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Es gibt Risse in der Beschreibung, die UNRWA sei der Hamas nah.
"UNRWA-Angestellte hätten nach ihrer Rückkehr aus der Haft von »Folter, schweren Misshandlungen und Übergriffen« berichtet.
Einige seien zu Geständnissen gezwungen worden, in denen es um das Verhältnis der UNRWA zur Hamas und Beteiligung an den Angriffen des 7. Oktober gegangen sei."

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Dramatized scifi mystery | When the first murderer in Silitra’s fifteen-year history is sentenced to hang, Alicia August, the town’s only journalist uncovers incongruencies in the case. In her search for answers, Alicia falls under the ire of authorities and must find the truth before they silenc...
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Seeds 🙈🙉🙊
Dramatized scifi mystery | When the first murderer in Silitra’s fifteen-year history is sentenced to hang, Alicia August, the town’s only journalist uncovers incongruencies in the case. In her search for answers, Alicia falls under the ire of authorities and must find the truth before they silence her for good. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Sep 15, 2022.

This summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine Joe Biden's reelection campaign.
Already, 65-plus organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug. 19.
Activists have sued in federal court, alleging First Amendment violations because the city has only offered permits for demonstrations miles from the United Center, where Biden is scheduled to accept the Dem…

Noting campus protests, Democrats are preparing for intense action at their summer convention
As pro-Palestinian demonstrations escalate on college campuses around the country, critics of President Joe Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war suggest this summer’s Democratic National Convention could be hit by protests and scenes of chaos that undermine his reelection. Already, more than 65 organizations in Chicago and elsewhere have formed a coalition to “March on the DNC” when it opens there on Aug. 19. Protesters preparing for the convention hope to channel the anger on many …

Text-Based Reasoning About Vector Graphics
Zhenhailong Wang, Joy Hsu, Xingyao Wang, Kuan-Hao Huang, Manling Li, Jiajun Wu, Heng Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06479

Text-Based Reasoning About Vector Graphics
While large multimodal models excel in broad vision-language benchmarks, they often struggle with tasks requiring precise perception of low-level visual details, such as comparing line lengths or solving simple mazes. In particular, this failure mode persists in question-answering tasks about vector graphics -- images composed purely of 2D objects and shapes. To address this challenge, we propose the Visually Descriptive Language Model (VDLM), which performs text-based reasoning about vector gr…

Cease-Fire Talks Stall as Anger Flares Over Israel's Incursion Into Rafah (Reuters)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/09/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-rafah
http://www.memeorandum.com/240509/p35#a240509p35

What is the $\textit{intrinsic}$ dimension of your binary data? -- and how to compute it quickly
Tom Hanika, Tobias Hille
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06326 …

What is the $\textit{intrinsic}$ dimension of your binary data? -- and how to compute it quickly
Dimensionality is an important aspect for analyzing and understanding (high-dimensional) data. In their 2006 ICDM paper Tatti et al. answered the question for a (interpretable) dimension of binary data tables by introducing a normalized correlation dimension. In the present work we revisit their results and contrast them with a concept based notion of intrinsic dimension (ID) recently introduced for geometric data sets. To do this, we present a novel approximation for this ID that is based on c…

Jepp, vogner som skal brukes i Norge og Sverige, spesielt for nattog, bŸr kunne utnytte vognprofilen fullt ut. Idéelt burde en òg kunne utnytte hŸyden, dvs toetasjes.
Dette er et innkjŸp Norske Tog burde henge seg på.
https://jarnvagar.nu/politiker-vill-ha-bredare-…

Politiker vill ha bredare sovvagnar – Järnvägar.nu
Riksdagen kommer senare i vår att tillkännage för regeringen att den anser att de nya sov- och liggvagnarna som Trafikverket håller på att upphandla bör vara lika breda som dagens vagnar.

ViboPneumo: A Vibratory-Pneumatic Finger-Worn Haptic Device for Altering Perceived Texture Roughness in Mixed Reality
Shaoyu Cai, Zhenlin Chen, Haichen Gao, Ya Huang, Qi Zhang, Xinge Yu, Kening Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05182

ViboPneumo: A Vibratory-Pneumatic Finger-Worn Haptic Device for Altering Perceived Texture Roughness in Mixed Reality
Extensive research has been done in haptic feedback for texture simulation in virtual reality (VR). However, it is challenging to modify the perceived tactile texture of existing physical objects which usually serve as anchors for virtual objects in mixed reality (MR). In this paper, we present ViboPneumo, a finger-worn haptic device that uses vibratory-pneumatic feedback to modulate (i.e., increase and decrease) the perceived roughness of the material surface contacted by the user's fingerpad …

“It's dedicated to urban spirituality, how different identities intersect in the urban setting in Hong Kong.” And he plans to continue his search for answers. “All my struggles deal with the suffering of others, the suffering of refugees, the suffering of North Korean defectors. My academic passions, and also my personal passions, merge together.”
—John Curtis /🧵

Angry protests
calling for a deal to free the captives
erupted
in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem late Monday
as families of hostages held in Gaza and anti-government activists took to the streets to
rally against the government’s rejection of a Hamas ceasefire offer.
Police forces twice dispersed hundreds of protesters blocking traffic on Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway,
with demonstrators banging drums, blowing on bullhorns, and lighting fires.
“The time h…

Protesters block roads, demand halt to Rafah push after Israel rejects Hamas proposal
Families of captives and other demonstrators gather in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere to accuse Netanyahu of 'abandoning the hostages,' insisting that Israel take deal on table