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I may need to get back to doing illustrations again since it's been about a year that I took a break...
Hand drawn stuff (even if digitally) might be the future of human art with all this AI bullshit going on.
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/projects/illustrations/

Illustrations
In March 2024 I started doing sketches on an iPad using Procreate and an Apple Pencil. As of writing this it's May 2024 and I'm still doing it. I'll try to keep this page updated with new illustrations as they are completed. Each illustration links to a page with more info about it, and some [...]

https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/trump-s-scum-points-to-something-more-sinister-than-partisan-posturing/

Trump's 'scum' attack gave awful signal of what's coming
Donald Trump opened Memorial Day in the most disgusting way possible, not by praising our fallen heroes but by attacking Democrats. He wrote on his Nazi-infested social media site on Monday morning:“Happy Memorial Day to all, including the scum that spent the last four years trying to destroy our co...

Florida meteorologist halts forecast to give dire on-air warning against Trump - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/hurricane-season-

Florida meteorologist halts forecast to give dire on-air warning against Trump
Miami meteorologist John Morales‬ issued a dire warning Monday about hurricane season as it begins this month. He began with a clip of Hurricane Dorian slowly moving due west directly towards Florida in 2019. Morales promised it would turn north and dodge Florida landfall — and that's exactly what i...

NTIRE 2025 Challenge on RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution
Marcos V. Conde, Radu Timofte, Zihao Lu, Xiangyu Kongand Xiaoxia Xingand Fan Wangand Suejin Hanand MinKyu Parkand Tianyu Zhangand Xin Luoand Yeda Chenand Dong Liuand Li Pangand Yuhang Yangand Hongzhong Wangand Xiangyong Caoand Ruixuan Jiangand Senyan Xuand Siyuan Jiangand Xueyang Fuand Zheng-Jun Zhaand Tianyu Haoand Yuhong Heand Ruoqi Liand Yueqi Yangand Xiang Yuand Guanlan Hongand Minmin Yiand Yuanjia Chenand Liwen Zha…

NTIRE 2025 Challenge on RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution
This paper reviews the NTIRE 2025 RAW Image Restoration and Super-Resolution Challenge, highlighting the proposed solutions and results. New methods for RAW Restoration and Super-Resolution could be essential in modern Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipelines, however, this problem is not as explored as in the RGB domain. The goal of this challenge is two fold, (i) restore RAW images with blur and noise degradations, (ii) upscale RAW Bayer images by 2x, considering unknown noise and blur. In the…

Richter prüft Einschränkungen für Googles KI-Strategie im Kartellverfahren
Im US-Kartellverfahren um die Internetsuche stehen mögliche Konsequenzen für Googles Position im KI-Wettlauf im Fokus des Richters.

Indiana All-Stars boys basketball history: Year-by-year rosters https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2025/06/04/indiana-all-stars-boys-basketball-history-year-…

You will find no answers to the struggles we face as humans by looking to the machines.
Be eager to say “I don’t know… but I want to find out!”
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/06/02/experts-dont-know/

Experts Don’t Know
Humans don't know it all, and that's good...

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13134 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

UniRestore: Unified Perceptual and Task-Oriented Image Restoration Model Using Diffusion Prior
Image restoration aims to recover content from inputs degraded by various factors, such as adverse weather, blur, and noise. Perceptual Image Restoration (PIR) methods improve visual quality but often do not support downstream tasks effectively. On the other hand, Task-oriented Image Restoration (TIR) methods focus on enhancing image utility for high-level vision tasks, sometimes compromising visual quality. This paper introduces UniRestore, a unified image restoration model that bridges the ga…

Slovakia: Attacks on the media, judiciary and NGOs
Members of the European Parliament condemned the harsh rhetoric used by Slovak officials against judges, the media and NGOs, warning that it fosters aggression against journalists and restricts access to information.
Wilmès expressed concern over the recent restructuring of the public broadcaster STVR and the use of accelerated legislative procedures.
Concerns were also voiced about the dismantling of the anti-corruption a…

I wrote up a longer post about a bike riding group and how we use the web... along with some of my own thoughts on how to do it.
Feedback and ideas are welcome!
➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/05/31/milwaukee-critical-mass-web-site/

Milwaukee Critical Mass Web Site
Thoughts on how we use the web in 2025...