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Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff*: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/mark-zuckerberg-meta-nickname-trump-b2774168.html

Zuckerberg’s political shift didn’t shock Meta staff: ‘The whole time this was all one inch underneath’
Meta has implemented policy shifts that are more closely aligned with the administration since Trump was elected

That Whole 'Death to America' Thing Is Really No Big Deal, You Know (David Strom/HotAir)
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/06/20/that-whole-death-to-america-is-really-no-big-deal-you-know-n3803997
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p88#a250620p88

WISE-FUSE: Efficient Whole Slide Image Encoding via Coarse-to-Fine Patch Selection with VLM and LLM Knowledge Fusion
Yonghan Shin, SeungKyu Kim, Won-Ki Jeong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14537

WISE-FUSE: Efficient Whole Slide Image Encoding via Coarse-to-Fine Patch Selection with VLM and LLM Knowledge Fusion
Whole slide images (WSIs) in computational pathology (CPath) pose a major computational challenge due to their gigapixel scale, often requiring the processing of tens to hundreds of thousands of high-resolution patches per slide. This results in prohibitive encoding costs, with preprocessing and training times extending to days or even weeks-making WSI encoding the most significant bottleneck in real-world deployment. In this work, we propose WISE-FUSE, an adaptive WSI encoding framework that l…

A Three-Level Whole-Body Disturbance Rejection Control Framework for Dynamic Motions in Legged Robots
Bolin Li, Gewei Zuo, Zhixiang Wang, Xiaotian Ke, Lijun Zhu, Han Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13531

A Three-Level Whole-Body Disturbance Rejection Control Framework for Dynamic Motions in Legged Robots
This paper presents a control framework designed to enhance the stability and robustness of legged robots in the presence of uncertainties, including model uncertainties, external disturbances, and faults. The framework enables the full-state feedback estimator to estimate and compensate for uncertainties in whole-body dynamics of the legged robots. First, we propose a novel moving horizon extended state observer (MH-ESO) to estimate uncertainties and mitigate noise in legged systems, which can…

I have not played Remtach. This review is really interesting describing this as a team fighting game with soccer as more of a theme. And for the moment to moment game play that sounds great.
But it is funny that in another way that's just soccer. TBH this game is way more soccer then FIFA is where you control a whole team.
Personally I don't love these multiplayer games. I could like this with a single player mode and imagine doing a whole career!

Would you like to round up your kittens for the Own More Cats fund?

Bozo has come up with another cunning plan to distract from the whole #Epstein business. He wants the Washington #Commanders #football team and the Cleveland

❝I’d mostly discount the idea that this is largely about AI displacing educated workers.❞
YES. THANK YOU.
“AI is here doooom!! doooom!!” is such a common knee-jerk excuse for the miserable college grad job market right now, and…I don’t see it. In terms of real, actual, yes-it-worked, yes-you-can-clearly-replace-whole-highly-skilled-jobs successes inside of real actual businesses…I   just   don’t   see   it.
Whatever’s going on, the AIpocalypse is an •excuse•, not a •cause• here.

Being Dead - “Godzilla Rising” (2024)
This whole album is pretty good. Very fun and clever. Of course they're from Austin.
A BC supporter described them as "The Mamas and The Papas meet the Elephant Six Collective" and I think that's a fitting description. Odd time signatures, lots of vocal harmonizing, and jangly pop guitars.
Great opening track here 👇
#music

W00t!
Another installment of the Java Geek Weekly; a whole week of curated content by your humble servant 😊
https://blog.frankel.ch/java-geek-weekly/85/

How about zoom starts supporting iOS in a sensei way at all? Have they ever used the Zoom app on iOS talking to more than two people? With those itsy bitsy little windows where you can barely see each other, despite having way more screen real estate? This whole app looks like a bad concept from 15 years ago.
I don’t get me started on even trying to change settings while on a call. Wtf #zoom

9to5Mac (@9to5Mac@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Zoom to drop support for iOS 13 and iOS 14 soon https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/19/zoom-to-drop-support-for-ios-13-and-ios-14-soon/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

What's a good quick way to add a widget to a webpage for an event, so that people can view dates and times in their own timezone? Ideally it would guess from their browser settings but allow them to change it to something else.
I expected wordpress to have a feature or plugin for this but can't find anything without using a whole event plugin which I don't really want to do for this small task..
I have been linking to timeanddate.com for this, but someone just let me …

After almost two whole Tai Chi lessons, I can confidently say that it's really fucking hard.

"The biased random number generator deleted my production database", people just really want to fool themselves into believing "AI" is real.
For years now I've said that no one would dare cross bridges or board a plane if civil/aerospace engineers worked like the majority of software engineers, and this whole hype just makes me point better than I ever could 😅
https://bsky.app/profile/lookitup.baby/post/3lufqktym522f

SimGenHOI: Physically Realistic Whole-Body Humanoid-Object Interaction via Generative Modeling and Reinforcement Learning
Yuhang Lin, Yijia Xie, Jiahong Xie, Yuehao Huang, Ruoyu Wang, Jiajun Lv, Yukai Ma, Xingxing Zuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14120

SimGenHOI: Physically Realistic Whole-Body Humanoid-Object Interaction via Generative Modeling and Reinforcement Learning
Generating physically realistic humanoid-object interactions (HOI) is a fundamental challenge in robotics. Existing HOI generation approaches, such as diffusion-based models, often suffer from artifacts such as implausible contacts, penetrations, and unrealistic whole-body actions, which hinder successful execution in physical environments. To address these challenges, we introduce SimGenHOI, a unified framework that combines the strengths of generative modeling and reinforcement learning to pr…

I drove my son to the train station earlier, but he got the time wrong and missed it. There's another at 3, and Ill drive him again, but for now I'm just idling.
I have all the facilities to do some work, a whole 90m, but I just _can't_. When I get into the zone/flow/whatever the kids call it, I can be quite productive, but I find it impossible to get myself into the work mindset when I have an impending distraction/obligation/interruption just hanging over me.
Any…

@… @… That would go against the whole point of capitalism: For the capitalists to reap the rewards without taking on any of the real risk.

Now that I'm back, I'm gonna follow up with a few worthwhile things. Since I'm not from the Army, I checked in with my dad to make sure I wasn't reading too much into things. His response was..
"Yeah, this is one of the biggest protests i've ever seen by the military"
That seems pretty consistent with @KnittingCultLady's YouTube take:
https://youtu.be/UDJ0INvxLLI
There was a whole vets protest. Other mil folks have echoed similar things. Yeah, I'm pretty confident in my take.

FedWSIDD: Federated Whole Slide Image Classification via Dataset Distillation
Haolong Jin, Shenglin Liu, Cong Cong, Qingmin Feng, Yongzhi Liu, Lina Huang, Yingzi Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15365

FedWSIDD: Federated Whole Slide Image Classification via Dataset Distillation
Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising approach for collaborative medical image analysis, enabling multiple institutions to build robust predictive models while preserving sensitive patient data. In the context of Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification, FL faces significant challenges, including heterogeneous computational resources across participating medical institutes and privacy concerns. To address these challenges, we propose FedWSIDD, a novel FL paradigm that leverages datas…

While I'm reworking my backups, just wondering about how I shall do backups for my laptops.
In the past I was using pull backups so this was tricky; if the laptop wasn't reachable from the backup host it just skipped the daily backup. Could also result in partial backups if the laptop went away in the middle.
On the whole I consider laptops at constant risk of total loss and keep all important data on a fileserver, with syncs from/to local copies.(git or syncthing)
…

Son House - Low Down Dirty Dog Blues
Well, you know the sun is goin' down
I say, behind that old western hill
I say, behind that old western hill
You know, I couldn't do a thing
Not against my baby's will
Man, you know that's bad
I declare that's too black bad
I declare that's too black bad
You know, my woman done quit me
Oh man, looks like the whole round world is glad

Bring your whole self to work, and to play. Do not hide who you are.
Unless your whole self is an asshole, then maybe keep that part tucked away around other people, OK?

Chelsea playing a strong lineup, but their defending, especially headed balls back across the face of goal... has been shocking in the second half. 👀
Conceded two goals in 4 minutes. Immediately after conceding the second, Nicolas Jackson gets a straight 🔴 for a textbook studs up challenge high up the leg. Indefensible. He'd just subbed on and was on the pitch for 4 whole minutes.
#FLACHE

”Apple has effectively infinite resources and operates on their own timeline, but everyone else does not have this kind of luxury. Springing big changes like this all at once forces so many independent developers, entire companies, and the industry as a whole to freeze their own development schedules to accommodate Apple’s design system.
It’s asking a lot. For almost nothing in return.”
Great summary I agree with!

Rose-Gold-Tinted Liquid Glasses

Notwithstanding the awful ping times this would need billions of times more material than is available in the whole solar system, including the sun.
Or roughly as much shit as comes out of that man’s mouth.

If my bio didn’t make it obvious, I’m an anarcho-syndicalist who’s bisexual, gender-fluid, and autistic!
#Anarchism #Syndicalism #AnarchoSyndicalism

I've managed to install the Stirling PDF tools on one of our company's mini PCs using #podman. I've tried doing it with Redhat's cockpit admin GUI but it didn't really work, probably because of SELinux or something (it's always SELinux...). I found some instruction for the commandline that worked.
This is all seems like a good use-case for Docker but the whole contain…

The most obvious form of scaffolding is a therapist, but it can actually be a whole range of things 🤯
Dr Jan Eppingstall tells us more 🙌🏻

Assessing Trustworthiness of AI Training Dataset using Subjective Logic -- A Use Case on Bias
Koffi Ismael Ouattara, Ioannis Krontiris, Theo Dimitrakos, Frank Kargl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13813

Assessing Trustworthiness of AI Training Dataset using Subjective Logic -- A Use Case on Bias
As AI systems increasingly rely on training data, assessing dataset trustworthiness has become critical, particularly for properties like fairness or bias that emerge at the dataset level. Prior work has used Subjective Logic to assess trustworthiness of individual data, but not to evaluate trustworthiness properties that emerge only at the level of the dataset as a whole. This paper introduces the first formal framework for assessing the trustworthiness of AI training datasets, enabling uncert…

Masked ICE agents are only the start of the assault on government transparency.
Now, government attorneys that are arguing to deport immigrants are doing so in secret.
The Intercept reports on two separate instances immigration judges in New York City declined to identify the government attorneys for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In the first case Judge ShaSha Xu said,
“We’re not really doing names publicly.”
But that’s not really true. Because she *did* ID…

Government Attorneys Now On Board With The Whole Secret Police Thing
Judges are letting government attorneys do the ugly work of mass deportations anonymously.

@tripplehelix@polymaths.social I'm also trying out Vivaldi—there's a whole bunch of hacks from folks who want to make it look like Arc, but… so much work 😩

Replaced article(s) found for cs.SE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.SE/new
[1/1]:
- "I see models being a whole other thing": An Empirical Study of Pre-Trained Model Naming Conventi...
Wenxin Jiang, Mingyu Kim, Chingwo Cheung, Heesoo Kim, George K. Thiruvathukal, James C. Davis
…

this joke ⬇️
https://wetdry.world/@kopper/114694348090220778

"The minimum scientifically plausible number of deaths attributable to the genocide overall is more than 460,000"
This is an area whose population, before the #October7Attack, was 2,226,544. Which is to say, at least one in every five people IN THE WHOLE OF #GAZA has now been killed …

The Real Gaza Death Toll is Impossible to Know Today, But the Minimum Isn’t
The problem with leaving this sentiment at “we have no idea how many people have been killed” is that we do have a very clear idea of the minimum, based on the most rigorous, detailed analyses that statisticians, epidemiologists, and experts on urban warfare, working together under stringent peer review in the world’s leading research forums, agree on. And that minimum number is indeed much higher than the Ministry’s count. That minimum scientifically plausible number of traumatic death…

Among other things, #writing is drafting, way, way too much, often confused and contradictory material, before cutting, cutting, cutting, interspersed with muttering, naps, more coffee (and other drinks) than is healthy, the odd social media post, and various crises of confidence. The whole process repeats a few times before anyone but the author sees the text and then the whole operation goes through se…

My pet peeve in @…: I often want to save attachments, but then also look at them. I’d love to have an accessible way to open the attachment I just saved, like in #Firefox’s download menu or the popup Element offers. Currently, I need to navigate the whole path tw…

Scaling Whole-body Multi-contact Manipulation with Contact Optimization
Victor Lev\'e, Jo\~ao Moura, Sachiya Fujita, Tamon Miyake, Steve Tonneau, Sethu Vijayakumar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12980 …

Scaling Whole-body Multi-contact Manipulation with Contact Optimization
Daily tasks require us to use our whole body to manipulate objects, for instance when our hands are unavailable. We consider the issue of providing humanoid robots with the ability to autonomously perform similar whole-body manipulation tasks. In this context, the infinite possibilities for where and how contact can occur on the robot and object surfaces hinder the scalability of existing planning methods, which predominantly rely on discrete sampling. Given the continuous nature of contact sur…

Climate change and depopulation confirmed as main concerns affecting mountain areas in Europe https://phys.org/news/2025-06-climate-depopulation-main-affecting-mountain.html

Climate change and depopulation confirmed as main concerns affecting mountain areas in Europe
In Europe, mountain areas account for about 36% of the total territory and are home to 16% of the population, but they are crucial for the continent as a whole. The availability of basic commodities, like water, depends on them; they play a key role in carbon sequestration, and are areas of biodiversity.

Autonomy at Levels for Spacecraft
Daniel Baker (Defense Sector, BlueHalo, LLC), Jeremy Wojcik (Defense Sector, BlueHalo, LLC), Sean Phillips (Space Control Branch)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14226

Autonomy at Levels for Spacecraft
Autonomy at Levels is the idea that autonomy should be embedded within and throughout a spacecraft. Using Systems Engineering methods a spacecraft is typically decomposed into systems, subsystems, assemblies, components, and so on. All these decomposition levels within all the spacecraft's systems, could and should have autonomy elements built in. As a result, the "autonomy system" is made of autonomy elements or units that are integrated, distributed and embedded within the whole spacecraft. T…

Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
[1/1]:
- Functional Ultrasound Imaging Combined with Machine Learning for Whole-Brain Analysis of Drug-Ind...
Deighton, Zhong, Agyeman, Choi, Liu, Lee, Maroulas, Christopoulos

Controllable Latent Space Augmentation for Digital Pathology
Sofi\`ene Boutaj, Marin Scalbert, Pierre Marza, Florent Couzinie-Devy, Maria Vakalopoulou, Stergios Christodoulidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14588

Controllable Latent Space Augmentation for Digital Pathology
Whole slide image (WSI) analysis in digital pathology presents unique challenges due to the gigapixel resolution of WSIs and the scarcity of dense supervision signals. While Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a natural fit for slide-level tasks, training robust models requires large and diverse datasets. Even though image augmentation techniques could be utilized to increase data variability and reduce overfitting, implementing them effectively is not a trivial task. Traditional patch-level au…

So potus is proud of raising $80 billion in tariffs this year so far.
Biden raised $50 billion in tariffs in 2022 without crippling industries and alienating the world’s commerce.
Also, the U.S. government spends $38.7 billion on paper in 2022.
The whole U.S. government budget: $5.35 trillion.
So in 33 years, #TrumpTariffs might pay for a single year.
pape…

Paper forms cost government $38.7B annually says US Chamber of Commerce
The organization finds federal agencies processed 9,858 unique forms and more than 106 billion total between September 2021 and August 2022.

One reason why I think the Web as a whole may be struggling is that Google doesn't link out to the Web as much anymore. Here is one example. And in this case, it doesn't even have to do anything with AI.
I was searching on my phone for "Bundespräsident" (the German word for Federal president, formally the highest role in the German administration). My language setting is English, I was searching on Android, from within Germany.

Ideal Social Gas
VS Morales-Salgado
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13447 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13447

Ideal Social Gas
This work continues the one commenced in a previous one, where the key idea is that individual stances on a social matter can be modeled as positions of particles in physics. Here, we explore the aggregation of individual behavior as a microscopic model of social phenomena to obtain quantities characterizing a society as a whole, similar to the resulting thermodynamical quantities at the macroscopic scale. We follow the theoretical framework of statistical mechanics with a Boltzmann distributio…

”Apple has effectively infinite resources and operates on their own timeline, but everyone else does not have this kind of luxury. Springing big changes like this all at once forces so many independent developers, entire companies, and the industry as a whole to freeze their own development schedules to accommodate Apple’s design system.
It’s asking a lot. For almost nothing in return.”
Great summary I agree with!

"Forget cards, Zelenskyy's bringing the whole deck to Washington"
'Pathetic and humiliating': MAGA fury erupts as world leaders unite to thwart Trump 'trap' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-pathetic-maga-outrage-ukraine/

I am using Desktop Linux¹ for decades because it is woke and gay²!
We want all the gay and merry people playing together :-)
__
¹specifically Debian
²read @… in https://

Ohhh, those unaccountable payment processors again.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valve-explain-why-using-paypal-for-steam-purchases-isnt-currently-an-option-in-a-whole-bunch-of-countries…

Valve explain why using PayPal for Steam purchases isn't currently an option in a whole bunch of countries
Valve have explained why PayPal is currently unavailable as a Steam payment option in a number of countries around the world.

We should view the AI craze among investors and executives through this lens too.
It’s not the whole story by a long shot, but it’s definitely part of it — particularly the psyops of all the “Most of you will soon lose your jobs!” pronouncements from leadership.
https://social.coop/@ntnsndr/114710750541847256

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Waterboys:
🎵 The Whole of the Moon
#TheWaterboys
https://djaf.bandcamp.com/track/the-waterboys-the-whole-of-the-moon-djaf-short-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/6MYtWkoEiUNZmMe5CgCczM

Man, I had a shit week.
Tried to stretch outside my comfort zone in a big way; but failed myself really badly.
Old trauma woke up at a crucial moment, and bit me really hard; and I think the whole thing, instead of being healing, just … doubled everything down.
I’m feeling worthless in a whole new way.
Feeling like I undid, in like one hour, years and years of self-confidence building.

really loving to get told both that our whole economy is about to collapse because ai is such a big deal and that our economy is about to collapse because ai is a silly bubble

Bustling 🫜
攒动 🫜
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️FOMAPAN Action 400
buy me ☕️ ?/请我喝杯☕️？
#filmphotography

The data industry is consolidating, with Databricks' $1B Neon purchase, Salesforce's $8B Informatica deal, and more, fueled by the need for quality data for AI (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/ai-i

AI is forcing the data industry to consolidate — but that's not the whole story | TechCrunch
While AI may be the catalyst behind the recent wave of data company M&A, the market was ripe for consolidation.

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.
-- Peter Beard

Switch4EAI: Leveraging Console Game Platform for Benchmarking Robotic Athletics
Tianyu Li, Jeonghwan Kim, Wontaek Kim, Donghoon Baek, Seungeun Rho, Sehoon Ha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13444

Switch4EAI: Leveraging Console Game Platform for Benchmarking Robotic Athletics
Recent advances in whole-body robot control have enabled humanoid and legged robots to execute increasingly agile and coordinated movements. However, standardized benchmarks for evaluating robotic athletic performance in real-world settings and in direct comparison to humans remain scarce. We present Switch4EAI(Switch-for-Embodied-AI), a low-cost and easily deployable pipeline that leverages motion-sensing console games to evaluate whole-body robot control policies. Using Just Dance on the Nint…

Raiders' Ashton Jeanty is Kicking it to Whole New Gear https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-pete-carroll-draft-training-camp-ashton-jeanty

Israel is counting on Trump to join the operation against Iran, now that the risks of failure and downed planes have been minimised.
“The whole operation is premised on the fact that the US will join at some point,” an Israeli official told CNN.
“We are waiting for the decision of the president,” another senior official told the network.
Israel has yet to attack Iran’s most secure enrichment facility, at Fordow, which is built into a mountain with up to 100 metres of rock abo…

Modal toccata
- the pipe organ is like a whole orchestra under your hands ... and feet -
#PipeOrgan #NowPlaying
https://

Modal toccata #PipeOrgan #NowPlaying
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

Don't leave for the weekend without reading today's packed Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you should know, including
--Customers keep buying Predator spyware despite US sanctions
--Ukraine paralyzed top Siberian ISP,
--Meta AI shows other customers' sensitive info,
--Whole Foods still grappling with product disruptions,
--Malicious adtech is highly interconnected,
--Cybercrims are selling lost RCMP key containing informants…

Customers keep buying Predator spyware despite US sanctions
Ukraine paralyzed top Siberian ISP, Meta AI shows other customers' sensitive info, Whole Foods still grappling with product disruptions, Malicious adtech is highly interconnected, Cybercrims are selling lost RCMP key containing informants' data, BEC scammer sentenced to four years, much more

There used to be this deal between Google (and other search engines) and the Web: You get to index our stuff, show ads next to them but you link our work. AI Overview and Perplexity and all these systems cancel that deal.
And maybe - for a while - search will also need to die a bit? Make the whole web uncrawlable. Refuse any bots. As an act of resistance to the tech sector as a whole.

Towards Understanding and Harnessing the Transferability of Prognostic Knowledge in Computational Pathology
Pei Liu, Luping Ji, Jiaxiang Gou, Xiangxiang Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13482

Towards Understanding and Harnessing the Transferability of Prognostic Knowledge in Computational Pathology
Whole-Slide Image (WSI) is an important tool for evaluating the prognosis of cancer patients. Present WSI-based prognosis studies generally follow a conventional paradigm -- cancer-specific model development -- where one cancer disease corresponds to one model and this model cannot make use of the prognostic knowledge from others. Despite its notable success in recent years, this paradigm has inherent limitations and has always been struggling with practical requirements: (i) scaling to the rar…

And just like that, #LinuxMint is up to date, all my apps are up to date and the whole process was even less effort than #MacOS.
(I'm not even gonna touch the nagging horror of some other OSes and their breakgrades.)

Imagine that a cease-fire would be implemented along current frontlines and it would hold for several years, Ukraine would become a EU member, economic integration with the EU would follow which would be beneficial to the union as a whole. Putin can not allow that to happen, especially because he can never be so succesful with his own failed state Russia (economically at least).
Putin prefers uncertainty, instability for Ukraine.

Friends of computational reproducibility: do any of you have experience with Guix?
#reproducibleresearch

Want to make the whole year BDSM-themed? Here’s a kinky calendar to keep the tease and denial going strong:
Jerkless January
Filthy February
Milking March
Painful April
Moanless May
Juicy June
Joyless July
Agonizing August
Shametember
Locktober
No Nut November
Denial December
Who’s ready to play all year long? 🔒✨
#BDSM

Troops in Los Angeles marked a dramatic new turn in the Trump authoritarian rollout. Yet American protesters are making the turn towards a national mobilization in defense of freedom and democracy.
http://woborders.blog/2025/06/13/resistance-to-trump-reac…

Resistance to Trump reaches its first turning point
“The Whole World Is Watching.” It’s been decades since American protesters chanted this sentence at American police in an effort to deter violence and brutality. But it has perhaps neve…

Adversarial Hospital-Invariant Feature Learning for WSI Patch Classification
Mengliang Zhang, Jacob M. Luber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14779 https://arxiv…

Adversarial Hospital-Invariant Feature Learning for WSI Patch Classification
Pathology foundation models (PFMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in whole-slide image (WSI) diagnosis. However, pathology images from different hospitals often vary due to differences in scanning hardware and preprocessing styles, which may lead PFMs to inadvertently learn hospital-specific features, posing risks for clinical deployment. In this work, we present the first systematic study of domain bias in PFMs arising from hospital source characteristics. Specifically, we (1) construc…

Idk how trails in the sky could be any longer. This game had sooo much text. Though perhaps full voice acting will make it less tedious because it was good but took so long.
https://www.…

Epstein shit and adjacent, Rural America, Poverty, Abuse
Everyone who's not a pedophile thinks pedophiles are bad, but there's this special obsessed hatred you'll find among poor rural Americans. The whole QAnon/Epstein obsession may not really make sense to folks raised in cities. Like, why do these people think *so much* about pedophiles? Why do they think that everyone in power is a pedophile? Why would the Pizzagate thing make sense to anyone? What is this unhinged shit? A lot of folks (who aren't anarchists) might be inclined to ask "why can't these people just let the cops take care of it?"
I was watching Legal Eagle's run down on the Trump Epstein thing earlier today and I woke up thinking about something I don't know if I've ever talked about. Now that I'm not in the US, I'm not at any risk of talking about it. I don't know how much I would have been before, but that's not something I'm gonna dig into right now. So let me tell you a story that might explain a few things.
I'm like 16, maybe 17. I have my license, so this girl I was dating/not dating/just friends with/whatever would regularly convince me to drive her and her friends around. I think she's like 15 at the time. Her friends are younger than her.
She tells me that there's a party we can go to where they have beer. She was told to invite her friends, so I can come too. We're going to pick her friends up (we regularly fill the VW Golf well beyond the legal limit and drive places) and head to the party.
So I take these girls, at least is 13 years old, down to this party. I'm already a bit sketched out bringing a 13 year old to a party. We drive out for a while. It's in the country. We drive down a long dark road. Three are some barrel fires and a shack. This is all a bit strange, but not too abnormal for this area. We're a little ways outside of a place called Mill City (in Oregon).
We park and walk towards the shack. This dude who looks like a rat comes up and offers us beer. He laughs and talks to the girl who invited me, "What's he doing here? You're supposed to bring your girl friends." She's like, "He's our ride." I don't remember if he offered me a beer or not.
We go over to this shed and everyone starts smoking, except me because I didn't smoke until I turned 18. The other girls start talking about the rat face dude, who's wandered over by the fire with some other guys. They're mainly teasing one of the 13 year old girls about having sex with him a bunch of times. They say he's like, 32 or something. The other girls joke about him only having sex with 13 year olds because he's too ugly to have sex with anyone closer to his own age.
Somewhere along the line it comes out that he's a cop. I never forgot that, it's absolutely seared in to my memory. I can picture his face perfectly still, decades later, and them talking about how he's a deputy, he was in his 30's, and he was having sex with a 13 year old girl. I was the only boy there, but there were a few older men. This was a chunk of the good ol' boys club of the town. I think there were a couple of cops besides the one deputy, and a judge or the mayor or some kind of big local VIP.
I kept trying to get my friend to leave, but she wanted to stay. Turns out under age drinking with cops seems like a great deal if you're a kid because you know you won't get busted. I left alone, creeped the fuck out.
I was told later that I wasn't invited and that I couldn't talk about it, I've always been good at compartmentalization, so I never did.
Decades later it occurred to me what was actually happening. I'm pretty sure that cop was giving meth he'd seized as evidence to these kids. This wasn't some one-off thing. It was regular. Who knows how many decades it went on after I left, or how many decades it had been going on before I found out. I knew this type of thing had happened at least a few times before because that's how that 13 year old girl and that 32 year old cop had hooked up in the first place.
Hearing about Epstein's MO, targeting these teenage girls from fucked up backgrounds, it's right there for me. I wouldn't be surprised if they were involved in sex trafficking of minors or some shit like that... but who would you call if you found out? Half the sheriff's department was there and the other half would cover for them.
You live in the city and shit like that doesn't happen, or at least you don't think it happens. But rural poor folks have this intuition about power and abuse. It's right there and you know it.
Trump is such a familiar character for me, because he's exactly that small town mayor or sheriff. He'll will talk about being tough on crime and hunting down pedophiles, while hanging out at a party that exists so people can fuck 8th graders.
The problem with the whole thing is that rural folks will never break the cognitive dissonance between "kill the peods" and "back the blue." They'll never go kill those cops. No, the pedos must be somewhere else. It must be the elites. It must be outsiders. It can't be the cops and good ol' boys everyone respects. It can't be the mayor who rigs the election to win every time. It can't be the "good upstanding" sheriff. Nah, it's the Clintons.
To be fair, it's probably also the Clitnons, a bunch of other politicians, billionaires, etc. Epstein was exactly who everyone thought he was, and he didn't get away with it for so long without a whole lot of really powerful help.
There are still powerful people who got away with involvement with #Epstein. #Trump is one of them, but I don't really believe that he's the only one.
#USPol #ACAB

#WritersCoffeeClub
June 19: How would you describe the theme of the whole of your œuvre?
Describing everything is hardly possible, especially when the theme shifts with time.
Still, if I had to pick something, I'd say individualism, humanism, rebellion and justice. Systems crunching people in the cogs persist to this day. I never truly "outgrew" it - and, see…

Do I happen to know anyone in the EU with a LaserDisc Domesday Duplicator setup?
I really want to have a digital rip of a rare laserdisc, but I really don't feel like getting into a whole new ecosystem.
Willing to pay for the time and effort.
EDIT: My disc is a Japanese NTSC release, making things even harder...

i accidentally the whole history of email in the 1970s https://lobste.rs/c/vkssdf

Leveraging Pathology Foundation Models for Panoptic Segmentation of Melanoma in H&E Images
Jiaqi Lv, Yijie Zhu, Carmen Guadalupe Colin Tenorio, Brinder Singh Chohan, Mark Eastwood, Shan E Ahmed Raza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13974

Leveraging Pathology Foundation Models for Panoptic Segmentation of Melanoma in H&E Images
Melanoma is an aggressive form of skin cancer with rapid progression and high metastatic potential. Accurate characterisation of tissue morphology in melanoma is crucial for prognosis and treatment planning. However, manual segmentation of tissue regions from haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained whole-slide images (WSIs) is labour-intensive and prone to inter-observer variability, this motivates the need for reliable automated tissue segmentation methods. In this study, we propose a novel deep …

Multi-Centre Validation of a Deep Learning Model for Scoliosis Assessment
\v{S}imon Kubov, Simon Kl\'i\v{c}n\'ik, Jakub Dand\'ar, Zden\v{e}k Straka, Karol\'ina Kvakov\'a, Daniel Kvak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14093

Multi-Centre Validation of a Deep Learning Model for Scoliosis Assessment
Scoliosis affects roughly 2 to 4 percent of adolescents, and treatment decisions depend on precise Cobb angle measurement. Manual assessment is time consuming and subject to inter observer variation. We conducted a retrospective, multi centre evaluation of a fully automated deep learning software (Carebot AI Bones, Spine Measurement functionality; Carebot s.r.o.) on 103 standing anteroposterior whole spine radiographs collected from ten hospitals. Two musculoskeletal radiologists independently …

The cool old movie theater in town (celebrating their 93rd anniversary this year!) has a weekly summer blockbuster series. Tonight the whole family went to see The Dark Knight.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight

The Dark Knight - Wikipedia

Whole Foods supplier United Natural Foods says it is working to restore its systems by June 15 after a cyberattack, leaving empty shelves and stalled forklifts (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

GMT: General Motion Tracking for Humanoid Whole-Body Control
Zixuan Chen, Mazeyu Ji, Xuxin Cheng, Xuanbin Peng, Xue Bin Peng, Xiaolong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14770

GMT: General Motion Tracking for Humanoid Whole-Body Control
The ability to track general whole-body motions in the real world is a useful way to build general-purpose humanoid robots. However, achieving this can be challenging due to the temporal and kinematic diversity of the motions, the policy's capability, and the difficulty of coordination of the upper and lower bodies. To address these issues, we propose GMT, a general and scalable motion-tracking framework that trains a single unified policy to enable humanoid robots to track diverse motions in t…

Dismantling the sawmill motor to investigate an ignition failure. Changing the spark plug didn't help. It could be the HT lead but my local small engine guru says probably the coil.
Getting to the coil requires dismantling a whole lot of stuff...

I just saw an all-caps instruction file that someone uses to 'instruct' an LLM to help with coding, and it's just "don't hallucinate", "check your work", "don't say you did something when you didn't" with multiple exclamation marks.
So, basically the whole 'vibe coding,' or having "AI" "help" with coding just devolves into shouting at your computer.
Which reminded me of something, and then it hit me!
#ai #llm #vibecoding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SWMAQYQf0

Kid1: Dad, if you're bald, is your whole head your forehead?
Me: Um...
Kid1: I mean, the definition of a forehead is the space between your eyes and your hair, right?

Who could have seen it coming that a whole country marches into supporting a genocide while claiming that genocide should happen “niemals wieder” (“never again”)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/13/german-media-outlets-israel-murder-journalists-gaza

Whole-Body Control Framework for Humanoid Robots with Heavy Limbs: A Model-Based Approach
Tianlin Zhang, Linzhu Yue, Hongbo Zhang, Lingwei Zhang, Xuanqi Zeng, Zhitao Song, Yun-Hui Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14278

Whole-Body Control Framework for Humanoid Robots with Heavy Limbs: A Model-Based Approach
Humanoid robots often face significant balance issues due to the motion of their heavy limbs. These challenges are particularly pronounced when attempting dynamic motion or operating in environments with irregular terrain. To address this challenge, this manuscript proposes a whole-body control framework for humanoid robots with heavy limbs, using a model-based approach that combines a kino-dynamics planner and a hierarchical optimization problem. The kino-dynamics planner is designed as a mode…

Putin played Trump like a fiddle
And the whole world knows it

A Comparative Study of Floating-Base Space Parameterizations for Agile Whole-Body Motion Planning
Evangelos Tsiatsianas, Chairi Kiourt, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11520

A Comparative Study of Floating-Base Space Parameterizations for Agile Whole-Body Motion Planning
Automatically generating agile whole-body motions for legged and humanoid robots remains a fundamental challenge in robotics. While numerous trajectory optimization approaches have been proposed, there is no clear guideline on how the choice of floating-base space parameterization affects performance, especially for agile behaviors involving complex contact dynamics. In this paper, we present a comparative study of different parameterizations for direct transcription-based trajectory optimizati…

United Natural Foods, a grocery distributor to 30K stores in the US and Canada and Whole Foods' main distributor, hit by a cyberattack, halting some operations (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/majo

Major US grocery distributor warns of disruption after cyberattack | TechCrunch
UNFI, a grocery distributor for Whole Foods and others, warned of disruptions to customer orders after a cyberattack.

3D Wavelet Latent Diffusion Model for Whole-Body MR-to-CT Modality Translation
Jiaxu Zheng, Meiman He, Xuhui Tang, Xiong Wang, Tuoyu Cao, Tianyi Zeng, Lichi Zhang, Chenyu You
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11557

3D Wavelet Latent Diffusion Model for Whole-Body MR-to-CT Modality Translation
Magnetic Resonance (MR) imaging plays an essential role in contemporary clinical diagnostics. It is increasingly integrated into advanced therapeutic workflows, such as hybrid Positron Emission Tomography/Magnetic Resonance (PET/MR) imaging and MR-only radiation therapy. These integrated approaches are critically dependent on accurate estimation of radiation attenuation, which is typically facilitated by synthesizing Computed Tomography (CT) images from MR scans to generate attenuation maps. Ho…

Task and Motion Planning for Humanoid Loco-manipulation
Michal Ciebielski, Victor Dh\'edin, Majid Khadiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14099 https://arxiv…

Task and Motion Planning for Humanoid Loco-manipulation
This work presents an optimization-based task and motion planning (TAMP) framework that unifies planning for locomotion and manipulation through a shared representation of contact modes. We define symbolic actions as contact mode changes, grounding high-level planning in low-level motion. This enables a unified search that spans task, contact, and motion planning while incorporating whole-body dynamics, as well as all constraints between the robot, the manipulated object, and the environment. R…

MOC: Meta-Optimized Classifier for Few-Shot Whole Slide Image Classification
Tianqi Xiang, Yi Li, Qixiang Zhang, Xiaomeng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09967 https://

MOC: Meta-Optimized Classifier for Few-Shot Whole Slide Image Classification
Recent advances in histopathology vision-language foundation models (VLFMs) have shown promise in addressing data scarcity for whole slide image (WSI) classification via zero-shot adaptation. However, these methods remain outperformed by conventional multiple instance learning (MIL) approaches trained on large datasets, motivating recent efforts to enhance VLFM-based WSI classification through fewshot learning paradigms. While existing few-shot methods improve diagnostic accuracy with limited a…

Susan Collins is LOSING in Maine. Yes!
If Dems flip her seat, we flip the WHOLE Senate
Rush $10 to help Jordan Wood REPLACE her
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Jordan Wood is the former chief of staff to former congresswoman Katie Porter.
Wood's slogan uses Collins' phrase that she is &quo…

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MLM: Learning Multi-task Loco-Manipulation Whole-Body Control for Quadruped Robot with Arm
Xin Liu, Bida Ma, Chenkun Qi, Yan Ding, Zhaxizhuoma, Guorong Zhang, Pengan Chen, Kehui Liu, Zhongjie Jia, Chuyue Guan, Yule Mo, Jiaqi Liu, Feng Gao, Jiangwei Zhong, Bin Zhao, Xuelong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10538…

MLM: Learning Multi-task Loco-Manipulation Whole-Body Control for Quadruped Robot with Arm
Whole-body loco-manipulation for quadruped robots with arm remains a challenging problem, particularly in achieving multi-task control. To address this, we propose MLM, a reinforcement learning framework driven by both real-world and simulation data. It enables a six-DoF robotic arm--equipped quadruped robot to perform whole-body loco-manipulation for multiple tasks autonomously or under human teleoperation. To address the problem of balancing multiple tasks during the learning of loco-manipula…

Cracking Instance Jigsaw Puzzles: An Alternative to Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Analysis
Xiwen Chen, Peijie Qiu, Wenhui Zhu, Hao Wang, Huayu Li, Xuanzhao Dong, Xiaotong Sun, Xiaobing Yu, Yalin Wang, Abolfazl Razi, Aristeidis Sotiras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08178

Cracking Instance Jigsaw Puzzles: An Alternative to Multiple Instance Learning for Whole Slide Image Analysis
While multiple instance learning (MIL) has shown to be a promising approach for histopathological whole slide image (WSI) analysis, its reliance on permutation invariance significantly limits its capacity to effectively uncover semantic correlations between instances within WSIs. Based on our empirical and theoretical investigations, we argue that approaches that are not permutation-invariant but better capture spatial correlations between instances can offer more effective solutions. In light …

History shows that once a vanguard of rogues and lawless individuals gets a hold on government, it is difficult to eject them.
Rather, the changes in government applied with force by this vanguard become normalized.
And that is what is happening here.
https://

“The Whole Government is DOGE Now”: The Coup's Second Wave Begins
A lawless vanguard infiltrated the U.S. government; now they are being institutionalized and will work with Project 2025's own democracy destroyers

PERSONA: Personalized Whole-Body 3D Avatar with Pose-Driven Deformations from a Single Image
Geonhee Sim, Gyeongsik Moon
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09973 https://

PERSONA: Personalized Whole-Body 3D Avatar with Pose-Driven Deformations from a Single Image
Two major approaches exist for creating animatable human avatars. The first, a 3D-based approach, optimizes a NeRF- or 3DGS-based avatar from videos of a single person, achieving personalization through a disentangled identity representation. However, modeling pose-driven deformations, such as non-rigid cloth deformations, requires numerous pose-rich videos, which are costly and impractical to capture in daily life. The second, a diffusion-based approach, learns pose-driven deformations from la…

Whole-Body Bilateral Teleoperation with Multi-Stage Object Parameter Estimation for Wheeled Humanoid Locomanipulation
Donghoon Baek, Amartya Purushottam, Jason J. Choi, Joao Ramos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09846

Whole-Body Bilateral Teleoperation with Multi-Stage Object Parameter Estimation for Wheeled Humanoid Locomanipulation
This paper presents an object-aware whole-body bilateral teleoperation framework for wheeled humanoid loco-manipulation. This framework combines whole-body bilateral teleoperation with an online multi-stage object inertial parameter estimation module, which is the core technical contribution of this work. The multi-stage process sequentially integrates a vision-based object size estimator, an initial parameter guess generated by a large vision-language model (VLM), and a decoupled hierarchical …

Multi-critic Learning for Whole-body End-effector Twist Tracking
Aravind Elanjimattathil Vijayan, Andrei Cramariuc, Mattia Risiglione, Christian Gehring, Marco Hutter
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08656

Multi-critic Learning for Whole-body End-effector Twist Tracking
Learning whole-body control for locomotion and arm motions in a single policy has challenges, as the two tasks have conflicting goals. For instance, efficient locomotion typically favors a horizontal base orientation, while end-effector tracking may benefit from base tilting to extend reachability. Additionally, current Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches using a pose-based task specification lack the ability to directly control the end-effector velocity, making smoothly executing trajectori…

Simultaneous Contact Sequence and Patch Planning for Dynamic Locomotion
Victor Dh\'edin, Haizhou Zhao, Majid Khadiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12928 https://

Simultaneous Contact Sequence and Patch Planning for Dynamic Locomotion
Legged robots have the potential to traverse highly constrained environments with agile maneuvers. However, planning such motions requires solving a highly challenging optimization problem with a mixture of continuous and discrete decision variables. In this paper, we present a full pipeline based on Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) and whole-body trajectory optimization (TO) to perform simultaneous contact sequence and patch selection on highly challenging environments. Through extensive simulat…

Whole-Body Coordination for Dynamic Object Grasping with Legged Manipulators
Qiwei Liang, Boyang Cai, Rongyi He, Hui Li, Tao Teng, Haihan Duan, Changxin Huang, Runhao Zeng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08328

Whole-Body Coordination for Dynamic Object Grasping with Legged Manipulators
Quadrupedal robots with manipulators offer strong mobility and adaptability for grasping in unstructured, dynamic environments through coordinated whole-body control. However, existing research has predominantly focused on static-object grasping, neglecting the challenges posed by dynamic targets and thus limiting applicability in dynamic scenarios such as logistics sorting and human-robot collaboration. To address this, we introduce DQ-Bench, a new benchmark that systematically evaluates dynam…