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The World's Biggest Carbon Removal Plant Comes Online in Iceland | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/business-pmn/the-worlds-biggest-carbon-removal-plant-comes-online-in-iceland

The World's Biggest Carbon Removal Plant Comes Online in Iceland
Climeworks’ Mammoth plant will pull 36,000 tons of CO2 out of the air a year as it aims to reach 1 million tons by the end of the decade.

After one big idiot named Donald Trump stole an election with the help of Russia and vile appeals to the baseless, all of the sudden every weirdo maniac around tried the same shit. The Ghastly Old Party and ambitious fanatical parties of Cons all over the world now overfloweth with evil ne'erd-o-wells.
Vote to end this coup of fools.
Vote for a Democratic landslide!

https://ryan.norbauer.com/journal/the-stabilizer-problem/ - The space bar stabilizer problem.

“Swedes cheer end of long wait to join Nato” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68509301

Here's their press release from this morning:
Alt text here instead of in images due to length:
NEWS RELEASE Embargoed until April 24, 7:00am PST
Divest From Death USA
Media Contact: Media Liaisons, USC Divest From Death Coalition USCSolidarityOccupation@protonmail.com
USC Divest From Death Coalition to Begin Gaza Solidarity Occupation in University of
Southern California Campus
LOS ANGELES. (April 24, 2023) — USC Divest From Death Coalition today announced theit occupation of USC's Alumni Park, where the increasingly controversial 2024 Commencement is currently set to take place. The students taking part in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation are planning to occupy USC until their demands are met. The coalition joins other students groups across the country in the National Students for Justice in Palestine's "Popular University for Gaza," a coordinated mass movement of students, faculty and staff that disrupts universities, creating climates that push universities to answer community and international calls for full divestment from the Zionist entity, and all of the industries that sustain it.
1. End War Profiteering and Investment in Genocide. USC must fully disclose and divest its finances and endowment from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide, and occupation in Palestine, including the US Military and weapons manufacturing. USC must comumit to accountability through full transparency of their financial investments.
2. Complete Academic Boycott of Israel. USC must end its study abroad programs at Hebrew University's Rothenberg International School and Reichman University and sever all academic ties and research cooperation with Israeli universities.
3. Protect free speech on campus and provide full amnesty to all students, staff, and faculty disciplined, penalized, or fired for their pro-Palestine ackivism. USC must abide by their self- proclaimed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion values and implement material policies protecting the safety of its marginalized students.
4. Stop the Displacement, from South Central to Palestine. No land grabs, whether in South Central, Tongva territory, or Palestine. Cease expansion, provide reparations, and support housing for low-income South Central residents. No development by USC without genuine community control.
5. No Policing on Campus. End the targeted repression and harassment of Black, Brown, and Palestinian students and their allies on and off campus, including through university disciplinary processes. Defund the Department of Public Safety and disclose and sever all ties with the LAPD.
6. End the Silence on the Genocide in Palestine. Release a public statement calling for an immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza, denouncing the ongoing genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people, and call on government officials o do so too.
"I'm participating in the Gaza Solidarity Occupation at USC to highlight and amplify the anti- zionist Jewish voice at USC and be in solidarity with the Palestinian fight for liberation," says a student organizer from USC's chapter of Jewish Voices for Palestine (JVP). "JVP USC feels our voice is especially important right now as many people at USC and across the country are equating zionism and Judaism, but we are here to say they are not the same! We stand by our belief of free speech, resistance to oppressive systems and solidarity with our valedictorian Asna and all other college campuses where pro-Palestine voices have been silenced."
The USC Divest From Death Coalition establishes the occupation mo st fundamentally in solidarity with the people of Palestine as they resist genocide and continue in their struggle for liberation. The occupation is also in resistance to attempts by USC and other universities to suppress the student movement for Palestine on its campuses, in resistance to the silencing of students that criticize the state of Israel, in resistance to the university administrators and boards of trustees who profit off the genocide of Palestinians; The students taking part are firm in their commitment to speaking out against the university's complicity in the genocide of the Palestinian people.
"USC's funding of the ongoing genocide perpetuated by the zionist entity is reflective of maintaining imperialist interests abroad, as well as solidifying the shared ideology of amerikan and zionist institutions in preserving racialized oppression," says a student organizer of the Gaza Solidarity Occupation. "To not stand in opposition to the expressly racist violence here and abroad is to ignore the calls for solidarity demanded by the majority of the world. USC acts in accordance with these oppressions, and to call against this is to recognize both the inhumanity of these systems and our own humanity in opposing them."
We have chosen to use the word "occupation” instead of "encampment" to draw attention to USC as an occupying force on unceded Gabrieleno/Tongva land, an occupying force in South Central through its expansion into, gentrification of, and destruction of the existing community, and as a complicit power in Israeli occupation of Palestine.
About USC Divest From Death
In joining the national "Cut Ties with Genocide: Divest from Death" campaign, USC Divest From Death pushes our institutions to divest from companies complicit in the genocide of Palestinians, in all its iterations, alongside thousands of campuses. The coalition's push for the advancement of the key demand points on campus is the first steps towards the liberation of all people by ending the complicity of the University of Southern California in the violence enacted on our communities. Through the intentional act of coalition building, the students of USC realize that we are part of an interconnected fight for freedom taking place on campus, in our communities and homelands. We envision campuses free from militarism, occupation, and war through the implementation of divestment at USC
About Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
The student movement for the liberation of Palestine first began in the 1950s through the formation of the General Union of Palestinian Students (GUPS). From the U.S. to Palestine, GUPS chapters galvanized thousands of students towards a liberated Palestine. The 90s” wave of corrupt politicians and faulty deals changed the liberation movement as we knew it and many institutions, including the student movement, collapsed. In the absence of a Palestinian student movement, organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine emerged across occupied Turtle Island (U.S. and Canada) as a way to educate, advocate, and mobilize in support for Palestinian liberation. Nearly two decades after the formation of the first Students for Justice in Palestine, the movement for Palestine has taken colleges and universities across North America by storm. With over 200 campus Palestine solidarity organizations across the continent, students have been leaders in uplifting demands for freedom, Justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.

After one big idiot named Donald Trump stole an election with the help of Russia and vile appeals to the baseless, all of the sudden every weirdo maniac around tried the same shit. The Ghastly Old Party and ambitious fanatical parties of Cons all over the world now overfloweth with evil ne'erd-o-wells.
Vote to end this coup of fools.
Vote for a Democratic landslide!

Assisting International Migrants with Everyday Information Seeking: From the Providers' Lens
Yongle Zhang, Ge Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04096 http…

Assisting International Migrants with Everyday Information Seeking: From the Providers' Lens
International migrants face difficulties obtaining information for a quality life and well-being in the host country. Prior research indicates that international migrants often seek information from their co-national cohort or contacts from the same country. The downside of this practice, however, is that people can end up clustering in a small-world environment, hindering the information seekers' social adaptation in the long run. In the current research, we investigated the ongoing practices …

I'm having ridiculous plans.
Instead of moving the Starship and Tarot projects over to a temp instance, and then back to a re-built server with new software on the old domain... what if I just moved both of their websites to become GotoSocial websites?
They're both currently built with Hugo as static sites anyway, so they could drop into the Assets folder on a GotoSocial site if I accepted the /assets/ in the front of every URL, or renamed that in the source-code.
And with just a bit of template-editing for the homepage I've got essentially the entire old website plus the Fediverse/gotoSocial features on each project's own domain, the /@user URLs leading to an activity-pub feed of stuff I can boost from here.
Course, that means two new VMs/IP-addresses instead of using the existing one. Or I suppose running two GotoSocial processes and a front-end redirector of some sort...
Oh man. That's loads more work than I was hoping but it's obviously the right thing to do really.
They each need their own social site URLs not sharing one with my name.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17923 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…

Multi-fingered Dynamic Grasping for Unknown Objects
Dexterous grasping of unseen objects in dynamic environments is an essential prerequisite for the advanced manipulation of autonomous robots. Prior advances rely on several assumptions that simplify the setup, including environment stationarity, pre-defined objects, and low-dimensional end-effectors. Though easing the problem and enabling progress, it undermined the complexity of the real world. Aiming to relax these assumptions, we present a dynamic grasping framework for unknown objects in th…

How Meta's VR bet has played out a decade after its acquisition of Oculus; the company's metaverse division lost $42B between the end of 2020 and Q1 2024 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/04/facebooks-oculus-acquisition-turns…

Ten years later, Facebook's Oculus acquisition hasn't changed the world as expected | TechCrunch
Every year, Time Magazine issues a list of the 200 best inventions of the past 12 months. Frankly, I don’t know how the editors do it. The dirty secret of

A U. N. Panel has long monitored the sanctions against North Korea .
In the Security Council on March 28, Russia vetoed an extension of the panel’s work, which it had previously supported.
China abstained and 13 other members voted for it.
As a result, the panel is to expire at the end of this month, and the rest of the world will know even less than it does now about North Korea’s quest.

This was a gift by Russian President Vladimir Putin to North Korean leader Kim…

North Korea sends arms to Russia. Now Putin pays back Kim Jong Un.
Russia is helping North Korea’s rogue regime, in Putin’s latest abdication of responsibility.

FIXED #GiftLink🎁 "We will lose World War III, and America will be devastated by “weapons the likes of which nobody has ever seen before.” [LIE] “And the only thing standing between you and its obliteration is me,” [DITTO]
Opinion | **Donald Trump’s Insatiable Bloodlust** - The New York Times

Opinion | Donald Trump’s Insatiable Bloodlust
Marjorie and Donald, trumpeting the end times.

"It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."
No, damn no, it maybe takes a bit more thought, but imagining the end of #capitalism is something I do on a daily basis
#anarchism

Back-end Go developer looking for work? I know these people and it’s probably more interesting than average in terms of culture and focus: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3900979895/?refId=udF6d9zES0exWpvOY…

One of my favorite tracks from the Trump era from an always brilliant songwriter. It remains entirely relevant.
John K. Samson, "Fantasy Baseball At The End Of The World" (2020)
https://johnksamsonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/fantas…

"Saudi Arabia is very much aware that the end is in sight for the fossil fuel economy that underpins its sovereign and private wealth. In anticipation of the inevitable end of fossil fuels, Riyadh is actively working to shift to new sources of income so as to future proof its economy in a carbon-zero world."
The scaling back of Saudi Arabia’s proposed urban mega-project sends a clear warning - Raw Story

The scaling back of Saudi Arabia’s proposed urban mega-project sends a clear warning
There is a long history of planned city building by both governments and the private sector from Brasilia to Islamabad. More recently, two trends have come together in a new wave of visionary urban planning. On the one hand, there are the neoliberal “special economic zone” policies that accelera...

Earlier today I was at the post office, and overheard the clerk give the following advise to a gentleman who was seeking information on applying for a passport:
“Do not Google USPS passport, you’ll end up in a world of pain you don’t want.”
It’s unfortunate how, even as a seasoned technology professional myself, I think I actually agree with the guy.

i hope meta will open up bootloader unlocking for the quest 1 like they did for the oculus go, john carmack had to fight the whole company to make it happen and he's not there anymore so it's definitely less likely but hopefully they'll do it again.
either way, i don't see the store not accepting new games as a big deal, barely any new apps supported it already, and you can still use existing apps and use it as a pcvr headset, it got pretty good support for a headset that sold a fract…

Meta Issues Warning That Impacts Many Quest Headset Users
Meta has issued a warning regarding the termination of support for the original Meta Quest headset, signalling the end of an era for mainstream VR.

"How close is the world to securing a global treaty to end plastic pollution?"
#Plastic #Plastics

World takes ‘major step’ toward global treaty to end plastic pollution
For the first time, negotiators discussed the text of what is supposed to become a global treaty.

A bit personal, living in right-wing world and not managing to put your life in order
In a right-wing society, a man's life is expected to follow two main axes (women have it even worse, but I'm going to talk of the gender that I experience first hand):
1. Education − finding a job − gaining experience and promotions − managing to retire.
2. Finding a girlfriend − marriage − having children − rearing children.
Of course, there are other expectations too: buying a car and house, but they can generally be derived from these two axes.
While, technically, the individual elements aren't limited to a specific age, usually you have to deal with them early enough. I suppose many people can confirm that — those who tried to learn a new language, supplement their education, find a better job late in life. But things can get worse.
You could lose your job and discover that our specific experience isn't worth uch. You end up competing for junior positions, with people who are young, healthy and ambitious; with people who don't have all your negative experiences and who can accept a smaller living wage.
You could notice that all your friends have already started their own families, and you didn't have anything even remotely resembling a relationship for over 10 years now; that you find it harder and harder to connect with anyone.
I think that's precisely what being #MADAO is: discovering that you're already (relatively) old and you didn't put your life in order, in time. Add being neuroatypical to that. The awareness that you no longer have the momentum that made it possible for us to overcome difficulties, even if we were only moving through the path of least resistance. Now not only this path is no longer available to us, but also we're being burdened with emotional baggage that makes it almost impossible to move.
And the right-wing society doesn't include a place for people who aren't moving across the only legitimate axis.
#ActuallyAutistic

Another shorts #running day. Hoping to get out more in this weekend too. At the tail end of a head cold, but this feels helpful overall 😆
Side note, I love crossing other walkers and runners and giving a thumbs up. Most of the time it's a brief acknowledgement that we're out there doing this as humans. Doesn't matter ability, age, or anything, we're out in the world exe…

Just released! In the new episode of our podcast series, Hebrew Bible scholar and YDS professor John Collins discusses the Bible, the apocalypse, and how some Christians today err in their understanding of #endtimes. https://buff.ly/3U2OCnZ

"Tell the City of Philadelphia to end the bike lane parking permits on Spruce and Pine! We've done most of the work for you: sign the petition, add a comment, and send a custom email in seconds "
#philly #philadelphia

Withdraw the Bike Lane Parking Permits on Spruce and Pine Streets
Every Philadelphian, regardless of age or ability, deserves safe, accessible bike lanes to get around. Unfortunately, we find our bike lanes on Spruce and Pine streets obstructed by motor vehicles each weekend to accommodate congregants who choose to drive. While everyone has the right to worship as they choose, no one has the right to put others in danger by parking in the bike lane.

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

A common talking point of CSS & separation of concerns is the idea that you can just swap out the CSS for different CSS to have a whole new design.
That’s neat and all, but the real-world need is the opposite: the HTML changes ALL. THE. TIME. Write your CSS so it works with changing content.
#css #webdev

Lieberman would have been Vice President if the 2000 US Election wasn't screwed up.
That was the beginning of the end really…
I wonder how different the world might have been if Gore and Lieberman had gained the White House.
#USPoli #JoeLieberman

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12349 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Holographic complexity: braneworld gravity versus the Lloyd bound
We explore the complexity equals volume proposal for planar black holes in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime in 2+1 dimensions, with an end of the world (ETW) brane behind the horizon. We allow for the possibility of intrinsic gravitational dynamics in the form of Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity to be localized on the brane. We compute the asymptotic rate of change of volume complexity analytically and obtain the full time dependence using numerical techniques. We find that the inclusion of JT grav…

Meanwhile, at the other end of my block, they've got a baby tied to a tree, upside down.

Crazy thought: Both Biden and Trump are very old. Both are prone to keel over at any minute at their age.
What would happen if both died of natural causes in the next few months? It would be bonkers. The Democrats would probably promote Kamala Harris to Prez candidate (she'd be running as the incumbent). For the Republicans, the runner-up to Trump right now is Nikki Haley.
So we could, in a strange world, end up with an election between two women of Indian descent.
<…

I grew up in France, in a Jewish community where unconditional love and support for Israel were the norm.
The term Zionism, the movement for the establishment and support of a Jewish state in present-day Palestine, wasn’t even used because that’s all we knew.
Jews had been nearly wiped out by pogroms and repeated holocausts, and a Jewish state was the only way to keep us safe.
Antisemitism wasn’t just a fact of history; we all experienced it in our daily lives.
Zionis…

Zionism cannot produce a just peace. Only external pressure can end the Israeli apartheid.
This article was originally published here in the Washington Post I grew up in a Zionist household, spent 12 years in a Zionist youth movement, lived for four years in Israel, and have friends and family who served in the Israeli Defense Forces. When that is your world, it’s

Oh no. Oh no oh no. This will not end well for software in general. We've never before had an "un-leap" skipped second and even the occasional leap seconds in the past where they weren't new have caused us a lot of problems. Seconds that don't exist will make something go haywire, I'm sure.
Everybody get out and push?

The Flock - complete series 🦜🦆🦅
Dramatised musical | Total listening time: 2h 13m
The Flock is an audio drama with songs. An environmental fable and epic adventure about the end of the world - told from the point of view of the birds. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England.
#AudioFiction

The Flock - complete series 🦜🦆🦅
Dramatised musical | Total listening time: 2h 13m The Flock is an audio drama with songs. An environmental fable and epic adventure about the end of the world - told from the point of view of the birds. Supported using public funding by Arts Council England. 1 seasons, 8 episodes as of Oct 05, 2021.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01699 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Brilla AI: AI Contestant for the National Science and Maths Quiz
The African continent lacks enough qualified teachers which hampers the provision of adequate learning support. An AI could potentially augment the efforts of the limited number of teachers, leading to better learning outcomes. Towards that end, this work describes and evaluates the first key output for the NSMQ AI Grand Challenge, which proposes a robust, real-world benchmark for such an AI: "Build an AI to compete live in Ghana's National Science and Maths Quiz (NSMQ) competition and win - pe…

Shouldn't western powers not mark some kind of red line with regard to the russian advance in western-Ukraine, with the assumption that Russia will not risk world war 3 for conquering that part ? Or will in the end EU and NATO just watch while Kyiv and Lviv are overrun by Russian forces ?
The risks are enormous i am aware but that's also true for the scenarios where we let Russia just conquer Ukraine.

Seriously, how hard is it to say "bombing babies is wrong".
Like the whole country and half of the world has their panties in a twist about this.
It's wrong. The end.

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby is the newest Jordan Brand athlete https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_defensive_end_maxx_crosby_is_the_newest_jordan_brand_athlete/…

Las Vegas Raiders defensive end Maxx Crosby is the newest Jordan Brand athlete
The Las Vegas Raiders have some of the most polarizing athletes in the world. They have the best wide receiver in football, Davante Adams, and the best edge rusher in the league, Maxx Crosby. However, even with those two, they have fallen short of the playoffs in the last few years. If they can get a great team around Crosby and Adams, then these guys will be even more polarizing when they start winning consistently. But, even without that, they are big enough to land some of the biggest deals …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.18802 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

Endhered patterns in matchings and RNA
An endhered (end-adhered) pattern is a subset of arcs in matchings, such that the corresponding starting points are consecutive and the same holds for the ending points. Such patterns are in one-to-one correspondence with the permutations. We focus on the occurrence frequency of such patterns in matchings and real-world RNA structures with pseudoknots. We present combinatorial results related to the distribution and asymptotic behavior of the pattern 21, which corresponds to two consecutive sta…

"Are Adversarial Phishing Webpages a Threat in Reality?" Understanding the Users' Perception of Adversarial Webpages
Ying Yuan, Qingying Hao, Giovanni Apruzzese, Mauro Conti, Gang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02832

"Are Adversarial Phishing Webpages a Threat in Reality?" Understanding the Users' Perception of Adversarial Webpages
Machine learning based phishing website detectors (ML-PWD) are a critical part of today's anti-phishing solutions in operation. Unfortunately, ML-PWD are prone to adversarial evasions, evidenced by both academic studies and analyses of real-world adversarial phishing webpages. However, existing works mostly focused on assessing adversarial phishing webpages against ML-PWD, while neglecting a crucial aspect: investigating whether they can deceive the actual target of phishing -- the end users. I…

A new word I learned today: eschatological. A word for for the end of the world, literally.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #JoWhiley
Skeeter Davis:
🎵 End Of The World
#SkeeterDavis
https://open.spotify.com/track/6qEQuACZCNWf94T1WF4tLB
https://statmeup.bandcamp.com/track/skeeter-davis-the-end-of-the-world

threw my ps3 into led debug mode, it gives you the latest syscon error in binary flashing the red and green lights.
she's dead as fuck lol

Another shorts #running day. Hoping to get out more in this weekend too. At the tail end of a head cold, but this feels helpful overall 😆
Side note, I love crossing other walkers and runners and giving a thumbs up. Most of the time it's a brief acknowledgement that we're out there doing this as humans. Doesn't matter ability, age, or anything, we're out in the world exe…

Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations.
"The world must recognize that ending Israel’s illegal occupation is a prerequisite to stopping the recurrent human rights violations in Israel and the OPT."

Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations  
Israel must end its brutal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which it has maintained since 1967, said Amnesty International,

Man, I miss baseball. I used to love staying up late to watch the games. I spent a week of one of the off seasons watching every game of the world series (I can't remember which one, I'm thinking 2010).
I wish I could watch it again, just can't afford it for the moment. Guess highlights will have to do.
#SFGiants

Platform responsibility.
It should be a basic factor for anyone publishing #content on the internet. “Are we being responsible with the reach and audience trust that we have by publishing this content in this way?”
And yet it seems like big platforms like the #NYT haven't heard of it.
In…

> If as a VC you REALLY want software eating the world, you also need devs eager to cook that world
Zing!
https://hachyderm.io/@anthrocypher/111987622160634320

Dallas Cowboys tight end Jake Ferguson opens up on disappointing end to 2023 season https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/dallas_cowboys_tight_end_jake_ferguson_opens_up_on_disappointing_end_…

Dallas Cowboys tight end Jake Ferguson opens up on disappointing end to 2023 season
On NFL Total Access on Wednesday, Ferguson discussed how the team fell short against the Green Bay Packers in the Wild Card round. He chalked it up to the Packers bringing their A-game while Dallas failed to deliver any crippling blows early. “You know it’s tough to say,” Ferguson said when asked about what went wrong. “I think for me, it’s also the NFL, 32 of the best [teams] in the world are playing one sport against each other but at the same time I always like to think, ‘We’r…

Conservatives need to defend #Ukraine at this critical moment in history  | The Hill
https://thehill.com/opinion/4505968-con…

Conservatives need to defend Ukraine at this critical moment in history 
Imagine a world where a free Ukraine and Taiwan are sacrificed to despots on the altar of America’s foreign-policy realism and narrowly calculated self-interest. It would mark the end of the rules-based global order that has corresponded with the greatest leap in prosperity the world has ever seen.   

The very best level on #pistolWhip is definitely just the first one. "Black Magic".
That bit where you get baddies coming from both sides alternatively as the beat builds and you're shooting them on the beat and then there's baddies in a planer of 8 that you can shoot with four double-shots, followed immediately by dodging your head as the the "whoaaahhh" happens before "Black magic" and you hit the armoured baddy in the face and dive into further action.
🧑‍🍳 💋
I don't think I shall ever beat my score that placed me currently 193 in it's chart-ratings. Timing I'm almost perfect on but aim is a step less than perfect and I blame the tracking. So that'll only get lower-ranked as more play.
Still always the first level to play though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z4GGc1zYXg
[the person in the video screws up that bit at the end, but they are on one gun! Not duel-weilding]

Not exactly the usual kind of thing I post about, but once you read the article, you'll understand. It's about due process in the end.
I think the attack on #TikTok is particularly important for writers to follow since so many writers are so invested in the platform.
#dueprocess…

TikTok Measure Passed by House Is Unconstitutional in Multiple Ways
Tick Tock for TikTok ... the House has passed a bill that would ban TikTok if it doesn't change ownership.

Have you seen the compilation of artificially generated videos from OpenAI’s Sora? They are very impressive but most of all, they terrify me. I fear the world in which we can never again trust what we see on a screen. We will all have to learn very quickly to look for mistakes, things that are off in the videos (there are several here, some flagged at the end of the video). But is that how we want the world to be? A place of perpetual distrust? /1

Rainbows end.
The book, written in 2006, was set in 2025 in San Diego. Its author, Vernor Vinge, died yesterday, March 20, 2024, in nearby La Jolla, at the age of 79.
Rainbows end explores themes such as shared realities, digital surveillance, and the digitisation of the world, years before Marc Andreessen proclaimed that "software is eating the word", describing it much more colorfully and rich than Andreessen ever did.
1/3

RADIUM: Predicting and Repairing End-to-End Robot Failures using Gradient-Accelerated Sampling
Charles Dawson, Anjali Parashar, Chuchu Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03412

RADIUM: Predicting and Repairing End-to-End Robot Failures using Gradient-Accelerated Sampling
Before autonomous systems can be deployed in safety-critical applications, we must be able to understand and verify the safety of these systems. For cases where the risk or cost of real-world testing is prohibitive, we propose a simulation-based framework for a) predicting ways in which an autonomous system is likely to fail and b) automatically adjusting the system's design and control policy to preemptively mitigate those failures. Existing tools for failure prediction struggle to search over…

Omdia: South African streaming company Showmax had 2.1M subscribers in Africa at the end of November 2023, ahead of Netflix's 1.8M and Amazon Prime Video's 300K (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/showmax-subscription-africa-netf…

How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix
Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO, and exclusive access to the biggest football leagues in the world.

This was an easy blog post for me to write! There is so much wrong with the State of Nevada’s request for an injunction to prevent Meta from rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger. For starters, WhatsApp has had E2EE since 2016, Apple iMessage since 2011 … and more.
Hopefully the district court in Nevada will agree and NOT allow the injunction! We’ll see.
#E2EE

You can tell the Old Testament is the product of a desert people, because when they tried to imagine the end of the world they went with “rained for forty days and forty nights”, which in Ireland is just called Spring.

U.S. Multifamily Market Snapshot — Q4 2023
Arbor - February 22, 2024
“The U.S. multifamily market continued to show signs of slowing at the end of 2023, although demand remained robust, with high home prices leading younger generations of higher-income households to choose renting over homeownership.”

U.S. Multifamily Market Snapshot Q4 2023 - Arbor Realty
The U.S. multifamily market continued to show signs of slowing at the end of 2023, although demand remained robust, with high home prices leading younger generations of higher-income households to choose renting over homeownership.

About 7% of all homo sapiens to have ever lived are alive right now. So if you're thinking "what are the odds of seeing the end of the world" the odds aren't actually that small.
Exponential growth can have surprising implications
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/…

Seriously, how hard is it to say "bombing babies is wrong".
Like the whole country and half of the world has their panties in a twist about this.
It's wrong. The end.

"Why do tech people love to talk about the end of the world?
Does #SamAltman say all he needs is $7 trillion to transform the world into an #AIpowered utopia because he honestly believes that’s a good use of the money (has he heard of

Apocalypse Not – The Markup
Why do tech people love talking about the end of the world?

If you sat down and designed the perfect technology monopoly to abuse in the Western world, you would end up with something exceptional close to #Apple's app store. This is absolutely no accident.
It is not surprising that one of the world's most powerful companies has pushed so many into their high-walled garden. It is, however, bloody depressing that the crowds cheered with every prod towards the gate.
(Google's similar tale is only a little better.)

#TheEndOfEverything #AstrophysicallySpeaking #KatieMack

Lees dit: vragen die kinderen stellen over alle aspecten van klimaatverandering. Kinderen uit Tasmanië in dit geval, maar de vragen van kinderen uit andere landen zullen niet heel veel verschillen. https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow/112129679661786794

An Experimental Study of Low-Latency Video Streaming over 5G
Imran Khan, Tuyen X. Tran, Matti Hiltunen, Theodore Karagioules, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00752

An Experimental Study of Low-Latency Video Streaming over 5G
Low-latency video streaming over 5G has become rapidly popular over the last few years due to its increased usage in hosting virtual events, online education, webinars, and all-hands meetings. Our work aims to address the absence of studies that reveal the real-world behavior of low-latency video streaming. To that end, we provide an experimental methodology and measurements, collected in a US metropolitan area over a commercial 5G network, that correlates application-level QoE and lower-layer …

In about half an hour (19:00 BST) I think we're somewhere near the end game
It's The Secret of Monkey Island!
Join me #SelfPromotion

To simplify, the Allies used signal counterintelligence, inflatable tanks, audio, and a bluff with Gen. George Patton to convince the Nazis that the 1,1000 members of the 23rd HQ Special Troops (dig that unit patch!) was actually two divisions, 30,000 men, massing to attack elsewhere.
In more than a dozen engagements in 1944-1945, they feinted, disguised and distracted from actual assaults, saving thousands of lives.
Creativity beats fascism.
From: @…

NPR :press: (@NPR@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image After decades of secrecy, the 'Ghost Army' is honored for saving U.S. lives in WWII The Ghost Army is credited with saving thousands of American lives and helping end WWII in Europe. But its contributions were kept secret for half a century. On Thursday, it won Congress' top honor. #press https://www.npr.org/2024/03/21/1239871379/ghost-army-congressional-gold-medal-world-war-2?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

CDC plans to end "look both ways" period of crossing the street. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/13/covid-new-cdc-isolation-guidelines…

Snap-it, Tap-it, Splat-it: Tactile-Informed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Reconstructing Challenging Surfaces
Mauro Comi, Alessio Tonioni, Max Yang, Jonathan Tremblay, Valts Blukis, Yijiong Lin, Nathan F. Lepora, Laurence Aitchison
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.20275

Snap-it, Tap-it, Splat-it: Tactile-Informed 3D Gaussian Splatting for Reconstructing Challenging Surfaces
Touch and vision go hand in hand, mutually enhancing our ability to understand the world. From a research perspective, the problem of mixing touch and vision is underexplored and presents interesting challenges. To this end, we propose Tactile-Informed 3DGS, a novel approach that incorporates touch data (local depth maps) with multi-view vision data to achieve surface reconstruction and novel view synthesis. Our method optimises 3D Gaussian primitives to accurately model the object's geometry a…

Super Meat Boy Forever
Meat Boy and Bandage Girl have grown as a couple since 2010. It seems like only yesterday the two love birds were escaping from an exploding laboratory in the sky. Now it’s the current year, and they’ve welcomed their daughter Nugget into the world. Their peaceful days enjoying life as a family came to an abrupt end when Dr. Fetus beat the snot out of them with a rusty shovel, and kidnapped Nugget! Now ...

Platform responsibility.
It should be a basic factor for anyone publishing #content on the internet. “Are we being responsible with the reach and audience trust that we have by publishing this content in this way?”
And yet it seems like big platforms like the #NYT haven't heard of it.
In…

RADIUM: Predicting and Repairing End-to-End Robot Failures using Gradient-Accelerated Sampling
Charles Dawson, Anjali Parashar, Chuchu Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03412

RADIUM: Predicting and Repairing End-to-End Robot Failures using Gradient-Accelerated Sampling
Before autonomous systems can be deployed in safety-critical applications, we must be able to understand and verify the safety of these systems. For cases where the risk or cost of real-world testing is prohibitive, we propose a simulation-based framework for a) predicting ways in which an autonomous system is likely to fail and b) automatically adjusting the system's design and control policy to preemptively mitigate those failures. Existing tools for failure prediction struggle to search over…

Followers will know I don't often talk about the horrors happening around the world, mostly because I don't like to flood others' timelines in what could be their only safe space, but I heard some shit on the News that made me mad:
1:a report about starving Palestinian children with some graphic pictures. Then, the report goes outside the wall, where there is a massive queue of aid trucks. The reporter asks the Israeli why they delayed the aid:
"Gazans aren't …

Omdia: South African streaming company Showmax had 2.1M subscribers in Africa at the end of November 2023, ahead of Netflix's 1.8M and Amazon Prime Video's 300K (Damilare Dosunmu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2024/showmax-subscription-africa-netf…

How an African streaming service dethroned Netflix
Showmax sits at the top of the market with a vast library of local content, partnerships with Comcast and HBO, and exclusive access to the biggest football leagues in the world.

How the war in Ukraine has split the Czechs and Slovaks
Since the end of the Cold War and the subsequent bifurcation of Czechoslovakia, the two countries that emerged maintained warm brotherly ties, even when ruling governments in Prague and Bratislava were of differing political stripes.
But disagreements over how or how not to support Ukraine have brought about an unprecedented rupture.
“Even at its worst in the past, the relationship was one of mutual indifference but …

Analysis | How the war in Ukraine has split the Czechs and Slovaks
The marked differences between a staunchly pro-Kyiv government in Prague and Slovakia’s Russia-friendly Prime Minister Robert Fico have come to the fore.

> If as a VC you REALLY want software eating the world, you also need devs eager to cook that world
Zing!
https://hachyderm.io/@anthrocypher/111987622160634320

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.16463 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Cone Holography with Neumann Boundary Conditions and Brane-localized Gauge Fields
Cone holography is a codimension-$n$ doubly holographic model, which can be interpreted as the holographic dual of edge modes on defects. The initial model of cone holography is based on mixed boundary conditions. This paper formulates cone holography with Neumann boundary conditions, where the brane-localized gauge fields play an essential role. Firstly, we illustrate the main ideas in an AdS$_4$/CFT$_1$ toy model. We show that the $U(1)$ gauge field on the end-of-the-world brane can make the …

Assessing LLMs in Malicious Code Deobfuscation of Real-world Malware Campaigns
Constantinos Patsakis, Fran Casino, Nikolaos Lykousas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19715 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404.19715
arXiv:2404.19715v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The integration of large language models (LLMs) into various pipelines is increasingly widespread, effectively automating many manual tasks and often surpassing human capabilities. Cybersecurity researchers and practitioners have recognised this potential. Thus, they are actively exploring its applications, given the vast volume of heterogeneous data that requires processing to identify anomalies, potential bypasses, attacks, and fraudulent incidents. On top of this, LLMs' advanced capabilities in generating functional code, comprehending code context, and summarising its operations can also be leveraged for reverse engineering and malware deobfuscation. To this end, we delve into the deobfuscation capabilities of state-of-the-art LLMs. Beyond merely discussing a hypothetical scenario, we evaluate four LLMs with real-world malicious scripts used in the notorious Emotet malware campaign. Our results indicate that while not absolutely accurate yet, some LLMs can efficiently deobfuscate such payloads. Thus, fine-tuning LLMs for this task can be a viable potential for future AI-powered threat intelligence pipelines in the fight against obfuscated malware.

The world of front end development changes so fast... it never ceases to amaze me that Chai and Sinon have held their place for so flipping long. It's gotta be over a decade now, right?

Not exactly the usual kind of thing I post about, but once you read the article, you'll understand. It's about due process in the end.
I think the attack on #TikTok is particularly important for writers to follow since so many writers are so invested in the platform.
#dueprocess…

TikTok Measure Passed by House Is Unconstitutional in Multiple Ways
Tick Tock for TikTok ... the House has passed a bill that would ban TikTok if it doesn't change ownership.

Hey! I just figured out how to totally destroy poor little #footiMac's Intel core2Duo, 16GB RAM world.
Throw 3 simultaneous 4K streams at it and demand it create a composite movie!
A little laggy! lol.
ffmpeg basically crashes. It doesn't end up writing the file. I'll try scaling down the inputs but creating a multi-screen layout may be beyond

About 7% of all homo sapiens to have ever lived are alive right now. So if you're thinking "what are the odds of seeing the end of the world" the odds aren't actually that small.
Exponential growth can have surprising implications
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/…

Reminders
Trump = Netanyahu
‘Netanyahu is essentially an Israeli Republican’
By Marc Caputo, August 15, 2019
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/15/israel-trump-netanyahu-1465917
Netanyahu’s woes mirror those of his ally Trump
By Joseph Krauss, Associated Press, Nov 22, 2019
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/netanyahus-woes-mirror-those-of-his-ally-trump
Netanyahu... paints his Jewish opponents as weak ... “leftists,” and ... presents himself ... as the only person capable of leading the country.
By Asharq Al Awsat June 10, 2021
https://english.aawsat.com/home/article/3020331/israel’s-netanyahu-lashes-out-end-his-era-draws-near
Vote for Democracy!

Lees dit: vragen die kinderen stellen over alle aspecten van klimaatverandering. Kinderen uit Tasmanië in dit geval, maar de vragen van kinderen uit andere landen zullen niet heel veel verschillen. https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow/112129679661786794

"Australian Alps face world’s largest loss of snow by end of century, research shows"
#Australia #Climate #ClimateChange

To the women in technology, if you have been inspired, made a career connection, leveled up your technical skills, or expanded your network through this movement,
we encourage you to keep paying that forward.
The world needs women and diverse perspectives at the helm of tech as a critical force that shapes our world every day. Please, keep going. 
As we embark on the process of winding down operations,
we are committed to ensuring a smooth transition and fulfilling a…

This is the greatest thing about activitypub and fedi and the permissionless protocol openness.
Free experimentation, lots of really good clients. No restrictions on paying to use the APIs or being banned because you don't show the adverts. No permission needed from a CEO or a Tech Support to just make the best client and nobody cares if everyone stops using Mastodon front-end.
Doesn't matter how many millions you spend on software development if the aim is serving the corporation not the user. You still get manipulative shitware.

Italy’s Liberation Day, known as ‘Festa della Liberazione,’ celebrated on April 25th, marks a significant moment in the country’s history. This day commemorates the end of the Nazi occupation and fascist rule during World War II. Italians across the nation come together to honor the sacrifices made by countless individuals who fought for freedom and democracy.

https://liveinitalymag.com/italys-liberation-day-on-april-25th-a-celebration-of-freedom-festa-della-liberazione/

Typical. Wrong, but typical.
#Israel should not be ordered to immediately end occupation: US at World Court
https://maktoobmedia.com/world/israel-

Israel should not be ordered to immediately end occupation: US at World Court
The United States has told the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that it should not order the unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Palestinian territories without security guarantees.

There's a light at the end of the tunnel, and it's not an oncoming train.
#GoFundMe #gofundmecampaign #Divorce

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06021 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_hept…

Cobordism and Bubbles of Anything in the String Landscape
We study bubble of nothing decays and their reverse processes, the creation of vacua through `bubbles of something', in models of the Universe based on string theory. From the four-dimensional perspective, the corresponding gravitational instantons contain an end-of-the-world (ETW) boundary or brane, realized by the internal manifold shrinking to zero size. The existence of such ETW branes is predicted by the Cobordism Conjecture. We develop the 4d EFT description of such boundaries at three le…

Italy’s Liberation Day, known as ‘Festa della Liberazione,’ celebrated on April 25th, marks a significant moment in the country’s history. This day commemorates the end of the Nazi occupation and fascist rule during World War II. Italians across the nation come together to honor the sacrifices made by countless individuals who fought for freedom and democracy.

https://liveinitalymag.com/italys-liberation-day-on-april-25th-a-celebration-of-freedom-festa-della-liberazione/

A look at chip design companies like Oppstar that aim to push Malaysia, the world's sixth-largest semiconductor exporter, to the higher end of the value chain (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/BeC8F0GmZU

Malaysian 'Silicon Valley' seeds homegrown chip startups
Former Intel engineers attempt to push Penang to higher end of value chain

"How China Became the World’s Leader on Renewable Energy"
#China #Energy #Renewables

How China Became the World’s Leader on Renewable Energy
China has achieved stunning growth in its installed renewable capacity over the last two decades, far outpacing the rest of the world. But to end its continued dependence on fossil fuels, it must now move ahead with planned reforms to its national electricity system.

Thinking of getting into the world of vinyl to get some proper jazz LP's. Can anyone suggest an inexpensive beginners setup that will give me a fair intro to this rabbit hole?
#vinyl #lp #jazzMusic

The driving mission of MIT Solve is inviting new voices and proposed solutions to world problems as a way to achieve a more sustainable and equitable future for all.
To that end, Solve recently announced the 2024 Global Challenges and the Indigenous Communities Fellowship to help find and scale the best. 
Solve invites anyone from anywhere in the world to submit a solution to this year’s Global Challenges by April 18.
Solve is seeking solutions that use technology in inno…

MIT Solve | Global Challenges
MIT Solve's Global Challenges connect social entrepreneurs with the funding and resources they need to drive social impact and solve global challenges.

There's a light at the end of the tunnel, and it's not an oncoming train.
#GoFundMe #gofundmecampaign #Divorce

They are reporting that BoJo forgot his ID and couldn't vote 😆
I nearly deliberately didn't take any ID, in protest at the new rules designed to further bias and fix the election results. Thought my own "vote" in the list of those turned away might be more valuable than in the list of voters for wankers.
Decided to not make a fuss other than a frustrated sigh and a spoiled ballot in the end.
#bojo #london #election #mayor #voterid