wow, all the headlines seem to be burying the lede that the newly added recordings are the infamous joe bussard collection (though maybe that's only headline news to record collectors) https://c.im/@didgebaba/115566845008488758
Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland | Penn State University
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/skin-cancer-cluster-found-15-pennsylvania-counties-or-near-farmland
A cosmic-ray loaded nascent outflow driven by a massive #StarCluster: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65592-4 -> NASA’s Fermi Spots Young Star Cluster Blowing Gamma-Ray Bubbles: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/fermi/nasas-fermi-spots-young-star-cluster-blowing-gamma-ray-bubbles/
New dictionary dropped https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/11/18/merriam-webster-new-collegiate-dictionary
sp_colocation: Social co-locations (2018)
Network of colocations between peoople, based on the information on which RFID readers received information from the RFID tags. Namely, we define two individuals to be in co-presence if the same exact set of readers have received signals from both individuals during a 20s time window.
This network has 100 nodes and 394247 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
Why it matters to create and maintain open-source infrastructure for security monitoring including collection of forums and malicious communication channels.
This is a strong example (Google dark web report is discontinued) of the risks of relying solely on commercial vendors. If a capability does not align with their business interests or generate sufficient revenue, it can be discontinued at any time. Open-source infrastructure helps ensure continuity, transparency, and long-term ac…
"Thermostats are still sending Google information about manual temperature changes, whether a person is present in the room, if sunlight is hitting the device, and more"
Google Is Collecting Troves of Data From Downgraded Nest Thermostats - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/11/17/225229/google-is-collecting-troves-of-data-from-downgraded-nest-thermostats?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, 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 (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…
wow, all the headlines seem to be burying the lede that the newly added recordings are the infamous joe bussard collection (though maybe that's only headline news to record collectors) https://c.im/@didgebaba/115566845008488758