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Getty Images CEO Craig Peters says Getty is spending "millions and millions" on its Stability AI lawsuit in the UK and the US, accusing it of copying 12M images (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/28/getty-ceo-

Getty Images spending millions to battle a 'world of rhetoric' in AI suit, CEO says
Getty Images is spending "millions and millions of dollars" on its legal case against Stability AI, the photo licensing company's CEO Craig Peters told CNBC.

#China hat mit über 1 Terawatt installierter #Photovoltaik-Leistung einen neuen Rekord erreicht.
Im Mai kamen fast 93 Gigawatt hinzu. Der rasante Ausbau wurde durch staatliche #Fördermaßnahmen

China erreicht den Meilenstein von einem Terawatt Photovoltaik-Leistung
Chinas installierte Photovoltaik-Leistung hat die Marke von 1 Terawatt überschritten, was einen historischen Meilenstein weltweit darstellt. Allein im Mai sind in China fast 93 Gigawatt an neuen Photovoltaik-Anlagen dazugekommen, aber Analysten warnen, dass sich das Tempo in der zweiten Jahreshälfte verlangsamen könnte.

Seeking Joy
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Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Exploring the Design Space of 3D MLLMs for CT Report Generation
Mohammed Baharoon, Jun Ma, Congyu Fang, Augustin Toma, Bo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21535

Exploring the Design Space of 3D MLLMs for CT Report Generation
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged as a promising way to automate Radiology Report Generation (RRG). In this work, we systematically investigate the design space of 3D MLLMs, including visual input representation, projectors, Large Language Models (LLMs), and fine-tuning techniques for 3D CT report generation. We also introduce two knowledge-based report augmentation methods that improve performance on the GREEN score by up to 10\%, achieving the 2nd place on the MICCAI 2024 …

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In Ursula K. Le Guin's "A Man of the People" (part of "Four Ways to Forgiveness") there's a scene where the Hainish protagonist begins studying history. It's excellent in many respects, but what stood out the most to me was the softly incomprehensible idea of a people with multiple millions of years of recorded history. As one's mind starts to try to trace out the implications of that, it dawns on you that you can't actually comprehend the concept. Like, you read the sentence & understood all the words, and at first you were able to assemble them into what seemed like a conceptual understanding, but as you started to try to fill out that understating, it began to slip away, until you realized you didn't in fact have the mental capacity to build a full understanding and would have you paper things over with a shallow placeholder instead.
I absolutely love that feeling, as one of the ways in which reading science fiction can stretch the brain, and I connected it to a similar moment in Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME, where the android protagonists need to ride an elevator through the civilization/galaxy-spanning megastructure, and turn themselves off for *millions of years* to wait out the ride.
I'm not sure why exactly these scenes feel more beautifully incomprehensible than your run-of-the-mill "then they traveled at lightspeed for a millennia, leaving all their family behind" scene, other than perhaps the authors approach them without trying to use much metaphor to make them more comprehensible (or they use metaphor to emphasize their incomprehensibility).
Do you have a favorite mind=expanded scene of this nature?
#AmReading

Pretty amazing. And yet, the majority of Americans won’t see this story because the truth is paywalled but the bullshit is free. Which feels more and more to me like one of the world’s most important problems.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/114580574368958399

Yikes: DOGE deploying AI to hastily port SSA’s COBOL to Java. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

"Healing Melodies" | Free Bandcamp Codes
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Stan Stewart - Healing Melodies | Free Bandcamp Codes

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