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heise | Multimedia-Reader im Test: Tapestry holt Feeds aufs iPhone
Tapestry bringt Feeds von YouTube, Reddit & Co. unter ein Dach.
https://www.heise.de/tests/Multime…

Outstanding episode of @alexpodyssey.bsky.social on the commute home today.@… had me laughing out loud in the first half but as ever the story behind Medusa is much darker, and much more interesting than you thought.
Here's Looking at You, Kid
File:
https://traffic.megaphone.fm/NSR3457675425.mp3?updated=1756702004
RSS:
https://feeds.megaphone.fm/podyssey

@…
https://www.premierguitar.com/feeds/feed.rss

50 points for #Bluesky for having the Feeds feature which is freely accessible without the need to log in.
https://bsky.app/feeds

Warum Feeds wichtiger sind, als viele denken – https://www.deimeke.net/dirk/blog/index.php?/archives/4427-Warum-Feeds-wichtiger-sind,-als-viele-denken.html

A look at Radio Garden, a free website and app launched in 2016 as an art project, which streams feeds from 37K radio stations worldwide; the app has 3M MAUs (Sebastian Modak/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

Ransomware gang attacks German charity that feeds starving children https://therecord.media/welthungerhilfe-german-hunger-relief-charity-ransomware-attack

This could be the start of a script for a Seinfeld-like show updated to 2025...
“I was still charged for that session, Jerry!” <laugh track>

If you are interested in this sort of reporting and you aren’t following Inside Climate News…well, you should be.
(Yes, they have RSS feeds!)
https://insideclimatenews.org/

Matt Levine’s latest, from which this: “if you are a scammer and you’re *not* doing an AI startup, you’re wasting your time.” https://newsletterhunt.com/emails/195983

I've blogged about how I'm using #FreshRSS to get full-text #RSS feeds – and about crowdsourcing configs that will allow folks to subscribe to more things thanks to the web scraping feature!
https://tzovar.as/fulltext-freshrss/
(Responses to this toot will also become blog comments)

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18458 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDB_…

A Survey of LLM $\times$ DATA
The integration of large language model (LLM) and data management (DATA) is rapidly redefining both domains. In this survey, we comprehensively review the bidirectional relationships. On the one hand, DATA4LLM, spanning large-scale data processing, storage, and serving, feeds LLMs with high quality, diversity, and timeliness of data required for stages like pre-training, post-training, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows: (i) Data processing for LLMs includes scalable acquisit…

@… was wäre der Worst-Case? Duplikate hätte man ja nicht, weil der Slug derselbe wäre, wenn zwei Feeds denselben Post haben. Allerdings wäre die Quelle falsch. Man könnte bei Duplikaten alle Feeds zitieren, auf denen es gefunden wurde. Mit Glück ist die ursprübgliche Quelle dabei.

Getting other SM feeds set up in Micro.blog.

Imagine cooking for an entire sorority as a professional chef & using the video of meal prep as a content creator.
▶️ How a TikTok-Famous Chef Feeds a Sorority | On the Job | NYT Cooking
https://youtube.com/watch?v=efIDPoDs5ew&si=POso_Z-Ilrc-WqT-
…

Agency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the Algorithmic Web
Sophia Liu, Shm Garanganao Almeda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23585 https://

Agency Among Agents: Designing with Hypertextual Friction in the Algorithmic Web
Today's algorithm-driven interfaces, from recommendation feeds to GenAI tools, often prioritize engagement and efficiency at the expense of user agency. As systems take on more decision-making, users have less control over what they see and how meaning or relationships between content are constructed. This paper introduces "Hypertextual Friction," a conceptual design stance that repositions classical hypertext principles--friction, traceability, and structure--as actionable values for reclaimin…

@… https://thedysfunctionalworldof.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Sorry to the folks who had been trying to use the https://masto2rss.gedanken.uber.space/ test instance and ever got any feeds generated in the last days.
There was a bug in my error handling, which meant for subsets of folks it didn't work. That should be fixed now 🙏

Absolute stunner of a day

Gabbard Feeds MAGA an Obama Conspiracy Amid Epstein Blowback (Emell Derra Adolphus/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tulsi-gabbard-feeds-maga-an-obama-conspiracy-amid-epstein-blowback/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250719/p61#a250719p61

“Tomahawk” for Ukraine? US increases support while China feeds Russia’s war machine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/22/tomahawk-for-ukraine-us-increases.html

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency
Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware

Frage an die Jursist*innen hier:
Wie "legal" sind eigentlich die ganzen BOTs die RSS feeds abgreifen und das dann hier posten? (klar gekennzeichnet als inoffizieller Account / bot mit dem Hinweis, das bei missgefallen eine Nachricht geschickt werden soll?)
#jura #gesetzt

Publishing #RSS and #Atom Feeds in #dotNet

Publishing RSS and Atom Feeds in .Net - Improve & Repeat
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FYI, here’s the exact language of 50 U.S.C. § 1702(b) which spells out how media mail is exempt:
https://kind.social/@wbwolf/115103183358864928

Hier etwas Nützliches 👇🏻
Unsere Meldungen gibt es natürlich per #RSS, aber wir haben viel mehr Feeds als hier aufgelistet:
https://www.heise.de/news-extern/news.html
So kann man zum Beispie…

Going through my feeds this morning, I see a bunch of suspicious, poorly written English reports in Middle Eastern publications that have never shown up on my radar screen before that tell of cyberattacks by variously named Iranian-related "hacktivist" groups.

Instagram plans to let users rearrange their grid, a first, and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without it appearing in users' feeds (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/instagram-will-fina…

Instagram will finally let you rearrange your grid | TechCrunch
Instagram is finally going to let users rearrange their grid and is testing a way for users to quietly post to their profile without having the content appear in users' feeds.

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

Generative Flow Networks for Personalized Multimedia Systems: A Case Study on Short Video Feeds
Yili Jin, Ling Pan, Rui-Xiao Zhang, Jiangchuan Liu, Xue Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17166

Generative Flow Networks for Personalized Multimedia Systems: A Case Study on Short Video Feeds
Multimedia systems underpin modern digital interactions, facilitating seamless integration and optimization of resources across diverse multimedia applications. To meet growing personalization demands, multimedia systems must efficiently manage competing resource needs, adaptive content, and user-specific data handling. This paper introduces Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets, GFNs) as a brave new framework for enabling personalized multimedia systems. By integrating multi-candidate generative…

NLKI: A lightweight Natural Language Knowledge Integration Framework for Improving Small VLMs in Commonsense VQA Tasks
Aritra Dutta, Swapnanil Mukherjee, Deepanway Ghosal, Somak Aditya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19724

NLKI: A lightweight Natural Language Knowledge Integration Framework for Improving Small VLMs in Commonsense VQA Tasks
Commonsense visual-question answering often hinges on knowledge that is missing from the image or the question. Small vision-language models (sVLMs) such as ViLT, VisualBERT and FLAVA therefore lag behind their larger generative counterparts. To study the effect of careful commonsense knowledge integration on sVLMs, we present an end-to-end framework (NLKI) that (i) retrieves natural language facts, (ii) prompts an LLM to craft natural language explanations, and (iii) feeds both signals to sVLM…

FBI Director Kash Patel feeds 2020 election conspiracy theories with documents about unverified tip (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-director-kash-patel-feeds-2020-election-conspiracy-theories-docume-rcna213521
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p154#a250617p154

I made a repository on #codeberg to document my own #FreshRSS settings to get fulltext feeds of different websites: #RSS

Perhaps future work should focus on establishing trusted enclaves of knowledge and expertise.
If you’re a knowledge worker, perhaps sharing your knowledge publicly isn’t the best idea anymore. It’s a real bummer because it makes knowledge a luxury of the elite and wealthy.
Rather than working directly on the thing, you focus on the data that feeds into the machine that works on “the thing”. :\

Schade, dass Boosts nicht als Teil des Personal Feeds bei den RSS-Feeds mit enthalten sind. Ebenso nicht beim Konten-"Alarm". Die gehören für mich schon dazu. Und wenn ich Boosts von jmd. nicht will (warum auch immer), kann ich es ja generell abschalten.
#mastodon #rss

Between Filters and Feeds: Investigating Douyin and WeChat's Influence on Chinese Adolescent Body Image
Jianfeng Lan, Yingjia Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17755 https://…

Between Filters and Feeds: Investigating Douyin and WeChat's Influence on Chinese Adolescent Body Image
In the digital era, social media platforms play a pivotal role in shaping adolescents' body image perceptions. This study examines how Douyin and WeChat, two contrasting Chinese social media platforms, influence body image among Chinese male adolescents. Employing a platformization perspective, we surveyed 395 male adolescents aged 10 to 24 using the Multidimensional Body-Self Relations Questionnaire-Appearance Scales (MBSRQ-AS) to assess self-evaluation and body satisfaction. Our findings reve…

from my link log —
tinyfeed: Generate a static HTML page from a collection of feed URLs.
https://github.com/TheBigRoomXXL/tinyfeed
saved 2025-06-27

GitHub - TheBigRoomXXL/tinyfeed: Generate a static HTML page from a collection of feeds wtih a simple CLI tool
Generate a static HTML page from a collection of feeds wtih a simple CLI tool - TheBigRoomXXL/tinyfeed

This popped up on one of my feeds a while ago. Today I read it and I think it very well captures why #developing #software can be very hard at times.
"Why writing software is not like engineering"

Qwen-Image-Edit: Image Editing with Higher Quality and Efficiency
https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen-image-edit/?utm_source=www.the…

Malicious earworms and useful memes, how the far-right surfs on TikTok audio trends
Marloes Geboers, Marcus B\"osch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20695 h…

Malicious earworms and useful memes, how the far-right surfs on TikTok audio trends
With its features of remix, TikTok is the designated platform for meme-making and dissemination. Creative combinations of video, emoji, and filters allow for an endless stream of memes and trends animated by sound. The platform has focused its moderation on upholding physical safety, hence investing in the detection of harmful challenges. In response to the DSA, TikTok implemented opt-outs for personalized feeds and features allowing users to report illegal content. At the same time, the platfo…

Great. Now do the same with the CBD after 6pm. https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114909787178335673

Bin offenbar langsam mit der Erkenntnis, aber merke nun dass einige meiner abonnierten Podcasts sogar neue Folgen haben, aber nur noch exklusiv als Audio-On-Demand auf der #ARDaudiothek-Seite. Argh! Wer denkt sich das aus?
Aber dafür gibt es dieses tolle Tool:

Neue Studie, alter Befund: #SocialMedia ist nicht kaputt, sondern so gebaut. Algorithmen belohnen Empörung, Desinformation und Klicks – und genau das dominiert unsere Feeds. Reparatur scheint illusorisch. Vielleicht hilft nur ein nüchterner Blick: Plattformen machen, was sie sollen – nur nicht das, was wir erhoffen. Polarisierung ist kein Bug, sondern Geschäftsmodell.
Studie: Social M…

Studie: Social Media ist wohl nicht mehr zu retten
Filterblasen, Echokammern und Empörung dominieren den Social-Media-Alltag. Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass das Problem tiefer liegen könnte als allein bei den Algorithmen

Reading #RSS and #Atom Feeds in #dotNet
htt…

Reading RSS and Atom Feeds in .Net - Improve & Repeat
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#RSS #AtomFeed

Spent the evening improving my #RSS setup by getting more into the possibilities of https://www.freshrss.org/:
Thanks to its support for web scraping, I've now managed to get the full text of articles, instead of just the snippets, of @… en español into my reader.
And even managed to get BBC Mundo scraped into it through the scraping, despite @… unfortunately not providing any official feeds for the Spanish-language news at all.

Crustal Quakes Spark Magnetospheric Blasts: Imprints of Realistic Magnetar Crust Oscillations on the Fast Radio Burst Signal
Louis Burnaz, Elias R. Most, Ashley Bransgrove
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18033

Crustal Quakes Spark Magnetospheric Blasts: Imprints of Realistic Magnetar Crust Oscillations on the Fast Radio Burst Signal
Many transients believed to originate from magnetars are thought to be triggered by crustal activity, which feeds back on the surrounding magnetosphere. These perturbations, through a variety of proposed mechanisms, can convert a fraction of the magnetic energy stored in the magnetosphere, as well as the energy injected by crustal activity itself into electromagnetic emission, including X-ray bursts and fast radio bursts. Here we provide a first glimpse of this process by coupling magneto-elast…

Arriving in your feeds later today, a look at how on EARTH to move forward when you feel utterly and absolutely DEFEATED

Let's start football season with some takes, plus the strangest walk-off win https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6506943/2025/07/22/nfl-power-rankings-the-pulse/

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

Sabot in the Age of AI
A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/113867412641585520

ASRG (@asrg@tldr.nettime.org)
Attached: 1 image ## **Sabot in the Age of AI** A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning. ### **Selected Tools & Frameworks** - **Nepenthes** — [Endless crawler trap.](https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes) - **Babble** — [Standalone LLM crawler tarpit.](https://git.jsbarretto.com/zesterer/babble) - **Markov Tarpit** — [Traps AI bots & feeds them useless data.](https://git.rys.io/libre/m…

How are you doing these days? If you’re looking at the news or opening social media feeds, it’s a lot, I know.
I continue my practice of writing back to posts on social media. Also its antidote: writing back to works of art served up at random. It’s a little like surfing, taking the waves as they come. It’s a little like dancing. It’s one way to reclaim my attention, one way to stay alive to the present.
#Art

Ever-refreshing Hells and a few Heavens
Writings in response to social media posts and works of art.

"What works in #India will scale better everywhere else. Naturally, the country is a battleground for #AI search."
This is fishing for data and the next #enshittification to roll ou…

We've been visited by a humming bird hawk moth, aka bee moth. Its a moth, not a bird, but it feeds by hovering while sipping nectar from deep-throated flowers, like a humming bird.
I managed to get these pictures. I'll try to get some more over the weekend.
#Bloom #mothstodon

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.

If it’s anything like their “dire wolf,” they’ll sink millions into bringing the world… a fat kiwi. https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114910888061846217

An interesting read...
https://theconversation.com/from-printing-presses-to-facebook-feeds-what-yesterdays-witch-hunts-have-in-common-with-todays-misinformation-crisis-260995

New US directive for visa applicants turns social media feeds into political documents
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-visa-applicants-social-media-political.html

Two Parasites and a Corpse: #Trump, #Musk, and the Maggot Feud Inside America's Rotting Democracy
#Resist

Axion Star Bosenova in Axion Miniclusters
Zihang Wang, Yu Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14535 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.14535

Axion Star Bosenova in Axion Miniclusters
Axionic dark matter can form structures known as miniclusters that host an axion star at their center. The axion star feeds on the host, and the axion star mass may grow beyond its stability limit, leading to a potential bosenova. Since a dilute axion star has a stable mass limit only when self-interaction is considered, we include axion self-interaction effects in this paper, and specify the condition for bosenova in the QCD axion and temperature-independent axion-like particle parameter space…

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.

Oh wow ​LLMs are just so terrible. 🤦‍♂️
I made a #systemd service watcher¹ ( :nixos: #NixOS module²³) which regularly feeds systemd status outputs into an LLM (mistral here) and sends me an email if it thinks it found real problems. Well, now I always get alarmist emails with bullshit warnings, suc…

Yann Büchau / ollama-watchdog · GitLab
GitLab.com

A new study found that there's a universal rhythm to how people speak: in 0.6Hz (1.667s) units. I find this fascinating because that's pretty close (though obviously only coincidentally) to 20 μdays (0.579Hz = 1.728s) and this feeds my fantasy about decimal time (standardize on days, 1 milliday = 1.44min, 10 microdays = 0.864s, we'd probably make use of centidays, which are just shy of quarter hours).

A universal rhythm guides how we speak: Global analysis reveals 1.6-second 'intonation units'
Have you ever noticed that a natural conversation flows like a dance—pauses, emphases, and turns arriving just in time? A new study has discovered that this isn't just intuition; there is a biological rhythm embedded in our speech.

An audio book wrote by Dan Houser, setting is in a not far future. An ironic story that reflex #ai, people, the way we live and corporation greed.
You should give a listen.
A Better Paradise

I had to take a hot shower to combat the shrinkage from just *reading* this. Brrr. 🥶 https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114718172929923391

From Static to Dynamic: A Streaming RAG Approach to Real-time Knowledge Base
Yuzhou Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05662 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05662…

From Static to Dynamic: A Streaming RAG Approach to Real-time Knowledge Base
Dynamic streams from news feeds, social media, sensor networks, and financial markets challenge static RAG frameworks. Full-scale indices incur high memory costs; periodic rebuilds introduce latency that undermines data freshness; naive sampling sacrifices semantic coverage. We present Streaming RAG, a unified pipeline that combines multi-vector cosine screening, mini-batch clustering, and a counter-based heavy-hitter filter to maintain a compact prototype set. We further prove an approximation…

Ah yes, I really dislike it when, as someone who is autistic, I don’t look before I accidentally block the entire Mastodon.social domain instead of just blocking a specific bot user.
Great, now over 100 lost me in their feeds. My day is ruined.
Domain unblocked, please boost for my visibility again!
#ActuallyAutistic

At @oapenbooks.bsky.social, we have updated our #Metadata feeds, to better integrate our #OpenAccess #books into #libraries

A book is a book in any other markup language
Updating the OAPEN Library’s metadata feeds  Since the launch of the OAPEN Library in 2010, the metadata feeds for our collection of open access (OA) books and chapters have always been and will continue to be freely available for anyone to access, download, and use as they need from the OAPEN website.    Metadata is information … Continue reading "A book is a book in any other markup language"

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01753 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Human-Machine Interfaces for Subsea Telerobotics: From Soda-straw to Natural Language Interactions
This review explores the evolution of human-machine interfaces (HMIs) in subsea telerobotics, charting the progression from traditional first-person "soda-straw" consoles -- characterized by narrow field-of-view camera feeds -- to contemporary interfaces leveraging gesture recognition, virtual reality, and natural language processing. We systematically analyze the state-of-the-art literature through three interrelated perspectives: operator experience (including immersive feedback, cognitive wo…

A look at social media "clippers", who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (Ben Raab/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meet-the-clip…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20491 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

Examining Algorithmic Curation on Social Media: An Empirical Audit of Reddit's r/popular Feed
Platforms are increasingly relying on algorithms to curate the content within users' social media feeds. However, the growing prominence of proprietary, algorithmically curated feeds has concealed what factors influence the presentation of content on social media feeds and how that presentation affects user behavior. This lack of transparency can be detrimental to users, from reducing users' agency over their content consumption to the propagation of misinformation and toxic content. To uncover…

Laut AI Forensics flutet KI-generierter „AI Slop“ die Feeds: TikTok & Instagram versagen bei der Kennzeichnung. Wer nach #Trump oder #History sucht, trifft längst häufiger auf Fiktion als auf Fakten. Plattformen drücken sich um Verantwortung – Transparenz bleibt KI-Fantasie. Quelle:

New US directive for visa applicants turns social media feeds into political documents
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-visa-applicants-social-media-political.html

Uncertainty Quantification for Large-Scale Deep Networks via Post-StoNet Modeling
Yan Sun, Faming Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01217 https://arxiv.org/…

Uncertainty Quantification for Large-Scale Deep Networks via Post-StoNet Modeling
Deep learning has revolutionized modern data science. However, how to accurately quantify the uncertainty of predictions from large-scale deep neural networks (DNNs) remains an unresolved issue. To address this issue, we introduce a novel post-processing approach. This approach feeds the output from the last hidden layer of a pre-trained large-scale DNN model into a stochastic neural network (StoNet), then trains the StoNet with a sparse penalty on a validation dataset and constructs prediction…

Two Parasites and a Corpse: Trump, Musk, and the Maggot Feud Inside America's Rotting Democracy: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/06/06/two-parasites-and-a-corpse.html

@… @… und früher hatten alle Sendungen RSS. Die Feeds scheinen noch da zu sein, aber sie sind nicht mehr auf den Sendungsseiten verlinkt.

Pinterest and affiliate shopping platform LTK announce a pilot program in which high-performing image posts on LTK will automatically be shared to Pinterest (Mia Sato/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685830/pinterest-ltk-affiliate-sho…

Pinterest is adding third-party influencer content to its feeds
Under a new pilot program, high-performing posts from shopping platform LTK will automatically be shared to Pinterest.

Soon, I’ll be throwing away all my desktop computers as well, though I’m keeping my Lenovo Thinkpad around. I hate computers, yet I use them.
To me, computers are just junk nobody asked for. They’re glowing traps that keep us hooked, scrolling and clicking away our time for endless feeds. No matter the OS or hardware, it’s all distraction from reality.
Yes, Linux can free us and all that, and even the hardware can be part of that freedom. But the computers themselves remain a cir…

Measurement of the Primary Beam of the Tianlai Cylindrical Antenna Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Jixia Li, Nanben Suo, Shenzhe Xu, Shijie Sun, Shifan Zuo, Yougang Wang, Fengquan Wu, Juyong Zhang, Peter Timbie, Reza Ansari, Albert Stebbins, Xuelei Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01413

Measurement of the Primary Beam of the Tianlai Cylindrical Antenna Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
The Tianlai Cylinder Pathfinder Array consists of three adjacent cylindrical reflectors fixed on the ground, each 40 meters long and 15 meters wide, with the cylinder axis oriented along the North-South (N-S)direction. Dual linear polarisation feeds are distributed along the focus line, parallel to the cylinder axis. Measurement of the primary beam profile of these cylindrical reflectors is difficult, as they are too large to be placed in an anechoic chamber. While the beam profile along the Ea…

A look at social media "clippers", who are paid $0.50 to $2 per thousand views by streamers, podcasts, and startups to make buzzy moments go viral online (Ben Raab/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/meet-the-clip…

1. Data centres consume vast amounts of electricity, and industry which, in NSW, is still beholden to coal.
2. Data centres also consume significant quantities of water.
3. Carbon-neutral is an accounting trick, not an engineered greenhouse gas mitigation strategy.
4. Construction’s one of the most heavily polluting industries.
This whole thing is a greenwash.

Training Strategies for Modality Dropout Resilient Multi-Modal Target Speaker Extraction
Srikanth Korse, Mohamed Elminshawi, Emanuel A. P. Habets, Srikanth Raj Chetupalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06566

Training Strategies for Modality Dropout Resilient Multi-Modal Target Speaker Extraction
The primary goal of multi-modal TSE (MTSE) is to extract a target speaker from a speech mixture using complementary information from different modalities, such as audio enrolment and visual feeds corresponding to the target speaker. MTSE systems are expected to perform well even when one of the modalities is unavailable. In practice, the systems often suffer from modality dominance, where one of the modalities outweighs the others, thereby limiting robustness. Our study investigates training st…

Someday, I want to erase everything and vanish offline, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
I’m sick of being trapped in this endless cycle of digital puppetry and mental sludge, where every click feeds some shallow algorithm designed to keep you hooked and dumbed down, turning people into another batch of screen-zombies chasing cheap hits and empty dopamine hits.
I want out of this rat race of constant noise and manufactured crises, where reality is warped into a carnival…

I used to live in the next town over, and it’s gratifying to see the #Nadesalingam family finally thriving as part of #Biloela's community. The lengths #ScoMo’s government—and particularly then-Home Affairs Minist…

SB Nation redesigns its websites to include community content, part of Vox's broader strategy to recapture engagement and counter AI's impact on search traffic (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/sb-nation-redesign-vox-media

SB Nation redesigns sites as Vox Media readies for Google Zero
The redesign is meant to help the brand recapture engagement that occurs on external social media feeds instead of its sites.

Just to clarify, are you envisioning something like PayPal, where creators can receive direct payments from their supporters?
Or is it more like a system where users can pay to boost posts so they appear more prominently in others’ feeds?
@…

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency
Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware