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Ghislaine Maxwell's meetings with Justice Department shrouded in secrecy (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ghislaine-maxwell-justice-department-meetings-rcna221240
http://www.memeorandum.com/250726/p45#a250726p45

Trump’s cabinet meetings look like meetings of the Soviet or Northkorean politburo with ministers constantly praising the “great leader”. Painful to watch the once great USA going down the drain and transformation towards minimal authoritarian and probably a fullblown fascist state.
#usa #trump

I Can't Join, But I Will Send My Agent: Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings (SEAM)
Zhongyi Bai, Jens Emil Gr{\o}nb{\ae}k, Andrew Irlitti, Jarrod Knibbe, Eduardo Velloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17676

I Can't Join, But I Will Send My Agent: Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings (SEAM)
We propose and explore the user experience of SEAM -- Stand-in Enhanced Asynchronous Meetings -- virtual reality meetings in which embodied virtual agents represent absent users. During the meeting, attendees can address the agent, and the absent user can later watch the recording from its perspective to respond. Through two mixed-method studies with 45 participants using the Wizard-of-Oz approach, we explored both the perspectives of the attendees in the original meeting and of the absent user…

Tom 'Brady Rules' end. NFL to allow Fox analyst to attend production meetings: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6577539/2025/08/27/tom-brady-rules-fox-nfl-2025/

I was reminded of the Internet Evolution Tapestry... (I'm on it in several spots.)
The cover page is at https://tapestryai.com/InternetEvolution

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has
not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word
would be ``meetings.''
-- Dave Berry

Micah Parsons attends Cowboys meetings ahead of preseason finale https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/micah-parsons-attends-dallas-cowboys-meetings-ahead-nfl-preseason-finale

Trump's proposal – Can meetings really end the war?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/trumps-proposal-can-meetings-really.html

What does the public want their local government to hear? A data-driven case study of public comments across the state of Michigan
Chang Ge, Justine Zhang, Haofei Xu, Yanna Krupnikov, Jenna Bednar, Sabina Tomkins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18431

What does the public want their local government to hear? A data-driven case study of public comments across the state of Michigan
City council meetings are vital sites for civic participation where the public can speak directly to their local government. By addressing city officials and calling on them to take action, public commenters can potentially influence policy decisions spanning a broad range of concerns, from housing, to sustainability, to social justice. Yet studies of these meetings have often been limited by the availability of large-scale, geographically-diverse data. Relying on local governments' increasing …

Ghislaine Maxwell received limited immunity during meetings with deputy attorney general: Sources (ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/deputy-ag-blanche-set-meet-2nd-day-ghislaine/story?id=124064062
http://www.memeorandum.com/250725/p106#a250725p106

AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event Booked Random Meetings for Attendees https://www.404media.co/ai-at-the-worlds-biggest-games-event-booked-random-meetings-for-attendees/

ClearMask: Noise-Free and Naturalness-Preserving Protection Against Voice Deepfake Attacks
Yuanda Wang, Bocheng Chen, Hanqing Guo, Guangjing Wang, Weikang Ding, Qiben Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17660

ClearMask: Noise-Free and Naturalness-Preserving Protection Against Voice Deepfake Attacks
Voice deepfake attacks, which artificially impersonate human speech for malicious purposes, have emerged as a severe threat. Existing defenses typically inject noise into human speech to compromise voice encoders in speech synthesis models. However, these methods degrade audio quality and require prior knowledge of the attack approaches, limiting their effectiveness in diverse scenarios. Moreover, real-time audios, such as speech in virtual meetings and voice messages, are still exposed to voic…

For me if someone schedules a meeting before 08:00 and after 15:00 it is an automatic NO.
Early morning mail checks (before 07:00) is done only when I am on call and to see if there was any emergencies in the prior evening production run that I missed. When I do that my day starts at that time! I adjust the end of day time to allow for the early start. Normal hours for me is 07:00 to 15:30.

Colorado Buffaloes football legend Shedeur Sanders left Giants, Raiders, Browns ‘stunned’ by how little he knew in draft meetings https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-foo…

White collar workers are increasingly using AI note-taking apps to assist them during Zoom meetings or fully represent them when they choose not to attend (Washington Post)

No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.
Artificial intelligence apps that record and summarize meetings can tempt workers into skipping calls, leaving humans who join in the company of silent bots.

"These meetings are distracting me from the work."
The meetings are the work. Sorry.
The fact that your org doesn't value meetings and doesn't put any effort into making them more effective is a symptom of a broader pattern of ignoring feminized "glue work" in favor of Big Masculine Outputs.
Making the work visible is the first step towards making it valued.

The glue is the work
Tech orgs only function thanks to people who volunteer for thankless "glue work." This is the space where UX lives; for the field to get respect we need to make this work visible.

Snake wrangler predicts Snake Oil could be the cure-all within the next six months.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91371621/perplexity-ceo-predicts-ai-could-replace-recruiters-and-assistants-in-as-little-as-six-mo…

UN Climate Conference Serves Mostly Vegan and Vegetarian Food https://vegconomist.com/fairs-events/un-climate-conference-serves-mostly-vegan-and-vegetarian-food/

UN Climate Conference Serves Mostly Vegan and Vegetarian Food - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Caterers at the United Nations' June Climate Meetings have made the decision to serve mainly vegan and vegetarian food this year to reduce the environmental

Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence:
the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/magazin

How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power
Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct. 7.

Spatio-spectral diarization of meetings by combining TDOA-based segmentation and speaker embedding-based clustering
Tobias Cord-Landwehr, Tobias Gburrek, Marc Deegen, Reinhold Haeb-Umbach
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16228

Spatio-spectral diarization of meetings by combining TDOA-based segmentation and speaker embedding-based clustering
We propose a spatio-spectral, combined model-based and data-driven diarization pipeline consisting of TDOA-based segmentation followed by embedding-based clustering. The proposed system requires neither access to multi-channel training data nor prior knowledge about the number or placement of microphones. It works for both a compact microphone array and distributed microphones, with minor adjustments. Due to its superior handling of overlapping speech during segmentation, the proposed pipeline …

@… i love that i can do what i want, when i want it. i love that i dont have to waste my time in meetings.
but i also dislike the missing brainstorming sessions, that i also have to do all the things i dont like, when i must haha and that it takes sooo much longer to make everything yourself

Testing AI tools for journalism work: LLMs worked well for short summaries but poorly for long ones, and scientific research tools lacked depth and consistency (Hilke Schellmann/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/i-tested-how-well-ai-tool…

I Tested How Well AI Tools Work for Journalism
Some tools were sufficient for summarizing meetings. For research, the results were a disaster.

ChatGPT bekommt auf Wunsch Zugriff auf Dropbox, Google Drive und Co.
OpenAI kündigt neue Workplace-Produkte an: Konnektoren und einen Aufnahme-Modus für Meetings und Brainstorming.
https://www.…

Munich -> Aachen -> Dutch Coast -> Mannheim
Heading into an exciting week with director meetings, creative button making with the team, beach with the co-founders, and finally, the EconData workshop in Mannheim.

And here is (a recording of) the fifth and final #AAS246 press conference about "Recent and Upcoming Discoveries in the Broader Universe": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf9X5kntlYc - topics at https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Wed_am

AI is flooding libraries with generated content just as budgets and staff are at their most precarious. This Thursday at 10am EDT my ASIS&T webinar asks if we need to ban it, label it, absorb it—or rethink the library itself.
https://www.asist.org/meetings-events/webi

The Call for Papers (and posters) is now open for the #Indiana #MAA section meeting, Sat. October 18 at Taylor University.
https://www.indiana.maa.org/…

Section Meetings — MAA Indiana Section

The perfect killing machine doesn’t exist.... https://www.theverge.com/news/708481/microsoft-teams-mercedes-benz-integration-in-car-camera-support

Mercedes-Benz will let you use an in-car camera in Microsoft Teams while driving
Mercedes-Benz is the first car maker to allow its in-car camera to work in Microsoft Teams meetings while you’re driving. It’s coming to the all-new CLA first.

As for “but it's great for coding!“…
…world-wide there's about 3.6 billion jobs or so, of which ~25 million are in software development; this means maybe about 0.7% of all jobs world-wide can use "great for coding".
Writing actual code amounts to maybe, if you're lucky, 10% of the work a software developer does.
The rest is meetings, high-level specifications, email and chat, more meetings, learning new things, updating stuff, lots of testing and debugging, etc.
The gist is, the supposed gains from "AI" are completely irrelevant (and indeed there's signs and studies that show it doesn't do anything for programmer productivity either).
tl;dr: This is the worst economic bubble in history, pushing a dream of a magical technology that unfortunately doesn't work, by appealing to investor greed.

This fashion look isn't limited to GenAI. You too can sport extra body parts as accessories!

A. I wonder what language the French pres. uses to whisper to the Italian pres?
B. How does Meloni manage to dress like a 12 year old girl and somehow not seem ridiculous?
C. Feel the stomach acid the Japanese delegate is experiencing 😬
D. How is it that Starmer manages to look *exactly* as awkward at these meetings as Theresa May did?

From the barrage of "news coverage" of the Putin/Trump meeting and today's meeting for everyone else investing in Ukraine, I have to wonder, did anyone actually expect anything to come from these meetings?
No
Maybe something small
Yes

Another tip for #DH2025 / life in general - calendar appointments added in different timezones in Outlook often display incorrectly on iPhones. Keep that in mind when adding conference sessions / meetings to your calendar!
(It's been that way for years, who knows if Outlook or iOS is to blame)

Personalized Real-time Jargon Support for Online Meetings
Yifan Song, Wing Yee Au, Hon Yung Wong, Brian P. Bailey, Tal August
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10239 https://

Personalized Real-time Jargon Support for Online Meetings
Effective interdisciplinary communication is frequently hindered by domain-specific jargon. To explore the jargon barriers in-depth, we conducted a formative diary study with 16 professionals, revealing critical limitations in current jargon-management strategies during workplace meetings. Based on these insights, we designed ParseJargon, an interactive LLM-powered system providing real-time personalized jargon identification and explanations tailored to users' individual backgrounds. A control…

Oh, look, the clown is clowning.
https://mstdn.social/@minimarket/114689532947840091

MINIMARKET ONLINE LTD (@minimarket@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Despite evidence that the conflict between Israel and Iran is escalating, U.S. President Donald Trump expressed optimism on Sunday that peace would come soon and cited the possibility that Russia's Vladimir Putin could help. In a social media post, Trump said there were many unspecified meetings about the issue happening and encouraged the two countries to make a deal. #us #usa #news #minimarketonlineltd #minimarket #America #AmericaNews #trump #Ukraine #russia #UkraineW…

The head of the British armed forces will tell his American counterparts
the UK is prepared to send troops to defend Ukraine’s skies and seas
but not to the frontline with Russia,
as planning intensifies for a postwar settlement.
Tony Radakin, the chief of the defence staff, will on Wednesday attend meetings at the Pentagon
designed to finalise what 30 different countries are willing to commit to Ukraine’s national security.
Radakin is expected to
co…

When Comic Mono is my favorite font, you know I’m all about that serious fun vibe, like comical meetings meets anarchist chaos at @….
Clear, straightforward, and quietly striking in its beauty.
Read more here: https://ns…

“On Monday afternoon, NIH’s chief operating officer, Eric Schnabel, was escorted out of the building just three months into his new job. … Schnabel’s departure was so abrupt that some staff showed up for meetings with him Tuesday only to be told he was gone, an NIH employee said.” (free link) https://wapo.st/4nMhcs5

You're not an alcoholic unless you go to the meetings.

I wonder how long it will be until someone in my Zoom meetings realises I've matched my Hue lights to my hair color 🤣

"Rep. Tim Burchett told NOTUS that he still sleeps in his office because it helps him stay productive and get to meetings early."
MAGA rep busted after story on office sleepovers curiously changes - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/tim-burchett-2673878919/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Aug.12.2025_8.17pm

Zahlen, bitte! Winnie Pu als Antwort auf 42: Die Geschichte des (Buzzword-)Bingo
Buzzword-Bingo erheitert seit den 1990ern trockene Firmen-Meetings und Politikerreden. Angelehnt ist es an das klassische Bingo mit Ursprung in Italien.

Spent all morning in meetings. First chance to play today. #Wordle
Wordle 1,453 4/6
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Here comes the next #AAS246 presser, number 3 of 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7niXAHqkLg. The topic is "Planets, Exoplanets, and Brown Dwarfs", and the presentations are https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Tue_am

The research collective I'm a member of had a great couple of days of meetings this week. We could all use more colleagues we truly want to spend time working with.

This is proper journalism. "How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power"
NYT gift article https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/magazine/benjamin-netanyahu-gaza-war.h…

Email: a senior business reporter at The New York Post says an editor spiked a story about Terry Cole, Trump's pick to lead the DEA, slated to run on March 22 (Lachlan Cartwright/Breaker)
https://www.breakermedia.com/p/ny-post-catch-and…

🔎 NY Post “Catch and Kill”; Melber meetings; Cardinale & Air Mail
MSNBC anchor in talks to leave; Post Trump story spiked; Telegraph owner's US Play

From private eye

Finding Common Ground: Using Large Language Models to Detect Agreement in Multi-Agent Decision Conferences
Selina Heller, Mohamed Ibrahim, David Antony Selby, Sebastian Vollmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08440

Finding Common Ground: Using Large Language Models to Detect Agreement in Multi-Agent Decision Conferences
Decision conferences are structured, collaborative meetings that bring together experts from various fields to address complex issues and reach a consensus on recommendations for future actions or policies. These conferences often rely on facilitated discussions to ensure productive dialogue and collective agreement. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant promise in simulating real-world scenarios, particularly through collaborative multi-agent systems that mimic group in…

At the risk of stating the obvious, please do state the obvious! In two separate meetings this week it seemed like someone was arguing against a proposed change and in both cases, they were actually very supportive of the idea, and had already moved on to talk about what else could be done. Stop. Express your support (you can thank the suggester if you like!) so that it's clear, and THEN you can build on the original suggestion.
In both cases, we nearly ended up not doing the original thing!

I have to add I had six meetings with students this afternoon and only that one was icky. 💚 students #academicChatter

As a heads up for those who regularly attend SMART's Sounding Board sessions: Starting tonight and for future meetings, we'll be using a new Zoom webinar link. You can find it at http://smartbus.org/soundingboard.
If you're subscribed to TRU's calendar it's been updated t…

Workation, day one: headset fell apart
So, no online meetings for the next view weeks, I guess?
#AcademicChatter #AchievementOfTheDay

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM

Can Designers Avoid Meetings?
LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.

Während des Online-Board-Meetings erkundet eine Kohlmeise das etwas ausgeuferte Avocadobäumchen.

New game idea. It’s a rogue-lite where you try to book meetings with mini-bosses on an ever-changing calendar system. You get little perks like “bump meeting”, and “ignore family time”, and so on.

Has any one done a survey/count of the number of technical or other US-venue meetings or conventions are being cancelled because of the danger to foreign nationals who attend?
The US has become a police state much, much faster than Nazi Germany did in the 1930's.
I've already noticed a downturn - for instance I was able to book rooms at a fancy hotel (Four Seasons) for about 1/2 of the normal rate.

At Berlin Buzzwords, Danica Fine discussed how to create a custom on-air sign using Apache Kafka®, Apache Flink®, and Apache Iceberg™. Discover how to capture events such as Zoom meetings and camera usage with Python, process data using FlinkSQL, analyse trends from your Iceberg tables, and integrate everything into a practical IoT project that can scale effectively.
Watch the full session:

"New Views and Insights into the Sun and Its Surroundings" are the subject of #AAS246 presser number 4 streaming now on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7mzn4w36uM - topics listed in https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Tue_pm

From this year on, ESWC will be under the umbrella of SWSA, the Semantic Web Science Association, to secure financial sustainability for the upcoming years after its previous supporting organisation STI was dissolved in 2023. Basics about the transition are given by Elena Simperl, president of SWSA.
https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

Papers with U.S. State Department markings, found Friday morning in the business center of an Alaskan hotel, revealed previously undisclosed and potentially sensitive details about the Aug. 15 meetings between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir V. Putin in Anchorage.
Eight pages, that appear to have been produced by U.S. staff and left behind accidentally, shared precise locations and meeting times of the summit and phone numbers of U.S. government employees

For effective meetings, try Meeting Kitty™!

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Anya Osborne, Sabrina Fielder, Lee Taber, Tara Lamb, Joshua McVeigh-Schultz, Katherine Isbister
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21780

Avatars and Environments for Meetings in Social VR: What Styles and Choices Matter to People in Group Creativity Tasks?
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many professional entities shifted toward remote collaboration and video conferencing (VC) tools. Social virtual reality (VR) platforms present an alternative to VC for meetings and collaborative activities. Well-crafted social VR environments could enhance feelings of co-presence and togetherness at meetings, helping reduce the need for carbon-intensive travel to face-to-face meetings. This research contributes to creating meeting tools in VR by exploring the effe…

Users say AI notetaking tools for meetings can misinterpret context when generating summaries or share content meant for a select audience with all participants (Ann-Marie Alcšntara/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-notetaker-m

I've been in meetings where #ACC "experts" testified "truthpartly" - but not "truthfully" - about chemical hazards - referencing old tests of health impacts (1970s/80s knowledge) while ignoring the mass of robust data developed in the late 90s and 2000s. This is another repeat performance for #ACC

I've been in meetings where #ACC "experts" testified "truthpartly" - but not "truthfully" - about chemical hazards - referencing old tests of health impacts (1970s/80s knowledge) while ignoring the mass of robust data developed in the late 90s and 2000s. This is another repeat performance for #ACC

Interesting. Reporting from AlJazeera in Tehran says Iran’s Foreign Minister has spoken to their counterparts in the UK and Canada since the US strikes and will now be going to Moscow for meetings with Putin/Lavrov on Monday.
#israelIran #canada #canpoli #cdnpoli #moscow #russia #war #diplomacy

Is It Really You? Exploring Biometric Verification Scenarios in Photorealistic Talking-Head Avatar Videos
Laura Pedrouzo-Rodriguez, Pedro Delgado-DeRobles, Luis F. Gomez, Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Aythami Morales, Julian Fierrez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00748

Is It Really You? Exploring Biometric Verification Scenarios in Photorealistic Talking-Head Avatar Videos
Photorealistic talking-head avatars are becoming increasingly common in virtual meetings, gaming, and social platforms. These avatars allow for more immersive communication, but they also introduce serious security risks. One emerging threat is impersonation: an attacker can steal a user's avatar-preserving their appearance and voice-making it nearly impossible to detect its fraudulent usage by sight or sound alone. In this paper, we explore the challenge of biometric verification in such avata…

AquiLLM: a RAG Tool for Capturing Tacit Knowledge in Research Groups
Chandler Campbell, Bernie Boscoe, Tuan Do
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05648 https://arx…

AquiLLM: a RAG Tool for Capturing Tacit Knowledge in Research Groups
Research groups face persistent challenges in capturing, storing, and retrieving knowledge that is distributed across team members. Although structured data intended for analysis and publication is often well managed, much of a group's collective knowledge remains informal, fragmented, or undocumented--often passed down orally through meetings, mentoring, and day-to-day collaboration. This includes private resources such as emails, meeting notes, training materials, and ad hoc documentation. To…

Despite legal rulings, California school district tries to revive Christian prayers at meetings
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/despite-legal-rulings-california

The Information launches its first live video product, TITV, hosted by reporter Akash Pasricha and streamed on YouTube, X, and The Information's website (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/14/the-information-video-titv

The Information launches new video product called TITV
Co-founder and CEO Jessica Lessin will host a segment about coverage themes coming out of editor's meetings.

Some U.S. astronomy is still alive ... the first of five press conferences from the #AAS246 meeting in Alaska is now streaming on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6sPNlpIurg - see https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Mon_am for the topics.

#3GuteDingeDesTages
🙂 Im Gastwissenschafterprojekt vorangekommen
🙂 Zwei meetings gekürzt — eine Stunde gewonnen
🙂 Grundrisse studiert und nicht anmerken lassen, dass weder ich noch der Mann wissen, was ein Foodcenter ist

Second #AAS246 presser beginning on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJjSZu9ob8Q - the topic is "From Molecules to Molecular Clouds: Discoveries in the Milky Way", the topics are listed in https://aas.org/meetings/aas246/press-kit#Mon_pm

I think I found something I absolutely hate. Coordinating meetings across timezones and cross organizations. It’s the worst.

Human Capital Visualization using Speech Amount during Meetings
Ekai Hashimoto, Takeshi Mizumoto, Kohei Nagira, Shun Shiramatsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02075 https://

Human Capital Visualization using Speech Amount during Meetings
In recent years, many companies have recognized the importance of human resources and are investing in human capital to revitalize their organizations and enhance internal communication, thereby fostering innovation. However, conventional quantification methods have mainly focused on readily measurable indicators without addressing the fundamental role of conversations in human capital. This study focuses on routine meetings and proposes strategies to visualize human capital by analyzing speech…

OpenAI says it has 3M "paying business users", up from 2M in February; ChatGPT Team users can now use a "record mode" for taking notes during meetings (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/679580/chatgpt-google-d…

ChatGPT can now read your Google Drive and Dropbox
ChatGPT now has 3 million “paying business users” and is adding new features like meeting notes.

OH on slack
User Story
As Overloaded Olivia, the backend engineer,
I want clear, actionable requirements with business context, so that I can implement the correct solution without burning half a day in meetings or wild guessing.
Acceptance Criteria
1. The story includes functional requirements (not just vibes).
2. Success/failure states are defined happy path edge cases).
3. Any dependencies or blockers are identified.
Bonus: PM/Designer reviewed this and it’s not just a draft in disguise.
#swe #sre #devops #devoops @… @…

In recent months, immigration agents, often masked, have arrested and detained undocumented people at court hearings, school drop-offs, and in one case, shortly after a mother gave birth.
💥The agency has, under many administrations, separated children from their parents, and denied people contact with lawyers and family members. 
⚠️ And some high-profile cases seem politically motivated, as well:
In early March, ICE agents arrested Mahmoud Khalil,
a graduate student …

ICE raids push immigrant communities into the shadows, hindering environmental justice efforts
Noncitizens may no longer feel safe showing up to public meetings to fight harmful local policies, advocates say

Time to Talk: LLM Agents for Asynchronous Group Communication in Mafia Games
Niv Eckhaus, Uri Berger, Gabriel Stanovsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05309 ht…

Time to Talk: LLM Agents for Asynchronous Group Communication in Mafia Games
LLMs are used predominantly in synchronous communication, where a human user and a model communicate in alternating turns. In contrast, many real-world settings are inherently asynchronous. For example, in group chats, online team meetings, or social games, there is no inherent notion of turns; therefore, the decision of when to speak forms a crucial part of the participant's decision making. In this work, we develop an adaptive asynchronous LLM-agent which, in addition to determining what to s…

Die #NYTimes hat einen langen Bericht zu #Netanjahu recherchiert. Sie zeigen, wie sein Politikansatz schon vorher die #Hamas stärkte und #Israel

#NPR reports of #Drumpf admin operatives leaving 8 pages of sensitive internal eyes only 👀 #Putin feting itinerary notes behind in #Alaska hotel sparks ridi…

Deion rips 'foolish' reports on Shedeur draft prep https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45435167/deion-sanders-pre-draft-reports-shedeur-sanders-did-hurt

UniSLU: Unified Spoken Language Understanding from Heterogeneous Cross-Task Datasets
Zhichao Sheng, Shilin Zhou, Chen Gong, Zhenghua Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12951

UniSLU: Unified Spoken Language Understanding from Heterogeneous Cross-Task Datasets
Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) plays a crucial role in speech-centric multimedia applications, enabling machines to comprehend spoken language in scenarios such as meetings, interviews, and customer service interactions. SLU encompasses multiple tasks, including Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), spoken Named Entity Recognition (NER), and spoken Sentiment Analysis (SA). However, existing methods often rely on separate model architectures for individual tasks such as spoken NER and SA, whi…

A UK government trial with 20K civil servants using Microsoft's Copilot AI for three months found a 26 minute average daily time saving, or two weeks per year (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7c2aa19d-4c92-490d-bb35-f329a246fe5b

UK civil servants who used AI saved two weeks a year, government study finds
Staff used Microsoft’s Copilot to help draft documents and summarise meetings

Main belt asteroid mass estimation from high-precision astrometry: #Asteroid Masses: https://eos.org/articles/the-late-great-gaia-helps-reveal-asteroid-masses - astronomers are using data from the recently decommissioned star-mapping satellite to help determine masses and more accurate orbits of celestial bodies closer to home.

Spousal conflit of interest issues aside for a moment... I may actually vomit if Danielle Smith's Alberta government introduces a “15-year master plan for introducing passenger trains across the province.“ when I have been advocating for this in BC for decades to absolute crickets (if not active denial) from all political parties in power.
#BCpoli #CanPoli #CdnPoli #Rail #Transportation #Sustainability
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-premier-s-husband-invited-to-passenger-rail-meetings-as-province-mulls-expansion-plan-1.7583358

[Thread] Cluely unveils a desktop AI assistant that it says can help users cheat on meetings, sales, lectures, interviews, learning new software, and more (Roy/@im_roy_lee)
https://x.com/im_roy_lee/status/1938718987975827651

Roy (@im_roy_lee) on X
introducing @cluely. today is the start of a world where you never have to think again. we just killed 9 industries (thread):

Here are the three primary kinds of community-based events we’ll be sponsoring during 31 Days of Action:

Open/community lab meetings over Zoom or live-streamed lab tours/demos

Teach-ins at local community centers, churches, parks, basically anywhere that’s not a college campus

Stand Up For Science tabling and demos that include “Ask a Scientist” booths,
pond water under a microscope,
strawberry DNA extraction,
egg drop competitions, …

SUFS 31 Days of Action Guidebook
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I just had this crazy idea: How about organizing and tracking meetings in #Gitlab?
Every meeting type has its own repo, discussion topics are issues, labels are used for organizing and prioritizing, a meeting is prepared in a branch, the meeting notes are in a merge request per topic (issue), at the end of a meeting the meeting branch is merged into main and a new release is done, a CI/CD pipeline publishes the meeting notes and communication.
Has anyone tried this?
#meeting #management

Real-Time Confidence Detection through Facial Expressions and Hand Gestures
Tanjil Hasan Sakib, Samia Jahan Mojumder, Rajan Das Gupta, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Yeasin Rahat, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09153

Real-Time Confidence Detection through Facial Expressions and Hand Gestures
Real-time face orientation recognition is a cutting-edge technology meant to track and analyze facial movements in virtual environments such as online interviews, remote meetings, and virtual classrooms. As the demand for virtual interactions grows, it becomes increasingly important to measure participant engagement, attention, and overall interaction. This research presents a novel solution that leverages the Media Pipe Face Mesh framework to identify facial landmarks and extract geometric dat…

#AskFedi: meeting-booking software like Calendly or SimplyMeet.me
I need to set up one of those things where other people can pick a time for us to meet.
I only need it for a few meetings on a few days, so I don't want to have to maintain an entire online calendar up-to-date just so that it can see where the gaps are. I want one which is easy to use as follows: I go into the thing itself and select a few chunks of time which _are_ available, it turns those into bookable slots.
I'd also like it to be easy to remove unbooked slots manually without messing up any adjacent booked ones.
Previously I've not even used this type of software the other way round, as the person booking someone _else's_ available time - so I'm starting fresh with looking into it!
I've got my eye on SimplyMeet.me, because the below Zapier article said it was a nicely customisable one and can do intake questions, which would be nice. Has anyone else used that?
Any other recommendations or pointers?
Thanks in advance for clues!
(boosts very welcome)
#AskFedi #software #Calendly #SimplyMeetMe

With his authority damaged by poor judgment, absence of leadership and a sheer lack of understanding of what the Labour party exists for, Starmer will stumble on weakened and directionless, convincing himself that sitting next to Trump and attending Nato and G7 meetings means he has a historic role to play.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/02/labour-government-welfare-bill-democracy-party-election-john-mcdonnell?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

On nation's birthday , #DJT celebrates by threatening #EU with placing of new #tariffs on exports of #food to

US threatens EU with 17% tariff on food exports
Warning was handed to EU trade commissioner at Washington meetings

DNCASR: End-to-End Training for Speaker-Attributed ASR
Xianrui Zheng, Chao Zhang, Philip C. Woodland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01916 https://

DNCASR: End-to-End Training for Speaker-Attributed ASR
This paper introduces DNCASR, a novel end-to-end trainable system designed for joint neural speaker clustering and automatic speech recognition (ASR), enabling speaker-attributed transcription of long multi-party meetings. DNCASR uses two separate encoders to independently encode global speaker characteristics and local waveform information, along with two linked decoders to generate speaker-attributed transcriptions. The use of linked decoders allows the entire system to be jointly trained und…