2025-10-01 15:19:00
Pony.ai becomes the first company to receive a citywide robotaxi permit for Shenzhen, allowing self-driving taxis to operate beyond pilot zones (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/31/chinas-ponyai-gets-the-first-permit-fo…
I am immensely amused by husband's gleeful handing out sweets to assorted neighbourhood kids ranging from about 4 to 16 years of age.
Hard to be sure who is having a better time. And isn't that what life is all about?
Happy Halloween
#SimplePleasures
EU funnels $4.7 billion to Ukraine in loan backed by Russian assets: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/eu-funnels-billion-to-ukraine.html
さて、ちょっと止めて、データベースメンテ始めるね。 @… oh that one is great!
長引くようだったら状況は #fedibird に流すのでよろしくー
https://nightly.fedibird.com/tags/fedibird
#fedibird" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nightly.fedibird.com/tags/fedibird
@tante@tldr.nettime.org
2025-09-30 19:04:37
ich will font size 150 in social media posts um zu schreien.
ich will font size 150 in social media posts um zu schreien.
Maoyan: China's 2025 summer box office hit $1.67B, up 2.7% YoY; average ticket prices fell to $5.04, driven by reduced distribution fees and ticket subsidies (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/china-summer-box-office-2-123…
😢
Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, dies aged 91
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/01/jane-goodall-world-renowned-primatologist-dies
Stephen Miller is turning the US state department into an
‘anti-immigration machine’
Miller, the president’s immigration czar,
in recent months has turned the state department’s visa and refugee operations into what some current and former diplomats have described as a personal fiefdom.
Each morning, usually at 10am,
a small circle of conservative diplomats allied with Miller,
-- including those who have assumed control of the state department’s consular a…
Seems like a good day to revisit this post about privacy-preserving age verification. (tl;dr -> you can't have it) https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/19/privacy‑preserving-age-verification-falls-apart-on-contact-with…
"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."
—Julie Andrews
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Le gouvernement indien réprime sévèrement la lutte des habitants du Ladakh pour réclamer des droits
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/09/29/le-gouverne…
Soldiers under investigation can make career progress with waiver
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-establishes-waiver-investigations/
Qualcomm unveils Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme chips #Arm64
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/qualcomm/snapdragon-x2-elite-extreme-an…
Image of a time-dependent rotating regular black hole: #BlackHole flicker in time: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1103993
„The president talked at length, and his comments should have confirmed to even the most sympathetic observer that he is, as the kids say, not okay.“
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/09/trump-hegseth-speech-incoherent/684421…
Luttons ensemble pour les droits des enfants et contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles !
Un appel du cœur pour que les violences Š l'encontre des enfants mineurs soient prises au sérieux et deviennent une réelle priorité de nos sociétés.
https://chardonsbleus.org/luttons…
@… Scanning through the docs, I don’t see anything that would make syncing data between objects easier, but perhaps I’m missing something.
A typical Erlang program deals with this kind of thing in a number of ways, most notably by propagating state up a tree and then down again as required. The important thing is that it’s never ever free, becau…
This is lovely
#ListeningClub
400 lucas es cuiquísimo, amigo. Yo pagaba como 4 lucas mensualescon suerte y en mi pueblo eso considerado un colegio cuico. Lo que pasa es que los que pagan en UF son una burbuja de cuiquismo incomparable.
Re: https://x.com/Don_panadero_UE/status/1961528546746065278
Is it time for lunch yet?
<10:30 AM>
Sigh.
2025 NFL game-by-game predictions: Expert picks all 285 games, unveils win total bets, Super Bowl futures
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2025-nf
@… @… @… wo kein Kläger, bleibt die Urheberrechtssache auch folgenlos. Ich wollte nur dara…
RE: https://mastodon.online/@quiosque/115470369595833861
Quando é que começa a ser óbvio que temos a extrema-direita no poder?
Ainda não?
I would do this daily (or how ever often is necessary) to rarely get sick again!
https://sfba.social/@nwchapman/115124195881987830
Thomas Pynchon kam kurz auf die Bühne des #Volksstimmefest
@… Might be time to ditch x86 entirely to be on the safe side.
How elites destroyed the Democratic Party in the US and fuelled populism
... great and concise analysis of the confluence of right wing and left wing populism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoD6ccdmlfI
On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -
Big save by Alisson! Wow, that was a great through ball and Szoboszlai beaten on a full tilt sprint is a warning sign.
#LFC
argentina is finally working on no longer being the world's first and only fourth world country ❤️
Seriously.
We need more people speaking truth to power.
https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1ol3ozl/this_man_speaks_truth/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=…
Why Did These Authors Have Their School Visit Canceled? They Were Talking About Their Book About Book Bans. https://bookriot.com/the-day-the-books-disappeared-school-visit-cancelation/
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[5/7]:
- BALLAST: Bayesian Active Learning with Look-ahead Amendment for Sea-drifter Trajectories under Sp...
Rui-Yang Zhang, Henry B. Moss, Lachlan Astfalck, Edward Cripps, David S. Leslie
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.AI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/new
[13/21]:
- Vision-Grounded Machine Interpreting: Improving the Translation Process through Visual Cues
Claudio Fantinuoli
Source: Meta is acquiring AI chip startup Rivos, as it seeks to reduce reliance on Nvidia; Rivos was reportedly seeking new funding at a $2B valuation in August (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/met…
#Wordle 1,565 3/6*
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ <1% of 224,729 (19)
🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ 3% of 74 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 67% of 2,901
WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 80/99
Well some family members got this in 2, which made me curious, but overall another good day.
It didn't feel like there was only 1 word left, and it seems there were a bunch of people who also thought that because they tried other words for more clues.
Expanding Computation Spaces of LLMs at Inference Time
Yoonna Jang, Kisu Yang, Isabelle Augenstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24884 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…
Ex-parliament speaker Parubii posthumously awarded Ukraine’s highest honor: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/exparliament-speaker-parubii-posthumously-awarded.html
Replaced article(s) found for cs.PL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PL/new
[1/1]:
- Ranking Functions for Linear-Constraint Loops
Amir M. Ben-Amram, Samir Genaim
https:…
un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…
Cowboys-Cardinals: How to Watch, Listen, Stream https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/cowboys-cardinals-how-to-watch-listen-stream
@… veo este artículo, y, me pregunto: es siquiera legal comprar trenes sin concurso público?
https://www.trenvista.net/analisis/trenes-oscar-…
Welp, that was a short and very damp (hail?!) dog walk here in Ōtautahi.
Looks like #Labour is fighting back! "Farage boats" 😂
"Starmer to rethink human rights law to tackle ‘Farage boats’"
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/oc…
Un train stationne entre Les Agnettes et Asnières - Gennevilliers Les Courtilles vers Asnières - Gennevilliers Les Courtilles en raison d'un ajustement de l'intervalle entre les trains .
🤖 01/10 19:04
❝The irony is that…the few who resist him — the ones who say no, who absorb the punishment and ridicule — emerge larger, not smaller. They grow in stature, even if only by contrast.❞
❝[Institutions] fear the heat, the Twitter storm, the boycott threats, the possibility of regulatory retaliation. But in trying to avoid trouble, they entangle themselves in it.❞ Trump as Tar Baby.
Today's topic for #FotoVorschlag “What makes my heart beat,” was practically an invitation to write a more detailed blog post about what motivates me to go out, take photos, and share them.
I hope you like it:
“The billionaire agenda,
the corruption we’re seeing,
is changing the way government is functioning.
It’s leading to real-time and impactful ramifications for regular people,”
said Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen.
“The gutting of Medicaid,
all the firings we’ve seen of federal workers,
the ravaging of families through Ice raids.
It’s just all coming together to cause people to stand up and say,
‘we are the people of this c…
Période : Š partir de 22h00
Dates : du lundi 1er au vendredi 19 septembre, sauf les samedis et dimanches.
Le trafic est interrompu entre Bécon les Bruyères <> Nanterre Université / Maisons-Laffitte.
Un service de bus de remplacement est mis en place entre Bécon les Bruyères <> Sartrouville, avec desserte des gares intermédiaires.
Pour rejoindre les gares de Houilles Carrières sur Seine, Sartrouville et Maisons-Laffitte, nous vous conseillons d'empr…
ich glaube ja dass KI die arbeitswelt komplett verändern wird
Replaced article(s) found for math.RT. https://arxiv.org/list/math.RT/new
[1/1]:
- The Tits construction for short $\mathfrak{sl}_2$-super-structures
Gonzalo Gutierrez, Marco Farinati
…
Gesundheitsgefahr: PFAS im Frühstücksei und in weiteren tierischen Lebensmitteln
https://www.riffreporter.de/de/wissen/pfas-ewigkeitschemikalien-eier-lebensmittel-belastung-bund-studie-gesundheit
Ik zou niet weten waarom je als in Verweggistan wonende Wildersfan/xenofoobfascist PVV zou gaan stemmen.
Dan wil je toch geen opvang ‘in de regio’ (waar jij woont) of asielzoekers daarheen terugsturen? dan zou je juist moeten hopen dat ze allemaal lekker in Nederland mogen blijven.
Kortom, dat D66 de grootste partij wordt mede dankzij de briefstemmers staat wel vast. Met 26 of 27 zetels is nog wel even de vraag. Ik hoop 26 want …
What They're Saying: Jaguars sound off on 'explosive,' 'elite-level' tight end Brock Bowers https://www.raiders.com/news/what-they-re-saying-jaguars-sound-off-on-explosive-elite-level-tight-end-brock-bowers
2017 les dérives sectaires : dans les griffes du gourou OKC
un docu où on nous a mélangé Š toute une panoplie de cinglé et qui montre, par rapport aux rush avant l'édition, l'exploitation du vécu des personnes dans les médias
https://chardonsbleus.org/les-derives-
Russia Bans Diesel Exports for Resellers, Extends Gasoline Curbs | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/russia-bans-diesel-exports-for-resellers-extends-gasoline-curbs
Oh I had that “Lyrical”record!
Which was it…
#ListeningClub
Russian-installed 'mayor' of occupied Nova Kakhovka Vladimir Leontyev killed in Ukrainian drone strike: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/russianinstalled-mayor-of-occupied-nova.html
@… As a child of the 90’s, I remember thinking how cool it was that you could hear the SMS coming before it arrived back in those early 2000’s playing on the computer.
@…
”Sekä yrittäjiä että palkansaajia oli heinäkuussa työllisinä vähemmän kuin vuosi sitten. Työttömyys kasvoi vuoden takaiseen verrattuna läpi ikäryhmien, ja niin naisilla kuin miehillä. Erityisesti nuorten eli 15-24-vuotiaiden työttömien määrä pysyi korkealla tasolla heinäkuussa”, tiivistää Tilastokeskuksen yliaktuaari Pertti Taskinen."
#yrittäjyys
Micah Parsons managing facet joint sprain in back ahead of season opener: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6590134/2025/09/01/micah-parsons-back-sprain-season-opener-lions/
Deplatforming Nick Fuentes was what kept him from being mainstreamed
-- it worked.
Elon's replatforming of all of these people
and allowing actual Nazis around
is why the US government is now publishing white supremacist propaganda regularly.
This is not a new debate. Deplatforming works.
https://…
Analysis: How Russia uses Western reporters to launder propaganda: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/01/analysis-how-russia-uses-western.html
LIVE: Player's Lounge Podcast | 10-31-25 | Dallas Cowboys 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BlhkzCS7SY
Earlier this year, DHS added millions of Americans’ Social Security data to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system,
allowing officials to use the tool to conduct bulk searches of voter rolls for the first time.
According to the document filed Thursday, SAVE also recently expanded to include passport and visa information.
Incorporating driver’s license information would allow election officials whose rolls don’t include voters’ Social Security …
Russian soldier allegedly executes unarmed civilian in Donetsk Oblast, footage shows: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/31/russian-soldier-allegedly-executes-unarmed.html
Großes Update für Canva, Affinity wird kostenlos
Das Grafik-Tool Canva bekommt mehr KI, besseren Video-Schnitt, Marketing-Werkzeuge, Mail-Designer und Formulare – zudem trägt die Affinity-Übernahme Früchte.
https://www.…
Texans expect Gardner-Johnson to play Sunday https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46130233/texans-expect-cj-gardner-johnson-knee-play-sunday
Civilian ship damaged after hitting unidentified explosive device in Black Sea near Odesa: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/31/civilian-ship-damaged-after-hitting.html
LIVE: Player's Lounge Podcast | 9-30-25 | Dallas Cowboys 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR3stKus5Uw
China’s ‘neutrality’: Media reveal what Beijing is supplying to Putin for the war against Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/31/chinas-neutrality-media-reveal-what.html
Glenn Cadrez, former LB for Broncos during Super Bowl run, saves man from burning car in fatal highway crash
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/glenn-c
Zelensky outlines controlled export of surplus weapons to the U.S., Europe, the Middle East and Africa: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/30/zelensky-outlines-controlled-export-of.html
Brian Schottenheimer Talks Cardinals Team | Cowboys Huddle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQA38hGhIx4
Vikings' T.J. Hockenson compares Minnesota QB J.J. McCarthy to Matthew Stafford, Kirk Cousins
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/vikings…
Jerry Jones Previews Cardinals Game
C.J. Gardner-Johnson injury update: Texans expect standout DB to play in Week 1 after training camp scare
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/c-j-gar
49ers' Jennings practices for 1st time in 36 days https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46130485/49ers-wr-jauan-jennings-practices-1st-36-days
Is MVP Dak Back?! | Cowboys Update https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q8EDmyJCA0
Packers' Micah Parsons has facet joint sprain; may be able to play Sunday vs. Lions with epidural https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-micah-parsons-has-facet-joint-sprain-may-be-able-to-play-sunday-vs-lions-with-epidural
Russian attacks kill 3, injure 76 in Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/29/russian-attacks-kill-injure-in.html
Dolphins' Hill may not need multiple surgeries https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46438904/dolphins-wr-tyreek-hill-not-need-multiple-surgeries