Tootfinder

Thread about the two Palestinians invited to speak at Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, who were instead detained at SFO with their visas arbitrarily canceled:
https://social.coop/@raph/114674710005408478

BREAKING: Iran's Capital Struck By Israel, Air Sirens Sounding - WW3 Begins
https://youtube.com/shorts/oIYBFULCp0Q?si=cYxtljzLn21fF9t_

'First I heard': Scott Bessent admits he didn't know Trump is withholding cash - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/scott-bessent-2672359294/

Tim Scott Slammed with Community Note After False Claim About CBO History (J.D. Wolf/MeidasTouch News)
https://meidasnews.com/news/tim-scott-slammed-with-community-note-after-false-claim-about-cbo-history
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p87#a250613p87

Minneapolis and Saint Paul are finally launching this BRT line that was already in the planning phase when I last visited in ... 2019.
Good, but if it's gonna take that long, maybe agencies should just incrementally upgrade the buses that exist instead of these big fancy unicorn "BRT" projects?
https://

Creating Buzz for the B Line
The Twin Cities’ newest BRT line is an attractive option that could turn more people into transit users — if they know about it!

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Jill Scott:
🎵 Golden
#NowPlaying #JillScott
https://kwamzy.bandcamp.com/track/jill-scott-golden-dj-kwamzy-amapiano-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/28EL5veTZtx38TqxIZwFyQ

SFMTA is adding left turns back to Valencia at 17th, 21st and 23rd streets with a new phase, which will cut down on time for pedestrian and bike crossings. The word is that Mayor Lurie directly ordered this. Signal modifications are very expensive and that money could have gone to safety or transit priority.
Seems small, but it's wasteful and adds to the "death by a thousand cuts" for Transit First in Lurie's SF.

Will Carroll's 'Favorite Guy' Become Fan Favorite for the Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-laki-tasi-scott-pioli-john-spytek

Netanyahu's Iran Attack Trumps Trump
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-13-trump-netanyahu-iran-war/

Potrero Yard working group has an open seat for a representative of a senior-serving organization, if that’s you or someone you know.
The group advises SFMTA on the bus yard modernization housing development on the Mission/Potrero Hill border
https://www.sfmta.com/projects/potrero-yar

Potrero Yard Modernization Project
Rebuilding Potrero Yard to better serve you!

"If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because 'violence' is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo."
https://organizingmythoughts.org/protes…

Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate
"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."

General Manager of Azure AI at Microsoft Don Scott shares a second consecutive year win in this post on the AI and Machine Learning portion of the official Azure blog. Gartner Group has identified Microsoft as a industry leader in data science and machine learning platforms.
"Microsoft recognized for second consecutive year as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms"

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Gil Scott-Heron:
🎵 The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
#NowPlaying #GilScottHeron
https://sfbdhq.bandcamp.com/track/gil-scott-heron-the-revolution-will-not-be-televised
https://open.spotify.com/track/7ni78Vjslqo2VxiDOahYlV

with the bar for safe bike infrastructure as low as it is, it's hard to strike the right balance after a project between "hooray! it's so much better!" and "this, that, and the other thing still suck."
Streetsblog SF often errs on the latter side... I'm happier than ever with #ValenciaStreet, but their critiques are not wrong.

SFMTA Leaves Valencia Bike Lanes Unfinished - Streetsblog San Francisco
The center-running lane is long gone and some finishing touches are coming to the parking-protected section from 15th to 23rd, but the lack of concrete infrastructure remains problematic. And then there's the last four blocks from 23rd to Cesar Chavez, which is still just a striped lane wedged between parked cars and moving traffic.

 
A climate of fear is perceptible in the United States today,
and it must be resisted no matter what,
CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley says.
“People are silencing themselves for fear that the government will retaliate against them,
and that’s not the America that we all love,”
Pelley told Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview after CNN’s Saturday telecast of
“Good Night, and Good Luck.”
The Broadway play, which recounts CBS newsman Edwar…

‘If you fall silent, the country is doomed’: CBS News’ Scott Pelley stresses courage as network faces pressure campaign
A climate of fear is perceptible in the United States today, and it must be resisted no matter what, CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley says.

"These vehicle homes sheltered dozens of working-class Latinx families, who could no longer afford the city’s soaring rents. Living in RVs was the only way many could keep their jobs in food service, janitorial work and construction while their children stayed enrolled in nearby schools.
"To city officials, it looked like homelessness. But residents didn’t see it that way. Living in RVs was a survival strategy—a way to stay housed, employed and near their communities."…

Time to get rid of the monarchs birthday holiday and associated honours list. When someone like Scott Morrison makes the list it's just a slap in the face of people who deserve recognition.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/sco

Scott Morrison receives country's highest honour for leading Australia through COVID crisis
The 30th prime minister has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his "eminent service" to the country and direction during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Resilience through Automated Adaptive Configuration for Distribution and Replication
Scott D. Stoller, Balaji Jayasankar, Yanhong A. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10248

Resilience through Automated Adaptive Configuration for Distribution and Replication
This paper presents a powerful automated framework for making complex systems resilient under failures, by optimized adaptive distribution and replication of interdependent software components across heterogeneous hardware components with widely varying capabilities. A configuration specifies how software is distributed and replicated: which software components to run on each computer, which software components to replicate, which replication protocols to use, etc. We present an algorithm that,…

I wrote about why Zohran Mamdani's free bus fare policy is a good idea actually, and the difference between thinking about transit as a consultant versus as a voter and activist.
(public replies to this toot will appear as comments)
https://scott.mn/2025/06/11/consultant

Consultant's mindset, or why Jarrett Walker is wrong about free buses

Scott Horton: "Trump attempts to explain why he has proclaimed today "Russia Day" in a tribute to his mentor, Vladimir Putin." — Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/robertscotthorton.bsky.social/post/3lrghge5hps2f

Dak Prescott regresa enfocado en ganar un campeonato https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-regresa-enfocado-en-ganar-un-campeonato

Small-town newspapers are shutting down due to the lack of a succession plan, not financial issues, in nearly a dozen US states, a growing problem (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/small-town-newspapers-aging-succession.ph…

Small-Town Newspapers Are Dying Because No One Wants to Run Them
And it’s not just about the money.

Voice of America brings back 50 staffers amid Iran-Israel conflict (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/06/13/voa-staff-iran-israel/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p142#a250613p142

https://bsky.app/profile/scottohara.me/post/3lrbkvowass2q
Mine are also linked:
https://

Quantifying Data Requirements for EEG Independent Component Analysis Using AMICA
Gwenevere Frank, Seyed Yahya Shirazi, Jason Palmer, Gert Cauwenberghs, Scott Makeig, Arnaud Delorme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10156

Quantifying Data Requirements for EEG Independent Component Analysis Using AMICA
Independent Component Analysis (ICA) is an important step in EEG processing for a wide-ranging set of applications. However, ICA requires well-designed studies and data collection practices to yield optimal results. Past studies have focused on quantitative evaluation of the differences in quality produced by different ICA algorithms as well as different configurations of parameters for AMICA, a multimodal ICA algorithm that is considered the benchmark against which other algorithms are measure…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Young Thug:
🎵 On Fire
#YoungThug
https://keysonfirebeats.bandcamp.com/track/trap-beat-piano-2022-type-drake-x-young-thug-x-travis-scott
https://open.spotify.com/track/07YlTLGFG2LsTkqGFwY5jC

Another eclectic collection of books has been dropped off at the local “Little Free Library” with their “please don’t sell me” stamps and QR codes to the various books pages at https://Bookwyrm.social (Fedi GR alt) & @thestorygraph.com (Black owned GR alt) so that people can read about/review the books.

High-Accuracy Dispersion Surfaces Measurement Unlocks Photonic Crystal Slabs Topology
Karen Caicedo, Fabrizio Sgrignuoli, Adam Schwartzberg, Scott Duehy, Silvia Romano, Gianluigi Zito, Ivo Rendina, Vito Mocella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10214

High-Accuracy Dispersion Surfaces Measurement Unlocks Photonic Crystal Slabs Topology
Characterization of dispersion surfaces (DS) in photonic crystals (PhCs) can predict striking topological features, such as bound states in the continuum (BICs). Precise measurement of dispersion, particularly near the Γ-point, is crucial since even subtle geometric deviations significantly impact the distribution of topological charges and associated polarization singularities. Here, we propose a novel technique to measure DS of PhC slabs with high angular accuracy of up to 3 x 10^(-4) radian…

To one large turkey add one gallon of vermouth and a demijohn of Angostura
bitters. Shake.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, recipe for turkey cocktail.

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth #acrel https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2025/06/11/call-for-papers-theology-religion-and-m…

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth
Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens, Ph.D., and Brandon Simonson, Ph.D. Few works have made such a lasting impact on the fantasy genre or captured the imagination a…

Planned PBS, NPR cuts would overwhelmingly hit outlets in states Trump won, report finds (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pbs-npr-cuts-states-won-by-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250612/p70#a250612p70

the hardest 1990s Stereolab album for me to get into is Cobra and Phases Group, and I think it's because "Infinity Girl" and "Op Hop Detonation" sound so much like songs they made previously. it trips me up, like I'm listening to a remix with new lyrics. other than that it's a fine album

Assessing a Safety Case: Bottom-up Guidance for Claims and Evidence Evaluation
Scott Schnelle, Francesca Favaro, Laura Fraade-Blanar, David Wichner, Holland Broce, Justin Miranda
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09929

Assessing a Safety Case: Bottom-up Guidance for Claims and Evidence Evaluation
As Automated Driving Systems (ADS) technology advances, ensuring safety and public trust requires robust assurance frameworks, with safety cases emerging as a critical tool toward such a goal. This paper explores an approach to assess how a safety case is supported by its claims and evidence, toward establishing credibility for the overall case. Starting from a description of the building blocks of a safety case (claims, evidence, and optional format-dependent entries), this paper delves into t…

Dak Prescott regresa enfocado en ganar un campeonato https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-regresa-enfocado-en-ganar-un-campeonato

The only good senators
Durbin (D-IL), Yea
Heinrich (D-NM), Yea
Hirono (D-HI), Yea
Kaine (D-VA), Yea (surprising!)
Kim (D-NJ), Yea
Lujan (D-NM), Yea
Markey (D-MA), Yea
Merkley (D-OR), Yea
Murphy (D-CT), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Yea
Schatz (D-HI), Yea
Smith (D-MN), Yea
Van Hollen (D-MD), Yea
Warren (D-MA), Yea
Welch (D-VT), Yea

Profiles of three employees at VOA's fact-checking unit, who fled Russia and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under President Trump's orders (Scott Nover/Washington Post)

The U.S. granted these journalists asylum. Then it fired them.
Three employees at Voice of America’s fact-checking unit fled Putin’s wrath and are now among the many journalists losing their jobs under Trump’s orders.

The Fast and the Frame-Dragging: Efficient waveforms for asymmetric-mass eccentric equatorial inspirals into rapidly-spinning black holes
Christian E. A. Chapman-Bird, Lorenzo Speri, Zachary Nasipak, Ollie Burke, Michael L. Katz, Alessandro Santini, Shubham Kejriwal, Philip Lynch, Josh Mathews, Hassan Khalvati, Jonathan E. Thompson, Soichiro Isoyama, Scott A. Hughes, Niels Warburton, Alvin J. K. Chua, Maxime Pigou

The Fast and the Frame-Dragging: Efficient waveforms for asymmetric-mass eccentric equatorial inspirals into rapidly-spinning black holes
Observations of gravitational-wave signals emitted by compact binary inspirals provide unique insights into their properties, but their analysis requires accurate and efficient waveform models. Intermediate- and extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (I/EMRIs), with mass ratios $q \gtrsim 10^2$, are promising sources for future detectors such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Modelling waveforms for these asymmetric-mass binaries is challenging, entailing the tracking of many harmonic mod…

An Introduction to Solving the Least-Squares Problem in Variational Data Assimilation
I. Dau\v{z}ickait\.e, M. A. Freitag, S. G\"urol, A. S. Lawless, A. Ramage, J. A. Scott, J. M. Tabeart
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09211

An Introduction to Solving the Least-Squares Problem in Variational Data Assimilation
Variational data assimilation is a technique for combining measured data with dynamical models. It is a key component of Earth system state estimation and is commonly used in weather and ocean forecasting. The approach involves a large-scale generalized nonlinear least-squares problem. Solving the resulting sequence of sparse linear subproblems requires the use of sophisticated numerical linear algebra methods. In practical applications, the computational demands severely limit the number of it…

as a transit advocate, I would like to be able to embrace Scott Wiener as a champion for transit funding, but unfortunately he has also regularly attacked and defamed pro-Palestine activists. his actions have contributed to a neo-McCarthyist atmosphere around this issue that was immediately seized upon by Trump on coming back to power

Doctor Says UCSF Fired Her Due to Pressure From Wiener, Dillers Over Pro-Palestinian Speech
CA State Senator Scott Wiener and UCSF’s largest donor, the Diller Foundation, are named in new allegations by Dr. Rupa Marya, prominent physician, activist, and musician, who is suing UCSF over her recent termination stemming from public criticism of Israel.

21 años del debut discogršfico de Velvet Revolver. Fue todo un éxito haber juntado a los ex Guns n' Roses con la voz de Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland. Un disco que me voló la cabeza por esa época.
#VelvetRevolver #Contraband

Secular Attrition of Classical Bulges by Stellar Bars
Rachel Lee McClure, Tobias G\'eron, Elena D'Onghia, Angus Beane, Aaryan Thusoo, Kathryne J. Daniel, Carrie Filion, Scott Lucchini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09150

Secular Attrition of Classical Bulges by Stellar Bars
Classical bulges and stellar bars are common features in disk galaxies and serve as key tracers of galactic evolution. Angular momentum exchange at bar resonances drives secular morphological changes throughout the disk, including bar slowing and lengthening, and affects the structure of accompanying bulges. In this study, using a suite of N-body simulations, we quantify the secular reconfiguration of classical bulges through resonant trapping by evolving stellar bars. We use orbital frequency …

The Complexity of the Set of Validities of a Theory
Denis Hirschfeldt, Henry Towsner, Scott Weinstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08901 https://

The Complexity of the Set of Validities of a Theory
We study the collection of first-order logical schemata all of whose instances are theorems of a given theory $T$; we call these the validities of $T$ ($\mathsf{V}(T)$). It is easy to see that if $T$ is a decidable theory, then $\mathsf{V}(T)$ is distinct from the set of valid formulas of first-order logic as customarily understood. We provide a complete model-theoretic characterization of the complexity, in the sense of Turing degree, of $\mathsf{V}(T)$ for decidable theories $T$, and answer a…

Infinite induced-saturated graphs
Marthe Bonamy, Carla Groenland, Tom Johnston, Natasha Morrison, Alex Scott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08810 https://

Infinite induced-saturated graphs
A graph $G$ is $H$-induced-saturated if $G$ is $H$-free but deleting any edge or adding any edge creates an induced copy of $H$. There are various graphs $H$, such as $P_4$, for which no finite $H$-induced-saturated graph $G$ exists. We show that for every finite graph $H$ that is not a clique or stable set, there always exists a countable $H$-induced-saturated graph. In fact, a stronger property can be achieved: there is an $H$-free graph $G$ such that $G'$ contains a copy of $H$ whenever $G'\…

Well, fuck. Had I known ahead of time, I’d have flown to Hawaii for the long weekend.
#scomo #auspol https://aus.social/@maude…

'Just Desperate for a Paycheck': Sen. Tim Scott Mercilessly Mocked for Jumping In to Defend Trump Who 'Abandoned His A--' to Take Shots At Elon Musk In Growing Billionaire Feud
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/08/sen-tim-scott-mercilessly-mocked-for-jumping-in-to-defend-trump-who-abandoned-his-a-to-take-shots-at-elon-musk-in-growing-billionaire-feud/

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth
https://ift.tt/etYA2GE
Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens, Ph.D., and Brandon Simonson,…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Call for Papers: Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth
Theology, Religion, and Middle Earth Edited by Scott Donahue-Martens, Ph.D., and Brandon Simonson, Ph.D. Few works have made such a lasting impact on the fantasy genre or captured the imagination a…

I realize there's a lot going on, but I'm surprised I didn't hear anything about the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge partially shutting down for emergency repairs. How does this affect the bike path debate? No word if it's affected by the shutdown.
https://www.

Dak Prescott nixes narrative about Pickens', restates endgame: 'I wanna win a championship' https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-nixes-narrative-about-pickens-character-restates-en…

Operator theoretic measure of causality in linear dynamical systems
Ankit Srivastava, Louis Cattafesta, Scott Dawson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08118 https…

Operator theoretic measure of causality in linear dynamical systems
This paper introduces Linear Operator Causality Analysis (LOCA), a physics-based framework for analyzing causality in linear dynamical systems, with a focus on fluid mechanics. Unlike data-driven statistical methods like Granger causality, LOCA uses the matrix exponential from the system's governing equations to provide a more rigorous and interpretable measure of causal interactions. Our framework reveals that, under certain conditions, common data-driven measures effectively approximate the s…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Scott Joplin & Dick Hyman:
🎵 The Cascades (Rag)
#ScottJoplin #DickHyman
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GK19ELRQGsKNFGGsT16r6

On Measuring Long-Range Interactions in Graph Neural Networks
Jacob Bamberger, Benjamin Gutteridge, Scott le Roux, Michael M. Bronstein, Xiaowen Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05971

On Measuring Long-Range Interactions in Graph Neural Networks
Long-range graph tasks -- those dependent on interactions between distant nodes -- are an open problem in graph neural network research. Real-world benchmark tasks, especially the Long Range Graph Benchmark, have become popular for validating the long-range capability of proposed architectures. However, this is an empirical approach that lacks both robustness and theoretical underpinning; a more principled characterization of the long-range problem is required. To bridge this gap, we formalize …

In Defense of the Middle Class:
When entrepreneur, NYU Business professor, philanthropist & UCLA Bruin 👌 Scott Galloway breaks down how the biillionaire class is destroying America... and how this will end.
#economy #america

#MastodonPoll: Who gave Elon Musk his black eye?
1. "little X" (as Elon claimed)
2. Stephen Miller (as is popularly assumed)
3. Scott Bessent (as Bannon claimed)
4. Elon himself
"little X"
Stephen Miller
Scott Bessent
Elon himself

Scott Pelley Says Trump Settlement Would Be "Very Damaging" To CBS
https://deadline.com/2025/06/trump-60-minutes-cbs-settlement-scott-pelley-1236426822/

Not racist or xenophobic. Samples of a #Fusarium species not native to the hemisphere. It *could* absolutely be a non-malicious stupid grad student trick, but it was a dangerous one with incalculable risk.
Crop pathogens make history.

Scott MacFarlane
ALERT: Detention hearing scheduled for 1pm tomorrow for University of Michigan researcher Yunqing Jian, who is accused of conspiracy to smuggle potential "agroterrorism weapon" into the US Jian's co-defendant, a Chinese national, in NOT in custody

Protest filling the street at 24th and Mission in San Francisco
#ICEProtests #FuckICE

I see no Constitutional reason why SCOTUS is precluded from revisiting a prior decision and amending it.
We issue updates for software, why not for decisions?
Yes, it could lead to uncertainties if used more than rarely.
But imagine if the court could re-open the Dred Scott or Korematsu decisions and change the original?
Git hubs could accommodate this.

The FAST Globular Cluster Pulsar Survey (GC FANS)
Yujie Lian, Zhichen Pan, Haiyan Zhang, Shuo Cao, P. C. C. Freire, Lei Qian, Ralph P. Eatough, Lijing Shao, Scott M. Ransom, Duncan R. Lorimer, Dejiang Yin, Yinfeng Dai, Kuo Liu, Lin Wang, Yujie Wang, Zhongli Zhang, Zhonghua Feng, Baoda Li, Minghui Li, Tong Liu, Yaowei Li, Bo Peng, Yu Pan, Yuxiao Wu, Liyun Zhang, Xingnan Zhang, Peng Jiang

The FAST Globular Cluster Pulsar Survey (GC FANS)
By January 2025, 60 pulsars were discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope globular cluster (GC) pulsar survey (GC FANS), with spin periods spanning 1.98 ms to 3960.72 ms. Of these, 55 are millisecond pulsars (MSPs; $P<30$ ms), while 34 are binaries with orbital periods spanning 0.12 days to 466.47 days. This paper describes GC FANS, a deep, thorough search for pulsars in 41 GCs in the FAST sky ($-14^\circ < δ< 65^\circ$) and describes new discoveries in 14 of the…

immigrant rights is a bike issue https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/freedom-to-move-why-immigration-belongs-in-the-mobility-conversation

Freedom to Move: Why Immigration Belongs in the Mobility Conversation — Streetsblog USA
"If movement is a right, then that right must apply to everyone regardless of identity."

This is one of the better articles I’ve seen on where AI might lead, trying to find a middle ground between “it’s a load of hype” and “it’s going to solve world hunger/kill us all”.
A choice quote:
Which is it: business as usual or the end of the world? “The test of a first-rate intelligence,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously claimed, “is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” Reading these reports back-to-back,…

Two Paths for A.I.
Joshua Rothman on two papers about the future of A.I., by deeply knowledgeable experts, which arrive at absurdly divergent conclusions about the threat the tech poses.

nice coverage of new bus-stop benches kindly installed by some unidentified people!
https://sfist.com/2025/06/09/renegade-transit-activists-install-their-own-guerilla-benches-at-sf-bus-stops-that-do…

Renegade Transit Activists Install their Own ‘Guerilla Benches’ at SF Bus Stops That Don’t Have Benches
A rogue group of activists won’t stand for the lack of benches at many SF Muni stops, so they went and installed a bunch of their own unauthorized benches this past weekend. But we’ll see how this sits with SF Public Works.

Solnit: "It's...routine to blame the Democratic Party for what the Republican Party does. The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the advance of rights for nature, women, children, indigenous peoples, BIPOC and immigrants/refugees, queer people, trans people, people with

CrossGen: Learning and Generating Cross Fields for Quad Meshing
Qiujie Dong, Jiepeng Wang, Rui Xu, Cheng Lin, Yuan Liu, Shiqing Xin, Zichun Zhong, Xin Li, Changhe Tu, Taku Komura, Leif Kobbelt, Scott Schaefer, Wenping Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07020

CrossGen: Learning and Generating Cross Fields for Quad Meshing
Cross fields play a critical role in various geometry processing tasks, especially for quad mesh generation. Existing methods for cross field generation often struggle to balance computational efficiency with generation quality, using slow per-shape optimization. We introduce CrossGen, a novel framework that supports both feed-forward prediction and latent generative modeling of cross fields for quad meshing by unifying geometry and cross field representations within a joint latent space. Our m…

Dissenter Headlines For June 9, 2025 https://thedissenter.org/dissenter-headlines-for-june-9-2025/

The U.S. granted these journalists asylum. Then it fired them. (Scott Nover/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2025/06/11/voa-firing-journalists-asylum-russia-putin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p25#a250611p25

Gregg Scott named Springdale boys basketball coach https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2025/may/30/gregg-scott-named-springdale-boys-basketball-coach/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Breakfast
Scott Joplin & Katia & Marielle Labèque:
🎵 Maple Leaf Rag
#ScottJoplin #Katia #MarielleLabèque
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Gb7e3VquMF2iJVVWfpCWq

Trump says governors should be able to handle disasters without FEMA (Scott Dance/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/06/10/trump-fema-states-hurricane-season/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250611/p7#a250611p7

Scott Galloway's Brutal Takedown Of Elon Musk's Utter 'Depravity' | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/scott-galloways-brutal-takedown-elon-musks

'Elon Musk is right'
to criticize spending bill
says House Republican
who voted for spending bill
Representative Scott Perry,
a Pennsylvania Republican and member of the far-right House Freedom caucus,
just seconded Elon Musk’s criticism of the massive spending bill
that passed the House by a single vote
as “a disgusting abomination”
and added that the billionaire Republican donor
“is right to call out House Leadership”.

In Jason Henderson's 2013 book Street Fight he writes of SF transportation politics as a function of 3 factions: conservatives, neoliberals, progressives. How the street fights go depends on how those factions align. If you slot in YIMBYish urbanist types—those who are pro-bike, pro-business, believe that Dean Preston was blocking housing—as the neoliberals, this holds up surprisingly well today.

ALMA-JELLY I: High Resolution CO(2-1) Observations of Ongoing Ram Pressure Stripping in NGC 4858 Reveal Asymmetrical Gas Tail Formation and Fallback
Harrison J. Souchereau, Jeffrey D. P. Kenney, Pavel Jachym, Ming Sun, William J. Cramer, Masafumi Yagi, Alessandro Boselli, Elias Brinks, Francoise Combes, Luca Cortese, Boris Deshev, Matteo Fossati, Romana Grossova, Rongxin Luo, Jan Palous, Tom C. Scott

ALMA-JELLY I: High Resolution CO(2-1) Observations of Ongoing Ram Pressure Stripping in NGC 4858 Reveal Asymmetrical Gas Tail Formation and Fallback
We present new CO(2-1) observations (resolution $\sim1" = 460$pc) of the Coma cluster jellyfish galaxy NGC 4858 obtained from the ALMA-JELLY large program. Analyzing this data alongside complimentary Subaru H$α$ and HST (F600LP / F350LP) observations, we find numerous structural and kinematic features indicative of the effects from strong, inclined ram pressure, including an asymmetric inner gas tail. We estimate a highly-inclined disk-wind angle of $ϕ_{DW} = 75^{+10}_{-27}$. By subtracting a…

some guy is putting placards all over the Mission labeling sidewalk plants with their common and scientific name and a QR code to his vibe-coded AI landscaping service.
not only does he seem to have nothing to do with the planting of the plants, he can't tell which ones are weeds and has faithfully labeled a "Spiny sowthistle (Sonchus asper)" ahaha

Sonchus asper - Wikipedia

Canal signs a distribution deal to carry Netflix content in 24 Francophone sub-Saharan countries; Netflix is estimated to have <5M subscribers in Africa (Scott Roxborough/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

Canal+ to Distribute Netflix in Francophone Africa in Landmark Pact
The French pay-TV player inked a first-of-its-kind deal with the streaming giant to bring Netflix content to 24 French-speaking countries across Sub-Saharan Africa.

Jan. 6 riot victims, Democrats see hypocrisy in Trump's response to L.A. protests (Scott Macfarlane/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-officers-los-angeles-protests/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p157#a250609p157

This is so out of touch. ICE is ambushing and kidnapping our neighbors and we're going to "cover the entire city with drones"? The SFBOS should reject this "gift"
https://missionlocal.org/2025/06/were-

‘We’re going to be covering the entire city with drones’: Billionaire’s donation to SFPD accepted
San Francisco police commission accepts tech billionaire's gift, to provide cops with drones, cameras and a massive new office

I’m a big enough Stereolab fan to know the song I can faintly hear issuing from the bar next door is off _Cobra and Phases Group_, but not to know the song title

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Jill Scott:
🎵 Love Rain (Live)
#JillScott
https://open.spotify.com/track/65SlbAbrFGtBF462MJi2FJ

Glad to see this! Imagine if Chesa Boudin, post-recall, had called out Jenkins like this too instead of quietly disappearing into academia.
https://mastodon.social/@RealJournalism/114627602443737313

“‘It’s very difficult to not take corporate money … we’ve hired grant writers who have asked, “Well, how about Bank of America, how about Apple?” How about no,’ laughed Sullivan, who explained, ‘Even if a sponsor never asks you to edit any of your work, you are going to be censoring yourself, like, “If we say this, maybe they won’t give us money next year.”’”

Silicon Valley's not crying for Musk (Scott Rosenberg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/09/musk-trump-fallout-big-tech
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p15#a250609p15

And by “prevent crime,” what they mean is AI will be able to automatically yell at homeless people to move along! Innovation!
https://mastodon.social/@eff/114626708912715793

Q&A with Tamara Bralo, the head of journalist safety at Radio Free Asia, on Trump's cuts, the future of at-risk visa holders, jailed staffers abroad, and more (Liam Scott/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/tamara

people cheering for a story rbi which would have mattered if we didn't walk in two runs in the top of the inning

LFG
The proposed transit sales tax is “‘problematic for two reasons; one, it does not fully fund the operational shortfall. It’s also a politically vulnerable ballot measure,’ said Ryan Williams, the campaign director for Bay Area Forward, founded this year by local transit unions.”

why is Rob refsnyder not the everyday first baseman atp

lovely thread and poem by Muni bus operator @…!
https://bsky.app/profile/thatmc.bsky.social/post/3lqoirslm2k23

That Mack (@thatmc.bsky.social)
Willie Brown Middle School is a San Francisco 6-8 in the Bayview District. For the entire ‘24-‘25 school year, I have been driving the 44 O’Shaughnessy bus that stops there right after school gets out. That trip has been the busiest and most challenging part of my working day.

This seems bad. We just learned in the past week via @… that ICE agents are searching Flock cameras nationwide, and so did a Texas cop trying to track down a woman who got an out-of-state abortion. Now, without any guardrails against that, a crypto billionaire wants $9m more of these cameras in SF.
There's an ordinance to accept the gift that will…

Looks like it wouldn’t be too hard for ICE to tap the Flock cameras increasingly deployed around SF, if they aren’t already, by asking either SFPD or other PDs it shares access with to do the searches for them
https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nati

ICE Taps into Nationwide AI-Enabled Camera Network, Data Shows
Flock's automatic license plate reader (ALPR) cameras are in more than 5,000 communities around the U.S. Local police are doing lookups in the nationwide system for ICE.

"as dense urban neighborhoods grow more costly, lower- and moderate-income renters, the very people most likely to ride the bus, are pushed out and replaced by a more affluent set who, on the whole, tend to favor getting around by car."
This finding should temper expectations that building lots of market-rate, i.e., expensive, housing will automagically bring about some kind of transit renaissance.

I didn't notice this in person but that's pretty funny https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/sf-street-signs-vandalized-allude-sex-work-20335773.php

highly recommend Nixta Foods, a plant-based pop-up at Radio Habana Sat/Sun 12-7pm. my omnivore friends said it was the best vegan food they remember having in some time. we shared everything on the menu: various pupusas; hibiscus tacos; nachos; and glazed plantains for a dessert.

this!! make something mediocre and imperfect and human, because you care. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-05-23-who-cares/
(found this via @…’s …

Crowdsourced map of Flock ALPRs (automated license plate readers):
https://deflock.me/map

DeFlock
Spot, map, and resist automated license plate readers (ALPRs) near you.

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent insists US will 'never default' on its debt (Myles McCormick/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/9c652f09-cfca-4078-9e2b-5fdacd772a75
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p76#a250602p76

"The big problem is 'bottlenecks' that make it harder to produce housing, expand energy production, or build new roads and bridges."
vs.
"The big problem is that big corporations have way too much power over our economy and our government."
By 12pts all voters and by 42pts Dem voters prefer the second statement. They're right!

Poll: Democratic voters prefer "populism" over "abundance"
Democrats are asking themselves some hard questions as they ponder how they lost the 2024 election.

new Stereolab was worth the 15-year wait https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/album/instant-holograms-on-metal-film

ugh, just came home from vacation to discover I forgot some arrows in the pantry. of course they're swarming with time flies. disgusting.

The new safer 17th Street bike lanes in Potrero Hill increased average daily bicycle volumes by 53%, from 1,167 to 1,782. #bikeSF
Report: https://www.sfmta.com/media/42512/download?inli…

if you want to read the new translation of Capital, it's 50% off until May 31st, which means there is only half as much socially-necessary labor time embodied in it
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691190075/capital