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(YouTube) From blindness to cyber brilliance, from "seeing with sound" to securing cyberspace, the journey of Pranav Lal, congenitally blind user of The vOICe vision BCI in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWlVKDpZ6hU

Populous the Beginning: completed!
Level 24, Journey's End, feels like a culmination of all the stages so far. You start on a small area of land, with established Green enemies to the North and Yellow wrapping around the world to the East and West. All other tribes are well established, and very soon after starting the level the Greens cast a land bridge to start attacking.

WoMAP: World Models For Embodied Open-Vocabulary Object Localization
Tenny Yin, Zhiting Mei, Tao Sun, Lihan Zha, Emily Zhou, Jeremy Bao, Miyu Yamane, Ola Shorinwa, Anirudha Majumdar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01600

WoMAP: World Models For Embodied Open-Vocabulary Object Localization
Language-instructed active object localization is a critical challenge for robots, requiring efficient exploration of partially observable environments. However, state-of-the-art approaches either struggle to generalize beyond demonstration datasets (e.g., imitation learning methods) or fail to generate physically grounded actions (e.g., VLMs). To address these limitations, we introduce WoMAP (World Models for Active Perception): a recipe for training open-vocabulary object localization policie…

"De drie grote netbeheerders en de drie grote energiebedrijven"
Grappig, ik meen me te herinneren dat al aardig wat 'nieuwkomers' al jaren vragen om een opener markt voor flex. Dit ruikt toch weer meer naar voortzetting van oude structuren met de consument als afnemer.

from my link log —
The database row that did and didn't exist according to Django.
http://mistys-internet.website/blog/blog/2025/05/13/the-database-row-that-did-and-didnt-exist
saved 2025-05-14

Behold :) My new #cybersecurity talk is ready and you can see it in the best events around you.
Title: The archetypes of the attackers.
Summary: This talk will lead you on a journey to discover the archetypes of attackers, the tools they use, their motivations for targeting what you've built, and how a geopolitical shift can alter their interest in your resources.

Bogomil Shopov - Бого's Speaker Profile
Human. Artist. Hacker. I care about free and open-source software(F/LOSS), cybersecurity, ethical design, privacy, and technology. 20+ experience in t...

the 5th annual bobsday soiree on @…, feat. dylan from every decade 1950s-2020s, from the earliest tapes to the most recent, plus reed, garcia, young, verlaine, welch/rawlings, wood/richards, alvarius b, tina turner, david lynch, the wilburys, burritos, chipmunks, & oodles more.

TONIGHT: Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes discusses The Power of Editorial Cartoonists for Democracy!
Ann Telnaes resigned from WaPo when this cartoon was rejected.
She wrote, “...My job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that critical job.”
Sign up here: #FreePress #Democracy #Media

In a week when the Canadian federal government strongly condemned Israel withholding aid and called human suffering in Gaza "intolerable".
City councillor Shelley Caroll of Don Valley North decided that it was the right week to publicly show her support to.. Walk with Israel. She thinks Israel is the country to support and must walk to support)
(Also present, Mike Colle, Brad Bradford, Rachel Chernos Lin, James Pasternak)

Ann Telnaes resigned from the Washington Post after her cartoon was rejected by editors. She said, “I will not stop holding truth to power through my cartooning, because as they say, 'Democracy dies in darkness.'"
Join us May 29th at 8pm ET via Zoom for a conversation.
Sign up: #Cartoonist #Press #FreeSpeech