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Everybody is wondering if some ICE agents are actually just bounty hunters, and that's possible but not super likely. What's much more likely is that a good chunk of the agents deployed today are the American equivalent of Wagner, which is currently named "Tripple Canopy" but you probably know as "Blackwater."
It's reasonably likely that the mercenaries who were grabbing people off the streets in Portland in 2020 are back at it for round 2. After all, this is just another opportunity for Trump to dump money in Erik Prince's pocket and wouldn't it be good for Trump to have a man on his side who happens to own a private army?
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/inside-federal-protective-service-homeland-securitys-domestic-police

Improved geometric and recollision estimates for the invariance principle of the random Lorentz gas
Raphael Winter, Karsten Matthies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18539

Improved geometric and recollision estimates for the invariance principle of the random Lorentz gas
By improving geometric recollision estimates for a random Lorentz gas, we extend the timescale $T(r)$ of the invariance principle for a Lorentz gas with particle size $r$ obtained by Lutsko and Toth (2020) from $\lim_{r \rightarrow 0} T(r) r^{2} |\log(r)|^2 =0$ to $\lim_{r \rightarrow 0} T(r) r^{2} |\log(r)| =0$. We show that this is the maximal reachable timescale with the coupling of stochastic processes introduced in the original result. In our improved geometric estimate…

Hallo Presse: wieso fragt ihr die Regierung nicht danach, wie sie diese¹ Klimaziele erreichen will? Wo sind die Schlagzeilen? Wo ist der Skandal?
Und: redet mit euren Wissenschafts­redaktionen, verweist auf deren Artikel zu den Folgen. Wenn ihr Politik­journalismus wirksam betreiben wollt, müßt ihr darin fit sein, was die Wissenschaft sagt. Laßt euch nicht von Politikys verarschen.
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Do Large Language Models Judge Error Severity Like Humans?
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as automated evaluators in natural language generation, yet it remains unclear whether they can accurately replicate human judgments of error severity. In this study, we systematically compare human and LLM assessments of image descriptions containing controlled semantic errors. We extend the experimental framework of van Miltenburg et al. (2020) to both unimodal (text-only) and multimodal (text + image) settings, evaluating four error types: a…

Just now: we're celebrating 5 years of CLARIN-CH 🇨🇭and the fact that Switzerland is a full member of #CLARIN since beginning of 2025
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The Northern Cross Fast Radio Burst project: V. Search for transient radio emission from Galactic magnetars
A. Geminardi, P. Esposito, G. Bernardi, M. Pilia, D. Pelliciari, G. Naldi, D. Dallacasa, R. Turolla, L. Stella, F. Perini, F. Verrecchia, C. Casentini, M. Trudu, R. Lulli, A. Maccaferri, A. Magro, A. Mattana, G. Bianchi, G. Pupillo, C. Bortolotti, M. Tavani, M. Roma, M. Schiaffino, G. Setti

The Northern Cross Fast Radio Burst project: V. Search for transient radio emission from Galactic magnetars
Context. The radio emission from magnetars is poorly understood and poorly characterized observationally, in particular for what concerns single pulses and sporadic events. The interest in it was boosted by the detection in 2020 of an extremely bright ms radio signal from the Galactic magnetar designated Soft Gamma Repeater (SGR) SGR J1935+2154, which occurred almost simultaneously with a typical magnetar short burst of X-rays. As of now, this event remains the Galactic radio pulse that is the …

“i need everyone in the white house press pool to ask karoline leavitt if the president thinks joe biden is a clone or a robot. he can’t be both! we need to know which one he thinks it is.” https://bsky.app/profile/socialistdogmom.bsky.social/post/3lqj7isldfs2y…