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xAI has been granted a permit to operate 15 gas turbines at its Memphis campus until 2027, despite protests and a potential NAACP lawsuit over air pollution (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/xai-data-center-air-pollution-permit/

Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI
xAI’s gas turbines get official approval from Memphis, Tennessee, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.

🖲️ This novel 3D printer kinematic system uses a mouse sensor for closed-loop control
https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/08/12/this-novel-3d-printer-kinematic-system-uses-a-mouse-sensor-for-closed-loop-control/

This novel 3D printer kinematic system uses a mouse sensor for closed-loop control | Arduino Blog
Robert Murray-Smith wants to experiment with a novel 3D printer kinematic system that drives a round bed through a friction interface — essentially a polar 3D printer, but without the backlash associated with gears. However, friction drives have a tendency to slip and so he will need closed-loop control of the system and that will […]

Pair of Ancient Megalithic Tombs Identified That Date Back to ‘Polish Pyramid’ Builders https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/pair-of-ancient-megalithic-tombs-identified-that-date-back-to-polish-pyramid-builders/

Pair of Ancient Megalithic Tombs Identified That Date Back to 'Polish Pyramid' Builders
Attributed to a culture known as the Funnel Breakers, the pyramids were constructed of megalithic stones in elongated triangular shapes.

FedCVD : Communication-Efficient Federated Learning for Cardiovascular Risk Prediction with Parametric and Non-Parametric Model Optimization
Abdelrhman Gaber, Hassan Abd-Eltawab, John Elgallab, Youssif Abuzied, Dineo Mpanya, Turgay Celik, Swarun Kumar, Tamer ElBatt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22963…

FedCVD++: Communication-Efficient Federated Learning for Cardiovascular Risk Prediction with Parametric and Non-Parametric Model Optimization
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) cause over 17 million deaths annually worldwide, highlighting the urgent need for privacy-preserving predictive systems. We introduce FedCVD++, an enhanced federated learning (FL) framework that integrates both parametric models (logistic regression, SVM, neural networks) and non-parametric models (Random Forest, XGBoost) for coronary heart disease risk prediction. To address key FL challenges, we propose: (1) tree-subset sampling that reduces Random Forest communi…

Addiction (Speculatve)
Kind of a fucked-up metaphor, but I was thinking yesterday that parenting is a lot like addiction. If you separate me from my child, I'll take completely irrational and desperate actions to get them back, driven by a deep instinct that goes well beyond "love." I'll also make self-disadvantageous long-term decisions like forgoing sleep, working an extra job, or quitting a job to do some combination of providing for and/or being present with my child.
Even in parenting situations where love is absent, and beyond, I think, the possessiveness that sometimes festers in those situations, there's often (although not always) a craving for simple presence of the child.
In a healthy relationship, there's a whole lot more than this, but it's interesting to me that the same obsessive craving and absolute priority that we think of as diseased and/or monstrous in someone addicted to a hard drug can be healthy in the right context (that is, when it doesn't contribute to abusive or twisted parental relationships but instead exists alongside a healthy amount of love and respect).
Makes me wonder if there are ways to have a truly healthy drug addiction, although I recognize the answer might well be "no" and that even if it's "technically/theoretically yes" it might still be harmful to hype up or even merely discuss that possibility since it might help addicted people in harmful addictions more easily justify inaction. At minimum I think any "yes" answer here involves assuming utopian-level differences from our current society.
#Parenting #Addiction

this *sounds* like SFMTA agreed to painting full 20-foot red curbs at every intersection, rather than the mere 10 feet at stop-controlled intersections that has been traffic engineer Ricardo Olea's policy. if so, good! parent organizing worked!
https://www.k…

SFMTA Coming Up Short on Daylighting SF’s Red Curbs, Parents Say
San Francisco’s transit agency says it will change its daylighting policy to ensure compliance with a California traffic safety law intended to protect pedestrians and cyclists.

Sectional Kolmogorov N-widths for parameter-dependent function spaces: A general framework with application to parametrized Friedrichs' systems
Christian Engwer, Mario Ohlberger, Lukas Renelt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00678

Sectional Kolmogorov N-widths for parameter-dependent function spaces: A general framework with application to parametrized Friedrichs' systems
We investigate parametrized variational problems where for each parameter the solution may originate from a different parameter-dependent function space. Our main motivation is the theory of Friedrichs' systems, a large abstract class of linear PDE-problems whose solutions are sought in operator- (and thus parameter-)dependent graph spaces. Other applications include function spaces on parametrized domains or discretizations involving data-dependent stabilizers. Concerning the set of all parame…

« Guy Parmelin ne souhaite pas dévoiler la stratégie du Conseil fédéral. »
Eh ben, c’est probablement parce qu’il n’y en a pas.
https://www.rts.ch/info/economie/2025/article/suisse-usa-parmelin-promet…

Fascism in the USA:
Oklahoma Set to Teach Trump’s Election Lies in Public Schools as Parents and Teachers Push Back
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/oklahoma-set-to-teach-trumps-election-lies-in-public-schools-as-parents-and-teachers-push-back/

Rapid7 finds eight vulnerabilities, including one remotely-exploitable flaw that cannot be fixed via firmware patch, affecting 689 models of Brother printers (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/694877/brother-printer…

Hundreds of Brother printer models have an unpatchable security flaw
Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds of Brother printer models that could allow attackers to remotely access the device.