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Re-reading my post "Lights Out" about acting and impermanence.
#acting

Lights Out
ephemeral nature of our work

The Trump administration has halted litigation aimed at stopping civil rights abuses of prisoners in Louisiana and mentally ill people living in South Carolina group homes.
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-admin-halts-lawsuits…

Trump Admin Halts Lawsuits Targeting Civil Rights Abuses in Prisons, Group Homes
Biden’s DOJ concluded that Louisiana and South Carolina had failed to fix violations despite years of warnings.

"City Lights Extend Growing Season for Urban Trees"
#Trees #LightPollution
https://e360…

City Lights Extend Growing Season for Urban Trees

iPhone 17: Apple plant wohl leichtes Preisplus
Dass die Apple-Smartphones in diesem Jahr teurer werden, gilt als gesetzt. Nun sind erste Werte durchgesickert.
https://www.heise.de/news/iPhone-17-…

Did you know that many international conglomerates are potentially liable for assisting the occupation of Palestine? I didn't.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-t…

UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has named several US giants among the companies aiding Israel.

Safe Security, formerly Lucideus, which quantifies cyber risk using ML, raised a $70M Series C led by Avataar Ventures, bringing its total funding to $170M (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/safe-security-raises-70-mn-in-ser…

Safe Security raises $70 Mn in Series C led by Avataar Ventures
Cybersecurity startup Safe Security, previously known as Lucideus, has secured $70 million in a Series C round, led bybAvataar Ventures.

> Two years ago, the Flemish Roads Agency (AWV) announced the introduction of the new system: via an app on your smartphone, you can get a traffic light to turn green more quickly.
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2025/07/24/200-000-flemish…

One More Glance with Sharp Eyes: Rethinking Lightweight Captioning as a Practical Visual Specialist
Junha Song, Yongsik Jo, So Yeon Min, Quanting Xie, Taehwan Kim, Yonatan Bisk, Jaegul Choo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21451

One More Glance with Sharp Eyes: Rethinking Lightweight Captioning as a Practical Visual Specialist
Image captioning is fundamental for applications like video instruction systems and exploration robots, yet deploying such models on local devices is challenging due to the high computational demands of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). To address this, we first explore lightweight captioning by implementing a specialist based on a 125M-parameter language model, 56 times smaller than LLaMA-7B, and evaluating its performance on both single-sentence and detailed captioning tasks. Surprisi…

The explosion in crypto treasury companies is making experts in and outside of crypto nervous.
A crypto CEO described the “huge” risk based on assets that have “almost nothing backing [them]”.
Crypto analysts at Galaxy have compared them to the 1920s investment trust collapse.
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Our planet is currently reverberating from the impact of a powerful coronal mass ejection (CME) that struck Earth head-on in the early hours of June 1 — and the resulting auroras were absolutely stunning.
The CME erupted during an M8.2 class solar flare eruption on May 30 at 8:05 p.m. EDT (00:05 GMT on May 31) and has been racing toward Earth at nearly 1,938 km/s or 4.3 million mph.
When it slammed into Earth's magnetic field, the impact triggered a severe (G4) geomagnetic sto…

Severe G4 geomagnetic storm sparks northern lights across US and beyond (photos)
The speedy solar storm arrived in style, sparking stunning aurora displays as far south as California and New Mexico.