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foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

"Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Fast-growing, global-south cities are ‘strikingly underrepresented’ in climate research - Carbon Brief
Climate change research in urban areas is skewed towards large, well-established global north cities, says analysis of over 50,000 studies.

Strong global support emerges for 30–30 biodiversity target to protect the planet #nature

Strong global support emerges for 30–30 biodiversity target to protect the planet
There is strong support for the global 30–30 target on biodiversity, which means that one-third of Earth's surface should be protected by 2030. This is shown in a study from the University of Gothenburg that measured public opinion in eight countries on five continents.

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war:
With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever
https://www.theguardian.com/global-de…

Comscore: US and Canada summer box office revenue was $3.67B, down slightly from $3.68B in 2024, and well short of the $4B from the Barbenheimer-fueled 2023 (Pamela McClintock/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Summer Box Office Clobbered by Kryptonite: Domestic Revenue Barely Matches Last Year
The May to Labor Day season initially soared, but global grosses took a nosedive as foreign movie ticket sales plunged further and a glut of male-skewing tentpoles battled for scraps in the U.S.

foursquare_global: Foursquare global check-ins (2013)
A bipartite network of users and locations, representing check-in events worldwide on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. Metadata include country, city name, city type (e.g. national capital), and vender's latitude and longitude.
This network has 3935215 nodes and 22809624 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Metadata, Timestamps

Catholic bishops from Global South call for ambitious climate action ahead of COP30
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/catholic-bishops-from-global-south-call-for-ambitious-climate-action-ahead-of-cop30/

IFR: Chinese factories install ~280K industrial robots every year, or 50% of the global total, helping China boost its global exports; ~50% are locally made (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cf427f83-89b2-4912-8f79-0f367ab6e553

Globality and Regions
Hector Gramaglia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01664 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.01664

Globality and Regions
We obtain a characterization of global variables by unifying abstraction with region abstraction in a region-based language. More precisely, in a previous work a language called global was presented, whose virtue is to provide a conceptually clear way of introducing imperative operations in a functional language. Memory safety is provided by the concept of linear protection, which connects the global system to a linear one. In this paper we show that the concept of global variable provided by t…

"104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds"
#Business #Environment

104 companies linked to 20% of global environmental conflicts, study finds
A recent study has found that just 104 companies, mostly multinational corporations from high-income countries, are involved in a fifth of the more than 3,000 environmental conflicts it analyzed. The study examined 3,388 conflicts, involving 5,589 companies, recorded in the Global Atlas of Environmental Justice (EJAtlas) as of October 2024. The atlas is the world’s […]

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Nan Chen, Mengqi Huang, Yihao Meng, Zhendong Mao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01945

LongAnimation: Long Animation Generation with Dynamic Global-Local Memory
Animation colorization is a crucial part of real animation industry production. Long animation colorization has high labor costs. Therefore, automated long animation colorization based on the video generation model has significant research value. Existing studies are limited to short-term colorization. These studies adopt a local paradigm, fusing overlapping features to achieve smooth transitions between local segments. However, the local paradigm neglects global information, failing to maintai…

Affine-Invariant Global Non-Asymptotic Convergence Analysis of BFGS under Self-Concordance
Qiujiang Jin, Aryan Mokhtari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00361 ht…

Affine-Invariant Global Non-Asymptotic Convergence Analysis of BFGS under Self-Concordance
In this paper, we establish global non-asymptotic convergence guarantees for the BFGS quasi-Newton method without requiring strong convexity or the Lipschitz continuity of the gradient or Hessian. Instead, we consider the setting where the objective function is strictly convex and strongly self-concordant. For an arbitrary initial point and any arbitrary positive-definite initial Hessian approximation, we prove global linear and superlinear convergence guarantees for BFGS when the step size is …

#Europa und die #Arktis erwärmen sich mehr als doppelt so schnell wie der globale Durchschnitt.
In Europa liegt die Erwärmung seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre bei 0,53 °C pro Jahrzehnt, in der Arktis sogar bei 0,69 °C.
Ursachen sind unter anderem veränderte

"According to the Committee on Climate Change, the UK’s share of global emissions is approximately 1 per cent. However, the carbon budgets they have recommended, up to 2043, are equivalent to 1.79% of what they acknowledge to be the available global budget for only a 50% chance of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees. Britain is setting too large a carbon budget for itself, taking nearly twice its fair share"
From my latest piece.

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables…

"While crop seed vaults are common around the world, nurseries for wild and native plants are rare, and many plant species quietly become extinct. This marks #Gurukula out as a Noah’s ark for endangered plant species."

A Frequentist Simulation-Based Inference Treatment of Sterile Neutrino Global Fits
Joshua Villarreal, Julia Woodward, John Hardin, Janet Conrad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01153

A Frequentist Simulation-Based Inference Treatment of Sterile Neutrino Global Fits
A critical challenge in particle physics is combining results from diverse experimental setups that measure the same physical quantity to enhance precision and statistical power, a process known as a global fit. Global fits of sterile neutrino searches, hunts for additional neutrino oscillation frequencies and amplitudes, present an intriguing case study. In such a scenario, the key assumptions underlying Wilks' theorem, a cornerstone of most classic frequentist analyses, do not hold. The metho…

The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war (Annie Kelly/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2025/sep/01/israel-gaza-war-media-palestinian-journalists-killed-cpj
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p45#a250901p45

This #oil & #gas financing/production analysis is interesting in many ways.
▶️ #China is actually ranked fourth, but not mentioned anywhere in the report.
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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished https://www.theguardian.com/en…

Good night, sleep well!
"Today’s global civilisation, however, is deeply interconnected and unequal and could lead to the worst societal collapse yet. The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots."

Global existence for a fractionally damped nonlinear Jordan--Moore--Gibson--Thompson equation
Mostafa Meliani, Belkacem Said-Houari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01538

Global existence for a fractionally damped nonlinear Jordan--Moore--Gibson--Thompson equation
In nonlinear acoustics, higher-order-in-time equations arise when taking into account a class of thermal relaxation laws in the modeling of sound wave propagation. In the literature, these families of equations came to be known as Jordan--Moore--Gibson--Thompson (JMGT) models. In this work, we show the global existence of solutions relying only on minimal assumptions on the nonlocal damping kernel. In particular, our result covers the until-now open question of global existence of solutions for…

Win over $12k worth of production gear by remixing Madonna’s Ray of Light in Beatport’s Global Remix Challenge https://musictech.com/news/competitions/beatport-madonna-remix-challenge-ray-of-light/

Win over $12k worth of production gear by remixing Madonna’s Ray of Light in Beatport’s Global Remix Challenge
More than $12,000 worth of production hardware and software is on the line in Beatport’s latest Ray of Light Global Remix Challenge.

WishGI: Lightweight Static Global Illumination Baking via Spherical Harmonics Fitting
Junke Zhu, Zehan Wu, Qixing Zhang, Cheng Liao, Zhangjin Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01288

WishGI: Lightweight Static Global Illumination Baking via Spherical Harmonics Fitting
Global illumination combines direct and indirect lighting to create realistic lighting effects, bringing virtual scenes closer to reality. Static global illumination is a crucial component of virtual scene rendering, leveraging precomputation and baking techniques to significantly reduce runtime computational costs. Unfortunately, many existing works prioritize visual quality by relying on extensive texture storage and massive pixel-level texture sampling, leading to large performance overhead.…

letade igenom mitt flöde för att hitta den här. Jan-Emanuel kommer att slutföra den tyska idealismen! https://aggregatet.org/post/17379

Jag tror på global nedkylning, havsnivån sjunker, landet reser sig från oceanbotten och bär med sig antika ruiner, som Thules ruiner. Jag tror att Jan-Emanuel kommer fixa allt det här - Aggregatet
Jag röstade inte, jag tror inte på demokrati. Jag tror på Thule, den antika staden, och jag tror att Jan-Emanuel är den politiker som kommer upphöja Thule, och Atlantis. Jag tror på global nedkylning, nedkylning av jorden, havsnivån sjunker, landet reser sig från oceanbotten och bär med sig antika ruiner, som ruinerna av Thule. Jag tror att Jan-Emanuel kommer fixa allt det här. Han kommer bevisa att ufon existerar; regeringen har känt till det länge. De vet att ufon är där ute och…

💩 Nitrogen in forests and grasslands overestimated, new global analysis shows
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-nitrogen-forests-grasslands-overestimated-global.html

Nitrogen in forests and grasslands overestimated, new global analysis shows
Forests, grasslands, and other natural areas around the world have access to about a quarter less nitrogen than previously estimated, according to a new study published in Nature.

Recent Droughts Are 'Slow-Moving Global Catastrophe' - UN Report - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/02/1754237/recent-droughts-are-slow-moving-global-catastrophe---un-report?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Emulating Global 21 cm Cosmology Observations from the Lunar Far Side to Achieve Quick and Reliable Physical Constraints
J. Dorigo Jones, J. O. Burns, D. Rapetti, Shah Mohammad Bahauddin, B. Reyes, D. W. Barker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00976

Emulating Global 21 cm Cosmology Observations from the Lunar Far Side to Achieve Quick and Reliable Physical Constraints
Efforts are underway to measure the global 21 cm signal from neutral hydrogen, which is a powerful probe of the early universe, using NASA radio telescopes on the far side of the Moon. Physics-based models of the signal are computationally expensive to perform Bayesian multi-parameter inferences, for which we have developed novel, publicly-available neural network emulators utilizing a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network and a Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN). $\texttt{21cmLSTM}$ is currently …

A High-Fidelity Speech Super Resolution Network using a Complex Global Attention Module with Spectro-Temporal Loss
Tarikul Islam Tamiti, Biraj Joshi, Rida Hasan, Rashedul Hasan, Taieba Athay, Nursad Mamun, Anomadarshi Barua
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00229

A High-Fidelity Speech Super Resolution Network using a Complex Global Attention Module with Spectro-Temporal Loss
Speech super-resolution (SSR) enhances low-resolution speech by increasing the sampling rate. While most SSR methods focus on magnitude reconstruction, recent research highlights the importance of phase reconstruction for improved perceptual quality. Therefore, we introduce CTFT-Net, a Complex Time-Frequency Transformation Network that reconstructs both magnitude and phase in complex domains for improved SSR tasks. It incorporates a complex global attention block to model inter-phoneme and inte…

Multi-Agent Coordination under Poisson Observations: A Global Game Approach
Marcos M. Vasconcelos, Behrouz Touri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00424 https://

Multi-Agent Coordination under Poisson Observations: A Global Game Approach
We study a model of strategic coordination based on a class of games with incomplete information known as Global Games. Under the assumption of Poisson-distributed signals and a Gamma prior distribution on state of the system, we demonstrate the existence of a Bayesian Nash equilibrium within the class of threshold policies for utility functions that are linear in the agents' actions. Although computing the exact threshold that constitutes an equilibrium in a system with finitely many agents is…

China's World AI Conference struck a stark contrast to Trump's America-first, regulation-light vision, focusing instead on global cooperation for AI safety (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/china-artificial-intelligence-policy-laws-race/
…

Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World
Behind closed doors, Chinese researchers are laying the groundwork for a new global AI agenda—without input from the US.

A good episode of the News Agents podcast, 'Are we sleepwalking into an AI 'economic bloodbath'?', not least because it began with an admission that journalists can chase daily noise and fuss at the expense of the bigger picture https://www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epis

Unraveling Global Threads: Pandemic, Geopolitical Conflict, and Resilience in Fashion and Textile Supply Chain
Md. Al-Amin, Muneeb Tahir, Amit Talukder, Abdullah Al Mamun, Md Tanjim Hossain, Nigar Sultana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00207

Unraveling Global Threads: Pandemic, Geopolitical Conflict, and Resilience in Fashion and Textile Supply Chain
Several noteworthy scenarios emerged in the global textile and fashion supply chains during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The destabilizing influences of a global pandemic and a geographically localized conflict are being acutely noticed in the worldwide fashion and textile supply chains. This work examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russo-Ukraine conflict, Israel-Palestine conflict, and Indo-Pak conflict on supply chains within the textile and fashion industry. This research e…

"World goes nuclear",
the nuclear industry's very own way of saying that last year, the share of nuclear in global electricity generation dropped to well below 9%, its lowest level since 1980.
https://www.energylivenews.com/2025/09/01/world-goes-nuc…

How authoritarians can cut the global internet: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/02/how-authoritarians-can-cut-the.html

GPU-based complete search for nonlinear minimization subject to bounds
Guanglu Zhang, Qihang Shan, Jonathan Cagan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01770 https://…

GPU-based complete search for nonlinear minimization subject to bounds
This paper introduces a GPU-based complete search method to enclose the global minimum of a nonlinear function subject to simple bounds on the variables. Using interval analysis, coupled with the computational power and architecture of GPU, the method iteratively rules out the regions in the search domain where the global minimum cannot exist and leaves a finite set of regions where the global minimum must exist. For effectiveness, because of the rigor of interval analysis, the method is guaran…

Global Group, the same threat actor that has purportedly hacked Ireland's RTE, is laying claim to another media giant hack, this time, Spanish-language Albavisión.
https://hackread.com/global-group-ransomware-media-giant-albavision-breach/

GLOBAL GROUP Ransomware Claims Breach of Media Giant Albavisión
Follow us on Bluesky, Twitter (X), Mastodon and Facebook at @Hackread

Today’s global civilisation, however, is deeply interconnected and unequal and could lead to the worst societal collapse yet, he says. The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.
...
If citizens’ juries and wealth caps seem wildly optimistic, Kemp says we have been long brainwashed by rulers justifying their dominance, from the self-declared god-pharaohs of Egypt and priests claiming to control the weather to autocrats claiming to defend people from foreign threats and tech titans selling us their techno-utopias. “It’s always been easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of Goliaths. That’s because these are stories that have been hammered into us over the space of 5,000 years,” he says.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse

The hackathon FIRSTCON25 takes place physically at 37th ANNUAL FIRST CONFERENCE on Sunday 22nd June in Copenhagen.
GCVE.eu topic has been added to the hackathon.
🔗 About the hackathon https://discourse.ossbase.org/c/hackathon-firstcon25/12
🔗 GCVE.eu topic

hackathon@FIRSTCON25
FIRST is the global Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams and this category is for the hackathon at FIRSTCON25

Murder Goose 😝

OK so, let's see how far I can get figuring out the VSC8512 SERDES stuff without any nonpublic information.
It looks like everything fun is accessed via register 18G "global command and serdes configuration".
This is a 16-bit register which is basically a mailbox to the internal MCU.
Bit 15 (0x8000) is documented as "execute command". This always has to be set when writing to the PHY, then you wait for it to be cleared before doing anything else. Tha…

"China ramps up solar and wind power as clean energy output shatters global records"
#China #SolarPower #WindTurbines

China ramps up solar and wind power as clean energy output shatters global records
China installed enough solar and wind power between January and May to match the total electricity use of countries like Indonesia or Turkey, even as its clean energy industry faces deep financial strain.Amy Hawkins reports for The Guardian.In short:China installed 198 gigawatts of solar and 46 giga...

Dentsu: the video game industry attracts less than 5% of global ad spend despite 3.4B gamers worldwide; 60 game-based productions were in development in 2024 (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-g…

Video Game Industry Draws Less Than 5% of Ad, Marketing Spend
According to a new report from Dentsu Gaming, less than 5% of global media investment goes toward the the video game industry.

Earth’s Wetlands Are Disappearing and Global Efforts to Save Them Are Unraveling - Inside Climate News
https://

Expert: Att ta emot patienter från Gaza riskerar att bli skenmanöver https://www.dn.se/sverige/expert-att-ta-emot-patienter-fran-gaza-riskerar-att-bli-skenmanover/

Att ta emot patienter från Gaza riskerar att bli skenmanöver
Krav på att Sverige ska ta emot patienter från Gaza riskerar att stanna vid symbolpolitik, säger Johan von Schreeb, professor i global katastrofmedicin.

I have worked for 2 different Global 50 enterprises that did their own in-house development, one of which is largely to blame for the "Agile" model. Neither could stand up a new app in 4 months, much less 4 days. That was not because they coded slowly.
Enterprise grade software has had weeks of iterative development, technical validation, and user acceptance testing. It is built to be maintainable and enhanceable. It is fit for its environment.

“TNC is where it all comes to life.”

In this video message, our CEO Lise Fuhr shares excitement ahead of her very first TNC, and why this global gathering matters so much to our Research & Education community.

Watch her personal welcome message below, as we all get ready for next week’s #TNC25 in Brighton 🇬🇧

And if you’re not coming in person, don’t forget to g…

China also lies a lot. Supports UN's global role at the same time it supports a country that is doing everything to undermine UN's global role.
https://assortedflotsam.com/@NewsBot/115117798691702956

Wenn ich mal kurz annehme, daß die Politik der Union nicht Folge von Lobbyismus und Korruption ist, dann sagt sie doch quasi: wir sind unfähig, die Wirtschaft zukunftsfähig und damit global wettbewerbs­fähig zu machen, daher machen wir einfach Augen zu und an den Fossil-Auto-Geschichten festhalten, bis es irgendwann knallt.
#pol

#StackOverflow 2025 Developer Survey
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025

Probably a good day 🥵 to remind of our CoolWalks study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-97200-2
- Above all, stop burning fossil fuels
- Buildings (and trees) cast a lot of shade in cities. We systematically quantify the benefits for 🚶🚴
- Make shade plans, b…

CoolWalks for active mobility in urban street networks - Scientific Reports
Walking is the most sustainable form of urban mobility, but is compromised by uncomfortable or unhealthy sun exposure, which is an increasing problem due to global warming. Shade from buildings can provide cooling and protection for pedestrians, but the extent of this potential benefit is unknown. Here we explore the potential for shaded walking, using building footprints and street networks from both synthetic and real cities. We introduce a route choice model with a sun avoidance parameter $$…

FitzHugh-Naguma equation: from global dynamics to slow-fast syetem
Alexandre A. P. Rodrigues, Nasrin Sadri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01623 https://…

FitzHugh-Naguma equation: from global dynamics to slow-fast syetem
We concentrate our attention on the qualitative study of the phase portraits of the three-parameter FitzHugh-Nagumo family and its compactification. We divide the study into three scenarios based on the parameters. One of the scenarios is characterised by the existence of a double-zero bifurcation with Z2 symmetry (a singularity of codimension two). In this case, we explicitly exhibit the pitchfork, Hopf, Belyakov, and double homoclinic bifurcation/transition curves unfolding the singularity of…

#PreciousPlastic is a global community of people working towards a solution to plastic pollution. Knowledge, tools and techniques are shared online, for free
LET'S BUILD V.5:
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We spent the last 10 years building a network of plastic recyclers around the world. Yet despite progress, only 10% of all plastic ever made has been recycled, the same as when we started

Connecting mean-field theory with dynamo simulations
Petri J. K\"apyl\"a (KIS)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00632 https://arx…

Connecting mean-field theory with dynamo simulations
Mean-field dynamo theory, describing the evolution of large-scale magnetic fields, has been the mainstay of theoretical interpretation of magnetism in astrophysical objects such as the Sun for several decades. More recently, three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations have reached a level of fidelity where they capture dynamo action self-consistently on local and global scales without resorting to parametrization of unresolved scales. Recent global simulations also capture many of the obs…

Hong Kong's stablecoin licensing regime takes effect, requiring issuers to get approval from the Monetary Authority, comply with AML protocols, and more (Callan Quinn/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/333078/hong-kong-kicks-off-stablecoin-licens…

Hong Kong Kicks Off Stablecoin Licensing Regime With Eye on Global Hub
Hong Kong’s new stablecoin licensing regime takes effect, tightening rules as the city vies for a global crypto edge.

Global warming is altering storms lightning, impacting tropical forests https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/global-warming-is-altering-storms-lightning-impacting-tropical-forests/

Global warming is altering storms lightning, impacting tropical forests
A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in tropical forests, a finding that could have major implications for carbon storage and tropical biodiversity under future global warming scenarios. That’s according to a recently published paper, which determines that short-lived but powerful convective storms — combining […]

Trump Tariff Blitz Unleashes Delayed Shock to Global Economy (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-01/trump-s-tariff-blitz-unleashes-delayed-shock-to-global-economy
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p22#a250801p22

Tunnelling Through Time Series: A Probabilistic Visibility Graph for Local and Global Pattern Discovery
Roberto Sotero, Jose Sanchez-Bornot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01247

Tunnelling Through Time Series: A Probabilistic Visibility Graph for Local and Global Pattern Discovery
The growing availability of high-resolution, long-term time series data has highlighted the need for methods capable of capturing both local and global patterns. To address this, we introduce the Probabilistic Visibility Graph (PVG), a novel approach inspired by the quantum tunnelling phenomenon. The PVG extends the classical Visibility Graph (VG) by introducing probabilistic connections between time points that are obstructed in the VG due to intermediate values. We demonstrate the PVG's effec…

"A new aviation solidarity coalition on premium flyers (first- and business- class tickets, and private jets) has been launched today at FFD4 by France, Kenya, Barbados, Spain, Somalia, Benin, Sierra Leone and Antigua & Barbuda. It will be supported by the European Commission"
Eight countries launch solidarity coalition for levies on premium flyers | Global Solidarity Levies Task Force

Eight countries launch solidarity coalition for levies on premium flyers | Global Solidarity Levies Task Force
The Global Solidarity Levies Task Force brings together countries from around the world to advance options for international levelies that will raise much needed revenue for the fight against climate change, and to support development and nature.

Paramount reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $6.85B, a $57M profit, vs. a $5.4B loss a year ago, Paramount subs down by 1.3M QoQ to 77.7M and revenue up 23% YoY (Jill Goldsmith/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/paramount-global-earning…

Paramount Sees Q2 Bump From ‘Mission Impossible’, Paramount+ In Redstone Swan Song As Skydance Merger Set To Close
aramount Global reported its last set of financials under Redstone ownership with a jump in theatrical revenue from Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning.

foursquare_friendships: Foursquare global friendships (2013)
A network of user friendships on Foursquare, from April 2012 to September 2013. The 'old' and 'new' dataset correspond to two snapshots taken before and after the check-in data collection period.
This network has 114324 nodes and 607333 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Global well-posedness and Asymptotic analysis of a nonlinear heat equation with constraints of finite codimension
Ashish Bawalia, Zdzis{\l}aw Brze\'zniak, Manil T. Mohan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00160

Global well-posedness and Asymptotic analysis of a nonlinear heat equation with constraints of finite codimension
We prove the global existence and the uniqueness of the $L^p\cap H_0^1-$valued ($2\leq p < \infty$) strong solutions of a nonlinear heat equation with constraints over bounded domains in any dimension $d\geq 1$. Along with the \textit{Faedo-Galerkin} approximation method and the compactness arguments, we utilize the monotonicity and the hemicontinuity properties of the nonlinear operators to establish the well-posedness results. In particular, we show that a Hilbertian manifold $\mathbb{M}$, wh…

Xpheno: Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Google, and their affiliates grew their combined India headcount by 16% over the past year, adding 28K jobs (Himanshi Lohchab/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.in…

Big Tech continues to hire in India even as local majors downsize
Despite global layoffs, FAAMNG companies are expanding their India headcount, growing by 16% in the past year, driven by demand for AI, cloud, and cybersecurity skills. While Indian IT firms face workforce reductions due to skills mismatch, Big Tech's India-based global capability centers are increasing hiring for high-end work and innovation.

We're storing enormous amounts of heat in the world's oceans. Every tick mark is 10²² Joule, that's 10,000 Exajoule, or 15 years' worth of global energy consumption.
https://fediscience.org/@ZLabe/115123817743400107

Zack Labe (@ZLabe@fediscience.org)
Attached: 1 image Upper ocean heat content (0 to 700 m depth) also set a new record high with the latest June data update (see my earlier post). Yikes! Graphic/data (anomalies) from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/global-ocean-heat-content/

Trump is ‘killing jobs and jacking up prices’, Democrats say,
as global markets fall over tariff turmoil – US politics live
Senate minority leader Jeffreys says
‘chickens are coming home to roost for Trump’
amid markets slump and meagre job growth figures
🔸Trump signs order increasing tariffs on Canadian goods
🔸Full list of new tariff rates

Iran reportedly preparing to mine Strait of Hormuz, a possible boon for Russia's Ukraine war coffers: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/iran-reportedly-preparing-to-mine.html

🥵 As SoCal bakes, UCLA study shows duration of heat waves is accelerating faster than climate change
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-10/ucla-study-heat-wave-duration-faster-than-global-warming
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Heat-wave duration accelerating faster than climate change, UCLA says
UCLA researchers have released an alarming new finding — the duration of heat waves is increasing faster than global warming itself.

"New Coral Reef Protection Technology to Transform Global Conservation"
#Coral #CoralReef #Environment

New Coral Reef Protection Technology to Transform Global Conservation | Happy Eco News
New coral reef protection technology will transform coral reef protection as an international partnership expands to cover 90% of the world's reefs. Saudi Arabia will direct the International Coral Reef Initiative and implementing advanced coral reef protection technology alongside proven conservation methods to safeguard these vital ocean ecosystems.

He’s probably (he’s on the list) doing it out of (he’s on every page of the list) a strategic need (and there are photos) and sound military and national security (and there is footage) concerns. There’s no way he’d do this as a distraction (this way, this is the way he does it as a distraction), that would be reckless, irresponsible and dangerous (which he very much is).

Trump orders US nuclear subs repositioned over statements from ex-Russian leader
President Donald Trump has ordered the repositioning of two U.S. nuclear submarines. Friday's decision comes after what he calls "highly provocative statements" by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev and Trump has fueded online in recent days. The impact on U.S. nuclear subs — which normally and routinely patrol global hotspots — remains unclear. But the move potentially escalates tensions between Washington and Moscow at a delicate time, as Trump threatens new sanctions in a…

Global Energy Minimization for Simplex Mesh Optimization: A Radius Ratio Approach to Sliver Elimination
Dong Wang, Chunyu Chen, Huayi Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01762

Global Energy Minimization for Simplex Mesh Optimization: A Radius Ratio Approach to Sliver Elimination
The quality of simplex mesh is crucial for the stability and accuracy of numerical simulations in finite element analysis and computational geometry. However, the presence of sliver elements in 3D simplex mesh can severely impact the results. This paper presents a novel method based on a radius ratio energy function to optimize the quality of simplex mesh elements. This method can effectively eliminate sliver elements, thereby enhancing mesh quality.The gradient of the proposed energy function …

Selbst wenn die #Erderwärmung langfristig wieder unter 1,5 °C fällt, bleiben viele #Gletscherverluste unumkehrbar.
Bei einem vorübergehenden Temperaturanstieg auf 3 °C verlieren #Gletscher

Irreversible glacier change and trough water for centuries after overshooting 1.5 °C - Nature Climate Change
How mountain glaciers will react to temporarily overshooting 1.5 °C of warming is poorly understood. Here the authors show irreversible global glacier loss for centuries after overshoot, implying long-term reductions in glacial water resources with amplified impacts in regions where glaciers regrow.

China's Xi rolls out the red carpet for Putin and Modi as Trump upends global relations (Simone McCarthy/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/08/30/china/chinas-xi-rolls-out-red-carpet-for-putin-modi-as-trump-upends-global-relations
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p59#a250831p59

Global Descent Method for Non-convex Multi-objective Optimization Problems
Bikram Adhikary, Md Abu Talhamainuddin Ansary, Savin Treanta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22390 https://…

Global Descent Method for Non-convex Multi-objective Optimization Problems
In this paper, we develop a global descent method for non-convex multi-objective optimization problems. The proposed approach builds upon foundational concepts from single-objective global descent techniques while removing the need for predefined scalars or ordering information of objective functions. Initially, the proposed method identifies a local weak efficient solution using any suitable descent algorithm, then applies an auxiliary function termed the multi-objective global descent functio…

Global Existence and Incompressible Limit for Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Large Bulk Viscosity Coefficient and Large Initial Data
Qinghao Lei, Chengfeng Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01432

Global Existence and Incompressible Limit for Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations with Large Bulk Viscosity Coefficient and Large Initial Data
For periodic initial data with the density allowing vacuum, we establish the global existence and exponential decay of weak, strong and classical solutions to the two-dimensional(2D) compressible Navier-Stokes equations when the bulk viscosity coefficient is sufficiently large, without any extra restrictions on initial velocity divergence. Moreover, we demonstrate that when the bulk viscosity coefficient tends to infinity, these solutions converge to solutions to the inhomogeneous incompressibl…

"Frugal habits, not quick fixes, key to tackling global food waste, study finds"
#Food #FoodWaste
https://

Frugal habits, not quick fixes, key to tackling global food waste, study finds
Household food waste, a focus of government targets, supermarket campaigns and consumer nudges, is best reduced by fostering lasting habits of frugality and not short-term interventions, according to new research by the University of Portsmouth.

The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place.
Since 2008, the "Svalbard Global Seed Vault" — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops.
⭐️ But, the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot -- at least by Arctic standards.
Indeed, in 2017, an access tunnel to the…

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."

The July average of atmospheric CO₂ at Mauna Loa was ~2.3-2.4 ppm higher than last year: based on daily values, it was around 427.9 ppm.
#co2

Trends in CO2 - NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory
GML conducts research on greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.

Medea Benjamin in the Star:
"We need to flip the script. That means cutting military budgets, withdrawing from endless wars, and beginning a serious conversation about dismantling Nato. The alliance, born of the cold war, is now a stumbling block to global peace and an active participant in war-making. Its latest summit only reinforces that reality."
#Nato’s 5 per cent pledge: an o…

The NHL announces a new partnership with DAZN, which will begin distributing NHL.TV in almost 200 countries around the world before the 2025-26 season (David Satin/The Streamable)
https://thestreamable.com/dazn-deal-nhl-tv-global-distribution

DAZN announces multiyear with NHL, bringing NHL.TV to nearly 200 countries around the world
Although not available in North America, NHL.TV is a fantastic way for global NHL fans to access games.

High order global flux schemes for general steady state preservation of shallow water moment equations with non-conservative products
Mirco Ciallella, Julian Koellermeier
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00573

High order global flux schemes for general steady state preservation of shallow water moment equations with non-conservative products
Shallow water moment equations are reduced-order models for free-surface flows that allow to represent vertical variations of the velocity profile at the expense of additional evolution equations for a number of additional variables, so called moments. This introduces non-linear non-conservative products in the system, which make the analytical characterization of steady states much harder if not impossible. The lack of analytical steady states poses a challenge for the design of well-balanced …

Trump Deals Poised to Fall Short of Sweeping Global Trade Reform | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/trump-deals-poised-to-fall-short-of-sweeping-global-trade-reform

Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. America: study #America

Climate-driven wildfires reversing pollution progress in N. America: study
Global air pollution is worsening, with the United States and Canada experiencing the sharpest increases due to record-breaking, climate-supercharged wildfires that are undoing decades of progress, a study said Thursday.

Magnetic Stabilization of Compressible Flows: Global Existence in 3D Inviscid Non-Isentropic MHD Equations
Jiahong Wu, Fuyi Xu, Xiaoping Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00888

Magnetic Stabilization of Compressible Flows: Global Existence in 3D Inviscid Non-Isentropic MHD Equations
Solutions to the compressible Euler equations in all dimensions have been shown to develop finite-time singularities from smooth initial data such as shocks and cusps. There is an extraordinary list of results on this subject. When the inviscid compressible flow is coupled with the magnetic field in the 3D inviscid non-isentropic compressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in $\mathbb{T}^3$, this paper rules out finite-time blowup and establishes the global existence of smooth and stable s…

✈️ Canadian crops beat global emissions—even after 17 trips across the Atlantic
#agriculture

Canadian crops beat global emissions—even after 17 trips across the Atlantic
Canadian-grown wheat, canola and peas have some of the lowest carbon footprints in the world—so low that, in some cases, they could be shipped to Europe 17 times before matching the emissions of the same crops grown there.

Chinese AI models from DeepSeek and others are becoming more popular worldwide; Sensor Tower: ChatGPT has 910M global downloads compared with DeepSeek's 125M (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/artificial-int

With His Reordering of Global Trade, Trump Turns to the Untested (Ana Swanson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/business/economy/trump-tariffs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p76#a250801p76

The White House announced an attempt to claw back $4.9 billion in foreign aid funds without congressional approval,
drawing the ire of Democrats and appropriators and increasing the chances of a shutdown. 
Such a move had not been made in nearly a half-century,
and it is expected to face legal challenges.
It also comes two months after GOP lawmakers approved the first rescissions package worth $9 billion
that targeted global aid programs and the Corporation for…

corporate_directors: Global corporate directors (2016)
Bipartite network of directors and the companies on whose boards they sit, spanning 54 countries worldwide, constructed from data collected by the Financial Times (c. Sept. 2016). Person nodes are annotated with age and gender. Company nodes are annotated with their country, sector, industry, and number of employees.
This network has 356638 nodes and 377060 edges.
Tags: Economic, Governance, Unweighted, Metadata

And this is deeply disappointing from #Unite's Sharon Graham
“Given the global challenges we face it is right that defence spending is increasing."
‘If government cared about security, it would end child poverty and pursue peace’ | Morning Star

TikTok launches its e-commerce platform, TikTok Shop, in Japan, marking its 17th market, following launches in the US, the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, and others (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

TikTok Shop launches in Japan as app faces uncertainty in US
The popular short-video app is seeking to diversify its global footprint while reducing its reliance on the US market.

South Park will be leaving HBO Max on August 5 after Paramount secured exclusive global streaming rights; HBO Max has been the US home for the past five years (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne

‘South Park’ to Exit HBO Max Next Week as Show Consolidates Library on Paramount+
Paramount and Park County had inked a temporary extension with HBO Max while they negotiated a new streaming and overall deal.

Putin Finds a Growing Embrace on the Global Stage (Paul Sonne/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/world/europe/russia-ukraine-putin-diplomacy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250902/p2#a250902p2

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

Trump Boosts Tariffs Across World, Reshaping Global Commerce (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-31/trump-sets-tariffs-ahead-of-deadline-with-10-baseline-rate
http://www.memeorandum.com/250801/p66#a250801p66

WGA East, which represents CBS News writers, says the Paramount settlement is a "transparent attempt to curry favors" with Trump to get Skydance merger approved (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/param

Paramount's Trump Agreement Worries CBS News, Stirs '60 Minutes' Fears
Paramount Global's decision to pay $16 million to settle a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against '60 Minutes' and CBS News, worries staffers

"One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change"
#Climate #ClimateChange

One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change
Legal action by a Peruvian farmer has signalled a shift in the global conversation.

A profile of Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, whose personal fortune has surged 6x over the past year to $6.1B, as the company leans into tokenized stock derivatives (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ninabambyshev…

Inside Robinhood’s Crypto-Fueled Plan For World Domination
First Vlad Tenev blew up the brokerage industry’s fee model. Now, thanks in part to his full-on crypto embrace, he has increased his fortune sixfold to $6 billion as he embarks on a global financial services takeover with tokenized stocks, AI-powered investing and a bid to own the rails of the looming $124 trillion generational wealth transfer.

George Cheeks addresses Paramount's Trump lawsuit settlement, saying companies often settle to avoid "the high and somewhat unpredictable cost of legal defense" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-g

CBS Chief George Cheeks Addresses Paramount's Trump Lawsuit Settlement
Paramount Global co-CEO George Cheeks -- who is the head of CBS -- addressed the Trump settlement at the media company's 2025 annual shareholder meeting.

Niural, whose AI agents help companies automate payroll, benefits, vendor payments, and compliance, raised a $31M Series A led by Marathon Management Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/25/niural-31-milli…

Exclusive: Niural lands $31M to streamline global payroll
Its AI simplifies cross-border pay, benefits and compliance.

How Meituan used Hong Kong as a trial market for global food delivery expansion, with its Keeta service driving out Deliveroo before moving to Saudi Arabia (Zixu Wang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/busin…

How a Chinese Brand Reshaped Hong Kong’s Food Delivery Scene
Meituan, the Chinese food delivery giant, tested its global expansion in Hong Kong, where its Keeta service displaced a rival before moving to other markets.