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Genuinely torn about this. Keeping people safe from a roving right-wing murderer does seem prudent. But I don’t want to send out the message that this is a way to get a protest cancelled.
❝The No Kings coalition that organized protests across the US today is cancelling all demonstrations in Minnesota that have not already started after two lawmakers were shot, Reuters reports.
Indivisible said on Bluesky: “Governor Walz has recommended that we cancel No Kings events across Minnesota because the individual who assassinated a Democratic lawmaker is still at large.”❞
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/14/trump-birthday-military-parade-no-kings-protest-live-updates

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sea Lemon:
🎵 Cynical
#SeaLemon
https://sealemonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/cynical
https://open.spotify.com/track/1JlzSXVFPWy6zu7GaLRj0N

"Scientists warn against attempts to change definition of ‘forever chemicals’"
#PFAS #ForeverChemicals

News report about flyers found for No Kings events in shooter’s car
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/no-kings-protests-canceled-in-ne-minneapolis-after-targeted-shootings-at-lawmaker-homes/

""Thousands of demonstrators turned out to protest the trump Administration in St.Paul on Saturday, even as dozens of other "No Kings" events across Minnesota were canceled after two lawmakers and their spouses were shot overnight in what Gov. Tim Waltz called "targeted political violence."

‘No Kings’ rally held in St. Paul; other MN events canceled after lawmaker shootings
The event at the State Capitol in St. Paul appeared to be going ahead as planned.

In the wake of the official MN Capitol rally being cancelled, lots of neighborhood protests springing up in its place. Judging by local reaction, that MAGA serial killer is going to cause •more• protest, not less. This makes me feel better about the decision to cancel the big one (which, per the previous post, I am truly torn about).

Robotic System for Chemical Experiment Automation with Dual Demonstration of End-effector and Jig Operations
Hikaru Sasaki, Naoto Komeno, Takumi Hachimine, Kei Takahashi, Yu-ya Ohnishi, Tetsunori Sugawara, Araki Wakiuchi, Miho Hatanaka, Tomoyuki Miyao, Hiroharu Ajiro, Mikiya Fujii, Takamitsu Matsubara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.…

Robotic System for Chemical Experiment Automation with Dual Demonstration of End-effector and Jig Operations
While robotic automation has demonstrated remarkable performance, such as executing hundreds of experiments continuously over several days, it is challenging to design a program that synchronizes the robot's movements with the experimental jigs to conduct an experiment. We propose a concept that enables the automation of experiments by utilizing dual demonstrations of robot motions and jig operations by chemists in an experimental environment constructed to be controlled by a robot. To verify t…

I wrote about why Zohran Mamdani's free bus fare policy is a good idea actually, and the difference between thinking about transit as a consultant versus as a voter and activist.
(public replies to this toot will appear as comments)
https://scott.mn/2025/06/11/consultant

Consultant's mindset, or why Jarrett Walker is wrong about free buses

Minnesota political assassin
57-year-old Vance Boelter,
was twice appointed to the nonpartisan Governor’s Workforce Development Council

-- in 2016 under former Gov. Mark Dayton
and again in 2019 under Gov. Tim Walz.
His most recent term expired in January 2023.

57-year-old suspect sought in targeted shootings of Minnesota state lawmakers
Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband have died after they were shot at their home in Brooklyn Park.

“Using LLMs makes you stupid” is such an emotionally appealing conclusion that I’m going to consciously work — this post is my public commitment! — not to read •too• much into this one study. As the OP says: small N, not peer reviewed, etc.
But I •will• immediately heed the authors’ “concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance.” However the research shakes out, it seems like good practice to double down on helping students keep their own brains awake and active regardless of the technology available to them.