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Milena Casado:
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https://open.spotify.com/track/5MgEgj19iWFaLHDSEWsJrj

Online influencer Andrew Tate,
a self-described misogynist who has millions of young male followers,
was facing allegations of sex trafficking women in three countries
when he and his brother left their home in Romania to visit the United States.
“The Tates will be free,
Trump is the president.
The good old days are back,”
Tate posted on X before the trip in February
— one of many times he has sung the president’s praises to his fans.
But…

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

Getting right to the point...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/10/15/2348703/-Trump-s-minions-waste-millions-of-tax-dollars-on-ads-kissing-his-butt

2/2 Reflection on #citizenship:
I do not treat the concept of “#democracy" lightly. I was born into the aftermath of centuries of totalitarian oppression that ended suddenly, leaving the nascent Ukrainian state of the late 90s and early 2000s floundering in the turbulent whirlpool of hopes and fears felt by millions of people who were finally allowed to ponder: how to build a free democratic state in the place of Soviet and imperial ruins?
I was taught the words "democracy", "citizen", "freedom", "voting", “liberty" (and more) by people who, less than two decades prior, weren't allowed to leave the borders of their country. I was told about self-determination by people whose political choices were ridiculed, punished, and eviscerated form most of their lives. The duty of governing ourselves felt to us ephemeral - a nice fantasy, akin to a fairytale or a utopia from fictional works.
And then I saw those same people fight with their bodies and souls once the previously unfathomable democracy was threatened. Protests in 2004, then again in 2014, then the unthinkable war against foreign invasion in 2022. Democracy no longer felt abstract or silly. It became as tangible as saying "I love you".
I write of Ukraine as I reflect on becoming a citizen of another country because the history and values of my adopted United States feel as real as the skin on my legs, the significance of its legacy lays as heavy as the weight of my waist-long hair, and the desire to uphold the freedoms of its Constitution burns my throat as harshly as dehydration after a long day in the sun.
People have asked me why I even want to join this country, when the present moment is shrouded in impenetrable darkness. And I answer: because I've felt the warmth of a newly lit fire of freedom breaking through shadows that for centuries looked like solid walls. I have seen kindness, and solidarity heal the fear and hate of oppression. I've seen liberty emerge from nothing but the human soul.
I am not a religious person, but I have faith. Faith in the ideals at the foundation of the American project. Faint but powerful recognition that "we the people" now includes me.
I love #America. And I hope to keep loving my home for the rest of my life.

Terveellinen mediaruokavalio on tärkeää yksilöiden ja yhteiskuntien hyvinvoinnille. Kun nykyään suurin osa valtamedian uutissisällöistä on ihmiselle huonosti sulavaa ja pahanmakuista (ellei ole psykopaatti), oli kiva huomata, että Areenassa on edelleen vanha Andre Wickströmin ja Stan Saanilan sarja "Detta om detta", joka perkaa Suomen ruotsinkielisten sanomalehtien ja svenska Ylen sympaattisia juttuja, usein Itä- Uudenmaan eksoottisesta maailmasta

torchsom: The Reference PyTorch Library for Self-Organizing Maps
Louis Berthier, Ahmed Shokry, Maxime Moreaud, Guillaume Ramelet, Eric Moulines
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11147 …

torchsom: The Reference PyTorch Library for Self-Organizing Maps
This paper introduces torchsom, an open-source Python library that provides a reference implementation of the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) in PyTorch. This package offers three main features: (i) dimensionality reduction, (ii) clustering, and (iii) friendly data visualization. It relies on a PyTorch backend, enabling (i) fast and efficient training of SOMs through GPU acceleration, and (ii) easy and scalable integrations with PyTorch ecosystem. Moreover, torchsom follows the scikit-learn API for e…

Beyond Seeing: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs on Tool-Enabled Image Perception, Transformation, and Reasoning
Xingang Guo, Utkarsh Tyagi, Advait Gosai, Paula Vergara, Ernesto Gabriel Hern\'andez Montoya, Chen Bo Calvin Zhang, Bin Hu, Yunzhong He, Bing Liu, Rakshith Sharma Srinivasa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12712

Beyond Seeing: Evaluating Multimodal LLMs on Tool-Enabled Image Perception, Transformation, and Reasoning
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly applied in real-world scenarios where user-provided images are often imperfect, requiring active image manipulations such as cropping, editing, or enhancement to uncover salient visual cues. Beyond static visual perception, MLLMs must also think with images: dynamically transforming visual content and integrating it with other tools to solve complex tasks. However, this shift from treating vision as passive context to a manipulable cogni…

Self-Improvement in Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey
Shijian Deng, Kai Wang, Tianyu Yang, Harsh Singh, Yapeng Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02665 https://

Self-Improvement in Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey
Recent advancements in self-improvement for Large Language Models (LLMs) have efficiently enhanced model capabilities without significantly increasing costs, particularly in terms of human effort. While this area is still relatively young, its extension to the multimodal domain holds immense potential for leveraging diverse data sources and developing more general self-improving models. This survey is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of self-improvement in Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs). …

Cuts to Lifesaving Hunger Aid Could Impact Millions: 'Our President and Congress Think Budget Cuts Will Help People Achieve Self-Sufficiency. They Won’t.' - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/10/08/snap-food-stamps-republicans-trump-hunger-tax-cuts-rich/

CapGeo: A Caption-Assisted Approach to Geometric Reasoning
Yuying Li, Siyi Qian, Hao Liang, Leqi Zheng, Ruichuan An, Yongzhen Guo, Wentao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09302 …

CapGeo: A Caption-Assisted Approach to Geometric Reasoning
Geometric reasoning remains a core challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Even the most advanced closed-source systems, such as GPT-O3 and Gemini-2.5-Pro, still struggle to solve geometry problems reliably, despite exhibiting strong textual reasoning abilities on tasks like the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). This gap suggests that the bottleneck lies in understanding geometric diagrams rather than reasoning itself. Since geometric figures can often be faithfully des…