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Calamus 22 Passing stranger!
An absolutely smoldering poem of unfulfilled desire from a casual encounter. It is delicious for its clear and direct explication of a very complicated emotion. The hottest line:
You give me the pleasure of your eyes, face, flesh, as we pass
The poem manages to capture three things in just ten lines.
Whitman is generously pan-gender but the text still feels queer-coded to me. Specifically in how the desire is kept secret: "I am not to speak to you... I am to wait". Combined with the street-cruising scenario (a theme in previous poems) and I can definitely relate to my gay experience.

Vietnam ends two-child policy as birth rate hits record low | The Straits Times
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-ends-two-child-policy-to-stem-falling-birth-rates

MERIT: Multilingual Semantic Retrieval with Interleaved Multi-Condition Query
Wei Chow, Yuan Gao, Linfeng Li, Xian Wang, Qi Xu, Hang Song, Lingdong Kong, Ran Zhou, Yi Zeng, Yidong Cai, Botian Jiang, Shilin Xu, Jiajun Zhang, Minghui Qiu, Xiangtai Li, Tianshu Yang, Siliang Tang, Juncheng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03144

MERIT: Multilingual Semantic Retrieval with Interleaved Multi-Condition Query
Semantic retrieval is crucial for modern applications yet remains underexplored in current research. Existing datasets are limited to single languages, single images, or singular retrieval conditions, often failing to fully exploit the expressive capacity of visual information as evidenced by maintained performance when images are replaced with captions. However, practical retrieval scenarios frequently involve interleaved multi-condition queries with multiple images. Hence, this paper introduc…

exhibit A / exhibit B
am i delirious or does this PHY just... not comply with the RMII spec??

MaXIFE: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Instruction Following Evaluation
Yile Liu, Ziwei Ma, Xiu Jiang, Jinglu Hu, Jing Chang, Liang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01776

MaXIFE: Multilingual and Cross-lingual Instruction Following Evaluation
With the rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in natural language processing, the ability to follow instructions has emerged as a key metric for evaluating their practical utility. However, existing evaluation methods often focus on single-language scenarios, overlooking the challenges and differences present in multilingual and cross-lingual contexts. To address this gap, we introduce MaXIFE: a comprehensive evaluation benchmark designed to assess instruction-following capabilities a…

Atomic-scale mapping of interfacial phonon modes in epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7-{\delta} / (La,Sr)(Al,Ta)O3 thin films: The role of surface phonons
Joaquin E. Reyes Gonzalez, Charles Zhang, Rainni K. Chen, John Y. T. Wei, Maureen J. Lagos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02237

Atomic-scale mapping of interfacial phonon modes in epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7-δ / (La,Sr)(Al,Ta)O3 thin films: The role of surface phonons
We investigate the behavior of phonons at the epitaxial interface between YBa2Cu3O7-δ thin film and (La,Sr)(Al,Ta)O3 substrate using vibrational electron energy loss spectroscopy. Interfacial phonon modes with different degrees of scattering localization were identified. We find evidence that surface contributions from the surrounding environment can impose additional scattering modulation into local EELS measurements at the interface. A method to remove those contributions is then used to iso…

The number of primes not in a numerical semigroup
Yong-Gao Chen, Hui Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03625 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

The number of primes not in a numerical semigroup
For two coprime positive integers $a,b$, let $π^* (a, b)$ be the number of primes that cannot be represented as $au+bv$, where $u,v$ are nonnegative integers. In this paper, we prove that $π^* (a, b)\ge 0.014 π(ab-a-b)$ and pose following conjecture: $π^* (a, b)\ge \frac 12 π(ab-a-b)$, where $π(x)$ denotes the number of primes not exceeding $x$. This conjecture is confirmed for $1\le a\le 8$.

#KKR, the US company that has withdrawn from bidding for Thames Water is a pro-Zionist, fracking lobbier that is feeling the heat from BDS.
Good riddance and just #nationalise water now!
Economía | El fondo proisraelí KKR se hace con los grandes festivales españoles de música - El Salto - Edici…

El fondo proisraelí KKR se hace con los grandes festivales españoles de música
Controla eventos como Sónar, Viña Rock o Resurrection Fest mientras expande su negocio con la promoción inmobiliaria en territorios palestinos ocupados ilegalmente y la creación de centros de datos para las grandes tecnológicas.

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
Beomseok Lee, Marcely Zanon Boito, Laurent Besacier, Ioan Calapodescu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01808

NAVER LABS Europe Submission to the Instruction-following Track
In this paper we describe NAVER LABS Europe submission to the instruction-following speech processing short track at IWSLT 2025. We participate in the constrained settings, developing systems that can simultaneously perform ASR, ST, and SQA tasks from English speech input into the following target languages: Chinese, Italian, and German. Our solution leverages two pretrained modules: (1) a speech-to-LLM embedding projector trained using representations from the SeamlessM4T-v2-large speech encod…

Homeland Security’s list of ‘sanctuary cities’ pulled down after sheriffs object - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-administration-takes-down-sanctuary-city-list-following-law-enforcement-ba/