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I was in the Kawartha region this weekend and randomly drove down a road where I saw a bunch of unhinged signs about paying no taxes and MANY confederate flags.
We don't see a lot of those flags in Canada so I got curious.
Turns out the Guardian made an article on it.
https://www.

Amsterdam – Maasstraat - Mini Cooper S
#kamafotos

In 2025, Article 19 documented 69 cases of Mexican officials' use of lawsuits and other legal tools against journalists, more than triple the number in 2024 (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/20…

Mexico’s Laws Have a New Target: Journalists
Politicians and officials in Mexico are using the country’s laws to intimidate critics and the media, forcing them into censorship and blunting scrutiny.

📅 Mi, 24.6. – 10:00 Uhr bis 12:00
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With the death of the Belgian theoretical physicist François #Englert on 18 June at the age of 93 - https://home.cern/francois-englert-1932-2026/ - all three 'fathers' of the Brout-Englert-Higgs field have passed away: Englert's associate Robert Brout had died in 2011, its independent proposer Peter Higgs in 2024. Particles thus no longer have mass: hold them tight ...

Of course, there will still be ads. And auctions as well. And not only will that determine which ads show up, but how many words the LLM is writing about a product. They call it “prominence allocation”. The ad is in the generated content.
(Thanks @… for the hint!)

Travis Hunter, Mykel Williams, other 2025 NFL Draft first-rounders who need big seasons https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7291654/2026/05/21/nfl-draft-2024-picks-hunter-ashton-jeanty/

W sobotę 27 czerwca na kiermaszu w trakcie Palestine Solidarity Days w Warszawie będą do nabycia 3 egzemplarze mojego DIY-owego albumu pt. “Voices Against”.
Album zawiera 19 zdjęć 13x18 i eksploruje różne formy sprzeciwu wobec ludobójstwa na narodzie palestyńskim, które udokumentowałem od maja 2024 do stycznia 2026 - od protestów i demonstracji, przez sztukę uliczną, po akcje bezpośrednie. Każdy egzemplarz jest opieczętowany, ponumerowany, ręcznie opisany i opakowany w eleganckie pudełko.
Dochód z jego sprzedaży zostanie przekazany na Fundusz Ocalałych ze Strefy Gazy uruchomiony przez Polsko-Palestyńską Organizację Na Rzecz Sprawiedliwości “Kaktus”.
Warszawa, Plac Zabaw nad Wisłą, od godz. 12.
Zapraszam do nabycia 🙂

"which emojis are used the least often?" - Great question, and we rarely find data on this! But luckily, we studied this at least for two corpora with German users (and admittedly only for face emojis). So: Many object or symbol emojis (from the "tail end" of the emoji list) are very, very rarely used. Overall, faces and hearts are the most frequent. Among the face emojis, we compiled the full list of usages from a huge Twitter corpus (semi-public communication, 2014-2022) and a much small WhatsApp chat corpus (private or group communication). You can find the frequencies in this table linked below (and sort by frequency by clicking on the column). The least frequent face emoji in the large corpus was the "frowning face with open mouth" 😦, which most people have never seen before. Personally, I think it's pretty ambiguous and not very useful, as there are better emojis for anything it might express. #emojis #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
https://tscheffler.github.io/2024-Face-Emoji-Norming/ratings.html

Just bought this killer violet vinyl of one of my favorite LPs of 2024 (and my all time favorite dungeon synth record), Warlock Corpse's 'Bloody Tears of the Desert'. Only 200 of these made- if you like dungeon synth at ALL..
Hear it here at Bandcamp if you haven't, it's SICK: https://

Another way to see data centers aren’t just about AI: even by EPRI’s most generous forecast, AI accounts for less than half of the load added since ChatGPT. You may not like what the rest of the buildout is being used for.
https://blog.still-water.net/what-if-data-centers-ar…

Is it too much to check that the dates of events occurred *after* July 2024 before blaming them on the policies of the current UK government?

#Elektroauto RANT über führenden Mineralölkonzern in D:
ARAL bzw die Europazentrale des Weltkonzerns BP ist nicht in der Lage eine funktionierende App herzustellen, die man zum Laden benötigt. Ich konnte mich tagelang nicht anmelden, jedes Mal brach der Vorgang nach erfolgreichem Einloggen mit Fehlermeldung ab und man wird vertröstet: "Versuche es noch einmal"
Aufgrund de…

Designing single-layer PDMS devices for micron to millimeter-scale deformations
Leon Valentin Gebhard, Alexandre S. Avaro, Gabriel Amselem, Charles N. Baroud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.17402 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.17402
arXiv:2605.17402v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The elasticity of PDMS has played a central role in advancing important microfluidic technologies, ranging from early valves to sophisticated organ-on-a-chip systems. However, most deformable microfluidic devices are based on geometries that require complex multi-layer PDMS architectures and include thin membranes, leading to difficult microfabrication and poor stability. Recently, Jain, Belkadi et al. (Biofabrication 16.3 (2024): 035010) introduced a single-layer device in which a wide and long microfluidic channel was deformed by controlling the pressure in two independent and adjacent air chambers. While they demonstrated the ability to deform the channel ceiling to compress biological materials, the design parameters remain unexplored. Here, we perform a numerical study on 14,336 variants of this device and identify the height of the PDMS layer, the width of the microchannel and the width of the air chamber as the main features that determine the ceiling deformation. Three deformation modes are observed as the geometrical parameters are varied: A U shape with a central minimum, a W shape with two minima and a central maximum, or an inverse U shape with an upward-bulging single maximum. The numerical results are validated in experiments that reproduce the three shapes for the predicted geometries and demonstrate vertical ceiling deformations ranging from a few microns to the millimeter scale. The generality of this approach is demonstrated for two example applications: A fully closing single-layer microfluidic valve and an optical lens of controllable anisotropy. This work leverages the rapid prototyping enabled by 3D printing or micro-milling to open new perspectives in microfluidic actuation.
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„Die Antikriegsbewegung international vorwärts bringen“ https://www.german-foreign-policy.com/news/detail/10431

Consciousness Explained Away: Daniel Dennett’s Illusionism and the Theory That Spends Its Own Foundation
When Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, the philosophical world lost one of the last serious defenders of a position so counterintuitive that even sympathetic readers spent decades trying to talk themselves into it. Dennett argued, across more than fifty years of writing, that consciousness as we ordinarily understand it does not exist.…

Consciousness Explained Away: Daniel Dennett’s Illusionism and the Theory That Spends Its Own Foundation | David Boles, Blogs
When Daniel Dennett died on April 19, 2024, at the age of eighty-two, the philosophical world lost one of the last serious defenders of a position so counterintuitive that even sympathetic readers …

Almost 3 hours is too fucking long for a movie. The Mandalorian and Grogu was two hours and 20 minutes, that was do-able as I like Star Wars, Mandalorian, Grogu stuff in general. I heard about this new 'Possession' movie that's like, 2 hours and 50 minutes long. You're telling me there's nothing you could've cut to make that a shorter, better running time? Fuck that.

In Deutschland wurden 2024 677114 Kinder geboren. Die Bundeswehr möchte auf 280000 wehrdienstleistende aufstocken. Der Wehrdienst dauert aber nur 6 Monate. Um also ganzjährig 280000 wehrdienstleistende zu haben müssen 560000 Menschen eines Geburtsjahrgangs Wehrdienst leisten. Wenn alle Männer Wehrdienst leisten, keiner verweigert, keiner ist untauglich, alle haben deutschen pass, keiner leistet als Doppelstaatler im Ausland (Israel, Ukraine) Wehrdienst, dann kann diese Zahl trotzdem nur erre…

UK-based journalist advocacy group Article 19 says eight journalists disappeared or were murdered in Mexico in 2025; four journalists were murdered in 2024 (Lizbeth Diaz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

#Tatort: Ich sehe dich - #ARD #BR
#krimi #crimi