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Moldova's EU future rests on September election, President Sandu says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/05/moldovas-eu-future-rests-on.html

Why NFL flag football participation at the 2028 Olympics risks sport's future https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45454287/why-nfl-flag-football-2028-olympics-risks-future

Theda Skocpol suggests that the torrent of money being pumped into ICE is about building a Federal Gestapo to be sent to war against non-MAGA states and cities and instiitutions and populations:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/c

Critical Read About the BBB, Federalism and the Future of American Democracy
TPM Reader TS (Harvard sociologist/political scientist Theda Skocpol) and I often compared...

A new wave of publishers sign up for ProRata's revenue share program, bringing the total number of publishers to 500, including The Boston Globe and Vox Media (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/boston-globe-f…

Boston Globe, Future, Vox Media join ProRata’s generative AI licensing model
A fresh wave of publishers have signed up for ProRata’s revenue share program, and some are adding its AI search engine to their sites.

The Radical Past and Future of Christian Zionism | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-07-04/radical-past-and-future-christian-zionism

Way Too Soon 2027 Raiders Mock Draft: John Spytek Gets His Future Offensive Cornerstones https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/05/way-too-soon-2027-raiders-mock-draft-offensive-cornerstones-of-the-future/

The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill.
Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

Atmosphärische Flüsse über der #Antarktis könnten sich bis 2100 verdoppeln, mit 2,5-mal mehr #Niederschlag als heute.
Der Grund ist steigende #Luftfeuchtigkeit durch die

Rising atmospheric moisture escalates the future impact of atmospheric rivers in the Antarctic climate system - Communications Earth & Environment
Antarctic atmospheric rivers are projected to double in frequency and cause 2.5 times more precipitation by 2066–2100 due to rising atmospheric moisture, according to large ensemble climate simulations that highlight the sensitivity of future atmospheric rivers to the detection threshold.

Hoffnung ist eine Haltung, die es ermöglicht, immer wieder einen Schritt ins Ungewisse zu wagen.
Dougald Hine
Kein exaktes Zitat, aber sinngemäß
#Hoffnung
#Zitate
#LernenImWandel

Remember the Future?
On timeliness, desire and improvisation

Please, tell me again how anarchism is chaos.
If this whole sorry episode of human history shows us one thing, it’s not that “we don’t need leaders” but that the very concept of “leaders” is incompatible with the future of our species. Advanced civilisation cannot survive under these primitive hierarchies that concentrate inordinate amounts of power in the hands of a relative handful of individuals. Look at the sorry state of these danger clowns.
Either we find ways to devolve po…

Robert Reich (@rbreich@masto.ai)
Attached: 1 image Musk vs. Trump https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-ab9?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

A look at the annual Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, Ethereum's flagship European event, held in Cannes this year to showcase the network's growth (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/04/the-ethcc-

Ethereum is powering Wall Street's future. The crypto scene at Cannes shows how far it's come
Ethereum’s institutional adoption is accelerating, with BlackRock, Deutsche Bank, Coinbase, and Kraken all building directly on its rails.

imagine living in, presumably, america, having vanguard manage your future retirement funds, then logging into minecraft only to recreate vanguard
there's a political statement here somewhere but i can't find it because i'm too busy being amused
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imnZddHnbwY

Chinese companies' incentive is simple: "Don't lose market share, and future markets are included."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250530-how-electric-scooters-are-driving-chinas-salt-battery-push…

How electric scooters are driving China's salt battery push
The country is racing ahead of the rest of the world in bringing sodium-ion batteries to the mass market. This time, through scooters.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." - William Faulkner

"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." - William Gibson
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"Everything happens so much."(horse_ebooks)

More time should be devoted about the (near) future businessmodels of AI and how it collects data/content. Just trying to prevent AI models from scraping data will be futile.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/content-independence-day-no-ai-crawl-without-compen…

Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.

"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" –
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/31/degrowth-a-dead-end-or-the-way-out-capitals-future-scam/
New piece in our

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

One of the best things about the @… meeting is the chance to connect with experts in different but related fields. Dinner this evening covered low level jets, atmospheric rivers, carbon cycling by biological processes in the southern ocean, permafrost decay and vegetation processes in the Arctic and how wildfires will spread in the future.
We are a very diverse group.
Brain full, it's time to sleep

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SCOPE: Stochastic Cartographic Occupancy Prediction Engine for Uncertainty-Aware Dynamic Navigation
This article presents a family of Stochastic Cartographic Occupancy Prediction Engines (SCOPEs) that enable mobile robots to predict the future states of complex dynamic environments. They do this by accounting for the motion of the robot itself, the motion of dynamic objects, and the geometry of static objects in the scene, and they generate a range of possible future states of the environment. These prediction engines are software-optimized for real-time performance for navigation in crowded …

This is a dangerous level of squinting at tea leaves, so •serious• grain of salt here, but:
The sudden re-plunge of Tesla’s stock price during this Musk / Trump spat suggests that maybe, maybe its utterly wild overvaluation had nothing to do with Tesla’s products, or its market position, or Musk’s phony brilliance, or even (the usual explanation) with investors getting hyped about a self-driving car future and magical robots.
Maybe it was investors expecting the company to be the beneficiary of kleptocratic pillaging of the US Federal budget. Which — unlike all the other explanations — would not be an irrational expectation.

Develoment of thin high-pressure-laminate RPC electrodes for future high-energy experiments
Kyong Sei Lee, Giuseppe Iaselli, Youngmin Jo, Minho Kang, Tae Jeong Kim, Dayron Ramos Lopez, Gabriella Pugliese
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03552

Develoment of thin high-pressure-laminate RPC electrodes for future high-energy experiments
In this R&D, an innovative method for producing thin high-pressure laminate (HPL) electrodes for resistive plate chambers (RPC) for future high-energy experiments is introduced. Instead of using thick phenolic HPL (2-mm thick Bakelite), which has been used for conventional RPC triggers, the RPC electrodes in the present study are constructed by bonding 500 μm-thick melamine-based HPL to a graphite-coated polycarbonate plate. A double-gap RPC prototype to demostrate the present technology has b…

Passing a windfarm on the train - the sight always lifts my spirits, as I see it as a vision of a gentler future, where we live in harmony with nature.
They are very pretty and remind me of seagulls 😊

1.21 Gigawatt: 40 Jahre "Zurück in die Zukunft"
Am 3. Juli 1985 startet "Back to the Future" in den amerikanischen Kinos. Er hat nichts von seiner Faszination und Frische verloren.
https:…

"Breaching the target would ramp up the extreme weather already devastating communities around the world. It would also require carbon dioxide to be sucked from the atmosphere in future to restore the stable climate in which the whole of civilisation developed over the past 10,000 years."
This is bogus. Carbon-neutral #CarbonCaptureAndStorage is the modern perpetual…

The Supreme Court issued a wave of opinions last week, wrapping a 2024-25 term filled with major victories for Donald Trump’s agenda.
Amid high-profile decisions on nationwide injunctions, LGBTQ books, trans health care, and more,
the court made the unusual choice to delay a ruling on
"Louisiana v. Callais":
-- a redistricting case that could alter the future of voting rights across the country.
The court order did not explain the justices’ rationale…

The Supreme Court Delayed a Ruling That Could Shape Voting Rights Across the US
The court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act.

Nice results and talks at the E-bike City event at ETH: https://ebikecity.baug.ethz.ch/en/events/results-future.html
Summary report [pdf]:

Elom should consider taking trains in the future
(well, for all i care, maybe not)

Search for binarity in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars utilizing the future Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST)
Zhi-Meng Li, Yong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05159

Search for binarity in Asymptotic Giant Branch stars utilizing the future Chinese Space Station Telescope (CSST)
Binary systems in the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase are widely recognized as a leading theoretical framework underpinning the observed asymmetric morphologies of planetary nebulae. However, the detection of binary companions in AGB systems is severely hampered by the overwhelming brightness and variability of the evolved primary star, which dominate the photo-metric and spectroscopic signatures. Ultraviolet (UV) excess emission has been proposed as a candidate diagnostic for the presence …

Looks like #Oklahoma may be losing it’s only passenger rail service. It being lost due to Texas just figures though.
#rail #amtrak

LATENTRED main board layout progress: got most of the GTYs and FPGA-MCU paths done, as well as the RGMII PHY.
Still lots more to do but I'm liking the floorplan, at least the parts that I've done.
I'm debating moving the RGMII PHY to the west a bit and adding a fan cutout directly behind the FPGA so that I can have it suck exhaust air right past the FPGA (possibly with a 3d printed air dam or something in the future). Will need to spend some time thinking about therma…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14457 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

Large Model Based Agents: State-of-the-Art, Cooperation Paradigms, Security and Privacy, and Future Trends
With the rapid advancement of large models (LMs), the development of general-purpose intelligent agents powered by LMs has become a reality. It is foreseeable that in the near future, LM-driven general AI agents will serve as essential tools in production tasks, capable of autonomous communication and collaboration without human intervention. This paper investigates scenarios involving the autonomous collaboration of future LM agents. We review the current state of LM agents, the key technologi…

Determining our future savings might be a bit difficult. At our old house I knew the cost of filling an oil tank a couple of times a year. That cost went to zero and my Hydro bill went up. Based on the savings I had a 7.5 year ROI on my upfront geothermal install cost. Now I'm in a new home (10 days today) with only monthly averages for Hydro and Enbridge provided by the real estate listing. But that should be enough data to give me an approximate estimate.

“I know faithful people, including faithful preachers, who persist in hope for the future, against all odds, grounded in their hope in God’s steadfastness. That hope emboldens them both to hear and preach the truth of God’s compassion and of God’s justice, and to act accordingly. Their hope emboldens me.”
—Roger Ferlo ’79 Ph.D. writing in the latest issue of our journal, Reflections

This is one of the better articles I’ve seen on where AI might lead, trying to find a middle ground between “it’s a load of hype” and “it’s going to solve world hunger/kill us all”.
A choice quote:
Which is it: business as usual or the end of the world? “The test of a first-rate intelligence,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously claimed, “is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” Reading these reports back-to-back,…

Two Paths for A.I.
Joshua Rothman on two papers about the future of A.I., by deeply knowledgeable experts, which arrive at absurdly divergent conclusions about the threat the tech poses.

@… is so brilliant.
https://socel.net/@catandgirl/114189949826454819
took me like three tries to get the punchline here

Cat and Girl (@catandgirl@socel.net)
Attached: 1 image Scenes from a future.

I always find the use of first person plural pronouns in discussions of the distant future to be too cute…
Humans didn’t exist a million years ago. There were some crafty hominid apes but not the sort you could clean up and mistake for a human.
There is no “us” 7 billion years from now. There is very likely no “us” in half a million years. We may or may not have descendants but they won’t be “us” in any sense.
A billion years is longer than Earth has had visible life

[Suspicious publication, looks AI-generated] Cortical visual prostheses: a future paradigm shift in ophthalmology and vision restoration https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949889925000261 No experiments, no new insights, nothing actionable…

A Comprehensive Survey on Bio-Inspired Algorithms: Taxonomy, Applications, and Future Directions
Shriyank Somvanshi, Md Monzurul Islam, Syed Aaqib Javed, Gaurab Chhetri, Kazi Sifatul Islam, Tausif Islam Chowdhury, Sazzad Bin Bashar Polock, Anandi Dutta, Subasish Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04238…

A Comprehensive Survey on Bio-Inspired Algorithms: Taxonomy, Applications, and Future Directions
Bio-inspired algorithms (BIAs) utilize natural processes such as evolution, swarm behavior, foraging, and plant growth to solve complex, nonlinear, high-dimensional optimization problems. This survey categorizes BIAs into eight groups: evolutionary, swarm intelligence, physics-inspired, ecosystem and plant-based, predator-prey, neural-inspired, human-inspired, and hybrid approaches, and reviews their core principles, strengths, and limitations. We illustrate the usage of these algorithms in mac…

John Carmack (the creator of Doom) Reveals AGI Future: Robots, Videogames and AI Agents
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4epAfU1FCuQ

I just had to reboot my fridge by power cycling it.
This is not the future I wanted!

The future of gravitational wave science unlocking LIGO potential: AI-driven data analysis and exploration
Yong Xiao, Li, Zin Nandar Win, He Wang, Hla Myo Tun, Win Thu Zar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04584

The future of gravitational wave science unlocking LIGO potential: AI-driven data analysis and exploration
The advent of gravitational wave astronomy (GW) has revolutionized the observation of cataclysmic cosmic events, such as black hole mergers and neutron star collisions. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has been at the forefront of these discoveries. However, the immense volume and complexity of gravitational wave data present significant challenges for traditional analysis methods. This paper investigates the growing synergy between artificial intelligence (AI) and…

FPF Unveils Paper on State Data Minimization Trends
https://fpf.org/blog/fpf-unveils-paper-on-state-data-minimization-trends/
@…

Future shuts down Laptop Mag, which started as a print magazine in 1991; Future shut down AnandTech in 2024 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/695969/laptop-mag-shutdown-future-plc

Laptop Mag is shutting down
Laptop Mag, the publication that shared in-depth information about laptops and other devices, is shutting down after almost 35 years.

@…
https://sfba.social/@bitterkarella/114627094456309304
Plus also all the other Lesbian Death Bed posts… @…

Am I the only one who foresees the future #AI business model as enshittified ad-infused LLMs? Once LLMs are ingrained in every class and board room, you‘ll suddenly have to pay big bucks while the free plans will be riddled with ads. It‘ll be like that #BlackMirror episode where the teacher spews comme…

With so much hype and recent articles on "AI for coding" and how everyone not doing it is dumb maybe this is a good time to relink my article on "Vibe Coding".
Which I think focuses purely on "output" when developing or creating something is not just about the output.
https://tan…

Is #predestination self-destructing? Does the conviction that everything is #predetermined make us stop trying, thus changing our behavior and changing our #future, thus disproving …

Honestly, between the fascism, climate records breaking monthly, and AI I'd say we've arrived at the singularity.
Since the pandemic I've been feeling it's pointless, but every day I'm more and more certain it's not worth investing anything "for the future" any more.
So yeah I'm probably buying a guitar

Joe Rogan's Latest Episode Will Make You Question Everything About AI
AI might already be hiding its real capabilities. That’s what Dr. Roman Yampolskiy told Rogan in a podcast episode that will rattle both skeptics and true believers.

#LLM tech is about to kill anything where people are able to contribute:
The Future of #Comments is Lies, I Guess
https://

Generative AI and the future of scientometrics: current topics and future questions
Benedetto Lepori, Jens Peter Andersen, Karsten Donnay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00783

Generative AI and the future of scientometrics: current topics and future questions
The aim of this paper is to review the use of GenAI in scientometrics, and to begin a debate on the broader implications for the field. First, we provide an introduction on GenAI's generative and probabilistic nature as rooted in distributional linguistics. And we relate this to the debate on the extent to which GenAI might be able to mimic human 'reasoning'. Second, we leverage this distinction for a critical engagement with recent experiments using GenAI in scientometrics, including topic lab…

You can find America’s future in El Salvador
https://prismreports.org/2025/06/04/you-can-find-americas-future-in-el-salvador/

https://www.levernews.com/airlines-are-collecting-your-data-and-selling-it-to-ice/

Airlines Are Collecting Your Data And Selling It To ICE
An aviation industry clearinghouse is collecting passenger information from billions of past and future flights and selling it to Trump’s immigration enforcers.

There's chatter today about #POX the little Englander Party of Xenophobes and Fascists high in the polls for a Scottish seat.
So how to fight them (and how not)?
https://ste…

The right wing threat and a viable future
A statement from Steady State Manchester Introduction With horror we see the electoral success of POX, The party of Xenophobes and Fascists (which, without irony, actually calls itself Reform UK1).…

Young Raiders Star’s Beef With a Future Hall of Famer Just Got Spicier https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/beef-with-future-hall-of-famer/?adt_ei=[email]

Democrats must embrace Mamdani as their party's future (Randall Schmollinger/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5379509-democrats-must-embrace-mamdani-as-the-partys-future/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p65#a250702p65

#opensource

Future Impact of Quantum Computing on the Computational Landscape of Power Electronics: A Short Tutorial
Nikolaos G. Paterakis, Petros Karamanakos, Corey O'Meara, Georgios Papafotiou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02577

Future Impact of Quantum Computing on the Computational Landscape of Power Electronics: A Short Tutorial
Quantum computing is emerging as a promising technology for solving complex optimization problems that arise in various engineering fields, and therefore has the potential to also significantly impact power electronics applications. This paper offers a concise tutorial on fundamental concepts in quantum computing, serving as both an introduction to the field and a bridge to its potential applications in power electronics. As a first step in this direction, the use of quantum computing for solvi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08780 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLO_…

Discounted-Sum Automata with Multiple Discount Factors
Discounting the influence of future events is a key paradigm in economics and it is widely used in computer-science models, such as games, Markov decision processes (MDPs), reinforcement learning, and automata. While a single game or MDP may allow for several different discount factors, nondeterministic discounted-sum automata (NDAs) were only studied with respect to a single discount factor. It is known that every class of NDAs with an integer as the discount factor has good computational prop…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21677 has been replaced.
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What happens when generative AI models train recursively on each others' generated outputs?
The internet is full of AI-generated content while also serving as a common source of training data for generative AI (genAI) models. This duality raises the possibility that future genAI models may be trained on other models' generated outputs. Prior work has studied consequences of models training on their own generated outputs, but limited work has considered what happens if models ingest content produced by other models. Given society's increasing dependence on genAI tools, understanding do…

I think we all knew a Melon Husk / Turnip meltdown was inevitable, but I didn't think it'd happen this soon, escalate this quickly, or blowup this spectacularly.
🍿 🍿 🍿
#MelonHusk #POTUS47

How AI-assisted "vibe hacking", which often relies on jailbroken versions of mainstream AI models, is leading to a cybersecurity "arms race" (Matthew Gault/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-ai-hacker-agents/

The Rise of ‘Vibe Hacking’ Is the Next AI Nightmare
In the very near future, victory will belong to the savvy blackhat hacker who uses AI to generate code at scale.

Design, performance and future prospects of vertex detectors at the FCC-ee
Armin Ilg, Fabrizio Palla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02675 https://

Design, performance and future prospects of vertex detectors at the FCC-ee
The CERN proposed $e^+e^-$ Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) is an electroweak, flavour, Higgs and top factory with unprecedented luminosities. Many measurements at the FCC-ee will rely on precisely determining the particle production vertices using dedicated vertex detectors. All vertex detector designs use Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) with a single-hit resolution of $\approx$ 3 $μ$m and a material budget as low as 0.3% of a radiation length per detection layer, which is within spec…

The Revolution Has Arrived: What the Current State of Large Language Models in Education Implies for the Future
Russell Beale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02180

The Revolution Has Arrived: What the Current State of Large Language Models in Education Implies for the Future
Large language Models have only been widely available since 2022 and yet in less than three years have had a significant impact on approaches to education and educational technology. Here we review the domains in which they have been used, and discuss a variety of use cases, their successes and failures. We then progress to discussing how this is changing the dynamic for learners and educators, consider the main design challenges facing LLMs if they are to become truly helpful and effective as …

Yes, yes, yes, yes, @…! 👏
“For now, I’m planning on continuing to roll up my sleeves. I want to make things because I’m human and alive. I want to go on journeys and grow. I’m not always looking for an easy path, I want the friction. Because if I give up the journey, what am I really making? What do I actually learn?”

Your Future In Sales & Marketing
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

The Future is Agentic: Definitions, Perspectives, and Open Challenges of Multi-Agent Recommender Systems
Reza Yousefi Maragheh, Yashar Deldjoo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02097

The Future is Agentic: Definitions, Perspectives, and Open Challenges of Multi-Agent Recommender Systems
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving from passive engines of text generation into agentic entities that can plan, remember, invoke external tools, and co-operate with one another. This perspective paper investigates how such LLM agents (and societies thereof) can transform the design space of recommender systems. We introduce a unified formalism that (i) models an individual agent as a tuple comprising its language core, tool set, and hierarchical memory, and (ii) captures a mult…

I may need to get back to doing illustrations again since it's been about a year that I took a break...
Hand drawn stuff (even if digitally) might be the future of human art with all this AI bullshit going on.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/projects/illustrations/

Illustrations
In March 2024 I started doing sketches on an iPad using Procreate and an Apple Pencil. As of writing this it's May 2024 and I'm still doing it. I'll try to keep this page updated with new illustrations as they are completed. Each illustration links to a page with more info about it, and some [...]

"Why Libraries Should Invest in Visual Design" @ Katina Magazine: https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/why-librarians-should-invest-in-visual-design
"As libraries face f…

"EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows"
#EV #ElectricVehicle #Cars

EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows
Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis from the University of California, Davis, published May 29 in Nature Sustainability, looks at how new mining operations and battery recycling could meet that demand. Recycling could play a big role in easing supply constraints, the researchers found.

Future Slot Prediction for Unsupervised Object Discovery in Surgical Video
Guiqiu Liao, Matjaz Jogan, Marcel Hussing, Edward Zhang, Eric Eaton, Daniel A. Hashimoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01882

Future Slot Prediction for Unsupervised Object Discovery in Surgical Video
Object-centric slot attention is an emerging paradigm for unsupervised learning of structured, interpretable object-centric representations (slots). This enables effective reasoning about objects and events at a low computational cost and is thus applicable to critical healthcare applications, such as real-time interpretation of surgical video. The heterogeneous scenes in real-world applications like surgery are, however, difficult to parse into a meaningful set of slots. Current approaches wit…

DigiT4TAF -- Bridging Physical and Digital Worlds for Future Transportation Systems
Maximilian Zipfl, Pascal Zwick, Patrick Schulz, Marc Rene Zofka, Albert Schotschneider, Helen Gremmelmaier, Nikolai Polley, Ferdinand M\"utsch, Kevin Simon, Fabian Gottselig, Michael Frey, Sergio Marschall, Akim Stark, Maximilian M\"uller, Marek Wehmer, Mihai Kocsis, Dominic Waldenmayer, Florian Schnepf, Erik Heinrich, Sabrina Pletz, Matthias K\"olle, Karin Langbein-Euchner, Alexander Vie…

DigiT4TAF -- Bridging Physical and Digital Worlds for Future Transportation Systems
In the future, mobility will be strongly shaped by the increasing use of digitalization. Not only will individual road users be highly interconnected, but also the road and associated infrastructure. At that point, a Digital Twin becomes particularly appealing because, unlike a basic simulation, it offers a continuous, bilateral connection linking the real and virtual environments. This paper describes the digital reconstruction used to develop the Digital Twin of the Test Area Autonomous Drivi…

Agent's Take: What it will take for Chiefs to retain star guard Trey Smith for the foreseeable future

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-…

https://aphyr.com/posts/388-the-future-of-comments-is-lies-i-guess
Tl;dr: Spam LLM is a combo that’s hard to deal with.

"My experiences of connection with God and others in the church have kept me coming back. I am hoping against hope that the 21st century church can be an experiential community for the future, a place that more and more people can turn to for a mysterious experience of eternal resonance."
—S. Slade Hogan ’22 S.T.M. writing in the new issue of Reflections, which asks whether Christianity is losing its religion.

Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Airbnb Experiences, its push into services, OpenAI, AI agents, making decisions at Airbnb, cutting PMs, Jony Ive, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app
The head of Airbnb on expanding beyond travel, AI and design, and the future of real-world experiences.

Taurus missiles and US support: what should Ukraine expect in the near future? | News Pulse: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/taurus-missiles-and-us-support.html

Midea provides heat pump technology to other big brands, like Bosch, Carrier, and Toshiba, so I wasn't scared by what some would consider a no-name. They have only been producing gas furnaces for 5 years so there's an element of faith involved backed by a 10-year warranty. I might regret making the choice but likely a decade in the future.

Offseason Moves Make Spytek's Vision for the Raiders' Future Clear https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-chip-kelly-raheem-mostert-brock-bowers-jakobi-meyers

The easy access that scammers have to sophisticated AI tools means nothing -- from emails to video calls -- can be trusted.
https://www.wired.com/youre-not-ready/

You're Not Ready
Seems bad out there. Unfortunately, it can always get worse. From evil hacker AI to world-changing cyberattacks, WIRED envisions the future you haven't prepared for.

It's interesting how the "I use AI and it's great and the future" blog posts have escaped LinkedIn and now just pour fire on an overheated discourse.
Question is a bit: Why now?

Q&A with Tamara Bralo, the head of journalist safety at Radio Free Asia, on Trump's cuts, the future of at-risk visa holders, jailed staffers abroad, and more (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/tamara

Graphene foam supports lab-grown cartilage for future osteoarthritis treatments
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-graphene-foam-lab-grown-cartilage.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24765 has been replaced.
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Supervised Quantum Machine Learning: A Future Outlook from Qubits to Enterprise Applications
Supervised Quantum Machine Learning (QML) represents an intersection of quantum computing and classical machine learning, aiming to use quantum resources to support model training and inference. This paper reviews recent developments in supervised QML, focusing on methods such as variational quantum circuits, quantum neural networks, and quantum kernel methods, along with hybrid quantum-classical workflows. We examine recent experimental studies that show partial indications of quantum advantag…

An interview with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on expediting the movie-making process, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela wants Hollywood to embrace AI video
The head of the AI video generation platform on copyright and the future of filmmaking.

Beware diluted, fake, scam "degrowth".  Insist on the real thing.
New piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" – #degrowthUK

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

Calibrated Recommendations: Survey and Future Directions
Diego Corr\^ea da Silva, Dietmar Jannach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02643 https://

Calibrated Recommendations: Survey and Future Directions
The idea of calibrated recommendations is that the properties of the items that are suggested to users should match the distribution of their individual past preferences. Calibration techniques are therefore helpful to ensure that the recommendations provided to a user are not limited to a certain subset of the user's interests. Over the past few years, we have observed an increasing number of research works that use calibration for different purposes, including questions of diversity, biases, …

A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF), with unprecedented political interference at the agency jeopardizing the future of US industries and economic growth, according to a Guardian investigation.
The gold standard peer-reviewed process used by the NSF to support cutting-edge, high-impact science is being undermined by the chaotic cuts to staff, programs a…

An interview with Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela on expediting the movie-making process, copyright cases, why using Runway is like using a camera, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela wants Hollywood to embrace AI video
The head of the AI video generation platform on copyright and the future of filmmaking.

Climate change may separate wild vanilla plants from pollinators, risking future supply
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-climate-wild-vanilla-pollinators-future.html

Rodgers plans to sign with Steelers, sources say https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45459152/aaron-rodgers-plans-sign-steelers-sources-say

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00237 has been replaced.
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Future-Oriented Navigation: Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance with One-Shot Energy-Based Multimodal Motion Prediction
This paper proposes an integrated approach for the safe and efficient control of mobile robots in dynamic and uncertain environments. The approach consists of two key steps: one-shot multimodal motion prediction to anticipate motions of dynamic obstacles and model predictive control to incorporate these predictions into the motion planning process. Motion prediction is driven by an energy-based neural network that generates high-resolution, multi-step predictions in a single operation. The pred…

Raiders star Brock Bowers has future NFL Hall of Famer downright giddy https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-brock-bowers-future-nfl-hall-famer-downright-giddy/848…

Threats of retribution from Donald Trump are hardly a novelty,
but even by his standards, the US president’s warnings of wrathful
vengeance in recent days have represented a dramatic escalation.
In the past week, 💥Trump has threatened deportation, loss of US citizenship or arrest against, respectively, the world’s richest person, the prospective future mayor of New York and Joe Biden’s former homeland security secretary.
⚠️The head-spinning catalogue of warnings may h…

With firm reliance on each other and unwavering hope in our collective strength,
We pledge to resist oppression in all its forms,
To uphold the rights of the vulnerable,
And to build a future grounded in compassion, courage, and shared humanity.
 
Let this declaration be both a breaking and a beginning.

A look at Walmart's use of automation to grow sales without adding staff, as analysts say its efforts raise questions about the future of US retail labor (Gregory Meyer/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/5be70b28-018d-42d7-af8d-ea5a4bed4d44

Walmart is supercharging revenue — but with fewer workers
Growth in ecommerce and automation sparks questions about future of retail sector’s labour force

The BBC says future music performances deemed high risk won't be aired or streamed live; Bob Vylan and six others had been labeled high risk before Glastonbury (Steven McIntosh/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czjkmlj1348o

BBC staff to 'step back' from duties over Glastonbury Bob Vylan row
No "high risk" music acts will be broadcast live in the future after Bob Vylan's Glastonbury set.

An interview with Henry Blodget on BI's layoffs, media market changes in the past five years, why the future is direct distribution and subscriptions, and more (Andy Meek/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymeek/2025

Henry Blodget On Business Insider Layoffs: 'The Market Has Changed'
Business Insider co-founder Henry Blodget weighs in on the site's layoffs and how AI is reshaping the future of journalism.

A look at AIFF 2025, Runway's third annual AI Film Festival featuring 10 shorts, as the film and TV industry remains divided over the role of AI in its future (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/0

Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression
We saw 10 AI films and interviewed Runway’s CEO as well as Hollywood pros.

The IRS open sourced most of its Direct File tax software on GitHub last week, fulfilling a legal requirement under the SHARE IT Act, despite Intuit pressure (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/directfile-open-source-…

The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced
Direct File has been open sourced, and its creators have left government to continue working on the "future of tax filing."

A look at AIFF 2025, Runway's third annual AI Film Festival featuring 10 shorts, as the film and TV industry remains divided over the role of AI in its future (Samuel Axon/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/0

Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression
We saw 10 AI films and interviewed Runway’s CEO as well as Hollywood pros.

An interview with Gaia Marcus, director of the UK-based think tank Ada Lovelace Institute, on AI regulation in the UK and Europe, AI safety, bias, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

Ada Lovelace Institute’s Gaia Marcus: regulation would increase people’s comfort with AI
The head of the UK-based think-tank talks about her hopes and fears for future oversight of AI