Melania Trump says she is ‘not Epstein’s victim’ while denying having any relationship with sex offender and Ghislaine Maxwell – live First lady holds press conference, though it was unclear whether she was responding to any specific accusations

Excusatio non petita, accusatio manifesta www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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Genius

I am also wondering what has this got to do with information retrieval. After getting my papers rejected for years and years on the count that what I was doing "was not IR", reading that ECIR hosts talks on combat shooter games is puzzling to say the least.

Fatto bene!

Thoughts and prayers bsky.app/profile/yeom...

PS. Uno degli articoli più scombiccherati che abbia mai letto, stupisce vederlo su una testata usualmente lucida come il "Post"

Quindo, secondo l'autore dell'articolo in Israele ci sarebbe "una cultura che promuove la riflessione su se stessa, l’autocritica e la satira". Non sembra che questa riflessione l'abbiano praticata molto, però, in questi ultimi anni ... (O dovremmo forse dire "in questi ultimi 75 anni"?)

bsky.app/profile/spor... It would be interesting to know his friend Gianni Infantino's position on this

I am sympathetic with Sydney as a person, but I am asking why a country, such as the US, which has just started a war should be allowed in the Olympics.

In 3 days' time the 2026 Winter Paralympics will kick off in Milano-Cortina. I assume the USA and Israeli teams will be denied participation given that they just started a war?

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Wait a moment ... It sort of reminds me something, about "Weapons of Mass Destruction" ... bsky.app/profile/smau...

Thoughts and prayers.

Does this mean that the US rule out funding the military effort of countries who carpet bomb schools and hospitals? I guess I am missing something ...

I'm not sure why, but on my Android phone (a Huawei CLT-L09, running the latest version of Android) the app does not work (I can only access BlueSky from my desktop computer): when I try to write my username in my "login" box, the keyboard does not show up, so I am unable to enter my account.

L'Irlanda se ne farà una ragione

"While very few Americans would sincerely advocate killing insurance executives, tens of millions have likely joked that they want to. And yet, until last Wednesday, the public rarely saw insurance companies face a single consequence for anything. "

Turetta ha commesso un crimine orrendo, e meritava severità. Ma l'ergastolo va troppo oltre la severità, anche perché stiamo parlando di un ragazzo di vent'anni; un ragazzo di vent'anni viene condannato a sessant'anni di carcere, tre quarti della sua vita.

LLMs as Research Tools: A Large Scale Survey of Researchers' Usage and Perceptions The rise of large language models (LLMs) has led many researchers to consider their usage for scientific work. Some have found benefits using LLMs to augment or automate aspects of their research pipe...

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Disgraceful act by Joe Biden, who sets a precedent for others to do the same and confirms yet again the sidereal distance that ordinary people perceive between themselves and politicians. Trump gratefully acknowledges.

Ma che vergogna ...