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@karlauerbach@sfba.social
2025-06-12 19:13:34

Two thoughts:
First is that this is an unacceptable act by Noem (or as I like to call her "Ms Collagen Lips").
Second is I am quite proud of my Senator, Padilla.
apnews.com/live/donald-trump-n

Live updates: California senator removed after interrupting news conference by Kristi Noem
Demonstrators will rally Saturday for "No Kings Day" protests after days of protests over ICE raids. Sen. Alex Padilla was removed after he interrupted Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's press conference.

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-07-02 17:40:40

TikTok lays off workers from the US division of TikTok Shop, the third round of layoffs for the team since April, after a year of missing internal sales targets (Bloomberg)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

@pre@boing.world
2025-05-31 12:24:33
Content warning: Medical stuff / MRI selfie

On the 10th of December 2024 at about 4pm in the afternoon I had a sudden shivering attack. The room wasn't cold, but I was, so I took to bed and shivered on the electric blanket until I napped for a few hours.
Woke up groggy, and never got better. Feeling light headed and occasionally dizzy and half stoned all the time. Can't handle booze or dope at all any more. Doing the job feels like trying to program drunk, concentration shot and short term memory failing.
Various doctors have ordered batteries of tests and put me on drugs to reduce my blood pressure but nothing that's really helped.
They did an MRI last week. Apparently everything looks normal which is good I guess, but still leaves symptoms unexplained.
There are worse fates than feeling half drunk all the time I suppose.
Given no visible brain damage, about the best suggestion anyone has is to stay off booze and drugs (which is easy, since I can't handle them any more) and get back to meditation. If it's damage so small the MRI can't pick it up it'll get better slowly probably. 🤷
Anyway, they gave me the MRI data upon request, so I spent most of yesterday importing it into Blender and making some visualization.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present: My apparently completely normal brain in an MRI selfie.
#blender #mri #selfie

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-29 04:12:58

When Ashley Robinson and her mother took DNA tests 10 years ago and began meeting long lost cousins,
they stumbled across a surprising family history that changed their lives.
Robinson’s lineage traced back to the 272 West Africans who were enslaved by Jesuits
and sold to plantation owners in the southern US in 1838.
The sale of the enslaved Africans helped fund Georgetown University,
the oldest Jesuit higher education institution in the US,
and served a…

Amid attacks on DEI, a US nonprofit offers reparations, education and healing: ‘We’re looking to fill the gap’
A Louisiana-based organization is providing a global model for reconciliation as it champions reparations for the descendants of West Africans enslaved by Jesuits

@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-19 08:16:24

Oldies but Goldies: The Potential of Character N-grams for Romanian Texts
Dana Lupsa, Sanda-Maria Avram
arxiv.org/abs/2506.15650

Oldies but Goldies: The Potential of Character N-grams for Romanian Texts
This study addresses the problem of authorship attribution for Romanian texts using the ROST corpus, a standard benchmark in the field. We systematically evaluate six machine learning techniques: Support Vector Machine (SVM), Logistic Regression (LR), k-Nearest Neighbors (k-NN), Decision Trees (DT), Random Forests (RF), and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), employing character n-gram features for classification. Among these, the ANN model achieved the highest performance, including perfect clas…

@arXiv_astrophCO_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-07-01 11:00:23

Listening Across the Cosmic Time: Standard Sirens from Ground- and Space-Based Missions in the Next Decade
Alberto Salvarese, Hsin-Yu Chen, Alberto Mangiagli, Nicola Tamanini
arxiv.org/abs/2506.24030

Listening Across the Cosmic Time: Standard Sirens from Ground- and Space-Based Missions in the Next Decade
Precise measurement of the Hubble parameter will enable stringent tests of the standard model for cosmology. Standard sirens, using the luminosity distances measured by gravitational-wave observations of compact binary mergers, are expected to provide such measurements independently in the next decade. With the ground- and space-based gravitational wave observatories, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), different types of standard sirens altoget…

@pre@boing.world
2025-05-27 19:57:48

Do you want to see me perform in an Improv show?
You can you know. You can do it in Shoreditch in London in the UK on Sunday.
Dunno what the show will be about, obviously. Some short games, couple of longer stories. But we need YOU there to tell us what it's about.
What else in London is free? Nothing, that's what.
#improv #liveShow #london