@pre@boing.world2025-05-20 17:37:11
Finally, with a hundred thousand dead, two thirds of the buildings bombed, all the hospitals and infrastructure destroyed, more than a million people on the verge of starvation, and Israel's leadership even more openly bragging about their intent to ethnically cleanse the area, it's gone on "too long".
Well done Lammy and Starmer. You finally noticed eh?
So trade deal talks are off, and weapons export licenses are... Well. We'll see. "Always Under Review" they say.
And the main reason for the slight and tiny change in emphasis? Mostly Trump. They are following Trump. They feel easier criticizing Israel's genocide now Trump looks easier with it.
#ukpol #gaza #israel
@rmdes@mstdn.social2025-06-21 12:11:58
How long until the internet, which allowed a generation to benefit from a vast wealth of human knowledge, becomes a swamp filled with generated #AI pollution? It may already be too late. https://www.theregist…
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-19 08:33:33
FEAST: A Flexible Mealtime-Assistance System Towards In-the-Wild Personalization
Rajat Kumar Jenamani, Tom Silver, Ben Dodson, Shiqin Tong, Anthony Song, Yuting Yang, Ziang Liu, Benjamin Howe, Aimee Whitneck, Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14968
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-06-17 21:49:10
Chalk up another big win for the #Windows and #Instagram folks! Bombing innocents is the only way to be truly social!
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/world/israels-spy-agency-used-ai-and-smuggled-in-drones-to-prepare-attack-on-iran/article_ce2d0fbc-ae83-5266-af3f-e1cf35feface.html
see also
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-19 01:54:19
After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…
@annsev@troet.cafe2025-06-16 09:51:31
I wonder if the claim that Iran wants to develop a #nuclear bomb to destroy Israel is not just as bold a lie as the claim that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.
We know that even the UN - i.e. the world public - is unashamedly lied to if it benefits its own cause.
Powell's lie led to the Iraq war,
@pre@boing.world2025-05-10 22:29:22
Nice gimmick with the shop window animating the stories as they're told, and it liking the simple story of Belinda saving a single life.
Not really clear if the Barber here is a story writer or a story collector. He seems to want credit as though he wrote them but also to not have a name to credit them to, and to have weaved some kinda story collecting machine. He surely can't take credit for all human stories? It was a beautiful machine: a story tree that's also a brain with a heart in it.
I find myself sympathetic with the aims of this barber anyway. Yes, do kill all the gods. Great plan! Lets do it.
I play this song from Julian Cope, Psychedelic Odin, in which he swears to undertake a holy task set by a group of River Nixes: Kill all the gods for us, oh do it well.
So I like a story teller killing gods, I don't really want his plans thwarted! Join him Doctor! Kill al
l the gods!
Beautiful big space spider, weaving all the stories into it's web. Not sure why it's there though. Seems like just outer-space with no spider would have done,
Always like the callbacks with all the prior doctor's faces too. His story is truely one of the most epic. Only Coronation Street has him beat for length 😆
This whole season is great.
#tv #watching #doctorWho
@arXiv_csLG_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-09 10:10:02
Flexible Operator Fusion for Fast Sparse Transformer with Diverse Masking on GPU
Wenhao Dai, Haodong Deng, Mengfei Rong, Xinyu Yang, Hongyu Liu, Fangxin Liu, Hailong Yang, Weifeng Liu, Qingxiao Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06095
@villavelius@mastodon.online2025-06-13 06:50:04
The incentive for Iran to build nuclear weapons has just been strengthened. As if the state of the world isn't bad enough already.