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Ultradroite : figures de la mouvance, fichés S… Ce que l’on sait des interpellations Š Paris - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/ultradroite-fig…

At Rootstech, Family Search suggested that icons like Shirley Temple and Winston Churchill are distant cousins. I'm skeptical about some of these connections, but the provided links are invaluable for furthering my research. #genealogy

At Rootstech, Family Search linked me to icons like Shirley Temple and Winston Churchill, suggesting we're distant cousins. I'm skeptical about the precision of some of these familial ties, but the provided links are invaluable for furthering my research. They're kind of fun to consider, too.
#genealogy

Stunning artworks have been uncovered in a new excavation at #Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried in an eruption from Mount Vesuvius in AD79.
Archaeologists say the #frescos are among the finest to be found in the ruins of the ancient site.
Mythical Greek figures such as Helen of Troy are depicted on the h…

From Bill McKibben
new figures last week showed that atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide—reached new all-time highs last year.
The global surface concentration of CO2, averaged across all 12 months of 2023, was 419.3 parts per million (ppm), an increase of 2.8 ppm during the year. This was the 12th consecutive year CO2 increased by more than 2 ppm,

I love that some of Spain’s main railway stations have been given names honouring Spanish female authors, journalists, philosophers etc. Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Gardens, Madrid-Chamartin-Clara Campoamor, Mšlaga-Maria Zambrano. Are there more? Better than mythical figures (saints).
But still. From a usability POV such complex names are horrible. Parts of the name can be left out or abbreviated. Could easily confuse an unaware traveler, especially a foreigner.

#PaulManafort ... He's back! Pale & Pardoned, The Loyal #TrumpWorld vet is again orbiting the #RNC , consulting Guatemalan political figures and denying ties to

O.J. Simpson dies of cancer at 76, family announces https://theathletic.com/5408392/2024/04/11/oj-simpson-death-cancer/

The author of the following article, a professor of statistics, computes the cumulative deaths in Gaza over 15 days and claims it "is increasing with almost metronomical linearity”, and hence “this regularity is almost surely not real.”
https://www.tabletmag…

Spire 🦋♾️🔼
Dramatized scifi series | Something strange is going on in Spire. After the death of one of the city’s most important figures, change is in the air. But when two inhabitants of the city find themselves swapping places back and forth, they realise just how curious Spire is. And exactly how deep do...
https://www.th…

Tonight's #earworm dump. This evokes memories of a shitty concrete road council estate in late 70s Harlow Newtown so well for me that it almost hurts. (No cuddling girls though, my age was barely into double figures.)
#TheJam #year1978

Actual child marriage is really quite rare. Sometimes media outlets skew the figures to get shock value for their headline. Like they count 16 and 17 year olds as children and they account for like 98% of all the "child" brides.

Raiders remain interested in re-signing offensive star https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_remain_interested_in_re_signing_offensive_star/s1_14819_39948105

Ismail Prada: “When Machine Meets Scribe: NLP and the Historical Land Records of Basel.” A report on his PhD work in the context of the SNSF project “Economies of Space“ https://data.snf.ch/grants/grant/208093 (happy to be a partner of this project co-lead by Lucas Burkart and

From Bill McKibben
new figures last week showed that atmospheric levels of the three main greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide—reached new all-time highs last year.
The global surface concentration of CO2, averaged across all 12 months of 2023, was 419.3 parts per million (ppm), an increase of 2.8 ppm during the year. This was the 12th consecutive year CO2 increased by more than 2 ppm,

Israeli spokesperson appears to know how many terrorists have been killed but evades questions about how many civilians killed.
#israel #palestine #gaza

Figures @… would be right and that it was my HDMI switcher setup that was causing issues. Don't tell him that he was right. Don't want it going to his head. LOL!

AfD links with far-right extremists #germany #afd

>"These figures are clearly not scientifically correct, but if such botched illustrations can pass peer review so easily, more realistic-looking AI-generated figures have likely already infiltrated the scientific literature."
The rat with the big balls and the enormous penis – how Frontiers published a paper with botched AI-generated images – Science Integrity Digest

98 Ukrainian cultural figures killed amidst Russian full-scale war in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/19/ukrainian-cultural-figures.html

Daily pic of #Brisbane

I’m sure it means nothing to a guy who already blew 11 figures to platform hate speech, but had he not already shut down Twitter’s Australian operations in a huff, then maybe he’d have a lawyer to advise the outcome of mansplaining civil rights SovCit-style to the Australian government. https://gra…

O.J. Simpson dies of cancer at 76, family announces https://theathletic.com/5408392/2024/04/11/oj-simpson-death-cancer/

Marge going medieval on everybody's ass:
Conspiracy theorists think 2024 solar eclipse is a 'sign from God'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/04/08/2024-solar-eclipse-conspiracy-theories/

"We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices
Columbia College Student Council
The past two weeks have been tumultuous, marked with mass arrests of student demonstrators, an encampment on our lawns, national media attention and vile acts of hatred. Countless have spoken on our behalf. But by speaking over us, media outlets and politicians have created a distorted narrative – one which unfairly characterizes our community."

Venkatesh Potluri gives a data-driven survey of the accessibility of Jupyter notebooks sampled from the wild (tl;dr: poor!) and an insightful analysis of factors preventing accessibility from being realized, including a proposal for exposing alt text for figures. #PyCascades

Ramona Kühn is presenting the current state of ontologies for rhetorical figures, "Status Quo der Entwicklungen von Ontologien Rhetorischer Figuren in Englisch, Deutsch und Serbisch".
GRhOOT ontology: https://github.com/kuehnram/GRhOOT-Ontology
GRhOOT ACL pap…

Former TV news executives and others criticize Ofcom for allowing GB News to violate broadcasting impartiality rules by dragging its feet with investigations (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb

"‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns"
#UN #UnitedNations #Climate #ClimateChange

Conjugate operators for transparent, explorable research outputs
Joseph Bond, Cristina David, Minh Nguyen, Dominic Orchard, Roly Perera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04403

In case you missed it, go read this investigation into stolen and trafficked artifacts making their way to the Met by @… (from 2023):

#WordWeavers April 7: What conflicts (internal and/or external, subtle or grand) are important in your story?
Can I count mysteries as a type of conflict? My story features a lot of them. Even in-universe, they're important. The Duplicator is racing to uncover what he believes to be a massive conspiracy, and if he's right, there are forces working to make sure no one figures it out.…

I spent way too much time on this today, but I had the half-finished thing lying around and had to do something about it...
I dislike #Pandoc’s implicit_figures extension, so I wrote a Lua filter for explicitly creating figures.
https://…

>"These figures are clearly not scientifically correct, but if such botched illustrations can pass peer review so easily, more realistic-looking AI-generated figures have likely already infiltrated the scientific literature."
The rat with the big balls and the enormous penis – how Frontiers published a paper with botched AI-generated images – Science Integrity Digest

Renewable energy passes 30% of world’s electricity supply
Renewable energy accounted for more than 30% of the world’s electricity for the first time last year
following a rapid rise in wind and solar power, according to new figures.
A report on the global power system has found that the world may be on the brink of driving down fossil fuel generation,
even as overall demand for electricity continues to rise.
Clean electricity has already helped to slow the growt…

wow; 'CS of S. elongatus PCC 7942 assembles into Sierpiński triangles:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07287-2/figures/1
(via HN)

Munich Security Conference - Key Takeaways from Ukrainian MPs. Ukraine in Flames #582: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/07/munich-security-conference.html

We Columbia University students urge you to listen to our voices | Columbia College Student Council | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/04/columbia-university-student-protest-gaza

If some dictator ever figures out how susceptible Americans are to conspiracy theories and belief in lies over facts we're in trouble.
Oh, nevermind. Too late.

GOV.UK publishes a rich web version of the Budget (with hyperlinked footnotes and SVG figures) but still emphasises the PDF version. (Because there's no image thumbnail?)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/spring-budget-2024

SciCapenter: Supporting Caption Composition for Scientific Figures with Machine-Generated Captions and Ratings
Ting-Yao Hsu, Chieh-Yang Huang, Shih-Hong Huang, Ryan Rossi, Sungchul Kim, Tong Yu, C. Lee Giles, Ting-Hao K. Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17784

Time For 9 o'clock #HashTagGames hosted by @…
Sometimes there are better or worse people to play roles in sitcoms. Let's play!
#FamousPeoplePlayingSitcomRoles
#HashTagGames
How to play: Write something, Use the HashTag, Toot/Post and Repeat!
Hint: Take a famous person and case them as the actor playing the part. For example, Thomas Jefferson playing George Constanza. Can be anyone. Actor, politicians, musicians, historical figures, etc.

Ramona Kühn is presenting the current state of ontologies for rhetorical figures, "Status Quo der Entwicklungen von Ontologien Rhetorischer Figuren in Englisch, Deutsch und Serbisch".
GRhOOT ontology: https://github.com/kuehnram/GRhOOT-Ontology
GRhOOT ACL pap…

D26,556 - issued in 1897 for a design for a "clock case." #DesignPatents

As Media Matters reports, it didn’t take long for the reich-wing media ecosystem to begin flooding the zone with #disinformation about the Key bridge.
Insane #Republicans are insinuating that everything from diversity to terrorism to “WW3” is to blame for the bridge accident.
…

'Authoritarian propaganda campaigns' around the world' have one major goal: analysis - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-autocrats-applebaum/

sewage into rivers & sea
I'd like there to be a law where water companies aren't allowed to distribute any profits or dividends or whatever until all their sewage is being correctly treated. Until then, all that money should be getting spent on sorting out the system which isn't yet working adequately.
It can't count as "profit" if they haven't actually even done the job!
#sewage #UK

Using data to make decisions is important to effective #management But using data goes far beyond math. To make judgements we need to understand the source of data. We need to understand the potential weaknesses in the data. We need to understand how to apply statistical thinking to make decisions using the data.
The data gathered are a result of the system. If the system creates fear amo…

Increasing number of military figures speaking out for peace.
(in Spanish)
Crece el número de militares que se movilizan en favor de la Paz – Rebelion
https://rebelion.org/crece-el-numero-de-militares-que-se-movilizan-en-favor-de-la…

"As a letter signed by more than 900 people, described as Hollywood 'creatives and professionals,' and published Monday made clear: The very word 'occupation' was off limits... The letter is extraordinary in the sheer extent of its denialism. 'Israel is not targeting civilians. It is targeting Hamas,' the authors wrote. Unmentioned, however, is that Israeli forces have killed over 31,000 people, including 13,000 children, decimated every form of civilian infrastr…

For #ThingThursday here’s a wooden folding ruler which belongs to my partner, but I love it and often make excuses to borrow it. I used to have a big metal ruler on my desk, but that always got in the way. https://www.…

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War ★★★★★★★★★★ #TurningPointTheBombAndTheColdWar

‘Honest and brave’: progressive Jewish figures defend Jonathan Glazer speech https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/mar/20/jonathan-glazer-speech-jewish-groups-defense?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

FFS. 'For every £1 earned by men working in the arts, museums and libraries, women are paid 85p, figures show' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/women-are-all-over-the-big-screen-but-pay-gap-persists-in…

"On social media, negative messages are far more likely to be shared than positive ones, especially from public figures." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/complaining-grievance-stoicism-happiness/677521/

One of the #DFO advisory groups I have been involved with has finally published the findings from the National Dreissena (Zebra and Quagga Mussel) risk assessment for #Canada (model includes US as well). This was a Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (

"As Harp climbed higher within American industry, the paradigm started to shift. Senior figures within other companies began to resent her presence at the top of the tech pyramid. What had begun as an unthreatening story of two housewives running an odd little business became one instead of two women successfully building and expanding their empire. (…)"

@…

Yeah, it’s not obvious how to relate all the figures to one another. The article you shared says ”Around 2.4% of global CO2 emissions come from aviation” which is consistent with the data in the article I linked to as well.

I’ve not seen a ”percentage of global warming” figure for the IT industry but when it co…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16811 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

If some dictator ever figures out how susceptible Americans are to conspiracy theories and belief in lies over facts we're in trouble.
Oh, nevermind. Too late.

“Victory” threat: how the Kremlin is preparing for revenge in Moldova Written by Anton Khimiak, UCMC/HWAG analyst On April 21, 2024, a meeting of pro-Russian opposition figures of Moldova was held in Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/pogrozy-peremog…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- New Generation Thinkers 2023
Isabella Rosner's essay describes wax figures covered in Spitalfields silk, set in scenes adorned with glitter of mica flakes and vibrantly coloured embroidery by Quaker girls.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001xfl4

If Trump wins, he’ll be a vessel for the most regressive figures in US politics
#CPAC is a harbinger of what a second #Trump presidency would bring,
influenced by a consortium of self-proclaimed #Christian

Anybody have any docs or performance figures for how much CPU is "enough" for routing/firewalling a given amount of bandwidth?
My current core router (Debian box with an i3-4160 and a dual 10G NIC plus some 1G interfaces) is getting long in the tooth and doesn't have enough PCIe lanes to add all the stuff I want, so I'm planning its retirement some time later this year.
I'm targeting ~10 year lifetimes for new builds at this point, so it needs to have the oo…

Works in progress at the Benalla Street Art Festival. Today is supposed to be the last day but some artists have a way to go #StreetArt

Good Morning #Canada
When I read the names of French historical figures, in my head it sounds overly comical and very Monty-Python-ish. But that shouldn't dimish the legacy of Pierre Dugua de Mons, who in June of 1604 established the first permanent settlement in Canada, on St. Croix Island in Nova Scotia. He was also responsible for settlements in Port Royal and Quebec City.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Explorers #History
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/pierre-du-gua-de-monts

Edmonia Lewis is one of the most fascinating figures of the 19th century: a Black and Indigenous woman who was also a successful sculptor in a time when any of those three qualities would have been a hindrance. Our museum has been planning an exhibition of her work for some time now, and we just received a Terra grant for $75,000 that should help kick that research into high gear.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.09914 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

#GiftLink 🎁
#Trump’s ‘#FakeElectors’ Scheme Detailed in Newly Released Messages - The New York Times

#Covid #Influenza
Ongoing pandemic, update:
The burden of disease by Covid is much higher than the burden by influenza, as evident by UKHSA/NHS SARI Watch data.
Note the scale on the ICU/HDU figures.
Sources:
@jneill on Twitter

Raiders sign free agent WR Jalen Guyton https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/raiders_sign_free_agent_wr_jalen_guyton/s1_17049_40330880

There's a trolley problem party game.
Academic parties will never be the same.
#AcademicChatter #Ethics #Philosophy

A Republican organization opposed to Donald Trump slammed conservative figures who recognize the danger posed by the former president but plan to vote for him anyway.
The video from Republican Voters Against Trump is an update of a 2022 spot from the organization that resembles the old ASPCA ads featuring singer Sarah McLachlan.
Instead of urging viewers to help save animals, the spokesperson here warns of prominent Trump supporters suffering from
“partisan derangement sy…

For #ThingThursday here’s a wooden folding ruler which belongs to my partner, but I love it and often make excuses to borrow it. I used to have a big metal ruler on my desk, but that always got in the way. https://www.…

The end of #search as we know it:
"By the end of 2023, 48% of the most widely used news websites across 10 countries were blocking OpenAI’s crawlers. A smaller number, 24%, were blocking Google’s AI crawler.
The proportion of news websites that blocked OpenAI varied by country, ranging from 79% in the USA to just 20% in Mexico & Poland. For Google, the figures ranged from 60% in Ge…

"'The #Gruffalo' does not go down well at the conspiracy theorist book club", #TomGauld knows. :)

He'll make the announcement at 10.00 am BST. Elsewhere I read that his party expects him to resign.
It's part of a widespread approach by the far right to spread unfounded lies about left and centre left political figures.
Spanish opposition step up #Sánchez attacks as PM decides on his future | Spain | The Guardian

I've seen talk on here suggesting @… does not actually care about LGBTQ issues, largely citing her interview with Chaya Raichik from Libs of TikTok - but that interview was in fact largely praised for being an exposé of sorts. Back in my early days of documentary, I interviewed public figures, politicians, and yes even fascists with the intention o…

Judge Jenkins grants sanctions against attorney Patrick Jones and his former client, Expiditee (#Xped) for misconduct in a #ScheduleA case:

Kremlin Shady Horse Ilan Șor: The main voice of Russia in Moldovan politics The project “Shady Horses” delves into investigating Russian propaganda dissemination within Western countries through promi Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/kremlin-shady-

In 2019, when Britain’s Labour Party pledged to review the country’s legacy of colonialism, Nigel Farage, then the leader of the Brexit Party (now Reform UK), warned Britons against obsessing “about the past.”
“It was a different world, a different time,” he said.
Months later, as Black Lives Matter protests swept across the Atlantic and amid calls for a reevaluation of revered historical figures with records of racism,
then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson echoed this view. <…

US inflation increases nearly 3% yr to date foretelling unlikelihood of #Fed cutting ever creeping #InterestRates anytime soon as borrowing costs are at a 23-year high.
#Oil prices up 18% this yr, and Govt bond yields falling as …

Incredibly sad to see Prof Ross Anderson has died. I thought it must be a hoax at first, because surely if one of the most towering figures in infosec died it would make the news, and be all over social media? But it appears to be for real. Very, very sad news.
#RossAnderson

ABC report: UK magazines' digital sales rose 15.4% YoY to an average of 2.6M per edition, including 1.2M from "all you can read" sales via Readly and others (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.…

#Trump Donors Include Pair Of #Mafia Figures | The Smoking Gun
https://www.thesmokinggun.com/do…

‘It isn’t acceptable’: Garrick Club remains a bastion of male elitism | Men | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/18/garrick-club-bastion-male-elitism

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11200 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

More than 50,000 citizens considering missing in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/29/more-than-citizens.html

[Maryland Governor Wes] Moore denounces DEI blame for bridge collapse: ‘I have no time for foolishness’ | The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4566162-moore-denounces-dei-blame-for-bridge-c…

Oscar-winning Ukrainian director called on Hollywood figures to use their voices to support Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/14/oscarwinning-ukrainian-director.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.11200 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Belarusian political prisoner reportedly dies in custody: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/20/belarusian-political-prisoner.html

Ukraine races to manufacture weapons at home
Ukrainian officials say they cannot disclose exact figures about their manufacturing output because of security concerns. But a laundry list of constraints — from lacking adequate financing to finding enough gunpowder — is preventing Ukrainian industry from ramping up production.

“Our state budget is not enough,” said Oleksandr Zavitnevych, head of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence in the Ukrainian parliament…

'Legal warfare' threatens Trump’s grasp on multi-billion dollar Truth Social deal: report - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-media-2667567098/

“It can happen again,” Judge Chutkan, who is expected to preside over Donald Trump’s criminal trial for trying to overturn the 2020 election, said Friday.
“Extremism is alive and well in this country. Threats of violence continue unabated.”
Those threats have become normalized in Republican discourse,
with right-wing figures across the country invoking violence and urging their supporters to arm themselves.
The man behind it all, Donald Trump, has yet to face any conse…

William Blake’s imagination is thought to have burned with such intensity that,
when creating his great artworks,
he needed little reference to the physical world.
While drawing historical or mythical figures, for instance, he would wait until the “spirit” appeared in his mind’s eye.
The visions were apparently so detailed that Blake could sketch as if a real person were sitting before him.
Such intense and detailed imaginations are thought to reflect a condit…

Ukrainian Renaissance Challenges ‘Great’ Russian Cultural Narrative In light of the destruction of hundreds of thousands of monuments of Ukrainian culture by the Russian occupying forces, as well as t Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/ukraine-in-flames-599

Shady Horses of Russian Propaganda. Eva Vlaardingerbroek The project “Shady Horses“ delves into investigating Russian propaganda dissemination within Western countries through prominent individuals, o Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/shady-horses-of-russi…