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#Minnesota Pubic Radio (MPR) parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts | MPR News (h/t akuzee@bsky.social)
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/08/15/m

MPR parent company cuts 30 jobs following federal funding cuts
Minnesota Public Radio's parent company laid off 30 staff members Friday after Congress clawed back funding that it had previously approved for public broadcasting. Cuts in state funding from the Minnesota Legislature exacerbated the budget gap.

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – #creativity and #community

Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith on valuing community over status – The Creative Independent
Filmmaker and artist Cauleen Smith discusses the gift of failure, making small moves, and the enduring wisdom of Sun Ra.

@… guten morgen! re flameshot (https://www.tub.tuhh.de/tubtorials/2024/11/30/screenshot-tools-mein-aha-moment-mit-fla…

Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov promoted to battalion commander: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/15/ukrainian-filmmaker-oleh-sentsov-promoted.html

World breaks renewable records - adding 582 GW of capacity in 2024 - but must move faster to hit the agreed 2030 tripling goal.
From @irena-official.bsky.social:
https://www.irena.org/News/pressreleases/2

World Breaks Renewable Records but Must Move Faster to Hit 2030 Tripling Goal
The world is falling behind on its renewable energy and efficiency goals despite record progress last year, confirms a new report released today by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the COP30 Brazilian Presidency, and the Global Renewables Alliance (GRA) during a pre-COP30 high-level event in Brasília.

Vision-driven River Following of UAV via Safe Reinforcement Learning using Semantic Dynamics Model
Zihan Wang, Nina Mahmoudian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09971 https://

Vision-driven River Following of UAV via Safe Reinforcement Learning using Semantic Dynamics Model
Vision-driven autonomous river following by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles is critical for applications such as rescue, surveillance, and environmental monitoring, particularly in dense riverine environments where GPS signals are unreliable. We formalize river following as a coverage control problem in which the reward function is submodular, yielding diminishing returns as more unique river segments are visited, thereby framing the task as a Submodular Markov Decision Process. First, we introduce Ma…

"Global Warming Is Fueling Dengue Fever Outbreaks"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Health

Global Warming Is Fueling Dengue Fever Outbreaks - Inside Climate News
Rising temperatures have caused as many as 4.6 million extra dengue cases each year, and will cause many more by 2050, a new study finds.

Chronologically Consistent Generative AI
Songrun He, Linying Lv, Asaf Manela, Jimmy Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11677 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11677

Chronologically Consistent Generative AI
We introduce a family of chronologically consistent, instruction-following large language models to eliminate lookahead bias. Each model is trained only on data available before a clearly defined knowledge-cutoff date, ensuring strict temporal separation from any post-cutoff data. The resulting framework offers (i) a simple, conversational chat interface, (ii) fully open, fixed model weights that guarantee replicability, and (iii) a conservative lower bound on forecast accuracy, isolating the s…

AVweb, Aviation Consumer, IFR. KITPLANES, Aviation Safety are all gone. A dark time for aviation. A beacon of hope: Russ Niles has created a new site: AVBrief.
https://avbrief.org/so-long-avweb-hello-avbrief/
If you fly, or if you want to fly, or if you love flying, sign up…

Poland 'neutralizes' drone flying over government buildings, two Belarusian citizens detained, Tusk says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/15/poland-neutralizes-drone-flying-over.html