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Vivani subsidiary Cortigent (which took over the visual prosthesis technology of Second Sight Medical Products) claims that "Argus II has been discontinued due to the small population of patients with RP" https://www.cortigent.com/argus-ii after 350 blind people had received the Argus II retinal …

Fine - you win this round McD's

from my link log —
2025 M7.7 earthquake at Mandalay in Burma / Myanmar.
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5f3e33e35c5247c9bf5204fa0d6e56e5
saved 2025-05-15

2025 M7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) Earthquake
United States Geological Survey and Collaborators

ArgusCogito: Chain-of-Thought for Cross-Modal Synergy and Omnidirectional Reasoning in Camouflaged Object Segmentation
Jianwen Tan, Huiyao Zhang, Rui Xiong, Han Zhou, Hongfei Wang, Ye Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18050

ArgusCogito: Chain-of-Thought for Cross-Modal Synergy and Omnidirectional Reasoning in Camouflaged Object Segmentation
Camouflaged Object Segmentation (COS) poses a significant challenge due to the intrinsic high similarity between targets and backgrounds, demanding models capable of profound holistic understanding beyond superficial cues. Prevailing methods, often limited by shallow feature representation, inadequate reasoning mechanisms, and weak cross-modal integration, struggle to achieve this depth of cognition, resulting in prevalent issues like incomplete target separation and imprecise segmentation. Ins…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Alvvays:
🎵 In Undertow
#Alvvays
https://polyvinylrecords.bandcamp.com/track/alvvays-in-undertow
https://open.spotify.com/track/2A0Rzes11fJBmvvpG4tGfm

Hey everyone, every Tuesday, my friend @… asks for your help to feed her family. She can’t do it today (they’re trying to stay alive during a genocide) so she asked if I could do it on her behalf.

They need $500 each week for their family of 6.

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Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza. I'm creating this Chuffed campaign for the family to help afford these things and hopefully help them get out of Gaza when the opportunity arises. Here's Aseel's writing:

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sio:
🎵 Twilight
#NowPlaying #Sio
https://iamsio.bandcamp.com/track/twilight-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/0a3rqOGcFX798A4RGd1vrv

Surveying the Whirlpool at Arcseconds with NOEMA (SWAN): III. $^{13}$CO/C$^{18}$O ratio variations across the M51 galaxy
Ina Gali\'c, Mallory Thorp, Frank Bigiel, Eva Schinnerer, Jakob den Brok, Hao He, Mar\'ia J. Jim\'enez-Donaire, Lukas Neumann, Jerome Pety, Sophia K. Stuber, Antonio Usero, Ashley T. Barnes, Dario Colombo, Daniel A. Dale, Timothy A. Davis, J. E. M\'endez-Delgado, Hsi-An Pan, Miguel Querejeta, Thomas G. Williams

Surveying the Whirlpool at Arcseconds with NOEMA (SWAN): III. $^{13}$CO/C$^{18}$O ratio variations across the M51 galaxy
CO isotopologues are common tracers of the bulk molecular gas in extragalactic studies, providing insights into the physical and chemical conditions of the cold molecular gas, a reservoir for star formation. Since star formation occurs within molecular clouds, mapping CO isotopologues at cloud-scale is important to understanding the processes driving star formation. However, achieving this mapping at such scales is challenging and time-intensive. The Surveying the Whirlpool Galaxy at Arcseconds…

Joe Rogan Turns on Trump Administration Over Epstein Crisis: 'Do They Think We're Babies?' (Liam Archacki/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/joe-rogan-tears-into-trump-administration-over-epstein-crisis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p41#a250726p41

pleonanthy = iteroparity
https://bsky.app/profile/scottzona.bsky.social/post/3lunhuh2i362o

🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 (@scottzona.bsky.social)
Monocarpy evolved several times in the palm family. Here it is in Metroxylon vitiense. Surprisingly, M. sagu (sago palm) produces offsets before dying like some agaves (not monocarpic); M. amicarum flowers year after year w/o dying (pleonanthy = iteroparity). #Arecaceae #monocarpy #Botany 🌾🧪🌱