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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

Unleashing the Potential of Multimodal LLMs for Zero-Shot Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
Zaiquan Yang, Yuhao Liu, Gerhard Hancke, Rynson W. H. Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15178

Unleashing the Potential of Multimodal LLMs for Zero-Shot Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding
Spatio-temporal video grounding (STVG) aims at localizing the spatio-temporal tube of a video, as specified by the input text query. In this paper, we utilize multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to explore a zero-shot solution in STVG. We reveal two key insights about MLLMs: (1) MLLMs tend to dynamically assign special tokens, referred to as \textit{grounding tokens}, for grounding the text query; and (2) MLLMs often suffer from suboptimal grounding due to the inability to fully integrate …

Sarah Josepha Hale is called the godmother of Thanksgiving
because for 40 years she wrote and lobbied five presidents and congressmen to establish it as a national holiday.
Hale, who is probably best remembered as the author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,”
also wrote the novel “Northwood; or Life North and South,”
which argued for the virtue of the North against the evil slave owners of the South.
One of the chapters in her book discussed the importance of Thanks…

The Africanization of Thanksgiving
Millions of families will come together today and celebrate their bounty by reflecting on God,…

Can maiBERT Speak for Maithili?
Sumit Yadav, Raju Kumar Yadav, Utsav Maskey, Gautam Siddharth Kashyap Md Azizul Hoque, Ganesh Gautam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15048 https://

Can maiBERT Speak for Maithili?
Natural Language Understanding (NLU) for low-resource languages remains a major challenge in NLP due to the scarcity of high-quality data and language-specific models. Maithili, despite being spoken by millions, lacks adequate computational resources, limiting its inclusion in digital and AI-driven applications. To address this gap, we introducemaiBERT, a BERT-based language model pre-trained specifically for Maithili using the Masked Language Modeling (MLM) technique. Our model is trained on a…

«A 404 Media investigation reveals how the man who started Tea, the ‘women dating safety’ app, tried to hire a female ‘face’ for the company and then hijack her grassroots community.»
What a depressing and disgusting longread about some of the ugliest sides of tech bros.
https://www.404media.co/how-teas-founder-convinced-millions-of-women-to-spill-their-secrets-then-exposed-them-to-the-world/

Former Pro Bowl WR says he's mulling retirement but would consider playing for Cowboys, two other teams

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/former-

AUTOVR: Automated UI Exploration for Detecting Sensitive Data Flow Exposures in Virtual Reality Apps
John Y. Kim, Chaoshun Zuo, Yanjie Zhao, Zhiqiang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12187

AUTOVR: Automated UI Exploration for Detecting Sensitive Data Flow Exposures in Virtual Reality Apps
The rise of Virtual Reality (VR) has provided developers with an unprecedented platform for creating games and applications (apps) that require distinct inputs, different from those of conventional devices like smartphones. The Meta Quest VR platform, driven by Meta, has democratized VR app publishing and attracted millions of users worldwide. However, as the number of published apps grows, there is a notable lack of robust headless tools for user interface (UI) exploration and user event testi…

TASER: Table Agents for Schema-guided Extraction and Recommendation
Nicole Cho, Kirsty Fielding, William Watson, Sumitra Ganesh, Manuela Veloso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13404 …

TASER: Table Agents for Schema-guided Extraction and Recommendation
Real-world financial documents report essential information about an entity's financial holdings that can span millions of different financial instrument types. Yet, these details are often buried in messy, multi-page, fragmented tables - for example, 99.4% of the tables in our dataset have no bounding boxes with the maximum number of rows amounting to 426 per table across 44 pages. To tackle these unique challenges from real-world tables, we present a continuously learning, agentic table extra…

I’ve been mulling my own WCAG3 post, but my TL;DR on Karl’s post is essentially the same as I would have written:
“WCAG 3 is not ready for you to use as a compliance framework. Not even close.”
https://afixt.com/why-now-is-not-the-time-to-think-about-wcag-3/…

Why Now Is Not the Time to Think About WCAG 3 - AFixt
If you work in accessibility or are responsible for compliance at your organization, you’ve probably heard about WCAG 3.0. The W3C has been developing it for years, and the most recent Working Draft was released in September 2025. At first glance, it feels like a big leap forward: a standard that promises to address gaps […]

Decoupled Proxy Alignment: Mitigating Language Prior Conflict for Multimodal Alignment in MLLM
Chenkun Tan, Pengyu Wang, Shaojun Zhou, Botian Jiang, Zhaowei Li, Dong Zhang, Xinghao Wang, Yaqian Zhou, Xipeng Qiu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14735

Decoupled Proxy Alignment: Mitigating Language Prior Conflict for Multimodal Alignment in MLLM
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have gained significant attention due to their impressive ability to integrate vision and language modalities. Recent advancements in MLLMs have primarily focused on improving performance through high-quality datasets, novel architectures, and optimized training strategies. However, in this paper, we identify a previously overlooked issue, language prior conflict, a mismatch between the inherent language priors of large language models (LLMs) and the lan…