection (ASD) for machine condition monitoring." Building on the DCASE 2024 Challenge Task 2, this task is structured as a first-shot problem within a domain generalization framework. The primary objective of the first-shot approach is to facilitate the rapid deployment of ASD systems for new machine types …

Electricity Market Predictability: Virtues of Machine Learning and Links to the Macroeconomy
Jinbo Cai, Wenze Li, Wenjie Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07477

Electricity Market Predictability: Virtues of Machine Learning and Links to the Macroeconomy
With stakeholder-level in-market data, we conduct a comparative analysis of machine learning (ML) for forecasting electricity prices in Singapore, spanning 15 individual models and 4 ensemble approaches. Our empirical findings justify the three virtues of ML models: (1) the virtue of capturing non-linearity, (2) the complexity (Kelly et al., 2024) and (3) the l2-norm and bagging techniques in a weak factor environment (Shen and Xiu, 2024). Simulation also supports the first virtue. Penalizing p…

"Lopettaneiden yritysten suureen määrään vaikuttanee lainsäädännön muutos, jonka mukaan vuoden 2025 alusta alkaen pienet yritykset eivät ole enää oikeutettuja arvonlisäveron kevennykseen”, Veistämö toteaa. "
#hallitus #yritykset

Lopettaneiden yritysten määrä kasvoi edelleen voimakkaasti tammi-maaliskuussa | Tilastokeskus
Vuoden 2025 ensimmäisellä neljänneksellä toimintansa aloitti lähes 11 000 yritystä. Samaan aikaan toimintansa lopetti runsaat 21 000 yritystä, kun vuoden 2024 tammi-maaliskuussa lopettaneita yrityksiä oli noin 12 700

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

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.

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

On the Inherent Privacy of Zeroth Order Projected Gradient Descent
Devansh Gupta, Meisam Razaviyayn, Vatsal Sharan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05610 https:/…

On the Inherent Privacy of Zeroth Order Projected Gradient Descent
Differentially private zeroth-order optimization methods have recently gained popularity in private fine tuning of machine learning models due to their reduced memory requirements. Current approaches for privatizing zeroth-order methods rely on adding Gaussian noise to the estimated zeroth-order gradients. However, since the search direction in the zeroth-order methods is inherently random, researchers including Tang et al. (2024) and Zhang et al. (2024a) have raised an important question: is t…

Science of the LISA mission: A Summary for the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Chiara Caprini, Anna Heffernan, Richard Brito, Gabriele Franciolini, Germano Nardini, Nicola Tamanini, Dani\`ele Steer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05130

Science of the LISA mission: A Summary for the European Strategy for Particle Physics
The LISA mission is an international collaboration between ESA, its member states, and NASA, for the detection of gravitational waves from space. It was adopted in January 2024 and is scheduled for launch in the mid-2030's. It will be a constellation of three identical spacecraft forming a near-equilateral triangle in an heliocentric orbit, transferring laser beams over $2.5 \cdot 10^6$ km long arms. Laser interferometry is used to track separations between test masses, thus measuring spacetime…

Cowboys new $80 million investment ranked outside top 20 at his position by NFL execs https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/07/09/cowboys-dt-not-included-in-espns-top-20-rankings/84510446007…

#Drumpf's #Dumbass #TradeWar Has Already Lost American #Farmers Billion$
And The Longer It Stretches On, The Less Likely The Recovery, A…

Can 49ers rebound after disappointing 2024? How Christian McCaffrey's return, remade defense impact outlook

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/can-49e…

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…

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

Importe aus Russland massiv gesunken
Deutschland hat im vergangenen Jahr fast 95 Prozent weniger Waren aus Russland importiert als vor dem Ukraine-Krieg. 2024 wurden Waren im Wert von 1,8 Milliarden Euro aus Russland eingeführt, wie das Statistische Bundesamt mitteilte.
Vor den bisher 17 Sanktionspaketen der EU gegen Russland beliefen sich die Importe 2021 - dem Jahr vor dem Überfall Russlands auf die Ukraine - noch auf 33,1…
📑

Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Ukraine erhält Leichname von Gefallenen ++
Die Ukraine hat die sterblichen Überreste von mehr als 1.200 getöteten Soldaten erhalten. Russland meldet einen Vorstoß im Westen der ukrainischen Region Donezk.

I didn't want to let the day go without posting a photo ;-) So I just grabbed one from last year when we visited #vienna in autumn.
A bit of context can be found on the blog: https://www.

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz
https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rfutation-des-affirmations.html

Réfutation des affirmations de Soteria International sur la "communauté bouddhiste persécutée OKC" et son fondateur Robert Spatz - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
En tant que victime, survivant de la dérive sectaire Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) et défenseur de la justice, des droits des enfants, des droits humains et de la …

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
- When I broke my ankle last year, I had no idea how much it would affect me -
#creativity #inspiration

Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

A look at Yahoo Creators, launched in March 2024, offering creators a 50/50 ad revenue split for posting original written content and has signed up 135 creators (Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/yahoo-takes-cues-from-pla…

Yahoo takes cues from platforms as it offers more editorial control to creators
In June, Yahoo for Creators had its most lucrative month yet, reflecting Yahoo's gradual adoption of aspects of a creator platform.

Der Anteil von #Solarenergie an der deutschen #Stromerzeugung erreichte 2024 mit 13,8 % ein neues Rekordhoch.
Die Zahl der #Photovoltaikanlagen stieg auf über 4,2 Millionen…

Photovoltaik: Einspeisung von Solarstrom auf Rekordhoch
In Deutschland wird immer mehr Solarenergie erzeugt: 2024 stieg der Anteil von Strom aus Photovoltaik auf knapp 14 Prozent. Auch die Zahl der Anlagen nahm zu.

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…

In Q2 2025, global VC funding reached $91B, up from $82B in Q2 2024, driven largely by AI investments, but down from $114B in Q1 2025, the highest since Q3 2022 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/global-funding-climbs-q2-…

Q2 Global Venture Funding Climbs In A Blockbuster Quarter For AI And As Capital Concentrates In Larger...
Global venture funding ticked up year over year in Q2 2025, reaching $91 billion, with a greater concentration of capital into the largest funding rounds compared to a year ago, Crunchbase data shows.

Sources and docs: Amazon Prime Video ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour
The move could lower CPMs but potentially hurt performance.

Falcons QB Kirk Cousins opens up about Atlanta's decision to draft Michael Penix Jr. in 2024

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International Catacomb Society Online Panel with Recent Shohet Grant Recipients | August 5, 2025
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El Pais is doing an amazing work in showing how citation metrics is a call for abuse (gaming to be more precise).
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-sci…

Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings

Study of Higgs boson pair production in the $HH \rightarrow b \overline{b} \gamma \gamma$ final state with 308 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV and 13.6 TeV by the ATLAS experiment
ATLAS Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03495

Study of Higgs boson pair production in the $HH \rightarrow b \overline{b} γγ$ final state with 308 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected at $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV and 13.6 TeV by the ATLAS experiment
A search for Higgs boson pair production in the $b \overline{b} γγ$ final state is performed. The proton-proton collision dataset in this analysis corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 308 fb$^{-1}$, consisting of two samples, 140 fb$^{-1}$ at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV and 168 fb$^{-1}$ at 13.6 TeV, recorded between 2015 and 2024 by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In addition to a larger dataset, this analysis improves upon the previous search in the same fi…

Improved Binary Black Hole Search Discriminator from the Singular Value Decomposition of Non-Gaussian Noise Transients
Tathagata Ghosh, Sukanta Bose, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Sunil Choudhary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04628

Improved Binary Black Hole Search Discriminator from the Singular Value Decomposition of Non-Gaussian Noise Transients
The sensitivity of current gravitational wave (GW) detectors to transient GW signals is severely affected by a variety of non-Gaussian and non-stationary noise transients, such as the blip and tomte "glitches". These glitches share some time-frequency resemblance with GW signals from massive binary black holes. In earlier works [Joshi et al., Phys. Rev. D 103, 044035 (2021); Choudhary et al., Phys. Rev. D 110, 044051 (2024)], the authors presented a method for constructing a $χ^2$-distributed …

It’s exhilarating to hear Bernie Sanders speak to a crowd:
his zeal is reflected back in their faces,
his moral clarity is such a relief,
set against the cynicism and resignation of most of the Democratic party’s opposition to Trump and his administration.
Class war is as old as time, but it’s a peculiarity of this age that you rarely hear a politician name it.
“I do,” he tells me. “There is a class war going on. The people on top are waging that war.”
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12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

Sources: Samsung is delaying completion of its Texas fab due to a lack of customers; the plant was meant to come online in 2024 before being pushed to 2026 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/S…

Samsung delaying completion of US chip plant due to lack of customers
South Korean chipmaker in no rush to install equipment at Texas factory

Irlands #Treibhausgasemissionen sind 2024 um 2 % gesunken – zum dritten Mal in Folge.
Doch laut #EPA reichen die Fortschritte nicht aus. Um die #Klimaziele 2030 zu erreichen, müsste …

Cam Ward brings humility to Titans QB battle, explains 2024 first-round pick JC Latham

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12) Who needs to take a bigger leap https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/12-who-needs-to-take-a-bigger-leap-guyton-or-mazi

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Dak Prescott expects to be 'full-go' for camp, not worried about building rapport with George Pickens https://www.nfl.com/news/dak-prescott-expects-to-be-full-go-for-camp-not-worried-about-building-rappo…

Check out this compelling rebuttal of Soteria International's claims regarding the OKC case. Get informed about the facts and perspectives presented in the article by visiting: https://blog.rmendes.net/2024/12/15/rebuttal-of-soteria.html

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H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-USA: 23 June - 30 June
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Former Steelers standout receiver plots NFL comeback: 'I am the strongest and fastest I've ever been'

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The US takes down a North Korean operation that, from 2021 to 2024, impersonated 80 people to get remote jobs at 100 US firms, using "laptop farms" in the US (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-g…

US government takes down major North Korean 'remote IT workers' operation  | TechCrunch
US prosecutors indicated a total of 13 people involved in the fraudulent scheme to steal and launder money for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Discursive and Non-Discursive Reasoning in Chinese Philosophy
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Jason Pierre-Paul training for return to NFL, says it would be 'dope' to play for Giants again

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A US judge denies Apple's motion to dismiss the DOJ antitrust lawsuit, filed in March 2024, accusing Apple of unlawfully dominating the US smartphone market (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
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Ex-Dolphins DB Reshad Jones scammed out of $2.58 million in grand theft, money laundering scheme, per report

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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…

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