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Wiggle Fest Slow Ride!
Sunday April 13th wiggle along some slow streets!
Meet at Balboa Park 12pm, Roll @ 12:30
Bike along Cayuga stopping at Palega Rec Center, then to Herons Head Park, and finally thru the Mission to Duboce park and Wiggle Fest.
More info: https://www.safestreetreb…

NFL win totals predictions: Will these first-year coaches meet, exceed or fall short of expectations?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-win…

Nintendo launches the Switch 2 globally, with long queues outside stores and midnight openings; analysts expect Nintendo to sell 15M to 20M Switch 2 units (David Keohane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f63cfbcc-9d0e-440e-ad9a-02d01d328f93

Nintendo sells out Switch 2 console at global launch
Mario fans queue at midnight store openings after games company apologises for failing to meet pre-order demand

Wiggle Fest Slow Ride!
Sunday April 13th wiggle along some slow streets!
Meet at Balboa Park 12pm, Roll @ 12:30
Bike along Cayuga stopping at Palega Rec Center, then to Herons Head Park, and finally thru the Mission to Duboce park and Wiggle Fest.
More info: https://www.safestreetreb…

Columbia failed to meet accreditation standards, US government says (Jasper Ward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-education-department-says-columbia-university-violated-federal-anti-2025-06-04/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p120#a250604p120

ProPublica: "NEW: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:k4jt6heuiamymgi46yeuxtpt/post/3lqsubtkczc22

Meet the Update Computer Club at #Uppsala Tech Conference today! We brought a #C64 and some #retrogames for you to play!

The Curse of Dimensionality: De-identification Challenges in the Sharing of Highly Dimensional Datasets
https://fpf.org/blog/the-curse-of-dimensionality-de-identification-challenges-in-the-sharing-of-highl…

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From Concept to Measurement: A Survey of How the Blockchain Trilemma Can Be Analyzed
To meet non-functional requirements, practitioners must identify Pareto-optimal configurations of the degree of decentralization, scalability, and security of blockchain systems. Maximizing all of these subconcepts is, however, impossible due to the trade-offs highlighted by the blockchain trilemma. We reviewed analysis approaches to identify constructs and their operationalization through metrics for analyzing the blockchain trilemma subconcepts and to assess the applicability of the operation…

Competition at the IHSA boys track and field state meet https://www.dailyherald.com/20250531/article/competition-at-the-ihsa-boys-track-and-field-state-meet/

In addition to the mutual aid giving circle link upthread, @… is raising money for the family of a student there:
https://techhub.social/@shantini/114619633818679727
In both cases, this is money that is helping to meet basic needs under dire conditions right now. If you’re distressed by the news from Gaza (as I am), this is a way to at least •do• something concrete.

The Data Dilemma: Authors' Intentions and Recognition of Research Data in Educational Technology Research
Sandra Schulz, Natalie Kiesler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04954

The Data Dilemma: Authors' Intentions and Recognition of Research Data in Educational Technology Research
Educational Technology (EdTec) research is conducted by multiple disciplines, some of which annually meet at the DELFI conference. Due to the heterogeneity of involved researchers and communities, it is our goal to identify categories of research data overseen in the context of EdTec research. Therefore, we analyze the author's perspective provided via EasyChair where authors specified whether they had research data to share. We compared this information with an analysis of the submitted articl…

Education Dept. says Columbia fails to meet accreditation standards
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/04/trump-columbia-education-antidiscrimination.html

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E eu a pensar que tinha sido o Borat.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/sci-tech-vr0v1u2nz/-/a-NQ-Kpwb6RASYGbvxDfYZyg:a:89340020-/0

Meet Robert Kun, the actor bringing Kazakhstan’s action film industry to the world stage
Actor and stunt coordinator Robert Kun’s path in cinema started with martial arts and led to blockbuster stunts. Now he’s bringing the lessons from …

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Feedback-Free Resource Scheduling for Flexible Multi-BS Cooperation in FD-RAN
Flexible cooperation among base stations (BSs) is critical to improve resource utilization efficiency and meet personalized user demands. However, its practical implementation is hindered by the current radio access network (RAN), which relies on the coupling of uplink and downlink transmissions and channel state information feedback with inherent issues such as overheads and delays. To overcome these limitations, we consider the fully-decoupled RAN (FD-RAN), in which uplink and downlink functi…

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Lattice Rules Meet Kernel Cubature
Rank-1 lattice rules are a class of equally weighted quasi-Monte Carlo methods that achieve essentially linear convergence rates for functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) characterized by square-integrable first-order mixed partial derivatives. In this work, we explore the impact of replacing the equal weights in lattice rules with optimized cubature weights derived using the reproducing kernel. We establish a theoretical result demonstrating a doubled convergence rate in the o…

What's next for the Iowan who shouted 'people will die' at Joni Ernst over Medicaid cuts (Stephen Gruber-Miller/Des Moines Register)
https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/04/meet-india-may-whose-shout-evoked-iowa-senator-joni-ernst-viral-medicaid-comment/83994580007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p50#a250604p50

How to prepare for a 8h train ride: go running.
Now of to Prague to #FlockToFedora; looking forward to meet a lot of old friends there and make new ones.
Ohh, and I give a talk there, too: When and how to use upstream Linux kernels to fix or improve Fedora –

ROSGuard: A Bandwidth Regulation Mechanism for ROS2-based Applications
Jon Altonaga Puente, Enrico Mezzetti, Irune Agirre Troncoso, Jaume Abella Ferrer, Francisco J. Cazorla Almeida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04640

ROSGuard: A Bandwidth Regulation Mechanism for ROS2-based Applications
Multicore timing interference, arising when multiple requests contend for the same shared hardware resources, is a primary concern for timing verification and validation of time-critical applications. Bandwidth control and regulation approaches have been proposed in the literature as an effective method to monitor and limit the impact of timing interference at run time. These approaches seek for fine-grained control of the bandwidth consumption (at the microsecond level) to meet stringent timin…

Meet the QBs in the 2026 NFL draft class: Strengths, weaknesses for 22 intriguing prospects https://www.espn.com/nfl/draft2026/story/_/id/45453107/2026-nfl-draft-quarterback-class-top-prospects-klubnik-sellers…

Meet Aleksandra Lazić – the first recipient of the Sarah Jones Award!
Recently, our very own Leonardo Marino sat down with Aleksandra to talk about her passion for open science, the journey that led her to receiving the award, and what’s next on the horizon.
➡️ Read her insights in the highlights below; discover the full interview here:

Interview with Aleksandra Lazić – first recipient of the Sarah Jones Award | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Aleksandra Lazić, PhD and co-founder of REPOPSI, was awarded the Sarah Jones Award for her outstanding contribution to Open Science collaboration and inclusion.

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Matryoshka Model Learning for Improved Elastic Student Models
Industry-grade ML models are carefully designed to meet rapidly evolving serving constraints, which requires significant resources for model development. In this paper, we propose MatTA, a framework for training multiple accurate Student models using a novel Teacher-TA-Student recipe. TA models are larger versions of the Student models with higher capacity, and thus allow Student models to better relate to the Teacher model and also bring in more domain-specific expertise. Furthermore, multiple…

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Seeded Topology Optimization for Commercial Foundry Integrated Photonics
We present a seeded topology optimization methodology for integrated photonic devices fabricated on foundry platforms that yields improved performance compared to traditional topology optimization. We employ blurring filters and a DRC correction algorithm to more readily meet design rule checks, resulting in devices with fewer artifacts and improved correlation between simulation and measurements. We apply this process to an ultra-compact TE modal multiplexer, a TE mode converter, a polarizatio…

The Vampire Diary
Filip B\'artek, Ahmed Bhayat, Robin Coutelier, M\'arton Hajdu, Matthias Hetzenberger, Petra Hozzov\'a, Laura Kov\'acs, Jakob Rath, Michael Rawson, Giles Reger, Martin Suda, Johannes Schoisswohl, Andrei Voronkov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03030

The Vampire Diary
During the past decade of continuous development, the theorem prover Vampire has become an automated solver for the combined theories of commonly-used data structures. Vampire now supports arithmetic, induction, and higher-order logic. These advances have been made to meet the demands of software verification, enabling Vampire to effectively complement SAT/SMT solvers and aid proof assistants. We explain how best to use Vampire in practice and review the main changes Vampire has undergone since…

Surgeon by trade, radical by nature, and a publisher for good measure — George Robert Skene never met a cause he didn’t like. From fighting unfair taxes to handing land to the poor, his 19th-century hustle game was strong. Meet the Victorian multi-hyphenate you didn’t know you needed. https://edintone.com/george-robert-ske…

George Robert Skene (1802–1867): Surgeon, Reformer, Publisher, and Advocate - Miscellanea Edintone
Forgotten reformer, country doctor, and radical newspaperman — George Robert Skene shaped 19th-century debates on everything from church rates to poor law reform. Dive into the story of a man whose restless mind left its mark on politics, publishing, and social justice.

Join the second edition of the OpenSearch User Group Berlin. Learn about OpenSearch Project and Eliatra, get the latest news from the projects and meet the community over some drinks & snacks. 
📅 When: June 18, 2025 – 6.30 pm
📍 Where: Automat Berlin Gmbh, Schöneberger Ufer 65 | 10785 Berlin
Register now:

OpenSearch Project Berlin 2nd meetup, Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup
Hi Everyone, we are very excited to announce our OpenSearch Project Berlin 2nd meetup on **Wednesday June 18th** **Agenda** 6:30pm Start (Drinks and snacks will be provide

For Trump,
“it’s no billionaire left behind
— and good luck to everyone else.”
“It’s telling that President Trump has chosen to release his budget on a Friday night with no fanfare whatsoever,”
said Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee,
following the administration’s release of approximately 1,200 pages of budget documents.
“That’s probably because his budget would raise costs for working people,
destroy basic s…

'No Billionaire Left Behind' in Trump Budget Request That Trashes Workers, Struggling Families | Common Dreams
One expert critic said the updated request "confirms once again that the president continues to break his promises to lower families' costs and help people who are struggling to make ends meet."

Void Gazer – Breath Of Rain
#ambient

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…

The optimization of crop response to climatic stress through modulation of plant stress response mechanisms. Opportunities for biostimulants and plant hormones to meet climate challenges
Jing Li, Giulia Forghieri, Danny Geelen, Patrick du Jardin, Patrick H. Brown
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01714

The optimization of crop response to climatic stress through modulation of plant stress response mechanisms. Opportunities for biostimulants and plant hormones to meet climate challenges
Climate change is a major threat to crop potential and is characterized by both long-term shifts in temperature and precipitation patterns as well as increased occurrence of extreme weather events, these extreme weather events are the most immediate and intractable threat to agriculture. Crop resilience in the face of stress depends upon the speed and effectiveness with which plants and cropping systems sense and respond to that stress. A variety of agronomic practices including breeding, exoge…

SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT
Josh Bendavid (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CERN), Mariarosaria D'Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jan Eysermans (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Chad Freer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Maxim Goncharov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Matthew Heine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Luca Lavezzo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Marianne Moore (Massachusetts Institute of Te…

SubMIT: A Physics Analysis Facility at MIT
The recently completed SubMIT platform is a small set of servers that provide interactive access to substantial data samples at high speeds, enabling sophisticated data analyses with very fast turnaround times. Additionally, it seamlessly integrates massive processing resources for large-scale tasks by connecting to a set of powerful batch processing systems. It serves as an ideal prototype for an Analysis Facility tailored to meet the demanding data and computational requirements anticipated d…

I consider these kinds of events to be nearly useless symbolism, preaching to the choir.
I do accept that these events are useful as means to meet others, but one should not expect these events to have even the slightest impact on the maga/white-nationalist/musk-ites... Nor do I think they have much impact on those who are in "the middle" and do not particularly engage in politics.
"Nearly 1,000 gather at Main Beach to create ‘Resist!’ human banner protesting Trum…

Nearly 1,000 gather at Main Beach to create ‘Resist!’ human banner protesting Trump administration
Around 1,000 people gathered Saturday morning at Santa Cruz Main Beach to spell out the word “Resist!” The event, organized by Indivisible Santa Cruz County, aimed to protest the Trump administration and celebrate Santa Cruz Pride’s 50th anniversary.

"EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows"
#EV #ElectricVehicle #Cars

EV battery recycling key to easing future lithium supply constraints, modeling study shows
Lightweight, powerful lithium-ion batteries are crucial for the transition to electric vehicles, and global demand for lithium is set to grow rapidly over the next 25 years. A new analysis from the University of California, Davis, published May 29 in Nature Sustainability, looks at how new mining operations and battery recycling could meet that demand. Recycling could play a big role in easing supply constraints, the researchers found.

The next Tech Pizza Monday happens on the first Monday of the month, so you know what that means! That's right: Sticker Club! Bring your stickers and we will exchange them! Follow your heart and trade 1 for 1, or take one and promise to pass it along to a friend. As usual, the pizza is real, and we encourage hardware demos, especially if they're free and open. (The hardware, we mean.) April 7th, 6 PM, Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W. Meet us at the sign!

I’ve been enjoying the beginner focused articles on bikes here…
➡️ #MastoBikes #biking

Homepage
For Cyclists, By Cyclists. Trusted by Over 1 Million Riders in 2023 Meet the BikeTips Team Rory McAllister Managing Editor UESCA Cycling Coach & Bikepacking Fanatic Ben Gibbons Deputy Editor, Injuries & Sports Science Personal

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Descriptor: C++ Self-Admitted Technical Debt Dataset (CppSATD)
In software development, technical debt (TD) refers to suboptimal implementation choices made by the developers to meet urgent deadlines and limited resources, posing challenges for future maintenance. Self-Admitted Technical Debt (SATD) is a sub-type of TD, representing specific TD instances ``openly admitted'' by the developers and often expressed through source code comments. Previous research on SATD has focused predominantly on the Java programming language, revealing a significant gap in …

Improving Multi-Vehicle Perception Fusion with Millimeter-Wave Radar Assistance
Zhiqing Luo, Yi Wang, Yingying He, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00837

Improving Multi-Vehicle Perception Fusion with Millimeter-Wave Radar Assistance
Cooperative perception enables vehicles to share sensor readings and has become a new paradigm to improve driving safety, where the key enabling technology for realizing this vision is to real-time and accurately align and fuse the perceptions. Recent advances to align the views rely on high-density LiDAR data or fine-grained image feature representations, which however fail to meet the requirements of accuracy, real-time, and adaptability for autonomous driving. To this end, we present MMatch,…

I'm a fucking Anarchist, and I’m not shutting the hell up! Stop trying to convince me otherwise. If you don’t like my path and my knowledge, then I have a damn good option for you!
Move the fuck on with your life. Find new friends, meet new people, connect with those who share your interests. Stop wasting your time trying to change me.
Fuck off telling me to vote in some bullshit election. Stop trying to talk me out of anarchism and revolutionary syndicalism. I’m done with th…

Skill-Driven Certification Pathways: Measuring Industry Training Impact on Graduate Employability
Anatoli Kovalev, Narelle Stefanac, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04588

Skill-Driven Certification Pathways: Measuring Industry Training Impact on Graduate Employability
Australia faces a critical technology skills shortage, requiring approximately $52,000$ new technology professionals annually by 2030, while confronting a widening gap between employer requirements and graduate capabilities. With only $1\%$ of technology graduates considered immediately work-ready, traditional educational pathways alone prove insufficient to meet industry demands. This research examines how industry certifications, such as Microsoft's AI-900 (Azure AI Fundamentals), can bridge …

OHSAA track: Which central Ohio athletes advanced to state on Day 2 of DII regional? https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/high-school/track-field/2025/06/01/ohsaa-track-field-stat…

Filing: neobank Chime plans to sell 26M shares in its IPO at $24 to $26, giving it a valuation between $10.3B and $11.1B; its two co-founders own 4% to 5% each (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/chime-sets-ipo-…

Chime Sets Tentative IPO Price at Around $10.7 Billion
Banking app Chime plans to sell shares in an initial public offering at a price that would value it at between $10.3 billion and $11.1 billion, on a fully-diluted basis, the company said in a new securities filing Monday. The company set the price range ahead of a roadshow to meet investors over the next week, ahead of its IPO. The per-share price of the range, between $24 and $26, is more

HEY! My MP Gord Johns up with the first Petition of the new Parliament!
Presenting a petition to
"Develop enforceable federal standards to reduce the negative environmental and social impacts of ship recycling that meet or exceed those set out in the Hong Kong and EU Conventions for the safe recycling of ships; and
2. End shipbreaking in Baynes Sound.”
Johns: ”THIS IS THE FOURTH YEAR I HAVE TABLED THIS PETITION AND NO ACTION”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli

Just a quick #leukemia update. Finished my 2nd round of consolidation chemo, but as usual, 10 days later had to go back in for a neutropenic fever for 5 days of antibiotics.
Back home now, white cells recovered nicely, still pretty anemic. So, tired but otherwise feel fine. But most importantly ZERO cancer cells!
I meet w my main leukemia doc on 5/22 to decide whether I need furth…

Meet me at the Digital Research Academy booth at #DAGStat2025 Berlin this week 💜

‘Sick hair buzz and body paint, brah.’
‘Sick hair braids and face seaweed, brah.’
->
Vikings Meet Native Americans For The First Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7xK8aLpLlg

My new strategy when people try to force me to fill out a #Google form or use Google scheduling or #Meet is I'll tell them I keep getting an error message, even if I'm not.

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Pulsed Electroluminescence in a Dopant-free Gateable Semiconductor
We report on a stable form of pulsed electroluminescence in a dopant-free direct bandgap semiconductor heterostructure which we coin the tidal effect. Swapping an inducing gate voltage in an ambipolar field effect transistor allows incoming and outgoing carriers of opposite charge to meet and recombine radiatively. We develop a model to explain the carrier dynamics that underpins the frequency response of the pulsed electroluminescence intensity. Higher mobilities enable larger active emission …

Over-the-air Multifunctional Wideband Electromagnetic Signal Processing using Dynamic Scattering Arrays
Davide Dardari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00619 htt…

Over-the-air Multifunctional Wideband Electromagnetic Signal Processing using Dynamic Scattering Arrays
To meet the stringent requirements of next-generation wireless networks, multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology is expected to become massive and pervasive. Unfortunately, this could pose scalability issues in terms of complexity, power consumption, cost, and processing latency. Therefore, novel technologies and design approaches, such as the recently introduced holographic MIMO paradigm, must be investigated to make future networks sustainable. In this context, we investigate the con…

Complementary Time-Space Tradeoff for Self-Stabilizing Leader Election: Polynomial States Meet Sublinear Time
Yuichi Sudo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23649 …

Complementary Time-Space Tradeoff for Self-Stabilizing Leader Election: Polynomial States Meet Sublinear Time
We study the self-stabilizing leader election (SS-LE) problem in the population protocol model, assuming exact knowledge of the population size $n$. Burman, Chen, Chen, Doty, Nowak, Severson, and Xu (PODC 2021) showed that this problem can be solved in $O(n)$ expected time with $O(n)$ states. Recently, Gąsieniec, Grodzicki, and Stachowiak (PODC 2025) proved that $n+O(\log n)$ states suffice to achieve $O(n \log n)$ time both in expectation and with high probability (w.h.p.). If substantially m…

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Colors of the Pseudotree
We investigate big Ramsey degrees of finite substructures of the universal countable homogeneous meet-tree and its binary variant. We prove that structures containing antichains have infinite big Ramsey degrees, and the big Ramsey degree of a 2-element chain is at least 8 and 7 for the binary variant. We deduce that the generic C-relation does not have finite big Ramsey degrees.

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Design of a SiPM-on-Tile ZDC for the future EIC and its Performance with Graph Neural Networks
We present a design for a high-granularity zero-degree calorimeter (ZDC) for the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The design uses SiPM-on-tile technology and features a novel staggered-layer arrangement that improves spatial resolution. To fully leverage the design's high granularity and non-trivial geometry, we employ graph neural networks (GNNs) for energy and angle regression as well as signal classification. The GNN-boosted performance metrics meet, and in some cases, significantly sur…

Advancing AI-assisted Hardware Design with Hierarchical Decentralized Training and Personalized Inference-Time Optimization
Hao Mark Chen, Zehuan Zhang, Wanru Zhao, Nicholas Lane, Hongxiang Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00002

Advancing AI-assisted Hardware Design with Hierarchical Decentralized Training and Personalized Inference-Time Optimization
Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the adoption of AI techniques to enhance electronic design automation. In particular, the emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked significant interest in LLM-assisted hardware design generation, spanning applications from classical digital circuits to quantum computing. Despite substantial progress in this direction, the quality of LLM-generated hardware design still cannot meet the requirements for practical deployment. In thi…

#PennedPossibilities 680 — MC POV: Tell us how you feel about death. Do you fear it?
MC: There was a time when death could only come as a liberator, but I survived and the medics pieced me back together somehow. I will meet her eventually, The Silent One. She's an old friend by now, and I'm not afraid of my friends.

Cowboys hoping to reap benefit of late-career surge from $41 million, former Top-3 pick https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/02/dallas-cowboys-player-profile-solomon-thomas/840012…

Microsoft is pushing for bulk email senders to use addresses that can be replied to. (ie not "no-reply@")

Strengthening Email Ecosystem: Outlook’s New Requirements for High‐Volume Senders | Microsoft Community Hub
April 29th Update - Changes have been made to the action take on messages that do not meet requirements, please see details below. Introduction In an era...

After a full day of sessions, come relax and connect with fellow attendees at our Get-Together on 16 June, generously sponsored by our partner Search Guard. Enjoy tasty food, drinks, and live music – a fantastic opportunity to meet new people and catch up with familiar faces.
Learn more: https://2025.berlinbuzzwo…

Whenever two Americans meet, we find ourselves talking about "the situation," an eerie crossover from lands of war and dictatorship.
My thoughts on the big picture, and why I have more reason for concern and more hope in resisting than I expected.
https://woborders.blog/2025/05/17/trum

Trump’s authoritarian turn is everyone’s problem
It’s May 2025, and it feels like every new conversation (in my circles? in the United States? far beyond that?) needs to start with an acknowledgement of the bleak bigger picture on the natio…

I wish my university noticed that their ai slop action figure doesn't even contain an action figure https://twitter.com/OUCampusDining/status/1912551712461578581

OU Campus Dining (@OUCampusDining) on X
Meet our action figure Sooner the Chef! 👨‍🍳 Sooner comes with a secret recipe scroll and pouches full of exotic spices and ingredients! #actionfigure #aitrend #oudining

"EU on track to meet 2030 emissions goal thanks to strong progress on renewables"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Energy #Renewables

EU says it is ‘well on track’ to reach 2030 emissions target
Belgium, Estonia and Poland were also singled out for not submitting their NECPs and were urged to “do so without delay”.

Meet me today at the 8 Years Of @… Event at #FestsaalKreuzberg , where I will be presenting @… on behalf of

From the BC Green Party
Premier David Eby is seriously considering a fossil fuel megaproject that would sell out BC’s energy future to Donald Trump’s corporate allies.
The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline is backed by MAGA-linked billionaires and would transport fracked gas across Northern BC to a new LNG terminal.
Eby himself once said that we can’t keep building fossil fuel projects and still meet our climate goals. So why is his government even considering t…

“No one was harmed by Soren's participation in the girls' track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are."
Kids schooling elected officials FTW
https://www.commondreams.org/news/transgender-student-athletes-maine

I'm at @… #AI conference today in Durham NC (USA). If you are here too, feel free to hit me up and we can try to meet for at least a few minutes 😀

I got talked into trying Meat Church “Holy Voodoo” seasoning today at Blackhawk Hardware by an employee and a customer. Both raved about it. I need a jalapeño enhanced rub to use with my smoked and sautéed veggies.
https://www.meatchurch.com/products/holy-voodoo-seasoning

Holy Voodoo Seasoning

Electromagnetically Reconfigurable Antennas for 6G: Enabling Technologies, Prototype Studies, and Research Outlook
Pinjun Zheng, Ruiqi Wang, Yuchen Zhang, Md. Jahangir Hossain, Anas Chaaban, Atif Shamim, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00657

Electromagnetically Reconfigurable Antennas for 6G: Enabling Technologies, Prototype Studies, and Research Outlook
The transition to the sixth-generation (6G) network is anticipated to redefine wireless transceiver architectures, demanding higher adaptability and efficiency at the antenna layer. Electromagnetically reconfigurable antennas (ERAs) have emerged as a promising solution capable of dynamically reconfiguring wireless channels to meet these requirements. This article presents an overview of recent advancements in ERA technology, underscoring its transformative potential for 6G applications. Drawing…

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Empowering Scientific Workflows with Federated Agents
Agentic systems, in which diverse agents cooperate to tackle challenging problems, are exploding in popularity in the AI community. However, the agentic frameworks used to build these systems have not previously enabled use with research cyberinfrastructure. Here we introduce Academy, a modular and extensible middleware designed to deploy autonomous agents across the federated research ecosystem, including HPC systems, experimental facilities, and data repositories. To meet the demands of scien…

New friend, meet Joopie!
Although he won't stay with us for long as he's going to move again soon.

"Island of strangers" ~= "Citizens of nowhere."
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...

#PennedPossibilities 680 — MC POV: Tell us how you feel about death. Do you fear it?
MC: There was a time when death could only come as a liberator, but I survived and the medics pieced me back together somehow. I will meet her eventually, The Silent One. She's an old friend by now, and I'm not afraid of my friends.

Sat in the garden and read this (admittedly short) book cover to cover.
Fab Sunday afternoon

Modern applications require search capabilities that go beyond basic text matching. They must be fast, accurate, personalised and context-aware. At this year's Berlin Buzzwords, Saurabh Singh will demonstrate how OpenSearch’s latest AI/ML enhancements and engine improvements enable organisations to build intelligent, scalable search experiences that meet these evolving needs.
Learn more:

From Search to Insight: Leveraging OpenSearch for Scalable, AI-Driven Search Experiences
Observability, log analytics, GenAI systems, and RAG pipelines must query massive volumes of semantic embeddings to retrieve relevant content instantly. Today’s search systems often fall short in handling high-dimensional vector data and similarity search. OpenSearch 3.0 brings significant architectural improvements to address these challenges. Integrating Apache Lucene 10 and JVM 21, the platform delivers 20% faster queries than its 2.x predecessor and 10× the throughput of 1.x versions. Ne…

Agent-based Liquidity Risk Modelling for Financial Markets
Perukrishnen Vytelingum, Rory Baggott, Namid Stillman, Jianfei Zhang, Dingqiu Zhu, Tao Chen, Justin Lyon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15296

Agent-based Liquidity Risk Modelling for Financial Markets
In this paper, we describe a novel agent-based approach for modelling the transaction cost of buying or selling an asset in financial markets, e.g., to liquidate a large position as a result of a margin call to meet financial obligations. The simple act of buying or selling in the market causes a price impact and there is a cost described as liquidity risk. For example, when selling a large order, there is market slippage -- each successive trade will execute at the same or worse price. When th…

SLOW RIDE ALERT!
Thursday, March 20! -- NEW PARK, NEAT ART!
Meet at 5:30, Roll at 6 @ Dolores Park
Bike through GGP, Great Highway, to Clement Street Art Walk via Slow Streets

@… is hosting a Eurovision Song Contest watch party!
Join on https://fairmeeting.net/ESC25 and share your comments.
Tuesday 2025-05-13 21:00 CEST semi-final 1

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Meet Alexius Chipalamwazani - 2023 Emerging NREN Programme (ENP) Participant!
At #TNC23, Alexius joined the ENP—a programme built to equip and empower emerging NREN representatives with the skills, knowledge, and community ties that will drive innovation back home.
In this interview, Alexius reflects on his ENP experience, how it shaped his growth, and the impact it’s had on Malawi’s NRE…

Reflections on the Emerging NREN Programme: a personal journey with the Malawian NREN | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Alexius Chipalamwazani from MAREN shares how the Emerging NREN Programme empowered him to drive innovation and lead IPv6 adoption in Malawi.

SealOS : A Sealos-based Approach for Adaptive Resource Optimization Under Dynamic Workloads for Securities Trading System
Haojie Jia, Zhenhao Li, Gen Li, Minxian Xu, Kejiang Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23258

SealOS+: A Sealos-based Approach for Adaptive Resource Optimization Under Dynamic Workloads for Securities Trading System
As securities trading systems transition to a microservices architecture, optimizing system performance presents challenges such as inefficient resource scheduling and high service response delays. Existing container orchestration platforms lack tailored performance optimization mechanisms for trading scenarios, making it difficult to meet the stringent 50ms response time requirement imposed by exchanges. This paper introduces SealOS+, a Sealos-based performance optimization approach for securi…

Meet the new Pope, same as the old Pope...
They'll all get fooled again!

SLOW RIDE ALERT!
Thursday, March 20! -- NEW PARK, NEAT ART!
Meet at 5:30, Roll at 6 @ Dolores Park
Bike through GGP, Great Highway, to Clement Street Art Walk via Slow Streets

Characterization of the JadePix-3 CMOS Pixel Sensor for the CEPC Vertex Detector
Jiahao Hu, Ruiyang Zhang, Zhiliang Chen, Yunpeng Lu, Qun Ouyang, Lailin Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22062

Characterization of the JadePix-3 CMOS Pixel Sensor for the CEPC Vertex Detector
The Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC), a proposed next-generation $e^+e^-$ collider to enable high-precision studies of the Higgs boson and potential new physics, imposes rigorous demands on detector technologies, particularly the vertex detector. JadePix-3, a prototype Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (MAPS) designed for the CEPC vertex detector, targets a spatial resolution of 3 $\rm μm$ to meet the key requirement. This paper presents a detailed laboratory-based characterization of t…

Yesterday I went to a mad scientist meet up.
Unfortunately, while I did have a sign, before heading out, I realized it was unreadable without shade. The location was a large plaza at noon. So in the end, I had nothing more than my presence.
I expect there will be similar events in the future that I will feel obliged to attend. I'm considering getting some "outdoor" (1/4 or 1/8 scan) HUB75 style displays, or maybe a grid of multiple epaper displays?

My criticism of #China #humanrights and #climate seems to rarely cause issues among the actual Chinese people I meet, both online and virtually.
Somehow, the only ones who get pissed out at me are

“An assessment of updated National Climate and Energy Plans (NECPs) shows the EU is on course to achieve a 54 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 - just one per cent shy of its legally binding 55 per cent target.”
Fun fact, if Canada joined the EU it would probably hurt it from an emissions reduction perspective because Oil and Gas.
“It attributed the progress towards the 2030 goal to action in the energy sector, with renewables covering 24 per cent of energy consumption in the EU in 2023. Most member states are now aligned with the target of reaching a share of 42.5 per cent by 2030, according to the Commission.”
Weird how they don’t mention LNG as being a reason why Europe has been able to meet its goals. Almost like renewables are essentially the only way to decarbonize the industry, just like the scientists say it is.
“States have a legal obligation to deliver climate action, and the Commission has a clear responsibility to uphold and enforce EU law in response.”
Imagine Danielle Smith whining about unfair laws…
Wonder how much #bclmg Europe will be asking for…
#bcpoli #abpoli #climateAction #ClimateChange #climateEmergency #canpoli #cdnpoli
https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/05/28/eu-on-track-to-meet-2030-emissions-goal-thanks-to-strong-progress-on-renewables?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

The @…, in celebration of their 40th anniversary, has declared May to be the month in which enjoyers of free and open hardware and software will meet up at LibreLocal events. In that spirit, May 12th’s Tech Pizza Monday will host its own LibreLocal meetup! Same place and time as usual (Victory Cafe, 440 Bloor St. W., 6 PM). Demos are strongly encouraged!

Kudos to @… for making the browser version of their #meet conference tool accessible. Just tried it out with a group of blind users and everything seemed to work like a charm! Keep it up!

Our pre-conference Barcamp has become a real highlight, offering a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow attendees and dive into some engaging conversations before the main conference even kicks off. This year, Nick Burch will once again be guiding the flow of ideas and discussions on 15 June, starting at 2:30 pm. It's a great way to warm up, share your thoughts, and meet new people!
Learn more about our barcamp:

hey SF, join us on our next Slow Ride, May 25th!!
everybody loves safer bike infrastructure and our new park, Sunset Dunes! we'll check out new roadway reallocation and lane narrowing on Lake Merced Boulevard, enjoying great parks and slow streets the west side has to offer.
https://www.sa…

Lake Merced Slow Ride
Everybody loves safer bike infrastructure and our new park, Sunset Dunes! Let's check out new roadway reallocation and lane narrowing on Lake Merced Boulevard in style! Along the way we will be enjoying great parks and slow streets the west side has to offer. We will be riding slow as

hey SF, join us on our next Slow Ride, May 25th!!
everybody loves safer bike infrastructure and our new park, Sunset Dunes! we'll check out new roadway reallocation and lane narrowing on Lake Merced Boulevard, enjoying great parks and slow streets the west side has to offer.
https://www.sa…

Lake Merced Slow Ride
Everybody loves safer bike infrastructure and our new park, Sunset Dunes! Let's check out new roadway reallocation and lane narrowing on Lake Merced Boulevard in style! Along the way we will be enjoying great parks and slow streets the west side has to offer. We will be riding slow as