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Commanders' Terry McLaurin not attending minicamp amid contract frustrations: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6415945/2025/06/10/terry-mclaurin-commanders-contract-minicamp/

Tonga Poised to Be the First Country to Recognize Rights of Whales - Inside Climate News
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10062025/tonga-rights-of-whales/

Views of the U.S. under Trump dip sharply in many allied countries (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/views-us-trump-dip-sharply-many-allied-countries-rcna211805
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p73#a250611p73

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21904 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…

CAST: Contrastive Adaptation and Distillation for Semi-Supervised Instance Segmentation
Instance segmentation demands costly per-pixel annotations and large models. We introduce CAST, a semi-supervised knowledge distillation (SSKD) framework that compresses pretrained vision foundation models (VFM) into compact experts using limited labeled and abundant unlabeled data. CAST unfolds in three stages: (1) domain adaptation of the VFM teacher(s) via self-training with contrastive pixel calibration, (2) distillation into a compact student via a unified multi-objective loss that couples…

Top Ocean Experts Sound the Alarm Over Growing Marine Crisis Due To Climate Change https://insideclimatenews.org/news/04062025/one-ocean-science-congress…

Top Ocean Experts Sound the Alarm Over Growing Marine Crisis Due To Climate Change - Inside Climate News
On the opening day of a global science conference, French fishery scientist Clea Abello presented research showing that marine protected areas could protect commercially valuable fisheries.

Jeeeez.
❝One unit-level message bluntly said "no fat soldiers."❞
Read this story. Get it out. This is important.
❝“If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don't want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out,” another note to troops said.❞
In a country where the military is one of the more respected institutions, people need — NEED — to hear this:
They engineered the audience. They faked the appearance of soldiers’ support.
They staged it like reality TV.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html

Little more than a year ago,
Kristi Noem’s political prospects appeared to be in freefall.
The then South Dakota governor was criss-crossing the country on an ill-fated book tour,
widely seen, at least initially, as an audition to be Donald Trump’s running mate.
Instead, Noem found herself on the defensive – a position Trump never likes to be in – after revealing in her memoir that she had shot the family’s “untrainable” hunting dog,
a 14-month-old wirehair poi…

Time-Varying Model Predictive Attitude Control for Magnetically Actuated Dual-Spin Satellites
Robert D. Halverson, Ryan J. Caverly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07858

Time-Varying Model Predictive Attitude Control for Magnetically Actuated Dual-Spin Satellites
Attitude control hardware for small satellites is often limited in power and space availability given the importance of the science instruments they exist to transport. To mitigate this, a dual-spin stabilized satellite actuated via magnetic torque rods reduces the space and power required of the attitude control system, but may require advanced control policies. This paper explores the attitude control of a magnetically actuated dual-spin stabilized CubeSat with model predictive control using …

Oh dear. One of the contractors at work, working remotely, needs me to send him some secrets.
We have a well-documented team process for this, giving full instructions on how to create a public/private keypair and how to proceed from that point.
I have just received an email from him containing his private key ...

„The protesters throwing rocks at heavily armed security forces or attempting to damage the vehicles used to kidnap their immigrant neighbors did not introduce violence. They are instead acting in militant community defense.“
From: @…