Apple Agrees to Follow President Biden's AI Safety Guidelines https://www.macrumors.com/2024/07/26/apple-agrees-to-ai-safety-guidelines/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Reminder: @numba is an *excellent* accelerator for numeric computations in Python. Also, issues with Python's stability are greatly exaggerated. Case in point: I just ran my 8yo n-body benchmarks without modification:

https://github.com/jni/nbody-numba

and they were just 10% slower than the fastest C code — and that's including all the Python launch time and JIT warmup!

#numba #Python

Researchers develop innovative battery recycling method | ScienceDaily. Cobalt-based battery cathodes -- typically used in EVs is is easily separated. This breakthrough results in an overall 98% recycling rate!

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240724171602.htm

⚡️Explosions, fire reported at airfield in occupied Crimea. Following sounds of explosions heard by local residents, a fire was reported at the Saky military airfield in the western town of Novofedorivka in occupied Crimea, the Telegram channel Crimean Wind reported overnight on July 26. https://kyivindependent.com/explosions-fire-reported-at-airfield-in-occupied-crimea/

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/KyivIndependent/status/1816655898561118494#m

[2024/07/26 02:04]

Scientists, deep-sea miner spar over ‘dark oxygen’ discovery
https://www.eenews.net/articles/scientists-deep-sea-miner-spar-over-dark-oxygen-discovery/
The Metals Co. is trying to discredit new research that bolsters opponents’ claims that the deep sea is too unknown to mine.

Let's be clear, this is research funded by Metals Co. and published in Nature Geoscience. But they don't like what the science is telling them, so they try to discredit it. The same play book as the fossil carbon industry has used to stop action on #ClimateChange

Cyclist killed on Bloor just east of University/Avenue yesterday around 8:30-9:00am. I biked past this tragic event shortly after it happened. Three ambulances, six police cruisers still arriving as I reached this spot and a frightening amount of blood on the roadway.

I bike past this spot every commute. I consider it one of the safer areas that I bike.

Yikes.

#bikeTO https://mas.to/@rzaichkowski/112850168112760318

All I want is for someone in the #WhiteHouse to make clear that they know that #Hamas is not the same thing as the entire country of #Palestine #uspol #uspolitics #kamala2024

My very talented friend Renan Bernardo has a solarpunk graphic novel up on backerkit (via Android Press), and I highly recommend you check it out!

"Janet and her outdated android friend Lyria live in the post-fossil fuel city of Sundyal in this story about accepting loss and the importance of ensuring utopia is accessible to everyone."

#solarpunk #hopepunk #graphicnovel
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/android-press/anticipation-of-hollowness-a-solarpunk-graphic-novel

"Famous killers are already riding around the city, calling us back, promising not to mess around anymore". The investigator of special cases in St. Petersburg told about the prisoners who returned from the war in Ukraine https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/26/znatnye-killery-uzhe-kataiutsia-po-gorodu-otzvanivaiutsia-nam-obeshchaiut-bolshe-ne-shalit-sledovatel-po-osobo-vazhnym-delam-v-peterburge-rasskazal-o-vernuvshikhsia-s-voiny-v-ukraine-zakliuchennykh-news

Last month, Belarus sentenced a 29-year-old German citizen to death for his alleged role in a railway explosion. At least one Belarusian opposition politician has suggested the case is the result of a “backroom deal” with Moscow. Here’s what we know.
https://t.co/OAsKJuPgXW

The Kremlin wants to make its war against Ukraine an integral part of all new Russian art. To achieve this, the Russian authorities need to fully consolidate their control over the arts in Russia — and they plan to bring back Soviet-era methods to do so.
https://t.co/WesBtqdQ0w

Russian investigators have arrested another top defense ministry official as part of a corruption case: Former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov, who oversaw logistics operations at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/biZZXP4JKq

YouTube will load 70 percent more slowly on desktop computers in Russia by the end of next week, according to lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein. He said Moscow is throttling the service in retaliation for Google’s removal of pro-Kremlin content.
https://t.co/rTIN7pYL6z

Former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov detained https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/zaderzhan-byvshiy-zamestitel-ministra-oborony-dmitriy-bulgakov

Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, whom the ICC has charged with war crimes, is having an affair with Konstantin Malofeev, an Orthodox media tycoon with monarchist views and big political ambitions, according to @verstka_media.
https://t.co/PrzO8NSwOM

Former Russian Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov arrested in connection with corruption case - Meduza https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/07/26/former-russian-deputy-defense-minister-dmitry-bulgakov-arrested-in-connection-with-corruption-case

Former Deputy Defense Minister General Dmitry Bulgakov detained in corruption case - FSB https://theins.ru/news/273386

Update: On Thursday, Belarusian state TV aired a segment titled “Confessions of a German terrorist” in which Rico Krieger appears to confess to collaborating with Ukrainian intelligence. At the end of the segment, he’s shown crying and asking Alexander Lukashenko to pardon him. https://t.co/9ltG6n2lUm

An Argentine soccer player was robbed at the Olympics during a training session of the national team. He estimated the damage at 50,000 euros https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/argentinskogo-futbolista-obokrali-na-olimpiade-vo-vremya-trenirovki-sbornoy-on-otsenil-uscherb-v-50-tysyach-evro

The Central Bank raised the key rate from 16% to 18% https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/26/tsentrobank-podnial-kliuchevuiu-stavku-s-16-do-18-news

The defendants in the case of preparing a terrorist attack in "Sheremetyevo" received sentences of up to 22 years in a strict regime colony https://theins.ru/news/273385

Shoot the archers, not the arrows. Colby Bedwor on why Ukraine will be protected not by air defense but by U.S. permission to strike targets in Russia https://theins.ru/opinions/kolbi-bedvor/273322

Military court sentences two defendants in Sheremetyevo terrorist attack case to up to 22 years in prison https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/voennyy-sud-prigovoril-k-srokam-do-22-let-dvuh-obvinyaemyh-po-delu-o-podgotovke-terakta-v-sheremetievo

Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Irina Farion was shot with a modified pistol, a sports shell casing was found on the spot - investigation https://theins.ru/news/273380

The Ukrainian armed forces are holding the defense of Toretsk. Local residents are being evacuated right under Russian shelling. Photos https://meduza.io/feature/2024/07/26/vsu-derzhat-oboronu-toretska-mestnyh-zhiteley-evakuiruyut-pryamo-pod-rossiyskimi-obstrelami-fotografii

"Famous killers riding around town. They promise not to mess around." Investigator of special cases from St. Petersburg - about prisoners returning from the war https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/znatnye-killery-katayutsya-po-gorodu-obeschayut-ne-shalit-sledovatel-po-osobo-vazhnym-delam-iz-sankt-peterburga-o-vernuvshihsya-s-voyny-zaklyuchennyh

The Justice Ministry included the Free Russia Foundation in the list of "extremist organizations" as a subdivision of the "Anti-Russian Separatist Movement" https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/26/miniust-vkliuchil-fond-svobodnaia-rossiia-v-spisok-ekstremistskikh-organizatsii-kak-podrazdelenie-antirossiiskogo-separatistskogo-dvizheniia-news

3/4s of the meals at the #Olympic village are #vegan or #vegetarian. I find that laughable, given that athletes need a lot of high quality protein in order to perform well. Not all proteins are made equal, and nothing is as good as animal protein.

I've had a number of lucid dreams with entities (?) telling me to go vegan. But I don't listen to armchair CEOs from another dimension. When they'll incarnate too, we'll then see what their bodies will need too.

#keto #carnivore #olympics #plantbased

Emigrant scoring. More than 350 athletes left Russia after the war started. At least 26 of them will compete in Paris under the flags of other countries, Nova-Europe found out https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/26/emigrantskii-zachet

Russian Justice Ministry adds the Free Russia Foundation to the list of "extremist organizations" https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/minyust-rf-vnes-fond-svobodnaya-rossiya-v-perechen-ekstremistskih-organizatsiy

Nearly 500 foreign companies face secondary sanctions over ties to Russia https://theins.ru/news/273379

The Justice Ministry added the Free Russia Foundation to the list of "extremist" organizations, calling it a subdivision of the "Anti-Russian Separatist Movement" https://theins.ru/news/273383

The Times: UK plans to develop long-range missiles capable of destroying Russia's nuclear weapons https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/the-times-velikobritaniya-planiruet-razrabotat-dalnoboynye-rakety-sposobnye-unichtozhit-yadernoe-oruzhie-rossii

Olga Polyakova, wife of deputy Khinstein, sells advertising in the banned Instagram. Her husband was one of the initiators of the ban on advertising on the social network https://theins.ru/news/273378

Dmitry Skurikhin, convicted of "discrediting" the army, was released from the colony. He painted anti-war inscriptions on the facade of his store https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/dmitriy-skurihin-osuzhdennyy-za-diskreditatsiyu-armii-vyshel-iz-kolonii-on-nanosil-na-fasad-svoego-magazina-antivoennye-nadpisi

25 July 1925 | A German Jewish girl, Rosa Cohen, was born in Dinslaken.

In August 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Listen to our new #podcast about the advantages of literature written by direct witnesses over literary fiction inspired by the subject of Auschwitz.

Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-48-Good-examples-of-literature-dedicated-to-the-history-of-Auschwitz-camp-e2ma3ss

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mYpL8C4HoZyTezxwBPoi2?si=a5b2f7fd4d8c49e3

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/on-auschwitz/id1568273147?i=1000662960969

25 July 1908 | Bronisław Czech was born. An eminent Polish #skier, 24-time Polish champion, 3-time Olympian, mountain-climber & rescuer, glider pilot.

In #Auschwitz from 14 June 1940 (no. 349). He died of exhaustion in the camp hospital on 5 June 1944. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronis%C5%82aw_Czech

📖 Voices of Memory vol. 1 - The Evacuation, Liquidation, and Liberation of Auschwitz

It includes a historical outline, selected accounts, photographs, and documents as well as a timeline of important events.

#eBook: https://books.auschwitz.org/en_US/p/E-BOOK-Voices-of-Memory-1.-The-Evacuation%2C-Liquidation%2C-and-Liberation-of-Auschwitz/458

Metropolitan Hilarion suspended from service after harassment allegations, the alleged car bomber of a Russian Armed Forces officer is brought from Turkey to Moscow. Nova-Europe selection https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/26/mitropolita-ilariona-otstranili-ot-sluzhby-posle-obvinenii-v-domogatelstve-predpolagaemogo-podryvnika-mashiny-ofitsera-vs-rf-dostavili-iz-turtsii-v-moskvu-news