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Many lessons from history we need to keep in mind in our current political moment…
From The Atlantic: “Hitler Used a Bogus Crisis of ‘Public Order’ to Make Himself Dictator” (paywall free link)
#ResistAndHeal

Three months after the fires, I finally took a break from work, disaster management, and re-establishing domestic infrastructure. I flew up the Owens Valley to Lone Pine, and and spent last weekend walking in the desert, biking in the foothills, and gazing at the stars.
#aviation #California

London-based Maze, which uses AI agents to stop cloud security breaches, launches with $31M in total funding, including a $25M Series A led by Theory Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw

Exclusive: Security startup Maze finds way to $25M Series A
The round was led by Theory Ventures.

Estimation of the curvature from random samples
R. Mirzaie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06779 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06779

Estimation of the curvature from random samples
We introduce an estimator for the curvature of curves and surfaces by using finite sample points drawn from sampling a probability distribution that has support on the curve or surface. First we give an algorithm for estimation of the curvature in a given point of a curve. Then, we extend it to estimate the Gaussian curvature of the surfaces. In the proposed algorithms, we use a relation between the number of selected points in the point cloud and the probability that a given point has a suffci…

EdTech Situation Room Ep 345 “TikTok, Tech & Trust”
https://edtechsr.com/2025/06/10/edtechsr-ep-345-tiktok-tech-trust/
Also on Substack:

EdTechSR Ep 345 TikTok, Tech & Trust
where technology news meets educational analysis

Gavin Newsome is exactly the kind of slick, self-serving machine politician I hate most, but when you're right, you're right...

UVIT Study of the Magellanic Clouds (U-SMAC). III. Hierarchical Star Formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud Regulated by Turbulence
Sipra Hota, Richard de Grijs, Annapurni Subramaniam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08951

UVIT Study of the Magellanic Clouds (U-SMAC). III. Hierarchical Star Formation in the Small Magellanic Cloud Regulated by Turbulence
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, is an irregular dwarf galaxy exhibiting evidence of recent and ongoing star formation. We performed a spatial clustering analysis of far-ultraviolet stars in the SMC younger than 150 Myr using data from the Ultra Violet Imaging Telescope onboard AstroSat. We identified 236 young stellar structures as surface overdensities at different significance levels. The sizes of these structures range from a few parsecs to several hund…

Exploring the Convergence of HCI and Evolving Technologies in Information Systems
Rajan Das Gupta, Ashikur Rahman, Md Imrul Hasan Showmick, Md. Yeasin Rahat, Md. Jakir Hossen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08549

Exploring the Convergence of HCI and Evolving Technologies in Information Systems
Modern technology driven information systems are part of our daily lives. However, this deep integration poses new challenges to the human computer interaction (HCI) professionals. With the rapid growth of mobile and cloud computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), the demand for HCI specialists to design user-friendly and adaptable interfaces has never been more pressing. Especially for diverse user groups such as children, the elderly and people with disabilities who need interfaces tailored…

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A Cloud-native Agile approach to cyber platform prototyping and integration for astronomy: the ENGAGE SKA case
The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Observatory is gearing up the formal construction of its two radio interferometers in Australia and South Africa after the end of design and pre-construction phases. Agile methodologies, the Cloud native Computing technologies and the DevOps software ideas are influencing the design of compute infrastructures that will be key to reduce the operational costs of SKA while improving the control and monitoring of the SKA antennas and ancillary systems, Correlators, …

"Es gibt einen Grund, warum man Militär und Polizei trennt. Das eine bekämpft die Feinde des Staates, die andere dient dem Volk und beschützt es. Wenn das Militär zu beidem wird, dann wird das Volk zum Feind des Staates."
- Admiral Adama, Battlestar Galactica

#silentSunday #RockyMountainNationalPark
#sunrise in Moraine Park. October 2015

Spoken Wisdom, Padhānasutta:" ExertionKinsman of the heedless,
Evil One,
come here for whatever purpose:
I haven’t, for merit,
even the least bit of need.
Those who have need of merit:
Those are the ones
Māra’s fit to address.
In me are
conviction
austerity,
persistence,
discernment.
Why, when my mind is resolute,
do you petition me to live?
This wind could burn up …

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Usability Evaluation of Cloud for HPC Applications
The rise of AI and the economic dominance of cloud computing have created a new nexus of innovation for high performance computing (HPC), which has a long history of driving scientific discovery. In addition to performance needs, scientific workflows increasingly demand capabilities of cloud environments: portability, reproducibility, dynamism, and automation. As converged cloud environments emerge, there is growing need to study their fit for HPC use cases. Here we present a cross-platform usa…

Breakfast scramble: sautéed yellow onion with two chopped sausages, 2 whisked eggs. Seasoned with “Chophouse Meats Cajun Seasoning with Jalapeño.” Topped with Mild Pace Picante sauce.
I picked up this seasoning at “Price Chopper” when I was in Manhattan, Kansas a couple weeks ago.
#CookWithWes

A five-month investigation found that data centers in Mexico, Chile, South Africa, the Netherlands, and the U.S. overhyped their economic benefits and downplayed environmental damage, especially their water use, even in drought zones.
https://www.themaybe.org/research/data-cen

Where Cloud Meets Cement

Combined Public Service Announcement and Today I Learned: if you have `CLICOLOR=1` on macOS, if you do an `ls` of a directory which is inside iCloud Drive, evicted files (i.e., those that cannot be immediately used, but need to be downloaded first from iCloud) show with a grey background… see below:
First, both files are in iCloud, but not locally available. They have a dotted cloud icons in the iCloud Status field of the Finder window, and a greyed background in the output of the `ls` …

Venus Cloud Research: Progress and Perspectives
Longkang Dai, Dmitrij V. Titov, Wencheng D. Shao, Xi Zhang, Jun Cui, Siteng Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06164

Venus Cloud Research: Progress and Perspectives
Venus has regained attention on the international stage with the approval of three new missions by ESA and NASA. As the twin sister of Earth, Venus exhibits a distinct atmosphere, which casts a veil of mystery over the planetary evolution and is of great scientific significance. One of the most important components of Venus-the cloud-is believed to have significantly regulated its climate evolution and affect the environmental habitability. However, due to sparse in-situ measurements and the li…

It's almost like the only way to prevent your entire life from being used against you is for someone to pass a law...
https://www.404media.co/airlines-dont-want-you-to-know-they-sold-your-flight-data-to-dhs/

Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.

so why don't we make @… vice-president of the european commission in charge of tech sovereignity, digital and internet things? https://berthub.eu/articles/po…

Sources: OpenAI plans to add Google Cloud to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, a surprising collaboration; source: the deal was finalized in May (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Silicate clouds and a circumplanetary disk in the YSES-1 #exoplanet system: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09174-w.epdf?sharing_token=RRmxpt1H4UGfhsYggN3LidRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MsHgms7qJzLfZGfJR11eb-vvEQdUtgFRiob9i301fI7DuGo7WWpkZLKlBCdxpBK5AtQvipTF21oU1Tw3IfH_O299ja-Dy3Oo4o1Q5VRXUCWJTPdjQkwk4zJQSkuuzQX2KL605kQMDx_pt1BkUCYmaMuZtqUaPN5_fJM4TPjD9jmnj-omY7Blc5Ec9TOMsfMKyPlLhSsEPzgSnJUW1HLYkK77XpgEtFG9-NFAgx02m_lsc8Ieb6pLEOQVNzzni3RmECgd88noZtE_Xg2P3BIsbi&tracking_referrer=www.theguardian.com -> Astronomers left puzzled by high-altitude clouds forming on young planet: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jun/10/astronomers-space-telescope-clouds-planet - experts say thick slabs of cloud in YSES-1 system could consist of mineral dust and iron, which would rain down.

Our Robocop Remake is a scene by scene, low or no budget reshoot of the scifi classic. Some of the new visions of the scenes are truly inspired. The one where he shoots that guy in the dick is the funniest thing I've seen in months.
https://youtu.be/YyKPJbYTxno?si=RyRZWTkz5UsX7OEJ…

[PODCAST] The problem(s) with platforms by #DemocracyWorks with #CoryDoctorow
https://pca.st/episode/026e66ba…

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CE-CoLLM: Efficient and Adaptive Large Language Models Through Cloud-Edge Collaboration
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable human-like predictive capabilities. However, it is challenging to deploy LLMs to provide efficient and adaptive inference services at the edge. This paper proposes a novel Cloud-Edge Collaboration framework for LLMs (CE-CoLLM) to tackle these challenges. First, we identify the transmission of LLM contextual data between the cloud and edge as a key performance bottleneck, which introduces substantial communication overhead that dominates overall in…

AWS = Amazon = Jeff Bezos, auf dem Schoß von Trump.
Corporate Presence.
European sovereign cloud.
Merkste selbst.
Souverän? Wer ist da souverän? Was bedeutet dieses sinnentleerte Wort? Nichts.
AWS establishes new German corporate presence to advance European sovereign cloud | TechCrunch

Greg Jenner supports the dehumanization of the hated demographic
#GregJenner #RespectYoungAdults

Dailymotion

Online Job Assignment
Farbod Ekbatani, Yiding Feng, Ian Kash, Rad Niazadeh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06893 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Online Job Assignment
Motivated primarily by applications in cloud computing, we study a simple, yet powerful, online allocation problem in which jobs of varying durations arrive over continuous time and must be assigned immediately and irrevocably to one of the available offline servers. Each server has a fixed initial capacity, with assigned jobs occupying one unit for their duration and releasing it upon completion. The algorithm earns a reward for each assignment upon completion. We consider a general heterogene…

Check out my new post for #HealOurCulture: “Belafonte and the Undertow - Understanding the Past to Heal the Future”
https://healourculture.org/2025/06/09/belafonte-and-the-und…

Meet the new Pope, same as the old Pope...
They'll all get fooled again!

Squeeze3D: Your 3D Generation Model is Secretly an Extreme Neural Compressor
Rishit Dagli, Yushi Guan, Sankeerth Durvasula, Mohammadreza Mofayezi, Nandita Vijaykumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07932

Squeeze3D: Your 3D Generation Model is Secretly an Extreme Neural Compressor
We propose Squeeze3D, a novel framework that leverages implicit prior knowledge learnt by existing pre-trained 3D generative models to compress 3D data at extremely high compression ratios. Our approach bridges the latent spaces between a pre-trained encoder and a pre-trained generation model through trainable mapping networks. Any 3D model represented as a mesh, point cloud, or a radiance field is first encoded by the pre-trained encoder and then transformed (i.e. compressed) into a highly com…

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Over-the-Air Learning-based Geometry Point Cloud Transmission
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Axion Superradiance in Dipole Magnetic Fields of Pulsars
We consider constraints on the axion-photon coupling by superradiance due to a plasma instability in the magnetospheres of millisecond pulsars. We compute the growth rate of a superradiant axion cloud in a dipole magnetic field, and give a semi-analytical formula for the superradiance rate for the lowest state. By requiring the associated instability time to be longer than the characteristic age of the supermassive black-widow millisecond pulsar PSR J0952-0607, we examine the pulsar-timing arra…

(1/4) “When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in 1 place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, & it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, & a tongue rested on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit & began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusal…

Multi-cloud crushing -- the collective survival of cold clouds in galactic outflows
Benedikt S. Seidl, Max Gronke, Ryan Jeffrey Farber, Klaus Dolag
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05448

Multi-cloud crushing -- the collective survival of cold clouds in galactic outflows
The ram-pressure acceleration of cold gas by hot outflows plays a crucial role in the dynamics of multiphase galactic winds. Recent numerical studies incorporating radiative cooling have identified a size threshold for idealized cold clouds to survive within high-velocity outflows. This study extends the investigation to a more complex morphology of cold gas as observed in the interstellar medium. We conduct three-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of ensembles of individual spherical clouds …

Surprisingly fun. Was stumped by the last enemy but got through by the skin of my teeth. https://llmarena.com

LLM Arena: a wolf versus a rabbit
This is a game in which two fighters compete in an arena controlled by LLM to determine who is the best. You control one fighter and can help them win by typing anything you think can help. The goal is to win using as few characters as possible.

Hoffnung ist eine Haltung, die es ermöglicht, immer wieder einen Schritt ins Ungewisse zu wagen.
Dougald Hine
Kein exaktes Zitat, aber sinngemäß
#Hoffnung
#Zitate
#LernenImWandel

Remember the Future?
On timeliness, desire and improvisation

MathPartner is a breakthrough technology for natural sciences education, scientic and engineering applications
Gennadi Malaschonok, Roman Sakh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03740

MathPartner is a breakthrough technology for natural sciences education, scientic and engineering applications
The article provides a brief description of the MathPartner service. This freely available cloud-based Mathematics is a universal system for symbolic-numeric calculations. Its Mathpar language is a subset of the LaTeX language, but allows you to create mathematical texts that contain "computable" mathematical operators. This opens up completely new opportunities for improving the educational process for all natural science disciplines, for the use of mathematics in scientific and engineering ca…

Sophisticated word play backed by the beats of hunted machinery. Previous Industries took me a few listens to get into. I appreciate that in hindsight. Acquired tastes are the ones that change the palette.
#MorningMusic
https://

Distillation Robustifies Unlearning
Bruce W. Lee, Addie Foote, Alex Infanger, Leni Shor, Harish Kamath, Jacob Goldman-Wetzler, Bryce Woodworth, Alex Cloud, Alexander Matt Turner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06278

Distillation Robustifies Unlearning
Current LLM unlearning methods are not robust: they can be reverted easily with a few steps of finetuning. This is true even for the idealized unlearning method of training to imitate an oracle model that was never exposed to unwanted information, suggesting that output-based finetuning is insufficient to achieve robust unlearning. In a similar vein, we find that training a randomly initialized student to imitate an unlearned model transfers desired behaviors while leaving undesired capabilitie…

In Europe and other regions we have laws mandating that electronic devices must be properly labelled with information about their energy consumption and some other externalities...
We should demand equivalent or at least similar measures for commercially distributed software, same for cloud services.
It would be a fun experience for us, software devs, being forced to acknowledge how terribly bad is the software we create.
We should be held accountable.
#software #ecologism

Toller Artikel im Guardian, der aufzeigt, wie sich das rechte, intelligente Milieu - meistens Richter - gegen den Volltrottel Trump wendet, der meint, das er der König von Amerika sei:
Trump’s tariffs have become his Vietnam – and the right is breaking ranks | Sidney Blumenthal | The Guardian
https://ww…

A New Path Forward for WordPress, and for the Open Web (JOOST.BLOG, 6 Jun 2025)
#edtech

A new path forward for WordPress, and for the open web
Back in December, I wrote about the state of leadership in the WordPress ecosystem. I shared how too much power rests with one person, and how the lack of clear governance puts contributors and businesses alike in difficult positions. That post ended with a call: we need to lead. That wasn’t rhetorical. It was a ... Read more

AidAI: Automated Incident Diagnosis for AI Workloads in the Cloud
Yitao Yang, Yangtao Deng, Yifan Xiong, Baochun Li, Hong Xu, Peng Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01481

AidAI: Automated Incident Diagnosis for AI Workloads in the Cloud
AI workloads experience frequent incidents due to intensive hardware utilization and extended training times. The current incident management workflow is provider-centric, where customers report incidents and place the entire troubleshooting responsibility on the infrastructure provider. However, the inherent knowledge gap between customer and provider significantly impacts incident resolution efficiency. In AI infrastructure, incidents may take several days on average to mitigate, resulting in…

Cloud-Based Interoperability in Residential Energy Systems
Darren Leniston, David Ryan, Ammar Malik, Jack Jackman, Terence O'Donnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05076

Cloud-Based Interoperability in Residential Energy Systems
As distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar PV, batteries and electric vehicles become increasingly prevalent at the edge, maintaining grid stability requires advanced monitoring and control mechanisms. This paper presents a scalable smart grid gateway architecture that enables interoperability between Modbus-based inverters and IEEE 2030.5 cloud-based control systems. The proposed solution leverages Azure cloud services and edge-computing gateway devices to support dynamic configurati…

📢 The 2025 GÉANT Innovation Programme has been awarded to the GÉANT Digital Research Environment (DRE) initiative!
Based on the @… Research Cloud, the initiative is a close collaboration between SURF & GÉANT.
Four NRENs —SUNET, Switch, HEAnet & Sikt — will also contribute with their own funding by establishing national tenancies of the GÉANT DRE.

GÉANT Innovation Programme awards its 2025 edition to Digital Research Environment (DRE) initiative | GÉANT CONNECT Online
The GÉANT Innovation Programme is excited to announce the award of its entire 2025 fund to the development of a GÉANT Digital Research Environment (DRE) and of a series of related Proof of Concepts. Based on the SURF Research Cloud, this digital platform will allow researchers and research organisations within NREN communities to build virtual

Jerry Falwell and #MeToo agree that men who want sex are evil.
When Christian Fundamentalist Conservatives and Radical Feminists agree, people who still have some common sense need to stick together and fight for sanity.

Heather_860
The Democrats Are Now The Moral Majority - in the worst possible way One of the most fascinating things in the last few decades of U.S. politics is the total reversal of the sex-positive vs sex-negative positions of the two main parties. In the 80s and 90s the Republicans were the party of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority. The sex-phobic Puritan idiots were all in the GOP. The sex-positive enjoy life and don't suppress healthy natural desires party was the Democrats. In the 90s the …

Fading in the Flow: Suppression of cold gas growth in expanding galactic outflows
Alankar Dutta, Prateek Sharma, Max Gronke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08545

Fading in the Flow: Suppression of cold gas growth in expanding galactic outflows
Multiwavelength observations reveal multiphase outflows that play a crucial role in redistributing gas and metals in and around galaxies. Theoretical modelling of such multiphase outflows often employs wind tunnel simulations of a spherical cold ($\sim 10^4 \ \rm K$) cloud facing a uniform hot ($\sim 10^6\ \rm K$) wind. However, outflows are naturally expanding and wind conditions change downstream -- a crucial aspect overlooked in most idealized simulations. To address this, we examine how an …

I participated in my local Hands Off march today. Worried that Trump's DHS is using the opportunity to add names and faces to his enemies list, I went phone off, hood up, mask and sunglasses on.
The others must have thought I was there as a narc.
#HandsOff #ElbowsUp

Check out the recipe for my latest summer cook: “Carolina Umami Chicken Skewers”
https://food.wesfryer.com/2025/06/07/carolina-umami-chicken-skewers/
My chicken and vegetables marinades were a collaboration with ChatGPT, inspired by the recent Hard Fork Podca…

The Cloud Next Door: Investigating the Environmental and Socioeconomic Strain of Datacenters on Local Communities
Wacuka Ngata, Noman Bashir, Michelle Westerlaken, Laurent Liote, Yasra Chandio, Elsa Olivetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03367

The Cloud Next Door: Investigating the Environmental and Socioeconomic Strain of Datacenters on Local Communities
Datacenters have become the backbone of modern digital infrastructure, powering the rapid rise of artificial intelligence and promising economic growth and technological progress. However, this expansion has brought growing tensions in the local communities where datacenters are already situated or being proposed. While the mainstream discourse often focuses on energy usage and carbon footprint of the computing sector at a global scale, the local socio-environmental consequences -- such as heal…

Bei dem Begriff "AI Literacy" handelt es sich um ein Oxymoron:
https://open.substack.com/pub/themindfile/p/against-ai-literacy-have-we…

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

“Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://www.marshall.edu/onemarshallu/i-have-a-dream/

KPIRoot : An Efficient Integrated Framework for Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis in Large-Scale Cloud Systems
Wenwei Gu, Renyi Zhong, Guangba Yu, Xinying Sun, Jinyang Liu, Yintong Huo, Zhuangbin Chen, Jianping Zhang, Jiazhen Gu, Yongqiang Yang, Michael R. Lyu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04569

KPIRoot+: An Efficient Integrated Framework for Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Analysis in Large-Scale Cloud Systems
To ensure the reliability of cloud systems, their performance is monitored using KPIs (key performance indicators). When issues arise, root cause localization identifies KPIs responsible for service degradation, aiding in quick diagnosis and resolution. Traditional methods rely on similarity calculations, which can be ineffective in complex, interdependent cloud environments. While deep learning-based approaches model these dependencies better, they often face challenges such as high computatio…

I spend $100 a month on Bandcamp instead of #11.99 a month on Spotify because I support artists.
#BandcampFriday

Generating representative macrobenchmark microservice systems from distributed traces with Palette
Vaastav Anand, Matheus Stolet, Jonathan Mace, Antoine Kaufmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06448

Generating representative macrobenchmark microservice systems from distributed traces with Palette
Microservices are the dominant design for developing cloud systems today. Advancements for microservice need to be evaluated in representative systems, e.g. with matching scale, topology, and execution patterns. Unfortunately in practice, researchers and practitioners alike often do not have access to representative systems. Thus they have to resort to sub-optimal non-representative alternatives, e.g. small and oversimplified synthetic benchmark systems or simulated system models instead. …

A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.

Bandcamp Friday, the one day a month when musicians get a bigger slice of the pie.
(links in the Alt)
#BandcampFriday #Music

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DeepServe: Serverless Large Language Model Serving at Scale
In this paper, we propose DEEPSERVE, a scalable and serverless AI platform designed to efficiently serve large language models (LLMs) at scale in cloud environments. DEEPSERVE addresses key challenges such as resource allocation, serving efficiency, and cold start latencies through four main design components. First, DEEPSERVE uses a simple serverless abstraction called the request-job-task model, which helps manage diverse AI workloads across posttraining and model-serving tasks. Second, DEEPS…

Check out my new post for #HealOurCulture: “Healing the Broken Narrative”
https://healourculture.org/2025/06/03/healing-the-broken-narrative/
Also on Subst…

Deployability-Centric Infrastructure-as-Code Generation: An LLM-based Iterative Framework
Tianyi Zhang, Shidong Pan, Zejun Zhang, Zhenchang Xing, Xiaoyu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05623

Deployability-Centric Infrastructure-as-Code Generation: An LLM-based Iterative Framework
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) generation holds significant promise for automating cloud infrastructure provisioning. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) present a promising opportunity to democratize IaC development by generating deployable infrastructure templates from natural language descriptions, but current evaluation focuses on syntactic correctness while ignoring deployability, the fatal measure of IaC template utility. We address this gap through two contributions: (1) IaCGen…

Simulating High-Velocity Clouds in the Observational Plane: An Initial Study with the Smith Cloud
Lori E. Porter, Matthew Abruzzo, Greg L. Bryan, Mary Putman, Yong Zheng, Drummond Fielding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00111

Simulating High-Velocity Clouds in the Observational Plane: An Initial Study with the Smith Cloud
High-velocity clouds (HVCs) may fuel future star formation in the Milky Way, but they must first survive their passage through the hot halo. While recent work has improved our understanding of the survival criterion for cloud-wind interactions, few observational comparisons exist that test this criterion. We therefore present an initial comparison of simulations with the Smith Cloud (SC; $d=$ 12.4 kpc, $l, b = 40^{\circ}, -13^{\circ}$) as mapped with the GALFA-HI survey. We use the Smith Cloud'…

Rich guys get rich, and stay rich, by getting the public to pay for whatever they need...
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/02/cuomo-legal-war-sexual-harassment-accusers-19-million/

Inside Cuomo’s State-Funded Legal War Against the Women Who Accused Him of Sexual Harassment
A review by THE CITY of thousands of pages of court documents paints the most complete picture of how intensely he is battling the women who stepped forward.

(1/3) Please join me today on Zoom at 12pm ET / 11am CT / 10am MT / 9am PT for "Beyond the Algorithmic Feed," a free MediaEd Club webinar for the Media Education Lab:
https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/beyond-algorithmic-feed
While som…

"When this beer is done, you're next."
What other threatening ad copy could have accompanied this image?

Navigating the Edge-Cloud Continuum: A State-of-Practice Survey
Loris Belcastro, Fabrizio Marozzo, Alessio Orsino, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02003

Navigating the Edge-Cloud Continuum: A State-of-Practice Survey
The edge-cloud continuum has emerged as a transformative paradigm that meets the growing demand for low-latency, scalable, end-to-end service delivery by integrating decentralized edge resources with centralized cloud infrastructures. Driven by the exponential growth of IoT-generated data and the need for real-time responsiveness, this continuum features multi-layered architectures. However, its adoption is hindered by infrastructural challenges, fragmented standards, and limited guidance for d…

[VIDEO] The Government Knows AGI is Coming | The Ezra Klein Show
#AI

Dense clumps survive in the vicinity of R136 in 30 Doradus
M. T. Valdivia-Mena (Departamento de Astronom\'ia, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, Max-Planck-Institut f\"ur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany, European Southern Observatory, Garching bei Munchen, Germany), M. Rubio (Departamento de Astronom\'ia, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile), V. M. Kalari (Gemini Observatory/NSF's NOIRLab, La Serena, Chile), H. Salda\~no (Instituto de Investigaciones…

Dense clumps survive in the vicinity of R136 in 30 Doradus
Context: The young massive cluster R136 at the center of 30 Doradus (30 Dor) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) generates a cavity in the surrounding molecular cloud. However, there is molecular gas between 2 and 10 pc in projection from R136's center. The region, known as the Stapler nebula, hosts the closest known molecular gas clouds to R136. Aims: We investigated the properties of molecular gas in the Stapler nebula to better understand why these clouds survive so close in projection to R1…

Elric may be Moorcock's most popular Eternal Champion, but Corum's my main man.
Corum doesn't angst about.
Corum doesn't bargain.
Corum gets shit done.

Please join me on July 7th for next month's MediaEd Club webinar for the Media Education Lab: "Privacy, Power, and Platforms"
https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/privacy-power-and-platforms
If you missed today's / this month…

The government would *never* misuse their vast and terrifying domestic spying capabilities for evil. The people who *work* for the government, on the other hand....
https://www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-searched-license-plate-cameras-…

A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion
The sheriff said the woman self-administered the abortion and her family were concerned for her safety, so authorities searched through Flock cameras. Experts are still concerned that a cop in a state where abortion is illegal can search cameras in others where it's a human right.

Distance to the Galactic centre 7$^\prime$ halo from HI absorption
Debangan Maji, Subhashis Roy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02799 https://

Distance to the Galactic centre 7$^\prime$ halo from HI absorption
Using archival data, we have made an HI absorption study of the 7$^\prime$ halo surrounding the Sgr A complex, observed towards the Galactic centre (GC) region. We find strong HI absorption near velocities of $-$53 km s$^{-1}$, which is due to the 3-kpc arm, placing it beyond 5 kpc from us. We further examined the HI absorption properties towards 5 different parts of the 7$^\prime$ halo. Absorption by +50 km s$^{-1}$ GC cloud is seen towards only 3 parts of the halo, but not towards the other 2…

“…those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength...”
‭‭Isaiah€ ‭40€:‭31€
Gifts and Graces - Pray As You Go
#dw4jc

Gifts and graces - Pray As You Go
Welcome to the Saturday Examen. Today we celebrate the feast of the Visitation, when Mary travelled to visit her cousin Elizabeth after receiving the message of the angel Gabriel and sang her Magnificat in praise of God’s saving power. Dur...

Carbon-Aware Temporal Data Transfer Scheduling Across Cloud Datacenters
Elvis Rodrigues, Jacob Goldverg, Tevfik Kosar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04117 http…

Carbon-Aware Temporal Data Transfer Scheduling Across Cloud Datacenters
Inter-datacenter communication is a significant part of cloud operations and produces a substantial amount of carbon emissions for cloud data centers, where the environmental impact has already been a pressing issue. In this paper, we present a novel carbon-aware temporal data transfer scheduling framework, called LinTS, which promises to significantly reduce the carbon emission of data transfers between cloud data centers. LinTS produces a competitive transfer schedule and makes scaling decisi…

So today, I asked an AI to design a scientific study. The prompt was 5 paragraphs long.
It's been 27 minutes since I pushed that button, and it just started writing!

Good listen: #AngryPlanet [PODCAST] America’s Favorite Gunfighters and the Birth of the Old West (subscriber episode)
https://open.substack.com/pub/angrypla

America’s Favorite Gunfighters and the Birth of the Old West
America loves the Western.

Fight Club sells short the challenge of building an engaged audience for one's work.

KVCache Cache in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing KVCache Cache at a Large Cloud Provider
Jiahao Wang, Jinbo Han, Xingda Wei, Sijie Shen, Dingyan Zhang, Chenguang Fang, Rong Chen, Wenyuan Yu, Haibo Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02634

KVCache Cache in the Wild: Characterizing and Optimizing KVCache Cache at a Large Cloud Provider
Serving large language models (LLMs) is important for cloud providers, and caching intermediate results (KV\$) after processing each request substantially improves serving throughput and latency. However, there is limited understanding of how LLM serving benefits from KV\$ caching, where system design decisions like cache eviction policies are highly workload-dependent. In this paper, we present the first systematic characterization of the KV\$ workload patterns from one of the leading LLM serv…

The 2025 Student Guide to AI by #ElonUniversity (no relation to #ElonMusk of course)
https://

This water station will limit my ability to taunt the runners...
#rockandrollmarathon

(1/2) Can you trust what you hear? 🎧 Episode 344 of the EdTech Situation Room (from 15 Jan 2025) explores AI voice tech, misinformation, and media ethics in the digital age.
on Substack:
https://open.substack.com/p…

🚨 Encryption isn’t optional anymore. In EdTechSR Episode 342: Jason & I discuss why the FBI wants you on Signal, Google’s antitrust headaches, and AI tools that’ll blow your mind.
🎙️ https://edtechsr.com/2025/05/30/edtechsr-ep-342-encrypted-by-default/

EdTechSR Ep 342 Encrypted by Default
where technology news meets educational analysis Welcome to episode 342 (“Encrypted by Default”) of the EdTech Situation Room from December 18, 2024, where technology news meets educational analysis. This week, Dr. Jason Neiffer (aicentrist.com) and Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) unpacked the FBI’s unprecedented advice urging Americans to use encrypted messaging apps like Signal and WhatsApp, discussing the implications for personal privacy, national security, and school digital literacy…

My haul from #WonderCon

Bridging Global Frameworks: Governance Strategies Behind Cisco Common Control Framework v4.0 for Scalable Cloud Compliance
Nishant Sonkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01984

Bridging Global Frameworks: Governance Strategies Behind Cisco Common Control Framework v4.0 for Scalable Cloud Compliance
CCF v4.0 provides a standard way to ensure that Cisco's cloud products comply with the many quickly evolving requirements worldwide. To cope with increasing demands brought by ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, FedRAMP, EU CRA, DORA, and NIS2, CCF v4.0 introduces reliable governance by grouping controls using modules mapped across many frameworks. In this document, I discuss the governance structure controlling the framework's progress, noting how the CAB helped and the relevant steps for mapping and vali…

The Way, and the Truth, and the Life - Pray As You Go
https://prayasyougo.org/prayer/the-way-and-the-truth-and-the-life-2684
Image generated by Wes Fryer using ChatGPT, edited with Canva for iOS.

The way, and the truth, and the life - Pray As You Go
Today is Friday the 16th of May, in the 4th week of Eastertide.    The Kyiv Chamber Choir sing the Credo: “I believe in one God, the Father almighty, creator of heaven and earth.” As I start this prayer today, can I join in with this strong...

Usability Evaluation of Cloud for HPC Applications
Vanessa Sochat, Daniel Milroy, Abhik Sarkar, Aniruddha Marathe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02709 https://…

Usability Evaluation of Cloud for HPC Applications
The rise of AI and the economic dominance of cloud computing have created a new nexus of innovation for high performance computing (HPC), which has a long history of driving scientific discovery. In addition to performance needs, scientific workflows increasingly demand capabilities of cloud environments: portability, reproducibility, dynamism, and automation. As converged cloud environments emerge, there is growing need to study their fit for HPC use cases. Here we present a cross-platform usa…

Helpful showing all data websites / trackers can gather about you:
https://ipleak.net/
via my new browser experiment: LibreWolf (custom version of FireFox)
https://librewolf.net/

IP/DNS Detect
What is your IP, what is your DNS, check your torrent IP, what informations you send to websites.

🗳️ A new virtual summit is in the works—uniting educators, activists, artists & citizens to resist authoritarianism defend democracy. 🛠️ Help shape the vision: take the planning survey − bit.ly/4jhX8tR
#Resist #Democracy

I like Ike.
(That includes the 91% top marginal income tax rate for the wealthiest Americans during his presidency.)
#Eisenhower #HistoryMatters #TaxFairness

“America’s Pivot to the Pacific” by #AngryPlanet [PODCAST]
https://pca.st/episode/535d72f1-3347-4b94-b69c-3ddba08c83cca

“Just over 100 graduates in the USAFA Class of 2025 are commissioning directly into the US Space Force.”
Dr. Troy E. Meink, Secretary of the USAF

Chrome extensions, short-form content, Substack clips, and tech ethics — it’s all in #EdTechSR 343 “Clickbait & Chrome!” from 1 Jan 2025!
on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/live/JnYFfkf0eAA
…

Great point by Karen Hao in this [PODCAST] interview: Open AI has become an EMPIRE like the East India Trading Company did historically. Acting with impunity for their own self interests w/o nation-state consequences.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/130137015?utm_campaign=posts…

Weaponized Storytelling: How AI Is Helping Researchers Sniff Out Disinformation Campaigns (The Conversation, 28 May 2025)
https://theconversation.com/weaponized-storytelling-how-ai-is-helping-researchers-sniff-out-disinf…

Weaponized storytelling: How AI is helping researchers sniff out disinformation campaigns
Disinformation campaigns are using AI to tell false but compelling stories. AI tools are also helping counter the campaigns by detecting incongruities in usernames, cultural references and timelines.

“Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.”
‭‭John€ ‭15€:‭4€ ‭NRSV€€
https://bible.com/bible/2016/jhn.15.4.NRSV
The True Vine

John 15:4 Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. | New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) | Download The Bible App Now
Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.

(1/2) Here is the link to a webpage featuring the 32 InfoPics my 7th grade students created to advertise our local “World Refugee Day” on Saturday, June 21, 2025, as well as the overall, important work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, North Carolina:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/c

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - RSS
These are InfoPics 7th graders at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, created in May 2025 to support and amplify the work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, a local non-profit connected with our office of community engagement. Please use them to share about RSS, amplify

Google’s AI Chief on the State of Artificial Intelligence (New York Times, 23 May 2025)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/podcasts/google-ai-demis-hassabi…

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on AGI, Innovation and More
Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind, says that “we’re quite close” to human-level artificial intelligence. After that, all bets are off.

Nordic countries are serious about emergency preparations. We should be too.
https://apnews.com/video/how-norwegians-are-preparing-for-emergencies-1fb35749bdfa4905be8caef5feabb5d2

How Norwegians are preparing for emergencies
Local authorities in Norway have dusted off Cold War-era bomb shelters, installed a new satellite communications system and are working with the military on plans to help a deployment of Western forces in case of conflict.

“In all this I have given you an example that by such work we must support the weak…” Acts€ ‭20€:‭35€
#dw4jc #Jesus #JesusFollower

I recorded a new episode (#483) of my "Moving at the Speed of Creativity" podcast, which is 20 years old this year in 2025! I titled it, "Creativity, Code, and Compassion: AI Lessons from Middle School and Beyond."
https://www.spee…

A Deeper Connection - Pray As You Go #dw4jc #Jesus

A deeper connection - Pray As You Go
Today is Monday the 19th of May, in the 5th week of Eastertide.     The community of Taizé sing, ‘Holy Spirit, come to us. Kindle in us the fire of your love.’    Veni Sancte Spiritus  Tui amoris ignem accende Today’s reading is from the Go...