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Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/brazil-china-megarailway-raises-deforestation-warnings-in-the-amazon/

Brazil & China megarailway raises deforestation warnings in the Amazon
From Lucas do Rio Verde, a major agricultural hub in the state of Mato Grosso, the railway would be built from scratch, advancing into the Amazon’s Arc of Deforestation.

"On Sunday, July 20th, 1969, at precisely 20:14:19 UTC, just a mere three minutes before touchdown, the voice of Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr. confirmed the “Go for landing” order received from Mission Control together with a phrase nobody wanted to hear at that moment: “Program alarm – 1201.”"
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/margaret-hamilton/

Casper: Inferring Diverse Intents for Assistive Teleoperation with Vision Language Models
Huihan Liu, Rutav Shah, Shuijing Liu, Jack Pittenger, Mingyo Seo, Yuchen Cui, Yonatan Bisk, Roberto Mart\'in-Mart\'in, Yuke Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14727

Casper: Inferring Diverse Intents for Assistive Teleoperation with Vision Language Models
Assistive teleoperation, where control is shared between a human and a robot, enables efficient and intuitive human-robot collaboration in diverse and unstructured environments. A central challenge in real-world assistive teleoperation is for the robot to infer a wide range of human intentions from user control inputs and to assist users with correct actions. Existing methods are either confined to simple, predefined scenarios or restricted to task-specific data distributions at training, limit…

The Tech DEI Backlash -- The Changing Landscape of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering
Sonja M. Hyrynsalmi, Mary Sanchez-Gordon, Anna Szlavi, Letizia Jaccheri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14232

The Tech DEI Backlash -- The Changing Landscape of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Software Engineering
Not long ago, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives were a top priority for leading software companies. However, in a short period, a wave of backlash has led many firms to re-assess their DEI strategies. Responding to this DEI backlash is crucial in academic research, especially because, currently, little scholarly research has been done on it. In this paper, therefore, we have set forth the following research question (RQ): "How have leading software companies changed their DEI s…

The FT has consistently excellent climate coverage. This one is a bit of a depressing read, but also enlightening.
It's quite clear that the vast majority of growth in coal use is in Asia, mostly China and India, and it more than offsets the shrinking use of coal in Europe and the Americas.
My great grandfather died after a coal mining accident, my kids don't even really know what coal is. I have to hope that the trajectory away from coal will be accelerated in Asia compared to Europe.
Why the world cannot quit coal - https://on.ft.com/3SYaxN5 via @FT

Soft Factorisation and Exponentiation from Schwinger-Space Geometry
Carolina Figueiredo, Giulio Gambuti, Holmfridur S. Hannesdottir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15603

Soft Factorisation and Exponentiation from Schwinger-Space Geometry
Infrared divergences in Quantum Field Theory govern the low-energy dynamics of many physical theories, and their understanding is a crucial ingredient in predicting the outcomes of collider experiments. We present a novel approach to deriving the structure of these divergences by employing the Schwinger parametrization of Feynman integrals. After using tropical geometry to identify divergent limits, we study the all-orders asymptotic properties of Feynman diagrams via matrix manipulations of gr…

"Colombia cuts deforestation by one-third as government targets Amazon and illegal mining"
#Colombia #Trees #Deforestation

Colombia cuts deforestation by one-third as government targets Amazon and illegal mining
Colombia’s environment ministry reported a 33% drop in deforestation during the first quarter of 2025, citing coordinated enforcement efforts and strengthened partnerships with local communities.Steven Grattan reports for The Associated Press.In short:Colombia’s deforestation fell from 40,219 hectar...

Poszliśmy sobie do restauracji w wiosce rybackiej na małej wyspie - oczywiście bardzo turystyczne miejsce, nie da się ukryć, ale jedzenie mieli super.

Zupa rybna była tak dobra, że żałowaliśmy, że na przystawkę wzięliśmy. Myślałem, że nie lubię zup rybnych, ale chyba wcześniej nie jadłem dobrej. Carpaccio z wieloryba było osobliwe - bardzo dobre, ale jest to niepowtarzalny smak, który bym porównał do dziczyzny z morza. Dorsz świetny, ale potrawka taka se - no wszystko dobrze, ale warzywa…

High Socioeconomic Status is Associated with Diverse Consumption across Brands and Price Levels
Yuanmo He, Milena Tsvetkova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13840

High Socioeconomic Status is Associated with Diverse Consumption across Brands and Price Levels
Consumption practices are determined by a combination of economic, social, and cultural forces. We posit that lower economic constraints leave more room to diversify consumption along cultural and social aspects in the form of omnivorous or lifestyle-based niche consumption. We provide empirical evidence for this diversity hypothesis by analysing millions of mobile-tracked visits from thousands of Census Block Groups to thousands of stores in New York State. The results show that high income is…

Classical analog of the T. D. Lee model for renormalization
K. Xu, C. P. Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15161 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

Classical analog of the T. D. Lee model for renormalization
While divergence and renormalization of physical quantities are frequently encountered in quantum field theory (QFT), they are not necessarily quantum-specific characteristics. We show in this paper that there exists a classical counterpart of the Lee model which is the model of coupled harmonic oscillators (CHO). It is demonstrated that the frequency divergence in this classical model precisely replicates the phenomenon of mass divergence in the Lee model, as does the corresponding renormaliza…