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Over the first months of the second Trump presidency, we have watched the guardrails of democracy come off rapidly in real time.
Mass firings of civil servants,
the dismissal of government watchdogs,
the weaponization of the military against our citizens,
the use of the national budget as a cudgel,
and the dehumanization of immigrants. 
💥Donald Trump and his allies are following what we believe is a similar path as autocrats abroad,
with an American…

We Can Stop the Rise of American Autocracy
Stacey Abrams and Kim Lane Scheppele argue that we must act now to stop autocracy from taking over America.

Många tycks tro att "AI" kommer att leda till enorma produktivitetsvinster. Men hittills är den automatisering som sker i dessa system så opålitlig att det är svårt ens att låta dem hantera extremt regelstyrda processer som bokföring.
Absurt nog (och möjligen därför) har kreativa verksamheter som skrivande och filmskapande lyfts fram. Men om människan slutar vara kreativ och överlåter kreativ verksamhet till automatiserade bottar som producerar generiskt, mediokert innehåll – …

LGBTQIA Book History Bibliography by Alex Wingate: https://sharpweb.org/sharpnews/2025/08/22/lgbtqia-book-history-bibliography/
"The following collaborative bibliography compiles and celebrates book historical work about and for LGBTQIA communiti…

A JWST/MIRI view of k Andromedae b: Refining its mass, age, and physical parameters
N. Godoy, E. Choquet, E. Serabyn, M. Malin, P. Tremblin, C. Danielski, P. O. Lagage, A. Boccaletti, B. Charnay, M. E. Ressler
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03624

A JWST/MIRI view of k Andromedae b: Refining its mass, age, and physical parameters
Context. kAndb is a substellar companion near the planet-brown dwarf boundary, orbiting a B9IV star at 50-100 au. Estimates of its age and mass vary, fueling a decade-long debate. Atmospheric parameters (Teff 1650-2050 K, log(g) 3.5-5.5) remain poorly constrained due to model differences and heterogeneous datasets. Aims. We refine the characterization of kAndb using mid-infrared data to capture its bolometric emission. Combined with NIR measurements, we constrain Teff, log(g), and radius to red…

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

GRAFT: GRaPH and Table Reasoning for Textual Alignment -- A Benchmark for Structured Instruction Following and Visual Reasoning
GRAFT is a structured multimodal benchmark for evaluating models on instruction-following, visual reasoning, and visual-textual alignment tasks. It features programmatically generated charts and synthetically rendered tables, created with Python visualization libraries to ensure control over data semantics, structure, and clarity. Each GRAFT instance pairs a chart or table image with a systematically generated, multi-step analytical question based solely on visual content. Answers are provided …

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…

WangchanThaiInstruct: An instruction-following Dataset for Culture-Aware, Multitask, and Multi-domain Evaluation in Thai
Large language models excel at instruction-following in English, but their performance in low-resource languages like Thai remains underexplored. Existing benchmarks often rely on translations, missing cultural and domain-specific nuances needed for real-world use. We present WangchanThaiInstruct, a human-authored Thai dataset for evaluation and instruction tuning, covering four professional domains and seven task types. Created through a multi-stage quality control process with annotators, dom…

Beim Schreiben neige ich (anders als beim mündlichen Brabbeln) zur Kürze. Aber zu Gabriele Mainettis neuem Film LA CITTÀ PROIBITA (deutscher Titel aus unklaren Gründen KUNG FU IN ROME <- ja, in englischer Schreibweise...) gab es überraschend viel zu sagen. Mein Text im Perlentaucher.
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Fabian Tietke - Filmkritik zu "Kung-Fu in Rome" von Gabriele Mainetti - Im Kino
Fabian Tietke: Im Kino vom 08.09.2025

RecGPT Technical Report
Chao Yi, Dian Chen, Gaoyang Guo, Jiakai Tang, Jian Wu, Jing Yu, Sunhao Dai, Wen Chen, Wenjun Yang, Yuning Jiang, Zhujin Gao, Bo Zheng, Chi Li, Dimin Wang, Dixuan Wang, Fan Li, Fan Zhang, Haibin Chen, Haozhuang Liu, Jialin Zhu, Jiamang Wang, Jiawei Wu, Jin Cui, Ju Huang, Kai Zhang, Kan Liu, Lang Tian, Liang Rao, Longbin Li, Lulu Zhao, Mao Zhang, Na He, Peiyang Wang, Qiqi Huang, Tao Luo, Wenbo Su, Xiaoxiao He, Xin Tong, Xu Chen, Xunke Xi, Yang Li, Yaxuan Wu, Yeqiu…

RecGPT Technical Report
Recommender systems are among the most impactful applications of artificial intelligence, serving as critical infrastructure connecting users, merchants, and platforms. However, most current industrial systems remain heavily reliant on historical co-occurrence patterns and log-fitting objectives, i.e., optimizing for past user interactions without explicitly modeling user intent. This log-fitting approach often leads to overfitting to narrow historical preferences, failing to capture users' evo…

In the latest act of retributIion targeting public servants in the federal government’s intelligence community
— the Trump administration moved Tuesday to revoke the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials
A memo posted online by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence,
accuses the targeted officials of having engaged in the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence” to advance partisan goals,
as well as failure to …

Trump administration revokes security clearances of 37 current and former government officials
The Trump administration says it's revoking the security clearances of 37 current and former national security officials. It's the latest act of retribution targeting public servants in the federal government’s intelligence community. A memo posted Tuesday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard accuses the targeted officials of having engaged in the “politicization or weaponization of intelligence” to advance partisan goals. It also accuses them of failing to safeguard classif…

ChronoLLM: Customizing Language Models for Physics-Based Simulation Code Generation
Jingquan Wang, Andrew Negrut, Harry Zhang, Khailanii Slaton, Shu Wang, Radu Serban, Jinlong Wu, Dan Negrut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13975

ChronoLLM: Customizing Language Models for Physics-Based Simulation Code Generation
This contribution is concerned with the following issue: can pretrained large language models (LLMs) be refined and customized to the point where they become virtual assistants helping experts with the effective use of a simulation tool? In this case study, the ``simulation tool'' considered is PyChrono, an open source multi-physics dynamics engine for multibody systems. We present a framework for refining and customizing both open- and closed-source LLMs to harness the power of AI in generatin…