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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Harry Nilsson:
🎵 One
#HarryNilsson
https://analeorne.bandcamp.com/track/harry-nilssons-one
https://open.spotify.com/track/7Ci3Yc9H2YliGFc1czyqI1

Anhörung im Innenausschuss #BadenWürttemberg zum neuen Polizeigesetz. Sachverständige wünschen sich hier und dort ein bisschen Nachbesserung, aber vor allem gibt es Lob für den Gesetzentwurf. Interessanterweise stellt niemand die m. E. naheliegende Frage, warum im Gesetz KI-Einsatz erlaubt werden soll, wenn man gleichzeitig betont,

"Does the cafe entrance look accessible? Where is the door?" Towards Geospatial AI Agents for Visual Inquiries
Jon E. Froehlich, Jared Hwang, Zeyu Wang, John S. O'Meara, Xia Su, William Huang, Yang Zhang, Alex Fiannaca, Philip Nelson, Shaun Kane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15752

"Does the cafe entrance look accessible? Where is the door?" Towards Geospatial AI Agents for Visual Inquiries
Interactive digital maps have revolutionized how people travel and learn about the world; however, they rely on pre-existing structured data in GIS databases (e.g., road networks, POI indices), limiting their ability to address geo-visual questions related to what the world looks like. We introduce our vision for Geo-Visual Agents--multimodal AI agents capable of understanding and responding to nuanced visual-spatial inquiries about the world by analyzing large-scale repositories of geospatial …

I used ChatGPT a lot when reading those Whitman Calamus poems. Here's everything it has remembered about me from those conversations. Its memory of me has been very useful, particularly that I want "Engagement with queer subtext when it’s plausibly present."

@… I'm here for Pinterest pins only.

A trans friend of mine just sent me engagement ring photos and I am so happy for her!

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
So soll Missbrauch von Palantir-Software verhindert werden

Naples airport has no jetbridges; they board and deboard from both ends of the plane. I think it is actually faster than how we do it here.

Wise words on the Hickel-Liegey/Nelson debate.
Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth | degrowth.info
https://degrowth.info/en/blog/neither-the-either-nor-the-or-for-a-sideways-degrowth

Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth
Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented. And in reacting, it inevitably ends up claiming to be the herald of the “true Degrowth” and rejecting the contribution of the other side.

Took me about an hour outside of the DC part of Virginia to run into a dual-wielding Trump hat Kirk shirter.