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Wise words on the Hickel-Liegey/Nelson debate.
Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth | degrowth.info
https://degrowth.info/en/blog/neither-the-either-nor-the-or-for-a-sideways-degrowth

Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth
Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented. And in reacting, it inevitably ends up claiming to be the herald of the “true Degrowth” and rejecting the contribution of the other side.

okay is Discord feeling okay because
1. the image I sent
2. the way it showed up in the channel originally
WHO IS THIS MAN??
like after a few seconds it corrected to show what I actually sent but also, HUH???

WaterFlow: Explicit Physics-Prior Rectified Flow for Underwater Saliency Mask Generation
Runting Li, Shijie Lian, Hua Li, Yutong Li, Wenhui Wu, Sam Kwong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12605

WaterFlow: Explicit Physics-Prior Rectified Flow for Underwater Saliency Mask Generation
Underwater Salient Object Detection (USOD) faces significant challenges, including underwater image quality degradation and domain gaps. Existing methods tend to ignore the physical principles of underwater imaging or simply treat degradation phenomena in underwater images as interference factors that must be eliminated, failing to fully exploit the valuable information they contain. We propose WaterFlow, a rectified flow-based framework for underwater salient object detection that innovatively…

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Conductance Plateaus at Quantum Hall Integer Filling Factors in Germanium Quantum Point Contacts
Karina Hudson, Davide Costa, Davide Degli Esposti, Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Giordano Scappucci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12554

Conductance Plateaus at Quantum Hall Integer Filling Factors in Germanium Quantum Point Contacts
Constricting transport through a one-dimensional quantum point contact in the quantum Hall regime enables gate-tunable selection of the edge modes propagating between voltage probe electrodes. Here we investigate the quantum Hall effect in a quantum point contact fabricated on low disorder strained germanium quantum wells. For increasing magnetic field, we observe Zeeman spin-split 1D ballistic hole transport evolving to integer quantum Hall states, with well-defined quantised conductance incre…

Robust Recovery and Control of Cyber-physical Discrete Event Systems under Actuator Attacks
Samuel Oliveira, Mostafa Tavakkoli Anbarani, Gregory Beal, Ilya Kovalenko, Marcelo Teixeira, Andr\'e B. Leal, R\^omulo Meira-G\'oes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11405

Robust Recovery and Control of Cyber-physical Discrete Event Systems under Actuator Attacks
Critical real-world applications strongly rely on Cyber-physical systems (CPS), but their dependence on communication networks introduces significant security risks, as attackers can exploit vulnerabilities to compromise their integrity and availability. This work explores the topic of cybersecurity in the context of CPS modeled as discrete event systems (DES), focusing on recovery strategies following the detection of cyberattacks. Specifically, we address actuator enablement attacks and propo…

LoRA-fine-tuned Large Vision Models for Automated Assessment of Post-SBRT Lung Injury
M. Bolhassani, B. Veasey, E. Daugherty, S. Keltner, N. Kumar, N. Dunlap, A. Amini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12155 …

LoRA-fine-tuned Large Vision Models for Automated Assessment of Post-SBRT Lung Injury
This study investigates the efficacy of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) for fine-tuning large Vision Models, DinoV2 and SwinV2, to diagnose Radiation-Induced Lung Injury (RILI) from X-ray CT scans following Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT). To evaluate the robustness and efficiency of this approach, we compare LoRA with traditional full fine-tuning and inference-only (no fine-tuning) methods. Cropped images of two sizes (50 mm3 and 75 mm3), centered at the treatment isocenter, in addition …

Dissipationless transport by design in ultrathin magnetic topological insulator films
Amir Sabzalipour, Mohammad Shafiei, Milorad V. Milo\v{s}evi\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12610

Dissipationless transport by design in ultrathin magnetic topological insulator films
Magnetic topological insulators (MTIs) are among the prominent platforms for the next generation of high-speed and low-power spintronic devices. However, unlike their non-magnetic counterparts, where the surface spin-momentum locking prevents electrons from being scattered by non-magnetic impurities and results in a dissipationless electronic flow, magnetic impurities in MTIs cause dissipation by exerting magnetic torque on the electron spin. Decreasing this resistance is desired to reduce ener…

Following several months of interesting articles from various quarters in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series, we've written a summary and reflection on it all.
Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far. – degrowthUK

Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far.
by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton1 In the series Prospects for Degrowth Overviews of the current conjuncture – openings and risks We opened the series with Mark’s stock take, Prospects for Degro…

MagicMirror: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Fine-Grained Artifacts Assessment in Text-to-Image Generation
Jia Wang, Jie Hu, Xiaoqi Ma, Hanghang Ma, Yanbing Zeng, Xiaoming Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10260

MagicMirror: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Fine-Grained Artifacts Assessment in Text-to-Image Generation
Text-to-image (T2I) generation has achieved remarkable progress in instruction following and aesthetics. However, a persistent challenge is the prevalence of physical artifacts, such as anatomical and structural flaws, which severely degrade perceptual quality and limit application. Given the diversity and complexity of these artifacts, a systematic and fine-grained evaluation framework is required, which is lacking in current benchmarks. To fill this gap, we introduce MagicMirror, a comprehens…