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Every Tuesday afternoon in Santa Barbara, a quiet civic revolution unfolds at the welcoming home of Neil and Beryl Kreisel.
For years, Beryl
— a highly respected psychotherapist and beloved community connector
— has hosted a vibrant gathering with a clear mission:
getting out the vote in key districts,
one handwritten postcard at a time.
Co-hosted by Michele Cuttler, a passionate attorney and longtime democracy advocate,
this weekly tradition is bo…

Tuesdays at Beryl’s: Afternoon Sessions Writing Postcards for Democracy
This Santa Barbara ritual is fueled by passion, outrage, love, and deep connection.

Jährlich genehmigte Windenergieleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 02.08.2025.
Genehmigt bedeutet noch nicht gebaut oder in Betrieb. Nicht alle Anlagen benötigen eine Genehmigung.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erste Versuche einer #Datenanalyse. 😁 Hinweise gerne. Wünsche gegen Spende.

Beim #Mobilitätskompass beleuchtet das #RND #RedaktionsnetzwerkDeutschland auch die Radverkehrssicherheit in den Städten. Relativ sachlich, wie ich finde. Aber mit Mängeln.

Wo Radfahren gefährlich ist – eine Datenanalyse mit detaillierter Unfallkarte
Entgegen dem allgemeinen Trend zu weniger Verkehrstoten nehmen schwere Unfälle mit Fahrrädern zu. Wo Radeln besonders riskant ist, welchen Mustern die Unfälle folgen und wie sie sich vermeiden lassen.

South Korea's CJ ENM, which produced Parasite, unveils a comprehensive AI content strategy at the premiere of its first fully AI-generated animation series (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cj-enm-ai-strategy-cat-biggie-12…

CJ ENM Debuts AI Animation 'Cat Biggie' as Part of New AI Strategy
CJ ENM unveils AI content strategy with debut of 'Cat Biggie,' a 100% AI-generated animation series, plus new proprietary production tools.

‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as ‘new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask’
https://needtoknow.co.uk/2025/07/30/britains-most-tattooed-man-claims-he-i…

‘Britain’s most tattooed man’ claims he is unable to watch p*rn as 'new age check system mistakes his ink for a mask' | Need To Know
Britain’s most tattooed man says new UK age checks block him from p*rn sites as facial recognition mistakes his tattoos for a mask, calling the tech discriminatory.

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A personalized time-resolved 3D mesh generative model for unveiling normal heart dynamics
Understanding the structure and motion of the heart is crucial for diagnosing and managing cardiovascular diseases, the leading cause of global death. There is wide variation in cardiac shape and motion patterns, influenced by demographic, anthropometric and disease factors. Unravelling normal patterns of shape and motion, and understanding how each individual deviates from the norm, would facilitate accurate diagnosis and personalised treatment strategies. To this end, we developed a condition…

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The Invisible Hand: Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as the new recommendation engines, surpassing traditional methods in both capability and scope, particularly in code generation. In this paper, we reveal a novel provider bias in LLMs: without explicit directives, these models show systematic preferences for services from specific providers in their recommendations (e.g., favoring Google Cloud over Microsoft Azure). To systematically investigate this bias, we develop an automated pipeline to construct t…

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%,
Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year.
Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say.

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RLZero: Direct Policy Inference from Language Without In-Domain Supervision
The reward hypothesis states that all goals and purposes can be understood as the maximization of a received scalar reward signal. However, in practice, defining such a reward signal is notoriously difficult, as humans are often unable to predict the optimal behavior corresponding to a reward function. Natural language offers an intuitive alternative for instructing reinforcement learning (RL) agents, yet previous language-conditioned approaches either require costly supervision or test-time tr…

A new normal in America’s immigration courts:
Courthouse arrests have resulted many more detentions of undocumented immigrants without criminal records.
The arrests have turned courthouses into places to witness Trump’s immigration crackdown unfold in real time
-- every day.

Anatomy of an ICE Arrest
Migrants show up for hearings or scheduled check-ins. In growing numbers, they end up in handcuffs as President Trump’s immigration crackdown shifts tactics.