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From Translink
Pattullo Bridge closed northbound for a night
Closure necessary for repaving work near bridge deck in New Westminster
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed to vehicle traffic travelling northbound into New Westminster for one night, due to construction work for the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project. The directional closure will take place overnight on the following date:
Thursday, October 30 (9 pm to 5am)
Southbound travel into Surrey & nb peds…

'Herbst (Typisch)' #FotoVorschlag ' Autumn (typical)
Well okay, I was struggling to decide between a couple of my #autumn #hiking photos but well, this is and stays my all-time-bes…

Moody Urbanity - Old & New III 🔆
情绪化城市 - 新与旧 III 🔆
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
DOOM GONG:
🎵 Bridge of Doom
#DOOMGONG
https://doomgong.bandcamp.com/track/bridge-of-doom
https://open.spotify.com/track/1gmaAK8iCKlAyIa8v7XXku

Partly bright and sunny, but fully cold and with generous amounts of wind. “Brisk” doesn’t even begin to do it justice. Still, I am a freak and love this weather. It felt good to be out moving. #TeamShorts of course.
Walked briefly twice to bring my HR down a bit and then stopped to mug at this beautiful Great Blue Heron looking for their lunch. 🐟

NeuroBridge: Using Generative AI to Bridge Cross-neurotype Communication Differences through Neurotypical Perspective-taking
Rukhshan Haroon, Kyle Wigdor, Katie Yang, Nicole Toumanios, Eileen T. Crehan, Fahad Dogar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23434

NeuroBridge: Using Generative AI to Bridge Cross-neurotype Communication Differences through Neurotypical Perspective-taking
Communication challenges between autistic and neurotypical individuals stem from a mutual lack of understanding of each other's distinct, and often contrasting, communication styles. Yet, autistic individuals are expected to adapt to neurotypical norms, making interactions inauthentic and mentally exhausting for them. To help redress this imbalance, we build NeuroBridge, an online platform that utilizes large language models (LLMs) to simulate: (a) an AI character that is direct and literal, a …

Russia–North Korea Partnership Boosted by New Bridge: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/russianorth-korea-partnership-boosted-by.html

Once upon a time there was a young woman who thought she was a plank. that her calling was to bridge gaps chasms torrents freeways missing teeth. what a dumb shit

Excitonic Energy Transfer in Red Algal Photosystem I Reveals an Evolutionary Bridge between Cyanobacteria and Plants
Mengyuan Cui, Zihui Liu, Miriam Izzo, Junhua Zhou, Enhu He, Vandana Tiwari, Petar H. Lambrev, R. J. Dwayne Miller, Joanna Kargu, Fulu Zheng, Ajay Jha, Hong-GuangDuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24271

Excitonic Energy Transfer in Red Algal Photosystem I Reveals an Evolutionary Bridge between Cyanobacteria and Plants
Photosystem I converts light into chemical energy with near-unity quantum efficiency,yet its energy-transfer and charge-separation mechanisms remain debated. Evolution has diversified PSI architectures. The unicellular red algae Cyanidioschyzon merolae represents a key evolutionary intermediate,featuring a cyanobacterial-like monomeric core surrounded by three to five LHCR subunits. This hybrid organization provides a unique system to bridge mechanistic models across lineages. We applied two-di…

The clouds over Bochum, Germany, cleared too late this evening, so instead of Lemmon I tried #comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) for a change - here it is: both pictures with a bridge camera on a tripod, 5 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 3200. It's fading: according to https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2659 the brightness is 6.7 mag. right now.

America is numb to this infrastructure problem
Maryland needs to replace the Chesapeake Bay Bridge,
as everyone who has driven on it knows.
Yet construction to replace the structure is only scheduled to begin in 💥2032.
The most shocking aspect of this story is that locals aren't more shocked.

Tens of thousands of drivers cross the Bay Bridge every day. -- It’s a vital link to the Eastern Shore.
The bridge has no shoulders.
No new lanes have b…

America is numb to this infrastructure problem
The timeline for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge replacement project is an indictment of a broken system.

In interviews, creators including an actress and a director describe how they are adopting or rejecting AI tools and how they view career prospects in an AI era (Kai Williams/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/features/2025/1…

“Go generate a bridge and jump off it”: How video pros are navigating AI
I talked with nine creators about economic pressures and fan backlash.

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
BLAKE: It's all right, Vila. I think we've lost them.
VILA: How'd you know?
BLAKE: We're still here. Cut the auxiliaries. Get back to primary drive. [To Avon] Are you all right?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/124 B7B2

A chilly 36°F (2.2°C) but with sustained 19 mph (30.5 kph) winds gusting to 38 mph (61 kph) making it feel like 26°F (-3.3°C). Once or twice, I came around a corner and was nearly stopped in my tracks. I do love this chilly weather and saw several other runners also on #TeamShorts
Ran/walked 4/1 min intervals again, which feels mostly right at the minute — although I was fading to somethin…

Amsterdam – Tasmanstraat
#kamafotos

Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's "dynamic view" option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/gemini-vs-chatgpt-product/

Google Starts to Bridge OpenAI's Product Moat
Gemini's "Dynamic View" is a terrible name for a profound product...

United We Stand: Towards End-to-End Log-based Fault Diagnosis via Interactive Multi-Task Learning
Minghua He, Chiming Duan, Pei Xiao, Tong Jia, Siyu Yu, Lingzhe Zhang, Weijie Hong, Jin Han, Yifan Wu, Ying Li, Gang Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24364

United We Stand: Towards End-to-End Log-based Fault Diagnosis via Interactive Multi-Task Learning
Log-based fault diagnosis is essential for maintaining software system availability. However, existing fault diagnosis methods are built using a task-independent manner, which fails to bridge the gap between anomaly detection and root cause localization in terms of data form and diagnostic objectives, resulting in three major issues: 1) Diagnostic bias accumulates in the system; 2) System deployment relies on expensive monitoring data; 3) The collaborative relationship between diagnostic tasks …

Optimizing Privacy-Preserving Primitives to Support LLM-Scale Applications
Yaman Jandali, Ruisi Zhang, Nojan Sheybani, Farinaz Koushanfar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25072 https:…

Optimizing Privacy-Preserving Primitives to Support LLM-Scale Applications
Privacy-preserving technologies have introduced a paradigm shift that allows for realizable secure computing in real-world systems. The significant barrier to the practical adoption of these primitives is the computational and communication overhead that is incurred when applied at scale. In this paper, we present an overview of our efforts to bridge the gap between this overhead and practicality for privacy-preserving learning systems using multi-party computation (MPC), zero-knowledge proofs …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Aretha Franklin:
🎵 Bridge Over Troubled Water
#ArethaFranklin
https://roomautobahn.bandcamp.com/track/sampled-bridge-over-troubled-water
https://open.spotify.com/track/5YD86vWLu1YqR818b1GADO

sorry for the rampant redrafting, the bluesky bridge is being annoying today

SpeedCP: Fast Kernel-based Conditional Conformal Prediction
Yeo Jin Jung, Yating Liu, Zixuan Wu, So Won Jeong, Claire Donnat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24100 https://

SpeedCP: Fast Kernel-based Conditional Conformal Prediction
Conformal prediction provides distribution-free prediction sets with finite-sample conditional guarantees. We build upon the RKHS-based framework of Gibbs et al. (2023), which leverages families of covariate shifts to provide approximate conditional conformal prediction intervals, an approach with strong theoretical promise, but with prohibitive computational cost. To bridge this gap, we develop a stable and efficient algorithm that computes the full solution path of the regularized RKHS confor…

From Translink
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed southbound into Surrey for three nights, because of ongoing construction work for the Pattullo Bridge Replacement Project. The directional closures will take place overnight on the following dates:
Thursday, November 27 (9 p.m. to 5 a.m.)
Friday, November 28 (9 p.m. to 5 a.m.)
Sunday, November 30 (9 p.m. to 5 a.m.)

The bridge will also remain closed southbound for pedestrians and cyclists

A Near-Real-Time Reduction-Based Algorithm for Coloring Massive Graphs
Chenghao Zhu, Yi Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23606 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.23…

A Near-Real-Time Reduction-Based Algorithm for Coloring Massive Graphs
The graph coloring problem is a classical combinatorial optimization problem with important applications such as register allocation and task scheduling, and it has been extensively studied for decades. However, near-real-time algorithms that can deliver high-quality solutions for very large real-world graphs within a strict time frame remain relatively underexplored. In this paper, we try to bridge this gap by systematically investigating reduction rules that shrink the problem size while pres…

by Oliver Hamlin
#art #Mothman #cryptids #monsters #MonsterArt

Technically the road is closed but the bridge isn't out... at least not by bike. Construction crews were not around today so I was able to get across the bridge. It'll take some time to get it paved for cars though.

I have never been more certain that I could *actually* sell someone the rights to the Brooklyn Bridge.
https://bsky.app/profile/usps.bsky.social/post/3m3vc7ttlx22m

Polite Yet Ultimately Malevolent Mailman (@usps.bsky.social)
I have never been more certain that I could *actually* sell someone the rights to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Hue-Lampen mit Matter direkt in Apple Home einbindbar – aber nicht alle
Die beliebten smarten Lampen von Philips sind bekannt dafür, für HomeKit die Hue-Bridge zu benötigen. Das gilt aber nicht mehr für neuere Modelle.

Rebuilding Baltimore’s Key Bridge that was destroyed by a tanker is now estimated to cost $5.2 billion | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/baltimore-key-bridge-rebuild-cost-price-b2867544.html

AISHELL6-whisper: A Chinese Mandarin Audio-visual Whisper Speech Dataset with Speech Recognition Baselines
Cancan Li, Fei Su, Juan Liu, Hui Bu, Yulong Wan, Hongbin Suo, Ming Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23833

AISHELL6-whisper: A Chinese Mandarin Audio-visual Whisper Speech Dataset with Speech Recognition Baselines
Whisper speech recognition is crucial not only for ensuring privacy in sensitive communications but also for providing a critical communication bridge for patients under vocal restraint and enabling discrete interaction in noise-sensitive environments. The development of Chinese mandarin audio-visual whisper speech recognition is hindered by the lack of large-scale datasets. We present AISHELL6-Whisper, a large-scale open-source audio-visual whisper speech dataset, featuring 30 hours each of wh…

After a few intense weeks — first at #icfpsplash25 in Singapore, then four days of interviewing candidates for tenure-track positions as part of the faculty appointment committee (Lärarförslagsnämnd) at the University of Gothenburg — I’m now in Budapest for (mostly) vacation.
Tomorrow (2025-10-27) I’ll give a talk at the local Type Theory Seminar (invited by Ambrus Kaposi). Looking f…

Good Morning from Berlin! For 2 days at the @… conference at @… in Berlin. Learning a lot about data competence centers and other NFDI related endevours.

foggy sunrise #SanFrancisco

Bats at the Hogsmill Bridge, Villiers Road, Kingston - Observations at the bridge over many years #bat #Chiroptera #dataset -

Bats at the Hogsmill Bridge, Villiers Road, Kingston
Observations at the bridge over many years #bat #Chiroptera #dataset

Stripe's stablecoin arm, Bridge, applied for a US national trust bank charter, joining Circle, Paxos, Ripple, and Coinbase in seeking federal oversight (Vince Dioquino/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/344333/stablecoin-issuers-race-bank-charters-stripes-br…

Stablecoin Issuers Race for US Bank Charters as Stripe's Bridge Joins the Queue
Bridge, Stripe’s stablecoin arm, has applied to the OCC for a national trust bank, joining four others vying for federal approval.

I saw this clock design for the first time this morning and initially read it as a warning. Like a timer on an explosive?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/16/great-british-railways-clock-launches-london-bridge

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Simon & Garfunkel:
🎵 The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
#Simon #Garfunkel
https://prfmonthlytributeseries.bandcamp.com/track/the-59th-street-bridge-song-feelin-groovy
https://open.spotify.com/track/0dzbfio3qTYG9uk40SJNcr

🏗️ One startup’s paper-thin stainless steel could change how bridges are built
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/one-startups-paper-thin-stainless-steel-could-change-how-bridges-are-built/

Exclusive: One startup’s paper-thin stainless steel could change how bridges are built | TechCrunch
By coating regular rebar with a thin layer of stainless steel, Allium Engineering could reduce the amount of concrete needed to build a bridge while also prolonging its life.

Two battery-electric street sweepers equipped with bidirectional charging technology could help to power operations on the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in the event of a power outage.
https://www.microgridkn…

With Bidirectional EVs, Solar and Storage, Critical California Bridge Can Stay Open During Outages
The California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS), along with partners, is testing vehicle-to-building technology’s ability to help provide resilience for a critical operations...

Series A, Episode 10 - Breakdown
AVON: You CANNOT reject a direct command.
BLAKE: Justify that rejection, please.
ZEN: Your command reduces to an order to self-destruct. This runs counter to Prime Directive.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/110/146 B7B4

I didn't know, but assumed, that the London stadium has no connection with the victory ofHarold Godwinson's English over Harald Hardrada's Vikings.
La batalla vikinga de Stamford Bridge que cambió el rumbo de Inglaterra en 1066 y acabó, sin querer, dando nombre al estadio del Chelsea y

La batalla vikinga de Stamford Bridge que cambió el rumbo de Inglaterra en 1066 y acabó, sin querer, dando nombre al estadio del Chelsea y
No hay relación geográfica ni intención conmemorativa, ya que el enfrentamiento tuvo lugar en el norte del país, cerca de York, y el estadio se encuentra en el oeste de Londres

“Today in 1988 Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KTMA in St. Paul Minnesota. #MST3K”
Via;
https://bsky.app/profile/tabby676.bsky.social/post/3m6ez5rkiwc2e

#Graz 🤩

Here are some more photos from our wander in Queanbeyan. The suspension bridge is quite old and rather wobbly. I loved it. We met an old man who told us about platypus sightings around the river.
#Queanbeyan #Australia

Trump plans to leave his mark on Washington by building a Paris-like arch near the Lincoln Memorial (Darlene Superville/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-arch-lincoln-memorial-bridge-washington-ca88586c68a6301f87146a8ca2091b33
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p168#a251016p168

We biked next to a section of the Menomonee River that has a railway bridge over it and you can see the debris left from the flood back in August. Yes, the river was as high as the bridge!
#mke #milwaukee #water

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Frank Bridge, BBC National Orchestra of Wales & Richard Hickox:
🎵 The Sea
#FrankBridge #BBCNationalOrchestraofWales #RichardHickox

The Public Media Bridge Fund awards $26M across 74 organizations that operate more than 180 public radio and TV stations (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/12/public-media-bridge-fund-announces-initial-round-of-grants/

Public Media Bridge Fund announces initial round of grants
The fund will provide $26 million to 74 public media organizations.

Die WhatsApp Bridge meines Matrix-Servers hat vor einigen Wochen den Geist aufgegeben.
Gut, das ist nichts Neues, manchmal muss einfach die Bridge aktualisiert werden. Gesagt, getan, nix passiert. Keine Reaktion auf die Befehle, obwohl im Log protokolliert wurde, dass der Befehl ankam.
Für einige Zeit - widerwillig - WA direkt benutzt.
Heute schaue ich im Matrix Client und entdecke zufällig, dass „irgendjemand“ den Bot-Kanal blockiert hat. 1!11!

In a tactical curiosity the #Feds have deployed #ICE to an island with only one two lane bridge to get back into #oakland
Perhaps picking this spot is to ideally attract ridonkuluss seemingly violent smokey imagery of govt troops being…

VSSFlow: Unifying Video-conditioned Sound and Speech Generation via Joint Learning
Xin Cheng, Yuyue Wang, Xihua Wang, Yihan Wu, Kaisi Guan, Yijing Chen, Peng Zhang, Xiaojiang Liu, Meng Cao, Ruihua Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24773

VSSFlow: Unifying Video-conditioned Sound and Speech Generation via Joint Learning
Video-conditioned sound and speech generation, encompassing video-to-sound (V2S) and visual text-to-speech (VisualTTS) tasks, are conventionally addressed as separate tasks, with limited exploration to unify them within a signle framework. Recent attempts to unify V2S and VisualTTS face challenges in handling distinct condition types (e.g., heterogeneous video and transcript conditions) and require complex training stages. Unifying these two tasks remains an open problem. To bridge this gap, we…

you can bring down 20% of the internet with a single-character typo in a regex, but you can also destroy a nearly 50 year old bridge with a single incorrectly placed piece of heatshrink
isn't technology beautiful
https://blog.cloudflare.com/details-of-t…

Oh hello #Bluesky #TOTP-ers.
Just a gentle reminder that if you reply to my posts or interact with them in any way, that interaction is totally invisible to me unless you follow the Fediverse bridge thingy-wotsit.
https://fed.brid.gy/login will see you right.

Urban Spots ✴️
城市噪点 ✴️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Disabling One Bridge Could Shatter Russia’s War Machine (and It’s Not the Kerch) | Hudson Institute
https://www.hudson.org/disabling-one-bridge-could-shatter-russias-war-machine-its-not-kerch-luke-coffey-can-kasapoglu

San Francisco, Christmas Eve.

With news that another railway bridge in Scotland has fallen into the river below, I feel compelled to share @…'s # CautionaryTales episode on that famous Dundonian poet McGonagall..
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford: "Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/cautionary-tales-with-tim-harford/genius-still-unrecognised-the-worst-poet-in-the-world
Media file: https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdrl.fm/18db03/tracking.swap.fm/track/SxlTEPDY7xDg35RXkASs/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/c0ae8c6e-22f0-4e9b-ac1c-ae390037ac53/fd2acf28-383a-4874-b266-b33900f48f7c/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=7f5a4714-6b10-4ccf-a424-ae390037ac70

From Translink
The Pattullo Bridge will be closed northbound one night and fully closed the next night this week, due to ongoing construction work on the new stalΕəwΓasəm Bridge.

To ensure public safety, the bridge will be closed northbound into New Westminster on Thursday, December 18 from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. This will be followed by a full closure in both directions on Friday, December 19 from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.

My hip pain, what I’m pretty sure was bursitis, disappeared after several days of rest. 🙌 I waited another couple of days and felt pretty good about trying it out.
So, we begin again. Again.
Stopped at the halfway point to take a few pictures and let my HR come down a bit. Felt good early and sluggish late. What I expect, for a while anyway.
#Running

A Multi-Simulation Bridge for IoT Digital Twins
Marco Picone, Samuele Burattini, Marco Melloni, Prasad Talasila, Davide Ziglioli, Matteo Martinelli, Nicola Bicocchi, Alessandro Ricci, Peter Gorm Larsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08164

A Multi-Simulation Bridge for IoT Digital Twins
The increasing capabilities of Digital Twins (DTs) in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) call for seamless integration with simulation platforms to support system design, validation, and real-time operation. This paper introduces the concept, design, and experimental evaluation of the DT Simulation Bridge - a software framework that enables diverse interaction patterns between active DTs and simulation environments. The framework supports both the DT developme…

I have missed that bridge.gy can federate websites as well. That really looks neat and useful…
https://fed.brid.gy/docs#fediverse-get-started

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

Hey Bluesky users, I see your responses, but since you’re not bridging, I can't interact with you.
If you use this (https://fed.brid.gy/) then I could interact and reply. Cheers :)

Bridgy Fed
Bridgy Fed is a bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse, Bluesky, and web sites and blogs.

Construction on the Vincent Thomas Bridge near the Port of Los Angeles is slated to begin next month,
but the project will not include a 26-foot bridge hoist that port officials were hoping for.
Port Executive Director Gene Seroka proposed raising the bridge earlier this year amid existing plans from the California Department of Transportation to re-deck the emerald green overpass connecting San Pedro to Terminal Island and Long Beach.
Raising the bridge would allow larger,…

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation Ends 36-Year Dream for Celebrated Waco Chef https://ground.news/article/why-sergio-deportation-ends-36-year-dream-for-celebrated-waco-chef-and-family-the-waco-bridge

BRIDGE - Building Reinforcement-Learning Depth-to-Image Data Generation Engine for Monocular Depth Estimation
Dingning Liu, Haoyu Guo, Jingyi Zhou, Tong He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25077

BRIDGE - Building Reinforcement-Learning Depth-to-Image Data Generation Engine for Monocular Depth Estimation
Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is a foundational task for computer vision. Traditional methods are limited by data scarcity and quality, hindering their robustness. To overcome this, we propose BRIDGE, an RL-optimized depth-to-image (D2I) generation framework that synthesizes over 20M realistic and geometrically accurate RGB images, each intrinsically paired with its ground truth depth, from diverse source depth maps. Then we train our depth estimation model on this dataset, employing a hybri…

Bayesian Surrogates for Risk-Aware Pre-Assessment of Aging Bridge Portfolios
Sophia V. Kuhn, Rafael Bischof, Marius Weber, Antoine Binggeli, Michael A. Kraus, Walter Kaufmann, Fernando P\'erez-Cruz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25031

Bayesian Surrogates for Risk-Aware Pre-Assessment of Aging Bridge Portfolios
Aging infrastructure portfolios pose a critical resource allocation challenge: deciding which structures require intervention and which can safely remain in service. Structural assessments must balance the trade-off between cheaper, conservative analysis methods and accurate but costly simulations that do not scale portfolio-wide. We propose Bayesian neural network (BNN) surrogates for rapid structural pre-assessment of worldwide common bridge types, such as reinforced concrete frame bridges. T…

The way I finally got a reliable, reboot- and sleep-proof wired Ethernet solution on my MacBook Air (M1) was to plug the old Apple Thunderbolt 2 gigE adapter into a TB2-TB3 bridge dongle. Can't tell you how many different USB units I tried without success: 100Mb, 1Gb, 2.5Gb, and even the 1Gb port built into a fancy Belkin Thunderbolt dock.
Mac: it just works*
*actual results may vary

You can bet that a good number of Lithgovians are pissed at the two-minute detour on the way home from work. https://theblower.au/@WoyWoyUnderpass/115500487714478062

Woy Woy Underpass (@WoyWoyUnderpass@theblower.au)
Attached: 1 image Truck carrying a cherry picker crashes into bridge in Lithgow. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-06/bridge-collapses-after-truck-crash-lithgow-nsw/105977736?utm_source=woywoyunderpass

Indirect CW for teen pregnancy, rape, death.
Just finished "Girls Like Us" by Randi Pink. Pink has a knack for telling stories that capture the grim but also vibrant nuances of African-American history. I previously read "Under the Heron's Light" which has more elements of magical realism and connects more directly to the history of enslavement; "Girls Like Us" is more historical fiction, with a bridge at the end to contemporary times (circa 2019, when the book was published). It tells the story of a disparate group of mostly-Black teens who are pregnant in 1972, and shows a range of different outcomes as varied as the backstories of the different girls. Rather than just separate vignettes, the girls' stories are women together into a single plot, and Pink is a expert at pulling us in to deeply contemplate all the complexities of these girls' lives, showing rather than telling us truths about the politics of teen pregnancy and abortion, and how even though the choices involved don't have simple answers, taking those choices out of the hands of the people they most intimately affect is cruel and deadly.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

VoiceBridge: Designing Latent Bridge Models for General Speech Restoration at Scale
Chi Zhang, Zehua Chen, Kaiwen Zheng, Jun Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25275 https://…

VoiceBridge: Designing Latent Bridge Models for General Speech Restoration at Scale
Bridge models have recently been explored for speech enhancement tasks such as denoising, dereverberation, and super-resolution, while these efforts are typically confined to a single task or small-scale datasets, with constrained general speech restoration (GSR) capability at scale. In this work, we introduce VoiceBridge, a GSR system rooted in latent bridge models (LBMs), capable of reconstructing high-fidelity speech at full-band (\textit{i.e.,} 48~kHz) from various distortions. By compressi…

Moody Urbanity - Odes II 🎶
情绪化城市 - 颂 II🎶
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

Coupling Generative Modeling and an Autoencoder with the Causal Bridge
Ruolin Meng, Ming-Yu Chung, Dhanajit Brahma, Ricardo Henao, Lawrence Carin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25599

Coupling Generative Modeling and an Autoencoder with the Causal Bridge
We consider inferring the causal effect of a treatment (intervention) on an outcome of interest in situations where there is potentially an unobserved confounder influencing both the treatment and the outcome. This is achievable by assuming access to two separate sets of control (proxy) measurements associated with treatment and outcomes, which are used to estimate treatment effects through a function termed the em causal bridge (CB). We present a new theoretical perspective, associated assumpt…

We had to drive over to Queanbeyan to pick up an order at the farm shop there.
We don't get there very often so we took the opportunity to go for a bit of a wander by the river afterwards. I forgot how pretty it is.
#Queanbeyan #Australia

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Midlake:
🎵 A Bridge to Far
#Midlake
https://midlakeband.bandcamp.com/track/the-calling
https://open.spotify.com/track/1VsBwiX65G3Im8IPCTjfpa

The middle segment of this elevator bridge between Portsmouth, NY and Kittery, ME goes up and down to let ships through, something I saw many times when I was growing up in the region but didn't get to see on my latest trip
#photo #photography

Dear #Bluesky #TOTP-ers. If you reply to me, or quote my posts, and you are not following the Fedi bridge, then I can't see your replies/quotes. You're shouting into the void. Don't do that, it's silly. Follow the bridge 😄
(you can follow the bridge here: https://fed.brid.gy/login)

Series B, Episode 02 - Shadow
BEK: So it was an alien life form that killed her?
CALLY: Yes. It was trying to use Orac as a bridge to cross from it's own universe into ours.
JENNA: That's why it needed so much power.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/202/598 B7B4

The World’s Tallest Bridge Just Opened — And It Cuts A 2-Hour Drive Down To 2 Minutes
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/world-tallest-bridge-just-opened-143000666.html

If you've been in the San Francisco Bay Area recently, you might have spotted a giant airship adrift over the Golden Gate Bridge.
The huge airship is the Pathfinder 1,
billed as the "largest aircraft in the world" and developed by the company LTA Research.
Clocking in at 406.5 feet long and 66 feet wide, the Pathfinder 1 is among a class of airships known as "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.
For comparison, a Goodyear blimp is 246 feet lon…

'Largest aircraft in the world' seen over US. What is it doing?
Pathfinder 1 looks like a blimp, but much bigger. It's part of a wave of interest in "lighter-than-air" or LTA aircraft.

Femmebot: The Podcast Powering Women In Tech
There are tech podcasts, and then there are human podcasts. At crybaby, we bridge the gap between the two...
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In a proposed settlement, the US FTC says crypto bridge Nomad must repay victims of a 2022 cyberattack that led to $186M worth of funds being stolen (Connor Jones/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/17/nomad_ftc_settlement/

Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack
: Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings

The Fascinating History Ignored by Critics of a Bridge's New Name via @… https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/12/12/…

The Fascinating History Ignored by Critics of a Bridge’s New Name | The Tyee
In 1808, a Kwantlen man saved the life of Simon Fraser. The Pattullo Bridge’s replacement will stand as testament.

A Bridge from Audio to Video: Phoneme-Viseme Alignment Allows Every Face to Speak Multiple Languages
Zibo Su, Kun Wei, Jiahua Li, Xu Yang, Cheng Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06612

A Bridge from Audio to Video: Phoneme-Viseme Alignment Allows Every Face to Speak Multiple Languages
Speech-driven talking face synthesis (TFS) focuses on generating lifelike facial animations from audio input. Current TFS models perform well in English but unsatisfactorily in non-English languages, producing wrong mouth shapes and rigid facial expressions. The terrible performance is caused by the English-dominated training datasets and the lack of cross-language generalization abilities. Thus, we propose Multilingual Experts (MuEx), a novel framework featuring a Phoneme-Guided Mixture-of-Exp…

I went on a little bike ride after lunch at work today to check out the missing bridge from the flood back in August and got approached by a woman who wanted to ask me some questions...
Local TV reporter, had a camera operator with her, so I put on a lav and talked about the (missing) bridge for a few minutes...
I stood with my bike and had my helmet on during the interview and talked about biking to work so I hope I leveled up on my bike advocacy journey.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Mazzy Star:
🎵 Look on Down From the Bridge
#MazzyStar
https://foxandcostello.bandcamp.com/track/look-on-down-from-the-bridge-mazzy-star-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/010ALbbh5KlQ4fKWgSdhRd

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GillesPeterson
Tortoise:
🎵 The Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls
#Tortoise
https://tortoise.bandcamp.com/track/the-suspension-bridge-at-iguaz-falls
https://open.spotify.com/track/0oGDihb54BJoYldvjorUXJ

Jemand machte ein #KI-manipuliertes #Bild einer defekten #Brücke und sorgte damit für Zugausfälle:

Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
VILA: A few hours ago. We've plenty of time to get to the combat grounds.
TARRANT: Zen. [Looks at Avon] Yes?
AVON: Why not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/312/71 B7B5

This week’s #MondayRandom10, from my playlist of 2074 tracks:
1. Lex Junior—“Blue Skies”
2. Simon & Garfunkel—“The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)”
3. Pop Will Eat Itself—“Ich Bin Ein Auslander”
4. Filter & The Crystal Method—“(Can’t You) Trip Like I Do”
5. The B-52s—“Roam”
6. Iggy Pop—“Lust for Life”
7. Ministry—“Psalm 69”
8. Split Enz—…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Anthony Joseph:
🎵 Jimmy, Upon That Bridge
#AnthonyJoseph
https://open.spotify.com/track/5nln0KhE8REq6giUXVa6Rp

Netflix has lined up a $59B unsecured bridge loan from Wells Fargo, HSBC, and BNP Paribas for its WBD deal, one of the largest ever unsecured bridge loans (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/netflix-lines-…

Series C, Episode 13 - Terminal
ZEN: The information you require has been stored via a coded route, and retrieval is not possible without the correct security command sequence.
CALLY: And that sequence is known only to Avon, I imagine.
ZEN: Confirmed.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/100

We biked next to a section of the Menomonee River that has a railway bridge over it and you can see the debris left from the flood back in August. Yes, the river was as high as the bridge!
#mke #milwaukee #water

Poynter announces a pilot project establishing a local public editor in Indianapolis to serve as a bridge between the public and local newsrooms (Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/news-release/2025/poynter-launches-publ…

Poynter launches public editor project to serve news audiences in Indianapolis - Poynter
Partner newsrooms will publish the editor’s independent analysis of local news coverage across the market.

Urban Adventure 🏞️
城市探险 🏞️
📷Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️Ilford HP5, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

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Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
VILA: We got it, we got it!
DAYNA: Right on the nose! [laughs]
[Space Command]
SERVALAN: How did that happen?
JARVIK: They fired through their own force shield.
SERVALAN: Don't be absurd.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/292…

The AI boom is delaying US municipal projects, as ~$4T in AI infra spending through 2030 shifts skilled construction workers to AI data centers (Brooke Sutherland/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/202…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Tacocat:
🎵 Bridge to Hawaii
#Tacocat
https://tacocat.bandcamp.com/track/bridge-to-hawaii
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RgUzbBzDYimNWvEbkQPIQ