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I’ve long been a fan of the Check My Ads people. Now they’re launching a really ambitious-looking “Policy Platform” aimed at cleaning up the online-advertising business. My belief is that anyone who’s had much exposure to that business or to “AdTech” probably agrees that cleanup is called for. Check it out: https://checkmyads.org/policy/

“The society said any judgments it issued that were potentially seen as political would do ‘more harm than good.’”
The Royal Society has already made a political announcement: that it is perfectly fine with fascism and having fascists as fellows. As far as political statements go, it doesn’t get any stronger than that. The only thing they could do to make their point clearer is if they hang a “Nazi Bar” sign above their headquarters.

So, this is why I love this place so much:
Person A makes a funny and interesting observation:
https://social.ds106.us/@johnjohnston/114665513635758197
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John Johnston (@johnjohnston@social.ds106.us)
Attached: 1 image I met this snail this morning. I am wondering why its trail is ‘dotted’? Was it hopping;-)

Fun to see Sam Mewis coach a bit.
VGFC vs Flower City 1872 6/11/25 by Vermont Green FC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3BE4B9hp00

Check out today's Metacurity to stay on top of the never-ending overload of infosec developments, including
--Operation Secure disrupts infostealer malware groups worldwide
--Microsoft 365 Copilot harbored critical 'EchoLeak' security flaw,
--FIN6 targets LinkedIn recruiters,
--Smart watches can steal data from air-gapped systems,
--Cybercrims stole NHS Active Directory database,
--Two journalists hacked using Paragon spyware,
--Ransomware…

Operation Secure disrupts infostealer malware groups worldwide
Microsoft 365 Copilot harbored critical 'EchoLeak' security flaw, FIN6 targets LinkedIn recruiters. Smart watches can steal data in air-gapped systems, Cybercrims stole NHS Active Directory database, Two journalists hacked using Paragon spyware, Ransomware hits large hospitals in Maine, much more

Sylius Community: Let's Connect! Join us on June 26th in Mannheim for an evening of networking, learning, and fun with fellow Sylius enthusiasts.
Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/phpug-rhein-neckar/events/305478305/

PHPUGMRN 03/25 (The Sylius Meetup), Thu, Jun 26, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda:** 19:00 CET - Intro 19:05 CET - Brille24 - Post Mortem, Max Pesch 19:50 CET - Break 20:00 CET - Sylius & Automation, let's dive in!, Jacques Bodin-Hullin 20:50 CE

AnimateAnyMesh: A Feed-Forward 4D Foundation Model for Text-Driven Universal Mesh Animation
Zijie Wu, Chaohui Yu, Fan Wang, Xiang Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09982

AnimateAnyMesh: A Feed-Forward 4D Foundation Model for Text-Driven Universal Mesh Animation
Recent advances in 4D content generation have attracted increasing attention, yet creating high-quality animated 3D models remains challenging due to the complexity of modeling spatio-temporal distributions and the scarcity of 4D training data. In this paper, we present AnimateAnyMesh, the first feed-forward framework that enables efficient text-driven animation of arbitrary 3D meshes. Our approach leverages a novel DyMeshVAE architecture that effectively compresses and reconstructs dynamic mes…

Un séjour outre-Manche
Billet "un peu spécial", comme on dit sur Youtube, pour parler de la fin de mes vacan mon récent déplacement professionnel en Angleterre, qui m'a certes permis dans un premier temps d'aller Š Bristol pour la conférence IASSIST 2025 (billet Š venir), mais aussi de m'arrêter Š Londres sur le chemin du retour pour deux jours d'observation avec l'équipe open science de la London School of Economics.

Un séjour outre-Manche
Billet « un peu spécial », comme on dit sur Youtube, pour parler de la fin de mes vacan mon récent déplacement professionnel en Angleterre, qui m’a certes permis dans un premier temps d&rsquo…

Sorry to miss it in person and that I cannot stay for the panels on: teacher, gender, inclusion, decolonisation, and future action. Lovely to see and hear so many wonderful colleagues even from a distance.
My fun memory was the cartoon by the talented (then PhD student) Kalifa Damani during my talk on silent exclusion at the REAL Centre in January 2020 before the world shut, and many fun moments with Pauline Rose over the years.
Congratulations! The achievements are remarkable.

When Detection Fails: The Power of Fine-Tuned Models to Generate Human-Like Social Media Text
Hillary Dawkins, Kathleen C. Fraser, Svetlana Kiritchenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09975

When Detection Fails: The Power of Fine-Tuned Models to Generate Human-Like Social Media Text
Detecting AI-generated text is a difficult problem to begin with; detecting AI-generated text on social media is made even more difficult due to the short text length and informal, idiosyncratic language of the internet. It is nonetheless important to tackle this problem, as social media represents a significant attack vector in online influence campaigns, which may be bolstered through the use of mass-produced AI-generated posts supporting (or opposing) particular policies, decisions, or event…