F.T.C. May Put Unusual Condition on Ad Mega-Merger: No Boycotting (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/business/ftc-omnicom-interpublic-merger.html?unlocked_article_code=1.OU8.n6Rb.0DJnT0vuw02y&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p164#a250612p164
BemaGANv2: A Tutorial and Comparative Survey of GAN-based Vocoders for Long-Term Audio Generation
Taesoo Park, Mungwi Jeong, Mingyu Park, Narae Kim, Junyoung Kim, Mujung Kim, Jisang Yoo, Hoyun Lee, Sanghoon Kim, Soonchul Kwon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09487
NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, June 14
10:30am – 12pm PDT
Chase Palm Park
236 E Cabrillo Blvd.
Santa Barbara, CA 93103
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/788033/
Is there anything I can put in robots.txt that will stop Scrapy?
Failing that, let’s take the ship up and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
"Two men arrested in #Washington state with an arsenal that included dozens of guns, explosives and body armor, along with Nazi paraphernalia, were former military members who attacked a soldier with a hammer while stealing gear from Joint Base Lewis-McChord."
"Agents found rifles staged at windows, 'observed numerous Nazi/white supremacy memorabilia, murals, and lite…
Surgeons Awareness, Expectations, and Involvement with Artificial Intelligence: a Survey Pre and Post the GPT Era
Lorenzo Arboit, Dennis N. Schneider, Toby Collins, Daniel A. Hashimoto, Silvana Perretta, Bernard Dallemagne, Jacques Marescaux, EAES Working Group, Nicolas Padoy, Pietro Mascagni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08258
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was quickly met with sharp questions and criticism Tuesday
by lawmakers who pressed him about his early moves to deploy troops to Los Angeles,
fire key military leaders
and purge diversity programs.
They expressed bipartisan frustration that Congress has not yet gotten a full defense budget from the Trump administration.
“Your tenure as secretary has been marked by endless chaos,”
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., told Hegseth.
Interpretation Meets Safety: A Survey on Interpretation Methods and Tools for Improving LLM Safety
Seongmin Lee, Aeree Cho, Grace C. Kim, ShengYun Peng, Mansi Phute, Duen Horng Chau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05451
The bias of IID resampled backtests for rolling-window mean-variance portfolios
Andrew Paskaramoorthy, Terence van Zyl, Tim Gebbie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06383
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