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Chairs of the foreign affairs committees of eight European parliaments on April 25 urged U.S. President Donald Trump to end "the policy of appeasement" towards Russia, and called for a "resolute stance" against Moscow, according to a document seen by the Kyiv Independent.

"We strongly warn against yielding to its blackmail and deception," the statement reads.

The statement is signed by chairs of the foreign affairs committees of the U.K., France, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Ukraine.

"We urge an end to the policy of appeasement and call instead for a united, resolute stance against Russia’s terrorist regime."

"Negotiating with the war criminal Putin is evidently futile; his main objective is to undermine and humiliate our ally, the United States. We call upon all states to ensure that Vladimir Putin and all those complicit in his crimes are brought to justice."

"We must not repeat the mistakes of Munich in 1938."

"There can be no compromise and no external pressure on Ukraine regarding its sovereignty and territorial integrity."

[The latter point is noteworthy as the U.S. is reportedly proposing its de jure recognition of Russian control over Crimea, which Russia has occupied since 2014, as part of a potential peace deal.]

The signatories also urged Europe to confiscate Russia’s frozen assets and redirect them to support Ukraine.

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I've just got mail from them with this:

They changing price in euro from 9.99 a month to 12.99. Not sure about dollar because i cannot find any info except this mail. Kinda sucks after all these years.

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Ich entschuldige mich bei Patrick Baudisch

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Law enforcement said they arrested Lopez-Gomez under Florida’s SB 4C, which Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed in February. SB 4C makes it a misdemeanor (punishable by a mandatory nine months of incarceration) for immigrants (“unauthorized aliens” per the statute) to “knowingly” enter Florida “after entering the United States by eluding or avoiding examination or inspection by immigration officers.” There are escalating punishments for people who have prior immigration arrests. Basically, it is an “illegal entry” statute for Florida. (There is a federal “illegal entry” statute that makes it a misdemeanor to enter the country without prior authorization, like a visa or asylum claim. Being in the United States without a valid visa or other temporary status is not a “crime” but a civil offense.)

On April 4 of this year, a federal judge blocked implementation of the law pending a hearing that happened on April 18. Lo and behold, it turned out that Florida law enforcement agencies had just decided to ignore the temporary restraining order, which forbade Florida for enforcing SB 4C. According to local reporting, Florida’s lawyers argued bizarrely that the injunction did not include law enforcement in Florida, even though law enforcement in Florida are plainly tasked with enforcing Florida law—indeed, I’m pretty sure they’re the only ones with that power.

DeSantis has been clear that he wants Florida to be as anti-immigrant as possible. Every sheriff’s office in the state has 287(g) agreements, as do many city police departments, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and state police. In late February, before the injunction went into theoretical effect, the governor gave a speech about how he wanted every law enforcement agency to enter into a 287g agreement and he touted the efficacy of SB 4C. (Interestingly, the video of this speech, which I linked to in a piece I wrote for The Bulwark, seems to have been scrubbed from the internet.)

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Would you rather be able to do everything with one thing? Say, listen to music, take pictures, play, work and whatever with one device? Or would you rather have a specific device for listening to music, a specific device for taking pictures, a specific device for work and another one to play and such?

I personally prefer to keep things separate these days. On a practical level it means that I don't depend entirely on a single object and that, if gets lost, damaged or runs out of battery, would let me with nothing at all. On a subjective level, I feel that having specialized objects for each need gives more weight to the routines I create with them, contrary to when I kept everything in one place and it felt superfluous and banal.

So far I have an old phone that I use as an MP3 player, an old tablet as an EBook, my old Ps2 to play games and so on.

Annual checkup and blood work. Cancer screening for some family history. Also got a nagging shoulder looked at and treated with a steroid injection. Happy it wasn't a tear.

Colonoscopy is a few weeks out.

Take care of yourselves brothers.

The facebook page Canada Proud often posts news updates, citing mainstream news sources. But the posts sometime add misleading details not found in the original reports, according to a review by The New York Times.

One of its posts this month said Prime Minister Mark Carney had suspended his campaign because of “connections with China” and cited a major Canadian news outlet, Global News, as its source. But the Global News article did not actually mention any connections to China.

Canada Proud describes itself as a “grass-roots group of Canadians” concerned about the country’s direction. The page is owned by Mobilize Media Group, a Toronto public affairs firm.

The company has bought more than $250,000 in ads targeting Canadian voters

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/technology/canada-election-facebook-instagram-meta.html

Abstract

Diffusion transformers have demonstrated remarkable generation quality, albeit requiring longer training iterations and numerous inference steps. In each denoising step, diffusion transformers encode the noisy inputs to extract the lower-frequency semantic component and then decode the higher frequency with identical modules. This scheme creates an inherent optimization dilemma: encoding low-frequency semantics necessitates reducing high-frequency components, creating tension between semantic encoding and high-frequency decoding. To resolve this challenge, we propose a new Decoupled Diffusion Transformer (DDT), with a decoupled design of a dedicated condition encoder for semantic extraction alongside a specialized velocity decoder. Our experiments reveal that a more substantial encoder yields performance improvements as model size increases. For ImageNet 256×256, Our DDT-XL/2 achieves a new state-of-the-art performance of 1.31 FID (nearly 4× faster training convergence compared to previous diffusion transformers). For ImageNet 512×512, Our DDT-XL/2 achieves a new state-of-the-art FID of 1.28. Additionally, as a beneficial by-product, our decoupled architecture enhances inference speed by enabling the sharing self-condition between adjacent denoising steps. To minimize performance degradation, we propose a novel statistical dynamic programming approach to identify optimal sharing strategies.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05741

Code: https://github.com/MCG-NJU/DDT

Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/MCG-NJU/DDT

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21310246

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