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Bookmarked: TEI-NER Pipeline — Automatisches Entity-Linking für historische TEI-Editionen http://tei-llm.histomatiker.de/ #GND #LLM…

Yet one more way motor vehicles are bad for your health. (and if, as I suspect, tire noise dominates, EVs won't help)
Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise
https://www.theguardian.com/soc…

Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise
Pioneering study linking noise pollution to Parkinson’s finds 3% increase in risk for every 11.5dB rise in noise levels

Yet one more way motor vehicles are bad for your health. (and if, as I suspect, tire noise dominates, EVs won't help)
Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise
https://www.theguardian.com/soc…

Risk of Parkinson’s disease may increase with prolonged exposure to road traffic noise
Pioneering study linking noise pollution to Parkinson’s finds 3% increase in risk for every 11.5dB rise in noise levels

Design G suggests the most modern, banknote-looking front sides for the future #Euro banknotes. Though, I really don't like the corporate-like vector stock images on the backs.
Design B, on the other hand, features very clean and informative illustrations of the European institutions' buildings on the backs. Architecture and banknotes are a dream team. Though, I'm not a fan of th…

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@dyckron/116461477797597135
"If early exposure to biodiverse settings influences immune development, then it adds weight to a growing body of research linking modern, low-microbial environments with rising rates of allergies and im…

Glyphosate: Cancer, liver disease, endocrine disruption and other health concerns #health

Glyphosate: Cancer, liver disease, endocrine disruption and other health concerns
Studies linking glyphosate, the key chemical in Roundup herbicides, to cancer, liver disease, endocrine disruption and other illnesses.

Jerry Jones’ costly CB problem could push Cowboys back to 1st round https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-mock-draft-zabien-brown-cornerback-jerry-jones/cb259c3c2fb91184a34d77c4…

This is the most detailed picture of a human cell ever made 🧪
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DX1CGIZMKJs/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ

Sam Bousaba on Instagram: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building proteins by linking amino acids together. In eukaryotic (human) cells, a ribosome typically adds about 5–10 amino acids per second (not ~20). Since a single cell can contain millions of ribosomes, protein production is massive—resulting in millions to tens of millions of peptide bonds formed per second per cell. The microtubules act as an internal transport network. Motor proteins such as kinesin move along these tracks, carrying cellular cargo. They “walk” step by step using ATP, at speeds of roughly 500–1000 nanometers per second. Each cell contains a dense network of these filaments, with many motor proteins moving simultaneously. Just beneath the cell membrane lies the actin cortex, a dynamic meshwork that helps maintain cell shape and resist mechanical stress. This structure is continuously remodeled—assembled and disassembled—allowing the cell to adapt to its environment. Now scale this up. Across ~37 trillion cells, each containing millions of ribosomes and hundreds to thousands of mitochondria, your body is constantly producing energy in the form of ATP. Total ATP turnover is enormous—roughly equivalent to your body weight in ATP recycled every day. The DNA in a single human cell, if stretched out, measures about 2 meters. Across all your cells, this would span distances comparable to traveling from Earth to the Sun and back many times (the exact multiple depends on assumptions about cell count and DNA packing). None of these processes are under conscious control. They began when you were a single cell and have continued uninterrupted ever since."
62K likes, 2,387 comments - scienceoftheuniverse on May 2, 2026: "This is a single human cell. The white filament-like structures are microtubules, and the small colored particles are ribosomes. Your body contains on the order of ~37 trillion cells. Each cell functions like a highly organized, self-regulating factory operating continuously. There is no central “supervisor”—yet thousands of processes run in parallel with remarkable coordination. Every ribosome is constantly building prot…

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While I’m wary of linking to posts with alt-less images (in figures for some reason?), I give it kudos for trying to show patterns to use instead of disabling fields:
https://zeroheight.com/blog/rethinking-the-disabled-norm/
But ignore ideas 1–3.
(…

Rethinking the "disabled norm": 7 patterns to use instead in your design system - zeroheight
Chela Giraldo explains how disabled states harm accessibility and what to do instead to build clearer, more inclusive user interfaces.

The paper trail linking a US fuel trader to a notorious Mexican cartel | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-paper-trail-linking-us-fuel-trader-notorious-mexican-cartel-2026-05-29/

Not directly linking, but I just saw a Reddit post where someone shared their AI-written command line for speeding up file transmission, and it contains
| zstd -T0 -c | zstd -d -c |
and yeah, I *hope* an AI suggested that.

Insider trading steering military decisions and politicians betting on their own campaigns. Prediction markets could be the most dangerous new technology since ChatGPT—especially for this administration. My new Substack at https://jonippolito.substack.com

Neue Aktion der #Sozialheldinnen: Mach vom 20. Juli bis 20. August beim #WheelmapSummer mit, trage Infos in die #Wheelmap ein und hilf Rollstuhlnutzenden dabei, neue Sommerlieblingsorte …

Linking habitats strengthens wildlife microbiomes, helps fight disease: Study https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/linking-habitats-strengthens-wildlife-microbiomes-helps-fight-disease-study/

Linking habitats strengthens wildlife microbiomes, helps fight disease: Study
A new study has found that when deforestation and land use change break up key habitats vital to amphibian life cycles, those disconnects can play havoc with the animals’ microbiome, leaving them more susceptible to disease. This troubling finding could also apply to a host of other species, the study researchers say, but may also […]

Linking data with the help of AI.
There are old medical PhD theses coming online (yea!).
Found Wikipedia articles about the doctors, and then edit the wikipedia articles that would be improved by pointing to them. Also added a review to the Internet Archive items to point to the wikipedia.

House Republicans on Wednesday made another attempt to answer Donald Trump’s demand for new restrictions on voting nationwide
by linking the measure to an unrelated spending bill and passing both largely along party lines.
The effort was the latest attempt by congressional Republicans to pass the Save America Act,
which would ban mail-in ballots and impose new identification requirements on voters when they register and cast ballots.
While the Trump administration ha…

House Republicans resurrect Save America Act by adding it to spending bill
Effort is latest attempt to pass bill that seeks to ban mail-in ballots and imposes voter identification requirements

Instagram has been running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, with terms like "rape video" and "child video" and linking to Telegram channels (Divya Arya/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgm4e0316zo

India: Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material, BBC finds
The ads use terms including “rape” and “child video” and link to content on the messaging app Telegram.

Good to see the #DownsLink was partially funded by our European friends! Benefits lost after #Brexit The #DownsLink is a disused rail route linking

Done with WIRED, they had quite a few “griff ins Klo”* lately but the latest article about Long Covid being just imaginary is literally directly dangerous to people.
I’m not linking to it, please do not link to it in replies. I do not want to reward this shit with traffic.
*German for “grabbing something out of the toilet”

ESPN suggests Cowboys as fit for $8.3M Dolphins All-Pro https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/06/20/cowboys-named-trade-candidate-for-dolphins-lb-jordyn-brooks-by-espn/906…

Sidewall effects on the onset of interfacial Holmboe waves in stratified exchange flows at high Schmidt number
Guilherme Siqueira de Aquino, Metten M. de Lange, Adrien Lefauve, Matias Duran-Matute
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19565 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19565 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19565
arXiv:2607.19565v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Predicting the onset of interfacial instabilities is central to understanding turbulent mixing in natural and engineered stratified shear flows. Here, we study the onset of travelling Holmboe waves in confined exchange flows along a slope. Earlier stratified inclined duct experiments have mapped this transition, and stability analyses based on measured or prescribed profiles have explained their emergence. However, a predictive criterion linking forcing, geometry, base flow, and wave onset was still lacking. We closed this gap with a long-duct, sharp-interface asymptotic theory for the three-dimensional laminar exchange flow, including the effects of sidewall friction. The resulting analytical solution naturally identifies a confinement-adjusted Froude number, $Fr^*$, which unifies the effects of forcing and confinement into a single measure of the effective laminar exchange flow. Using this solution to parameterise sidewall drag in a practical width-averaged model, we perform linear stability analyses and numerical simulations at high Schmidt number. Together, linear stability analysis, direct numerical simulations, and existing experiments across a range of duct widths show that wave onset is accurately predicted by an approximately constant critical value of $Fr^*$. Deviations arise only in very narrow ducts, where sidewalls influence instability not only by modifying the laminar exchange flow but also by directly damping perturbations and delaying wave onset. These findings provide a predictive criterion for wave onset, reconcile long-standing discrepancies among experimental configurations, and establish lateral confinement as a fundamental control on the transition from laminar exchange to wave-driven mixing in stratified shear flows.
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And this "Save to Recollect" browser extension makes my replacement of Raindrop complete!
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/save-to-recollect/fbmplkcoeijdokdlidejallnpcmiobjk
I used the importer to bulk add from Ra…

Still very much WIP but I'm linking my Sokoban Fan Game here for anyone who might be interested. Few dozen levels; just a few mechanics. Designed in part to be fun for my then-4-year-old, with varying success. PuzzleScript is great.
#Game #GameDesign #PuzzleScript

Wisconsin Gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong (who ran a small business) had racked up credit card debt and the media is trying to turn it into this huge story but nearly every comment calls her “relatable”, points out she’s not some wealthy person running for office, and says “Yeah, a working class person is in debt. She’s one of us.”
(Not linking to any specific story but it’s all over the news cycle right now.)

Q&A with Saifuddin Ahmed on his study linking short-form news video use to preference for Ronaldo over Messi and what the findings might mean for journalism (Hanaa' Tameez/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/what-sho

By linking up visual and auditory processing in the human brain, The vOICe vision BCI can act as both a fully noninvasive visual prosthesis for the totally blind and as a research vehicle for macroscopic neuroscience https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.

This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers https://www.404media.co/this-company-will-add-phone-airpod-and-smartwatch-trackers-to-license-plate-readers/

Small actions are adding up this week.
Three home energy providers offered 17 GW of virtual power plant capacity to U.S. utilities, cutting costs by linking home batteries.
Kenya launched a national plan to restore mangroves and seagrasses through 2035.
A community forest project in the DRC slowed deforestation while supporting displaced families.
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A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs)
that would capture not only the license plate of passing vehicles, but also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars,
-- potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers.
The technology, called #SignalTrace…

This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

California launches a tool to serve as an "early warning system" for widespread AI-driven job loss, linking AI exposure with unemployment insurance claims (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ravens Land Strong Stefon Diggs Take Amid Raiders Speculation https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ravens-stefon-diggs-take-speculation/

#CDR (carbon dioxide removal) & #HealthEquity suggest CDR such as DAC and BECCS maybe are not the panacea technology advocates assume.
Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution | Nature Climate Change

Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution - Nature Climate Change
The scale of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) could determine the extent of co-emitted air pollutants in net-zero scenarios and potential health impacts. By linking a series of models and datasets, researchers find that low-CDR pathways lead to a more equitable distribution of health benefits across the USA.

#CDR (carbon dioxide removal) & #HealthEquity suggest CDR such as DAC and BECCS maybe are not the panacea technology advocates assume.
Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution | Nature Climate Change

Residual emissions may perpetuate community-scale inequalities in US air pollution - Nature Climate Change
The scale of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) could determine the extent of co-emitted air pollutants in net-zero scenarios and potential health impacts. By linking a series of models and datasets, researchers find that low-CDR pathways lead to a more equitable distribution of health benefits across the USA.

A Russian drone strike damaged part of the Centralized Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facilityin the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone overnight on June 7,
Ukraine's state nuclear operator Energoatom reported.
The attack comes amid growing concerns about nuclear safety in Ukraine,
as Russia continues to strike infrastructure tied to the country's energy system and nuclear sector

Ukraine war latest: Chornobyl's spent nuclear fuel depot hit by Russian drone
Editor's note: Got an opinion on anything you've read in the Kyiv Independent so far? Send it to letters@kyivindependent.com, and it may appear in our Letters section. Key developments on June 6-7: * 'Sky-high arrogance' — Russian drone strikes spent nuclear fuel depot in Chornobyl * Zelensky confirms another drone strike on St. Petersburg Oblast ahead of Putin's economic forum finale * Bridge linking Crimea to southern Ukraine damaged in drone strike, Russian occupation official says *…

A geometry aware framework enhances noninvasive mapping of whole human brain dynamics
Song Wang, Kexin Lou, Chen Wei, Zhiyuan Sheng, Jiahao Tang, Kaining Peng, Xinke Shen, Shuhao Mei, Liang Chen, Dongfeng Gu, Quanying Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25592 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.25592 https://arxiv.org/html/2604.25592
arXiv:2604.25592v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Non-invasive electrophysiology lacks methods that accurately reconstruct whole-brain spatiotemporal dynamics while incorporating individual cortical geometry, leaving current electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography source imaging limited by simplistic or biologically implausible priors. Here, we show that embedding participant-specific Geometric Basis Functions (GBFs), eigenmodes derived from each individual's cortical surface, provides a powerful anatomic constraint that resolves the inverse problem and improves reconstruction fidelity. The method reconstructs neural sources as linear combinations of geometric basis functions, thereby aligning source estimates with the geometric organization of neural dynamics. We validate GBF across the Meta-Source Benchmark, task-evoked data, resting-state networks, intracranial stimulation, and epilepsy data. The results demonstrate that GBF yields high localization accuracy and captures fast spatiotemporal dynamics consistent with anatomical pathways. These findings suggest that both spontaneous and evoked whole-brain activity can be described by hundreds of geometric modes, providing a compact yet accurate representation of neural sources. By linking cortical geometry to electrophysiological dynamics, GBF offers a versatile source imaging tool for both scientific and clinical applications.
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Lagged sea-surface-temperature precursors of the leading PM2.5 mode in China
Yuan Chen, Dan Zhao, Xu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.25436 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.25436 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.25436
arXiv:2605.25436v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Fine particulate matter(PM2.5) pollution in China is strongly modulated bymeteorological variability, yet its seasonal predictability from oceanic signals remains unclear. Here we identify the leading PM2.5 variability mode over China and show that it is preceded by coherent sea-surface-temperature anomaly clusters by more than one season. These oceanic precursors influence summer PM2.5 mainly by altering precipitation and lowlevel ventilation, and winter PM2.5 by modulating boundary-layer height and near-surface stagnation. Using the four largest precursor regions, a simple regression model achieves significant independent prediction skill for both summer and winter PM2.5 variability. Our results reveal a physical pathway linking sea-surface-temperature memory to regional aerosol pollution and provide a basis for seasonal air-quality risk assessment.
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