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Cultured Code: Server-Backend von Things nun auch in Swift
Die Programmiersprache Swift wird in immer mehr Apps für Apple-Plattformen verwendet. Cultured Code hat das nun auch beim Server getan.
https:/…

Almost 200 countries guarantee children’s rights.
Why doesn’t the US?
The US never signed on to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which experts say paves the way for cuts to federal funding for children’s health coverage
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Fact Sheet: Russia's Kidnapping and Re-education of Ukraine's Children
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/fact-sheet-russias-kidnapping-and-re-education-of-ukraines-children/

Whispers of Many Shores: Cultural Alignment through Collaborative Cultural Expertise
Shuai Feng, Wei-Chuang Chan, Srishti Chouhan, Junior Francisco Garcia Ayala, Srujananjali Medicherla, Kyle Clark, Mingwei Shi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00242

Whispers of Many Shores: Cultural Alignment through Collaborative Cultural Expertise
The integration of large language models (LLMs) into global applications necessitates effective cultural alignment for meaningful and culturally-sensitive interactions. Current LLMs often lack the nuanced understanding required for diverse cultural contexts, and adapting them typically involves costly full fine-tuning. To address this, we introduce a novel soft prompt fine-tuning framework that enables efficient and modular cultural alignment. Our method utilizes vectorized prompt tuning to dyn…

Why Québec Is Right to Take On Spotify: Cultural Sovereignty in the Age of Algorithmic Homogenization http://musictechpolicy.com/2025/05/26/why-quebec-i…

Why Québec Is Right to Take On Spotify: Cultural Sovereignty in the Age of Algorithmic Homogenization
Spotiy is about to run into a real buzz saw in Quebec.

"GenAI art has already reached polyester status, and this is just the beginning. Despite all the techno-utopian promises, our brains see it as ersatz."
(Original title: GenAI is Our Polyester)
https://culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-polyester/

GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore business shirts made from cotton or linen that wrinkled in the wash. Ironing them into a presentable shape

CNN commentator suggests investigating Trump children's citizenship status (Lindsay Kornick/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnn-commentator-suggests-investigating-trump-childrens-citizenship-status
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p51#a250703p51

Russian delegates call abducted children issue "show for childless European grandmothers" - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/03/russian-delegates-call-abducted-children-issue-show-for-childless-european-grandmothers/

Otra víctima del 2025. Michael Madsen. 🥹
https://elpais.com/cultura/2025-07-03/muere-michael-madsen-actor-fetiche-de-tarantino-en-kill-bill-y-reservoir-dogs.html

TN Govt. Saves School Children From Smut Like Magic Tree House, Calvin & Hobbes, & A Light In The Attic | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/02/tn-govt-saves-school-children-from-smut-like-magic-tree-house-calvin-hobbes-a-light-in-the-attic/