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Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
#inspiration #creativity
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Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

probing gpt5 (free)
- image of a toaster lying on its side - complete fail
- image of a cereal box fully obscuring a toaster - partial success (no toaster, but no toaster shadow)
- list sci-fi novels with furries - 2/10, the rest hallucinated, or not sci-fi, or not novels, or not furry
- refine to sci-fi only, novels only - 3/10, the rest hallucinated
- remove hallucinations from list - "✅ Verified Sci-Fi Novels with Furry Characters or Species" list is 4/6…

850 MW: Weltweit größter Batteriespeicher nimmt Betrieb in Australien auf
Die Waratha Super Battery ist mit 850 MW der größte Batteriespeicher der Welt. Gestartet wird mit einer Leistung von zunächst 350 MW. Der Rest folgt noch 2025.

Filipino workers in Taiwan's chip industry report struggling with overwork and discrimination, citing overnight shifts of up to 16 hours and abusive treatment (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/filipino-workers-taiwan-chip-industry/

Workers describe abusive treatment in Taiwan’s semiconductor factories
A record number of people are leaving the Philippines to work in Taiwanese factories, where they face long shifts, low pay, and unequal treatment.

Another one of the disgruntled OG AI computer scientists was Karl Steinbuch, who made one of the first implementations of a neural network.
He was also an ardent Nazi and directly ordered war crimes in the Second World War.
After his research stalled he wrote many racist, misogynist and xenophobic articles for the rest of his life.
He won many awards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Steinbuch

The effect of stratification on the stability of a rest state in the 2D inviscid Boussinesq system
Catalina Jurja, Haram Ko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04514 https://

The effect of stratification on the stability of a rest state in the 2D inviscid Boussinesq system
We investigate and quantify the effect of stratification on the stability time of a stably stratified rest state for the 2D inviscid Boussinesq system on $\mathbb{R}^2$. As an important consequence, we obtain stability of the steady state starting from an $\varepsilon$-sized initial perturbation of Sobolev regularity $H^{3^+}$ on a timescale $\mathcal{O}(\varepsilon^{-4/3})$. In our setting, stratification induces dispersion and at the core of our approach are inhomogeneous Strichartz estimat…

Sources: Packers' Hobbs (knee) out rest of camp https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45906633/sources-packers-cb-hobbs-knee-scoped-rest-camp

Das Jahrezehnt war sofort da. Der Rest... naja
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https://www.pastpuzzle.de

Step 1: Meet someone named Blaise.
Step 2: Automatically transpose their name in your head to Pascal, because, you know.
Step 3: Spend the rest of your acquaintance struggling not to call them by somebody else's name.

In these trying times, let me offer an Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica, swimming near the Petit Manan breeding colony off the coast of Maine
#naturalist #wildlife #bird

@… Ooof, that sounds horrible. Even more reason to rest though! (Can I recommend playing Cats Love Boxes, if you need to stare at a screen?)
Hope you feel better very soon.

Death Valley, with Timothy Spall, is great for at least two reasons:
1. Timothy Spall
2. Wales. And Welsh.
In a different timeline, the standard British accent is Welsh, and the rest of the world is enthralled (possibly even ensorcelled) by its musicality, and there's world peace and universal love and much happiness.
I missed it since Torchwood.

One of the theories: "...or maybe, Bulgarians did the "Bulgarian Yes" by moving their head horizontally and the rest of Yugoslavia misinterpreted that as a No." ->
Why didn’t Bulgaria join Yugoslavia? | GeographyNow
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/SzLhWT8zJAw…

Restoration brings back fresh water, wildlife to degraded pšramos in Ecuador https://news.mongabay.com/2025/08/restoration-brings-back-fresh-water-wildlife-to-degraded-paramos-in-ecuador/

Restoration brings back fresh water, wildlife to degraded páramos in Ecuador
When the sheep were removed, the páramo — high-altitude ecosystems in the Andes — started to heal. Without their waste, water quality improved. Without their hooves compacting the soil, plants began to grow again. Before long, shy white-tailed deer arrived, drawn by the grasses and shrubs for food and shelter. Not long after, pumas reappeared. […]

Die ersten 200 der 600 gestern geschossenen Fotos von Teilnehmer:innen sind online, der Rest folgt im Laufe des Tages. Die U18 ist zum Beispiel schon fast vollständig: https://www.deutsche-schachjugend.de/2025/dem-u18/photos/

Pretty rough humidity yesterday, par for this summer, apparently 🫠 Glad I worked one in after the rain, though. Rest day today, although, I played #golf 9 holes with my kids and family.
I will say, the generic Liquid IVs I got from Walgreens aren't that good. I got the Passion Fruit. That said, running when it's hot out and drinking them cold, it is still quenching. Will probably t…

#ShamelesslyStolenFromTumblr

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00805 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_…

Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation from Gamma-ray Burst rest-frame spectral lags using Profile Likelihood
We reanalyze the spectral lag data for 56 Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the cosmological rest frame to search for Lorentz Invariance Violation (LIV) using frequentist inference. For this purpose, we use the technique of profile likelihood to deal with the nuisance parameters, corresponding to a constant time lag in the GRB rest frame and an unknown intrinsic scatter, while the parameter of interest is the energy scale for LIV ($E_{QG}$). With this method, we do not obtain a global minimum for $χ^…

New apps are helping immigrants navigate Trump's deportation crackdown, including by alerting users to locations of ICE raids and informing them of their rights (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/immigration-raids-migrant-safety-apps/

New apps help immigrants navigate Trump’s deportation crackdown
With tightening immigration policies and rising fears of deportation, new apps provide migrants with resources to stay prepared and connected.

'Given that the average electric drill is in use for just 15 minutes each year, and is kept in storage for the rest of the time, it’s clear that many household items don’t really need to be owned at all' - @alexjgnana https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.

I have nearly exhausted this playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077 on PC (which yeah, def superior to the PS5, super happy I have a PC capable of running it well now lol).
I have seen nearly all the endings, including one of the Phantom Liberty ones (I went with Songbird), save for the "hidden" ending (which I looked up after seeing the rest, and I dunno that I want to play through the game again to set that one up. .. yet)
Fittingly, there are no "good" endings in N…

Sorry, investors, Tesla is simply not going to expand to be larger than •the entire rest of the auto industry• as your “buy” recommendations implicitly posit.
If they make robotaxis, the public will see them as Nazi robotaxis. If they make robots that aren’t just demo smoke and mirrors, the public will see them as Nazi robots.
Your money is in the Titanic of car brands. Get it out while you can.

No rest for the wicked,
as immigration raids continued on July 4
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-05/no-holiday-for-ice-immigration-raids-continued-on-july-4

No holiday for ICE, as immigration raids continued on July 4
Federal agents detained workers at a West Hollywood car wash and an Eagle Rock birria stand.

This week's #ThursDeath is a huge new favorite. The fittingly titled 'IV', the new fourth album from Gulfport, Mississippi's CAVE, starts with an abrasive, rough roar and eventually forms into a pummeling and chugging inferno by the end of the first track and into the second. And then the rest! Cave's drummer is beyond talented, as are the rest of these folks. I dig the walls of gui…

T verschil tussen 'de journalist' en 'de rest vsn de wereld':
Nee journalist, dat getik tok tussen twee idioten is niet bijzonder interessant. Eerder 'bijzonder ONinteressant'.

ICE seems to have become the chosen employer of Proud Boyz and the rest of the wannabe SS groups.
"Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/proud-boys-militia-groups-t…

Where Have the Proud Boys Gone?
The Trump administration has left them with little to do.

This month's newsletter/digest is on it's way to the email box of all the amazing friendly good people who asked for it.
The rest of you bitchy vicious augmentative people in public spats can read it here:
#newsletter #digest

The Italian bibliography of 16th century prints (#EDIT16) has a REST API that provides JSON data - which is great (apart from the somewhat cumbersome API key). The JSON, however, is less structured than the Unimarc. So the date of publication is given as structured info in Unimarc but unstructured (and therefore often ambiguous) in the JSON representation. Not ideal as there appears to beno way…

Mit zunehmendem Alter verstehe ich immer mehr, dass es Menschen gibt, die irgendwann nur noch in der Gesellschaft vor sich hin funktionieren und vom Rest der Welt nichts wissen wollen.

„Big Beautiful Bill“ – klingt wie ein Burger, ist aber schwer verdaulich: Viel Fett für die Reichen, Diät für die Armen. Die Republikaner servieren, Trump kassiert Applaus. Die Reichen jubeln, der Rest darf staunen – oder zahlen. Guten Appetit, Amerika! #WiWo #USA

Fuck it, Rory the Tory Stewart is now advertising Nestlé. He is a seriously bad human being.
The Rest Is Politics: 432. Trump, Starmer, and Gaza: Is The Tide Turning Against Israel?
Episode webpage: http://therestispolitics.com/
Media file:

The Rest Is Politics | Home

Haptic Biofeedback for Wakeful Rest: Does Stimulation Location Make a Difference?
Jueun Lee, Martin Flipe, Philipp Lepold, Tobias R\"oddiger, Michael Beigl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02453

Haptic Biofeedback for Wakeful Rest: Does Stimulation Location Make a Difference?
Wearable haptic interventions offer promising support for relaxation through slow, vibrotactile biofeedback. Despite their potential, current applications focus on stress-inducing procedures and fixed vibration patterns, with limited consideration of body location and dynamic biofeedback during restful states. This study investigates the effects of haptic biofeedback adjusted from real-time heart rate during eyes-closed wakeful rest, comparing four wearable body placements: the wrist, hand, for…

O well, will have a look at all of that tomorrow, going to give it some rest for now to balance out.

A look at the intensifying race for super apps in the Gulf, as Careem, Talabat, Amazon, Botim, and Noon consolidate various services into single platforms (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/middle-east-super-apps/

Tech giants in the Gulf are building super-apps to dominate digital life
From Dubai to Riyadh, apps are consolidating ride-hailing, payments, and delivery into single platforms.

Series B, Episode 10 - Voice from the Past
JENNA: Well, maybe that's not related.
CALLY: Well, Jenna, remember there was something else - earlier, in the rest room.
JENNA: Complaining of some sort of noise.
AVON: A sort of tone, he said.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/210/83

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

Physical properties of galaxies and the UV Luminosity Function from $z\sim6$ to $z\sim14$ in COSMOS-Web
Maximilien Franco, Caitlin M. Casey, Hollis B. Akins, Olivier Ilbert, Marko Shuntov, Steven L. Finkelstein, Louise Paquereau, Andreas L. Faisst, Anton M. Koekemoer, Michaela Hirschmann, Sebastiano Cantarella, Nicole E. Drakos, Stephen M. Wilkins, Henry Joy McCracken, Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe, Claudia Maraston, Fatemeh Abedini, Mark J. Achenbach, Rafael C. Arango-Toro, Fabrizio Gentile, G…

Physical properties of galaxies and the UV Luminosity Function from $z\sim6$ to $z\sim14$ in COSMOS-Web
We present measurements of the rest-frame ultraviolet luminosity function (UVLF) in three redshift bins over $z\sim5.5$-14 from the JWST COSMOS-Web survey. Our samples, selected using the dropout technique in the HST/ACS F814W, JWST/NIRCam F115W, and F150W filters, contain a total of 3099 galaxies spanning a wide luminosity range from faint ($M_{\rm UV}\sim-19$ mag) to bright ($M_{\rm UV}\sim-22.5$ mag). The galaxies are undergoing rapid star formation, with blue stellar populations. Surprising…

I'm on a boat, yeah yeah! 🎶

Transient segregation of bi-disperse granular mixtures in a periodic chute flow
Soniya Kumawat, Vishnu Kumar Sahu, Anurag Tripathi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04025

Transient segregation of bi-disperse granular mixtures in a periodic chute flow
Transient size segregation of a bi-disperse granular mixture flowing over a periodic chute is studied using the Discrete Element Method and continuum simulations. A recently developed particle force-based size segregation model is used to predict the time-dependent flow properties of binary mixtures starting from rest. A two-way coupled continuum model that solves the momentum balance and convection-diffusion equations by incorporating the mixture segregation model along with the generalized in…

#Europa und die #Arktis erwärmen sich mehr als doppelt so schnell wie der globale Durchschnitt.
In Europa liegt die Erwärmung seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre bei 0,53 °C pro Jahrzehnt, in der Arktis sogar bei 0,69 °C.
Ursachen sind unter anderem veränderte

Meta's WhatsApp Pay has struggled to gain traction in India in part due to regulators delaying its full launch as well as minimal product upgrades and marketing (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/whatsapp-pay-download-india/

Meta’s grand WhatsApp fintech experiment in India has fizzled
Despite having 500 million users in India, WhatsApp couldn’t crack the country’s $3 trillion fintech market.

For this week's #ThePlaylistSuggestion I'd like to put forward Pretty in Pink by the Psychedelic Furs. It's the only song with "Caroline" in its lyrics that an ex-girlfriend of mine (called Caroline, who would have thought?) would ever listen to. The rest of them drove her into fits of unimaginable fury.
Also it's a damn good song!

Fatigue - Übermüdung bei Seeleuten nimmt zu. Das bestätigt auch eine Studie der Uni Cardiff.
Schon die erlaubte Arbeitszeit von bis zu 90 Stunden pro Woche führt zu Übermüdung.
Diese Zeiten werden teils noch überschritten
https://splash247.com/fatigue-among-se

Fatigue among seafarers on the rise
Work-related fatigue among cargo ship crews is growing worse, despite international regulations and onboard monitoring aimed at ensuring sufficient rest for seafarers, according to a new study from Ca

Selfishness.
Lack of accountability.
Cowardice.
Moral rot.
#LisaMurkowski #Cowardice #immorality

“Check / Uncheck all in a Table”
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/07/check-uncheck-all-in-a-table.html
TL;DR: Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table.
The rest of this thread ha…

Check / Uncheck all in a Table
TL;DR: Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table. The rest of this post is an awkward mash-up of my posts Don’t Turn a Table into an ARIA Grid Just for a Clickable Row and Check-All / Expand-All Controls with a little…

Dank @… auch mal die Motivation zum Aufkleben gefunden. Thanks @… 😍

From a German lagerstätte, which means "hold my beer". https://tech.lgbt/@DelilahTech/114617249507331663

"Arctic warming 3.5 times faster than rest of world - as security threats to UK 'fundamentally changing'"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Arctic

Arctic warming 3.5 times faster than rest of world - as security threats to UK 'fundamentally changing'

Had no idea it was happening.
Some of it is an hotel which is great to see but if the rest is built with very small condo sizes it will be a hard sell on the current market.
#condos #Toronto

"We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year. "
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33849

Spillovers from Public Health Policies in Schools: Evidence from COVID Mask Mandates
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Bruce Springsteen:
🎵 Tougher Than the Rest
#BruceSpringsteen
https://dirkdegroote.bandcamp.com/track/bruce-springsteen-tougher-than-the-rest-ddg-private-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7i0VrdLCDhvgWXfcT6EQJG
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
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Analyst: Don't Sleep on the Raiders Next Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-michael-mayer-pete-carroll-chip-kelly-brock-bowers

Cycle of Creativity – Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat #creativity #inspiration https://muz4now.com/2023/cy…

Cycle of Creativity - Inspire, Create, Rest, Repeat
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Nederlanders, luister goed vanaf 42 minuten.
https://podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/the-rest-is-politics-us/id1743030473?i=1000714391386

Trump, Iran & The Ceasefire Collapse: What Happens Now?
Podcastaflevering · The Rest Is Politics: US · 24-06-2025 · 42 min.

Soll keiner sagen, dass das nicht auch im Rest von Europa möglich wäre. So man wollte …
Norway Reached 96.9% Market Share For EVs In June - Slashdot https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/03/2341234/norway-reached-969-market-share-fo…

With the upcoming changes in the next beta of #iTerm2 ("now a web browser as well", "Anthropic is now available as an AI provider") I don't feel like it's the right terminal emulator for me anymore.
Fortunately, there are alternatives: I'm on #WezTerm now. It was easi…

#PhantastikPrompts am 05.08.:
Wenn du deinem früheren Ich einen Rat geben könntest, wie würde dieser lauten?
Direkt Clip Studio Paint kaufen, es mit den Stockbildern von Band eins sein lassen.
Der peinliche Coverentwurf mit einer auf Pfadgrafiken spezialisierten Software von 2009 und Pixabay-Bildern wäre vermeidbar gewesen.
Und Band 1 passt nicht zum Rest.
Hä…

This month's digest/newsletter is on the way to the age-verified kosher normal people who signed up for it in their email.
The rest of you unverified anarchists can use your VPN and access it here.
#digest #newsletter

Do we need memes for each gop member of Congress with their face, name and the words “destroyer of Medicaid, SNAP and the Affordable Care Act,” then paper their districts with them?
Because they need to own this for the rest of their careers.
#USpol #Indivisible

Wie ich zu meinem Werkstudenten sagte "mach so weit und gut Du kannst und dann mache ich den Rest im Zug zurück. 1h sollte reichen."
Der Zug: kannst Du im Stehen arbeiten?
Das sind Dinge, die der neue Verkehrsminister hoffentlich mit mehr Energie angeht als die unnötige Gesetzesänderungen zu Leihrollern auf Fußwegen.

Having the roof of our Family Room/Office replaced today. It’s a ~55yo addition with a flat roof that we did not have re-roofed when we had the rest of the house done a dozen years ago. It desperately needed replacement. We had no interior leaks, but our latest vermin genocider pointed out that our refractory raccoon problem was enhanced by rotting roof wood that they can smell out and scratch holes through.
It’s very distracting to have all this noise above my head.

Jetzt weiß ich wieder, warum ich nie bei Berrybase bestellt hab. Da klappt schon der Registrierungsprozess für das Kundenkontos nicht, wie soll dann der Rest erst laufen... 🙄

Giving those lungs a rest with the Canadian wildfire smoke, so treadmill today. No exciting pics (okay fine, a Mounty truck and a wildfire in the background pic from Canada were added), nice and boring, as a treadmill is 😄 Watched Mr. Robot, and then good tunes for the weights.
I think I may stick inside until Thursday; we'll see how tomorrow goes with AQI.
#running

Replaced article(s) found for cond-mat.other. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.other/new
[1/1]:
- Rest energy effects for non-relativistic Fermi fields in external potentials
Fuad M. Saradzhev

Paramount betrays '60 Minutes' and the rest of us (Erik Wemple/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/02/paramount-settlement-trump-betrayal/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250702/p133#a250702p133

Characterising the Standardisation Properties of Type Ia Supernovae in the z band with Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling
Erin E. Hayes, Suhail Dhawan, Kaisey S. Mandel, David O. Jones, Ryan J. Foley, Stephen Thorp, Matthew Grayling, Sam M. Ward, Aaron Do, Danial Langeroodi, Nicholas Earl, Kaylee M. de Soto, Gautham Narayan, Katie Auchettl, Thomas de Boer, Kenneth C. Chambers, David A. Coulter, Christa Gall, Hua Gao, Luca Izzo, Chien-Cheng Lin, Eugene A. Magnier, Armin Rest, Qinan Wang

Characterising the Standardisation Properties of Type Ia Supernovae in the z band with Hierarchical Bayesian Modelling
Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are standardisable candles: their peak magnitudes can be corrected for correlations between light curve properties and their luminosities to precisely estimate distances. Understanding SN Ia standardisation across wavelength improves methods for correcting SN Ia magnitudes. Using 150 SNe Ia from the Foundation Supernova Survey and Young Supernova Experiment, we present the first study focusing on SN Ia standardisation properties in the z band. Straddling the optical …

‘Even if we stop drinking we will be exposed’: A French region has banned tap water. Is it a warning for the rest of Europe? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/01/pfas-forever-chemicals-water-contamination-saint-lo…

Steelers get B for blockbuster trade with Dolphins -- but how do rest of big-time offseason moves grade out?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/…

@… last I checked, butter is not vegan. Neither are eggs or buttermilk. You might want to go back to your article and remove the pancakes and blueberry sauce recipe fromm the list. And maybe take a closer look at the rest of the recipes.

Optimal strategies for measuring gas-phase metallicities in intermediate-redshift non-AGN and AGN-host galaxies using future instrumentation
Song-lin Li, Trevor J. Mendel, Mark R. Krumholz, Emily Wisnioski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04203

Optimal strategies for measuring gas-phase metallicities in intermediate-redshift non-AGN and AGN-host galaxies using future instrumentation
Resolved measurements of gas-phase metallicities in galaxies that both do and do not host active galactic nuclei (AGN) are crucial for understanding the role of AGN in regulating galaxy growth over cosmic time. Recent work at $z=0$ has demonstrated that a self-consistent comparison of metallicities in AGN-host and non-AGN galaxies can be conducted within a Bayesian framework given sufficient coverage of rest-frame optical emission lines. The next generation of adaptive optics-assisted optical a…

#NowPlaying - "lilac" is almost certainly my fave later era #eno song, & the rest is way more soaring & playful than i remember. maybe i need to revisit the first album with karl hyde? @…

Rest and reorganization
#blogging

The fediverse is often full of drama with admins falling out with each other and defederations, and threats and tears.
Now, with the public spat between the Twitter admin and the TruthSocial admin, the rest of the world gets to enjoy a similar spectacle!
They can't defederate of course, because Twitter never became open enough and TruthSocial was already defederated by everyone as soon as it existed.
Only on Fedi can you get the full experience of a public spat and defederation, because only on Fedi can the admins really at-mention and and directly reply and take the final dramatic action of a flouce-defederation.
Trump fans who are Twitter users can't port their followers over to TruthSocial, and Turther Musk fans can't just migrate their account to Twitter.
They're stuck.
So you see Fedi really is the best when it comes to massive public spats between admins and this current admin-drama is only getting more attention because it's between two of the worst people in the world.
#fediverse #interInstanceDrama #adminFight

#today attended TTK Energy Group meeting with some interesting run-on discussion about a community energy project. Now I am on my #research model stuff for the rest of the day...

Anytime someone says, "AI is here to stay, nothing we can do about it," I think, there's a person who is not doing the big, deep work of climate action.
If they think we can't do anything about an overtly exploitative and corrosive technology that has only just emerged in the last few years, then they couldn't conceive of the major shifts the rest of us have been and are doing.

Verschiedene Minister in Bund & Ländern nehmen es mit dem Rechtsstaat nicht so genau. Dobrindt ignoriert eine Gerichtsentscheidung zur Zurückweisung, im Saarland wird eine Gerichtsentscheidung zur Abholzung des Stadtwaldes ignoriert. In Frankreich haben sie zumindest nach der Gerichtsentscheidung zur A69 das Gesetz geändert, um den Schein zu wahren.
Und dann wundern wir uns, warum der Rest der Bürger auch keinen Bock mehr auf Rechtsstaat hat und alle frisieren, wo sie können.

Amazing that Tarn, Zach and the rest of the Dwarf Fortress team continue to pile effort into the game even though there's no further big payout on the horizon — they already had their Steam release and there's no plans for any pay-for DLC. Hardcore fans will still be donating by Patreon and directly, but almost anyone else would move on to something more lucrative.
It already was their lifes' work before the Steam windfall and it's something special that they continue.

Revisiting Active Learning under (Human) Label Variation
Cornelia Gruber, Helen Alber, Bernd Bischl, G\"oran Kauermann, Barbara Plank, Matthias A{\ss}enmacher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02593

Revisiting Active Learning under (Human) Label Variation
Access to high-quality labeled data remains a limiting factor in applied supervised learning. While label variation (LV), i.e., differing labels for the same instance, is common, especially in natural language processing, annotation frameworks often still rest on the assumption of a single ground truth. This overlooks human label variation (HLV), the occurrence of plausible differences in annotations, as an informative signal. Similarly, active learning (AL), a popular approach to optimizing th…

Chinese companies' incentive is simple: "Don't lose market share, and future markets are included."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20250530-how-electric-scooters-are-driving-chinas-salt-battery-push…

How electric scooters are driving China's salt battery push
The country is racing ahead of the rest of the world in bringing sodium-ion batteries to the mass market. This time, through scooters.

Post workshop refreshment 🍸 out on the roof terrace...
The SemDH 2025 received lots of positive feedback from all of the people I spoke with. Very well done and kudos to the organising team: @… @… Arianna Graciotti and Bruno Sartini! …

"...from an executive perspective, lighting comically large piles of money on fire trying to teach graphics cards how to read is, surprisingly, the logical play. The rest, well, that’s all just creative marketing. It’s very difficult to show up to a quarterly shareholder meeting and tell your investors you just vaporized another $10 billion for absolutely no return-on-investment. At least, that is, without them questioning if you’ve completely lost your mind. Which is where leaning into…

I wouldn't have thought that quantitative analyses of retrospective national bibliographies would be that painful: data access via SRU, OAI, and REST API; another resource has a JSON dump, another one again consists of various ttl for which you have to set up your own sparql endpoint. And I've not even arrived at formats, metadata standards and cataloguing peculiarities 🤯 so everything's #FAIR

The Arctic island of Svalbard is so reliably frigid that humanity bet its future on the place.
Since 2008, the "Svalbard Global Seed Vault" — set deep in frozen soil known as permafrost — has accepted nearly 1.4 million samples of more than 6,000 species of critical crops.
⭐️ But, the island is warming six to seven times faster than the rest of the planet, making even winters freakishly hot -- at least by Arctic standards.
Indeed, in 2017, an access tunnel to the…

Troubling scenes from an Arctic in full-tilt crisis
The heat that hit Svalbard in February was so intense that scientists could dig into the ground with spoons, "like it was soft ice cream."

The Stellar Populations and Rest-Frame Colors of Star-Forming Galaxies at $z \approx 8$: Exploring the Impact of Filter Choice and Star Formation History Assumption with JADES
Jakob M. Helton, Stacey Alberts, George H. Rieke, Kevin N. Hainline, Zhiyuan Ji, Marcia J. Rieke, Benjamin D. Johnson, Brant Robertson, Sandro Tacchella, Lily Whitler, William M. Baker, Rachana Bhatawdekar, Kristan Boyett, Andrew J. Bunker, Phillip A. Cargile, Stefano Carniani, Stephane Charlot, Jacopo Chevallard…

The Stellar Populations and Rest-Frame Colors of Star-Forming Galaxies at $z \approx 8$: Exploring the Impact of Filter Choice and Star Formation History Assumption with JADES
Our understanding of the physical properties of star-forming galaxies during the Epoch of Reionization (EoR, at $z > 6$) suffers from degeneracies among the apparent properties of the stars, the nebular gas, and the dust. These degeneracies are most prominent with photometry, which has insufficient (1) spectral resolution and (2) rest-frame spectral coverage. We explore ways to break these degeneracies with a sample of $N = 22$ high-redshift star-forming galaxies at $7 < z_{\mathrm{phot}} \leq …

Why Not ‘Lock In Terry McLaurin For The Rest Of His Prime’—Fox Sports Prediction https://raiderramble.com/2025/06/23/why-not-lock-in-terry-mclaurin-for-the-rest-of-his-prime-fox-sports-prediction/

As for “but it's great for coding!“…
…world-wide there's about 3.6 billion jobs or so, of which ~25 million are in software development; this means maybe about 0.7% of all jobs world-wide can use "great for coding".
Writing actual code amounts to maybe, if you're lucky, 10% of the work a software developer does.
The rest is meetings, high-level specifications, email and chat, more meetings, learning new things, updating stuff, lots of testing and debugging, etc.
The gist is, the supposed gains from "AI" are completely irrelevant (and indeed there's signs and studies that show it doesn't do anything for programmer productivity either).
tl;dr: This is the worst economic bubble in history, pushing a dream of a magical technology that unfortunately doesn't work, by appealing to investor greed.

Die #A5 bei #Bensheim ist wegen Hitzeschäden gesperrt – die Fahrbahndecke hat sich um 20 cm angehoben. Ursache: Die Sommerhitze und eine Dehnungsfuge, die dem Beton den Rest gab. Wieder einmal zeigt sich: Unsere Infrastruktur ist für die Klimarealität nicht gerüstet.

De ware aard van de chipsdoos van Lays - #Zwerfinator
https://zwerfinator.nl/index.php/2025/06/01/de-ware-aard-van-de-chipsdoos-van-lays/…

How hunter-gatherers slept: sleep and rest in the prehistoric era https://lithub.com/how-exactly-did-hunter-gatherers-sleep-on-rest-and-relaxation-in-the-prehistoric-era

How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era
“…human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.” Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker (1986) * Sleep was a mystery to our distant ance…

This month's newsletter/digest is on it's way to all the amazing lovely peaceful protestors who want it in the email box.
The rest of your terrorist sympathizers who should be arrested can read it here:
#newsletter #digest

Cameron Ward locked in as QB1 for Titans; what about rest of the 2025 NFL Draft class?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cameron-ward-locked-in-…

Is cheese secretly fueling your nightmares? Science weighs in #AnimalRights

Is cheese secretly fueling your nightmares? Science weighs in
Over a thousand students revealed a striking link between lactose intolerance and nightmare-filled nights, hinting that midnight stomach turmoil from dairy can invade dreams. Researchers suggest simple diet tweaks—especially ditching late-night cheese—could turn scary sleep into sweet rest, though more experiments are needed to decode the gut-dream connection.

Some Chinese universities are using AI detection tools to screen papers, but false positives force students to "dumb down" content or pay for rewriting services (Peiyue Wu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-detector-software-workaround/…

Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.

Dubai is emerging as a global hub for AI talent, attracting workers with its Golden Visa program, no taxes, attractive salaries, and ease of setting up business (Amar Diwakar/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/golden-visa-ai-jobs-uae/

In Dubai’s AI job market, your passport matters
Western job seekers see lucrative offers in the booming AI hub, while others deal with rejections and lower pay.

Brazil is piloting dWallet, a digital wallet program that allows users to monetize their data, the first nationwide initiative of its kind in the world (Gabriel Daros/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-dwallet-user-data-pilot/

In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data
Brazil is piloting dWallet, that lets citizens earn money from their data, but experts warn it could deepen inequality.