2024-03-10 07:48:27
General Staff: Russia has lost 424,060 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/10/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 424,060 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/10/general-staff-russia.html
UK-based nonprofit newsroom Open Democracy cuts staff, citing inflation and uncertain funding; source: the cuts are expected to impact around 10 of its 52 staff (Bron Maher/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/open-democracy-redundancies-cuts/
General Staff: Russia has lost 479,710 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/10/general-staff-russia.html
This stops short of naming names, but only just
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2024/05/09/ul-staff-expressed-multiple-concerns-very-early-on-over-student-housing-project-pac-hears/
Baidu VP Qu Jing posted several videos on Douyin demeaning staff, intended to promote Baidu, that reignited criticism of Chinese tech companies' work culture (Financial Times)
https://t.co/PbuHgbu1jt
General Staff: Russia has lost 450,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/11/general-staff-russia.html
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Another old friend has gone 😧
In 1961 - 1964 we spent time in the Edinburgh Univ staff club, putting the world to rights. I discovered only later why he sometimes seemed a bit distracted -he was writing his famous papers!
The staff club vanished ages ago, the world got worse and now Peter has gone.
https://
Trump team throws out GOP plan and builds a ‘leaner’ 2024 operation
The new plan calls for fewer offices, less staff and a focus on new partnerships with outside groups
— raising concerns among some Republicans.
The shift comes as President Biden’s campaign and its allies,
have been moving in the opposite direction,
building a more expansive operation sooner than in 2020.
Strategists for both major parties expect Democrats to raise and spend more than Rep…
General Staff: Russia has lost 424,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/11/general-staff-russia.html
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So many things came out of the Open Science Retreat this year! 🤩
A bot that shares learning resources, a guidance document for staff assessment, and speculative fiction are just a few examples.
Read this week's newsletter post to dive in 💌
#osr24nl #OpenScience
Sources: The WSJ lays off at least 11, primarily on its visuals desk and in video roles; some laid off were in the "Journalists as Creators" YouTube partnership (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/wall-street-
49ers hire former Raiders OC Mick Lombardi to coaching staff https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/49ers_hire_former_raiders_oc_mick_lombardi_to_coaching_staff/s1_17111_40074359
I'm doing a little presentation on #Zen #art later this week (focusing on Hakuin). I'm currently reading: Pamela Winfield and Steven Heine, 2017, *Zen and Material Culture.*
Hakuin gave students who had an awakening a painting of a fly-whisk (= a not-so-violent way to shoo flies, as well as a ritual…
"We may be certain that if it was #Hamas being accused of torturing workers for international aid agencies in order to extract false confessions, we’d never hear the end of it"
#GazaGenocide
#Torture
Can't tell if this is a welcome return to an interest i've neglected, or an extreme form of procrastination in the face of other commitments, but lately I've felt a strong and quite persistent urge to have another go at working my way through SICP:
(if anyone else on here wanted to have a go at a chapter a week with a bit of discussion on a hashtag, that could be fun)
Vice's cunning, irreverent journalism is dead – and executives with bloated pay cheques helped kill it | Sirin Kale https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/27/vice-clever-irreverent-executives-helped-kill-it
This sounds like fun. Maybe we could make an escape room like this…
https://azmirror.com/2024/05/10/in-role-playing-elections-officials-for-a-day-journalists-grapple-with-ai-trickery/
@…
#WhatAreTheyTellingUs "you're doin' so good all you staff and volunteers. I appreciate you. make sure to get self care!"
(this is what I imagine every time you say that xD but I'm sure the paper reviews are interesting O.o)
“The good news is that people still read lots of books and that anybody who has the content and wants to deliver it into the marketplace as a book can do so at a highly manageable cost. The bad news is that new careers delivering the creative works in a structured and predictable ecosystem that values experience and a network of professional contacts are vanishing before they begin.” #publishing
Thanks for getting back to me, Rootlayer, but if it takes you ~30 days to stop a spammer, you're always gonna have spammers.
On 21/02/2024 2:30 am, Andy Smith wrote:
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The service has been suspended on 10th of March 2024 due to abu…
General Staff: Russia has lost 478,730 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/09/general-staff-russia.html
San Francisco Bay Area peeps!
THURSDAY, April 11th
@ CCRMA
(660 Lomita Ct, Stanford)
#PamelaZ will perform a selection of solo works for voice, electronics, and video.
This event is free and open to the public.
Interviews with 12 former and current employees: ByteDance faces backlash from its US TikTok staff over large tax bills on stock shares they are unable to sell (Financial Times)
https://t.co/DRHvI1G4xC
Gannett fired an editor for talking to me - Poynter #gannett
Lineup Publishing says it plans to relaunch Deadspin next week; it appears the new Deadspin will focus on sports betting (A.J. Perez/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/deadspin-relaunch-malta-owners/
Longtime Seahawks LB K.J. Wright on joining rival 49ers coaching staff: 'This isn't some vendetta move'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…
webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 348 nodes and 33250 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…
This guy looks edible.
“Andreessen Horowitz investor says half of Google's white-collar staff probably do 'no real work’”
https://www.businessinsider.com/andreessen-horowitz-david-ulevitch-comment…
Emma McIntosh, "Special project G*: Ontario government staff used code name for Greenbelt carveouts"
#onpoli <…
“The Autauga-Prattville Alabama Library board has fired the library director for refusing to move or remove 113 books that they feel are "inappropriate". The rest of the staff did something heroic in solidarity with their colleague: they walked out, locked up the library, and said No to this unethical board action. Then, the board fired four more staff members.“
Today I submitted an application to the @… Fellowship programme!
Many thanks for adjusting this programme so that support staff can also apply!
The aimed project focuses on tracking research objects other than research articles, in order to place the focus more on #OpenScience in #ResearchAssessment.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10939832
I should know more in the next couple of months whether the project is actually selected 😬
Course there's also no chance at all that I'll be asking users of this instance to upload sensitive ID documents or pay staff to verify they're live on camera.
There is also no chance at all that I will scan ID and upload it and peer into a live-cam to get access to Facebook or Twitter.
I mean I already quit those things anyway.
I wonder what proportion of my friends still using them will do so?
Less than half i reckon.
The Cowboys have had recent success with compensatory picks https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/the_cowboys_have_had_recent_success_with_compensatory_picks/s1_17100_40081344
Uhm... this article mentions "anti [GPS] jamming technologies". Is this even possible? Any idea about what it might refer to? Maybe some short of mitigations or alternate positioning system?
https://www.nknews.org/2024/03/north-korea
🤔 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:
Researchers found an exposed Azure server with credentials used by Microsoft staff to access internal systems; Microsoft was told Feb. 6 and secured it March 5 (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/microsoft-…
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16101 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…
The birthplace of the atomic bomb is booming. Neighbors worry that could make them sick
Los Alamos is once again booming as the US modernizes its nuclear arsenal. Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the only facility in the country currently producing plutonium cores of nuclear weapons, aim to ramp up production from zero to 30 pits per year over the next two years.
The lab has hired some 4,000 new employees in the last two years, bringing the staff population u…
General Staff: Russia has lost 477,430 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/08/general-staff-russia.html
Thanks for getting back to me, Rootlayer, but if it takes you ~30 days to stop a spammer, you're always gonna have spammers.
On 21/02/2024 2:30 am, Andy Smith wrote:
[an abuse report for very obvious phishing]
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2024 17:45:30 0600
From: Rootlayer Staff | Mohammad Anas <complain@rootlayer.net>
The service has been suspended on 10th of March 2024 due to abu…
❝The 51-year-old man had smuggled his work into the display at Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne, “in the hope of achieving his artistic breakthrough”, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported, citing police sources.❞ https://www.theguardian.…
Gannett fired an editor for talking to me - Poynter #gannett
Source: Amazon Prime Video plans to lay off less than 5% of its staff across its European offices, as part of a restructure impacting Europe, MENA, and Africa (Jesse Whittock/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/prime-video-staff-lay…
How OpenAI is preparing to fight lawsuits, investigations, and legislation: expanding its staff to 1,000 from 200 in 2022, hiring in-house lawyers, and more (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/09/openai-lawsui…
Longtime Seahawks LB K.J. Wright on joining rival 49ers coaching staff: 'This isn't some vendetta move'
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…
Dmytro KOROSTELIOV: We had to think fast Director of Lavanda LLC, Dmytro KOROSTELIOV, is one of those courageous Ukrainian farmers who in the wartime managed to preserve the company, the staff and, de Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/dmytro-korostelov-my-ne-maly-ch…
Sources: some NIST staff have threatened to resign over the expected appointment of an "effective altruist" AI researcher to the US AI Safety Institute (Sharon Goldman/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/n…
General Staff: Russia has lost 421,430 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/07/general-staff-russia.html
Five early bold predictions for the Dallas Cowboys in 2024 https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/five_early_bold_predictions_for_the_dallas_cowboys_in_2024/s1_17150_40342165
AP study: ~70% of newsroom staff used AI to write social media posts, newsletters, and headlines, 56% support banning AI generation of entire articles, and more (Alex Mahadevan/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2024/artificial-int…
General Staff: Russia has lost 475,300 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/06/general-staff-russia.html
Titans expect Burks to 'carve out a role' in 2024 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40114405/titans-expect-wr-treylon-burks-carve-role-2024
General Staff: Russia has lost 476,460 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/07/general-staff-russia.html
LAist initiates a voluntary buyout program for staff to avoid layoffs as it faces a "significant budget shortfall" ranging from $4M-$5M in the next two years (Christi Carras/Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts
US soldier detained in Russia and accused of theft
US officials said the soldier, Staff Sgt Gordon Black, 34, was stationed in South Korea and was in the process of returning home to Fort Cavazos in Texas. Instead, officials said, he traveled to Russia.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personnel details.
Cynthia Smith, an army spokesperson, confirmed that a soldier was detained on Thursday in Vladivostok, a major military and commercial Pacific port, …
Titans expect Burks to 'carve out a role' in 2024 https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/40114405/titans-expect-wr-treylon-burks-carve-role-2024
Three Catholic radio stations file a petition against the FCC over requirements mandating that radio and TV stations publish info about staff race and gender (Jonah McKeown/Catholic News Agency)
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/25
General Staff: Russia has lost 420,270 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/06/general-staff-russia.html
Gannett fires an experienced editor overseeing 26 community newspapers for "sharing proprietary information" with a "competing media company", which was Poynter (Rick Edmonds/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2024/ga
Suspect arrested in arson attack on Bernie Sanders’ office
Authorities say they have arrested an alleged arsonist accused of setting the US senator Bernie Sanders’ Burlington, Vermont, office on fire while staff worked inside
https://www.thegu…
NFL free agency 2024 live updates: Cousins, Wilson latest, predictions, best available, news, analysis and reactions https://theathletic.com/live-blogs/nfl-free-agency-live-updates-signings-deals-news-2024/U69UTjqPuE7d/…
General Staff: Russia has lost 474,260 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/05/general-staff-russia.html
Source: Sam Altman will be reinstated to OpenAI's board of directors, alongside three new directors Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, and Fidji Simo (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sam-altma…
General Staff: Russia has lost 473,400 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/04/general-staff-russia.html
The COO of Binance US testified in Dec. 2023 that after the SEC sued Binance in June, Binance US laid off two-thirds of its staff and revenue plunged ~75% (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/05/binance-us-layoffs-crypto-sec-cz-zha…
General Staff: Russia has lost 444,370 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/03/general-staff-russia.html
The COO of Binance US testified in Dec. 2023 that after the SEC sued Binance in June, Binance US laid off two-thirds of its staff and revenue plunged ~75% (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2024/03/05/binance-us-layoffs-crypto-sec-cz-zha…
Sources: 49ers promote for DC; Staley joins staff https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39636919/sources-49ers-promote-sorensen-dc-add-staley-staff
General Staff: Russia has lost 470,870 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/02/general-staff-russia.html
Internal memo: Shein tells staff that the company is stepping up efforts to keep products made with forced labor off its platform, citing tougher US enforcement (Jing Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/sh
General Staff: Russia has lost 443,660 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/02/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 442,880 troops in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/01/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Ukraine hit Russian troops clustered in Olenivka, 19 soldiers killed: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/general-staff-ukraine.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 468,720 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/30/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 442,170 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/31/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 413,760 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 441,520 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/30/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 466,150 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/28/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 440,790 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/29/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 411,550 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/27/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 439,970 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 463,930 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/26/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 439,190 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 409,820 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/25/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 462,980 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/25/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 437,390 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/25/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 436,750 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/24/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 408,240 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/23/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 461,060 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/23/general-staff-russia.html
General Staff: Russia has lost 407,240 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/22/general-staff-russia.html
Case against brother of Zelensky's chief of staff closed, says anti-corruption agency: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/01/case-against-brother.html