@cdarwin@c.imHow Santa Barbara County Made Strong Progress on Addressing the Unmet Need for Child Care
Strategy 1: Building Cross-Sector Relationships
Strategy 2: Creating a Data-Informed Plan for Addressing Santa Barbara County’s Needs
Strategy 3: Focusing on Child Care Facilities
Strategy 4: Prioritizing Child Care Provider Recruitment & Retention to Maximize Family Choice
Lessons Learned
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotThe thing I hate about working in the #JavaScript space is bit-rot. My #ClojureScript swinging needle meter demo, written in 2017, still works, but I can no longer compile it from source.
Probably this won't take too long to fix, but it is work which should not have to be done.
…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialA great choice of image for an important topic: distributed energy resources can collectively respond very effectively to the needs of the grid
https://www.iea.org/reports/scaling-up-demand-flexibility
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngRE: https://mastodon.ie/@andrewg/117098562278114107
By that measure: A forest is merely the delivery mechanism for the timber, wildlife and land resources which, once extracted, generate income, rents, appreciate in value, and provide economically valuable ser…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
TEMPEST@Home: finding radio frequency side channels.
https://duo.com/labs/research/finding-radio-sidechannels
saved 2020-04-27
@geant@mstdn.social🎉 7 years, 11 cycles, 52 ideas turned into real progress
That's the impact of the GÉANT Trust & Identity (T&I) Incubator.
It started in 2019 to give the community a space to experiment, without pulling resources from running services.
Alongside, It's also grown people alongside ideas, welcoming 11 students through its mentorship programme.
Congratulations to our community on pushing these initiatives forward and investing in future generations 👏
@cdarwin@c.imAs in many US resort areas,
the suicide rates in the Tahoe region,
including the city of Truckee,
are far higher than the state average
– and these communities don’t have enough resources to deal with the issue.
Since 2022, there have been nearly 40 confirmed suicide deaths in Truckee,
South Lake Tahoe and four lakeside counties,
an area with a combined population of about 73,000,
according to an analysis by the Tahoe Daily Tribune.
Nearl…
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaPro Se Guide for Motion to Change Hearing to WebEx
https://nipnlg.org/work/resources/pro-se-guide-motion-change-hearing-webex
The regime keeps arresting people that follow legal immigration processes, they have been racially profiling and abduct an…
@johl@mastodon.xyzTowards a practice of knowledge commoning: academics’ ethical duties to defend Wikipedia in the age of generative AI
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43681-026-01373-z?status=info&saved-doi=10.1007/s43681-026-…
@geant@mstdn.social📅 Join our next #eduVPN community meeting
We'll cover the current status, the roadmap for future development, and updates on the upcoming Version 4.
Designed for the R&E community and already used by over 270 institutions, eduVPN enables students, researchers and staff to securely connect to the internet and get remote access to internal institutional resources, anywhere in the…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTop Trump official asked for more resources to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026/08/14/top-trump-official-asked-more-resources-fight-small-fire-near-his-idaho-ranch/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzg2NjgwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg4MDYyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3ODY2ODAwMDAsImp0aSI6IjZmOGU1ZDczLTdmODgtNDdhYi04MmM2LTZhMDAyOWMyM2MzMiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93ZWF0aGVyLzIwMjYvMDgvMTQvdG9wLXRydW1wLW9mZmljaWFsLWFza2VkLW1vcmUtcmVzb3VyY2VzLWZpZ2h0LXNtYWxsLWZpcmUtbmVhci1oaXMtaWRhaG8tcmFuY2gvIn0.wnIUnkPrtIIbDjTAz6_F5_suQnUYKx8I21fAGxWdjYg&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/260814/p14#a260814p14
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
A list of LD_PRELOAD hacks.
https://github.com/gaul/awesome-ld-preload
saved 2020-01-27 https://dotat.at/:/K9MQB.h…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look at London-based AI startup Cosine, which is building a frontier model with UK government backing, as some question if it has the talent and resources (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/02e29d7f-9e3e-4977-a5d3-ea3f2d9efd10
@ErikUden@mastodon.deevery app became a website, and now websites take ages to load and insane resources to run
@Dragofix@veganism.socialNew digital tool shows exactly where California's water goes—and how climate change might disrupt it https://phys.org/news/2026-09-digital-tool-california-climate-disrupt.html
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOh, look, it’s a dickhead.
Hey, dickhead, how goes?
Being a dickhead, you probably don’t care that Palestinians are blocked from setting up fundraisers for themselves as part of the West’s complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide. But hey, facts don’t care that you’re a dickhead so it’s still true.
If I could GoFundMe you a fucking conscience, I would.
Dickhead. @npub1k06ctulq8rcaen067tt6z3y6gxrqtsuje5em5lcn009zfpp0t7gqf0zyu9@momostr.pink
@johl@mastodon.xyz“delightful off grid open tech delightful”
A curated list of technology, Open hardware and Open Source software resources for use off-grid, for power outages and other emergency situations.
https://codeberg.org/lmemsm/delightful-off-grid-open-tech
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCfP "Matter, Materials, and (Un)Natural Resources in Science Fiction" - Enthymema Dec 2027
https://ift.tt/AFhqM2P
updated: Friday, July 10, 2026 - 4:16amfull name / name of organization: Valentina Romanzi,…
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@lpryszcz@genomic.socialAn impressive resources trying to uncover what and why #bigtech is using to train LLMs
AI Watchdog: The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation of the books, videos, and other media used by the world’s most powerful tech companies to train their AI models.
@arXiv_csAR_bot@mastoxiv.pageROLoad-PMP: Securing Sensitive Operations for Kernels and Bare-Metal Firmware
Wende Tan, Chenyang Li, Yangyu Chen, Yuan Li, Chao Zhang, Jianping Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13287 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13287 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13287
arXiv:2608.13287v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A common way for attackers to compromise victim systems is hijacking sensitive operations (e.g., control-flow transfers) with attacker-controlled inputs. Existing solutions in general only protect parts of these targets and have high performance overheads, which are impractical and hard to deploy on systems with limited resources (e.g., IoT devices) or for low-level software like kernels and bare-metal firmware. In this paper, we present a lightweight hardware-software co-design solution ROLoad-PMP to protect sensitive operations from being hijacked for low-level software. First, we propose new instructions, which only load data from read-only memory regions with specific keys, to guarantee the integrity of pointees pointed by (potentially corrupted) data pointers. Then, we provide a program hardening mechanism to protect sensitive operations, by classifying and placing their operands into read-only memory with different keys at compile-time and loading them with ROLoad-PMP-family instructions at runtime. We have implemented an FPGA-based prototype of ROLoad-PMP based on RISC-V, and demonstrated an important defense application, i.e., forward-edge control-flow integrity. Results showed that ROLoad-PMP only costs few extra hardware resources (< 1.40%). Moreover, it enables many lightweight (e.g., with negligible overheads < 0.853%) defenses, and provides broader and stronger security guarantees than existing hardware solutions, e.g., ARM BTI and Intel CET.
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@profcarroll@federate.socialPatient Computing: Virtuous Waiting because the output is free as in libre, free as in beer, and free as in it didn't consume more resources than this post.
@cheryanne@aus.socialWhat If We Were Taught..
A podcast developed to bring a collective amount of resources, wisdom and knowledge to couples surrounding pregnancy, birth, the postpartum and parenting...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-if-we…
@dcm@social.sunet.seWhen discussing scientific achievements made mostly or partly by AI systems, especially the headline-making ones, it's good to think about the resources being allotted to such projects, which are plausibly incomparable to previous investment. For instance, I suspect that no one had previously invested several millions of dollars to hire a team of mathematicians exclusively to tackle a single millennium problem.
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.social“As a YDS alum, I am so proud of Dean Sterling's leadership and his message of environmental stewardship. It exemplifies what’s possible when institutions and communities commit to honoring Earth's resources.” - Rev. Luis Perez ’01 MDiv
https://
@aardrian@toot.cafeI recalled a G183 discussion on a TPGuy post from a few years ago.
Vispero memory-holed it all when it subsumed TPGuy:
https://vispero.com/resources/well-color-us-surprised-this-sc-can-be-a-tricky-customer/
Thankfully, there’s Way…
@PaulWermer@sfba.social"Like US presidents before him, Trump has found that Netanyahu can be a difficult ally."
Ally? With allies like that, who needs enemies? Manipulating Trump into a pointless war that squanders the US defense budget and depletes our military's resources? That's an ally?
Netanyahu rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan in rare public break with Trump
@paulwermer@sfba.social"Like US presidents before him, Trump has found that Netanyahu can be a difficult ally."
Ally? With allies like that, who needs enemies? Manipulating Trump into a pointless war that squanders the US defense budget and depletes our military's resources? That's an ally?
Netanyahu rejects US-led 15-point Gaza peace plan in rare public break with Trump
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotWrong priorities, reckless waste of resources
https://www.businessgreen.com/news/4532454/generation-opportunity-uk-nuclear-manufacturing-set-benefit-100bn-investment-drive
@markhburton@mstdn.socialLimiting Overshoot - Navigating exceedance of 1.5°C and pathways towards return | UNEP - UN Environment Programme https://www.unep.org/resources/limiting-overshoot-navigating-exceedance
@brichapman@mastodon.socialDesire can help you decide which commitments deserve your time, money, and attention. This matters because guilt and pressure can keep you spending scarce resources on obligations that wear you down.
Every commitment has a cost. A project takes time. A subscription takes money.
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialThe World Resources Institute’s (WRI) Electric School Bus Initiative reports that a number of fully deployed vehicle-to-grid (V2G) projects involving some 230 electric school buses are now able to supply 8 MWh of power back to the grid at any given time – enough electricity to power about 1,600 typical US homes for up to four hours and significantly shave peak load demand for the utilities they serve.
@brian_gettler@mas.toUniversity admin at some point cleary thought to themselves, "human resources is insufficiently dystopian, we really ought to come up with something better." After years of meetings, they congratulated themselves on a job well done. "Yes," they purred, "'people strategy' is so much worse."
@grist@fosstodon.orgMulti-table updates, AI automations, scheduled changes, and more with Grist's n8n integration. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/how-to-use-n8n-automations-with-grist/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMicrosoft adds funding to the AP Fund for Journalism, enabling APFJ to provide 10 local newsrooms in Washington state with AP elections coverage and resources (The Associated Press)
https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-rele
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInterview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem (Kenneth Chang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…
@darkrat@chaosfurs.social
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialIt's been more than 60 years of forking.
https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2010/06/102687219-05-08-acc.pdf
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzThe brand-new 360-or-so-page book "Testing Einstein: One Hundred Years of Experimental #Relativity" is completely open access as a series of PDF files at https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edited-volume/6160/Testing-EinsteinOne-Hundred-Years-of-Experimental (and talking about OA science & tech books: at https://www.nasa.gov/history/history-publications-and-resources/nasa-history-series/ NASA has countless more).
@Dragofix@veganism.socialArgentine mining threatens scarce water resources in the Andes #Argentina…
@blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizzaFree game alert: State Of Mind on GoG.
When mind and machine become one – what will remain of humanity?
Berlin, 2048 – The world is on the brink. Lack of resources, illnesses caused by polluted air and water, crime on the rise, war. Governments and companies promise remedies through technological progress. Drones and humanoid robots replace humans in the public sector, everything is interconnected, surveillance has become omnipresent.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denovember17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
@rasterweb@mastodon.social
@buercher@tooting.chMr. Rubio now effectively controls Venezuela’s finances, the distribution of its natural resources and its government, according to interviews with more than a dozen officials and people close to both governments in Washington and Caracas, who provided details about his involvement in steering the country’s policies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/us/politics/how-marco-rubio-runs-venezuela.html
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Measure, Change, Measure: Assessing Changes to a Traditional Approval Plan" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8791
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@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesDue to Thursday’s extreme heat forecast and the resources required to safely manage large crowds at fan marches, Toronto Stadium and FIFA Fan Festival™ Toronto, all FIFA World Cup 2026™ match broadcasts at Nathan Phillips Square have been cancelled for Thursday, July 2.
#toronto
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialStronger Together
Distributed Energy Resources (solar, wind, battery) providing grid support together benefit more: “resulting in both improved power system dynamics and DER economics, as shown by the cooperative gain of 16% compared to standalone operation.”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.31728
@brichapman@mastodon.socialA meeting takes attention. Old promises and routines can stay in your head after they stop serving a purpose. The full cost may include preparation, travel, follow-up, worry, and recovery.
Start by writing down everything that uses any of those resources.
@cdarwin@c.imIn partnership with California Native American tribes,
the California Natural Resources Agency has developed a goal of expanding tribal stewardship over at least 7.5 million acres of lands and coastal waters.
The Tribal Stewardship Policy and Toolkit will provide policy and resources to institutionalize durable tribal-state partnerships
and to advance durable tribal access, collaboration, and ancestral land return across California.
The Tribal Stewardship Policy will…
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.pageReplaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Involution game with migration and spatial heterogeneity of social resources
Bo Li, Qiwen Ge, Yong Shi
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org @aral@mastodon.ar.alIt’s ok, it’s not like we’re all going to die or anything (only billions, not everyone). @… https://slrpnk.net/post/39707961
@arXiv_csAR_bot@mastoxiv.pageYAVIN: A Unified Architecture for Secure Edge Processing in Memory
Shouzhi Fang, William C. Tegge, Md Omar Faruque, Peipei Zhou, Endadul Hoque, Alex K. Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13496 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13496 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13496
arXiv:2608.13496v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Secure, private multi-tenant execution spanning processors, memory, and accelerators remains one of the most significant challenges in modern edge computing systems. Simultaneously, processing-in-memory (PIM) has emerged as an effective approach for reducing the Von Neumann bottleneck by moving computation closer to data. Existing trusted execution environments (TEEs) establish trust only within the processor, protecting data while it traverses untrusted resources such as the memory bus. Consequently, trusted computation cannot be performed directly within memory. We present YAVIN, a unified trusted computing base (TCB) that extends the TEE beyond the processor to encompass both processor execution and a dedicated memory region supporting trusted processing-in-memory execution while treating the memory bus as untrusted. Leveraging the dedicated protected memory regions already established by conventional TEE architectures, YAVIN enables data to be decrypted, processed, and re-encrypted by either processor or PIM execution while remaining within the TEE. To realize this unified TCB, YAVIN presents the first PIM implementations of the LightSaber KEM post-quantum cryptosystem and ASCON-128 authenticated encryption, co-designing both algorithms for efficient DRAM execution to establish and maintain shared cryptographic state. Finally, we demonstrate how cryptography-PIM co-design for tensor-based workloads reorganizes computation to satisfy the ordering constraints imposed by authenticated encryption with minimal performance overhead while simultaneously enabling bit-sliced ordering that limits temporary plaintext exposure. Compared to the latest PIM AES implementation, YAVIN achieves more than a 20x speedup while incurring only 34% and 9.3% overhead when executing INT8 and INT32 quantized edge-class LLMs, respectively, relative to plaintext execution.
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@grist@fosstodon.orgSee how to set up Grist automations with n8n, step-by-step. https://www.getgrist.com/blog/how-to-use-n8n-automations-with-grist/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Amazon overhauls its AI strategy, deprecating several flagship Nova AI models, as it shifts resources to its Frontier Model Research initiative (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-overhauls-ai-strategy…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCfP: Interreligious and Intercultural Perspectives on Resources and Sacred Boundaries
https://ift.tt/YDpvm5P
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@cdarwin@c.imThe Venezuelan opposition leader,
María Corina Machado,
has questioned Donald Trump’s oil deal with Venezuela’s interim government,
declaring that the country’s natural resources do not belong to “an illegitimate regime”.
In her first public comments since Trump announced what he called “the biggest oil deal in world history” with Venezuela last Friday,
Machado walked a diplomatic tightrope between challenging the controversial agreement and trying not to rile t…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotModern industrial fertilisers are made from fossil hydrocarbons. In future we can't use that. But, although I am prejudiced in favour of #organic agriculture, I'd be interested to know whether it would be possible to synthesise fertiliser from widely available resources without using fossil hydrocarbon.
Anyone got any pointers?
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng"The thing that concerns me most is violence, the use of force and the threat or the implementation of damage to enforce an opinion. As I said at the beginning, I'm a scientist. I relish facts. I'm interested in ideas. I'm curious about relationships. Violence is just the opposite of that. Violence is the way to gain power without ideas, and it reduces your resources, it stifles dissent and experimentation which we desperately need." — Dennis Meadows (Club Of Rome, Limits Of Growth)
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialMaybe, instead of spending so much time, thought, debate and money to find ways to keep people from arriving, we should put the resources into figuring out how to make it attractive to stay in the country of origin?
Education, local industry, strengthening the local economies seem like things worth fostering everywhere.
Not a simple problem to solve, but the status quo seems to be remarkably unsuccessful.
EU chief criticises Spain’s migrant plan after Ceuta crisis meeting
@paulwermer@sfba.socialMaybe, instead of spending so much time, thought, debate and money to find ways to keep people from arriving, we should put the resources into figuring out how to make it attractive to stay in the country of origin?
Education, local industry, strengthening the local economies seem like things worth fostering everywhere.
Not a simple problem to solve, but the status quo seems to be remarkably unsuccessful.
EU chief criticises Spain’s migrant plan after Ceuta crisis meeting
@arXiv_csAR_bot@mastoxiv.pageDryas: A Reprogrammable Engine for High-Speed Interconnect Tracing and Analysis
Manuel Br\"ochin, Tom Kuchler, Michael Giardino, David Cock, Timothy Roscoe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.12934 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.12934 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.12934
arXiv:2608.12934v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The proliferation of heterogeneous components in modern computing systems has been accompanied by new higher bandwidth and lower latency interconnects. These interfaces and protocols are enormously complex and the process of developing, debugging, and analyzing FPGA-based implementations requires significant engineering work. Moreover, once a functional implementation is completed, optimization of the controller and associated software requires processing potentially hundreds of gigabytes of trace data.
In this paper, we present Dryas, an open source tool for analyzing such an interconnect. We developed our tool, using minimal hardware resources, alongside an FPGA implementation of a very high speed, low latency (30~GiB/s, 200~ns) interconnect. With our run-time reprogrammable overlay engine we can inspect this interconnect to find rare, complex, or transient events even at full operation. This filtering engine is based on non-deterministic finite automata (NFAs), efficiently implemented using state transition elements (STEs), allowing us to trace events at a cache-line granularity. Moreover we can change the filters in less than a second, without reprogramming the FPGA or interfering with the running application. This data enables not only debugging the implementation of the interconnect itself, but analyzing the behavior of accelerated applications.
We examine the mathematical basis for using NFAs and describe their implementation on a real coherent CPU-FPGA research platform. We then evaluate the scalability of Dryas for various size NFAs, followed by two different use cases: debugging FPGA implementation of the interconnect and analyzing cache behavior.
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@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"Ebook Call Number Project: Automating Library of Congress Classification Numbers to Ebooks for Reporting" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8792
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@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotRE: https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/117201553941951005
€90 billion euros. Imagine what we could do with those kind of resources if we didn't live in a patriarchy.
@grist@fosstodon.orgHow to use n8n automations with Grist – walkthroughs and examples https://www.getgrist.com/blog/how-to-use-n8n-automations-with-grist/
@cdarwin@c.imThe focus of the GOP’s first ever midterm convention in September
won’t be Trump’s dismal approval rating, how to end the war on Iran, or the stagnant economy.
They will be spending their time, resources, and funds focusing on
⚠️democratic socialism.
Axios reported Friday that the GOP has spent months pulling together an
👉 “endless” video trove of attack ads targeted at progressive commentators like Hasan Piker, and Democratic Senate nominees Abdul El-Sayed and J…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialClimate solutions in action this week:
California Resources Corp is opening the state's first CO2 storage site in a depleted oil field—creating permanent geologic storage for industrial emissions.
Recife, Brazil launched a public-private initiative financing collection, sorting, and recycled-content markets to build a circular plastics economy.
Real progress, happening now.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest:
@relcfp@mastodon.socialCFP (ONLINE SEMINAR / PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY): Borders and Sustainability: Human, Natural, and Textual Resources — Entangled Histories Seminar Series 2026–2027
https://ift.tt/7mhbZ5p
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@markhburton@mstdn.socialA comfortable Labour win is my reading too.
It is incredibly quiet here. About the same number of poster boards for Green (we have one) and Labour, around here, but nothing like the density in the Gorton-Denton by-election. I suspect Greens, with a lot of resources going in to the campaign and a strong candidate, will do well, but most 2nd pref votes will go to Labour.
Polls open in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection overshadowed by new PM and Farage’s antics.
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.denovember17: November17 members (2009)
A network representing connections among members of the November 17 (N17) Greek terrorist group. Nodes are members, and an edge exists if two members have some connection in the past. Metadata include role, function, resources. Some attributes are missing.
This network has 22 nodes and 66 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Metadata
@cdarwin@c.imAs midterms loom, voters who rightly blame Trump’s war-mongering and indifference for high prices are only going to get angrier. Republican operatives are reportedly panicking.
Trump as usual pretended he had a solution.
Ever since American forces kidnapped Venezuela’s dictator Nicholas Maduro in January, Trump had been trying to arrange for US seizure of the country’s oil.
Last week the White House claimed Trump had succeeded and “secured the biggest oil deal in world hi…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"“Unbury” the Book Chapter? An Investigation of Library and Information Science Book Chapters from Edited Collections in Scholarly Indexes | Swanson" @ Library Resources & Technical Services
https://journals.ala.org/index.php/lrts/article/view/8790
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@brichapman@mastodon.socialClimate solutions in action this week:
California Resources Corp is opening the state's first CO2 storage site in a depleted oil field—creating permanent geologic storage for industrial emissions.
Recife, Brazil launched a public-private initiative financing collection, sorting, and recycled-content markets to build a circular plastics economy.
Real progress, happening now.
Sign up for the For People And Planet climate solutions digest:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/amazon-launch…
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialVery helpful comparison and explanation of the 2 laws. Thanks, @…
Wonder why the San Francisco bill does not require "recovery housing" as required by Haney's state bill ("Recovery housing means tenants have access to on-site case management and other resources needed to address substance use disorder; it is a costlier and more robust form of…
@paulwermer@sfba.socialVery helpful comparison and explanation of the 2 laws. Thanks, @…
Wonder why the San Francisco bill does not require "recovery housing" as required by Haney's state bill ("Recovery housing means tenants have access to on-site case management and other resources needed to address substance use disorder; it is a costlier and more robust form of…
@cdarwin@c.imCalifornia wants to list 'Jewish' as an ethnicity.
Jews are divided over the idea
California is poised to become the first state to treat Jewish identity as an ethnicity on official forms,
with a new optional checkbox heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk.
Supporters say the change could reveal gaps in healthcare, education and hate-crime response for the state’s 1.2 million Jews,
giving officials better data to direct resources.
Opponents warn a s…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social @brichapman@mastodon.socialWrite down who can free up more resources, what proof they need, how much is available, and when they must decide.
Set limits and review:
Set a limit for added cost, workload, or loss of quality. Set a review date before the choice becomes urgent.
@arXiv_csAR_bot@mastoxiv.pageNITRO: High-Performance 3D NAND Flash-Based In-Storage Computing with Enhanced Activation Dataflow
Sanghun Shin, Sangyeon Kim, Gisan Ji, Sungju Ryu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11920 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11920 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11920
arXiv:2608.11920v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In-storage computing (ISC) is considered a next-generation memory architecture for its ability to relieve the data bottleneck between the host and the memory. While the required resources of large language models (LLMs) have increased significantly in recent years, the memory density has not scaled accordingly. Recently, several works have studied NAND flash-based processing-in-memory (NAND-PIM) schemes to exploit the high density of the memory. However, they do not address the dataflow/buffer for the intermediate values, so a simple method is to deal with the values in the slow flash memory array. To overcome such a limitation, we propose a high-performance NAND flash-based ISC architecture with enhanced activation buffering. Instead of using the very slow flash memory array for the intermediate values, our architecture buffers the values in a fast DRAM subsystem. This approach effectively handles the high-latency penalties when activations are programmed into slower TLC NAND flash. We also introduce a distributed dataflow approach for the NAND-PIM array. This approach maximizes computational parallelism by employing efficient intra-plane data mapping. The results show that our proposed architecture achieves significant performance improvements, reducing the inference latency by up to 85% compared to the baseline.
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