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Finally cancelled my Ideogram subscription today, I've had it for the past 12 months and loved it.
Now I'm using ChatGPT 4o almost exclusively for my AI image generation needs.
I updated my paid subscriptions list:
https://wiki.wesfryer.com/subscriptions

wesfryer - Subscriptions
Thoughts on Subscriptions: Have you noticed lots of companies and people want you to SUBSCRIBE to their service or commit to a MONTHLY payment / fee? Services like TRIM can help us identify, remember and manage our subscriptions. (s/o to Jason Neiffer in EdTechSR Ep 235) It can be helpful to SHARE

Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (President Donald J. Trump/The White House)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/text-of-a-letter-from-the-president-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-of-representatives/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p7#a250624p7

JIS: A Speech Corpus of Japanese Idol Speakers with Various Speaking Styles
Yuto Kondo, Hirokazu Kameoka, Kou Tanaka, Takuhiro Kaneko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18296

JIS: A Speech Corpus of Japanese Idol Speakers with Various Speaking Styles
We construct Japanese Idol Speech Corpus (JIS) to advance research in speech generation AI, including text-to-speech synthesis (TTS) and voice conversion (VC). JIS will facilitate more rigorous evaluations of speaker similarity in TTS and VC systems since all speakers in JIS belong to a highly specific category: "young female live idols" in Japan, and each speaker is identified by a stage name, enabling researchers to recruit listeners familiar with these idols for listening experiments. With i…

für die Spontanen und Kurzentschlossenen: in etwas mehr als einer Stunde startet der "virtuelle Spaziergang durch das digitalisierte Berliner Kulturerbe". Hier geht's zur Last-Minute-Anmeldung: https://terminplaner6.dfn.de/de/b/fbbf71e8002fe99787…

I've been happy with my decision about 6 months ago to cancel some news subscriptions and pay for a 404 Media one. Today though I listened to the subscribers-only section of their podcast about how they were doing financially and their principles on growth and I was further encouraged that it had been the right thing to do.
Here's a referral link to their free newsletter. I think if several people use it I might get some free merch but I don't care about that.

@… re: your latest https://microfictions.substack.com/subscribe I'll chuck

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ROS 2 Agnocast: Supporting Unsized Message Types for True Zero-Copy Publish/Subscribe IPC
Takahiro Ishikawa-Aso, Shinpei Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16882

ROS 2 Agnocast: Supporting Unsized Message Types for True Zero-Copy Publish/Subscribe IPC
Robot applications, comprising independent components that mutually publish/subscribe messages, are built on inter-process communication (IPC) middleware such as Robot Operating System 2 (ROS 2). In large-scale ROS 2 systems like autonomous driving platforms, true zero-copy communication -- eliminating serialization and deserialization -- is crucial for efficiency and real-time performance. However, existing true zero-copy middleware solutions lack widespread adoption as they fail to meet three…

JSJ splittings for all Artin groups
Oli Jones, Giorgio Mangioni, Giovanni Sartori
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17157 https://arxiv.org/…

JSJ splittings for all Artin groups
We prove that an Artin group splits over infinite cyclic subgroups if and only if its defining graph has a separating vertex, and explicitly construct a JSJ decomposition over infinite cyclic subgroups for all Artin groups. This is then used to show that, if two Artin groups are isomorphic, then they have the same set of big chunks, that is, maximal subgraphs without separating vertices. We also deduce acylindrical hyperbolicity for the automorphism groups of many Artin groups, partially answer…

I've been happy with my decision about 6 months ago to cancel some news subscriptions and pay for a 404 Media one. Today though I listened to the subscribers-only section of their podcast about how they were doing financially and their principles on growth and I was further encouraged that it had been the right thing to do.
Here's a referral link to their free newsletter. I think if several people use it I might get some free merch but I don't care about that.