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Two FCC commissioners announce they'll depart this week, creating three vacancies on the five-member panel amid a probe into EchoStar's 5G service obligations (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

This is why you don't vote for CDU.
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Our Berlin CDU mayor ladies and gentleman:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/31/germany-gaza-protesters-deport/

Deepening divisions are threatening the fate of the sprawling bill,
which includes large tax cuts;
reductions to Medicaid, food assistance and clean energy programs;
and additional money for border security and the military.
They erupted online on Tuesday after Trump lashed out at an outspoken Republican opponent of the legislation
-- and as Elon Musk, the tech billionaire who recently left his governmental role leading the Department of Government Efficiency, …

Trump Pressures Divided G.O.P. to Back Policy Bill
The president is pressing Republicans in the Senate to unite quickly behind sprawling legislation that carries his domestic agenda, but the measure’s opponents have a powerful new ally: Elon Musk.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/post/3lqn3cekuas27
Every time I see Tom Homan's name, I laugh. That's exactly the kind of name that some lizard creature pretending…

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
I've been genuinely surprised that there have yet to be leaks of tactical orders DHS has given to ICE teams on face coverings & courthouse arrests--it's a sign goons like it. But this Sat story in WashEx DOES have leaks fr Stephen Miller being an asshole. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/3425297/stephen-miller-eviscerated-ice-officials-deportation-numbers/

ACE-Step: A Step Towards Music Generation Foundation Model
Junmin Gong, Sean Zhao, Sen Wang, Shengyuan Xu, Joe Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00045 https:/…

ACE-Step: A Step Towards Music Generation Foundation Model
We introduce ACE-Step, a novel open-source foundation model for music generation that overcomes key limitations of existing approaches and achieves state-of-the-art performance through a holistic architectural design. Current methods face inherent trade-offs between generation speed, musical coherence, and controllability. For example, LLM-based models (e.g. Yue, SongGen) excel at lyric alignment but suffer from slow inference and structural artifacts. Diffusion models (e.g. DiffRhythm), on the…

Strained 2D TMD lateral heterojunctions via grayscale thermal-Scanning Probe Lithography
G. Zambito (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit\`a di Genova, Genova, Italy), G. Ferrando (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit\`a di Genova, Genova, Italy), M. Barelli (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit\`a di Genova, Genova, Italy), M. Ceccardi (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit\`a di Genova, Genova, Italy), F. Caglieris (CNR-SPIN, Genova, Italy), D. Marre (Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit\`a di Genov…

Strained 2D TMD lateral heterojunctions via grayscale thermal-Scanning Probe Lithography
Nanoscale tailoring of the optoelectronic response of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides semiconductor layers (TMDs) has been achieved thanks to a novel strain engineering approach based on the grayscale thermal-Scanning Probe Lithography (t-SPL). This method allows the maskless nanofabrication of locally strained 2D MoS2-Au lateral heterojunction nanoarrays that are characterized by asymmetric electrical behavior. 2D MoS2 layers are conformally transferred onto grayscale t-SPL templates chara…

For Pride.

📢 Schauspieler Gérard Depardieu wegen sexueller Übergriffe schuldig gesprochen
Der französische Schauspieler Gérard Depardieu ist wegen sexueller Übergriffe schuldig gesprochen worden. Das urteilte das Strafgericht in Paris. Die Verkündung des Strafmaßes steht noch aus.
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Schauspieler Gérard Depardieu wegen sexueller Übergriffe schuldig gesprochen
Der französische Schauspieler Gérard Depardieu ist wegen sexueller Übergriffe schuldig gesprochen worden. Das urteilte das Strafgericht in Paris. Ins Gefängnis muss er aber zunächst nicht.

Grève Š Zaventem : la planète et les générations futures remercient les grévistes
https://bx1.be/communes/zaventem/laeroport-de-bruxelles-annule-mardi-au-moins-30-des-v…

As an experiment, I uploaded an AI paper to ChatGPT and asked o3 to explain a specific parameter. Its answer started with
“In Generalized Reweighted PPO (GRPO),”
which is not what GRPO stands for.
Meanwhile, AI enthusiasts have started citing o3 as if they were citing an actual source. Including absurdly involved questions like “90% confidence interval” of “how many chips would likely be diverted from a G42 data center” if such-and-such.
(Am I an AI enthusiast thoug…