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Quick Ways to Help Animals Used in Experiments #AnimalRights

What's the go-to for non-Microsoft non-Google email hosting these days?
Requirements:
* Supports proper RFC compliant SMTP/IMAP TLS access. No oauth, no EWS, no exchange nonsense. Needs to be usable on e.g. a headless box without a web browser, command line clients, etc.
* Reasonably priced for a handful of accounts across a bunch of domains
* Setup and forget third party hosting, I don't have an IP block suitable for mail hosting in house and I don't want …

Got the 🇨🇭 #SwissAI #Apertus model - one of the very few completely opensource LLMs - running locally!
Next step: finetuning on historical low-resource languages (like Middle High German).
#FOSS

@… thanks. I never wanted to waste the time of the Core team – simply thinking about reporting Code of Conduct stuff is mentally and emotionally exhausting.
There are very few troublemakers (less than a handful), but it's enough to drive a person like me away. When someone breaks all six ground rules, my usual response is to back away (or …

Zondag, Amsterdam.
Uw Paul trekt iets zwarts aan, niet iets roods. Want boycot Israel.

Newton-Flow Particle Filters based on Generalized Cram\'er Distance
Uwe D. Hanebeck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00182 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00182…

Newton-Flow Particle Filters based on Generalized Cramér Distance
We propose a recursive particle filter for high-dimensional problems that inherently never degenerates. The state estimate is represented by deterministic low-discrepancy particle sets. We focus on the measurement update step, where a likelihood function is used for representing the measurement and its uncertainty. This likelihood is progressively introduced into the filtering procedure by homotopy continuation over an artificial time. A generalized Cramér distance between particle sets is der…

Help Animals Exploited and Abused for Tourist Rides #AnimalRights

Pan-STARRS follow-up of the gravitational-wave event S250818k and the lightcurve of SN 2025ulz
J. H. Gillanders, M. E. Huber, M. Nicholl, S. J. Smartt, K. W. Smith, K. C. Chambers, D. R. Young, J. W. Tweddle, S. Srivastav, M. D. Fulton, F. Stoppa, G. S. H. Paek, A. Aamer, M. R. Alarcon, A. Andersson, A. Aryan, K. Auchettl, T. -W. Chen, T. de Boer, A. K. H. Kong, J. Licandro, T. Lowe, D. Magill, E. A. Magnier, P. Minguez, T. Moore, G. Pignata, A. Rest, M. Serra-Ricart, B. J. Shappee, I.…

Pan-STARRS follow-up of the gravitational-wave event S250818k and the lightcurve of SN 2025ulz
Kilonovae are the scientifically rich, but observationally elusive, optical transient phenomena associated with compact binary mergers. Only a handful of events have been discovered to date, all through multi-wavelength (gamma ray) and multi-messenger (gravitational wave) signals. Given their scarcity, it is important to maximise the discovery possibility of new kilonova events. To this end, we present our follow-up observations of the gravitational-wave signal, S250818k, a plausible binary neu…

“We understand that Katie, whose home was safely protected by dozens of heavily armed security and police, was terrified of our sidewalk chalk and messages — terrifying messages such ‘immigrants are people’ or ‘protect the constitution’ ... We believe in those statements deeply, in our peaceful activism, and the belief that every single human being here in Arlington deserves to be treated with the same dignity and respect that Katie and Stephen expect from us.”

Chalk messages at Arlington home of top White House official strike a nerve with GOP heavyweights | ARLnow.com
A sidewalk chalk protest at the North Arlington home of a top Trump administration official became a talking point for powerful Republican voices this week. The Sunday demonstration around the home of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller involved a handful of activists writing in chalk on sidewalk slabs with messages like "hate

Today is a good day (so far). Security officer is creating a course for those who administrate the accounts in the pay offices. He asked (very politely) if we had any materials which we sent. Some of the materials that were used (not our stuff) were years out-of-date.
We are glad as it is almost once a week we spend 15-30 minutes helping them learn their job as there was no one there in the position or the person left without any handover.