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