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Good news: @… 43 will be released next Tuesday, October 28th!
https://www.neowin.net/news/fedora-43-is-coming-next-week-followin…

Fedora 43 is coming next week following Go/No-Go meeting
Fedora 43 will now arrive next week following a Go/No-Go meeting. If you've been stranded on Windows 10, Fedora could be a good option to move to.

Caoilinn Hughes - following in Joyce's railway tracks.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/aug/26/train-travel-following-in-james-joyce-tracks-to-trieste

Our guardrails are failing us (Norman Ornstein/The Contrarian)
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/our-guardrails-are-failing-us
http://www.memeorandum.com/250826/p85#a250826p85

Cowboys hoping to keep that Mile-High feeling in 2025 against Denver https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-hoping-to-keep-that-mile-high-feeling-in-2025-against-denver

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...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-feeling-designer/

A profile of Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left in 2002 and whose claims that Wikipedia has a liberal bias are fueling the right's campaign against it (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

A Wikipedia cofounder is fueling the right’s campaign against it
Larry Sanger’s claims of a liberal slant and mismanagement at the world’s dominant online encyclopedia are being enthusiastically embraced on the right.

Feeding Two Birds or Favoring One? Adequacy-Fluency Tradeoffs in Evaluation and Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation
Behzad Shayegh, Jan-Thorsten Peter, David Vilar, Tobias Domhan, Juraj Juraska, Markus Freitag, Lili Mou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20287

Feeding Two Birds or Favoring One? Adequacy-Fluency Tradeoffs in Evaluation and Meta-Evaluation of Machine Translation
We investigate the tradeoff between adequacy and fluency in machine translation. We show the severity of this tradeoff at the evaluation level and analyze where popular metrics fall within it. Essentially, current metrics generally lean toward adequacy, meaning that their scores correlate more strongly with the adequacy of translations than with fluency. More importantly, we find that this tradeoff also persists at the meta-evaluation level, and that the standard WMT meta-evaluation favors adeq…

Trump Is Actually Failing Fast--and the Rabid MAGA Bigwigs Know It (Virginia Heffernan/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/202191/trump-failing-curtis-yarvin-maga-bigwigs
http://www.memeorandum.com/251025/p41#a251025p41

When Instructions Multiply: Measuring and Estimating LLM Capabilities of Multiple Instructions Following
Keno Harada, Yudai Yamazaki, Masachika Taniguchi, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Takeshi Kojima, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21051

When Instructions Multiply: Measuring and Estimating LLM Capabilities of Multiple Instructions Following
As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to real-world scenarios, it becomes crucial to understand their ability to follow multiple instructions simultaneously. To systematically evaluate these capabilities, we introduce two specialized benchmarks for fundamental domains where multiple instructions following is important: Many Instruction-Following Eval (ManyIFEval) for text generation with up to ten instructions, and Style-aware Mostly Basic Programming Problems (StyleMBPP) for…

JD Vance flunks the basics on World War II as the White House targets history museums (Steve Benen/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/jd-vance-flunks-basics-world-war-ii-white-house-targets-history-museum-rcna226952
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p67#a250825p67