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Vanity Fair names Vogue creative editorial director Mark Guiducci as its global editorial director, replacing Radhika Jones and starting at the end of June (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/business/media/va…

Vanity Fair Names Mark Guiducci as Its Top Editor
Mr. Guiducci, 36, fills a role recently vacated by Radhika Jones, who led the magazine for seven years.

Trump's Fury at Gavin Newsom Backfires--and Reveals His Own Weakness (Greg Sargent/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/196674/trump-gavin-newsom-fury-backfires-reveals-weakness
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p21#a250611p21

Cowboys TE reveals goals for successful bounceback 2025 season https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-te-reveals-goals-successful-bounceback-2025-season

The latest salvo in Trump's fight to remake America’s elite cultural institutions:
This time, the attack has foundered!
So far, Sajet, a 60-year-old Dutch art historian with a long career in American and Australian art museums who became the National Portrait Gallery’s first female director in 2013, is still at her desk.
Trump lacks the legal authority to dismiss Sajet or hire her replacement
—although you can bet that administration lawyers are looking for legal …

Why Is Trump Trying to Fire This Museum Director?
If he succeeds, it could put the whole Smithsonian under his thumb.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06990 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

SIS: Seam-Informed Strategy for T-shirt Unfolding
Seams are information-rich components of garments. The presence of different types of seams and their combinations helps to select grasping points for garment handling. In this paper, we propose a new Seam-Informed Strategy (SIS) for finding actions for handling a garment, such as grasping and unfolding a T-shirt. Candidates for a pair of grasping points for a dual-arm manipulator system are extracted using the proposed Seam Feature Extraction Method (SFEM). A pair of grasping points for the ro…

Lurie is cutting transit service and replacing it with Waymo. letting rich people clog up the street with robotaxis that stall all the time while regular people in buses get stuck behind is terrible policy and undoes the whole point of car-free Market. absolutely catastrophic
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'Sovereign AI' is just political branding, signaling to nationalist impulses while continuing to pour money into big tech firms. It's a mask for a sucker's game.
"This reveals a new kind of digital colonialism. Not one where countries are denied access, but one where they are structurally bound into dependencies across every layer of the AI stack. A European lab may host its own weights on a data center in France, but that center runs on American hardware, software…

‘Sovereign AI’ is political branding. The reality is closer to digital colonialism
The harder nations push for AI independence, the deeper their dependencies become.

Micah Parsons reveals plans for Cowboys training camp amid contract drama https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-reveals-plans-dallas-cowboys-training-camp-amid-contract-drama

Lurie is cutting transit service and replacing it with Waymo. letting rich people clog up the street with robotaxis that stall all the time while regular people in buses get stuck behind is terrible policy and undoes the whole point of car-free Market. absolutely catastrophic
https://www.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18122 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

RT-GuIDE: Real-Time Gaussian splatting for Information-Driven Exploration
We propose a framework for active mapping and exploration that leverages Gaussian splatting for constructing dense maps. Further, we develop a GPU-accelerated motion planning algorithm that can exploit the Gaussian map for real-time navigation. The Gaussian map constructed onboard the robot is optimized for both photometric and geometric quality while enabling real-time situational awareness for autonomy. We show through simulation experiments that our method yields comparable Peak Signal-to-No…