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Today is 20.00000% of the way through 2024.
It's chin-up day. It’s well before the Ides of March, let alone the end of Q1. I just surpassed the total number for all pulls in 2020.
Forget that what I was doing in 2020 barely qualified for pulls: they weren’t all the way down, and on top of that, my form was otherwise abysmal.
I've done 1190 pu…

Globally, March 2024 was:
• 0.73°C warmer than the 1991-2020 average for March
• the warmest March on record, 0.10°C warmer than March 2016, the previous warmest March
• 1.68°C warmer than an estimate of the pre-industrial average for 1850-1900
https://climate.copernicus.eu/surf…

#OTD on March 13th 2020 my school in San Jose, Willow Glen High School, announced a “two weeks break” in light of the Covid pandemic. Little did we know that this was the beginning of a nation wide lockdown causing this school to close for over a year.
In this video you can see us celebrating this decision as we thought all it would mean was less homework - be careful what you wish for!
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This was the last “normal” day although things had been getting weird. On Friday, March 13, 2020, I drove to pick up my kid from IMSA. They never went back. The following Monday, Shure announced everyone would be working remotely. They still are.

🤔 Trump years were the worst!
Headlines from The New York Times for Saturday, March 7, 2020
Top News
Spiraling Virus Fears Are Causing Financial Carnage
By DAVID ENRICH, JAMES B. STEWART and MATT PHILLIPS
‘The Only Choice Is to Wait for Death’
By CARLOTTA GALL
Trump Names Mark Meadows Chief of Staff, Ousting Mick Mulvaney
By PETER BAKER
Vote for Joe and Kamala!
:mastodon:

Headlines from The New York Times for Saturday, March 7, 2020
Today's Headlines

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06882 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

A Multi-wavelength Study on A Gamma-ray Bright AGN 1308+326 Using KVN at 22 and 43 GHz
In this paper, we conduct a multi-frequency analysis of the gamma-ray bright blazar 1308+326 from February 2013 to March 2020, using the Korean VLBI Network at 22 and 43 GHz and gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Our findings reveal spectral variations around the 2014 gamma-ray flare, aligning with the shock-in-jet model. A strong correlation is observed between gamma-ray and 43 GHz emissions, with a 27-day lag in the VLBI core light curve, indicating a 50-day delay from …

ROME/REA: Three-year, Tri-color Timeseries Photometry of the Galactic Bulge
R. A. Street, E. Bachelet, Y. Tsapras, M. P. G. Hundertmark, V. Bozza, D. M. Bramich, A. Cassan, M. Dominik, R. Figuera Jaimes, K. Horne, S. Mao, A. Saha, J. Wambsganss, Weicheng Zang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05987…

ROME/REA: Three-year, Tri-color Timeseries Photometry of the Galactic Bulge
The ROME/REA (Robotic Observations of Microlensing Events/Reactive Event Assessment) Survey was a Key Project at Las Cumbres Observatory (hereafter LCO) which continuously monitored 20 selected fields (3.76 sq.deg.) in the Galactic Bulge throughout their seasonal visibility window over a three-year period, between March 2017 and March 2020. Observations were made in three optical passbands (SDSS-g', -r', -i'), and LCO's multi-site telescope network enabled the survey to achieve a typical cadenc…

I just went back and read the T*****r thread from four years ago today where @… @… @… and…

Jonathan Howard:
I can’t stop thinking about the essay
"No, Young Adults Should Not Live in Fear from Coronavirus" by Drs. John Mandrola and Andrew Foy,
two so-called “medical conservatives”.
It was written on December 29th, 2020 in response to a research letter titled "All-Cause Excess Mortality and COVID-19–Related Mortality Among US Adults Aged 25-44 Years, March-July 2020",
which found that 4,535 COVID deaths were recorded among young ad…

Once a Doctor Has Minimized Literal Death for Young People, Should We Value Their Opinion on Any Topic Less Consequential Than Literal Death?
Is potential death worse than real death?

Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show A 'Corpse' In A Bodybag Smoking A Cigarette After Moscow Attack -- It's A 2020 Scene From A Music Video: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/25/fact-check-video.html

Giving a shoutout to UX Copenhagen, taking place on March 20-21.

I spoke at this amazing conference in March of 2020. Conference curator extraordinaire Helle Martens was able to move the entire event online, amidst reports of a quickly spreading virus, and still deliver a stellar experience for speakers and attendees.

I’ll myself be attending online this year for the 10th(!) installment of UX Copenhagen. The theme for 2024 is “Degrowth and Consumerism”:

> "For…

A Multi-wavelength Study on A Gamma-ray Bright AGN 1308 326 Using KVN at 22 and 43 GHz
Shan Li, Sang-sung Lee, Whee Yeon Cheong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06882

A Multi-wavelength Study on A Gamma-ray Bright AGN 1308+326 Using KVN at 22 and 43 GHz
In this paper, we conduct a multi-frequency analysis of the gamma-ray bright blazar 1308+326 from February 2013 to March 2020, using the Korean VLBI Network at 22 and 43 GHz and gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Our findings reveal spectral variations around the 2014 gamma-ray flare, aligning with the shock-in-jet model. A strong correlation is observed between gamma-ray and 43 GHz emissions, with a 27-day lag in the VLBI core light curve, indicating a 50-day delay from …

This was the warmest March on record here in the Netherlands:
Average temperature 8.9°C.
That's 2.4°C warmer than the (already warmed) 1991-2020 average, and 3.7⁰C warmer than the (already warmed) 20th century average.
It was 0.7°C warmer than the 20th century *April* average!
#globalwarming

I was just checking in on my local regional government's use of X/Twitter. It looks like they have removed it from their website and their contacts! 👍https://acrd.bc.ca (cc: @…)…

Idag för 4 år sedan infördes utegångsförbud (confinement) i Frankrike, pga covid-19.
Till skillnad från många andra utrikesjournalister stannade jag kvar i det land jag befann mig i, gick ut och berättade om vad som hände. Så här såg det ut i Belleville i norra Paris, där det vanligtvis är ett stort folkliv.
Det blev otaliga rapporter.
Jag insjuknade själv senare i hjärtmuskelinflammation i sviterna av covid 19. Men det är bra nu.
En oförglömlig tid. För oss alla. Hur my…

The pandemic inflicted higher rates of excess deaths on both Republicans and Democrats. But after COVID-19 vaccines arrived, Republican voters in Florida and Ohio died at a higher rate than their counterparts, according to a new study.
Researchers from Yale University who studied the pandemic's effects on those two states say that from the pandemic's start in March 2020 through December 2021, "excess mortality was significantly higher for Republican voters than Democratic v…

**Is the murder rate still higher in states that voted for Trump than in those that voted for Biden?** (see 2023 report below) If so, what convincing arguments have been presented to explain why the rate of murder and other violent crime are typically higher in Trump vs Biden states?
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The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem – Third Way
In March of 2022, we found that murder rates in 2020 were 40% higher in Trump-voting states than Biden-voting states. In this follow-up, we studied homicide data going back to 2000 to see if this one-year Red State murder epidemic was an anomaly. It was not. Despite a media narrative to the contrary, a wide and widening Red State murder gap has spanned the past two decades. The murder rate in Trump-voting states has exceeded the murder rate in Biden-voting states every year this century, with a…

Good Morning #Canada
Today is Maple Syrup Saturday (3rd Saturday in March), not to be confused with National Maple Syrup Day in Canada, which is December 17th. There is a long history of collecting sap and boiling it to create syrup - the metal tap and sap spigot was invented 160 years ago. Here's everything you need to know about Maple Syrup, a good read to accompany your pancakes or waffl…

Maple Syrup Industry
Canada is the world’s leading producer and exporter of maple products, accounting for 75 per cent of the global market. In 2020, Canadian producers exported ...

@… That’s why I created @…. Sometimes it really just doesn’t make sense how long ago March of 2020 is.

Trump’s trial calendar becomes clearer – as do his delay tactics
A federal case in Washington over Trump’s efforts to #overturn the 2020 #election had once been expected to go first.
But when Trump filed appeals on grounds of presidential immunity last year, the presiding US district judge, Tanya

2024 NFL Free Agency: 5 Best Fits For Titans RB Derrick Henry https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/2024_nfl_free_agency_5_best_fits_for_titans_rb_derrick_henry/s1_17304_39969121

2024 NFL Free Agency: 5 Best Fits For Titans RB Derrick Henry
Derrick Henry's time with the Tennessee Titans has come to an end. The NFL's leading rusher during the 2019 and 2020 seasons will become a free agent in March, and he’s not expected to return to the Titans.  But what teams could be in the market for Henry's services? Here are the top five landing spots for Henry this offseason.  It’s very likely the Las Vegas Raiders will lose their All-Pro running back this offseason because Josh Jacobs is scheduled to hit the market again. Jacobs led th…

2024 NFL Free Agency: 5 Best Fits For Titans RB Derrick Henry https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/2024_nfl_free_agency_5_best_fits_for_titans_rb_derrick_henry/s1_17304_39969121

2024 NFL Free Agency: 5 Best Fits For Titans RB Derrick Henry
Derrick Henry's time with the Tennessee Titans has come to an end. The NFL's leading rusher during the 2019 and 2020 seasons will become a free agent in March, and he’s not expected to return to the Titans.  But what teams could be in the market for Henry's services? Here are the top five landing spots for Henry this offseason.  It’s very likely the Las Vegas Raiders will lose their All-Pro running back this offseason because Josh Jacobs is scheduled to hit the market again. Jacobs led th…

Good Morning #Canada
Today is Maple Syrup Saturday (3rd Saturday in March), not to be confused with National Maple Syrup Day in Canada, which is December 17th. There is a long history of collecting sap and boiling it to create syrup - the metal tap and sap spigot was invented 160 years ago. Here's everything you need to know about Maple Syrup, a good read to accompany your pancakes or waffl…

Maple Syrup Industry
Canada is the world’s leading producer and exporter of maple products, accounting for 75 per cent of the global market. In 2020, Canadian producers exported ...