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Vox Media's union says 15 members working at Eater were told without warning that their jobs were being cut, eliminating roughly a third of Eater's union jobs (Vox Media Union)
https://bsky.app/profile/voxmediaunion.bsky.social/post/3lvt4rtddyc2m

Vox Media Union (@voxmediaunion.bsky.social)
Vox Media Union statement on today's devastating round of layoffs at Eater. We stand with all of our wonderful colleagues. #solidarityforever #unionstrong #1u

Yung Cook God makes sticky vegemite wings for pro athletes https://www.raiders.com/video/jackson-powers-johnson-yung-cook-god-sticky-vegemite-wings

Permanent wonen op vakantieparken? ‘Zonder harde afspraken vooraf eindigt het in chaos’ | Overbetuwe | De Gelderlander.nl
https://www.gelderlander.nl/overbetuwe/permanent-wonen-op-vakantieparken-zonder-harde…

Oracle-Guided Masked Contrastive Reinforcement Learning for Visuomotor Policies
Yuhang Zhang, Jiaping Xiao, Chao Yan, Mir Feroskhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05692 https://

Oracle-Guided Masked Contrastive Reinforcement Learning for Visuomotor Policies
A prevailing approach for learning visuomotor policies is to employ reinforcement learning to map high-dimensional visual observations directly to action commands. However, the combination of high-dimensional visual inputs and agile maneuver outputs leads to long-standing challenges, including low sample efficiency and significant sim-to-real gaps. To address these issues, we propose Oracle-Guided Masked Contrastive Reinforcement Learning (OMC-RL), a novel framework designed to improve the samp…

NHS forewarns us about reduced eligibility for COVID jab. Won't end well.
"National Booking Service: Hello Mark [don't be so familiar - Dr Burton to you!].
The rules about who can get the free COVID-19 vaccine have changed this year. You may not be offered it on the day if you're not in a priority group. Staff will confirm on the day. Check here:

COVID-19 vaccine
NHS information about the COVID-19 vaccine, including what the vaccine helps protect against, who should have it and when, how to get it and side effects.

"Saving the world’s fattest parrot: can we vaccinate our rarest species before bird flu gets to them?"
#Parrots #Animals

Texas Democrats had been out of state for less than 48 hours when Gov. Greg Abbott moved to have their seats declared vacant.
The emergency legal filing represents an unprecedented escalation of Abbott’s effort to pass a new congressional map that adds additional GOP seats -- as demanded by Donald Trump.
It flies in the face of Texas’ own founding documents,
centuries of legal precedent
and a recent Supreme Court of Texas ruling, legal experts say.
Even Attorney G…

Abbott’s bid to expel the House Democratic leader goes to a court filled with his appointees
The Texas Supreme Court said in 2021 the Constitution allows members to thwart legislation by leaving the state. Abbott wants them to reconsider.

"But maybe the more complex reasoning for why #Starmer is such a vacant leader is that only such a man could have been elected as prime minister. Only a man characterised by the ability to identify who he must ingratiate himself with could have won the electoral race, placated powerful business interests and fended off the rightwing press"
Insightful from Nesrine Malik

Constraint-Preserving Data Generation for Visuomotor Policy Learning
Kevin Lin, Varun Ragunath, Andrew McAlinden, Aaditya Prasad, Jimmy Wu, Yuke Zhu, Jeannette Bohg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03944

Constraint-Preserving Data Generation for Visuomotor Policy Learning
Large-scale demonstration data has powered key breakthroughs in robot manipulation, but collecting that data remains costly and time-consuming. We present Constraint-Preserving Data Generation (CP-Gen), a method that uses a single expert trajectory to generate robot demonstrations containing novel object geometries and poses. These generated demonstrations are used to train closed-loop visuomotor policies that transfer zero-shot to the real world and generalize across variations in object geome…

@… Die vakantiefoto waar je gelijk vragen over krijgt is de minste van de problemen.
Wat ik ondervond is dat er (in zorg dossier) aantekeningen stonden waar veel later 'gewenste conclusies' getrokken werden.
(Gaat hier om zorg dossier, waarvan 'in principe' zelfs de inhoud wel bij mij bekend is)