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was pretty convinced i was having a psychotic break when i walked into this scene at the world trade center freedom mall, & confirmed that feeling when i subsequently got forcibly shoved out of the way by some wrassler's entourage disembarking from the escalator as i tried to get to the PATH train. #nyc

KI-generierte Zusammenfassung von Google führt zu Gerüchten:
Vor knapp einer Woche war unser Leitungswasser wegen einer mikrobiologischen Verschmutzung nicht trinkbar. Die Bevölkerung wurde dazu aufgerufen, das Wasser abzukochen.
Nun gehen in lokalen Chats Screenshots rum, die behaupten, es wären PFAS gewesen. Die Google KI-Zusammenfassung spinnt das wohl aus einem Zeitungsartikel zusammen, in dem nebenbei über vergangene PFAS-Verunreinigungen berichtet wurde

https://www.wired.com/story/charles-borges-resignation-email-disappearance/
SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes

SSA Whistleblower’s Resignation Email Mysteriously Disappeared From Inboxes
Less than 30 minutes after the Social Security Administration’s chief data officer resigned following a whistleblower complaint, recipients could no longer access the resignation email.

The ASPIICS solar coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation flying mission. Scientific objectives and instrument design
A. N. Zhukov, C. Thizy, D. Galano, B. Bourgoignie, L. Dolla, C. Jean, B. Nicula, S. Shestov, C. Galy, R. Rougeot, J. Versluys, J. Zender, P. Lamy, S. Fineschi, S. Gunar, B. Inhester, M. Mierla, P. Rudawy, K. Tsinganos, S. Koutchmy, R. Howard, H. Peter, S. Vives, L. Abbo, C. Aime, K. Aleksiejuk, J. Baran, U. Bak-Steslicka, A. Bemporad, D. Berghmans, D. Besliu-Ionescu, S…

The ASPIICS solar coronagraph aboard the Proba-3 formation flying mission. Scientific objectives and instrument design
We describe the scientific objectives and instrument design of the ASPIICS coronagraph launched aboard the Proba-3 mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) on 5 December 2024. Proba-3 consists of two spacecraft in a highly elliptical orbit around the Earth. One spacecraft carries the telescope, and the external occulter is mounted on the second spacecraft. The two spacecraft fly in a precise formation during 6 hours out of 19.63 hour orbit, together forming a giant solar coronagraph called AS…

Towards Data-Driven Metrics for Social Robot Navigation Benchmarking
Pilar Bachiller-Burgos, Ulysses Bernardet, Luis V. Calderita, Pranup Chhetri, Anthony Francis, Noriaki Hirose, No\'e P\'erez, Dhruv Shah, Phani T. Singamaneni, Xuesu Xiao, Luis J. Manso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01251

Towards Data-Driven Metrics for Social Robot Navigation Benchmarking
This paper presents a joint effort towards the development of a data-driven Social Robot Navigation metric to facilitate benchmarking and policy optimization. We provide our motivations for our approach and describe our proposal for storing rated social navigation trajectory datasets. Following these guidelines, we compiled a dataset with 4427 trajectories -- 182 real and 4245 simulated -- and presented it to human raters, yielding a total of 4402 rated trajectories after data quality assurance…

honestly feeling pretty fuckin' bleak at the moment, *BUT* i do get to go on @… & play a bunch of fantastic (mostly) not-bleak #music for falling/floating/back-stroking through hot stupid summer skies. come hang & listen with me. tune in:

recline into your evening with last night's frow show on @…, peaceful uneasy feelings for a hot stupid summer, including new sounds by terry riley, marshall allen, jonathan richman, joseph allred, steve gunn, alan bishop, bob dylan & barbra streisand, & more.

There’s a new #OpenStreetMap website feature related to #Wikidata!
When viewing objects in OSM that have a Wikidata tag, you can now click the Wikidata icon to turn the opaque QID values into human-readable info (plus a link to Wikipedia if any).

i'm away this evening, so the great zoe b & the source unlimited is filling in for me on @… from 9 to midnight. get in tune at wfmu.org!

playing hooky, en route to the ballgame, doing my best to cherish my place in the arcane, & very much feeling the harvard mixer '71 version of "old world" where jonathan richman (mr. route 128 himself!) inexplicably shouts out "hey, new york #mets kids!" starting at 6:40ish.