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Was für ein Verlust für die Kölner Kinoszene. Bernhard Marsch, zentrale Figur des Filmclub 813, ist Sonntagabend bei einem Unfall verstorben.
https://www.filmstiftung.de/news/bernhard-marsch-verstorben/

Bernhard Marsch verstorben - Film und Medien Stiftung NRW
Der Kölner Regisseur, Drehbuchautor, Filmproduzent und Schauspieler Bernhard Marsch ist überraschend bei einem tragischen Unfall im Alter von 63 Jahren verstorben.Der 1962 geborene Filmemacher war eine engagierte Persönlichkeit der Kölner Filmszene. 1990 gehörte Marsch zu den Gründungsmitgliedern des Filmclub 813, dessen langjähriger Vorsitzender er war. Der Filmclub wurde mehrfach mit dem Kinematheksverbundspreis ausgezeichnet und gilt als fester Bestandteil der Kölner Filmkultur.

Hello les fédigens ! Cela fait quelques temps que me vient l'envie de me replonger dans la #poesie de mon enfance, de mes années en école primaire dans les années 70. Il y avait forcément du Maurice Carême, mais pas seulement. J'ai la mémoire qui flanche j'me souviens plus très bien... Guillevic, Prévert, Fort, Desnos? Juste que c'était chouette et il n'y a pas de raison que cela ne …

Trump has not called Walz following shooting of Minnesota lawmakers (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/15/trump-walz-minnesota-shooting-lawmakers-call
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p68#a250615p68

Unify, which offers AI-powered tools to boost revenue pipelines, raised a $40M Series B led by Battery Ventures, valuing it at $260M, following a $12M Series A (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/unify-ai-gtm-pipeline-40-million-raise

Unify, AI Startup Boosting Sales At Cursor And Perplexity, Raises $40 Million
Unify's Series B funding round values it at $260 million as revenue grows 17% month over month past $5 million. But a clash with GTM darling Clay may be coming up.

So, driving home from a client call & up ahead of me on the freeway I see a giant blue pickup truck flying
4 count ‘em 4 giant flags behind the cab
I roll my eyes
Get a little closer…
Ok
US Flag
Massachusetts Flag
…progress Pride Flag
???Pride flag with “Don’t tread on me”
Did NOT expect that.

War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."

Gerade erst heute auf dem Electric Drive youtube Kanal den CLA gesehen und gedacht "mit dem LFP-Akku könnte der interessant sein" und dann les ich jetzt das hier. Ja, nee - danke.
https://irrelephant.co/@g/114863514783265409

A Comparative Approach to Assessing Linguistic Creativity of Large Language Models and Humans
Anca Dinu, Andra-Maria Florescu, Alina Resceanu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12039

A Comparative Approach to Assessing Linguistic Creativity of Large Language Models and Humans
The following paper introduces a general linguistic creativity test for humans and Large Language Models (LLMs). The test consists of various tasks aimed at assessing their ability to generate new original words and phrases based on word formation processes (derivation and compounding) and on metaphorical language use. We administered the test to 24 humans and to an equal number of LLMs, and we automatically evaluated their answers using OCSAI tool for three criteria: Originality, Elaboration, …

Space-filling efficiency and optical properties of hemoglycin
Julie E M McGeoch, Malcolm W McGeoch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10612 https://

Space-filling efficiency and optical properties of hemoglycin
The empty, extensive low-density lattice topology of hemoglycin is examined to understand how in space, and possibly as early as 800M years into cosmic time a rod-like polymer of glycine and iron came into dominance. A central question to be answered is whether the hemoglycin rod lattice with diamond 2H symmetry represents the most efficient covering of space by a regular arrangement of identical rods. Starting from the tetrahedral symmetry of every hemoglycin lattice vertex we find that the re…

Hatevolution: What Static Benchmarks Don't Tell Us
Chiara Di Bonaventura, Barbara McGillivray, Yulan He, Albert Mero\~no-Pe\~nuela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12148

Hatevolution: What Static Benchmarks Don't Tell Us
Language changes over time, including in the hate speech domain, which evolves quickly following social dynamics and cultural shifts. While NLP research has investigated the impact of language evolution on model training and has proposed several solutions for it, its impact on model benchmarking remains under-explored. Yet, hate speech benchmarks play a crucial role to ensure model safety. In this paper, we empirically evaluate the robustness of 20 language models across two evolving hate speec…