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“Supreme Court win for girl with epilepsy expected to make disability lawsuits against schools easier”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-disabilities-schools-education-access-lawsuits-56f67cf12f1f9c4a7e…

Supreme Court rules for girl with epilepsy in case over access to education
A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy has won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education. Thursday's ruling comes after her family said her Minnesota school district didn’t do enough to get her the disability accommodations she needs to learn. The girl and her family appealed to the Supreme Court after lower courts ruled against their disability discrimination case. Some courts h…

A Chat with the UnMute Disabled Artist Roster https://sonicstate.com/news/2025/06/24/a-chat-with-the-unmute-disabled-artist-roster/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_content=…

A Chat with the UnMute Disabled Artist Roster - Creating New Opportunities for Disabled Musicians
Creating New Opportunities for Disabled Musicians

Venu X1: Garmins dünnste Sportuhr mit großem AMOLED-Display
Garmin hat seine bisher dünnste Sportuhr mit 2 Zoll großem AMOLED-Bildschirm vorgestellt. Die Gamin Venu X1 kostet 800 Euro. 
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Trump literally fails in everything.
#trump

How Iran Strikes Put Trump’s Impotence on Full Embarrassing Display
All the reasons Trump is the opposite of a 4-D chess player are on brutal display in the Tehran rubble.

“Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company’s supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.”
https://m.independent.ie/regionals/…

Bray Air Display drops US sponsor over Israel support in Gaza war
Bray Air Display has dropped US defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin as a sponsor for this year’s event over the company's supply of arms support to Israel in the Gaza war.

Did you know that you can disable #Android apps? https://www.guidingtech.com/how-to-disable-apps-on-android-and-what-happens-when-you-do/
The down…

This Thursday the moving truck arrives and the following Tuesday we move into our new home. Therefore, it's time for a new alias, and this poll offers some possible alternatives. Please boost for maximum meaningless results.
Some background:
- we are moving to the Barrie area.
- officially, within the Town of Innisfil
- easy walking distance to Belle Aire Beach
- within Innisfil, we are in the community of Belle Ewart
Disclaimer - I am not legally bound by the results of this survey.
Barrie Beach Bum
Innocuous In Innisfil
Prince of Belle Aire
Ewartian Era

DocPolarBERT: A Pre-trained Model for Document Understanding with Relative Polar Coordinate Encoding of Layout Structures
Benno Uthayasooriyar, Antoine Ly, Franck Vermet, Caio Corro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08606

DocPolarBERT: A Pre-trained Model for Document Understanding with Relative Polar Coordinate Encoding of Layout Structures
We introduce DocPolarBERT, a layout-aware BERT model for document understanding that eliminates the need for absolute 2D positional embeddings. We extend self-attention to take into account text block positions in relative polar coordinate system rather than the Cartesian one. Despite being pre-trained on a dataset more than six times smaller than the widely used IIT-CDIP corpus, DocPolarBERT achieves state-of-the-art results. These results demonstrate that a carefully designed attention mechan…

ACTION ALERT: Stop DDOT from removing protected bike lanes
#bike

A Survey of Large Language Models in Discipline-specific Research: Challenges, Methods and Opportunities
Lu Xiang, Yang Zhao, Yaping Zhang, Chengqing Zong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08425

A Survey of Large Language Models in Discipline-specific Research: Challenges, Methods and Opportunities
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their transformative potential across numerous disciplinary studies, reshaping the existing research methodologies and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. However, a systematic understanding of their integration into diverse disciplines remains underexplored. This survey paper provides a comprehensive overview of the application of LLMs in interdisciplinary studies, categorising research efforts from both a technical perspective and with reg…