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Something broke (changed) in Inkscape where I can no longer export a DXF file at the correct size for our laser cutter software. The DXF Export also seems to mangle the file a bit.
Time to try the "export every combo of options until I find what works" thing again. (Which I last did maybe 8 years ago, so I had a good run.)
#inkscape

For years, Sen. Ron Johnson has been spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 and the safety of vaccines.
He’s promoted disproven treatments for COVID-19
and claimed, without evidence, that athletes are “dropping dead on the field” after getting the COVID-19 vaccination.
Now the Wisconsin politician is endorsing a book by a discredited doctor promoting an unproven and dangerous treatment for autism and a host of ailments:
chlorine dioxide, a chem…

Senator Endorses Discredited Doctor’s Book on a Chemical He Claims Treats Everything From Autism to Cancer
Wisconsin's Ron Johnson has a history of spreading vaccine misinformation. Now he's giving credence to assertions about the therapeutic powers of chlorine dioxide, a disinfectant and deodorizer. “It is all lunacy," one expert said.

🧬 Largest RNA language model to date offers new way to predict behavior and boost drug discovery
#rna

Largest RNA language model to date offers new way to predict behavior and boost drug discovery
RNA plays a vital role in how our genes are expressed and how diseases develop. Yet, because RNA molecules constantly change shape, understanding how they work has long been a major scientific challenge.

A profile of Anthropic and its key executives like Chris Olah, and a look at Project Vend, an internal "Claudius" experiment to run the office vending machine (Gideon Lewis-Kraus/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either
Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.

De næste tre dage skal jeg sidde sammen med journalist Janne Aagaard og optage ti episoder til podcasten Ordet fanger. Det bliver en introduktion til retslingvistik med en række forskellige sager 🤓

LineageOS 23.2 bringt Material 3 Expressive und neuen Release-Rhythmus
Das Custom-ROM LineageOS 23.2 ist verfügbar. Es bringt optische Neuerungen mit sich. Wegen Google ändern die Entwickler ihren Veröffentlichungsrhythmus.
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The list of members for the newly starting "Expert Group for a Technology Roadmap on Encryption (E04005)" is now online: https://ec.europa.eu/transparency/expert-groups-register/screen/expert-groups/consult?lang=en&groupI…

Aeolian dune simulation (made in 2017) for #MeerMittwoch:
The images show a screenshot of the JavaScript application to create the simulation and some Houdini renders of exported height fields. The sim itself had 5 macro params to control the behavior of the interactive deposit/erosion/transportation process. It supported tileable patterns, customizable seed terrain (images) and ran r…

A study of 596 Indian high-tech startups suggests that homegrown entrepreneurs fare better over the long run than returning diaspora with overseas experience (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

The Trump administration is reportedly trying to strongarm the International Criminal Court (ICC) into changing its founding document
to carve out an exception for Donald Trump and his top officials
ensuring that they are never prosecuted by the court for potential war crimes.
The administration is threatening the ICC with yet more sanctions
if they do not amend the Rome Statute, which established the court in 2002,
to ensure Trump and his administration’s top …

Trump Administration Reportedly Pushing ICC to Exempt Trump From War Crimes Prosecution
“This is rogue state behavior,” one expert said.