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Instagram plans to automatically detect and blur nude images sent via DMs, showing a pop-up to sender and recipient, rolling out globally in the coming months (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)
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I am here in Santa Cruz - a popular beach town. There is limited parking near the beach and of late much of that parking has been (or is) occupied by broken down RVs used by people who might otherwise be homeless.
The Calif Coastal Commission - tasked with protecting access to our coast - has decided that it must protect these large vehicles in order to promote beach access.
First, these vehicles occupy as much space as several automobiles, so the commission's logic seems bac…

With Cummings leading, Coastal Commission gives Santa Cruz two-year extension — not five — of oversized vehicle ordinance
The California Coastal Commission scuttled the City of Santa Cruz's plans to extend its controversial oversized vehicle ordinance to a five-year program. County Supervisor Justin Cummings, who sits on the commission, successfully pushed for a two-year extension instead to assess the OVO’s effects on coastal access during the peak tourist season.

Soooo....I'm doing a thing...🤭😏
As a lot of you know, Tooters shut down recently and the way it was handled in the end is regrettable.
However, I felt for longest time while it was up, that it was consistently one of the BEST run instances on Fedi with how they protected their users from some of the insanity that happens here.
That being said, with Tooters being gone, it leaves a bit of a hole in my Fedi heart and I know a lot of others as well.
So, I'm creating a new, very limited for now, politically-light (as little politics as possible locally), AI friendly (AI art welcome), Sharkey instance for some folks within my circle that I've grown to consider my friends.
The Social Zone is meant to be a place to escape the very political society we currently all live in and just be social with one another about our hobbies, interests, and day to day lives.
I'm still working out all the details but when I launch it, it's going to be invite only because I'm new to something like this and I want to get it right. Especially because those I will invite are people that are close to me and I don't want to disappoint them.
Depending on how things go for the next few months, including if I can even get this thing started correctly, I MIGHT be open to allowing more members in, down the line.
But, this is just getting started. I registered the domain yesterday and just started researching Sharkey today and how hard it would be to spin something up. Then, of course, there's configuration settings and administration with Sharkey that I have to familiarize myself with.
All in all, I'm very nervous, but excited that I decided to take this next step in my Fedi adventure and hope to eventually "give back" to the entire community, the same positive energy that you've all given me over the past wonderful year of being on this amazing platform.
Please do not ask for invites. I will not be handing them out anytime soon. I've already asked about 5 of you along with some IRL folks and I feel I would like some time to get this right for them first.
Thanks for reading. I hope you understand why I'm choosing to do this and hope you're as excited as me to see where things can go and understand why I feel it's important to have these types of "politically-light" spaces so people can escape such topics from time to time.
Keep on keeping on, Fedi. The future is bright and I'm ready to learn along with you. More info about TheSocial.Zone coming soon!
Your friend,
B.A.

A robot hopper to explore the moon's dangerous terrain
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-robot-hopper-explore-moon-dangerous.html

A robot hopper to explore the moon's dangerous terrain
Intuitive Machines recently had a major breakthrough, successfully becoming the first non-governmental entity to land on the moon in February. At least the landing was partially successful—the company's Odysseus lander ended up on its side, though its instruments and communication links remained at least partially functional. That mission, dubbed IM-1, was the first in a series of ambitious missions the company has planned. And they recently released a paper at the LPSC 2024 conference detail…

Optimal Communication Complexity of Chained Index
Janani Sundaresan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07026 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07026…

Optimal Communication Complexity of Chained Index
We study the CHAIN communication problem introduced by Cormode et al. [ICALP 2019]. It is a generalization of the well-studied INDEX problem. For $k\geq 1$, in CHAIN$_{n,k}$, there are $k$ instances of INDEX, all with the same answer. They are shared between $k+1$ players as follows. Player 1 has the first string $X^1 \in \{0,1\}^n$, player 2 has the first index $σ^1 \in [n]$ and the second string $X^2 \in \{0,1\}^n$, player 3 has the second index $σ^2 \in [n]$ along with the third string $X^…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13494 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Communication-Constrained Multi-Robot Exploration with Intermittent Rendezvous
This paper deals with the Multi-robot Exploration (MRE) under communication constraints problem. We propose a novel intermittent rendezvous method that allows robots to explore an unknown environment while sharing maps at rendezvous locations through agreements. In our method, robots update the agreements to spread the rendezvous locations during the exploration and prioritize exploring unknown areas near them. To generate the agreements automatically, we reduced the MRE to instances of the Job…

Instacart partners with Uber Eats to expand into restaurant takeout, offering deliveries powered by Uber via Instacart's app or website in the coming weeks (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/7/24150505

Instacart is getting restaurant delivery — thanks to Uber Eats
Instacart is expanding into restaurant delivery with the help of Uber Eats. Uber will power the back end of the transaction in Instacart’s app.

DDPG-E2E: A Novel Policy Gradient Approach for End-to-End Communication Systems
Bolun Zhang, Nguyen Van Huynh, Dinh Thai Hoang, Diep N. Nguyen, Quoc-Viet Pham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06257

DDPG-E2E: A Novel Policy Gradient Approach for End-to-End Communication Systems
The End-to-end (E2E) learning-based approach has great potential to reshape the existing communication systems by replacing the transceivers with deep neural networks. To this end, the E2E learning approach needs to assume the availability of prior channel information to mathematically formulate a differentiable channel layer for the backpropagation (BP) of the error gradients, thereby jointly optimizing the transmitter and the receiver. However, accurate and instantaneous channel state informa…

Holy shit read this.
There won’t be a place for the elites to hide from the plebs IF this comes true.
All the dirty billions they made won’t buy them a happy life.
They will burn in eternal hell.
https://slaynews.com/news/bill-gates-i

Bill Gates Insider Blows Whistle on Coming 'Wave' of 'Unprecedented Deaths' Among Vaxxed - Slay News
A world-renowned scientist, who previously served as Bill Gates's vaccine specialist, has blown the whistle to warn of a coming "wave of morbidity" and "mortality" among the Covid mRNA vaccinated.

Boy oh boy....accounts with 60k followers and following less than 500 are solidifying my thoughts that there NEEDS to be a place where people can just be social and not have to worry about those few that talk AT people instead of TO people....🤦‍♂️
Some of you really need help. I am not your "audience", I'm a human being.
Thanks for coming to my FED Talk.😳