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😠 Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/boffins_social_media_users_rubbish/

Social media users rubbish at spotting sneaky ads, say boffins
: Social media marketeers getting better at concealing promos in posts

Alejandro Pedregal: “El #decrecimiento no es ni primitivismo ni austeridad”
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/decrecimient

Alejandro Pedregal: “El decrecimiento no es ni primitivismo ni austeridad”
El cineasta publica ‘Incendios’, un libro en el que reflexiona sobre el antagonismo del capitalismo con los límites biofísicos del planeta y la vida. Pedregal habla de fuegos, de decrecimiento y de mirar al Sur global para crear nuevos mundos.

Lauren Sanchez, in preparation for her Venice wedding, is carrying an Eiffel Tower purse that likely costs more than your monthly salary.
Jeff Bezos’s yacht Koru’s purchase price could supply insulin for 856,666 diabetics or feed roughly 1,285,000 people for an entire year.
The Bezos/Sanchez $10 million wedding is just the tip of the selfish iceberg that is the Amazon empire, -- known for grinding warehouse workers into the ground with surveillance practices, extreme time manag…

Why Venetians want Jeff Bezos to choke on his wedding cake
Taya Graham breaks down what Bezos’s luxurious fete reveals about the massive wealth imbalance in the United States.

@ddayen.bsky.social @… This kind of "public participation" is what nimbys rail against. It's *anti-democratic* because opponents use it to frustrate the will of the majority.
What both sides of the "abundance" debate miss is that in practice you can do this to transit & infill housing but no…

Rivera Proposal Would Slow Down Seattle Light Rail Permitting - The Urbanist
# Councilmember Maritza Rivera's last-minute proposal would require additional public outreach and documentation for light rail permit applications. The underlying bill had been intended to cut red rape. After pushback from Councilmembers Rinck and Strauss, the vote was delayed a week.

La justicia declara culpable al expresidente colombiano Álvaro Uribe por soborno y fraude procesal
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/colombia/justicia-declara-culpable-al-expresidente-colombiano-alvar…

La justicia declara culpable al expresidente colombiano Álvaro Uribe por soborno y fraude procesal
Por primera vez en la historia de Colombia, un expresidente enfrenta una sentencia penal en su contra. El caso contra el expresidente sacude al sistema político colombiano y genera un debate nacional sobre impunidad, justicia e institucionalidad.

For people doing web perf
Links? Links! - Infrequently Noted
#rss

AI slop is everywhere, no surprise, and the spray-tanned, delusional wannabe dictator loves it, soaking it up and using this digital garbage to twist reality and feed his massive ego.
#AiSlop #AI #Fascism

I remember the claims from 30 or so years ago that only conventional high input agriculture could feed the world - support by data on yields of organic farming vs high input farming. And I remember the counter argument - that growing organic products on land that had been degraded, was bound to produce lower yields. (Organic certification required a several year transition phase.) And now I see:
"A critical challenge for many farms transitioning to regenerative farming is that …

I remember the claims from 30 or so years ago that only conventional high input agriculture could feed the world - support by data on yields of organic farming vs high input farming. And I remember the counter argument - that growing organic products on land that had been degraded, was bound to produce lower yields. (Organic certification required a several year transition phase.) And now I see:
"A critical challenge for many farms transitioning to regenerative farming is that …

Työtapojen vapausmuotoilusta (!). Viime viikkoina on tullut eri paikoissa vastaan ajatus siitä, että ihmiset tykkäävät saada itse päättää työtapansa. (...)
Aika usein ei ole yhtään hyvä juttu, jos jokainen keksii puhtaalta pöydältä toistuvan asian työtavan. Siksi tarvitaankin näennäistä vapautta, vapausmuotoilua! (...)
...Jatkuu LinkedInissä

Työtapojen vapausmuotoilusta (!). | Matti Vuori
Työtapojen vapausmuotoilusta (!). Viime viikkoina on tullut eri paikoissa vastaan ajatus siitä, että ihmiset tykkäävät saada itse päättää työtapansa. Sehän nyt ei ole uutinen. Ihmiset eivät ole robotteja - jos joku muu pystyy miettimään työn tekemisen detaljeja myöten, sen työn voisi saman tien automatisoida. Mutta työllä on usein vahvoja reunaehtoja.  - LOOGINEN JÄRJESTYS: Tekemisen kohteen rakentumisella on usein väistämätön logiikkansa (talon runko pitää pystytt…

${C}^{3}$-GS: Learning Context-aware, Cross-dimension, Cross-scale Feature for Generalizable Gaussian Splatting
Yuxi Hu, Jun Zhang, Kuangyi Chen, Zhe Zhang, Friedrich Fraundorfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20754

${C}^{3}$-GS: Learning Context-aware, Cross-dimension, Cross-scale Feature for Generalizable Gaussian Splatting
Generalizable Gaussian Splatting aims to synthesize novel views for unseen scenes without per-scene optimization. In particular, recent advancements utilize feed-forward networks to predict per-pixel Gaussian parameters, enabling high-quality synthesis from sparse input views. However, existing approaches fall short in encoding discriminative, multi-view consistent features for Gaussian predictions, which struggle to construct accurate geometry with sparse views. To address this, we propose $\m…

A few months ago, ReVision Implant announced on LinkedIn that they have entered a research partnership with Cochlear Inc. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7307520278517932032 There seems to be no official press release;

We're thrilled to announce that we've entered our first research partnership with a world-leading medtech company, Cochlear Inc. | ReVision Implant
We're thrilled to announce that we've entered our first research partnership with a world-leading medtech company, Cochlear Inc. Cochlear's implants have helped over 750.000 profoundly deaf people reconnect to the world of sound. As a forward-thinking company, they are constantly striving to further improve their technology in order to even better help patients. We are truly honored to be allowed to contribute to this mission!

@… Ich kann ja mal eine Mail an Scribo schreiben und Feedback geben, dass alle Bilder bei einem Album toll wären. Was genau ist die Autoren-Info? Der Instagram-Account ist ja bekannt und Teil der URL, über die man die Posts abfragt.
Falls du einen Github-Account hast, kannst du auch ein Issue eröffnen.

Thank you all for your donations so far. It’s the middle of the week and we’re almost half way there.
Can we get this to $500 by the end of the week so Aseel can feed her family?
Please share.
💕 https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115095609666982728

flowers for your feed 😍

Meta verarbeitet jetzt eure Fotos. Ob da wohl Palantir mit gefüttert wird. Das hätte dann zur Folge, dass einige deutsche Polizeien und natürlich das gesamte amerikanische Law Enforcement automatisiert mit euren Fotos fahnden kann.
Big Brother auf Steroiden.
#Überwachung #meta

Deep Learning-Based CSI Feedback for Wi-Fi Systems With Temporal Correlation
Junyong Shin, Eunsung Jeon, Inhyoung Kim, Yo-Seb Jeon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23198

Deep Learning-Based CSI Feedback for Wi-Fi Systems With Temporal Correlation
To achieve higher throughput in next-generation Wi-Fi systems, a station (STA) needs to efficiently compress channel state information (CSI) and feed it back to an access point (AP). In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning (DL)-based CSI feedback framework tailored for next-generation Wi-Fi systems. Our framework incorporates a pair of encoder and decoder neural networks to compress and reconstruct the angle parameters of the CSI. To enable an efficient finite-bit representation of the …

Is this reality?
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7341857033932914691/

I had the thrill of a lifetime, hosting dinner for Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and David Cutler. | Mark Russinovich
I had the thrill of a lifetime, hosting dinner for Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and David Cutler. Linus had never met Bill, and Dave had never met Linus. No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner 😉 | 619 comments on LinkedIn

Microsoft Sued By Authors Over Use of Books in AI Training - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/25/2137220/microsoft-sued-by-authors-over-use-of-books-in-ai-training?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

The Meta AI app now shows a warning prompt before users share content to the public feed, after reports of users accidentally sharing chats with personal info (Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-pu

Meta AI adds an extra step to prevent embarrassing overshares
Meta has added a new warning before you can post to Meta AI's public feed. It comes after BI reported that people appeared to be posting accidentally.

Time to feed the baby 🐈

“ Countering Chinese State-Sponsored Actors Compromise of Networks Worldwide to Feed Global Espionage System”
#china

🤔 Looking at this UI, Forem could probably implement ActivityPub at this point.
Every logo is a server. "Forem feed" = Federated timeline. "Follow" = follow and adding their Local timeline to my Following timeline? 🤔
Related discussion: https://github.com/forem/forem/discuss

White House lashes out at South Park over spoof of Donald Trump in bed seducing Satan: 'Desperate attempt' (Joey Nolfi/Entertainment Weekly)
https://ew.com/white-house-responds-south-park-donald-trump-bed-satan-spoof-11778279?taid=68825ac2636c000001062738&utm_campaign=trueAnthem: New Content (Feed)
http://www.memeorandum.com/250724/p116#a250724p116

BBC News, AFP, the AP, and Reuters say they are "desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves" (Amy Walker/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8j1j7n72ywo

BBC News and news agencies warn journalists in Gaza at risk of starvation - BBC News
News organisations say local journalists are increasingly unable to feed themselves in Gaza, facing the same "dire circumstances as those they are covering".

Ah, the smell of #desperation / #enshittification - one washed up shit-i-fied social media platform (#Reddit) begging for users/advertisers/relevance on _another_ shit-i-fied social media platform (

Wow, this just crossed my feed: https://www.euro-stack.info/docs/EuroStack_2025.pdf It describes the new 'EuroStack' of software, focused on helping the EU achieve digital sovereignty and arrest digital colonisation by US

Intruder structures in $^{32}$Si and $^{29}$Al
J. Williams, G. Hackman, K. Starosta, R. S. Lubna, Priyanka Choudhary, Subhrajit Sahoo, P. C. Srivastava, C. Andreoiu, D. Annen, H. Asch, M. D. H. K. G. Badanage, G. C. Ball, M. Beuschlein, H. Bidaman, V. Bildstein, R. J. Coleman, A. B. Garnsworthy, B. Greaves, G. Leckenby, V. Karayonchev, M. S. Martin, C. Natzke, C. M. Petrache, A. Radich, E. Raleigh-Smith, D. Rhodes, R. Russell, M. Satrazani, P. Spagnoletti, C. E. Svensson, D. Tam, F. Wu…

Intruder structures in $^{32}$Si and $^{29}$Al
We have studied $^{32}$Si and $^{29}$Al using $^{12}$C($^{22}$Ne,2p) and $^{12}$C($^{22}$Ne,$α$p) fusion-evaporation reactions. In both cases, we observed significant population of high-spin structures distinct from the ground-state yrast bands. In $^{32}$Si, most of the high-energy states feed into a $J^π = 5^-$ nanosecond isomer. In $^{29}$Al, we identified a rotor-like negative-parity band with a $J^π = 7/2^-$ band-head. Doppler shift lifetime measurements were performed for all observed …

Sometimes, you really do have to hand it to Nietzsche.
Recognizing your own potential as literal prey is a useful early step. https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/114921877666921523

Oh well, better go and feed the family now I suppose, paper 2 will have to wait...

All the bird types who come and feed in my small bird sanctuary (aka garden) have fledglings right now. Many of them bring the little ones along to feed. This is a great opportunity for me to learn what the various birds look like at different ages.
I can't do much about the mess the human world is in; seeing to it that there is a safe space for these young birds to splash in a bird bath and eat good, tasty food is a better activity than just screaming into the void.

Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerber…

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI is one of the most depressing places online
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

This is the first time I’ve heard of a web #accessibility lawsuit *demanding* an overlay:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:734050244680636…

Talked with a site owner this afternoon who has received a subpoena for a website accessibility suit. | Bet Hannon
Talked with a site owner this afternoon who has received a subpoena for a website accessibility suit. Typical serial plaintiff, with dozens of cookie-cutter suits. What isn't typical however, is that the plaintiff's attorney wants to make only putting an overlay widget on the site the only requirement to settle. I've never heard of that before. Almost always the requirement is that the site conform to WCAG 2.1 AA within 12-24 months. Has anyone seen this happening with a defendant before? I t…

Sorry for flooding your feed last night with all my soft-dom appreciation, but honestly, my autistic brain just can’t resist a little (okay, a lot of) oversharing.
If you want the full story, I’ve got a whole pinned post about it right here: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/

Metas #KI-Feed ist ein #Privatsphäre-Albtraum
Menschen posten intimste Fragen an den #Chatbot, und jeder kann mitlesen. Das Unternehmen schiebt die Verantwortung auf die User ab

This is absolutely fucked.. there's a public discovery feed of people talking to Meta AI.
How's that thing even existing
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-chatbot-discover-feed-depressing-why-20…

Dynamic Agile Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Antenna (DARISA) MIMO: DoF Analysis and Effective DoF Optimization
Jiale Bai, Hui-Ming Wang, Liang Jin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19136

Dynamic Agile Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Antenna (DARISA) MIMO: DoF Analysis and Effective DoF Optimization
In this paper, we propose a dynamic agile reconfigurable intelligent surface antenna (DARISA) array integrated into multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transceivers. Each DARISA comprises a number of metasurface elements activated simultaneously via a parallel feed network. The proposed system enables rapid and intelligent phase response adjustments for each metasurface element within a single symbol duration, facilitating a dynamic agile adjustment of phase response (DAAPR) strategy. By analyzing …

Game-Theoretic Gradient Control for Robust Neural Network Training
Maria Zaitseva, Ivan Tomilov, Natalia Gusarova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19143 https://…

Game-Theoretic Gradient Control for Robust Neural Network Training
Feed-forward neural networks (FFNNs) are vulnerable to input noise, reducing prediction performance. Existing regularization methods like dropout often alter network architecture or overlook neuron interactions. This study aims to enhance FFNN noise robustness by modifying backpropagation, interpreted as a multi-agent game, and exploring controlled target variable noising. Our "gradient dropout" selectively nullifies hidden layer neuron gradients with probability 1 - p during backpropagation, w…

I've been trying to publish all of my recent graphics... here's another one!
#art

Feed Me Oligarchs
Free graphics for the resistance...

Meta Invents New Way to Humiliate Users With Feed of People's Chats With AI https://www.404media.co/meta-invents-new-way-to-humiliate-users-with-feed-of-peoples-chats-with-ai/

Omg definitiv! Verlasst euch auf keinen Fall auf andere Plattformen, schon gar nicht Spotify.
https://troet.cafe/@nSonic/115023183623242883

Scrolling through an online shop I just tried to fav a product like it was a @… feed.

Threads launches a fediverse feed and a way to search for fediverse users, with support for Mastodon and others, for users who turned on fediverse sharing (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/688267/threads-fediverse-feed-search

Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds
A new ‘Fediverse feed’ in your Following section will show posts from Mastodon, Flipboard, and elsewhere.

@… bot has resuscitated by using RSS feed.
https://mas.to/@LouderPosts

Identifying the sources of noise synergy and redundancy in the feed-forward loop motif
Mintu Nandi, Sudip Chattopadhyay, Suman K Banik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18620

Identifying the sources of noise synergy and redundancy in the feed-forward loop motif
The propagation of noise through parallel regulatory pathways is a prominent feature of feed-forward loops in genetic networks. Although the contributions of the direct and indirect regulatory pathways of feed-forward loops to output variability have been well characterized, the impact of their joint action arising from their shared input and output remains poorly understood. Here, we identify an additional component of noise that emerges specifically from this convergent nature of the pathways…

Hey everyone, every Tuesday, my friend @… asks for your help to feed her family. She can’t do it today (they’re trying to stay alive during a genocide) so she asked if I could do it on her behalf.

They need $500 each week for their family of 6.

Every single dollar makes a real difference 
If you’re unable to donate, please consider sharing – it might r…

Help Sehwel family with their medical treatment
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza. I'm creating this Chuffed campaign for the family to help afford these things and hopefully help them get out of Gaza when the opportunity arises. Here's Aseel's writing:

Well no shit... Travis gave Cody a black eye and a busted ear drum.
https://mastodon.social/@variety_feed/114989826437527074

@… https://allenginsberg.org/feed/

Massive extended streamers feed high-mass young stars
Fernando A. Olguin, Patricio Sanhueza, Adam Ginsburg, Huei-Ru Vivien Chen, Kei E. I. Tanaka, Xing Lu, Kaho Morii, Fumitaka Nakamura, Shanghuo Li, Yu Cheng, Qizhou Zhang, Qiuyi Luo, Yoko Oya, Takeshi Sakai, Masao Saito, Andr\'es E. Guzm\'an
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15889…

Massive extended streamers feed high-mass young stars
Stars are born in a variety of environments that determine how they gather gas to achieve their final masses. It is generally believed that disks are ubiquitous around protostars as a result of angular momentum conservation and are natural places to grow planets. As such, they are proposed to be the last link in the inflow chain from the molecular cloud to the star. However, disks are not the only form that inflows can take. Here we report on high-resolution observations performed with the Atac…

@… Welcome to Mastodon!  Best tip for starting out that I have is to search for # that you are interested in, and follow any that you like.  Then follow the people using those hashtags that interest you. Follow liberally, lots, or your feed will be very empty and boring, cos there's no algorithm feeding you stuff till you tell it what to feed you.  …

Mein Interview mit Gala Pin, @… , Ex-Abgeordnete in Spanien und Tech-Aktivistin, über eine KI, die das Gewalt-Risiko von Frauen in #Spanien einschätzt.
“Theoretisch kann die Polizei die Gefahren-Einstufung des Algorithmus überprüfen und die Risikobewertung au…

IShowSpeed to join NFL's YouTube debut for Week 1 Chiefs-Chargers matchup https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6576266/2025/08/26/ishowspeed-nfl-youtube-chiefs-chargers/

Mastodon’s chronological feed is downright oppressive if you treat it as an inbox, as homework that must be completed.
But if you take it as an honest timeslice-based sampling of what people are saying and thinking about? It’s pretty awesome.
Re this from @…:
https://mas.to/@kims/114724380498198624

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN-rElTzR_4
I know, it's kind of ironic, posting this on a social network like the Fediverse. At least we only get stuff by real people in our feed here and - most importantly - only content of people we want to follow in the first place.

Massive extended streamers feed high-mass young stars: #stars: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2025-08-21

YouTube's NFL debut will include influencer IShowSpeed, who has 43M subscribers, and three others doing "Watch With" streams, which enable live reactions (Dan Shanoff/The Athletic)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6576266/2025/08/26/i…

IShowSpeed to join NFL’s YouTube debut for Week 1 Chiefs-Chargers matchup
The streaming megastar will join three other influencers available to fans through YouTube's "Watch With" alternate broadcast feed.

I'm the kind of friend that you sometimes don't hear from for months or even years, then randomly DM's you something I knew you liked back then (like a video of a specific kind of bird I randomly spotted in my feed).

Heyyy, I kinda felt a little sorry for feeling your feed tonight, but honestly I was just bursting with self-love and all the queer sparkle ✨💖

@deadbeefdotmonster@infosec.exchange I like, almost NEVER look at my local feed haha. And it's curated enough here that I very rarely see crap, people should definitely use content warnings though. What's weird is that images aren't behind content warnings 🙄 wish they'd fix that haha

I've written a brief -- and very preliminary -- note on what I've learned playing with #Friendica so far.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu…

Initial thoughts on Friendica
If you've been browsing through your Mastodon feed, and you come upon a post with nice formatting — perhaps words emboldened or italicised, perhaps with an embedded link — and you've wondered how that post was written, the answer may be Friendica.

The maga-regime has opened the floodgates to allow purported AI company 'bots' steal everything they can find. (Goodbye robots.txt, goodbye terms-of-service, goodbye copyright.)
To me that suggests that anyone wanting to take information - even highly sensitive stuff such as medical, financial, or even classified data - now can raise a defense that they are just gathering data to feed their AI. (A smart criminal would prepare for to use defense by actually buying an Nvidia AI c…

So it was “retweet with comment”. https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/06/retweetception/ (April 2015)
Screenshot from

Sunnuntaiksi huomioita pienuuden psykologiasta. Perjantaina jossain seminaarissa joku sanoi, että ei Suomi mahda digijäteille mitään, kun olemme niin pieni. Jassoo... katsotaanpa tätä pienuuden asiaa vähän laajemminkin. Toistakymmentä pointtia: (...)
Jatkuu LinkedInissä:
https://www.linkedin.co…

Sunnuntaiksi huomioita pienuuden psykologiasta. Perjantaina jossain seminaarissa joku sanoi, että ei Suomi mahda digijäteille mitään, kun olemme niin pieni. Jassoo... katsotaanpa tätä pienuuden asiaa… | Matti Vuori
Sunnuntaiksi huomioita pienuuden psykologiasta. Perjantaina jossain seminaarissa joku sanoi, että ei Suomi mahda digijäteille mitään, kun olemme niin pieni. Jassoo... katsotaanpa tätä pienuuden asiaa vähän laajemminkin. Toistakymmentä pointtia: 1 Samaa logiikkaa on ympäristöasioissa. Kun Suomi on pieni, ei meidän tekemisillämme ole mitään väliä. Jaetaanpa maapallo saman kokoisiin alueisiin. Jos millään niistä ei ole mitään merkitystä, millä sitten on? 2 Työläinen saa…

Ahaha, nach meinem "Dude 1 & Dude 2"-Rant hatte ich gar nicht auf LinkedIn geschaut und deswegen ist mir die Dudeception der fragilen Männlichkeit dort gar nicht aufgefallen.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:733231169199…

This time of year I put a small tray outside with oatmeal and currants (over which I have poured a bit of hot water, such that the oats stick together a bit). Starlings come in droves with their fledglings, and feed the chicks from the tray.
Today I noticed an adult rook and a juvenile sitting together on the wall, watching the starlings feed.
Rooks live a long time and are intelligent, and observation is how they study the world!

How much of my children's future is AI going to burn up? That depends on how much we feed the hype beast. *That* is why "don't use AI at all without mentioning the drawbacks & a very good reason" is my stance (and I'm an AI researcher, technically).
Local models that run on your laptop: acceptable if produced by ethical means (including data sourcing & compensation for data filtering) & training costs are mitigated. Are such models way worse than the huge datacenter-scale models? Yes, for now. Deal with it.
ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, even DeepSeek: get out. You're feeding the beast that is consuming my kids' future. Heck, even talking up these models or about how "everyone is using them so it's okay" or about "they're not going away" I'd feeding the beast even if you don't touch them.
I wish it weren't like this, because the capabilities of the big models are cool even once you cut past the hype.
#AI

Nonlinear Distortion Equalization in Multi-Span Optical Links Via a Feed-Forward Photonic Neural Network
Emiliano Staffoli, Elisabetta Ferri, Stefano Gretter, Lorenzo Pavesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13775

Nonlinear Distortion Equalization in Multi-Span Optical Links Via a Feed-Forward Photonic Neural Network
Linear and nonlinear distortions in optical communication signals are equalized using an integrated feed-forward Photonic Neural Network (PNN). The PNN is based on a linear stage made of an 8-tap Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter, featuring tunable amplitude and phase weights at each tap, and of a nonlinear stage achieved through the square modulus operation at the end-of-line photodetector. Within an Intensity Modulation/Direct Detection (IMDD) system, the PNN is applied to 2-level Pulse Am…

goldene Worte von @… ! Ein toller Vortrag wider den KI-Hype #genAI
Chaos Computer Club - recent events feed (low quality): Entzaubert generative KI (#gpn23)
Episode we…

I’m quite surprised neither thought to feed the poor thing. https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert/115073022710824865

Jürgen Hubert (@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social)
Attached: 1 image If you meet a black cat on the road, it's best to leave well enough alone. #Germany #folktale #folklore #cat @germany@a.gup.pe @folklore@a.gup.pe https://www.patreon.com/posts/weird-cats-64651278

Don't feed the trolls. And nazis. #fcknzs

PhysGM: Large Physical Gaussian Model for Feed-Forward 4D Synthesis
Chunji Lv, Zequn Chen, Donglin Di, Weinan Zhang, Hao Li, Wei Chen, Changsheng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13911

PhysGM: Large Physical Gaussian Model for Feed-Forward 4D Synthesis
While physics-grounded 3D motion synthesis has seen significant progress, current methods face critical limitations. They typically rely on pre-reconstructed 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) representations, while physics integration depends on either inflexible, manually defined physical attributes or unstable, optimization-heavy guidance from video models. To overcome these challenges, we introduce PhysGM, a feed-forward framework that jointly predicts a 3D Gaussian representation and its physica…

Threads launches a fediverse feed and a way to search for fediverse users, with support for Mastodon and others, for users who turned on fediverse sharing (David Pierce/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/688267/threads-fediverse-feed-search

Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds
A new ‘Fediverse feed’ in your Following section will show posts from Mastodon, Flipboard, and elsewhere.

AI coding service Replit Wiped Production Database, Faked Data to Cover Bugs, SaaStr Founder Says - Slashdot
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/21/1338204/replit-wiped-production-database-faked-data-to-cover-bugs-saastr-founder-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Feed Gaza!
https://innn.it/gaza-hilfe

Petition · Uneingeschränkte Hilfslieferungen nach Gaza JETZT ! · innn.it
Jetzt innn.it-Petition unterschreiben & Alex von Palestinians and Jews for Peace unterstützen!

“Most people spend 10% of their income on food and for poorer people, it might be 15%.”
“But for everyone it’s still less than they pay on rent,
and how much do we talk about ‘rent poverty’?” he says.
“The reason people are poor is because they’re not paid enough
and because housing is too expensive in this country.
All the research suggests that most people, even people on lower incomes, want to feed their families better
and they are prepared to pay a b…

TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678779/tiktok-for-you-feed-manage-…

TikTok gives everyone more control over what’s on their For You page
TikTok is rolling out Manage Topics globally, a feature that lets you control how often you see certain kinds of videos in your For You feed, such as those related to sports, travel, humor, or dance.

Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds
Not actually seeing it right now from my Threads account
#threads
https://www.theverge.com/news/688267/threa

Fascists absolutely LOATHE these flags 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 So I’m flooding the feed with them, louder and prouder than ever!
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Crank up “Rise Like a Phoenix” by Conchita Wurst and let these colors burn bright as a middle finger to hate and oppression.

It's Queen Jane in the barn; sometimes Bob B comes around when we feed the Queen, sometimes he doesn't
#photo #photography #cats

4DNeX: Feed-Forward 4D Generative Modeling Made Easy
Zhaoxi Chen, Tianqi Liu, Long Zhuo, Jiawei Ren, Zeng Tao, He Zhu, Fangzhou Hong, Liang Pan, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13154

4DNeX: Feed-Forward 4D Generative Modeling Made Easy
We present 4DNeX, the first feed-forward framework for generating 4D (i.e., dynamic 3D) scene representations from a single image. In contrast to existing methods that rely on computationally intensive optimization or require multi-frame video inputs, 4DNeX enables efficient, end-to-end image-to-4D generation by fine-tuning a pretrained video diffusion model. Specifically, 1) to alleviate the scarcity of 4D data, we construct 4DNeX-10M, a large-scale dataset with high-quality 4D annotations gen…

Hey everyone, if you can, please help. 👇 https://mas.to/@Aseelsehwel/115055608428455170

Google is testing an AI-powered Google Finance website in the US, letting users ask questions, access advanced charting tools, view a live news feed, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/08/google-tests-revam…

Google tests revamped Google Finance with AI upgrades, live news feed | TechCrunch
Users will now be able to research their financial questions with AI, access advanced charting tools, and get real-time data and news.

“How to avoid that your post about AI helps the hype”
https://hidde.blog/ai-hype/
Largely agree. I’m careful about the words I use on when I talk / post about it. I avoid terms that anthropomorphize, imply agency, reasoning, etc. I ask people to clarify *which* technology when they say “AI” (…

Signs that your post about AI helps the hype
If we're not cautious, we may accidentally feed the AI hype by talking about it in specific ways.

Instagram now lets users repost public Reels and grid posts from other accounts, collected in a designated tab, and rolls out a Snapchat-like maps feature (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/719756/instagram-adds-reposts-feed-rips-off-snap-m…

Instagram adds a reposts feed and rips off Snap Maps
Instagram is adding a TikTok-like repost feature as well as its own version of a Snap Map.

Google officially launches AI summaries in the Discover news feed within its smartphone search app in the US; there is no date set yet for the UK (Rob Waugh/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/google-ai-summaries-start-to-roll-out-in-discov…

Google AI summaries start to roll out in Discover in US
AI summaries roll out in Google Discover, posing new threat to publishers who rely on the app for traffic.

ICE raids of farms are a cruel reminder that the U.S. has long devalued immigrant labor
-- while also being wholly incapable of surviving without it
https://prismreports.org/2025/07/16/our-country-doesnt-value-the-farmworkers-who-help-su…

Our country does not value the people who help build, feed, and sustain it
ICE raids of farms are a cruel reminder that the U.S. has long devalued immigrant labor, while also being wholly incapable of surviving without it

AnimaX: Animating the Inanimate in 3D with Joint Video-Pose Diffusion Models
Zehuan Huang, Haoran Feng, Yangtian Sun, Yuanchen Guo, Yanpei Cao, Lu Sheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19851

AnimaX: Animating the Inanimate in 3D with Joint Video-Pose Diffusion Models
We present AnimaX, a feed-forward 3D animation framework that bridges the motion priors of video diffusion models with the controllable structure of skeleton-based animation. Traditional motion synthesis methods are either restricted to fixed skeletal topologies or require costly optimization in high-dimensional deformation spaces. In contrast, AnimaX effectively transfers video-based motion knowledge to the 3D domain, supporting diverse articulated meshes with arbitrary skeletons. Our method r…

Please help Aseel and her family eat this week if you can.
(I have spoken with and am in touch with Aseel over Signal and I can vouch that the account and campaign are real and your donations go to a family in need in Gaza.)
#gaza #aid

A look at the invite-only iOS and Android apps for Digg, which now operates similarly to Reddit, with links with a lot of "diggs" moving up the feed (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/apps/763689/digg-mobile-ios-android-app-relaunch…

Digg’s new app is basic, but a great start
Digg has launched its new mobile apps for iOS and Android. I tried the new iOS app out, and it’s bare-bones but promising.

AnimateAnyMesh: A Feed-Forward 4D Foundation Model for Text-Driven Universal Mesh Animation
Zijie Wu, Chaohui Yu, Fan Wang, Xiang Bai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09982

AnimateAnyMesh: A Feed-Forward 4D Foundation Model for Text-Driven Universal Mesh Animation
Recent advances in 4D content generation have attracted increasing attention, yet creating high-quality animated 3D models remains challenging due to the complexity of modeling spatio-temporal distributions and the scarcity of 4D training data. In this paper, we present AnimateAnyMesh, the first feed-forward framework that enables efficient text-driven animation of arbitrary 3D meshes. Our approach leverages a novel DyMeshVAE architecture that effectively compresses and reconstructs dynamic mes…

G-CUT3R: Guided 3D Reconstruction with Camera and Depth Prior Integration
Ramil Khafizov, Artem Komarichev, Ruslan Rakhimov, Peter Wonka, Evgeny Burnaev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11379

G-CUT3R: Guided 3D Reconstruction with Camera and Depth Prior Integration
We introduce G-CUT3R, a novel feed-forward approach for guided 3D scene reconstruction that enhances the CUT3R model by integrating prior information. Unlike existing feed-forward methods that rely solely on input images, our method leverages auxiliary data, such as depth, camera calibrations, or camera positions, commonly available in real-world scenarios. We propose a lightweight modification to CUT3R, incorporating a dedicated encoder for each modality to extract features, which are fused wi…