Following public outcry,
the U.S. Department of Education has restored funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss,
about a month after cutting it.
But rather than sending the money directly to the four programs that are part of a national network helping students who are deaf and blind, a condition known as deafblindness,
the department has instead rerouted the grants to a different organization
The Trump administration targeted the programs in …
Precise Attribute Intensity Control in Large Language Models via Targeted Representation Editing
Rongzhi Zhang, Liqin Ye, Yuzhao Heng, Xiang Chen, Tong Yu, Lingkai Kong, Sudheer Chava, Chao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12121
Interaction-Driven Asymmetry in the Breakdown of the $\nu$ = 1 Quantum Hall State
Hoai Anh Ho, Jian Huang, L. N. Pfeiffer, K. W. West
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10958 https://…
So Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein" is what they would call a "visual feast". Lavish production barely does it justice. Thoroughly enjoyed it, and it is as poignant as one would hope. Well worth it!
The only thing that grated on me was the weirdly unnatural composited lighting. I've seen this in other films and it bums me out. Gives me the same vibes as AI generated Art… Makes me wonder why it was decided to go that route, rather than lighting things pra…
Anyone interested in following along with the brain dump before it's completely edified can feel free. It's the same one I've posted before.
Editing support (typos, corrections, questions) is always welcome.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/
Edit:
FYI, I've temporarily renamed it "Rainforest" but WriteFreely doesn't really support changing URLs or titles very well so it's stuck until I finish it. The temporary name is "Rainforest" because it's roughly the opposite of Desert. It is not simply optimistic rather than pessimistic... it's a plan.
2026 NFL Draft: Top 10 Senior Bowl prospects following 2025 college football regular season https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-draft-top-10-senior-bowl-prospects-following-2025-college-football-regular-season
A Formal Framework for Fluency-based Multi-Reference Evaluation in Grammatical Error Correction
Eitan Klinger, Zihao Huang, Tran Minh Nguyen, Emma Jayeon Park, Yige Chen, Yang Gu, Qingyu Gao, Siliang Liu, Mengyang Qiu, Jungyeul Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06749
Omnicom announces a restructuring following its $13.5B acquisition of IPG, including plans to cut ~4,000 jobs globally (Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/agencies/omnicom-to-cut-4000-jobs-retire-fcb-ddb-and-mullenlowe/
Challenge accepted: A reader wrote a program to find fake references in books https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/28/challenge-accepted-a-reader-wrote-a-program-to-find-fake-references-in-books/
Study warns climate leadership falling short in New Zealand #NewZealand