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Sentinel-3C has reached its operational orbit! 🎯
After launching on 15 September, the spacecraft is now flying in tandem with, Sentinel-3B, as teams at #ESOC continue preparing Sentinel-3C for routine operations.
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Our Euclid space telescope has released its largest dataset yet, revealing over 900 million galaxies!
Covering an area of sky equivalent to 9500 full Moons, the data lays the foundation for an unprecedented 3D map of the Universe.
Read more: esa.int/articles/about-us/di…
ALT Euclid’s Wide and Deep Surveys (DR1-Foundation)
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Our spacecraft just made interplanetary history - twice.
Blue & Gold flawlessly executed powered Earth gravity assists, two days apart, to slingshot our planet and shoot for Mars' orbit.
This is the first time the highly complex maneuver has been executed successfully by spacecraft.
ESCAPADE has proven a new path is possible to make it to Mars outside the typical Earth-to-Mars launch window that occurs every 26 months.
Next ESCAPADE mission milestone: Mars Orbit Insertion, September 2027.
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For no reason at all, here are 8 facts about ancient Greece:
1. It was not called “Greece.”
The ancient civilization was a collection of city-states, kingdoms, and colonies whose people formed a collective identity.
They called themselves Hellēnes and their land Hellas. 🧵⬇️
Ιώ #EndFossilFuels retweeted
No faction of the Democratic Party can declare victory after the midterms. The Republican implosion is so great that all Dem factions won, from democratic socialists to corporate centrists. Fascism is not defeated by one election (it can always be reconstituted into something even more dangerous…) but it can be, and we know how to do it. With left economic populism. Too radical? Wrong. One of Trump’s most significant legacies is that he exploded the Overton window. Anything is possible - for worse and for better. That means Democrats no longer have any excuse not to run on - and deliver - the policies that will actually meet people’s basic needs and address our most pressing crises, from systemic political corruption to climate breakdown. Bold, people-first policies is how we beat back fascism for real.
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Why should Congressional Democrats investigate corporate America if their mandate is to deliver real economic change? Because investigations are a key catalyst for securing reform and legislation. For much of the last century, Congress used to be the main institutional player working to secure an economy that serves working people. A key tool was oversight. Lawmakers routinely investigated complex markets and major corporations, identifying problems and exposing wrongdoing. A major goal of these investigations was to learn what was driving certain problems and figure out how to fix them.
After Democrats took back the House during the first Trump administration in 2019, I joined the House Judiciary Committee as a staffer on the Antitrust Subcommittee. Under the terrific leadership of @RepJerryNadler and then-Rep @davidcicilline, we pursued an 18-month investigation into Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, securing key evidence of how their business practices were undermining competition and harming people, setting the basis for both lawsuits and proposed legislation.
A few lessons from that experience:
1. The quality of legislative oversight depends on the staff and the support of top members to confront power. Committee and Subcommittee Chairs that are focused on getting answers and unafraid to take on powerful corporate interests will make the difference between oversight that doesn’t surrender to their evasion tactics and oversight that aims low or flames out.
Even a relatively small number of dogged, talented lawyers ready to dive in can make a big impact. In the 1930s a single congressional lawyer, Ferdinand Pecora, helped reshape our entire banking system by subpoenaing records and interrogating top financiers, including J.P Morgan. The investigation exposed self-dealing, market manipulation, and tax avoidance, and laid the groundwork for foundational New Deal legislation, including the Glass-Steagall Act and the Securities Exchange Act.
2. Eliminating bottlenecks to moving investigations forward is key. For example, the House should make sure that Subcommittee Chairs can issue subpoenas rather than needing the sign-off of the full Committee or its Chair. A credible threat of sending subpoenas is critical for credible oversight.
3. Ensuring that members can develop the muscle to effectively interrogate CEOs requires investing in real preparation. In the lead up to the hearing with Bezos, Pichai, Cook, and Zuckerberg, the Antitrust Subcommittee spent months reviewing millions of documents collected from the firms, interviewing affected parties, briefing members on key evidence, and conducting practice hearings. Members came into the hearing deeply informed and able to rebut and call out CEO dissembling. The result was some of the most effective member questioning of executives we’ve seen in decades. @TheProspect wrote up a great overview: prospect.org/2020/07/30/triu…
4. For decades, institutional capacity in Congress has been extremely weak. Much of this traces back to the Gingrich Revolution, which was effectively the 1995 DOGE-ing of Congress. Republican leadership fired over 600 professional staffers, eliminated the Office of Technology Assessment, and gutted research capacity. None of that capacity was ever meaningfully restored.
As a result, members have way fewer resources to develop serious expertise or go deep on a new topic. Members should start rebuilding that capacity so the institution can fully play its Article I role, where Congress can again do serious policy development and legislating and serve as a real check on the executive and judicial branches.
5. AI markets should be high on the list of investigations. The business decisions of the major AI firms have huge public ramifications, yet the public is at a severe informational disadvantage when it comes to how these markets work and the choices these firms are making. A congressional investigation will help ensure future legislative action is based on a more complete view of what is going on rather than selective and partial corporate disclosures.
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Prepared citizens. A more resilient Europe.
From packing an emergency bag to knowing how to react when disaster strikes, preparedness starts with practical steps.
Our new guidelines help authorities give people the tools and knowledge to protect themselves and others in a crisis.
link.europa.eu/QwjGDV
ALT A woman packing a water bottle into a backpack, surrounded by emergency supplies and text overlay reading "PREPAREDNESS: New guidelines to prepare citizens for growing crisis risks".
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This is why I love the UK; we all agree when HM Government decided to jump over a cliff and commit suicide. The UK has, with Airbus UK in Stevenage all it takes to keep a key capability in the UK, ITAR-free, and also in EUROPE. Even if it does cost more now, it will pay in the future. UK has large medium satellites with Airbus and Surrey Space Technologies and micro satellites with Clyde Space in Glasgow. Alongside them, a plethora of companies are working on different subsystems. Write to your MP and stamp your feet; this is the time to do it. Made in the UK.
Despite a direction from me when Defence Secretary that the Skynet 6A , £2bn contract was too important to the UK space industry to offshore to Lockheed Martin it looks as if Wes is preparing to place the contract overseas. The damage it would do to Stevenage and the UK satellite industry would be irreversible and it was always assessed it could mean the end of the sector. Lockheed’s promises of factories in Newcastle were skin deep. The differences between types on offer were marginal. No.10 could, and should stop this. @AirbusDefence @wesstreeting @larisamlbrown @kevinbonavia @haynesdeborah
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LLMs accumulate a lot of declarative knowledge.
That's how they can answer a large number of questions.
That's also why they require so many parameters and hence so much memory.
But one can replace the accumulation of knowledge by *understanding*
That what JEPA world models do.
That's one reason they can be useful with considerably less memory and training data than LLMs.
This paper merely shows that the underlying similarity structure of the data, whether text or image (e.g. co-occurence of words in text or objects in images) uniquely determines the shape of the representation point cloud, when the encoder is trained trained with a common anti-collapse criterion like SIGReg or VCReg (not by reconstruction).
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Okay:
- Attached bottlecap
- Schengen, expanded to Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria
- The euro joined by Croatia and Bulgaria
- Air passenger rights (older, 2004, newly updated 2025)
- Galileo satellite navigation
- EU-Canada trade deal (CETA)
- EU-Mercosur trade deal
- EU-Japan trade deal
- EU-Singapore trade deal
- EU-Vietnam trade deal
- EU-Indonesia trade deal
- End of roaming charges, extended to 2032
- Price cap on calls and texts to other EU countries
- USB-C common charger
- Geo-blocking ban for online shopping
- Streaming subscriptions that work abroad
- Payment Services Directive (PSD2), no card surcharges and open banking
- Instant payments regulation
- EU Digital Identity Wallet
- eCall automatic crash alert in new cars
- Automatic emergency braking in new cars
- EU-Alert emergency warnings on phones
- Single Digital Gateway for cross-border admin
- No more apostille stamps between member states
- WiFi4EU free public wifi
- DiscoverEU free Interrail passes for 18-year-olds
- Erasmus+ (older, 2014), budget nearly doubled
- European Universities alliances
- European Solidarity Corps
- EU Digital COVID Certificate
- Joint COVID vaccine procurement
- Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)
- EU4Health
- Europe's Beating Cancer Plan
- European Health Data Space
- NextGenerationEU joint borrowing
- SURE short-time work loans
- 15% global minimum corporate tax
- European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3), euro clearing back in the EU
- Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA)
- European Green Bond Standard
- Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) on defence
- European Defence Fund
- European Peace Facility arms for Ukraine
- EU military training mission for Ukrainian troops
- Act in Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP)
- Strategic Compass and the 5,000-strong rapid deployment capacity
- European Defence Industrial Strategy
- Security Action for Europe (SAFE), €150bn joint defence loans
- ReArm Europe / Readiness 2030
- First ever Commissioner for Defence and Space
- Military mobility funding
- IRIS² sovereign satellite constellation
- EU Space Programme and the EU Agency for the Space Programme
- rescEU shared firefighting fleet
- 5G security toolbox
- Foreign investment screening
- Foreign Subsidies Regulation
- International Procurement Instrument
- Anti-Coercion Instrument
- Dual-use export control regulation
- Temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees
- Candidate status and accession talks for Ukraine and Moldova
- Ukraine Facility
- €90bn joint-borrowing loan to Ukraine
- Sanctions on Russia (older, 2014), big packages from 2022
- Russian banks cut from SWIFT
- Russian oil embargo and oil price cap
- Russian gas import phase-out
- Western Balkans Growth Plan
- Global Gateway
- REPowerEU
- Gas storage regulation
- Joint gas buying through AggregateEU
- Coordinated gas demand cut
- Windfall levy on fossil energy profits
- Electricity market reform
- European Climate Law, net zero by 2050
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
- Emissions Trading System reform and the Social Climate Fund
- Renewable Energy Directive, 42.5% by 2030
- European Wind Power Package
- European Hydrogen Bank
- Methane regulation
- Nature Restoration Law
- Ambient air quality directive
- Drinking water directive
- Urban wastewater directive, polluter pays
- Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA)
- Conflict minerals regulation
- European Chips Act
- Net-Zero Industry Act
- Batteries Regulation with battery passport
- European Battery Alliance
- Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on batteries and hydrogen
- EuroHPC supercomputers, including JUPITER
- InvestAI and the AI gigafactories
- Horizon Europe and the European Innovation Council
- Ecodesign regulation, no destroying unsold clothes
- Right to repair
- Ban on products made with forced labour
- Ban on vague greenwashing claims
- General Product Safety Regulation
- Common Agricultural Policy (older, 1962), current version 2023 to 2027
- Unfair trading practices directive protecting farmers
- Geographical indications reform for food, wine and spirits
- EU-China agreement protecting European regional products
- Geographical indications for crafts, like Murano glass and Delft Blue
- Creative Europe (older, 2014), current programme 2021
- Culture Moves Europe grants for artists
- Music Moves Europe
- European Year of Cultural Heritage
- European Capitals of Culture (older, 1985)
- New European Bauhaus
- European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage
- Ban on importing looted cultural goods
- 30% European content on streaming platforms
- Culture Compass for Europe
- European Media Freedom Act
- Anti-SLAPP directive protecting journalists
- European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO)
- Rule of law conditionality on EU funds
- Annual Rule of Law Report
- Article 7 against Hungary
- Whistleblower protection directive
- European Labour Authority
- Work-life balance directive, paternity leave
- Adequate minimum wages directive
- Pay transparency directive
- Women on boards directive
- Violence against women directive
- European Child Guarantee
- European Accessibility Act
- European Disability Card
- Rail passenger rights (older, 2007), recast 2021
- Trans-European Transport Network (older), revised 2024
- Single Market Emergency Instrument
- EU Inc (proposed)
- Digital euro (in negotiation)
- Next EU budget at close to €2 trillion (proposed)
- European Competitiveness Fund (proposed)
- AgoraEU culture and media programme (proposed)
- Savings and Investments Union (proposed)
- European supervision of big stock exchanges and crypto firms (proposed)
- Scaleup Europe Fund (launching)
- Startup and Scaleup Strategy
- Digital Omnibus simplification (proposed)
- European Business Wallet (proposed)
- European Innovation Act (expected)
- Quantum Act (expected)
- Cloud and AI Development Act (expected)
- Chips Act 2.0 (expected)
- Biotech Act (proposed)
- Advanced Materials Act (expected)
- Industrial Accelerator Act (expected)
- Circular Economy Act (expected)
- Critical Medicines Act (proposed)
- EU Space Act (proposed)
- European Grids Package (proposed)
- 2040 climate target of 90% (in negotiation)
- European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP)
- Defence Readiness Omnibus (proposed)
- Military mobility package (proposed)
- European Drone Defence Initiative and Eastern Flank Watch
- High-speed rail linking European capitals (plan)
- Single cross-border train ticketing (expected)
- EU Customs Authority (in negotiation)
- European Affordable Housing Plan
- Union of Skills and cross-border recognition of qualifications
- EU-India trade deal (in negotiation)
- Montenegro and Albania accession
- Qualified majority voting in foreign policy (under discussion)
Ιώ #EndFossilFuels retweeted
I have made maps to check claims floated by people unhappy with the EEZ rights of Greece in the East Mediterranean so I was half expecting that Claude, in its diligence, would find some issue with this map too.
The map presented by @PrimeministerGR at the UN is entirely correct.
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October 28th was the turning point for Burnham. He’s been too obviously captured (and perh too willingly captured) by the institutions. The Treasury, the BoE can’t manage the crisis on terms favourable to most people and cost of living is only going to get worse from here #Budget
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Η ομιλία του @PrimeministerGR @kmitsotakis στον ΟΗΕ....
Εξαιρετικός...όπως πάντα ...👍💪👏
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Comprendre la Grèce peut-être aujourd’hui seulement ?
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Aujourd’hui, jour de l’OXI où l’on célèbre le courage de la Grèce face à la barbarie fasciste, je suis rentré dans le musée archéologique d’Olympie où je n’étais pas venu depuis mes 8 ans.
Offrandes en bronze, chaudrons, céramiques, restes de l’atelier de Phidias, chapiteaux, etc. L’Hermès de Praxitèle, bien entendu. Et puis le choc.
Quand je suis rentré dans la grande salle des métopes et des frontons, j’ai vu Apollon, géant mais humain, nu, hiératique, majestueux, solennel, autoritaire, imposant, massif et sans aucune dispute possible. Son grand corps comme un tronc inamovible, point d’équilibre (ou point d’exclamation ?) vers lequel tous les regards convergent : et c’est ça, le miracle grec.
Il faut imaginer le voyageur, le pèlerin, l’athlète qui, après des kilomètres par terre ou par mer, se retrouve enfin face au temple de Zeus. Et là, la divinité apparaît sans ambiguïté, presque comme une évidence : Apollon d’un côté, Zeus de l’autre. Même combat, même effet. La civilisation (la culture ?) contre la barbarie. Les dieux contre le chaos. La beauté contre le néant. Même si le marbre de Paros a, depuis le temps, perdu ses pigments, cette statue décolorée, tout comme ses voisines des centaures et des Lapithes, a une présence absolument remarquable. Tout, en elle, respire l’autorité. Face à elle, nul choix : l’adoration ou la mort. La vénération ou l’exil.
Les Grecs ont choisi de développer une civilisation d’une richesse inouïe dont témoignent encore ces sculptures d’une fraicheur et d’un réalisme saisissant. Et l’émotion est totale : on ressort de cette salle bien remué, avec la choir de poule et les yeux fort humides…
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Ζήτω η ελεύθερη Ελλάδα, που λάμπει σαν φάρος φωτός στον κόσμο ! 🧿 – at Archaia Olympia, Greece
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1. Abschaffung der EU-Roaminggebühren
2. Europaweite Notrufnummer 112
3. Fluggastrechte bei Verspätungen
4. Entschädigungen bei Flugausfällen
5. Fahrgastrechte im Bahnverkehr
6. Fahrgastrechte im Fernbusverkehr
7. Fahrgastrechte im Schiffsverkehr
8. Schutz bei Pauschalreisen
9. Insolvenzschutz bei Pauschalreisen
10. Europäische Krankenversicherungskarte
11. Gegenseitige Anerkennung von Führerscheinen
12. EU-weit gültiger Behindertenparkausweis
13. Vereinfachte grenzüberschreitende Mautzahlung
14. Einheitliche Fahrzeugsicherheitsstandards
15. Verpflichtende Sicherheitsassistenzsysteme
16. Einheitlicher USB-C-Ladeanschluss
17. USB-C-Pflicht für neue Laptops
18. Rufnummernmitnahme beim Anbieterwechsel
19. Transparenz bei Mobilfunkverträgen
20. Preisobergrenzen für EU-Auslandsgespräche
21. Netzneutralität
22. Grenzüberschreitende Streaming-Portabilität
23. Verbot ungerechtfertigten Geoblockings
24. Gewährleistungsrechte für digitale Produkte
25. Schutz beim Kauf digitaler Dienstleistungen
26. Recht auf Datenübertragbarkeit
27. Recht auf Löschung personenbezogener Daten
28. Transparenzpflichten beim Datenschutz
29. Mehr Transparenz auf Online-Marktplätzen
30. Einfachere Meldung rechtswidriger Online-Inhalte
31. Mindestens zwei Jahre gesetzliche Gewährleistung
32. 14-tägiges Widerrufsrecht bei Onlinekäufen
33. Transparente Preisangaben
34. Verpflichtende Grundpreisangaben
35. Schutz vor irreführender Werbung
36. Schutz vor unfairen Vertragsklauseln
37. Verbot versteckter Online-Zusatzkosten
38. Verbot voreingestellter kostenpflichtiger Extras
39. Transparenz bei personalisierten Preisen
40. Schutz vor gefälschten Kundenbewertungen
41. EU-Schnellwarnsystem für gefährliche Produkte
42. Einheitliche Spielzeugsicherheitsstandards
43. Verbesserte allgemeine Produktsicherheit
44. Grenzüberschreitender Verbraucherschutz
45. Europäisches Verfahren für geringfügige Forderungen
46. Einheitlicher SEPA-Zahlungsverkehr
47. Grenzüberschreitende SEPA-Lastschriften
48. Gleiche Gebühren für vergleichbare Euro-Zahlungen
49. EU-weite Echtzeitüberweisungen
50. Gebührenbegrenzung bei Echtzeitüberweisungen
51. IBAN-Empfängerabgleich gegen Überweisungsbetrug
52. Begrenzte Verbraucherhaftung bei Kartenmissbrauch
53. Stärkere Authentifizierung beim Onlinebanking
54. Mehr Wettbewerb bei Zahlungsdiensten
55. Vergleichbare Bankkontogebühren
56. Recht auf ein Basiskonto
57. Verpflichtende Allergenkennzeichnung
58. Einheitliche Nährwertkennzeichnung
59. Gemeinsame Arzneimittelsicherheitsstandards
60. Anerkennung von Berufsqualifikationen
61. Grenzüberschreitende Sozialversicherungskoordination
62. Erleichterte grenzüberschreitende Gesundheitsversorgung
63. Verbesserte Rechte auf Reparatur
64. Verlängerte Haftungsfrist nach Reparatur
65. Vereinfachte Nachhaltigkeitsberichtspflichten
66. Bürokratieentlastung für kleinere Importeure
67. Vereinfachungen in der EU-Agrarpolitik
68. Vereinfachte InvestEU-Förderverfahren
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It is 20 years since the landmark Stern review of the economics of climate change. Why have we still failed to learn the lessons? Come on, economists, catch up!
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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This budget was a betrayal of our future; the Labour government chose protecting corporate profits over people and planet.
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The Plato Reader site has a new look and new features!
Complete works of Plato in Greek and English, w/click to parse/define and corpus search, now with (1) advanced search, (2) updated lexicon, & (3) a phrase index.
Details in replies!
plato.johnhboyer.com
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🇬🇷✈️Με ένα συγκινητικό μήνυμα ολοκλήρωσε την εντυπωσιακή του πτήση πάνω από τη Θεσσαλονίκη, στο πλαίσιο της στρατιωτικής παρέλασης για την επέτειο της 28ης Οκτωβρίου, ο πιλότος της Ομάδας Αεροπορικών Επιδείξεων «Ζευς».
Ο Επισμηναγός Χρήστος-Πάρις Χαρίτος, χειριστής F-16 Fighting Falcon με εμπειρία και πάνω από 1.500 ώρες πτήσης στον συγκεκριμένο τύπο αεροσκάφους, απέτισε φόρο τιμής στους ήρωες του ’40.
Λίγο μετά τους ελιγμούς επίδειξης που καθήλωσαν το κοινό, ο έμπειρος ιπτάμενος μετέδωσε από το πιλοτήριο: «Μία λέξη αλλάζει την Ιστορία. Για τους Έλληνες αυτή η λέξη είναι το ΟΧΙ. Θυμόμαστε ότι η ελευθερία δεν χαρίζεται. Χρόνια Πολλά Ελλάδα».
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