Saints signing safety Julian Blackmon following Tyrann Mathieu's retirement https://www.nfl.com/news/saints-signing-safety-julian-blackmon-following-tyrann-mathieu-s-retirement
GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
Abhigya Verma, Sriram Puttagunta, Seganrasan Subramanian, Sravan Ramachandran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15690
WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai
Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Pume Tuchinda, Lalita Lowphansirikul, Surapon Nonesung, Panuthep Tasawong, Alham Fikri Aji, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Sarana Nutanong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15239…
'We know how to stand up for our rights' — Ukrainians protest law threatening anti-corruption institutions: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/we-know-how-to-stand.html
From #LizOyer @lawyer_oyer@instagram.com
We have a five-alarm fire inside the #DepartmentOfJustice. I’ve been telling you about the dominoes falling over the last few months. Now it’s all coming to a head. We must stay alert, informed, and outspoken.
Curtis Yarvin wears racial hatred as a badge of honor
—and clearly doesn't come into contact with people of color on a regular basis.
Yarvin, who hides behind a screen, wouldn't have the guts to utter these slurs on the street. -- In the real world, that kind of talk tends to carry consequences.
Instead, he flings epithets from the safety of his tony Craftsman home in ultra-liberal Berkeley, performing racism online for an audience of anonymous far-right Twitter use…
Auto giant Stellantis investigating data breach following ‘unauthorized access’ https://therecord.media/stellantis-investigates-cyber-incident
CAST: Counterfactual Labels Improve Instruction Following in Vision-Language-Action Models
Catherine Glossop, William Chen, Arjun Bhorkar, Dhruv Shah, Sergey Levine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13446
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
"The fourth star is that of Venus, Lucifer by name. Some say it is Juno's. In many tales it is recorded that it is called Hesperus, too. It seems to be the largest of all stars."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.4
🏛 Detail of #Venus in the Planetarium mosaic
📸 Daniel Gonzšlez Acuñ…
NFL suspends Broncos LB Dre Greenlaw one game for incident with official after Sunday's game https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-suspends-broncos-lb-dre-greenlaw-one-game-for-incident-with-official-after-sunday-s-game