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This week’s edition of my @… newsletter shines a light on the impact of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) across multiple computing eras—leading right up to today.
We’ve arrived at a moment where loose coupling principles are cool (and super useful) again.
Naturally, there are some live demo nuggets in the post to help bring it all to life:
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The Model Context Protocol: Bridging Generational Computing Experiences
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is emerging as a transformative force in computing, with its significance uniquely appreciated across generational lines. This new protocol serves as crucial middleware for LLM-powered productivity tools, addressing needs that previous computing paradigms couldn't fu

sp_office: Workplace contacts (2013)
A temporal network of contacts between individuals, measured in an office building in France, from June 24 to July 3, 2013.
This network has 92 nodes and 9827 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sp_offi

Figma releases Dev Mode Model Context Protocol server, which provides more context about how AI designs are created in Figma (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/679439/figma-dev-mode-mcp-server-beta-release

Figma will let your AI access its design servers
Figma is launching a Dev Mode MCP Server that can help AI models more effectively translate designs into fully coded applications.

Context as Memory: Scene-Consistent Interactive Long Video Generation with Memory Retrieval
Jiwen Yu, Jianhong Bai, Yiran Qin, Quande Liu, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Xihui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03141

Context as Memory: Scene-Consistent Interactive Long Video Generation with Memory Retrieval
Recent advances in interactive video generation have shown promising results, yet existing approaches struggle with scene-consistent memory capabilities in long video generation due to limited use of historical context. In this work, we propose Context-as-Memory, which utilizes historical context as memory for video generation. It includes two simple yet effective designs: (1) storing context in frame format without additional post-processing; (2) conditioning by concatenating context and frame…

Midplane based 3D single pass unbiased segment-to-segment contact interaction using penalty method
Indrajeet Sahu, Nik Petrinic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04841

Midplane based 3D single pass unbiased segment-to-segment contact interaction using penalty method
This work introduces a contact interaction methodology for an unbiased treatment of contacting surfaces without assigning surfaces as master and slave. The contact tractions between interacting discrete segments are evaluated with respect to a midplane in a single pass, inherently maintaining the equilibrium of tractions. These tractions are based on the penalisation of true interpenetration between opposite surfaces, and the procedure of their integral for discrete contacting segments is descr…

Découvrez l'histoire poignante de 4 générations de victimes et de plus d'une centaine d'enfants sur https://chardonsbleus.org/contexte-4-generations-de-victimes-une-centaine-denfants-okc/ 💔

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17433 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

MemeReaCon: Probing Contextual Meme Understanding in Large Vision-Language Models
Memes have emerged as a popular form of multimodal online communication, where their interpretation heavily depends on the specific context in which they appear. Current approaches predominantly focus on isolated meme analysis, either for harmful content detection or standalone interpretation, overlooking a fundamental challenge: the same meme can express different intents depending on its conversational context. This oversight creates an evaluation gap: although humans intuitively recognize ho…

Good Morning #Canada
Today is "taking a break from packing up the house and going golfing day." Did you know there are over 2,200 golf facilities in Canada, with 90% of those being public. That means golf remains accessible and it's becoming less expensive to get started with lower cost starter sets and growth in the used club marketplace. Here are the top 50 public and private courses as ranked by Canadian PGA members.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Golf
https://golftalkcanada.com/pga-of-canada-top-100/

sp_high_school: High school temporal contacts (2013)
These data sets correspond to the contacts and friendship relations between students in a high school in Marseilles, France, in December 2013, as measured through several techniques.
This network has 329 nodes and 188508 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

sp_hospital: Hospital ward dynamic contacts (2010)
This dataset contains the temporal network of contacts between patients, patients and health-care workers (HCWs) and among HCWs in a hospital ward in Lyon, France, from Monday, December 6, 2010 at 1:00 pm to Friday, December 10, 2010 at 2:00 pm. The study included 46 HCWs and 29 patients.
This network has 75 nodes and 32424 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata