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“Since the boycotts of ABC and Disney began, Disney has now lost millions of dollars in market cap. In addition, the company has lost hundreds of thousands, if not millions of paid subscriptions to its services.”
As it should. Iger earned this.
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/new

"The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will no longer administer a grant program that has so far provided millions of dollars to local television and radio stations to upgrade the equipment they use to send out emergency alerts. "
Trump-voting states lose grants for emergency alerts after GOP pulls funding - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/cpb-emergency-alerts/

Pointing to a Llama and Call it a Camel: On the Sycophancy of Multimodal Large Language Models
Renjie Pi, Kehao Miao, Li Peihang, Runtao Liu, Jiahui Gao, Jipeng Zhang, Xiaofang Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16149

Pointing to a Llama and Call it a Camel: On the Sycophancy of Multimodal Large Language Models
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated extraordinary capabilities in conducting conversations based on image inputs. However, we observe that MLLMs exhibit a pronounced form of visual sycophantic behavior. While similar behavior has also been noted in text-based large language models (LLMs), it becomes significantly more prominent when MLLMs process image inputs. We refer to this phenomenon as the "sycophantic modality gap." To better understand this issue, we further analyz…

I feel like this Masto post will be evidence in yet another claim against Air Canada for wrecking someone’s mobility aid.
https://mastodon.social/@mollyanglin/115228115467133057

Molly Anglin (@mollyanglin@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Sitting on the tarmac for an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Ottawa… The ground crew spent 2 hrs trying to fit a wheelchair into the cargo. After a very long time, they took it off the plane - but appeared to have detached the battery and maybe broken it. 😱 There were maybe 7-10 people out there trying to fix it. I feel for the owner of that chair! #accessibility #aircanada

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/20/social-security-data-doge-whistleblower/
He accused DOGE of risking Social Security data. It cost him his career.

He accused DOGE of risking Social Security data. It cost him his career.
Charles Borges says Musk’s cost-cutting team uploaded a copy of a mainframe database containing the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans.

#TheAtlantic has compiled a series of photos showing #protests against Darth Donald #Trump and his administration that have taken place over the last few days. While the crowd was small compared to those supporting…

Photos: More ‘No Kings’ Protests Across the U.S.
Organizers expect millions of Americans to attend rallies in cities and towns across America, protesting the policies and actions of President Trump and his administration.

Bears, star CB Jaylon Johnson mulling options with season-ending surgery possible https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/bears-star-cb-jaylon-johnson-mulling-options-with-seasonending-surgery-possible

StreamMem: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Memory for Streaming Video Understanding
Yanlai Yang, Zhuokai Zhao, Satya Narayan Shukla, Aashu Singh, Shlok Kumar Mishra, Lizhu Zhang, Mengye Ren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15717

StreamMem: Query-Agnostic KV Cache Memory for Streaming Video Understanding
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in visual-language reasoning, but their ability to efficiently handle long videos remains limited. Despite recent advances in long-context MLLMs, storing and attending to the key-value (KV) cache for long visual contexts incurs substantial memory and computational overhead. Existing visual compression methods require either encoding the entire visual context before compression or having access to the questions in advance, w…

The #Atlantic hat eine Folge von Fotos zusammengestellt, die die Proteste der letzten Tage gegen Darth #Trump und seine Administration zeigen. Das macht Mut, auch wenn im Verhältnis zu den Rechtsradikalen Repulbikanern und MAGA Anhängern wohl einer eine kleine Schar war. Aber jede Graswurzelbewegung hat einma…

Photos: More ‘No Kings’ Protests Across the U.S.
Organizers expect millions of Americans to attend rallies in cities and towns across America, protesting the policies and actions of President Trump and his administration.

See&Trek: Training-Free Spatial Prompting for Multimodal Large Language Model
Pengteng Li, Pinhao Song, Wuyang Li, Weiyu Guo, Huizai Yao, Yijie Xu, Dugang Liu, Hui Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16087

See&Trek: Training-Free Spatial Prompting for Multimodal Large Language Model
We introduce SEE&TREK, the first training-free prompting framework tailored to enhance the spatial understanding of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMS) under vision-only constraints. While prior efforts have incorporated modalities like depth or point clouds to improve spatial reasoning, purely visualspatial understanding remains underexplored. SEE&TREK addresses this gap by focusing on two core principles: increasing visual diversity and motion reconstruction. For visual diversity, we con…