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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.

#FOSS4GAsia 2026 — Asia’s biggest open-source GIS event — is happening in Nashik, India in January 2026!
🎥 Watch the full announcement video: https://youtu.be/26RLDHdoR0Y

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 From this date onwards, all newly installed public EV charging stations will be required to support the outdated EN ISO 15118-2 standard, without specifying the functionality.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…

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 👇

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

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…

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…

CFP-The Text: Vol.8 No.1-January 2026 Issue https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/07/18/cfp-the-text-vol8-no1-january-2026-issue

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…

Your regular reminder that I've made all my bookmarks on digital harm public since January 2019.

Closing in on 4,000 bookmarks…

Find them here:

https://raindrop.io/axbom/digital-ethics-6334413/

#DigitalEthics

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…

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

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…

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…

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12282

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the first part of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing run
We present an all-sky search for long-duration gravitational waves (GWs) from the first part of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run (O4), called O4a and comprising data taken between 24 May 2023 and 16 January 2024. The GW signals targeted by this search are the so-called "long-duration" (> 1 s) transients expected from a variety of astrophysical processes, including non-axisymmetric deformations in magnetars or eccentric binary coalescences. We make minimal assumptions on the emitted GW …

Analysis of 1.76M Community Notes received by X from January 2021 to March 2025: 90% of submitted notes are never published, with many notes "stuck in limbo" (DDIA)
https://ddia.org/en/a-deep-dive-into-xs-community-notes-report

A Deep Dive into X’s Community Notes: An Analysis of English and Spanish Contributions Between 2021 and 2025
The Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA) examined how X’s Community Notes system functions across English and Spanish, drawing from over 1.76 million notes submitted globally between 2021 and 2025. The report explores submission and publication dynamics, contributor behavior, and systemic challenges like transparency gaps and rating backlogs. As community-driven content moderation becomes a global model, this report sheds light on its potential, and limitations, for building a h…

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.

CFP-The Text: Vol.8 No.1-January 2026 Issue
https://ift.tt/Z8JPRUi
updated: Friday, July 18, 2025 - 12:04pmfull name / name of organization: The Text (ISSN:…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

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

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.

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

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…

News outlet Iran International says that Banished Kitten, a threat group linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, likely installed malware on its journalists' Telegram accounts in two coordinated attacks in 2024 and 2025.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202507084950

Leaked materials came from previously reported cyberattacks, Iran International confirms
Iran International confirmed on Tuesday that recently published materials from the hacked Telegram accounts of its journalists are linked to two separate cyberattacks carried out in the summer of 2024 and January 2025.

"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.

Who could've guessed?
https://ni.hil.ist/@mu/114840348453639236

We've Issued Our First IP Address Certificate
#LetsEncrypt

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.

😡
#USpol

the EU "Stop Killing Games" initiative is doing a great job for video games. We need something the same for home automation devices and cars and stuff:
#stopkillinggames #consumerrights #eol

Belkin is ending support for nearly all its Wemo smart home devices
Wemo hardware will stop working in January 2026 unless it’s been set up in Apple HomeKit. Belkin has announced that it’s made the “difficult decision” to end support for almost its entire line of Wemo smart home devices from January 31st, 2026. The only models that will continue to work after that …

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.

Emil Bove declines to rule out 3rd Trump term or denounce Jan. 6 rioters in Senate questionnaire (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emil-bove-senate-questionnaire-trump-third-term-january-6/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p52#a250711p52

Copies of this should be hung all over the US...
"‘Don’t forget’: mural brings attention to the January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/wall-of-shame-january-6-pardons

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

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:

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.

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

Over 210,000 Russians sign contracts for war in Ukraine in first half of 2025, Moscow says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/over-russians-sign-contracts-for.html

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

Belkin announces it is ending support for its Wemo devices and app on January 31, 2026; a limited number of devices will continue to function via HomeKit (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/07/10/belkin-wemo-smart-home-shutdown-list/

Belkin pulls the plug on Wemo smart home products which will stop working in 2026
Belkin has announced that it will shut down all services for its Wemo smart home products in early 2026, and there's a full list.

I get the intent, and it might work with some JS to narrow the possibilities to what's valid (like j-{a-nuary,uly-,une-}), but I suspect a simple season picker (like winter-{December,January,February}) would work better.
(HT @…)

49ers' Demarcus Robinson pleads no contest to misdemeanor DUI charge, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/49ers-demarcus-robinson-pleads-…

Use of Signal rapidly growing in the Netherlands since Trump took over in the US: 25 times more monthly new users since January. The Netherlands now has 2 million Signal users, putting it in the top-5 worldwide.
https://www.volkskra…

Gebruik Signal in Nederland explodeert: nu 25 keer hoger dan voor aantreden Trump
Het gebruik van de versleutelde communicatiedienst Signal is in Nederland fors gegroeid sinds het aantreden van president Trump in januari. Het aantal nieuwe maandelijkse registraties bij Signal ligt 25 keer hoger dan begin januari. Het aantal gebruikers is opgelopen tot ruim twee miljoen.

Phillip Bump's farewell after being downsized by #ElHefe #Bezos #WashingtonPost is commentary focused on #DJT being unable to simply sell his on…

Steve Bannon [a rightwing podcast and former Trump adviser] is flooding the zone. We need to flood the zone too but with the truth.”//
‘Don’t forget’: mural brings attention to the January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump - The Guardian https://apple.news/AEm6YfzZtRVa9_uBrpAejlw…

‘Don’t forget’: mural brings attention to the January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump — Guardian US
A giant new mural, titled Wall of Shame, has launched in Brooklyn, New York, to remind people of the alleged crimes committed by more than 1,500 Maga loyalists

Happy #aphelion to those that celebrate

Ron Filipkowsk said [on x], "Congress abdicated its role as a separate and independent branch of government on January 20 while also relinquishing all oversight responsibility, so it’s entirely appropriate for Johnson to show that he has surrendered his gavel to the executive."
'Stunning move': Observers react to Mike Johnson's 'dark symbolism' with Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/on-the-nose-johnson-gavel/

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.

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

Belkin will just cut off any Wemo Model (except for 4 Models) from having access to their servers on January 31st 2026, effectively bricking all those devices, making them unusable. They will all end up in the landfill. Thanks Belkin! Great job! The best part is: There are Models on this list that have been sold up until the end of 2023! #Belkin

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.

The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productivity: A Systematic Literature Review
Amr Mohamed, Maram Assi, Mariam Guizani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03156

The Impact of LLM-Assistants on Software Developer Productivity: A Systematic Literature Review
Large language model assistants (LLM-assistants) present new opportunities to transform software development. Developers are increasingly adopting these tools across tasks, including coding, testing, debugging, documentation, and design. Yet, despite growing interest, there is no synthesis of how LLM-assistants affect software developer productivity. In this paper, we present a systematic literature review of 37 peer-reviewed studies published between January 2014 and December 2024 that examine…

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…

When Harriet Impey started clearing out her childhood home after her parents died, she started with the clothes and was faced with a colossal quantity - which was a sign of things to come.
Back in January, she talked to me in episode 172 about the experience of clearing out a very large home of its very, very large volume of contents, and the way it was all immortalised in a film.
#WhereDragonsLive

Trump has turned the presidency into a branding machine that fills his coffers with cash.
He has also become the grand dispenser of rent -- deciding by himself which eager rent-seekers receive government benefits and subsidies.
In January 2016, Trump explained why he had been so generous to both parties with campaign donations.
“I’ve got to give to them, because when I want something, I get it. When I call, they kiss my ass,” he said

Trump’s honest graft
The president has turned himself into the central dispenser — and recipient — of economic opportunity.

Potential science with GW250114 -- the loudest binary black hole merger detected to date
Aleyna Aky\"uz, Alex Correia, Jada Garofalo, Keisi Kacanja, Labani Roy, Kanchan Soni, Hung Tan, Vikas Jadhav Y, Alexander H. Nitz, Collin D. Capano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08789

Potential science with GW250114 -- the loudest binary black hole merger detected to date
On January 14, 2025 the LIGO interferometers detected a gravitational wave from the merger of two black holes, GW250114. Using publicly available information, we estimate that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of GW250114 was $\sim 80$. This would make it three to four times louder than any other gravitational wave detected to date. GW250114 therefore offers a unique opportunity to make precise measurements of its source parameters and to test general relativity. In anticipation of its public dat…

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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Lung Leg:
🎵 Kung Fu on the Internet (Radio 1 Session, 29th January 1995)
#LungLeg
https://lungleg.bandcamp.com/track/kung-fu-on-the-internet
https://open.spotify.com/track/0vFPN8xDwz6xWrFrAQvIoz

How the GOP Brought Trump Back from the Dead (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-the-gop-brought-trump-back-from-dead-2020-2024-january-6-republicans-dawsey-pager-arnsdorf-trial-primary
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p129#a250708p129

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.

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

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.

Bilt Rewards, which offers rewards points for rent payments, raised $250M led by General Catalyst and GID at a $10.75B valuation, up from $3.1B in January 2024 (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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

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.

A giant new mural, titled
"Wall of Shame",
has launched in Brooklyn, New York,
to remind people of the crimes committed by more than 1,500 MAGA loyalists on January 6, 2021
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

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

"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...

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…

Ikea plans to relaunch its smart home line with 20 new Matter-over-Thread devices, set to release in January 2026, and updates its Dirigera smart home hub (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/smart-home/701697

Thread count: Ikea is stitching together a smarter home
With more than 20 Matter-over-Thread smart devices set to launch next year, Ikea is switching things up as it looks to make the smart home simpler and more affordable.

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

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

The year 2038 will be "interesting".
At 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038 we will hit what may be the real Y2K problem.
And will the US exist as a single nation-state in the year 2038? (I have serious doubts.)

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…

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.

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…

Since January, the NWS—a branch of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—has reduced its workforce by nearly 600 people as a direct result of staffing cuts ordered by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as part of Trump’s mission to eviscerate numerous federal agencies.
This policy is in line with Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation-led blueprint for a far-right overhaul of the federal government that calls for “dismantling” NOAA. Trump has also cal…

As flood deaths rise, Texas officials blast faulty forecast by DOGE-gutted National Weather Service
"Experts warned for months that drastic and sudden cuts at the National Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability and endanger lives during the storm season," said one critic.

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.

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.

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

From Tolstoy to Belichick, here are authors keeping NFL players busy reading https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45591898/2025-nfl-season-summer-reading-list

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…

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

Science of the LISA mission: A Summary for the European Strategy for Particle Physics
Chiara Caprini, Anna Heffernan, Richard Brito, Gabriele Franciolini, Germano Nardini, Nicola Tamanini, Dani\`ele Steer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05130

Science of the LISA mission: A Summary for the European Strategy for Particle Physics
The LISA mission is an international collaboration between ESA, its member states, and NASA, for the detection of gravitational waves from space. It was adopted in January 2024 and is scheduled for launch in the mid-2030's. It will be a constellation of three identical spacecraft forming a near-equilateral triangle in an heliocentric orbit, transferring laser beams over $2.5 \cdot 10^6$ km long arms. Laser interferometry is used to track separations between test masses, thus measuring spacetime…

“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 …

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.

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…

While it may not feel like it since January,
the rule of law still matters.
The U.S. remains a signatory to dozens of international agreements related to the use of force,
which ultimately protect our national security interests.
We have a raft of U.S. laws, including a Constitution and Bill of Rights,
that determine how and when our nation may legally engage in conflict abroad.
We are ill-served as a public when the most crucial decision a government can …

Trump endangers US by ignoring rule of law – Marin Independent Journal - EUROPE SAYS
Congressional approval for military engagement still matters. Here’s why.

CoinMarketCap: bitcoin's share of crypto market value grew to 64% this year, highest since January 2021, and altcoins lost $300B , as big investors flock to BTC (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

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.

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…

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.

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 3210 nodes and 6157 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted, Temporal

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…

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 68746 nodes and 51971 edges.

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