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internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

# Quantum physics reveals there is no such thing as things
There is no such thing as individuality in the quantum realm
Olimpia Lombardi
https://iai.tv/articles/quantum-physics-reveals-there-is-no-such-thing-as-things-auid-3267

Canada’s FinTech industry enters new era as Bank of Canada taps first payment service providers
https://betakit.com/canadas-fintech-industry-enters-new-era-as-bank-of-canada-taps-first-payment-service-providers/…

As Zelensky set to land in Brussels, EU rushes to offset Trump's pressure on Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/22/as-zelensky-set-to-land.html

Security smells in infrastructure as code: a taxonomy update beyond the seven sins
Aicha War, Serge L. B. Nikiema, Jordan Samhi, Jacques Klein, Tegawende F. Bissyande
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18761

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Horses:
🎵 As Long As I Can See The Light
#Horses
https://horseslondon.bandcamp.com/track/as-long-as-i-can-see-the-light
https://open.spotify.com/track/2IgzYgu0Jaz8DFmlyE1j8H

Worth the read:
DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/23/dna-reveals-stone-age-teenager-as-chewer-of-10500-year-old-gum?CMP…

Worth the read:
DNA reveals stone age teenager as chewer of 10,500-year-old ‘gum’
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/23/dna-reveals-stone-age-teenager-as-chewer-of-10500-year-old-gum?CMP…

X's new About This Account feature reveals that some top accounts, including many MAGA influencers, are based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accident…

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls
A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

In case you missed it:
As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
"Neither the embryonic Your Party, nor even the Green Party, provide evidence that their approach, extant or emerging, at this point in time, is adequate to the scale of the existential crisis facing humanity. This could change, and it should be a focus of the small degrowth movement in these islands "

As UK politics turns both right and left, how do we get degrowth onto the agenda?
By Mark H Burton In the series, Prospects for Degrowth The last few weeks have seen two opposing developments in British politics, both in the context of the Starmer Labour government and its failu…

Google hails breakthrough as quantum computer surpasses ability of supercomputers;
Algorithm performed task beyond capability of classical computers, although experts say real-world application still years away
https://www.theguardian…

Bryce Young comes up clutch again as Panthers take control of NFC South race https://www.nfl.com/news/bryce-young-comes-up-clutch-again-as-panthers-take-control-of-nfc-south-race

As beautiful as a sailboat looks. In my eyes it's totally not worth the effort to own one (on lakes in Germany). While I enjoy helping my friends with their boats occasionally ... the amount of maintenance just confirms my bias every time :D

What a surprise! (not)
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dhmkgzkujbf47hh7xmqe4ydx/post/3m6ctjhutas2p

Joe Public 🇨🇦 (@joepublic.bsky.social)
Major accounts on "X" masquerading as “America First” or “MAGA” proponents have been identified as originating in places such as #Russia, #India, and #Nigeria. #xitter #x #twitter #maga https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/

As traditional wine regions grapple with climate change and a decline in drinking, sales of domestic produce are surging in Sweden
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-03/sweden-emerges-as-unlikely-land-of…

"Oh Shit", said the AI, "good you asked me, you're in very deep shit and time is of the essence. What you need to do now *immediately* is:
- increase the share of renewables as much as possible, as quickly as possible.
- build decentralised storage.
- electrify everything.
- stop deforestation, plant trees, renaturalise.
- turn me off."

In an earnings call last night,
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he needs more control over Tesla,
as well as a pay package that could be worth nearly $1 trillion,
in exchange for building a
“robot army.”
Otherwise, he could get ousted as CEO, and then, well, who would control the army?
In a sense, Musk is asking Tesla’s shareholders to vote to approve an enormous payday to insure that he — and he alone — remains in control of the company’s legions of humanoid ro…

Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla’s ‘robot army’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk urged shareholders to approve his massive pay package so he could ensure control over the company’s “robot army.”

I freelanced for @… for 10 years, writing 37 articles/features
They were an amazing team, interested in global #justice, #labor, &

As Equal Times closes, the work continues
This is it. Our final article. Equal Times, the global labour news platform, will cease to publish as of December 2025. The website – which was, for more than a decade, an invaluable resource on the realities of work, society, fundamental rights, and more: the victories secured, the innovations introduced, but also the many indignities, injustices and stubborn anachronisms endured – will remain online, but no new content will be added. We launched back in autumn 2012 with a simple mission …

Shedeur Sanders wins his 1st NFL start, Myles Garrett has 3 sacks as Browns beat Raiders 24-10 https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/shedeur-sanders-wins-his-1st-nfl-start-myles-garrett-has-3-sacks-as-browns-beat-…

• Fossil fuels were not mentioned in the key final decision – petrostates including Saudi Arabia and allies fought fiercely to keep that out.
• A commitment to a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels was not part of the formal deal
https://www.theguardian.c…

"Brazil greenlights oil drilling in Amazon as environmentalists raise alarm"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #FossilFuels

So, I have assembly running on the devkit on both arm64 cores.
But I can't run C until I can compile C, and have a C runtime library.
Attempts to build newlib from scratch as a standalone library ended poorly (I got a makefile that did nothing, apparently other people have hit this and I never got a straight answer as to how one builds a naked cross-newlib, not as part of a compiler).
So now I'm trying to build a full aarch64-none-elf toolchain. Wish me luck.

One might think that the maga-klan actually wants these people to destabilize the US....
"Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/22/neo-nazi-terror-the-base

Today I cycled past three young girls (I shall guess in the 10 to 11 age range). As I passed them, one gave a little chuckle and the girl next to her whispered, "Ikke le!" [Don't laugh!]. She said more but I could not make it out, as I was moving away from them. As I got a bit further, one of them half shouted, "Erlend Loe". I ignored it, then they repeated, "Erlend Loe". Finally they shouted "Erlend Loe" a bit louder.

Good Morning #Canada
In July 1871, the City of Victoria officially became the capital of British Columbia, when the province joined the rest of Canada. At the time, the city was larger than Vancouver and had served as the most important settlement in the area for decades. The Colony of Vancouver Island also stamped their little feet and demanded that Victoria be designated as the capital in return for the island to join with the mainland to become part of Canada. Captain James Cook was the first British person to set foot on Vancouver Island in 1778, and in 1843, Fort Victoria was established by the Hudson's Bay Company. There is a long history of Vancouver Island serving as a naval base, and today, Victoria is the home of Canada’s Pacific Coast naval and military headquarters in nearby Esquimalt. Victoria is a top tourist destination and is regularly rated top 5 worldwide as an awesome place to live.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria-bc

Latest update on Trevon Diggs as Cowboys begin preparation for Broncos in Week 7 https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/10/22/latest-update-on-trevon-diggs-as-cowboys-begin-preparation-…

Disability advocates decry Utah guardianship law as 'civil death' | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/disability-advocates-decry-utah-guardianship-law-as-civil-death/

We have a game when we cook something nice of estimating what it would cost if eating out (not that our sometimes wonderful creations would be available).
So we keep finding (on occasional forays out) our prices are too low. E.g. City centre, for 2: 2 plates of indifferent ravioli, a bowl of olives and 2 glasses of wine pre-theatre came to more than £80!
Dining out ‘under pressure’ as Britons cut back due to price rises, says YouGov | Hospitality industry | The Guardian

George Conway to Run as a Democrat for Nadler's Manhattan Seat (Caitlin Reilly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-22/george-conway-to-run-as-a-democrat-for-nadler-s-manhattan-seat
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p59#a251222p59

As US government cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings https://phys.org/news/2025-11-weather-vulnerable-puerto-rico-vital.html

As US government cuts weather forecasting, vulnerable places like Puerto Rico risk losing vital early warnings
Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica in late October, killed dozens in Haiti and forced nearly three-quarters of a million Cubans to evacuate. The death toll across the region is still unknown—but Melissa will go down as one of the strongest storms ever recorded.

Claudia Sheinbaum made history when she became Mexico’s first woman president — and the first of Jewish heritage. But on the night of September 15, she made history again. Standing on the Palacio Nacional balcony, clad in white, royal purple and gold, flanked by an all-female military honor guard and wearing a sash created for her by female military officers, she gripped the bell rope and, as required of the ritual, shouted. Normally soft-spoken and measured, the tone was a shift for the climate scientist, who visibly trembled under the weight of the task, but not as big a shift as what she shouted:
“¡Mexicanas! ¡Mexicanos!”
The inclusion of the feminine “Mexicanas,” and naming them FIRST matters.
#GoodThingsInTheWorld #Mexico #progressive
https://alisav.substack.com/p/she-cried-mexicanas-first

til as recently as 1990 people would routinely fall out from british trains and _die_ and the explanation for this was "well... this is probably their fault... must've been drunk" with _no specific evidence for such_?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJuu86AAbB8

Wow.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mxc7liuon6iq5gzapmmwkq22/post/3lzkmh6jvfk22

Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social)
As President Macron walked down the US street onlookers smiled and even took selfies with him; many of them happy to experience seeing a real president in the United States after months of the demonic autocratic clown show emanating out of the White House.

Iran's president says moving the capital Tehran is now a necessity as the water crisis deepens. That'll be moving 16 million people (metro area) then, almost equal to the entire population of the Netherlands.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202511209098

Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain.

‘Quiet as a whisper’: German firm launches campaign after lift was used in Louvre heist https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/23/german-firm-campaign-lift-louvre-heist-bocker

Podcast: Marisa Kabas on Landing Big Scoops as an Independent Journalist https://www.404media.co/podcast-landing-big-scoops-as-an-with-marisa-kabas/

Pirate archivist group scrapes Spotify's 300TB library, posts free torrents for downloading 86,000,000 tracks — investigation underway as music and metadata hit torrent sites | Tom's Hardware
https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/streaming/pirate-archivist-group-scrapes-spotifys-300tb-library-posts-free-torrents-for-downloading-investigation-underway-as-music-and-metadata-hit-torrent-sites

Hundreds of Arrests as Operation Sentinel Recovers $3m
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/hundreds-arrests-operation/

Hundreds of Arrests as Operation Sentinel Recovers $3m
Operational Sentinel helps to crack down on cybercrime across 19 African countries in a month-long campaign

Joint momenta-coordinates states as pointer states in quantum decoherence
Nomenjanahary Tanjonirina Manampisoa, Ravo Tokiniaina Ranaivoson, Roland Raboanary, Raoelina Andriambololona, Rivo Herivola Manjakamanana Ravelonjato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18206

Joint momenta-coordinates states as pointer states in quantum decoherence
Quantum decoherence provides a framework to study the emergence of classicality from quantum system by showing how interactions with the environments suppress interferences and select robust states known as pointer states. Earlier studies have linked Gaussian coherent states with pointer states. More recently, it was conjectured that more general quantum states called joint momenta-coordinates states could also be considered as more suitable candidates to be pointer states. These states are ass…

I do wish the media would stop confusing ebikes with motorbikes that have an electric motor. The first bike photo in this story is obviously a motorbike with a throttle
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-23/e-bike-safety-program-takes-off…

E-bike injuries involving children rise as schools look to safety course solution
E-bikes have become a regular sight in Sydney's coastal suburbs. Their surge in popularity among school-aged children has been matched by a rise in injuries.

I haven't tested AI tools as extensively as this guy has but in my experience he is totally right.
And some of the comments are gold as well :D
#AI

Per replies, something I need to clarify:
We often use the word “neurotypical” to mean “neither autistic nor ADHD.” That might be useful as a shorthand, I guess, but it’s that mode of thought I’m specifically arguing against here: creating a single catch-all category defined as a negative, calling it “normal,” and assuming that it fits most people.
That doesn’t stand up to empirical scrutiny, and I don’t think it’s particularly healthy or helpful.
11/

🔥 Russia legitimizes aggression as protection against NATO #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/22/russia-legitimizes-aggression-as-protection.html

I'm building webkit-gtk right now. It's one of these messy packages where a few source files need a lot of memory to compile, and ninja can randomly order jobs so that all of them suddenly start compiling simultaneously. So to keep things going smoothly without OOM-ing, I've been dynamically adjusting the available job count via steve the #jobserver.
While doing that, I've noticed that ninja isn't taking new jobs immediately after I increased the job count. So I've started debugging steve, and couldn't find out anything wrong with it. Finally, I've looked into ninja and realized how lazy their code is.
So, there are two main approaches to acquiring job tokens. Either you do blocking reads, and therefore wait for a token to become available, or you use polling to get noticed when it becomes available. Ninja instead does non-blocking reads, and if there are no more tokens available… it waits till one of its own jobs finish.
This roughly means that as other processes release tokens, ninja won't take them until one of its own jobs finish. And if ninja didn't manage to acquire any job tokens to begin with, it is just running a single process via implicit slot, and that process finishing provides it with the only chance to acquire additional tokens. So realistically speaking, as long as there are other build jobs running in parallel, ninja is going to need to be incredibly lucky to ever get a job token, since all other processes will grab the available tokens immediately.
This isn't something that steve can fix.
#Gentoo #NinjaBuild

China is racing ahead of the rest of the world in the adoption of robovans, despite limitations like slow speeds; Neolix has deployed 10,000 robovans so far (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

China races ahead in robovans even as autonomous delivery challenges remain
Neolix says it has deployed 10,000 of the self-driving vehicles in industry milestone

Mark Sanchez 'still recovering' from stab wound, trial date set as ex-NFL QB faces felony charge

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/mark-sa

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back;
Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/22/neo-nazi-terror-the-base…

Neo-Nazi terror group steps up US operations as FBI pulls back
Online activity shows the Base, headed by alleged Russian asset Rinaldo Nazzaro, sees US and Ukraine as key centers

#Mark #Zuckerberg’s decision to cut off funding to the pro‑immigration group FWD.us
marks a sharp turn away from the high-profile social advocacy that once defined his philanthropy...
even as #MacKenzie

Billionaire philanthropy’s growing divide: Mark Zuckerberg stops funding immigration reform as MacKenzie Scott doubles down on DEI
Two models for tech wealth are emerging, as notable billionaire donors reveal their priorities.

Russia legitimizes its aggression as defense against NATO #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/22/russia-legitimizes-its-aggression-as.html

"Schools told to keep children indoors and flights cancelled as air pollution peaks in Sarajevo"
#Sarajevo #Education

Air pollution is keeping children indoors in Bosnian capital
IQAir has ranked the air quality as “unhealthy".

Colombia will use drones to destroy coca crops as it grapples with record cocaine production | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/colombia-will-use-drones-to-destroy-coca-crops-as-it-grapples-with-record-cocaine-production

Raiders relieve Chip Kelly of duties as offensive coordinator https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-relieve-chip-kelly-of-duties-as-offensive-coordinator

Trump, Lula Seek Meeting in Malaysia as Brazil Eyes Tariff Cut (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/trump-lula-seek-meeting-in-malaysia-as-brazil-eyes-tariff-cut
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p44#a251022p44

🚨 Help Evacuate Joy to Milan 🚨
Folks, I need your help once again. This time, it’s for our very own @…
As you know, Joy has been suffering through genocide and famine in Gaza and still helping others through her work with Gaza Verified. Now she has a chance at freedom as she’s been accepted for a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Milan and w…

Help Joy Evacuate and Study in Europe
My name is Caitlin Townsend. I'm the coordinator of a group of 12 volunteers in 5 countries working together to help Joy (Farah), a 22-year-old Palestinian writer and student of English literature, evacuate from Gaza and continue her education in Europe.

Tracxn: funding for Indian digital lending startups fell to $462M between January and August 2025 from $1.1B a year earlier, after RBI tightened lending norms (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Clock’s ticking for digital lenders as VC funding plunges 50% in 2025
Funding into digital lending startups slumped to $462 million between January and August 2025 from $1.1 billion a year earlier, according to data from market intelligence platform Tracxn. Only around 50 of the 154 fintech deals reported this year involved digital lenders, the data showed.

Wow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…

Books Say NFL Field is 'as Wide Open as We've Seen in a Long Time' https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/books-say-nfl-field-as-wide-open-weve-seen-long-time

hiv_transmission: HIV transmission network (1988-2001)
A set of networks of HIV transmissions between people through sexual, needle-sharing, or social connections, based on combining 8 datasets collected from 1988 to 2001. Metadata includes test results of several diseases, as well as demographic variables such as age, ethnicity, and gender. Networks come in two flavors: egodyads and altdyads. Egodyads are the network among study-participants and their direct partners. Altdyads are the…

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else
If the administration succeeds, almost all people admitted to the U.S. as refugees — as many as 7,000 from a maximum potential pool of 7,500 — could be Afrikaners,
a group not traditionally eligible for the program but one that Donald Trump says has been tyrannized by South Africa’s Black majority.
The remainder may be chosen because of their ability to speak English or their views on “free speech,” peo…

Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else
The Trump administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans as refugees coincides with plans for overall admissions set as low as 7,500.

Naughty or nice? Sorting projected 2025 NFL playoff teams as Super Bowl pretenders or contenders

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

EU convenes emergency summit on Ukraine as Trump's 28-point plan triggers European pushback - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/22/eu-convenes-emergency-summit-on-ukraine-as-trumps-28-point-plan-triggers-european-pushback/

Chinese robovan startup Neolix raised $600M led by UAE-based Stone Venture without disclosing its valuation, ahead of a potential Hong Kong IPO as soon as 2026 (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Chinese robovan startup Neolix raises $600m for tech, product development
UAE investor leads funding round as autonomous delivery race heats up

Raiders relieve Chip Kelly of duties as offensive coordinator https://www.raiders.com/news/raiders-relieve-chip-kelly-of-duties-as-offensive-coordinator

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC mayor by fellow socialist Bernie Sanders, AG Tish James (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/22/us-news/zohran-mamdani-will-be-sworn-in-as-nyc-mayor-by-bernie-sanders-tish-james/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p65#a251222p65

Michail Chkhikvishvili,
a self-described cult leader who called himself “Commander Butcher”,
did not look like a Hollywood vision of a contemporary terrorist,
despite the bizarre, almost made-for-TV extremist actions he planned,
such as having people dressed as Santa Claus hand out poison candies on the streets of New York.
Chkhikvishvili appeared in a Brooklyn court last week as one might find an office IT tech:
close-cropped hair and black-rimmed glasses…

Aaron Rodgers shares his one regret during time with Packers as Steelers QB prepares to face former team

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aaron-r

Trump says Ukraine deal is not ‘final offer’ as officials gather for Geneva summit | Ukraine | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/23/trump-says-ukraine-deal-is-not-final-offer-as-officials-gather-for-geneva-summit

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Trolls (Jack Revell/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-maga-influencers-accidentally-unmasked-as-foreign-actors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251123/p18#a251123p18

4 Raiders remain as Hall of Fame trims list of nominees for 2026 class https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/10/22/4-raiders-remain-as-hall-of-fame-trims-list-of-nomine…

As Tomahawk pressure vanishes, Russia escalating strikes on Ukraine's energy sector, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/as-tomahawk-pressure-vanishes-russia.html

Ukraine could buy up to 150 Gripen fighter jets from Sweden,
paid for using frozen Russian assets,
under a deal agreed on Wednesday.
Ukraine already has US-made F-16 and French-made Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
The Gripen has long been vaunted as more practical for Ukrainian battlefield conditions
– being built, for example, to take off and land on civilian roads as well as runways
so that it can fight from dispersed locations rather than just airfie…

John Harbaugh addresses job security as Ravens' playoff hopes dwindle: 'I try to do the job, not keep the job'

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/john-harbaugh-j…

Maine Senate candidate Platner says tattoo recognized as Nazi symbol has been covered | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/maine-senate-candidate-platner-says-tattoo-recognized-as-nazi-symbol-has-been-covered/

Top Heritage Officials Flee to Mike Pence's Nonprofit as Think Tank Fractures (Josh Dawsey/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/top-heritage-officials-flee-to-mike-pences-nonprofit-as-think-tank-fractures-28765f2b
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p26#a251222p26

HK shares of Chinese short-video app Kuaishou fell as much as 6% to ~$8, lowest since November 21, after the company was hit by a cyberattack on December 22 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

Tetyana Berezhna voted in as new Culture Minister: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/21/tetyana-berezhna-voted-in-as.html

Micah Parsons braces for 'painful' matchup vs. Cowboys' Dak Prescott as Packers star returns to Dallas

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/micah-p

Arts & Sciences Dean says WashU will not sign Trump's higher ed compact as-is (Riley Herron/Student Life)
https://www.studlife.com/news/2025/10/22/arts-sciences-dean-says-washu-will-not-sign-trumps-higher-ed-compact-as-is
http://www.memeorandum.com/251022/p92#a251022p92

Sources: Chinese chipmaker YMTC considers an IPO in China at an up to ~$40B valuation as soon as 2026, in what could be one of China's biggest IPOs in years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/…

kegg_metabolic: Metabolic networks from KEGG (2006)
109 metabolic networks of various species, as extracted from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database in March 2006. Nodes are substances involved in enzymatic reactions present in the organism, and edges represent reactant-product pairs as extracted from the KEGG ligand database and matched against the present enzymes.
This network has 1008 nodes and 2670 edges.
Tags: Biological, Metabolic, Unweighted

Russian attack stalls as Ukraine destroys assault group in Kharkiv border village: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/21/russian-attack-stalls-as-ukraine.html

Ex-Alabama QB AJ McCarron announces bid for lieutenant governor, cites Charlie Kirk shooting as motivation

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f…

As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come.
h…

An Anarchist’s Conviction Offers a Grim Foreshadowing of Trump’s War on the ‘Left’
As the Trump administration ramps up its targeting of left-leaning people and groups, the prosecution and harsh sentencing of Casey Goonan may provide a glimpse of things to come.

How AI can work across scales, from individuals to organizations to economies, like steel and the steam engine before it, as AI arrives as "infinite minds" (Ivan Zhao/@ivanhzhao)
https://x.com/ivanhzhao/status/2003192654545539400

Ivan Zhao (@ivanhzhao) on X
Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds

kegg_metabolic: Metabolic networks from KEGG (2006)
109 metabolic networks of various species, as extracted from the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database in March 2006. Nodes are substances involved in enzymatic reactions present in the organism, and edges represent reactant-product pairs as extracted from the KEGG ligand database and matched against the present enzymes.
This network has 1080 nodes and 3009 edges.
Tags: Biological, Metabolic, Unweighted

The Pentagon partners with xAI to embed the company's frontier AI systems, based on the Grok family of models, directly into GenAI.mil as soon as early 2026 (Bonny Chu/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pentagon-

Pentagon taps Musk's xAI to boost sensitive government workflows, support military operations
Pentagon partners with Elon Musk's xAI to deploy Grok AI across military systems, giving 3 million personnel advanced AI tools by 2026 for sensitive tasks.

Trump calls off San Francisco ‘surge,’
but East Bay braces for action as protests erupt
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-10-23/trump-federal-forces-surge-san-francisco-east-bay

Trump calls off San Francisco 'surge,' but East Bay braces for action as protests erupt
President Trump called off a planned "surge" of federal forces to San Francisco, but officials in the East Bay said they were still gearing up for major immigration enforcement operations in their cities.

board_directors: Norwegian Boards of Directors (2002-2011)
224 networks of the affiliations among board directors due to sitting on common boards of Norwegian public limited companies (as of 5 August 2009), from May 2002 onward, in monthly snapshots through August 2011. Some metadata is included, such as director and company names, city and postal code for companies, and gender for directors. The 'net2m' data are bipartite company-director networks, while the 'net1m' ar…

BofA Securities: Blinkit holds over 50% share of India's quick commerce market, as rivals Zepto and Instamart prioritize profitability over aggressive expansion (Pranav Mukul/The Economic Times)
https://economict…

Blinkit tops quick commerce with over 50% market share, set to gain more: BofA
Blinkit has solidified its dominance in India's quick commerce sector, now commanding over 50% market share, according to BofA Securities. This growth comes as rivals like Zepto and Instamart prioritize profitability over aggressive expansion. With reduced competition and sustained user demand, Blinkit is poised for further gains in net merchandise value and gross merchandise value.

caida_as: CAIDA AS graphs (2004-2007)
A sequence of 122 network snapshots denoting Autonomous System (AS) relationships on the Internet, from 2004-2007, inferred using the Serial-1 method from RouteViews BGP table snapshots and a set of heuristics.
This network has 24078 nodes and 98112 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Google says its Willow quantum chip using a new Quantum Echoes algorithm ran computations 13,000x faster than supercomputers, aiding drug and materials research (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/technology/googles-quantum-computer-…

Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Big Technical Leap
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.

budapest_connectome: Budapest Reference Connectome 3.0
A parameterizable consensus brain graph, derived from connectomes of 477 people, each computed from MRI datasets of the Human Connectome Project. Nodes are brain regions, and edges are weighted by the number of "tracks" that run between two nodes, as well as fiber length, fractional anisotropy and the number of occurrences in each of the 477 individuals.
This network has 1015 nodes and 121755 edges.
Tags: Biol…

Changes to CISA have left some states without support during elections; California said CISA provided little support during the Nov. 4 election on redistricting (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/election-security-…

Changes to the agency that helps secure elections lead to midterm worries
The federal agency that oversees the security of election systems was largely absent from planning before elections this month in several states. That's leading many state election officials to be concerned about how engaged the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will be for next year’s midterms. Officials are citing the shifting priorities of the Trump administration, as well as staffing reductions and budget cut. Some officials say they've begun scrambling to fill the anticipa…

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …