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@ingo@social.stuetzle.cc
2025-05-19 18:37:48

Trump cuts to foreign aid leave food destined for desperate millions rotting in storage. »The dismantling of USAID and cuts to humanitarian aid has been devastating and unacceptable,« said one international aid group. commondreams.org/news/trump-us

Trump Cuts to Foreign Aid Leave Food Destined for Desperate Millions Rotting in Storage | Common Dreams
Millions of lives hang in the balance as $98 million worth of food aid sits unused in warehouses, set to expire. Children are starving in Gaza, Sudan, and beyond. The dismantling of USAID is a tragedy of epic proportions.

@ruari@velocipederider.com
2025-06-20 08:36:59

Since I did not get to take part in the Oslo Enhjulssykkelrunde (Unicycle Tour of Oslo) this year (I was busy with the kids), I decided to do my own little varient of it as part of my commute on the way into work today.
Distance 23.91km [14.86 miles], moving time 1h36m, 175m [574ft] elevation gain, average speed 14.9km/h [9.3mph]
FWIW, I actually only live about 5km [3.1 miles] from my office 🤷 😆

A map of Oslo with a route traced around the outside of it in the colours of the pride flag
A red 29 inch wheeled unicycle in front of the Monolith scuplture (Monolitten). A 17 metre high carved stone column made up of naked human bodies of various ages and genders that is part of Frogner Park in Oslo
A hand holding a raspberry smoothie ice cream. In the background you can just make out a unicycle
@hikingdude@mastodon.social
2025-06-19 10:45:07

Quick snap from a smaller #cycling loop today. Now relaxing and recovering for the mountain tomorrow.
#benediktbeuern #KochelAmSee

A scenic view of a road leading to a vast field is depicted in the image. The road is surrounded by lush green grass and tall trees, with a clear blue sky and fluffy white clouds overhead. In the distance, a majestic mountain can be seen, adding to the picturesque landscape. The image captures the beauty of nature in a rural area, with a peaceful and serene atmosphere. The dominant colors in the image are black and a vibrant green accent color. The presence of a tree in the foreground adds dept…
@arXiv_csSD_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-19 08:35:33

An accurate and revised version of optical character recognition-based speech synthesis using LabVIEW
Prateek Mehta, Anasuya Patil
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15029

An accurate and revised version of optical character recognition-based speech synthesis using LabVIEW
Knowledge extraction through sound is a distinctive property. Visually impaired individuals often rely solely on Braille books and audio recordings provided by NGOs. Due to limitations in these approaches, blind individuals often cannot access books of their choice. Speech is a more effective mode of communication than text for blind and visually impaired persons, as they can easily respond to sounds. This paper presents the development of an accurate, reliable, cost-effective, and user-friendl…

@arXiv_mathOC_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-19 09:07:17

On {\lambda}-Cent-Dians and Generalized-Center for Network Design: Formulations and Algorithms
V\'ictor Bucarey, Natividad Gonz\'alez-Blanco, Martine Labb\'e, Juan A. Mesa
arxiv.org/abs/2506.14839

On λ-Cent-Dians and Generalized-Center for Network Design: Formulations and Algorithms
In this paper, we study the $λ$-centdian problem in the domain of Network Design. The focus is on designing a sub-network within a given underlying network while adhering to a budget constraint. This sub-network is intended to efficiently serve a collection of origin/destination demand pairs. We extend the work presented in \cite{bucarey2024on}, providing an algorithmic perspective on the generalized $λ$-centdian problem. In particular, we provide a mathematical formulation for $λ\geq 0$ and…

@deabigt@universeodon.com
2025-04-17 12:53:19

Scientists Detect Strongest Evidence Yet of Potential Life on Exoplanet K2-18 b ground.news/article/webb-teles

@carlos@social.perceptiveconstructs.com
2025-06-18 13:32:19
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I'm fortunate to have the option of exercising outdoors, including in an outdoors gym within walking distance of where I live - there are plenty in Finland, and they are an excellent use of taxpayers money - so I mostly exercise off-hours maskless when nobody is around.

However I have exerted considerable physical effo…
@carlos@perceptiveconstructs.com
2025-06-18 13:32:19
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I'm fortunate to have the option of exercising outdoors, including in an outdoors gym within walking distance of where I live - there are plenty in Finland, and they are an excellent use of taxpayers money - so I mostly exercise off-hours maskless when nobody is around.

However I have exerted considerable physical effo…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social
2025-05-16 10:45:55

To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)

@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-19 10:03:22

A Kinematic Constraint on Pedestrian Walking: Power-law Scaling between Critical Angular Velocity and Speed
Jinghui Wang, Wei Lv, Chao Li, Yufei Li
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15321

A Kinematic Constraint on Pedestrian Walking: Power-law Scaling between Critical Angular Velocity and Speed
This paper presents a statistical analysis of speed and angular velocity obtained from pedestrian experiments across nine distinct datasets. Experimental scenarios included crossing motion, unidirectional/bidirectional flows, bidirectional/four-directional crossing flows, pedestrian-vehicle interactions, unidirectional flow in a circular corridor, and circle antipode configurations. We applied filtering methods to reduce noise and analyzed the data at different sampling frequencies. The results…