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In the "Where's My Flying Car?" Department:
Rust to riches? Ohio city’s fortunes set to rise with flying taxi startup
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/29/flying-taxi-joby-aviation-ohio

I'm happy to announce I will be speaking at #RustFestZurich this year. My talk is about Linon, a graphical #RustLang application I began writing during my MSc studies at @…

Interactive Exploration of Nonlinear Ray Casting with Rust and wgpu
Speaker: Niklas Korz Description Light is commonly assumed to travel linearly from source to destination. There are however cases where the path of light can be bent or distorted. In the case of black holes for example, the light is attracted by a very strong gravitational center. Heated air can change the direction of light through the varying refraction caused by the temperature transition from heat source to environment. Creating an interactive environment for exploration of such phenomena m…

"'There’s these huge communities of people fleeing violence, persecution, gangs, all these things, trying to survive and we’re basically telling them, "Sleep on the streets,"' said Supervisor Hillary Ronen."
https://www.sfpublicpr…

SF to Briefly House Some Homeless Migrant Families, as the Rest Languish
San Francisco is facing an influx of homeless migrant families. City Hall will offer temporary housing to some, while the rest face an uncertain future.

Hausdorff dimension of some exceptional sets in L\"{u}roth expansions
Ao Wang, Xinyun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17135 https://

Hausdorff dimension of some exceptional sets in Lüroth expansions
In this paper, we study the metrical theory of the growth rate of digits in Lüroth expansions. More precisely, for $ x\in \left( 0,1 \right] $, let $ \left[ d_1\left( x \right) ,d_2\left( x \right) ,\cdots \right] $ denote the Lüroth expansion of $ x $, we completely determine the Hausdorff dimension of the following sets \begin{align*} E_{\mathrm{sup}}\left( ψ\right) =\Big\{ x\in \left( 0,1 \right] :\limsup\limits_{n\rightarrow \infty}\frac{\log d_n\left( x \right)}{ψ\left( n \right)}=1 …

This is what porn was in 1957.
#Kitsch
#AltNudes
#Surrealism

NY-based Hume, which is building a conversational AI that it claims can interpret emotions based on people's voices, raised a $50M Series B at a $219M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishri…

Feeling Sad, Excited Or Bored? This Startup Claims Its AI Can (Mostly) Tell
The company, which is building “empathic” conversational AI, is now valued at $219 million.

The far right has replaced the old left as Russia’s propaganda tool
In 2018, President Donald Trump endorsed Vladimir Putin’s denial that Russia interfered with the 2016 election, even though American intelligence had reached the opposite conclusion.
The following year, in the Trump impeachment proceedings, House Republicans claimed that Ukraine had interfered with the 2016 election even though Fiona Hill, a former Trump national security council official on Russia, told them th…

The far right has replaced the old left as Russia’s propaganda tool
Tucker Carlson’s fawning interview of Russian President Vladimir Putin echoes the left-wing journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, who downplayed or otherwise covered up Stalin’s murder of millions of Soviet citizens.

Finally wrapped my head around this. It explains everything: When I use a free social network's services that are monetizing me, I am, nevertheless, the customer. And the customer is always right.
It's interesting how easy it is to forget monetized social isn't "free" when you have been given free reign with the false feeling that you are always right. Such an insidious glitch that has the potential to overtake the entirety of your time and make other people power…

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #ScottMills
The Feeling:
🎵 The Right Wrong
#TheFeeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/1yXL1O68IdqbJWMfQYKYIF
https://thefeelingoflove.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-right-you-are-wrong

Started listening to the [[Digha Nikaya]], enjoying it right away :)