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Stop framing it as a law to ban social media for under 16s when what it is is a law to require everyone over the age of 16 to hand over their ID before they are allowed on the internet.
"Social media ban for under 16s" doesn't sound like it will affect adults. It will.

"Heating up the headlines: How tabloid framing reshaped Germany's Buildings Energy Act"
In diesem Paper wird untersucht, wie die „BILD“ (Deutschlands größte Boulevardzeitung) die Reform des Gebäudeenergiegesetzes (GEG)
2023 zu einer der polarisierendsten politischen Kontroversen der jüngeren deutschen Geschichte gemacht hat:

Was genau stimmt mit diesen „Journalisten“ nicht?
#Framing #Ukraine #Krieg

One of the hazards of photographing a much-photographed thing is that, after careful consideration of viewpoint, composition and framing, you take exactly the same pictures as everyone else who has carefully considered viewpoint, composition and framing.
Here are two photographs I took of the Atlas Fountain at Castle Howard, along with the two illustrations from its Wikipedia entry. Years apart in time, inches apart in space.

What if the next global arms race isn’t about nukes — but AI systems that can autonomously find and exploit software vulnerabilities at machine speed?
Check out my latest CSO piece that explores the narrowing US-China AI gap and the unsettling implications if China develops its own “Mythos”-class cyber AI.
Thanks to Gal Tal-Hochberg of Beacon Security for his help in framing this issue.

What happens when China’s AI catches up to Mythos?
As Washington and Beijing meet this week, the gap between American and Chinese AI is narrowing — and the technology that could destabilize the world’s digital infrastructure is leaking out with potential cyber Cold War implications.

American robin, Turdus migratorius, in nice fresh plumage at Amigo Centre, outside Sturgis, Michigan
#naturalist #bird #wildlife

Aiwanger deutet das Münchner IS-Urteil zu „Grooming Gangs" und „migrantischen Tätergruppen" um, die der Staat angeblich deckt.
Nur: Es war ein Völkermord-Urteil (§ 6 VStGB). IS-Verbrechen an Jesidinnen, per Weltrechtsprinzip verfolgt – das Gegenteil von Vertuschung. Und „Völkermord" steht sogar in dem BR-Artikel, den er selbst verlinkt.
Er hat seine eigene Quelle nicht gelesen – oder ignoriert, weil Genozid nicht ins Framing passt.

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Framing an empirical story about numbers (in effect) as a culture war is a bonkers starting point anyway.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5ebaazqa3ghohwlelj7jmt5o/post/3mnm4uybpz22n

Dave Mathieson (@tinydbass.bsky.social)
"In the culture wars, there is no space for the middle ground" is a weird framing. There is plenty of middle ground, which is what many other countries occupy where they balance data centers against electricity capacity, prices and emissions. The government have chosen to make us a huge outlier. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Im Gebäudemodernisierungsgesetz ist nun plötzlich die Forderung nach klimaNEUTRALEN Heizsystemen ab 2045 verschwunden. Dort wird jetzt von klimafreundlichen Gasen (und auch Öl!) gesprochen. Was bitte soll das sein?
Das ist ein Framing und damit Lobbying der Öl- und Gaswirtschaft - mit freundlichen Grüßen. Leider sind in der vergangenen Woche da viele Medien darauf reingefallen und haben diese verschleiernden Parolen benutzt, statt eine faktenbasierte Sprache zu nutzen.

I've always just really hated the framing of LLMs "stealing" culture. That's such a capitalist framing.
But maybe I'm making a connection that's too abstract or doesn't feel aligned for people who have more direct experience. So if you have a more direct experience and this feels off, please let me know.

Klimapolitik wird¹ als Kulturkampf inszeniert.
Das heißt auch, die Lösung eines² Sachproblems ist in diesem Diskurs nachrangig.
Solang wir das nicht verstehen, glauben in der Sache argumentieren zu können, rennen wir gegen eine Gummiwand. Wir brauchen Strategien, das Framing als kulturelle Frage³ aufzubrechen. Solange es ein Ingroup/Outgroup, d.h. „wir“ gegen „die“ bleibt, können Sachargumente nur wirken, wenn sie diese Grenze unterlaufen. Erst wenn die Wärmepumpe nicht mehr Symb…

“Prompt Engineering” is the wrong language framing. It’s really “dialectical design.”

Ja, schade, @…. Erstmal Bürgerinitiativen für die eigene Agenda vereinnahmen und dann gereizt ad-hominem auf Kritik reagiren. "tech-solutionistisch" ist wahrscheinlich der Gegenentwurf zu "irgendein abwertendes Framing deiner Wahl" oder ach was weiß ich...

Getting it right (or not) in camera
Rather than framing it as absolute stance about the role of (post)processing in photography, I'd consider "getting it right in camera" to be more a question of aspiration (in the moment), of balance (in process) and even more so a question of framing one's own intention, style and interpretation of photography as discipline, a question where one draws the line, if any, around photography as a sub-field within the much larger space of visual media/exp…

Die Bildkampagne zum Heizungsgesetz war nur erfolgreich, weil die anderen Medien das Framing ungeprüft übernommen haben. Ein gigantisches Medienversagen, was jetzt noch einmal wissenschaftlich aufgearbeitet wurde.
Danke für das Interview @…!
@…

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完美因为完美不存在 🗿
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This goes to the quilter tomorrow. The biggest one I've done and no way I could quilt it myself. Near impossible for me to even get it kinda square (Hint: Its not) Moss kept walking on it and it kept sliding on the floor. Pattern is Big Island Sky by Whole Circle Studios #quilting

Warum #TaxTheRich zu kurz gedacht ist:

Disclaimer: nix dagegen Reichen was wegzunehmen, so generell
1. "the Rich", der Fokus auf Reiche oder Überreiche blendet halt komplett aus, wie es ersal zu diesem Reichtum kommt. Die Grünen haben auch gar kein Interesse das in Frage zu stellen. Die haben kein Problem mit der Profitmacherei an sich solange es nicht "maß…

New Jersey tea, Ceanothus americanus — a new-to-me Ceanothus! — in the woods around Amigo Centre, outside Sturgis, Michigan
#naturalist #wildflower #photography

"Native apps are bad at rendering text" is interesting framing. Web browsers are native apps, after all, and they're great at rendering web text. Native PDF viewers are great at rendering PDF text. And native rich text editors are great at RTF text—with rulers containing tab stops, etc.
(Back in the '90s, I built parsers and renderers for all three of these: OmniWeb on AppKit, OmniPDF on AppKit, and RTF text for Java.)
The very real, hard problem is round-trippi…

Semantic Sleight of Hand Behind Hormuz Fund's Framing
An Iranian official described the proposed mechanism to the New York Times as a 'reconstruction programme' that would be promised to Iran upon the signing of a final agreement.
Two diplomats briefed on the latest draft used different language,
calling it an international 'investment fund' that the United States would facilitate.
The divergence in terminology is deliberate.
The domestic c…

Trump Admin Renames Iran's $300 Billion Reparations Demand an 'Investment Fund' to Avoid a Political Firestorm at Home
A draft US-Iran agreement reportedly includes a £224 billion ($300 billion) investment fund for Iran's reconstruction, with officials avoiding the term 'reparations.' The deal has not yet been signed...

Each week, Metacurity offers our subscribers a run-down of the top infosec-related long reads we couldn't get to in the daily crush of news.
This week's selection covers
--France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches,
--AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio,
--Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle,
-- Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention,
--Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety an…

Losing control of the systems meant to secure society - Best infosec long reads 5/23/26
France grapples with an unprecedented wave of data breaches, AI voice systems can be manipulated with malicious audio, Big Tech is backing a massive spying operation in Seattle, Russia overreached on the cybercrime convention, Framing AI as an arms race threatens safety and accountability

I am excited about this weird climbing plant waking up again after the winter and framing one of my windows with its leaves. Hello, friend.

The thing about training an #LLM on human culture and then renting that culture back isn't that it's "Intellectual Property Theft." There's nothing wrong with sharing. There is something wrong with framing LLMs as piracy. That's a completely different concept.
When a powerful group of people takes the writing, the art, the music, various parts of a culture and then make some bland reproduction that lacks all the meaning and essence in the original, then those powerful people profit off that mess while the people who made the original stuff are erased, marginalized, and made to suffer, there is a different term for that.
The term everyone is looking for is "appropriation."
I'm not saying this is the same as other forms of cultural appropriation, but there are definitely enough shared elements that we should revisit that conversation. Perhaps some folks who thought the idea was silly when the idea first came up may feel differently now.

[OT] Net benefit of #AI and the trillions of dollars being invested in it? Woke?
ECB's Lagarde says AI could trigger financial crises and calls for Cold War-style non-proliferation governance https://thene…

#Zürich #LakeZürich #Zürichsee

A structural reduction for the symmetric hit problem in four variables
Dang Vo Phuc
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.02626 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.02626
arXiv:2606.02626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Let $\mathcal{A}$ be the mod $2$ Steenrod algebra, and $P(n) = \mathbb{F}_2[x_1, \dots, x_n]$ be the polynomial algebra viewed as an unstable module over $\mathcal{A}$. The symmetric hit conjecture asks whether the symmetrization of a hit monomial in $P(n)$ is always hit in the symmetric invariant subalgebra $B(n) = P(n)^{\Sigma_n}$. While resolved for $n \leq 3$, the case $n=4$ presents significant obstructions due to combinatorial complexity, orbit cancellations intrinsically tied to $\Sigma_4$-stabilizers, and the emergence of strongly spike-free survivor modules. This paper introduces a conditional structural reduction to overcome these obstructions in the domain where the numerical weight satisfies $\mu(d) \leq 4$. By integrating Walker-Wood duality with a new $\Sigma_4$-stabilizer parity analysis, we reduce the global conjecture to localized algebraic conditions: a symmetric lower-spike reduction and a strengthened four-row digital-engineering hypothesis. Assuming these inputs, the conjecture follows by lexicographic induction on the column-sum and row-sum sequences of the binary exponent matrices.
Our approach isolates the four-variable repeated-row anomaly into exact local identities, utilizing global Steenrod-kernel functionals lifted from local spike-free quotients to detect potential survivor elements. Finally, we provide explicit monomial-level computations in degrees $8$, $12$, and $14$, explicitly illustrating the stabilizer mechanism in practice and framing the precise algebraic identities required for a future unconditional proof.
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红色城市 🌆
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There is more to #SolarPunk than solar panels and bikes. What we are talking about is being part of a living world. The hegemonic culture is one of hierarchical domination.
But many of the the cultures that hegemony suppresses bring a vibrancy to life. I don't buy yeast from the store, sealed in a plastic packet, a coffin for a living thing. I feed my sourdough. I am obligated to it, in a relationship with it, as the culture is reliant on me for it's survival. It speaks to me, with smell and color. I must pay attention. I have to learn it's nature, how it grows and eats at different temperatures informed by different times of the year. Mushrooms, yeast, kiefer, plants, independent things, things I can't control, life that is intertwined with my own.
But even my #bicycle speaks to me, which is something I hadn't considered until reading this and thinking about that framing.
It is not simply that "we need a different economic system." What we are talking about is a fundamentally different interpretation and experience of the world, from the hierarchical structure of death to a web of life, where even "inanimate" things become imbued with agency.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2936873&post_id=151655646

Magic Moment (when the view finally opens up)
(On the way to Drachensee, October 2023)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps

This Earth Day, I'm grateful for the many different ways I get to encounter the living world, from wild landscapes to manicured gardens, from trees by the sidewalk to protected green spaces
Mt Roosevelt over Snow Lake; the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum; a robin in New Haven; a lupine at Sepulveda Basin
#naturalist

Just to be clear, this comes from Simon(e) Weil not from my head. I heard this framing mentioned in a podcast once and it feels absolutely intuitive.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@samiamsam/116459688263848899
Rights are things you defend with guns. If you don't have guns, are not organized enough to defend them, or are unwilling to "go that far," then you don't have rights.
But I ultimately challenge the logic of "rights." The entire framing of "rights" is somewhat individualist though. Once you have the power to assert your rights, you really have no reason to support others... Which is exactly the situation we're in now.
I actually think it's worth throwing out entirely. Instead, I like the concept of "obligations." We all owe obligations to each other by way of all of our existences being intertwined. You can ignore your obligations, just like you can ignore any debt, but you can't really escape them.
They also don't require anything to exist. They exist on their own. You choose to act on those obligations or not, which again comes back to what you're willing to do... But from a different angle, and for *others* not for yourself.

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旅行结束 IV ✈️
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