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Practically certain that this is a seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata) that came to visit our balcony in Bochum, Germany, yesterday - and not a color form of the harlequin lady beetle: it passed the test https://www.nabu.de/tiere-und-pflanzen/insekten-und-spinnen/kaefer/27814.html with, well, flying colors. ;-)

Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/disney-nbcu-midjourney-copyright
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Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
It's the first legal action from major Hollywood studios against a generative AI company.

sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
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Filing: Disney and NBCUniversal sue Midjourney in California, accusing it of direct and secondary copyright infringement; they say talks with Midjourney failed (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/11/disney-nbcu-midjourney-copyright
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Disney, NBCU sue Midjourney over copyright infringement
It's the first legal action from major Hollywood studios against a generative AI company.

Near-Field Sensing Enabled Predictive Beamforming: Fundamentals, Framework, and Opportunities
Hao Jiang, Zhaolin Wang, Yue Liu, Hyundong Shin, Arumugam Nallanathan, Yuanwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09225

Near-Field Sensing Enabled Predictive Beamforming: Fundamentals, Framework, and Opportunities
The article proposes a novel near-field predictive beamforming framework for high-mobility wireless networks. Specifically, due to the spherical waves and non-uniform Doppler frequencies brought by the near-field region, the new ability of full-dimensional location and velocity sensing is characterized. Building on this foundation, the near-field predictive beamforming framework is proposed to proactively design beamformers for mobility users following arbitrary trajectories. Compared to the co…

Dringende oproep om ‘onzinnige’ regels rond nieuwbouw te schrappen: ‘We slaan door’ | Wonen | #gelderlander
https://www.gelderlander.nl/wo…

This still nauseates me.
☑️ Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/

Oracle’s Larry Ellison joined Nov. 2020 call about contesting Trump’s loss
The billionaire GOP donor, the biggest backer of Elon Musk’s attempted Twitter takeover, participated along with Fox’s Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham, according to court filings and a participant.

Implantation studies of low-energy positive muons in niobium thin films
Ryan M. L. McFadden, Andreas Suter, Leon Ruf, Angelo Di Bernardo, Arnold M. M\"uller, Thomas Prokscha, Zaher Salman, Tobias Junginger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03785

Implantation studies of low-energy positive muons in niobium thin films
Here we study the range of keV positive muons $μ^+$ implanted in Nb$_2$O$_5$($x$ nm)/Nb($y$ nm)/SiO$_2$(300 nm)/Si [$x$ = 3.6 nm, 3.3 nm; $y$ = 42.0 nm, 60.1 nm] thin films using low-energy muon spin spectroscopy (LE-$μ$SR). At implantation energies 1.3 keV $\leq E \leq$ 23.3 keV, we compare the measured diamagnetic $μ^+$ signal fraction $f_{\mathrm{dia.}}$ against predictions derived from implantation profile simulations using the TRIM.SP Monte Carlo code. Treating the implanted $μ^+$ as l…

Heute vor 59 Jahren: Am 10. Juni 1966 zündeten die USA im Rahmen von Operation #Flintlock die 45. #Atombombe "Puce". Flintlock war eine Serie von Tests zwischen 65/66 bei der insgesamt 47 #Kernwaffentests

and, 50 years ago today, following the dead session at ace’s, #JerryGarcia & merl saunders in #berkeley with a mystery drummer, presumably the same as the previous show. bob menke/louis falenga audience tape: