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1/N Yksi modernin ajan mantra on, että kaikki sähköistyy ja digitalisoituu. Niin tekee siksi varmaan juhannuskin. Asian käsittelemiseksi pitää kai miettiä, että mikä siinä on erityistä? Jos muut elementit ovat tuttuja muualtakin, se erityisyys on kriittinen kynnyskysymys. Aika selkeästi se on järven rannalla oleva kokko. Ja mikä tai mitkä asiat kokossa?

'In the local data that the audit examined from three [THREE] police forces, they identified clear evidence of “over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men”.
'However, the review also criticised the ongoing failure to collect ethnicity at a national level, with it not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators, making it impossible “to provide any accurate assessment from the nationally collected data”.'
Not so conclusive then.

What is the Casey report on UK grooming gangs – and why did Labour U-turn?
The report addressed the UK’s institutional failure to protect children and teenage girls from sexual exploitation.

How the delivery app Fantuan grew its US presence to 50 cities since 2019 by focusing on Asian cuisines, with an app design reminiscent of Chinese platforms (Alex Harring/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/under-the-

Under-the-radar delivery apps are gaining ground in the U.S. by courting Asian restaurants
Asian restaurants are utilizing delivery apps like Fantuan and HungryPanda instead of or in addition to bigger-name options.

I'll bet $1000 right now, #Trump & #StephenMiller's next target are #Asians.
Just watch. Bannon's already complained about "Asian CEOs".
☑️ Trump’s chief strateg…

Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon suggests having too many Asian tech CEOs undermines ‘civic society’

Constraining the Mass of a Hypothetical Secondary Black Hole in M87 with the NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set
Motoki Kino, Masahiro Nagashima, Hyunwook Ro, Yuzhu Cui, Kazuhiro Hada, Jongho Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12313

Constraining the Mass of a Hypothetical Secondary Black Hole in M87 with the NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set
Galaxy mergers, each hosting a supermassive black hole (SMBH), are thought to form SMBH binaries. Motivated by recent observations from the East Asian VLBI Network (EAVN) showing periodic behavior in the M87 jet, a precession of about 11 years and a transverse oscillation of about 0.9 years, we constrain the mass of a hypothetical secondary black hole orbiting the primary SMBH in M87. To constrain the mass ratio between the primary SMBH ($M_{1}$) and the secondary black hole ($M_{2}$) defined a…

Prof Anthony Costello on the UK's flawed covid policies
"UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions about medical and scientific advice"
"Early in the covid pandemic, evidence emerged from several East Asian countries that suppression could lead to successful control. Yet the UK did not adopt the approach. ... Why was suppression not recommended, and what can be done to improve advice in future?"
Currently looks like it'd go the same way in the next pandemic too:
"Five years on, many of the people who developed the UK’s flawed response are still in post; they have not changed their views on suppression, and little has been done to improve government pandemic advice committees or to introduce detailed governance rules for the UK’s future pandemic response and resilience."
#covid #history #UKPol #pandemics

Margins of Edibility: Non-food in Postcolonial South Asian Literatures Edited Volume — Call for Abstracts
https://ift.tt/5y9vd4N
updated: Monday, June 16, 2025 - 9:57amfull name / name of organization: University of Würzburg and…
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This headline is a *bit* deceptive. Only visa holders from two countries in #Asia are impacted - #China and #NorthKorea
Of course, North Koreans can't get visas, so it really only applies to

‘Blackballed’: Black HR Employee Sues Disney For Firing Her After She Exposed the Company's Hiring Preference for Indian and Asian Candidates While Axing More Black Employees
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/11/black-hr-employee-sues-disney/

Ended up with a little over 10 lbs of Asian plums from our plum tree which I hope will make some lovely jelly this fall.
#gardening #gardening #oklahoma

Beyond Pretty Pictures: Combined Single- and Multi-Image Super-resolution for Sentinel-2 Images
Aditya Retnanto (Asian Development Bank, Philippines), Son Le (Asian Development Bank, Philippines), Sebastian Mueller (Asian Development Bank, Philippines), Armin Leitner (GeoVille Information Systems and Data Processing GmbH, Austria), Konrad Schindler (ETH Z\"urich, Switzerland), Yohan Iddawela (Asian Development Bank, Philippines), Michael Riffler (GeoVille Information Systems and D…

Beyond Pretty Pictures: Combined Single- and Multi-Image Super-resolution for Sentinel-2 Images
Super-resolution aims to increase the resolution of satellite images by reconstructing high-frequency details, which go beyond naïve upsampling. This has particular relevance for Earth observation missions like Sentinel-2, which offer frequent, regular coverage at no cost; but at coarse resolution. Its pixel footprint is too large to capture small features like houses, streets, or hedge rows. To address this, we present SEN4X, a hybrid super-resolution architecture that combines the advantages…

Southeast Asian provider of ‘infrastructure laundering’ for scams is sanctioned by US https://therecord.media/southeast-asian-provider-of-scam-infrastructure-sanctioned

And one more unexpected Nature encounter in #Bochum after the birds - a #beetle (sitting on a restaurant menu of all places) which I'm pretty certain is a multicoloured Asian #LadyBeetle (Harmonia axyridis) - albeit a not very common color form which I've only found exactly like this in https://www.naturfotos-naeher-hingeschaut.de/insekten-gliederfuesser/kaefer/marienkaefer/asiatischer-marienkaefer/

After Rubio seeks to revoke their visas, Chinese students say U.S. resembles the country they left (Kimmy Yam/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/rubio-revoke-student-visas-china-rcna209699
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p20#a250531p20

Definitely not under the radar in Toronto, I see their logo everywhere, both on restaurants and drivers.
Didn’t know it was a delivery app from Vancouver
#fantuan #buycanadian

Consent for Processing Personal Data in the Age of AI: Key Updates Across Asia-Pacific
https://fpf.org/blog/consent-for-processing-personal-data-in-the-age-of-ai-key-updates-across-asia-pacific/

"I Said Things I Needed to Hear Myself": Peer Support as an Emotional, Organisational, and Sociotechnical Practice in Singapore
Kellie Yu Hui Sim, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09362

"I Said Things I Needed to Hear Myself": Peer Support as an Emotional, Organisational, and Sociotechnical Practice in Singapore
Peer support plays a vital role in expanding access to mental health care by providing empathetic, community-based support outside formal clinical systems. As digital platforms increasingly mediate such support, the design and impact of these technologies remain under-examined, particularly in Asian contexts. This paper presents findings from an interview study with 20 peer supporters in Singapore, who operate across diverse online, offline, and hybrid environments. Through a thematic analysis,…

To my fellow Asians:
All you free market, libertarian freakshows - you know who you are - that voted #Trump cuz #MAGA's racism would NEVVVVER come for you... consider this your wake up call.
▶️ Steve Bannon Suggests There Are Too Many

Steve Bannon Suggests There Are Too Many Asian CEOs In Silicon Valley
But Donald Trump says he wants them to stay because "we have to keep our talented people."

Integrating Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments: A Comparative Study of Perceived Needs among Open Universities in Five Southeast Asian Countries
Roberto Bacani Figueroa Jr, Mai Huong Nguyen, Aliza Ali, Lugsamee Nuamthanom Kimura, Marisa Marisa, Ami Hibatul Jameel, Luisa Almeda Gelisan
https://arxiv.org/abs/25…

Integrating Emerging Technologies in Virtual Learning Environments: A Comparative Study of Perceived Needs among Open Universities in Five Southeast Asian Countries
Amid the growing need to keep learners abreast of rapid technological advancements brought about by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, this study explores perceived needs of students in virtual learning environments supported by emerging technologies. A survey was conducted across five leading open universities in Southeast Asia. The study aimed to identify student preferences regarding features of their virtual learning environments that could better prepare them as productive citizens and prof…

Skies cleared up just in time for solar activity to get even higher (Kp 8)...
... and the sun to come up. I grabbed a single digit number of shots but the eastern sky was already visibly bright naked eye and my long-exposure shots started getting washed out.
Forecast shows activity will be decent all day (good luck Asian/European sky watchers!) and might persist into the dark for me tonight. Fingers crossed.

Your Asian foods destination
Taken 2 April 2025
#Retail #Supermarket

Remember when Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder made those arrogantly racist & fundamentally incorrect comments in the 80s?
He got FIRED from CBS for that.
Your move, #NewYorkTimes.
☑️ The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women

The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women
The New York Times published an article with a strange and bigoted claim about Asian women and manufacturing at Apple.

Natura Urbana XII 🏡
城市自然 XII 🏡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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The Economist aiming for #Vietnam and the general secretary.
"If Mr Lam fails, Vietnam will muddle on as a low-value-added production centre. But if he succeeds, a second doi moi would propel 100m Vietnamese into the developed world, creating another Asian growth engine."

Demand for LNG in Europe dropped by 18 per cent between 2022 and 2024, and Canadian exports would have a hard time competing in Asian markets, says advocacy group Investors for Paris Compliance. “Investing in infrastructure that will be very expensive and likely won’t be profitable will weaken our economy rather than strengthen it,” Renaud Gignac, an economist and senior adviser for the group, said in an interview.

New report casts doubt on potential revival of Quebec LNG project
Reviving a liquefied natural gas export project in Quebec's Saguenay region would be costly and likely unprofitable, a shareholder advocacy group says.

ONLINE WORKSHOP> Navigating Indra’s Net: Digital Approaches to Text Reuse-based Inter-textuality in Pre-Modern East Asian Texts https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069984/navigating-indras-net-digital-approache…

Finished Hollow Fires by Samira Ahmed last night. It's gripping, sad, and fierce all at the same time. Explores themes of racism, Islamophobia, white supremacist terrorism, and police malcompetence in an extremely timely manner. It's a good book, which I'm extra happy about since I also liked Ahmed's This Book Won't Burn, so now I have another author whose work I'll be reading through.
Including Sabaa Tahir, Sabina Khan, and Adiba Jaigirdar, I've been reading a ton of great YA books by south Asian muslim authors recently, all discovered via the "grab something off the YA shelf by a probably-not-white author" method that has yet to fail me. Turns out the racism in publishing that puts a higher bar in front of authors of color at least makes it easy to find good books in one way >:(
#AmReading

Singapore leads multinational operation to shutter scam centers tied to $225 million in thefts https://therecord.media/asia-scam-center-takedowns-singapore-police

We inherited an Asian plum tree with our house. For the first couple of years, it produced nothing. Last year it started producing some tart plums, perfect for jams. This year looks to be a bumper crop. This was just my first 30 minutes of harvesting from what I could reach on the ground! #gardening

ONLINE WORKSHOP> Navigating Indra’s Net: Digital Approaches to Text Reuse-based Inter-textuality in Pre-Modern East Asian Texts
https://ift.tt/ajGgrIY
When did aliens become a problem? The Mediterranean Association for Marine Biology and Oceanology in…
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Path-dependent option pricing with two-dimensional PDE using MPDATA
Pawe{\l} Magnuszewski, Sylwester Arabas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24435 https://

Path-dependent option pricing with two-dimensional PDE using MPDATA
In this paper, we discuss a simple yet robust PDE method for evaluating path-dependent Asian-style options using the non-oscillatory forward-in-time second-order MPDATA finite-difference scheme. The valuation methodology involves casting the Black-Merton-Scholes equation as a transport problem by first transforming it into a homogeneous advection-diffusion PDE via variable substitution, and then expressing the diffusion term as an advective flux using the pseudo-velocity technique. As a result,…

Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea
Nathan Lane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20566 https://

Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea
I study the impact of industrial policies on industrial development by considering an important episode during the East Asian miracle: South Korea's heavy and chemical industry (HCI) drive, 1973--1979. Based on newly assembled data, I use the introduction and termination of industrial policies to study their impacts during and after the intervention period. (1) I reveal that heavy-chemical industrial policies promoted the expansion and dynamic comparative advantage of directly targeted industri…

The rear guard of a long procession of Tibetans in the Ithaca Festival Parade
#ithaca #photo #photography #ithacafestival

Boosting Binomial Exotic Option Pricing with Tensor Networks
Maarten van Damme, Rishi Sreedhar, Martin Ganahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17033 https://

Boosting Binomial Exotic Option Pricing with Tensor Networks
Pricing of exotic financial derivatives, such as Asian and multi-asset American basket options, poses significant challenges for standard numerical methods such as binomial trees or Monte Carlo methods. While the former often scales exponentially with the parameters of interest, the latter often requires expensive simulations to obtain sufficient statistical convergence. This work combines the binomial pricing method for options with tensor network techniques, specifically Matrix Product States…