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New York City housing advocate
Patrick Markee’s new book,
"Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age,"
looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability.
Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States,
“has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,”
explains Markee.
“There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels…

Homelessness Is About Affordability: Author Patrick Markee on the Housing Crisis in “New Gilded Age”
New York City housing advocate Patrick Markee’s new book, Placeless: Homelessness in the New Gilded Age, looks at homelessness through the lens of housing affordability. Homelessness, which affects millions across the United States, “has roots in structural economic changes, right-wing economic policies and systemic racism,” explains Markee. “There’s a reason that other advanced capitalist countries in this world … don’t have the levels of homelessness that we have, and that’s b…

One of the top stories on Hacker News today was a post arguing that Mozilla shouldn't accommodate any usage of AI in Firefox because (understandably) people were mad at Big AI companies for all the horrible things they've done to users and the internet and society. But I think people are ignoring the reality that *hundreds of millions of users* are using LLMs today, and they need to have tools from platforms that will look out for their interests.

I know you don’t want them to want AI, but…
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Im Offshore-Windpark #BalticPower wurden erstmals in #Polen gefertigte #Windgondeln installiert.
Die 15-MW-Turbinen stammen aus dem neuen

Erste Offshore-Windgondeln wurden im Offshore-Windpark Baltic Power installiert | Windkraft-Journal
Die ersten in Polen gefertigten Offshore-Windgondeln wurden im Offshore-Windpark Baltic Power installiert. (WK-intern) - Das Projekt Baltic Power – ein Joint Venture der ORLEN Group und Northland Power – bestätigte die erfolgreiche Installation der ersten drei 15-MW-Turbinen. Die Gondeln stammen aus dem Vestas-Werk in Stettin. Die Installation dieser Gondeln markiert einen Meilenstein für die Entwicklung

Don't Change My View: Ideological Bias Auditing in Large Language Models
Paul Kr\"oger, Emilio Barkett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12652 https://ar…

Don't Change My View: Ideological Bias Auditing in Large Language Models
As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly embedded in products used by millions, their outputs may influence individual beliefs and, cumulatively, shape public opinion. If the behavior of LLMs can be intentionally steered toward specific ideological positions, such as political or religious views, then those who control these systems could gain disproportionate influence over public discourse. Although it remains an open question whether LLMs can reliably be guided toward coherent ide…

"Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?"
#Environment #Trees #Environment

Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?
We are still logging and degrading global forests at terrifying speed. How can we slow this destruction, including in Australia?

Kennt ihr das Theater-der-Gezeiten in Bochum? Die Kneipe mitten im Kultviertel #Speckschweiz hat viel kulturelle Tradition. Hier wurde zum Beispiel das #Tresenlesen erfunden, mit dem Jochen Malmsheimer und Frank Goosen in den 80er/90ern bekannt wurden. Das ist auch das Viertel, über das ich…

Home - Theater der Gezeiten
Theater der Gezeiten in Bochum: Intimes Theater mit Sprechtheater, Tanz, Musik und Lesungen auf Spendenbasis mit besonderer Atmosphere.

Rip D'Angelo
Genius brings and bears a price
Torn down to early
Always
#dangelo #goat

ODI-Bench: Can MLLMs Understand Immersive Omnidirectional Environments?
Liu Yang, Huiyu Duan, Ran Tao, Juntao Cheng, Sijing Wu, Yunhao Li, Jing Liu, Xiongkuo Min, Guangtao Zhai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11549

ODI-Bench: Can MLLMs Understand Immersive Omnidirectional Environments?
Omnidirectional images (ODIs) provide full 360x180 view which are widely adopted in VR, AR and embodied intelligence applications. While multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on conventional 2D image and video understanding benchmarks, their ability to comprehend the immersive environments captured by ODIs remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, we first present ODI-Bench, a novel comprehensive benchmark specifically designed for omnidirecti…

Maybe this whole AI era is a mash-up of Terminator meets Brewster’s Millions.
Sam Altman (Brewster) is sent back in time to start such a laughably bad AI hype cycle that it effectively changes the course of human history, steering us away from our doom.
Through his efforts, what could have been a human-eradicating AI leaves us with hallucinations, weird sex bots, AI avatars of our dead loved ones, and AI-powered toys telling children to hurt themselves.

NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, October 18
12 – 3pm PDT
Alameda Park
1400 Santa Barbara St
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/839871/

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down…