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To cross or not to cross, that's the question...
(One of the more intense streams — the outflow of a glacier — I had to cross in my life, that bridge looks a lot safer that it was IRL...)
#FootpathFriday #Hiking

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.

Israel bombs Iranian state TV during a live broadcast, sending the anchor fleeing her desk amid smoke and rubble, as it broadens its bombing campaign in Iran (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/iran-state-tv-bombed-israel-strike

Israel bombs Iranian state TV during live broadcast
Watch the moment Iran's state TV was struck.

Variety of wildlife in UK’s woodlands falling as habitats degrade, says report https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/10/variety-of-wildlife-in-uks-woodlands-falling-as-habitats-degrade-says-report

Marcus Meyer schafft Tierskulpturen mit Holz von Bäumen, die auf Grund von Krankheit am Sterben oder bereits tot waren. Seine Tiere habe Verletzungen - die Formen sind unvollständig. Er zeigt #DieLetztenIhrerArt und macht auf das Sterben unserer Umwelt aufmerksam.
Schweinswale, kleine Tümmler sehen wir heute auch in Kieler Förde. Aber unsere Kinder und Kindeskinder?

USC professor Allison Marsh writes this delightful short article for IEEE Spectrum about Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert's British counterparts in Cambridge and how, in their case, a document (the Lighthill Report) precipitated cuts in British AI research funding in ways similar to how funding was temporarily cut in the U.S. following MIT's publishing of Minsky and Papert's "Perceptrons" in 1969.
"Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI"

Freddy the Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI

Its creator lost a power struggle that led to an AI winter in the 1970s

Aktueller Titel: Soft Vein – Falling
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“My dance with Covid makes my cancer look like a piece of cake.”
Sagt Jeff Bridges, der 2020 an Lymphdrüsenkrebs erkrankt ist und sich bei der Behandlung aber leider auch C19 eingefangen, hat nach nun bald 5 Jahren: “Covid kicked my ass pretty good.”
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05…

Jeff Bridges says he’s ‘feeling good’ nearly 5 years after cancer diagnosis, but dealing with ‘long-term’ Covid effects
Jeff Bridges is sharing some good news pertaining to his health.

Modeling flying formations as flow-mediated matter
Christiana Mavroyiakoumou, Jiajie Wu, Leif Ristroph
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14025 https://

Modeling flying formations as flow-mediated matter
Collective locomotion of swimming and flying animals is fascinating in terms of individual-level fluid mechanics and group-level structure and dynamics. Here we bridge and relate these scales through a model of formation flight that views the collective as a material whose properties arise from the flow-mediated interactions among its members. We build on and revise an aerodynamic model describing how flapping flyers produce vortex wakes and how they are forced by others' wakes. While simplisti…

"Antarctic seal numbers falling drastically due to melting sea ice, research shows"
#Antarctic #Seals #Animals #Climate