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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

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 …

Every $1 in NIH funding in 2024 generated $2.56 in economic activity (PDF):
https://www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/UMR_NIH-Role-in-Sustaining-US-Economy-FY2024-2025-Update.…

‼️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.

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

Our pre-conference Barcamp has become a real highlight, offering a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow attendees and dive into some engaging conversations before the main conference even kicks off. This year, Nick Burch will once again be guiding the flow of ideas and discussions on 15 June, starting at 2:30 pm. It's a great way to warm up, share your thoughts, and meet new people!
Learn more about our barcamp:

Coronal spectra of the 2024 Total #SolarEclipse with the ALIMAS and UV-PAMIS spectrographs flown on a WB-57 plane - as explained in https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1645372 with the plane in question in https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14562/ - shown by Adalbert Ding at the SEC. 18/n

Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer Zhongjie Li, who worked at Tesla from 2022 to 2024, accusing him of stealing humanoid robot info and setting up a rival startup (Dana Hull/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

MAGNA: Asia Pacific ad revenue grew 7.9% in 2024 to $288B led by digital advertising; TV budgets declined by 1.9%, print dropped by 3%, and radio fell by 4.2% (Alisha Buaya/Mediaweek)
https://www.mediaweek.com.au/magna-forecast-apac-ad-revenue-gr…

Jets RB Breece Hall out 'to prove that I am the guy' after disappointing 2024 https://www.nfl.com/news/jets-rb-breece-hall-out-to-prove-that-i-am-the-guy-after-disappointing-2024

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

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…

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

Spoiled 4 Us All #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

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.

from my link log —
Exploring Typst, a new typesetting system similar to LaTeX.
https://blog.jreyesr.com/posts/typst/
saved 2024-10-12 https://

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…

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

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

Christian McCaffrey says he feels 'great' at 49ers minicamp as he returns from injury-plagued 2024 season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

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

Der Mai 2025 war global der zweitwärmste Mai seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen.
Laut ERA5-Daten lag die durchschnittliche #Oberflächentemperatur 0,53 °C über dem Mittel von 1991–2020 und 1,40 °C über dem vorindustriellen Niveau.
Nur der Mai 2024 war wärmer. In den letzten 23 Monaten überschritt die globale Temperatur 14-mal deutlich die 1,5-Grad-Marke.

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…

And if you're wondering what happened to those three Fast Cats.
In January 2024 someone tried to get someone to buy them by putting them up on Facebook Marketplace (yep!) for $15 Million for all three. (98% off original price lol). They were, and likely still are, sitting tied up in Alexandria, Egypt. They were last owned by the Egyptian Government.
At least one of them was essentially unchanged inside since the 1990s. (a Nanaimo Bar for $1.5!)
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding

After a full day of sessions, come relax and connect with fellow attendees at our Get-Together on 16 June, generously sponsored by our partner Search Guard. Enjoy tasty food, drinks, and live music – a fantastic opportunity to meet new people and catch up with familiar faces.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwo…

Saints WR Chris Olave 'not worried' after 'unlucky' concussions https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-wr-chris-olave-not-worried-after-unlucky-concussions

Hardware Accelerated Neural Block Texture Compression with Cooperative Vectors
Belcour Laurent, Benyoub Anis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06040 https://

Hardware Accelerated Neural Block Texture Compression with Cooperative Vectors
In this work, we present an extension to the neural texture compression method of Weinreich and colleagues [2024]. Like them, we leverage existing block compression methods which permit to use hardware texture filtering to store a neural representation of physically-based rendering (PBR) texture sets (including albedo, normal maps, roughness, etc.). However, we show that low dynamic range block compression formats still make the solution viable. Thanks to this, we show that we can achieve highe…

#Satellitendaten zeigen einen Rückgang von 22 % bei 16 #Kaiserpinguin-Kolonien in Teilen der #Antarktis zwischen 2009 und 2024.
Hauptursache ist der Verlust stabiler

Emperor penguins show dramatic decline in one region of Antarctica, satellite photos show
WASHINGTON — The population of emperor penguins in one part of Antarctica appears to be declining faster than previously thought, according to a new analysis of satellite imagery released Tuesday

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 …

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.

Small update to my log store build - had a bit of a disaster!
https://www.simoncox.com/post/2024-05-28-log-store-build/#step-12

Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
Simone Daniotti, Johannes Wachs, Xiangnan Feng, Frank Neffke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08945

Who is using AI to code? Global diffusion and impact of generative AI
Generative coding tools promise big productivity gains, but uneven uptake could widen skill and income gaps. We train a neural classifier to spot AI-generated Python functions in 80 million GitHub commits (2018-2024) by 200,000 developers and track how fast--and where--these tools take hold. By December 2024, AI wrote an estimated 30.1% of Python functions from U.S. contributors, versus 24.3% in Germany, 23.2% in France, 21.6% in India, 15.4% in Russia and 11.7% in China. Newer GitHub users use…

Generative AI enterprise search startup Glean raises a $150M Series F led by Wellington Management, bringing its valuation to $7.2B, up from $4.6B in Sept. 2024 (Afshan Musani/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/10/glean-gen-ai…

Glean, gen AI enterprise search startup, raises $150 million in deal adding billions to valuation
Glean, a generative AI enterprise search startup, raised $150 million from investors in a deal that increased its valuation to over $7 billion.

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cognitive-decline-cover-up?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web “The reality is that Biden was old but governed normally. Trump governs erratically because he’s unglued.”

The real cover-up is of Trump's disordered mental state
Sanewashing didn't end with the 2024 campaign.

With Aaron Rodgers, how will Steelers' offense change? OC Arthur Smith says team's attack is less 'obvious'

https://www.cbssports.co…

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…

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

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 …

Yikes, there is always so much infosec news but Metacurity helps a lot with the overload.
Check out today's issue for the cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Cyber insurance premiums dropped for the first time in 2024,
--CyberAv3ngers shift to psychological manipulation,
--Another hacker hits Paraguay,
--50% of ransomware payments are less than expected,
--Pro-Russian group was reportedly behind Norwegian dam hack,
--UK 2025 …

Cyber insurance premiums dropped for the first time in 2024
CyberAv3ngers shift to psychological manipulation, Another hacker hits Paraguay, 50% of ransomware payments are less than expected, Pro-Russian group was reportedly behind Norwegian dam hack, UK 2025 strategy calls for stronger cyber capabilities, Hackers abuse Trezor's support form, much more

Went ahead and wrote up a quick post about Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, Linux, HOTAS, and `udev` which explains how to get everything working and running under Linux.
https://blog.jamesthebard.net/posts/microsoft-flight-simulator/

"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 […]

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?

Microsoft finally ships controversial Windows 11 'Recall' feature after year-long delay — now rolling out to all Copilot PCs
https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/windows-recall-general-availabilit…

Browns WR Johnson hoping to change 'narrative' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45493241/browns-wr-johnson-form-hopes-change-narrative

Law enforcement remains perplexed at the support surrounding
Luigi Mangione.
But advocates, both old and new, say they should have seen it coming.
Dec. 4, 2024
Brian Thompson’s shocking early-morning murder on the streets of downtown Manhattan spread like wildfire on social media.
Security footage captured a hooded assailant raising a silenced pistol and firing off rounds at the 50-year-old UnitedHealthcare CEO as he walked along West 54th Street towards the Ne…

Back with Saleh, Huff revitalized after '24 setback https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45494731/back-saleh-niners-huff-revitalized-24-setback

Asymptotic potential of a rose-shaped disk
Alina E. Sagaydak, Zurab K. Silagadze
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10375 https://arxiv.org/p…

Asymptotic potential of a rose-shaped disk
Based on extensive numerical evidence, a recent paper (Sheng Chen et al., Eur. J. Phys. {\bf 45} (2024), 045703) suggested that the potential of a uniformly charged rose-shaped disk in the plane of the disk has a simple asymptotic form. We present an analytical proof of this interesting conjecture.

"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

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.

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

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news…

Kurzes Erinnern an ein schweres 2024 – seitdem geht's wieder vorwärts. 💪🏻

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 …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Leon Bridges:
🎵 River
#LeonBridges
https://catzndogz.bandcamp.com/track/leon-bridges-river-catz-n-dogz-2024-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/3hhbDnFUb2bicI2df6VurK

Mitigation of the Flexing-Filtering Effect in Time-Delay Interferometry
Shivani Harer, Martin Staab, Hubert Halloin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04316 https:…

Mitigation of the Flexing-Filtering Effect in Time-Delay Interferometry
In early 2024, ESA formally adopted the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) space mission with the aim of measuring gravitational waves emitted in the millihertz range. The constellation employs three spacecraft that exchange laser beams to form interferometric measurements over a distance of 2.5 million kilometers. The measurements will then be telemetered down to Earth at a lower sampling frequency. Anti-aliasing filters will be used on board to limit spectral folding of out-of-band las…

SPARSE-PIVOT: Dynamic correlation clustering for node insertions
Mina Dalirrooyfard, Konstantin Makarychev, Slobodan Mitrovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01830

SPARSE-PIVOT: Dynamic correlation clustering for node insertions
We present a new Correlation Clustering algorithm for a dynamic setting where nodes are added one at a time. In this model, proposed by Cohen-Addad, Lattanzi, Maggiori, and Parotsidis (ICML 2024), the algorithm uses database queries to access the input graph and updates the clustering as each new node is added. Our algorithm has the amortized update time of $O_ε(\log^{O(1)}(n))$. Its approximation factor is $20+\varepsilon$, which is a substantial improvement over the approximation factor of t…

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.

Top U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets — Q1 2025
"As was the case during 2024, the top rent growth markets to start 2025 represented several regions, all with varying strengths and characteristics."

Top U.S. Multifamily Rent Growth Markets Q1 2025 - Arbor Realty
The U.S. multifamily sector finished 2024 with the wind at its sails, as the market settled into a more normalized cycle with emerging opportunities. The sector’s resilience stood out during the year, amid a shifting economic landscape and volatile interest rate environment.

Krispy Kreme: Over 160,000 people had data stolen during November 2024 cyberattack https://therecord.media/krispy-kreme-reports-data-breach-from-2024-attack

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…

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 …

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…

Morning Darkness – an #improv #poem
https://

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

Sources: Elon Musk engaged in intense drug use during the 2024 presidential campaign, as he juggled the messy consequences of efforts to produce more babies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon

Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump’s Campaign Trail
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02271 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Prediction of the SVOM MXT camera end of life spectral performance based onproton irradiation results
SVOM, the Space-based Variable astronomical Object Monitor, launched on June 22nd 2024, is a Chinese-French mission focused on exploring the brightest phenomena in the cosmos - Gamma-Ray Bursts. Among the four instruments on board is the Micro-channel X-ray Telescope (MXT). The MXT camera features a 256x256 pixel pnCCD detector to perform X-ray imaging and spectroscopy in the 0.2-10 keV energy range. Cruising in a low-Earth orbit (600 km) that crosses the South Atlantic Anomaly, the MXT focal p…

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

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

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 …

Response to comment on Mutualism weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
Camille Delavaux, Thomas Crowther, James Bever, Evan Gora
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21006

Response to comment on Mutualism weaken the latitudinal diversity gradient among oceanic islands
In our original paper (Delavaux et al. 2024; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07110-y), we find that the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG) in plant species richness is reduced on oceanic islands worldwide. Moreover, we find that plants that associate with mutualists, including pollinators, AM fungi, and N-fixing bacteria, disproportionately contribute to this reduction. To make this assertion, we fit models of continental diversity to absolute latitude and compared mainland diversi…

from my link log —
Prequal: Load is not what you should balance.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi24/presentation/wydrowski
saved 2024-12-15

Assignment of collision-induced four-level double-resonance transitions in the 3${\nu}$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ ${\nu}$${_3}$ spectral region of methane
Kevin K. Lehmann, Isak Silander, Adrian Hj\"alt\'en, Michael Rey, Aleksandra Foltynowicz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13644

Assignment of collision-induced four-level double-resonance transitions in the 3$ν$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ $ν$${_3}$ spectral region of methane
Optical-optical double-resonance (OODR) spectroscopy using a narrow-linewidth pump and a frequency comb probe has previously been used to measure and assign sub-Doppler transitions in the 3$ν$${_3}$ ${\Leftarrow}$ $ν$${_3}$ spectral region [J. Chem. Phys. 161, 124311 (2024)] when pumping from the J = (7, A${_2}$) ground state. Doppler-broadened double-resonance transitions were also observed in those OODR spectra. In this paper, 68 of these Doppler-broadened transitions are assigned to four-l…

Self-driving simulation software maker Applied Intuition raised $600M co-led by BlackRock and Kleiner Perkins at a $15B valuation, up from $6B in March 2024 (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Josh Kesselman, founder of rolling paper brand Raw, acquires High Times magazine for $3.5M, after its private equity owner failed to make loan payments in 2024 (Emmett Lindner/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/business/high-times-mag…

New Owner for High Times Magazine Bets on a Counterculture Comeback
The anti-establishment magazine, which was taken over by a private equity firm in 2017, was purchased this week by an avid fan and reader for $3.5 million.

'Ninja with the smoke bombs' and 'Harry Potter': Nicknames help bond Saints WRs https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45569031/new-orleans-saints-wide-receivers-camaraderie-2025-season

Sherman charged with DUI following '24 arrest https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45533363/richard-sherman-charged-dui-stemming-2024-arrest

NFLPA surprise: This rookie QB beat out Travis Kelce to become NFL's top royalty earner in 2024, per report

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Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles calls off 100-meter race against Dolphins' Tyreek Hill for 'personal reasons'

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