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Nick Offerman slams 'Parks and Rec' fan insinuating Ron Swanson is homophobic
Nick Offerman is standing up for queer 'Parks and Rec' fans after a user shared a manipulated image of his character, Ron Swanson, to spread homophobic hate: 'You dumb f---.

teaching a transformer net to approximate ray-tracing
input is a sequence of triangle data (limited to 4k triangles), and a sequence of 8x8 radiance pixels representing the camera (limited to 512x512 resolution)
output is a sequence of 8x8 pixels of the rendered scene. training was ~10 days. generation is ~100ms (NVIDIA A100)
the results are pretty good. scaling will be a challenge (since transformers are quadratic in sequence length)

There are days when autism feels overwhelming, and I find myself oversharing every thought and feeling that comes to mind.
But then, just as suddenly, my mood can shift. I’ll feel a surge of energy and want to shake things up.
That’s when I dive into my collection of anarchism memes and start posting my latest finds for everyone to enjoy!
We are here, unapologetically autistic and proud, and we refuse to be silenced!

Series D, Episode 09 - Sand
CHASGO: Suddenly, I think we must have hit some kind of multi-gravitational field. Instruments are going mad. Investigator, you and the others better get strapped in. S'gonna be a hell of a bumpy ride down.
[In Xenon Base, Vila slams his glass down on the table in front of him.]
https://blake.torp…

It is worth reading this week’s European Commission's recommendations on network tariffs. Like the German NRA, they warn that a simple exemption from network tariffs as exists in Germany for large batteries is not a solution.
From: @…

Clean Energy Wire (@CLEW@mastodon.energy)
Attached: 1 image Network operators call for slowing Germany's grid battery boom Requests for large-scale batteries far exceed realistic demand, available grid capacity, operator says https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-network-operators-call-slowing-grid-battery-boom

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2025/08/02
Image description for the Nonsequitur comic:
"Books and coffee" shop. Next to the sign "Meet the best-selling co-authors 5-7pm" sits a person before a small book stack. Right next to him is an open notebooks…

SSIMBaD: Sigma Scaling with SSIM-Guided Balanced Diffusion for AnimeFace Colorization
Junpyo Seo (Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University), Hanbin Koo (Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University), Jieun Yook (Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University), Byung-Ro Moon (Department of Computer Science, Seoul National University)
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SSIMBaD: Sigma Scaling with SSIM-Guided Balanced Diffusion for AnimeFace Colorization
We propose a novel diffusion-based framework for automatic colorization of Anime-style facial sketches. Our method preserves the structural fidelity of the input sketch while effectively transferring stylistic attributes from a reference image. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on predefined noise schedules - which often compromise perceptual consistency -- our framework builds on continuous-time diffusion models and introduces SSIMBaD (Sigma Scaling with SSIM-Guided Balanced Diffusion). …

Mindestens 14 Verletzte nach russischem Angriff
Russland hat die ukrainische Hauptstadt Kiew mit Dutzenden Kampfdrohnen angegriffen. Bei dem Angriff wurden mindestens 14 Menschen verletzt, teilten Bürgermeister Vitali Klitschko und die Militärverwaltung bei Telegram mit.
"Nach vorläufigen Informationen haben wir mehrere Brände im Stadtbezirk Solomjanka", schrieb Militärverwaltungschef Tymur Tkatsch…
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