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❗ "Massey is the 13th councillor in Scotland, out of a total of 1,226, to have defected to Reform"
- I can't help wondering if Farage, who has access to large sums of right-wing American money, is PAYING those councillors to defect, literally BUYING THEM.

CamCloneMaster: Enabling Reference-based Camera Control for Video Generation
Yawen Luo, Jianhong Bai, Xiaoyu Shi, Menghan Xia, Xintao Wang, Pengfei Wan, Di Zhang, Kun Gai, Tianfan Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03140

CamCloneMaster: Enabling Reference-based Camera Control for Video Generation
Camera control is crucial for generating expressive and cinematic videos. Existing methods rely on explicit sequences of camera parameters as control conditions, which can be cumbersome for users to construct, particularly for intricate camera movements. To provide a more intuitive camera control method, we propose CamCloneMaster, a framework that enables users to replicate camera movements from reference videos without requiring camera parameters or test-time fine-tuning. CamCloneMaster seamle…

"Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study
Reform UK’s policies to “scrap net zero” would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to a new study. Nigel Farage’s party — which took control of 10 councils in the recent local elections — this week claimed that the government could save £45 billion every year by […]

Publicly announced cancellations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/health/trump-cuts-nih-grants-research.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MU8.fooD.09Zw0Ce5H7UE&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=g
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p43#a250604p43

A Reference Architecture for Gamified Cultural Heritage Applications Leveraging Generative AI and Augmented Reality
Federico Martusciello, Henry Muccini, Antonio Bucchiarone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04090

A Reference Architecture for Gamified Cultural Heritage Applications Leveraging Generative AI and Augmented Reality
The rapid advancement of Information and Communication Technologies is transforming Cultural Heritage access, experience, and preservation. However, many digital heritage applications lack interactivity, personalization, and adaptability, limiting user engagement and educational impact. This short paper presents a reference architecture for gamified cultural heritage applications leveraging generative AI and augmented reality. Gamification enhances motivation, artificial intelligence enables ad…

The Story of 88, and whether or not the Cowboys could un-retire legendary jersey numbers https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/06/03/cowboys-jersey-number-reverence-88/84009826007/…

Inter(sectional) Alia(s): Ambiguity in Voice Agent Identity via Intersectional Japanese Self-Referents
Takao Fujii, Katie Seaborn, Madeleine Steeds, Jun Kato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01998

Inter(sectional) Alia(s): Ambiguity in Voice Agent Identity via Intersectional Japanese Self-Referents
Conversational agents that mimic people have raised questions about the ethics of anthropomorphizing machines with human social identity cues. Critics have also questioned assumptions of identity neutrality in humanlike agents. Recent work has revealed that intersectional Japanese pronouns can elicit complex and sometimes evasive impressions of agent identity. Yet, the role of other "neutral" non-pronominal self-referents (NPSR) and voice as a socially expressive medium remains unexplored. In a…

The Line Traveling Salesman and Repairman Problem with Collaboration
Julian Golak, Finn S\"orensen, Malte Fliedner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04127 ht…

The Line Traveling Salesman and Repairman Problem with Collaboration
In this work, we consider extensions of both the Line Traveling Salesman and Line Traveling Repairman Problem, in which a single server must service a set of clients located along a line segment under the assumption that not only the server, but also the clients can move along the line and seek to collaborate with the server to speed up service times. We analyze the structure of different problem versions and identify hard and easy subproblems by building up on prior results from the literature…

Labelling Data with Unknown References
Adrian de Wynter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03083 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.03083

Labelling Data with Unknown References
An evaluator is trustworthy when there exists some agreed-upon way to measure its performance as a labeller. The two ways to establish trustworthiness are either by testing it, or by assuming the evaluator `knows' somehow the way to label the corpus. However, if labelled references (e.g., a development set) are unavailable, neither of these approaches work: the former requires the data, and the latter is an assumption, not evidence. To address this, we introduce an algorithm (the `No-Data Algor…

Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/climate/electricity-prices-republican-big-beautiful-bill.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MU8.Y70X.1-wUaCvBm49Q&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p53#a250604p53