Forza Horizon 6: tell me what to do
Having loved and completed Forza Horizon 1, 2, and the strange Fast & Furious offshoot to 2 - completed, at least, to the point where I had unlocked and won the final showdown type events, and raced on every track (I'm not going back to complete 156 multi-race championships in 2) - it took me many years to start and then play through 3, hampered by the confusing mess of storyline, non-linear unlocks for races, over-abundance of cars,…
„An deutschen Schnellladesäulen gilt: Wer kein Abo hat, zahlt drauf. Für die gleiche Strommenge an derselben Säule zahlen Ad-hoc-Kunden bis zu 57 Prozent mehr. Dahinter steckt System. [.] Für Kunden ist das eine bittere Erfahrung – die der Gesetzgeber eigentlich auch verhindern wollte.“
Also wenn Ihr glaubt, Ihr hättet schon alles gesehen, was das Thema Autozentrierung angeht, hold my beer (literally!)
Hugo Egon Balder findet Parkplätze bei Kneipen wichtig. Also beim Saufen. Keine Poente.
„Russlands Amazon“: Ukraine greift immer mehr Logistikzentren von Wildberries an
Die Ukraine hat in den vergangenen Tagen immer wieder Lager von Wildberries angegriffen, Russlands größtem Onlinehändler. Die würden auch fürs Militär genutzt.
Die Linke: Es sollte keine Billionäre geben!
Elon Musk: ok :/
People need to talk more about the movie Electric Dreams (1984) and its amazing soundtrack
Sehr lesenswerter Text über eine Schattenwelt jenseits von Sozial- und Rechtsstaat. (€)
Mit Geschichten über indische Studenten, die mit Hoffnungen auf ein Studium in Deutschland betrogen wurden: Eure Liefer-Fahrer*innen, die, jetzt verschuldet, auch nicht mehr nachhause können.
Gebt viel Trinkgeld.
Analysis: US tech companies have cut ~140K jobs YTD, or more than 33% of announced US layoffs in 2026, with ~50K cuts from Amazon, Oracle, Meta, and Microsoft (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/96a33881-27fd-42cf-8cff-4cbc87fc835f
Wildfires are raging in Europe as over 80,000 forced to evacuate. Spain has declared a national emergency and, in France, two fires threaten a major tourist hotspot. Two fires merge outside Madrid, with a third on the verge of combining. https://
Congress isn’t working. Literally.
There have been few times in history when Congress has been more hated.
And your legislators are doing little to address that
— including working in Washington
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/20
Google Maps in Germany now publishes how many reviews of restaurants etc were removed due to “defamation”, i.e. legal action from the owners of the criticized businesses. There’s now a Chrome extension that adds 0 ratings for every removed rating and then averages that with the provided rating.
https://github.com/Ennui92/…
Siri AI: Was in der Beta geht und was noch nicht
Apple stellt Entwicklern Betaversionen seiner neuen Systeme bereit. Wer die Siri-AI-Warteschleife genommen hat, kann aber noch immer nicht alle Features testen.
https://www.
"You cannot try to 'get the job'. Just go in there, have some fun and do your version of that part. 'This is what I'm selling. If you want to buy it, that's cool. Have some adjustments for me? That's fine, I'll make some adjustments, but this is basically what I want to do.' THAT'S the attitude, sort of 'f*ck it' attitude. Not f*ck you...but, f*ck it."
—Sam Rockwell
What is it with teachers that they still don’t allow Wikipedia as a source but happily let students cite ChatGPT et al. – “just make sure to also include the prompt in the citation.“
… what?!?!? 🤨😂
Our brains—as are all brains, really—are remarkably talented at discerning patterns in all of our sensory input, filtering and interpreting it all, and letting that interpretation guide our behavior. We’re pretty good at it, really. We need to see the patterns or we die. Are we the only ones who see patterns that aren’t really there, or that make shit up to support our misinterpretations? That would explain gods, religion in general.
@… The “potato” button works quite well for baked potatoes in most of the microwaves I’ve tried. That’s about it.
Lunch Break (2026)
(High alpine carpentry, today a month ago at Breslauer Hütte... Not the worst of work places one can imagine... The mountain peak opposite, Talleitspitze, is 3406 meters...)
#LandscapePhotography #Photography
RE: https://graz.social/@publicvoit/116590278393987319
Hier ein weiterer Artikel über Songtexte mit einem meiner absoluten Lieblingssongs:
"Tomorrow We'll See" von
Kennt ihr den #Hecker mit seinem Hut? Heute war ich in #Eichtersheim wo er geboren wurde.
Paul Krugman over Trump:
'Zelfs dictators uit derdewereldlanden probeerden hun diefstal nog een beetje te verdoezelen.'
Meer Paul Krugman:
#Buitenhof #Trump #PaulKrugman
Bei uns gibt es heute Bananenbrot, asiatische Tomaten-Bananen-Sauce und Bananeneis...
Im Ernst: die Bananen gehen morgens, wenn ihr noch schlaft, im Supermarkt alle in den Müll.
Niemand würde sie mehr kaufen, weil sie braune Flecken haben. Oder: weil es einzelne Bananen sind, die jemand abgerissen hat.
Ich kaufe daher fast immer verwaiste Bananen, damit es weniger Essensmüll gibt.
Alles #Banane
För mig är nyhetsjournalistik i första hand en metod för att stimulera folkbildning och demokratisk debatt.
Det är en metod där man med kritisk blick inhämtar information från fältet, experter och andrahandskällor,
sammanställer och förmedlar den till allmänheten med det ärliga uppsåtet att bidra till en bättre förståelse av vår gemensamma verklighet.
Man håller ofta tillbaka egna åsikter, för att istället lyfta olika perspektiv som stöts och blöts.
Så att du kan bilda …
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/116636642472745864
Schüler*innen packen an, Lehrer*innen engagieren sich, aber danach hörts auf. Zwar predigt Kanzler Merz, die Bürger*innen müssten härter arbeiten, aber für ihn und seine Regierung scheint das …
"Inzwischen hat sich der Durchgangsverkehr von der Laubestraße auf die Mansfelder Straße verlagert."
Wenn sich der Verkehr auf die Mansfelder Straße verlagert hat, müssen eben auch dort Maßnahmen zur Reduzierung des Durchgangsverkehrs ergriffen werden.
Wohngebiete sollten für den Kraftvetkehr grundsätzlich nur befahrbar und nicht durchfahrbar sein!
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[2/2]:
- LUQ: Layerwise Ultra-Low Bit Quantization for Multimodal Large Language Models
Shubhang Bhatnagar, Andy Xu, Kar-Han Tan, Narendra Ahuja
Thank you to whoever it is in interlibrary loan who included their sparkly nails in the article scan! Absolutely #GLAM
''most people don't know dumb has a 'b''
"The 79-year-old president revealed at a rally on Friday that being called “dumb” bothered him so much that he decided to take a cognitive test to silence critics questioning his mental sharpness."
Trump reveals the insult he hates most - and what he did to try and stop it | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-insult-hates-one-word-b2982525.html
‚„Libyen begeht Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit“ – und steht auf der EU-Liste für Abschiebelager‘
… während die deutsche Regierung unter Union und SPD dahin abschieben will.
Menschenfeindlich.
Diese Regierung ist auf so vielen Ebenen einfach nur menschenfeindlich!
lustig, ernst, absurd, clever, liebevoll -- the thursday murder club 5 ist wieder ein großes vergnügen!
#2026reads #booksofmastodon
@… @… nee, keine Ahnung. War mir nichtmal sicher, ob ich sie wirklich gesehen habe 🫣
#Klue_breach: Ich krieg schon Krätze, wenn ich nur "competitive intelligence platform" oder "#Salesforce" lese…
Sowas ist doch nur dazu da, um andere (aka "Kunden") über den Tisch zu ziehen…
EDIT: Typofix — Habe wohl zuviel an "Sourceforge" gedach…
Sobald ihr mir einen der von konservativ-rechter Seite als solche diffamierten „Sozialschmarozer“, „Drückeberger“, … zeigt, der mich als Steuerzahler mehr kostet als die ausgesetzte Vermögenssteuer, sonstige Steuervermeidung etc eines einzigen Überreichen, von CumEx, CumCum etc ganz zu schweigen, können wir gerne darüber reden, wo wir „sparen“ müssen.
Von mir aus sogar: sobald eine strengere Prüfung von entsprechenden Steuererklärungen, eine bessere Ausstattung von Ermittlungsstellen W…
OMG, I just saw a #Honda ad in which a quadrocopter #drone chased after a car, and after 4 years of drone #war, I expected the drone to hit the car and explode 🙃
Hoi usm Ländle! 👋
Mir honds do zum Glück ned ganz so hoass.
Vllt gond mir am Samstig klä ge Bada, mol luaga.
🏊️👀
amused by ed zitron’s turns of phrase
« all it takes is one bad apple to go pear shaped »
« terms that would make a mafioso loan shark pause and say “hold on, that’s a bit harsh.” »
I forgot to remove Reale from my fantasy team. this is why I'm never good at it.
#nwsl #gothamfc
Un train stationne Š Carrefour Pleyel vers Saint-Denis – Université en raison d'un incident d'exploitation .
🤖 24/07 10:57
Xbox: Microsoft erhöht Konsolenpreise weltweit zum 1. August
Microsoft erhöht die Preise der Xbox-Konsolen weltweit zum 1. August. Das Modell mit 2 TByte Speicher wird eingestellt. Euro-Preise für Deutschland fehlen noch.
„Soweit die Oberschicht da anfällig ist, hat sie meistens keine geisteswissenschaftliche Ausbildung, gehört, wenn überhaupt, eher der technischen Intelligenz an und leitet aus ökonomischem Erfolg politische Kompetenz ab.“
„Die Milieugrenzen sind fließend“
Der Konservative Andreas Püttmann warnte vor zehn Jahren vor einer Rechtsradikalisierung seines Milieus. Wie blickt er heute auf diese Abgrenzung?
Anthropic says Opus 5 model "is the least susceptible to being tricked into misuse"; it is Anthropic's fourth model release in less than two months (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/24/anthropic-releases-new-model-opus-5
In the Netherlands, people understand that you should keep windows and doors closed in cold winter weather.
Doing the same in hot summer weather (although it's only May): not so much, yet.
We are watching the birth of a new category of medicine:
proactive, multi-cancer, blood-based screening
that could make comprehensive cancer detection as routine as a cholesterol panel.
An entire industry is emerging around multi-cancer early detection.
Exact Sciences’ Cancerguard launched as a laboratory-developed test in September 2025.
Abbott is acquiring Exact Sciences for $21 billion
— a signal of how seriously the pharmaceutical industry takes this c…
“This year’s SoftBank presentation Goose extends the Masayoshi Son multiverse of presentation Geese, whose previous eggs were laid under the banners of Information Revolution and AI Revolution.”
https://www.ft.com/content/1daf6066-885e-4acd-bda9-c51d85587875
"Großer Hack auf Signal: Ermittlungen in Deutschland"
#ORF: spende doch deinen Redakteur:innen etwas IT-Fortbildung.
Nein, das ist kein "Hack von
Replaced article(s) found for eess.IV. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.IV/new
[1/2]:
- LVQAC: Lattice Vector Quantization Coupled with Spatially Adaptive Companding for Efficient Learn...
Xi Zhang, Xiaolin Wu
They needed a fall guy — and in walked Trump - Raw Story
https://archive.ph/YFjHO
Sei nicht wie Julia!
Lass Dir nicht deine #Signal App kapern.
Setze nicht die Daten deiner Freunde oder Gesprächspartner aufs Spiel.
Erst recht nicht, wenn du alle Kontakte der Regierung eingespeichert hast.
Schalte bei @… die Registrierungs…
Adam hatte kein' Nabel
aber er hatte Kain/Abel.
„Der schwedische Forscher Svante Arrhenius beschrieb die CO₂-Wirkung erstmals 1896. Doch manche leugnen den Klimawandel bis heute.“
130 Jahre!
Die Politik von Union, AfD und leider auch der SPD ist nicht von gestern, sondern von vor-vor-vorgestern!
Es ist unfassbar, dass wir überhaupt noch darüber diskutieren müssen!
Documents: Meta's planned prediction markets app will use Meta AI models to generate questions from trending topics, make recommendations, and resolve markets (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/24/nx-s1-5869486/meta-prediction-market-app-ai
The Swifts are back from the South! 5 days earlier than before climate change started to accelerate here.
Photo from Wikipedia; they were flying really high ;)
Citizens Bank made a choice to finance the caging of human beings for profit.
Jersey City is making a choice too:
we will not be complicit, and we’ve already begun the process of pulling city funds,” Mayor James Solomon said in a statement.
“As long as institutions continue to bankroll the private prison industry and the suffering it depends on,
we will use every tool at our disposal to ensure Jersey City taxpayers are not financing the abuse of our neighbors.
I…
Crosslisted article(s) found for eess.IV. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.IV/new
[1/1]:
- UniSLAD: A Unified Framework for Structural and Logical Industrial Visual Anomaly Detection
Changyi Li, Chao Yang, Yu Xiao, Kari Tammi
Binance says it will make a fresh push for permission to operate in the EU after its MiCA license application in Greece failed ahead of the June 30 deadline (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/binance-vows-stay-europe-despi…
On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled its first custom-built inference processor,
designed and manufactured in collaboration with Broadcom.
Named #Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI’s inference systems.
OpenAI’s own AI models assisted in the development of the chip, the company said.
While the chip is still being tested, OpenAI says …
NGPS: Structure-Preserving Self-Supervised Denoising via Neighbor-Guided Patch Sampling
Jaehyun Cho, YoungJoon Yoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23200 https://
Hang Ten Systems, led by former Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka, launches with a $32M seed led by Mayfield to help enterprises use AI to run software at a lower cost (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/form
Senate Republicans cast doubt on the viability of a potential peace deal between the United States and Iran over the weekend
as Donald Trump doubled down in support of his administration’s negotiations to end the nearly three-month-old war.
U.S. and Iranian officials have described an emerging framework that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and in which, U.S. officials say, Iran would commit to disposing of its highly enriched uranium.
Iranian officials have also said that…
SK Hynix overtaking Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company is the culmination of 14 years of bets on HBM, which paid off as the AI boom took off (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
A Benchmark of (MRI-) Foundation Models to Predict IDH Mutational Status in Glioma
Nathan Hollet, Elise Robinson, Efthymios Georgiou, Ekin Ermis, Uri Nahum, Sarah Br\"uningk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23172
Donald Trump says he told top U.S. envoys not to travel to Pakistan to negotiate with Iran,
telling Fox News that ″they can call us anytime they want.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi left Pakistan on Saturday evening, two Pakistani officials told The Associated Press.
Trump said Thursday that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah by three weeks after talks at the White House.
The meeting was the second high-lev…
London-based Isometric, which develops AI agents that work with human verifiers to automate industrial certification, raised a €34M Series A led by AVP (David Cendon Garcia/EU-Startups)
https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/06/london
A Systematic Survey on Event Camera Representation Learning
Hongwei Ren, Youxin Jiang, Tuopusen Huang, Xiangqian Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.23078 https://
The US FDA drops an enforcement complaint against Whoop over its blood pressure tracking tool, reversing a July 2025 warning letter; Whoop is updating the tool (Samantha Kelly/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
The Trump administration is taking its war on free speech into the realm of thought crimes.
This is more than politics.
In declaring “Antifa”
—a loose ideology based on opposition to fascism
—as a domestic terrorist organization,
the government has given itself a green light to treat speech, belief, and association as criminal acts.
With this one executive order,
political dissent has been rebranded as terrorism and free thought recast as a crime.
…
IViT: A Novel Interpretable Visual Transformer for Skin Disease Detection
Haibiao Li, Di Lin, Xue Jiang, Weiwei Wu, Yanxi Li, Yugang Chi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22892 https:/…
Qualcomm plans to acquire Modular, which builds a chip software platform and has a proprietary coding language, in a nearly $4B deal set to close in H2 2026 (Lauren Goode/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/qualcomm-buys-buzzy-chip-startup-modu…
It’s the day after Mother’s Day, the first one Elizabeth Soto has spent apart from her three children.
Sitting in jail in Wichita Falls, Texas, her face is washed out by the overhead fluorescent lighting,
and her dingy jumpsuit blends into the cinder block walls surrounding her.
Speaking through a glass separator, she tells me she celebrated the holiday with her children over the jail’s video-call system while they had dinner at their grandmother’s.
“I’ve been a full…
Large Language Model-Assisted Cleaning of Report-Derived Labels in a Large-Scale Chest CT Dataset
Yosuke Yamagishi, Atsushi Takamatsu, Mototsugu Sato, Tomohiro Kikuchi, Shouhei Hanaoka, Takeharu Yoshikawa, Osamu Abe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22382
Trump hosted a gala luncheon for leading $TRUMP holders, where he spoke about his pro-crypto policies, but avoided the memecoin's declining value (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trumps-cryp…
Politicians must be held accountable if their lies damage democracy,
according to a former US federal prosecutor and FBI general counsel who was pursued by Donald Trump.
The US must be “as creative as possible” and introduce sweeping structural reforms
if it escapes its current “mess”,
said Andrew Weissmann, laying out a proposal for a legislative crackdown on election deceit.
“Lying can be held to account,” argued Weissmann,
a senior figure in former FBI …
ZeroGVC: Zero-Shot Generative Video Compression with Autoregressive Diffusion Priors
Yixin Gao, Xiaohan Pan, Lin Liu, Xin Li, Zhibo Chen, Qi Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22371
Specificity- and Calibration-Aware Breast Ultrasound Segmentation via Entropy-Guided Boundary Supervision
Manar Alsaid, Mandip Shrestha, Mohammad Abbas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22308
Delta-Diffusion: Modeling Longitudinal Brain Amyloid-PET Trajectories via Conditional Poisson Diffusion Bridge
Yongheng Sun, Minhui Yu, Mengqi Wu, Maureen Kohi, Mingxia Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.22216
Scaling up fine-grained intracranial vessel annotations in computed tomography angiography
Chu-Hsuan Lin, Alberto Mario Ceballos-Arroyo, Jisoo Kim, Shrikanth M. Yadav, Huaizu Jiang, Lei Qin, Geoffrey S. Young
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21756
Configurable Algorithms for Histopathologic Cancer Detection on Quantum Hardware
Nandika Goyal, Glen Uehara, Andreas Spanias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21752 https://
PaaF: Raising the perceived quality of INR-Based Image Compression
Lorenzo Catania, Dario Allegra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21655 https://arxiv.org/pdf/26…
Deep Unrolled Networks in Representation Space Applied to MRI Reconstruction
Efe Il{\i}cak, Baris Imre, Chlo\'e Najac, Ruben van den Broek, Beatrice Lena, Andrew Webb, Marius Staring
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21602
Unsupervised Susceptibility Distortion Correction of EPI without Calibration Scans via Image Translation-Based Registration
Wooseung Kim, Sung-Hong Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21588
A Skin-Tone-Aware Dual-Representation Remote Photoplethysmography Framework for Contactless Respiratory Rate Estimation
Trishna Saikia, Anup Kumar Gupta, Puneet Gupta, Pasi Liljeberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21511
Optimising Inpainting Data with Delaunay Averages
Vassillen Chizhov, Joachim Weickert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21506 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.21506
2D Versus 3D Diffusion for In Silico Training of Interventional X-ray AI Models
Sampath Rapuri, Jeremy Ko, Benjamin D. Killeen, Russell H. Taylor, Mathias Unberath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21414
Geometry Calibration in Tomography with a Differentiable Ray-Based Model
Youssef Haouchat, Aleix Boquet-Pujadas, Sepand Kashani, Philippe Th\'evenaz, Michael Unser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21405 …
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Trump: Who here did not vote for Trump?
*hand raised*
Trump: He thinks he's being cute as he gets pounded on
[video of potus during this sequence]
[reply by @LT0771]
Very kind of trump to only say gay shit for pride month
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