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Punk’s 10 Best Accordion Players: A Tribute to Squeezebox Rockers
(Discuss)
https://dyingscene.com/archive/heroes-of-the-punk-accordion-a-tribute-to-squeezebox-rockers/
This is a few years old so there’s been some lineup chang…

from my link log —
Can we know whether a Java profiler is accurate?
https://stefan-marr.de/2025/10/can-we-know-whether-a-profiler-is-accurate/
saved 2025-10-15

Can We Know Whether a Profiler is Accurate?
Measuring causes profiles to change, so is there a way to work around it and know whether a profile is accurate?

Meta opted out of the MRC's annual auditing program for brand safety in September; it still holds MRC accreditation for metrics including video viewability (Kendra Barnett/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/meta-withdraws-mrc-brand-safety-audits…

Meta Withdraws From MRC Brand Safety Audits, Loses Accreditation Just Months After It Was Issued
The social giant no longer wishes to be audited for brand safety by the media industry’s leading accreditation firm.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Expansions
Akkord:
🎵 Megalith
#Akkord
https://akkord.bandcamp.com/track/megalith
https://open.spotify.com/track/2s5OTRkiwvxVevQcwDTNxU

PitchBook: 15.9% of VC-backed deals in 2025 so far have been down rounds, a 10-year high, with AI and ML startups accounting for 29.3% of the down rounds (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/08/14/startup-down-rounds-are-at…

Startup down rounds are at a 10 year high, according to PitchBook data
PitchBook data revealed that 15.9% of venture-backed deals in 2025 to date have been down rounds, marking a decade high.

Soft Assertions with #AssertJ
https://www.baeldung.com/java-assertj-soft-assertions

Curbs? Due to genocide?
Better than nothing, I guess. But the thing you should really do would be to shut it completely down. @…
https://assortedflotsam.co…

DiffClean: Diffusion-based Makeup Removal for Accurate Age Estimation
Ekta Balkrishna Gavas, Chinmay Hegde, Nasir Memon, Sudipta Banerjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13292

DiffClean: Diffusion-based Makeup Removal for Accurate Age Estimation
Accurate age verification can protect underage users from unauthorized access to online platforms and e-commerce sites that provide age-restricted services. However, accurate age estimation can be confounded by several factors, including facial makeup that can induce changes to alter perceived identity and age to fool both humans and machines. In this work, we propose DiffClean which erases makeup traces using a text-guided diffusion model to defend against makeup attacks. DiffClean improves ag…

Trump's ending of de minimis exemptions (which would apply 35% taxes to shipments from Canada less than $800)
Means I might have to stop shipping #Accordion swag to customers in the US after August 1
Or at least it will get much more expensive/burdensome/complicated
So if you want any

‘No one understands a woman in her 20s like Billy Joel [playing 🪗 in the 1970s]’: gen z finds solace in anti-hustle anthem Vienna
(I missed this story with the great #accordion pic last year)
https://www.