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Palestinian activist
Awdah Hathaleen
who helped film the documentary
"No Other Land" highlighting Israel’s violent occupation of the West Bank, was shot and killed by an Israeli settler on Monday
https://truthout.org/articles/activist

Activist Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler
Israeli violence in Masafer Yatta has intensified since the film won an Oscar.

Democratic Senator Gillibrand Goes on Islamophobic Rant Against Mamdani | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/democratic-senator-gillibrand-goes-on-islamophobic-rant-against-mamdani/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLMCZhleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFIRHN0bndHeXJyelo2b1k4AR51et-JkLHKbedcY5OSQovy43LjQbuc2-a8nWdsbf1oLi07p5w5NaQUzAm3LQ_aem_gEO70SfPYU-oehwTGbOTlg

Zwischen Tradition und Technik: Besuch in einer Brauerei
KI trifft auf Hefe: So braut die Brauerei Riegele Bier – mit jahrhundertealtem Wissen und moderner Technik.
https://www.

"So if ChatGPT destroys literacy and law, then ChatGPT is going to kill God. By this I don’t mean that the bearded guy in the sky is going to be found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest, but that monotheistic religion as we have traditionally understood it will not be able to function in a post-literacy regime."
(Original title: ChatGPT is going to kill God)

ChatGPT is going to kill God
I hate generative AI. I hate how it’s destroying writing pedagogy and giving students even more excuses not to read (because they can just read a “summary”). I hate how whiny and …

A Comparison of Bacterial Colonies Count from Petri Dishes Utilizing Hough Transform and Traditional Manual Counting
Areesha Rehman, Zikria Saleem, Jarrar Amjad, Syed Rehan Shah, Kamran Siddique
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20365

A Comparison of Bacterial Colonies Count from Petri Dishes Utilizing Hough Transform and Traditional Manual Counting
Bacterial colony enumeration is an essential stage in microbiological research, allowing susceptibility to antibiotics assessment, monitoring of the environment, and clinical diagnostics. Traditional manual counting methods are costly and susceptible to human mistakes, prompting the creation of automated detection systems. This research compares the efficacy of the Hough Circle Transform method for automated colony detection to hand counting of E. coli, S. aureus, and P. aeruginosa colonies on …

Source: WaPo will not replace departed PR chief Kathy Baird as it focuses on organic media coverage around its talent and products, rather than traditional PR (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-me

Axios Media Trends - WaPo won't replace comms chief

Last week, we continued our #ISE2025 lecture on distributional semantics with the introduction of neural language models (NLMs) and compared them to traditional statistical n-gram models.
Benefits of NLMs:
- Capturing Long-Range Dependencies
- Computational and Statistical Tractability
- Improved Generalisation
- Higher Accuracy
@…

For the first time in the history of the United States,
asylum seekers will have to pay to file an asylum application.
The so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” or OBBA, mandates new minimum fees for immigration and visa applications.
The legislation authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Attorney General to raise fees above the minimum,
and all fees are subject to an annual inflation adjustment starting in fiscal year 2026.

Asylum Seekers Now Have to Pay to File Immigration Claims
The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” imposes unprecedented fees on asylum seekers.

Marsha P. Johnson has become an icon of gay, trans, and queer liberation,
and yet little is known about her life beyond her participation in the Stonewall Uprising of 1969 and the decades long controversy after her lifeless body was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992.
In "Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson",
Tourmaline, an award-winning Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist who has dedicated her life to uplifting Marsha P. Johnson’s l…

What We Can Learn From the Defiant Life and Legacy of Marsha P. Johnson
Black trans artist, filmmaker, and activist Tourmaline discusses her new book about Marsha’s trailblazing life.

I’m always consumed by the same question:
How will this endless, brutal spectacle of killing finally end?
Will it be like a movie
— justice prevailing, liberation won, goodness triumphing over evil?
Will the ending even be worthy of the horrors we’ve endured?
Or will it all fade away in an open-ended scene, full of unknowns, unanswered questions, and the absence of closure?
Will I make it to the final scene?
AOr will my story be abruptly cut short,…

Internet Access Is a Lifeline for Us in Gaza — So Israel Attacked It
Communications blackouts aren’t accidental. They’re strategy. They’re the tool Israel uses to try to erase us quietly.