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@timbray@cosocial.ca
2025-06-18 04:43:03

Piketty on the need for a wealth tax, with a fairly hilarious French Revolution analogy – Le blog de Thomas Piketty lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/0

Ultra-wealthy, the Senate beside the story
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the upper house, the Sénat, has shown just how disconnected it is from the issues of our time. This is nothing new. Between 1896 …

Continuer la lecture

@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2025-06-18 11:19:49

Abt. Wirksamkeit der Tibetologie (Kudos an Dagmar Schwerk!).
blankforms.org/publications/bl

Blank Forms 10: Alien Roots: Éliane Radigue
Release date: June 20, 2025The tenth and final anthology from Blank Forms explores the early electronic work of French composer Éliane Radigue, whose radical approach to feedback, analog synthesis, and composition on tape has long evaded historical and technical interpretation. Combining key texts, newly translated primary documents, interviews, and commissioned essays, this compendium interrogates the composer’s idiosyncratic compositional practice, which both embraces and confounds the it…

@Mediagazer@mstdn.social
2025-06-17 04:15:41

Lionsgate and DirecTV plan to launch Lionsgate Collection, a premium channel for DirecTV subscribers with the studio's 20K title film and TV library (Anthony D'Alessandro/Deadline)
deadline.com/2025/06/lionsgate

Lionsgate & DirecTV Launch Lionsgate Collection Premium Channel
Lionsgate and DirecTV are firing up Lionsgate Collection, a premium channel for the latter's subscribers which will draw upon the studio's 20,000-plus title film and TV library.

@cdarwin@c.im
2025-06-17 03:27:52

Known as “white” asbestos,
chrysotile asbestos is banned in more than 50 countries
for its link to lung cancer and mesothelioma,
a cancer that forms in the lining of internal organs.
White asbestos, however, has been imported for use in the United States for roofing materials, textiles and cement as well as gaskets, clutches, brake pads and other automotive parts.
It is also used in chlorine manufacturing.
Last year the Environmental Protection Agency, u…

E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-17 11:00:45

John Lynch on 49ers' 'uneasy' offseason: 'We had to get younger and we had to get a little cheaper' nfl.com/news/john-lynch-on-49e

John Lynch on 49ers' 'uneasy' offseason: 'We had to get younger and we had to get a little cheaper'
The San Francisco 49ers watched several veterans depart this offseason, while adding 11 draft picks to the mix. 

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-06-16 09:07:15

#MutualAid @… needs some help:
social.wildeboer.net/@jwild…

Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange: (@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)
Come on #Fediverse, if you can, put some money where your heart is. The people from Framasoft are working hard on #PeerTube and are only looking for €75.000. With less than 40 hours to go, you can be part of the difference we want to see in the world :) Soon we will be able to livestream from our smartphone to the fediverse! Framasoft is a French non-profit, based in Lyon. https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/?mtm_campaign=JPTMobileApp25&mtm_source=Framanav&mtm_placement=Alert1

@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-17 09:35:27

Understanding and Benchmarking the Trustworthiness in Multimodal LLMs for Video Understanding
Youze Wang, Zijun Chen, Ruoyu Chen, Shishen Gu, Yinpeng Dong, Hang Su, Jun Zhu, Meng Wang, Richang Hong, Wenbo Hu
arxiv.org/abs/2506.12336

Understanding and Benchmarking the Trustworthiness in Multimodal LLMs for Video Understanding
Recent advancements in multimodal large language models for video understanding (videoLLMs) have improved their ability to process dynamic multimodal data. However, trustworthiness challenges factual inaccuracies, harmful content, biases, hallucinations, and privacy risks, undermine reliability due to video data's spatiotemporal complexities. This study introduces Trust-videoLLMs, a comprehensive benchmark evaluating videoLLMs across five dimensions: truthfulness, safety, robustness, fairness, …

@lmc@mastodon.social
2025-05-17 03:57:18

Salesforce Tower x Valkyries
#WNBA #Valkyries

Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. At the top is a video of lots of purple basketballs bouncing around in honor of the new women’s basketball team the Valkyries.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-17 15:56:38

John Lynch explains thought process behind 49ers' offseason: 'A tough pill to swallow'

cbssports.com/nfl/news/john-ly

John Lynch explains thought process behind 49ers' offseason: 'A tough pill to swallow'
San Francisco embraced a sort of soft reset

@NFL@darktundra.xyz
2025-06-17 16:51:29

How the 49ers accomplished GM John Lynch's goal of getting younger and cheaper for the 2025 season

cbssports.com/nfl/news/how-the…

How the 49ers accomplished GM John Lynch's goal of getting younger and cheaper for the 2025 season
Handing out three massive extensions forced San Francisco to cut costs elsewhere