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This comes down to the cyberlibertarian roots of most digital movements (thing Archive.org, EFF, EDRI etc.): To them "open" is a value in itself and any political values are read as "restrictions" or "regulation" or "lack of freedom".
https://indieweb.social/@jaredw…

from my link log —
Backyard cyanide from the cherry laurel.
https://suziepetryk.com/blog/cyanide.html
saved 2025-03-11 https://…

Missing #TNC25 already?
We definitely had a tough time stepping off the rollercoaster 🎢 But all the connections, the chats, the ideas, the hugs, the insights and the energy of yet another incredible TNC week are still with us ❤️
🎠 Hop back for another ride and relive some of the TNC25 highlights by watching this recap video produced by our friends at PCSS.
And don't forget to ma…

Remaining Voice of America employees expected to receive termination notice this week, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/remaining-voice-of-america-employees.html

The DOJ settles its lawsuit challenging HPE's $14B acquisition of Juniper; HPE must divest Instant On and license the source code for Juniper's Mist AI software (Rishabh Jaiswal/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-doj-se

Dramatic..
"The ruling means that the practice of extending citizenship to the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants and some temporary residents and visitors would end in the 28 states that have not challenged the measure."

Supreme Court Live Updates: Trump Hails Win on Birthright Citizenship
The court restricted the ability of federal judges to issue broad freezes on executive orders. The decision could reshape the way U.S. citizenship is granted, even temporarily.

I got choked up watching this recap. So. Much. Fun! And the Dianoga Eggs! And the food...
Mammoth Club did such a great job documenting their trip.
▶️ Our FIRST (& LAST) Disney World's Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser Stay
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kfUzplhmsa

G$^{2}$D: Boosting Multimodal Learning with Gradient-Guided Distillation
Mohammed Rakib, Arunkumar Bagavathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21514 https://

G$^{2}$D: Boosting Multimodal Learning with Gradient-Guided Distillation
Multimodal learning aims to leverage information from diverse data modalities to achieve more comprehensive performance. However, conventional multimodal models often suffer from modality imbalance, where one or a few modalities dominate model optimization, leading to suboptimal feature representation and underutilization of weak modalities. To address this challenge, we introduce Gradient-Guided Distillation (G$^{2}$D), a knowledge distillation framework that optimizes the multimodal model wit…

Sources: all 800 full-time VOA staff are expected to receive reduction-in-force notices this week, after ~600 VOA contractors were dismissed earlier in May (Ben Johansen/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/28/voice-of-america-r…

DeOcc-1-to-3: 3D De-Occlusion from a Single Image via Self-Supervised Multi-View Diffusion
Yansong Qu, Shaohui Dai, Xinyang Li, Yuze Wang, You Shen, Liujuan Cao, Rongrong Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21544

DeOcc-1-to-3: 3D De-Occlusion from a Single Image via Self-Supervised Multi-View Diffusion
Reconstructing 3D objects from a single image is a long-standing challenge, especially under real-world occlusions. While recent diffusion-based view synthesis models can generate consistent novel views from a single RGB image, they generally assume fully visible inputs and fail when parts of the object are occluded. This leads to inconsistent views and degraded 3D reconstruction quality. To overcome this limitation, we propose an end-to-end framework for occlusion-aware multi-view generation. …