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The exact sort of photo I wanted to shoot at the Skunk Cabbage Classic this Sunday
more photos with eye contact: https://www.behance.net/gallery/246796885/Skunk-Cabbage-Run-2026-Eye-Contact#

As salty as I am about it, there's also another way to think about this. For anyone who still has connections to folks on the right (which is perhaps unlikely for anyone on this server, I digress), the cult that has consumed them thrives on isolation and grievance.
The words "you were right" have the potential to cut through the programming and open up an opportunity for reconnection. The modern conspiratorial cult of the Right has been built partially around people who were told they were wrong or were crazy. In the vast majority of cases, they were wrong and even when they were right they completely misunderstood why, but we'll skip that for now. Liberals making fun of them (even the times when they definitely earned it) has pushed them further and further into their ideological hole.
The thing about those words, "you were right," in this context is that the way they offer reconnection also requires them to take one little step of betraying their ideology to accept them. So they must choose between maintaining allegiance to a pedophile or finally getting to feel superior after years of living in an illusion of persecution.
Under the ideology of the Right, admitting one is wrong is a weakness. It is admitting defeat. They have to "own the libs" by saying things, things that they know aren't true, in order to feel dominant. But these things are often so absurd that they end up being made fun of, feeling even more weak and pathetic, reinforcing their fear and alienation.
Offering what they're looking for can offer a way out, but only if they're willing to start to recognize the thing they've supported for what it is.
And they were right about some things. They were right that Bill Gates was a terrible person. I've had plenty of liberals defend him based on his philanthropy washing, but he's awful and always has been. The Epstein links make that blatant. They intuitively recognized him and didn't trust him, even if they were wildly off base about *how and why* he shouldn't be trusted... Even if their correct mistrust was leveraged into one of the most destructive conspiracy theories ever (vaccine denial and COVID vaccine avoidance).
They were right about Bill Clinton. He was always shady as fuck. Sure, the people who attacked him at the time turned out to be even more shady but that's not the point right now. He was connected to Epstein and that was always creepy as fuck.
And the Epstein thing was an open secret that liberals ignored for a long time. It was seen as some weird thing that right wing nutjobs believed about the Clintons. But it was true. Not all of it, and there has always been an antisemitic element to the right wing interpretation or Epstein stuff, but his whole pedophile conspiracy was always kind of real.
The whole "Illuminati"/deep state thing is a vast oversimplification, an attempt to make comprehensible an incredibly complex set of interlocking and emergent behaviors. But Epstein did very much want to remake the world, to create a new world order, and he absolutely played a part in it.
The Right wing nutjobs talked about global authoritarianism, Blackhawks flying over American cities, masked men with guns disarming and executing legal gun owners in the streets. That's all happening right now.
The "FEMA concentration camps" are not actually that far off. ICE and FEMA are sister agencies, both under DHS. I'd be more than happy to call that one "close enough" in order to hear some MAGA admit that ICE is, in fact, building concentration camps.
There was always a huge millennialist element to these things. They tended to be connected to "the antichrist." It was absurd, especially for me as someone who no longer identifies as a Christian. But I'll even acquiess that to a degree. The "the number of the Beast" is 666. That's just the sum of the Hebrew spelling of "Nero." Revelations focuses a lot on Nero coming back to life after his death. His death that involved a head wound, thus the line from Revelation 13:3:
> And I saw one of his heads as if it had been mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed. And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
The parallels between Trump and Nero are easy to draw, and Trump's ear wound feels pretty on-the-nose for this. I don't believe in "prophecy" in this way. I think that there are patterns, and useful patterns can become encoded in beleif systems. But I will, again, happily call this one "close enough" for anyone on that side willing to also acknowledge it. I'm happy to meet on that common ground, because anyone who accepts it must recognize that their duty is to fight against it.
A lot of these correct nuggets are embedded in a framework of religious extremism and antisemitism. The vast majority of the beliefs holding these together are wildly wrong and incredibly toxic. But by giving some room to feel validated, listened to, understood, can give some room to admit things that were wrong.
Cult de-programming starts with an opening. People have to talk through their own thoughts, hear their own inconsistencies. Guiding questions can help them untangle these things for themselves. And it all starts by having enough room to feel safe, to not feel cornered, to not feel stupid. Admitting mistakes means being vulnerable, and the MAGA cult is built on fear. It's built on exploiting vulnerability and locking it away.
De-programming takes a long time. It's not easy. It takes patience. But every person who comes out does so with a powerful perspective, a deep understanding, that can be turned back against it. The best people at getting people out of cults are former members. Some of the most dedicated antifa are former fascists who understood their mistakes and dedicate their lives to fixing them.

Looked into VCFEast.
I cannot find any sort of policies on code of conduct, COVID, etc. Like none at all, not even "we don't have that". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/5]:
- Beyond In-Distribution Success: Scaling Curves of CoT Granularity for Language Model Generalization
Ru Wang, Wei Huang, Selena Song, Haoyu Zhang, Qian Niu, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Jiaxian Guo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18273 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114069031700102129
- Benchmarking NLP-supported Language Sample Analysis for Swiss Children's Speech
Anja Ryser, Yingqiang Gao, Sarah Ebling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.00780 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114267149909002069
- Cultural Biases of Large Language Models and Humans in Historical Interpretation
Fabio Celli, Georgios Spathulas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02572 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114278467094094490
- BRIDGE: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Understanding Real-world Clinical Practice Text
Jiageng Wu, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19467 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114420036189999973
- Understanding the Anchoring Effect of LLM with Synthetic Data: Existence, Mechanism, and Potentia...
Yiming Huang, Biquan Bie, Zuqiu Na, Weilin Ruan, Songxin Lei, Yutao Yue, Xinlei He
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15392 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114550277171100272
- Just as Humans Need Vaccines, So Do Models: Model Immunization to Combat Falsehoods
Raza, Qureshi, Farooq, Lotif, Chadha, Pandya, Emmanouilidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17870 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114572956853819813
- LingoLoop Attack: Trapping MLLMs via Linguistic Context and State Entrapment into Endless Loops
Fu, Jiang, Hong, Li, Guo, Yang, Chen, Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14493 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114703502552989170
- GHTM: A Graph-based Hybrid Topic Modeling Approach with a Benchmark Dataset for the Low-Resource ...
Farhana Haque, Md. Abdur Rahman, Sumon Ahmed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00605 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114969875643478303
- Link Prediction for Event Logs in the Process Industry
Anastasia Zhukova, Thomas Walton, Christian E. Lobm\"uller, Bela Gipp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09096 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115020938764936882
- AirQA: A Comprehensive QA Dataset for AI Research with Instance-Level Evaluation
Huang, Cao, Zhang, Kang, Wang, Wang, Luo, Zheng, Qian, Chen, Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16952 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115253526588472475
- Multi-View Attention Multiple-Instance Learning Enhanced by LLM Reasoning for Cognitive Distortio...
Jun Seo Kim, Hyemi Kim, Woo Joo Oh, Hongjin Cho, Hochul Lee, Hye Hyeon Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17292 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115253586227941157
- Dual-Space Smoothness for Robust and Balanced LLM Unlearning
Han Yan, Zheyuan Liu, Meng Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23362 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115293308293558024
- The Rise of AfricaNLP: Contributions, Contributors, Community Impact, and Bibliometric Analysis
Tadesse Destaw Belay, et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25477 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115298213432594791
- Open ASR Leaderboard: Towards Reproducible and Transparent Multilingual and Long-Form Speech Reco...
Srivastav, Zheng, Bezzam, Le Bihan, Koluguri, \.Zelasko, Majumdar, Moumen, Gandhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06961 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115343748052193267
- Neuron-Level Analysis of Cultural Understanding in Large Language Models
Taisei Yamamoto, Ryoma Kumon, Danushka Bollegala, Hitomi Yanaka
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08284 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115349533441895984
- CLMN: Concept based Language Models via Neural Symbolic Reasoning
Yibo Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10063 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115372392366793754
- Schema for In-Context Learning
Chen, Chen, Wang, Leong, Fung, Bernales, Aspuru-Guzik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13905 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115389057899856601
- Evaluating Latent Knowledge of Public Tabular Datasets in Large Language Models
Matteo Silvestri, Fabiano Veglianti, Flavio Giorgi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20351 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115428615784704418
- LuxIT: A Luxembourgish Instruction Tuning Dataset from Monolingual Seed Data
Julian Valline, Cedric Lothritz, Siwen Guo, Jordi Cabot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.24434 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115457025096322944
- Surfacing Subtle Stereotypes: A Multilingual, Debate-Oriented Evaluation of Modern LLMs
Muhammed Saeed, Muhammad Abdul-mageed, Shady Shehata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01187 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/115491321130591723
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Acoustic Signatures of Pinch-Off Cavities During Water-Entry
Zirui Liu, Tongtong Ding, Mingyue Kuang, Zimeng Li, Junyi Zhao, A-Man Zhang, Shuai Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.22761 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.22761
arXiv:2602.22761v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This study experimentally, numerically, and theoretically investigates the cavity/bubble dynamics and radiated acoustics during the water entry of a centimeter-scale cylindrical projectile with a conical nose. Experiments were conducted in a laboratory tank, employing synchronized high-speed imaging and hydrophone measurements to characterize the cavity closure modes and their resultant acoustic signatures across a range of Froude numbers. The acoustic signal features a weak radiated signal upon impact, followed by significant pressure oscillations spanning more than 20 cycles in the flow field after cavity elongation and pinch-off. A numerical model based on the Finite Volume Method (FVM) successfully captures these physical processes. Subsequently, a semi-theoretical model that incorporates the projectile's boundary effect is developed from potential flow theory. The model not only yields a dominant cavity oscillation frequency that agrees well with experimental data, but also reveals that the boundary effect leads to a cavity oscillation frequency markedly higher than the Minnaert frequency of an equivalent-volume ellipsoidal bubble containing an internal rigid core. The dominant cavity frequency falls nearly linearly with Fr, governed by nose geometry and projectile inertia. This study clarifies the underlying physics connecting cavity dynamics during water entry to underwater acoustic radiation.
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contiguous_usa: Contiguous states (USA)
A network of contiguous states in the USA, in which each state is a node and two nodes are connected if they share a land-based geographic border. The dataset includes the lower 48 states, and the District of Columbia.
This network has 49 nodes and 107 edges.
Tags: Transportation, Roads, Unweighted

from my link log —
Covid-19 will never become endemic.
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/opinion/topic/2022/01/15/why-covid-19-will-never-become-endemic/164216520013155
saved 2022-01-16

Why Covid-19 will never become endemic
For most of the pandemic Australia has worked to contain the virus through evidence-based public health measures such as border closures, case finding, contact tracing, quarantine, social distancing, vaccines and, at times, lockdown. Sadly, the weaponisation of lockdown as a pointscoring issue and emotional trigger has led to a conflation of lockdown with all other public health measures, most of which do not impinge on freedoms. Denial is a major theme during the pandemic.

The US Department of Justice had sought Xu on suspicion of stealing Covid-19 research and hacking charges, alleging he was directed to conduct the operations at the behest of the Chinese government
Italy Decides to Extradite Chinese Man US Wants for Hacking
https://www.

Italy Decides to Extradite Chinese Man Wanted by US for Hacking
The Italian government decided to extradite a Chinese man wanted by the US on hacking charges, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.

By today's Senate choice to fund DHS (without ICE CBP) the D party has given up all power to rein-in ICE CBP abuses.
The D-party caved because people at airports had to wait in uncomfortable and inconvenient lines.
The D-party caved because it thought that those waiting at airports were being harmed more than innocents being brutally captured by ICE/CBP, held in genocidal conditions, separated from family, and deported to places with which they have no contacts.
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Morteratsch and the majestic Bernina range in full glory 🤩
Yes! That's what I'm talking about... Reprint was successful and much improved! Tweaked negative, new developer mix & weaker toner for more neutral grays. Also built an interim solution/contraption (involving 6kg of books as weight) to ensure the contact print is sharp everywhere...
As for the scene in the image: These are the highest mountains of the central eastern Alps (Piz Bernina on the right is 4048m, th…