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highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

“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 …

Meta agrees to acquire power from Constellation's operating Illinois nuclear plant, in a 20-year deal starting in mid-2027 when a state subsidy expires (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Supreme Court to consider reviving case over counting ballots after Election Day (Josh Gerstein/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/02/supreme-court-mail-in-ballots-illinois-00380101
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p74#a250602p74

plant_pol_robertson: Robertson plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators, from southwestern Illinois, USA.
This network has 1884 nodes and 15265 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/plant_pol_robertson

🦠 Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-microbiologists-species-methane-archaea-human.html

Microbiologists discover new species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut
An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)—and the University of Illinois (U.S.) has identified and described a previously unknown species of methane-producing archaea in the human gut: Methanobrevibacter intestini sp. nov. (strain WWM1085).

Supreme Court will consider reviving Republican challenge to Illinois law on mail ballots (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-trump-mail-ballots-b2e44031402ebbe18ed1291c7a92f46d
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p110#a250602p110

highschool: Illinois high school students (1958)
A network of friendships among male students in a small high school in Illinois from 1958. An arc points from student i to student j if i named j as a friend, in either of two identical surveys (from Fall and Spring semesters). Edge weights are the number of surveys in which the friendship was named.
This network has 70 nodes and 366 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted

Competition at the IHSA boys track and field state meet https://www.dailyherald.com/20250531/article/competition-at-the-ihsa-boys-track-and-field-state-meet/

Die letztwöchige Ö1-Diagonal-Sendung zur Person Laurie Anderson ist noch etwa 20 Tage online abrufbar. #sound
https://oe1.orf.at/programm/20250621/7980…

O Superwoman - Diagonal zur Person Laurie Anderson | SA | 21 06 2025 | 17:05
Ihre ersten Performances hatte die US-amerikanische Multimedia-Künstlerin und Musikerin Laurie Anderson in den 1970er Jahren. Von Beginn an arbeitete die 1947 in Illinois geborene Performerin an de...

Pritzker launches campaign for 3rd term as Illinois governor (Shia Kapos/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/26/pritzker-launches-governor-campaign-illinois-00425436
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p76#a250626p76

DECA: A Near-Core LLM Decompression Accelerator Supporting Out-of-Order Invocation
Gerasimos Gerogiannis (Intel Corporation,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Stijn Eyerman (Intel Corporation), Evangelos Georganas (Intel Labs), Wim Heirman (Intel Corporation), Josep Torrellas (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
https://

DECA: A Near-Core LLM Decompression Accelerator Supporting Out-of-Order Invocation
To alleviate the memory bandwidth bottleneck in Large Language Model (LLM) inference workloads, weight matrices are stored in memory in quantized and sparsified formats. Hence, before tiles of these matrices can be processed by in-core generalized matrix multiplication (GeMM) hardware engines, they need to be dequantized and de-sparsified. This is currently performed in software with vector operations. Unfortunately, this approach delivers only modest performance. Moreover, it is hard to unders…

DAIEM: Decolonizing Algorithm's Role as a Team-member in Informal E-market
ATM Mizanur Rahman (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Md Romael Haque (Purdue University Fort Wayne), Sharifa Sultana (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12910

DAIEM: Decolonizing Algorithm's Role as a Team-member in Informal E-market
In Bangladesh's rapidly expanding informal e-market, small-scale sellers use social media platforms like Facebook to run businesses outside formal infrastructures. These sellers rely heavily on platform algorithms, not just for visibility, but as active collaborators in business operations. Drawing on 37 in-depth interviews with sellers, buyers, and stakeholders, this paper examines how people in informal e-markets perceive and interact with the algorithm as a "team member" that performs sales,…

License plate reader company Flock has stopped US agencies from accessing cameras in CA, IL, and VA after reports of lookups related to ICE and an abortion case (404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/flock-removes-state…

Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed
Following 404 Media’s reporting and in light of new legislation, automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Flock has stopped agencies reaching into cameras in California, Illinois, and Virginia.

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker announces he's running for a third term (Elyssa Kaufman/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-governor-pritzker-running-for-third-term/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p75#a250626p75

"Academic Libraries Need a New Value Proposition" @ Katina magazine:
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/academic-libraries-need-a-new-value-proposition
"The eli…

Flock Removes States From National Lookup Tool After ICE and Abortion Searches Revealed https://www.404media.co/flock-removes-states-from-national-lookup-tool-after-ice-and-abortion-searches-revealed/

I just checked the map of bigoted Congressperson Mary Miller’s district and oh my gosh is it gerrymandering run amok.
#USpol #ILpol #Congress

ICE issued new rules for Congress members visiting detention centers.
Experts say they’re illegal
Rep. Norma Torres (D-Pomona) and three other members of Congress were denied entry to the immigrant detention facility inside the Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles
The lawmakers were attempting an unannounced inspection,
a common and long-standing practice under congressional oversight powers.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said too many prot…

ICE issued new rules for Congress members visiting detention centers. Experts say they’re illegal
Members from California, Illinois and New Jersey have been denied access in recent weeks to immigrant detention facilities in their states. Oversight experts say that's a substantial departure from past practice.

"In Boston, between 1709 and 1713, townspeople protested vigorously and then took extralegal action when Andrew Belcher, a wealthy merchant, refused to stop exporting grain during a bread shortage in the city...he chose to export grain to the Caribbean, at a handsome profit, rather than sell it for a smaller profit to hungry townspeople, his ships were attacked and his warehouses emptied by an angry crowd...Bostonians of meagre means learned that through concerted action, the powerless could become powerful, if only for the moment. Wealthy merchants who would not listen to pleas from the community could be forced through collective action to subordinate profits to the public need."
- Gary B. Nash, "Social Change and the Growth of Prerevolutionary Urban Radicalism" in The American Revolution (ed. Alfred F. Young, Northern Illinois University Press, 1976), pg. 11
#history #politics #america #quote

plant_pol_robertson: Robertson plant-pollinator web
A bipartite network of plants and pollinators, from southwestern Illinois, USA.
This network has 1884 nodes and 15265 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/plant_pol_robertson