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Remembering dear Roman Verostko, who died this month two years ago, aged 94. An highly influential figure, not just for algorithmic art in general, but also for younger me personally, after meeting him during a panel discussion at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and then corresponding for several years after...
Living as a monk and ordained priest in the 1950/60s, he absolutely cherished his limited computer time which he had first access to as student. The more he learned a…

#GegendasVergessen
Zeitzeuge Albrecht Weinberg (101) ist tot.
https://www.ndr.de/kultur/holocaust-ueberlebender-albrecht-weinberg-ist-t…

Im Alter von 101 Jahren: Holocaust-Überlebender Albrecht Weinberg ist tot
Der Holocaust-Überlebende Albrecht Weinberg ist tot. Der Ehrenbürger der Stadt Leer starb im Alter von 101 Jahren. Weinberg hatte bis zuletzt in Schulen als Zeitzeuge über die Nazi-Herrschaft aufgeklärt.

Why are conservative parties not only always deeply corrupt and often doing illegal things... but also traitorous?
The UCP, "Centurion Project" and "Republican Party of Alberta" are all so tainted with this scandal that Jason Kenney... yes Jason Kenney... is playing the victim.
I feel bad for Albertans, but they've also brought a lot of it on themselves by voting these bozos in time and time again.
#ABpoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/elections-alberta-voter-data-centurion-project-ndp-ucp-9.7189167

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Alex Albrecht:
🎵 Hiriketiya
#AlexAlbrecht
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://open.spotify.com/track/2UzKsMn3a45Lv0VFCtt0Fp

Just finished "The Bodyguard Unit" written by Clément Xavier, illustrated by Lisa Lugrin, with colors by Albertine Ralenti and translated from French to English by Edward Gauvin. An excellent and fascinating history of Edith Garrud, a Jiu-Jutsu instructor who helped train suffragettes in Britain to fight the police, and who fought alongside them at speeches and political rallies. It also of course has a lot of details of the suffragette movement, many of which I theoretically knew but never actually thought about, and others which I was totally unaware of, especially the degree of violence and the connections to other radical movements of the time.
An excellent graphic novel, both educational and funny.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon

A surveillance company plans to add sensors to automatic license plate readers (ALPRs)
that would capture not only the license plate of passing vehicles, but also sweep up unique identifiers of mobile phones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-enabled devices in those cars,
-- potentially letting law enforcement identify specific drivers or passengers.
The technology, called #SignalTrace…

This Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to License Plate Readers
SignalTrace “links devices that regularly travel together, correlating them to license plate.” It is a surveillance product that will sweep up and add all sorts of Bluetooth and other data to license plate readers, linking specific devices—and people—to cars.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/116536167177925113
Russia and the US are doing this because they want to get at Alberta's oil.
Switching to renewables isn't only about combating climate change - it's also about getting rid…

Karen Tei Yamashita has a new novel out!!! I’m constantly recommending I Hotel. Also this book by Julia Alvarez sounded up my alley

»Als der Zunftzwang fiel und die vielgepriesene Gewerbefreiheit kam, was hatte dann diese zu geben? Wo Gesetze aufhören zu sein, drängt sich die Unordnung an ihre Stelle, die bis zur Verwilderung ausarten kann. Ich fürchte, dass man schliesslich noch dazu kommt, den Buchrücken weg zu schneiden und zu verleimen, was auch schon ernstlich vorgeschlagen worden ist.«
Aus: Alfred Furler – Der Buchbinder (1989). Das Zitat wird darin Emanuel Steiner zugeschrieben und müsste von ca. 1900 sein.

Maximum Coverage Chase Decoder for Optical Interconnects
Alessandro Cardinale, Wenqing Song, Bin Chen, Alex Alvarado, Andreas Burg, Yifei Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11401 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11401 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11401
arXiv:2606.11401v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We propose a low-complexity Chase decoder for optical interconnects that formulates test pattern selection as a generalized maximum coverage problem. For concatenated RS-BCH and oFEC codes, our decoder achieves the standard Chase decoding performance with 25% and 61.3% fewer test patterns, respectively.
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