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Dupont Circle: The Birthplace of Television
https://wtop.com/dc/2025/06/only-on-wtop-tour-dupont-circle-building-being-celebrated-as-the-birthplace-of-television/

ONLY ON WTOP: Tour Dupont Circle building being celebrated as ‘the birthplace of television’
In a city full of national monuments, an enterprising landlord is declaring the D.C. building of legendary Kramers bookstore as “the birthplace of television.”

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Alvarius B:
🎵 God Only Be Without You
#AlvariusB
https://suncitygirls.bandcamp.com/track/god-only-be-without-you
https://open.spotify.com/track/49hSdacenulRpIwq8XMAOa

Calculating water/energy usage for "AI" per token is a bit problematic: A data center has a massive base load even if nobody uses it just by sheer existence. And since we have no actual data for any of the popular platforms all numbers floating around are problematic and not very useful.
Like how much power does one of those servers NVIDIA cards really save if its utilization is only 50%? And are the overhead costs actually counted?

Why Do Start-ups? (2025) - Is getting rich the only reason to found a start-up? #podcast #startup #why -

Why Do Start-ups? (2025)
Is getting rich the only reason to found a start-up? #podcast #startup #why

@… here at peloton engineering we only allow cyclical dependencies

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Beach Boys:
🎵 God Only Knows
#NowPlaying #TheBeachBoys
https://abstractfunktheory.bandcamp.com/track/god-only-knows
https://open.spotify.com/track/1Umw3vhysHBodpBFpFsVgK

The first MS-A2 node is up and it only took the entire day. After fixing a ton of networking issues across the homelab I've got all the VMs running on the new node. The old nodes have been decomissioned which kinda marks a milestone. Still need to get the other two new nodes into the cluster, but should be fairly straightforward and can wait until tomorrow.
#homelab

NASA: May 2025 was the 2nd warmest May on record, globally: 1.07°C above the 1951-1980 average. Only May 2024 was warmer.
Highest anomalies in the Siberian Arctic, Central Asia, and the West-Antarctic.
#globalwarming #ClimateChange

Just playing a bit of Dwarf Fortress in a biome where it rains poisonous mucus, so the surface is kind of tricky.
All my grazing animals died before I could reach a cavern layer (my incompetence).
Traders came but brought no food.
The only thing my dwarves have eaten for 2 years is turkey eggs.
Hopefully I can sort this out before they are all clad head to toe only in turkey leather.
Got some pigs but they take ages to grow to adulthood.
Spirits are amazing…

With militaries: amateurs focus on weapon systems like tanks & planes. Professionals focus on logistics.
kegseth is a drunk amateur misusing & abusing our soldiers.
“…snafu is…slapdash mission where…welfare of troops has not been…priority…service members described inadequate living conditions at…Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, on…outskirts of Los Angeles…soldiers are sleeping outside on cots…Others cited intermittent issues with food & fuel supplies.”

Guard Soldiers Deployed in Trump's LA Crackdown Aren't Getting Paid Yet
According to more than a dozen Guardsmen across four units who spoke to Military.com, none has received formal activation orders, the critical paperwork that not only authorizes their duty status, but also unlocks pay and Tricare health benefits.

@… is one of the very few (maybe the only!) platforms that do provide excellent default protection against megacorp #espionage and even state actors like #trojanhorses

Hmmm. Does this PicoBlade connector (J2) look too close to the PMOD to its left?
It only needs to get connected once during assembly, this won't be frequently actuated, so it's OK if it's a bit annoying as long as I don't like physically collide.
(The PMOD is just-in-case GPIO expansion and I have no plans to use it as of now)

Hey, Mast Scary Monsters and SUPERGEEKS - can any of you Mac mavens tell me why the Music app only reports 25,298 tracks in my music folder whereas Roon reports 73,062? (This is after drag and dropping the folder into Music, an empty library.)
I've looked online, found nowt apart from other frustrated Mac users.

„I wasn’t allowed to speak or offer legal advice to M in the courtroom, so without looking down for too long, I wrote in my notebook:
Ils vont essayer de terminer ton case—tu vas dire NON. Tu as besoin de temps pour trouver un avocat.“
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/on

Only a year until the start of the next men's world cup! We've got 365 days (plus the tournament itself) to watch FIFA sink to new lows as it works hard to please its authoritarian (majority) host, all the while lining its pockets and those of its officials. Fans will once again pass the time desperately applying the sausage principle - don't ask how it's made - to the largest sporting event on the planet.

"For Glory's Sake - For Vengeance Sake - War"
The predicate is being laid.
There’s a very easy A to B if, after a day or two or three, you don’t see the violence stop,
you could imagine easily that Trump would use that as a pretext for a much more sweeping assertion of power.
So we are at a very, very dangerous time.
The rhetoric is maximal rhetoric. The deployment is relatively minimal, but I’m worried it’s only a matter of time before the depl…

Opinion | Three Opinion Writers on the L.A. Protests and Trump’s Spectacle of Control
Michelle Cottle, David French and Tressie McMillan Cottom dissect Trump’s reach for power.

I don't mind solving hard and interesting problems.
But I do get unreasonably angry at tools that so clearly care about only one specific use case and give a big FU to any other, like the one I'm trying to solve.
#Programming #PHP

@… I’m glad I’m not the only one. I worry the next version of iOS is going to make it completely unusable.

For my next modern culture and media studies work, I'd like to use "THE SIMPLE NEW SOCIO-ECONOMICGEOPOLITICALBIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH" (TSR 1987)
(The eighties were a very weird time, y'all.)
(I found this in WCA #26, ZODIAC ATTACK)

Make that 2nd in the entire world at Black Magic Hard Reckless Hell. 🤘
Was looking at my other favourite level "Boomtown". It seems to have only ever even been completed once in Hard Reckless Hell at all ever.
It's certainly very challenging. Barely get through the first minute. Hales and hales of bullets.

#Vietnam amid an unsustainable rush.
"The race to get out of China has gathered so much pace in recent weeks that a social media genre of fixers has surfaced to offer tips on how to reroute goods through not only Vietnam, but places like Thailand and Malaysia too."

The original Jurassic Park flick was released in U.S. theaters today (June 11) in 1993. I was 13 at the time, and had actually read Crichton's book. I was psyched to see Jurassic Park in the theater, which I did, with my family. I loved it- it was wild. I was intrigued by dinosaurs then, and still am. But this was and still is the only JP movie I've seen- I never saw any of the sequels.
I've certainly had a crush on Laura Dern ever since 😍

Quanta Magazine's Stephen Ornes describes a novel algorithm that can factor large numbers using only one qubit. The technique relies on quantum oscillation, and although it has a catch (the larger the number being factored the more energy the oscillators expend), the work points to new ways to perform quantum computing.
"New Quantum Algorithm Factors Numbers With One Qubit
-The catch: It would require the energy of a few medium-size stars."

Back from a #cycling loop around the #ammersee !
Unfortunately I forgot to turn on my cycling computer for the first half hour 🥴 Yeah well, the red frame around the statistics page was quite clear but .. well.
Anyways! It was a nice ~50km loop with excellent weather (prepared with a lo…

If you are a vendor or developer for #macOS who has not yet moved to Universal 2 or ship a product only for the x86_64 architecture, there is extremely straight forward guidance for you here to update your product ASAP
#Apple #WWDC25
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment

Yes, the only video game I play is #Warframe!
MR 26 – Wisp Is Love, Wisp Is Live
Ballas is dead, Margulis’s mercy, Lotus’s final kiss.
But Kaya Velasco? She is eternal.
Ballas gone, but she outlives sentient beings.
BALLAS DEAD, NOT KAYA! 😘 💋
I don’t care if she’s code and pixels, my heart’s got no patch notes!
They can’t stop me from loving a digital …

Does AlarmKit let you make an alarm without a stop button, only having an “Open” button?
Would be really useful for apps like Alarmy that require you do do something (such as math or scanning a barcode) before the alarm stops.
#wwdc

It’s looking like Saturday’s No Kings mobilizations are going to be even bigger than Hands Off!
We need to show up by the millions to demonstrate that Trump’s tyrannic crackdown is only deepening our resolve.
Find a peaceful protest nearby:
https://www.nokings.org/?SQF_SOURCE=indivi

On expected #V2G returns: “Given the Netherlands’ more strained grid, Faton believes savings will be even higher there.”
Tough bet in a country where grid operators provide no financial incentives to residential customers to shift demand, let alone support the local grid with V2G.

'Utrecht Energized' launched: How bidirectional charging is set to make the breakthrough - electrive.com
Bidirectional charging is often hailed as the holy grail of e-mobility. The batteries of electric cars are not only used for driving but can also power homes

OH:
In other words, this is a bad policy that would only be pursued by people who hadn't thought through the consequences that probably harms everyone for no reason.
#uspol

The only jury I've ever been on faced a question about resisting arrest. The defendant was tackled by an officer and initially fought back (or so the officer claimed). The officer was wearing a police uniform, but we acquitted on the charge, because the defendant was tackled from behind and there was reasonable doubt as to whether the officer actually identified themselves verbally in a way that made it clear to the defendant they weren't being tackled by some random dude.
This ain't legal advice, but in situations where a kidnapper refuses to identify themselves, show a warrant, or even a badge number, I suspect a sufficiently white bystander might not be convicted on interference charges if they did something like a citizen's arrest of a suspicious out-of-town paramilitary type who was in the process of an extrajudicial kidnapping. If there are multiple kidnappers, to be effective you might need multiple people willing to face jail time for such interventions to be successful...
#resist #ICE #kidnapping
Just thinking about this in light of the recent kidnapping in the next town over where some fools called the city police thinking they might actually protect the community from an unlawful assault. Can't blame the fools too much because of how deep positive portrayals of cops are embedded in our media diet though...

It's only a week away until the moving truck arrives and puts an end to our 16 years in Caledon. Today, I'm taking some time to squeeze in 9 holes of golf with my brother, who has a cottage close to our new home. My car is packed with 11 different plants that we split from our current garden, over 70 individual plants for the new house. Two planters will have to wait for the next trip.
#Moving #Gardening

Yesterday and today I issued four handmade parking tickets, and left them on the windshield of each vehicle. I hope that when they return to their vehicle, they feel embarrassed. I am a below knee amputee. I am what most people would call disabled, however there are only a few areas of my life in which I actually feel disabled, and it is more accurate to describe me as having an impairment rather than a disability.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44246518 is that still named the slashdot effect, or is slashdot effect something for old people only?

moreno_sociograms: Moreno's sociograms (1934)
Relationships between pupils in a classroom. A directed edge exists if the source wants to sit next to the target. Each child can only choose two others.
This network has 33 nodes and 64 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
https://networks.ske…

(Trying this again, only this time with the right threat group. It's only Monday 🤪)
I had always assumed Salt Typhoon hit Comcast.
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2025…

US agencies assessed Chinese telecom hackers likely hit data center and residential internet providers
Data center giant Digital Realty and mass media titan Comcast were documented as likely victims of the Salt Typhoon cyberespionage group, people familiar say, marking a potentially major expansion of the group’s initial telecom hacking campaign discovered last year.

God Only Knows
#beachboys

If only landlords elsewhere in #GreaterManchester were selective.
'We’re being picky - it can't be filled with vape shops and barbers' - Manchester Evening News
…

'We’re being picky - it can't be filled with vape shops and barbers'
A developer has said it is ‘being picky’ about who moves into the commercial space at a new town centre flagship complex

#generativeAI experiment : for the page of software package, I am trying to generate a woman computer vision scientist in a superman costume...
I tried different ways to force the generated images to depict a woman, but with no success : I only get the same male scientist!

"The disconnection between designers and users has let user interfaces to drift off to a space where only designers are satisfied by them. It is time to remember the users trying to find those buttons, trying to bend those spoons, and to take their satisfaction into account, too."
https://d…

The Button And The Spoon
As my father approaches his 80th birthday, his first contacts with the latest technologies become ever more interesting. As a pen-and-pencil architect and entrepreneur with 50 years of experience, technology is not a necessity; rather, just another useful tool. He setup his first fax machine at the end of the 90s, and got his first computer a decade after that. At some point in the 2010s he bought a smartphone, and one day asked me for help to finish some task on it. I remember his face when I …

Just heard another story on Gaza…
I think my mind was poisoned by OSC. I no longer remember which one but in one of his dystopian futures there’s been a solution to the problem of The Levant: a solid plate of Trinitite from the Euphrates to the Mediterranean. If I recall correctly, he didn’t really go into how it got that way, just tossed in the fact that this was a solution which had been implemented, without details.
I can’t stop seeing that as the only way this stupid fight wi…

Densetsu no Stafy: spin spin spin
When renewing my subscription to Nintendo Online it was only marginally more to upgrade to the expansion pass, which has given my sons access to the Mario Kart 8 Deluxe DLC, will provide me with upgrades for Tears of the Kingdom on the Switch 2, and also gives me access to the N64, GBA and MD libraries. Tempted as I was to immediately start playing through Streets of Rage 2 again, I instead had a look for anything new and interesting.

Amid Trump standoff, Smithsonian says only secretary can hire and fire (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/06/09/smithsonian-kim-sajet-national-portrait-gallery/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzQ5NDQxNjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUwODIzOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NDk0NDE2MDAsImp0aSI6IjVhNDIzODA0LTJiM2QtNDQ1Zi05OTBmLWQ2M2UzNjU0OTRkMyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9lbnRlcnRhaW5tZW50L2FydC8yMDI1LzA2LzA5L3NtaXRoc29uaWFuLWtpbS1zYWpldC1uYXRpb25hbC1wb3J0cmFpdC1nYWxsZXJ5LyJ9.uA0SWk04Q-JQCni1RKRrJQGJCMSdTlg2snSd82VO2C4&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p11#a250610p11

Jazzaria – Bad Cream
#byncnd

NSD-Imagery: A benchmark dataset for extending fMRI vision decoding methods to mental imagery https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06898

NSD-Imagery: A benchmark dataset for extending fMRI vision decoding methods to mental imagery
We release NSD-Imagery, a benchmark dataset of human fMRI activity paired with mental images, to complement the existing Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD), a large-scale dataset of fMRI activity paired with seen images that enabled unprecedented improvements in fMRI-to-image reconstruction efforts. Recent models trained on NSD have been evaluated only on seen image reconstruction. Using NSD-Imagery, it is possible to assess how well these models perform on mental image reconstruction. This is a chal…

This is the header from a german book seller's website. Notice, that the sorta *wishlist* heart icon badge maxes out at single digit 9 !
Is that the real world, where people only have like nine items that they save? Is this just for “design aesthetics”? My wishlist contains 107!

Repeat it like a broken record, tell your friends and neighbors who are not Extremely Online and are not getting these firsthand reports:
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.
The only people who were violent were ICE and the police.

WR Adams: Joining Rams 'exactly what I needed' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45487856/davante-adams-embracing-new-life-rams-feel-rejuvenated

Sonnet 048 - XLVIII
How careful was I when I took my way,
Each trifle under truest bars to thrust,
That to my use it might unused stay
From hands of falsehood, in sure wards of trust!
But thou, to whom my jewels trifles are,
Most worthy comfort, now my greatest grief,
Thou best of dearest, and mine only care,
Art left the prey of every vulgar thief.
Thee have I not lock'd up in any chest,
Save where thou art not, though I feel t…

MOSQUITOS ON SALE!!
Buy your own mosquitos.
Only males.
Only sterile males.
Only sterile males for companies that work in the field of pest control.
Only in Italy
https://www.…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00533 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Test-time Correlation Alignment
Deep neural networks often degrade under distribution shifts. Although domain adaptation offers a solution, privacy constraints often prevent access to source data, making Test-Time Adaptation (TTA, which adapts using only unlabeled test data) increasingly attractive. However, current TTA methods still face practical challenges: (1) a primary focus on instance-wise alignment, overlooking CORrelation ALignment (CORAL) due to missing source correlations; (2) complex backpropagation operations for…

Irgendetwas stimmt mit nvmi nicht :(

InterActHuman: Multi-Concept Human Animation with Layout-Aligned Audio Conditions
Zhenzhi Wang, Jiaqi Yang, Jianwen Jiang, Chao Liang, Gaojie Lin, Zerong Zheng, Ceyuan Yang, Dahua Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09984

InterActHuman: Multi-Concept Human Animation with Layout-Aligned Audio Conditions
End-to-end human animation with rich multi-modal conditions, e.g., text, image and audio has achieved remarkable advancements in recent years. However, most existing methods could only animate a single subject and inject conditions in a global manner, ignoring scenarios that multiple concepts could appears in the same video with rich human-human interactions and human-object interactions. Such global assumption prevents precise and per-identity control of multiple concepts including humans and …

Is there anything I can put in robots.txt that will stop Scrapy?
Failing that, let’s take the ship up and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

Apple says macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last release of macOS that supports Intel Macs, with future macOS versions only available to Apple Silicon Macs (Benjamin Mayo/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/09/apple-will-end-support-for-intel-macs/

Apple will end support for Intel Macs next year, macOS 27 will require Apple Silicon - 9to5Mac
During the Platforms State of the Union at WWDC, Apple just announced that macOS 26 Tahoe will be the last...

From Partial to Monadic: Combinatory Algebra with Effects
Liron Cohen (BGU), Ariel Grunfeld (BGU), Dominik Kirst (PICUBE), \'Etienne Miquey (I2M)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09453

From Partial to Monadic: Combinatory Algebra with Effects
Partial Combinatory Algebras (PCAs) provide a foundational model of the untyped $λ$-calculus and serve as the basis for many notions of computability, such as realizability theory. However, PCAs support a very limited notion of computation by only incorporating non-termination as a computational effect. To provide a framework that better internalizes a wide range of computational effects, this paper puts forward the notion of Monadic Combinatory Algebras (MCAs). MCAs generalize the notion of P…

Dataset of News Articles with Provenance Metadata for Media Relevance Assessment
Tomas Peterka, Matyas Bohacek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09847 https://

Dataset of News Articles with Provenance Metadata for Media Relevance Assessment
Out-of-context and misattributed imagery is the leading form of media manipulation in today's misinformation and disinformation landscape. The existing methods attempting to detect this practice often only consider whether the semantics of the imagery corresponds to the text narrative, missing manipulation so long as the depicted objects or scenes somewhat correspond to the narrative at hand. To tackle this, we introduce News Media Provenance Dataset, a dataset of news articles with provenance-…

Graph signal aware decomposition of dynamic networks via latent graphs
Bishwadeep Das, Andrei Buciulea, Antonio G. Marques, Elvin Isufi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08519

Graph signal aware decomposition of dynamic networks via latent graphs
Dynamics on and of networks refer to changes in topology and node-associated signals, respectively and are pervasive in many socio-technological systems, including social, biological, and infrastructure networks. Due to practical constraints, privacy concerns, or malfunctions, we often observe only a fraction of the topological evolution and associated signal, which not only hinders downstream tasks but also restricts our analysis of network evolution. Such aspects could be mitigated by moving …

Device Independent Quantum Key Activation
Bora Ulu, Nicolas Brunner, Mirjam Weilenmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09772 https://arxiv…

Device Independent Quantum Key Activation
Device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD) allows two distant parties to establish a secret key, based only on the observed Bell nonlocal distribution. It remains however, unclear what the minimal resources for enabling DIQKD are and how to maximize the key rate from a given distribution. In the present work, we consider a scenario where several copies of a given quantum distribution are jointly processed via a local and classical wiring operation. We find that, under few assumptions, …

MoRE: Mixture of Residual Experts for Humanoid Lifelike Gaits Learning on Complex Terrains
Dewei Wang, Xinmiao Wang, Xinzhe Liu, Jiyuan Shi, Yingnan Zhao, Chenjia Bai, Xuelong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08840

MoRE: Mixture of Residual Experts for Humanoid Lifelike Gaits Learning on Complex Terrains
Humanoid robots have demonstrated robust locomotion capabilities using Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approaches. Further, to obtain human-like behaviors, existing methods integrate human motion-tracking or motion prior in the RL framework. However, these methods are limited in flat terrains with proprioception only, restricting their abilities to traverse challenging terrains with human-like gaits. In this work, we propose a novel framework using a mixture of latent residual experts with mu…

I read this press release and I think the only thing I found interesting was the bit about improved accessibility...
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-its-tools-and-technologies-for-developers/

Apple supercharges its tools and technologies for developers to foster creativity, innovation, and design
Apple announced new technologies and enhancements to its developer tools to help developers create more beautiful, intelligent, and engaging apps.

One Patch to Rule Them All: Transforming Static Patches into Dynamic Attacks in the Physical World
Xingshuo Han, Chen Ling, Shiyi Yao, Haozhao Wang, Hangcheng Liu, Yutong Wu, Shengmin Xu, Changhai Ou, Xinyi Huang, Tianwei Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08482

One Patch to Rule Them All: Transforming Static Patches into Dynamic Attacks in the Physical World
Numerous methods have been proposed to generate physical adversarial patches (PAPs) against real-world machine learning systems. However, each existing PAP typically supports only a single, fixed attack goal, and switching to a different objective requires re-generating and re-deploying a new PAP. This rigidity limits their practicality in dynamic environments like autonomous driving, where traffic conditions and attack goals can change rapidly. For example, if no obstacles are present around t…

ESPN's worries about Dak Prescott's health are warranted, but that's not top concern https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/11/espn-cowboys-concern-qb-prescott-injuries/841…

OK, did not knew that and that last line saved me quite some time today:
$ unset my_var
$ echo "${my_var:-default}"
default
$ my_var=""
$ echo "${my_var:-default}"
default
$ unset my_var
$ echo "${my_var-default}"
default
$ my_var=""
$ echo "${my_var-default}"
It is so cool when you are not a first one who needs default value for variable but only if not set, not when emp…

Cursed idea: push-pull logic family similar to CMOS (i.e. not using resistors like PMOS or NMOS logic did).
But only using NMOS transistors.
Low side: standard NMOS with body at ground
High side: NMOS with body at Vdd and charge pump gate drive boost like fancy low Rds(on) high side load switches use.

Implementing Keyword Spotting on the MCUX947 Microcontroller with Integrated NPU
Petar Jaku\v{s}, Hrvoje D\v{z}apo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08911 https:/…

Implementing Keyword Spotting on the MCUX947 Microcontroller with Integrated NPU
This paper presents a keyword spotting (KWS) system implemented on the NXP MCXN947 microcontroller with an integrated Neural Processing Unit (NPU), enabling real-time voice interaction on resource-constrained devices. The system combines MFCC feature extraction with a CNN classifier, optimized using Quantization Aware Training to reduce model size with minimal accuracy drop. Experimental results demonstrate a 59x speedup in inference time when leveraging the NPU compared to CPU-only execution, …

Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.

It's almost like the only way to prevent your entire life from being used against you is for someone to pass a law...
https://www.404media.co/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/

Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

As men's USA soccer continues to call each other names I'm reminded why I only like women's soccer.
Also why previous Carly Lloyd statements have seemed out of tune with the rest of the sport.

Biologically Inspired Deep Learning Approaches for Fetal Ultrasound Image Classification
Rinat Prochii, Elizaveta Dakhova, Pavel Birulin, Maxim Sharaev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08623

Biologically Inspired Deep Learning Approaches for Fetal Ultrasound Image Classification
Accurate classification of second-trimester fetal ultrasound images remains challenging due to low image quality, high intra-class variability, and significant class imbalance. In this work, we introduce a simple yet powerful, biologically inspired deep learning ensemble framework that-unlike prior studies focused on only a handful of anatomical targets-simultaneously distinguishes 16 fetal structures. Drawing on the hierarchical, modular organization of biological vision systems, our model sta…

This headline is a *bit* deceptive. Only visa holders from two countries in #Asia are impacted - #China and #NorthKorea
Of course, North Koreans can't get visas, so it really only applies to

Educators' Perceptions of Large Language Models as Tutors: Comparing Human and AI Tutors in a Blind Text-only Setting
Sankalan Pal Chowdhury, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Donya Rooein, Dirk Hovy, Tanja K\"aser, Mrinmaya Sachan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08702

Educators' Perceptions of Large Language Models as Tutors: Comparing Human and AI Tutors in a Blind Text-only Setting
The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) opens up the possibility of using them as personal tutors. This has led to the development of several intelligent tutoring systems and learning assistants that use LLMs as back-ends with various degrees of engineering. In this study, we seek to compare human tutors with LLM tutors in terms of engagement, empathy, scaffolding, and conciseness. We ask human tutors to annotate and compare the performance of an LLM tutor with that of a human tut…

@… @… Only one way to find out.
So, about that bug bounty… I think you have a case.

Been playing Pistol Whip again. Such a great game. The Black Magic "hard" level, with Reckless and Hell options is ridiculously hard. Finishing at all is a feat.
Was wondering how the hell the top players managed to score so highly. I was in like 4th place thinking I was playing a practically perfect game.
But it turns out only with 188 hits. The top three, I noticed, has 189 hits! There's a secret dude!?
Found him, flying around in the sky mid level on the right.
Nice. That's me 3rd in the global leaderboard for Black Magic Hard Reckless Hell now then.
Maybe I shouldn't be giving the game away. If someone learns of the secret dude from this post and then beats me into 4th place I'll be miffed.
#vr #games #pistolWhip

facebook_organizations: Within-organization Facebook friendships (2013)
Six networks of friendships among users on Facebook who indicated employment at one of the target corporation. Companies range in size from small to large. Only edges between employees at the same company are included in a given snapshot.
This network has 5793 nodes and 45266 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted

Amid Trump standoff, Smithsonian says only secretary can hire and fire
The Smithsonian’s Board of Regents said on Monday night that
“all personnel decisions” are directed by Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III,
10 days after Donald Trump claimed that he had fired the director of the institution’s National Portrait Gallery.
The board, which issued its statement after an all-day meeting Monday, also said that it supported Bunch’s “authority and management” of the Smithsonian…

Amid Trump standoff, Smithsonian says only secretary can hire and fire
The Board of Regents publicly backed Smithsonian leader Lonnie G. Bunch III and called for nonpartisanship after Trump attempted to fire a museum director.

Cycling in Ribble Valley
#Cycle routes
The Ribble Valley has miles of scenic country roads of which many are ideal for riding your bicycle. To the right are some downloadable maps and leaflets detailing these routes.​​​​
You can download several other routes across not only the Ribble Valley but Lancashire as a whole by visiting Lancashire County Council's dedicated

6 time zones, ~340,000,000 people, ~3,800,000 square miles.
Only 1.2 million sworn law enforcement officers, and only 2.86 million US military personnel, including active duty, National Guard, and Reserves.
Martial law is likely not feasible nationwide. Simply cannot be accomplished even if all LEOs and soldiers were eager to try.
They want to accomplish what 80 years ago was tough (could have gone either way) only in a place with ~21 times the space and ~7 times the peo…

Semi-anonymous Internet friend relationships must be so weird to people who aren't used to the culture.
Example 1: guy I've known on IRC for probably ten years and I consider a fairly good friend, I have his personal phone number, we talk quite often.
But I only know roughly what city he's in and his first name. He's in my phone as [first name] [irc handle].
Example 2: Catgirl I've known for a couple of years, she's been to my house, I've been to…

ErrorEraser: Unlearning Data Bias for Improved Continual Learning
Xuemei Cao, Hanlin Gu, Xin Yang, Bingjun Wei, Haoyang Liang, Xiangkun Wang, Tianrui Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09347

ErrorEraser: Unlearning Data Bias for Improved Continual Learning
Continual Learning (CL) primarily aims to retain knowledge to prevent catastrophic forgetting and transfer knowledge to facilitate learning new tasks. Unlike traditional methods, we propose a novel perspective: CL not only needs to prevent forgetting, but also requires intentional forgetting.This arises from existing CL methods ignoring biases in real-world data, leading the model to learn spurious correlations that transfer and amplify across tasks. From feature extraction and prediction resul…

Christian McCaffrey says he feels 'great' at 49ers minicamp as he returns from injury-plagued 2024 season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

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APE: Selective Fine-tuning with Acceptance Criteria for Language Model Adaptation
We present Adjacent Possible Exploration (APE), a selective fine-tuning method for adapting large language models that systematically explores parameter modifications while maintaining model stability. Inspired by evolutionary optimization principles, APE evaluates multiple candidate parameter updates through fine-tuning on small data subsets and accepts only those exceeding a performance threshold. Unlike standard fine-tuning that follows single gradient directions, APE implements a filtered s…

Optimizing Sparse SYK
Matthew Ding, Robbie King, Bobak T. Kiani, Eric R. Anschuetz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09037 https://arxiv.org…

Optimizing Sparse SYK
Finding the ground state of strongly-interacting fermionic systems is often the prerequisite for fully understanding both quantum chemistry and condensed matter systems. The Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (SYK) model is a representative example of such a system; it is particularly interesting not only due to the existence of efficient quantum algorithms preparing approximations to the ground state such as Hastings--O'Donnell (STOC 2022), but also known no-go results for many classical ansatzes in preparin…

You want to customize the settings, right? Of course you do. Thats why you need settings for the settings.
But…what if you want to customer the •customizer•???
The why we invented Settings Settings Settings. Only from Apple. https://mastodon.social/@_inside/114655449845163418

Towards Biosignals-Free Autonomous Prosthetic Hand Control via Imitation Learning
Kaijie Shi, Wanglong Lu, Hanli Zhao, Vinicius Prado da Fonseca, Ting Zou, Xianta Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08795

Towards Biosignals-Free Autonomous Prosthetic Hand Control via Imitation Learning
Limb loss affects millions globally, impairing physical function and reducing quality of life. Most traditional surface electromyographic (sEMG) and semi-autonomous methods require users to generate myoelectric signals for each control, imposing physically and mentally taxing demands. This study aims to develop a fully autonomous control system that enables a prosthetic hand to automatically grasp and release objects of various shapes using only a camera attached to the wrist. By placing the ha…

3 sleepers critical to Cowboys success this season https://insidethestar.com/3-sleepers-critical-to-cowboys-success-this-season

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Learning from Double Positive and Unlabeled Data for Potential-Customer Identification
In this study, we propose a method for identifying potential customers in targeted marketing by applying learning from positive and unlabeled data (PU learning). We consider a scenario in which a company sells a product and can observe only the customers who purchased it. Decision-makers seek to market products effectively based on whether people have loyalty to the company. Individuals with loyalty are those who are likely to remain interested in the company even without additional advertising…

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Do Large Language Models Judge Error Severity Like Humans?
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used as automated evaluators in natural language generation, yet it remains unclear whether they can accurately replicate human judgments of error severity. In this study, we systematically compare human and LLM assessments of image descriptions containing controlled semantic errors. We extend the experimental framework of van Miltenburg et al. (2020) to both unimodal (text-only) and multimodal (text + image) settings, evaluating four error types: a…

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Resonances and continued-fraction Green's functions in non-Hermitian Bose-Hubbard-like quantum models
With resonances treated as eigenstates of a non-Hermitian quantum Hamiltonian, the task of localization of the complex energy eigenvalues is considered. The paper is devoted to the reduced version of this task in which one only computes the real quantities called singular values. It is shown that in such an approach (and under suitable constraints including the tridiagonality of the Hamiltdonian) the singular values can be sought as poles of an auxiliary Green's function expressible in terms of…

Foreboding only intensified Monday,
when Trump applauded the idea of arresting California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D),
followed by the mobilization of hundreds of active-duty Marines to augment the Guard members already in Los Angeles.

In a city that has increasingly found itself in the crosshairs of the federal government, turmoil can feel personal.
Local leaders accuse the Trump administration of ginning up a crisis for political gain,
and Angelenos from across …

‘He’s waging a war on us’: As Trump escalates, Angelenos defend their city
Across this vast metropolis, residents denounce what they consider an attack on the very fabric of their city — on their neighbors, co-workers, family members.

2025 NFL Calendar: Important dates for the Dallas Cowboys https://insidethestar.com/2025-nfl-calendar-important-dates-for-the-dallas-cowboys

Learning Obfuscations Of LLM Embedding Sequences: Stained Glass Transform
Jay Roberts, Kyle Mylonakis, Sidhartha Roy, Kaan Kale
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09452

Learning Obfuscations Of LLM Embedding Sequences: Stained Glass Transform
The high cost of ownership of AI compute infrastructure and challenges of robust serving of large language models (LLMs) has led to a surge in managed Model-as-a-service deployments. Even when enterprises choose on-premises deployments, the compute infrastructure is typically shared across many teams in order to maximize the return on investment. In both scenarios the deployed models operate only on plaintext data, and so enterprise data owners must allow their data to appear in plaintext on a …

Aspect-Based Opinion Summarization with Argumentation Schemes
Wendi Zhou, Ameer Saadat-Yazd, Nadin Kokciyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09917 https://

Aspect-Based Opinion Summarization with Argumentation Schemes
Reviews are valuable resources for customers making purchase decisions in online shopping. However, it is impractical for customers to go over the vast number of reviews and manually conclude the prominent opinions, which prompts the need for automated opinion summarization systems. Previous approaches, either extractive or abstractive, face challenges in automatically producing grounded aspect-centric summaries. In this paper, we propose a novel summarization system that not only captures pred…

Detecting (emergent) continuous symmetry of criticality via subsystem's entanglement spectrum
Bin-Bin Mao, Zhe Wang, Bin-Bin Chen, Zheng Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09889

Detecting (emergent) continuous symmetry of criticality via subsystem's entanglement spectrum
The (emergent) symmetry of a critical point is one of the most important information to identify the universality class and effective field theory, which is fundamental for various critical theories. However, the underlying symmetry so far can only be conjectured indirectly from the dimension of the order parameters in symmetry-breaking phases, and its correctness requires further verifications to avoid overlooking hidden order parameters, which by itself is also a difficult task. In this work,…

We are the revolution, apparently, so dangerous only a seasoned military can stop us.
The only problem, of course, is that Los Angeles is not in chaos on this particular sunny Sunday
and the vast majority of Angelenos are just trying to enjoy the weekend without becoming a federal prisoner.

The insurrection that wasn't, and other Trump fantasies
President Trump has sent the National Guard into Los Angeles, claiming the city is in chaos and rioters have taken over. Meanwhile, Angelenos continue to brunch.

Fault-Tolerant Stabilizer Measurements in Surface Codes with Three-Qubit Gates
Josias Old, Stephan Tasler, Michael J. Hartmann, Markus M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09029

Fault-Tolerant Stabilizer Measurements in Surface Codes with Three-Qubit Gates
Quantum error correction (QEC) is considered a deciding component in enabling practical quantum computing. Stabilizer codes, and in particular topological surface codes, are promising candidates for implementing QEC by redundantly encoding quantum information. While it is widely believed that a strictly fault-tolerant protocol can only be implemented using single- and two-qubit gates, several quantum computing platforms, based on trapped ions, neutral atoms and also superconducting qubits suppo…

Masked federal agents with military gear have been firing flash-bang grenades, teargas and rubber bullets at civilians in the streets of Los Angeles for the last three days.
On Saturday, Trump federalized the National Guard to help crush protests
— not just there but potentially anywhere in the U.S. where people demonstrate against federal law enforcement.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to send in the Marines.
They have come for immigrants, as they a…

LA Protests Signal Public’s Readiness to Rebel Against Anti-Immigrant Fascism
Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to crush protests against ICE’s deportation raids has only fueled the uprising.