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O.k. four more slides by Eduard Masana at the Leuven SEC about the 2026 Total #SolarEclipse in Spain, namely what the Comisión Nacional del Eclipse is preparing: see https://www.iaa.csic.es/page/comision-nacional-eclipse and https://eclipses.ign.es and https://eclipse-spain.es/index.php/en/ for relevant websites. And some Final Thoughts and Recommendations about the expected eclipse experience in Spain. 13/n

How cool is this? #music #art
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL3CAxCPgxy/?igsh=MTJ…

Interior Design & Architecture on Instagram: "Step into a world where sound floats, time slows down, and art breathes on its own. In the heart of the Bourse de Commerce, artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot invites us to experience clinamen—an immersive aquatic installation where porcelain bowls drift gently in an 18-meter pool, creating an ever-changing, accidental symphony without human touch. Inspired by the Epicurean theory of atoms veering off course, this piece blurs the boundaries between matter and meaning, silence and sound, presence and perception. It’s not just art—it’s a living poem in motion. Let yourself be still. Listen deeply. 📍Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection 📷 @elisabarg @boursedecommerce @celesteboursiermougenot"
126K likes, 377 comments - d.signers on July 8, 2025: "Step into a world where sound floats, time slows down, and art breathes on its own. In the heart of the Bourse de Commerce, artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot invites us to experience clinamen—an immersive aquatic installation where porcelain bowls drift gently in an 18-meter pool, creating an ever-changing, accidental symphony without human touch. Inspired by the Epicurean theory of atoms veering off course, this piece blurs the bounda…

Esta época lluviosa 2025 se viene con todo, espero que las distintas comisiones de emergencia y comunidades estén preparadas, porque estamos recibiendo las primeras ondas tropicales y ya tenemos los suelos saturados, y ojo, no han empezado los huracanes del Atlšntico.
Fuente de la imagen Instituto Meteorológico Nacional de Costa Rica

Henry Clay Frick was a union buster

In 1892, he hired hundreds of Pinkerton detectives
— a private army of thugs with guns
— to quell a strike against a Pennsylvania steel mill.
Ten men were killed, dozens injured, and the situation became so inflamed that the state militia was called in to break the workers’ resistance.
Frick, who made a fortune supplying the coal derivative known as coke
to Andrew Carnegie’s steel company, where Frick later served…

At the Frick, a grand Gilded Age collection shows its intimate side
A five-year, $220-million expansions has transformed the Frick, without changing anything fundamental to the experience.

Two things can be true, even if they seem in opposition.
Hitler's race law was based on Jim Crow. Lebensraum was a direct translation of Manifest Destiny to Europe. The genocide of indigenous Americans was the inspiration and roadmap for the Holocaust. Red Summer was a genocide event. Chinese exclusion was a genocide event. The genocide of indigenous Americans continued, and the Dakota Access Pipeline is an example of that continuance.
And... Trumpian fascism is new phase of America that's markedly different than anything that anyone alive had ever experienced. Trump was inspired by Hitler's speeches and read them regularly. He admires Hitler and tries to emulate him. The language he used during his first campaign were developed by Neonazi groups like Aryan Brotherhood working with the KKK. His image was shaped by white and Christian nationalists, as is his platform today. He is a new and more dangerous kind of monster. The death camps are new. The scale of what's happening is new. The concentration of power is new.
These can both be true, and are.
#USPol

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#Pakistan is home to one of the largest concentrations of sellers on Alibaba.com
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SoK: Automated Vulnerability Repair: Methods, Tools, and Assessments
Yiwei Hu, Zhen Li, Kedie Shu, Shenghua Guan, Deqing Zou, Shouhuai Xu, Bin Yuan, Hai Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11697

SoK: Automated Vulnerability Repair: Methods, Tools, and Assessments
The increasing complexity of software has led to the steady growth of vulnerabilities. Vulnerability repair investigates how to fix software vulnerabilities. Manual vulnerability repair is labor-intensive and time-consuming because it relies on human experts, highlighting the importance of Automated Vulnerability Repair (AVR). In this SoK, we present the systematization of AVR methods through the three steps of AVR workflow: vulnerability analysis, patch generation, and patch validation. We ass…

Arm CEO Rene Haas sides with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, saying US export controls on China threaten to slow tech advances and harm consumers and companies (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-12/ar…

Fast and Interactive Byzantine Fault-tolerant Web Services via Session-Based Consensus Decoupling
Ahmad Zaki Akmal, Azkario Rizky Pratama, Guntur Dharma Putra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08281

Fast and Interactive Byzantine Fault-tolerant Web Services via Session-Based Consensus Decoupling
Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) web services provide critical integrity guarantees for distributed applications but face significant latency challenges that hinder interactive user experiences. We propose a novel two-layer architecture that addresses this fundamental tension between security and responsiveness in BFT systems. Our approach introduces a session-aware transaction buffer layer (Layer 2) that delivers immediate feedback to users through consensus simulation, while periodically commit…

Leveraging GPT-4 for Vulnerability-Witnessing Unit Test Generation
G\'abor Antal, D\'enes B\'an, Martin Isztin, Rudolf Ferenc, P\'eter Heged\H{u}s
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11559

Leveraging GPT-4 for Vulnerability-Witnessing Unit Test Generation
In the life-cycle of software development, testing plays a crucial role in quality assurance. Proper testing not only increases code coverage and prevents regressions but it can also ensure that any potential vulnerabilities in the software are identified and effectively fixed. However, creating such tests is a complex, resource-consuming manual process. To help developers and security experts, this paper explores the automatic unit test generation capability of one of the most widely used larg…