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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Intel taps Alex Katouzian, an ex-Qualcomm EVP, to lead Client Computing & Physical AI group, and names Pushkar Ranade as CTO, after serving on an interim basis (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph

Intel Taps Top Qualcomm Exec To Lead Client Computing, Physical AI Group
Intel said Monday that it has hired a top Qualcomm executive for a new position that will have him oversee the alignment of its long-running and critical PC business with the emerging field of physical AI, which its CEO has made a priority.

I really don't need a new project, but I would love a clustered and/or GPU accelerated image editor for massive images.
Something that can comfortably and performantly rotate, crop, layer stack, align, etc. images at gigapixel scale without bogging down for minutes at a time even on my big iron.
Across my lab I can harness something like 160 physical / 320 logical CPU cores, 1.3 TB of RAM, 50 GB of VRAM, and more shader cores than I feel like counting.
Everything is or…

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Sleep is physical maintenance, but solitude is emotional and cognitive “defragmentation” for me.
#blogging

I am currently trying to figure out and... - Finest Day
I am currently trying to figure out and sort through which traits are inherent to my brain’s structure (which I cannot change or only to a limited extend) and which...

Saw a hard-hitting ad about the consequences of driving while on drugs, which was immediately undermined by the shock physical trauma of a Tango soft drink ad.

No, I can't see any possible way this could be a bad thing.
https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs
The FCC wants to legally force telecoms to collect new and renewing customers’ government issued identity number and physical address, impacting everyone from the privacy-conscious to domestic abuse survivors. “We never thought that would happen here.”

We bought an SUV today. SUV stands for shopping utility vehicle, right?
At least for errands, the gas price isn't a matter any more. And we have some physical exercise as well 💪

New blog post on the importance of owning physical (and digital) media, when possible: https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/the-importance-of-owning-physical-and-digital-media-when-possible

The importance of owning physical (and digital) media when possible
I wrote some about the continued popularity of physical media here in 2024, but I wanted to do one more post on it this year, to also feature some other formats, history, tips and tricks, and outri…

FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones By Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers’ IDs https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

Google plans to open its first physical Google Store outside of the US, in Tokyo's Omotesando district "this summer", marking Google's 11th physical store (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/06/01/goog

Google Store Tokyo to be first physical store outside US, opens this summer
After being exclusive to the United States, the first physical Google Store outside of the region is coming to Tokyo, Japan, this summer.

So THAT’S what they look like. Oddly, I’ve read about books receiving Nebulas and Hugos and PKD Awards, but it never occurred to me that they were physical artefacts AND accolades. Huh. 🤔
Re: https://wandering.shop/@effies/116717392735380026

RE: https://front-end.social/@rem/116534370356477290
“A conference is a physical network of incredible people”—@… ❤️

Why do we let the greedy capitalists do this to our industry?
#LLM

UK astronaut #JohnMcFall could become the first person with a physical disability to live in orbit, thanks to an agreement signed between the UK government and US commercial space company #Vast: #Haven1 (not launched yet!) as early as next year.

CBS legend spills on 'jaw-dropping' meeting before firing: 'Accuses me of physical abuse' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/cbs-news-2677008874/

"Spotify's effective payout averages roughly $0.003 to $0.005 per stream... By contrast, Bandcamp pays artists roughly 82% of each sale. A direct $10 album sale can exceed revenue from thousands of streams. Buying music or books directly from artists, whether physical or DRM-free digital, is one of the most direct ways to support them."
Artists are likely better off when you #buy o…

Vision-Language-Action Models Meet World Models: Embodied Agentic AI for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks
Feibo Jiang, Li Dong, Lei Mao, Kezhi Wang, Cunhua Pan, Dong In Kim, Naofal Al-Dhahir
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.11618 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.11618 https://arxiv.org/html/2606.11618
arXiv:2606.11618v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Low-Altitude Wireless Networks (LAWNs), composed of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and other aerial platforms, provide integrated perception, communication, and computation services in low-altitude airspace. However, deploying large generative models in this domain faces three major challenges: 1) Limited embodied action mapping; 2) Inadequate physical environment modeling; 3) Insufficient closed-loop optimization. To address these challenges, this study proposes an Embodied Agentic UAV framework. Centered on a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model as the execution core, the framework establishes an end-to-end embodied decision-making pipeline from multimodal environmental perception to continuous control generation. In addition, a World Model (WM) is introduced to capture the coupling between UAV actions and environmental state evolution, thereby supporting environment prediction, policy verification, and dynamic optimization. Furthermore, memory and reflection mechanisms are incorporated to form an adaptive closed-loop optimization paradigm of decision, execution, evaluation, and update, thereby enhancing the system's autonomous decision-making capability and continual evolution ability in complex dynamic environments. Experimental results validate its effectiveness in enabling robust, predictive, and sustainable autonomous control in LAWNs.
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Every now and then I have one of those days where I discover all of these marvellous people on the Fedi and they're nearby (in some sense, whether physical or by interests) and they've been here for a couple of years and I don't know them. It's delightful! It's way more delightful than when there were only a few thousand people!
I do feel sad when I look at all the amazing folks who were here but left. I hope they all come back.

Most Americans say Trump is mentally, physically unfit to serve effectively: Poll (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5862406-trump-mental-fitness-physical-health-poll/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260504/p72#a260504p72

"I think when you're just counting on your voice, you actually need double the energy. I find myself acting out the scenes and being very physical while I'm recording because I think you can tell when someone is just sitting on a stool."
—Judy Greer
#acting #coaching …

Cowboys Have 53-Man Roster Upset Brewing With Physical Freak UDFA Michael Trigg https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-have-53-man-roster-upset-brewing-physical-freak-udfa-michael-trigg

Behind the public’s mounting worries is a growing sense that Trump isn’t mentally all there.
Physical and mental health aren’t easily separated, especially as one reaches 80. I often can’t remember where I put my wallet and keys or why I’ve entered a room. I also have less patience than I used to have. (I’m less tolerant of long lines, automated phone menus and Republicans.)
But if Trump can’t remember where he put, say, a top-secret memo or why he entered the Situation Room, or …

Survey: 59% of Gen Z users in the US, UK, and AU actively add and drop streaming services to view a single movie or series, 71% stopped buying physical music (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/gen-z-cancels-streaming-sub…

Gen Z Cancels Streaming Subs for One Show, Don't Buy Full-Price Games
A study has found that more than half of Gen Z cancels and renews streaming subscriptions based on the availability of one TV series or film.

Finally got my paws on a physical CD of Switched-On-Bach by Wendy Carlos, which she apparently REALLY doesn’t want copied. I guess that explains why there is no digital version.
The disk format is a rococo tangle. iTunes can play the music, but it cannot import from the disk. It cannot understand whatever arcane trick was used to construct it. I had to copy the AIFF files manually and import the copies, then add metadata manually.

Sharing big R objects across processes shouldn’t mean copying them over and over.
mori uses shared memory ALTREP to give you zero-copy access—multiple processes, one underlying object.
Fast, memory-efficient, and built for modern parallel workflows.
👉 https://shikokuchuo.net/mori/

Source: OBJ works out for Giants, takes physical https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48542988/source-odell-beckham-jr-works-giants-takes-physical

RE: https://meta.masto.host/@GamingNews/116529674646601494
The whole idea of mogging being based on physical appearance just seems wrong to me.

genetic_multiplex: Multiplex genetic interactions (2014)
Multiplex networks representing different types of genetic interactions, for different organisms. Layers represent (i) physical, (ii) association, (iii) co-localization, (iv) direct, and (v) suppressive, (vi) additive or synthetic genetic interaction. Edge direction (i,j) indicates gene i interacting with gene j.
This network has 1203 nodes and 2522 edges.
Tags: Biological, Gene regulation, Protein interactions, Unwei…

Mistral launches Robostral Navigate, a hardware-agnostic robotics navigation model trained via simulation that utilizes a single camera and language prompts (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Now that the trump name is being removed from the Kennedy Center I wonder whether trump will try to sell off the physical letters that were removed and keep the proceeds to himself?

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.PF. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.PF/new
[1/1]:
- FP8 is All You Need (Part 1): Debunking Hardware FP64 as the HPC Holy Grail
Satoshi Matsuoka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06510 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAR_bot/116713312554823102
- P-Cast Precision in FP8 Attention: Sink-Induced Collapse and the Optimality of S=2^8
Reed Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06521 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAR_bot/116713315110983325
- Quantized AI Inference on Constrained Embedded Platforms for Small-Satellite Settings
Carlos Rafael Tordoya Taquichiri, Hans Dermot Doran, Pablo Ghiglino
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06528 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAR_bot/116713322189822290
- AEGIS: A Backup Reflex for Physical AI
Josef Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.06660 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/116713377832304925
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The case to buy physical media: Sony is removing all purchased Studio Canal movies from users libraries - no refunds - including:
▫️ Terminator 2: Judgment Day
▫️ Apocalypse Now: Final Cut
▫️ Hot Fuzz
▫️ Total Recall
▫️ Rambo: First Blood
▫️ Paddington
▫️ Moonlight
▫️ Bridget Jones’s Diary
☑️ Sony Removes Hundreds of Purchased PlayStation Store Movies From Customer Libraries

Sony Removes Hundreds of Purchased PlayStation Store Movies From Customer Libraries
Sony will remove hundreds of purchased PlayStation Store movies due to licensing agreements, raising fresh concerns over digital ownership rights.

Causal Scaffolding for Physical Reasoning: A Benchmark for Causally-Informed Physical World Understanding in VLMs
Tianyi Tang, Zhuoyi Lin, Zeyu Feng, Tianyi Ma, Yew-Soon Ong, Ivor Tsang, Haiyan Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.05966

Trump regime takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network. Ships will be dispatched this month to remove the more than 900 deep-sea instruments that comprise the network, one of the world’s most trusted sources of climate and oceanic data. https://www.scientificame…

Trump administration takes aim at crucial ocean monitoring network
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

Sources: Microsoft has been working on a disc-to-digital feature for Xbox One and Xbox Series X that will let users digitize their physical game collections (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature that digitizes a physical game collection
Microsoft’s disc-to-digital feature could be essential for next-gen Xbox consoles.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Reading Douglas Adams when I was 12 meant my tiny little mind got to learn all sorts of words and terms that were exciting but not too complex.
I had to rely on context clues and a physical dictionary. Or just, you know, keep reading.
My own writing is even more obtuse.
https://shkspr.mobi/blog…

I would accept Sony PS to stop making physical disc if they didn't claimed this decision was based on players preferences.

I am challenging the status quo today (Jun-26) and submitted a physical (yes, offline) product at ProductHunt. Feel free to support me there!
#privacy
https://www.producthunt.com/products/paint

Paint the Cameras Dead: Postcards for pushing back against surveillance. | Product Hunt
Not every project needs an app, an AI model or another screen. Paint the Cameras Dead is a physical set of postcards made for the street, not the cloud. Each card helps you notice surveillance cameras hiding in plain sight, ask who controls them and map what you find. Print them, share them, leave them in cafés, libraries or community spaces, and use them today. No download, no account, no update cycle. Just paper, attention and a small act of resistance.

White House Releases Results of Trump's Latest Physical Exam (Chris Cameron/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-health-medical-physical-exam.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260530/p43#a260530p43

It's a shame that PlayStation is abandoning physical discs - and essentially physical retail - for games. But any advantages of physical media for games evaporated a decade ago. Developers released literally unplayable games in the expectation of a Day One Patch.

Got an Amber Alert today, and my weather app, @…, did a better job than the state of Tennessee. In fact, TN failed, as they do at most things lately.
The alert from TN had a Bitly link (already looks suspicious) that goes to a Facebook page that requires you to login. :picard:

Är promenader mer effektivt än konditionsträning för fettförbränning?
https://traningslara.se/ar-promenader-mer-effektivt-an-konditionstraning-for-fettforbranning/

Är promenader mer effektivt än konditionsträning för fettförbränning?
Promenader är inte mer effektivt än konditionsträning om du vill göra av med mer kalorier eller öka chanserna att gå ner i vikt. De som påstår att promenader är bättre lurar människor genom att slänga sig med fina ord likt NEAT (non exercise activity thermogenesis), TDEE (total daily energy expenditure), SPA (spontaneous physical activity) mm […]

Outlandish experiment shows top officials risking physical injury to please Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-cabinet-2677002630/

Chargers mock Ravens failing Maxx Crosby physical in schedule release video https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2026/05/14/chargers-mock-ravens-failing-maxx-crosby-physi…

Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/spotify-l…

Spotify launches the ability to purchase physical books in the US and UK | TechCrunch
Spotify users in the US and UK can officially purchase physical books through the Android app. iOS users will get the feature next week.

Rockstar says physical copies of GTA 6 will contain a digital download code, not a disc; physical copies release on November 12, ahead of the November 19 launch (Tom Phillips/IGN)
https://www.ign.com/articles/grand-theft-auto-6…

Grand Theft Auto 6 Physical Copies Won't Include a Disc, Will Just Be a Code in a Box
Rockstar will sell physical copies of Grand Theft Auto 6 — though you'll only get a box containing a digital download code.

From collider experiments to large-scale astronomy systems, this session by Dmitriy Kostunin and Julian von Hoerschelmann-Schliwinski takes an honest look at where AI delivers measurable gains, and where it falls short.
Learn more about this session: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/session/ai-in-the-physical-world-from-observation-to-discovery/

There are just 59 Robotaxis on the road, Bloomberg reports,
with at least some of them still requiring physical human supervision.
Its efforts to expand past its home base in Austin, Texas are floundering,
with the company forced to admit to California state regulators that its self-driving cabs don’t actually drive themselves, according to the reporting.
This incremental progress would be permissible at a smaller company.
But Musk has persistently wooed investo…

Tesla's Robotaxis Are a Complete Disaster
Behind the scenes, the reality is that Tesla's much-hyped Robotaxi program sounds like an absolute hot mess.

Odell Beckham Jr. has physical, workout with New York Giants: Sources https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7212845/2026/04/20/odell-beckham-jr-giants-physical/

En la mani del #1deMayo un compañero me ha hablado de este artículo sobre la salud del uso de la #ia en el entorno laboral. No lo he leído aún pero me ha dicho que es muy interesante lo que plantea

Console gamers really are being robbed in bright daylight, smh.
I had hoped that y'all could enjoy physical copies for a few years longer 🫂

Dallas Cowboys To Try More Physical Practice Approach For 2026 Training Camp https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/dallas-cowboys-to-try-more-physical-practice-approach-for-2026-training-camp

Remember when Xbox tried to move away from physical media to reduce distribution costs during the 2013 Xbox One launch?
And Sony pissed all over Microsoft for it? 🤔
✅ Xbox One loses some disc-free play, family game-sharing plan with revised policies
https://www.

Xbox One loses some disc-free play, family game-sharing plan with revised policies

Nvidia says South Korea's Naver will use its technology to build AI factories at "gigawatt scale" to meet rising global demand for AI services and physical AI (Heekyong Yang/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific…

New thread since the other was getting long and disorganized... Continuing bringup and deployment of the new 40/100G core switch. So far I'm about half done by number of existing physical ports, not counting currently dark fiber I plan to light up.

Trump Undergoes a Physical Exam at Walter Reed (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/politics/trump-physical-walter-reed.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p63#a260526p63

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 307 nodes and 726 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

James Pearce Jr. returns to Falcons for minicamp physical amid intervention program https://www.nfl.com/news/james-pearce-jr-falcons-physical-mandatory-minicamp-intervention-program

“National data shows that almost half of Australians already fall short of minimum physical activity guidelines, and rising prices are making even basic care unaffordable for many.”
I’m not saying this stupid war on #Iran is wholly responsible for #inflation, but it’s certainly not helping—and even its dis…

With the detection of the Higgs boson,
the standard model is an almost complete theory.
Missing from the model is a massless spin-two boson, the graviton.
We might reasonably expect that detection of gravitational radiation would include the observation of the graviton as the quanta of the radiation.
However, the connection between gravitational radiation observations and the theoretical graviton has yet to be realized due to the physical limitations on single-gravit…

Podcast: The Physical Politics of the Internet with Britt Paris https://www.404media.co/podcast-the-physical-politics-of-the-internet-with-britt-paris/

Physical shops would much rather people shop online.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/03/guilty-until-proven-innocent-shoppers-falsely-identified-by-facial-recognitio…

Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names
People shamed and ordered to leave shops after being misidentified then ‘given no help’ to investigate verdicts

Chipmaker Onsemi agrees to buy Synaptics in a nearly $7B all-stock deal expected to close in the middle of 2027; ON drops 9% and SYNA jumps 11% after hours (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/25/on-semi-synaptics-deal-physical-ai.html
…

On Semiconductor strikes $7 billion deal for Synaptics in physical AI push
On Semiconductor said the deal bumps up its total addressable market by $30 billion to $243 billion by 2030.

I keep seeing things about how they're adding Tales from the Crypt to Shudder starting tomorrow, but Shudder is $7.99 a month and up. I looked on eBay and the whole series on DVD is on there for less than $30 shipped, in the USA at least. And you'd own all of it forever. The math doesn't math. Physical media ftw

I know next to nothing of substance abt The Amazing Digital Circus. All I know is that every time a trans woman makes a virtual reality story she makes a zillion bucks and her characters get turned into fortnite skins cuz of our innate sauce with the feeling of physical disconnection, and im lowk tempted to try continuing the family nacho recipe even as itd be purely cynical cuz I actually really really only care abt the process of becoming a real physical person im tired of thinking within …

Q&A with Agility Robotics CEO Peggy Johnson on why the startup is going public via SPAC, the physical layer as its proprietary advantage, safety, and more (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/this

This humanoid robotics company is going public, but its CEO isn't promising a robot in your home anytime soon | TechCrunch
While other humanoid startups chase sky-high valuations, Agility Robotics is betting its future on execution — and a SPAC.

Prometheus,
the physical AI startup co-founded by Jeff Bezos and Vik Bajaj, the former co-founder of Verily, Google’s life sciences unit,
announced it raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation.
The new funds came from Bezos,
as well as from JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock, among others.
This is the second fundraise round for Prometheus, which launched late last year with an initial raise of $6.2 billion, according to CNBC.
Prometheus is bu…

Jeff Bezos's Prometheus raises $12B to build an 'artificial general engineer' for the physical world | TechCrunch
The new round values the physical AI startup that aims to automate heavy engineering and drug design at $41 billion.

The Harbaugh effect: Why Giants leaned bigger, str... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48630512/new-york-giants-coach-john-harbaugh-joe-schoen-2026-nfl-draft-reese-mauigoa

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Sony says all new PlayStation games from both first- and third-party developers will be sold in digital formats from January 2028, ending physical game discs (Stephen Totilo/Game File)
https://www.gamefile.news/p/sony-drops-playstation-discs-2028-ps3-vit…

Sony will cease production of discs for new PlayStation games in 2028
The end of an era, a potential fatal blow to video games as physical media, and a hint of what’s in store for the PS6? Also: PS3/Vita online stores scheduled for shutdown.

What caused vomiting among Cowboys rookies at minicamp? Brian Schottenheimer’s honest take https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-rookies-vomiting-minicamp-brian-schottenheimer-tak…

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/01/nvidia-ai-push-cosmos-3-world-model

Nvidia expands AI push with Cosmos 3 world model
The chip giants aims to become a platform for physical AI.

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 320 nodes and 387 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Had an #acting #coaching client get some material into their physical self more (as opposed to their mind) and we did a couple takes that had new ways for the crux of the scene to play. So cool to see that whole other way of engaging.

Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match tool to support 30 additional languages (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/15/spotify-l…

Spotify launches the ability to purchase physical books in the US and UK | TechCrunch
Spotify users in the US and UK can officially purchase physical books through the Android app. iOS users will get the feature next week.

LG shares jumped 300% this year, after largely sitting out South Korea's chip-rally in 2025, as LG seeks to expand into physical AI businesses such as robots (Sangmi Cha/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

History repeats itself more than it should.
If you think we cannot get out from under these ghouls, then all I can say is we did it several times before.
We should be getting good at it by now.
The closest Trump's gonna get to heaven is on an airplane.
Go figure, cause I can't
Keep protests peaceful.
Don't kill anyone.
They DO make a difference.
Here are some resistance related guides from around the world:
🇺🇸 Fundamentals …

Fundamentals of physical surveillance : a guide for uniformed and plainclothes personnel : Siljander, Raymond P : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
xvii, 268 p. : 24 cm

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 217 nodes and 230 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Human Archive, which trains robots using first-person video from 1,000 camera-equipped caps worn by Indian home services workers, raised $8.2M from YC and more (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/human…

This startup is betting India's gig economy can train the world's robots | TechCrunch
Human Archive, a startup founded by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers, is paying gig workers in India to wear camera-equipped caps and sensor devices to collect the real-world physical training data that AI and robotics labs are racing to acquire.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Physical Intelligence says its new model, π0.7, can direct robots on tasks they weren't trained on, an "early sign" of generalization, surprising researchers (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/202…

Physical Intelligence, a hot robotics startup, says its new robot brain can figure out tasks it was never taught | TechCrunch
The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.

Robotics startup Generalist, which released its GEN-1 model to complete short physical tasks in April, raised $400M led by Radical Ventures at a $2B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

The Pentagon is moving to recruit hundreds of troops to appear as spectators at President Trump’s UFC cage-fighting event on the White House lawn,
and requiring those who attend to pay their own way and meet height and weight requirements.
https://www.

Pentagon recruiting troops to watch White House UFC fights, memos show
Internal messages reviewed by The Post stipulate that military personnel must pay their own ways and meet strict physical requirements to be eligible.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them."
—Bruce Lee
#acting #coaching

Since his first years as a top player, Jannik Sinner has long had one major weakness.
The hotter it is, the more vulnerable he becomes.
It nearly toppled him at January’s Australian Open, before Novak Djokovic did the job instead.
On Thursday, with temperatures climbing toward the 90s at Roland Garros, Sinner could not endure.
In the second round of the French Open, the world No. 1 fell victim to Juan Manuel Cerúndolo of Argentina, the world No. 56.
He grew dizzy…

Jannik Sinner might have a heat problem, but tennis has a bigger one
As tennis gets ever more physical and matches grow longer, its relationship with heat will grow more complex — and sometimes concerning.

Analysis: Asian suppliers account for ~90% of Nvidia's production costs, up from 65% in 2025, as latest wave of collaborations shifts from chips to physical AI (Abhishek Vishnoi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Apoha, which is developing a "Liquid State Intelligence" data layer to measure molecules in the real world, emerges from stealth with $36M led by Singular (Mike Butcher/Pathfounders)
https://pathfounders.com/p/apoha-emerges-from-stealth-with-36m-to-teach-…

Apoha emerges from stealth with $36M to teach AI how matter behaves
The company is targeting pharma first, but could apply its technology to food, materials and even embed it into Physical AI.

I hear a longstandingly mentally ill man,
a narcissistic sociopath who is cognitively declining in his elder years,
becoming increasingly disinhibited.
We don't know exactly what his health is ...
He's obviously physically unwell.
— he's drooping on one side.
Did he have a left hemisphere CVA?
We don't know any of that, because they obviously would lie to us about any of it

'He's obviously physically unwell': Trump's facial 'drooping' singled out on MS NOW
After watching a montage of clips of Donald Trump dismissing American consumers’ economic woes, an MSNBC regular noted the president’s physical decline with a new observation.Speaking with host Jacob Soboroff, attorney George Conway claimed, “I hear a longstandingly mentally ill man, a narcissistic ...

Alibaba's AI unit Tongyi Lab launches the Qwen Robot Suite, its first family of AI models for robots, in pilot testing with some enterprise clients (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

Alibaba eyes physical world with its first suite of AI models for robots
Alibaba unveils Qwen robot models to push AI beyond chatbots, as embodied intelligence becomes the next frontier in global AI.

Avoca, whose AI agents let physical services businesses handle inbound calls and dispatch, raised $125M across seed, Series A, and Series B at a $1B valuation (Allie Garfinkle/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/04/27/avoca-a

How a chance encounter in Texas sparked a $1 billion Kleiner Perkins-backed AI startup
Avoca, founded by two MIT grads, brings Silicon Valley tech to trades like plumbing, roofing, and HVAC.

San Diego-based Aether AI, which is building "causal world models" to teach robots cause and effect instead of pattern-matching, raised a $20M seed led by MPCi (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/aether-ai-causal-world-models-20m-…

CarbonSix, which is developing AI automation and robotic intelligence tech for manufacturing, raised a $40M Series A co-led by DSC Investment and LB Investment (FinSMEs)
https://www.finsmes.com/2026/07/carbonsix-raises-40m-in-series-a-funding.html

CarbonSix Raises $40M in Series A Funding
CarbonSix, Inc., a San Francisco, CA-based Physical AI company focused on the manufacturing sector, raised $40m (approx. KRW 60 billion) in Series A funding

PitchBook: VC investment in global robotics and physical AI jumped to $26B in 2025 from $4.2B in 2019, and has already topped $23B as of May 20 this year (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/…

Japan commits up to $6.16B over five years to Noetra, a consortium led by SoftBank, Honda, NEC, and Sony, to develop a domestic AI foundation model by 2027 (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Japan backs SoftBank-led AI models with up to $6.2bn in chasing US, China
New company will focus on physical AI using data from Japanese companies

China will implement new online food delivery regulations on June 1, requiring platforms to regularly verify businesses' identities, locations, and licenses (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/china-to-crack-down-on-fo…

China to crack down on food delivery 'ghost kitchens'
Meituan, others will need to verify that listed stores match physical locations

A look at Eka, which trains its robotic claw on a "vision-force-action model" incorporating realistic joints, motors, and physics principles into its simulation (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/when-robots-have-their-chatgpt-…

When Robots Have Their ChatGPT Moment, Remember These Pincers
From sorting chicken nuggets to screwing in light bulbs, Eka’s robots are eerily lifelike. But do they have real physical smarts?

Arm EVP Mohamed Awad says its chip architecture now accounts for 50% of the hyperscale cloud computing market, as AI demand transforms the data center industry (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/editor-s-picks

SoftBank chipmaker Arm hits 50% share in top AI data centers: exec
AI boom drives demand for company's architecture as it also moves into physical chips