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"The most worrying possibility behind Earth’s [accelerating warming] is how the general nature of clouds may be changing in response to climbing temperatures. It’s a feedback loop that could potentially exacerbate warming and is one of the single biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate."

Global Warming Is Speeding Up and the World Is Feeling the Effects
Human-caused global warming has been increasing faster and faster since the 1970s.

"the operations at the two new Laguna Street sites will be contracted out which means they will no longer be eligible to work with their clients."
Somehow, I get the feeling that the great minds behind this project fail to understand the importance of community and trust.

S.F. plans to move mentally ill adults draws protest
If the city has its way, all 83 residents will be moved to two facilities on Laguna Street in Hayes Valley.

"the operations at the two new Laguna Street sites will be contracted out which means they will no longer be eligible to work with their clients."
Somehow, I get the feeling that the great minds behind this project fail to understand the importance of community and trust.

S.F. plans to move mentally ill adults draws protest
If the city has its way, all 83 residents will be moved to two facilities on Laguna Street in Hayes Valley.

A state law meant to tackle rampant gun violence in California has been reversed -- following a decision made by the Appeals Court yesterday -- which ruled the law a violation of the Second Amendment.
Governor Newsom issued a statement following the new ruling, saying:
“Strong gun laws save lives
— and [yesterday’s] decision is a slap in the face to the progress California has made in recent years to keep its communities safer from gun violence.
Californians voted t…

CBF-AFA: Chunk-Based Multi-SSL Fusion for Automatic Fluency Assessment
Papa S\'ega Wade, Mihai Andries, Ioannis Kanellos, Thierry Moudenc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20243

CBF-AFA: Chunk-Based Multi-SSL Fusion for Automatic Fluency Assessment
Automatic fluency assessment (AFA) remains challenging, particularly in capturing speech rhythm, pauses, and disfluencies in non-native speakers. We introduce a chunk-based approach integrating self-supervised learning (SSL) models (Wav2Vec2, HuBERT, and WavLM) selected for their complementary strengths in phonetic, prosodic, and noisy speech modeling, with a hierarchical CNN-BiLSTM framework. Speech is segmented into breath-group chunks using Silero voice activity detection (Silero-VAD), enabl…

One of our town's former residents has died...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Zk8.TYYp.gl4ekMMTpL1R

Tom Lehrer, Musical Satirist With a Dark Streak, Dies at 97
A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.

I rarely leave my neighborhood these days, so when the opportunity came last weekend to visit a town about 80 km from my home, I took a little detour to visit and take photos of the town’s only national historical marker.
(Those who have been following me long enough know that documenting historical markers in #Wikidata and

Landing at Nasugbu historical marker
NHI historical marker for the landing of the American forces at Nasugbu during World War II

The DOGE team at SSA might have violated FISMA and other laws by not following security protocols as spelled out in NIST's SP 800-53, which are mandatory for all government agencies.
It's no surprise then that a whistleblower is warning that we have lost the ability to see who is accessing 300 million Americans' most sensitive information after DOGE moved SSA data to their own Amazon cloud instance.
Thanks to John Skinner, former project lead for 18F, for his expert i…

Whistleblower: DOGE put Social Security database covering 300 million Americans on insecure cloud
The complaint accuses DOGE of bypassing security protocols to move Americans’ sensitive personal data outside federal oversight and onto an insecure AWS cloud instance, potentially violating established security practices and several laws.

If you are a Microsoft Entra ID shop, I highly recommend following this article’s advice on Conditional Access Policy implementation #cybersecurity
From: @…

Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image PAN published TTPs from Muddled Libra (Scattered Spider) intrusions. Per the graph, they've certainly changed. This is because individuals who made up the Scattered Spider "group" back in 2023 have been arrested, and this is a new "batch" of APTeens. https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/muddled-libra/

Federal Reserve Governor
Lisa Cook's lawyer
has filed a lawsuit against Trump
following his unprecedented attempt to fire her on Monday.
Many experts fear that the president's latest action could spell the end of the Fed's independence.