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TIL that 'vegetarian meat' brands Vegetarische Slager ( butcher) and Vivera belong to Brazilian mega meat company JBS, accused of massive deforestation, built on bribing politicians, and brought to the stock market via a Dutch holding company.
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Omstreden vleesgigant JBS gaat naar beurs via Nederlandse brievenbusmaatschappij
JBS, het grootste vleesbedrijf ter wereld, vestigt zich in Nederland. Via een brievenbusmaatschappij in Amstelveen krijgt het omstreden Braziliaanse miljardenbedrijf beursnoteringen in zowel São Paulo als New York.

Burner phones, wiped socials: the extreme precautions for visitors to Trump’s America | Trump administration | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/25/tourists-foreign-visitors-trump-america

"Aboriginal Groups Win Historic Native Title Victory in Victoria After Decades of Legal Fight"
#Australia #Environment
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Aboriginal Groups Win Historic Native Title Victory in Victoria After Decades of Legal Fight | Happy Eco News
The native title victory Victoria granted exclusive rights to three Aboriginal groups, recognizing thousands of years of connection to land. This legal win strengthens cultural identity and environmental stewardship while setting a precedent for Indigenous land recognition in Victoria and across Australia.

FusedANN: Convexified Hybrid ANN via Attribute-Vector Fusion
Alireza Heidari, Wei Zhang, Ying Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19767 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

FusedANN: Convexified Hybrid ANN via Attribute-Vector Fusion
Vector search powers transformers technology, but real-world use demands hybrid queries that combine vector similarity with attribute filters (e.g., "top document in category X, from 2023"). Current solutions trade off recall, speed, and flexibility, relying on fragile index hacks that don't scale. We introduce FusedANN (Fused Attribute-Vector Nearest Neighbor), a geometric framework that elevates filtering to ANN optimization constraints and introduces a convex fused space via a Lagrangian-lik…

US Visitors Are Wiping Their Phones Before Traveling - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/08/us-visitors-are-wiping-their-phones-before-traveling/

IRSAMap:Towards Large-Scale, High-Resolution Land Cover Map Vectorization
Yu Meng, Ligao Deng, Zhihao Xi, Jiansheng Chen, Jingbo Chen, Anzhi Yue, Diyou Liu, Kai Li, Chenhao Wang, Kaiyu Li, Yupeng Deng, Xian Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16272

IRSAMap:Towards Large-Scale, High-Resolution Land Cover Map Vectorization
With the enhancement of remote sensing image resolution and the rapid advancement of deep learning, land cover mapping is transitioning from pixel-level segmentation to object-based vector modeling. This shift demands more from deep learning models, requiring precise object boundaries and topological consistency. However, existing datasets face three main challenges: limited class annotations, small data scale, and lack of spatial structural information. To overcome these issues, we introduce I…

Good Morning #Canada
In July 1871, the City of Victoria officially became the capital of British Columbia, when the province joined the rest of Canada. At the time, the city was larger than Vancouver and had served as the most important settlement in the area for decades. The Colony of Vancouver Island also stamped their little feet and demanded that Victoria be designated as the capital in return for the island to join with the mainland to become part of Canada. Captain James Cook was the first British person to set foot on Vancouver Island in 1778, and in 1843, Fort Victoria was established by the Hudson's Bay Company. There is a long history of Vancouver Island serving as a naval base, and today, Victoria is the home of Canada’s Pacific Coast naval and military headquarters in nearby Esquimalt. Victoria is a top tourist destination and is regularly rated top 5 worldwide as an awesome place to live.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianCapitals
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victoria-bc

God help me for amplifying Bill Maher but he nailed the psychotic freakshow Republicans to the wall in this segment.
And also... release the Epstein files.
▶️ New Rule: Crazy in Gov | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VfsdRxbwFG0&si=…

Victoria completa de los Cowboys para cerrar la pretemporada https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/victoria-completa-de-los-cowboys-para-cerrar-la-pretemporada