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There's moss growing inside the roof panels of my greenhouse! (I'm guessing this isn't exactly desirable, but isn't hurting anything yet, plus it's cool)
#Mosstodon #mosstodonmonday

Lot of things I see kids do on these TV crime dramas (and it's TV, but much is based on real type events) I just can't imagine, this has to be some outlier shit. It makes me think maybe my friends growing up weren't as bad as they could've been. Because if anyone in our friend group had brought up ANYTHING like the shit some of these kids are doing, anyone I knew would've been like "get the fuck outta here". We didn't tolerate abusive shit. Maybe it was the …

The number of undocumented people held in immigration jails has exploded under Donald Trump’s brutal crackdown.
Despite polls showing growing public disgust with viral videos of heavily armed officers making violent arrests,
the administration is doubling down on policies aimed at filling immigration jails and detention camps with up to 100,000 people at any given time
— a massive expansion from the current incarcerating capacity of 41,500 people.
Along with tax brea…

Organizers Call for Shutdown of Immigrant Jails as Trump Expands Incarceration
Despite public outrage, Trump is doubling down on deportation policies designed to incarcerate 100,000 immigrants.

Small towns are growing fast across Ghana—but environmental planning isn't keeping up #Africa

Small towns are growing fast across Ghana—but environmental planning isn't keeping up
Africa's urban future will be shaped not only by large cities and capitals but also by its many small and medium-sized towns.

Frabjous: Deep Learning Fast Radio Burst Morphologies
Ajay Kumar, Ashish A. Mahabal, Shriharsh P. Tendulkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14854 https://

Frabjous: Deep Learning Fast Radio Burst Morphologies
The increasing field of view of radio telescopes and improved data processing capabilities have led to a surge in the detection of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs). The discovery rate of FRBs is already a few per day and is expected to increase rapidly with new surveys coming online. The growing number of events necessitates prioritized follow-up due to limited multi-wavelength resources, requiring rapid and automated classification. In this study, we introduce Frabjous, a deep learning framework for a…

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 4 – Wayland Is Growing Up. And Now We Don’t Have a Choice
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-p…

PRISCILLA GETTING HER PRIDE ON!!!!!!!112 😍😍😍 #PriscillaQueenOfTheDessert #BloomScrolling #NatureyCrap

«But that just brings us back to the original question: why build an AI division at all? Because Google needs to keep up the story that it is growing. […] For a company like Google, "maturity" is unlikely to be a steady state – rather, it's likely to be a prelude to collapse»
Good collapsology by @… !
https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman-gigapede/

Photinus pyralis aka the Eastern Firefly. But growing up we called them lightning bugs. Caught this one mid-takeoff. #fireflies #lightningbugs #tennessee

A United States senator forced to the floor and handcuffed by federal agents for interrupting a news conference.
A mayor taken into custody by masked officials in military-style fatigues.
A political candidate pushed against a wall and handcuffed in a dispute at an immigration courthouse.
A government crackdown is extending to the political opposition.
“This is executive authority, especially in the Department of Homeland Security, running out of control,” said Senator …

Images of Handcuffed Democrats Are Piling Up in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Federal agents have arrested a growing number of the party’s elected officials, fueling liberal outrage and conservative accusations that Democrats are carrying out publicity stunts.

Visa: stablecoin transaction volumes hit $752B in May, up from $409B in May 2024, and wallets that regularly send and receive payments hit a record 46M average (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b69f304c-798e-4dc3-9f17-6f7a7c8d3ac0

How stablecoins are entering the financial mainstream
Usage of the digital assets is growing rapidly, but concerns remain about supervision and their impact on other parts of the financial system

Growing up, I'd hear people share "from despair to hope"-themed music they'd written. It was always a bit confusing, though, because the varyingly dissonant opening portions invariably simply sounded interesting/enjoyable to me.

“How did a sports scene like #MiLB minor league #baseball—with a more than 100-year history of silly mascots, intimate hometown stadiums, and local ownership—get devoured so quickly by #PrivateEquity?”

Private Equity Now Owns More Than 40 Minor League Baseball Teams, And The Number Keeps Growing | Defector
Private equity is the steamroller that crushes all your favorite things. Journalism, for one, and also a once iconic toy store; even bowling these days. Now it has come for minor league baseball, where in little more than three years one private equity firm has managed to buy up a healthy percentage of the MiLB […]

Speaking up against the actions of the rich and powerful, or openly resisting them, has always come with dangers, can we turn that tide now?
https://euobserver.com/Rule of Law/arefa5c374

Court attacks and defunding NGOs: a growing pattern of silencing protest in Europe
This week, Greenpeace had its first hearing in a Dutch court to use the EU’s new protections against these types of spurious lawsuits to shut down free speech – the first time this EU law will be put into action.

“I just hope that when they consider airstrikes on western Tehran and other residential cities that they consider the fact that a lot of people don’t have cars anymore, after 40 years of sanctions,” the man said.
“A lot of people don’t have cars or the means to leave. So it’s not as easy as just telling people to get up and go.”
Of an estimated 400,000 Iranian-born immigrants living in the United States,
more than a third live in the Los Angeles region.
Many live in th…

In ‘Tehrangeles,’ Iranian Americans Anxiously Watch War Unfold From Afar
The Los Angeles area is home to the biggest diaspora of Iranians. The growing war between Iran and Israel has rattled this tight-knit community.

The Aurellion Function: A Recursive Fast-Growing Hierarchy Beyond Knuth Notation
Daniel Vodrazka (Independent theorist)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05067 ht…

The Aurellion Function: A Recursive Fast-Growing Hierarchy Beyond Knuth Notation
We introduce the Aurellion Function, a novel recursively defined fast-growing hierarchy based on Knuth's up-arrow notation, defined by $A_1 = 10 \uparrow\uparrow\uparrow 10$, $A_{n+1} = 10 \uparrow^{A_n} 10$, where the number of arrows in the operation increases superexponentially with $n$. We analyze its growth rate relative to classical hierarchies such as the fast-growing hierarchy $(f_α)_{α< \varepsilon_0}$, and discuss its provability status in formal arithmetic. We provide formal bounds…

Ask yourself: How many water bottles thrown at cops are worth keeping one innocent American* teen out of inhumane #ICE detention?
For anyone criticizing the #LA protests or suggesting they should stop for any reason, let's be clear about the stakes. Read this article (or my summary):
https://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-detained-ice-family-video-ice/story?id=122511685
This 18-year-old was snatched without a warrant, because he was in his dad's car and allegedly (possibly a lie or mistake) his dad drove recklessly. He's been in the US since he was 5, originally on a student visa that's since expired. He is an innocent American, by any reasonable definition of those two words*. Thankfully, he's since been released on bail, but he may yet be held indefinitely in ICE detention (in inhumane conditions that have been repeatedly documented) and/or separated from his family & friends and shipped off to Brazil where he last lived when he was 5 (ICE does not care whether he speaks Portuguese, has any family there, etc), all potentially without due process (though he seems to be getting that in this case). Even if this doesn't happen to Marcelo due to the media attention & protests, it is certainly happening to other innocent Americans throughout the country who aren't as lucky to have people standing up for them.
Here's Marcelo speaking about detention conditions and those he was detained with:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZpZMUb9aEys?si=bpK-022CU7Acb5RY
Do you know how many kids like Marcelo were detained in LA yesterday? Probably zero, because of the protests, including their confrontational tactics. The most "violence" I've seen (from the protestors) is throwing a water bottle at a line of heavily-armored riot police. So the protests are working to protect the community. If you're suggesting a change in tactics, consider whether your suggested tactics (like pre-scheduled non-confrontational protests that have been happening for weeks) will protect the Marcelos of LA.
*Whether he's innocent or American should not in fact matter, but sadly it might to some reading this. If that's you, you've still got some growing up to do.

It was such a pathetic moment in the show, along the lines of "we heard your criticism about competing in a country that criminalises gay people... so we incorporated rainbow colours into our shirts". Yet it's somehow sadder even that was too much.
https://kotaku.com/te…

Team Liquid 'Disappointed' CEO's Story About Growing Up Gay Was Censored From Esports Documentary In Saudi Ara
Amazon Prime’s Level Up documentary addresses the backlash the organization faced, but not in every territory

Despite MLB's strong start to the season, with viewership broadly up, it is scrambling to find a buyer for a major TV package ESPN backed out of in February (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

My haul of ginger today, from a 40 cm (16 inch) pot on my front porch. I have another couple of plants growing in the garden, and from them I just dig up a bit when I want it. This potted one gets harvested all at once, to make pickled ginger (for rice paper rolls and sushi) and a shoot replanted in new compost each year. Such a lot, for so little space or effort. #retrosuburbia

There were four or five summers growing up where I wasn't able to go to the 4th of July parade. Ever since then, I try to go every year.
It might not be a big parade, but it's important to me.
#IndependenceDay #4thOfJuly #Glendale

Bottom-Up Perspectives on AI Governance: Insights from User Reviews of AI Products
Stefan Pasch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00080 https://

Bottom-Up Perspectives on AI Governance: Insights from User Reviews of AI Products
With the growing importance of AI governance, numerous high-level frameworks and principles have been articulated by policymakers, institutions, and expert communities to guide the development and application of AI. While such frameworks offer valuable normative orientation, they may not fully capture the practical concerns of those who interact with AI systems in organizational and operational contexts. To address this gap, this study adopts a bottom-up approach to explore how governance-relev…

Britain's parliament voted on Tuesday to
decriminalise abortion
in England and Wales
to stop a growing number of women from being investigated by police
for terminating pregnancies
under legislation dating back to the mid-19th century.
Abortions have been legal in England and Walesfor almost 60 years
but only up to 24 weeks and with the approval of two doctors.
Women can face criminal charges if they decide to end a pregnancy after 24 week…

Today we had our daughter's 12th birthday party. I feel like it was the first birthday party where I could feel that "teenager" vibe around her and her friends and how they interacted and how they celebrated. There is no more "omg let's play we are all together!" careless free play :) them kids be growing up

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives
https://thecreativeindependent.com/peo

Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert on envisioning alternatives – The Creative Independent
Music writer, producer, and podcaster Dylan Tupper Rupert discusses growing up in the Seattle arts scene, dealing with music industry hierarchy, and imagining the ideal conditions for creativity.

sister just told me i woulda gotten diagnosed with adhd instead, but my mom argued hard that i couldn't actually be socially stunted from having nobody outside the family who spoke english to regularly interact with growing up

This Meshtastic mesh just keeps growing. 489 nodes reaching across Austria, Switzerland and even into France now, over 250km away from me in Munich. I also moved my antenna up 1 floor, to the 2nd floor, getting me 6 direct connections. Up from only 2 before.
#Meshtastic #Munich

We took a break from unpacking and organizing and did tour of local greenhouses and garden centres. We came across this humble establishment in Bradford that takes up 10 acres of growing and retail space. My wife said she has found her new favourite place. The Bad News - it's too close, only 15 minutes by car. The Good News - we have a tiny yard, so we might not go broke.
#Gardening #Zone5a

When I was growing up, the job of yoga instructor-podcaster-entrepreneur-baby machine didn't exist.
- some damn Tina Fey thing

Beyond Retrieval: Ensembling Cross-Encoders and GPT Rerankers with LLMs for Biomedical QA
Shashank Verma, Fengyi Jiang, Xiangning Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05577

Beyond Retrieval: Ensembling Cross-Encoders and GPT Rerankers with LLMs for Biomedical QA
Biomedical semantic question answering rooted in information retrieval can play a crucial role in keeping up to date with vast, rapidly evolving and ever-growing biomedical literature. A robust system can help researchers, healthcare professionals and even layman users access relevant knowledge grounded in evidence. The BioASQ 2025 Task13b Challenge serves as an important benchmark, offering a competitive platform for advancement of this space. This paper presents the methodologies and results …

The new documentary, “Lawrence Welk: A North Dakota Farm Boy”will premiere May 31 at the North Dakota Heritage Center on May 31.
"Born to German-Russian immigrant parents in Strasburg, ND, Lawrence Welk built a strong work ethic and love for music growing up on the family farmstead. After touring the Midwest in his 20s, he was scouted by ABC in 1955 to create the iconic "The Lawrence Welk Show,” "

VC firms Thrive Capital and General Catalyst are adopting the "roll-up" strategy from the PE playbook, as Khosla Ventures, 8VC, and others explore similar moves (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/74db4959-5980-4ca3-8a46-f058ef4774…

Tech venture firms deploy private equity ‘roll-up’ strategy
Thrive Capital’s backing of Savvy Wealth is part of growing effort to fund groups that go on to buy similar companies

Wind and solar set to make up 30% of global electricity generation by the end of the decade. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Chart: Which countries get the most power from solar and wind?
These two clean energy sources are growing quickly around the world. Here are the 10 countries that rely on them the most.

A look at the rise of $5B unicorns, which make up 13% of ~1,600 unicorns but hold $3.5T of $6T total valuation; 17 startups joined the $5B club in H1 2025 (Gené Teare/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ultra-unicorn-startups…

The Rise Of The Ultra-Unicorns: $5B+ Startups Are Leading The Private-Market Herd In 2025
Of the nearly 1,600 companies on The Crunchbase Unicorn Board, a small but ultra-elite club of private companies valued at $5 billion or more is growing across multiple metrics, an analysis of the data shows. We take a look at them, their valuations and which sectors — and countries — rank the highest.

A lookup table for large-genus asymptotics of saddle connection Siegel-Veech constants
Anja Randecker, Maurice Reichert
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23711 ht…

A lookup table for large-genus asymptotics of saddle connection Siegel-Veech constants
Siegel-Veech constants are powerful tools for counting saddle connections on a translation surface. Their computation can be involved, most famously with recursive formulas that use intricate combinatorics or intersection theory. From recursive formulas, asymptotics of Siegel--Veech constants for growing genus can be extracted. In this survey, we collect some known asymptotics and explicitly calculate some special cases of asymptotics that show up in applications.

Shinichi Kobayashi has idyllic memories of growing up on Naoshima, one of the nearly 3,000 islands scattered across Japan's Seto Inland Sea.
"We would go clam digging," said the 75-year-old, who became the island's mayor in 2018.
"During the summer, I would spend entire days swimming in the sea, catching turban shells and fish, getting deeply tanned."
"I don't recall seeing any foreign visitors," he added.
Kobayashi's hom…

Setouchi Triennale 2025
The Setouchi Triennale is a contemporary art festival held every three years on the islands of the Seto Inland Sea.

The white flowers in the new “alt-grass” have started to pop up in the front of the driveway (bottom right) and middle. Still patchy bits but nbd. And the taller stuff is now shading/protecting/cooling the smaller.
The front (bottom) that we seeded a few weeks after the initial planting is growing in nicely.
In a few weeks maybe we will get some poppies in the oldest areas.
Love this stuff!
We can start to walk on the older now, gently. Feels nice barefoot. Down to watering once a day, morning, unless it is over 30°C.
Intending to get more slate slabs next week, so I’ll put in a fourth step stone and probably move the one on the left back a few inches. I’ll try to be careful so I can transplant the grass to some of the patchy areas.
That will also be a first try at backing the trailer over the hump onto the new paths with a lot of weight.
#yard #diy #grass #noconcrete #diy #bloomscrolling

A single paragraph buried deep in a spending bill that passed the GOP-controlled House of Representatives earlier this month is causing growing concern among democracy watchdogs
-- who warn the provision will make it so only the well-to-do would be in a good position to launch legal challenges against a Trump administration that has shown over and over again its disdain and disregard for oversight or judicial restraint of any kind.
Coming just about half-way through what Presiden…

'This Is What Autocrats Do': Concern Grows Over Single Paragraph Buried Deep in GOP Bill | Common Dreams
The provision would force those challenging Trump "to pay up in the form of a posted bond—something many people can't afford to do. That means only the wealthy will be able to even attempt to challenge the most powerful man in the country."

Growing up in Chicago, Chakena D. Perry knew not to trust the water coming out of her tap.
“It was just one of these unspoken truths within households like mine
— low-income, Black households
— that there was some sort of distrust with the water,” said Perry,
who later learned that Chicago is the city with the most lead service lines in the country.
“No one really talked about it, but we never used our tap for just regular drinking.”
Now, as a senior polic…

Chicago residents risk daily lead exposure from toxic pipes. Replacing them will take decades.
The city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.

It's #hosta season! With a new #huecheca/coral bells.
And hidden in the #vinca, this little #hydrangea cutt…

Students around the world who were gearing up to study in the United States this fall face growing uncertainty
after the Trump administration temporarily halted student visa appointments this week.
On Tuesday, a state department directive ordered US embassies globally to immediately stop scheduling visa interviews for foreign students
while it prepares to implement expanded social media screening for all international visa applicants.
While interview appointments that …

Hello – my name is Nathan Sage, and I am the Democrat running for Senate against Republican Joni Ernst here in Iowa.
I was raised in a trailer park. Growing up, that got me called a lot of names. After enough times, it’s easy to start to believe it yourself.
We were poor. I never imagined a better life until a military recruiter said that I could maybe one day graduate college.
After I got home from Iraq, I worked nights to support my family while the GI Bill paid for colle…

Give now to help Nathan Sage defeat Joni Ernst and take back the Senate for Democrats!
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The common use of
#cyber operations in geopolitical conflicts around the world
has demonstrated the growing importance of offensive capabilities
-- but experts say the United States has fallen behind its primary rival, China, in both the creation of cyberattack experts and the stockpiling of exploits needed to conduct attacks.
China has built up a comprehensive supply chain of offensi…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is about to force GOP holdouts to decide if they're willing to torpedo Trump's signature legislative agenda ahead of his arbitrary July 4 deadline.
What to watch: There is a growing possibility of floor fights — with senators seeking to strike unpopular parts of the bill via amendments.
Why it matters: Each hard-fought deal at this point risks blowing up another.
The Senate wants to start voting on the "big, beautiful bill&…

Senate plunges into do-or-die moment on "big, beautiful bill"
"That's why God made votes."