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"who's afraid of the neo wook?" enjoyed (& occasionally raised my eyebrows at) rave new world's field report on "a new strain of psychedelic raver" https://ravenewworld.substack.com/p/whos-afraid-of-the-neo-wook

WHO'S AFRAID OF THE NEO-WOOK?
At Osmosis festival deep in Oregon weed country, a new strain of psychedelic raver emerges

🅿️ Denver study shows removing parking requirements results in more affordable housing being built
https://theconversation.com/denver-study-shows-removing-parking-requirements-results-in-more-affordable-housin…

Denver study shows removing parking requirements results in more affordable housing being built
Structured parking can cost as much as $50,000 per space, making housing more expensive to build and for those living there.

This guy made a Synthetic Aperture Radar (i.e. a radar that gives you camera-like pictures) mounted on a drone. Scroll to the bottom for actual sample pictures and a movie. Lots of tech detail and open-source designs and software.
https://hforsten.com/synthetic-apertur

Also some good museums..

• The Maritime Museum (aka "our friend, the offshore oil platform").
• Provost Skene's house with a remarkable secret Catholic ceiling
• The Aberdeen Art Gallery which has an interesting and unusual collection, particularly of glass and ceramics

Affordance-R1: Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Affordance Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Model
Hanqing Wang, Shaoyang Wang, Yiming Zhong, Zemin Yang, Jiamin Wang, Zhiqing Cui, Jiahao Yuan, Yifan Han, Mingyu Liu, Yuexin Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06206

Affordance-R1: Reinforcement Learning for Generalizable Affordance Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Model
Affordance grounding focuses on predicting the specific regions of objects that are associated with the actions to be performed by robots. It plays a vital role in the fields of human-robot interaction, human-object interaction, embodied manipulation, and embodied perception. Existing models often neglect the affordance shared among different objects because they lack the Chain-of-Thought(CoT) reasoning abilities, limiting their out-of-domain (OOD) generalization and explicit reasoning capabili…

New open model: Apertus
https://www.swiss-ai.org/apertus
Tech report here:
https://github.c…

Apertus | Swiss AI

Mit Vodafone geht es wieder etwas aufwärts
Nach Verlust von 4 Millionen Fernsehkunden und sechs Quartalen Umsatzrückgang hat Vodafone Deutschland erstmals wieder ein Umsatzplus erzielt.
https://www.

Attorney General's Office Sues Investment Firm for Obstructing Access to Stable, Affordable Housing for Over 70 Manufactured Housing Units in Taunton | Mass.gov
https://www.mass.gov/news/attorney-generals-office-sues-investment-firm-for-obstructing-access-to-stable-affordable-housing-for-over-70-manufactured-housing-units-in-taunton

The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/politics/epa-abortion-wastewater.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p156#a251010p156