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Überwachung made in EU: Dobrindt vermeidet klares Nein zur Chatkontrolle
Das von Dobrindt geführte Bundesinnenministerium betont auf eine Abgeordneten-Anfrage, der Kampf gegen sexuellen Missbrauch von Kindern habe höchste Priorität.

WATCH: Behind-the-scenes footage shows how Panthers, Rams nearly made major trade during NFL Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/watch-b

"The world is full of darkness. So much is going wrong. Experts agree that America has succumbed to right-wing authoritarianism; call it fascism or something else, these are extraordinarily difficult times.
This post is a break from all of that. At least kind of.
In this piece, I will try and convince you that Doctor Who is the best TV show ever made, explain to you why it matters, and why it’s particularly important in our current context. In a time when cruelty and fear dominate headlines, it’s worth celebrating a show that insists on the power of kindness, intellect, and hope."
#DoctorWho
https://werd.io/2025/doctor-who-is-the-best-show-ever-made-heres-why

Im Normalfall poste ich von dem trottel nichts, aber...
https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1930703865801810022#m
"Time to drop the really big bomb: realDonaldTrump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have…

Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
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All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.

Anna Asks
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

I do have a bunch of HV capacitors of uncertain vintage if anyone in the UK has a fun use for them.

Well, science is dead.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

I'm having a bit of an https://xkcd.com/606/ moment... I got round to upgrading the graphics card on a very old computer from one made in 2009 to one made in 2016 (cost: £40) and I can finally play Control which was impossible before and is now as smooth as butter.

Cutting Edge

The US DOJ seized ~145 domains and crypto linked to BidenCash, a dark web market that made $17M in revenue since 2022 by selling stolen credit cards and more (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

"Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations" The book," Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced", costs $169.
Yet more reason to be skeptical about #AI salespeople.

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡
E-Fuels, so the story goes, could allow using existing cars and infrastructure like gas stations. However, E-Fuels are extremely inefficient.
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and the Chilean company HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile's windy Magallanes region, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol and small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🧵

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

Sploot 🐈‍⬛

Celebrity haunt that made ‘Chinese chicken salad a household name’ to close this summer
Sweet-crunchy, crispy-wonton-laced Chinese chicken salad was most likely created by Madame Sylvia Wu at her Santa Monica restaurant Madame Wu’s Garden,
but a large share of the dish’s popularity across L.A. in the 1980s and ’90s can be credited to Chin Chin.
“Owner and founder Bob Mandler is the man responsible for making Chinese chicken salad a household name in Los Angeles County, …

West Hollywood's Chin Chin will serve its last Chinese chicken salad in July
The West Hollywood restaurant that helped popularize Chinese American cuisine will close in late July after more than 40 years in business.

Somehow I managed 9.54 miles today in 48 minutes with an average speed of 12mph... I guess I made up for yesterday when I only did 4 indoor miles.
#biking #bikeTooter #mke

made a big pot of beefy beans (chilli-ish), we ate three portions and there are 11 more to go in the fridge — the kids both said it’s very tasty so i expect it won’t last long!

Oh dear, Musk not getting any friendlier towards his former hero Trump.

Two AFC West Cornerbacks Crack Top-3 CBs In NFL List Made By PFF https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/04/two-afc-west-cornerbacks-top-3-cbs-nfl-pff/

I made the code shorter, and added some comments.

🌟 I've made the PDF version of my "Icons of Coffee" art-book FREE (or pay what you want)
🌟 Grab it over on my Ko-fi!
#Free #ArtBook #Coffee

This year, there appear to be even more fireworks on my street. Which seems weird given both the tariffs and the fact these are a Chinese invention which are made in China, and the folks setting them off around here are very much ‘America first’.
Because the folks setting them off don’t seem to care about their neighbors nor neighbors’ dogs.

An LLM (Copilot, in this case) made an impressive looking graph of collection items over time for a colleague, but after a bit of probing he came to the most 2025 realisation possible:
'Oh wait I've just realised it's made the whole thing up....DOH!'
#AI #LLM

Check out my latest CSO piece, which examines how Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.
Many thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance and Mark Montgomery of FDD for their help and insight.
Daniel made a point about Trump's cutbacks on cyber spending, a situation that most cyber folks haven't see…

Top US cyber officials face divergent paths after Senate confirmation
Following their Senate confirmations, Sean Cairncross and Sean Plankey — Trump’s nominees for national cyber director and CISA director — will face shared challenges but different prospects in coping with unprecedented reductions in cyber personnel across the federal government.

Trump DEI Purge Made Black Women in Federal Jobs an “Easy Target” — ProPublica
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dei-black-women-minorities-careers-jobs-dismissed

this might be the most american object ever made

@… I loved the documentary. It's what made me want to watch DS9 again.

I watched Thunderbolts Asterisk.
Valentina was my favorite character.
The villain storyline, I think, almost rung true, but needed to be a bit different to be truly compelling. There’s a basic counterargument the villain should have made but didn’t. But I liked it anyway.

The New European rebrands as The New World, expands its coverage, and moves to a magazine format; the title made £2.6M in 2024 revenue and had 35K subscribers (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a9b5d243-d905-42c4-b62c-1f640175005a…

‘Remainer’ paper New European rebrands to push beyond Brexit roots
Title formed after 2016 UK vote is relaunching as The New World to reflect coverage of global politics and culture

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations.
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/springer-nature-book-on-machine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/
“According to his bio in the boo…

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…

Marie made Waffles! Egg bacon tea coffee. Weekend was a play, a soccer match, hiking and a rugby match! Tonight probably games. Waffle stack instead of plate pic today 😅 #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/KmsRtkq8fRL9j6cP9

Dear „fundamental Christians“, for you the proof that the climate catastrophe is men made is easy:
• God said to Noah: “I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” (Gen 9, 13)
• You are fighting rainbows, calling them and those who praise it evil.
• So you cut the contract that was sealed between us.
• Therefore there will be flood – and worse. One does not cut the gay ribbon between yourself and God.
• It i…

"This is a Piccadilly line train to Cockfosters"
The 13yo giggles every at. Single. Stop. when that announcement is made.

"The British people want peace. The government’s continued support for Israel must be made untenable. The Gaza Inquiry Bill, and the “red line” Palestine solidarity campaigners drew around Parliament yesterday, help us to do that."
Corbyn’s Gaza Inquiry Bill reflects public opinion – Starmer’s pro-war policy does not | Morning Star

Fascism, the ideology we never wished existed, was made even worse by Hitler’s Nazism. If you support any of this hateful behavior, go fuck yourself.
#Nazism #Fascism #Hitler

United States wondered how China had made such progress in the field of microchips. Huawei and Xiaomi are the answer, with massive development.
https://farmingdale-observer.c…

Choosy Mother Superiors choose... 😉
Dutch museum to display 200-year-old condom probably made from sheep’s appendix;
Rijksmuseum exhibition includes contraceptive featuring erotic etching of a nun and three clergymen
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun

LLMs are starving for knowledge graphs. Raphael Troncy was pointing out that many LLM company crawlers are constantly visiting their KGs. Some crawlers even perform explicit SPARQL queries on the KGs.
#knowledgegraphs #eswc2025

Not sure if those work with a prepaid sim card on a modem (nor if it’s legal to setup such an answering machine on one of them here), but I’ll do some research on it
As for voip numbers, no idea how those work and if they’re universal or if I have to get one from a provider explicitly made for Asterisk compatibility, but they seem quite expensive (specially since the prepaid ones would be basically free since it’s only for receiving calls from nerds, not making calls) anyway.

This stings.
Galway-based game studio Romero Games has been shut down with the loss of over 100 jobs.
https://www.thejournal.ie/100-staff-laid-off-galway-romero-games-6753674-Jul2025/

Over 100 staff laid off as Galway-based Romero Games shuts down after funding cut
The sudden announcement was made after funding was pulled from a major developer, understood to be Microsoft.

#WritersCoffeeClub 5: Talk about something you’ve read that made you think, 'I wish I wrote that.'
Most anything of Sir Terry Pratchett, I have an immense admiration for his wit, his humour, his intelligence, and his writing. I'm not remotely funny, not in my opinion anyway, which makes me awestruck when I find someone who is.

Evidence of haze control of Pluto’s atmospheric heat balance from JWST/MIRI thermal light curves: #Pluto

Hi friends,
I’ve just made a five-track release available - 'Music for Planetariums':
https://robertloganmusic.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-planetariums
These pieces come from a trajectory of very minimal music I love to make - whe…

Sie haben noch mal die besten Bradley vs. T-90 Videos eingebettet. 👇
https://www.twz.com/land/m2-bradley-fighting-vehicle-appears-in-russia-with-locally-made-30mm-cannon

M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle Appears In Russia With Locally Made 30mm Cannon
The captured infantry fighting vehicle has had its Bushmaster chain gun swapped out for a Russian-made weapon. The captured infantry fighting vehicle has had its Bushmaster chain gun swapped out for a Russian-made weapon.

A few months ago I notiuced that BBC iPlayer was always starting with the volume set to 7 out of 11 and I wondered why it wouldn't remember my setting.
Today I tried to disable "autoplay next clip" and it informed me that if I wanted to do that I would have to allow functional cookies. I checked and I had only allowed "strictly necessary" cookies. Allowing this also made it remmber the volume.
Quite impressed actually at both the honouring of the setting a…

@… Yes it is, thank you! 😊 It's a custom theme I made using "Mercury" as a starting point: https://marketplace.getpublii.com/themes/mercury/…

Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/about/news/human-cost-of-working-on-the-railways-revealed-in-database/

Human cost of working on the railways revealed in database - The National Archives
A new public database listing records about railway accidents is being launched at The National Archives on Thursday 5 June to coincide with Volunteers Week. The Railway Work, Life & Death project makes accessible information about 4,500 railway staff killed or injured at work between 1911-1923. It has been made possible because volunteers at The […]

I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, very close to where Roger Williams landed. Perhaps he is a person we ought to celebrate - a firm believe in individual rights, especially in faith; a firm believer in treating everyone (including the indigenous peoples) honestly and fairly.
"Boast not proud English, of thy birth & blood; Thy brother Indian is by birth as Good. Of one blood God made Him, and Thee and All, As wise, as fair, as strong, as personal."
"...…

I grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, very close to where Roger Williams landed. Perhaps he is a person we ought to celebrate - a firm believe in individual rights, especially in faith; a firm believer in treating everyone (including the indigenous peoples) honestly and fairly.
"Boast not proud English, of thy birth & blood; Thy brother Indian is by birth as Good. Of one blood God made Him, and Thee and All, As wise, as fair, as strong, as personal."
"...…

Kompany really has Bayern playing well, much better than I expected if I’m honest. They’re giving PSG all they can handle and could be ahead, if not for a correctly judged offside decision.
Entertaining match so far and probably even. I really enjoy watching Kvaratshkelia play. Such pace and creativity, combined with the willingness to track back. Rare breed. He just about scored on a blisteringly direct attack. Neuer made a couple of fine saves.

I think we all knew a Melon Husk / Turnip meltdown was inevitable, but I didn't think it'd happen this soon, escalate this quickly, or blowup this spectacularly.
🍿 🍿 🍿
#MelonHusk #POTUS47

Becoming Immutable: How Ethereum is Made
Andrea Canidio, Vabuk Pahari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04940 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.049…

Becoming Immutable: How Ethereum is Made
We analyze blocks proposed for inclusion in the Ethereum blockchain during 8 minutes on December 3rd, 2024. Our dataset comprises 38 winning blocks, 15,097 proposed blocks, 10,793 unique transactions, and 2,380,014 transaction-block pairings. We find that exclusive transactions--transactions present only in blocks proposed by a single builder--account for 85% of the fees paid by all transactions included in winning blocks. We also find that a surprisingly large number of user transactions are d…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23703 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_…

Let's Reason Formally: Natural-Formal Hybrid Reasoning Enhances LLM's Math Capability
Enhancing the mathematical reasoning capabilities of LLMs has garnered significant attention in both the mathematical and computer science communities. Recent works have made substantial progress in both Natural Language (NL) reasoning and Formal Language (FL) reasoning by leveraging the potential of pure Reinforcement Learning (RL) methods on base models. However, RL approaches struggle to impart new capabilities not presented in the base model, highlighting the need to integrate more knowledg…

LLM-Driven Treatment Effect Estimation Under Inference Time Text Confounding
Yuchen Ma, Dennis Frauen, Jonas Schweisthal, Stefan Feuerriegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02843

LLM-Driven Treatment Effect Estimation Under Inference Time Text Confounding
Estimating treatment effects is crucial for personalized decision-making in medicine, but this task faces unique challenges in clinical practice. At training time, models for estimating treatment effects are typically trained on well-structured medical datasets that contain detailed patient information. However, at inference time, predictions are often made using textual descriptions (e.g., descriptions with self-reported symptoms), which are incomplete representations of the original patient i…

A look at India's push to compete in the global AI race, as the country's vast linguistic diversity poses a core challenge to building foundational AI models (Shadma Shaikh/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/0

Inside India’s scramble for AI independence
Structural challenges and the nation’s many languages have made it tough to develop foundational AI models. But the government is keen not to be left behind.

"GenAI art has already reached polyester status, and this is just the beginning. Despite all the techno-utopian promises, our brains see it as ersatz."
(Original title: GenAI is Our Polyester)
https://culture.ghost.io/genai-is-our-polyester/

GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore business shirts made from cotton or linen that wrinkled in the wash. Ironing them into a presentable shape

After having wondered why my browsers all behave differently when navigating websites with a keyboard, I found this helpful article about the various settings the browsers have and the „spatial" navigation feature that f.e. #Vivaldi offers:

Links unreachable with tab key despite having href made me learn about Spatial Navigation
Another issue where I was not able to google a simple solution: I discovered that links on a website...

email_enron: Email network (Enron corpus)
The Enron email corpus, containing all the email communication from the Enron corporation, which was made public as a result of legal action. Nodes are email addresses and node i links to node j if i sent at least one email to address j. Non-Enron email addresses are also present, but only their links to/from Enron addresses are observed.
This network has 36692 nodes and 367662 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigr…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.15289 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

SATA: A Paradigm for LLM Jailbreak via Simple Assistive Task Linkage
Large language models (LLMs) have made significant advancements across various tasks, but their safety alignment remain a major concern. Exploring jailbreak prompts can expose LLMs' vulnerabilities and guide efforts to secure them. Existing methods primarily design sophisticated instructions for the LLM to follow, or rely on multiple iterations, which could hinder the performance and efficiency of jailbreaks. In this work, we propose a novel jailbreak paradigm, Simple Assistive Task Linkage (SA…

OWMM-Agent: Open World Mobile Manipulation With Multi-modal Agentic Data Synthesis
Junting Chen, Haotian Liang, Lingxiao Du, Weiyun Wang, Mengkang Hu, Yao Mu, Wenhai Wang, Jifeng Dai, Ping Luo, Wenqi Shao, Lin Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04217

OWMM-Agent: Open World Mobile Manipulation With Multi-modal Agentic Data Synthesis
The rapid progress of navigation, manipulation, and vision models has made mobile manipulators capable in many specialized tasks. However, the open-world mobile manipulation (OWMM) task remains a challenge due to the need for generalization to open-ended instructions and environments, as well as the systematic complexity to integrate high-level decision making with low-level robot control based on both global scene understanding and current agent state. To address this complexity, we propose a …

Cowboys Dak Prescott changing pre-snap cadence https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-dak-prescott-changing-pre-snap-cadence

Former Senator Claire McCaskill just made a HUGE prediction:
Nathan Sage,
the Democrat running for U.S. Senate against Republican Joni Ernst,
has a real chance of flipping Iowa’s Senate seat blue!
Nathan Sage is exactly the kind of Democrat who can win Iowa.
Nathan grew up in a trailer park, served 3 tours in Iraq,
is president of his local chamber of commerce, and a working class Democrat who can take on Ernst and actually win.
Democrats MUST take…

Give now to help Nathan Sage defeat Joni Ernst and take back the Senate for Democrats!
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Are You Listening to Me? Fine-Tuning Chatbots for Empathetic Dialogue
Paulo Ricardo Knob, Leonardo Scholler, Juliano Rigatti, Soraia Raupp Musse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02537

Are You Listening to Me? Fine-Tuning Chatbots for Empathetic Dialogue
Conversational agents have made significant progress since ELIZA, expanding their role across various domains, including healthcare, education, and customer service. As these agents become increasingly integrated into daily human interactions, the need for emotional intelligence, particularly empathetic listening, becomes increasingly essential. In this study, we explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) respond when tasked with generating emotionally rich interactions. Starting from a small dat…

No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker.
---- - Mikhail Bakunin - ----

I’m gonna call this one a fail… some lines are too thin, overspray, and the 3D printed stencil warped after using it!

Understanding and Meeting Practitioner Needs When Measuring Representational Harms Caused by LLM-Based Systems
Emma Harvey, Emily Sheng, Su Lin Blodgett, Alexandra Chouldechova, Jean Garcia-Gathright, Alexandra Olteanu, Hanna Wallach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04482

Understanding and Meeting Practitioner Needs When Measuring Representational Harms Caused by LLM-Based Systems
The NLP research community has made publicly available numerous instruments for measuring representational harms caused by large language model (LLM)-based systems. These instruments have taken the form of datasets, metrics, tools, and more. In this paper, we examine the extent to which such instruments meet the needs of practitioners tasked with evaluating LLM-based systems. Via semi-structured interviews with 12 such practitioners, we find that practitioners are often unable to use publicly a…

T1 Phone: Trump Organization wirbt nicht mehr mit "Made in USA"
Die Trump Organization bewarb das Trump-Phone mit der Behauptung, "Made in USA". Davon ist nun nicht mehr die Rede – und es gibt weitere Änderungen.

A beautifully-made union banner from the May Day march :-)
#Nottingham

Pentaquarks made of light quarks and their admixture to baryons
Nicholas Miesch, Edward Shuryak, Ismail Zahed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01861 https://

Pentaquarks made of light quarks and their admixture to baryons
This paper is a continuation of our studies of multiquark hadrons. The anti-symmetrization of their wavefunctions required by Fermi statistics is nontivial, as it mixes orbital, color, spin and flavor structures. In our previous papers we developed a method to find them based on the representations of the permutation group, and derived the explicit wave functions for baryons excited to the first and second shells $(L=1,2)$, tetraquarks $qq\bar q\bar q$ and hexaquarks ($6q$). Now we apply it t…

They made zombies faster and smarter and now they're just Klingons.

UnitedHealthcare sues The Guardian for defamation over a May 21 story about nursing home cost-cutting, accusing the outlet of capitalizing on its CEO's killing (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/04…

UnitedHealthcare lawsuit accuses Guardian of trying to ‘capitalize’ on CEO’s killing
UnitedHealth is being represented by Clare Locke, a firm that’s made a name for itself aggressively pursuing defamation lawsuits against the media.

Every time I listen to this, I’m dragged back into the shadows of every terrible choice I’ve made, haunted by the weight of my past mistakes, and yet, somehow, I’m still standing, scarred but alive, far from where I once was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GaJS2MiXWU

Pete Carroll Made Smart Decisions With Raiders' Staff https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/chip-kelly-geno-smith-pete-carroll-las-vegas-notre-dame

Chinese startups and tech giants are racing to create AI agents for both local and global consumers, following the popularity of Butterfly Effect's Manus (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/05/1117958/china-ai-a…

Manus has kick-started an AI agent boom in China
A stampede of contenders and copycats has followed the launch of the general AI agent, but China’s internet restrictions have so far made it easier to cater to overseas users.

Safe. Everywhere. Always. | A Canberra Community Survey
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdSrRIhL9NhacbREQUPvZ-KN7VN15VelwkoXwIHFCDLq4qgHg/viewform

Safe. Everywhere. Always. | A Canberra Community Survey
Women should be safe no matter where they are, what they’re doing or what they’re wearing. In response to recent horrific events of men’s violence against women in our community, Senator for the ACT and Minister for Women Katy Gallagher is inviting all Canberra women and girls to share their experiences and ideas for change in the survey below. A summary of key findings from the survey will be made public following its conclusion, alongside a list of commitments and proposed next steps. A…

The rate of descent did not slow as much as expected,
and the spacecraft probably made a hard landing.
The laser instrument that measured how high Resilience was above the surface was slow in making its measurements,
which may have contributed to the problem.
“At this point, we do not know clearly about the cause,”
Takeshi Hakamada, the chief executive of Ispace, said in translated remarks.
The loss of the second mission could lead NASA to rethink its pla…

Ispace of Japan’s Moon Lander Resilience Has Crashed
The loss of the Resilience spacecraft by Ispace repeated a crash into the moon in 2023 of the company’s first robotic lunar landing mission.

I still love the Minimalist Marble Machine that @… built...
➡️ https://tinkerlog.com/portfolio/minimalist-marble-machine/

Minimalist Marble Machine
I always loved watching marble machines, especially the creations of denha. These little machines are super cute and very well made. So a marble machine was on my todo list for a very long time. mo…

An NFL player was against 'shrink dudes.' Then he started working with one https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6400513/2025/06/05/an-nfl-player-was-against-shrink-dudes-then-he-started-working-with-one/

🎵 And your wise men DO know how it feels
To be thick as another brick in the wall 🎵
REUTERS: A building brick made almost entirely from recycled rubble may help solve one of the construction industry’s biggest environmental challenges — managing its significant waste.
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Could these recycled bricks help build a low-carbon future? | Reuters
A building brick made almost entirely from recycled rubble could help solve one of the construction industry’s biggest environmental challenges — managing its significant waste.   Unlike traditional clay bricks, the K-BRIQ, made by Kenoteq in Edinburgh, Scotland, produces 95% fewer carbon emissions.   #brick #construction #rubble #environment #climatechange #building

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01848 has been replaced.
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Identifying Key Expert Actors in Cybercrime Forums Based on their Technical Expertise
The advent of Big Data has made the collection and analysis of cyber threat intelligence challenging due to its volume, leading research to focus on identifying key threat actors; yet these studies have failed to consider the technical expertise of these actors. Expertise, especially towards specific attack patterns, is crucial for cybercrime intelligence, as it focuses on targeting actors with the knowledge and skills to attack enterprises. Using CVEs and CAPEC classifications to build a bimod…

They Planned Parties and Salsa Music for July 4th.
ICE Raids Made Them Think Twice.
Some communities in the Los Angeles region canceled events over fears of immigration raids,
as Latinos grapple with how, and whether, to celebrate Independence Day.
Bell Gardens, where more than 96 percent of residents are Hispanic, is one of more than two dozen so-called Gateway Cities that make up a hub of largely Latino working-class communities.
In recent days, the mayor of …

They Planned Parties and Salsa Music for July 4th. ICE Raids Made Them Think Twice.
Some communities in the Los Angeles region canceled events over fears of immigration raids, as Latinos grapple with how, and whether, to celebrate Independence Day.

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SAM2Act: Integrating Visual Foundation Model with A Memory Architecture for Robotic Manipulation
Robotic manipulation systems operating in diverse, dynamic environments must exhibit three critical abilities: multitask interaction, generalization to unseen scenarios, and spatial memory. While significant progress has been made in robotic manipulation, existing approaches often fall short in generalization to complex environmental variations and addressing memory-dependent tasks. To bridge this gap, we introduce SAM2Act, a multi-view robotic transformer-based policy that leverages multi-reso…

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Gary White, the #Buffalo custom hatter who made hats for Indiana Jones, The Untouchables, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and other films (and two for me), has died:
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Hats Off to Gary White, who Outfitted the stars with Custom Hats for Upwards of 50 Years - Buffalo Rising
Buffalo’s legendary custom hatter, Gary White, has passed away. White, who made hats for upwards of 50 years, was widely known for creating spec hats for the film industry, including notable films such as Dick Tracy, The Untouchables, Tombstone, and Indiana Jones. In a world where the art of making custom hats is becoming more and more obscure, Buffalo was certainly lucky to have Gary and his business – The Custom Hatter – around for so long. For decades, Gary

“Time to drop the really big bomb,” Elon Musk wrote on social media.
Donald Trump, he said, “is in the Epstein files. That is why they have not been made public.”
Musk did not offer any evidence, but soon added,
“The truth will come out.”
https…

Elon Musk Suggests Trump Is in Epstein Files, a Source of Conspiracy Theories
In a spat with President Trump, Elon Musk invokes the Epstein files, a source of endless speculation and conspiracy.

Raiders Wide Receiver Group Will Surprise https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-chip-kelly-geno-smith-jack-bech-deonte-thornton

Just made a cup of this... it's nice! #Coffee #PourOver

Any CEO (especially those that are Billionaires) should be seen as failures if they have to do layoffs.
You fucked up. You're supposed to be the smart one, able to run things properly, but you made a mistake (or many) along the way, and you make others pay for it by destroying their livelihood.
CEO need to be made to pay for their mistakes.

The Supreme Court issued a wave of opinions last week, wrapping a 2024-25 term filled with major victories for Donald Trump’s agenda.
Amid high-profile decisions on nationwide injunctions, LGBTQ books, trans health care, and more,
the court made the unusual choice to delay a ruling on
"Louisiana v. Callais":
-- a redistricting case that could alter the future of voting rights across the country.
The court order did not explain the justices’ rationale…

The Supreme Court Delayed a Ruling That Could Shape Voting Rights Across the US
The court’s choice to punt a key redistricting case signals trouble for the future of the Voting Rights Act.

Sources: Xiaomi is among the Chinese tech companies most impacted by new US chip design export rules, affecting its new 3nm mobile chip made by TSMC in Taiwan (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2b0a0000-1bf6-475a-ac96-c17212afecc2

Xiaomi among Chinese tech groups set to be hardest hit by US chip software ban
Companies may struggle to manufacture silicon in Taiwan with export controls preventing updates to design tools

Twenty U.S. Catholic bishops have signed onto an interfaith effort opposing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which would enact key provisions of President Donald Trump's legislative agenda on taxes and immigration, calling it a "moral failure."
A letter from more than 40 faith leaders of several faith traditions
-- made public by Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on June 26
-- urged senators to reject the bill.
"We, the undersigned f…

Raiders' Patrick Graham Will Work His Magic, Again https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/patrick-graham-las-vegas-john-spytek-pete-carroll

Research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight countries -- including Japan, South Korea and China -- contained hidden prompts directing artificial intelligence tools to give them good reviews, Nikkei has found.
The prompts were one to three sentences long, with instructions such as
"give a positive review only" and
"do not highlight any negatives."
Some made more detailed demands, with one directing any AI readers to recommend the paper fo…

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

Not Enough Of A “Talent Upgrade” For The Raiders This Offseason—CBS Sports https://raiderramble.com/2025/07/05/raiders-not-enough-of-a-talent-upgrade-this-offseason/

Do Not Overlook the Las Vegas Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/geno-smith-las-vegas-patrick-mahomes-brock-bowers-ashton-jeanty

I just received a shocking phone call that made my heart sink.
Just days after Susan Collins voted to confirm RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard,
the MAGA Republican establishment rushed Susan Collins $842K
to rescue her chances for re-election.
𝐈'𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭:
𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐯𝐮𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫
- 𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩'𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐭
- 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐞.

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This is part of the overall assault on knowledge that the administration is undertaking.
Everything that has made this nation a shining beacon in any way whatsoever is being dismantled
-- with the worst aspects of American history being held up as aspirational.
Please call Congress if you are able.
🛰️🧪

Loser: U.S. factories
When Democrats in 2022 created and expanded a slew of federal tax breaks for electric vehicles, solar panels, wind turbines, batteries,
they designed them to encourage companies to use components made in the United States.
That spurred a manufacturing boom, including solar-panel glass recyclers in Georgia and electric-vehicle assembly lines in Kentucky.
The new law could derail many of those factories.
The old tax credit for solar power, for…

How the G.O.P. Bill Will Reshape America’s Energy Landscape
Here’s a rundown on the winners and losers in the legislation muscled through Congress.

Trump went on a digression about his recent trip to the Middle East, where, he claimed, he made a lot of money.
“I’m only here for one thing, to see if I can end it, to save 5,000 lives a week and a lot of money, the money being much less important because I made that money,” he continued.
"I went to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and U.A.E., and we brought back $5.1 trillion.
So, I made that money in about two hours, the money that we’re talking about.
But it’s still three…

Reporter Asks Trump Point Blank, ‘What’s Stopped You From Imposing New Sanctions on Russia?’
President Donald Trump fielded questions from reporters in the White House on Wednesday, where one member of the press corps asked why he hasn't imposed new sanctions on Russia.