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Sources: NYT rushed to publish its story on Zohran Mamdani's Columbia application out of fear of being scooped by other journalists, including Christopher Rufo (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2025

Times pushed ahead to avoid being scooped on Mamdani Columbia story
The paper reported that the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee marked himself as both “Asian” and “Black or African American” on an admissions form.

Ich kann gut nachvollziehen, dass sich die Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner bedroht und belästigt fühlen von Leuten, die den Staat ausnutzen und alle anderen für dämlich halten.
Es müsste auch eine Möglichkeit der Abschiebung innerhalb Europas geben. Kriminelle Banden – ob Roma oder andere – müssten des Landes verwiesen werden können.
Wenn das ausländerfeindlich ist, dann bin ich ausländerfeindlich. Wenn die demokratischen Parteien nichts unternehmen, wird die AfD gewinnen.

„Die ersten wählen deswegen AfD“: Eine Roma-Unterkunft im Schöneberger Regenbogenkiez lässt Nachbarn verzweifeln
Mitten im Schöneberger Regenbogenkiez dient ein Hotel seit Jahren als Unterkunft für Roma aus Südosteuropa. Die Polizei rückt alle zwei Tage an, Anwohner sind verzweifelt.

Chris Arnade was one of my favorite followers on the old place. One of the very few people who thinks very deeply, but also outside of their own silos, to create a cross-disciplinary theory of the world. One of the few people who is truly willing to see the world as it is.
The solutions to our problems will never come from one realm of expertise, but only by synthesizing a strategy from a more holistic world view.

How to Build the Perfect City
Epsilon Theory contributor and all-around good human Chris Arnade pauses from walking the world to take a first cut at a grand unified theory of

AWS rolls out Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, meant to help businesses create a network of AI agents that analyze internal data, write code, and take on other tasks (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/16/2025

Amazon launches AI agent-building platform for businesses to help boost productivity
The product launch comes amid high anxiety among workers about job cuts due to AI.

"Dans la voix, la langue résiste Š la littérature. Par cette manière de retourner la table du sens, la voix déploie tout ce qu’elle ne peut pas et l’offre négativement Š qui sait l’entendre. Avec l’incertitude de l’onde sonore qui se fracasse."
🔗 https://abrupt.cc/charles-pennequin/ra

SNIFR : Boosting Fine-Grained Child Harmful Content Detection Through Audio-Visual Alignment with Cascaded Cross-Transformer
Orchid Chetia Phukan, Mohd Mujtaba Akhtar, Girish, Swarup Ranjan Behera, Abu Osama Siddiqui, Sarthak Jain, Priyabrata Mallick, Jaya Sai Kiran Patibandla, Pailla Balakrishna Reddy, Arun Balaji Buduru, Rajesh Sharma
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SNIFR : Boosting Fine-Grained Child Harmful Content Detection Through Audio-Visual Alignment with Cascaded Cross-Transformer
As video-sharing platforms have grown over the past decade, child viewership has surged, increasing the need for precise detection of harmful content like violence or explicit scenes. Malicious users exploit moderation systems by embedding unsafe content in minimal frames to evade detection. While prior research has focused on visual cues and advanced such fine-grained detection, audio features remain underexplored. In this study, we embed audio cues with visual for fine-grained child harmful c…

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A pitch deck from Palantir CTO and another Palantir exec has been circulated for Founders Films, a "patriotic" content production company aiming to raise money (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/07/20/2025

‘Founders Films’ aims to remake Hollywood with patriotism, Palantir and Ayn Rand
The company’s proposed projects celebrate American military action, push for confrontation with China, and elevate heroes of the right from Ayn Rand to Elon Musk.

Memo: Google appoints a new chief AI architect, DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu, who will coordinate future AI-powered product development (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/11/2025/google-names-new-ch…

Google names new chief AI architect to advance developments
DeepMind’s tech chief, Koray Kavukcuoglu, was named to the newly created position, where he will work alongside Sundar Pichai to help speed up production.

Interesting… Created compound clips to sync up various microphones with the video, so they could all be cut at once. Once the edits are done, I detach the audio so I can create crossfades between the pieces.
Came across a compound clip that could not be ungrouped and I couldn't figure out… Turns out that if you've re-timed a compound clip you can't separate what's in it anymore. So I had to set it to 100%, separate it, and then reapply the re-time!