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I got one word for ya, Rahm: Caitlyn Jenner
Rahm Emanuel says a man can't become a woman
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5412545-rahm-emanuel-transgender-controversy/

Finally took the time VACUUM FULL all my #PostgreSQL #databases and empty a runaway table. Dropped from ~90% diskusage to ~25% and a hell of a lot less CPU

Climate Change Will Bankrupt the Country (Ryan Cooper/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/environment/2025-06-20-climate-change-will-bankrupt-country/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p81#a250620p81

Fabrication of oriented NV center arrays in diamond via femtosecond laser writing and reorientation
Kai Klink, Andrew Raj Kirkpatrick, Yukihiro Tadokoro, Jonas Nils Becker, Shannon Singer Nicley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14047

Fabrication of oriented NV center arrays in diamond via femtosecond laser writing and reorientation
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are widely recognized as highly promising solid-state quantum sensors due to their long room temperature coherence times and atomic-scale size, which enable exceptional sensitivity and nanoscale spatial resolution under ambient conditions. Ultrafast laser writing has demonstrated the deterministic spatial control of individual NV$^-$ centers, however, the resulting random orientation of the defect axis limits the magnetic field sensitivity and signal con…

Why is everything on the cloud these days?
I’m kind of getting tired of every piece of professional and business software being a SaaS or cloud-based solution these days.
I have a good computer, it can run a lot of complex programs on it locally. I wish I had the option to do so.
Not everything needs to be synced 24/7. And I’d much rather have some tools include a cloud sync functionality that backs up changes with some kind of regular frequency for version control and cross-device access, but otherwise runs on my device.
These days, when I’m trying to go work somewhere without an internet connection or am traveling and have spotty data - I can’t access 90% of my work. Files don’t back up locally even when there’s a native desktop client app. Why?
It feels wasteful, sending so much data to the internet and back with constantly required online sync and web apps.
I feel nostalgic now, remembering the days of software that would require buying a license every couple of years, that would run on your device and could be accessed even from the top of a remote mountain if you wished, and that didn’t log you out every other week.
#tech #software

People are starving in Gaza, you fucks. Talk about not having taste. Read the fucking room. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115059906348542852

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image Europe’s taste is timeless and protected. From golden Mediterranean olive oil to summit-aged cheeses, over 3,600 products are registered as Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) and Geographical Indication (GI). These labels don’t just reveal the story behind the name. They preserve it, celebrating the communities behind it, their craft, and its quality. This summer, discover the flavours that define Europe 👇 https://eur…

TransLight: Image-Guided Customized Lighting Control with Generative Decoupling
Zongming Li, Lianghui Zhu, Haocheng Shen, Longjin Ran, Wenyu Liu, Xinggang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14814

TransLight: Image-Guided Customized Lighting Control with Generative Decoupling
Most existing illumination-editing approaches fail to simultaneously provide customized control of light effects and preserve content integrity. This makes them less effective for practical lighting stylization requirements, especially in the challenging task of transferring complex light effects from a reference image to a user-specified target image. To address this problem, we propose TransLight, a novel framework that enables high-fidelity and high-freedom transfer of light effects. Extract…

Butterfly Effect, the startup behind Manus and an earlier product called Monica, says its annual revenue run rate has hit $90M, with Manus contributing the most (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-20/ope…

Bo Burnham once said:
“Why do you rich fucking white people Insist on seeing every socio-political conflict through the myopic lens of your own self-actualization? This isn't about you. So either get with it, or get out of the fucking way”

Look at how Trump’s fascist government treats a journalist asking questions about israel’s Hannibal Directive and its illegal nuclear weapons.
Oh, sorry, I meant Biden’s.
Lesser of two evils and all that, I guess.
https://www.newsweek.com/s…

Video: Journalist Sam Husseini Forcibly Removed From Blinken's Last News Conference
Sam Husseini was grabbed by security members and escorted out of the room.