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"Natural England Silent as 10,769 Badgers Killed Under Faulty 2024 Cull Licences and 2025 Culls Loom"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Badgers

Natural England Silent as 10,769 Badgers Killed Under Faulty 2024 Cull Licences and 2025 Culls Loom
Over 10,000 badgers were culled in 2024 under unlawfully issued licences, yet Natural England remains silent on the upcoming 2025 supplementary culls due to begin on 1 June.

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
– Maurice Switzer https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114789191589954642

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image As temperatures soar, here is something cool for Europe’s future. ⚛️ Introducing the Quantum Europe Strategy: A plan to bring together EU countries, industry, academia and society to unlock the full power of quantum tech. Europe is well-positioned to lead the ongoing quantum revolution, focusing our strategy on: 🔬 R&I 🏗️ Infrastructures 🛰️ Space and Dual-use 🎓 Skills 🌐 Quantum ecosystem Quantum will transform key sectors and Europe will lead the…

MuteSwap: Silent Face-based Voice Conversion
Yifan Liu, Yu Fang, Zhouhan Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00498 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

MuteSwap: Silent Face-based Voice Conversion
Conventional voice conversion modifies voice characteristics from a source speaker to a target speaker, relying on audio input from both sides. However, this process becomes infeasible when clean audio is unavailable, such as in silent videos or noisy environments. In this work, we focus on the task of Silent Face-based Voice Conversion (SFVC), which does voice conversion entirely from visual inputs. i.e., given images of a target speaker and a silent video of a source speaker containing lip mo…

Stealtooth: Breaking Bluetooth Security Abusing Silent Automatic Pairing
Keiichiro Kimura, Hiroki Kuzuno, Yoshiaki Shiraishi, Masakatu Morii
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00847

Stealtooth: Breaking Bluetooth Security Abusing Silent Automatic Pairing
Bluetooth is a pervasive wireless communication technology used by billions of devices for short-range connectivity. The security of Bluetooth relies on the pairing process, where devices establish shared long-term keys for secure communications. However, many commercial Bluetooth devices implement automatic pairing functions to improve user convenience, creating a previously unexplored attack surface. We present Stealtooth, a novel attack that abuses unknown vulnerabilities in the automatic …

The Witcher 4 didn’t look amazing tbh. RedEngine was plenty for what they showcased at the demo.
Unreal is a performance hog if not optimised as was the case with Silent Hill Remake. Did you know the mod that removed the fog showed they were rendering all the buildings which were invisible originally if the fog had existed?
Also, the push for DLSS & FSR is annoying.
just my opinion on things :)

White collar workers are increasingly using AI note-taking apps to assist them during Zoom meetings or fully represent them when they choose not to attend (Washington Post)

No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.
Artificial intelligence apps that record and summarize meetings can tempt workers into skipping calls, leaving humans who join in the company of silent bots.

Quick, stop all your radio transmissions and stay silent. Or maybe it's something that's using our sun for a slingshot maneuver so it looks like it originated from our solar system.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114783914909043005

heise | Silent-Tastatur Be Quiet Dark Mount im Test: So leise kann mechanisch sein
Kein Klicken, Klappern oder Kratzen: Akustisch überzeugt die Dark Mount Silent Tactile von Be Quiet. Was die mechanische Tastatur leistet.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Mount Kimbie:
🎵 Empty And Silent (feat. King Krule)
#MountKimbie
https://mountkimbie.bandcamp.com/track/empty-and-silent-feat-king-krule-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/64mpPHhJIs1Fzlk1n7b9Kn

Conformer-based Ultrasound-to-Speech Conversion
Ibrahim Ibrahimov, Zaink\'o Csaba, G\'abor Gosztolya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03831 https://

Conformer-based Ultrasound-to-Speech Conversion
Deep neural networks have shown promising potential for ultrasound-to-speech conversion task towards Silent Speech Interfaces. In this work, we applied two Conformer-based DNN architectures (Base and one with bi-LSTM) for this task. Speaker-specific models were trained on the data of four speakers from the Ultrasuite-Tal80 dataset, while the generated mel spectrograms were synthesized to audio waveform using a HiFi-GAN vocoder. Compared to a standard 2D-CNN baseline, objective measurements (MSE…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Silent Spirit
#KingGizzard #theLizardWizard
https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/track/silent-spirit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1d4AySjvxfL7o090jL7Sjq

OK.. now this episode of "Tasting History" got me.
I've always been very interested in most historical periods. Ranging from the first organisms to 20th century.
One particular detail in history I always found fascinating was submarine warfare in WW1/WW2... including computer games.
In the early 2000s I was part of the "Pacific Thunder Campaigns" .. which was basically a bunch of "Silent Hunter I" gamers introducing multiplayer experience …

Why have generation durations gotten shorter than they used to be? The 'Silent Generation' is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945, followed by Baby Boomers born 1946-1964; those are roughly 20-year periods. But Generation X is 1964-1980; Millennials 1981-1996; and Gen Z 1997-2012?
(NB: I do realize this is a highly USA-centric or at least North America-centric perspective)

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13062 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMM_…

Hearing from Silence: Reasoning Audio Descriptions from Silent Videos via Vision-Language Model
Humans can intuitively infer sounds from silent videos, but whether multimodal large language models can perform modal-mismatch reasoning without accessing target modalities remains relatively unexplored. Current text-assisted-video-to-audio (VT2A) methods excel in video foley tasks but struggle to acquire audio descriptions during inference. We introduce the task of Reasoning Audio Descriptions from Silent Videos (SVAD) to address this challenge and investigate vision-language models' (VLMs) c…

What are y'all buying during the Steam summer sale? I'll probably buy Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. Maybe Silent Hill 2.
#steamsummersale

There’s a wild moment when you realize you’ve been in the closet for over a decade. Then you stumble back onto the video that made your gender dysphoria skyrocket—Conchita Wurst’s “Rise Like a Phoenix” at Eurovision 2014. That performance wasn’t just a song, it was a spark.
My journey with gender started long before 2014, with photos and memories of a self I was just beginning to understand.
Today, I claim my space as bisexual and gender-fluid. I refuse to be silent. Fascism does…

A Silent Speech Decoding System from EEG and EMG with Heterogenous Electrode Configurations
Masakazu Inoue, Motoshige Sato, Kenichi Tomeoka, Nathania Nah, Eri Hatakeyama, Kai Arulkumaran, Ilya Horiguchi, Shuntaro Sasai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13835

A Silent Speech Decoding System from EEG and EMG with Heterogenous Electrode Configurations
Silent speech decoding, which performs unvocalized human speech recognition from electroencephalography/electromyography (EEG/EMG), increases accessibility for speech-impaired humans. However, data collection is difficult and performed using varying experimental setups, making it nontrivial to collect a large, homogeneous dataset. In this study we introduce neural networks that can handle EEG/EMG with heterogeneous electrode placements and show strong performance in silent speech decoding via m…

from my link log —
Silent bugs matter: a study of compiler-introduced security bugs.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/xu-jianhao
saved 2025-04-27

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Silent Spirit
#KingGizzard #theLizardWizard
https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/track/silent-spirit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1d4AySjvxfL7o090jL7Sjq

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Mount Kimbie feat. King Krule:
🎵 Empty And Silent (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #MountKimbie #KingKrule
https://mountkimbie.bandcamp.com/track/empty-and-silent-feat-king-krule-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/64mpPHhJIs1Fzlk1n7b9Kn

Sorry to miss it in person and that I cannot stay for the panels on: teacher, gender, inclusion, decolonisation, and future action. Lovely to see and hear so many wonderful colleagues even from a distance.
My fun memory was the cartoon by the talented (then PhD student) Kalifa Damani during my talk on silent exclusion at the REAL Centre in January 2020 before the world shut, and many fun moments with Pauline Rose over the years.
Congratulations! The achievements are remarkable.

#PennedPossibilities 680 — MC POV: Tell us how you feel about death. Do you fear it?
MC: There was a time when death could only come as a liberator, but I survived and the medics pieced me back together somehow. I will meet her eventually, The Silent One. She's an old friend by now, and I'm not afraid of my friends.

Trump is silent about Juneteenth on a day he previously honored as president (Darlene Superville/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-juneteenth-slavery-statement-holiday-28afec7cd532295437d53d3ec29f549f
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p106#a250619p106

Fuck marketing. And the post is conveniently silent about the problem of a hundred tracking pixels on most commercial sites, but this is quite good:
https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/javascript-broke-the-web-and-called-it-progress/

Recap of the day at #OSR25CH
Games are being created, educational resources are being built, zines are being put together, assessments were mapped out, change is being prepped,...
We hiked, laughed, discussed, ate,...
And the day is not even over!
Science karaoke, silent disco & more to come 🎶

Kogaro: Stop #Kubernetes Silent Failures
https://kogaro.com/

 
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.

This is how ruthless the Israeli military complex is
The sign talks of"protecting the state of Israel", remaining silent to the fact that this offensive "protection" actually costs hundreds of thousands of lives in Israel and the region.
Context:
https://www.

TTrace: Lightweight Error Checking and Diagnosis for Distributed Training
Haitian Jiang, Shaowei Zhu, Zhen Zhang, Zhenyu Song, Xinwei Fu, Zhen Jia, Yida Wang, Jinyang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09280

TTrace: Lightweight Error Checking and Diagnosis for Distributed Training
Distributed training is essential for scaling the training of large neural network models, such as large language models (LLMs), across thousands of GPUs. However, the complexity of distributed training programs makes them particularly prone to silent bugs, which do not produce explicit error signal but lead to incorrect training outcome. Effectively detecting and localizing such silent bugs in distributed training is challenging. Common debugging practice using metrics like training loss or gr…

#PennedPossibilities 680 — MC POV: Tell us how you feel about death. Do you fear it?
MC: There was a time when death could only come as a liberator, but I survived and the medics pieced me back together somehow. I will meet her eventually, The Silent One. She's an old friend by now, and I'm not afraid of my friends.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Ryli:
🎵 Silent Colors
#Ryli
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://dandyboyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/silent-colors-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/135vA4kSQpw5JA3Lc68eP5

"There was a recent 2024 study that showed us that individuals who survive an acute COVID-19 infection (...) on average will lose somewhere in the neighbourhood of two to six IQ points per infection."
"although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives."
Seriously, wear a mask 😷 .

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio
Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing long COVID.

I'll be damned
With the fear in us
We chose the violent side of things in all
We always have chosen blood and gore above others
I'll be damned
With the fear in us
We walk with silent mouths throughout it all
We believe what we think we saw, it's coming
Unforeseen, the violence of this dream
This nightmare we conceived
The falling of this world we try to kill
Instead these empty words
Fills up th…

Is there a crowdsourced map of Bluetooth dark zones? Busy stations I’m not surprised by, but there’s a few spots on my walking commute where my headphones will go silent.

Last boost: I personally never paid for a ringtone. At first my philosophy was https://xkcd.com/479/ but now I keep my phone mostly silent most of the time.

Tones

THE WASTIVE: An Interactive Ebb and Flow of Digital Fabrication Waste
Yifan Shan, Bo Liu, Sebastian Bidegain, Thijs Roumen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21153

THE WASTIVE: An Interactive Ebb and Flow of Digital Fabrication Waste
What if digital fabrication waste could observe the world? What would they see? What would they say? "THE WASTIVE" reimagines digital fabrication waste as sentient observers, giving them a poetic voice through interactive art. As viewers approach, the installation awakens, mimicking the rhythmic ebb and flow of ocean waves - a silent dialogue where discarded materials "observe" and respond to human presence. These interactions echo the gentle murmurs of the sea, transforming technological resid…

TrainVerify: Equivalence-Based Verification for Distributed LLM Training
Yunchi Lu, Youshan Miao, Cheng Tan, Peng Huang, Yi Zhu, Xian Zhang, Fan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15961

TrainVerify: Equivalence-Based Verification for Distributed LLM Training
Training large language models (LLMs) at scale requires parallel execution across thousands of devices, incurring enormous computational costs. Yet, these costly distributed trainings are rarely verified, leaving them prone to silent errors and potentially wasting millions of GPU hours. We introduce TrainVerify, a system for verifiable distributed training of LLMs. Given a deep learning model's logical specification as the ground truth, TrainVerify formally verifies that a distributed parallel …

In Nature Human Behaviour, Peter Gleick calls on scientists who are able and willing to do so to speak out publicly against the Trump administration’s attack on science,
and argues that although dissent carries risks, it is riskier to stay silent.
http://go.nature.com/3FIV7cC

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roderick Williams, Roderick Williams, Hallé & Mark Elder:
🎵 Silent Noon (The House of Life)
#RalphVaughanWilliams #RoderickWilliams #Hallé
https://open.spotify.com/track/1odGsOXFw07Ctyn8wWTQxt

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Silent Spirit
#KingGizzard #theLizardWizard
https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/track/silent-spirit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1d4AySjvxfL7o090jL7Sjq

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Byland:
🎵 These Days
#Byland
https://acloudforest.bandcamp.com/track/into-the-silent-land
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post

ViSAGe: Video-to-Spatial Audio Generation
Jaeyeon Kim, Heeseung Yun, Gunhee Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12199 https://arxiv.org/pd…

ViSAGe: Video-to-Spatial Audio Generation
Spatial audio is essential for enhancing the immersiveness of audio-visual experiences, yet its production typically demands complex recording systems and specialized expertise. In this work, we address a novel problem of generating first-order ambisonics, a widely used spatial audio format, directly from silent videos. To support this task, we introduce YT-Ambigen, a dataset comprising 102K 5-second YouTube video clips paired with corresponding first-order ambisonics. We also propose new evalu…

#DavidHasselhoff #PaigeMoss
Baywatch Nights 1x03 - Silent Witness
#RandomBaywatch #lvdlpx

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Byland:
🎵 These Days
#Byland
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://acloudforest.bandcamp.com/track/into-the-silent-land
https://open.spotify.com/track/2hUZ2Dz3Wx2huhrNtz3gH1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard:
🎵 Silent Spirit
#KingGizzard #theLizardWizard
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/track/silent-spirit
https://open.spotify.com/track/1d4AySjvxfL7o090jL7Sjq

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Byland:
🎵 These Days
#Byland
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://acloudforest.bandcamp.com/track/into-the-silent-land
https://open.spotify.com/track/2hUZ2Dz3Wx2huhrNtz3gH1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Byland:
🎵 These Days
#Byland
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://acloudforest.bandcamp.com/track/into-the-silent-land
https://open.spotify.com/track/2hUZ2Dz3Wx2huhrNtz3gH1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Joey Roukens, Lucas & Arthur Jussen, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra & Karina Canellakis:
🎵 Silent Echoes
#JoeyRoukens #Lucas #ArthurJussen #NetherlandsRadioPhilharmonicOrchestra #KarinaCanellakis

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #InTune
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Roderick Williams, Roderick Williams, Hallé & Mark Elder:
🎵 Silent Noon (The House of Life)
#RalphVaughanWilliams #RoderickWilliams #Hallé #MarkElder
https://open.spotify.com/track/1odGsOXFw07Ctyn8wWTQxt

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sly & the Family Stone:
🎵 Stand!
#Sly #theFamilyStone
https://sfjazzcollective.bandcamp.com/album/live-sfjazz-center-2019-sfjazz-collective-performs-miles-davis-in-a-silent-way-sly-the-family-stones-stand

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Sly & the Family Stone:
🎵 Stand!
#Sly #theFamilyStone
https://sfjazzcollective.bandcamp.com/album/live-sfjazz-center-2019-sfjazz-collective-performs-miles-davis-in-a-silent-way-sly-the-family-stones-stand