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OpenAI is piloting group chats in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan; up to 20 users can be invited to prompt ChatGPT in a shared space (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/group-chats-in-chatgpt

My art, but not my video[1] for #Genuary9 #Genuary2026: Crazy Automata
C-SCAPE (2022), a piece of multiple co-evolving cellular automata, running as a massive projection as part of the ALGORYTHMS group exhibition at Collective, Oslo (August 2023).

“The problem today is that around 80 percent of all the [space data] traffic is downlinked to a single location in Svalbard, which is an island shared between different countries, including Russia”
https://www.politico.eu/article/space-hacks-europe-ramps-up-s…

Hacking space: Europe ramps up security of satellites
Space systems are increasingly targeted with cyberattacks, as the global hybrid warfare rages.

Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds #ocean

Oil residues can travel over 5,000 miles on ocean debris, study finds
When oily plastic and glass, as well as rubber, washed onto Florida beaches in 2020, a community group shared the mystery online, attracting scientists' attention. Working together, they linked the black residue-coated debris to a 2019 oil slick along Brazil's coastline. Using ocean current models and chemical analysis, the team explains in Environmental Science & Technology how some of the oily material managed to travel over 5,200 miles (8,500 kilometers) by clinging to debris.

From our #cooperative, #MajavanTila: "Membership benefits for 2026".
https://www.majavantila.fi/en/posts/…

My art, but not my video[1] for #Genuary9 #Genuary2026: Crazy Automata
C-SCAPE (2022), a piece of multiple co-evolving cellular automata, running on vertical aspect ratio LCD screen.
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Mad Tribe is quickly becoming one of my favorite Psytrance artists, especially since it’s a collaboration between SPACE TRIBE and MAD MAXX (Olli Wisdom and Max Peterson), two of my all-time favorite psytrance acts.
https://madtribe.bandcamp.com

Heineman shared the message last night that her health was rapidly declining.
"It's time. According to my doctors. All further treatments are pointless," Heineman wrote.
"So, please donate so my kids can create a funeral worthy of my keyboard, Pixelbreaker! So I can make a worthy entrance for reuniting with my one true love, Jennell Jaquays."
Game developers have begun sharing their own condolences and remembrances in the wake of Heineman's death

Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
Heineman's cancer fundraiser is now collecting for her funeral.

MOCLIP: A Foundation Model for Large-Scale Nanophotonic Inverse Design
S. Rodionov, A. Burguete-Lopez, M. Makarenko, Q. Wang, F. Getman, A. Fratalocchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18980 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.18980 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.18980
arXiv:2511.18980v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Foundation models (FM) are transforming artificial intelligence by enabling generalizable, data-efficient solutions across different domains for a broad range of applications. However, the lack of large and diverse datasets limits the development of FM in nanophotonics. This work presents MOCLIP (Metasurface Optics Contrastive Learning Pretrained), a nanophotonic foundation model that integrates metasurface geometry and spectra within a shared latent space. MOCLIP employs contrastive learning to align geometry and spectral representations using an experimentally acquired dataset with a sample density comparable to ImageNet-1K. The study demonstrates MOCLIP inverse design capabilities for high-throughput zero-shot prediction at a rate of 0.2 million samples per second, enabling the design of a full 4-inch wafer populated with high-density metasurfaces in minutes. It also shows generative latent-space optimization reaching 97 percent accuracy. Finally, we introduce an optical information storage concept that uses MOCLIP to achieve a density of 0.1 Gbit per square millimeter at the resolution limit, exceeding commercial optical media by a factor of six. These results position MOCLIP as a scalable and versatile platform for next-generation photonic design and data-driven applications.
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At a Pride festival in October,
a volunteer approached Sara Luce Look, the co-owner of
Charis Books and More,
and shared that decades prior,
a person in her life was sexually abused.
The person’s counselor had suggested they go to Charis for support.
Known as “the South’s oldest independent feminist bookstore,”
the Decatur, Georgia, shop
not only offered books that the survivor found helpful,
but it also provided a safe space where the…

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