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Searching for #News in the #Fediverse? I have now collected 1043 official/verified accounts by media organizations and the number is still growing.
They are not only on #Mastodon or

A profile of Nigerian fintech PalmPay, which raised $140M from Transsion and other Chinese firms, says it has 35M registered users, and aims to be "super app" (Aanu Adeoye/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f9b54a77-3565-4c0a-91f1-d78fc63659ae

Nigeria’s PalmPay thrives on ‘ultimate competition’ of cash
Chinese-backed payment app has focused on customers excluded by traditional banks, growing to 35mn users

Musks Gehirnchip-Firma holt sich 650 Millionen Dollar mehr
Über Implantate von Neuralink können Menschen mit Querschnittslähmung verschiedene Geräte bedienen. Mit einer neuen Geldspritze hat Musk noch größere Pläne.

Got root?
I figured this spider plant would be a bit rootbound after 3 years in the same container, but I wasn't expecting _this_! Poor thing has been detangled some and potted up. Snipped off 9 babies and stuck them in the greenhouse while I was at it, to give away later in the year, because everyone needs more spider plants.
#garden

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02308 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

MINT: Multimodal Instruction Tuning with Multimodal Interaction Grouping
Recent advances in multimodal foundation models have achieved state-of-the-art performance across a range of tasks. These breakthroughs are largely driven by new pre-training paradigms that leverage large-scale, unlabeled multimodal data, followed by instruction fine-tuning on curated labeled datasets and high-quality prompts. While there is growing interest in scaling instruction fine-tuning to ever-larger datasets in both quantity and scale, our findings reveal that simply increasing the numb…

this is basically "qu'ils mangent de la brioche" for the northeastern USA, isn't it
> the former chief executive and chairman of [massive stock broker] Cantor Fitzgerald also vowed to protect [Maine]’s lobster industry, telling the audience: “I love lobster”
https://ww…

GOP Senator Accidentally Reveals Howard Lutnick’s Tariff Ignorance
The heated exchange was the latest sign of growing impatience over the White House’s trade strategy.

how do you like them apples?
#cndpoli #Canpoli #Poilievre

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.01483 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_…

GarmageNet: A Multimodal Generative Framework for Sewing Pattern Design and Generic Garment Modeling
Realistic digital garment modeling remains a labor-intensive task due to the intricate process of translating 2D sewing patterns into high-fidelity, simulation-ready 3D garments. We introduce GarmageNet, a unified generative framework that automates the creation of 2D sewing patterns, the construction of sewing relationships, and the synthesis of 3D garment initializations compatible with physics-based simulation. Central to our approach is Garmage, a novel garment representation that encodes e…

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…

'Fahrrad' #FotoVorschlag "Bicycle"
Ahh that motto immediately reminded me of our bike&hike to the Schachen above #GarmischPartenkirchen in 2021.
We were pretty done when we reached our destination but it was a great ride. It would be so cool if I…