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i just learned that squid maintain buoyancy not by having a gas-filled sac, but... by having a bunch of water in the body where instead of heavy metal ions they put lighter ammonium ions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squid#Buoyancy
this is such a wild thing to do for any animal!! cou…

Squid - Wikipedia

HateBuffer: Safeguarding Content Moderators' Mental Well-Being through Hate Speech Content Modification
Subin Park, Jeonghyun Kim, Jeanne Choi, Joseph Seering, Uichin Lee, Sung-Ju Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00439

HateBuffer: Safeguarding Content Moderators' Mental Well-Being through Hate Speech Content Modification
Hate speech remains a persistent and unresolved challenge in online platforms. Content moderators, working on the front lines to review user-generated content and shield viewers from hate speech, often find themselves unprotected from the mental burden as they continuously engage with offensive language. To safeguard moderators' mental well-being, we designed HateBuffer, which anonymizes targets of hate speech, paraphrases offensive expressions into less offensive forms, and shows the original …

Transit riders are not taking Daniel Lurie's service cuts sitting down. 😤
Unless, that is, we are waiting at one of these 12 stops
https://sfist.com/2025/08/22/guerilla-bench-activists-back-a…

‘Guerilla Bench’ Activists Back At It, Install 12 More Lovely But Unauthorized Benches at Muni Stops
The team of anonymous transit activists who put benches at Muni stops that had no benches in June has struck again, adding 12 new benches to bench-less bus stops in the Lower Haight, Bayview-Hunters Point, and Potrero Hill.

And who is the kind of person trying to get @… to ban the accounts of Palestinians who are using the fediverse as their last lifeline to literally get funds to eat as they’re being starved by Israel in a genocide?
The same kind of person – an anonymous coward furthermore – who paints the freedom flotilla as “Hamas”.
Do not let these Zionist propaganda acc…

US won't send some weapons pledged to Ukraine following a Pentagon review of military aid
A Pentagon review determined that stocks were too low on some weapons previously pledged to Ukraine,
so pending shipments of some items won’t be sent,
according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to provide information that has not yet been made public.

The Defense Department did not provide details on what specific weapons were being held back.

The…

US won't send some weapons pledged to Ukraine following a Pentagon review of military aid
The U.S. is halting some shipments of weapons to Ukraine amid concerns that its own stockpiles have declined too much

That’s an excellent move.
Let’s make it national.
Decades ago, my first wife was a librarian and met a lot of people. She was a friendly person. She befriended a guy who seemed to misunderstand friendship. We ended up having to refuse entry to CPS twice in the ensuing 3 weeks. Thankfully, they didn’t deem either anonymous report worth seeking a warrant.

SegReConcat: A Data Augmentation Method for Voice Anonymization Attack
Ridwan Arefeen, Xiaoxiao Miao, Rong Tong, Aik Beng Ng, Simon See
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18907 https://…

SegReConcat: A Data Augmentation Method for Voice Anonymization Attack
Anonymization of voice seeks to conceal the identity of the speaker while maintaining the utility of speech data. However, residual speaker cues often persist, which pose privacy risks. We propose SegReConcat, a data augmentation method for attacker-side enhancement of automatic speaker verification systems. SegReConcat segments anonymized speech at the word level, rearranges segments using random or similarity-based strategies to disrupt long-term contextual cues, and concatenates them with th…

Self-Equivalent Voting Rules
H\'ector Hermida-Rivera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15310 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.15310

Self-Equivalent Voting Rules
In this paper, I introduce a novel stability axiom for stochastic voting rules, called self-equivalence, by which a society considering whether to replace its voting rule using itself will choose not do so. I then show that under the unrestricted strict preference domain, a voting rule satisfying the democratic principles of anonymity, optimality, monotonicity, and neutrality is self-equivalent if and only if it assigns to every voter equal probability of being a dictator (i.e., uniform random …