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Having nothing to do with current events, might I suggest reading my “children’s story” Winnie the Coup and Elongated Muskrat Bulldoze the Gubment tonight before bed?
https://medium.com/the-haven/winnie-the-coup-and-the-elongated-musk…

Winnie the Coup and the Elongated Muskrat Bulldoze the Gubment
Once upon a time, there was an orange creature named Winnie the Coup and he had what he thought was a friend, the Elongated Muskrat. Muskrat had a lot of toys and Winnie the Coup was sorta jealous…

En Route Path-planning for Partially Occupied Vehicles in Ride-pooling Systems
Pengbo Zhu, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate, Nikolas Geroliminis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04968

En Route Path-planning for Partially Occupied Vehicles in Ride-pooling Systems
Ride-pooling services, such as UberPool and Lyft Shared Saver, enable a single vehicle to serve multiple customers within one shared trip. Efficient path-planning algorithms are crucial for improving the performance of such systems. For partially occupied vehicles with available capacity, we introduce a novel routing algorithm designed to maximize the likelihood of picking up additional passengers while serving the current passengers to their destination. Unlike traditional methods that group p…

Tabs vs. Spaces: The REAL gender binary.

Ah, I guess HomeKit needs a Radiation Sensor type? (And HealthKit needs radiation dose measurement for things other than UV.)
> "and while it does not include HomeKit, it does have an iOS app that's able to connect to your iPhone over Bluetooth to deliver regular readings"
https://www.macrumors.c…

Review: iPhone-Connected Corentium Home 2 Radon Monitor Provides Peace of Mind
Airthings is a company known for its air quality sensors, and today it introduced its newest digital radon detector, the Corentium Home 2. Depending...

Rethinking Dynamic Networks and Heterogeneous Computing with Automatic Parallelization
Ruilong Wu, Xinjiao Li, Yisu Wang, Xinyu Chen, Dirk Kutscher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02787

Rethinking Dynamic Networks and Heterogeneous Computing with Automatic Parallelization
Hybrid parallelism techniques are essential for efficiently training large language models (LLMs). Nevertheless, current automatic parallel planning frameworks often overlook the simultaneous consideration of node heterogeneity and dynamic network topology changes, limiting their effectiveness in practical applications. In this paper, we address these limitations by modeling heterogeneous nodes within dynamically changing network environments and leveraging simulation-based strategies to determ…

How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs
It’s time to rethink how we cook a set of favicons for modern browsers and stop the icon generator madness. Frontend developers currently have to deal with 20 static PNG files just to display a tiny website logo in a browser tab or on a touchscreen. Read on to see how to take a smarter approach and adopt a minimal set of icons that fits most modern needs.
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How to Favicon in 2025: Three files that fit most needs—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog
Prefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.

Calamus 16 Who is now reading this?
A funny little poem, omitted in later editions. On the surface it's a challenge to the reader and a chance for Whitman to establish himself as self-aware. Claiming his own flaws.
But the text drips with some latent queer meaning
as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it ;)
A secret love that you can never avow? Hello! At least it's tenderly and a long time.
This seems as good a time as any to link Whitman's Boys, a good recent piece considering Whitman as a queer man and what that means to us in current times. It's a nice overview of some queer theory and is even-handed.

I nearly missed the fact it's been a year since I translated @… Meta in Myanmar series to Polish.
A year later, I can confidently say that series radicalized me quite a bit.
I've hated Meta products for a while, so not much has changed in that department.
However, re-reading the story of Rohingya ethnic cleansing over and over again made me grow plenty of sheer anger within me.
Anger over general injustice in the world and stuff.
My third 'era' of photography, involving documenting local activism, with particular attention to oppressed or marginalized groups (tenants, Palestinians, Belarusians - to name just a few) wouldn't have happened if I hadn't had my moment of disillusionment about the whole system we live in.
All of that because I started noticing familiar patterns I haven't been aware before. All stories that involve oppression, genocide, ethnic cleansing or any other kind of systemic cruelty started rhyming to me. Only the context and the environment kept changing.
Literally everything about my current life has changed around April 2024 and only now I'm ready to take a look at that.
Anyway. To all of you who want to read that once again:
Full series in Polish:
https://blog.lukaszwojcik.net/pl/meta-w-mjanmie/
Web Archive copy of the above:
https://archive.org/details/meta-w-mjanmie-pl
Original in English:
https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

"For more than half a century, Argentina has tried as hard as it could to push intellectuals out of the country, committing a slow institutionalized suicide. This almost imperceptible rotting process is at the root of the decadence of what was considered one of the richest and most advanced countries at the beginning of the 20th century."
Watching the US repeating this pattern in real time is unbearable yet completely predictable.

The Argentine Brain Drain
Argentina is currently experiencing a brain drain so strong that it made the headlines on Swiss television.