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✊ Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “We Need a New Civic Morality”
As he visits the US for the first time, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of La France Insoumise, writes about the collapse of triumphal capitalist narratives and sets out an alternative vision for humanity that can save us from a dystopian future.

What are you looking for?
"Seeking Joy"
#MellowMusic #NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2023/…

Seeking Joy #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The Trump administration has terminated National Science Foundation grants for more than 100 research projects related to climate change
amid a widening campaign to slash federal funding for scientists and institutions studying the rising risks of a warming world.
The move will cut off what’s likely to amount to tens of millions of dollars for studies that were previously approved and, in most cases, already in the works. 
Affected projects include efforts to develop cleaner …

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 climate studies
Tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants have been slashed, and scientists fear the US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19990 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

LEGO-Puzzles: How Good Are MLLMs at Multi-Step Spatial Reasoning?
Multi-step spatial reasoning entails understanding and reasoning about spatial relationships across multiple sequential steps, which is crucial for tackling complex real-world applications, such as robotic manipulation, autonomous navigation, and automated assembly. To assess how well current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have acquired this fundamental capability, we introduce LEGO-Puzzles, a scalable benchmark designed to evaluate both spatial understanding and sequential reasoning …

"Patricia #Espenak announced in an email that Fred passed away yesterday afternoon," Michael Zeiler just wrote on the Solar Eclipse Mailing List: "Fred was in hospice at their home in Portal, Arizona. Pat was holding his hand when he passed away and is devastated.
Fred had an extremely consequential life and was a giant in the solar eclipse community. Let‘s remember his enthusiasm for nature‘s greatest spectacle, his warm friendship to many of us, his generosity in sharing his knowledge, and his impact on all of us."
Obituaries: https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/fred-espenak-1953-2025/ and https://www.astronomy.com/observing/fred-espenak-dies-at-71/

Elon Musk will singlehandedly be responsible for the wholly unnecessary deaths & misery of millions worldwide. And he & Trump couldn't care less.
You did this, #Trump voter.
And anyone that didn't vote.
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Elon Musk’s Reign of Terror Is Only Just Beginning
His “departure” from the government is anything but.

Last boost, related #uspol take:
"Here's RFK's plan:
1. Claim vaccines cause autism
2. Push vaccine skepticism, lower vax rates
3. Create autism registry - people avoid getting a diagnosis to stay off it
4. Point to the decrease in autism diagnoses as "proof" vaccines cause autism"
via a screenshot of a tweet by a Skyler Johnson @Skylerfo…

Researchers in France are working on creating a French network of researchers to organize interaction, communication and training in #computationalneuroscience
If you are a CompNeuro working in France, consider joining, and registering to our mailing list:

Tient Bull n'est toujours pas mort https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2025/06/02/l-etat-achete-les-supercalculateurs-d-atos_6610190_3234.html

L’Etat achète les supercalculateurs d’Atos
L’Agence des participations de l’Etat achète pour 410 millions d’euros ces activités stratégiques, notamment pour la dissuasion nucléaire.

RiOSWorld: Benchmarking the Risk of Multimodal Compter-Use Agents
Jingyi Yang, Shuai Shao, Dongrui Liu, Jing Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00618 https://…

RiOSWorld: Benchmarking the Risk of Multimodal Compter-Use Agents
With the rapid development of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), they are increasingly deployed as autonomous computer-use agents capable of accomplishing complex computer tasks. However, a pressing issue arises: Can the safety risk principles designed and aligned for general MLLMs in dialogue scenarios be effectively transferred to real-world computer-use scenarios? Existing research on evaluating the safety risks of MLLM-based computer-use agents suffers from several limitations: it ei…