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If I were Canada right now, I’d set up vaccination clinics at the United States border and charge U.S. visitors to get inoculated when they cross.
I imagine Vaccination Tourism is going to spike in the next few years.

DiaryPlay: AI-Assisted Authoring of Interactive Vignettes for Everyday Storytelling
Jiangnan Xu, Haeseul Cha, Gosu Choi, Gyu-cheol Lee, Yeo-Jin Yoon, Zucheul Lee, Konstantinos Papangelis, Dae Hyun Kim, Juho Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11628

DiaryPlay: AI-Assisted Authoring of Interactive Vignettes for Everyday Storytelling
An interactive vignette is a popular and immersive visual storytelling approach that invites viewers to role-play a character and influences the narrative in an interactive environment. However, it has not been widely used by everyday storytellers yet due to authoring complexity, which conflicts with the immediacy of everyday storytelling. We introduce DiaryPlay, an AI-assisted authoring system for interactive vignette creation in everyday storytelling. It takes a natural language story as inpu…

📝🗃️ 𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗱𝘂𝗺𝗽: Dump ‘R’ Package Source, Documentation, and Vignettes into One File for use in LLMs #rstats #LLM is on CRAN https://www.ekotov.pro/rdocdum…

rdocdump: Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File
Dump R Package Documentation and Vignettes into One File

Today's main news on nu.nl: how Dutch holiday makers can save €20 by refueling their car in the country with the lowest gasoline price... https://www.nu.nl/economie/6362496/omrijden-voor-een-tankbeurt-op-vakantie-loont-dit-jaa…

Omrijden voor een tankbeurt op vakantie loont dit jaar nog meer
Veel Nederlanders kunnen op vakantie goedkoop tanken in buurlanden. Wie slim omrijdt, kan tientallen euro's besparen. Door de snel gestegen olieprijzen levert het dit jaar zelfs iets meer op.

CDP: Towards Robust Autoregressive Visuomotor Policy Learning via Causal Diffusion
Jiahua Ma, Yiran Qin, Yixiong Li, Xuanqi Liao, Yulan Guo, Ruimao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14769

CDP: Towards Robust Autoregressive Visuomotor Policy Learning via Causal Diffusion
Diffusion Policy (DP) enables robots to learn complex behaviors by imitating expert demonstrations through action diffusion. However, in practical applications, hardware limitations often degrade data quality, while real-time constraints restrict model inference to instantaneous state and scene observations. These limitations seriously reduce the efficacy of learning from expert demonstrations, resulting in failures in object localization, grasp planning, and long-horizon task execution. To add…

I’m so tired of this big lot in the Mission sitting fenced and vacant in the midst of a housing crisis. For a while I thought vacancy tax, now I’m thinking eminent domain. Reportedly owned by an old lady in the Sunset who refuses to do anything with it.

Bay Area public radio station KQED says it is laying off 45 people and 12 are taking voluntary buyouts, a 15% staff cut; 10 vacant positions will go unfilled (Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)
https://www.kqed.org/news/12048122/kqed-to-s…

KQED to Slash Workforce by 15%, Cutting Dozens of Jobs in Latest Round of Layoffs
The Bay Area media nonprofit is laying off staff for the third time in five years. It comes as the Trump administration aims to cut off federal funding for public media.

#ndwgoecountdown Space Electronics: Elektronikentwicklung und Vakuumtechnik
Elektronik für Weltraumexperimente muss den besonderen Bedingungen im All standhalten. Sie wird nach speziellen Vorgaben entwickelt, gebaut und unter Weltraumbedingungen getestet. Mitarbeitende des Elektroniklabors zeigen einen Arbeitsplatz mit Lötstationen und Mikroskop und demonstrieren, wie man im L…

Inhaled tuberculosis vaccine effective against world's deadliest infectious disease - ABC News
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-16/tuberculosis-vaccination-via-lungs-may-be-more-effective/105535198

Only in Trump's America: Trump's US Atty. nominee was rejected. So, DOJ made the same man a Special Atty to the US Atty. Because the US Atty position is vacant, that same rejected man is now the acting US Atty. 🤷🏼‍♂️
#uspol #shenanigans #NYT