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旅行结束 II ✈️
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amusingly, my very 1st rock show in 1986 included both the monkees (nesmith-less) & herman's hermits (noone-less), though they did not jam a 20-minute i heard you looking > spiders. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc…

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"This is like getting to see the Monkees and Herman's Hermits on the same stage" -- Jeff Tweedy Watch Wilco + Yo La Tengo close out their concert at Forest Hills Stadium with a collaborative medley of "I Heard You Looking" and "Spiders (Kidsmoke)" ... 🕷️ https://www.jambase.com/article/wilco-yo-la-tengo-forest-hills-stadium-setlist-video

The Fediverse, however, has *all* of the idiots too horrible for X and Meta, but they only federate with each other, mostly. @… https://

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
I'm considering blocking anyone who posts content from Meta platforms, as I already do for X content. It's always just rage-farming. People, mostly, are idiots. As a result, a big chunk of what we say is junk. Meta and X thankfully have more than their share of the worst idiots, so I avoid them.

The text in the screenshot is exactly what the Hebrew scripture “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” is warning against. People think of that text as an endorsement of revenge, but it’s not; it is a •limit• on retribution. It says that the magnitude of punishment must not exceed the magnitude of the crime.
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⚠️ FAKE NEWS ALERT ⚠️
I'm unreposting and issuing a correction to a viral post going around in which Jeff Bezos is purported to have said:
"Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place."
The story (from ThePrint dot in) cla…

BART Online Open-Source Sequence Toolbox for Computational MRI
Daniel Mackner, Philip Schaten, Markus Huemer, Viktoria Buchegger, Moritz Blumenthal, Xiaoqing Wang, Martin Uecker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19099 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19099 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19099
arXiv:2607.19099v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Purpose In advanced computational MRI techniques, acquisition and reconstruction techniques are jointly designed. For reproducibility, it is therefore important to provide an open implementation of both. At the same time, any use in a clinical environment usually requires a close integration with the MRI scanner. Ensuring long-time reproducibility and maintenance then poses additional challenges. In this work, we aim to provide a fully integrated open-source framework that can meet these demands.
Methods A software framework to develop pulse sequences is added to the BART toolbox. In addition, a vendor-specific driver sequence is developed that can be used to run the sequence on a clinical MRI scanner enabling online adjustment of all relevant sequence parameters. Using the Pulseq format, the exact same sequence can also be reproduced offline. As proof-of-concept, quantitative MRI methods for T1 and joint water/fat R2*, B0 mapping using radial FLASH and model-based reconstruction are implemented in the proposed framework. Consistency between online and offline acquisition is validated in phantom and in vivo experiments.
Results Quantitative MRI methods consisting of acquisition and reconstruction were successfully implemented in BART. Acquisition parameters and FOV can be adapted online on a clinical MRI system. Quantitative parameter maps from model-based reconstruction agree for online and offline regenerated Pulseq acquisitions.
Conclusion This work enables reproducibility of advanced computational MRI methods within a comprehensive end-to-end open-source framework.
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Winners of the 2025 Close-Up Photographer of the Year #nature #photography

Neue Betriebssysteme als Public Beta: Unterstützte Hardware plus Downgrade-Tipps
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 und Co. stehen zum Download bereit, wenn auch nur als öffentliche Beta. Ein Überblick der verwendbaren Geräte – und wichtige Tipps.

Neue Betriebssysteme als Public Beta: Unterstützte Hardware plus Downgrade-Tipps
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 und Co. stehen zum Download bereit, wenn auch nur als öffentliche Beta. Ein Überblick der verwendbaren Geräte – und wichtige Tipps.

People Before Profit's bill to sanction the state of Israel is coming to the Dšil this week. There's a petition here calling on the TDs in the Dšil to back the bill. I've signed, please join me: https:…

Pass the Sanctions Against the State of Israel Bill
Dear Deputies, We call on you to vote in favour of the Sanctions Against the State of Israel Bill 2026 when it comes before the Dáil.  The bill is being proposed by Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit) but it comes from the long-held mass movement demand for sanctions on the state of Israel.  It will be debated on 14 May and the vote in the Dáil is due to take place on 20 May. For almost three years, the world has witnessed the genocidal destruction of Gaza  - the mass killing of...

That PC whose fan dropped off the other week has been bodged into working. I used a couple of plastic strips and motherboard mounts to hold them to the board with screws in the right place for the heatsink; but I found it needed more pressure on the fan for it to make good contact with the CPU, especially at the top; so outcomes the wood. This is working reasonably well; although the wedge positioning is a bit touchy to get it right.