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Een interview met Meredith Whittaker, u leze het:
https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/strijden-tegen-de-giftige-business-van-big-tech-kan-wel-degelijk-aldus-signal-baas-meredith-whittaker~ba79745f/

Strijden tegen de ‘giftige’ business van big tech kan wel degelijk, aldus Signal-baas Meredith Whittaker
Zelfs Meredith Whittaker, de baas van het privacyvriendelijke Signal, gebruikt nog steeds de ‘giftige’ apps van big tech. Krampachtig proberen daaraan te ontsnappen, is volgens haar niet de oplossing. Hoe strijdt ze dan wel tegen wat zij het ‘surveillance-kapitalisme’ noemt?

GOP leaders say they are pressing forward with vote on DOGE cuts (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/12/congress/gop-leaders-say-they-are-pressing-forward-with-vote-on-doge-cuts-00403197
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p110#a250612p110

An infrared bound on the ultraviolet bounce
Mehrdad Mirbabayi, Giovanni Villadoro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09842 https://arxiv.org/…

An infrared bound on the ultraviolet bounce
Sometimes a local minimum is known to be a metastable vacuum inside the low-energy EFT, but the true vacuum lies outside, and the bounce solution mediating the decay cannot be found. For single-field decay, Espinosa has proposed a family of configurations called ``pseudo-bounces'' as a way to constrain the decay rate. They are parametrized by the central field value $Φ_0$ and constructed without the knowledge of the true vacuum. We prove that the pseudo-bounce family has a monotonically decrea…

They understood universities better in 1764 than in 2025. (From the Preamble of the Brown University charter.)

AI-Driven SEEG Channel Ranking for Epileptogenic Zone Localization
Saeed Hashemi, Genchang Peng, Mehrdad Nourani, Omar Nofal, Jay Harvey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09255

AI-Driven SEEG Channel Ranking for Epileptogenic Zone Localization
Stereo-electroencephalography (SEEG) is an invasive technique to implant depth electrodes and collect data for pre-surgery evaluation. Visual inspection of signals recorded from hundreds of channels is time consuming and inefficient. We propose a machine learning approach to rank the impactful channels by incorporating clinician's selection and computational finding. A classification model using XGBoost is trained to learn the discriminative features of each channel during ictal periods. Then, …

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Meredith Monk:
🎵 Folkdance
#MeredithMonk
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kL5cfSaRvscV4jfbQC9uO

Man som arbetat för svensk militär mördad i Afghanistan https://www.dn.se/sverige/man-som-arbetat-for-svensk-militar-mordad-i-afghanistan/

Man som arbetat för svensk militär mördad i Afghanistan
En man som tidigare arbetat för Sverige i Afghanistan har mördats, enligt uppgifter till DN. Afghanistanveteranerna Björn Blanck och Callis Amid kräver nu att regeringen agerar för att få de 50-tal tidigare lokalanställda som är kvar i Afghanistan till Sverige.

White House tweaks AIDS funding rollback to assuage skeptical Republicans (Meredith Lee Hill/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/10/congress/pepfar-cuts-rescissions-aids-funding-00396385
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p61#a250610p61

Opto-ViT: Architecting a Near-Sensor Region of Interest-Aware Vision Transformer Accelerator with Silicon Photonics
Mehrdad Morsali, Chengwei Zhou, Deniz Najafi, Sreetama Sarkar, Pietro Mercati, Navid Khoshavi, Peter Beerel, Mahdi Nikdast, Gourav Datta, Shaahin Angizi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07044

Opto-ViT: Architecting a Near-Sensor Region of Interest-Aware Vision Transformer Accelerator with Silicon Photonics
Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a powerful architecture for computer vision tasks due to their ability to model long-range dependencies and global contextual relationships. However, their substantial compute and memory demands hinder efficient deployment in scenarios with strict energy and bandwidth limitations. In this work, we propose OptoViT, the first near-sensor, region-aware ViT accelerator leveraging silicon photonics (SiPh) for real-time and energy-efficient vision processing…

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Richard Wagner, Martti Talvela, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Jussi Jalas:
🎵 "Mogst du, mein kind" (Daland's aria from Act II Die Fliegende Hollander)
#RichardWagner #MarttiTalvela #FinnishRadioSymphonyOrchestra