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Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 29.08.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff: Förderantrag

De vernedering van Von der Leyen is de vernedering van alle Europeanen.
https://www.demorgen.be/meningen/de-vernedering-van-von-der-leyen-is-de-vernedering-van-alle-europeanen~bb4305b0/?re…

De vernedering van Von der Leyen is de vernedering van alle Europeanen
Het akkoord met de VS over handelstarieven is een signaal van verregaande zwakte en inertie van de EU. Dat is geen toeval, schrijft Sophie in ’t Veld, lid van het Europees Parlement tussen 2004 en 2024. ‘Al twintig jaar staan we stil.’

How-To Use My Release Page – Fun Features #indiemusic #music #originalmusic

How-To Use My Release Page - Fun Features
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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❌ 6:5 Blackjack
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XL-Calibur Polarimetry of Cyg X-1 Further Constrains the Origin of its Hard-state X-ray Emission
Hisamitsu Awaki, Matthew G. Baring, Richard Bose, Jacob Casey, Sohee Chun, Adrika Dasgupta, Pavel Galchenko, Ephraim Gau, Kazuho Goya, Tomohiro Hakamata, Takayuki Hayashi, Scott Heatwole, Kun Hu, Daiki Ishi, Manabu Ishida, Fabian Kislat, M\'ozsi Kiss, Kassi Klepper, Henric Krawczynski, Haruki Kuramoto, Lindsey Lisalda, Yoshitomo Maeda, Hironori Matsumoto, Shravan Vengalil Menon, Aiko Mi…

XL-Calibur Polarimetry of Cyg X-1 Further Constrains the Origin of its Hard-state X-ray Emission
The balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission XL-Calibur observed the Black Hole X-ray Binary (BHXRB) Cygnus X-1 (Cyg X-1) during its nearly six-day Long Duration Balloon (LDB) flight from Sweden to Canada in July 2024. The XL-Calibur observations allowed us to derive the most precise constraints to date of the Polarization Degree (PD) and Polarization Angle (PA) of the hard X-ray emission from a BHXRB. XL-Calibur observed Cyg X-1 in the hard state and measured a $\sim$19-64 keV PD of ($5.0^…

Back in July 2024 I ordered the Lightphone III. Now more than a year later they have pinged me to tell me it is shipping! 🎉
CC: @…

Spahn (7/2024): „Wenn ich Präsident Trump zuhöre, dann mag ich seinen Stil zwar nicht […], aber wenn ich auf die Inhalte schaue [...], dann sehe ich gemeinsame Interessen“
Deutschland: „In dem Abschiebeflug in den Irak saßen nicht nur männliche Straftäter, sondern auch Frauen und Kinder - mehr als bislang bekannt.“

Last year someone asked me for the pizza recipe I use, but it's a little more complicated than just a recipe, so I wrote a whole post about it.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2024/12/18/pizza-advice/

Pizza Advice
What I've learned in the months and years...

Titans WR Calvin Ridley says it's 'time to dominate' alongside rookie QB Cam Ward

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/titans-wr-calvin-ridle…

My favorite blues and snow white sands near Crodon di San Candido (October 2024)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

UK-based Yoto, whose screen-free speakers for kids play audiobooks and music, reports 2024 revenue up 86% YoY to £94.8M and expects to turn a profit in 2025 (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/fbd8dbbc-3b47-45d6-a380-1e973c61d903

Von Energiepauschale zu E-Government-Ghosting: Die BundID, der digitale Schlüssel zu Behördendiensten, hat einen deutlichen Nutzerschwund erlebt. 📉 Datenschutzrichtlinien haben zur Löschung hunderttausender inaktiver Konten geführt, die länger als 24 Monate nicht genutzt wurden.
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A Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Parameters in Solar Source Regions of Halo-CMEs with and without SEP events
Xuchun Duan, Ting Li, Yijun Hou, Yang Wang, Yue Li, Yining Zhang, Zheng Sun, Guiping Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21907

A Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Parameters in Solar Source Regions of Halo-CMEs with and without SEP events
Large SEPs can cause adverse space weather hazard to humans technology and such events are especially associated with halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs). But in turn, a significant portion of halo-CMEs are not associated with large SEPs. The objective of this study is to gain an understanding of the source region distinctions between halo-CMEs in SEP and No-SEP events. Among the 176 halo-CMEs observed from 2010-2024, we screen out 45 large SEP events and 131 No-SEP events from this dataset. It …

Today I'll introduce you to the last and oldest sibling of our stray cat offspring: this is Nele, born on May 31st, 2024. As her siblings and her mother, she still lives on our property. #caturday #catcontent

Scaling and Data Saturation in Protein Language Models
Aviv Spinner, Erika DeBenedictis, Corey M. Hudson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22210 https://arxiv.org…

Scaling and Data Saturation in Protein Language Models
Data in biology is redundant, noisy, and sparse. How does the type and scale of available data impact model performance? In this work, we specifically investigate how protein language models (pLMs) scale with increasing pretraining data. We investigate this relationship by measuring the performance of protein function prediction on a suite of pLMs pretrained on yearly snapshots of UniRef100 from 2011 to 2024. We find no evidence of model saturation on this task: performance improves--but not mo…

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…

Bundesregierung genehmigte 2024 so viele Rüstungsexporte wie noch nie
Die Bundesregierung hat im vergangenen Jahr Rüstungsexporte in Höhe von 12,83 Milliarden Euro genehmigt - Deutschland exportierte damit so viele Kriegsgüter wie noch nie. Auf dem ersten Platz bei den Empfängerländern steht die Ukraine mit einem Wert von 8,15 Milliarden Euro, wie aus dem Rüstungsexportbericht hervorgeht, mit dem sich das Bundeskabinett am Vo…
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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.

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.

In a burst of planning, I just booked a RT flight to SFO to attend the NFS 40th birthday celebration at MSST 2025 next month a hotel room in Santa Clara for a couple nights another night near SFO so I can go visit a buddy in Oakland for a day. I'll book DTW bus tix later.
https://www.msstconference.org/

Steigende #Wassertemperaturen setzen der #Bachforelle, dem Fisch des Jahres 2024, zunehmend zu.
Als kälteliebende Art leidet sie unter #Sauerstoffmangel und

Bye, bye, Bachforelle: Hohe Wassertemperaturen setzen dem Speisefisch zu

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record #Svalbard

Svalbard lost 1% of its ice in the summer of 2024, more than any year on record
Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago that is technically a part of Norway, lies about halfway between the northernmost part of Norway and the North Pole. Currently, about 60% of Svalbard's surface is covered in glaciers, but these glaciers are melting rapidly. During the summer of 2024, Svalbard experienced a record-breaking heat wave that melted more of its glaciers than ever before.

I just found this UK report on #covid epidemiology from 2020 to Dec 2024; the graph I most noticed is below - they looked at blood donors for spike (S) and Nucleo (N) protein antibodies over time; The spike proteins are in both infection and vaccine, while N is infection only - so you can see when people got vaccinated and how now pretty much everyone (95.5% as end of January) has been infected as…

Epidemiology of COVID-19 in England: January 2020 to December 2024

Studios are rereleasing old films in theaters, helping them pad out thin slates; Universal has 12 rereleases on its 2025 slate, vs. four in 2024 and two in 2023 (Esther Zuckerman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/movies/rereleases-black-swan-…

Why ‘Black Swan,’ ‘Jaws’ and ‘Clue’ Are Coming Back to Theaters
The multiplex is awash in titles that are 15, 20, even 60 years old. Nostalgia is a factor but economics play a big part, too.

Dolphins OLBs coach Ryan Crow arrested and charged with domestic battery, placed on administrative leave

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/dolphin

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

Dossier Presse 1997-2024
Beaucoup d'articles de presse ont été écris depuis 1997 sur OKC et Robert Spatz, mais malheureusement une partie de ces articles sont derrière des barr ...

The Story of #Valkey 🚀 🧑‍🏫
Back in early 2024, a popular #opensource project, #Redis, made a bold change: it shifted its licensing from

Docs: xAI terminated its status as a public benefit corporation as of May 9, 2024; XAI Holdings, which houses xAI and X, also doesn't have a PBC designation (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/elon-musk-xai-dropp…

Elon Musk's xAI secretly dropped its benefit corporation status while fighting OpenAI
Elon Musk started xAI as a public benefit corporation, but dropped that distinction last year as the company's operations in Memphis, Tennessee were expanding.

Strong Lens Discoveries in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 with Two Deep Learning Architectures
Jose Carlos Inchausti, Christopher J. Storfer, Xiaosheng Huang, Yuan-Ming Hsu, Brandt Kaufmann, Chaitanya Pasupala, S. Banka, A. Dey, D. Lang, A. Meisner, J. Moustakas, A. D. Myers, E. F. Schlafly, D. J. Schlegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.2008…

Strong Lens Discoveries in DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys DR10 with Two Deep Learning Architectures
We have conducted a search for strong gravitational lensing systems in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Legacy Imaging Surveys Data Release 10 (DR10). This paper is the fourth in a series of searches (following Huang et al. 2020; Huang et al. 2021; Storfer et al. 2024, Paper I, II, & III respectively). This is the first catalog of lens candidates covering nearly the entirety of the extragalactic sky south of declination $δ\approx +32$ deg, all of it observed by the DECam, coveri…

Informal Education is Essential to Physics: Findings of the 2024 JNIPER Summit and Recommendations for Action
Alexandra C. Lau, Jessica R. Hoehn, Michael B. Bennett, Claudia Fracchiolla, Kathleen Hinko, Noah Finkelstein, Jacqueline Acres, Lindsey D. Anderson, Shane D. Bergin, Cherie Bornhorst, Turhan K. Carroll, Michael Gregory, Cameron Hares, E. L. Hazlett, Meghan Healy, Erik A Herman, Lindsay R. House, Michele W. McColgan, Brad McLain, Azar Panah, Sarah A. Perdue, Jonathan D. Perry, …

Informal Education is Essential to Physics: Findings of the 2024 JNIPER Summit and Recommendations for Action
In order to reach the full civic and scientific potential of physics, this white paper calls for a culture change in physics to recognize informal physics education (also referred to as public engagement or outreach) as an essential disciplinary practice. That is, engaging in informal physics education (IPE) is part of what it means to ''do physics.'' In June 2024, we hosted a summit with forty-two members of the Joint Network for Informal Physics Education and Research (JNIPER) to discuss conc…

Yeah, I knew some lovely people who worked at Twitter too. And did you know they once had unfettered API access and anyone could create their own client? Some of us loved that so much we built things that helped legitimise them as an open platform. And then one day they just switched that off.
Legitimacy is gold to venture-capital-funded startups. They need people with it to convince everyday folks that this latest iteration of the same old rug pull is different. Until they’ve grown s…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Attached: 1 image I can't wait to use Bluesky, but I will not be joining Bluesky. As much as I trust and respect the Bluesky executives and board members I am acquainted with, I believe the service itself is insufficiently enshittification-resistant to trust: https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: h…

Nonlinear Evidence of Investor Heterogeneity: Retail Cash Flows as Drivers of Market Dynamics
Gabjin Oh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20426 https://arxiv.org/…

Nonlinear Evidence of Investor Heterogeneity: Retail Cash Flows as Drivers of Market Dynamics
This study measures the long memory of investor-segregated cash flows within the Korean equity market from 2015 to 2024. Applying detrended fluctuation analysis (DFA) to BUY, SELL, and NET aggregates, we estimate the Hurst exponent ($H$) using both a static specification and a 250-day rolling window. All series exhibit heavy tails, with complementary cumulative distribution exponents ranging from approximately 2 to 3. As a control, time-shuffled series yield $H \approx 0.5$, confirming that the…

Cyber Security Educational Games for Children: A Systematic Literature Review
Temesgen Kitaw Damenu, \.Inci Zaim G\"okbay, Alexandra Covaci, Shujun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17414

Cyber Security Educational Games for Children: A Systematic Literature Review
Educational games have been widely used to teach children about cyber security. This systematic literature review reveals evidence of positive learning outcomes, after analysing 91 such games reported in 68 papers published between 2010 and 2024. However, critical gaps have also been identified regarding the design processes and the methodological rigour, including lack of systematic design, misalignment between proposed and achieved learning outcomes, rare use of control groups, limited discus…

Sin noticias de la línea C-9 Cercedilla-Cotos: la renovación, paralizada 🚞
Gracias a @… por su labor de investigación, y por reportar algo que estš pasando desapercibido en los medios...
Espero que lo arreglen antes del invierno ☃️
#MovilidadSostenible

In Buffalo, the Chief of Narcotics and Intelligence for the Erie County Sheriff’s Office can plead guilty to hit-and-run in his county vehicle (while probably drink), intimidate a witness, collude with city police in a possible cover-up, and keep his job.
https://www.

ECSO chief pleads guilty, receives no jail time for string of hit-and-runs
Chief Daniel "DJ" Granville with the Erie County Sheriff's Office appeared in Buffalo City Court on Friday afternoon, according to Niagara County District Attorney Brian Seaman.

APS Explorer: Navigating Algorithm Performance Spaces for Informed Dataset Selection
Tobias Vente, Michael Heep, Abdullah Abbas, Theodor Sperle, Joeran Beel, Bart Goethals
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19399

APS Explorer: Navigating Algorithm Performance Spaces for Informed Dataset Selection
Dataset selection is crucial for offline recommender system experiments, as mismatched data (e.g., sparse interaction scenarios require datasets with low user-item density) can lead to unreliable results. Yet, 86\% of ACM RecSys 2024 papers provide no justification for their dataset choices, with most relying on just four datasets: Amazon (38\%), MovieLens (34\%), Yelp (15\%), and Gowalla (12\%). While Algorithm Performance Spaces (APS) were proposed to guide dataset selection, their adoption h…

Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest – November 13, 2024
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Welcome to the Religious Studies Project Opportunities Digest! This week, you will find 13 new job opportunities, 6 fellowships, 3 grants, 4 calls for papers, 4 conferences/speakers, and 1 other submission.

@… Why have you branded your "Edinburgh" account with the union flag instead of the Saltire?

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/use-of…

Use of Bicivia bike lanes up 21% in five years, with 75,600 daily users in 2024
Use of bicycles up 29% and scooters by 92% in Barcelona metropolitan area

UK filings: TikTok's revenue in the UK, Europe, and Latin America grew 38% YoY to $6.3B in 2024, up from $2.6B in 2022 (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2025/08/22/tiktok-booms-in-europe-despite-threat-of-us-ban/…

TikTok Booms In Europe Despite Threat Of U.S. Ban
Revenue from Chinese giant ByteDance’s short video app leapt up 38% to $6.3 billion last year in Europe even as it faces the threat of being banned in the United States.

🌟 New SIGs Spotlight: SIG-AI 🌟
A new space for collaboration on Artificial Intelligence within the NREN community is here.
SIG-AI brings the Research & Education community together to share expertise, best practices, and explore practical use cases of AI in NREN context—from cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing (HPC) to network automation and next-generation networks.
📖 For more insights, read the full interview with Leonie Schäfer (@…

"In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin American nation at the very heart of a global crisis."
Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau

Bolivia Burning: ‘We are on the edge of a precipice’ | Latin America Bureau
In a record year for forest loss across the tropics, more than a fifth of all the primary forest destroyed in 2024 was in Bolivia, placing the Latin

Revisiting H\"otte (2025): A Companion Analysis with Extended Evidence from UK Inter-Industry Payment Data, 2017-2024
Kerstin H\"otte
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17695 …

Revisiting Hötte (2025): A Companion Analysis with Extended Evidence from UK Inter-Industry Payment Data, 2017-2024
In 2025, the UK Office for National Statistics released a novel dataset of monthly inter-industry payment flows during January 2017 to November 2024 at the 5-digit SIC level (ONS, 2025a), covering $>$3.1 million UK organizations. Annual aggregates amount to 490 million transactions with an aggregate value of over £3.1 trillion in 2023. Such publicly available data are unprecedented by their granularity and timeliness, providing a rich basis for economic research and real-time policy advice. H�…

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
Khalid M. Saqr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21232 https://…

The State of Papers, Retractions, and Preprints: Evidence from the CrossRef Database (2004-2024)
A 20-year analysis of CrossRef metadata demonstrates that global scholarly output -- encompassing publications, retractions, and preprints -- exhibits strikingly inertial growth, well-described by exponential, quadratic, and logistic models with nearly indistinguishable goodness-of-fit. Retraction dynamics, in particular, remain stable and minimally affected by the COVID-19 shock, which contributed less than 1% to total notices. Since 2004, publications doubled every 9.8 years, retractions ever…

Source: Jets cut 2024 third-round pick Corley https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46079307/source-jets-cut-2024-third-round-pick-malachi-corley

Deforestation & illegal roads advancing fast in Colombia’s largest natural area https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/deforestation-illegal-roads-advancing-fast-in-colombias-largest-natural-area/

Deforestation & illegal roads advancing fast in Colombia’s largest natural area
In Colombia, the construction of illegal roads continues to damage protected areas. In Chiribiquete National Park, 525 hectares (1,297 acres) of forest were lost throughout 2024 up until March 2025 due to the opening of 81.5 kilometers (50.6 miles) of illegal roads within the reserve. In the Llanos del Yarí-Yaguará II Indigenous Reserve, located in […]

A look at SiriusXM's podcasting business; 2024's "off-platform earnings" were $606M, with podcast advertising making up most of that sum, up from $475M in 2022 (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/busines

Podcasting Is a Talent Business. SiriusXM Is Intent on Winning.
The company famous for car radio and Howard Stern has recently climbed the podcast charts by betting hundreds of millions of dollars on shows like “Call Her Daddy” and “SmartLess.”

Die ePetition 174803 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Internationale Verträge und Abkommen mit dem Titel
Sperrung von Karten bei Verlust von Debitkarten und anderen Zahlungskarten
kann bis zum Mittwoch 03. September 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, …

Kreml-Experte offen: - „Hatte das Gefühl, schutzlos ausgeliefert zu sein“ #News #Nachrichten

tfw you finally get an MVP into prod that you thought would be done by Xmas… 2024

Flux effects on Magnetic Laplace and Steklov eigenvalues in the exterior of a disk
Bernard Helffer, Ayman Kachmar, Fran\c{c}ois Nicoleau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18119 https:/…

Flux effects on Magnetic Laplace and Steklov eigenvalues in the exterior of a disk
We derive a three-term asymptotic expansion for the lowest eigenvalue of the magnetic Laplace and Steklov operators in the exterior of the unit disk in the strong magnetic field limit. This improves recent results of Helffer-Nicoleau (2025) based on special function asymptotics, and extends earlier works by Fournais-Helffer (2006), Kachmar (2006), and R. Fahs, L. Treust, N. Raymond, S. Vũ Ng\d{o}c (2024). Notably, our analysis reveals how the third term encodes the dependence on the magnetic f…

Stadt Bochum zeichnet sich selbst aus.
„Fortschritte für den Radverkehr: ADFC zeichnet Bochum aus
Die Stadt Bochum hat beim Fahrradklimatest 2024 des Allgemeinen Deutschen Fahrrad Clubs (ADFC) den ersten Platz in der Kategorie Aufholer erhalten.“
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Fortschritte für den Radverkehr: ADFC zeichnet Bochum aus | Stadt Bochum
Die Stadt Bochum hat beim Fahrradklimatest 2024 des Allgemeinen Deutschen Fahrrad Clubs (ADFC)  den ersten Platz in der Kategorie „Aufholer“ erhalten.

Russian Supreme Court chair dies at 71 after illness: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/russian-supreme-court-chair-dies.html

Übrigens: die ganzen Berichte zum Jahresbeginn über den angeblichen Einbruch der Zulassungszahlen von Elektroautos waren quatsch, weil überholt.
Das kann man hier anhand der Grafik der KBA der letzten 12 Monate gut sehen. Ich habe mit lila den 12-Monats-Trend für BEV eingezeichnet...

Leo Varadkar, who stood down as taoiseach in April 2024,
said he did not think a date should be fixed for an Irish unity referendum
as nationalists did not yet have the numbers to win.
But he said planning for a united Ireland should take place.
"I don't think a united Ireland is inevitable, I think it's something that we have to work towards," he said.
"But I think there are a lot of factors that would suggest that we're on that traje…

Leo Varadkar says Nigel Farage as PM would move Irish unity 'centre stage'
The former Irish prime minister says planning should take place for the possibility of Irish unification.

"Umgang mit dem Unsichtbaren – Neurodiversity-Management in Bibliotheken" https://doi.org/10.1515/bfp-2024-0005

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
Xiaoya Zhu, Yibing Nan, Shiguo Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11464 https://…

Data-Driven Deepfake Image Detection Method -- The 2024 Global Deepfake Image Detection Challenge
With the rapid development of technology in the field of AI, deepfake technology has emerged as a double-edged sword. It has not only created a large amount of AI-generated content but also posed unprecedented challenges to digital security. The task of the competition is to determine whether a face image is a Deepfake image and output its probability score of being a Deepfake image. In the image track competition, our approach is based on the Swin Transformer V2-B classification network. And o…

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…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

Demonstration of the Major #LunarStandstill with two cell phone pics taken 5 months apart in 2025 in the very moments when the (practically) full moon culminated at maximum and minimum elevation, respectively, over Bochum, Germany. This time there were no clouds on both days (the evening on 12 Jan and the morning of 12 Jun), while the same experiment in 2024 had had some problems: https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/113653916761501298

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
Kim-Vy H. Tran, Stuart Wyithe, Michelle Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20676

Achieving Gender Representation in Lead-Author Publications in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence
We examine the publication rates of 400 research-focused members in the ASTRO3D Centre of Excellence by gender, project, and year from January 2018 to January 2024 (six years). Of the 443 refereed publications led by ASTRO3D members, women were first-author on 38% which is nearly double that of the astronomy field in the same period (~20%). We record a high-water mark in 2022: 46% of ASTRO3D publications were led by females and 45% of research members identified as female. Using the nine resear…

Good Morning #Canada
Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, as of January 2025, only 38 countries recognize same-sex marriage, out of 195 recognized nations. Canada has been a leader in LGTBQ rights and, in a recent ranking, places us 5th worldwide in protecting same sex and gender affirmation. The USA ranks 23rd but is likely to drop further as the report was based on 2024 data before the MAGA morons took office.
#CanadaIsAwesome #LGTBQI
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lgbt-rights-by-country

I woke up at 3am, and while trying to get back to sleep thought about how there will be literally thousands of men loose in society who have done unspeakable things during the brutal and disgraceful conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
Some will be caught and tried for war crimes, but most won't. They'll walk past you on the street, have jobs.
It feels like a ticking time bomb.

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 …

OpenAI says its Chief People Officer Julia Villagra will leave on August 22; Villagra joined in February 2024 and was promoted to the role in March 2024 (Anna Tong/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openais-chief-people-officer-to-depar…

Highlands Suite
- piano improvisations inspired by the beauty of Scotland -
#PianoImprov #NowPlaying
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Highlands Suite #PianoImprov #NowPlaying
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'I can't go out like that': How Travis Kelce has prepared for what could be his final season https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46018818/kansas-city-chiefs-travis-kelce-2025-final-season-super-bowl

#China hat als erstes Land weltweit die Marke von 1.000 GW installierter #Solarleistung überschritten.
Allein im ersten Halbjahr 2025 wurden 210 GW neu zugebaut. Das Land setzt gezielt auf Erneuerbare Energien, um fossile Abhängigkeiten zu verringern und seine industrielle Position zu stär…

China überschreitet als erstes Land der Welt die Marke von 1.000 GW Solarleistung
Münster – China entwickelt sich immer schneller zum Motor für den globalen Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien. Allein in den ersten sechs Monaten des Jahres 2025 wurden in China neue Solaranlagen mit einer Leistung von 210 GW (210.000 MW) neu errichtet. Das ist deutlich mehr als die gesamte installierte Solarleistung in den USA mit rund 178 GW (IRENA, 2024); Deutschland liegt Ende letzten Jahres bei 100 GW (MaStR, BNetzA).

Filing: OnlyFans took in $7.2B from subscribers in FY ending Nov. 2024, up from $6.6B YoY, and paid out $5.8B, up from $5.3B; creator accounts grew 13% to 4.6M (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7d936956-f1b9-4fe4-b3de-feaddac79953

South Korea's Upstage, which offers AI document intelligence tools, raised a $45M Series B bridge led by the KDB, Amazon, and AMD, after a $72M Series B in 2024 (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/20/upstage-…

Beneath the Mask: Can Contribution Data Unveil Malicious Personas in Open-Source Projects?
Ruby Nealon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13453 https://arxiv.org/p…

Beneath the Mask: Can Contribution Data Unveil Malicious Personas in Open-Source Projects?
In February 2024, after building trust over two years with project maintainers by making a significant volume of legitimate contributions, GitHub user "JiaT75" self-merged a version of the XZ Utils project containing a highly sophisticated, well-disguised backdoor targeting sshd processes running on systems with the backdoored package installed. A month later, this package began to be distributed with popular Linux distributions until a Microsoft employee discovered the backdoor while investiga…

Pictorial and Documentary Guide for Research, Teaching, and Education through Astronomy, Physics, and Mathematics Pursued under the Umbrella of the United Nations (1974-2024)
Hans J. Haubold, Arak M. Mathai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17283

Pictorial and Documentary Guide for Research, Teaching, and Education through Astronomy, Physics, and Mathematics Pursued under the Umbrella of the United Nations (1974-2024)
This paper was prepared for Open-Access-only publication as a guide reporting on Education (all aspects of space science and technology), Teaching (remote sensing and GIS, satellite meteorology and global climate, satellite communication, space and atmospheric sciences, global navigation satellite systems), and Research (solar neutrino problem, formation of structure in the Universe) in astronomy (solar physics, cosmology), physics (nuclear physics, neutrino physics), and mathematics (fractiona…

After News Media Corporation announced the closure of 31 outlets in five states on August 6, a publishing group bought 8 papers in WY and another bought 4 in SD (Sarah Raza/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/rural-newsp…

Closed newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are saved as buyers swoop in
A dozen newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are set to publish again after buyers stepped in to keep the communities from becoming news deserts where little or no local media remains. This quick action is notable in an industry where, according to a 2024 report from the Medill School of Journalism, more than two newspapers close each week. Illinois-based News Media Corporation had announced the closure of 31 outlets in five states. Within two weeks, new buyers in Wyoming and North Carolina p…

Appfigures: AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/ai-companion-apps-on-track-to-pull-in-120m-in-…

AI companion apps on track to pull in $120M in 2025 | TechCrunch
The number of AI companion apps has grown more than 60% since 2024.

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

Rebuttal of Soteria International's Claims on the OKC Case - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
Rebuttal of Soteria International’s Claims on the OKC Case As a victim of the Ogyen Kunzang Chöling (OKC) cult and an advocate for justice, I find Soteria …

Next Generation
#HardRock #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2024/next-generation-nowp…

Next Generation #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

'Dak's gotta be able to run': How will Prescott's hamstring affect his usage in 2025? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46031777/nfl-dallas-cowboys-dak-prescott-hamstring

In Rheinland-Pfalz wurden 2024 über 1.100 Megawatt neue Leistung aus Erneuerbaren Energien installiert – ein Plus von 13 Prozent.
Vor allem #Photovoltaik legte stark zu, mit 916 Megawatt Zubau. Spitzenreiter beim PV-Ausbau war die Verbandsgemeinde Zell, beim #Windenergie-Ausbau Ulmen.…

Erneuerbare Energien in Rheinland-Pfalz boomen weiter
Die Entwicklung der erneuerbaren Energien in Rheinland-Pfalz zeigt 2024 ein beeindruckendes Wachstum. Besonders Photovoltaik-Anlagen verzeichnen einen erheblichen Zuwachs.

Filing: OnlyFans took in $7.2B from subscribers in FY ending Nov. 2024, up from $6.6B YoY, and paid out $5.8B, up from $5.3B; creator accounts grew 13% to 4.6M (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7d936956-f1b9-4fe4-b3de-feaddac79953

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.08.2025.
Die summarische Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt…

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 …

Klarna reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $823M with a net loss of $53M, up from a net loss of $18M in Q2 2024, as it prepares for a second attempt at a US IPO (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)

Media advocates criticize a US Department of Energy plan to throw out FOIA requests sent before October 1, 2024, unless the request is formally renewed (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/trump-administration-outlines-p…

Trump Administration Outlines Plan to Throw Out an Agency's FOIA Requests En Masse
The Department of Energy said it will close FOIA requests from last year unless the requester emails the agency to say they are still interested. Experts say it's an "attempt to close out as many FOIA requests as possible."

Panthers' Derrick Brown primed for return after missing most of 2024 season with knee injury https://www.nfl.com/news/panthers-derrick-brown-return-from-knee-injury-2025-preseason

How Google, Meta, and Apple's pledges to spend billions on new Silicon Valley housing failed to meet expectations; Apple spent $1.6B by July 2024, the most (Nicole Friedman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/tech-compa…

Laut #Klimaschutzbericht sanken Deutschlands #CO2-Emissionen 2024 um 3,4 % auf 649 Mio.
Tonnen, vor allem dank Einsparungen im #Energiesektor.

Klimaschutzbericht - Trotz sinkender Emissionen - Deutschland droht Klimaziele 2040 und 2045 zu verfehlen
Die Treibhausgasemissionen in Deutschland sind im vergangenen Jahr um 3,4 Prozent gesunken.

2025 Bengals look a lot like the 2024 Bengals: Here's the good, bad and ugly from preseason loss to Eagles

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-be

Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/uzbekistans-first-unicorn-…

Uzbekistan's first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Uzbekistan's Uzum has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China's Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital.

Anzahl der installierten #Windkraftanlagen pro Jahr in Deutschland mit Stand vom 09.08.2025.
Zählung der Anlagen mit Inbetriebnahmedatum. Der aktuelle Betriebsstatus wird nicht berücksichtigt.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse

NFL QB Tiers 2025: Lamar Jackson cracks Tier 1, Jayden Daniels sets rookie record https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6514160/2025/08/11/nfl-qb-rankings-tiers-2025-jackson-daniels/

#Gletscher in der #Schweiz, den #USA und #Kanada haben zwischen 2021 und 2024 rund 12 % ihrer

Gone with the glaciers: Researchers track unprecedented ice loss
A study published in Geophysical Research Letters reveals that glaciers in western Canada, the United States, and Switzerland lost around 12% of their ice between 2001 and 2024.

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.

‼️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.

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

Sources: Intel's 18A process is facing significant yield challenges, with only ~5% of chips meeting its specifications in late 2024 and ~10% by summer 2025 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/…