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"Bangladesh aims to revive five critically endangered plants"
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Bangladesh aims to revive five critically endangered plants
For the first time in its history, Bangladesh is attempting to protect five species from extinction by increasing their numbers and strengthening their population in the wild. The floral species are bulborox (Bulbophyllum roxburghii), the small-bulb orchid Bulbophyllum oblongum, dwarf date palm (Phoenix acaulis), chaulmoogra (Hydnocarpus kurzii) and bash pata (Podocarpus neriifolius). All of them are […]

50 years of reunification, the end of the second Indochina war, #Vietnam had a blast with a mammoth celebration. The nationalism is troubled but it goes strong. An entire day of a parade in Saigon and on TV, and we had a tank in the newspaper 🤷
Interesting, since it’s the final days abroad for us

Hi hi!! I really need some #MutualAid!!
I’m trying to find the full 45-minute documentary “The Anarchist Rabbi” (2014) by Adam Kossoff.
This movie is a documentary about Rudolf Rocker, a German anarchist who worked with Jewish migrants in London’s East End, and it’s narrated by Steven Berkoff.
Here’s the movie on IMDb and similar websites:
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today, rich & i hit the end of our enjoying the ride deadcast season with some deep head history. thanks to sociologist rebecca adams (& her receipts!) we can pinpoint wide use of “shakedown street” to describe the parking lot scene to summer ’89. https://www.dead.net/deadcast/enjoying-rid

Enjoying the Ride: On Tour | The Official Grateful Dead Podcast
The Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast is the first official Grateful Dead podcast. New episodes Thursdays. Tune in everywhere.

Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on April 9, 2025, directing federal agencies to investigate #Miles #Taylor, a former Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland security, for his public criticisms of the president.
This appears to be the first time in U.S. history that a president has explicitly invoked his in…

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I finished reading Gísli Pšlsson’s “The Last Of Its Kind” recently, and if you want a great look at the Great Auk and the history of extinction, this book is fascinating, if a bit depressing in the end. Well worth reading, especially if you like to learn more about life in Iceland in the 1800s.

I just saw the images of the DHS "rennovation" of the old St. Elizabeths in DC as the new DHS HQ.
The architectural renditions suggest that they will be turning it into something rather different than its historical shape (but the drawings i saw didn't look too bad - at least they didn't turn it into a Frank Gehry monstrosity with leaky roofs, dead-end hallways, and external stairs that require people to step open crevices.)
Given DHS head Noem's history, I …

Yesterday, for the first time in the modern history of Spain, the whole country was left without electricity and with the communications of the end of the analog era.
Children had to play ball in the parks, families had to have barbecues in the parks and play board games... And I had to read a book. Going back to the 20th century was hell!
#spain

Ex-Raiders defensive end has jersey displayed in Smithsonian https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/ex-raiders-defensive-end-has-jersey-displayed-in-smithsonian-3381344/

"Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction": how the cardinal points of the compass have changed our world view.
A journey through history, discovery, religion, maps and much more.
And how online maps and GPS are reducing its relevance.
By Jerry Brotton.
https://flic.kr/p/tAv8JZ

DV365: Extremely Long User History Modeling at Instagram
Wenhan Lyu, Devashish Tyagi, Yihang Yang, Ziwei Li, Ajay Somani, Karthikeyan Shanmugasundaram, Nikola Andrejevic, Ferdi Adeputra, Curtis Zeng, Arun K. Singh, Maxime Ransan, Sagar Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00450

DV365: Extremely Long User History Modeling at Instagram
Long user history is highly valuable signal for recommendation systems, but effectively incorporating it often comes with high cost in terms of data center power consumption and GPU. In this work, we chose offline embedding over end-to-end sequence length optimization methods to enable extremely long user sequence modeling as a cost-effective solution, and propose a new user embedding learning strategy, multi-slicing and summarization, that generates highly generalizable user representation of …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.07745 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

History-deterministic Parikh Automata
Parikh automata extend finite automata by counters that can be tested for membership in a semilinear set, but only at the end of a run. Thereby, they preserve many of the desirable properties of finite automata. Deterministic Parikh automata are strictly weaker than nondeterministic ones, but enjoy better closure and algorithmic properties. This state of affairs motivates the study of intermediate forms of nondeterminism. Here, we investigate history-deterministic Parikh automata, i.e., autom…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08568 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

ODIN: Star Formation Histories Reveal Formative Starbursts Experienced by Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at Cosmic Noon
In this work, we test the frequent assumption that Lyman Alpha Emitting galaxies (LAEs) are experiencing their first major burst of star formation at the time of observation. To this end, we identify 74 LAEs from the ODIN Survey with rest-UV-through-NIR photometry from UVCANDELS. For each LAE, we perform non-parametric star formation history (SFH) reconstruction using the Dense Basis Gaussian process-based method of spectral energy distribution fitting. We find that a strong majority (67%) of o…