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"Wolves are thriving again across western Europe. Is it time to bring them back to the UK?"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Wolves

Ireland attracts film producers by offering experienced crews, versatile locations, and tax incentives letting producers claim back 32% of spending up to $134M (Becky Lucas/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gen

Why Ireland Is Thriving as a Shooting Destination
Whether it’s last year’s Oscar champ ‘The Banshees of Inisherin,’ the Apple TV+ hit ‘Bad Sisters’ or this year’s Berlinale opener ‘Small Things Like These,’ the Emerald Isle continues to lure producers thanks to experienced crews, generous tax incentives, and a wealth of versatile locations: "There's still so much of Ireland that hasn't been on screen yet."

That's unexpected. There are more - lots more - giant redwood trees in the UK than in California!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68518623

Giant redwoods: World’s largest trees 'thriving in UK'
A survey of giant redwoods growing in the UK reveals the trees are doing well - and growing fast.

Apple says Spotify was the "primary advocate" and "biggest beneficiary" of the EU's ruling, Spotify pays Apple nothing, and that "free isn't enough for Spotify" (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/03/the…

The App Store, Spotify, and Europe’s thriving digital music market
Today, the European Commission announced a decision about the App Store and competition in the digital music market.

From US perspective...
Best case: a weak Iran, tied up supporting small scale regional conflicts
Middle case: bomb them to dust just like Iraq
Worst case: A thriving Iranian economy building partnerships w other Arab nations, able to join together to resist US influence

Morons: They are so brainwashed that they become nothing but mindless money pumps to be used by rightwing scammers...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/11/anti-woke-vitamin-economy

I have today proposed renaming #BRICS to #ChIVEs, in order to
(a) Get away from the horror that is "BRICS Plus" and variants
(b) Keep alive the thriving punning ecosystem built around the old name
(c) Reflect how China can make you cry, or can make you socially unacceptable.
Let’s rename BRICS to ChIVEs, and admit South Africa’s place in the world
https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/columnists/phillipdewet/phillip-de-wet-lets-rename-brics-to-chives-and-admit-south-africas-place-in-the-world-20240307

"Restored coral reefs can grow as fast as healthy reefs after just four years – new study"
#Coral #CoralReef #Environment

Restored coral reefs can grow as fast as healthy reefs after just four years – new study
Artificial reef stars have been added to damaged coral reefs in Sulawesi, Indonesia. A new study shows that within just four years, restored reefs are thriving as much as healthy reefs.

From US perspective...
Best case: a weak Iran, tied up supporting small scale regional conflicts
Middle case: bomb them to dust just like Iraq
Worst case: A thriving Iranian economy building partnerships w other Arab nations, able to join together to resist US influence

🏗️ A tale of two downtowns in L.A.: As offices languish, apartments thrive
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-05-02/a-tale-of-two-downtowns-office-towers-are-empty-but-apartments-are-full…

As offices languish, luxury apartments thrive in downtown L.A.
A new luxury residential tower in downtown L.A. reflects an unusual disconnect: While office rentals continue to struggle, downtown as a residential center is thriving.

遅かれ早かれではあったけど、Blueskyからついにジャック・ドーシーが抜けた。
https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3krreazpfpu2t

Apple says Spotify was the "primary advocate" and "biggest beneficiary" of the EU's ruling, Spotify pays Apple nothing, and that "free isn't enough for Spotify" (Apple)
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/03/the…

The App Store, Spotify, and Europe’s thriving digital music market
Today, the European Commission announced a decision about the App Store and competition in the digital music market.

Facebook is allowing users to buy and sell Facebook accounts that can run political ads in India,
raising concerns they could be used for election interference in that country, the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) has found.
Facebook parent company Meta’s policies ban the sale, purchase, or exchange of accounts.
But TTP found multiple Facebook users selling accounts they said are authorized to advertise on politics and election issues in India.
TTP did not engage with …

TTP - Facebook Black Market for Ad Accounts Looms Over India Election
Facebook hosts a thriving black market for fake and stolen accounts. Some sellers are offering accounts that can run political ads in India, raising election interference fears.

Six Hypotheses for Accelerating the Lunar Economy: #lunar economy: https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/tech-for-thriving-lunar-economy - DARPA highlighted the need for technologies related to central heating and cooling, lunar prospecting, and new lunar navigation concepts.

It's official: Jack Dorsey left Bluesky.
In my opinion it is a good news for bluesky and the AT protocol.
#JackDorsey

Know anyone looking for a place to park their laptop in Köniz, the thriving suburb of Bern? https://www.tutti.ch/de/vi/bern/immobilien/gewerbeobjekte/coworking-platz-im-zentralen-sharedspace-in-koeniz/65553430<…

Advances in Differential Privacy and Differentially Private Machine Learning
Saswat Das, Subhankar Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04706 https://<…

Advances in Differential Privacy and Differentially Private Machine Learning
There has been an explosion of research on differential privacy (DP) and its various applications in recent years, ranging from novel variants and accounting techniques in differential privacy to the thriving field of differentially private machine learning (DPML) to newer implementations in practice, like those by various companies and organisations such as census bureaus. Most recent surveys focus on the applications of differential privacy in particular contexts like data publishing, specifi…

A probe finds a black market for Facebook accounts that have received approval to run political ads during India's general election, raising interference fears (Tech Transparency Project)
https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/ar

TTP - Facebook Black Market for Ad Accounts Looms Over India Election
Facebook hosts a thriving black market for fake and stolen accounts. Some sellers are offering accounts that can run political ads in India, raising election interference fears.

How international gold dealers exploited a tiny African kingdom’s economic dream
Eswatini’s king professed to have a bold plan for a thriving economic zone. ICIJ uncovered two phantom gold refineries channeling millions of dollars to Dubai through it.
https://www.

How international gold dealers exploited a tiny African kingdom’s economic dream - ICIJ
Eswatini’s king professed to have a bold plan for a thriving economic zone. ICIJ uncovered two phantom gold refineries channeling millions of dollars to Dubai through it.

“A sign of the scale of #’Twitter’s bot problem is the thriving #botindustry. Bot makers from around the world advertise their services on freelancer websites.
A computer scientist in Pakistan, sells "ChatGPT Twitter bots" for $30 to $500, depending on complexity.
In an interview with the ABC …he said could make a "fully fledged" bot that could "like comments o…

Twitter is becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods the internet
The internet is filling up with machine-generated "zombie content" designed to game algorithms and scam humans. Experts call it the "great AI flood".

🏉 ‘Fast, brutal, brilliant’: NRL’s Las Vegas gamble comes up trumps
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/mar/03/fast-brutal-brilliant-nrls-las-vegas-gamble-comes-up-trumps

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03562 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_…

ID-centric Pre-training for Recommendation
Classical sequential recommendation models generally adopt ID embeddings to store knowledge learned from user historical behaviors and represent items. However, these unique IDs are challenging to be transferred to new domains. With the thriving of pre-trained language model (PLM), some pioneer works adopt PLM for pre-trained recommendation, where modality information (e.g., text) is considered universal across domains via PLM. Unfortunately, the behavioral information in ID embeddings is still…

Sharing this because its also a bit how my Thursday went. Hyggekoding (cosy coding? Fun coding?, doesn't translate well!) is when you get your teeth into a fun little programming problem.
Torsdags Trivsel translates literally as Thursday thriving or more like Thursday wellness.
https://norrebro.s…

Embracing #OpenTelemetry: A Step-by-Step guide to transitioning from #Micrometer to OpenTelemetry using #SpringBoot and Buildpacks

Did you know early bird registrations for #TNC24 tickets are still open? The location for this year’s TNC is Rennes, which has a thriving #digital #industry and is a true hotspot for

An investigation finds a black market for Facebook accounts that have approval to run political ads during India's general election, raising interference fears (Tech Transparency Project)
https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/ar

TTP - Facebook Black Market for Ad Accounts Looms Over India Election
Facebook hosts a thriving black market for fake and stolen accounts. Some sellers are offering accounts that can run political ads in India, raising election interference fears.

The Active Communities Plan isn't dead but is now the Biking and Rolling plan and has been delayed "to be responsive to community needs." It will seek to find ways "goals can be reworked to focus on vibrancy, economic vitality and thriving communities." #BikeSF

Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/x-twitter-elon-musk-nazi-extremist-white-nationalist-accounts-rcna145020

Verified pro-Nazi X accounts flourish under Elon Musk
Elon Musk’s X is a thriving hub for Nazi support and propaganda, with paid subscribers sharing speeches by Hitler or content praising his genocidal regime.

#Trump calls on Alabama to protect #IVF treatment after bombshell ruling | The Hill
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Trump calls on Alabama to protect IVF treatment after bombshell ruling
Former President Trump voiced support Friday for preserving access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments in the wake of a controversial Alabama court ruling that frozen embryos are people. “Under my leadership, the Republican Party will always support the creation of strong, thriving, healthy American families. We want to make it easier for mothers and…

"Yale has never given up the God-ness within its culture ... It looks different, but it is still here, it is still present, it is still thriving.”
—Comments by Yale's new chaplain, Maytal Saltiel, in this article from Yale Alumni Magazine
https://www.yal…

New chaplain says God is not dead at Yale
Maytal Saltiel is the first non-Christian to serve as university chaplain.

The fungal pathogen that causes valley fever is thriving in the American West—and intensifying atmospheric rivers could be to blame
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/valley-fever-cases-surge-after-californi…

Valley Fever Cases Surge after California's Atmospheric River Downpour
The fungal pathogen that causes valley fever is thriving in the American West—and intensifying atmospheric rivers could be to blame

"""
The great reorganization of Germany in 1803, the last act of the Holy Roman Empire before its abolition, is often seen as the traumatic result of Napoleon's overwhelming defeat of various German armies and his gobbling-up of the Rhine. But the damage had in many ways been done much earlier with the partitions of Poland [and Lithuania]. Looked at now, these seem pieces of insanity. It had been clear, if surprising, since the early eighteenth century and the victories of Peter the Great that Russia was to be as big a factor in European politics as Britain (both countries flanking Europe and, in their different ways, impervious to normal attack). It should have been in everyone's interest to keep Poland as a cheerful, thriving buffer, but instead, for careless, short-term reasons the Prussians, Austrians and Russians carved Poland into non-existence. Aside from the rights of the Poles to an ancient and, for centuries, highly successful state, this international piracy meant that Germans and Russians now shared a border — an issue that was to define international politics until Soviet tanks arrived in Berlin in 1945. […]
"""
(Simon Winder, Germania)

My contribution on #Xitter just now:
If you can deadname your kid, we can deadname your app, Elon.
That once-thriving place known as Twitter
is dying on the vine: a no-hitter.
When a billionaire bought it,
Its best members forgot it.
They fled as Musk raged and turned bitter.

Elon Musk demands users stop ‘deadnaming’ Twitter after Stephen King trolls the billionaire
In a recent clash on social media, Elon Musk accused Stephen King of ‘deadnaming’ the platform formerly known as Twitter, now X.

Unleash your inner urban farmer with this creation - customized self-watering planters for a thriving harvest!

#futureurbanfarmer #garden #gardenlife

"Access & use of #publicsector documents & political speeches are key to a thriving #democracy and civil society as they ensure transparency and accountability. Copyright & paywalls, however, can render access to these materials difficult or expensive.
Today we are proposing EU …

Access to and use of public sector documents and public speeches – new policy paper
Despite the importance of public sector documents as well as public speeches, they are not necessarily publicly available as they can be protected under copyright and hidden behind paywalls. Where this is the case, access to, and use of, these materials can be difficult or prohibitively expensive. This paper addresses many areas where existing European legislation, notably the Open Data Directive, falls short, and presents European-level policy options to remove copyright barriers and ensure th…

A look at the underground floppy disk music scene; Discogs data shows 500 floppy music releases in the 2020s, more than in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s combined (Alexis Ong/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24034551/floppy-disk-music-scene-underground-d…

Flop rock: inside the underground floppy disk music scene
Floppy disks are slowly dying out, but a DIY music scene is still thriving on platforms like Discogs and Bandcamp.

ID-centric Pre-training for Recommendation
Yiqing Wu, Ruobing Xie, Zhao Zhang, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xu Zhang, Leyu Lin, Zhanhui Kang, Yongjun Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03562

ID-centric Pre-training for Recommendation
Classical sequential recommendation models generally adopt ID embeddings to store knowledge learned from user historical behaviors and represent items. However, these unique IDs are challenging to be transferred to new domains. With the thriving of pre-trained language model (PLM), some pioneer works adopt PLM for pre-trained recommendation, where modality information (e.g., text) is considered universal across domains via PLM. Unfortunately, the behavioral information in ID embeddings is still…

🌱 Climate experts sound alarm over thriving plant life at Greenland ice sheet
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/13/flourishing-vegetation-greenland-ice-sheet-alarm-climate-crisis

Congratulations to Yale Institute of Sacred Music on their 50th anniversary! Watch this new video to learn more about the ISM's history and what it has become: a thriving international community that explores and fosters faith through worship, music, and other forms of artistic expression. https://buff.ly/3U8nwfl<…

A look at the decline of cable TV networks like USA Network, Discovery Channel, and MTV; MTV's 2023 average prime-time audience was 256K, down from 807K in 2014 (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/television-

They are TV's ghosts — networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore
Cable television is filled with ghosts. They're networks that somehow survive as shadows of themselves, with schedules clogged with reruns and devoid of any real innovation. Fueled by the onset of streaming, this has come on quickly: once-thriving networks like USA, MTV, Disney and BET have lost more than half of their viewers in only a decade. As they fade, so are the communities they helped to create. Streaming has revolutionized how people watch TV, and industry leaders have raced toward wha…

Climate crisis increases fears of glacial lake flood in Peru
In 1941, thousands of people died in Huaraz when the natural dam on a lake above the city gave way.
Now, melting glaciers are raising the chances of it happening again
When disaster struck in 1941, Huaraz had a population of 12,000;
It is now a thriving city of 120,000 people.
“It’s one of the world’s only examples of a major city sitting right beneath a potential risk of a glacial lake flood,” say…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.07220 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_ees…

KVQ: Kaleidoscope Video Quality Assessment for Short-form Videos
Short-form UGC video platforms, like Kwai and TikTok, have been an emerging and irreplaceable mainstream media form, thriving on user-friendly engagement, and kaleidoscope creation, etc. However, the advancing content-generation modes, e.g., special effects, and sophisticated processing workflows, e.g., de-artifacts, have introduced significant challenges to recent UGC video quality assessment: (i) the ambiguous contents hinder the identification of quality-determined regions. (ii) the diverse …

A look at the decline of cable TV networks like USA Network, Discovery Channel, and MTV; MTV's 2023 average prime-time audience was 256K, down from 807K in 2014 (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/television-

They are TV's ghosts — networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore
Cable television is filled with ghosts. They're networks that somehow survive as shadows of themselves, with schedules clogged with reruns and devoid of any real innovation. Fueled by the onset of streaming, this has come on quickly: once-thriving networks like USA, MTV, Disney and BET have lost more than half of their viewers in only a decade. As they fade, so are the communities they helped to create. Streaming has revolutionized how people watch TV, and industry leaders have raced toward wha…

"Those finds cast #LaMarmotta as a thriving farming community. Gibaja & colleagues' new analysis of the 5 #canoes shows how that trade could have been made possible with the townspeople's sophisticated ship-building skills.
The canoes were built from hollowed-out trees, which grew be…

7,000-Year-Old Sunken Boats Reveal How Neolithic Seafarers Traversed The Mediterranean
There's a large part of human history hidden beneath the sea.

Steelhead trout, once thriving in Southern California, are declared endangered
Southern California steelhead trout have been pushed to the brink of extinction as their river habitats have been altered by development and fragmented by barriers and dams.
Their numbers have been declining for decades, and last week California’s Fish and Game Commission voted to list Southern California steelhead trout as endangered.
Conservation advocates said they hope the designation will ac…

Southern California steelhead trout are declared endangered
Southern California steelhead trout have been pushed to the brink of extinction as their river habitats have been altered by development and fragmented by barriers and dams.

"Playing thriving reef sounds on underwater speakers ‘could save damaged corals’"
#Coral #CoralReefs #Environment

Politicians from Germany’s rightwing #AfD party have been exposed for plotting with extremists – but will they be banned, or could it see support rise?
The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (#AfD ) party now polls above 20% in Germany
– and it is showing no signs of going away.
In January, a story emerged…

A look at the underground floppy disk music scene; Discogs data shows 500 floppy music releases in the 2020s, more than in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s combined (Alexis Ong/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24034551/floppy-disk-music-scene-underground-d…

Flop rock: inside the underground floppy disk music scene
Floppy disks are slowly dying out, but a DIY music scene is still thriving on platforms like Discogs and Bandcamp.

Building speech corpus with diverse voice characteristics for its prompt-based representation
Aya Watanabe, Shinnosuke Takamichi, Yuki Saito, Wataru Nakata, Detai Xin, Hiroshi Saruwatari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13353

Building speech corpus with diverse voice characteristics for its prompt-based representation
In text-to-speech synthesis, the ability to control voice characteristics is vital for various applications. By leveraging thriving text prompt-based generation techniques, it should be possible to enhance the nuanced control of voice characteristics. While previous research has explored the prompt-based manipulation of voice characteristics, most studies have used pre-recorded speech, which limits the diversity of voice characteristics available. Thus, we aim to address this gap by creating a …

A look at the underground floppy disk music scene; Discogs data shows 500 floppy music releases in the 2020s, more than in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s combined (Alexis Ong/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/24034551/floppy-disk-music-scene-underground-d…

Flop rock: inside the underground floppy disk music scene
Floppy disks are slowly dying out, but a DIY music scene is still thriving on platforms like Discogs and Bandcamp.

The New York Times' thriving games business prompts others to try to replicate its success, such as with Hearst's acquisition of Puzzmo, but games coverage lags (Nathan Grayson/Aftermath)
https://aftermath.site/new-york-times-wordle-connections-puzzmo…

Why Big Publications Like The New York Times Are Making Games (But Barely Covering Them) - Aftermath
"The ad market is terrible. There's very real news fatigue. There's tons of alternative sources for news that aren't even news agencies."