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Marokko begeht Opferfest ohne Schlachtopfer: „König Mohammed VI. hatte die Menschen bereits im Februar von der religiösen Pflicht zum Schlachtopfer entbunden. Die »klimatischen und wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen« machten den Aufruf zum Verzicht auf das Schlachtopfer notwendig“

Wegen Dürre: Marokko begeht Opferfest ohne Schlachtopfer
Weltweit feiern Muslime das Opferfest. In Marokko wünscht sich König Mohammed VI., auf das Schlachten von Tieren zu verzichten, wegen Dürre und Armut. Es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass er dazu aufruft.

Scalable unsupervised feature selection via weight stability
Xudong Zhang, Renato Cordeiro de Amorim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06114 https://

Scalable unsupervised feature selection via weight stability
Unsupervised feature selection is critical for improving clustering performance in high-dimensional data, where irrelevant features can obscure meaningful structure. In this work, we introduce the Minkowski weighted $k$-means++, a novel initialisation strategy for the Minkowski Weighted $k$-means. Our initialisation selects centroids probabilistically using feature relevance estimates derived from the data itself. Building on this, we propose two new feature selection algorithms, FS-MWK++, whic…

Scientists Show Reforestation Helps Cool the Planet Even More Than Thought - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/0427208/scientists-show-reforestation-helps-cool-the-planet-even-more-than-thought

There's a science fiction story I once read that addresses this question, although it doesn't happen on Earth. (I wish I could remember the title or author or anything to help me identify the story...)
https://m.slashdot.org/story/442953

Looking forward to joining the panel for the book launch of @… book 'Selected papers by Bill Hillier' this evening, 7 May at 6pm BST at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London
Join the launch event online:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Book Launch – Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us online for the launch of Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier, a landmark volume celebrating 50 years of space syntax research. This long-awaited collection reflects Bill Hillier’s transformational way of thinking about buildings and cities that influenced generations of scholars, researchers and practitioners within the built environment disciplines and way beyond – in fields ranging from archaeology and biology to physics and zoology. Edited by Laura Vaughan, John Pepon…

From @… - False UFO stories created by military... sometimes intentionally terrorizing their own soldiers https://n…

How False UFO Stories Were Created - Sometimes Deliberately - by the US Military - Slashdot
Last year's Pentagon report reviewing UFO reports "left out the truth behind some of the foundational myths about UFOs," reports the Wall Street Journal. "The Pentagon itself sometimes deliberately fanned the flames, in what amounted to the U.S. government targeting its own citizens with disinforma...

Sent my May (?) newsletter
https://buttondown.com/seedling/archive/slightly-late-may-2025-update/

Slightly Late May 2025 update
Blog posts I've managed to get a few of them done. The one I'm probably most proud of is a belated entry to the Conclave blog jam(?): Assorted thoughts on...

Animal Save Movement is a global network of activists that bear witness to animals at the gates of slaughterhouses in order to expose and dismantle animal exploitation industries. #AnimalRights

No dark mode for SSMS?
SQL Shades to the rescue!
Free version adds plain dark mode to the IDE (fine by me.) Paid version supports additional themes.
This solution is cleaner than the rather hacky approach of modifying ssms.pkgundef to restore a half-finished dark theme commented out by SSMS developers apparently at the last moment.
"Finally, a real dark mode for SQL Server Management Studio!"

Finally, a real dark mode for SQL Server Management Studio!
Free add-in bringing a complete dark theme to SSMS.

"Putin believes Russia is a “civilization-state” with cultural-cum-religious significance, rights and responsibilities that justify the erasure of other nations."
Opinion | Putin’s agenda in Ukraine has long been clear. Trump ignores it. - The Washington Post
https://archive.ph/2025.06.07-145813/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/06/putin-russia-ukraine-trump/#selection-1277.0-1281.114