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A test of seven AI chatbots' abilities to identify news photos' location, date, and photographer showed all failed to consistently identify photos' provenance (Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/why-ai-models-are-bad-at-verifyi…

Why AI models are bad at verifying photos
Many of the latest large language models, including OpenAI’s recently released GPT-5, tout an impressive capability: reasoning about images. We have seen viral trends of AI models geolocating obscure vacation pictures, impressive demos of LLMs correctly analyzing blurry or cropped photos, and promising results on benchmark tests. These seem to be fueling punditry on whether […]

Elizabeth Warren here — Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan told me I could reach out, because this is important. 
Peggy is the partner I need to get things done in the Senate,
that’s why I have officially endorsed her campaign.
I know she will be a champion for Minnesotans in Congress. 
Can you please pitch in $5 or anything you can to help power her campaign?
I’ll explain more below about why this is such a critical race.

Peggy Flanagan for Minnesota | Democrat for U.S. Senate
Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan's ready to take our Minnesota values to D.C. — to fight to rebuild the middle class, protect our rights, and hold the extremist billionaires trying to run off with our country accountable. If elected, she’ll be the first Native American woman to ever serve in the U.S. Senate. Will you join us in this Minnesotan-powered campaign?

Once More With Feeling, Our Buffy The Vampire Slayer Podcast.
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Really silly dream
I had a really silly #dream recently. I dreamt that my CFL broke. Or more specifically, it kept trying to turn out, successive parts of it were lighting up, then it all went off and tried again. And it looked like it had a bunch of cuts across it, and around these cuts little thunder sparks started appearing, like some kind of STALKER-like anomaly.
I finally flipped the switch, but the anomaly remained, and I wanted to get rid of it in case the sparks could jump onto my hardware and damage something. So I threw a metal bowl towards it, supposing the thunder would jump onto it. While it was flying near the anomaly, it slowed down and started turning back like a boomerang. On top of that, pieces of cat food (don't ask me why I threw a full bowl) were getting out of it and staying in the air levitating. When the bowl reached the floor and started turning again, Mr Ek came close to it and started levitating himself; he was sitting a few centimeters above the floor.
In the middle of all this, I've figured out I should record it. I took a bunch of photos with my phone, before I managed to switch to recording video.
Once I've recorded the fascinating flying bowls and levitating cat food, I needed to go back to discharging the thing. I threw a second metal bowl, and that one started levitating as well. I've figured out that's stupid, and I've found some big ass hammer with a metal end and a wooden handle. I held the end near the lamp to charge it, then tried to find something to discharge it to. I've tried some small stuff like the door handle, but obviously that wasn't sufficient. Finally, I've figured out to use the electricity box, since it is grounded. I held the hammer to it, watching sparks light the semi-darkness; I've recorded that as well.
And that's how much of it I remember.

Felonious Stunk
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This is for tee hee, not treason: I hope you'll lol, not take legal action.
#satire #potus45

Prototyping of 6.2-mm-Pitch Fiber Positioner Modules for Stage-V Telescope Instrumentation
Malak Galal, Maxime Rombach, Jonathan Wei, Ricardo Ara\'ujo, Diane Chapuis, S\'ebastien Pernecker, Abby Bault, Joseph Harry Silber, Nicholas Wenner, William Van Shourt, Stefane Caseiro, Corentin Magnenat, David Schlegel, Jean-Paul Kneib
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Prototyping of 6.2-mm-Pitch Fiber Positioner Modules for Stage-V Telescope Instrumentation
Small-pitch populated focal planes are a critical enabling technology for the next generation of highly multiplexed astronomical instruments. This work reports on ongoing prototyping activities for 6.2 mm-pitch alpha-beta (theta-phi) fiber positioner modules. Following a concise review of the underlying concept, the performance of trillium-based and independently actuated robotic designs is compared. Key operational parameters including XY positioning repeatability, non-linearity, backlash, and…

Kinetic pathways of coesite densification from metadynamics
David Vrba, Roman Marto\v{n}\'ak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19716 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

Kinetic pathways of coesite densification from metadynamics
We study compression of coesite to pressures above 35 GPa, substantially beyond the equilibrium transition pressure to octahedral phases (8 GPa to stishovite). Experiments at room temperature showed that up to 30 GPa the metastable coesite structure develops only minor displacive changes (coesite-II and coesite-III) while the Si atoms remain 4-coordinated. Beyond 30 GPa, reconstructive transformations start, following different pathways from the complex structure of coesite. Besides amorphizati…

The Feeling Designer
A place where we speak to purpose-driven designers about the ways they foster more genuine connections with themselves and the world around them...
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The Classic Film Club
We love the classic films. But which ones hold up and which ones should be avoided...
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