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@cdarwin@c.im
2025-10-22 14:55:28

Trump Dismisses Another Inspector General,
Fueling Oversight Concerns
With the firing of Parisa Salehi,
the Export-Import Bank’s inspector general,
the president has sidelined around two dozen of the watchdogs who seek out fraud and mismanagement in federal agencies.
Even among Republicans on Capitol Hill, Ms. Salehi’s firing is prompting some backlash.
Senator Charles E. Grassley,
Republican of Iowa, raised concerns that the termination was illegal, …

Trump Dismisses Another Inspector General, Fueling Oversight Concerns
With the firing of the Export-Import Bank’s inspector general, the president has sidelined around two dozen of the watchdogs who seek out fraud and mismanagement in federal agencies.

@metacurity@infosec.exchange
2025-11-20 22:49:23

RE: infosec.exchange/@metacurity/1
A district court judge dismissed most of the SEC’s claims in July 2024. SolarWinds and the SEC recently reached a settlement on the remaining charges.
The SEC's lawsuit was flimsy, …

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-18 06:55:58

Sources: Pinduoduo and Temu owner PDD fires dozens following a fistfight between employees and Chinese officials probing fraudulent deliveries on its platform (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

PDD Fires Dozens of Workers After Fistfight With China Officials
PDD Holdings Inc. fired a government relations team in Shanghai following a fistfight between employees and Chinese regulators who were performing checks at the e-commerce company, according to people familiar with the matter.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-12-22 02:54:10

Broncos WR Bryant in hospital, has movement espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/473858

Sources: Broncos' Pat Bryant out of hospital, has concussion - ESPN
Pat Bryant was discharged from an area hospital Sunday night after being diagnosed with a concussion, but cleared of other major injuries, following a big hit in the final minute of the team's 34-20 loss to the Jaguars, sources told ESPN.

@zack@mamot.fr
2025-11-21 00:07:33

On ne pourra pas toujours compter sur l'incompétence des méchants et la méticulosité de certaines vigies pour sauver l'Etat de Droit.
On ne sera peut-être pas aussi chanceu.x.ses que les Tazunien.ne.s sur ce point. Parce que niveau incompétence des damnés de la méchanceté, ils posent la barre super haut.

Justice Department insists Comey indictment was properly approved
The Trump-appointed prosecutor overseeing the James Comey case is insisting in a new court filing that the full grand jury approved the final indictment against the former FBI director. She is reversing course from statements a day earlier that defense lawyers had seized on to ask for a dismissal. The latest statements from Lindsey Halligan, the hastily named interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, represent an attempt to backtrack on earlier comments the prosecution team ma…

@arXiv_eessIV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-09-22 09:02:31

The Missing Piece: A Case for Pre-Training in 3D Medical Object Detection
Katharina Eckstein, Constantin Ulrich, Michael Baumgartner, Jessica K\"achele, Dimitrios Bounias, Tassilo Wald, Ralf Floca, Klaus H. Maier-Hein
arxiv.org/abs/2509.15947

The Missing Piece: A Case for Pre-Training in 3D Medical Object Detection
Large-scale pre-training holds the promise to advance 3D medical object detection, a crucial component of accurate computer-aided diagnosis. Yet, it remains underexplored compared to segmentation, where pre-training has already demonstrated significant benefits. Existing pre-training approaches for 3D object detection rely on 2D medical data or natural image pre-training, failing to fully leverage 3D volumetric information. In this work, we present the first systematic study of how existing pre…

@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu
2025-11-19 12:48:59

I love minding my own business while listening to kids chatting in their own slang, dissing grown-ups, catching each other saying 6-7, being deadly serious about school exams 😄 Language is a fascinatingly human thing when it's flowing without the imposition of scientifically derived rules and years of societal integration. It just can't stay put and tries to explore every crack, break every convention.

@floheinstein@chaos.social
2025-11-18 10:24:04

Erinnert ihr euch an die Grenzwächter, die in der Aktion "Knobli" im Vorarlberg Schweizer EInkaufstouristen beobachteten, die Hanfsamen und Anbauzubehör kauften?
Sie zogen ihren Strafbefehl wegen Verletzung fremder Gebietshoheit weiter ans Bundesstrafgericht in Bellinzona - und wurden freigesprochen, mit Entschädigung (rechtskräftig).
SK.2024.68 Urteil vom 7. Oktober 2025

I. A. 1. A. wird vom Vorwurf der mehrfachen Verletzung fremder Gebietshoheit (Art. 299 Ziff. 1 Abs. 1 StGB) freigesprochen. 2. A. wird von der Eidgenossenschaft mit Fr. 28'533.45 entschädigt. 3. Die auf A. entfallenden Verfahrenskosten (davon Anteil Gerichtsgebühr: Fr. 1'000.--) gehen zu Lasten der Eidgenossenschaft. II. B. 1. B. wird vom Vorwurf der Verletzung fremder Gebietshoheit (Art. 299 Ziff. 1 Abs. 1 StGB) freigesprochen. 2. B. wird von der Eidgenossenschaft mit Fr. 25'887.60 entschädigt…
@cdarwin@c.im
2025-12-17 06:06:29

The debate regarding the “Goldwater rule” has intensified
following President Trump’s recent rambling presentation in Pennsylvania
(Trump rails on affordability ‘hoax’ and flings racist attacks in rally-style speech, 10 December).
As a physician with decades of experience in health policy, I believe the current discourse misses a vital distinction:
the difference between prohibited diagnosis and legitimate observation.
The Goldwater rule was designed to prevent …

Donald Trump and the Goldwater rule
Letter: There’s a difference between armchair diagnosis and legitimate observation, and we must allow medical expertise to inform public discourse, writes Robert Krasner

@castarco@hachyderm.io
2025-11-16 12:05:17
Content warning: "long" rant about american sci-fi tv series and "neuro-archy"

I have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.