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Lawsuit Over Trump Overhaul of Civil Service Paused by Judge
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/lawsuit-over-trumps-overhaul-of-civil-service-paused-by-judge

European Commission says Meta has proposed limited changes to its pay-or-consent ad model, and Meta faces daily fines if it determines they are not sufficient (Reuters)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Meta will only make limited changes to pay-or-consent model, EU says
Meta Platforms made only limited changes to its pay-or-consent model, and EU regulators cannot confirm compliance with an antitrust order. The European Commission may impose periodic penalties starting June 27, if Meta continues to fail meeting the required standards.

ICE is Trump’s 21st Century Gestapo
https://www.404media.co/ice-is-using-a-new-facial-recognition-app-to-identify-people-leaked-emails-show/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

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#ShowsAndMoviesTheSuburbs

Generating Reliable Adverse event Profiles for Health through Automated Integrated Data (GRAPH-AID): A Semi-Automated Ontology Building Approach
Srikar Reddy Gadusu, Larry Callahan, Samir Lababidi, Arunasri Nishtala, Sophia Healey, Hande McGinty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20851

Generating Reliable Adverse event Profiles for Health through Automated Integrated Data (GRAPH-AID): A Semi-Automated Ontology Building Approach
As data and knowledge expand rapidly, adopting systematic methodologies for ontology generation has become crucial. With the daily increases in data volumes and frequent content changes, the demand for databases to store and retrieve information for the creation of knowledge graphs has become increasingly urgent. The previously established Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Methodology (KNARM) outlines a systematic approach to address these challenges and create knowledge graphs. However,…

Tourist Claims He Was Denied Entry to U.S. Because of Vance Meme on Phone (Josh Fiallo/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tourist-mads-mikkelsen-claims-he-was-denied-entry-to-us-because-of-vance-meme-on-phone/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p130#a250624p130

Automatic Reviewers Assignment to a Research Paper Based on Allied References and Publications Weight
Tamim Al Mahmud, B M Mainul Hossain, Dilshad Ara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21331

Automatic Reviewers Assignment to a Research Paper Based on Allied References and Publications Weight
Everyday, a vast stream of research documents is submitted to conferences, anthologies, journals, newsletters, annual reports, daily papers, and various periodicals. Many such publications use independent external specialists to review submissions. This process is called peer review, and the reviewers are called referees. However, it is not always possible to pick the best referee for reviewing. Moreover, new research fields are emerging in every sector, and the number of research papers is inc…

I am hoping to do 1,000 miles on the bike this year. It's still June and I'm at 650 (surpassing the 620 for all of 2024.) I also did 120 this month which is the most miles I've done in a single month. I am glad I started riding and try to do it daily.
#biking #bikeTooter

The ICE List: Tracking Deportation Agents Across America
Crowdsourced database of individuals involved in deportations, ICE operations, and associated abuses.
https://icelist.info/

Home - ICE List
The ICE List: Tracking Deportation Agents Across America Crowdsourced database of individuals involved in deportations, ICE operations, and associated abuses.  The ICE List is an open journalistic project created by the Crustian Daily. Report an Agent What is the ICE List? The ICE List is a public, open-source effort to document the people responsible for […]

I wanted to replace my home PC with my laptop for my daily tasks, but for some reason the old ViewSonic monitor is incompatible. It doesn't show up on the hdmi connections when I list them with xrandr and, what's worse, it's the same with all other laptops, no matter if they run Windows or GNU/Linux.
In the end, after testing it on 3 laptops and a minipc, it only works connected to my current PC.
Has anyone seen anything similar? 🤨

Today was the third day of my "Gesundheitswoche", where it was confirmed that I'm not very good and turning my torso, esp. to the left. Despite years of yoga and nearly daily training :-(

Mi opinias ke ĉiu politikisto kaj aktivisto devus legi ĉi tiun. Ne haveblas ia perfekta sistemo, kiu havas ian utilan funkcion. Kiel la rubriko diras: "Ĉiu komplika ekosistemo havas parazitojn." Estas pli praktike permesi iom da difektoj kaj misuzoj, ol celi perfektecon. La argumentoj temu pri kiom je kia kosto.
https://…

Every newborn baby in England will have their DNA mapped to assess their risk of hundreds of diseases, under NHS plans for the next 10 years.
The scheme, first reported by the Daily Telegraph, is part of a government drive towards predicting and preventing illness, which will also see £650m invested in DNA research for all patients by 2030.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said gene technology would enable the health service to "leapfrog disease, so we're in front of it ra…

NHS plans to DNA test all babies in England to assess disease risk
Scheme is part of the government's 10-year plan for the NHS in England aimed at easing pressure on services.

Characterizing the Observational Properties of the Sun's High-latitude m=1 Inertial Mode
Boyang Ding, Junwei Zhao, Ruizhu Chen, Matthias Waidele, Sushant S. Mahajan, Oana Vesa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19634

Characterizing the Observational Properties of the Sun's High-latitude m=1 Inertial Mode
Low-m inertial modes have been recently discovered in the Sun's high-latitude regions. In this study, we characterize the observational properties of the m = 1 mode by analyzing time-distance subsurface flow maps. Synoptic flow maps, constructed from daily subsurface flow maps using a tracking rate corresponding to the rotation at latitude 65 degrees, are filtered in both the spherical harmonic and Fourier domains to retain only the m = 1 mode and its dominant frequencies. Our analysis reveals …

Decision-Focused Learning for Neural Network-Constrained Optimization: Application to HVAC Management System
Pietro Favaro, Jean-Fran\c{c}ois Toubeau, Fran\c{c}ois Vall\'ee, Yury Dvorkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19717

Decision-Focused Learning for Neural Network-Constrained Optimization: Application to HVAC Management System
Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) is a major electricity end-use with a substantial potential for grid services such as demand response. Harnessing this flexibility requires accurate modeling of the thermal dynamics of buildings, which is challenging due to their nonlinear and repetitive behavior (e.g., daily pattern), which reduce the value of historical data. To address this issue, this paper presents an HVAC management system formulated as a Mixed Integer Quadratic Program (M…

This weekend I listened to the 'How to Age Up' podcast on climate change. A lot of good observations for how parents can help their children process the daily news cycle and manage their anxiety about the future.
Turns out one effective strategy is one I keep hearing from so many different sources - you build community. Building community makes communities more resilient. Building community makes you feel less alone - so you can help do the work to combat climate change/racism/…

eu_procurements_alt: EU national procurement networks (2008-2016)
These 234 networks represent the annual national public procurement markets of 26 European countries from 2008-2016, inclusive. Data is sourced from Tenders Electronic Daily (TED), the official procurement portal of the European Union.
This network has 2256 nodes and 2678 edges.
Tags: Economic, Commerce, Weighted, Temporal

Passend noch zum #Montag :
"#Mikrostress ist in vielen Fällen etwas Subjektives. Stress entsteht auch dann, wenn wir uns stressen lassen. "

Mikrostress im Alltag raubt Energie. So wirst du ihn los

A deep-learning model for predicting daily PM2.5 concentration in response to emission reduction
Shigan Liu, Guannan Geng, Yanfei Xiang, Hejun Hu, Xiaodong Liu, Xiaomeng Huang, Qiang Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18018

A deep-learning model for predicting daily PM2.5 concentration in response to emission reduction
Air pollution remains a leading global health threat, with fine particulate matter (PM2.5) contributing to millions of premature deaths annually. Chemical transport models (CTMs) are essential tools for evaluating how emission controls improve air quality and save lives, but they are computationally intensive. Reduced form models accelerate simulations but sacrifice spatial-temporal granularity, accuracy, and flexibility. Here we present CleanAir, a deep-learning-based model developed as an eff…

It's time to consider switching to another instance again; one that's not totally out of sync with daily life, but has a more technical focus. I miss that emphasis from fosstodon.

Profile of Dominick McGee, a right-wing X influencer who has amassed 1.5M followers and made $157K since 2023 by spending 11 hours daily posting about politics (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/technol

He’s a Master of Outrage on X. The Pay Isn’t Great.
An online creator went from a “nobody” to a conspiratorial sensation on X. What he gets in return is less clear.

Unveiling Political Influence Through Social Media: Network and Causal Dynamics in the 2022 French Presidential Election
Ixandra Achitouv, David Chavalarias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16449

Unveiling Political Influence Through Social Media: Network and Causal Dynamics in the 2022 French Presidential Election
During the 2022 French presidential election, we collected daily Twitter messages on key topics posted by political candidates and their close networks. Using a data-driven approach, we analyze interactions among political parties, identifying central topics that shape the landscape of political debate. Moving beyond traditional correlation analyses, we apply a causal inference technique: Convergent Cross Mapping, to uncover directional influences among political communities, revealing how some…

NFL news roundup: Chiefs WR Rashee Rice (knee), OT Josh Simmons (knee) expected to be ready for start of training camp https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-thursday-june-19

The daily extermination of Palestinians continue: Israeli forces kill dozens of Palestinian aid seekers in central Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/11/live-israel-kills-dozens-of-palestinian-aid-seekers…

UT-GraphCast Hindcast Dataset: A Global AI Forecast Archive from UT Austin for Weather and Climate Applications
Naveen Sudharsan, Manmeet Singh, Harsh Kamath, Hassan Dashtian, Clint Dawson, Zong-Liang Yang, Dev Niyogi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17453

UT-GraphCast Hindcast Dataset: A Global AI Forecast Archive from UT Austin for Weather and Climate Applications
The UT GraphCast Hindcast Dataset from 1979 to 2024 is a comprehensive global weather forecast archive generated using the Google DeepMind GraphCast Operational model. Developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin under the WCRP umbrella, this dataset provides daily 15 day deterministic forecasts at 00UTC on an approximately 25 km global grid for a 45 year period. GraphCast is a physics informed graph neural network that was trained on ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis. It predicts more tha…

Under a new cybersecurity blueprint, the European Union will work more closely with national militaries and the NATO defense alliance to respond to large-scale cyberattacks.
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-arms-cyber-council-military-c…

Europe arms itself against cyber catastrophe
EU to train with militaries, industry and NATO to better fend off large-scale cyberattacks.

Thanks to the Dependency Track daily scan, vulnerabilities like this now get flagged pretty quickly so we can do an out-of-schedule dependency bump.
One less thing to worry about :)
#DevOps
https://

EUVD
European Vulnerability Database

Aiming to do a 30-minute walk daily (weather permitting).

On Website Technicals - Read nitty-gritty tech updates and daily learnings that keep the Earth Notes site up and running; site stats also. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals.html

On Website Technicals
Read nitty-gritty tech updates and daily learnings that keep the Earth Notes site up and running; site stats also.

pySpainMobility: a Python Package to Access and Manage Spanish Open Mobility Data
Ciro Beneduce, Tania Gull\'on Mu\~noz-Repiso, Bruno Lepri, Massimiliano Luca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13385

pySpainMobility: a Python Package to Access and Manage Spanish Open Mobility Data
Mobility patterns play a critical role in a wide range of societal challenges, from epidemic modeling and emergency response to transportation planning and regional development. Yet, access to high-quality, timely, and openly available mobility data remains limited. In response, the Spanish Ministry of Transportation and Sustainable Mobility has released daily mobility datasets based on anonymized mobile phone data, covering districts, municipalities, and greater urban areas from February 2020 …

Trump Has a Nasty Secret Nickname for Stephen Miller, Biographer Reveals (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-has-a-secret-insulting-nickname-for-stephen-miller-biographer/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p23#a250618p23

So all in all, this seems like a pretty normal set of WWDC announcements. A nice cosmetic redesign, which will be fun to play around with; the rest are daily quality of life improvements, and the artificial intelligence stuff seems like modest incremental gains that seem realistic, and maybe even somewhat useful.
Not the pie in the sky bullshit that ended up never shipping last year.
#WWDC25

Over five years now I'm programming on the JVM. Started out with #Java, moved to #Kotlin as my daily driver, dipped my toes into #Scala and once in a while enjoy experimenting with

Today I made an account on Liberapay to throw some bucks at all the #Openstreetmap editing apps I use on my phone almost daily. Given how good this makes me feel, it's money well spent!

LLMs often nail short-term tasks but AI agents can spiral into insane meltdowns over time. This AI-powered vending machine tried to email the FBI to say it was a victim of cyberfraud and then declared its quantum state "collapsed":
https://www.linked…

Sources: Netflix bought a pilot TV series from The Daily Beast, produced with Bright North Studios, focusing on topical news events in a 30-minute format (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/08/2025/netflix-…

Netflix buys Daily Beast TV pilot as it races against YouTube
The project is still in its early stages.

It may not come as a surprise that the fracking billionaire who helped launch The Daily Wire has also denied that the climate emergency is real. 
https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/09/inside-the-anti-climate-culture-war-led…

Exploring the Convergence of HCI and Evolving Technologies in Information Systems
Rajan Das Gupta, Ashikur Rahman, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Yeasin Rahat, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08549

Exploring the Convergence of HCI and Evolving Technologies in Information Systems
Modern technology driven information systems are part of our daily lives. However, this deep integration poses new challenges to the human computer interaction (HCI) professionals. With the rapid growth of mobile and cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), the demand for HCI specialists to design user-friendly and adaptable interfaces has never been more pressing. Especially for diverse user groups such as children, the elderly and people with disabilities who need interfaces tailored…

NFL news roundup: Jets sign 'Thiccer Kicker' Harrison Mevis, waive Anders Carlson https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-wednesday-june-18

FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems - Windows 95 also being phased out
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/the-faa-seeks-to-eliminate-floppy-disk-usage-in-air-traffic-co…

FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems - Windows 95 also being phased out
Millions trust their lives daily to floppy disks and Windows 95.

Sensor Tower: daily US users of PDD Holdings' Temu fell by 58% in May; the US closed the "de minimis" loophole on May 2, and Temu then slashed its ad spending (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

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Walking Fingerprinting Using Wrist Accelerometry During Activities of Daily Living in NHANES
Lily Koffman, John Muschelli III, Ciprian Crainiceanu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17160

Walking Fingerprinting Using Wrist Accelerometry During Activities of Daily Living in NHANES
We propose a method for identifying individuals based on their continuously monitored wrist-worn accelerometry during activities of daily living. The method consists of three steps: (1) using Adaptive Empirical Pattern Transformation (ADEPT), a highly specific method to identify walking; (2) transforming the accelerometry time series into an image that corresponds to the joint distribution of the time series and its lags; and (3) using the resulting images to construct a person-specific walking…

The Daily Beast: "Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence fed the JFK files into an AI program, asking it to see if there was anything that should remain classified. https://trib.al/AqWNKuR" — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xzlvsk4ty7ecwigbjpxah6yb/post/3lrc2zbtmkf2w

Not All Jokes Land: Evaluating Large Language Models Understanding of Workplace Humor
Moahmmadamin Shafiei, Hamidreza Saffari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01819

Not All Jokes Land: Evaluating Large Language Models Understanding of Workplace Humor
With the recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), the automation of daily tasks, like automatic writing, is getting more and more attention. Hence, efforts have focused on aligning LLMs with human values, yet humor, particularly professional industrial humor used in workplaces, has been largely neglected. To address this, we develop a dataset of professional humor statements along with features that determine the appropriateness of each statement. Our ev…

Nowcasting the euro area with social media data
Konstantin Boss, Luigi Longo, Luca Onorante
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10546 https://…

Nowcasting the euro area with social media data
Using a state-of-the-art large language model, we extract forward-looking and context-sensitive signals related to inflation and unemployment in the euro area from millions of Reddit submissions and comments. We develop daily indicators that incorporate, in addition to posts, the social interaction among users. Our empirical results show consistent gains in out-of-sample nowcasting accuracy relative to daily newspaper sentiment and financial variables, especially in unusual times such as the (p…

A Spectral Energy Distribution Variability Study of the Eclipsing AGN NGC 6814
L. K. Pothier-Bogoslowski, L. C. Gallo, A. G. Gonzalez, M. Z. Buhariwalla, J. M. Miller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07212

A Spectral Energy Distribution Variability Study of the Eclipsing AGN NGC 6814
The local Seyfert 1.5 active galactic nucleus (AGN), NGC 6814, is known to exhibit complex variability, eclipses, and even changing-look behaviour. In this work, we utilize optical-to-X-ray data obtained over 10-years with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory to examine the short-term (i.e. daily) and long-term (yearly) variations in the spectral energy distribution (SED). This includes three epochs of high-cadence monitoring (2012, 2016, and 2022), as well as two single observations (2019 and 20…

Strain dependent viscous response describes the mechanics of cohesionless soft granular materials
Chandan Shakya, Luca Placidi, Anil Misra, Lars Kool, Anke Lindner, Jasper van der Gucht, Joshua A. Dijksman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08855

Strain dependent viscous response describes the mechanics of cohesionless soft granular materials
Granular materials are ubiquitous in nature and are used extensively in daily life and in industry. The modeling of these materials remains challenging; therefore, finding models with acceptable predictive accuracy that at the same time also reflect the complexity of the granular dynamics is a central research theme in the field. Soft particle packings present additional modeling challenges, as it has become clear that soft particles also have particle-level relaxation timescales that affect th…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15483 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Strategy Complexity of Büchi Objectives in Concurrent Stochastic Games
We study 2-player zero-sum concurrent (i.e., simultaneous move) stochastic Büchi games and Transience games on countable graphs. Two players, Max and Min, seek respectively to maximize and minimize the probability of satisfying the game objective. The Büchi objective is to visit a given set of target states infinitely often. This can be seen as a special case of maximizing the expected $\limsup$ of the daily rewards, where all daily rewards are in $\{0,1\}$. The Transience objective is to vis…

The Daily Star drops its page three with pictures of scantily dressed women as part of a print and online redesign, with a new strapline "News with a wink" (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Daily Star drops page three pictures of scantily dressed women in redesign
The Daily Star has ditched page three models amid a wider redesign which includes a new masthead, new website/app platforms and new strapline

What is the purpose of news?
Air pollution kills 10 million people each year and causes untold additional illness and suffering.
It kills at least 100,000 people in the United States alone annually
— about five times the number of police-reported homicides.
But it rarely features in daily news stories.
Police and prosecutors ignore pollution, much of which is criminal,
and so do most journalists.
For example, federal prosecutors charged 23 people…

Media Panics About “Crime Waves” — But Downplays Crime Committed by Corporations
The news emphasizes low-level theft instead of corporate crime, pollution, and other predatory behavior.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11369 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

PSGraph: Differentially Private Streaming Graph Synthesis by Considering Temporal Dynamics
Streaming graphs are ubiquitous in daily life, such as evolving social networks and dynamic communication systems. Due to the sensitive information contained in the graph, directly sharing the streaming graphs poses significant privacy risks. Differential privacy, offering strict theoretical guarantees, has emerged as a standard approach for private graph data synthesis. However, existing methods predominantly focus on static graph publishing, neglecting the intrinsic relationship between adjac…

Tucker Carlson Blasts Trump for Being 'Complicit' in Israel's Attack on Iran (Catherine Bouris/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-blasts-trump-for-being-complicit-in-israels-attack-on-iran/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p3#a250614p3

Facial Appearance Capture at Home with Patch-Level Reflectance Prior
Yuxuan Han, Junfeng Lyu, Kuan Sheng, Minghao Que, Qixuan Zhang, Lan Xu, Feng Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03478

Facial Appearance Capture at Home with Patch-Level Reflectance Prior
Existing facial appearance capture methods can reconstruct plausible facial reflectance from smartphone-recorded videos. However, the reconstruction quality is still far behind the ones based on studio recordings. This paper fills the gap by developing a novel daily-used solution with a co-located smartphone and flashlight video capture setting in a dim room. To enhance the quality, our key observation is to solve facial reflectance maps within the data distribution of studio-scanned ones. Spec…

A Sinusoidal Hull-White Model for Interest Rate Dynamics: Capturing Long-Term Periodicity in U.S. Treasury Yields
Amit Kumar Jha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06317

A Sinusoidal Hull-White Model for Interest Rate Dynamics: Capturing Long-Term Periodicity in U.S. Treasury Yields
This study is motivated by empirical observations of periodic fluctuations in interest rates, notably long-term economic cycles spanning decades, which the conventional Hull-White short-rate model fails to adequately capture. To address this limitation, we propose an extension that incorporates a sinusoidal, time-varying mean reversion speed, allowing the model to reflect cyclic interest rate dynamics more effectively. The model is calibrated using a comprehensive dataset of daily U.S. Treasu…

A UK High Court judge dismisses green energy industrialist Dale Vince's data protection lawsuit against Daily Mail publisher ANL (Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/dale-vince-legal-claim-against-daily-mail-…

Dale Vince legal claim against Daily Mail publisher thrown out
Green energy industrialist Dale Vince’s High Court claim against the publisher of the Daily Mail has been thrown out by a judge.

The NetMob25 Dataset: A High-resolution Multi-layered View of Individual Mobility in Greater Paris Region
Alexandre Chasse, Anne J. Kouam, Aline C. Viana, Razvan Stanica, Wellington V. Lobato, Geymerson Ramos, Geoffrey Deperle, Abdelmounaim Bouroudi, Suzanne Bussod, Fernando Molano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05903

The NetMob25 Dataset: A High-resolution Multi-layered View of Individual Mobility in Greater Paris Region
High-quality mobility data remains scarce despite growing interest from researchers and urban stakeholders in understanding individual-level movement patterns. The Netmob25 Data Challenge addresses this gap by releasing a unique GPS-based mobility dataset derived from the EMG 2023 GNSS-based mobility survey conducted in the Ile-de-France region (Greater Paris area), France. This dataset captures detailed daily mobility over a full week for 3,337 volunteer residents aged 16 to 80, collected betw…

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Regenerating Daily Routines for Young Adults with Depression through User-Led Indoor Environment Modifications Using Local Natural Materials
Ziqun Hua, Ao Jiang, Haoling Yang, Hao Fan, Huizhong Hu, Bernard Foing
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05729

Regenerating Daily Routines for Young Adults with Depression through User-Led Indoor Environment Modifications Using Local Natural Materials
Young adults with depression often experience prolonged indoor stays, limiting their access to natural environments and exacerbating mental health challenges. While nature therapy is recognized for its psychological benefits, existing interventions frequently require outdoor engagement, which may not be accessible for all individuals. This study explores the potential of user-led indoor modifications using local natural materials as a mental health intervention. A qualitative approach wasemploy…

The Trump administration’s
“border czar” warned that
immigration enforcement will continue
“every day” in Los Angeles,
hinting that even elected officials
could face arrest
if they interfere with agents on the ground.
Tom Homan appeared undeterred
by the volatile protests
against federal agents
in Los Angeles
who were carrying out
immigration raids.
Enforcement will be daily,
he said late Saturday
in an …

Trump's border czar threatens arrest for immigration interference, warns Newsom and Bass not to 'cross that line'
LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration’s “border czar” warned that immigration enforcement will continue “every day” in Los Angeles, hinting that even elected officials could face arrest if they interfere with agents on the ground

Newsom Slams Trump as 'Stone-Cold Liar' Over Phone Call (Josephine Harvey/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gavin-newsom-slams-donald-trump-as-stone-cold-liar-over-phone-call/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p5#a250609p5

Scientists Find DNA Proof of Swine Feces in North Carolina Homes | The Daily Yonder
https://dailyyonder.com/scientists-find-dna-proof-of-swine-feces-in-north-carolina-homes/2025/06/03/

NFL news roundup: Packers OL Elgton Jenkins reports to minicamp amid contract talks https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-news-roundup-latest-league-updates-from-monday-june-9

Musk's Own AI Claims He Took Miller's Wife and Mocked Him for It (Ewan Palmer/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-trashes-his-own-ai-over-embarrassing-post-about-him-taking-stephen-millers-wife/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p69#a250609p69

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Addressing Pitfalls in Auditing Practices of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies: A Case Study of People with Aphasia
Katelyn Xiaoying Mei, Anna Seo Gyeong Choi, Hilke Schellmann, Mona Sloane, Allison Koenecke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08846

Addressing Pitfalls in Auditing Practices of Automatic Speech Recognition Technologies: A Case Study of People with Aphasia
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) has transformed daily tasks from video transcription to workplace hiring. ASR systems' growing use warrants robust and standardized auditing approaches to ensure automated transcriptions of high and equitable quality. This is especially critical for people with speech and language disorders (such as aphasia) who may disproportionately depend on ASR systems to navigate everyday life. In this work, we identify three pitfalls in existing standard ASR auditing pro…

Trump Border Czar Threatens to Arrest Newsom and LA Mayor (Erkki Forster/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-rips-newsom-and-la-mayor-amid-crackdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250608/p67#a250608p67

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…

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Tulsi Gabbard Admits to Asking AI What to Classify in JFK Files (Liam Archacki/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbard-admits-to-asking-ai-what-to-classify-in-jfk-files/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p150#a250610p150

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MTG Admits She Didn't Read Trump Mega Bill She Voted For (Liam Archacki/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-admits-she-didnt-read-trump-mega-bill-she-voted-for/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p130#a250603p130

Musk Fends Off Trump Questions in Tense Interview Exchange (Corbin Bolies/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-fends-off-trump-questions-in-tense-interview-exchange/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250601/p57#a250601p57