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The nation’s largest public four-year university may soon be barred from replacing faculty with generative AI
as a bill backed by a union of professors comes nearer to reaching the governor’s desk.
Few examples exist of the California State University’s attempting to replace faculty labor with generative AI tools,
but the faculty union wants to prevent such efforts from ever getting off the ground.
The bill so far has garnered no opposition from lawmakers and may clear…

Cal State faculty push to prevent AI tools from replacing them as schools and staff experiment
The union representing California State University professors is contesting the system's use of artificial intelligence tools and backing legislation that would protect their jobs from the technology.

Does being an emoji researcher make me more wary to use them - like am I watching my emoji use all the time? - I'd say the opposite is true, I feel more free and whimsical in using emojis, as I see them all the time in different contexts, and I can easily pretend to just use them ironically or "for work" 🤩 #emojis #linguistics #worldEmojiDay

"Aux Etats-Unis, une opposition grandissante Š Flock, un réseau de 120 000 caméras qui identifient les voitures"
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/artic

Aux Etats-Unis, une opposition grandissante à Flock, un réseau de 120 000 caméras qui identifient les voitures
Le mouvement de contestation s’étend contre ce système de détection des plaques d’immatriculation, commercialisé par une société privée et considéré comme intrusif et liberticide. Sous pression, une centaine de villes ont rompu leur contrat avec l’entreprise.

Red scaremonger wanted.
Third Way, the corporate-backed “centrist” think tank pushing Democrats to the right,
is hiring a new
Director for “Anti-Extremism.”
That person will be responsible for overseeing a takedown of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
by “assembling and updating a database of the DSA’s most extreme ideas and statements,”
including a “repository of voting records, affiliations, and issue positions.”

Corporate Democrats Are Hiring A Socialist Hunter
Third Way’s director for “anti-extremism" will conduct opposition research against the Democratic Socialists of America and launch a guerrilla media campaign against their ideas.

Several members of Armenia's opposition were arrested Friday
while a major pro-Russia party asked the top court to annul this month's election win by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's ruling party,
alleging electoral violations and suppression of the opposition.
The opposition "Strong Armenia" party appealed to the Constitutional Court
to invalidate election results or call a second round of voting,
and denounced the arrests of opposition po…

Armenian opposition members arrested after contesting election
The opposition Strong Armenia party appealed to the Constitutional Court on Friday to invalidate election results or call a second round of voting, citing widespread electoral violations.

I just don’t see it as red. I’m admittedly biased, but Balogun is off balance from the mutual contact. It meets some of the standards, but red feels like a rounding up. That he’d didn’t even give a yellow on the field?
In the way this game has been officiated, to then make this call?
Extremely consequential.
#USABIH

Just set up some new IAQ monitoring stations around the house. Still want to put one in the bedroom to see how stuffy it gets at night with the door closed, but I only had four units so this is what I started with.
Particle counts are Sensirion SEN5x, CO2 and most other atmospheric data SCD4x.
Haven't done any kind of zero cal on the CO2 and they've been sitting around idle for a while, so there's probably a bit of offset that will need to be corrected - the one on th…

Radiometric Thermal Imaging Dataset of Laboratory Rats with Anatomical Segmentation Masks
Dima Bykhovsky, Evyatar Chaimoff, Pe'er Eden, Tom Simkin, Oshrit Hoffer, Shahar Cohen, Bar Eilat Yogev, Gal Levi, Noa Efroni, Doron Todder, Hagit Cohen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03481 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.03481 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.03481
arXiv:2608.03481v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Infrared thermography provides a contact-free, restraint-free method to record surface temperatures. It serves as a valuable marker for thermoregulatory responses in laboratory animal stress and pharmacology research. However, the analysis of these images is currently bottlenecked by the manual delineation of anatomical regions. To date, no public dataset has provided paired radiometric thermal frames of rats with pixel-level body-part labels. We present a dataset of 1,655 quality-controlled radiometric thermal frames from 25 laboratory rats. Each frame is paired with a dense four-class anatomical segmentation mask (background, head, body, and tail) and the raw $480 \times 640$ temperature matrix (rows $\times$ columns) in degrees Celsius. This ensures every label is registered directly to the physical temperature it describes rather than a color-mapped rendering. The frames originate from two pharmacological cohorts where interventions alter thermoregulation in opposite directions: ethanol, which induces peripheral vasodilation, and ketamine, which affects central thermoregulation. This provides a wide and physiologically diverse range of surface temperature regimes. Aggregated across the dataset, the per-class temperatures follow a head~$>$~body~$>$~tail ordering in physical units. To demonstrate that the data support pixel-level segmentation directly from the radiometric channel, we present an exploratory U-Net segmentation pipeline that attains a subject-level cross-validated mean intersection-over-union of $0.895 \pm 0.006$. The dataset provides a reuse-ready benchmark for thermal semantic segmentation and for downstream physiological and stress-phenotyping analyses.
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The Health Department’s office to improve the health of minorities has abruptly terminated more than half its existing grants,
saying they didn’t focus on the Trump administration’s new priorities of
-- addressing infertility and encouraging exercise.
Some grantees provided cancer screenings or postpartum home visits.
Others worked to reduce first-responder suicide or decrease obesity among Native American youth.
All of the funds came from the Office of Minority…

HHS Cancels Infant Mortality, Postpartum Grants to Focus on Sperm Counts, ED
Officials at the Office of Minority Health told grantees that they’re prioritizing “root causes” of infertility and promoting exercise.

SCMS 2027 CFP: The Black Box: Opacity in Cinema and Media
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