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The israeli-american genocide of the Palestinian people continues. It’s not just israel. It was never just israel.
“‘This is an administration that is committed to Palestinian erasure, both physical and political,’ Elgindy said. ‘The signs were there even in the first Trump term, which nominally supported a Palestinian ‘state’ that was shorn of all sovereignty and under permanent Israeli control. At least now they’ve abandoned the pretense.’
Yousef Munayyer, head of Palestine/Isr…

US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state
Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of ‘a Muslim country’

Eine Million Balkonkraftwerke in Deutschland
Deutschland hat einen weiteren Meilenstein erreicht. Das Marktstammdatenregister verzeichnet jetzt mehr als eine Million Balkonkraftwerke.
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Reclaim the U.S. flag 🇺🇸at the #NoKings protests around the nation on ⭐️ Saturday, June 14th
when the fascist spends millions of our hard earned tax dollars for a North Korean style military parade for his birthday!
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It’s looking like Saturday’s No Kings mobilizations are going to be even bigger than Hands Off!
We need to show up by the millions to demonstrate that Trump’s tyrannic crackdown is only deepening our resolve.
Find a peaceful protest nearby:
https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivi

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.16652 has been replaced.
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Seeing Far and Clearly: Mitigating Hallucinations in MLLMs with Attention Causal Decoding
Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly improved performance in visual question answering. However, they often suffer from hallucinations. In this work, hallucinations are categorized into two main types: initial hallucinations and snowball hallucinations. We argue that adequate contextual information can be extracted directly from the token interaction process. Inspired by causal inference in the decoding strategy, we propose to leverage causal masks …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06091 has been replaced.
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MIRIAD: Augmenting LLMs with millions of medical query-response pairs
LLMs are bound to transform healthcare with advanced decision support and flexible chat assistants. However, LLMs are prone to generate inaccurate medical content. To ground LLMs in high-quality medical knowledge, LLMs have been equipped with external knowledge via RAG, where unstructured medical knowledge is split into small text chunks that can be selectively retrieved and integrated into the LLMs context. Yet, existing RAG pipelines rely on raw, unstructured medical text, which can be noisy,…

"The credit score drop is [as bad as] filing for bankruptcy, and some borrowers are finding out when they try to get car loans or rent apartments."
Student loan missed payments causes credit score drop for millions - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/25/credit-score-student-loan-elinquency-debt/

AI's environmental impact can be extremely localized. A Maine bill would limit the amount of electricity data centers can siphon from local power grids.
(I'm interviewed for the story)
https://www.bangordailynews.com…

Stark Tuning and Charge State Control in Individual Telecom C-Band Quantum Dots
N. J. Martin, A. J. Brash, A. Tomlinson, E. M. Sala, E. O. Mills, C. L. Phillips, R. Dost, L. Hallacy, P. Millington-Hotze, D. Hallett, K. A. O'Flaherty, J. Heffernan, M. S. Skolnick, A. M Fox, L. R. Wilson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07951…

Stark Tuning and Charge State Control in Individual Telecom C-Band Quantum Dots
Telecom-wavelength quantum dots (QDs) are emerging as a promising solution for generating deterministic single-photons compatible with existing fiber-optic infrastructure. Emission in the low-loss C-band minimizes transmission losses, making them ideal for long-distance quantum communication. In this work, we present the first demonstration of both Stark tuning and charge state control of individual InAs/InP QDs operating within the telecom C-band. These QDs are grown by droplet epitaxy and emb…

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Can MLLMs Guide Me Home? A Benchmark Study on Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning from Transit Maps
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have recently achieved significant progress in visual tasks, including semantic scene understanding and text-image alignment, with reasoning variants enhancing performance on complex tasks involving mathematics and logic. However, their capacity for reasoning tasks involving fine-grained visual understanding remains insufficiently evaluated. To address this gap, we introduce ReasonMap, a benchmark designed to assess the fine-grained visual understanding …