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2025 #Azerbaijan - https://moodysbnn.blogspot.com/2025/07/2025-azerbaijan.html a trip I made recently, including a memorable concert by a mugham master, and an amazing stay in the ancient Caucasian hilltop village Khinalug, at 2200 metres (with 40 pix) #travel #music
Apple Working To Cram Massive Gemini Model Into iPhone To Power New Siri - Slashdot

Apple is reportedly working to shrink Google's Gemini models enough to power parts of a long-delayed AI-enhanced Siri on iPhones. But despite Apple's best efforts to run the AI locally, "the iPhone's Gemini makeover will lean heavily on Google and Nvidia in the cloud," reports Ars Technica. That cou...

Apple Working To Cram Massive Gemini Model Into iPhone To Power New Siri - Slashdot

Apple is reportedly working to shrink Google's Gemini models enough to power parts of a long-delayed AI-enhanced Siri on iPhones. But despite Apple's best efforts to run the AI locally, "the iPhone's Gemini makeover will lean heavily on Google and Nvidia in the cloud," reports Ars Technica. That cou...

KYIV POST:
Crimea Imposes Strict Gasoline Rationing as Land Corridor Collapse Sparks Fuel Crisis

The Russian occupation administration in Crimea has introduced strict fuel rationing across the peninsula, capping the sale of A-95 gasoline at 20 liters per day per person starting Saturday, May 30. The regional decree, announced by the Russian-installed head Sergei Aksyonov, mimics near-identical restrictions enforced earlier in occupied Sevastopol to https://www.kyivpost.com/post/77169

Crimea Imposes Strict Gasoline Rationing as Land Corridor Collapse Sparks Fuel Crisis

Occupation authorities in Crimea have officially capped A-95 gasoline sales at 20 liters per day per person due to an acute fuel shortage.

Kyiv Post

Oceans are moving in tidal waves but also in layers of currents beneath the sea surface that we can’t see.

Only now we can see currents, not directly but via a visualization made by NASA. Not only is it educational, but it is beautiful as well.

Watch a Vincent van Gogh-esque visual of Earth’s underwater "conveyors” and enjoy seeing our world in a new way: https://www.youtube.com/embed/R5-s6O8qyvE?feature=oembed

#oceans #conveyorBelt #AMOC #climate

🇧🇴 This is what Bolivia's highways look like at the moment.

Each town and village blocks their stretch, and the union members in each community take turns at the barricades.

This is part of the general strike against Bolivia's neoliberalist government, now entering its third week.

#Bolivia #Strike

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@FSonder/116662405290080877

But on the bright side, we have billionaires so I guess it all evens out, amirite?

Israeli settlers vandalize crops and harass local Palestinian farmers in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #Palestinian

Unpopular opinion: it’s actually good that it’s hard to make software and that it takes a long time.

Saves people from a lot of bad software and from a lot of unwanted updates. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The second work focuses on environmental crime, specifically in the illegal trade of wildlife (IWT) online. When people talk of IWT, they immediately think of animals, and little is known of the wide illegal trade of plants. This post focuses on framing the problem related to IWT of plants online, identifying impact and facilitators, and creating a poster for quick and easy understanding.

https://www.opencrimelab.uk/environmental-crime/2025/the-illegal-wildlife-trading-of-plants-online-the-problem/

The Illegal Wildlife Trade of Plants Online – The Problem – Open Crime Lab