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A US appeals court panel orders the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to restore striking journalists' benefits from 2017, ruling the paper bargained in bad faith (Megan Swift/TribLIVE.com)
https://triblive.com/local/regional/appellate-court-…

Appellate court panel sides with striking Post-Gazette workers; PG will appeal decision
A federal appeals court panel on Monday ruled in favor of striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, possibly heralding an end to a long and bitter labor dispute that led newspaper staffers to walk the picket line for more than three years. The decision by three judges on the U.S.

Day 20: bell hooks.
Despite having decided to continue to 30, number 20 feels important, and hooks gets the spot in part because I haven't yet included a non-fiction feminist author, which feels like an obvious thing to include on such a list. The one category of author being bumped out of the first 20 here is anime writers, but I'll follow up with one of them, along with more academics and mangaka who I've been itching to include.
In any case, hooks is absolutely legendary as a feminist writer for good reason, and as a teacher I've especially appreciated her writing on pedagogy like "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and "Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom". These have challenged me to teach at a higher level, and while I'm not sure I've completely succeeded, they're important to me. They also pair well with Paolo Friere's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", but hooks always seems to be focused on very practical advice and it's incredibly direct in her writing, even though her advice isn't always straightforward to implement. In fact, that's one of the things I value about her writing: when the truth is complicated or the real work is messy interpersonal relationships that need to be negotiated with each student, she's not afraid to say so and give good advice for navigating those waters instead of trying to dispense simple-seeming platitudes or formulas for success that paper over the deeper issues. Her concern has always been truth, rather than simplicity or audience comfort and the popularity it might seem to entail, which I think is part of why her legacy endures so well.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

If you ever get the chance to see the film based on these events, Pride, grab it. We saw it this year at the indie cinema in Kington and loved it. What a story and what a cast - it even has Bill Nighy in it which means the instant seal of approval from me. But what stuck with me was the sheer scale of AIDS deaths and how it was hidden at the time. It was years before I realised just how destructive it had been.
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As some of you may know, I spent a gazillion years as a media/telecom analyst but have been strictly cyber for ten years now.
But TechTarget commissioned me to write a series of "pillar" pieces on 5G and here's the first.
Thanks to Tom Pace of NetRise, Jack Fritz of Deloitte and Dave Krauthamer of QuSecure for their insights.

A new, seemingly not yet publicly disclosed U.S. strike on a boat in the Caribbean
has left survivors for the first time, reports say.
Reuters, citing a U.S. official, reported that the U.S. bombed what they claim is a drug trade-related vessel on Thursday.
However, unlike the military’s previous five strikes, which were publicly disclosed by officials, the attack did not kill all of the people on board, the source said.
Other news outlets confirmed that the strike had …

A US Strike in Caribbean Leaves Survivors, Reports Say
News of the strike comes as the US military’s top official for Latin America has suddenly stepped down.

RTGS: Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM via Multi-Level Redundancy Reduction
Leshu Li (Kevin), Jiayin Qin (Kevin), Jie Peng (Kevin), Zishen Wan (Kevin), Huaizhi Qu (Kevin), Ye Han (Kevin), Pingqing Zheng (Kevin), Hongsen Zhang (Kevin), Yu (Kevin), Cao (Katie), Tianlong Chen (Katie), Yang (Katie), Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.0664…

RTGS: Real-Time 3D Gaussian Splatting SLAM via Multi-Level Redundancy Reduction
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems can largely benefit from 3DGS's state-of-the-art rendering efficiency and accuracy, but have not yet been adopted in resource-constrained edge devices due to insufficient speed. Addressing this, we identify notable redundancies across the SLAM pipeline for acceleration. While conceptually straightforward, practical approaches are required to minimize the overhead associated with identifying and eliminating t…

🌴 Scientists identify potential climate solutions in 'grassy trees'
#trees

Scientists identify potential climate solutions in 'grassy trees'
Bamboo, palm, and banana trees look and act like trees, but are actually closer to grasses in how they grow because—unlike trees—their stems do not grow wider over time. However, due to their towering structure, scientists struggled with how to both classify them and to fully understand their biology—and benefits.

Time To Replace Your Filter: How Maplets Simplify System Design
Michael A. Bender, Alex Conway, Mart\'in Farach-Colton, Rob Johnson, Prashant Pandey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05518

Time To Replace Your Filter: How Maplets Simplify System Design
Filters such as Bloom, quotient, and cuckoo filters are fundamental building blocks providing space-efficient approximate set membership testing. However, many applications need to associate small values with keys-functionality that filters do not provide. This mismatch forces complex workarounds that degrade performance. We argue that maplets-space-efficient data structures for approximate key-value mappings-are the right abstraction. A maplet provides the same space benefits as filters while …

@… Thank you for interesting post! While I struggle with different issues, I can very much relate to the trilingual challenges…
Every time I see a study about the supposed benefits of multilingualism for your brain I think, hopefully I eventually get to reap these benefits, because for now, I’m just struggling to express myself in three languages, a…

@… Thank you for interesting post! While I struggle with different issues, I can very much relate to the trilingual challenges…
Every time I see a study about the supposed benefits of multilingualism for your brain I think, hopefully I eventually get to reap these benefits, because for now, I’m just struggling to express myself in three languages, a…