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My new Sony WI-C100 in-ear headphones have a very annoying bug:
When I switch them on and they connect to my phone, they tell my phone "Hey, redial the last number you called or received a call from!"
WTF? Can you imagine how annoying that is to tell people "Sorry, I didn't call you intentionally, my headphones just do that" 🤬

Efficient ultrafast photoacoustic transduction on Tantalum thin films
Konstantinos Kaleris, Emmanouel Kaniolakis-Kaloudis, Evaggelos Kaselouris, Kyriaki Kosma, Emmanouil Gagaoudakis, Vassilis Binas, Stelios Petrakis, Vasilis Dimitriou, Makis Bakarezos, Michael Tatarakis, Nektarios A. Papadogiannis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.1540…

Efficient ultrafast photoacoustic transduction on Tantalum thin films
Nano-acoustic strain generation in thin metallic films via ultrafast laser excitation is widely used in material science, imaging and medical applications. Recently, it was shown that transition metals, such as Titanium, exhibit enhanced photoacoustic transduction properties compared to noble metals, such as Silver. This work presents experimental results and simulations that demonstrate that among transition metals Tantalum exhibits superior photoacoustic properties. Experiments of nano-acoust…

Here’s the key point: Trump’s corruption of justice isn’t just individual; it’s categorical. We have grown accustomed to him rewarding his loyalists and punishing his critics. That he fired the prosecutors who worked on his federal criminal cases while pardoning the Jan. 6 rioters represents a textbook case of individual favoritism.
The Trump administration’s abuse of the civil rights division is something else entirely. It had already initiated a “litigation freeze” on filing new civil rights cases, and it had indicated that it was even going to reconsider previous settlements and consent decrees intended to address police misconduct.
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Civil rights laws are designed in part to protect innocent citizens — including, of course, innocent citizens from minority communities — from unjust government officials. Here, the legal world is turned upside down. The Justice Department is using its civil rights division to protect an unjust government official who violated the civil rights of an innocent individual.
#USPolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/opinion/dillon-taylor-justice-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.X08.0DWy.hF58YNdciy3A&smid=url-share

Feeling like moving this account to a GTS instance, would delete my Bsky and bridge it there and make it a one-for-all, but I want something like WP to tweak not GTS. It'd be cool if @… would consider a 10 buck a month plan for something like ClassicPress w/ ActivityPub, I imagine that's pretty light.

GenTune: Toward Traceable Prompts to Improve Controllability of Image Refinement in Environment Design
Wen-Fan Wang, Ting-Ying Lee, Chien-Ting Lu, Che-Wei Hsu, Nil Ponsa Campany, Yu Chen, Mike Y. Chen, Bing-Yu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15227

GenTune: Toward Traceable Prompts to Improve Controllability of Image Refinement in Environment Design
Environment designers in the entertainment industry create imaginative 2D and 3D scenes for games, films, and television, requiring both fine-grained control of specific details and consistent global coherence. Designers have increasingly integrated generative AI into their workflows, often relying on large language models (LLMs) to expand user prompts for text-to-image generation, then iteratively refining those prompts and applying inpainting. However, our formative study with 10 designers su…

Modeling the coincident three-ion momentum imaging of diiodomethane photodissociation on reduced-dimensional potential energy surfaces
Yijue Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14611 …

Modeling the coincident three-ion momentum imaging of diiodomethane photodissociation on reduced-dimensional potential energy surfaces
We present an efficient theoretical model to simulate observables in the time-resolved coincident three-ion Coulomb explosion experiment of diiodomethane. The model employs two degrees of freedom to characterize the C-I bond breaking and the $\text{CH}_2\text{I}$ rotation during photodissociation, and three degrees of freedom to characterize the coincident $\text{CH}_2^{+}+\text{I}^{2+}+\text{I}^{2+}$ fragmentation during the following Coulomb explosion. By solving the equation of motion, the p…

¿Os imaginšis que se vendiera un coche que no frenara correctamente el 95% de las veces que se pulsara el pedal de frenado?
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/

Graphics4Science: Computer Graphics for Scientific Impacts
Peter Yichen Chen, Minghao Guo, Hanspeter Pfister, Ming Lin, William Freeman, Qixing Huang, Han-Wei Shen, Wojciech Matusik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15786

Graphics4Science: Computer Graphics for Scientific Impacts
Computer graphics, often associated with films, games, and visual effects, has long been a powerful tool for addressing scientific challenges--from its origins in 3D visualization for medical imaging to its role in modern computational modeling and simulation. This course explores the deep and evolving relationship between computer graphics and science, highlighting past achievements, ongoing contributions, and open questions that remain. We show how core methods, such as geometric reasoning an…

On using AI for EEG-based BCI applications: problems, current challenges and future trends
Thomas Barbera, Jacopo Burger, Alessandro D'Amelio, Simone Zini, Simone Bianco, Raffaella Lanzarotti, Paolo Napoletano, Giuseppe Boccignone, Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16168

On using AI for EEG-based BCI applications: problems, current challenges and future trends
Imagine unlocking the power of the mind to communicate, create, and even interact with the world around us. Recent breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially in how machines "see" and "understand" language, are now fueling exciting progress in decoding brain signals from scalp electroencephalography (EEG). Prima facie, this opens the door to revolutionary brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) designed for real life, moving beyond traditional uses to envision Brain-to-Speech, Brain-to-…

Fear of flying therapy is about reframing the flight experience;
if my mind’s eye squints,
I can almost interpret my sweating palms and pounding heartbeat as a kind of buzz.
But this requires repeated, strenuous effort,
and the result is a mental exhaustion that makes the worst-case scenario appealing:
succumbing to my fears and never flying again.
I imagine this as analogous to what many Americans, aerophobic or not, are feeling.
It’s simply easier…

Winging It | Noelle Mateer
For those trying to overcome their fears of flying, it’s been . . . a challenging time to say the least.