Tootfinder

'Second stage' of Ukrainian military's corps reform underway, Syrskyi says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/10/second-stage-of-ukrainian-militarys.html

Sources: AirPods with cameras reached an advanced testing stage; the cameras will feed data to Siri to help answer questions, rather than take photos or video (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

The Voting Rights Act ended Jim Crow. But now the Supreme Court — Chief Justice John Roberts’ Court — has effectively ended much of what’s left of the Voting Rights Act — setting the stage for voters of color to be silenced.
Now it’s up to us to defend the freedom to participate in our democracy. The actions we take now will help determine whose voice gets heard and which communities get locked out of political power. 

I just gave to Fair Fight Action! Lead with Stacey Abrams
Together we are leading the fight for fair elections. But the only way we will win on this issue is with your support.

Sports journalists at Italy's state broadcaster Rai stage protests over blunders by sports director Paolo Petrecca during the Winter Olympics opening ceremony (Angela Giuffrida/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb

Sharing a stage, Justices Jackson and Kavanaugh spar over Supreme Court orders favoring Trump (Mark Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-kavanaugh-jackson-emergency-appeals-84fa9402f5b449316d2cd28bdda1d06b
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p159#a260309p159

Incremental (k, z)-Clustering on Graphs
Emilio Cruciani, Sebastian Forster, Antonis Skarlatos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08542 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.08542 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.08542
arXiv:2602.08542v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Given a weighted undirected graph, a number of clusters $k$, and an exponent $z$, the goal in the $(k, z)$-clustering problem on graphs is to select $k$ vertices as centers that minimize the sum of the distances raised to the power $z$ of each vertex to its closest center. In the dynamic setting, the graph is subject to adversarial edge updates, and the goal is to maintain explicitly an exact $(k, z)$-clustering solution in the induced shortest-path metric.
While efficient dynamic $k$-center approximation algorithms on graphs exist [Cruciani et al. SODA 2024], to the best of our knowledge, no prior work provides similar results for the dynamic $(k,z)$-clustering problem. As the main result of this paper, we develop a randomized incremental $(k, z)$-clustering algorithm that maintains with high probability a constant-factor approximation in a graph undergoing edge insertions with a total update time of $\tilde O(k m^{1 o(1)} k^{1 \frac{1}{\lambda}} m)$, where $\lambda \geq 1$ is an arbitrary fixed constant. Our incremental algorithm consists of two stages. In the first stage, we maintain a constant-factor bicriteria approximate solution of size $\tilde{O}(k)$ with a total update time of $m^{1 o(1)}$ over all adversarial edge insertions. This first stage is an intricate adaptation of the bicriteria approximation algorithm by Mettu and Plaxton [Machine Learning 2004] to incremental graphs. One of our key technical results is that the radii in their algorithm can be assumed to be non-decreasing while the approximation ratio remains constant, a property that may be of independent interest.
In the second stage, we maintain a constant-factor approximate $(k,z)$-clustering solution on a dynamic weighted instance induced by the bicriteria approximate solution. For this subproblem, we employ a dynamic spanner algorithm together with a static $(k,z)$-clustering algorithm.
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Astro-2539/ZLabs-RoundPix-12px
一款基于「x12y12pxMaruMinya」增补的 12px 的中文圆体像素字体，目前处于积极开发阶段。A 12px Chinese round pixel font based on x12y12pxMaruMinya, currently in active development stage.
github.com/Astro-2539/ZLabs-RoundPix-12px

GitHub - Astro-2539/ZLabs-RoundPix-12px: 一款基于「x12y12pxMaruMinya」增补的 12px 的中文圆体像素字体，目前处于积极开发阶段。A 12px Chinese round pixel font based on x12y12pxMaruMinya, currently in active development stage. · GitHub
一款基于「x12y12pxMaruMinya」增补的 12px 的中文圆体像素字体，目前处于积极开发阶段。A 12px Chinese round pixel font based on x12y12pxMaruMinya, currently in active development stage. - Astro-2539/ZLabs-RoundPix-12px

Frank Holz Q&A on the PRIMA retinal implant of Science Corp. https://science.xyz/news/frank-holz-questions/ "Here, patients have to learn how to read again, so it requires effort after the surgery, and training over weeks and months to have the best possible outcome."

Expert Opinion: Frank Holz, M.D. on Science’s PRIMA Implant and the New Reality of Restoring Vision to Clinical Trial Patients Who Had Been Functionally Blind | Science Corporation
Science Corporation is a clinical-stage medical technology company.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Embassy:
🎵 Stage Persona
#TheEmbassy
https://open.spotify.com/track/1GHSpUeEFcACFErxV7BbWn

Popped down to the second day of Dublin Comic Con on a whim. Such a lovely group of geeks :) Now waiting for the Rose McGowan Q&A to start :)
#dublin #ComicCon #ireland

That's neat.
"An east side pedestrian plaza, converted from part of a Milwaukee street, is to get some big improvements.
Ivanhoe Plaza, located next to the Oriental Theatre building, will be redesigned to include a new performance stage and shade structure."
#Milwaukee #EastSide

We are a nation in discontent.
So I suggest that all of us schedule at least one evening at a local live theatre performance of some kind (but *not* some Broadway revival.)
Live performers on a stage emotionally interact with the audience in ways that are far beyond anything that TV or film can do.
Live stage is a dying art form - but it is one that we really need, if not for entertainment then for the way it teaches us to listen to others and effectively communicate with t…

3 Points: George Pickens ready to bet big on himself https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/3-points-george-pickens-ready-to-bet-big-on-himself

Second stage of prisoner exchange with Russia: 300 more Ukrainians – HOME #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/06/second-stage-of-prisoner-exchange.html

heise | Famos Fensterln: So behalten Sie im macOS-Fensterdschungel den Überblick
Der Mac bietet zahlreiche Bordmittel wie Mission Control, Spaces, Vollbild und Stage Manager, um Fenster zu verwalten. Wir zeigen, wie man sie sinnvoll nutzt.

Famos Fensterln: So behalten Sie im macOS-Fensterdschungel den Überblick
Der Mac bietet zahlreiche Bordmittel wie Mission Control, Spaces, Vollbild und Stage Manager, um Fenster zu verwalten. Wir zeigen, wie man sie sinnvoll nutzt.

The best view from the botched #ArtemisII NASA launch webcast: the separation of the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (with the Orion, not visible) from the Core Stage, seen from the Launch Vehicle Stage Adapter - scroll down on https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/artemis-ii-vor-dem-start-maps-vor-dem-perihel/ for a sequence of nine screenshots from the whole ascent.

3 Points: George Pickens ready to bet big on himself https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/3-points-george-pickens-ready-to-bet-big-on-himself

Cowboys restructure three contracts, including Dak Prescott's, to set stage for Jerry Jones' spending spree

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/cowboys-contracts-free-agent-…

Runway launches a $10M fund to invest in early-stage startups building across AI, media, and world simulation and a Builders program offering free API credits (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/excl

Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early-stage AI startups | TechCrunch
Runway is launching a $10 million fund and startup program to back companies building with its AI video models, as it pushes toward interactive, real-time “video intelligence” applications.

Study finds climate change set the stage for devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile https://phys.org/news/2026-02-climate-stage-devastating-wildfires-argentina.html

Study finds climate change set the stage for devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile
Human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina's Patagonia region, making the extremely high-risk conditions that led to widespread burning up to three times more likely than in a world without global warming, a team of researchers warned on Wednesday.

Going live at 14:45 Pacific (20 minutes from now) on the next stage of the ReworkCTF.
Challenges 10 and up are mostly all fun inner layer stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkYG9bOso0

Runway launches a $10M fund to invest in early-stage startups building across AI, media, and world simulation and a Builders program offering free API credits (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/31/excl

Exclusive: Runway launches $10M fund, Builders program to support early stage AI startups | TechCrunch
Runway is launching a $10 million fund and startup program to back companies building with its AI video models, as it pushes toward interactive, real-time “video intelligence” applications.

All eyes focused on Heisman winner Fernando Mendoza as QBs take center stage at NFL scouting combine https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/all-eyes-focused-on-heisman-winner-fernando-mendoza-as-qbs-take-ce…

An die Musiker-Bubble: ich verkaufe meinen Kemper Profiler Stage MK1 für Abholer im Raum Düsseldorf.
https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/kemper-profiler-stage-mk1/3358607090-74-1964

🇵🇱 Takie cacko zrobiłem dla moich córek. Zdjęcia pokazują porównanie przed i po. Jutro organizujemy im z żoną zbieranie jajek i to ma być ostatni etap poszukiwań, więc siedziałem dzisiaj do 23:20, żeby skończyć ten samochodzik :)
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🇬🇧 This is the kind of thing I made for my daughters. The photos show a before and after comparison. Tomorrow my wife and I are organizing an egg hunt for them and this is to be the last stage of the search, so I sat until 11:20 pm today to finis…

President Trump flees stage as gunshots fired at White House Correspondents' Dinner as security situation unfolds in DC - The Mirror US
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/breaking-trump-flees-stage-shots-1807927

I've started reading "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graebar, and it makes me think a lot.
One thing I'm particularly thinking about is my parents' generation. How they keep criticizing all the social support ("there is no money for that", "undeserving people get it"), combined with taking advantage of any social support they can get without much effort ("others use it", "we deserve it"). And of course criticizing subsequent generations (because my parents had it so rough, with all the social support given by the quasi-socialist People's Republic of Poland, and now everything is so great under late-stage capitalism and people "are just lazy and don't want to work").

The TC39 Temporal proposal is coming along. It’s meant to replace JavaScript’s date API:
https://www.igalia.com/2026/03/13/Temporal-Reaches-Stage-4.html
Jason Williams’ talk about this at State of the Browser is now online:

Temporal Reaches Stage 4 | Igalia
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit, Chromium/Blink and Firefox expertise found in the consulting business, including many reviewers and committers. Igalia designs, develops, customises and optimises GNU/Linux-based solutio…

On the final stage of #2MR Sebastian Vogelsang @… Teamlead of @… says:
We have nothing to do wit…

Es sieht so aus, als ob der Artemis-II-Start verschoben wird. Die Startfenster im März würden sich damit schließen, aber wenn die Verschiebung bald erfolgt, bleiben die Optionen für April erhalten.
https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/0…

Meet the author at ANU - Antoinette Lattouf with Virginia Haussegger.
Daughter couldn't make it so I bought her the book and got it signed and dedicated.

Incredible day-2 opener by @… at #btconf, who condensed >25 years of building music software into his in-browser openDAW – a case for openness … and persistence. Including a 🤘 live performance by @…

Besieged
#analysis #AI

Secret Chiefs 3!!

"Study finds climate change set the stage for devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile"
#Argentina #Chile #Environmen

Study finds climate change set the stage for devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile
Human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina's Patagonia region, making the extremely high-risk conditions that led to widespread burning up to three times more likely than in a world without global warming, a team of researchers warned on Wednesday.

@… is on the stage. #fossnorth

Anthropic researchers detail "model spec midtraining", which adds a stage between pretraining and fine-tuning to improve generalization from alignment training (Anthropic)
https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/msm/

As life progresses, we must reshape our views on aging. This stage is a unique chance to reinvent ourselves and pursue lifelong passions. As Churchill wisely noted, "Continuous effort" reveals our true potential. Focus on strengths, not limits – Our Capabilities Are Boundless! 💪 #AgingWithPurpose

We saw the final performance of the 50th season of Opera Roanoke, the Sunday matinee showing of Engelbert Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel”.
Well done, but I will confess that I don’t love through-composition as a style. Give me number opera with big standout arias.
Here’s to 50 more years of Opera Roanoke. 🥂🎭
https://

Using Claude Code and a little ChatGPT Codex, I updated Scantailor for modern-day Silicon Macs. If you have a crummy PDF of a book with yellow pages, give it a try. Free, of course. Things are changing fast.
https://github.com/abandoned-industries/scantailor-spectre

GitHub - abandoned-industries/scantailor-spectre: ScanTailor Spectre is a document scanning tool based on ScanTailor that transforms raw PDFs or image scans into clean, readable pages through an 8-stage workflow with intelligent batch processing and PDF export. For Apple Silicon.
ScanTailor Spectre is a document scanning tool based on ScanTailor that transforms raw PDFs or image scans into clean, readable pages through an 8-stage workflow with intelligent batch processing a...

US Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump | Pew Research Center https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/06/11/us-image-declines-in-many-nations-amid-low-confidence-in-trump/

The California primary election is on June 2, less than four weeks away.
For the third time in as many weeks, the leading candidates for California governor met on the debate stage Tuesday night.
The latest installment was a two-hour session, hosted and carried live from Monterey Park by CNN.
The debate marked the first time the candidates appeared before a national audience
and came as mail ballots have begun arriving in homes throughout the state.

Winners, losers of the CNN California gubernatorial debate
Villaraigosa had a strong night. Becerra projected steadiness. Bianco was the biggest loser. Where did all of this land with California voters?

#totp That dancer who was inside the rotating stage is just having a sit down and a ciggy round the back of it now.

Years ago I was at the Kremlin, at a newspaper event. After a series of annoying delays, Putin took the stage. As he spoke, someone in the audience produced a red hammer-and-sickle flag and rushed the stage. It was quite a show.
Not sure why I remembered that. Maybe it was something in the news.

Upper stage impacting the #moon on 2026 August 5: https://www.projectpluto.com/25010d.htm -> A Falcon 9 rocket will hit the Moon this summer at seven times the speed of sound: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/a-falcon-9-upper-stage-will-strike-the-moon-in-august/

We have now reached the "I never once came to class and am now demanding help preparing for the final exam" stage of the semester.

GraphWalker: Agentic Knowledge Graph Question Answering via Synthetic Trajectory Curriculum
Shuwen Xu, Yao Xu, Jiaxiang Liu, Chenhao Yuan, Wenshuo Peng, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28533 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28533 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28533
arXiv:2603.28533v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Agentic knowledge graph question answering (KGQA) requires an agent to iteratively interact with knowledge graphs (KGs), posing challenges in both training data scarcity and reasoning generalization. Specifically, existing approaches often restrict agent exploration: prompting-based methods lack autonomous navigation training, while current training pipelines usually confine reasoning to predefined trajectories. To this end, this paper proposes \textit{GraphWalker}, a novel agentic KGQA framework that addresses these challenges through \textit{Automated Trajectory Synthesis} and \textit{Stage-wise Fine-tuning}. GraphWalker adopts a two-stage SFT training paradigm: First, the agent is trained on structurally diverse trajectories synthesized from constrained random-walk paths, establishing a broad exploration prior over the KG; Second, the agent is further fine-tuned on a small set of expert trajectories to develop reflection and error recovery capabilities. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our stage-wise SFT paradigm unlocks a higher performance ceiling for a lightweight reinforcement learning (RL) stage, enabling GraphWalker to achieve state-of-the-art performance on CWQ and WebQSP. Additional results on GrailQA and our constructed GraphWalkerBench confirm that GraphWalker enhances generalization to out-of-distribution reasoning paths. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/XuShuwenn/GraphWalker
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Homeassistant geht mir auf den Keks.
Was soll das
2026-03-18 13:41:24.936 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.backups.manager] Freeze starting stage home_assistant
2026-03-18 13:41:46.076 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.backups.manager] Freeze starting stage addons
2026-03-18 13:41:53.614 INFO (MainThread) [supervisor.backups.manager] Thaw starting stage home_assistant
[...]
?
(Backups sind derzeit komplett deaktiviert.)

i find it funny they rushed J.D. Vance off stage first 😂

Why the Giants can't afford to trade Dexter Lawrence https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48413987/new-york-giants-cannot-afford-trade-dexter-lawrence

We really enjoyed #Chicago Magic Lounge in Andersonville. Performers come to you for "table magic" sleight of hand, stage show, great energy!

Games for Degrowth by Carolyn Kagan and Mark Burton, Steady Stage Manchester.
2 page spread in Red Pepper magazine.
#games #BoardGames #conscientisation

(LinkedIn) Job opening for a vision rehabilitation specialist at Science Corp. in Germany https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4381400111/ "This role is critical to helping patients translate artificial vision into meaningful functional outcomes in daily life."

Study finds climate change set the stage for devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/study-finds-climate-change-set-the-stage-for-devastating-wildfires-in…

Study finds climate change set the stage for devastating wildfires in Argentina and Chile
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A team of researchers say that human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina’s Patagonia region, making the extremely high-risk conditions that led to widespread burning up to three times more likely than in a world without global warming. […]

40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in providence on easter sunday, with bill walton, larry bird, & danny ainge apparently watching from the stage. spring ’86, show #9.
soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd1986-03-30.142406.sbd.miller.flac1648
…

Q&A with Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro on her new report, to be published next week, which argues local news funders should pick winners, scale up, and force mergers (Richard Tofel/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/its-time…

It’s time for local news funders to pick winners, scale up, and force mergers, a new report argues
"I don’t think we’re in a stage, any longer, of innovation. It really is a challenge of what are the scaling solutions."

Ukraine secures release of 300 POWs, 2 civilians in second stage of exchange with Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/06/ukraine-secures-release-of-pows.html

Small note about stage combat with swords: it must _appear_ you are attacking the person, and they are attacking you, not that you are hitting or aiming for their sword.
Just saw the umpteenth fight where they were clearly waiting for parries before starting attacks, and that’s not the story.
#StageCombat

Fired-up Fernando Mendoza takes center stage to meet Raider Nation — PHOTOS https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/fired-up-fernando-mendoza-takes-center-stage-to-meet-raider-nation-photos-3792584/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Unknown Mortal Orchestra:
🎵 Stage or Screen
#UnknownMortalOrchestra
https://unknown-mortal-orchestra.bandcamp.com/track/stage-or-screen-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/6mOrpOrcC9RNaZK7EyblDQ

NASA is taking steps to potentially roll back the #ArtemisII rocket and Orion spacecraft to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida after overnight Feb. 21 observing interrupted flow of helium to the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket’s interim cryogenic propulsion stage: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/21/nasa-troubleshooting-artemis-ii-rocket-upper-stage-issue-preparing-to-roll-back/ - the upper stage uses helium to maintain the proper environmental conditions for the stage’s engine and to pressurize liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen propellant tanks; the systems worked during NASA’s Artemis II wet dress rehearsals, but teams were not able to properly flow helium during normal operations and reconfigurations following the wet dress rehearsal that concluded Feb. 19.

Iran enters critical nuclear talks with US insisting deal is within reach (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/25/us-iran-nuclear-talks-critical-stage-trump
http://www.memeorandum.com/260226/p56#a260226p56

Going live at noon Pacific (just under 2 hours from now): second stage of the ReworkCTF playthrough
Plan is to do the pre-assembly rework of the BGA site (challenge 13), populate the board, then get as far as I can working my way through the challenges.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuiM8zESF1w

Unabashed viciousness
is part of the appeal of the Maga administration for its fans,
and might seem like a refreshing return to plain speaking.
But you can, of course, speak plainly while lying.
Trump and Hegseth’s vivid wallowings in industrial ultraviolence are in reality no more honest than regular political dissembling.
But while this maniacal, no-bullshit posturing,
this chest-beating fiesta of blood and guts, takes centre stage,
the real bulls…

Intel stock jumps 12% , hitting a new all-time high, on a report that Apple has had early-stage talks with Intel about enlisting Intel's chipmaking services (Lola Murti/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/intel-intc-stock-apple-talks-report.html

Intel soars 14% on report of Apple chip talks, hits new all-time high
The jump comes on reports that Apple is discussing using Intel chips for its U.S. devices and follows a historic 114% surge last month.

The group stage in sporting competitions are the best part. In the knock-out rounds, results often award teams that don't play any better than their opponents. In the group stage, on the other hand, everyone gets to play and, on paper at least, anything is possible.

A friend and I saw Ben Folds play at Harvester Music Center tonight. 🎶 🎹 🎤
Great show.
#Music

And the #ArtemisII stack is back in the VAB, arriving around 1:00 UTC today: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/missions/2026/02/25/nasa-artemis-ii-rocket-returns-for-repairs/ - while in the assembly building, technicians will troubleshoot the helium flow issue to the rocket’s upper stage, replace batteries on the rocket’s upper stage, core stage, and solid rocket boosters as well as service its flight termination system.

Dak Prescott, Troy Aikman share the stage for Children’s Cancer Fund Gala https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-troy-aikman-share-the-stage-for-children-s-cancer-fund-gala

RE: #SotB2026

EarlySciRev: A Dataset of Early-Stage Scientific Revisions Extracted from LaTeX Writing Traces
L\'eane Jourdan, Julien Aubert-B\'educhaud, Yannis Chupin, Marah Baccari, Florian Boudin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.28515 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.28515 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.28515
arXiv:2603.28515v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Scientific writing is an iterative process that generates rich revision traces, yet publicly available resources typically expose only final or near-final versions of papers. This limits empirical study of revision behaviour and evaluation of large language models (LLMs) for scientific writing. We introduce EarlySciRev, a dataset of early-stage scientific text revisions automatically extracted from arXiv LaTeX source files. Our key observation is that commented-out text in LaTeX often preserves discarded or alternative formulations written by the authors themselves. By aligning commented segments with nearby final text, we extract paragraph-level candidate revision pairs and apply LLM-based filtering to retain genuine revisions. Starting from 1.28M candidate pairs, our pipeline yields 578k validated revision pairs, grounded in authentic early drafting traces. We additionally provide a human-annotated benchmark for revision detection. EarlySciRev complements existing resources focused on late-stage revisions or synthetic rewrites and supports research on scientific writing dynamics, revision modelling, and LLM-assisted editing.
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#totp I love how many people they've got on stage. Wasn't it just the two of them? Where did they hire the extras? Is there a board you stick a note on?

Loved the practical, hands-on talk by @… at #btconf on the View Transitions API. #CSS and JS working together to make the web feel even more native and improve UX – that’s web…

"Why cities are becoming an unlikely refuge for wildflowers"
#Wildflowers #Nature #Environment

Why cities are becoming an unlikely refuge for wildflowers | The Optimist Daily
Britain has lost 97% of its wildflower meadows. Now cities, with their stressed soils and forgotten corners, may be where wildflowers stage their comeback.

Live updates: U.S. shuts embassies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait after drone attacks; Israeli troops stage incursion into Lebanon (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/live-blog/iran-israel-us-attack-trump-live-updates-rcna261438
http://www.memeorandum.com/260303/p55#a260303p55

Katie Haun raises $1B for two funds split between early and later-stage investments, looking at startups blending financial services, AI, and alternative assets (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

As Paramount moved Monday to sweeten its bid for Warner Bros. Discovery,
a high-stakes political battle is playing out behind the scenes.
Paramount's latest offer enhanced its earlier $30-a-share bid, valued at $108 billion,
said a person familiar with the process who was not authorized to comment publicly.
Details of the revised proposal, first reported by Bloomberg, were not immediately available.
The firm is leveraging both the dynastic wealth of

Politics take center stage as Paramount submits new offer for Warner Bros. Discovery
Over the weekend, President Trump threatened Netflix, telling the streamer to fire Susan Rice from its board or "pay the consequences."

Dak Prescott, Troy Aikman share the stage for Children’s Cancer Fund Gala https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/dak-prescott-troy-aikman-share-the-stage-for-children-s-cancer-fund-gala

'It's excellence': Shedeur Sanders graduates from ... https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48658766/shedeur-sanders-graduates-colorado-buffaloes-nfl-cleveland-browns-deion

Beautiful type talk by Kimya Gandhi (motaitalic.com) full of amazing Devanagari letterforms shaped by history, culture, and context. 🤩 #btconf

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Chic:
🎵 Stage Fright
#Chic
https://malobertrand.bandcamp.com/album/chic-stage-fright-malo-bertrand-voltez-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/320NGy26uW2c9K70MO0Vxm

The Push for 875,000 People to Help Get California Billionaire Tax on the Ballot
Inside an art deco theater on the edge of Koreatown,
"Rage Against the Machine" guitarist Tom Morello took the stage to cheers from a packed house.
He wasn’t the main act.
That was Sen. Bernie Sanders,
who was there to rage against California’s billionaires.

Kleiner Perkins raised $3.5B for two new funds, allocating $1B to its 22nd early-stage fund and $2.5B to a growth-stage fund, taking its AUM to $21B (Caroline Hyde/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-24/kl…

Browns QB Shedeur Sanders graduates from University of Colorado Boulder https://www.nfl.com/news/browns-qb-shedeur-sanders-graduates-from-university-of-colorado-boulder

Sources: Peter Thiel's Founders Fund raised $6B for a fund to invest in later-stage companies, marking its largest haul ever; $4.5B comes from limited partners (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

I found Porter to be crisp and authoritative on policy;
Steyer to be repetitive (I’m the only change agent on this stage, look how much money is being spent to stop me);
Mahan and Antonio Villaraigosa to be largely afterthoughts,
and Bianco to have all the warmth and appeal of the grouchy old man telling kids in the neighborhood to get off his damn lawn

Here’s who (we think) won the chaotic California gubernatorial debate
A hectic debate in the race for California's next governor didn't have a breakout candidate, but it did have winners.

The X-Ray Dot - Exotic Dust or a Late-stage #LittleRedDot? https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae4c88 -> NASA Connects Little Red Dots With Chandra, Webb: https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/press/26_releases/press_042826.html / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/chandra/nasa-connects-little-red-dots-with-chandra-webb/ / https://chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/2026/xraydot/

2026 NFL Draft picks add new tradition by signing rookie cards on stage https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7224650/2026/04/24/2026-nfl-draft-topps-now-cards/

Hundreds of unionized University of California workers circled the Arbor,
in front of the Library at UC Santa Barbara on Thursday
at what organizers called a “last chance” practice picket
— a visible warning that a strike could be days away if contract talks continue to stall.
…

UAW Workers Stage ‘Last Chance’ Practice Picket at UC Santa Barbara
About 300 unionized UC workers marched through campus Thursday in a coordinated statewide action organizers described as a “last chance” signal to university leaders.

Austin-based Coder, which helps developers build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised a $90M Series C led by KKR, after raising $35M in 2024 (Julia Hornstein/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-coder-raises-90…

Exclusive: Coder Raises $90 Million Led by KKR
Coder, a startup making software for developers to build and run code from local devices to the cloud, raised $90 million in a Series C funding round led by private equity firm KKR, the company said Wednesday. Qube Research and Technologies, a London-based quantitative investment firm, and Uncork Capital, a seed-stage venture firm, also participated in the round alongside existing investors.

As CBS set the stage for Sunday evening’s Elite Eight game between UConn and Duke,
the network aired a feature segment on Huskies forward Alex Karaban and his family, who are immigrants from the Eastern European country of Belarus.
In an emotional, off-script response to the Karabans’ story, TNT Sports commentator Charles Barkley used the opportunity to call for fairer treatment of immigrants in the United States

Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing.bsky.social)
"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

Microsoft rolls out Copilot Cowork to its Frontier program for early-stage testing, including a new Researcher Critique tool using Anthropic and OpenAI models (Jared Spataro/Microsoft 365 Blog)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-…

Copilot Cowork: Now available in Frontier | Microsoft 365 Blog
Today, Copilot Cowork—designed for long-running, multi-step work in Microsoft 365—is available via the Frontier program.

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) is usually a place of optimism, if not, triumph.
It was on its stage last year that Elon Musk pumped a chainsaw in the air amid his abortive foray into clear cutting government bureaucracy,
and where JD Vance named undocumented immigration as the “greatest threat” facing the United States and Europe.
Trump is a regular, regaling the audience with lengthy monologues about his accomplishments.
Not this year. F…

PitchBook: US growth and late-stage venture funds raised $23.6B YTD, up from $7.4B in 2025 and above the totals for any of the past 12 years, amid the AI boom (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/ai

Amazon is preparing a potential reboot of Donald Trump's signature former show, "The Apprentice,"
-- hosted by his son, Donald Trump Jr.,
-- as Amazon woos MAGA
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-amazon/

'The Apprentice' may get reboot starring Trump Jr. as Amazon woos MAGA fans: report
Amazon is preparing a potential reboot of President Donald Trump's signature former show, "The Apprentice," hosted by his son, Donald Trump Jr., according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing "people familiar with the matter," that Amazon is in "early stage" discuss...

Nvidia discloses $3.5B in guarantees to companies leasing land, power, and data center facilities, up 4x on Q3; the move may help firms without credit ratings (Miles Kruppa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/nvidia-dis…

Nvidia Discloses $3.5 Billion in Data Center Lease Guarantees
Nvidia said it has provided $3.5 billion in guarantees to companies leasing land, power and data center facilities, four times the amount it disclosed the previous quarter. The guarantees could help companies without credit ratings, such as AI cloud startups, secure coveted power resources and debt financing to build data centers. Nvidia said it provided the guarantees to “early-stage

A protester wearing a Trump 2028 hat
stormed the stage at the
People’s State of the Union
while Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.,
was speaking and shouted something inaudible.
He was handcuffed and detained by U.S. Capitol Police.
https://www.ms.now/liveblog/state-of-the-u

State of the Union live updates: Epstein survivors to attend Trump’s address
The speech comes as the president faces an angry and divided Congress, plummeting approval ratings, and a major Supreme Court loss on his tariff policy.

If you’ve never been into exercise or considered yourself “a gym person,” the idea of starting exercise in midlife can feel daunting, or even futile.
But here’s the good news:
from a scientific standpoint, your 40s may be one of the most powerful times to get started.
When it comes to bone, muscle, metabolism, heart health and even brain function, it is never too late to start exercising.
In fact, your body is remarkably responsive to change at this stage of life, and y…

The physio is in: Midlife is not about decline, it can be the turning point for your health
Health writer and chartered physiotherapist Stephen O’Rourke explains why muscle, bone, heart and mind respond remarkably well to exercise in midlife — and why it’s never too late to start.

In the mid-20th century,
Mary Cardwell Dawson
broke barriers for Black musicians and performers
as a vocal proponent of musical education
and the founder of the National Negro Opera Company(NNOC),
one of the first professional organizations of its kind in the United States.
Dawson’s multi-decade career eventually led her to the White House,
where first lady Eleanor Roosevelt was so impressed by her efforts that she wrote a personal check in support o…