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Spain to launch €60 monthly nationwide public transport pass | Spain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/15/spain-to-launch-60-monthly-nationwide-public-transport-pass
> Bus and train initiati…

ICE, Secret Service, Navy All Had Access to Flock's Nationwide Network of Cameras https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/

The American Library Association (ALA) has touted a "massive win"
after previously revoked federal funding for libraries and museums was reinstated nationwide.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
announced on Wednesday it had
"reinstated all federal grants,"
8 months after an executive order from Donald Trump kick-started a firestorm
at the agency that supports the nation’s libraries.
Most of IMLS' staff, and i…

Library Grants Reinstated Nationwide After ‘Massive’ Legal Victory
Grants being restored after a Trump and DOGE firestorm are being hailed as "a massive win for libraries."

Unlocking Zero-Shot Plant Segmentation with Pl@ntNet Intelligence
Simon Rav\'e, Jean-Christophe Lombardo, Pejman Rasti, Alexis Joly, David Rousseau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12579

Unlocking Zero-Shot Plant Segmentation with Pl@ntNet Intelligence
We present a zero-shot segmentation approach for agricultural imagery that leverages Plantnet, a large-scale plant classification model, in conjunction with its DinoV2 backbone and the Segment Anything Model (SAM). Rather than collecting and annotating new datasets, our method exploits Plantnet's specialized plant representations to identify plant regions and produce coarse segmentation masks. These masks are then refined by SAM to yield detailed segmentations. We evaluate on four publicly avai…

I see lots of people claiming not to understand why there's a nationwide No Kings Day.
Don't pretend to be stupid. You'll get stuck that way.

“‘Sending armed soldiers to suppress peaceful protests is what kings and dictators do — and Greg Abbott just proved he’s one of them,’ Texas House Minority Leader Gene Wu said in a statement.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/greg-abbott-…

Abbott to send National Guard to Austin for No Kings rally
Abbott’s deployments come as Republicans, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, vilify the planned nationwide protests as a “hate America” gathering.

Hegseth will Krieg für Russland teurer machen
Im Ringen um ein Ende des Ukraine-Kriegs erhöht US-Verteidigungsminister Pete Hegseth den Druck auf den Kreml. Falls es nicht bald Frieden gebe, würden die Vereinigten Staaten gemeinsam mit ihren Verbündeten die notwendigen Schritte unternehmen, um den Krieg für Russland richtig teuer zu machen, sagte der Minister beim NATO-Verteidigungsministertreffen i…
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Selenskyj spricht mit Trump: "Tomahawks" für die Ukraine?
Schon zum zweiten Mal in zwei Tagen haben die Präsidenten Selenskyj und Trump miteinander gesprochen. Themen waren Luftverteidigung, Energiesektor und mögliche Friedensvermittlungen. Der Kreml kritisiert mögliche "Tomahawk"-Lieferungen.

Die zwei zentralen Werte der Stadtentwicklung:
- möglichst große Autos mit möglichst viel Abgasen
- Abschiebungen von Ausländern
Die AfD dürfte auch diesen Erfolg feiern, Stimmen mit Söder gewinnen und ihren Kurs zu noch mehr Extremismus fortführen.
https://www.

Muss sich das "Stadtbild" ändern? CSU-Debatte über Migration
Laut CSU-Vize Weber sollte die Union die Notwendigkeit von Zuwanderung für den Arbeitsmarkt mehr erklären. Bayern werde durch Migration vielfältiger. Parteichef Söder bleibt dagegen bei seiner Aussage, dass sich das Stadtbild wieder verändern müsse.

Today
12pm Sunday 12th October
Civic Square, Canberra
Nationwide protest: Stand up for Gaza
https://www.greenleft.org.au/2025/1438/news/nationwide-protest-stand-gaza

Nationwide protest: Stand up for Gaza
National protests on October 12 mark two years of Israel's genocide. They will demand Labor sanctions Israel, ends the two-way arms trade and expels the Israeli ambassador. Send rally details to @greenleftonline and we'll add them to this list.

Unión del Barrio has been doing “know your rights” workshops
and training people on how to spot ICE and report to the community when they do see them.
Cardona said it is important to document ICE raids and kidnappings to help people understand what they have been seeing and the way ICE goes about these operations.
Advocates have also been organizing patrols and responding to reported ICE activity.
Cardona said there have been many instances where community members in L…

Racial Profiling Is ICE’s New Norm. Activists Are Mobilizing in Response.
Arizonans long endured grim racial profiling under SB 1070. Now the Supreme Court has greenlighted its use nationwide.