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sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 23 nodes and 3197 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

American biotech company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced today that it's buying 23andMe,
the bankrupt consumer-genomics company that sold take-home DNA kits.
Regeneron is to pay $256 million in cash to acquire "substantially all" of 23andMe's assets,
including its massive biobank of around 15 million customer genetic samples and data.
Put simply, the genetic information of millions is now in the hands of a drugmaker seeking to mine it to make n…

Bankrupt 23andMe Just Sold Off All Your DNA Data
The consumer-genomics company 23andMe just sold its biobank of customer genetic data to drugmaker Regeneron for $256 million.

😠 Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/boffins_social_media_users_rubbish/

Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins
: Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

Amazing sentence:
"There is of course always the God of the uncriticizable self, who behaves with the same irritable intolerance as the monotheistic God in the face of even the faintest suggestion that one might consider behaving or thinking differently."
https://itself.blog/2025/07/27/chatgpt-is-going-to-kill-god/

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Writing has been an instrument for some of the highest expressions of the human spirit: poetry, philosophy, science. But to understand it — why it came into being, how it changed the human experience — we have to first appreciate its crass practicality. It evolved mainly as an instrument of the mundane: the economic, the administrative, the political.
Confusion over this point is understandable. Some scholars have equated the origin of “civilization” with the origin of writing. Laypeople sometimes take this equation to mean that with writing humanity put aside its barbarous past and started behaving in gentlemanly fashion, sipping tea and remembering to say “please.” And indeed, this may be only a mild caricature of what some nineteenth-century scholars actually meant by the equation: writing equals Greece equals Plato; illiteracy equals barbarism equals Attila the Hun.
But, in truth, if you add literacy to Attila the Hun, you don’t get Plato. You get Genghis Khan. During the thirteenth century, he administered what even today is the largest continuous land empire in the history of the world. And he could do so only because he had the requisite means of control: a script that, when carried by his pony express, amounted to the fastest large-scale information-processing technology of his era. One consequence was to give pillaging a scope beyond Attila’s wildest dreams. Information technology, like energy technology or any other technology, can be a tool for good or bad. By itself, it is no guarantor of moral progress or civility.
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(Robert Wright, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny)

Turning Tabular Foundation Models into Graph Foundation Models
Dmitry Eremeev, Gleb Bazhenov, Oleg Platonov, Artem Babenko, Liudmila Prokhorenkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20906

Turning Tabular Foundation Models into Graph Foundation Models
While foundation models have revolutionized such fields as natural language processing and computer vision, their application and potential within graph machine learning remain largely unexplored. One of the key challenges in designing graph foundation models (GFMs) is handling diverse node features that can vary across different graph datasets. Although many works on GFMs have been focused exclusively on text-attributed graphs, the problem of handling arbitrary features of other types in GFMs …

De 'partij' met slechts één – mannelijk – lid en niet eens een 'officiële' fanclub, heeft een kieslijst van 80 kandidaten opgesteld, of liever gezegd, van politieke landlopers, clochards.
Als die alle 80 – of zelfs maar 76 – zouden worden verkozen is het land tot een demagogische autocratische dictatuur verworden.
Alle PVV-kandidaten verkiezingen bekend, Bosma en Faber hoog op de lijst

Alle PVV-kandidaten verkiezingen bekend, Bosma en Faber hoog op de lijst
Gisteren maakte partijleider Wilders al de bovenste vier namen van de lijst openbaar.

The shadows and photon rings of two minimal deformations of Schwarzschild black holes
Hong-Er Gong, Junlin Qin, Yusen Wang, Bofeng Wu, Zhan-Feng Mai, Sen Guo, Enwei Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20419

The shadows and photon rings of two minimal deformations of Schwarzschild black holes
This paper primarily investigates the optical characteristics of two minimal Schwarzschild black hole deformations - the Kazakov-Solodukhin and Ghosh-Kumar black holes - under different accretion models. The event horizon, photon sphere, and critical impact parameter of the former increase compared with the Schwarzschild black hole, but those of the latter decrease. The data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration are used to constrain the parameter ranges of the two black holes. In the …

What?!
Youtube's algorythm is behaving... hm... weirdly. Now, completely out of the blue, suggests me a 2 days old video on something relating to the ZX Spectrum, with a grand total of 2 views.
What?! Why?!