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How the US government launched a revamped online system in September 2024 to simplify passport renewal, which is already handling nearly 50% of all renewals (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/us-passport-o

Pushforwards in Inverse Homotopical Diagrams
Chris Kapulkin, Yufeng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04472 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04…

Pushforwards in Inverse Homotopical Diagrams
We establish a sufficient condition for the category of homotopical inverse diagrams to be closed under pushforward inside the category of inverse diagrams in a fibration category.

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"I changed my passport in 2015, but now I can’t get a visa to the USA for my book tour unless I say I’m male? Will I get detained at JFK? My birth certificate was lawfully reissued in 2018 as a female birth certificate, but now I’m not a woman legally?"
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Juno Dawson: I had gender reassignment surgery – then the Supreme Court said I wasn’t a woman
I have the same choices over my life and body that I would want for every single person on earth. I’m not trying to make a statement about what a woman is, I just want to be one, writes Juno Dawson – who appears on The Independent’s Pride list 2025

Public Service Announcement: If you've worked in the UK, and you've changed the UK number that you use for accessing Gov.UK services, it is impossible to restore access because the default recovery workflow requires UK-issued photo ids: either a UK passport, or a UK driving license, are mandatory, even if you never had one or provided one in the first place.
Happily enough, as long as you keep your National Insurance Number, you can create a new Gateway ID, but this time follow…

the3million | Proving identity on Government websites with a non-UK passport | Giving a voice to EU citizens in the UK
HMRC, DWP and other government services have changed the way in which people sign in to access these services. This is a step-by-step guide for EU citizens and other non-UK passport holders to be able to access the Government Gateway, to see your tax records, pension records and other finance information, even if you do not have a British passport.

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: „Trump ist ein trotziges Kind“
https://europa.blog/de/ilja-leonard-pfeijffer-trump-ist-ein-trotziges-kind/

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: „Trump ist ein trotziges Kind“ - Europa Blog
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Many people regard horse racing as a harmless sport in which the animals are willing participants who thoroughly enjoy the thrill. The truth is that behind the scenes lies a story of immense suffering. https://www.animalaid.org.uk/the-issues/our-campaigns/horse-racing/…

Horse Racing - Animal Aid
Many people regard horse racing as a harmless sport in which the animals are willing participants who thoroughly enjoy the thrill. The truth is that behind the scenes lies a story of immense suffering. 2024 statistics: 214 horses killed as a result of racing on British racecourses, 557 abuses of whip regulations, 598 horses with racing industry passports sent to slaughter.

Companies House have just sent me an email telling me that because of new laws, I need to verify my identity. So I leapt into action. There follows an open letter.
Dear Companies House.
The questions "Do you have a passport?" and "Do you have your passport on you in the office right now?" are different fucking questions and you should clarify which you mean before you direct me down an irreversible cul-de-sac in your application's verification logic.

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: „Trump – ein trotziges Kind“
#kriegsende

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer: „Trump ist ein trotziges Kind“ - Europa Blog
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CHIP: Chameleon Hash-based Irreversible Passport for Robust Deep Model Ownership Verification and Active Usage Control
Chaohui Xu, Qi Cui, Chip-Hong Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24536

CHIP: Chameleon Hash-based Irreversible Passport for Robust Deep Model Ownership Verification and Active Usage Control
The pervasion of large-scale Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) and their enormous training costs make their intellectual property (IP) protection of paramount importance. Recently introduced passport-based methods attempt to steer DNN watermarking towards strengthening ownership verification against ambiguity attacks by modulating the affine parameters of normalization layers. Unfortunately, neither watermarking nor passport-based methods provide a holistic protection with robust ownership proof, hig…