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Ammonium-rich bright areas on #Ceres demonstrate complex chemical activity: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01281-2 -> The discovery of a new ammonium salt on the dwarf planet Ceres confirms a complex chemical activity: https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2024/03/27/the-discovery-of-a-new-ammonium-salt-on-the-dwarf-planet-ceres-confirms-a-complex-chemical-activity/

email_eu: Email network (EU research inst.)
An email network (anonymized) from a large European research institution, collected from October 2003 to May 2005 (18 months). Each node corresponds to an email address, and a directed edge exists between nodes i and j, if i sent at least one message to j.
This network has 265214 nodes and 420045 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted

Well, this is creepy: #LawFedi

The FBI Is Investigating Strange Texts Sent To Women Law Professors
‘Law school isn’t fair for us men anymore, women always outperform us nowadays,’ the anonymous texter said.

Bizarre herbicide regulations in the EU, UK and US mean that a largely safe weedkiller can't be sold but carcinogenic, systemic glyphosate can.
Where's my Brexit dividend?
Ammonium Sulphamate Weed Killer Banned! - Allotment Garden Diary
https://www.al…

TrustRate: A Decentralized Platform for Hijack-Resistant Anonymous Reviews
Rohit Dwivedula, Sriram Sridhar, Sambhav Satija, Muthian Sivathanu, Nishanth Chandran, Divya Gupta, Satya Lokam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18386

TrustRate: A Decentralized Platform for Hijack-Resistant Anonymous Reviews
Reviews and ratings by users form a central component in several widely used products today (e.g., product reviews, ratings of online content, etc.), but today's platforms for managing such reviews are ad-hoc and vulnerable to various forms of tampering and hijack by fake reviews either by bots or motivated paid workers. We define a new metric called 'hijack-resistance' for such review platforms, and then present TrustRate, an end-to-end decentralized, hijack-resistant platform for authentic, a…

Does the EU's proposal to ban cryptocurrency payments to anonymous hosted wallets also pertain to hosted wallets that are not anonymous, e.g. have gone through full AML/KYC checks?
If so then at @… we'd probably have to stop accepting bitcoin payments. I don't like bitcoin but some customers do rely on it to pay so I keep it working for them.

The real problem with anonymity (04 Mar 2024) by @…
https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/04/greater-corporate-fuckward-theory/

Changing policy, X bans the posting of real names of people behind anonymous accounts, after it suspended accounts that unmasked a suspected neo-Nazi cartoonist (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/

Elon Musk’s X bans revealing the names of anonymous users
Elon Musk’s X changed its privacy policy this week to ban users from publishing the real names of people behind anonymous accounts after some users appeared to unmask a pseudonymous cartoonist who drew antisemitic images.

Mitigating Barriers to Public Social Interaction with Meronymous Communication
Nouran Soliman, Hyeonsu B Kang, Matthew Latzke, Jonathan Bragg, Joseph Chee Chang, Amy X. Zhang, David R Karger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17847

Mitigating Barriers to Public Social Interaction with Meronymous Communication
In communities with social hierarchies, fear of judgment can discourage communication. While anonymity may alleviate some social pressure, fully anonymous spaces enable toxic behavior and hide the social context that motivates people to participate and helps them tailor their communication. We explore a design space of meronymous communication, where people can reveal carefully chosen aspects of their identity and also leverage trusted endorsers to gain credibility. We implemented these ideas i…

Does the EU's proposal to ban cryptocurrency payments to anonymous hosted wallets also pertain to hosted wallets that are not anonymous, e.g. have gone through full AML/KYC checks?
If so then at @… we'd probably have to stop accepting bitcoin payments. I don't like bitcoin but some customers do rely on it to pay so I keep it working for them.