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Refugees from travel ban countries must be allowed to enter US, Seattle judge rules • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/14/refugees-from-travel-ban-countries-must-be-allowed-to-enter-us-seattle-judge-rules/

He'll keep it up until Americans won't be allowed to travel.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-weighs-adding-36-countries-travel-ban-memo-says-2025-06-15/

I’m a recovering frequent flier, and today I’m at the airport to take my first travel-for-work flight in TWO YEARS … after 3 days in my new role. Travel is a craft and I feel like I’ve lost a lot of skills!

Some non-citizen journalists working in the US are self-censoring, wiping their social media accounts, canceling travel plans, and more, fearing deportation (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/…

Foreign journalists in the U.S. are self-censoring to protect themselves from the Trump administration - Poynter
Non-citizen journalists working in the U.S. report wiping their social media accounts, canceling travel plans and pulling bylines.

On Website Technicals (2020-12) - Tech updates: vignette ads, year-end to-dos, Big Sur and FTDI, half traffic, time travel, 20/20. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-43.html

On Website Technicals (2020-12)
Tech updates: vignette ads, year-end to-dos, Big Sur and FTDI, half traffic, time travel, 20/20.

Somerset County NJ has ordered a State of Emergency and Shelter in Place for everyone due to Flash Flooding.
#nj #flood #FlashFlood

All Somerset County residents and businesses are the SHELTER IN PLACE. No one is to travel. Roads ... from Somerset County Public Safety : Nixle
All Somerset County residents and businesses are the SHELTER IN PLACE. No one is to travel. Roads are flooded and conditions are extremely. An emergency has been declared and request all residents ...

Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban list (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/14/trump-travel-ban-expansion/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p68#a250614p68

Reminder: do not travel to the US if it's not necessary.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/15/irish-tourist-ice-detention

'Know-Your-Customer' means 'Guarantee me a way to silence or destroy my political opponents'
"The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost his email, and his bank accounts were frozen. American staffers told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest."
https://

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. He has lost access to his email and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at The Hague-based court also have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. In addition, some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC. Rights groups say these problems will prevent victims of war crimes from getting justice.

Flash flooding hits NYC and New Jersey declares state of emergency as storms soak Northeast | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-storms-floods-travel-chaos-b2789005.html

Went to see Soccer Mommy, as US-based indie musician, in Castlemaine last night because I couldn’t get to her Melbourne show. Wow, what a great concert and venue - the Theatre Royal, Castlemaine. Instead of peering over the heads of 500 people, I saw her with maybe 100 others, and with fantastic acoustics. Totally worth the extra effort to travel 90 minutes out of the big city. #livemusic

It’s sad it’s come to having to offer this as travel advice, but if you need to fly to the US and are apprehensive, pre clearance through at the US borders in Irish airports is a great idea. You arrive at a domestic terminal.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/06/06/a-us-border-dub…

There's a US border at Dublin airport — here's why
Donald Trump's travel ban is stoking fears but did you know there's a US border where you can clear immigration on Irish soil?

'Active travel' study identifies pathways for designing walking- and cycling-friendly cities #city

'Active travel' study identifies pathways for designing walking- and cycling-friendly cities
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals the transformative potential of walking- and cycling-friendly policies in cities around the world. Conducted by researchers from UCLA and Google, the study analyzed travel data from more than 11,500 cities across 121 countries, making it the most comprehensive global assessment to date of active transportation, or the potential for walking or biking.

Superluminal Quantum Reference Frames
Amrapali Sen, Matthias Salzger, {\L}ukasz Rudnicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11787 https://arx…

Superluminal Quantum Reference Frames
While particles cannot travel faster than the speed of light, nor can information, this assumption has over the years been frequently questioned. Most recently, it has been argued [New J. Phys. 22, 033038 (2020)] that in a world with superluminal observers local determinism is impossible, linking the two pillars of physics-quantum theory and relativity-suggesting that the latter serves as the foundation for the former. Motivated by this approach, in this work, we extend the framework of quantum…

Vaccinated Time Travel:
To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only
with proper vaccinations.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"

Urban Composition V 🫟
都市构图 V 🫟
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

Hertz and other car rental agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and AI to flag even tiny blemishes, angering some customers (Gabe Castro-Root/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/travel/rental-car-ai-scann…

Hertz and Other Rental Car Agencies Turn to AI for Damage Detection
Hertz and other agencies are increasingly relying on scanners that use high-res imaging and A.I. to flag even tiny blemishes, and customers aren’t happy.

Intelligent Travel Activity Monitoring: Generalized Distributed Acoustic Sensing Approaches
Ruikang Zhong, Chia-Yen Chiang, Mona Jaber, Rupert De Wilde, Peter Hayward
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10237

Intelligent Travel Activity Monitoring: Generalized Distributed Acoustic Sensing Approaches
Obtaining data on active travel activities such as walking, jogging, and cycling is important for refining sustainable transportation systems (STS). Effectively monitoring these activities not only requires sensing solutions to have a joint feature of being accurate, economical, and privacy-preserving, but also enough generalizability to adapt to different climate environments and deployment conditions. In order to provide a generalized sensing solution, a deep learning (DL)-enhanced distribute…

Don’t travel to the US, it’s already a fascist state. ICE raids, LA sweeps, and Florida cops brutalize people every day.
This isn’t a future threat, it’s the present reality, authoritarian power is everywhere, backed by a fascist king.
Read more here: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/…

Approximate solutions to games of ordered preference
Pau de las Heras Molins, Eric Roy-Almonacid, Dong Ho Lee, Lasse Peters, David Fridovich-Keil, Georgios Bakirtzis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11021

Approximate solutions to games of ordered preference
Autonomous vehicles must balance ranked objectives, such as minimizing travel time, ensuring safety, and coordinating with traffic. Games of ordered preference effectively model these interactions but become computationally intractable as the time horizon, number of players, or number of preference levels increase. While receding horizon frameworks mitigate long-horizon intractability by solving sequential shorter games, often warm-started, they do not resolve the complexity growth inherent in …

Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening to ban travel from several countries, citing security risks.
The ban will fully restrict entry of nationals from 12 countries:
Afghanistan; Myanmar, also known as Burma; Chad; Republic of the Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Haiti; Iran; Libya; Somalia; Sudan; and Yemen.
People from seven countries will have partial restriction:
Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
The proclamation i…

Trump signs proclamation to ban travel from 12 countries
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening to ban travel from several countries to the US, citing security risks.

The Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference addresses travel concerns
https://www.2600.com/content/hope-conference-addresses-travel-concerns

Researchers are using plants to detect and destroy dangerous 'forever chemicals' like PFAS, with promising results despite setbacks. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

How plants could help us detect, and even destroy, dangerous ‘forever chemicals'
Tools to address PFAS pollution are limited. Here's what researchers are learning about how these chemicals travel through the environment — and what farmers and landowners can do about it.

Under Randy Clarke, WMATA has cut the end-to-end travel time on the Metro Red Line by 8 minutes. This is a 68 minute trip, so it's a gain in efficiency of over 10% on top of faster trips for riders.
This is a combination of automated train operation (with doors closing sooner), raising the speed limit back to the original design of 75 mph, and I imagine other fixes.

WMATA | Metro to launch Automatic Train Operation on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines on June 15
Metro news and service information for the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

yippie im forced to travel a lot with my parents while this whole area is under a severe flash flood do-not-travel warning

An incomplete list of people excluded from 'international' conferences that are in-person only and aren't streamed or recorded
- People with caring responsibilities
- People with disabilities
- People with health vulnerabilities
- People who don't fly in recognition of climate emergencies
- People who work for orgs with ethical no-fly policies
- People who have their travel disrupted due to climate chaos
- People who only engage with fully o…

What would be the travel time, New York to Paris, at Mach 9?
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More #insects from that crowded common #hogweed (I think) in the German #Sauerland. IDing all the bugs will take time (and a larger screen, am on travel with just a cellphone).

#CNN: Man convicted of fraud for posing as flight attendant to fly for free
At first, I wondered why they'd give free flights to a man who was convicted of defrauding airlines.🤦‍♂️
#headlines #confusing

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Vodafone baut eSIM-Angebot für Reisende aus
Der Mobilfunker geht unter die Travel-SIM-Dealer und verkauft auf seiner neuen Plattform Datenvolumen für über 200 Reiseziele. Ein Vergleich lohnt sich.
https://www.

Noise-Enabled Goal Attainment in Crowded Collectives
Lucy Liu, Justin Werfel, Federico Toschi, L. Mahadevan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08100 https://

Noise-Enabled Goal Attainment in Crowded Collectives
In crowded environments, individuals must navigate around other occupants to reach their destinations. Understanding and controlling traffic flows in these spaces is relevant to coordinating robot swarms and designing infrastructure for dense populations. Here, we combine simulations, theory, and robotic experiments to study how noisy motion can disrupt traffic jams and enable flow as agents travel to individual goals. Above a critical noise level, large jams do not persist. From this observati…

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/05/donald-trump-travel-ban-elon-musk-joe-biden-friedrich-merz-us-politics-live-news-updates

Oha, ev. Überkapazitäten bzw. zu wenig Buchungen? Woran das liegen könnte? Ev. am orangen Genie? Seiner Unsicherheit verbreitenden Politik mit täglich wechselnden Regeln, an die er sich Morgen schon nicht mehr erinnert? Oder seine Amok laufenden ICE-Agenten und andere Repressionen?
#Swiss #USA

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: June 17, 2025 – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
Learn more:

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Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

Wow. Total surprise for me... this game looks amazing... & free to play for Xbox Game Pass!
✅ Clockwork Revolution: inXile on Time Travel, Visual Reactivity, that Foulmouthed Doll, and More — Exclusive Interview - Xbox Wire
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/06/0…

Clockwork Revolution: inXile on Time Travel, Visual Reactivity, that Foulmouthed Doll, and More — Exclusive Interview - Xbox Wire
Clockwork Revolution’s stunning new trailer has a LOT to unwind. In this exclusive interview, inXile developers tell us how they’re crafting a reactive steampunk world, tailor-made for RPG players.

I'm buying this as my next vehicle and ramming my way through American traffic. It's the only safe way to travel now.

“Excursion (same-day) travel to the United States by automobile dropped abruptly at the start of 2025, after holding consistently positive throughout 2024. Same-day returns fell by 40.3% year over year in May 2025”
That is an extremely high amount of change. After September 11, it was in the 30% range.
I miss my cross-border trips, but it’s just a bad risk reward calculation right now. #canada

Ich schlürfe meine Urlaubsaustern ja lieber mit spanischen Omas bei lokaler Blasmusik auf Ausflugsschiffen, aber Maine ist sicher auch nicht schlecht.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/travel/maine-oyster-tr…

Slurping Toward Nirvana on the Maine Oyster Trail
Savoring all things fresh and briny while on a mission to visit all four of Maine’s oyster regions in just one long weekend.

YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-te

YouTube is testing a new feature to help videos travel globally
YouTube is testing a new tool to let creators switch out thumbnails for videos in different languages, helping their content spread globally.

Just in case it wasn't crystal clear before: I will not travel to a country that actively deploys its military force against its own citizens while holding a military parade for its tyrant.

Access graph: a novel graph representation of public transport networks for accessibility analysis
Tina \v{S}filigoj, Aljo\v{s}a Peperko, Oded Cats
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08361

Access graph: a novel graph representation of public transport networks for accessibility analysis
Accessibility, defined as travel impedance between spatially dispersed opportunities for activity, is one of the main determinants of public transport (PT) use. In-depth understanding of its properties is crucial for optimal public transport systems planning and design. Although the concept has been around for decades and there is a large body of literature on accessibility operationalisation and measurement, a unified approach is lacking. To this end, we introduce a novel graph representation …

Can Large Language Models Trigger a Paradigm Shift in Travel Behavior Modeling? Experiences with Modeling Travel Satisfaction
Pengfei Xu, Donggen Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23262

Can Large Language Models Trigger a Paradigm Shift in Travel Behavior Modeling? Experiences with Modeling Travel Satisfaction
As a specific domain of subjective well-being, travel satisfaction has attracted much research attention recently. Previous studies primarily use statistical models and, more recently, machine learning models to explore the determinants of travel satisfaction. Both approaches require data from sufficient sample sizes and correct prior statistical assumptions. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers a new modeling approach that can overcome the shortcomings of the existing methods. …

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

Under Randy Clarke, WMATA has cut the end-to-end travel time on the Metro Red Line by 8 minutes. This is a 68 minute trip, so it's a gain in efficiency of over 10% on top of faster trips for riders.
This is a combination of automated train operation (with doors closing sooner), raising the speed limit back to the original design of 75 mph, and I imagine other fixes.

Yes, finally. Please allow liquids next.
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/08/dhs-end-shoes-travel-policy

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"So often in the study of religion, we rely on published literary materials. This class is really intended to help students—and to help myself—think about the full social, economic, and political life into which what we call religion emerges. Religion is never absent from those very concrete connections.”
—YDS Prof Nasrallah on the travel seminar to Greece and Türkiye for her course

I'm up to 109,977 CSP points, 87,182 United Miles, 30,000 Hyatt Bonus Rewards, and 102,218 Venture X miles. (It's the power of the Welcome Bonus.) By the end of the year, I want to get Hyatt up to 60,000 and then I should be able to cover hotels on the CSP and Hyatt points and cover airfare on the other two for two weeks in Japan. I'm travel-hacking the shit out of my 2026 trip.
#Travel #TravelHacking #CreditCardPoints

HotelMatch-LLM: Joint Multi-Task Training of Small and Large Language Models for Efficient Multimodal Hotel Retrieval
Arian Askari, Emmanouil Stergiadis, Ilya Gusev, Moran Beladev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07296

HotelMatch-LLM: Joint Multi-Task Training of Small and Large Language Models for Efficient Multimodal Hotel Retrieval
We present HotelMatch-LLM, a multimodal dense retrieval model for the travel domain that enables natural language property search, addressing the limitations of traditional travel search engines which require users to start with a destination and editing search parameters. HotelMatch-LLM features three key innovations: (1) Domain-specific multi-task optimization with three novel retrieval, visual, and language modeling objectives; (2) Asymmetrical dense retrieval architecture combining a small …

“Being in the United States is a great risk for anyone -- not just for Venezuelans,”
Diosdado Cabello, the interior minister in Caracas, said after the announcement
“They persecute our countrymen, our people, for no reason.”
https://www.

YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-te

YouTube is testing a new feature to help videos travel globally
YouTube is testing a new tool to let creators switch out thumbnails for videos in different languages, helping their content spread globally.

The value of the free coffee provided by our school for faculty and staff cannot be overstated.
Coffee is LIFE.
https://counterculturecoffee.com/products/fast-forward-12oz-bag
(And coffee time provides regular opportunities to meet and visit with our collea…

Fast Forward

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1946, the Canadian Library Association (CLA) was founded in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1946 and incorporated on November 26, 1947. The CLA represented #Library workers and advocated for funding and improvements. Due to declining membership, it was replaced by the Canadian Federation of Library Associations. Here are 6 of Canada’s most beautiful libraries.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ReadABook
https://travel.destinationcanada.com/en-us/things-to-do/most-beautiful-libraries-canada

Muistutus: Runsas vuorokausi aikaa jäljellä Interrailin 20% alennuskampanjassa. https://www.interrail.eu/en
Esimerkiksi 60 vuotta täyttäneelle 10 matkustuspäivää kahden kuukauden sisällä 1. luokassa 408€. Ei paha. (Suosittelen yleensä 1. luokkaa.)
(Tällä alennuksella ostettua lippua saa alka…

Interrail.eu | 1 rail pass, 33 countries
Travel across Europe and discover 33 countries by train with Interrail. Enjoy the best rail travel experience in Europe with our Interrail Pass!

When You Want To Get High, Go To The Highlands
#travel #inspiration
https://muz4now.c…

When You Want To Get High, Go To The Highlands
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

See the Countries Under Trump's New Travel Ban (Allison McCann/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-travel-ban-map.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p4#a250605p4

So far, our flight to London is off to a great start. After a "delay" boarding, apparently, the plane needs to be swapped. Must have been more broken than they thought they could fix...
#travel

That's not orange spray paint, it's cayenne pepper powder.
Let's see if this will be any deterrent for the trash pandas. It's along one of their main travel routes and if i see them avoiding this path then I'll know it works and can try putting out more.

In the Air - Outside of the Window ✈️ ☁️
在空中 - 窗外 ✈️ ☁️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

Yeah, this is not surprising…
“Airlines and Trump Administration Backpedal on Protections for Travelers With Wheelchairs”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/travel/wheelchair-flights-delta-united-american.html
Archive: …

Airlines Challenge Protections For Travelers With Wheelchairs
A landmark rule to expand the rights of disabled air travelers has been hamstrung by a lawsuit from major airlines and delayed enforcement by the Transportation Department.

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
Yerin Doh, Joonhyung Bae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10013

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
This study introduces the media artwork Dear Passenger, Please Wear a Mask, designed to offer a layered exploration of single-use mask waste, which escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece reframes underappreciated ecological concerns by interweaving digital nostalgia and airline travel recollections of Millennials and Gen Z with a unique fantasy narrative. Via a point-and-click game and an immersive exhibition, participants traverse both virtual and real domains, facing ethical and en…

Walked "all the way" from #Germany to #Austria. 😉
#travel #Füssen #walking #joke

Ich muss sagen, Mapy (https://mapy.com) find ich wirklich eine nette auf OpenStreetMap aufsetzende ~App. Routen planen und finden scheint leicht zu gehen.
Bei Locations (Suche) wird es dann aber schon leider wieder wenig. Wäre cool, wenn einfach alles aus

I will buy a station wagon and travel exclusively by wayback. I will need my mother or father to drive, of course.

We went to see the Lady Buddha today. And also some monkeys. #danang #vietnam #travel https://t.me/marcusphoto/520

A nice article was just published in our Focus Issue on Urban Mobility and Green Transportation in Sustainable Cities:
Active travel modelling: a methodological approach to networks for walking and cycling commuting analysis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.10…

Donald Trump's selective 'travel ban' targets African countries
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/06/07/donald-trump-s-selective-travel-ban-targets-african-countries_6742095_4.html

Kids travel leaks:
"Wir sind schon da, aber die Jungs müssen erstmal ihre Dackelblase entleeren die haben mich hier gelassen mit all ihren Sachen jetzt sehe ich aus wie ein Obdachloser der vor dem Jungs Klo campt"

Hey #FOSS friends! 🚴‍♂️
I just got into biking again as an adult, and I’m loving it!
Now I’m on the hunt for a simple open source app to track how far I ride. Bonus points if it’s on GitHub, if not, at least F-Droid works. If there’s nothing bike-specific, I’m cool with any travel or hiking tracker too.
I use a Pixel 9a with GrapheneOS.
Any recs? Drop ’em here! 🙌

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Six Fabulous Winners of the National Geographic Photography Competition (LOOK) https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/six-fabulous-winners-of-the-national-geographic-photography-competition-look/

Six Fabulous Winners of the National Geographic Photography Competition (LOOK)
The winners of the National Geographic Photography Competition for amateurs and pros alike highlight the best in travel photography.

Origin-Destination Travel Demand Estimation: An Approach That Scales Worldwide, and Its Application to Five Metropolitan Highway Networks
Chao Zhang, Neha Arora, Christopher Bian, Yechen Li, Willa Ng, Andrew Tomkins, Bin Yan, Janny Zhang, Carolina Osorio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00306 …

Origin-Destination Travel Demand Estimation: An Approach That Scales Worldwide, and Its Application to Five Metropolitan Highway Networks
Estimating Origin-Destination (OD) travel demand is vital for effective urban planning and traffic management. Developing universally applicable OD estimation methodologies is significantly challenged by the pervasive scarcity of high-fidelity traffic data and the difficulty in obtaining city-specific prior OD estimates (or seed ODs), which are often prerequisite for traditional approaches. Our proposed method directly estimates OD travel demand by systematically leveraging aggregated, anonymiz…

Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Airbnb Experiences, its push into services, OpenAI, AI agents, making decisions at Airbnb, cutting PMs, Jony Ive, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app
The head of Airbnb on expanding beyond travel, AI and design, and the future of real-world experiences.

'We Don't Want Them': Trump Signs Travel Ban on Citizens From 12 Countries (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p72#a250605p72

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance
Alina Wernick, Alan Medlar, Sofia S\"oderholm, Dorota G{\l}owacka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00218

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance
International air travel is highly surveilled. While surveillance is deemed necessary for law enforcement to prevent and detect terrorism and other serious crimes, even the most accurate algorithmic mass surveillance systems produce high numbers of false positives. Despite the potential impact of false positives on the fundamental rights of millions of passengers, algorithmic travel surveillance is lawful in the EU. However, as the system's processing practices and accuracy are kept secret by l…

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Russia’s transport minister was found dead in what authorities said was an apparent suicide
— news that broke hours after the Kremlin announced he had been dismissed by Putin.
The firing of Roman Starovoit followed a weekend of travel chaos
— airports grounded hundreds of flights due to the threat of drone attacks from Ukraine.
Russian officials did not give a reason for his dismissal.

Trump says the US must send more weapons to Ukraine
President Donald Trump says the U.S. will have to send more weapons to Ukraine, just days after ordering a pause in critical weapons deliveries to Kyiv. The comments from Trump on Monday appear to be an abrupt change in posture. The Pentagon announced last week that it would hold back delivering to Ukraine some air defense missiles, precision-guided artillery and other weapons. U.S. officials said the Defense Department was concerned that its own stockpiles have declined too much. Meanwhile, Ru…

After Boulder attack, Trump to revive Muslim travel ban with targeted changes (Jacob Kornbluh/The Forward)
https://forward.com/fast-forward/725572/boulder-donald-trump-muslim-travel-ban/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p183#a250604p183

Ah. Just when I thought I could travel home through the Baltics for a change. #Interrail

In a letter to staff, CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba is merging its food delivery platform Ele.me and online travel agency Fliggy into its core e-commerce business (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-t…

Alibaba folds delivery app and travel agency into e-commerce group
CEO Eddie Wu said the restructuring ‘marks a strategic upgrade from an e-commerce platform to a comprehensive consumer platform’.

Physical: No shoes, No service
Virtual: No SIM, No service
#travel #technology #comparison

Replaced article(s) found for cs.RO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/new/
[2/2]:
TRAVEL: Training-Free Retrieval and Alignment for Vision-and-Language Navigation

Large-scale LH2 pipeline infrastructure concept for airports
H. A. Krog, Y. Jooss, H. Fyhn, P. Neks{\aa}, I. Hjorth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09410 https:…

Large-scale LH2 pipeline infrastructure concept for airports
Infrastructure and processes for handling of liquid hydrogen (LH2) is needed to enable large-scale decarbonization of aviation with hydrogen aircraft. At large airports, pipeline and hydrant systems will be important for a mature hydrogen-powered air travel market. As the vaporization of LH2 is a challenge in fuel handling, the pipeline infrastructure must be designed and operated such that the fuel is subcooled. Through modelling and simulation of aircraft tanks refuelling by a pipeline infras…

Trash panda update: Didn't set any more boobytraps. Sprinkled cayenne pepper powder along a bunch of their travel routes (but not fully ringing the yard) which didn't seem to do a whole lot. Maybe they just walked around it, or I need to use more? I'll try doing the entire fence line tonight and see if it's more effective if I make sure not to leave any gaps.
I tried the nerf gun for what I think will probably be the last time. Shot at one of them and the cheeky bugger …

Fury and resignation around the world as Trump's travel ban comes roaring back (Astha Rajvanshi/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/fury-resignation-world-trumps-travel-ban-comes-roaring-back-rcna211115
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p68#a250605p68

Jamie Oliver Highlights ‘Important Connection’ Between Tofu And Longevity #nutrition

Jamie Oliver Highlights 'Important Connection' Between Tofu And Longevity
A travel video from Jamie Oliver highlights the “important connection” between high tofu consumption and longevity in Okinawa, Japan

U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles,
saying that Americans should be vaccinated against the virus
-- no matter where they’re going.
U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway.
But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance of vaccination for travelers going to countries with outbreaks.

All international travelers should get measles vaccinations, CDC says
U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles, saying Americans should be vaccinated against the disease no matter where they travel in the world. U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance of vaccination for travelers going to countries with outbreaks. Last week, the CDC updated its guidance to call for vaccinations for travelers goi…

He just started on the job, like 8 weeks ago, and he's already going on vacation? 😖
#vacation #pope

Bowser hit with ethics complaint over travel paid for by Qatar (Brady Knox/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3429846/muriel-bowser-qatar-ethics-complaint-travel-paid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p127#a250603p127

Trump’s justifications for the latest Travel Ban aren’t supported by the Data on Immigration and Terrorism
https://www.juancole.com/2025/06/justifications-supported-immigration.html

At least 104 dead in Texas floods
In Kerr County, at least 84 bodies have been recovered which includes 56 adults and 28 children.
Kerr County Sheriff’s Office said: “At present, 10 Camp Mystic campers and one counselor remain unaccounted for.
“We share our deepest condolences with all affected by this tragedy.”

Trump Bans Citizens of 12 Countries From Traveling to U.S. (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-travel-ban-announced-12-countries-ba0b6b65
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p73#a250605p73

Streaming shows and watching online videos like we have data to waste. 🥺 🤷
#mindless #habits #travel

All international travelers should get measles vaccinations, CDC says (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/measles-international-travel-vaccine-980fdb9fcf8522fed01d23427eba4429
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p139#a250602p139

As the Senate weighs possible changes to the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap as part of the tax portion of the "big, beautiful bill,"
House Republicans from blue states are already threatening to derail the bill's prospects.
"Let's be clear — no SALT, no deal," New York Republican Mike Lawler said Wednesday in a post on X

Trump admin live updates: Trump signs proclamation banning travel from 12 countries
The president cited national security concerns for enacting the ban.

Could Anything Be More Bigoted Than Trump's Travel Bans? (Harold Meyerson/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-23-trumps-bigoted-travel-bans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p57#a250623p57

Trump Travel Restrictions Bar Residents Needed at U.S. Hospitals (Roni Caryn Rabin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/health/medical-residents-travel-ban.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250618/p163#a250618p163

Ken Paxton blocks San Antonio from funding out-of-state abortion travel (David Zimmermann/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3448669/ken-paxton-blocks-san-antonio-funding-out-of-state-abortion-travel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p84#a250620p84