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“Are we the baddies?” is not a question anyone in the West has to ask themselves. There’s no question about it. You were. You are. Will you continue to be? That’s the only question that matters and the answer is entirely up to you.
Silence is complicity.
Inaction is complicity.
Apologism is complicity.
Do something!
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End Israeli Apartheid (@EndIsraeliApartheid@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image More RAF jets are being sent to the Middle East, Keir Starmer has said after Iran threatened to target UK, French and US bases if the countries help stop strikes on Israel. Additional refuelling aircraft have been deployed from UK bases and more fast jets will be sent over, it is understood. The UK already has RAF jets in the Middle East as part of Operation Shader. https://www.thenational.scot/news/25239897.uk-jets-sent-middle-east-despite-calls-de-escalation/ 🕎 �…

Selenskyj: Ukraine rückt in Region Sumy vor
Die ukrainischen Streitkräfte rücken laut Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj in den Grenzgebieten der nördlichen Region Sumy vor. In dem Gebiet versuchen russische Truppen seit Monaten, Fuß zu fassen. Zudem erlitten die russischen Streitkräfte laut Oberbefehlshaber Olexander Syrskyj in den Regionen Donezk und Charkiw erhebliche Verluste.
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Scaling Learned Image Compression Models up to 1 Billion
Yuqi Li, Haotian Zhang, Li Li, Dong Liu, Feng Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09075 https://arxiv.or…

Scaling Learned Image Compression Models up to 1 Billion
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) highlight a strong connection between intelligence and compression. Learned image compression, a fundamental task in modern data compression, has made significant progress in recent years. However, current models remain limited in scale, restricting their representation capacity, and how scaling model size influences compression performance remains unexplored. In this work, we present a pioneering study on scaling up learned image compression mode…

The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernova Program: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and Preliminary Data Release
Nora F. Sherman, Maria Acevedo, Dillon Brout, Bailey Martin, Daniel Scolnic, Dingyuan Cao, Christopher Lidman, Noor Ali, Patrick Armstrong, K. Auchett, Rebecca C. Chen, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Peter S. Ferguson, Kenneth Herner, Gautham Narayan, Erik R. Peterson, Liana Rauf, Armin Rest, Adam G. Riess, Masao Sako, Brian Schmidt, Xianzhe TZ Tang, Brad E. Tucker

The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernova Program: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and Preliminary Data Release
Precise measurements of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at low redshifts ($z$) serve as one of the most viable keys to unlocking our understanding of cosmic expansion, isotropy, and growth of structure. The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernovae (DEBASS) program will deliver the largest uniformly calibrated low-$z$ SN Ia data set in the southern hemisphere to date. DEBASS utilizes the Dark Energy Camera to image supernovae in conjunction with the Wide-Field Spectrograph (WiFeS) to gather comprehens…

Bref, l'intelligence artificielle n'a que celle que lui prête le miroir de notre idiotie. Quelle surprise.
Ben ouais, l'IA est toujours incapable d'entendement et d'interaction. Je dis encore une fois Š quel point il est atterrant qu'on résume l'intelligence au calcul ?
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Kashmir Hill (@kashhill@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image After writing about people going into delusional spirals with ChatGPT and having what look like mental breakdowns, I wanted to understand exactly how it happens. A corporate recruiter in Toronto who spent 3 weeks convinced by ChatGPT that he was essentially Tony Stark from Iron Man, agreed to share his transcript after breaking free of the delusion. We analyzed the transcript & shared it with experts. Now you can see the interactions & how delusional spirals happen: https…

Unraveling the Secrets of the lower Solar Atmosphere: One year of Operation of the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) on board Aditya-L1
Rahul Gopalakrishnan, Soumya Roy, Deepak Kathait, Janmejoy Sarkar, Nived V. N., Durgesh Tripathi, A. N. Ramaprakash, Sami K. Solanki, Sreejith Padinhatteeri, Mahesh Burse, Rushikesh Deogaonkar, Sakya Sinha, Adithya H. N., K. Sankarasubramanian, Dipankar Banerjee, Dibyendu Nandy, Srikant Motamarri, Amit Purohit, Rethika T, Sreenath K R, Priyank…

Unraveling the Secrets of the lower Solar Atmosphere: One year of Operation of the Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) on board Aditya-L1
The Solar Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SUIT) is an instrument onboard Aditya--L1, the first solar space observatory of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), India, launched on September 2, 2023. SUIT is designed to image the Sun in the 200--400 nm wavelength band in eight narrowband and three broadband filters. SUIT's science goals start with observing the solar atmosphere and large-scale continuum variations, the physics of solar flares in the NUV region, and many more. The paper el…

Dienstag: Paypal poliert sein Image auf, SpaceX auf Einkaufstour
Paypal verteilt Gutschriften Starlink erhält Mobilfunkfrequenzen Volksverschlüsselung vor dem Aus Signal mit Cloud-Backup Milliarden für Trumps Familie

Selenskyj sieht keinen Friedenswillen - Tote in Cherson
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj sieht vor dem USA-Russland-Gipfel keine Bereitschaft Moskaus, den Krieg in seinem Land zu beenden. Europa, die USA und die Ukraine müssten Russland zu einem Frieden zwingen, dazu brauche es mehr Druck, teilte Selenskyj bei Telegram mit. "Dieser Krieg muss enden. Es muss Druck auf Russland ausgeübt w…
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Le passage sur les app de rencontres m'a fait sourire. J'ai (très) brièvement tenté. Dès la création du profil, un soupçon de perplexité: je fabriquais juste une image, assez dissuasive pour faire le tri. Puis j'ai éliminé en une demi-seconde des dizaines de profils avec des "vrais gens" derrière – ce que ça nous rend cons! Bref, ni émoi ni rencontre possible, c'était vite vu.
Et le réel entier ignoré pour un mirage…

Russland wirft Ukraine Drohnenangriff auf Atomkraftwerk vor
Russland hat der Ukraine vorgeworfen, bei Drohnenangriffen am Freitag auch ein Atomkraftwerk ins Visier genommen zu haben. Die russische Atomenergiebehörde Rosatom erklärte, einer der Angriffe habe das Atomkraftwerk Smolensk rund 300 Kilometer westlich der Hauptstadt Moskau zum Ziel gehabt. Die russische Luftabwehr habe in der Nacht zum Freitag "eine ukrainische Kamp…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ USA und Verbündete werfen Kreml Rechtsbruch vor ++
Die USA und westliche Verbündete haben Russland nach dem Drohnen-Vorfall in Polen Völkerrechtsbruch vorgeworfen. Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj sieht den Vormarsch russischer Truppen in der Region Sumy als gescheitert. Der Liveblog vom Freitag zum Nachlesen.