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Making this a subtoot so I don't come across as smug or condescending...
My decision to stop using github when they started providing services to ICE back in ~2016 felt awkward at times but has been feeling really good in hindsight right now.
I see a bunch of people now saying "why boycott X company over some "minor" transgression or political capitulation (or over a "neutral" stance on LLM code). The answer is: it shows what their values are, which predicts their future behavior, especially under the tilted playing field of capitalism. I'm by no means perfect at this and I don't think shouting at people to boycott is a good idea for several reasons. People should boycott what they want to, for their own reasons. But I am posting this to try to help others be aware of the upsides of taking action when confronted with "subtle" evidence of corporate unvalues.

This is the right and proper thing to do. I need to contact my Congress critters (both house, which impeaches, and senate, which has a trial) to tell 'em to support this...
The 2nd URL below is a link to the actual text of the House resolution to impeach.
"Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens Introduces Articles of Impeachment Against RFK Jr. "

"What has not changed in 50 years is the fact we are still using centralized architectures, prone to government intrusion and privacy leaks. Maybe it is time to think about a “Post Cloud” era where information is distributed instead of centralized. Of course this raises questions of trust, cryptography, security and collaboration, but the technology to build such systems already exists. It is more of a question of policy and education than of technology."

Somebody Else's Computer As A Service
On November 12, 1990, a 35 year-old Bill Gates introduced his "Information at your Fingertips" concept during his keynote at COMDEX. The PC, he said, would become "more personal," integrating "fax, voice and electronic mail," and providing "easy access to a broad range of information." More or less at the same time, Tim Berners-Lee was giving the final touches to the first web browser and web server software ever put in production. Bill Gates was right; as any Internet user can easily confirm 3…

Oh. Its proprietary!?
#browser #firefox #vivaldi #mozilla

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[1/3]:
- Optimizing Text Search: A Novel Pattern Matching Algorithm Based on Ukkonen's Approach
Xinyu Guan, Shaohua Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16927 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csDS_bot/115762062326187898
- SpIDER: Spatially Informed Dense Embedding Retrieval for Software Issue Localization
Shravan Chaudhari, Rahul Thomas Jacob, Mononito Goswami, Jiajun Cao, Shihab Rashid, Christian Bock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16956 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_bot/115762248476963893
- MemoryGraft: Persistent Compromise of LLM Agents via Poisoned Experience Retrieval
Saksham Sahai Srivastava, Haoyu He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16962 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762140339109012
- Colormap-Enhanced Vision Transformers for MRI-Based Multiclass (4-Class) Alzheimer's Disease Clas...
Faisal Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16964 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eessIV_bot/115762196702065869
- Probing Scientific General Intelligence of LLMs with Scientist-Aligned Workflows
Wanghan Xu, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16969 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115762050529328276
- PAACE: A Plan-Aware Automated Agent Context Engineering Framework
Kamer Ali Yuksel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16970 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csAI_bot/115762054461584205
- A Women's Health Benchmark for Large Language Models
Elisabeth Gruber, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17028 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115762049873946945
- Perturb Your Data: Paraphrase-Guided Training Data Watermarking
Pranav Shetty, Mirazul Haque, Petr Babkin, Zhiqiang Ma, Xiaomo Liu, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17075 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115762077400293945
- Disentangled representations via score-based variational autoencoders
Benjamin S. H. Lyo, Eero P. Simoncelli, Cristina Savin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17127 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statML_bot/115762251753966702
- Biosecurity-Aware AI: Agentic Risk Auditing of Soft Prompt Attacks on ESM-Based Variant Predictors
Huixin Zhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17146 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762318582013305
- Application of machine learning to predict food processing level using Open Food Facts
Arora, Chauhan, Rana, Aditya, Bhagat, Kumar, Kumar, Semar, Singh, Bagler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17169 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioBM_bot/115762302873829397
- Systemic Risk Radar: A Multi-Layer Graph Framework for Early Market Crash Warning
Sandeep Neela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17185 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qfinRM_bot/115762275982224870
- Do Foundational Audio Encoders Understand Music Structure?
Keisuke Toyama, Zhi Zhong, Akira Takahashi, Shusuke Takahashi, Yuki Mitsufuji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17209 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115762341541572505
- CheXPO-v2: Preference Optimization for Chest X-ray VLMs with Knowledge Graph Consistency
Xiao Liang, Yuxuan An, Di Wang, Jiawei Hu, Zhicheng Jiao, Bin Jing, Quan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17213 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_bot/115762574180736975
- Machine Learning Assisted Parameter Tuning on Wavelet Transform Amorphous Radial Distribution Fun...
Deriyan Senjaya, Stephen Ekaputra Limantoro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17245 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_condmatmtrlsci_bot/115762447037143855
- AlignDP: Hybrid Differential Privacy with Rarity-Aware Protection for LLMs
Madhava Gaikwad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17251 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762396593872943
- Practical Framework for Privacy-Preserving and Byzantine-robust Federated Learning
Baolei Zhang, Minghong Fang, Zhuqing Liu, Biao Yi, Peizhao Zhou, Yuan Wang, Tong Li, Zheli Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17254 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_bot/115762402470985707
- Verifiability-First Agents: Provable Observability and Lightweight Audit Agents for Controlling A...
Abhivansh Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17259 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMA_bot/115762225538364939
- Warmer for Less: A Cost-Efficient Strategy for Cold-Start Recommendations at Pinterest
Saeed Ebrahimi, Weijie Jiang, Jaewon Yang, Olafur Gudmundsson, Yucheng Tu, Huizhong Duan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17277 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIR_bot/115762214396869930
- LibriVAD: A Scalable Open Dataset with Deep Learning Benchmarks for Voice Activity Detection
Ioannis Stylianou, Achintya kr. Sarkar, Nauman Dawalatabad, James Glass, Zheng-Hua Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17281 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSD_bot/115762361858560703
- Penalized Fair Regression for Multiple Groups in Chronic Kidney Disease
Carter H. Nakamoto, Lucia Lushi Chen, Agata Foryciarz, Sherri Rose
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.17340 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_statME_bot/115762446402738033
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Good Morning #Canada
Did you know that Interac, the Big Brother organization that knows if you're naughty or nice based on your shopping habits, tracks the busiest shopping day of the year? According to their data, Canadians are apparently getting smarter. A decade ago, December 23rd was traditionally the busiest day of the year for retailers based on how many debit and credit cards they swiped. About 5 years ago it began to shift to earlier in the month and in 2025 December 19th was forecasted to be the pinnacle of purchasing. Maybe we ran out of money 4 days earlier.
How prepared are you for #Christmas? Not including food prep, how organized are you for choosing gifts and getting them wrapped and ready? Please take part in our highly scientific survey below and please boost for a larger data sample.
#CanadaIsAwesome #ReadyOrNot
#POLL - My Christmas gifts are selected, wrapped, and ready for Santa to take credit by this date:
Always before December 1st (Liar)
By December 15th at least
December 20th at the latest
Can't think right now... busy wrapping...

Good Morning #Canada
The pets have conspired to get me out of bed early, so I'm coffeed up and listening to our #Christmas playlist. I thought I'd share 12 Christmas tunes written and/or sung by Canadians. The ranking is subjective and unserious, so please no arguments as I'm trying to stay off the naughty list. Have I missed anything or anyone awesome? Reply with your favourites and I might add them to my playlist.
12 - Let It Snow - Dianna Krall
11 - Christmas Eve - Spirit of the West
10 - O Holy Night - Céline Dion
9 - Silent Night - Rita MacNeil
8 - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - Michael Bublé
7 - Wintersong - Sarah McLachlan
6 - Old Toy Trains - Susan Aglukark
5 - Good King Wenceslas – Loreena McKennitt
4 - Song for a Winter's Night - Gordon Lightfoot
3 - Huron Carol - Sarah McLachlan
2 - River - Blue Rodeo
1 - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/We Three Kings - Barenaked Ladies & Sarah McLachlan
#CanadaIsAwesome #ChristmasMusic