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Pam Bondi fires three DOJ prosecutors who were involved in prosecuting January 6 rioters, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bondi-doj-january-6-prosecutors-fired-b2778795.html

Ah, FFOTUS' judicial appointments reach the bottom of the barrel - even Bork was far better as a judge and more ethical.
"Ex-Trump defense lawyer Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official, is picked to be federal judge"
https://ap…

Ex-Trump lawyer Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official, is picked to be federal judge
President Donald Trump says he's nominating his former criminal defense lawyer Emil Bove to become a federal appeals court judge. As a high-ranking Justice Department official, Bove was behind the controversial move to drop the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams as well as some of the agency’s most scrutinized actions since Trump’s return to the White House in January. Trump has picked Bove to fill a vacancy on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which hears cases fro…

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 89209 nodes and 237010 edges.

This week's #ThursDeath is a twofer. Death-doom two piece GRAVE EATER from Wales, UK put out two filthy demos in 2020, one in January and one in September. Not sure which I like more, but they're both chock full of raw, cavernous, growly, sludgy, often slow, plodding riffs and grooves. Even some actual power tools in the last track of the first demo here, 'Powertool Lobotomy'. Hope we se…

Magnetic evolution of complex solar active regions
Shabnam Nikbakhsh, Eija I. Tanskanen, Thomas Hackman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21759 https://

Magnetic evolution of complex solar active regions
Aims. This study investigates the magnetic evolution of solar active regions (ARs), with a particular focus on understanding how the magnetic morphology of simple and complex ARs changes throughout their lifetime. Methods. To analyse the magnetic evolution of ARs, we developed a Magnetic Evolution Method (MEM) that segments each region's lifetime into three phases: growth, main, and recovery. The method was applied to ARs observed between January 1996 and December 2020. Results. We found that c…

Antenna: US SVOD subscriptions grew 11% from March 2024 to March 2025; the average churn rate for premium SVOD services has hovered around 5% since January 2023 (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/antenna-s…

Streaming Enters New Phase Of “More Stable Growth” As Ad Tiers Gain Traction & Subscriber Churn Reduces, Study Says
A new report from data firm Antenna explains why streaming is entering a more stable period of growth after years of volatility

Borrowing on Belief? Consumer Confidence and U.S. Credit -- A VECM Study
Samiha Tariq, Weikang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21832 https://

Borrowing on Belief? Consumer Confidence and U.S. Credit -- A VECM Study
This study explores the interdependent relationship between consumer credit and consumer confidence in the United States using monthly data from January 1978 to August 2024. Utilizing a Vector Error Correction Model (VECM), the analysis focuses on the interplay between household borrowing behaviour and consumer sentiment while controlling for macroeconomic factors such as interest rates, inflation, unemployment, and money supply. The results reveal a stable long-run equilibrium: heightened cons…

A tribute to Albert Hofmann on his 100th birthday, from January 2006.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278300661_A_tribute_to_Albert_Hofman…

My removal from #nasa #nyc continued afoot.
I haven’t said much of it here — but my competitive grant proposals (nasa scientists get funded this way since full cost accounting hit in 2004) have been chosen, but not funded.
There is no grant money to distribute. Folks in the know have seen that - ROSES, the acronym for research opportunities in science, does not have a 2025 call and the 2024 chosen post January 2025 don’t have money getting distributed.
If I cannot get proposals funded I will be in the same situation as every other soft money researcher.
So the soft RIF is coming for me and 1000’s of others.

Arbiter says NFL urged clubs to limit guarantees https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45577695/arbiter-nfl-urged-clubs-limit-guaranteed-deals-collude

I ordered collector's plates for my pickup truck yesterday. They were $40 less than the annual renewal on my hatchback, they never require annual renewal, and they never require emissions checks. The only downside is that I can't drive the pickup truck legally in the month of January (which I already don't) and the vehicle needs to be older than 20 years (it's older). 🤷‍♂️

History keeps repeating, dictators keep pulling each-other's strings.
"In interviews for a book about his Middle East peace efforts, Trump, according to its author, used an expletive to describe the embattled prime minister — “Fuck him,” he reportedly said — and accused Netanyahu of disloyalty."

The “Appeal to Heaven” flag,
a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters,
was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
https://www.wired.com/story/far-right-appeal-to…

Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 3414 nodes and 6574 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

The European Commission has published new requirements for EV charging points. These requirements will make hardware more expensive and add to the complexity of the already opaque pricing landscape for public EV charging. They also lack a focus on true interoperability from a user's perspective.

The delegated act amending the European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) has now been officially published by the European Commission and will apply from 8 January 2026 onwards. | Jaap Burger
The delegated act amending the European Alternative Fuels Infrastructure Regulation (AFIR) has now been officially published by the European Commission and will apply from 8 January 2026 onwards. From this date onwards, all newly installed public EV charging stations will be required to support the outdated EN ISO 15118-2 standard, without specifying the functionality. From January 2027 onwards, all new public and private EV charging points will be required to support EN ISO 15118-20, again wit…

5-Month Forecast: What to watch from Cowboys in December and January https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/5-month-forecast-what-to-watch-from-cowboys-in-december-and-january

Cro Cop was elected to Croatian Parliament on a list for Social Democratic Party of Croatia, where he served one term from 23 December 2003 to 11 January 2008. Here are his positions 👇

100-Day Analysis of USD/IDR Exchange Rate Dynamics Around the 2025 U.S. Presidential Inauguration
Sandy H. S. Herho, Siti N. Kaban, Cahya Nugraha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18738 …

100-Day Analysis of USD/IDR Exchange Rate Dynamics Around the 2025 U.S. Presidential Inauguration
Using a 100-day symmetric window around the January 2025 U.S. presidential inauguration, non-parametric statistical methods with bootstrap resampling (10,000 iterations) analyze distributional properties and anomalies. Results indicate a statistically significant 3.61\% Indonesian rupiah depreciation post-inauguration, with a large effect size (Cliff's Delta $= -0.9224$, CI: $[-0.9727, -0.8571]$). Central tendency shifted markedly, yet volatility remained stable (variance ratio $= 0.9061$, $p =…

If you'd want to protect Democratic (and other non-MAGA) lawmakers, you wouldn't pardon the January 6 thugs.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-lawmakers-targeted-shootings-cham…

South Korea’s New AI Framework Act: A Balancing Act Between Innovation and Regulation
https://fpf.org/blog/south-koreas-new-ai-framework-act-a-balancing-act-between-innovation-and-regulation/

Corbyn and McDonnell face no further action over January 18 Palestine demo | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/corbyn-and-mcdonnell-face-no-further-action-over-january-18-palestine-demo…

In light of the political killings in Minnesota, remember what Trump did, #minnesota

Trump Administration Abandoning Efforts to Combat White Supremacist and Far-Right Terrorism and Violence
Since Trump returned to office in January, several government programs to combat domestic terrorism from white supremacists, militias, and other radicalized far-right extremists have been curtailed or abandoned. Public safety, civil liberties, and national security will suffer.

Sources and docs: Amazon Prime Video ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-doubles-prime-video-ad-load/

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour
The move could lower CPMs but potentially hurt performance.

Since #January, it's essentially been a constant "we're focused on breaking news in the #US so not interested in #global stories" from editors.

"When the Trump regime took over in January and Elon Musk's data-raiders started hacking federal agencies of various kinds, a group chat in which I participate started speculating about what kinds of terrible things this crowd might do. One member of the group wondered if the hacking might include the Social Security Administration's "death master file" – a list of people, presumably deceased, who would not receive any federal benefits and whose names and other identifying information would be flagged so that financial institutions would refuse to serve them.
What if, the conversation continued, the infamously cruel and paranoid regime decided to add living persons to the death master list? Doing so would destroy people's actual lives – which might make it just what a vicious government would do."
#USPolitics
https://cornerstone.dangillmor.com/essentials-april-12-2025/

Drake Maye marries longtime girlfriend Ann Michael Hudson https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45570191/drake-maye-new-england-patriots-married

The justification that Trump used to claim (illegally) federalize the California National Guard and deploy the marines is from 10 U.S. Code § 252:
> Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
Specifically he's called out the "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States."
Trump cannot legally hold office because of his participation in an insurrection. Trump should have been impeached and removed on day 1 of his first administration based on the Emoluments clause. Trump colluded with Russia to manipulate the election, so even his swearing in was a failure of the US government to "enforce the laws of the United States." The supreme court justices he appointed explictly undermined and continue to "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States," as with all of his appointees. The troops he has federalized remain deployed, even after being declared illegal.
When, then, do we call the entire time since January 20th, 2017 to now an insurrection and his government an illegal assembly? Who will order them to "disperse?"
#NoKingsDay

"Macron says High Seas Treaty could take effect from January after surge in support at ocean summit"
#Oceans #Environment

UN urges countries to ratify landmark High Seas Treaty
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged world leaders to ratify the treaty, warning that fishing, plastic pollution and rising sea temperatures were destroying ocean ecosystems.

Western Meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta, on the trailside fencing at Asilomar State Beach back in January
#naturalist #wildlife #photography

😡
#USpol

Sorry to miss it in person and that I cannot stay for the panels on: teacher, gender, inclusion, decolonisation, and future action. Lovely to see and hear so many wonderful colleagues even from a distance.
My fun memory was the cartoon by the talented (then PhD student) Kalifa Damani during my talk on silent exclusion at the REAL Centre in January 2020 before the world shut, and many fun moments with Pauline Rose over the years.
Congratulations! The achievements are remarkable.

Cybersec information overload got you down? Then don't miss today's Metacurity for a concise run-down of the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--1,000 CISA employees have decamped from the agency since January
--Victoria's Secret postpones earnings release after cyberattack,
--New security fixes for Qualcomm chips,
--AFP nabs nearly two dozen in sextortion sting,
--Marriott can't be sued for breach,
--Trump dumps …

1,000 CISA employees have left the agency since January
Victoria's Secret postpones earnings release after cyberattack, New security fixes for Qualcomm chips, AFP nabs nearly two dozen in sextortion sting, Marriott can't be sued for breach, Trump dumps AI Safety Institute, Indian grocery delivery startup wiped out by hack, so much more

Exploring Economic Sectoral Dynamics Through High-resolution Mobility Data
Timothy F Leslie, Hossein Amiri, Andreas Z\"ufle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13985

Exploring Economic Sectoral Dynamics Through High-resolution Mobility Data
We present a comprehensive dataset capturing patterns of human mobility across the United States from January 2019 to January 2023, based on anonymized mobile device data. Aggregated weekly, the dataset reports visits, travel distances, and time spent at public locations organized by economic sector for approximately 12 million Points of Interest (POIs). This resource enables the study of how mobility and economic activity changed over time, particularly during major events such as the COVID-19…

5-Month Forecast: What to watch from Cowboys in December and January https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/5-month-forecast-what-to-watch-from-cowboys-in-december-and-january

Back in January, I signed up for a CSA. I got an email yesterday that the first delivery is going to consist of:
- Green Garlic
- Bok Choy
- Lettuce
- Radishes
- Herb, Dill
- Spinach
- Tokyo Bekana
- Maple Syrup (Drewry Farms)
I'm supposed to go pick up the food but leave the box. I'm not sure how big of a bag to bring, though.
#CSA

As early as 6 January 2021, Donald Darth #Trump demonstrated his intention to overthrow US democracy. Since being elected president for a second time, he has consistently and brutally pursued this goal at the expense of US citizens.
Darth Trump is a #freebooter.

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Millie Turner:
🎵 January
#NowPlaying #MillieTurner
https://open.spotify.com/track/0NWel7MCItXOwPbIWWIWxk

January 6th, early morning Finnish time, there was quite a few people on Freeciv forums. No idea why. Some media coverage that we are unaware of? Or just a bot attack of some sort?

Minnesota political assassin
57-year-old Vance Boelter,
was twice appointed to the nonpartisan Governor’s Workforce Development Council

-- in 2016 under former Gov. Mark Dayton
and again in 2019 under Gov. Tim Walz.
His most recent term expired in January 2023.

57-year-old suspect sought in targeted shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers
Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.

"Simultaneously to Steve Jobs’s introduction of the iPhone in January 2007, Google started publishing a series of blog posts called “Testing on the Toilet”. On May 15th, 2008, this series featured a famous issue: “TotT: Using Dependancy Injection to Avoid Singletons.” The writing was literally on the wall of toilets worldwide: Singletons are bad™®©. Sadly, the much more exciting idea of dependency injection contained in the article got lost in the minds of most readers."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-hype-cycle-of-oop/

Is posting wrong AI answers still a thing, or do we all just accept they're making stuff up? #ai #googlesearch #aioverview
I mean, just note that the first and last sentence are clearly contradicting each other.

Dynamic Grid Trading Strategy: From Zero Expectation to Market Outperformance
Kai-Yuan Chen, Kai-Hsin Chen, Jyh-Shing Roger Jang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11921

Dynamic Grid Trading Strategy: From Zero Expectation to Market Outperformance
We propose a profitable trading strategy for the cryptocurrency market based on grid trading. Starting with an analysis of the expected value of the traditional grid strategy, we show that under simple assumptions, its expected return is essentially zero. We then introduce a novel Dynamic Grid-based Trading (DGT) strategy that adapts to market conditions by dynamically resetting grid positions. Our backtesting results using minute-level data from Bitcoin and Ethereum between January 2021 and Ju…

Analysis: Community Notes submissions on X fell from a high of 120,000 in January to fewer than 60,000 in May; Musk now rarely mentions the feature (Joe Murphy/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-community-not…

Use of Community Notes on Elon Musk's X has plummeted in 2025
Half as many crowdsourced Community Notes were created in May than were created in January.

The justification that Trump used to claim (illegally) federalize the California National Guard and deploy the marines is from 10 U.S. Code § 252:
> Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.
Specifically he's called out the "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States."
Trump cannot legally hold office because of his participation in an insurrection. Trump should have been impeached and removed on day 1 of his first administration based on the Emoluments clause. Trump colluded with Russia to manipulate the election, so even his swearing in was a failure of the US government to "enforce the laws of the United States." The supreme court justices he appointed explictly undermined and continue to "make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States," as with all of his appointees. The troops he has federalized remain deployed, even after being declared illegal.
When, then, do we call the entire time since January 20th, 2017 to now an insurrection and his government an illegal assembly? Who will order them to "disperse?"
#NoKingsDay

Solar-cycle Variability of Composite Geometry in the Solar Wind Turbulence
Zhan Fa, H. -Q. He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12870 https://

Solar-cycle Variability of Composite Geometry in the Solar Wind Turbulence
The composite geometry and spectral anisotropy of the solar wind turbulence are very important topics in the investigations of solar wind. In this work, we use the magnetic field and plasma data from Wind spacecraft measured during 1995 January to 2023 December, which covers more than two solar cycles, to systematically investigate these subjects in the context of solar-cycle variability. The so-called spectrum ratio test and spectrum anisotropy test are employed to determine the three-dimensio…

Over $14 Billion in U.S. Clean Energy Investments Have Been Canceled or Stalled This Year: Report #UnitedStates

Over $14 Billion in U.S. Clean Energy Investments Have Been Canceled or Stalled This Year: Report
More than $14 billion in clean energy projects have been canceled or delayed in the U.S. since January, according to a new analysis.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SoundsOfSurvivance
Status/Non-Status:
🎵 January 3rd
#Status #NonStatus
https://statusnonstatus.bandcamp.com/album/january-3rd
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kTHKSAiK6QTgpbJqXplaF

Sources and docs: Amazon Prime Video ad load has increased to 4-6 minutes per hour, up from 2-3.5 minutes when ads were first introduced in January 2024 (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/amazon-doubles-prime-video-ad-load/

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour
The move could lower CPMs but potentially hurt performance.

Since @… alerted me to Salerno, Italy slow drone-doom project NIGHTSCAPE's new EP last week, I noticed the project also has a self-titled LP from earlier this year. And just like the EP, it's EXCELLENT. DAMN, am I a fan of drone-doom like this. FFO Black Sky Giant, Pelican, etc.
Nightscape (Vol. 1) LP from January:

The FAST Globular Cluster Pulsar Survey (GC FANS)
Yujie Lian, Zhichen Pan, Haiyan Zhang, Shuo Cao, P. C. C. Freire, Lei Qian, Ralph P. Eatough, Lijing Shao, Scott M. Ransom, Duncan R. Lorimer, Dejiang Yin, Yinfeng Dai, Kuo Liu, Lin Wang, Yujie Wang, Zhongli Zhang, Zhonghua Feng, Baoda Li, Minghui Li, Tong Liu, Yaowei Li, Bo Peng, Yu Pan, Yuxiao Wu, Liyun Zhang, Xingnan Zhang, Peng Jiang

The FAST Globular Cluster Pulsar Survey (GC FANS)
By January 2025, 60 pulsars were discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope globular cluster (GC) pulsar survey (GC FANS), with spin periods spanning 1.98 ms to 3960.72 ms. Of these, 55 are millisecond pulsars (MSPs; $P<30$ ms), while 34 are binaries with orbital periods spanning 0.12 days to 466.47 days. This paper describes GC FANS, a deep, thorough search for pulsars in 41 GCs in the FAST sky ($-14^\circ < δ< 65^\circ$) and describes new discoveries in 14 of the…

No such thing as a slow cybersecurity news day anymore, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Top cyber vendors hope to clean up crazy threat group naming practices,
--Coinbase knew of data leak in January,
--Prolific swatter pleads guilty,
--Cartier confirms data breach,
--Abilene gropes for recovery after rejecting ransom payment,
--North Face customers' data stolen in credential s…

Top cyber vendors hope to clean up crazy threat group naming practices
Coinbase knew of data leak in January, Prolific swatter pleads guilty, Cartier confirms data breach, Abilene gropes for recovery after rejecting ransom payment, North Face customers' data stolen in credential stuffing attacks, $11.5m stolen from BitoPro hot wallets, much more

Detecting fast-variation pulsations in solar hard X-ray and radio emissions
Dong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14433 https://arxiv.or…

Detecting fast-variation pulsations in solar hard X-ray and radio emissions
Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) at sub-second periods are frequently detected in the time series of X-rays during stellar flares. However, such rapid pulsations are rarely reported in the hard X-ray (HXR) emission of the small solar flare. We explored the QPP patterns with fast-time variations in HXR and radio emissions produced in a small solar flare on 2025 January 19. By applying the Fast Fourier Transform, the fast-variation pulsations at a quasi-period of about 1 s are identified in the H…

Trevon Diggs drops bombshell about possible return in 2025 https://insidethestar.com/trevon-diggs-drops-bombshell-about-possible-return-in-2025

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

Dublin-based cross-border payment startup NomuPay raised a $40M Series C at a $290M valuation, following a $37M Series B at a $200M valuation in January 2025 (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025…

Irish fintech NomuPay lands $40M at a $290M valuation from SoftBank | TechCrunch
As global trade evolves, there's an increasing demand for diverse cross-border payment options. That's why an Irish-based fintech startup called NomuPay

Analysis: Community Notes submissions on X fell from a high of 120,000 in January to fewer than 60,000 in May; Musk now rarely mentions the feature (Joe Murphy/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-community-not…

Use of Community Notes on Elon Musk's X has plummeted in 2025
Half as many crowdsourced Community Notes were created in May than were created in January.

“This is another snake-oil salesman’s pitch to make him look good and reward the billionaires and millionaire executives and stakeholders for US Steel,”
said Doug May, who worked for 43 years as a steel worker at a mill in Granite City, Illinois, from the age of 19.
“He’s a proven flip-flopper.
Just look at his trade cases:
on again, off again.”
Trump ditched his opposition to the deal
– which Joe Biden blocked in January, citing national security concerns …

https://coincentral.com/coinbase-hid-massive-data-breach-for-months-before-going-public/
“Coinbase knew about a TaskUs employee data breach in January but only disclosed it publicly in May after rejecting hackers' ransom demands.”

Coinbase Hid Massive Data Breach for Months Before Going Public - CoinCentral
Coinbase knew about a TaskUs employee data breach in January but only disclosed it publicly in May after rejecting hackers' ransom demands.

Over $14 Billion in U.S. Clean Energy Investments Have Been Canceled or Stalled This Year: Report #UnitedStates

Over $14 Billion in U.S. Clean Energy Investments Have Been Canceled or Stalled This Year: Report
More than $14 billion in clean energy projects have been canceled or delayed in the U.S. since January, according to a new analysis.

route_views: Route Views AS graphs (1997-1998)
733 daily network snapshots denoting BGP traffic among autonomous systems (ASs) on the Internet, from the Oregon Route Views Project, spanning 8 November 1997 to 2 January 2000. Data collected by NLANR/MOAT.
This network has 5016 nodes and 10542 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

Are there stars in Bluesky after the return of Donald Trump to the White House?
Wenceslao Arroyo-Machado, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Daniel Torres-Salinas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22702

Are there stars in Bluesky after the return of Donald Trump to the White House?
This study examines the shift in the scientific community from X (formerly Twitter) to Bluesky, its impact on scientific communication, and consequently on social metrics (altmetrics). We analysed 14,497 publications from multidisciplinary and Library and Information Science (LIS) journals between January 2024 and March 2025. The results reveal a notable increase in Bluesky activity for multidisciplinary journals in November 2024, likely influenced by political and platform changes, with mentio…

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

Atras Journal: Call for Papers - Varia Volume 7, issue 1, January 2026
https://ift.tt/5z23agI
updated: Friday, May 30, 2025 - 9:03amfull name / name of organization: University of Saida, Dr.…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Pack's Clark underwent foot surgery in January https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45445089/packers-kenny-clark-says-underwent-foot-surgery-january

DappRadar: NFT lending market volume has dropped 97% from a peak of ~$1B in January 2024 to ~$50M in May 2025, with borrower activity falling by 90% (Stephen Katte/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/real-world-assets-revitalize-dy…

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

Stalin’s 50th birthday celebration, in 1929, is considered the kickoff of his cult of personality.
Hitler’s 50th birthday military parade, in April 1939, was organized by the propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels for maximum grandeur, including a motorcade of 50 white limousines.
Five months later, Germany invaded Poland.
Kim Jong-un changed Loyalty Oath Day from 1 January to his birthday, 8 January.
This February, the Republican US representative Claudia Tenney of Ne…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Bruce Liu:
🎵 The Seasons, Op. 37a: I. January. At the Fireside
#PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky #BruceLiu
https://open.spotify.com/track/0N8gyU1fiNI4sOeqrfcUZ9

Senior State Department staffer Darren Beattie,
a passionate Putin supporter behind the move to dismantle a key agency fighting Russian propaganda,
is married to a Russian woman whose uncle is a longtime Kremlin ally, according to The Telegraph.
Yulia Kirillova grew up in Moscow, studied abroad in North America, and married Beattie in 2021 in Florida.
She moved to D.C. in January.
Her uncle Sergei Cherniko is a drinks magnate who had an estimated net worth of $1…

Trump Official Behind Controversial Russia Decision Has Kremlin Ties
Darren Beattie dismantled a key agency fighting Russian propaganda. There’s a reason why.

Meta says it has cut US content removal mistakes by half since its January policy changes, without broadly exposing users to more offensive content than before (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/meta-content-moderation-changes-decrease-r…

Meta’s ‘Free Expression’ Push Results In Far Fewer Content Takedowns
Meta says loosening its enforcement policies earlier this year led to fewer erroneous takedowns on Facebook and Instagram—and didn't broadly expose users to more harmful content.

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

Since returning to office in January, Trump has sought to crush dissent at cultural institutions, law firms, media companies and universities. Many believed it was only a matter of time before he took the fight to the streets.
The protests against ICE raids present him with an antagonist that can be used as a focal point for anger, hatred and fear, ensuring that dissent is redirected away from the government and toward “an enemy within”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/08/trump-la-protests-enemy-within?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced sweeping leadership changes Thursday
as part of an effort to dramatically ramp up arrests of illegal migrants. 
The “leadership realignment” comes as Trump administration officials push for ICE to make
a “minimum” of 3,000 arrests per day
– up from the 1,800 per day quota the White House initially demanded in January. 
As part of the shake-up, Kenneth Genalo is out as the head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Ope…

ICE shakes up agency with 'leadership realignment' in push for a 'minimum' of 3,000 migrant arrests per day 
As part of the shake-up, Kenneth Genalo is out as the head of ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) division – the branch tasked with executing arrests and deportations. 

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 89209 nodes and 237010 edges.

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

arxiv_authors: Arxiv authors (1993-2003)
Scientific collaborations between authors of papers submitted to arxiv.org, under 5 categories: gr-qc, astro-ph, cond-mat, hep-ph, and hep-th categories, spanning January 1993 to April 2003. If an author i co-authored a paper with author j, the graph contains a undirected edge from i to j. If the paper is co-authored by k authors this generates a completely connected (sub)graph on k nodes.
This network has 108300 nodes and 186936 edges.

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps

bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions (2009-2013)
A network of Bitcoin transactions spanning January 2009 to April 2013. Nodes are public-key "addresses" at some time within the given period, and each edge is marked with the time (at a resolution of seconds) of the transaction.
This network has 6336770 nodes and 16057711 edges.
Tags: Economic, Cryptocurrency, Unweighted, Timestamps