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The absolute irony of the person complaining about a little bit of #Welsh being called Ceri.
Also, it's not a Pelican crossing, looks more like a Puffin. #rdguk
Reading council installs Whitley Welsh pelican crossing
https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/25367371.reading-council-installs-whitley-welsh-pelican-crossing/

#silentSunday #birdsofmastodon
Pelican. June 2017

2025 NBA Draft preview; Celtics deal Kristaps Porziņģis to Hawks; Wizards send Jordan Poole to Pelicans

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/2025-nb…

Profoundly disturbing image generated with Qwen-Image-Lightning from @… PR.
#generativeAI #pelicans #uncannyvalley

Hell yeah! I'm really going to try and make it out to this event Games Transformed in London next month.
#GamesTransformed

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The Maccabees:
🎵 Pelican
#NowPlaying #TheMaccabees
https://open.spotify.com/track/3rbVv0XOyXcI27mMaJqz4F

Supernova: Achieving More with Less in Transformer Architectures
Andrei-Valentin Tanase, Elena Pelican
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15773 https://

Supernova: Achieving More with Less in Transformer Architectures
We present Supernova, a 650M-parameter decoder-only transformer that demonstrates how careful architectural design and tokenization innovation can achieve the performance of larger models while maintaining computational efficiency. Our architecture combines Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE), Grouped Query Attention (GQA) with a 3:1 compression ratio, RMSNorm for computational efficiency, and SwiGLU activation functions. A critical innovation is our custom 128,000-vocabulary byte-level BPE tok…

Since @… alerted me to Salerno, Italy slow drone-doom project NIGHTSCAPE's new EP last week, I noticed the project also has a self-titled LP from earlier this year. And just like the EP, it's EXCELLENT. DAMN, am I a fan of drone-doom like this. FFO Black Sky Giant, Pelican, etc.
Nightscape (Vol. 1) LP from January:

I'm heading to London for Games Transformed: Smash the Fash event.
I'll be on a panel titled "What Can the Left Learn From Struggles in the Games Industry?" & speaking on our @gwuireland.bsky.social union organising with game workers in Ireland.
It's this weekend! Tickets here: https://www.