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We’re joined by a mother-daughter duo from Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.”
Roishetta and Kamea Ozane are part of a group of environmental activists on a national tour
to confront the financial backers of destructive natural gas projects that have devastated their community.
The “Toxic Billionaire Tour” is targeting the offices of major banks and the homes of executives,
who “sit here in New York and in offices in D.C. [and] make decisions for our community,
decision…

“Toxic Air”: Meet the Mother-Daughter Duo Fighting Pollution in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”
We’re joined by a mother-daughter duo from Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley.” Roishetta and Kamea Ozane are part of a group of environmental activists on a national tour to confront the financial backers of destructive natural gas projects that have devastated their community. The “Toxic Billionaire Tour” is targeting the offices of major banks and the homes of executives, who “sit here in New York and in offices in D.C. [and] make decisions for our community, decisions that are killing …

TypeTele: Releasing Dexterity in Teleoperation by Dexterous Manipulation Types
Yuhao Lin, Yi-Lin Wei, Haoran Liao, Mu Lin, Chengyi Xing, Hao Li, Dandan Zhang, Mark Cutkosky, Wei-Shi Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01857

TypeTele: Releasing Dexterity in Teleoperation by Dexterous Manipulation Types
Dexterous teleoperation plays a crucial role in robotic manipulation for real-world data collection and remote robot control. Previous dexterous teleoperation mostly relies on hand retargeting to closely mimic human hand postures. However, these approaches may fail to fully leverage the inherent dexterity of dexterous hands, which can execute unique actions through their structural advantages compared to human hands. To address this limitation, we propose TypeTele, a type-guided dexterous teleo…

Tencent open sources translation models Hunyuan-MT-7B and Hunyuan-MT-Chimera-7B, which support 33 languages, claiming they beat established models in benchmarks (Jonathan Kemper/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/tencent-open-sources-two-high-performing…

Tencent open sources two high-performing translation models
Chinese tech giant Tencent has open sourced two specialized translation models, claiming they outperform established tools like Google Translate in international benchmarks.

Even though I've been there quite a few times, I never realized that large swathes of the UK's Peak District look like a series of abstract paintings in satellite view...
Are those traces of turf harvesting?
#MapSurfing #PeakDistrict

"On a day when Jews mourn the destruction of the first and second temples, some Jews believe the destruction of Gaza should also be mourned."
This Tisha B'Av, some Jews are mourning another destruction
https://religionnews.com/2025/08/01/this-tisha-bav-some-jews-are-mourning-another-destruction/

Ukraine says it destroyed Russian speedboat as it attempted to land troops — Navy shares footage: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/03/ukraine-says-it-destroyed-russian.html

Quinn: McLaurin request business, not distraction https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45884983/quinn-mclaurin-trade-request-normal-business-not-distraction

New VLT image shows supernova remnant 0509-67.5, the expanding remains of a star that exploded hundreds of years ago in a double detonation-- the first photographic evidence that stars can die with two blasts https://phys.org/news/2025-07-detonation-image-star-de…

Double detonation: New image shows remains of star destroyed by pair of explosions
For the first time, astronomers have obtained visual evidence that a star met its end by detonating twice. By studying the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 with the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), they have found patterns that confirm its star suffered a pair of explosive blasts.

After watching the scenes of devastation in Gaza last night, this is timely.
For the Western elite, it's OK to bomb civilian populations, so long as they are those to be colonised and managed. Hence the resounding silence from the likes of Starmer on Israel's terrorism.
Weapons of mass destruction: from Guernica to Gaza via the British empire | Morning Star

Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Airbnb Experiences, its push into services, OpenAI, AI agents, making decisions at Airbnb, cutting PMs, Jony Ive, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app
The head of Airbnb on expanding beyond travel, AI and design, and the future of real-world experiences.