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PostHog, which offers dev tools to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features, raised a $70M Series D led by Stripe at a $920M valuation (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/startup-posthog-tweet-funding-round-stripe/

Meet PostHog, A Startup That Just Raised A $70M Series D Led By Stripe From A Single Tweet
PostHog, which aims to help developers build “successful products,” quietly announced last week that it had raised $70 million in a Series D funding round at a $920 million valuation led by digital payments giant Stripe.

Cowboys cheerleader’s risky ‘Thunderstruck’ dance in strapless, short dress https://www.sportingnews.com/us/culture/fashion/news/dallas-cowboys-cheerleader-risky-thunderstruck-perfor…

Me (to myself): Get in to work early this morning, with no messing about on the way in. Just 'a to b', fast and efficient!
Also me: [Leaves very late, grabs a unicycle and proceeds to cycling in via the following route]
🤷
https://www.strava.com/activities/14824892

A Point Cloud Completion Approach for the Grasping of Partially Occluded Objects and Its Applications in Robotic Strawberry Harvesting
Ali Abouzeid, Malak Mansour, Chengsong Hu, Dezhen Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14066

A Point Cloud Completion Approach for the Grasping of Partially Occluded Objects and Its Applications in Robotic Strawberry Harvesting
In robotic fruit picking applications, managing object occlusion in unstructured settings poses a substantial challenge for designing grasping algorithms. Using strawberry harvesting as a case study, we present an end-to-end framework for effective object detection, segmentation, and grasp planning to tackle this issue caused by partially occluded objects. Our strategy begins with point cloud denoising and segmentation to accurately locate fruits. To compensate for incomplete scans due to occlu…

But doesn’t israel have the right to defend itself against the people it is starving?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/dozens-killed-in-gaza-waiting-for-food-trucks-says-health-ministry
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Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Plankton is fundamental to the functioning of aquatic #ecosystems. An example was seen in the 2013 deaths of #Florida bottlenose dolphins. Dense harmful phytoplankton

ASCD: Attention-Steerable Contrastive Decoding for Reducing Hallucination in MLLM
Yujun Wang, Jinhe Bi, Yunpu Ma, Soeren Pirk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14766

ASCD: Attention-Steerable Contrastive Decoding for Reducing Hallucination in MLLM
Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) often suffer from hallucinations. They over-rely on partial cues and generate incorrect responses. Recently, methods like Visual Contrastive Decoding (VCD) and Instruction Contrastive Decoding (ICD) have been proposed to mitigate hallucinations by contrasting predictions from perturbed or negatively prefixed inputs against original outputs. In this work, we uncover that methods like VCD and ICD fundamentally influence internal attention dynamics of the mod…

"Zum Militär zu gehen, heißt also nicht, dass man sterben will. Oder #Krieg gutheißt. [...] Kein Mensch bei Verstand sehnt sich nach Krieg, andere schon, aber Menschen von geringem Verstand gibt es auch unter #Pazifisten, es gibt sie einfach überall, das ist ja das Gefährliche." –

In einer besseren Welt will der SPD-Finanzminister härter gegen Steuerbetrug vorgehen. Aber hier ist es nur eine SPD, die das Populismusspielchen gegen die Schwächsten der Gesellschaft mitanfeuert, damit niemand auf ihre Reichen freundliche Politik schaut.

Neue Arbeitsministerin: Bas will Terminversäumnisse im Jobcenter härter ahnden
Arbeitsministerin Bärbel Bas kündigt rasche Reformen beim Bürgergeld an. Auf einen verpassten Termin im Jobcenter müssten »spürbare Konsequenzen« folgen. Auch für Geflüchtete aus der Ukraine könnten bald neue Regeln gelten.

Populistisches Getöse letzte Woche:
"Der gemeinsame Antrag soll sicherstellen, dass es schnell geht, das Verfahren straff und zielgenau abläuft.
Wir haben große Zweifel, dass der Vorschlag des grünen Baubürgermeisters dem ge-
recht wird."
Holger Zastrow
"Unser gemeinsamer Antrag sorgt für Qualität und Tempo."
Heike Ahnert
Realität:
Baustart frühestens 2028. Ein Jahr später als von der Verwaltung geplant.