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I don’t understand why we must spend billions of dollars and waste so much water for AI.
I just created an “AI-generated image” from the original using a few dabs of the retouch tool in the Photos app.
Might have taken a sip of water afterwards but that was it.
(Is there a word/phrase for taking a regular image and making it look like it was AI generated? There should be.)

AeroThrow: An Autonomous Aerial Throwing System for Precise Payload Delivery
Ziliang Li, Hongming Chen, Yiyang Lin, Biyu Ye, Ximin Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13903

AeroThrow: An Autonomous Aerial Throwing System for Precise Payload Delivery
Autonomous aerial systems play an increasingly vital role in a wide range of applications, particularly for transport and delivery tasks in complex environments. In airdrop missions, these platforms face the dual challenges of abrupt control mode switching and inherent system delays along with control errors. To address these issues, this paper presents an autonomous airdrop system based on an aerial manipulator (AM). The introduction of additional actuated degrees of freedom enables active com…

I’m old enough to remember when starving people before making them line up for food and shooting them was called genocide, not “war”. https://mastodon.world/@Herman/114886564639613383

On some Classes of Reversible 2-head Automata
Benedek Nagy (Eastern Mediterranean University / Eszterh\'azy K\'aroly Catholic University), Walaa Yasin (Eastern Mediterranean University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15317

On some Classes of Reversible 2-head Automata
Deterministic 2-head finite automata which are machines that process an input word from both ends are analyzed for their ability to perform reversible computations. This implies that the automata are backward deterministic, enabling unique forward and backward computation. We explore the computational power of such automata, discovering that, while some regular languages cannot be accepted by these machines, they are capable of accepting some characteristic linear languages, e.g., the language …

Movable-Antenna Empowered AAV-Enabled Data Collection over Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
Xuhui Zhang, Wenchao Liu, Jinke Ren, Chunjie Wang, Huijun Xing, Yanyan Shen, Shuguang Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15515

Movable-Antenna Empowered AAV-Enabled Data Collection over Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
Movable-antennas (MAs) are revolutionizing spatial signal processing by providing flexible beamforming in next-generation wireless systems. This paper investigates an MA-empowered autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) system in low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) for uplink data collection from ground users. We aim to maximize the sum achievable rate by jointly optimizing the AAV trajectory, receive beamforming, and MA positions. An efficient alternating optimization (AO) algorithm that incorporat…

Iman (@…), who has made it to the south but need $600 to pay the rent there to avoid being evicted with her children, couldn’t upload this to Mastodon herself so she wanted me to share it.
Please help her if you can.
This is her fundraiser:

CrazyMARL: Decentralized Direct Motor Control Policies for Cooperative Aerial Transport of Cable-Suspended Payloads
Viktor Lorentz, Khaled Wahba, Sayantan Auddy, Marc Toussaint, Wolfgang H\"onig
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14126

CrazyMARL: Decentralized Direct Motor Control Policies for Cooperative Aerial Transport of Cable-Suspended Payloads
Collaborative transportation of cable-suspended payloads by teams of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has the potential to enhance payload capacity, adapt to different payload shapes, and provide built-in compliance, making it attractive for applications ranging from disaster relief to precision logistics. However, multi-UAV coordination under disturbances, nonlinear payload dynamics, and slack--taut cable modes remains a challenging control problem. To our knowledge, no prior work has addressed…

Western countries can watch this genocide unfold without lifting a finger. That is their prerogative. But what they cannot do – what they will never again be able to do – is to pretend that they give a damn about human rights or democracy or international law. What they cannot do is claim to be civilised.
If you cannot or will not stop genocide, you are not a civilised society.
You cannot lecture anyone on ethics or morals or values. You are barbarians who have accepted the law o…

Palestinians march south as Israel ethnically cleanses Gaza City
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza’s north are making the journey south in a mass exodus with no guarantee of safety.

TransforMARS: Fault-Tolerant Self-Reconfiguration for Arbitrarily Shaped Modular Aerial Robot Systems
Rui Huang, Zhiyu Gao, Siyu Tang, Jialin Zhang, Lei He, Ziqian Zhang, Lin Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14025

TransforMARS: Fault-Tolerant Self-Reconfiguration for Arbitrarily Shaped Modular Aerial Robot Systems
Modular Aerial Robot Systems (MARS) consist of multiple drone modules that are physically bound together to form a single structure for flight. Exploiting structural redundancy, MARS can be reconfigured into different formations to mitigate unit or rotor failures and maintain stable flight. Prior work on MARS self-reconfiguration has solely focused on maximizing controllability margins to tolerate a single rotor or unit fault for rectangular-shaped MARS. We propose TransforMARS, a general fault…

@… Merhaba, Aseel.
@… and I would love to have a quick video chat with you on Signal Messenger so that we can add your account to ‪

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I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan