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Raiders HC Pete Carroll Promises Wins: “I Can’t Even Imagine Anything Else” https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/24/raiders-hc-pete-carroll-promises-wins-i-cant-even-imagine-anything-else/

were you ever a directionless young person. did you used to be unable to tell how you felt, or unable to feel, about anything. did you used to lack the capacity to want anything. did you used to never feel fully real. if so, how did you fix it

So @… announced an upgrade for #ActionText with "No #Trix".

Jorge Manrubia
A huge editor upgrade is in the works for Action Text. No Trix, no House, no Tiptap, no ProseMirror. A drop-in replacement that will take rich text editing to the next level in Rails, and lay a foundation far better than anything we ever had with Trix. We will start using it internally in the new product this week. We’ll test, we’ll polish, and we’ll ship. (Yes, I’m shamelessly teasing here. And yes, I am VERY excited about this one)

Fixing links on my article: Nobody Knows Anything
#film

Nobody Knows Anything
be certain of uncertainty in entertainment and film

We do need a European Sovereign Tech Fund, yes.
What we don’t need is Microsoft – a trillion-dollar surveillance capitalist from the US that peddles proprietary technology and is helping Israel carry out its genocide of the Palestinian people as we speak – having anything whatsoever to do with it.
#microsoft

Subtooting since people in the original thread wanted it to be over, but selfishly tagging @… and @… whose opinions I value...
I think that saying "we are not a supply chain" is exactly what open-source maintainers should be doing right now in response to "open source supply chain security" threads.
I can't claim to be an expert and don't maintain any important FOSS stuff, but I do release almost all of my code under open licenses, and I do use many open source libraries, and I have felt the pain of needing to replace an unmaintained library.
There's a certain small-to-mid-scale class of program, including many open-source libraries, which can be built/maintained by a single person, and which to my mind best operate on a "snake growth" model: incremental changes/fixes, punctuated by periodic "skin-shedding" phases where make rewrites or version updates happen. These projects aren't immortal either: as the whole tech landscape around them changes, they become unnecessary and/or people lose interest, so they go unmaintained and eventually break. Each time one of their dependencies breaks (or has a skin-shedding moment) there's a higher probability that they break or shed too, as maintenance needs shoot up at these junctures. Unless you're a company trying to make money from a single long-lived app, it's actually okay that software churns like this, and if you're a company trying to make money, your priorities absolutely should not factor into any decisions people making FOSS software make: we're trying (and to a huge extent succeeding) to make a better world (and/or just have fun with our own hobbies share that fun with others) that leaves behind the corrosive & planet-destroying plague which is capitalism, and you're trying to personally enrich yourself by embracing that plague. The fact that capitalism is *evil* is not an incidental thing in this discussion.
To make an imperfect analogy, imagine that the peasants of some domain have set up a really-free-market, where they provide each other with free stuff to help each other survive, sometimes doing some barter perhaps but mostly just everyone bringing their surplus. Now imagine the lord of the domain, who is the source of these peasants' immiseration, goes to this market secretly & takes some berries, which he uses as one ingredient in delicious tarts that he then sells for profit. But then the berry-bringer stops showing up to the free market, or starts bringing a different kind of fruit, or even ends up bringing rotten berries by accident. And the lord complains "I have a supply chain problem!" Like, fuck off dude! Your problem is that you *didn't* want to build a supply chain and instead thought you would build your profit-focused business in other people's free stuff. If you were paying the berry-picker, you'd have a supply chain problem, but you weren't, so you really have an "I want more free stuff" problem when you can't be arsed to give away your own stuff for free.
There can be all sorts of problems in the really-free-market, like maybe not enough people bring socks, so the peasants who can't afford socks are going barefoot, and having foot problems, and the peasants put their heads together and see if they can convince someone to start bringing socks, and maybe they can't and things are a bit sad, but the really-free-market was never supposed to solve everyone's problems 100% when they're all still being squeezed dry by their taxes: until they are able to get free of the lord & start building a lovely anarchist society, the really-free-market is a best-effort kind of deal that aims to make things better, and sometimes will fall short. When it becomes the main way goods in society are distributed, and when the people who contribute aren't constantly drained by the feudal yoke, at that point the availability of particular goods is a real problem that needs to be solved, but at that point, it's also much easier to solve. And at *no* point does someone coming into the market to take stuff only to turn around and sell it deserve anything from the market or those contributing to it. They are not a supply chain. They're trying to help each other out, but even then they're doing so freely and without obligation. They might discuss amongst themselves how to better coordinate their mutual aid, but they're not going to end up forcing anyone to bring anything or even expecting that a certain person contribute a certain amount, since the whole point is that the thing is voluntary & free, and they've all got changing life circumstances that affect their contributions. Celebrate whatever shows up at the market, express your desire for things that would be useful, but don't impose a burden on anyone else to bring a specific thing, because otherwise it's fair for them to oppose such a burden on you, and now you two are doing your own barter thing that's outside the parameters of the really-free-market.

Aww, Serge Fiori died: https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/06/24/quebec-singer-songwriter-serge-fiori-founder-of-rock-group-harmonium-dead-at-73/
That name won’t mean anything except to Canadians o…

Quebec singer Serge Fiori dead at 73
Quebec singer-songwriter Serge Fiori, founder of French-Canadian rock band Harmonium, died Tuesday at the age of 73.

"My father used to say," said Oskar, "that there isn't anything real except thoughts. Nothing is there at all unless somebody's thinking it.
He said thoughts were more real than guns. He got shot by the Russians for saying that. But the thought wasn't shot, because I'm thinking it now."
[from The River at Green Knowe, by Lucy M Boston (1959)]

Twice in the past week, I’ve received an edit notification about a post I’d previously boosted where the edit corrected bad or incomplete information. In both cases, I boosted the correction.
I’ve long wished for social media misinformation policy to be “If you saw the bad info, you see the correction.” Mastodon comes closer to that than anything I’ve previously encountered.
There’s been a lot of theoretical hand-wringing about allowing edits on social media. In practice, this aspect at least seems like a huge success.

Jeremy Corbyn -working hard to ensure a victory for Farage, It is no use being right if you have no power to do anything about it.
We need, very urgently, some form of proportional representation, because it's fairer, and because it might be the only way to avoid a fascist government.

Homeowner shoots, kills 2 men in ski masks claiming to be officers, Houston Police Department says
"It was just two people and they're masked up and no police cars, no lights or anything like that," said Lt. Khan with HPD.
https://www.

One day after signing a $1.5B deal with Paramount, South Park satirizes Paramount's settlement with Trump, pro-Trump PSAs, and the cancellation of The Late Show (Jenna Amatulli/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/24/south-park-t…

Movie idea: 28 Centuries Later and there are no more humans or infected or anything, just bugs and amoeba and stuff

«Lidar Lasers on Volvo SUV Fries Smartphone Camera Sensor»
As I'm not that kind of biologist (anymore): is there anything known about the impact of IR light pollution on wildlife?
/cc @… as you'd be my closest guess for someone who could know 😅
https://petapixel.com/2025/05/20/lidar-lasers-on-volvo-suv-fries-smartphone-camera-sensor/

There is an open letter on BlueSky moderation practices as they apply to Gazans which I was invited to sign.
I have been feeling pretty helpless so I read the letter. It was very balanced and reasonable. The asks are not- as I saw them being misrepresented as immediately- to allow anyone who says they are in Gaza to post anything.

@… I will! I forget about hashtags because my one-person instance can’t find anything, but I’ll browse them on mastodon.social.

If it’s anything like their “dire wolf,” they’ll sink millions into bringing the world… a fat kiwi. https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114910888061846217

reading Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh's platform has me once again lamenting that in SF we couldn't even find someone to run, let alone win, with a platform like this.
note the "approaching homelessness with compassion" and "reforming public safety" sections. our quote-unquote progressive candidate didn't say anything like this.

Vision — Omar Fateh for Minneapolis Mayor

I'm confronted with a very similar problem, has anything changed about the situation. (I.e. is it possible to start a process manually and then manually mark the systemd unit that would normally start it as running and have it behave like the service was started by systemd?) https://

193gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Fuck Israel.
Fuck the IDF.
Fuck the US.
Fuck every other government too frightened to do anything.
We need get relief to Gaza by *any means necessary*. Now. There are no more excuses for delays.
https://www.

no one is home so i'm cranking it up and ... uh oh ... that sounds BAD. do i need new speakers? sob! i've had these fishers since 1986. I don't think they were anything special back then, but they have grown on me. and oh no, new speakers are expensive. 😭
oh wait the balance settings all screwed up here ⚙️ just a sec 🛠️ and 🔊 ok everything is fine. phew.
my stereo is ok — just ok — but i don't care because all i do is play scratchy old LPs anyway.

Interesting thing about tomorrow's tarot show, rendering now, is that I upgraded from Blender 4.0 to blender 4.4 and it's quite a bit nicer to look at the timeline editor.
Was sad to find that the render time was up though. From about 3 seconds per frame usually to more like 12!?
Trying it with an old version I see that the lights and textures look way better with 4.4 than 4.0 though. A substantial step up in the way the show looks without me even doing anything other than waiting four times longer per frame.
Seems to be heavily dependent upon lighting now. The slow frames are like 12 seconds but the fast frames with minimal lighting and close up on the video are more like 2.
Looks too beautiful now to go back though. Upgraded my cloud-remote render machines too. We will render on four machines tonight. FOUR! The power of it all.
g3.4xlarge is no faster than g3.large but g6.xlarge seems to be twice the speed.
But hard to be sure really coz of the massive variance in time depending on the lighting.
Anyway, great show coming tomorrow. Sometimes I wonder what the hell I'm trying to do with it but tomorrow's show is the answer. Hide the angry bitter political rant behind a strange CGI tarot show. When the rant comes together well I like it.
https://wordcloudtarot.com/@wordcloudtarot/statuses/01JYFF0GQV1680Z0VG0YTFZDTP

Preconditioning: "And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything."
Money is king, therefore he must be king, too? "Many general election ballots have already been printed, and it would be expensive to change them. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to replace him as the Republican nominee."

When another coach capitalist philosopher starts telling you how people wouldn't work at all if they weren't coerced to, and the whole world would fall apart then, you should remind them that practically the whole Internet — yes, the same they're using to spread their capitalistic bullshit and the one capitalism is repeatedly trying to turn into complete useless shit — is founded on the work of volunteers, who for many years tirelessly work to keep it working while usually not expecting anything in return.
#AntiCapitalism

On my side of iOS 18.5, automation based on application start seems to be completely broken.
This doesn’t do anything

Calamus 13 "Calamus taste"
A celebration of nature in March, an entreaty to enjoy and nurture growth. Both botanical and metaphorical, our personal growth. Some lovely turns of phrase:
Gushes from the throats of birds
Frost-mellowed berries
But I'm here for the gay reading. The erotic is latent in all this burgeoning spring. But it's also more explicit. That first line "Calamus taste" sure is promising if we understand Calamus as a phallic symbol. Then there's the "pinks of love", the "young persons wandering out in the fields", the "love-buds".
It's not porny or anything but it's a little horny. The physical exuberance of springtime.
This poem got edited heavily down in later versions, and perhaps it needed it. But he eliminated one of my favorite lines, "I must change the strain". Gonna drop that in conversation next time I need to change the topic.

Hm, do Firefox and Vivaldi really not accept my system-wide custom CA(s)? On Windows, at least Firefox works fine if you set “security.enterprise_roots.enabled” to true, but on Linux it doesn't seem to make any difference. While in Firefox I can at least import a custom CA, I can't find anything similar in Vivaldi. 🤔
#firefox

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
DAYNA: On interlock?
TARRANT: No, overlap. Ask Cally, she'll put you right.
VILA: Anything I should do?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/239 B7B4

Update on my depression. I’m finally starting to feel like myself again and slowly landing back on earth!
I spent today reflecting and figuring out why I got severely depressed after the Pride party Saturday night. Honestly, that night was the most insanely incredible, mind-blowingly spectacular night I have ever experienced in my entire existence. It was an explosion of joy and queerness unlike anything I’ve ever felt, pure, radiant, overwhelming happiness that hit me with the force o…

Neat thread on all ways people’s bodies are different than “normal”
https://bitbang.social/@NanoRaptor/115081321043933411

Nanoraptor (@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social)
Ok query time. Biology is messy and full of exceptions. How does *your* body differ from the usual expected of you as the human you are? Anything big or small. My mum has an extra vertebrae, a close friend multiple spleens. One sis is built like she works out but eats like a sparrow. A co worker was born with just two vampire like teeth. A friend of mine at uni grew platinum white hair only on the back of his head. A MUSH friend from the 90s got *two* uteruses.

I wanted to replace my home PC with my laptop for my daily tasks, but for some reason the old ViewSonic monitor is incompatible. It doesn't show up on the hdmi connections when I list them with xrandr and, what's worse, it's the same with all other laptops, no matter if they run Windows or GNU/Linux.
In the end, after testing it on 3 laptops and a minipc, it only works connected to my current PC.
Has anyone seen anything similar? 🤨

#Apple has totlally screwed #Photos... just like they did with #iTunes
STOP improving anything that works!

Started watching Untamed on Netflix. Is it worth the time?
Just a few minutes in and I have trouble taking this seriously: mountain cop is suspended high up on the cliff of El Capitan and pulls out his phone that is not attached to a cord or anything to snap some photos 100s of meters above ground? Then he drops a wristband but finds it again at the bottom of El Capitan. At night! With a flashlight!
That's a lot of disbelief they are asking me to suspend...

"I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need."
On chatbots as a bad design paradigm
(Original title: “ChatBot” is bad design)
https://t…

"ChatBot" is bad design
As anyone who has ever seen anything I have created knows: I am not a designer. So take my reasoning and thinking here with a grain of salt. I do have many designers amongst my friends and I do think that a lot of software engineering falls within the domain of design to a certain […]

People handing in comments for my blog don't want to have their name/nick added because they fear negative consequences by #reddit administrators. 😲 🤦‍♂️
This is also why I wrote:
https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-…

Yesterday I asked a vendor at the farmers market if anything they were selling was vegan and learned that they had absolutely no idea what it means for a food item to be vegan.

🧂 Private financing for Argentina’s lithium is anything but green, critics say
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/07/private-financing-for-argentinas-lithium-is-anything-but-green-critics-say/

Private financing for Argentina’s lithium is anything but green, critics say
Argentina has the second-largest reserves of lithium in the world, at around 22 million tons. As battery technology advances and global demand for the mineral grows, the country is trying to position itself as a global hub for renewable energy generation. Corporations and banks have heralded a wave of “green” policies aimed at accelerating the […]

“This role will take up a portion of my time; but it’s not replacing anything. Everything I’m currently doing will continue, and I’m able to maintain things as before.”
oh to be young and optimistic again 🥲

Finding Flow
- composed when my life was anything but flowing -
#NowPlaying
https://muz4now.com/2020/finding-flow-nowplaying/

Finding Flow #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Could Anything Be More Bigoted Than Trump's Travel Bans? (Harold Meyerson/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-23-trumps-bigoted-travel-bans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p57#a250623p57

«Lidar Lasers on Volvo SUV Fries Smartphone Camera Sensor»
As I'm not that kind of biologist (anymore): is there anything known about the impact of IR light pollution on wildlife?
/cc @… as you'd be my closest guess for someone who could know 😅
https://petapixel.com/2025/05/20/lidar-lasers-on-volvo-suv-fries-smartphone-camera-sensor/

Every time I do anything with emulating old Macs and I want to "just create a disk image" it's like pulling teeth; literally all the emulation software and utilities are endlessly janky and it feels like they're deliberately made to be obtuse and gate-keepery.

Jaycee Horn on Panthers' porous 2024 defense: 'We don't need to be anything close to that' in 2025 https://www.nfl.com/news/jaycee-horn-on-panthers-porous-2024-defense-we-don-t-need-to-be-anything-close-to-that…

Lol, an older guy (50s? 60s?) got onto the F train with a cylindrical bluetooth speaker blasting music. He wasn't dancing or anything, just sitting there. 80s boombox culture making a revival in #NYC? 😂

"Plastics: All around us and inside us"
#Plastic #Plastics #Environment

Plastics: All around us and inside us
Plastic is one of the most remarkable materials ever created. It's cheap, lightweight and endlessly versatile. It can be shaped into anything from shopping bags to lifesaving tools in hospitals, and it's clean, safe and can be sterilized. Depending on its purpose, it can be used just once—for example, in medical settings where hygiene is critical—or kept in service for years.

For those who like satire that cuts deep and draws blood, and you tend to roll your eyes at anything governments attempt to 'fix', and maybe harbour some grudges against a certain rogue superpower, this film is for you.
Odd then, how, when it first opened, it was played once only, in only one theatre in only one small city in all of southern Ontario.
You don't suppose perhaps some folks somewheres took offence? Nah…
Well, we will try again. More folks may have caught on by now. Opens Aug 13 at Scotiabank Theatre
SHIN GODZILLA 4K Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eNox1a18qqw&si=eEC7kqKvp2qQ6NDC

EDIT: I got the file I needed by now, via the web app.
The following rant is an exercise to the reader.
I can no longer save files in Element Desktop since the last upgrade due to smth smth Flatpak / desktop portal / ... cannot access anything policy bla. I get the idea that access to everything is bad, bad access to nothing is useless.
Anyway, so I gave the web version a try...
and it is unable to decrypt many messages, takes forever to load. I've been looking at th…

200gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Say it with me: LLM's offer next likely token prediction.
If you want to predict likely tokens (E.g., predictive keyboard typing), great!
If you want ANYTHING OTHER THAN NEXT LIKELY TOKEN PREDICTION you don't want an LLM.
No, not even if you add RAG.
No, not even if it's "agentic".
If you want certainty, if you want rule adherence, if you want comprehension of any kind, you don't want an LLM. No matter what OpenAI tells you.

We’re on a terrible path that we aren’t even aware exists: collapsing the marine food chain.
The End Permian event did that. It was ugly. Lots of fungal spores in the fossil record, not a lot of bones. Barely anything survived.
We’re having issues with phytoplankton in the #GreatLakes too. Invasive mussels have done huge damage to how the food chain (Esp. in

Phytoplankton, key to ocean life, falling 2% per year in North Atlantic
Two main types of phytoplankton have been decreasing in biomass in the North Atlantic by two per cent each year for the past 60 years, a new study …

God DAMMIT Nagios, how many times have I told you to stop picking up women on LinkedIn?

Does it even have to be said that Microsoft should not have anything to do with an EU sovereign tech fund or benefit from it financially in any way?
Probably, yes.
Over and over again. https://social.ayco.io/@ayo/114903940293761313

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Maxo:
🎵 Anything
#Maxo
https://open.spotify.com/track/5SmEjgrnmNNzSOZRptPboB

Exploring Trion more as a potential FPGA option for future embedded projects.
The first thing that's hitting me hard is the lack of LUTRAM mode. Anything too small to put in a BRAM, or that you need combinatorial reads on, ends up being synthesized as DFFs.
This causes massive size explosion (and worse performance) for some of my stuff, most notably the curve25519 accelerator which balloons from 7632 LUT / 5737 FF / 32 DSP on Kintex-7 to 21625 LUT / 11528 FF / 96 MULT when sy…

"You can tell what happened — Google promised iNaturalist free money if they would just do something, anything, that had some generative AI in it. iNaturalist forgot why people contribute at all, and took the cash."
(Original title: Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage)

Google bribes iNaturalist to use generative AI — volunteers quit in outrage
iNaturalist is a website that crowdsources pictures of plants and animals to help identify species. Its tagline is “A Community for Naturalists.” iNaturalist is administered by its own small charit…

CMP: A Composable Meta Prompt for SAM-Based Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
Shuai Chen, Fanman Meng, Chunjin Yang, Haoran Wei, Chenhao Wu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16753

CMP: A Composable Meta Prompt for SAM-Based Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation (CD-FSS) remains challenging due to limited data and domain shifts. Recent foundation models like the Segment Anything Model (SAM) have shown remarkable zero-shot generalization capability in general segmentation tasks, making it a promising solution for few-shot scenarios. However, adapting SAM to CD-FSS faces two critical challenges: reliance on manual prompt and limited cross-domain ability. Therefore, we propose the Composable Meta-Prompt (CMP) framework t…

Just saw this:
#AI can mean a lot of things these days, but lots of the popular meanings imply a bevy of harms that I definitely wouldn't feel are worth a cute fish game. In fact, these harms are so acute that even "just" playing into the AI hype becomes its own kind of harm (it's similar to blockchain in that way).
@… noticed that the authors claim the code base is 80% AI generated, which is a red flag because people with sound moral compasses wouldn't be using AI to "help" write code in the first place. The authors aren't by some miracle people who couldn't build this app without help, in case that influences your thinking about it: they have the skills to write the code themselves, although it likely would have taken longer (but also been better).
I was more interested in the fish-classification AI, and how much it might be dependent on datacenters. Thankfully, a quick glance at the code confirms they're using ONNX and running a self-trained neural network on your device. While the exponentially-increasing energy & water demands of datacenters to support billion-parameter models are a real concern, this is not that. Even a non-AI game can burn a lot of cycles on someone's phone, and I don't think there's anything to complain about energy-wise if we're just using cycles on the end user's device as long as we're not having them keep it on for hours crunching numbers like blockchain stuff does. Running whatever stuff locally while the user is playing a game is a negligible environmental concern, unlike, say, calling out to ChatGPT where you're directly feeding datacenter demand. Since they claimed to have trained the network themselves, and since it's actually totally reasonable to make your own dataset for this and get good-enough-for-a-silly-game results with just a few hundred examples, I don't have any ethical objections to the data sourcing or training processes either. Hooray! This is finally an example of "ethical use of neutral networks" that I can hold up as an example of what people should be doing instead of the BS they are doing.
But wait... Remember what I said about feeding the AI hype being its own form of harm? Yeah, between using AI tools for coding and calling their classifier "AI" in a way that makes it seem like the same kind of thing as ChatGPT et al., they're leaning into the hype rather than helping restrain it. And that means they're causing harm. Big AI companies can point to them and say "look AI enables cute things you like" when AI didn't actually enable it. So I'm feeling meh about this cute game and won't be sharing it aside from this post. If you love the cute fish, you don't really have to feel bad for playing with it, but I'd feel bad for advertising it without a disclaimer.

#Microsoft outsourced administration of classified #DoD data to cheap workers in #China. 🇨🇳 🕵️
My latest update on

@… Your episode 52 on emotions had me wondering if you'd ever done anything on Maturana and Varela's ideas of autopoiesis and (loose) structural coupling. I'd be interested to hear you on that, also because these were ideas outside software actually applied to software via Winograd and Flores' _Understanding Computers and Cognition_. Lots of animal per…

203gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Once respectable news outlets can be made to believe pretty much anything, and spew out unfounded nonsense that betrays readers and makes them less informed.

This is the world now.

Watching a house sparrow eating a grain of cooked rice from the leftovers I put out for the birds.
Size-wise, it's like a person eating a baguette, a whole meal!
I try to never bin anything that some other creature might like to eat 😊

RegCL: Continual Adaptation of Segment Anything Model via Model Merging
Yuan-Chen Shu, Zhiwei Lin, Yongtao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12297 https://…

RegCL: Continual Adaptation of Segment Anything Model via Model Merging
To address the performance limitations of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) in specific domains, existing works primarily adopt adapter-based one-step adaptation paradigms. However, some of these methods are specific developed for specific domains. If used on other domains may lead to performance degradation. This issue of catastrophic forgetting severely limits the model's scalability. To address this issue, this paper proposes RegCL, a novel non-replay continual learning (CL) framework designe…

US plans to play minimal role in security guarantees for Ukraine, Politico reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/21/us-plans-to-play-minimal.html

Raiders' new regime sends strong message in releasing DT Christian Wilkins https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6514950/2025/07/25/raiders-christian-wilkins-release-carroll-spytek/

It is very funny when you get blocked for sharing a "Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems" that I didn't make, and if you think anything is factually incorrect with the comparison chart, you can contribute to it.
https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

It takes a special brand of political incompetence to see millions of people marching in opposition to the Republican president and not do anything to seize that momentum
but it appears dem leadership has decided to do just that
https://bsky.app/profile/ndrew.bsky.so

182gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

I don't think I posted any running photos from the Thom B Trail Runs this May 17th in Hammond Hill State Forest; here's one of the faster runners -- this time I didn't get hypothermia or sunburn or anything
#photo #photography

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

I’m not a professional coder, I just write code when I need it written.
Even I know that the most dangerous point in the evolution of a program is the point when it runs without obvious errors. https://m.phase.org/@parsingphase/115072135180061094

Ranking the most surprising Super Bowl participants since 2000: These teams proved that anything is possible

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ranking…

92gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Where Do Raiders Land in Latest Rankings? https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/seattle-seahawks-las-vegas-brock-bowers-geno-smith-ashton-jeanty

As MAGA world focuses on Epstein, Trump seeks focus on anything else (Cleve R. Wootson Jr/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/21/trump-epstein-distractions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p133#a250721p133

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Dramarama:
🎵 Anything Anything (I'll Give You)
#Dramarama
https://beachslang.bandcamp.com/track/anything-anything-dramarama
https://open.spotify.com/track/7qAfN3OAhDcwAhGe9Nq7Mi

DFR: A Decompose-Fuse-Reconstruct Framework for Multi-Modal Few-Shot Segmentation
Shuai Chen, Fanman Meng, Xiwei Zhang, Haoran Wei, Chenhao Wu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16736

DFR: A Decompose-Fuse-Reconstruct Framework for Multi-Modal Few-Shot Segmentation
This paper presents DFR (Decompose, Fuse and Reconstruct), a novel framework that addresses the fundamental challenge of effectively utilizing multi-modal guidance in few-shot segmentation (FSS). While existing approaches primarily rely on visual support samples or textual descriptions, their single or dual-modal paradigms limit exploitation of rich perceptual information available in real-world scenarios. To overcome this limitation, the proposed approach leverages the Segment Anything Model (…

207gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

Even more than usual, the path ahead isn’t clear.
Still, there was barely any reaction in market prices. -- Nor has anything else seriously disrupted major markets.
That’s noteworthy, when you consider the crises that are looming:
the highest tariffs in decades;
a contentious crackdown on immigration
and a swelling budget deficit in the United States;
and, in the Middle East, an escalating war between Israel and Iran that could sharply reduce global o…

The Markets Are Balancing on a Knife’s Edge
The world has been anything but peaceful, but you wouldn’t know that from looking at the markets.

If a statistical token chain generation machine can do a job satisfactorily, that's not a sign that the machine is amazing and intelligent.
It's a sign that that job is bullshit and doesn't achieve anything at all.
For example, generating boilerplate code in programming is a sign of overly verbose frameworks that should be simplified.

I never understood the "you need to push out a newsletter every week or people unsubscribe" thing. Like: If you don't send anything you are totally out of my attention and I don't think enough about you to hunt down your page and unsubscribe. What gets me to unsubscribe is some filler post that has a convenient "click here to unsubscribe" post at the bottom.

"When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses. which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character."
—Willem Dafoe
#acting #coaching

Read That Before You Trust Anything by Microsoft Once Again
#Microsoft

Describe Anything Model for Visual Question Answering on Text-rich Images
Yen-Linh Vu, Dinh-Thang Duong, Truong-Binh Duong, Anh-Khoi Nguyen, Thanh-Huy Nguyen, Le Thien Phuc Nguyen, Jianhua Xing, Xingjian Li, Tianyang Wang, Ulas Bagci, Min Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12441

Describe Anything Model for Visual Question Answering on Text-rich Images
Recent progress has been made in region-aware vision-language modeling, particularly with the emergence of the Describe Anything Model (DAM). DAM is capable of generating detailed descriptions of any specific image areas or objects without the need for additional localized image-text alignment supervision. We hypothesize that such region-level descriptive capability is beneficial for the task of Visual Question Answering (VQA), especially in challenging scenarios involving images with dense tex…

Trump Talks About Anything but Epstein on His Social Media Account (Luke Broadwater/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/us/politics/trump-epstein-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.YE8.ybq2.ZI4Bl7xTjJ4Z&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/250721/p105#a250721p105

212gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
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185gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

83gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

85gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
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201gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
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197gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

196gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

208gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

195gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

185gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.

83gCO2/kWh National Grid CO2 intensity is HIGH wrt last 24h so don't run anything that can wait! #CO2

GB Grid Intensity Status - Earth Notes
Live marginal carbon intensity of the grid in Great Britain.