
2025-06-09 20:21:00
SVG Favicons and CSS Anchor Positioning are two big wins shipping in Safari 26 Beta: https://webkit.org/blog/16993/news-from-wwdc25-web-technology-coming-this-fall-in-safari-26-beta/
The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity https://jacobin.com/2025/06/history-left-jewish-identity-politics/
Building on the 90s, statistical n-gram language models, trained on vast text collections, became the backbone of NLP research. They fueled advancements in nearly all NLP techniques of the era, laying the groundwork for today's AI.
F. Jelinek (1997), Statistical Methods for Speech Recognition, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
#NLP
This is the first time that I got the purple (most difficult) group on the first try! And solving the puzzle perfectly too! 🎉
#Connections
Puzzle #730
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#NYTConnections
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Funkmasters:
🎵 Love Money
#Funkmasters
https://sfbdhq.bandcamp.com/track/t-w-funkmasters-love-money-1981-remix
iOS 26 adds glassy effects to 3rd party apps icons on its own, cool!
Similarly to how iOS 18 was able to add dark mode icons I suppose
#WWDC
Imagine your brain just being non-existent that you _must_ refer to an #AI slop pot to do some basic task, and even though the information that the slop pot produces is either inaccurate or flat out false... you still use it as a response regardless. #AIBollocks
Die ePetition 181600 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Umsatzsteuer mit dem Titel
Einheitliche Besteuerung pflanzlicher und tierischer Milchmischgetränken in der Gastronomie
kann bis zum Dienstag 15. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit der Petition wird gefordert, dass Nr. 35 der Anlage 2 zum Umsatzsteuergesetz so geändert wird, dass bei der Besteuerung von pflanzlichen und tierischen Milchmischgetränken in der Gastronomie eine einheitliche steuerliche Be…
Turkistarhaus Suomessa #eläinoikeudet
Yesterday my schedule and the weather suited a return to gliding for the first time since the fires. I did four flights - the second was a checkout in a new type (the Grob 103), and the third a little soaring trip in the Schweizer 1-26. The first and fourth were just commuting in the Cessna 172.
#aviation #gliding
DHS Releases Statement on Violent Rioters Assaulting ICE Officers in Los Angeles, CA and Calls on Democrat Politicians to Tone Down Dangerous Rhetoric About ICE (Department of Homeland Security)
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/07/dhs-releases-statement-violent-rioters-assaulting-ice-officers-los-angeles-ca-and
http://www.memeorandum.com/250607/p61#a250607p61
Tubi commercials are still the worst.
#nwsl
We Animals Media – Bringing visibility to hidden animals worldwide through compelling photo and videojournalism. #AnimalRights
Calamus 26 We two boys together clinging
This is one of the gayest of the Calamus poems, a fantasy of two men against the world, full of life and ardor. I should be all over this in my gay reading!
Instead I see a darker form of Americanism here. "Power enjoying ... Armed and fearless ... No law less than ourselves". It's classic American individualism fantasy, a repudiation of community and law. Armed, at that.
On top of that I trip over the "North and South" part every time I read this. In 1860 when this was published we were just steps away from a Civil War after 10 years of enormous tension. I don't blame Whitman for wanting unity, his whole program in Leaves of Grass is American unity. All I can think is how there's no moral equivalence between the North and South. But Whitman wasn't an abolitionist and this poem reflects that.
Sorry for not reveling in the gay, maybe it's the ICE and California National Guard news affecting my reading today.
Exclusive | Trump’s FAA Pick Once Played a Flight Attendant on TV. It Drew FAA Scrutiny. - WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/trumps-faa-pick-once-played-a-flight-attendant-on-tv-it-drew-faa-scrutiny-69e58d46
iOS 26 animations are so satisfactorily bouncy!!
#WWDC
Période : toute la journée
Dates :
- le week-end du samedi 10 au dimanche 11 mai 15h45
- le week-end du samedi 17 au dimanche 18 mai 15h45
- le week-end du samedi 31 mai au dimanche 1er juin 15h45
La desserte des trains de la Ligne U est prolongée jusqu'Š la gare de Rambouillet (mission REFI - FERI)
Reprise des circulations le dimanche :
Premier train VERI au départ de la Défense 15h15
Premier train DEFI au départ de La Verrière 16h30
L…
Die ePetition 179413 an den Bundestag aus dem Bereich Straftaten gegen das Leben und gegen die körperliche Unversehrtheit mit dem Titel
Anerkennung des Femizids als eigenständiger Straftatbestand
kann bis zum Mittwoch 16. Juli 2025 01:00 UTC mitgezeichnet werden und lautet
Mit dieser Petition wird gefordert, Femizide als eigenständigen Straftatbestand im Strafrecht zu verankern. Die systematische Tötung von Frauen aufgrund ihres Geschlechts ist keine private Tragödie, sonde…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Murder Club:
🎵 4 EVA
#MurderClub
https://open.spotify.com/track/56dDmTWb2J4LBxaq6TTDSk
Today I had a 1h meeting followed by 2h of code reading and DB forensics which resulted in a rather simple SQL query that, when run daily via cron, should remove the need for a manual step that an operator had to do regularily (and maybe did not do properly, but instread wasted an hour on dumb clicking instead).
Me: [picks up dropped metal water bottle]
Me: "it's wild how much abuse these things can take, and they just keep going! "
13yo: "are you talking about me?"
Me: "yes."
13yo: "good, I finally get some recognition for my suffering."
#parenting 🙄
Sources: Apple may announce new features for AirPods at WWDC, including iPhone camera control, new head gestures, and sleep detection for pausing playback (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/04/exclusive-airpods-ios-26-wwdc-features/…
Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on April 9, 2025, directing federal agencies to investigate #Miles #Taylor, a former Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland security, for his public criticisms of the president.
This appears to be the first time in U.S. history that a president has explicitly invoked his in…
Hach… #RockAmRing wird diesmal bei #BILD gestreamed. Und zwar nur noch die Hauptbühne. Sonst nur noch ausgewählte Presse und paar Twich-Streamer. Und wehe irgendwer erdreistet sich und mach anderweitig Videos.
(Und ja, ich weiß, kein Backup…)
Honestly the iOS 26 redesign looks really good, I’m glad they finally ditched that awful flat design
#WWDC
Pour l'heure, l'aviation «verte» demeure une énorme fiction
https://fr.euronews.com/green/2025/05/02/les-dix-compagnies-aeriennes-les-plus-polluantes-deurope-sont-r…
Having nothing to do with current events, might I suggest reading my “children’s story” Winnie the Coup and Elongated Muskrat Bulldoze the Gubment tonight before bed?
https://medium.com/the-haven/winnie-the-coup-and-the-elongated-musk…
UnitedHealthcare sues The Guardian for defamation over a May 21 story about nursing home cost-cutting, accusing the outlet of capitalizing on its CEO's killing (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/04…
Next stop on our NLP timeline (as part of the #ISE2025 lecture) was Terry Winograd's SHRDLU, an early natural language understanding system developed in 1968-70 that could manipulate blocks in a virtual world.
Winograd, T. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language. MIT AI Technical Report 235.
»Billige Briefumschläge, deren Aufsichtseite oftmals hochglänzend satiniert ist, während die rauhe Rückseite zahllose Sandkörner aufweist, machen die Bildseite der Lettern in kurzer Zeit löcherig und unbrauchbar. Manche Druckpapiere weisen weiche Verdickungen und Knoten auf, die eine mangelhafte Vorbereitung des Papierstoffes erkennen lassen und beim Verdrucken nach und nach Beschädigungen der Lettern herbeiführen.«
Aus: Gustav Bohadti – Die Buchdruckletter (Ullstein, 1954)
slip inside last night's frow show, 3 hours of new music, global zones, jazz departures, cosmic arrivals, etc., via the @… archive. https://wfmu.org/playlists/JJ/250603
Das ist ja fast beleidigend, dass jetzt ausgerechnet die Grünen wegen Polizei-kritischer Bekleidung einen Skandal im Bundestag haben. Hunderte Linke fühlen sich schon wieder nicht gesehen.
https://www.
Apple has (maybe) seen the light and (maybe) goes CalVer 🥳
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-28/apple-to-rebrand-device-operating-systems-ios-26-macos-26-watchos-26
@… Yeah, I guess this article is less well known. IEEE Spectrum is perhaps not where you’d expect to find such articles…
Ik wil hard rijden, maar waarom wil ik zo snel zijn? | Thomas Verbogt | #gelderlander
https://www.gelderlander.nl/thomas-verbogt
[2025-06-06 Fri (UTC), 4 new articles found for math.NT Number Theory]
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Första randomiserade studien som visar att mer fysisk aktivitet ökar chanserna att överleva vid cancer. I den här studien tittade man specifikt på koloncancer.
https://apnews.com/article/colon-cancer-exercise-study-recove…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Andreas Hammerschmidt, Hespèrion XX & Jordi Savall:
🎵 Suite in D minor for gambas, 'Erster Fleiss'
#AndreasHammerschmidt #HespèrionXX #JordiSavall
Single-pulse-based interstellar scintillation studies of RRATs
Zi-wei Wu, Wei-wei Zhu, Zi-yao Fang, Qiu-yang Fu, Ji-guang Lu, Ling-qi Meng, Chen-Chen Miao, Xue-li Miao, Jia-rui Niu, Rukeya Rejiefu, Xun Shi, Chao Wang, Meng-yao Xue, Mao Yuan, You-ling Yue, Chun-feng Zhang, Zhen Zhang, Shi-jun Dang, Yu-lan Liu
https://arxiv.org/ab…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Mirrorgloss:
🎵 Crave
#Mirrorgloss
https://mirrorglossmusic.bandcamp.com/track/crave
https://open.spotify.com/track/420gnjDaPTplxOHQYc6AUX
"Ando sem tempo absolutamente nenhum, entre um livro muito grande e com prazo apertado em tradução e chatices familiares daquelas que roubam não só o tempo propriamente dito, mas sobretudo disponibilidade mental para fazer seja o que for de criativo. Daí mais uma longa pausa neste blogue bissexto que é o meu, pausa essa que vai continuar ainda durante mais um par de meses, provavelmente. Pelo menos."
Immer wenn ich lese "Kein Backup, kein Mitleid." muss ich mit dem Kopf schütteln. Hier ist nicht nur das "ob" (also warum man Backups machen muss) etwas das IMMER WIEDER erklärt werden muss, Auch das "wie", gerade das "wie", omg ist das "wie" wichtig!
aber abgesehen davon, nur weil man Jahrzehnte in einem Bereich tätig ist, geht ein Thema nicht weg, denn es haben mit der Zeit eben nicht alle verstanden. Muss mich da auch an eigene Nase…
Was ist denn beim Spiegel Online kaputt?
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/fedora-asahi-remix-alltagstaugliches-linux-fuer-macos-nutzer-a-769f47bd-6740-4254-9c9f-cba36550ceb6
Enda et nytt parti som lover «direkte demokrati», men som likevel stiller liste til valg og vil ha makt over oss andre.
Generasjonspartiet fremstiller det som en frisk nyvinning, men i virkeligheten er dette bare mer av det samme representative systemet som har sviktet arbeiderklassen i generasjoner.
Syndikalismen handler om at vi organiserer oss selv, i fagforeninger og lokale råd, og tar beslutningene direkte, ikke gjennom partier, valg eller politikere.
Når Generasjonsp…
yes. Donny. It was. You've been had and you're too dumb to see it coming.
#TheAmericanFascist https://sharkey.world/notes/a8gl1cr92e2u008v
Heute gibt es noch eine kleine Aufführung mit den #Coffeebots in Kreuzberg in einer Kneipe. Voll gut, mal wieder mit den Marionetten zu spielen.
Asana reports Q1 revenue of $187.3M, vs. $185.5M est., up 9% YoY vs. 26% last year, and adjusted EPS of $0.05, vs. $0.02 est.; ASAN falls 8% after hours (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/03/asan…
Dziś przyszedł ten dzień, kiedy się wziąłem, zebrałem trzy ogniwa AAA z pilotów i uruchomiłem maszynę ważącą (ach, jakże mi brak mechanicznej wagi, co działała bez cudowania, tylko się gdzieś zapodziała…).
Lulu 🐱 — 5,5 kg
Ru 🐱 — 4,5 kg
Jego Ekowatość, Pierwszy Tego Imienia, Król Pieszczochów 🐱 — 4,5 kg
(tara — 72,5 kg)
Ukraine schickt Delegation zu Verhandlungen nach Istanbul
Die Ukraine entsendet eine Delegation zur für morgen geplanten nächsten Verhandlungsrunde über eine Waffenruhe mit Russland nach Istanbul. Die ukrainische Delegation werde von Verteidigungsminister Rustem Umjerow geleitet, teilte der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj mit. Bisher hatte Kiew offen gelassen, ob die von Russland angekündigte zweite Gesprächsrunde z…
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sister just told me i woulda gotten diagnosed with adhd instead, but my mom argued hard that i couldn't actually be socially stunted from having nobody outside the family who spoke english to regularly interact with growing up
No. 99 WR Cole Beasley: Cowboys Top 100 Countdown to the 2025 season https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/01/cowboys-top-100-countdown-wr-cole-beasley/83980043007/
Mögt ihr eure lokale Timeline?
Just read that Mozilla has decided to shut down Pocket (!?!). Its integration with Kobo e-readers is great and something I will miss. It will be difficult to find a similarly practical way to read web articles on my e-reader, other than the somewhat clunky pdf-saving cloud sync method. Any tips much welcome!
from my link log —
Type-level bounded recursion in Rust.
https://catgirl.ai/log/typelevel-bounded-recursion/
saved 2025-05-26
'night all. I'm off to bed to listen to the last of the Murderbot Diaries series of audiobooks, *System Collapse*
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On Website Technicals (2019-07) - Tech updates: improved video support, HTTPS, search impressions vs clicks, FFmpeg vs AVconv, line-height. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-26.html
[2025-06-06 Fri (UTC), 3 new articles found for cs.SI Social and Information Networks]
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The Guards series is not copaganda. I repeat, not copaganda.
"It wasn’t proper police work, Vimes considered, unless you were doing something that someone somewhere would much rather you weren’t doing."
(from Jingo)
#GNUTerryPratchett
Un train stationne Š Eglise de Pantin vers Bobigny Pablo Picasso en raison d'un incident nécessitant l’intervention du conducteur.
🤖 04/06 23:26
First Introduced To Australia In 1788, This Invasive Species Now Kills Over A Million Birds A Day
https://www.forbes.com/sites/scotttravers/2025/04/26/first-introduced-to-austral…
With the advent of ELIZA, Joseph Weizenbaum's first psychotherapist chatbot, NLP took another major step with pattern-based substitution algorithms based on simple regular expressions.
Weizenbaum, Joseph (1966). ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine. Com. of the ACM. 9: 36–45.
"Fixer les prix des livres au détail est une politique commune en Europe, mais comment la prévention de la concurrence affecte-t-elle les libraires et les acheteurs ? Christos Genakos, Lorien Sabatino et Tommaso Valletti constatent que lorsque la possibilité d'offrir des prix plus bas aux clients est limitée, les vendeurs se tournent vers la concurrence sur le service Š la clientèle et la variété des livres - améliorant ainsi l'expérience des acheteurs."
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Pläne sind zum Ändern da.
Die Frau wundert sich, ich nicht. Sollte mich das wundern?
#gmiatlichRadln #rausgeschafft #Oberfranken
"The final stage, a flat 143-km route around Rome, will be a ceremonial ride. The GC is effectively sealed, and Simon Yates — with his audacious attack and redemption arc — has already etched his name into Giro d’Italia history."
#giroditalia2025 #giro2025
Exponential Time Differencing Runge-Kutta Discontinuous Galerkin (ETD-RKDG) Methods for Nonlinear Degenerate Parabolic Equations
Ziyao Xu, Yong-Tao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04416
The 43rd issue of The #Comet's Tale from the BAA is full of interesting articles: https://britastro.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/tail43.pdf (in https://britastro.org/section_information_/comet-section-overview/the-comets-tale all issues).
Series C, Episode 08 - Rumours of Death
AVON: Your name wouldn't be Shrinker, by any chance, would it?
SHRINKER: You've heard of me?
AVON: Ah. I knew if I held out, you would show up eventually.
SHRINKER: That says more for your nerve than your brain.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/308/4
On Sunday, voters are casting their ballots in the decisive runoff between
Rafał Trzaskowski, the liberal-centrist mayor of Warsaw,
and Karol Nawrocki, a right-wing historian who has helmed a nationalist effort to rewrite Poland’s role in the Holocaust.
The candidates offer starkly different visions for Poland.
Trzaskowski promises cooperation with the European Union and social changes, such as loosening restrictive abortion laws and allowing civil unions for LGBTQ peo…
Trafic perturbé le mercredi 7 mai.
Prévoir 2 trains sur 3.
Pour préparer votre trajet, rendez-vous sur le calculateur d’itinéraires de l’appli Île-de-France Mobilités, le site Transilien.com, SNCF Connect ou votre appli de mobilité.
Avant de vous rendre en gare, nous vous conseillons de vérifier l’horaire de vos trains.
Motif : mouvement social.
🤖 07/05 03:00
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Johannes Brahms, Sinfonia Varsovia & Robert Treviño:
🎵 2 Hungarian Dances - no 11 in D minor, no 5 in G minor
#JohannesBrahms #SinfoniaVarsovia #RobertTreviño
The non-unit conjecture for Misiurewicz parameters
Robert L. Benedetto, Vefa Goksel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05254 https://arxiv.or…
DC mayor kicks off Black Pride by creating "TS Madison Day" in honor of Black trans activist - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/dc-mayor-kicks-off-black-pride-by-creating-ts-madison-day-in-honor-of-black-trans-activist/
You are a Failure But Still Smiling | #NowWatching
this afternoon in red hook! #brooklyn #nyc https://mastodon.social/@dmandl/114585666130512255
#Dog fans: Please watch "The Art of Racing in the Rain".
(I ugly cried at AMC during these clips & hugged a complete stranger in the lobby.)
▶️ Enzo's final lap with Denny
https://yout…
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24082 has been replaced.
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A look at Apple's AI plans for WWDC; sources: macOS 26 will be named Tahoe and Apple is testing its 3B, 7B, 33B, and 150B AI models via internal tool Playground (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/new…
Cowboys QB Dak Prescott shares first look at second daughter https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/01/cowboys-dak-prescott-birth-second-daughter/83979056007/
The 13yo was making instant mac & cheese (incorrectly), and my wife yelled "READ the instructions!"
The 13yo responded with, "I DID read the instructions,"and she replied "A day in the library saves a week in the lab." Which I guess is a real expression that scientists say?
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Urge Overkill:
🎵 Sister Havana
#UrgeOverkill
https://open.spotify.com/track/6E8hhcSnvtevktpFSnHmjK
Shinichi Kobayashi has idyllic memories of growing up on Naoshima, one of the nearly 3,000 islands scattered across Japan's Seto Inland Sea.
"We would go clam digging," said the 75-year-old, who became the island's mayor in 2018.
"During the summer, I would spend entire days swimming in the sea, catching turban shells and fish, getting deeply tanned."
"I don't recall seeing any foreign visitors," he added.
Kobayashi's hom…
Refinements on higher order Weil-Oesterl\'e bounds via a Serre type argument
Emmanuel Hallouin, Philippe Moustrou, Marc Perret
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05212
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #WordsAndMusic
Mulatu Astatke & Mulatu Astatke:
🎵 Tezeta
#MulatuAstatke
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JPNvoMjoIXkTDAMx9Aajj
Global Kinetic Simulations of Monster Shocks and Their Emission
Dominic Bernardi, Yajie Yuan, Alexander Y. Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04175 https://…
Divine 9 takeaways from Cowboys 2nd OTA sessions includes no Diggs or Parsons sightings https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/01/takeaways-cowboys-2nd-ota-sessions-of-2025/8397815700…
I can never get over how obnoxious this tax/tariff scam is, seeing stuff $135.00 ( $139.29 shipping).
The govt is gonna close this loophole up & these idiots will have effed it up for everyone. #smh
Trump’s fiscal 2026 budget would strip trans federal workers of insurance coverage - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2025/05/trumps-fiscal-2026-budget-would-strip-trans-federal-workers-insurance-coverage/405717/
On the number of divisors of Mersenne numbers
Vjekoslav Kova\v{c}, Florian Luca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04883 https://arxiv.org/pd…
Indefinite theta functions arising from affine Lie superalgebras and sums of triangular numbers
Toshiki Matsusaka, Miyu Suzuki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04722
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SundaySoul
Jay Mitchell:
🎵 Funky Fever
#JayMitchell
https://cultcargo.bandcamp.com/track/funky-fever
https://open.spotify.com/track/21E1bGl69h0RwCtfLJdI3C
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01870 has been replaced.
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