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No ok.
Source @thetimothysnyder@threads.net: https://snyder.sub stack.com/p/concentration-camp-labor
h/t @paula_rhodes@threads.net
#USpol #labor #labour

Wow, AI can now simulate a 2005 3D engine for a few minutes only by stealing petabytes of data and using the power consumption of a small country!
(With my puny human mind I can only imagine a mountain scene with a lake that looks like reality by not stealing anything at all and using the power consumption of a grain of rice.)

A robust and versatile deep learning model for prediction of the arterial input function in dynamic small animal $\left[^{18}\text{F}\right]$FDG PET imaging
Christian Salomonsen, Luigi Tommaso Luppino, Fredrik Aspheim, Kristoffer Wickstr{\o}m, Elisabeth Wetzer, Michael Kampffmeyer, Rodrigo Berzaghi, Rune Sundset, Robert Jenssen, Samuel Kuttner
https:…

A robust and versatile deep learning model for prediction of the arterial input function in dynamic small animal $\left[^{18}\text{F}\right]$FDG PET imaging
Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) and kinetic modeling are pivotal in advancing tracer development research in small animal studies. Accurate kinetic modeling requires precise input function estimation, traditionally achieved via arterial blood sampling. However, arterial cannulation in small animals like mice, involves intricate, time-consuming, and terminal procedures, precluding longitudinal studies. This work proposes a non-invasive, fully convolutional deep learning-based approach…

Decoupling geographical constraints from human mobility
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02282-7
Finally out, very cool work, congrats to the authors @…

❝Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for their content.❞
Oh!
❝But that's just the beginning. Next, we'll work on a marketplace where content creators and AI companies, large and small, can come together.❞
Oh.
First quote sounds like a strike. Second quote sounds more like a company trying to situate itself as an unavoidable middle player who can control both sides of a market.
https://mastodon.acm.org/@avandeursen/114799313365332691

What emerged was not a diverse network of activists, but a concentrated ecosystem built to serve the firm at its center:
Mothership Strategies.
After subtracting these massive operational costs—the payments to Mothership, the fees for texting services, the cost of digital ads and list rentals—the final sum delivered to candidates and committees is vanishingly small. My analysis of the network's FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised fr…

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine
How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

Well-posedness of the periodic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with concentrated nonlinearity
Jinyeop Lee, Andrew Rout
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00594 https://

Well-posedness of the periodic nonlinear Schrödinger equation with concentrated nonlinearity
We study the solution theory of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a concentrated nonlinearity on the torus. In particular, we establish existence and uniqueness of global energy-conserving solutions for small initial data in $H^1$. Our approach is based on two approximation schemes, namely the concentrated limit of a smoothed nonlinear Schrödinger equation and the inviscid limit of a concentrated complex Ginzburg--Landau equation. We also prove local well-posedness below the energy spac…

This is from a blog entry posted in 2014. Plus ça change…. People make a lot of noise about the 2nd Amendment, and still some noise about the 1st, but it’s the 4th we should be making noise about, lately, and the other 7 are worth taking a look at today, too, while you’re enjoying your beers and brats on the bbq.

AMERICAN CONSUMERS PAY FOR TRUMP'S TARIFFS
▶️ Tariffs explained to MAGA by a professional importer/exporter (Walter Masterson)
https://youtube.com/shorts/ea_l5HMf9iA?si=LEMTfJWDEhfeTXMY

#MardiPatisserie revives my belief in humanity 💙
There is nothing quite as effective at keeping sadness away, as imbibing a French pastry! 🍰
I consider the art of the patisseur to be one of the noble Fine Arts. The pastry must appeal to the eye, the nose, the mind and not least of all, the tastebuds.
They are made of expensive ingredients and are time-consuming to cre…