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Dreist: der israelische Verteidigungsminister #Katz aus dem #Terrorregime #Netanjahu|s fordert die gezielte Tötung des iranischen Staatschef

Nach iranischem Angriff auf Klinik: Israels Verteidigungsminister erklärt Tötung Chameneis zum Kriegsziel – „moderner Hitler“
Im Krieg zwischen Israel und dem Iran gehen die gegenseitigen Angriffe weiter. Israels Verteidigungsminister Katz droht dem iranischen Staatschef. Er könne „nicht weiter existieren“.

Practical colinear chaining on sequences revisited
Nicola Rizzo, Manuel C\'aceres, Veli M\"akinen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11750 https://…

Practical colinear chaining on sequences revisited
Colinear chaining is a classical heuristic for sequence alignment and is widely used in modern practical aligners. Jain et al. (J. Comput. Biol. 2022) proposed an $O(n \log^3 n)$ time algorithm to chain a set of $n$ anchors so that the chaining cost matches the edit distance of the input sequences, when anchors are maximal exact matches. Moreover, assuming a uniform and sparse distribution of anchors, they provided a practical solution ($\mathtt{ChainX}$) working in $O(n \cdot \mathsf{SOL} + n …

The random ordered graph is a semi-retract of the canonically ordered atomless Boolean algebra
Michael Pinsker, Jakub Rydval, Moritz Sch\"obi, Christoph Spiess
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12078

The random ordered graph is a semi-retract of the canonically ordered atomless Boolean algebra
We prove that the random ordered graph is a semi-retract of the canonically ordered atomless Boolean algebra, hereby answering an open question of Bartošová and Scow.

Equality is Far Weaker than Constant-Cost Communication
Mika G\"o\"os, Nathaniel Harms, Artur Riazanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11162 https://

Equality is Far Weaker than Constant-Cost Communication
We exhibit an $n$-bit communication problem with a constant-cost randomized protocol but which requires $n^{Ω(1)}$ deterministic (or even non-deterministic) queries to an Equality oracle. Therefore, even constant-cost randomized protocols cannot be efficiently "derandomized" using Equality oracles. This improves on several recent results and answers a question from the survey of Hatami and Hatami (SIGACT News 2024). It also gives a significantly simpler and quantitatively superior proof of the…

SVG Favicons and CSS Anchor Positioning are two big wins shipping in Safari 26 Beta: https://webkit.org/blog/16993/news-from-wwdc25-web-technology-coming-this-fall-in-safari-26-beta/

this potential — for AI companies to tweak their chatbots to give pro-Trump answers to appease MAGA — is one of the reasons I'm avoiding LLMs as a political practice. they are inherently extremely centralized, requiring massive resources to crawl data and train. to become dependent on such products is to subject ourselves to the owners' power. this is just one of the ways that can go disastrously wrong

The campaign to make it illegal for ChatGPT to criticize Trump
The conservative pressure campaign against social networks was hugely successful — and now it's coming for AI

"Comment le boom des milliardaires alimente les inégalités et menace la démocratie."
"Avec une richesse qui se concentre au sommet, l'Europe doit agir maintenant pour défendre la démocratie et la stabilité économique pour tous."
#TaxTheRich #démocratie

Bridging the Gap: Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Better Understand Public Concerns about Vaccines
Muhammad Javed, Sedigh Khademi Habibabadi, Christopher Palmer, Hazel Clothier, Jim Buttery, Gerardo Luis Dimaguila
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12840

Bridging the Gap: Leveraging Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Better Understand Public Concerns about Vaccines
Vaccine hesitancy threatens public health, leading to delayed or rejected vaccines. Social media is a vital source for understanding public concerns, and traditional methods like topic modelling often struggle to capture nuanced opinions. Though trained for query answering, large Language Models (LLMs) often miss current events and community concerns. Additionally, hallucinations in LLMs can compromise public health communication. To address these limitations, we developed a tool (VaxPulse Quer…

On commensurators of free groups and free pro-p groups
Yiftach Barnea, Mikhail Ershov, Adrien Le Boudec, Colin D. Reid, Matteo Vannacci, Thomas Weigel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04120

On commensurators of free groups and free pro-p groups
We study the commensurators of free groups and free pro-$p$ groups, as well as certain subgroups of these. We prove that the commensurator $Comm(F)$ of a non-abelian free group of finite rank $F$ is not virtually simple, answering a question of Lubotzky. On the other hand, we exhibit a family of easy-to-define finitely generated subgroups of $Comm(F)$ and show that some groups in this family are simple. For a prime $p$, we also consider the p-commensurator $Comm_p(F)$, which is the commensura…

Wanted to find out how many calories are in poop to make a nice fat-positive post on here, but after wading through 5 separate results from the top to the bottom of the first page of results, every single one of them showed signs of AI authorship, so none of the info was trustworthy (several contradicted each other or themselves). The one article that cited legit sources didn't include a straightforward answer to the question. Of course, I could dig past the first page, or look through the cited sources do some math myself, and that's not even that hard to do. But 10 years ago, a trustworthy answer would have been among the first 5 search results. When we say #AI is destroying the digital commons, this is what we mean.
Gonna go find some academic papers to answer this and report back.