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300 000 flygpassagerare drabbade av strejk: ”De tas som gisslan”, hävdar premiärministern. Fackförbunden larmar om underbemanning och säkerhetsrisker. https://www.dn.se/varlden/300-000-flygpassagerare-drabbade-av-strejk-de-tas-som-gisslan/…

300 000 flygpassagerare drabbade av fransk strejk: ”Tas som gisslan”
300 000 flygpassagerare drabbade av fransk strejk mot underbemanning.

Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡
E-Fuels, so the story goes, could allow using existing cars and infrastructure like gas stations. However, E-Fuels are extremely inefficient.
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and the Chilean company HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile's windy Magallanes region, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol and small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🧵

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

A new wave of publishers sign up for ProRata's revenue share program, bringing the total number of publishers to 500, including The Boston Globe and Vox Media (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/boston-globe-f…

Boston Globe, Future, Vox Media join ProRata’s generative AI licensing model
A fresh wave of publishers have signed up for ProRata’s revenue share program, and some are adding its AI search engine to their sites.

You're googling "accelerant"? Kyle, I don't like that.
- Kyle's mom

Long-term price elasticity of gasoline demand in California is -0.6 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988325003135 @…

Well, this seems stupid - New Jersey is forcing the removal of many working NACS charging centers and replacing them with CCS charging.
That's already stupid. But it moves from stupid to destructive in that it NJ wants to expand the moribund CCS charge system while automobile makers are shifting away from CCS to NACS.
Perhaps we ought to remember that New Jersey is a major oil refining/gasoline producing state and thus there are political forces in NJ who abhor EVs.

#StarTrek without computers is inconceivable. Which makes advancements in computer science an important milestone; and also the subject of today's #TrekTriviaTuesday question.
As always no googling and no spoiling the answer for others. Please boost after voting! :BoostOK:
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First Canada Goose babies and the Baltimore Orioles are chattering up a storm. Must be early May in south-central Ontario.
#canada #birds

Ich. Muss. Aufhören.
Aber ich kann nicht. WAH.
Wie kann jemand so perfekt, bis in die letzte Pore alles verkörpern, was Mansplainer so zu einem PITA macht?
#Dudeception

SplArt: Articulation Estimation and Part-Level Reconstruction with 3D Gaussian Splatting
Shengjie Lin, Jiading Fang, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Vitor Campagnolo Guizilini, Rares Andrei Ambrus, Greg Shakhnarovich, Matthew R. Walter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03594

SplArt: Articulation Estimation and Part-Level Reconstruction with 3D Gaussian Splatting
Reconstructing articulated objects prevalent in daily environments is crucial for applications in augmented/virtual reality and robotics. However, existing methods face scalability limitations (requiring 3D supervision or costly annotations), robustness issues (being susceptible to local optima), and rendering shortcomings (lacking speed or photorealism). We introduce SplArt, a self-supervised, category-agnostic framework that leverages 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to reconstruct articulated ob…