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Ex-defense minister appointed secretary of Ukraine's Security Council: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/exdefense-minister-appointed-secretary-of.html

Spain's national power blackout: investigation results.
One non-renewable power station not available (for grid stabilisation).
Other power stations not complying with contractual requirements on frequency stabilisation.
We don't know which ones.
This on top of a speculatively unplanned power system.
So a cascade of effects leading to rapid shutdown.
(#Press rep…

El informe del apagón detecta centrales que “no estaban regulando tensión” y una desconexión “indebida” de instalaciones
El histórico cero energético se debió a “una combinación de factores”: había centrales “disponibles” para regular tensión que no lo estaban haciendo “según lo previsto por la normativa” y hubo plantas que se desconectaron de forma “indebida”, según Aagesen

Trump signed an executive order decrying so-called anti-Christian bias in February,
and a hotline was created in April to encourage State Department workers to call in and snitch on their colleagues who might be acting with any kind of “anti-Christian bias.”
The Religious Liberty Commission was established via another executive order on May 1 during a flashy White House event.
Trump has even established his own Christian “faith” office in the White House, seemingly further…

Trump’s ‘anti-Christian bias’ taskforce reveals its propagandistic agenda in first meeting
Even though Christians are the dominant religious group in the country, Trump and his allies are desperate to portray persecution where there is none

Shared on Bluesky from a different #DH2025 'Nwulite Obodo Open Data License — Made for sharing African datasets equitably' https://datasciencelawlab.africa/nwulite-…

OPTIC-ER: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Real-Time Emergency Response and Equitable Resource Allocation in Underserved African Communities
Mary Tonwe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12943

OPTIC-ER: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Real-Time Emergency Response and Equitable Resource Allocation in Underserved African Communities
Public service systems in many African regions suffer from delayed emergency response and spatial inequity, causing avoidable suffering. This paper introduces OPTIC-ER, a reinforcement learning (RL) framework for real-time, adaptive, and equitable emergency response. OPTIC-ER uses an attention-guided actor-critic architecture to manage the complexity of dispatch environments. Its key innovations are a Context-Rich State Vector, encoding action sub-optimality, and a Precision Reward Function, wh…

📝🗃️ 𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗱𝘂𝗺𝗽: Dump ‘R’ Package Source, Documentation, and Vignettes into One File for use in LLMs #rstats #LLM is on CRAN https://www.ekotov.pro/rdocdum…

rdocdump: Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File

Damn packed stuff.
Mario in Wonderland is a very energizing track for me.
https://ektoplazm.com/free-music/grand-cheff-voodoo-goattack-ep

Grand-Cheff - Voodoo GoAttack EP | Ektoplazm
New school Goa trance with whirling psychedelic melodies and humorous samples.

Im Freibad darf jeder rein, egal ob Brust-, Kraul- oder Bauchklatscher. Im #Fediverse scheint’s eher: Nur wer im Gleichschwimm mit der Mehrheit ist. Lars meint: weniger Gesinnungs-Steg, mehr Sprungbrett für Vielfalt. Und ja, notfalls hält der Bademeister auch den Shitstorm aus.
Meinungsfreiheit am Beckenrand – und im Fediverse? - Lars Müller

Ex-defense minister may head Ukraine's National Security Council, media reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/exdefense-minister-may-head-ukraines.html