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36 More Countries May Be Added to Trump's Travel Ban (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p142#a250616p142

The Trump administration is thinking about adding 26 more countries
—most of them African
—to his travel ban list.
The Washington Post obtained a Trump administration memo that would give the 26 countries listed 60 days to capitulate to State Department demands.
Some countries were flagged for having “no competent or cooperative central government authority to produce reliable identity documents or other civil documents,”
or “government fraud.”
There was …

Trump Wants to Ban a Quarter of the World From Traveling to the U.S.
If put into effect, it could jeopardize future events like the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics.

Demographics-Informed Neural Network for Multi-Modal Spatiotemporal forecasting of Urban Growth and Travel Patterns Using Satellite Imagery
Eugene Kofi Okrah Denteh, Andrews Danyo, Joshua Kofi Asamoah, Blessing Agyei Kyem, Armstrong Aboah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12456

Demographics-Informed Neural Network for Multi-Modal Spatiotemporal forecasting of Urban Growth and Travel Patterns Using Satellite Imagery
This study presents a novel demographics informed deep learning framework designed to forecast urban spatial transformations by jointly modeling geographic satellite imagery, socio-demographics, and travel behavior dynamics. The proposed model employs an encoder-decoder architecture with temporal gated residual connections, integrating satellite imagery and demographic data to accurately forecast future spatial transformations. The study also introduces a demographics prediction component which…

He'll keep it up until Americans won't be allowed to travel.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-weighs-adding-36-countries-travel-ban-memo-says-2025-06-15/

I’m a recovering frequent flier, and today I’m at the airport to take my first travel-for-work flight in TWO YEARS … after 3 days in my new role. Travel is a craft and I feel like I’ve lost a lot of skills!

'Know-Your-Customer' means 'Guarantee me a way to silence or destroy my political opponents'
"The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost his email, and his bank accounts were frozen. American staffers told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest."
https://

Trump's sanctions on ICC prosecutor have halted tribunal's work
Nearly three months ago, U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan. He has lost access to his email and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at The Hague-based court also have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. In addition, some nongovernmental organizations have stopped working with the ICC. Rights groups say these problems will prevent victims of war crimes from getting justice.

Went to see Soccer Mommy, as US-based indie musician, in Castlemaine last night because I couldn’t get to her Melbourne show. Wow, what a great concert and venue - the Theatre Royal, Castlemaine. Instead of peering over the heads of 500 people, I saw her with maybe 100 others, and with fantastic acoustics. Totally worth the extra effort to travel 90 minutes out of the big city. #livemusic

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: Today – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
Learn more:

Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban list (Adam Taylor/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/14/trump-travel-ban-expansion/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250614/p68#a250614p68

Superluminal Quantum Reference Frames
Amrapali Sen, Matthias Salzger, {\L}ukasz Rudnicki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11787 https://arx…

Superluminal Quantum Reference Frames
While particles cannot travel faster than the speed of light, nor can information, this assumption has over the years been frequently questioned. Most recently, it has been argued [New J. Phys. 22, 033038 (2020)] that in a world with superluminal observers local determinism is impossible, linking the two pillars of physics-quantum theory and relativity-suggesting that the latter serves as the foundation for the former. Motivated by this approach, in this work, we extend the framework of quantum…

'Active travel' study identifies pathways for designing walking- and cycling-friendly cities #city

'Active travel' study identifies pathways for designing walking- and cycling-friendly cities
A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals the transformative potential of walking- and cycling-friendly policies in cities around the world. Conducted by researchers from UCLA and Google, the study analyzed travel data from more than 11,500 cities across 121 countries, making it the most comprehensive global assessment to date of active transportation, or the potential for walking or biking.

Urban Composition V 🫟
都市构图 V 🫟
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️Ilford FP4 Plus, expired 1995
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

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Folgen Sie dem Link PayPal.Me/dingsterdingster und geben Sie den Betrag ein. Es ist bequem und sicher. Sie haben noch kein PayPal-Konto? Kein Problem.

It’s sad it’s come to having to offer this as travel advice, but if you need to fly to the US and are apprehensive, pre clearance through at the US borders in Irish airports is a great idea. You arrive at a domestic terminal.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/06/06/a-us-border-dub…

There's a US border at Dublin airport — here's why
Donald Trump's travel ban is stoking fears but did you know there's a US border where you can clear immigration on Irish soil?

Don’t travel to the US, it’s already a fascist state. ICE raids, LA sweeps, and Florida cops brutalize people every day.
This isn’t a future threat, it’s the present reality, authoritarian power is everywhere, backed by a fascist king.
Read more here: https://social.linux.pizza/@midtsveen/…

(Bicycle) Speed and safety
For years I've heard people talking about how motor-assisted bicycles "are safer" because they can "match traffic speed", but I think this is mistaken.  Here's three reasons why. For me the most compelling reason comes from a 2007 paper by Laurie F. Beck, Ann M. Dellinger, and Mary E. O’Neil in the American Journal of Epidemiology, "Motor Vehicle Crash Injury Rates by Mode of Travel, United States: Using Exposure-Based Methods…

(Bicycle) Speed and safety
For years I’ve heard people talking about how motor-assisted bicycles “are safer” because they can “match traffic speed”, but I think this is mistaken.  Here’s t…

YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-te

YouTube is testing a new feature to help videos travel globally
YouTube is testing a new tool to let creators switch out thumbnails for videos in different languages, helping their content spread globally.

Vaccinated Time Travel:
To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only
with proper vaccinations.
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"

Intelligent Travel Activity Monitoring: Generalized Distributed Acoustic Sensing Approaches
Ruikang Zhong, Chia-Yen Chiang, Mona Jaber, Rupert De Wilde, Peter Hayward
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10237

Intelligent Travel Activity Monitoring: Generalized Distributed Acoustic Sensing Approaches
Obtaining data on active travel activities such as walking, jogging, and cycling is important for refining sustainable transportation systems (STS). Effectively monitoring these activities not only requires sensing solutions to have a joint feature of being accurate, economical, and privacy-preserving, but also enough generalizability to adapt to different climate environments and deployment conditions. In order to provide a generalized sensing solution, a deep learning (DL)-enhanced distribute…

Under Randy Clarke, WMATA has cut the end-to-end travel time on the Metro Red Line by 8 minutes. This is a 68 minute trip, so it's a gain in efficiency of over 10% on top of faster trips for riders.
This is a combination of automated train operation (with doors closing sooner), raising the speed limit back to the original design of 75 mph, and I imagine other fixes.

WMATA | Metro to launch Automatic Train Operation on the Blue, Orange, and Silver lines on June 15
Metro news and service information for the Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia region.

The Hackers On Planet Earth (HOPE) conference addresses travel concerns
https://www.2600.com/content/hope-conference-addresses-travel-concerns

What would be the travel time, New York to Paris, at Mach 9?
www.futura-sciences.com
https://search.app/36GkE

#CNN: Man convicted of fraud for posing as flight attendant to fly for free
At first, I wondered why they'd give free flights to a man who was convicted of defrauding airlines.🤦‍♂️
#headlines #confusing

YouTube rolls out a tool to let some creators upload different thumbnails for each video dubbed into a different language, to help expand their global audience (Dan Whateley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/youtube-te

YouTube is testing a new feature to help videos travel globally
YouTube is testing a new tool to let creators switch out thumbnails for videos in different languages, helping their content spread globally.

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Donald Trump's selective 'travel ban' targets African countries
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/06/07/donald-trump-s-selective-travel-ban-targets-african-countries_6742095_4.html

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jun/05/donald-trump-travel-ban-elon-musk-joe-biden-friedrich-merz-us-politics-live-news-updates

Vodafone baut eSIM-Angebot für Reisende aus
Der Mobilfunker geht unter die Travel-SIM-Dealer und verkauft auf seiner neuen Plattform Datenvolumen für über 200 Reiseziele. Ein Vergleich lohnt sich.
https://www.

Wow. Total surprise for me... this game looks amazing... & free to play for Xbox Game Pass!
✅ Clockwork Revolution: inXile on Time Travel, Visual Reactivity, that Foulmouthed Doll, and More — Exclusive Interview - Xbox Wire
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/06/0…

Clockwork Revolution: inXile on Time Travel, Visual Reactivity, that Foulmouthed Doll, and More — Exclusive Interview - Xbox Wire
Clockwork Revolution’s stunning new trailer has a LOT to unwind. In this exclusive interview, inXile developers tell us how they’re crafting a reactive steampunk world, tailor-made for RPG players.

Oha, ev. Überkapazitäten bzw. zu wenig Buchungen? Woran das liegen könnte? Ev. am orangen Genie? Seiner Unsicherheit verbreitenden Politik mit täglich wechselnden Regeln, an die er sich Morgen schon nicht mehr erinnert? Oder seine Amok laufenden ICE-Agenten und andere Repressionen?
#Swiss #USA

Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening to ban travel from several countries, citing security risks.
The ban will fully restrict entry of nationals from 12 countries:
Afghanistan; Myanmar, also known as Burma; Chad; Republic of the Congo; Equatorial Guinea; Eritrea; Haiti; Iran; Libya; Somalia; Sudan; and Yemen.
People from seven countries will have partial restriction:
Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
The proclamation i…

Trump signs proclamation to ban travel from 12 countries
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening to ban travel from several countries to the US, citing security risks.

Can Large Language Models Trigger a Paradigm Shift in Travel Behavior Modeling? Experiences with Modeling Travel Satisfaction
Pengfei Xu, Donggen Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23262

Can Large Language Models Trigger a Paradigm Shift in Travel Behavior Modeling? Experiences with Modeling Travel Satisfaction
As a specific domain of subjective well-being, travel satisfaction has attracted much research attention recently. Previous studies primarily use statistical models and, more recently, machine learning models to explore the determinants of travel satisfaction. Both approaches require data from sufficient sample sizes and correct prior statistical assumptions. The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers a new modeling approach that can overcome the shortcomings of the existing methods. …

Just in case it wasn't crystal clear before: I will not travel to a country that actively deploys its military force against its own citizens while holding a military parade for its tyrant.

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Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

"So often in the study of religion, we rely on published literary materials. This class is really intended to help students—and to help myself—think about the full social, economic, and political life into which what we call religion emerges. Religion is never absent from those very concrete connections.”
—YDS Prof Nasrallah on the travel seminar to Greece and Türkiye for her course

HotelMatch-LLM: Joint Multi-Task Training of Small and Large Language Models for Efficient Multimodal Hotel Retrieval
Arian Askari, Emmanouil Stergiadis, Ilya Gusev, Moran Beladev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07296

HotelMatch-LLM: Joint Multi-Task Training of Small and Large Language Models for Efficient Multimodal Hotel Retrieval
We present HotelMatch-LLM, a multimodal dense retrieval model for the travel domain that enables natural language property search, addressing the limitations of traditional travel search engines which require users to start with a destination and editing search parameters. HotelMatch-LLM features three key innovations: (1) Domain-specific multi-task optimization with three novel retrieval, visual, and language modeling objectives; (2) Asymmetrical dense retrieval architecture combining a small …

Q&A with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on Airbnb Experiences, its push into services, OpenAI, AI agents, making decisions at Airbnb, cutting PMs, Jony Ive, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky wants to build the everything app
The head of Airbnb on expanding beyond travel, AI and design, and the future of real-world experiences.

On culture war nonsense:
#cycling

"Woke roundabouts" is a depressing new low when it comes to how the media attempts to report on cycling and active travel
Get your irony meters at the ready, because George Hill is about to lay into how the media sensationalises things about cycling and active travel. It would have been rude not to go for an 'attention-grabbing' title to accompany the article, right?

When You Want To Get High, Go To The Highlands
#travel #inspiration
https://muz4now.c…

When You Want To Get High, Go To The Highlands
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

That's not orange spray paint, it's cayenne pepper powder.
Let's see if this will be any deterrent for the trash pandas. It's along one of their main travel routes and if i see them avoiding this path then I'll know it works and can try putting out more.

Ah. Just when I thought I could travel home through the Baltics for a change. #Interrail

I will buy a station wagon and travel exclusively by wayback. I will need my mother or father to drive, of course.

A nice article was just published in our Focus Issue on Urban Mobility and Green Transportation in Sustainable Cities:
Active travel modelling: a methodological approach to networks for walking and cycling commuting analysis
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.10…

“Being in the United States is a great risk for anyone -- not just for Venezuelans,”
Diosdado Cabello, the interior minister in Caracas, said after the announcement
“They persecute our countrymen, our people, for no reason.”
https://www.

Replaced article(s) found for cs.RO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.RO/new/
[2/2]:
TRAVEL: Training-Free Retrieval and Alignment for Vision-and-Language Navigation

To conclude the first evening of Berlin Buzzwords, Gregor Bransky invites you to join a tour of c-base. Afterwards, you can unwind at one of its recreational areas, enjoying a refreshing beverage by the waterside of the Spree.
A travel group will form during the Get-Together.
📅 When: June 17, 2025 – 7 pm
📍 Where: c-base, Rungestraße 20 | 10179 Berlin
Learn more:

Satellite Events
Satellite Events Find out what other open source events and meet-ups are taking place around Berlin Buzzwords.You are hosting a meetup, get-together, workshop or other kind of event at the same time? Get in touch, and we’ll happily add your event to our list! MICES EU 2025 Our partner conference, MICES - Mix-Camp E-Commerce Search, takes [...]

Good Morning #Canada
OTD in 1946, the Canadian Library Association (CLA) was founded in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1946 and incorporated on November 26, 1947. The CLA represented #Library workers and advocated for funding and improvements. Due to declining membership, it was replaced by the Canadian Federation of Library Associations. Here are 6 of Canada’s most beautiful libraries.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ReadABook
https://travel.destinationcanada.com/en-us/things-to-do/most-beautiful-libraries-canada

Kids travel leaks:
"Wir sind schon da, aber die Jungs müssen erstmal ihre Dackelblase entleeren die haben mich hier gelassen mit all ihren Sachen jetzt sehe ich aus wie ein Obdachloser der vor dem Jungs Klo campt"

"Even air travel will be disrupted on Saturday — a rare occurrence for a special event in D.C., where we regularly host fireworks shows, parades, and large-scale gatherings of national security concern without shuttering an airport."

As a fan of train travel I get this.

Opinion | Europe Built Trains. America Built Highways and Regret.
As Europe embraces the night train, the United States seems to be sleepwalking into a transport dead end.

Six Fabulous Winners of the National Geographic Photography Competition (LOOK) https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/six-fabulous-winners-of-the-national-geographic-photography-competition-look/

Six Fabulous Winners of the National Geographic Photography Competition (LOOK)
The winners of the National Geographic Photography Competition for amateurs and pros alike highlight the best in travel photography.

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
Yerin Doh, Joonhyung Bae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10013

Immersive Fantasy Based on Digital Nostalgia: Environmental Narratives for the Korean Millennials and Gen Z
This study introduces the media artwork Dear Passenger, Please Wear a Mask, designed to offer a layered exploration of single-use mask waste, which escalated during the COVID-19 pandemic. The piece reframes underappreciated ecological concerns by interweaving digital nostalgia and airline travel recollections of Millennials and Gen Z with a unique fantasy narrative. Via a point-and-click game and an immersive exhibition, participants traverse both virtual and real domains, facing ethical and en…

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Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel:
👉 a modest but statistically significant decline in the number of cars 🚗
👉 a substantial induced rail demand effect resulting from the travel time savings 🚅
Conclusion by the authors:
on such touristic routes, road and rail transport are not perfect substitutes
My personal conclusion:
👉 Modal shift needs push & pull measures
👉 Without other measures (pricing, reduced capacity, slowing), adding capacity only increas…

The Effect of the Gotthard Base Tunnel on Road Traffic: A Synthetic Control Approach
The opening of the Gotthard Base Tunnel in 2017, the longest railway tunnel in the world, marked a milestone in Swiss transport policy. The tunnel, a part of the New Rail Link through the Alps, serves as a key instrument of the so-called "modal shift policy," which aims to transfer transalpine freight traffic from road to rail. The reduction in travel time by train between northern and southern Switzerland raised expectations that a substantial share of tourist-oriented passenger traffic would …

Large-scale LH2 pipeline infrastructure concept for airports
H. A. Krog, Y. Jooss, H. Fyhn, P. Neks{\aa}, I. Hjorth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09410 https:…

Large-scale LH2 pipeline infrastructure concept for airports
Infrastructure and processes for handling of liquid hydrogen (LH2) is needed to enable large-scale decarbonization of aviation with hydrogen aircraft. At large airports, pipeline and hydrant systems will be important for a mature hydrogen-powered air travel market. As the vaporization of LH2 is a challenge in fuel handling, the pipeline infrastructure must be designed and operated such that the fuel is subcooled. Through modelling and simulation of aircraft tanks refuelling by a pipeline infras…

Question: To you, what is the relationship between society and stories?
My aim is to discover more perspectives than what I'm familiar with.
Bonus: Include a description of a visualisation.
Example: recycle symbol between society & stories, mirror, time travel machine, etc.
Thank you! And let me know if you need more info!

Anyone familiar with general travel insurances in Canada?
Does the travel advisories on the Canadian government website matter in determining if a region is eligible for coverage while travelling?
#canada #insurance

Physical: No shoes, No service
Virtual: No SIM, No service
#travel #technology #comparison

See the Countries Under Trump's New Travel Ban (Allison McCann/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-travel-ban-map.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p4#a250605p4

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance
Alina Wernick, Alan Medlar, Sofia S\"oderholm, Dorota G{\l}owacka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00218

Evaluating the Contextual Integrity of False Positives in Algorithmic Travel Surveillance
International air travel is highly surveilled. While surveillance is deemed necessary for law enforcement to prevent and detect terrorism and other serious crimes, even the most accurate algorithmic mass surveillance systems produce high numbers of false positives. Despite the potential impact of false positives on the fundamental rights of millions of passengers, algorithmic travel surveillance is lawful in the EU. However, as the system's processing practices and accuracy are kept secret by l…

It's time for the #EV industry to hold itself to a higher standard when it comes to roaming. You can't have your cake and eat it. Make the cake bigger!
https://www.linkedin.com/…

I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop… | Jaap Burger
I fully agree with Christian Weinberger's call here: Isn't it time we stop pretending roaming works and start holding the ecosystem to a higher standard? As a fossil in this industry, I remember how EV roaming took off 15 years ago – it was a no-brainer from a user perspective and a logical step to ensure that the EV charging market could grow, benefiting everyone in the sector. As an early electric car driver eager to travel abroad, I spent a lot of time getting the right passes for local n…

Lambert's problem in orbital dynamics: a self--contained introduction
Lenox Helene Baloglou, Parneet Gill, Tonatiuh S\'anchez-Vizuet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10556

Lambert's problem in orbital dynamics: a self--contained introduction
Lambert's problem is a classical boundary value problem in analytical mechanics. It arises when trying to determine the energy required to place a particle, subject to a central gravitational potential, in a free fall trajectory connecting two given points on a desired travel time. Due to its mathematical beauty and its relevance in aerospace engineering, it has been and remains the object of attention of countless engineers, mathematicians (pure and applied), and physicists seeking to produce …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14446 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_grqc_…

Light deflection in unified gravity and measurable deviation from general relativity
Light does not travel in a perfectly straight line when it passes near massive objects. Instead, it follows the curvature of spacetime as predicted by general relativity. In this work, we apply the gauge theory of unified gravity [Rep. Prog. Phys. 88, 057802 (2025)], formulated as an extension of the Standard Model to include gravity. Using dynamical equations, we calculate gravitational deflection of light near astrophysical objects without need to use a curved metric. We do not use a single f…

Look, even Venezuela manages to look like the adults in the room now.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/europe-news-vn516gnfz/-/a-prgqbz7fTrSLB18YxgsiGA:a:89340020-/0

Venezuela warns citizens not to travel to US
Caracas also urged Venezuelans living in the US to return, calling it a 'dangerous country'. The Venezuelan government has told its citizens to avoid …

Diffusive spreading of a polydisperse polymer solution in a channel
Hanyang. Wang, Gary W Slater
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08323 https://

Diffusive spreading of a polydisperse polymer solution in a channel
Long DNA molecules can be mapped by cutting them with restriction enzymes inside a narrow channel. Once cut, the individual fragments thus produced move away from each other due to diffusion and entropic effects. We investigate how long it takes for these fragments to travel distances large enough for an experimental device to distinguish them and (possibly) estimate their size. In essence, this is a single-file diffusion process in which molecules of different sizes and hence different diffusi…

This week I booked travel for work that's going to let me see a long-lost friend for the first time in over a decade. It's still months away but holy shit I can't wait.

'We Don't Want Them': Trump Signs Travel Ban on Citizens From 12 Countries (Hamed Aleaziz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/us/politics/trump-travel-ban.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p72#a250605p72

at_migrations: Austrian internal migrations (2002-2022)
A network of migrations between municipalities in Austria, from 2002 to 2022. A weighted directed link from source to target indicates a migration flow from these two municipalities. Edges are annotated with migration volume (number of people), nationality, sex, and year.
This network has 2115 nodes and 2908569 edges.
Tags: Social, Economic, Travel, Weighted, Politlcal, Timestamps, Metadata

Google has been downgrading the search results of smaller web sites offering human-written quality information, claims Nate Hake of Travel Lemming in a long explanation, citing many sources and developments.
Many of these changes appear to happen when #Google embraced #AI and removed the "hum…

@… @… This is how I see London too, and I miss it very much.
(I do not miss the tube.)
Sadly, I foresee very little long-haul travel in my near future, but when I get a chance, Toronto (and other parts of Canada) is high …

we’ve been home for about six weeks and are getting the travel itch again so we’re looking at apartments in paris for a month or so next spring, maybe also finally get to puglia for a week or two, also need to spend a few weeks in stockholm with the grandkids and want to tuck a visit to helsinki (on the baltic queen!) into that, so … a couple months? i’m not sure i want to be away that long 🤔.

Trump’s justifications for the latest Travel Ban aren’t supported by the Data on Immigration and Terrorism
https://www.juancole.com/2025/06/justifications-supported-immigration.html

Flowing Loops
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Flowing Loops | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: Flowing Loops Host: Dan Koop Category: Arts Sub-Category: Crafts & Creativity, Local News & Stories, Places & Travel First Episode: 2024 Dan Koop and six artists have been walking and talking…

The bell tower in Splitska, Croatia
#photography #TravelPhotography #travel

After Boulder attack, Trump to revive Muslim travel ban with targeted changes (Jacob Kornbluh/The Forward)
https://forward.com/fast-forward/725572/boulder-donald-trump-muslim-travel-ban/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p183#a250604p183

Trash panda update: Didn't set any more boobytraps. Sprinkled cayenne pepper powder along a bunch of their travel routes (but not fully ringing the yard) which didn't seem to do a whole lot. Maybe they just walked around it, or I need to use more? I'll try doing the entire fence line tonight and see if it's more effective if I make sure not to leave any gaps.
I tried the nerf gun for what I think will probably be the last time. Shot at one of them and the cheeky bugger …

Great possibility to renew my travel outfit. I wonder whether they sell to non-locals.

I offered to show my sisters how to build up 500k credit card points as an alternative to paying for travel (like I've been trying to do). They are not interested, though. I wouldn't blame them but they both want to come with to Japan next year.

U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles,
saying that Americans should be vaccinated against the virus
-- no matter where they’re going.
U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway.
But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance of vaccination for travelers going to countries with outbreaks.

All international travelers should get measles vaccinations, CDC says
U.S. health officials have changed their advice to international travelers about measles, saying Americans should be vaccinated against the disease no matter where they travel in the world. U.S. residents are recommended to get measles-mumps-rubella shots, anyway. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention previously emphasized the importance of vaccination for travelers going to countries with outbreaks. Last week, the CDC updated its guidance to call for vaccinations for travelers goi…

Fury and resignation around the world as Trump's travel ban comes roaring back (Astha Rajvanshi/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/fury-resignation-world-trumps-travel-ban-comes-roaring-back-rcna211115
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p68#a250605p68

With friends having kids, its fascinating how some will tell me
- "No travels plans for the next 3-6 years, until he/she is big enough."
While others are
- "See you next month! We want to travel a lot while he/she can still be a free lap child"

With Josh Barro trending, here's my takedown of his views on transit in Dissent ten years ago. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-sovereign-consumer-pushed-off-the-train/

The Sovereign Consumer, Pushed Off the Train - Dissent Magazine
Establishment economists insist that they don't second-guess consumer preferences. You are, they say, your own best judge of what's good for you. But not if you like to travel by train.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Simple Minds:
🎵 I Travel
#SimpleMinds
https://leaetherstrip.bandcamp.com/track/i-travel-a-tribute-to-simple-minds-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/3GRyWgNPX5rBdh0VQctl5P

Combine and conquer: model averaging for out-of-distribution forecasting
Stephane Hess, Sander van Cranenburgh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03693 https://

Combine and conquer: model averaging for out-of-distribution forecasting
Travel behaviour modellers have an increasingly diverse set of models at their disposal, ranging from traditional econometric structures to models from mathematical psychology and data-driven approaches from machine learning. A key question arises as to how well these different models perform in prediction, especially when considering trips of different characteristics from those used in estimation, i.e. out-of-distribution prediction, and whether better predictions can be obtained by combining…

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Robust Binary and Multinomial Logit Models for Classification with Data Uncertainties
Binary logit (BNL) and multinomial logit (MNL) models are the two most widely used discrete choice models for travel behavior modeling and prediction. However, in many scenarios, the collected data for those models are subject to measurement errors. Previous studies on measurement errors mostly focus on "better estimating model parameters" with training data. In this study, we focus on using BNL and MNL for classification problems, that is, to ``better predict the behavior of new samples'' when…

Velocity-modulated drag-trapping of nanoparticles by moving fringe pattern in hollow-core fiber
Soumya Chakraborty, Gordon K. L. Wong, Philip St. J. Russell, Nicolas Y. Joly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04770

Velocity-modulated drag-trapping of nanoparticles by moving fringe pattern in hollow-core fiber
We report optical trapping and transport at atmospheric pressure of nanoparticles in a moving interference pattern in hollow-core photonic crystal fiber. Unlike in previous work at low pressure, when the viscous drag forces are weak and the particles travel at the fringe velocity, competition between trapping and drag forces causes the particle velocity to oscillate as it is momentarily captured and accelerated by each passing fringe, followed by release and deceleration by viscous forces. As a…

CPU-Based Layout Design for Picker-to-Parts Pallet Warehouses
Timo Looms, Lin Xie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04266 https://arxiv.org/…

CPU-Based Layout Design for Picker-to-Parts Pallet Warehouses
Picker-to-parts pallet warehouses often face inefficiencies due to conventional layouts causing excessive travel distances and high labor requirements. This study introduces a novel layout design inspired by CPU architecture, partitioning warehouse space into specialized zones, namely Performance (P), Efficiency (E), and Shared (S). Discrete-event simulation is used to evaluate this design against traditional rectangular (random and ABC storage) and Flying-V layouts. Results demonstrate signifi…

Bowser hit with ethics complaint over travel paid for by Qatar (Brady Knox/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3429846/muriel-bowser-qatar-ethics-complaint-travel-paid/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p127#a250603p127

any of my belgian followers able to procure and send a print version of le soir from tomorrow to me? no need to time travel - it's ok to just buy it tomorrow...

TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/678779/tiktok-for-you-feed-manage-…

TikTok gives everyone more control over what’s on their For You page
TikTok is rolling out Manage Topics globally, a feature that lets you control how often you see certain kinds of videos in your For You feed, such as those related to sports, travel, humor, or dance.

"The ban, which goes into effect on Monday, bars travel to the United States by citizens of Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen."
Trump Bars People From 12 Countries From Entering U.S.: Live Updates - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/04/us/trump-news

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Time, Travel, and Energy in the Uniform Dispersion Problem
We investigate the algorithmic problem of uniformly dispersing a swarm of robots in an unknown, gridlike environment. In this setting, our goal is to study the relationships between performance metrics and robot capabilities. We introduce a formal model comparing dispersion algorithms based on makespan, traveled distance, energy consumption, sensing, communication, and memory. Using this framework, we classify uniform dispersion algorithms according to their capability requirements and performa…

For reservations, call your travel agent.

Trump Bans Citizens of 12 Countries From Traveling to U.S. (Michelle Hackman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-travel-ban-announced-12-countries-ba0b6b65
http://www.memeorandum.com/250605/p73#a250605p73

As the Senate weighs possible changes to the state and local tax (SALT) deduction cap as part of the tax portion of the "big, beautiful bill,"
House Republicans from blue states are already threatening to derail the bill's prospects.
"Let's be clear — no SALT, no deal," New York Republican Mike Lawler said Wednesday in a post on X

Trump admin live updates: Trump signs proclamation banning travel from 12 countries
The president cited national security concerns for enacting the ban.

Sonnet 027 - XXVII
Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed,
The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
But then begins a journey in my head
To work my mind, when body's work's expired:
For then my thoughts--from far where I abide--
Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee,
And keep my drooping eyelids open wide,
Looking on darkness which the blind do see:
Save that my soul's imaginary sight
Presents thy shadow to my sightless…

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Collision Induced Binding and Transport of Shape Changing Robot Pairs
We report in experiment and simulation the spontaneous formation of dynamically bound pairs of shape changing robots undergoing locally repulsive collisions. These physical `gliders' robustly emerge from an ensemble of individually undulating three-link two-motor robots and can remain bound for hundreds of undulations and travel for multiple robot dimensions. Gliders occur in two distinct binding symmetries and form over a wide range of angular oscillation extent. This parameter sets the maxima…

All international travelers should get measles vaccinations, CDC says (Mike Stobbe/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/measles-international-travel-vaccine-980fdb9fcf8522fed01d23427eba4429
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p139#a250602p139

You travel 15 hrs to arrive on the eve of a 6am event.
5am: no running water. So, can't go to that event.
Do you hope this is a building problem (misery for many) and addressed soon. Or assume it's just your rental?
And oh, you're now 36hrs fasting and you can only break fast at the event. #life