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Over 24 hours, Trump's authoritarian-style vision comes into focus (again) (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/24-hours-trumps-authoritarian-style-vision-comes-focus-rcna212838
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p80#a250613p80

Linking EV charging and renewables in location and time unleashes additional benefits for the energy transition. How can we make the most of existing data and tools like smart charging?
In my new #RAP Regulatory Assistance Project brief, I explore the EU's REDIII and how countries can take the next step.
#EV

Die Bilder und Videos von den #NoKing Protesten haben mir übrigens Hoffnung gemacht.
https://omfg.town/@dansinker/114690663638438881
Gesehen habe ich sie auf imgur.…

ABC News launches What You Need to Know, a daily news program on Disney , streaming weekdays at 6am ET, with each episode available for 24 hours (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/abc-news-disney-pl…

ABC News to Launch Exclusive Daily Show on Disney+
What You Need to Know' will go live on the Disney streaming platform weekdays at 6 a.m., anchored by chief international correspondent James Longman and senior political correspondent Rachel Scott.

I just saw a post saying someone let their agent AI run for 19 hours to solve a problem.
Is that the expectation?
I’m going to predict a future scandal: A global consulting firm has been caught charging human hours for agentic AI elapsed time. If I were an unscrupulous consulting firm, I could charge customers 24 hours a day at ludicrously high prices to deliver what likely would have been an ill-advised and doomed project anyway.

I was never one for noting the pagecounts of books. My measurements were usually "about one third done". Doing ebooks means that I think of a progress as percentages and length in hours.
For most of this year I read books that were over 25 hours long and am now in the three hour range.
Of course this is distorted. Reading during the day is usually quicker and if I fall asleep before turning off the e-reader (which happens a lot) the estimates get thrown off by the idle …

More #sliceoflife -- I took this water bottle after nobody claimed it after 24 hours; I think people might have been afraid it was contaminated with PFAS or something; it's made of metal and coated with enamel, but when I opened it I used my hand to waff smells towards my nose like I would in a chemical lab -- the square in the background is poyo_party's Lana from Pokémon Sun and …

On Friday, Trump’s border czar,
Tom Homan, said he plans to send the National Guard to Los Angeles
to combat protests against ICE that began this weekend following immigration raids in the city.
“We are making Los Angeles safer. Mayor Bass should be thanking us. She says they are going to mobilize—guess what?
We are already mobilizing.
We are going to bring the National Guard in tonight,”
Homan told Fox News.
California Governor Gavin Newsom respo…

LA protests live: National Guard to arrive within 24 hours after being deployed by Trump over immigration demos
Demonstrators clash with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials in hours-long stand-off

The day I first heard a Shahed drone buzzing overhead: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/the-day-i-first-heard.html

Mr. President, is the ceasefire in the room with us?
“The launches came after 4 a.m. local time in Tehran, the time Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would stop its attacks if Israel ended their airstrikes.”
https://apnews.com/live/iran-israel-war-updates-6-2…

Ceasefire status is unclear after Israel reports continued missiles from Iran
U.S. President Donald Trump said on social media Monday that Israel and Iran have agreed to a “complete and total ceasefire” to be phased in over 24 hours.

H'mmm... My @forgejo instance has been hit very hard last night by AI crawlers, including from
* https://openai.com/gptbot (125,467 hits in 24 hours)
*

I increasingly think that we need mandatory formal training for PhD students in “research as a profession” (as it exists in other countries, apparently).
Yes, submitting a paper to a conference (in particular as a first author) constitutes an commitment to present the paper if it’s accepted. When working with coauthors, no, you can’t tacitly assume that they’ll take care of it.
And yes, a workshop on Monday from 09:00 to 12:30 takes place during “normal working hours.”

(And now @… are less than €19,000 away from their stretch target of € 75,000 to provide @… services to all. Amazing work folks and fedizens 🤩)
#Fediverse is amazing, less than 24 hours after I posted this and @peertube  is only €223 from the penultimate target with 30 hours to go.
Not taking any credit for that, but happy to see a chord has been struck for all genuine surveillance-capital-free social media. Even more important in the time of #NoKings.
Looks like I'm going to be busy making #Science videos on #ClimateChange in the #Polar Regions too for the next few weeks.
Here's one I made earlier on #SurfaceMass Budget. Let me know if there's something #Climate and/or #ice related you'd like to see a short clip about and I'll see what we can do
#fedizens who may not have seen this already? If they make the €55,000 target I promise to write a peertube channel into my next grant proposal, AND I'll post some better quality videos of our Greenland and #Antarctic research over the coming weeks...
Go!
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

Today is #BandcampFriday! (thank you @… for the reminder: https://ravenati…

"The Daily Beast’s newsletter The Swamp revealed Monday how Cruz was caught touring the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, 24 hours after the Guadalupe River burst its banks, sweeping away dozens of lives in an unspeakable horror whose full effects are still unfolding."
Ted Cruz’s Claim He Returned to Texas as ‘Fast as Humanly Possible’ Crumbles
https://www.thedailybeast.com/vacationing-ted-cruzs-as-fast-as-humanly-possible-return-claim-crumbles/

About 24 hours later this fan is up and running again. I’m ready to be a guest on Repair Shop.

Quite enjoying this so far - Richard Williams, 24 Hours 100 Years Of Le Mans.
So far, I've made it to the 50s. Stories of derring-do, mid-pit stop champagne and large Cognacs to get you going. In the words of Smith and Sniff, "It was a different time."

Got suspended for 24 hours from #Bluesky for telling a transphobic (and potentially a nonce) "journalist" to end his life :neocat_thonk:

Spilling the autistic tea!
One of my biggest autistic traits is that I talk to myself for up to six hours a day, and have done so my entire life, all 24 years.
I just love talking to myself, it’s my way of stimming and fully owning my queer, neurodivergent self with pride, I suppose.
The more you know!
#ActuallyAutistic

The ultimate life hack is to record your condo board meeting town hall on a AI note taker and read the summary after.
2.5 hours saved.
#condolife

Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.
https://ember-energy.org/latest-insigh…

Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything | Ember
Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.

This is why massive cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service are so dangerous. You can expect more of this with the increasingly anti-science policies given climate driven intense storms and increased unpredictability.
#science #weather

STOCK ANALYSTS: Ignore Musk’s behavior, geniuses are just eccentric sometimes, it’s OK, his repeated failures will soon give way to 10000x growth
MUSK: After listening to Ace of Base on repeat for 72 hours straight while huffing jet fuel, I now understand that I am destined to merge with the AI resurrection of Hitler to become Machine Jesus who saves the white race after 1000 years of continuous stock market crashes, which are of course necessary and a good idea. Libturds have hidden this truth from your mind

\o/

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/mit-student-prints-ai-polymer-masks-to-restore-paintings-in-hours/

Threat intel experts have told me that CISOs should be prepared for DDoS attacks in terms of Iranian threats.
"'313 Team' claimed responsibility for a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on Trump’s Truth Social platform just hours after the U.S. strikes."

Iranian-Aligned Hackers Claim Responsibility for Attack on Trump’s Truth Social Platform
A group of Iranian-aligned hackers has reportedly attacked something President Donald Trump holds dear — his Truth Social platform.

Good Morning #Canada
Today is move in day, so what better day to share some horror stories about unscrupulous movers. Everyone has horror stories about moving from one home to another, and even our meticulously planned event has had some hiccups. Like the truck being 4.5 hours late when we moved out and getting our keys for the new house 8 hours after the deal closed. But we didn't hire anyone from this CBC investigation, so it's all good.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MovingSucks
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-moving-companies-1.6371262

The #Fediverse is amazing, less than 24 hours after I posted this and @… is only €223 from the penultimate target with 30 hours to go.
Not taking any credit for that, but happy to see a chord has been struck for all genuine surveillance-capital-free social media. Even more important in the time of #NoKings.
Looks like I'm going to be busy making #Science videos on #ClimateChange in the #Polar Regions too for the next few weeks.
Here's one I made earlier on #SurfaceMass Budget. Let me know if there's something #Climate and/or #ice related you'd like to see a short clip about and I'll see what we can do
#fedizens who may not have seen this already? If they make the €55,000 target I promise to write a peertube channel into my next grant proposal, AND I'll post some better quality videos of our Greenland and #Antarctic research over the coming weeks...
Go!
#bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

9 killed, 81 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/08/killed-injured-in-russian-attacks.html

From glaciologist Melaine Le Roy on Bluesky:
MORE THAN 24H ABOVE ZERO ON TOP OF MONT BLANC!
The station located at Colle Major, 4750 m, on Mont Blanc recorded a maximum of 3.7°C on 28/06, while the minimum today, 29/06, was 1.1°C, more than 24 hours above zero!
But don't worry, it's summer... 🙃😱
Data source @meteovalledaosta

As he departed Washington for the NATO summit in The Hague on Tuesday, Trump said both Israel and Iran had violated the cease-fire.
This was just hours after Trump had announced that the cease-fire had gone into effect.
Trump was enraged that the truce was seemingly crumbling so quickly.
“We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing.
Do you understand that?” Trump told reporters.
…

Trump Enraged as Iran-Israel Cease-Fire Wobbles
Israel accused Iran of violating the truce hours after agreeing to it.

A Python client for the ATLAS API
Heloise F. Stevance, Jack Leland, Ken W. Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06403 https://arxiv.org/p…

A Python client for the ATLAS API
The Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) is an all-sky optical sky survey with a cadence of 24 to 48 hours and the ATLAS Transient Server processes the alert stream to enable the discovery and follow-up of extra-galactic transients. The data from the ATLAS server can be accessed through a REST API, which has allowed the development of bots that need direct access to the data to help rank alerts and trigger followup observations of promising targets. Here we present the python c…

Chanced upon a very small fascist protest in Buchanan St today. Had a great few hours engaging with the very much larger counter protest. The joy, music and dancing was all on one side, and met some lovely people.

An Audio-centric Multi-task Learning Framework for Streaming Ads Targeting on Spotify
Shivam Verma, Vivian Chen, Darren Mei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18735

An Audio-centric Multi-task Learning Framework for Streaming Ads Targeting on Spotify
Spotify, a large-scale multimedia platform, attracts over 675 million monthly active users who collectively consume millions of hours of music, podcasts, audiobooks, and video content. This diverse content consumption pattern introduces unique challenges for computational advertising, which must effectively integrate a variety of ad modalities, including audio, video, and display, within a single user experience. Traditional ad recommendation models, primarily designed for foregrounded experien…

Player the #oblivionremastered version yesterday for a few hours. It brought back soo many great memories of how I setup a room with my brother all those years ago with a Xbox and a beamer to play the game for many hours.
Everything looked so amazing back then and the remaster does well at transporting a similar feeling. Though the game world is sometimes a bit bare when one looks …

In Georgian London, a young Scotswoman purloins a handful of handkerchiefs to buy food.
235 years later, her several greats-grandson sits at a computer in the Antipodes, trying out #Daggerheart via Discord in the morning’s ungodly wee hours.
They told the Scotswoman her actions would have far-reaching consequences. She could never have imagined time zones, let alone how they’d affect h…

Still rocking this for my #WristCheck. I actually really like this one.
On the one hand there is a lot going on on that dial bit it remains readable and everything present serves a purpose. No extraneous text* or logos, so while it is busy, it's also clean.
* Ok, ok maybe the tiny "JAPAN MOVT" at the bottom is pointless but it's so small it's almost not r…

Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …

Flash floods in Pakistan kill 8 and 58 are rescued after deluge swept away dozens https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/06/flash-floods-in-pakistan-kill-8-and-58-are-rescued-after-deluge-swept-away-dozens/

Flash floods in Pakistan kill 8 and 58 are rescued after deluge swept away dozens
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Flash floods triggered by pre-monsoon rains swept away dozens of tourists in northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least eight people. The nationwide death toll from rain-related incidents rose to 18 over the past 24 hours, officials said. Nearly 100 rescuers in various groups rescued a total of 58 people and […]

Claude Plays Pokemon has restarted with Claude 4.
So far (~24 hours in) it seems pretty similar to the old one; it's currently wandering around Viridian Forest. But supposedly, internal tests showed it doing somewhat better. I don't know how much of that is due to the model and how much is the improved harness.
Improved harness info:

Just who are these hammock-dwelling emperors who have 23 hours of free time a week?!

Size distribution of decaying foam bubbles
Ildoo Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18049 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18049

Size distribution of decaying foam bubbles
The most studies on the stability of foam bubbles investigated the mechanical stability of thin films between bubbles due to the drainage by gravity. In the current work, we take an alternative approach by assuming the rupture of bubbles as a series of random events and by investigating the time evolution of the size distribution of foam bubbles over a long time up to several hours. For this purpose, we first prepared layers of bubbles on Petri dishes by shaking soap solutions of a few differen…

DSA-NRP: No-Reflow Prediction from Angiographic Perfusion Dynamics in Stroke EVT
Shreeram Athreya, Carlos Olivares, Ameera Ismail, Kambiz Nael, William Speier, Corey Arnold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17501

DSA-NRP: No-Reflow Prediction from Angiographic Perfusion Dynamics in Stroke EVT
Following successful large-vessel recanalization via endovascular thrombectomy (EVT) for acute ischemic stroke (AIS), some patients experience a complication known as no-reflow, defined by persistent microvascular hypoperfusion that undermines tissue recovery and worsens clinical outcomes. Although prompt identification is crucial, standard clinical practice relies on perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within 24 hours post-procedure, delaying intervention. In this work, we introduce the…

HiFiTTS-2: A Large-Scale High Bandwidth Speech Dataset
Ryan Langman, Xuesong Yang, Paarth Neekhara, Shehzeen Hussain, Edresson Casanova, Evelina Bakhturina, Jason Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04152

HiFiTTS-2: A Large-Scale High Bandwidth Speech Dataset
This paper introduces HiFiTTS-2, a large-scale speech dataset designed for high-bandwidth speech synthesis. The dataset is derived from LibriVox audiobooks, and contains approximately 36.7k hours of English speech for 22.05 kHz training, and 31.7k hours for 44.1 kHz training. We present our data processing pipeline, including bandwidth estimation, segmentation, text preprocessing, and multi-speaker detection. The dataset is accompanied by detailed utterance and audiobook metadata generated by o…

maha -another rfk jr thing presumably
https://mastodon.social/@botgov/114557815478728541

I'm happy: 5 handstand push-ups once again. Tried for a sixth, but nope. Not yet! I'm also happy that my T-shirt stayed put. 😂 I'm 69 (until X-mas).
#seniorfitness #nogym #calisthenics

12 killed, 69 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/killed-injured-in-russian-attacks.html

It’s taking me way longer to set up for my seminar than last time. Like 6 hours longer lol - such is my tinnitus induced sleep deprivation - despite it being a similar simple bunch of machines.
If anyone happens to be in Karlsruhe and wants to come and laugh at me / wants to offer moral support - feel free to join! 😁 This time it’s called ‘Let Sound Be Sound: Technology, Perception, and the Question of Music’. Somehow it’s my third visit to the Akademie. 🤪

oh you know, just being pedantic about the unicode standard in the wee hours.
as you do.

Orthodox Nickelback makes a lot more sense if you've been in the room with me for the last two hours

TrainVerify: Equivalence-Based Verification for Distributed LLM Training
Yunchi Lu, Youshan Miao, Cheng Tan, Peng Huang, Yi Zhu, Xian Zhang, Fan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15961

TrainVerify: Equivalence-Based Verification for Distributed LLM Training
Training large language models (LLMs) at scale requires parallel execution across thousands of devices, incurring enormous computational costs. Yet, these costly distributed trainings are rarely verified, leaving them prone to silent errors and potentially wasting millions of GPU hours. We introduce TrainVerify, a system for verifiable distributed training of LLMs. Given a deep learning model's logical specification as the ground truth, TrainVerify formally verifies that a distributed parallel …

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC

Last Thursday, the movers ultimately arrived and did an awesome job, emptying the house and garage in 3 hours. The house sale closed with no issues on Friday at 5pm. Today, Monday the 23rd, our house purchase should close mid to late afternoon. Tomorrow, the moving truck arrives to dump our possessions into various rooms. We're almost there...
#NewBeginnings #FeelinGood
https://youtu.be/Edwsf-8F3sI?si=FDM6ees_yO_DqqCE

Continuous helium absorption from the leading and trailing tails of WASP-107b
Vigneshwaran Krishnamurthy, Yann Carteret, Caroline Piaulet-Ghorayeb, Jared Splinter, Dhvani Doshi, Michael Radica, Louis-Philippe Coulombe, Romain Allart, Vincent Bourrier, Nicolas B. Cowan, David Lafreni\`ere, Lo\"ic Albert, Lisa Dang, Ray Jayawardhana, Doug Johnstone, Lisa Kaltenegger, Adam B. Langeveld, Stefan Pelletier, Jason F. Rowe, Pierre-Alexis Roy, Jake Taylor, Jake D. Turner

Continuous helium absorption from the leading and trailing tails of WASP-107b
The detection of helium escaping the atmosphere of exoplanets has revolutionized our understanding of atmospheric escape and exoplanetary evolution. Using high-precision spectroscopic observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NIRISS-SOSS mode, we report the detection of significant helium absorption during the pre-transit phase of WASP-107b (17$σ$), as well as in the transit and post-transit phases. This unique continuous helium absorption begins approximately 1.5 hours before th…

We spoke to several people on the House GOP whip team Tuesday night who were expressing alarm about what they’re seeing on their whip cards.
These sources said that they were racking up no’s from lawmakers who they didn’t expect would be opposed to the bill.
Again, it is likely the bill passes in the next 24 hours
but as we learned with the Trump’s failed effort to repeal the ACA in 2017 nothing is pre-ordained in this business,
and we just have to keep working as ha…

The House Needs To Hear A Roar Of Disapproval From The American People Today - Let's Get To Work Everyone!
Paid Subscribers Gather Tonight at 7pm ET, DNC "Organizing Summer" Meeting at 8pm ET

4 killed, 37 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/killed-injured-in-russian-attacks.html

It's Robert Reich.
Congress just passed Donald Trump's big, ugly megabill.
Republicans stole from the poor and gave to the rich.
They must pay the price at the ballot box.
The midterm elections start now,
and Inequality Media Civic Action is launching a major effort to make sure the working people screwed over by this bill know who's to blame.
We want to raise $200,000 in the next 24 hours to get started.
Please, chip in $50, $25, or e…

Help Robert Reich get the truth out.
Anything you can give will help us spread the truth, keep you informed, and stop our slide towards fascism.

At least 2 killed, 33 injured across Ukraine in Russian attacks over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/at-least-killed-injured-across.html

Good Morning #Canada
On May 27, 1957, at 6:00 a.m., the CHUM radio station (1050 AM) increased power from 1,000 watts to 2,500 watts and switched from a daytime station to 24 hours. At that same moment, radios all over Toronto started playing Elvis Presley singing “All Shook Up” as the "New CHUM" became Canada’s first Top 50 music format. The station launched hundreds of careers and introduced new music to young and old alike.
#CanadaIsAwesome #MusicHistory
https://chumtribute.com/chumtribute-history.html

A Qantas Airlines flight that left from Perth, Australia, on Monday night
returned to the same city the next morning after more than 15 consecutive hours in the air
— thanks to turmoil in the Middle East.
The flight, QF33, which was supposed to land in Paris,
was among a number of airplane journeys that were disrupted
after attacks in the region involving the United States, Israel and Iran prompted officials to temporarily close air space in the region.

15-Hour Qantas Flight Takes Passengers From Perth to Perth Amid Mideast Closures
Flights on Monday and Tuesday were delayed and diverted because of temporary air space closures in the region.

A Structural Causal Model for Electronic Device Reliability: From Effects to Counterfactuals
Federico Mattia Stefanini (Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Milan, Via Celoria 2, 20133 Milan, Italy), Nedka Dechkova Nikiforova (Department of Statistics Computer Science Applications 'G. Parenti', University of Florence, viale Morgagni 59, Florence, 50134 Florence, Italy), Rossella Berni (Department of Statistics Computer Science Applications 'G. Paren…

A Structural Causal Model for Electronic Device Reliability: From Effects to Counterfactuals
Electronic devices exhibit changes in electrical resistance over time at varying rates, depending on the configuration of certain components. Since measuring overall electrical resistance requires partial disassembly, only a limited number of measurements are performed over thousands of operating hours. This leads to censored failure times, whether under natural stress or under accelerated stress conditions. To address these challenges, including device-specific failure thresholds, a parametric…

A new report from global energy think tank Ember says
🔥batteries have officially hit the price point that lets solar power deliver affordable electricity almost every hour of the year in the sunniest parts of the world
https://ember-ene…

Solar electricity every hour of every day is here and it changes everything | Ember
Batteries are now cheap enough to unleash solar energy’s full potential, getting as close as 97% of the way to delivering constant electricity supply 24 hours across 365 days cost-effectively in the sunniest places.

Good morning from Harlem
#Photography #GoodMorning #Sunrise #NYC