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Consistent irresponsibility: in May 2024, OpenAI disbanded its Superalignment team and subsequently its AGI Readiness team as well. Now it is the turn of the Preparedness team. Other senior staff from the security and ethics departments have also left the company.
#OpenAI #ITSecurity

An American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests
has been detained in China for more than 18 months on spying charges,
according to his supporters and a US lawmaker.
💥Youlin Chen, a seismologist, has been “wrongfully detained” since November 2024,
US Senator Edward Markey said in a statement Tuesday.
Donald Trump raised Chen’s detention and asked for his freedom during a meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing in May,
according to …

US expert on underground nuclear tests held in China for 18 months
An American scientist who has studied underground nuclear tests has been detained in China more than 18 months on spying charges, according to his supporters and a US lawmaker.

Major Space Weather Risks Identified via Coupled Physics-Engineering-Economic Modeling: #SolarSuperstorm Drained Earth’s Radiation Belt: https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-the-2024-solar-superstorm-drained-earths-radiation-belt - researchers dig into storm processes linked to dramatic electron loss from the outer Van Allen belt.

"An Idaho county banned renewables. It’s having second thoughts."
#US #USA #America #Renewables

An Idaho county banned renewables. It’s having second thoughts.
Solar developments led county officials to ban renewables in 2024. Now, the Republican commissioner who instigated the moratorium is leading the charge to…

Ex-Biden officials deny Marc Andreessen's claims that they discussed secret plans to ban AI startups at a May 2024 White House meeting, pushing him toward Trump (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/10/marc-andreessen-…

Little Red Dots.
https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-distant-primordial-object-may-be-a-newborn-little-red-dot

Extreme dominance of Earth-origin heavy ions in the intense #RingCurrent near the Earth during the May 2024 super #GeomagneticStorm: #ionosphere supplied vast majority of ring current ions during May 2024 super geomagnetic storm, study finds: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/articles/earths-ionosphere-supplied-vast-majority-of-ring-current-ions-during-may-2024-super-geomagnetic-storm-study-finds/ - despite the dense solar wind, solar wind ion contributions to the ring current during the May 2024 superstorm were minimal; the first simultaneous observation of ring current ions and solar wind during a storm this large.

After months of resistance, the Democratic National Committee finally relented this May and published a draft of its "autopsy" of what had gone wrong in the 2024 election,
saying it was releasing the unfinished document “in its entirety” in the interest of transparency.
But, according to Paul Rivera, the man who wrote the autopsy, the draft omitted a chapter titled
“What Happened in 2024,”
which he said he had printed out and placed in a three-ring binder th…

Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter
A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.

On May 2, 2024, Arizona governor Katie Hobbs signed a bill to repeal a near-total abortion ban from 1864 that the Arizona Supreme Court had reinstated on April 9, 2024.
The ban was not enforced by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, and the repeal took effect on September 14, 2024.
As a result of 2024 Arizona Proposition 139, the Arizona constitution codifies legal abortion up to the point of fetal viability

Arizona voters approve amendment enshrining abortion rights in state constitution
NBC News projects the constitutional amendment has won enough votes to pass. It’s one of 10 pro-abortion rights measures on the ballot across the country Tuesday.

Wilson's 2027 NFL Draft big board: Dante Moore over Arch Manning as eight QBs crack preseason top 50

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/2027-nfl-draft-bi…

Potential sighting of the new big #Moon crater in archival amateur images: https://www.astrode.de/mondflug2/9neuer16j26.htm - nothing there until and including 14 May 2024 which (together with LRO's observations) would reduce the impact time interval to a mere week.

An investigation reveals Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4B as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion operation since May 2024 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/ill

I was in the Kawartha region this weekend and randomly drove down a road where I saw a bunch of unhinged signs about paying no taxes and MANY confederate flags.
We don't see a lot of those flags in Canada so I got curious.
Turns out the Guardian made an article on it.
https://www.

West Coast Whale Entanglements Still High in 2025, 9 Seen in 2026 So Far https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/west-coast-whale-entanglements-still-high-in-2025-9-seen-in-2026-so-far-2026-06-1…

West Coast Whale Entanglements Still High in 2025, 9 Seen in 2026 So Far
Center for Biological Diversity: SAN FRANCISCO— Federal data shows that 33 whales were reported entangled in fishing gear off the U.S. West Coast in 2025. That’s just one fewer than the 34 entangled in 2024, which was the highest number since 2018. At least nine whales have already been seen entangled in 2026, including two humpbacks entangled near Monterey, Calif., in late May.

Two kinds of robustness are not the same: disentangling fault tolerance and low-SNR robustness in multi-domain event detection on real data
Isao Kurosawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29339 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.29339 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.29339
arXiv:2606.29339v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reliable event detection underpins induced-seismicity monitoring for Carbon dioxide Capture and Storage (CCS) and geothermal operations, distributed acoustic sensing (DAS), and industrial condition monitoring. In each setting a detector must stay reliable both when sensors fail and when the signal is buried in noise. These two failure modes are routinely conflated, and architectural complexity is often credited with robustness it may not deserve. We assemble a unified binary event-detection benchmark from three physically distinct real sources -- Hi-net seismic waveforms, Utah FORGE 2024 borehole DAS, and MAFAULDA industrial vibration -- each mapped to a common 8-channel, 256-sample representation, and evaluate a fault-tolerant detector (CEPHALON) trained with per-sample sensor-dropout against standard detectors (a 1D convolutional network, a temporal convolutional network, and a compact Transformer) trained with an identical recipe. On clean data every model is near-perfect (AUC ~ 0.99). Under progressive sensor loss, simple models with sensor-dropout are already robust and CEPHALON holds no advantage. Under additive noise, however, CEPHALON degrades far more gracefully: at -2.5 dB its overall AUC is 0.939 versus 0.532-0.572 for the convolutional baselines. Same-architecture ablations isolate the cause: disabling internal redundancy at inference reduces the low-SNR advantage only modestly, whereas removing sensor-dropout training collapses it (0.899 to 0.603 at -5 dB). The training recipe is therefore the dominant cause and parallel redundancy only secondary. We release a complete, numbered, reproducible pipeline so that every figure can be regenerated.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Adrianne Lenker:
🎵 Free Treasure (6 Music Session, 1 May 2024)
#AdrianneLenker
https://trvbot.bandcamp.com/track/free-treasure-adrianne-lenker-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zGhR60NOVSgtzNEQNcHav

it's gone! Dirt Mountain has been flattened.
here's a couple before and after shots.
The close up shots of the pile are between this spring (May) and today.
The wide shot is from the beginning, Labour Day 2024.
And today.
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #portalberni

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #Afrodeutsche
Shabaka Hutchings:
🎵 Living (6 Music Session, 11 May 2024)
#ShabakaHutchings

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Shabaka Hutchings:
🎵 Living (6 Music Session, 11 May 2024)
#ShabakaHutchings

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Adrianne Lenker:
🎵 Free Treasure (6 Music Session, 1 May 2024)
#AdrianneLenker
https://trvbot.bandcamp.com/track/free-treasure-adrianne-lenker-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3zGhR60NOVSgtzNEQNcHav

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Sahra Halgan:
🎵 Sharaf (6 Music Session, 15 May 2024)
#SahraHalgan
https://sahrahalgan.bandcamp.com/track/sharaf
https://open.spotify.com/track/6a7b6cwzpNS1oA6AR4kvt1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
Beth Gibbons:
🎵 Floating On A Moment (6 Music Session, 27 May 2024)
#BethGibbons
https://m0rl0ck.bandcamp.com/track/floating-on-a-moment-m0rl0ck
https://open.spotify.com/track/0WH39BFVGotzXe3torfzvK

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
BIG SPECIAL:
🎵 DUST OFF / START AGAIN (6 Music Session, 13 May 2024)
#BIGSPECIAL
https://open.spotify.com/track/2sUmTnB0rBgpx9DTcZUrQK