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Commander of Ukraine's elite police-formed brigade dies in car crash: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/commander-of-ukraines-elite-policeformed.html

Hi-Fi-Marken Bowers & Wilkins, Denon und Marantz unter Harman-Dach
Bowers & Wilkins, Denon und Marantz gehören nun zu der Samsung-Tochter Harman. Die Übernahme soll Identität und Design-Philosophie der Marken bewahren.

“You Either Have A Philosophy Or You Don’t”—Raiders HC Pete Carroll On ‘Competition Wednesday’ https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/22/you-either-have-a-philosophy-or-you-dont-raiders-hc-pete-carroll-on-competition-wednesda…

🌐 GÉANT sets a new benchmark for long-haul optical networking: 3,403 km of terrestrial transmission at 400G without transponders or regeneration!
This field trial, conducted in June on the GÉANT live production network using Cisco / Acacia 400G ULH QSFP-DD coherent pluggable optics, demonstrates the capabilities of new technologies to bridge extended distances without the need of traditional stand-alone DWDM transponders.
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I've been searching online to find reasons to use "mutate()" in R rather than directly assign to the column in the DF. No luck, lots on "how" but nothing on "why".
So I gave in and tried AI, which immediately gave me a long list of reasons, many of which I had already considered likely. So very plausible.
It didn't take me long to realise it was worth absolutely nothing: LLMs' strength is supplying plausible text, but what we are looking…

Na, es hat wohl seine Richtigkeit, dass die #Pollenflugmessung massig #Pilzsporen zeigt. 🍄‍🟫🍄

Ukrainian drones strike St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport, delaying more than 60 flights: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/24/ukrainian-drones-strike-st-petersburgs.html

This is a very good article regardless, but it makes a point widely ignored in the age of GenAI:
"While our results point to real growth in students’ intellectual abilities and dispositions, they do not capture everything philosophers mean by “intellectual virtue.” Intellectual virtue is not just a matter of possessing certain abilities but of using those abilities well: at the right times, for the right reasons, and in the right ways.
Our measures do not tell us whether phi…

Studying philosophy does make people better thinkers, according to new research on more than 600,000 college grads
Philosophers are fond of saying that their field boosts critical thinking. Two of them decided to put that claim to the test.

I *always* used to get sick when I traveled on planes.
Now I wear a (kf94) mask in the airport and during takeoffs & landings, and I haven't gotten sick since I started doing that.
https://mastodon.social/@plaguepoems/114892834963771706