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Stitch: Training-Free Position Control in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers
Jessica Bader, Mateusz Pach, Maria A. Bravo, Serge Belongie, Zeynep Akata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26644

Stitch: Training-Free Position Control in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers
Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models have advanced rapidly in recent years, but accurately capturing spatial relationships like "above" or "to the right of" poses a persistent challenge. Earlier methods improved spatial relationship following with external position control. However, as architectures evolved to enhance image quality, these techniques became incompatible with modern models. We propose Stitch, a training-free method for incorporating external position control into Multi-Modal Dif…

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts
-- under fire for a video he posted defending Tucker Carlson for his friendly interview with white supremacist talker Nick Fuentes
-- has reassigned his chief of staff to another position.
In an email to the conservative think tank’s staff on Friday,
Roberts announced that Heritage’s executive vice president, Derrick Morgan, had been tapped to replace Ryan Neuhaus as chief of staff.
In the controversial video posted on X …

Exclusive: Heritage Reassigns Chief of Staff Following Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes Fallout
The conservative think tank’s executive vice president, Derrick Morgan, has been tapped to replace Ryan Neuhaus as chief of staff.

Finally got some emulator stuff up and running on my (now-sidelined) #PinePhone running #PostmarketOS. Not that bad, just followed the wiki to install #RetroArch some cores, grabbed some ROMs online, and connected a Bluetooth controller following another wiki page. Definitely needed to pay close attention to RetroArch config settings and I still haven't figured out how to get overlays working. The Bluetooth connection was a bit spotty at first but after pairing and a restart it reconnected automatically with no command line stuff needed which was great.
Sadly, it seems like the phone isn't really powerful enough to run even GB ROMs smoothly, so it may not serve as a good gaming platform for the kids unless I can figure out settings tweaks that will get it working better.

Trump's Tylenol-autism disaster is falling apart
https://open.substack.com/pub/davidpakman/p/the-architecture-of-the-tylenol-autism?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Trump's Tylenol-autism disaster is falling apart
Before we get into it: if you’re receiving this via email, thank you.

1/2 In a piece about Canadian politics, probably not of interest to outsiders, I suspect this will amuse many:
“Trump’s [team] are every bit the … “Bad Boy” Detroit Pistons of the late 80s … Trump is peak Bill Laimbeer, sneering and fouling everything in sight. JD Vance is Dennis Rodman, an Energizer bunny clearing the boards. And Stephen Miller is Isaiah Thomas, the floor general weaving through defences and chirping at his opponents with an insouciant mug begging to be slapped.”

JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Buddhism: 21 September - 28 September
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Lessons for the Upcoming Age of Climate Refugees: Next meeting of the ASLH Environment, Law, and…
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Stochastic dynamics on evolving geometric graphs
Alexei Daletskii, Dmitri Finkelshtein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25427 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.25427

Stochastic dynamics on evolving geometric graphs
We consider an infinite locally finite system (configuration) $γ$ of particles distributed over a Euclidean space $X$. Each particle located at $x\in X$ carries an internal parameter (mark, or ``spin'') $σ_{x}\in S=\mathbb{R}.$ Such collections of particles form the space of marked configurations $Γ(X,S)$. We construct the following stochastic dynamics in $Γ(X,S)$: while the configuration $γ$ of particle positions performs a random evolution, the corresponding marks interact with each othe…

Learning Generalizable Shape Completion with SIM(3) Equivariance
Yuqing Wang, Zhaiyu Chen, Xiao Xiang Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26631 https://arxiv.or…

Learning Generalizable Shape Completion with SIM(3) Equivariance
3D shape completion methods typically assume scans are pre-aligned to a canonical frame. This leaks pose and scale cues that networks may exploit to memorize absolute positions rather than inferring intrinsic geometry. When such alignment is absent in real data, performance collapses. We argue that robust generalization demands architectural equivariance to the similarity group, SIM(3), so the model remains agnostic to pose and scale. Following this principle, we introduce the first SIM(3)-equi…

Ah, good thing Ireland didn’t bet a major chunk of its economy on US Big Tech creating jobs or anything.
*phew!*
#BigTech #USA #AI

I am flummoxed at this sign next to a parking lot for a walking trail. I thought this could be just superfluous quotes, but... it's a parking lot? Then I just thought, do they mean no making out after dark? #scandlous