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eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

An issue of Nintendo Power from 1993 explains the technical, CAD-based design choice as to why SNES controller buttons are laid out as they are https://www.dualshockers.com/controller-button-layout-explained-nintendo-power

The Controller Button Layout Mystery That Nintendo Power Magazine Solved Back In 1993
Ever wondered why your controllers have A, B, X & Y buttons instead of A, B, C & D?

TCIA: A Task-Centric Instruction Augmentation Method for Instruction Finetuning
Simin Ma, Shujian Liu, Jun Tan, Yebowen Hu, Song Wang, Sathish Reddy Indurthi, Sanqiang Zhao, Liwei Wu, Jianbing Han, Kaiqiang Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20374

TCIA: A Task-Centric Instruction Augmentation Method for Instruction Finetuning
Diverse instruction data is vital for effective instruction tuning of large language models, as it enables the model to generalize across different types of inputs . Building such diversified instruction dataset is an essential step in this process. Existing approaches often leverage large language models to automatically explore and generate diverse instructions, ensuring both data diversity and quality. However, they tend to overlook an important factor in real-world applications: on-task rel…

https://www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/07/28/rte-investigating-potential-cyber-security-incident/
RTÉ investigating potential cyber security incident

RTÉ investigating potential cyber security incident
National Cyber Security Centre made contact with broadcaster in recent days

Micah Parsons, Cowboys contract soap opera 'getting close to resolution,' insider says https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-dallas-cowboys-contract-soap-opera-getting-close-resolution-nfl-insider-sa…

#ContemporaryContradictions #HashTagGames
Rules: include as many contradictions s you'd like. Can be profound or trivial. Each contradiction is stated via exactly 1 or 2 questions, no statements and not more than 2 questions. Try to group yours into a single post, rather than one post per contradiction, so that it's easier to see more voices when scrolling the hash tag.
Why does "race" work according to the "one drop rule" if you have Black ancestors, but according to "blood quantum" if you have Indigenous ancestors? Who benefits from this arrangement?
Why do we think of seeds as merely a reproduction mechanism for trees, instead of thinking of trees as merely a reproduction mechanism for seeds, especially since some plants can spend millennia as seeds but can survive for only part of a year after sprouting? Are metabolic activity or structural complexity really so important?
If Columbus discovered America, did Batu Khan discover Europe? What is an "Age of Discovery?"
Why don't corporations in the US try to lobby the government for a single-payer healthcare system where the government foots the bill for healthcare instead of companies paying to deeply subsidize their employees' healthcare? What benefit do they gain that's worth that cost, which in other countries is paid for via taxes?
Why is the cost of renting (which gets you zero equity) anywhere close to the cost of a mortgage (which eventually gets you ownership)? If the costs are similar but the benefits are so different, why does anyone ever rent?
Why do we obsess over the fruit/vegetable classification of tomatoes, but not corn, okra, cucumbers, zucchini, etc.?

The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives.
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30,
a casualty of Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance
—and its push away from science.
As part of the overarching…

After Trump Cut the National Science Foundation by 56 Percent, a Venerable Arctic Research Center Closes Its Doors - Inside Climate News
After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States will close Sept. 30, a casualty of President Donald Trump’s proposed budget cuts and his administration’s focus on using the Arctic as an outpost for national security and energy dominance—and its push away from science. As part of the overarching defunding of science […]

Over the past decade I’ve truly been struggling with the idea of human-centric design.

Putting people first is a major contributor to the climate crisis.

These days, instead, I make an effort to use the term ’universal wellbeing’.

https://axbom.com/design-for-universal-wellbeing/

Finding Flow
#InstrumentalMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/finding-flow-

Finding Flow #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

'Egotistical' Micah Parsons 'rankled teammates' in Cowboys locker room, insider says https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/egotistical-micah-parsons-rankled-teammates-dallas-cowboys-locker-room-nfl-insider-sa…