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Spagnola: A history lesson on stopping the run https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-a-history-lesson-on-stopping-the-run

Heute ist wieder #SchiffsSamstag, dieses Mal mit einem #Segelschiff unter tschechischer 🇨🇿 (!) Flagge. Die LA GRACE IST der originalgetreue Nachbau einer Brigg aus der Zeit um 1760. Beim genauen Hinsehen erkennt man, dass sie gerade mit einer Kanone Salut schießt. Mehr über dieses bemerkensw…

Eben erst war Hilde mit dem Abstauben der Friese, Simse und Putten hinten fertig geworden. #SchiffSamstag

Spagnola: A history lesson on stopping the run https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-a-history-lesson-on-stopping-the-run

The details of the FY 2026 #NASA Budget Request are in: https://www.nasa.gov/fy-2026-budget-request/ (May 30 documents) - and they are as devastating as feared. Lowlights - there are no highlights - are discussed by
https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.bsky.social/post/3lqg6n4pdrc2h
https://bsky.app/profile/jtuttlekeane.bsky.social/post/3lqg7zzfgo224
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqg6tjfthf2a
https://bsky.app/profile/carlrodriguez.bsky.social/post/3lqg7nttoek2c
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqg7lr5kgh27
https://bsky.app/profile/leighfletcher.bsky.social/post/3lqg5x3if6s2i
https://bsky.app/profile/spacepolicyonline.bsky.social/post/3lqgagt4g6q2a
https://bsky.app/profile/spacetides.bsky.social/post/3lqg6eapuws2l
https://bsky.app/profile/jfoust.bsky.social/post/3lqg2wsbf7s2k
https://bsky.app/profile/tedpavlic.bsky.social/post/3lqg4ccpgnc25
https://bsky.app/profile/ohdearz.bsky.social/post/3lqgdmenyj22c4
https://bsky.app/profile/interplanetary.bsky.social/post/3lqgc5xvny22s
and in the articles https://spacenews.com/nasa-budget-would-cancel-dozens-of-science-missions-lay-off-thousands/ and https://www.science.org/content/article/dozens-active-and-planned-nasa-spacecraft-killed-trump-budget-request.
The NSF Budget Request is at least as disastrous:
https://bsky.app/profile/kgandersen.bsky.social/post/3lqg6c5nnas2h
https://bsky.app/profile/dangaristo.bsky.social/post/3lqg43xmdws2r
https://bsky.app/profile/carlrodriguez.bsky.social/post/3lqg6icalsc2t
https://bsky.app/profile/thirstygecko.bsky.social/post/3lqg6mojywk2s

So, Sheboygan only has a population of 50K yet the city is sending breach notices to 70K?
https://therecord.media/ransomware-sheboygan-breach-notice

Nearly 70,000 impacted by ransomware attack on Sheboygan, Wisconsin
The city filed breach notification letters with regulators seven months after a ransomware gang accessed systems.

I had set up a Gumroad account years ago to experiment with some digital sales and subscription stuff but after reading that the CEO of Gumroad worked for DOGE and Musk I deleted that fucking account.
Most of us don't have a lot of power individually but we can still make choices about the platforms we use (and don't use).
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WIRED Talked to a Fired DOGE Staffer About Who Was Really in Charge
Sahil Lavingia, who says he was fired from DOGE after speaking out about his experiences there, told WIRED about how he communicated with the group, who appears to be in charge, and what might be coming next.

The Trump administration is trying to take over the Library of Congress, “a major component of the legislative branch” that confidentially advises lawmakers.
☑️ Why Trump Is Trying to Take Over the Library of Congress - Rolling Stone
https://www.

Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library
Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.

DTE take my energy (metaphorically speaking)

Spoken question answering for visual queries
Nimrod Shabtay, Zvi Kons, Avihu Dekel, Hagai Aronowitz, Ron Hoory, Assaf Arbelle
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23308

Spoken question answering for visual queries
Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spoken input respectively. This work aims to create a system that enables user interaction through both speech and images. That is achieved through the fusion of text, speech, and image modalities to tackle the task of spoken VQA (SVQA). The resulting multi-modal model has textual, visual, and spoken inputs and can ans…