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Pope Leo urges end to "pandemic of arms" after Minnesota shooting (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/01/pope-leo-minnesota-school-shooting-end-pandemic-arms-plea
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p110#a250831p110

Evaluating Pointing Gestures for Target Selection in Human-Robot Collaboration
Noora Sassali, Roel Pieters
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22116 https://…

Evaluating Pointing Gestures for Target Selection in Human-Robot Collaboration
Pointing gestures are a common interaction method used in Human-Robot Collaboration for various tasks, ranging from selecting targets to guiding industrial processes. This study introduces a method for localizing pointed targets within a planar workspace. The approach employs pose estimation, and a simple geometric model based on shoulder-wrist extension to extract gesturing data from an RGB-D stream. The study proposes a rigorous methodology and comprehensive analysis for evaluating pointing g…

EU seals new trade deal with Ukraine, key details still pending: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/01/eu-seals-new-trade-deal.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #ElSonido
Los Pirañas:
🎵 Los pendencieros del Latin
#LosPirañas
https://los-piranas.bandcamp.com/track/los-pendencieros-del-latin
https://open.spotify.com/track/7GIDMq5dlmyxk69fyBiYv0

Our beautiful Joan Mitchell painting has been a highlight of our collection since we bought it in 1974, the year after the artist painted it. But it needs a little TLC. Rather than send it off to be conserved in a lab, we're doing that live and in public. Read more about this cool project:
https…

Maker playing against an invisible Breaker
Dennis Clemens, Fabian Hamann, Mirjana Mikala\v{c}ki, Yannick Mogge, Milo\v{s} Stojakovi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22519 https…

Maker playing against an invisible Breaker
We initiate the study of the phantom version of Maker-Breaker positional games. In a phantom game, the moves of one of the players are hidden from the other player, who still has the complete information. We look at the biased $(a:b)$ Maker-PhantomBreaker games where the board is the edge set of the complete graph on $n$ vertices, $K_n$, and Maker has no information about PhantomBreaker's choices of edges. We give randomized strategies for both players in four classical games: connectivity game…

En Ukraine, le Parlement approuve la loi rétablissant l’indépendance des instances anticorruption
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/07/31/en-ukraine-le-p…

En Ukraine, le Parlement approuve la loi rétablissant l’indépendance des instances anticorruption
La promulgation d’un précédent texte, qui plaçait l’agence nationale anticorruption et le parquet spécialisé anticorruption sous la tutelle du procureur général, nommé par le chef de l’Etat, avait provoqué des critiques dans l’Union européenne et dans la société civile.

So....let's talk 2nd season of #Pantheon and cyberspace fight scenes.
The show needed to depict AIs in a universe that shouldn't need to obey any laws of physics. Yet they chose to depict them as superheroes in an earth-like world. This already limits things.
#Invincible was rea…

The last thing you see before being defederated

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
P.M. Dawn:
🎵 Beyond Infinite Affections
#PMDawn