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The question of who will succeed the Dalai Lama remains important.
But perhaps the more pressing question is:
how can each of us carry forward his legacy?
The answer, I believe, lies not in politics, power, or headlines.
It lies in compassion. In action. In choosing kindness, again and again.

Who Will Succeed The Dalai Lama? - The Dalai Lama Turns 90
As the Dalai Lama turns 90, his legacy of compassion and humility invites us all to carry his teachings forward in a divided world.

Bitte unterschreibt das. Ihr wisst schon: Am Anfang kamen sie...
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/kei

Kein Sonderregister für trans* Personen – Nie wieder Listen gegen Minderheiten!
Hallo, ich bin Penelope Alva Frank, Transfrau, queerfeministische Aktivistin und Gründerin der queerfeministischen Bewegung Queermany. Ich weiß, wie es ist, jeden Tag Blicke, Sprüche und Angriffe auszuhalten, nur weil ich trans bin. Ich erlebe Queerfeindlichkeit auf der Straße, online und sogar in meinem Aktivismus wie bei, Polizei Gewahrsam 2023 und ich will mir gar nicht vorstellen, was passiert, wenn falsche Polizisten oder Behördenmitarbeiter Zugriff auf mein früheres Geschlecht...

I am keenly aware of others who are much more seriously impaired, & actually are, or can be quite disabled. I get angry when I see people who feel entitled do things like parking in disabled parking slots. They should be ashamed of themselves. The elderly, disabled woman who arrives who is capable of getting from her vehicle to the door, and getting onto the elevator, now has to park down in the main parking area with a long walk up to the building. That is impossible for her. What is she to do?

Algebraic Limits of Sandpiles
Mikhail Shkolnikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09912 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.09912

Algebraic Limits of Sandpiles
The paper contributes to building algebraic foundations of self-organized criticality answering a previously unsolved question about the limiting structure of the extended sandpile group as well as relating it to another limit at the level of classical sandpile groups with respect to certain monomorphisms, and puts forward a concept of canonical sandpile epimorphisms, drawing an unexpected consequence about the divisibility properties of the numbers of spanning trees on rectangles.

Building Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering Systems by Generating Synthetic Data and Decontextualizing User Questions
Christos Vlachos, Nikolaos Stylianou, Alexandra Fiotaki, Spiros Methenitis, Elisavet Palogiannidi, Themos Stafylakis, Ion Androutsopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04884

Building Open-Retrieval Conversational Question Answering Systems by Generating Synthetic Data and Decontextualizing User Questions
We consider open-retrieval conversational question answering (OR-CONVQA), an extension of question answering where system responses need to be (i) aware of dialog history and (ii) grounded in documents (or document fragments) retrieved per question. Domain-specific OR-CONVQA training datasets are crucial for real-world applications, but hard to obtain. We propose a pipeline that capitalizes on the abundance of plain text documents in organizations (e.g., product documentation) to automatically …

Senators Demand Meta Answer For AI Chatbots Posing as Licensed Therapists https://www.404media.co/senators-letter-demand-meta-answer-for-ai-chatbots-posing-as-licensed-therapists/

Kommenden Dienstag 8.7.25, 19:30 Uhr, ist es so weit:
Michael Blume in der Manufaktur
Sturmflut der Lügen - Wie wir unsere Gesellschaft gegen Desinformation Wappnen
@…
#schorndorf

Heute Abend in der Manufaktur, 19:30 Uhr in Schorndorf
Michael Blume - Sturmflut der Lügen - Wie wir unsere Demokratie gegen Desinformation wappnen: https://www.club-manufaktur.de/event/sturm

Sturmflut der Lügen – Wie wir unsere Gesellschaft gegen Desinformation wappnen – Referent – Michael Blume - Club Manufaktur e.V. aus Schorndorf
Das digitale Zeitalter hat eine neue Generation von Verschwörungsmythen, Fake Facts und Desinformationen hervorgebracht, die unsere Demokratie, ja uns alle herausfordern und bedrohen. Egal ob Coronapandemie, Energiekrise oder der russische Angriffskrieg: Krisenzeiten begünstigen Verschwörungsglauben und wo Verschwörungsmythen sich verbreiten, ist Antisemitismus nie weit. Wenn die Pest kam, brannten die Synagogen. Es erschien stets einfacher, andere anzugreifen als mit einer diffusen Angst v…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19184 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

When Two LLMs Debate, Both Think They'll Win
Can LLMs accurately adjust their confidence when facing opposition? Building on previous studies measuring calibration on static fact-based question-answering tasks, we evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) in a dynamic, adversarial debate setting, uniquely combining two realistic factors: (a) a multi-turn format requiring models to update beliefs as new information emerges, and (b) a zero-sum structure to control for task-related uncertainty, since mutual high-confidence claims imply systemati…

Sturmflut der Lügen – Wie wir unsere Gesellschaft gegen Desinformation wappnen
Vortrag mit
Michael Blume @…
8.7.2025, 19:30 Uhr
Manufaktur Schorndorf
#Schorndorf