The technology Hurricanes fans are using to watch their team play in Vegas 👀 (via @Canes)

The University of Michigan put their entire robotics degree on GitHub. Not one course. The whole curriculum. ROB 101 — Computational Linear Algebra for Robotics ROB 311 — How to Build Robots and Make Them Move ROB 501 — Mathematics for Robotics ROB 530 — Mobile Robotics Every lecture video on YouTube. Every textbook on GitHub. Every problem set, every exam, every line of code. Professor Jessy Grizzle said it best when they launched it: "Linear algebra has become the language of computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and autonomy." So instead of making students wait four semesters of calculus before touching a robot... they built a curriculum that starts with the math that actually matters, applied to real robotics problems from day one. This is what open education looks like when a top-10 engineering school decides to mean it. Free. GitHub. YouTube. 📌 [github.com/michiganrobotics] Follow for more robotics resources! —— Weekly robotics and AI insights. Subscribe free: 22astronauts.com

A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children. He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own. In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone. “It was the end of the world. The end of the world.” “I felt imprisoned.” “They took my freedom.” “They took my livelihood.” “They took my land.”

It is quite odd… $775,000 paid to an investment fund in Bozeman Montana under the billing code “fundraising consulting.”

At least for me, the US/Iran War has made it very clear which "experts", politicians, and social media personalities cannot be trusted under any circumstances to objectively assess reality. Ideological extremists, administration propagandists, and people desperate to stay relevant. Remember who told the truth, who objectively analyzed events, and who can be trusted in the future.

Just wait for the ending pls 🤭🤣🤣

Rammed earth "art" in Yokohama's Minato Mirai Grand Mall area. Leaving the nonsensical "artiness" aside, it is interesting from the aspect of physical materials. Rammed earth using different soils for different layers (normally you'd use the best possible local soil to achieve even strength and durability). These were made in 2015 and after 11 years of wind rain typhoons and the usual subtropical extreme humidity it seems to have held up well enough with zero maintenance. There's some biological surface reactions as well as weaker layers losing more material than is should have (the effect of mixing layers of different materials) and what looks like mechanical damage to the corners. The white granite tops come without any overhang or dripline so they also likely accelerate deterioration. If used to build homes or more useful structures I'd probably put on a proper roof and if possible some sort of cladding. Still, it holds up really well, proving once again that rammed earth works in any climates.

Gemini had an especially bad series of errors after giving me a forking path to pick one of two contradicting responses. Which led to a fairly good summary about why LLMs were always meant to be math and coding tools and not search engines or AI assistants. Should be a disclaimer

On June 2 the White House issued an order designed to put the government first in line for the most powerful AI ever built. It sets up a classified benchmarking process, run by the Treasury, Homeland Security, and the War Department through the NSA, to test frontier models for their cyber capabilities and decide which ones cross into a tier the order calls "covered." It effectively requires the companies building those models to hand them over for 30 days before public release, so the state can study them behind a classified door before anyone outside it gets to touch them. Which models cross into that tier gets decided by a single person, the Director of the NSA, under criteria that stay classified. Treasury, Homeland Security, and the War Department help build the test and sit in the room when it runs. None of them can overrule him. The line between a model that is yours and a model the state holds first gets drawn by the head of the country's largest surveillance agency, by a standard no one outside the building is allowed to read. The NSA is the agency built to break into systems and read what crosses them. Give it a frontier model for a month, alone, with the specific task of charting what that model can do to a network, and you have handed the offensive arm of the state a private demonstration of its next tool. Government review before release is not new. Since 2024 the major labs have given a civilian safety office inside the Commerce Department an early look at their unreleased models. It ran its tests close to the open and published what it found, and by this spring Google, Microsoft, and xAI had joined the others inside it, more than 40 evaluations deep. The June 2 order builds its own version of that review and routes it somewhere darker. The early look now runs through the NSA. The standard that decides what qualifies is now classified. One man makes the call, and the findings are sealed. The printing press, the rifle, the radio, the home computer. Each one reached the public, and the public decided what it was for. The most powerful instrument ever built reaches the NSA first now, by a measure no one outside the agency is allowed to read, and it reaches you second, in whatever condition the early look has left it. The state simply arrives ahead of you and stays there. That should concern any person who cares about liberty.

There is no rise in anti-semitism. There is a rise in the number of people who are very angry at what Israel is doing. Your inability to separate the two is problematic.

Looks as if someone is sensitive about the fact that the new Iran deal isn't as good as JCPOA (or as good as what was offered by Iran in January, before we spent tens of billions of dollars to create a global mess).

You are being robbed blind by an international cabal of central bankers, corporate oligarchs and their puppets who occupy positions in both the government and the private sector.

👁️ Looks like a normal electrical box, right? It even has an electricity bolt symbol on the side as a decoy. But it’s fake, inside is a camera. This isn’t a one‑off either, it’s showing up in cities nationwide.

VRで見る、昆虫マクロ3DGSシーン LichtFeld Studioで150k以下のスプラットを生成。Meta Quest 3スタンドアロンで表示した。

Students at Hunter College want to turn a dour “No Parking” zone and a few staff parking spots into a patio area for public benefit — putting their urbanist studies to good use on the home front. buff.ly/ITOhSAN

Dr. Aldrich's CIA team/ORD used brain implants to remotely control animals & considered them viable for humans. They researched gene splintering, tested psychosurgery on prisoners to reduce memory recall w/ the goal of creating programmable supersoldiers & a subservient society.

Dr. Jose Delgado, Yale psychiatrist, used a radio transmitter to stimulate an 11-year-old boy's implanted brain electrodes. The boy was instantly stripped of his sexual identity, unsure if he was a boy or a girl, & expressing attraction toward the doctor who was interviewing him.

More evidence Francis Collins and Fauci actively but secretly participated in producing the early consensus that they had nothing to do with creating Covid and that anybody who suggested otherwise wasn't "trusting the science."

They should have kept the model up and become a mascot of liberty and defiance against an oppressive, unconstitutional regime that wants to siphon all American innovation by making a public-private shadownet controlled by a handful of billionaires. Would have for Biden/Harris.

🔬🔬🔬 Mitochondria directly interact with the nuclear pore complex @Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…