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Dans la Meuse, des centaines de participants Š une manifestation antifasciste
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2026/02/07/taverne-de-thor-des-centaines-de-participants-a-un…

Dans la Meuse, des centaines de participants à une manifestation antifasciste
Les manifestants ont défendu la fermeture de La Taverne de Thor, un hangar agricole reconverti en salle de sport mais qui selon les organisateurs sert de lieu de réunion pour les membres d’un groupe néonazi présent dans plusieurs pays, les Hammerskins.

Q&A with TPM founder Josh Marshall on the rise of independent journalism, early blogging vs. newsletters, and feeling bullish about the media ecosystem (Thor Benson/Long Lead Presents)
https://depthperception.longlead.com/p/tpm-josh…

TPM’s Josh Marshall on blogs, newsletters, and independent journalism's resurgence
Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall says independent journalists’ success is the "sustainable" solution to traditional media’s woes.

How ICE turned into what it is today (Thor Benson/madness)
https://madness.ghost.io/how-ice-turned-into-what-it-is-today/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p36#a260202p36

Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this video of a #GiganticJet TLE on July 20th, 2024 as part of the DTU/ESA Thor-Davis experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN2J7_rOBJY - see also the thread https://bsky.app/profile/stim3on.bsky.social/post/3mdo7l4572k2u

Learning to Build Shapes by Extrusion
Thor Vestergaard Christiansen, Karran Pandey, Alba Reinders, Karan Singh, Morten Rieger Hannemose, J. Andreas B{\ae}rentzen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22858 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22858 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22858
arXiv:2601.22858v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We introduce Text Encoded Extrusion (TEE), a text-based representation that expresses mesh construction as sequences of face extrusions rather than polygon lists, and a method for generating 3D meshes from TEE using a large language model (LLM). By learning extrusion sequences that assemble a mesh, similar to the way artists create meshes, our approach naturally supports arbitrary output face counts and produces manifold meshes by design, in contrast to recent transformer-based models. The learnt extrusion sequences can also be applied to existing meshes - enabling editing in addition to generation. To train our model, we decompose a library of quadrilateral meshes with non-self-intersecting face loops into constituent loops, which can be viewed as their building blocks, and finetune an LLM on the steps for reassembling the meshes by performing a sequence of extrusions. We demonstrate that our representation enables reconstruction, novel shape synthesis, and the addition of new features to existing meshes.
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